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[A] FURIA vs. Team Spirit - PGL Astana 2026 - Group Stage: Round 3 High Match (2-0)
05-12-2026 · 10h 33m
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We're gonna get away with the multi-kill, but the bomb was dropped there on that spam
out of a cardiac.
Oh, it's close!
He won't follow up on a belch and knock it down.
The Dually's firing back!
No way!
Oh, it's cardiac!
And Tarez, he's just been putting in multi-kills, hasn't had to be the one delivering in these
clutches.
How will he fare?
That's a nice one!
Whoa!
And there's the close!
Nice.
Shoes, no choke, Aurora.
Oh, they've just got him!
Oh, no!
Wakadia!
Soulfly attempted the clutch,
but with the orb here,
it should be a safe round for Paribas.
Lick it!
Bomb's not planted for long.
It's his, Belchenok.
Soulfly knows on that deep field, Belchenok.
Can't do it.
What a weird round!
This is crazy.
They're doing it in these kind of little two-man pairs, getting super aggressive.
What do you do against that?
You don't, you don't do a thing.
You hope- What do you do against that?
There's four kills from Monosidus, seal that one.
Niko runs through that molly and does find a cave player.
Niko able to shut him down.
Vmas dead climbing up through heaven.
You've been able to claw this one back.
There's 2B4 and it was 2B2 and you've got the bomb planted.
Niko low on health doesn't care.
Absolute mission.
You just have to hope that as you double back,
haven't pushed into your lobby to stop you there, but that is exactly what Zellix has in mind.
Troll from him!
Somehow Luchov has to get this back, and he's gonna try to do it on his own.
Zellix's position confirmed. That is a quad kill from the kid!
Easy one for Max, calls for help as he hears some st-
Oh!
Max!
No help!
Woo!
Equids, a thommest quad kill with one mag.
All the way deep.
Oh, he hit ball.
Donk is just out in the open, looking for duels as he does,
and that is why the bomb has been picked back up,
but we can see the damage that's been done on all the fury
of players.
Clean up on the bomb site.
The way he's just out here swinging,
in case Rado could still deal with this and not for Donk.
Ah, nice distraction offers up the Molotov line side.
Nice shot.
Shiro's got the recovery underway as he drops down pistol in hand.
Giving more and more time for your Kiddark.
Shiro.
Oh, you didn't get to kill?
Line-sided.
Oh, you messed it up.
Oh, no.
That's a 3rd HE, that's Tydex, wow.
You're gonna kill them.
It's awful.
WIGGLE!
This world, two-bots, two kills, and a fair amount of spraydowns.
It's awful.
One damage done by this watch, you know.
Hustle comes round, though.
To bail them out.
Here we go.
Another E.K.A. race for Hunter.
The issue for X5 is he's just about to get swarmed on from so many things, nice shot
with the deed.
I think he was another one, hold the phone just a minute here, if you can get this with
Heavy will runs down 10z and Moon is really far away here, can he stop the bomb?
How quick he keeps him going!
A quad kill!
So he'll be sort of an execute, but the counter smoke is coming out, they're bumping into
each other!
Matt is in the smoke, Moon, is he gonna be able to find anything?
He's joined the T side somehow, but now he's dead instead!
10z with three kills!
Oh and a headshot!
Great through!
How has he done that?
I've done that!
Arms is back, two head shots with a glock
makes it much more doable, finding a third now.
I like this thing something different from ours,
and they're going to start to back the way to the A site.
8 seconds, now it just needs the 1 kill, 4 of them left they could just get the bomb
plant I think.
It's up to Korn to wonder if there's too many, can't quite get the job done.
Welcome to Kazakhstan where PGL Astana is while underway our group stages are moving into day
4 and it has been tons of fun here in Astana.
I am so excited.
Dustin Blair are with me now.
I am about to throw so much shade on another e-sport
and I apologize profusely.
I actually do like this e-sport,
but not as much as I love Counter-Strike.
So this is fun.
This morning when I woke up,
I was scrolling through social media
and there was a whole instance in Rainbow Six Siege
because they have whatever going on at the time.
And a coach was so disappointed
with his team's performance
that he just walked out at the end of the game.
And the commentary from Rainbow Six Siege pundits was how unprofessional that is.
And as a coach, you know, you need to be supportive of your players in times of loss
and how could you just walk away?
And I giggled like a small child because we have Dustin.
Like, you all would not survive here in the CS.
The Arab said that the coach walked away.
I was like, Dustin was taking food away last night from Parriman off of their loss.
Man, you're not wrong about that one.
You get like a 40-minute rent out of Dostoev with one question whenever something goes wrong with him, bro
You think daddy blades over there working?
I'll be here to lift my team up with their losses. I'm like no way man. These coaches are shouting
And also the fact that when he was giving the the death stare to his team and just everyone say yes
This is amazing. This is great. This is what we need and no like, you know jokes aside
I think we just built different, you know, that's kind of strike baby
We are both different if you want to see that clip it is all over social media
I think PGL has it, Blair has it on his account,
so go check it out.
Let's get into what we've seen so far,
because I think the big surprise, I suppose,
two surprises, maybe.
One was 9-Z, qualifying into the playoffs,
the first team to do that.
Big surprise for me.
And then we'll pull some attention
to Genselmates in a bit,
but obviously also getting to see Spirits.
Didn't look happy about qualifying, guys.
No, I mean, it was definitely a very labored result
yesterday against Feria, the very, very sloppy game.
There was definitely a lot to be desired.
I feel like they just looked so absent, particularly
on just some of their mid-ground coordination.
And it was really weird because Zontis got interviewed
after the fact by Banks.
He made it sound like, yeah, work is kind of playing
differently because Halley's not here.
We don't have the same structure.
I'm like, gosh, you used memory hole everything this guy taught
you over the last.
However long they've been playing together at this point.
You can't be that forgetful of the quote unquote system
that Halley has put in place just because he's not here.
So I was definitely very stunned by the eye-tests of that game, even though they got the victory.
It's also surprising for me, because the real run was pretty impressive in all honesty, and they had Sothic over there, right?
We even had... So they spoke to Zontics yesterday, and Tenir coming into this event, he was like, you know, before this event, he was like, yeah, Sothic's really helped me out, he's really helped me feel much more comfortable.
And he has actually looked much better than he did at the beginning of his tenure in this team as well.
This conflicting information, we saw the interview from Magix as well, where it was like,
show everyone the game, but it was ugly that there are moments in the game where everyone's like,
alright, there's a guy over there, but no one's giving any ideas. No one's really trying to,
they take the onus on themselves. It's basically, donk, hard-caring them into the playoffs, which
as an IGL, as a team, you don't want to be in a situation where, you know,
you're one guy, the best player in the world potentially, on paper, is just dragging you through.
I just worry about Spurt, and I wonder if I'm the only person sitting in the
But I just think exactly what you said, Blair, if you took Donk out of this liner, this team is not even in consideration in tier one, in my opinion.
He gives them the puncher's chance to match it they play. Now, I will say when they're on point and they're actually focused and operating at their highest level,
Chiro obviously could be a second star for the squad. I do think as Blair already indicated to Nier has developed nicely, his best events with Spirit to join the organization have taken place at Rio Rotterdam and so far in this event.
this event so he's definitely done really really well for himself but yeah it is
just a situation where Doc is the front runner as always and far and away like
dogs I mean obviously front runner but there's no one else is there as well from
his team right but I don't want to give a shout out to to Molodoy like he's
been performing lights out even yesterday in the loss they had against
Spirit he was very impactful and then my guy 9-10 right the thing with this guy
is he's not necessarily like has ever hit the star levels as sensitive for his
team but the fact that the shoulder the responsibility of being this this
immovable pillar for the team while we're in the AWP by the way right now in
CSU shore with a new anim graph updates and whatnot people are like the ops
easier to handle but so there are very few elite operas in the world you're
talking with your Molo Doys you're talking about your monosies and right
now I feel like we can start having a conversation of 9-10 being one new guy
can add to that particular conversation one of the most consistent star
offers we have in Counter-Strike right now. The big other surprise for me yesterday was
Heroic going down to Gentlemates and not just like Gentlemates. Getting battered you mean?
Yeah I was trying to ask but you know it but it was it's pretty horrific for Heroic.
Yeah I mean with Heroic they're just so tough to put your finger on because...
Always but they've been so good this tournament that's like I was like flip this team let's go.
That opening game against Aurora was some phenomenal Counter-Strike. It was really good.
They were out calling Aurora. Sure Aurora looked a little bit sloppy of course but
You had extra popping off, you had, what's his name,
Youngster, you know, the all-per-code-and-code,
really having a good game as well.
And after that, it's just been
just miserable matches from them.
Yeah, again, whatever I was kind of assessing,
heroic, I think it's just kind of hit or miss for them.
I mean, you even looked, they shoveled some tier two events,
if we're honest this year,
and I think that's just been a really tough situation
where you're bringing in a new in-game leader,
you're bringing in Suss,
you're having this whole awkward situation
where Youngster is supposed to be benched,
but now it's the prime offer.
Hell, all Karen is from this country,
still can't play for the team.
So it's a very, very peculiar moment over there.
And so I never really know what I'm gonna get
because there are times where X-Flight and Nilo,
that combination gets you a lot done.
Nilo's been super consistent ever since
he joined this team officially.
You know, I mean, obviously he was on the bench
the first half of the year,
but since he's gotten actually in the server,
he's done very well.
But yeah, they just lack the consistency
to do much of my opinion.
We obviously also say goodbye to some teams.
So I do wanna give a special shout out now
to Fisher College, who came here with everyone saying,
this is going to be bad for you.
And while they were eliminated, what
an experience for them, standing outside,
getting to sign those fan autographs,
getting to play against some of the best players in the world.
And I'm sure players that they look up to time and time again.
I know they were very sad yesterday.
They did say how disappointed they were.
But what I loved is they said, we
need to come back individually, more experienced,
and as a team more experienced.
So hopefully this has inspired them to push a little bit harder
because God knows NACS needs a team to push a bit harder.
Yeah, look, listen, it's a very romantic,
very Hollywood, you know, college story,
like the Mighty Ducks,
and like the Mighty Ducks,
however this isn't a movie, Dust, unfortunately.
And they were, no pun intended,
a fish out of water here, right?
Like even the Huns, who I went ham in yesterday,
saying how miserable they looked,
probably the worst team in this tournament,
even the Huns had an easy time against them, right?
But I'm not gonna fault them. They barely had any experience whatsoever the two lands that played have been in the U.S
I think a couple of frags have played over there and even the other individuals apart from Neiline who came in us
And I kind of stand in situation for them
They basically have no know it close to any experience even in EU as well
So for them, I'm look I'm glad they had the opportunity to enjoy of this event
Like you said great fans great country great event visually a good show, but I won't lie
I don't really, you know, I'm not necessarily looking forward to seeing them at other events down the line
I still feel they have a lot of catching up to do even amongst the other NA teams
Yeah, I mean they benefited heavily from the fact that the field at that qualifier that they played to get to this event
Was pretty weak if I'm just being frank
They did beat like boss and lag and a couple teams would do decently and kind of like the tier two in a scene
But it's one of those things where that least they got this opportunity as you kind of noted
It's a learning experience for several of these players individually as a team
I'm not losing what the future is you kind of hear them say like once they graduate from Fisher
It's like they could go a bunch of different directions at that point
So it's still cool though to make history being the first college team to play it's here one of it
I'll give them that right. I was like, I was just trying to be nice. I was like poor dudes
It was so sad yesterday. We haven't really spoken about them and you guys are like, let's be practical analysts here
I was like shame. I hope they didn't watch that
Okay, let's get into what you can see today
Today we're going on to the B stream first. These are the masters that are underway there.
If you want to go check that out, Anders Vins, Nioh Kai, and Scroove. I almost called them Scorny.
That would have been awkward. They'll be over there playing these games. You can see these teams.
That Paravision G through these balls.
So what's going to be really heartbroken at the end of the day on that one?
Or someone's going to be beaten up.
Well, yeah, they are not this is you know, I kept saying that this is the curtain
PGL Eston is the curtain raiser to the Cologne major like this is very important how you finish here speaks a lot about
What that major may look for you and for G2 and paravision neither of them should be in the position they're in right now
No, I mean, it's very very damning
I mean paravision to team that was winning trophies making finals top five team in the water all the sudden you have a
situation where their last tournament they got knocked out way earlier than
they should have in this event they're potentially not even gonna make the
playoffs and I've been saying it you know it's on and time again like even
though we praise Paravision for their system and how they operate and how
they you know play all the rounds and they really make it hard on teams to
play against them because of their style they have a firepower issue they
they seriously do like there's this low consistency firepower on that team other
than James Oppen that's a huge problem because you can have all the system in
the world you set the bang heads at some point we'll put a pin in that yeah
There will be a paravision conversation, but it won't happen right now because we're gonna look at what's coming up on the a stream today
These are the games that you can watch
Fury I got a nice little run there with gentle mates by rights
That should be an easy cruise for them, but the one that I want to focus in on right now
Mows up against a war with gaming. That's where we're focusing and this is the game that's gonna kickstart the day
Boys I want the notepads. I want all of the stuff gone
I don't care what these two teams have done in the past all I want to know from both of you is if you had to look at
Just how
Mows and Aurora have performed over the last three days here at PGL Astana
Who should be winning this game? I
Here's the thing
That's that's a complete question because you got a factor in a lot of things also the maps as well
Which will come out we'll talk about a little bit later
I think we've seen two different approaches or two different trajectories for these three teams right like you're looking at Aurora
miserable start to the tournament like you saw them lose to heroic
There's the individuals looking so lost so confused and they had I think like a pretty much a free game against
I believe Fisher or the Hunts. I think it was yeah, and then of course yesterday
They looked so much better right taken our paravision and even even when paravision were grind
We're kind of clawing it back with dust too where a lot of teams a lot of really good teams struggle and kind of stumble
They didn't stumble so it looks like it's starting to level up Wikipedia the best Turkish player right now
I think I'm gonna agree with profit that particular thing walks. It was looking very solid
So it seemed like they're getting the sign to kind of like a fire up mouse on the other hand
Big question mark initially right, but I'm excited about this Mars
I think they're looking really solid considering it's still very early so considering
We don't even know if this is going to be a spot by lineup is going to be the lineup come the next event
We're gonna come to come the next season for example because I can't remember jail is
Next event the major they're changing myself. Yeah, just for the major show, but like I'm excited about mouse
Let me put it this way and for Aurora. It's more about guys. You should you better make it to the playoffs
You didn't answer the question
That was that was a really good
Want I'll give you the answer that you want mouse will look better in this tournament
They really have like when I've watched the actual film while there has been discrepancies and mouths is playing
Oh, hey, the anticipated considering the situation. They have looked better overall in my opinion
You're going with the mouse.
It's going to say the same.
I think Aurora's going to get the win here.
Why do you say that?
I feel, OK.
Look, firstly, for mouse, it's very up and down.
They look very solid overall, sure.
But I still feel Zelex is very, very
raw when it comes to certain maps, certain positions.
And I think it's going to get abused.
I think Aurora team can be very good at dust through B bomb
side, for example, comes to mind where it was just
absolutely isolated and battered on but in this in the talent predictions but at
the moment you are leading you are two for two which no one else is you don't
have Aurora in your life. I don't have Aurora. You have mouse. Yeah but uh...
changed your mind? I'm not gonna change my mind I still feel mouse are gonna make it
through to the playoffs for sure but I feel in this particular match of Aurora
have the edge that's what I'm gonna be going with. What a way to play both sides of the fence.
It's actually brilliant you know like really really long con there from
I really appreciate that for him.
I mean, I'm from India.
Oh, the con.
Oh, my gosh.
Touch that with a stick.
You can say it.
I will say no words.
All right.
We'll be moving on.
We're going to be talking about mouse.
Look, I like the new mouse.
I like what exertion is doing and what kind of blows my mind to us is the fact that
exertion this entire season or even going further back, he has been struggling quite
a bit.
He's speaking about Jimmy and he's speaking about exertion, especially when it comes to
But even in group stages where he used to be a beast he has been struggling quite a bit now
He's gonna his calling his micromanaging. He's got two new players coming in and he is absolutely
Monstrous form right now, which is his bogs my mind. Yeah, I mean, I think so far so good is the way that I would put it
Like on average, I think the team has operated pretty well
I think it's way too soon to call for some JL and what their futures look like on this team in my opinion
I think they do have a problem with the fact that they're kind of forcing thoughts to anchor positions that he's not really the play
So that's kind of an odd one, but I think on the other hand the positives that I see is that when Zellix is in his t-side roles
They're activating them very nicely for one. Yeah, and then the second big thing that I'm thinking of is that Torsi
Aside from their match against Nize that was a little bit shaky
He looked a lot better this event compared to you know, Rio and Rotterdam where he was having career worse performances
So at least we're seeing some some ups on the team. I feel it's for me Sam
It's more about the pressure is a little bit off right they realized you know a lot of everyone's gonna be like
or at least made the change, pressure's off,
and you can see some of the players feeling comfortable.
I think that's the main reason
my Toraji in particular is performing the way he does.
Also, when it comes to JL,
he kind of denied the fact that he feels like
he has really, forgetting R,
I feel like he's really improved the mood of the team overall.
They seem way more comfortable.
Also, he's finally like crazy in-pat,
he can seem he's actually, you know,
communicating a lot as well,
maybe giving a lot of ideas from the experience that he has.
And for Zellix, I'm actually okay
with him playing the small anchor spots,
because think about, if you remember,
when Netek got picked with FlyQuest, he was an up and coming star player and they put him in all these super
rotator star positions and he struggled quite a bit and then when he switched him over to some of the anchor spots
for him to kind of, you know, easy mention the team, easy mention how the team's dynamic works, he was able to kind of
get a grasp of how the pulse of the team is way easier. So I'm actually okay with that because we can see like a hundred percent
agree with you. On the T side, Xelix looks phenomenal, the way they're setting him up as well. We saw it in Mirage,
Mirage is on a couple of maps, but that for me is a weakness.
A CT sub is playing some small anchor spots.
I don't think the duo between him and Spinks is that ideal.
I feel like they kind of don't, maybe the communication,
the synergy is a little bit off.
And I think that is going to be the target
for Aurora, a couple of these maps here today.
I agree a hundred percent.
I mean, when Aurora is coming into this one,
I think they are going to get Dust 2, for instance.
And I think that that is a situation
that they can exploit on the B bomb site
as you're kind of talking about with Zellix and Spinks there.
It's also just a situation for me where no one's fully comfortable.
Like Xalex is getting some of his spots, JL is getting some of his old Navi spots
sometimes. It's kind of like this weird bounce where they're trying to give
certain people opportunities to kind of play where they can play their best.
But then in other situations, it's like, well, you kind of have to make a
sacrifice because searcher needs to be in certain positions to be able to
lead properly. So it's a little bit of give and take.
We'll just have to see how it works out. But so far it's not been bad.
Just a shout out to the JL YouTube enjoyers, the Vlogs.
I see he's got a mic pinned to his shirt, so I'm presuming that means he was filming this morning,
so you can get a little bit of a behind-the-scenes look.
I'm always curious as to what that morning looks like.
I'm also always curious how you balance that creating content while still having to be a pro player,
so I'm interested to see how that develops.
That man on your screen, Prof calls him the best player in Turkey now, Bley, and you said you agree.
I agree. I mean, if you think about his rise in his team when he got picked up,
he was, you know, Xantara's best player in Turkey for the past 10 years, and you can see what...
I remember in Copenhagen, for example, he was this raw force of nature where he was super aggressive and what not, but as time is over the years, he's just become this consistent force, as the entire is slowly fading, the star is fading away,
why Kadya is rising up and taking the reins as we do have the Venus coming out. Obviously Anubis getting taken out sucks for the side of Aurora, but they do have the punished pick off Dust.
Dust indeed they do and that's gonna be coming out any moment here for sure
Am I you're expecting any surprises from this?
What do mouths go for I think they go for inferno right newk really?
Yeah, I think so all right
They didn't try to go towards me the other series that we watched some play in this turn
It's not been I it has been closed though, but it's not being ideal
I'm assuming in this instance then Aurora tried to push out. It's gonna be inferno or mirage
I think it's gonna be inferno coming at yet mirage should be banned out right there
It's a map that Maus have kind of been looking rough on and we haven't seen overpass from Maus yet
They played all five other maps apart from obviously from Anubis and in Furdo
It's a map where both the two teams have looked very solid thus far. I think they have exact same
Wind rates as well and the same number of maps played in the past three months
I'll be it of course for Maus. They have two new players and all of that so
It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be a fun one
But no surprises you both seem to feel that this was kind of the way it was gonna play out
I mean Aurora had to go with Dust2, I think that is the obvious one. And for Maus, yeah, Nuke makes sense.
It's also a weak target for Aurora. Aurora's Nuke has not been that good lately if we're being 100% honest.
So I think that that's actually a nice punish pick at the same time for Mausports.
So yeah, I think that both teams gained a slight edge in their picks and it sets up for a potential three map series.
We'll just have to, you know, see what type of, you know, sharpness they bring to the server though.
So what does Maus look like on Dust2?
Yeah, this is one of the maps where Delexus had to take a sacrifice, you know, being the B bomb side anchor when he used to be an A rotator.
So he's taking off of a star roll and an anchor roll also, you know
This is a map where JL's had to change up how he used to play he used to be a B player now
He's kind of more on the A side of the map
So they've had to do a little bit of give and take here, but they've looked you know pretty sharp
I think the big thing for me though is that Aurora plays like an overwhelming T side where they just death ball
They're either gonna death ball you long cat or B
They are very one note
But they're very powerful in how they play that note and they can really punish that B side of the map of mine
I feel for Aurora's T-Side the problem is if they get off a really good start it looks fun like Ducetic on death ball
But the moment they just kind of they're like 0 and 5 down for example
They start just stagnating so this week super slow and that's something which mouse can potentially exploit
I will say this though. I'd rather have JL
Play towards played kind of like the mid position instead of Spinks or you know play to B bombsite
You know because I think Zalax just feels super uncomfortable and the comms it spins really off
Also, I have to point out Spinks
He was making a few mistakes last time he played on this map, the opening game where he was missing some of the smokes,
he was kind of leaving Xelix by himself for the bebomb side many a time, who was being a bit of a liability.
So that is something I can, like I said, the mid to BB plays, that is exploitable by Aurora.
I'm surprised by what they did. I would have expected JL to be their B anchor because he played B anchor on Navi.
Xelix being a guy who played the A rotate, at least you have him on the same side of the map he used to play in if they would have made him the A side.
So I think that that is something that could change, right? I don't like anything set in stone for mouse.
No, no, no long-term plans have been finalized for this team.
It's all about seeing how does this particular unit work in a tier one environment.
Let's get Zelek some reps.
Let's see how Zershin is as an IGL.
Let's see how this could, you know, work out.
And then obviously the major is going to be a bump in the road.
That's going to put everything on pause.
And after that, they're going to assess everything and figure out what's best.
But right now you just want to still, you know, get what you can out of this tournament.
Miles up against Aurora.
We are going to find out which team is heading to the playoffs for PGL Astana.
Let's get into it.
Yes, let's get into it playoffs on the line now is the Aurora. I've actually been pretty excited by both of these teams here in Astana
I like what they're giving us Hugo this new look mouse squad playing a pretty exciting brand of Counter Strike for the most part and
and Aurora surprisingly locked in you've had some fantastic moments at a guys like what cardiac thinking back to the clutch rounds that we had from him yesterday
Soulfly on that crazy recovery arc as you remember. I think this game is going to be a hell of a lot of fun
I'm excited for how you feeling. I'm feeling great as well
Yeah, we saw Aurora make their way through Paris vision yesterday in a crazy dust 2 fashion as well
I gotta say it's not just mouths with a new end game leader
It feels like Madge is looking a little refined on this Aurora side cooling some faster rounds some more contact plays
Not afraid to use his pieces
well here and quick on this T side. I want to see if we get the same pace today or if it was kind of an anti-parry vision set up.
We'll see. We're straight into this game. It's Dust 2. It's a map that Maus have had differing time on and one that Aurora are more than happy to play.
Somehow, Maus escape on that lower control. No punish comes in and Aurora reroute towards Long. Toshi here.
Oh, he hears a lot of feet. He knows there's a lot of dudes about to round this corner
It's what she gets out with one and JL who was coming over to assist out in the open
Won't go down without a fight makes it a double and now Aurora in trouble as it's to be fought long
Control might belong to them, but now as I've got layers of defense set up in a
Moxig might make it down into the pit
But the struggle is just beginning this smoke fades on the cross and they don't have any ability
eat to replenish this, so we'll task ahead of Aurora here.
Malstay actively re-clear short, they get a lot more information and they wait for this
long cross to commit.
That's when Aurora leave.
Now, gap is B, but Malstay players spawn side, short side, you're not getting through this
easy with 30 seconds and they start to rotate back as well.
Spinks gonna grab that info on the cross, they peek together over here.
Oh, that's one hell of a flick for Zantara's. Is this round on?
Zantara's been looking great here in Astana.
Does he have any more of these fast fancy flicks? Gonna need one with this sight player peeking out now.
Cut down on that short play, Maus are able to contain.
JL looking excellent to start this series off. Three kills in the pistol goes a long way.
And that's gonna be Maus staying active in the mid-round.
and taking this first over Aurora. We mentioned the difficulty Miles have had on this map, right?
It always comes down to the veto and forcing to put this back in their pool with a new this.
It's never really being a mount they wanted to play.
I wonder if that's something that could even be on the horizon changing, right?
If Miles have success with his roster, don't get me wrong.
We've got a lot of moving pieces right now in terms of the roster for the major versus this team,
but if they would even consider trying to expand that map for the future.
That being said, probably for the best not to play Aurora on Anubis with what we saw the other day,
they looked lights out on it.
So a very important pistol for Maus. Aurora take the eco, just a single scout.
I like that the desk mentioned some of the problems on B from Mao's the other day as well.
Yeah, you know, I think if Aurora have done their homework, they should know that Zellex,
even though I think on some of the other maps, hello, that's a knife for the cardier.
Like that.
Like that he takes it.
Yeah, Tosche is walking into the corner as well, almost realized.
Yeah, it's not just Zellex having trouble individually, but also the fact that Spinks did
leave him and actually for I've been rating Spinks for a while but when we
watch him on Dust2 he does it like he struggles. By the way that knife kill
has changed this round entirely Aurora will not go beating. Gonna go for the
A-splits instead. Two guns and sure Azershin is here but if him and JL miss
their shots there's a world. Yeah this walks like scouts at Aurora and the way
I was so keen to bring out the dust.
Wait!
Oh, it was a piece of skill, teammate.
I didn't think I'd start making them up.
That's not optimal, is it?
Glock almost caught JL.
You got dinked. Had to flick back.
Maybe he should have gone for that B site.
The sphinx was home.
Either way, it was always meant to be. Knife kill is a nice bonus.
But here we go, gun round from Aurora.
Weird here, Wakadia bought the orb, right?
Obviously he got the knife, though, so he had money to do so.
And I figured Woxy was just going to drop him an AK and play the orb glass cannon.
Woxy couldn't buy an AK because he bought the scout.
No, he had 2700, he could have dropped an AK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're 27, 100, gonna drop one, and then just play Glass Orb.
But instead, it's elected to go for armor scout, and it's rifles on everyone else.
Oh, if it's Glass Orb, I see why you wouldn't.
Yeah.
You've got full rifles, you wanna do something punchy here on this B site.
Maybe you can grab torches.
Well, here's that, a tempered abuse over towards B.
Cellex, at least extinguishing the molly, keeps himself alive a tiny bit longer,
it won't matter. Barrelling through that smoke at the doors is exertion and with the Toshi
AWP arriving, Aurora now hinge on Maja. They're capped in 1v2. Toshi's fully backed up so
there won't be a kill available here for Maja. Bombs dropped over towards B so even
And if you wanted to go hunting, priority is to go back and grab this bomb.
JL's low can't overextend here through the tunnels.
They know that at this point in the round, Magja's searching.
And so just gonna sit back.
While he in tunnels side means JL can't play to stop this bomb plant.
Magja now has time on his side and the spot on Torsche out in mid, he knows where both
players are.
Oh, yeah, that's optimistic though, that reposition.
Trying to focus on JL back in tunnels after throwing that lurksmoke, but Toshi of course has a gap in the door.
Maja, maybe doing too much, could have climbed over the site.
Tell you what, man, JL coming into this map with really hot hands ever since the pistol,
that would be a real X-factor for Maoz, because I think he's been stable in these games,
but I don't think we necessarily had the match where JL steps up and dominates,
Often times you've been looking towards exertion
If you suddenly have JL putting up numbers like this that gives mouse
Kind of even more to work with
Yeah, it's a great time for it, right? This is a playoff qualification game
We always say he's a big game player
He's a big game Harry, you know playoffs of where I'm obviously waiting to really see what mouse can do
But you know the same time getting there proving to not be the easiest thing here in Astana
Some of the 1-2 bucket teams in Paravision and G2, for example, both playing to survive today, one of them going home.
90's shaking up the bucket by going 3 and 0, including a win over Maus.
So what's going on? Look at this fake right now, Aurora throwing a lot of Utah into this B bomb site.
They've done an execute, but the issue is no one's committed.
Yes, it may have kept three players here, but they need to jump on this on cat right now.
That molly is poor, they can maybe get right round and they're going to run.
Oh no!
There's how exertion didn't get that made in straight away, and that's cost him a few
seconds here, allowing Aurora to close in, he'll hand his smoke, give himself something
to play around.
Sir, shoot!
Only good for the first, clashing with Zantares.
Proofs to be one, fight too many, and with Wakadia wrestling back another.
This one into a three-on-three.
Do have JL late on the long side.
Midlerk for Madger as well, but hasn't seen anything as the retakes coming in through short.
Still the info available for Aurora. Time to get off this bomb.
It's for she to break the silence and JL next.
Nowhere match has gotten to that Molly gives it up.
They've got a smoke for this.
No winning this round for Maga.
Try as you like.
Oh.
Counter-terrorism.
Now is able to snipe another away from Aurora in a retake.
Hey, Aurora, well-familiar with those jump shots.
They saw a lot of them in the Paris vision game.
Some success, some failure from both teams.
Nice try on the luck from Maga.
But JL plays that perfectly.
Not over committing on the long side.
Getting a lot of damage, getting a harass, forcing a roar, it's a really short, that's what allows Torschey to get his kill.
I gotta say it as well Harry, maybe you're noticing it. I think something's happened in the game.
I have never seen more cancelled grenade throws than in the last week of play.
It is insane how many tier 1 players are missing cancellations.
I think Adam Graff has changed this. I haven't had enough chance to play.
But, I don't know why Anim Graph would affect it, but something's going on.
Are you noticing this?
It's your conspiracy.
It's my conspiracy.
I'm not putting my name to it.
I'm putting my name right on it.
Dude, the amount of cancelled, exertion would add like a slam dunk right there if he hit
his.
The amount of cancelled grenades.
Watch, we'll see like five this series, I promise.
I'm seeing it every single map so far on a spot.
People canceling grenades and not getting them out.
This is a new phenomenon.
Because you know, it would happen previously, occasionally, you're a bit too jumpy on that one key,
but it is happening every single map right now.
So I think something's changed with the timing.
There's my conspiracy. Just pay attention now, that's all I'll say.
Karora up short, 4v5.
So far down, it was a rock on Dust2 against Paradision.
How will the roar of fairness land down Centauria next to you?
Man, they get dunked on!
The entry still comes in, but exertion in this position is a menace.
Oh, Centaurias, they've crept out underneath him.
And he's got this ramp fight to worry about cover for Woxicus there, and the jump shot will connect.
He was low health, I was wondering if Zelex...
How do we get more jump shots than ever here on Dust2?
Wondering if Zelex would go for it.
I mean, 4v2, it's honestly not a horrible play by any means here.
Punishing that plant.
Aurora need to go B more.
True.
Alright, just look at it, the numbers 21 kills for the 3 A side players, the 2 for the B players.
Well the B player just jump shot the bomb, so that makes you think, yeah, we should play B right now.
I don't know how, you know, Zershin in this position, every round, every game he is getting multi-kills, it's not an easy spot.
spot. You're getting harassed by utility, you have a very small margin of error on your position.
You're always getting 1v1s, you're getting 1v4s on ramp. And he keeps getting out with doubles.
Doing a great job there. Okay, we can be getting in. Boxes smoked. Yeah. Pulse back.
Xbox smoke block, and torsion.
Open sight lines, we're trying to assist in this lower fight as well.
The molly forces him back, and a fast, short walk, cancelled by the torsion.
Another 4v5 for Soulflyware. Aurora is stuck with...
The only map control they have is what Maus have given them.
The short control. Long is locked. Orb is there.
Now Aurora, they get their execute in.
Mago looks like he wants to drop spawn, but there's no kills available down in that position.
He's going to have to scale up ramp to threaten insertion.
That's a great entry. Can they do anything with this?
Well, exertion's been the big problem, right? The rock over towards ramp, but it was a double-long set-up out of Maus, so they are able to deal with Wakadia,
and now you've got that long retake to worry about. Woxic gets eyes on with the AWP, and with a kill out of Santares...
That's one of the better positions Aurora have been in. Double CT retake for Maus.
They want to keep this floor, the Santares. Hey, can fight straight up!
And Toshi never even gets going. They know about the ult back on long. They've got no reason to face him.
Aurora finally get on the board. And I know the Zantares triple is super stylish. It's the thing you're looking at.
The kill for Maga is what feels like actually opens that round up. The drop down into CT, getting past Xershin, who was 10 and 2 heading into that round.
There's been an absolute menace over towards the rampside.
And then it allows Antares to shine in that post plant.
Yeah, absolutely. The kill that changes the round.
Aurora had no utility left after they did their execute, really.
They just had to get that dry entry.
They couldn't harass exertion.
So great push there for Maga and JL.
Shame, because I feel like he had a window to make his cross happen.
Both players were holding for the orb far away,
but obviously he didn't realize.
And so they get off the bomb, they're able to punish him.
Aurora on the board, not too late.
Want to see if Soulfly can find some impact.
He's just been picked first every round.
Will he be able to get somewhere without getting orbed?
I feel like, you know,
this could be an attempt at conditioning out of Aurora,
because one of the things they ran into early on with the attempts to go
B was that Maus were kind of bringing a third player over. I think they know that it's been the more exploitable site. You've just hit A
four rounds in a row. And I feel like this is where maybe you look to explore B a little bit more.
You know you put pressure on, you know the likelihood of that being, you know, that a triple B being active is now way lower.
You've made noise like you're taking short and yeah, here it is, the mid-speed coming through.
They go a little ahead of the Util there. Sulflight picked on the cross.
Torsche off watching, an exertion ready to come through this smoke, but the B-Play is coming in.
Spinks dead with a quick shot from Woxic, and so Aurora get the site control.
As the punish they were looking for, both B-Players starting slow in this map.
Spinks with a bit of a whiff, and now his retake is off.
JL looks like he wants to get in, and Grenade will open up the round.
Oh no, he missed it! It bounced off the door, that would have been a free kill to Maja.
and suddenly mouths would have been interested instead they give it up
Can you believe it one missed HE and it shuts down any possibility of that post plan?
Dear oh dear Aurora do it again in the 4v5 that is four rounds in a row that soul fly has died
almost untreated on his own
Three to three of the times to torches or
at least Aurora gets something from it. They get speedy up the B ramp there and are able
to find another round on this T side back to back as well.
Malz's money thrown into disarray. They're going to drop guns and get one more goodbye
in. But safe to say, if Aurora win this round, that's why Malz are calling a timeout. They're
in a lot of trouble.
How much has posed them an interesting question has any right the relentless a hits that weren't necessarily always working now
They've been able to pull off one of these a side takes
They've just hit you with a mid to be taken advantage of the fact that you've been paranoid about the a side set up
So the question kind of leans the way of exertion and cyclone in this tack pause
Where do you stack the chips do you try and take a bit of early aggression right try and get a bit of early info
try and force that man advantage leave a faith in the read and see what they put
together here. Match up very much an IGL who's always liked the mind games, always
like to think big picture. Might not necessarily lead to round-to-round success
but good at manipulating the CT set-ups.
Long-k, anti-long-rush setup. Four mouths, doesn't matter. Spinks here as the
Joker
Usually over towards that B site you see him now scrapping on long
And that's gonna trigger Aurora to try and pick up the pace with a be here the jumping
The jump is what kills Antares if he could just run there
He might get out but shows his head twice
Oh, it's Alex was the guy we had questions for right in terms of his comfort ability over here towards B
He's all alone and Aurora. No, he's all alone with that spank spot
They want to, but it is audacious
Waiting the smoke for the moment. Zalex trying to reposition. He's got a bit of window to move
You can afford to wait the smoke though. That's what Wakadi is providing you here with this mid-lurk
You know the rotates can't arrive and so that info is evergreen Zalex is still here alone
Gets out with the first spot on the second now
Just trying to buy time for his teammates to rotate over and Wakadi are actually got best in the mid in the downtime solid hold for Zalex
Now he's able to depend on in there an important 1v2 all the load in that B site
You know, I think we're drawing attention to Zelex not just because he's the rookie
But because we've seen troubles on this B site specifically, but at the same time in the couple of games
I've seen for this young player. He's very
Mechanically sound he's very reliable in other positions. So nice to see him in a high-impact moment hold his own
And just get away with two kills winning the round for miles dropping the bomb
So reassuring that yeah when it comes to just holding your spots when you know
they're pushing you, Salix is able to do his part of the bargain.
Oh hell I have a smoke here for Ocadia.
We're going for the fast mid to B here Aurora.
Certainly look tempted by it getting close out middle.
This one from outside of the B-tunnel is blocked by exertion, it's floating around in the middle, leaving A susceptible.
Aurora will walk out mid.
He's annoying, but not enough to stop this if they truly want it.
Sphinx whittled down at the door, and Aurora arguing chase, he'll get pincered from the
tunnels.
Now, what's Zantares?
He takes that fight?
Only Zantares takes that fight and that is the round winner.
Again, shutting down any chance the mouse can consider this and their save is not guaranteed
to Rora know that fact.
Kills here would stop a rebuy so even just taking one more gun away.
feels worth the risk for Aurora.
Liking the tone that Aurora would bring into this T-Side though, very punchy set plays.
And it's kind of what we got against Paravision, I like just calls out a spawn XX, not necessarily
playing super slow and defaulty because that's been the problem for Aurora, especially against
some of the top teams. It's like when they play really defaulty and they just get picked off one
by one and nothing ends up happening. That's when you really see the holes in this team.
But I think even if it works or not, playing together with this much firepower and just
trying to trade out. There's a lot of firepower on this team.
Boxing form on a wide angle, they just go storming out for the trade.
So, Flyer is waking up in these last few rounds.
Spinks will put him back to bed.
I mean, again, you've seen the heavy anti-longrush setup.
You've seen Spinks over towards A. Last time, this triggered the response of just going B.
And so I think Aurora almost trying to feign that right now, right?
Going for the more, I guess you should say, unexpected A-play, and then flash Torshi out
and he opened as a result.
So gauging their opponent's reactions and using it against them, it's good stuff, but
You've still got this double long set up to deal with.
No shorts open, you want to go and take this space while you can.
That's the site, you can start to feel very claustrophobic.
You'll see Zantares moving in and taking this space away.
Question is, how late does Zellex want to go here?
How late can he afford to go?
His teammates already up on the long side, they're drawing a lot of the attention away.
Zellex just gets mobbed up straight away as he rounds the corner.
Molly on the bomb, and no chance to extinguish. This is an aurora round.
He's used attempt-
Wait! He blocked it!
And the neighbor-
Oh!
It's a robbery!
From bounds!
I thought no way!
Absolutely no way, but they line up for JL.
He physically blocks the HE.
and the last second stick they timed that to perfection how did mouse win that
out less than a second on that stick they did not lose faith and that was after
such a nice call for Aurora
They're lying right up.
Damn.
It's the only way you win that.
That double kill coming through in that fashion.
Old mouths would have run back long as soon as that Molly hit the bomb.
But this ain't old mouths. This is new mouths. This is JL mouths.
How are they winning those rounds?
Because also, I mean, you're drawing attention. What a sick call for magic. To put that mid to be down.
I can't believe Torsi fell for it that hard in the open. They just run through his smoke.
This is one sided at the moment, but Aurora have been so close. So many times.
Now's not the chance to run away with this half.
Putting Aurora's money in the dirts.
Oh no, which smudge is this thing on?
Waxing with the mid to beat.
That is good.
Time to go, Spinks and Zalax, what you got?
This one's on tempo, no early warning signs, and with the entries coming through so cleanly from Maga, this one is already over.
We've been saying how, you know, Mao's prone to taking more risks, this is one that no one would ever attempt.
Spinks burned his entire mag, he had three bullets left when they come through on Mitsubi, like sure the timing is pretty quick from Aurora, right?
They put a lurk smoke down, they put a mittabee, they speed, but it's still kind of shocking
to see Spinks lurk so lost on this B bomb site.
It's in a poor position, and he has no ammo.
It's kind of not the Spinks I expect.
Great punish for Aurora, they stay on the T side, they get the chance to fight for a fifth.
And it does feel like, why wouldn't you go B at this point? It's just been two games.
Running into the top three performers who were clutching our rounds,
and then hitting the B sites. Four kills each player.
They can't make it too obvious.
Before she's starting to go, actually maybe they can, I'm already going 5B.
They're just gonna hit it.
Spinks like, I'll bait you, good luck.
I just want him to go over looked.
Nice trade, and that's it.
Now's will have to try, but as long as they're all replaced smart, they've got re-smokes,
they've got re-mollies.
Now's going quick.
What's going quick?
Smoke from JL makes things interesting.
Makes that door even wider to get through.
And so on the flash, he'll make it in.
Lose Woxic in the site.
It's Zantares at the car.
This is a powerful position now with window and sight
taken, four mouths.
Zantares, three kills deep.
We'll get Molly down into the open.
No extinguish, magic covers with the utility.
Torsche, there should be no winning this.
Defuse held.
Zantares not able to get past him and now it falls to Maga.
A bit of a misread from Toshi who loses track of him in all the chaos.
And so Aurora managed to scrape by with five rounds on this T side.
Could have been better.
They'll take this considering how the map started in that streak of rounds.
Four mouths, initially five and a half.
They only get two past that hot start.
Yeah, I mean, all the success really coming on this B bomb site
for Aurora as well, getting four of the five rounds off of B,
one round win on A. So you can't really blame them
for going back to it.
Nice, brutal, execute again.
And nothing that Maus can do about it towards the end
of the half.
Clearly, problems going on.
And as a desk we're talking about,
The surprising factor that Zellix's B anchor and JL is long, proving to continue to be
a question for this new mouse squad.
But, regardless of that, seven round half.
Nothing to turn your nose up at, or TT does too.
On a map the mouse have had trouble with in the past, still look more tuned with it with
the roster at the moment.
And while I get their scraps,
there are only two of the last seven rounds for Mao's.
I drop quick spot to try to block that smoke.
Puts it up on the site.
Now he has the cross.
Now all of them have the cross.
Oh, dear.
That was a crazy 1-8.
That was a flick, right?
Yeah.
4-1-8.
That's insane.
OK, they find it.
OK, they will be with the flick master out on short.
Come Soulfly.
And that's exactly what they wanted.
Bit of patience pays off.
That's a low health.
So Tori's Julie's in nice, but that's too many targets.
And they fight it together.
Looking almost confused that Maus would have the audacity to cross long.
That's crazy.
The smoke block was so nice, but Zellix in a powerful position.
Look at this.
Hey, he's a glock player, we've learned that.
I was one those playoffs they come gunning for it careful Toshi yep oh no how do you leave
the bomb to how do you get out guys help you might have to just smoke it yeah stop okay
Scout lower.
First time for everything.
JL has trusted his reed a lot.
Aurora are already saving.
Now is the one this round.
And that's fine.
That's okay.
Far as...
I can't believe it either bud.
There's a lot of damage through the smoke.
Scout's hitting.
These are good tags and all, but it goes no further than this.
I think one of the things that's been so exciting to me about this new mouse squad was like,
The kind of, you know, the whole exertional IGL change,
first you were just nervous,
cause like you've seen examples of mid-round coolers
going to IGL when it really works.
Examples that spring to mind would be like a,
someone like a hunter in recent times, right?
It's a famous, famously.
Yeah, if you want to.
Historically.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then it's like, you've also seen it where it has,
I'm thinking, you know, kind of like the twists back in the day, right?
Probably one of the more standout ones.
I know he's kind of back on that now out of the, you know, with the circumstances
around phase, and so we don't really know how it's going to work the second time around.
But so there was questions around whether it would work.
But I think the thing that's been exciting is exertion was one of the players
who got more freedom, right, and took the most risks within mouths.
And he's kind of bought that to the culture of the team.
They're not afraid to take chances here.
I just found the immediate success so interesting because it already felt like he called his shots on T-Side anyway.
I never looked at Xersh, especially when, you know, you consider his joking and like, his struggles and playoffs.
I never looked at him and went, oh, he's really limited by the system he's in, or like, oh, it's putting him in bad.
But it's like, you know, you got how he felt.
You now have the guy who had the extra freedom in charge of the team, and he knows how good that extra
that extra freedom to do what you want in certain situations feels like.
And also, when you look at who they kept out of the lineup, it kind of was the guys who were a bit more freed up.
Torsche is the AWPer, Spinks is their kind of extremity player operating on his lonesome.
He's also, you know, just based on talking to him, he's clearly a smart guy, has a great read of the game, so it's nice to see that sort of
Well, you remember when we had him on the cast and it was like, dude, he knows everything that's going to happen before it happens.
But it's nice to see it kind of prove it.
Like, look at this round. He found the gap.
He walked all the way up and he's taking cats and they planted A and a five.
I guess the big question to me was, did he lean into like the old system that Cypro and the Brolin built up?
Or did he try and reinvent everything?
And I think it's very much the second option.
Yeah.
It does feel like the whole team, like they're playing a lot more confident.
You know, you could argue there's some honeymoon effect to that as well, but the style doesn't look different.
It'll be long term where the questions like arise, but the initial items I think is really really promising around this couch, Steve.
I mean look at...
It wouldn't surprise me if people end up liking them a lot more too, because they're more prone to taking risks.
Yeah, the thing we always talked about was the saving and, you know, the not going for those unlikely rounds.
Yeah, I think the way you would describe Maus before and the reason for their consistency was like they just did the basics really well.
But I think that's also why there was like a hard limit on how good the team could be.
Because Shakara at the top level, all the teams do the basics well.
As Yanco said yesterday, you don't win trophies with guardrails.
No.
They get from Hugo, ex-professional bowler.
One of the best to ever do it. Have some respect.
Alright, so I should have found in the middle, but B is open right now. Miles found that
cross-pick, so we're guarding a 4 and 14. Be glad Prof isn't here.
Now he's going to go for this punish. It looks like a well-timed cool soulfly has had some
Trouble in this map already.
Alone on this B site, Zetaris with the AWP coming in.
So far, there's nothing. Zetaris, he's going deep.
I'm in for the jump shot.
Yeah, it's not the worst move, and the follow-up is right there.
Bomb is alone, Zetaris wants to fight it.
The AWPs are wreaking havoc right now, and Zellex gets his chance to clutch.
What you got?
Alright, B site for Zellex, bomb down.
It's about the all-back in the tunnels.
Woxic already rang out with a kill earlier, peeking into it.
Woxic on a tight line, it doesn't miss those.
So well recovered there, right?
B, empty.
Chance for that to go really wrong.
Zantara gets there in time with the AWP, puts it to work.
Aurora still in the conversation.
You know, the one you talked about longevity with this with this team and this style and
with the calling, you know, I think to give one, maybe poor example of starting so strong
and disappearing, think about G2 last season, Harry, think about calling these really fast
rounds G2, everybody hitting, you know, have you got MVP and anchor roles winning London
back last year. And now we look at G2 now, and it's not, it's the same team, it's not
the same team, at least it's not the same success. So it can be really hard to maintain
consistency. That's why a story like Apex is as incredible as it is, because he ripened
every year. And sure, you can always make the argument he has the best pieces in the
world. But when Apex started leading Vitality, those weren't the best pieces in the world.
short roster changes etc but you know I think he's really he's used his players
better than anyone right now and demanded more from them and kind of to a
degree turn them into those pieces. There's also that like famous Cady in
saying which is like everyone wants to be a cooler when you're winning it's in
the kind of hard moments it's in the tough times. Try to make it a cooler 15-14 or
You don't want the responsibility, huh? I do love that
Okay
Look at check out how deep he's got ready. They're all here and I don't think Aurora realized how many players got out
Oh, they learned the hard way. That's what a miss smoke from mouths
So they get the smoke they get the fight and they come out top 5e2
Cardi stuck in here try to survive Jail will not let it happen
that is not a percentage play that is a punish play a mouse are here to take all your gold
great stuff from Zellex man since getting into this second half especially
yeah
get him out of that B site anchor
he's like Spinks is the problem not me
That was asking a lot. However, that was me as well run this down. Let's point in the
game.
Oh, that's crazy.
I think JL said that was my entry, why'd you take that?
Yeah, he was the guy who took all the space, but that leg's got a leg glory!
Yeah, he was the guy who took all the space, but that leg's got a leg glory!
Ah!
He hit it!
They both did!
All right, Korora, if you have anything left, gotta show it right now.
They have two flashes and a smoke.
No kids.
How do you win this?
For Korora, you're gonna be hard pressed to win this series without that kind of trifecta
of firepower online right now Zantares is hitting and you're welcoming the up-ticket
corn from Matcha but you're gonna really struggle with both Wakadia and Woxic kind of missing
in this game.
Sulflight was like 0-8 in the first half or 0-7.
Yeah.
And he's now, yeah he's now moved up the board, nearly as more kills than Wakadia and
and walks to combine.
Oh my goodness, well he got it done.
Can't argue with that.
The consumption go into spawn.
MASH!
He's got a T-drop into a cardio.
Teaches him a lesson. B-split coming in quick.
Nader, worry about the rotates for a little while,
but the B-site holds its ground.
Soulfly low.
Cover in!
And Torres can't find it!
Zellex hits a blinder again!
He's the flit monster!
With the 180!
Exertion still on this CT lurk just needs to try and get one if he can cut magia down
Oh, Molly's big for magia forces the swing out of exertion
And so Zellex has to do this one alone, but they're both low
Everyone's low one bullet ends the round
Zellex is gonna have to hit another 180. I'll make it in
MP9 hard to deal with
Maybe even worse than facing a rifle there. Let's watch it be nimble light on his feet and so round picked up for Aurora
Damn good try out of Zellex to make some magic happen
Yeah, it's good that Aurora split up there
Although it can be dangerous and not go through the same choke point
You're just gonna get lined up on you. So it's
It's two 1v1s. It's still very scary
you've allowed a player to isolate you, but it's better than getting sprayed down.
Nice round out of Wox 6, saving this one, keeping Aurora very much in the game.
And Maus aren't happy, they're buying a full limited utility, hoping to get it done with the guns.
Because suddenly Aurora have been given a chance, if Maus fall here,
this game's going to close up quickly.
This is both teams of money on the line, so Maus are kind of swinging for the fences,
They're acknowledging that losing this lets the game close up, but the risk-reward feels worth it to them
Knowing that they could break Aurora's money and put themselves on the winning track right now
Cardia heard those tags. They should be scared of this B-side right now. Someone was behind the smoke
How's it coming in?
It's a full assault
This spray for Soulfly and he's burning alive
Now it's what cardiac has to step up and they hear him at the car the entries
belong to zeal exertion lock the round
And if you don't give anything away with Aurora's money on the edge, they really do have to save here
You just kind of force their hand
There we go, it's the right call man down money on the line map points
Aurora, walk away.
Careful, Maga, because they're exiting here.
They will leave the tunnels.
He's getting fights.
Ho ho ho ho!
Three kills is not bad.
Is it worth losing your gun?
I'll say sure
Yeah, how'd he saved you would have had full rifles in this round
It just keeps miles with him reset territory
But that still relies on Aurora with the ball.
Yeah, right, that's kind of the problem.
That's not a bad way to get the ball rolling though.
That saved the Woxycorp opening up the round and dealing with Xalex who's been a real force of nature.
What a comeback for Xalex in this game.
I'd love to know what his worst score was.
It felt like 4 in 10 or something like that.
And as you've seen from like even just his performances on a lot of the other maps, especially
when he's a bit more comfortable, like really the only glaring issue has been CT Dust 2.
3v5 potential 2v5 now, but Maus have got that sight, do you know how problematic this can
be?
Oh, Wakadi almost loses it, we're going to flash him in quicker like in Chaos, but flashes
everyone. Makari still gets in.
Just getting him in the site is nice even if the flash did blind him.
Having him here is a big problem for Maus
and he'll go on to close the round.
So that risk all of a sudden of Matcha hanging around to do the extra damage
is worth its weight in gold as the money is broken for Maus.
They call for a force.
That's putting a surprising amount of money in here.
They got B spawns, but still that's,
whoo, it's a high-risk one.
That's very limited, lost by all these birds.
Just gonna try and explode on this B site,
feeling confident it to be coming out.
So I'm just gonna try and cut off rotates.
This thing, in a round like this, with Rotates being so far away especially, like, you could even afford to go 3 for 2
on the entries into the site, you still have a great chance in this round.
Can you get those two with Tec-9s?
Cardi is playing close.
And they're going to use that smoke to try and close in.
Cardi firing off, only gets out with the first, it's Soulfly.
Back of the site, good for his.
Soulfly coming back like Zelex in this game.
had numerous multi kills on his B site. Most multi kills of his team right now.
And much needed here. His mouse risked it all on a force buy. Gonna have to take the eco here.
This game is getting close.
Fence, I can't hear you.
Weird thing about that force is we talk about like oftentimes the goal is to maximize gun
rounds, and mouse have kind of done the opposite with that force.
they have one more like proper by-round left in this game now.
I just think the reason they did it was they lost three to Maja on the way out,
they had very poor loss bonus and if they full eco'd one there,
the next buy would have been pretty weak anyway.
So that's a justification.
But yeah, it has left them with less rounds with rifles for sure.
Well, gotta make the most of this one.
Suddenly Aurora are nipping at Mouse's heels.
I think a part of you wants to think that you've got Aurora really paranoid about this
B-site, but I don't know if you will, Maga likes the mind games, so they're just staying
Standard in this 3-2 playing the anti-long rush setup to open up this round
I think it is time for mouse to explore other avenues and
They're like Madger assumes the same
Consistent fragger in these games the start up
Back to the site he goes insertion finds a gap
Won't exploit it.
I've been your eyes crossing at ease.
Bomb plant here is a requirement if you want to have anything of value in this next round.
For Aurora, goal is stop that bomb going down. It makes it very easy for them to lock in over time.
Because they would only have pistols to worry about in round 24.
Oh, counter-pals, full exec. Look at Raja hiding out right now.
He is hoping he gets overlooked, meant to be threatened to fate. They are rotating.
That was a roar of panicking, but it actually puts him in a perfect place.
Everybody here in the site, nice kill from Spinks. Is this really winnable?
Oh, hello!
Could have had Raja there for free.
Funny.
Instead, you're hoping for this 2 on 3 to come through with the last second change of mind.
Trying to get out mid to be but the cover him from soul fly he faces them head on and now there's no winning this for Torsche
Unless nobody actually does have the open route to a bomb plant here. Walksick had shuffled out of position jump shot
It might come down to it. I'm safe
Jump shot denied
Here's walks it close again
This shot Torsche tries to give chase but Madge has got the cover
You can get a couple of kills.
You can bring out guns here in the final round of the half.
It's going to come at the cost of Util.
So expect to see some Galils and Util purchased around it,
but there will be limitations here for Maus.
This comeback from Aurora is very, very threatening.
Maus got Aurora scrambling,
but it felt like their fake was so good
that they got Aurora pulling back from long
and all in the right place to fight that Kanaksek.
They wanted to rotate CT.
They believed that was a mid to B.
was a mid to B and so three players of Aurora facing Catwalk as Maus come through. Of course
he wasn't pre-scoped, he might have had Maga pushed up on that close wall. But none of
this matters because Maus are left with nothing to try and fight back Aurora. They've got
to call this final timeout and I mean look at their money in the bottom left. Sure, you
can get an AK with armor but you can't get a Nade. So Galil's have to be called here
for miles. Suboptimal by as Aurora are right there on this comeback looking for a fifth
round in a row to make it happen.
It's a real test of the metal for this Xersion IGL.
The Aurora default hasn't changed, same setup every one of these rounds.
Two players in B, mid left open, short left open, and a triple long start.
Here we go, Mikati has such a strong position for the AK-47.
And South Flyers always found multi-kills from backside.
If this B-hole doesn't work out, that would be a change here for Aurora.
They've been solid.
Wakadia, gun on and a mow down in the tunnels.
Little awkward now as the ammo runs dry down to his trusty dual barrettas.
Toshi's got him, B site falls and a 3v2, this is the cleanest B site finishmouse I've had.
And it's come at the worst point in the game for Aurora.
The site that is felt impenetrable where Wakadia and Soulfly have always delivered on these multi-kills.
Finally lets them down and so now you look at Maga and Woxic in an unlikely 2 on 3.
Maus are in trench, they're set up and Sellex wins that fight on a Maga back in the tunnels.
Woxic's made noise, they know where he's coming from and there's no reason to peek this for these two players in at the site.
Maus finally breakthrough on B and they sealed the deal on Dust2.
That's Aurora's map pick. This is the map that Maus have been struggling on and they shut it down in round 24.
I really enjoy new maps like they're really fun to watch a little bit of a
let's focus in on this towards the end of that map there you saw a little bit
of a suppose dust I'd call it an economy gamble with the force but didn't
quite pay out kind of lucky that they closed that out in that final round
because I do think they left the door wide open for they did they're really
you know lucky to get that off by the people out of the have a full purpose
in the final to have a shot at it look I think mouse approach the early forces of
really well. I felt like on the CT side in the first half, I felt like Mouse were making some really good
reads and rotations. I thought they were defending very effectively. I do think at a certain point though,
they were losing the read. Aurora was able to punish them into defense very effectively to get themselves back into the game.
And then, you know, Mouse again won the pistol second half, again got off to a hot star, but then this kind of
started running out of gas and felt like it's where their play calling.
I think that was the most miserable game I've seen from Wycaidia in forever.
That was just, that was just a big fail.
That first...
What was that so I guess?
That's Turkish flag by the way.
Shut up.
Someone said that in the B-Shore I think.
Yeah, well listen.
Anomalies do happen but unfortunately I feel like the first half they could have maybe net
a couple more rounds.
I think that first half was actually pretty solid from Aurora overall right?
It was a pretty good recovery.
I said it as well, there's a B-Bomb side and you can see clearly why a lot of teams are
going to be doing that against Maus.
I think Zalithin's binks on B through the mid position is just such a
Uncomfortable the defense from the mouse being put up there and it was not much I could do about it
That being said a CT side getting off to the slow start really hurt them and also the Wikipedia
Look valid attempt in the end over there. This is a little bit rough doesn't very ugly
I feel like why Katie gets a two kills a swap on your gun, bro
Like you know just trying to you know switch out your pistols
But this is what happens sometimes times like some of these rounds can not go your way
But unfortunately for me, I feel like that second half having a very slow start. That was kind of like the
The nail in the coffin early on it's tough too because they're meant to be defense actually pretty good throughout the majority
Yes, actually thought they they managed that quite well even with you know mouse looking you know decently coordinated
I thought what they're scaling and how they were using utility
It's you know still great reach from Aurora to defend
But yeah, just right at the end just didn't quite have enough to get across the line
It's also like this small little silly mistakes. You see like for example the the penultimate round of that game where
Who was I think a tourist you've got the bomb down right it was the one versus three
They know who's a mid so far he gets out of dodge. He avoids the the off shot. Why are you repeating again right there?
Right this is why feeding that kill when there's an opportunity from run towards a bomb side
You know the calm should be clear right there
Just it's fine. Let him save the ass to and and unfortunately these small little things
They kind of have to circle down effect right they had a little bit of a decent buy come the final round and yeah
A fun game fun map accounts like overall and even though mouse were able to squeak it out. I think
for Waikati, he did wake up in a second half.
He did have some huge rounds to allow them to come in.
I love this from Zellix, by the way.
This dude was all over the place,
getting entries on the T side.
I think that one of the really cool things
that you've seen is Zershin, obviously,
used to be the entry factor of this team,
and he was used to brawl in being kind of a support factor
to set him up for entries.
And while they have at times,
put Zellix relegated to anchor positions on this map,
they really do make him the star of their T side.
You know, Zershin really has taken that step back
and understood that, hey, I need to support this guy.
Like, this is a guy coming up from our academy team.
We believe that he has the ability to give us
what we need to have impact.
So let me set him up the best way possible.
You can tell that he's the one falling back
going to support utility for Zellix.
And Zellix, that was the hell of a game.
Up against a solid opponent.
And so these are meaningful reps
for a new guy coming into the squad.
I know some of you know how to discuss shit
and wasn't yesterday or the day before
my memory's failing me,
but you were like, you know, this man's lying up,
well, you know, it's gonna change.
You don't know who they're gonna be sticking with.
They're gonna be sticking with Zellix.
Like you said, like this T side,
he is the tip of the spear.
They do so much work as well.
Well, I'm not going to buy someone who's untested. You know how they are. But anyway, the point is, I
work out with Kiyosuke did it. Well, I mean, expensive transfer. But the thing with Zalax, what I liked a lot was also his
mentality for someone so young thing at his level. You have just a stinker of a first half, you know,
you're just getting found out in the B bomb site and it's come to the T side. He was getting a kill almost every
round, multi kills out of multi kills. So credit to Mausman considering it's a new team pretty much, but
but exertion, calling and all of that, all the noise around them, the fact is they're
getting the job done. And for me, honestly, Aurora should have won that map. You know,
they are the actual team, they're a team that should be making you to playoffs and the fact
that they're able to steal away from Aurora, go to Srdan.
I've only been four days, sorry, I was going to say, it's only been four days, so I feel
like we don't have a huge sample size, but I am seeing the difference Zalex makes when
he is free to pop off. We've also seen how dismal it is when he's kind of shut down,
in a role, he's not comfortable and we got to see that on day one with Maas, and it's
interesting to me to see how this young player develops in this particular lineup.
Yeah, I think for me, I think they should swap players.
In the sense that I think that Zelek should be playing A.
I think JL...
I 100% agree with you.
I'm surprised they didn't do that from the start, because again, we talked about this
pregame, JL was the B anchor for Naby, it was very effective, and handling a mid B defense
is very chaotic.
It's one of the hardest things you have to do in the game on the CSI.
And you need experience, especially against tier one opposition.
I mean, this number, it looks crazy, but this has been the case with Xalex this entire tournament, I feel like, right?
CD side, eh, okay, sometimes disappointing, like we saw in Dust2, P-side is finding crazy impact.
And also, Curtis from Maus for having the faith in this young guy and doing so much, you know, so much setup for him, right?
They're throwing all the utility, they're setting him up for success, and he is shining as well.
But I can even see this, you know, switch up happened, the deeper they go in the tournament, if they make it to the playoffs, for example,
you can maybe see JL playing towards B. I wouldn't be too surprised.
Do you think as well that maybe the switch-ups haven't happened because JL is not a permanent member here?
Like they have to change this all over again and come alone.
So maybe they kind of...it's a little bit of a...
Like we're sticking some stuff on the wall, but it's not...it's Velcro.
We're gonna put it off and change it up later.
Well, let's be real. I would hope that they would at least consider this a long-term option if things work out with JL.
That should be at least a consideration.
That's the case. You'd be allowing him to put his best foot forward as well.
Well, it's not a consideration because they are literally changing the lineup coming forward.
For one game. For one tournament, sorry.
which is the major. That's what I'm saying.
So you don't change it now, then change it back.
You kind of do a quick fix here at Astana
that can then be easily integrated into the major.
And then you have that long-term look
at whether you bring jail and move stuff around.
I imagine that's what's going through the process.
I imagine while you're already here
your municipal testing spots that make more sense.
That's all I'm saying.
Also, it gives us his best chance to really feel comfortable
because you still want to get these results
as good as you can get them for VRS for next season
as no one at the major may not go as well
because you are playing with the piecemeal roster.
So you can go different ways with it.
I'm not necessarily opposed.
I will say the one thing that is nice about what
mouse is doing at this term is I feel like they haven't lost
anything in the sense that they haven't regressed
anything in the play at the very least.
So anything at this point is just nice to come.
That's more exciting to watch.
Yeah, absolutely.
Normally you would see mouse kind of like.
Now you're getting around to my side.
You're like, I don't like this change, bleh.
Four days later, you're like, they're exciting to watch.
My job is only to start a conversation.
None of my opinions should ever be taken seriously.
I flopped according to wherever these guys are going
I will just to put a final, you know, pen on this right but I will say this is what
Zellix on Dust2 when the last couple of games I saw of him his CD positions he
just played two spots right one behind the barrels like behind a big box and
one towards car that was it across like an entire half it is getting abused this
time around we saw one round where he was isolated in the B bomb site two players
came out he was playing towards default he was getting multi-killed so he is
evolving again it's a very very small sample size so even if it does continue
to play this bomb side or you know other bomb sites on other maps I feel like we
can see he's young they learned fast how fun is it though they were like
excited about talking about my house again like time was the only one that
really used to get excited about this team and that was just to defend them
but here we are chatting non-stop about what to expect so what to expect from
nuke because you guys both mentioned that this was a problem for Aurora based
based on what we've seen on Dust2, still a concern?
Absolutely.
I mean, I think that they have just really struggled
to put results on the board on Nuke lately with this roster.
It hasn't worked out so well.
Meanwhile, when you look over on the mouse side of things,
obviously, we only have the two games they've played this time.
I don't really know what they're up to.
But again, they've done a really good job giving Alex
the role that he wants out in the yard on the T side.
They've really done a good job about setting him up.
They're also keeping things very simple in this situation
with limited practice.
They're going for just kind of a lot of fast poppy plays.
But what I will say is when they do do this pop on the upper bomb
Their utility in scaling is actually really solid.
So they actually already have some pretty good well-built thin timings.
But Zox is having to play a new CT role on the A-slide.
Another thing he has to get used to, and the jury's still out on how that's going to work out.
I feel for... there's still a chance here for Aurora to pull this one back, right?
Like they did lose her to Roeague, but that was just a...
I feel like that was the first match, first map they played in his tournament so far.
It was a bit of a cold start. I would say this, the problem with this team is when it comes to their
fragging output like Sawfly, he's just, forget about consistency, just lower than almost everyone else.
It's not that great altogether. And as Harry pointed out as well, if your hard hitter is in the form of Xantarus,
who's having a great map one, but Woxic and Wakeda is nowhere to be found.
And if these three players don't step up to the plate here, especially on the CT side,
this could be Maas just running away with a 2-0.
Just to recap, if you've joined us, Maas was able to take the victory on Dust2, which was Aurora's map pick.
Now we move on to Nuke, this could be an opportunity for Master, not only close the series 2-0,
but potentially secure themselves a spot in the playoffs of PGL's daughter.
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What can you see?
Three things that are different,
that are not normally there,
or maybe been removed or changed?
Oh man.
Hahaha!
Default?
Yes, default boxes.
One box left, yeah?
The first I see is the box of the site.
Default box, yes.
Well, there's missing the box on the site.
Yes, correct, the default box.
The tree of the...
Oh, no, no, no.
No, the tree is the same as well.
You go out of the right side of the donut?
No.
No?
I'm blind.
I feel like the color on this back box towards Broke is wrong.
Top of the Xbox is different color.
The color of the box?
Correct.
Yes.
It's brown, I think.
This last one.
Really?
I can't see.
I don't know if I know it. Oh, maybe in...
No, I don't know.
Say what you're going to say.
I was thinking doughnut.
You know, there's like the little ledges on each side of doughnut.
It kind of looked like that side.
I'll give you a hint. Towards A main.
It's more difficult, I think.
I think I know. It's like on the...
It's like in doughnut.
like you need the on the top do you mean like on the top of where exactly I mean
like on the bubble you throw the smoke the arch I think like the engines yes
there you go yes what I said that's what you mean yeah so you mean like smoking
I thought you meant like skybox over. Okay, no you mean. I didn't know it's likely. I'll give it to you
That's fine because that's the language thing. That's no problem when you said the smokes. I'm thinking, you know
It's so funny. I guess unless like you constantly play in that position. I'm not look like it's such a small thing
When you see it, it's kind of wild like that. I guess that's where the boxes look different
Yeah, if you don't normally see it like that.
So you were very close.
Plus.
Mows are in sight of playoffs.
One map away will lock them into the Paris Arena
here in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Now's new roster and new goals goals to win playoff games to take trophies and with this roster Harry anything is possible
Yeah, you know, I mean even just the way that they're able to close on dust to man
The pressures on things are getting dialed to 11. They have to do it with less in that final round of play and
It's still enough. I want to see this mouse get to playoffs man. Whether it's here whether it's tomorrow
I do want to see what they're made of in those big stage games what with the old Maos propensity being too full apart
Especially for the new IGL and exertion, right?
There's not just a test of the water for zelex. We all know is a new boy on the block, but exertion was kind of the most
Jarring piece in those high-pressure playoff matches, right?
The guy who could give you so much in groups and then we'd go missing when the pressure's on does that keep up
when he's at the helm? Or does he kind of reinvent what he brings to the table?
I'm excited for Maus this year.
So many questions really and hopefully answers around the corner.
Maus we've got to get there first though. Aurora on CT side of Muke.
It's Maus storming down towards these sites,
Spinks in the lobby looking to negotiate with these CTs.
He'll get one. I'll still put that bomb down though.
Aurora fast on ramp with Rambos.
Very, very quick. Three players in at the ramp room, ready to retake.
So pressure still on for mouse here and all the kills go the way of Aurora
to add the double doors
Gonna try and play around this bomb
On it but kicked off. Oh, yeah, L
Lams a couple of dinks how much more does he have in him ammo runs low in that clock and Aurora chasing down?
Let's push there for Aurora
They had to hunt him if they give him any room and they let him play with them peak door peak window
They're gonna lose that round getting whittled down, but
Oh, a lot of hype.
A lot of hype for Maja.
Full run down there by Aurora.
Love the pace back on Ramp.
They don't let Maus get too comfortable in that post-plans.
I'll say some positives here for Aurora.
It was the case of a slow start on a number of players back on Dust2,
but you kind of got this sense that they'd fully woken up.
Soulfly had that miraculous recovery from being,
I think it was 0-7 down at one point in time.
went on to finish as one of the top performers,
where Cardia started to get more mileage out of him.
So, you have had enough time to wake up into this series,
and you see Matcha really bringing the hype at the tail end of that pistol round,
trying to get the energy high here in the survival map for Aurora.
Force by for the Maus squad, they get the bomb plant, they bring out guns.
Cershin with the double wall, but it won't really do anything with Woxic already down here in secret
Yeah, if anything, it just alerts you to an A hit or a ramp take right now
Woxic has just pushed up the stairs and cleared this entirely, so Aurora need to be very careful about their A site right now
Certainly two players inside of it
Down the ramp
Cershin's keeping pressure on
Poxy pushed down on ramp, with some fly, they start to run.
Zantara's aggression in the door, they know where all of Mao's are right now.
Triple drop in a lower, expecting this to follow through into a B-play.
They do have magic controlling the heavens, and you can't get up that ladder, Mao's.
Magic shut the door on them.
I don't know, I find it not worth taking, to be honest.
Zantara says, maybe he's way back up there, but look at the heaven control.
Big problem now for Aurora, and this lurk out door for Spinks.
Perfectly timed, it's all gone very pear-shaped, and Torres has a bit of element of surprise.
Not for long, Torsche flashes him out, and yeah, it's the magic of fights.
Back into CT, that opens up that round again for Miles, they win the four-spy.
Huge kill for JL.
Yeah, kind of rough for Magi. Been playing really really well here in Astana, but
that's the exact fight. If you...
If Maus could summon the fight that they want, that's the exact fight.
It suddenly brings them back into the conversation. It lets them get out through heaven, lets them follow through with that A-play.
So a bit of an overstep from the Aurora captain.
Smokes down Zellex on his own.
This is typically where you'll see exertion, but he wants to be part of the pack.
We have seen some two-man pushes outside before.
How's that free ramp control? Everyone focused A-R outside here from Aurora.
So Alex gets all this room. Nice flank for Matcha. Will it amount to much?
Bomb dropped problematic and they could choose to run away here, Miles.
Focus on that lower side. They've still got Xalex carving a path.
on it. On it. Elements.
But this is the opportunity. That's a really awkward way. Backstab for Soulfly is nice.
However, they lose match or rampside. That's the gun removed.
The hope's on Torres can be the guy to get this one going. Low HP on JL.
He's just fallen off the silo, far from ideal here.
He's safe here for now.
Yeah, they're not going for it.
Oh my God, the whiffing in this round is crazy.
I think Xalex looked really scared in that position.
He had so much control.
Would love to see him take it, go towards the vent side,
try and actually cut rotates.
He was in between two positions, so he got flanked.
So he kind of wasn't covering anything.
Just the double door.
They're able to walk right behind him. None of this really matters though.
It's just something to keep an eye on if he's going to be this guy crossing secret on his own.
So a lot of responsibility in that role.
So let's see how that blossoms here is.
Maus, do keep a thumb over Aurora. One gun saved.
One of the things that's been kind of impressive to me about Maus is even though we can say, you know,
it feels like they're on a bit of a honeymoon arc,
I actually think, pound for pound, good few individuals look uncomfortable, like each map, you kind of have one or two guys feeling somewhat exploitable and they've still been getting solid wins in spite of that.
Yeah, it just wasn't a feeling I got in that Gentlemate game, but it was a lot of A hits for now, Zelex insertion, like walking through these smokes, going together.
The Jail's with him this time, three players crossing, now's Ocean bringing the bomb late,
that wall comes down again, so now's can cross down once more, Cardia, oh he wants to get
in the corner, and he will survive with a kill.
Five-seven, so broken.
You might just feel like that's one player though, with no trade, I don't think Aurora
are panicking.
that Zelesh is who you saw on this lurk last time.
That and the fact that Aurora have already been burned
by an over-aggressive lower rotate.
Wokadia now spots the rest of the pack
and tries to put distance between himself and Maus.
Find time for his teammates to rotate in to join him
and put damage down on the spades back in the lobby.
Something might be happening here.
Wokadia takes another head off with that 5-7
before getting put down.
It's very Broncan.
JL eats a scout shot.
This is getting scary for Maus.
Spinks needs to find something, but nothing's been given to him.
The timing!
Ah!
Back turn!
Back turn for both insertions.
You can't hold this shot.
That's crazy.
It takes a lot of damage.
Not worth it.
15 seconds to go back up top.
Matter alone.
Couldn't deny them both.
Bomb is stuck for 10 seconds.
There's no bomb available.
Nice shot, but you've lost this round, JL.
you can do. And so Magus P250 up above yet again stops that bomb from rerouting. What
the hell? I think Xersion is doing too much there. He just needs to take that kill and
go up. The health he lost affected him on that ladder jump.
over the shop now as that is a weird round to lose. It's more like it for Spinks.
is that tharosaur?
I actually hear some outside
It's a 5 on 3 but it's not comfortable in part because you didn't spot Santare's...
Oh, there you do, never mind.
Good catch for exertion, just timing on his side there out in the yard.
You still have low players here so not super comfortable. Spinks might be low, still gets his and Solfly overran Zelex keen on these entries.
It's a well-handled recovery for Maus. Don't leave JL hanging. You saw her, you're getting nervous but Zelex catches it.
Simmerall is still high
So that's getting used to the fist bump on land mentality. Yeah
Every round with a loss
at least gained a lot of experience in the last year. Obviously, Katowice was his first
official LAN back in 2025, but in NXT, just played a bunch of LANs with that squad on this
open circuit, talking about urban rigas, track lands. So definitely gained some much needed
experience and you know got tested by mouse as an orc. Sure they had their eye on their academy
prospects knowing how well their last upgrades have done them. And nice to see that path to
pro players. I'd say it's as open as it's been since the Academy League days, right?
Just getting to Academy. The team's playing smaller events.
Moxick is stuck right now, but he's a shotgun orper sometimes.
Up heaven, JL. Lot of control. The mouse just run past the smoke. Can Moxick deny the bomb?
Doesn't look like it.
He is stuck.
What's going on?
Oh, she...
Oh, Warwox, it does clear the vent!
Back-sized Antares needs to help out, and they gotta do it quick!
Torsche banger shot will force the save, no time for Aurora in this post-plant and Spinks stops anything from getting out of hand.
Now's a laughing off the silly deaths as they continue to pick up rounds.
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not again that's his second knife kill in this series
Oh, and he's arrived in Hellentine to put the AK to work as well.
You only nice Hungarians.
Yeah.
Is it because we are from Hungary?
I thought you were going to say Hungaria.
with this work do you think I like the position they plan a strollers but
someone should scale rafters if we're being serious someone should definitely
We scale rafters and we get all of them scaling till she planting faking even and good
company that's nice how's tick every box
Oh, they're always smiling man. Yeah, I mean yeah, I think they have a lot to be happy about
There's surgeon towards the
Playoffs here in Astana
I love that.
Yummy.
Alright, here we go.
She is at all.
She's coming hunting.
Oh, there's a big someone.
Get out!
Good thing you did jump out of there too. There's more nades available.
Zatara's saving his to break these yard smokes.
Tagged.
Meanwhile, Soulfly rampside.
JL's been a menace at getting these openers out towards the ramp.
Is there like snowcourt in the crossfire? Dead first.
Oh, wow. That's one way to go about fighting the ramp guy.
Surtian just a hop skip and a jump over the top. In comes Woxig though to get rid of it.
The lurk orb. Can't say Woxig was ready for that.
Look how do your ramp re-clear is big. JL's not ready for this.
He's got both kills on a platter with one HP on Spinks.
Damage is unconfirmed on Spinks. They don't know he's as low as he is, so Wakadia doesn't hang around a fight
He's got two teammates that should be able to clean this up
Is he gone?
Backsite they've seen him now pistol out for Wakadia
problematic and there's the cover magic coming down 15 second Spinks should be impossible
Possible gotta find an instant headshot here going back site for the plant. They can molly it out
Doesn't matter Matt just got the headshot and so Aurora do confirm that round the ramp repush coming in clutch for a cardier
Or onto three
Now, so often these yard smokes have been nothing more than just a ruse.
Now's this time look to put numbers out in the yard, torsion even trying to cover from
on top of the silo.
It's all there for walks since he's one player, get out behind red, but that doesn't tell
you a hell of a lot if you're Aurora.
with JL, Celex, and Xersion making it into secret.
Spinks on the lobby lurk, but Ramp is not free territory.
Aurora have noticed just how obsessed Maus have been with the Ramp Room, so they're
doubled up here.
It also means Woxic will be there, first guy they can test with if they can get to this
slower play, off in the ramp fight, like they are a lobby crunch rather in response. You've
conceded this lower control, so you're going to try and pressure spanks. Here's that Woxigort
moving into position, swinging a miss, and you might not get many more chances to kind
of seal the deal on this retake. You're out of position, can't rotate vents, means you
got long rotates ahead of you. This just kind of forces your hand to commit to the save.
Spinks is still waiting. Of course he is. He's so cheeky. He gets his first kill and
backs all the way up to T spawn on low health. So Aurora have to find him. I feel like he's
got one more in him. Ramp savers their best beds. Oh maybe it's not. I was exiting this
way as well. Four players of Maus coming back up ramp. One shot for Woxic, the Euro going
down one way or another. Woxic fighting for his life. Miss shot from Torsche recovers
with the pistol. And Maus hunt all those guns except for Soulfly. Disaster strikes from
Aurora, they don't compete for the round and they don't have anything to show for the save.
This one just feels like Mao's bleeding Aurora out right now.
Yeah, you know there are acceptable ways to lose rounds and then there are the roughest possible
ones and Aurora will hope for the former ended up with the latter.
Never even attempted it and it cost you everything.
I think from magic, well-timed aggression from the ramp exertion puts it down, still
this flood of pistols continues to come the way of Maus in the lobby.
Bombs dropped here as well, so Aurora down to scrap.
You have torsion trying to cover from the top of the ladder.
Ha ha ha.
Trying is the key word there.
How much can you do in this position?
Molly is actually quite nice.
This bomb.
Big problem, J.L. finds it from A.
Cardia?
Oh, dude, that was his kill.
It's an ocean one shot from Dad.
Satorra's alone.
Well, you know, you tell yourself,
If there's anyone you want in this 1v3 with the AK Lobby side at Santares,
and they've made a lot of noise on this Reroo out to the door.
Santares steals himself away, prepares himself for a must-win clutch.
There's the first! Oh, Santares! Sharp with it!
Paul plans the tag, and Torsche's able to stop him in his tracks.
That hurts the lose to a pistol as well, that nice tag for Torsche going a long way.
Santara is still very keen to take the fight. Heads up, 1v1, beautiful attempt.
But this is all Maus today, that's the story. Playoffs on the line, a Mauser making a hell of a run for it right now.
Even thrust into some difficult positions, excelling.
And you said, coming into this series, you wanted to see a big game from JL, you're getting it right now too.
out to 12 and 6 taking a lot of space on this t-side finding the key entries
I'm not even just straight up entries but just you know trade kills in the pack
okay here for a roar and these retakes have just been problematic
Let's go for the A-POP.
It's been secured the opener.
Riccardia able to deal with him on that spam.
It's Zantares playing next, masked out from heaven.
They pick up the pace. The retake begins before that bomb's even planted.
And now's the whole time they were a little suspicious that they got in so freely.
That's why Aurora hanging around ready to make a move as soon as Maus get out into the bomb site.
bomb site. Yeah, I like that Aurora don't let mouse set up there and get comfortable, right?
Everyone's still fiddling with nades, trying to hold initial positions. They're not even ready to
lock it down in the 3v4. So Aurora keep the pressure on, but man, it's just isolated rounds in the
CT side. Aurora have not found two in a row. They won pistol, they lost a force, they won the next
buy. Mouse went on a streak of three. This is Aurora's only opportunity to find back-to-back
backgrounds in the hearth and at least there's an opportunity because Mao's money is weaker
now.
Oh
That timing what what it no way Zantara's he was meant to be dead
If we all saw it right Zantara should be dead meat right now. Oh, what's he lived in me as well
This guy's got plot armor. How do you get CWP? Oh my god. The pretty darn good trade deal for Zantara's.
He's done well for himself.
He is again weak, but we've seen the quick retake attempt.
And he drops in. Good to have some feet in this site.
Moxie comes in from above as well.
Well, search and moving outside, Wakadia.
In position.
Last year, Wakadia swings with it.
Oxy, nice angle.
Oh!
They hit the flicks.
Everyone's hitting the craziest flicks.
Merger, come reel him in.
It's the Toshi rifle up for the replies right now.
That's the man in the top site.
Still down a clown. Spinks and Torsche could get lined up.
It's very close spacing, but they make it down.
Get past the man in main, and now they've got a plant and lower.
Ramp Rotate is the aim of the game for Aurora,
but they won't get here in time to stop that bomb plant.
Torsche doesn't have long to make up his mind.
Decides to battle forward.
Trying to keep the pressure off. Stop that spillover from the ramp,
unable to do so.
Now you're left looking at Spinks.
Well, she only had info on two players.
Spinks down here's all these footsteps, knows that all three players for Aurora in the site.
Swing on the door.
He needs to stop this deep fuse, has to do it cleanly, and with that being a little laboured,
Zantares good for the trade.
Aurora, get by with five on this CT side, it's enough.
I'm glad that Zantares puts God mode on for that round, because without it,
Aurora are going to lose. It gets three lives, it feels like.
How does one stray bullet from Spinks not find that kill?
It would have been round.
Nice try, but Aurora survive their CT side.
Cannot say they thrived by any means.
They found a similar first half back on Dust 2, but we all know how that ended up.
Miles did clutch out that game and now they go to the favourite half here on Nuke.
Just another reassuring game out of mouse on the T side.
We see some of these newer Rostas having trouble finding T-sided rounds, mouse so far not being
one of them.
I think a character on a Falcon's think of even FaZe.
All sessions leading them to decent first halves.
Yeah, and that's what's been so impressive about this Maus team, to be honest, you know,
I think out of all the new look rosters we have here, Maus always had the lowest expectations
just because the change was so deep, right?
It's not just multiple players out of the roster, it's exertion taken to be in the
IGF for the very first time in his career.
You also have a rookie from your Academy team.
You know, there was a lot of potential for things to go very, very wrong, and what stands
out is just how much is going right for this new Maus team.
And Brum taken here for Aurora as Maus don't put up much of a fight for this space, so
they've got full lower control.
I was almost hoping they would try and take hell, try and go for the A-play.
Now left Jumblin, he's rotating down the vents, and an instant dink, feel for Zelex there.
This is his very first peek at the CT side, put to 1 HP.
Of course, Spinks outlurks holding on that topside as well, so now he's gonna have to
pick up the base for these pistols in your face, Antares triple kill.
He gets to the jumping player and still finds a third.
Round done, as far as I'm concerned.
She's in Tars and with Kariah, we'll all fight between them and roar her back in the game.
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That looks using this smoke.
They have hit some timings haven't they?
Oh!
Jump the gun on that one!
Good luck!
You don't know there's a high low of three players looking your way.
Boom.
It's not Benzalex's game.
Yeah, and that's something that I think Cyclo is able to pick up on very, very early, that
he's just kind of in his head a little bit here on Nuke.
So even during their time out earlier, Cyclo had taken the time to speak to Zalex directly,
giving him a little pat on the back.
You know, it's a game that decides whether or not you get a playoffs and you've got a pretty ugly score on the on the scoreboard so
Who's that sell X might be in his head a bit
Yes, these fights haven't been too fun. Have they
Yeah, I think that's something that also feels rough like you still been doing his job, right?
Even in the pistol against Dink, what does he do?
He just kind of jumps around the corner to try and set up his teammates. Obviously, you're jumping in his Antares
So you're uh, dead gonna get massacred
but
He's doing what's required of him
It just feels a bit rough and you even commented early on with some of the secret cross rounds where he just kind of felt it
Fearful right unsure what to really do with the space he was given
Aurora tying up this game
Now a save on the players that did force by,
did you still have something to fight with in this round?
Got to go out position there, Aurora.
Expecting the force going down.
Round outside, wrapping heaven.
Just another situation here where Mao's
I'm an even weaker buyer, Rora just staying grouped looking to punish on this top site.
So I'm just going down, that's two rotations for miles,
and that is a weakened ramp.
I'm sorry.
Hey, execute three in the sand.
How's that?
Have read this one correctly.
Zershin burning in life just gets out of one HP.
It's still be attacked here.
Just to do even more damage gets denied as the Zantara's entries come in and it is just
Zellex left.
and fly under the radar, Waxix checking everything.
Right, Aurora are in the lead right now, can you believe it?
Converting that pistol hard into three rounds as Maus's force falls
and now they have to win this round.
Aurora gonna start steaming forward in this T-side.
So high pressure gun round right now for both squads.
I thought she does have his AWP, one kit.
No smokes for Aurora, nothing disrupted.
I throw them late here. They're waiting for a push. Mal's giving them nothing.
Porsche just holds hut with the AWP playing very reactive in this round.
Contact in the yard. Just on the fly these smokes with all the room you've been able
to get as exertion's attention is pulled away to go and fight the door that's when all three
players swing out past red Spinks dies as a result of it kind of exciting here because
exertion is a gap in towards the door and with a smoke down behind him I feel the pressure
to move into the lobby.
It's a great call for Maga realizing the gap.
Look at them go.
Sure, Miles may have info, but if Miles overcook, they're going to get worried about B right
now.
Jail made a step.
It's Maga knows that they're in lobby behind him.
I think Miles is scared of that B side.
There is a player holding Heaven at least.
It's the kill on Jail, Salex, ugly looking spray, tries to contain that Heaven spillover,
Aurora powering up.
I think it was easier to brush the
Zelex Ruff performance under the rug on that T-Cyber,
where he could just be a part of the pack, right?
Used to play trade.
But it's a lot harder...
What?
I don't have member.
It's a lot harder to ignore when he's got
responsibility in at the top site.
Yeah, that's not a good fight.
I mean, should be getting that one.
Don't think it makes too much difference in the round.
Everybody fell.
But it does not help the confidence that that is for sure.
Aurora breaking Mauser's money again, taking their own orb off them.
Oxyx says, thank you very much.
Barely a weak Lincoln site here for Aurora, everybody showing up right now.
Looking to make this a three map affair.
I'm also putting some money in, still wanting to compete, Spinks is going to hear a rifle.
This will not be a 4x4 mouse.
That would be crazy.
I've been spotted, so Nosey has to try and get something on that forward position.
This is a pretty involved angle for Spinks, as he looks to duel over the smokes.
Well down a half, and the odd might fall all the same, how many do you lose?
now at Aurora taking that space. It's two players to the good for Aurora.
Finally, silence broken.
On the road?
But they've lost a round. Position on this B site for Aurora.
Ready to go together, nobody home.
And so nothing else can do them is well throw themselves in with these pistols
but they can feel it's going to save.
JLM is shot. Aurora bomb plant. All said, all done.
Just a really well paced T-side here for Aurora grabbing all the gaps.
Heav'n control numerous times, quick reaction when they see numbers on that topside this round.
Oh, and McCarty knows.
Hello.
Oh god, triple death to bomb.
It literally doesn't matter at this point. They have so much money, but...
Now's have to try and seize the moment here. They just had not had a round this half
Five in a row for Aurora
It's showing no signs of stopping gun rounds running out for this mouse team change your pace
for magic
It's time far quicker out into the yard and so towers was even waiting to see if they broke those smokes open looking for a gunfight
That's the kind of form. He's in right now
17 and 9
Magic with a lurk
Spinks out of play
Good kill, good pick up there for exertion.
It turns the advantage to Maus.
Alex gets his second kill as well, breaking the silent streak.
And a non-starter of a round for Aurora on the back of this attempted pace change.
Yeah, you just don't need this fight here, Maus.
Take the clean gun round.
So first on the CT side, Alex has a big flank, should have this one in the bag.
Probably won't open up.
That's for the best.
Is this thing about with these younger players?
Sometimes all it takes is just getting a couple of kills to find the rhythm again.
3-0 since that 5-7 kill is Alex.
Had the AK, I mean, self assured.
Quite to see it.
And this is where, you know, you said that, like, losing everyone in the bomb didn't matter.
It actually has huge implications, because, sure, they had a lot of money, they could have had even more a lot of money.
Instead, chance to reset Aurora and make this an even game.
I just need back-to-backgrounds here.
Aurora know the importance of this one just as well.
In fact, more so than mouths.
Alright, lining up something on this topside.
Looks like we can head to the MAK-10 at the front of Soulfly.
We've got Xalex getting tested.
Will he step up?
Oh, timing's really awkward there with the UTEL swap!
still gets his and the reinforcements arrived now what Cardi has made it out
into this site but he's the only guy left standing
with a big round there just in time to stop that a-play and that's the X
factor JL big game big moment big man shows up with three kills on that top
site that's exactly what mouse needed to Alex takes one with him spinks the
5's in the door and JL does not relent, pushes back in, triple kill in a must-win round.
Rotates so fast.
And so Mauser back in the game, safe to say. So much so the match is going over his notes.
Aurora, they've had a great comeback on this T side. I felt like this was gonna be a crumble
for Maus. But now they have a chance. Two hero AKs. No grenades behind it. This is gonna
have to be...
He's trying to do manual.
Going into JL.
JL well he's the a player so you better get out not really in a position to
Hang around and fight there doesn't feel like it's worth the risk
This is nice to make mouths shuffle look at the rotates to be surgeons come down vents
Rotates back in a are very very slow as a result
And so might be the case that Aurora set their eyes on this a play again
Alex is scared of outside because Torsche has to watch health so there's a lot of gaps right now for mouse due to this ramp take
Spinks has to show up Zelex might need to play retake
Oh, there he is, Zellex. Lens are helping. And it ends up being a clean put down. That's
a high pressure situation there for Maus, right? Only two players available in at the
top site. You need a multi-kill from both of them if you wanted that to not be awkward
That's exactly what they give you
Zelex is building back better
Yeah, Spinks as well not really talked about too much on the CT side
He was great on the first half kept finding opening kills somehow in the lobby when Aurora would push in but
Also a nice hold from him on a
Those two do their job to get rid of those couple of rifles that Aurora risk investing in
And that risk is gonna have consequences
I mean, we're gonna see Mack Tenz here for sure.
What glills on some?
So, an expensive risk and one that doesn't pay off to any degree here for Aurora.
What looked like a mouse choke?
Might be an Aurora choke in disguise.
Mows have no idea.
They've already lost speed. That bomb is already getting planted.
That's such a sick call.
This is kind of stuff that Madge wasn't doing.
What a great time to call that in.
Like, what do you do? Look how Mows are stunlocked.
Yeah, you don't have numbers either.
So it's very, very rough here, even as you go to save, you're nervous.
Oh, he takes one with him!
And Mao's better run!
Properly!
Cause that bomb's gonna go off!
Nice kill, Zershin going for damage!
Let's pray the smoke in the air is to win.
Spinks dies, but otherwise,
three guns saved for Mao's.
Excellent call from Maga.
Full speed, no one spams.
That's so important.
If you're spamming back on that battle,
you're giving them the info that we're crossing fast.
And I gotta say, the one thing that Mao's did wrong,
they threw two HEs and they sucked.
Neither of those nades gave them vision.
If they got that info, it would have been a very different round.
Aurora time out this time. Now's have one remaining.
Where will Aurora go?
Because I don't think that one's replicable.
No, that's the thing that's hard to contend with, right?
It was a good time to throw in some wild pace change,
kind of a bit of a gimmicky round almost, but you're dead on.
Those type of rounds don't work twice over,
and on top of that, you know,
you're grinding all the way through to the end of this game.
Now, it's just so much money from that streak of three.
They were super clean rounds,
and so they're buying all the way till this one's over.
That's more active stance in the yard
before Shizor gets himself posted out behind Red.
Again, yard control all in for Aurora.
Torsche can't be too preoccupied with that player on top, but Mane got to look forward.
Will he be able to get out?
What?
Does he want to continue fighting here?
Torsche?
One man sneaks in up close, gets the info on two.
The trade for Zantares leaves this one even, and they get players in a secret again.
They know Soulfly's main move.
He's just dropped off, sometimes having the orb from Torsheet, and Zershin re-clearing outside,
he's going to meet them here.
I mean he's been very switched on, very dialed in, his exertion, kind of the one player Aurora
have been hoping to avoid in these outside skirmishes.
The Utils done a good job of keeping him out of the middle of the skimmer.
There's the lineup, exertion, nails both of them.
That is a kick in the teeth.
Bomb is outside, okay, one catch, but top husk it spanks.
Should have this, and he does.
Woxic 1v3, he's got one kill available.
He's stuck it under him.
20 seconds though.
She can spot that, takes damage from the nade as he hunts these kills looking for that bomb.
Exertion is a menace outside.
There's only so long you can avoid him entirely.
That's a huge 3K from the mouse captain.
Moves back in a pole position,
topping the charts for mouse in this push to the playoffs.
Yeah, what an excellent round for exertion.
Of course, the timing doesn't well,
but realizing that, yeah, Aurora have secret,
but what have they been doing most of this T-side?
It's been the big wraps going round heaven, flanking.
And so just tries to confirm they're not doing that and they just walk right into his hands
like putty
And you know we were saying our mouths money's not a problem till the end of the game
It couldn't be more the opposite for Aurora
They're all in this one. They're forced buying here putting everything into this round
And it still isn't a lot, right? Two AKs for Zantares and Wakadia. You want to believe that if anyone could do this at Zantares, he's played a great game. There's no denying it throughout this entire series. He's been the guy to look to.
These rounds haven't been good. These like low econ rounds have done best with four guns, of course. It kind of got nowhere with these flies.
And so you're risking it all, you're survival in this series.
Now's could lock in a playoff performance.
On the back of winning this round right now, it would leave Aurora with nothing.
Spinks with aggression, pushes through the door, gets out with a 1 for 1.
Honestly, Aurora will take that, that's a rifle pickup.
And you deal with someone who's been a big thorn in your side on these A-plays, you get rid of Spinks.
But you lose, Santares.
So, Wacardi has got to bail them out, and he's already started.
That's the two top performers for Maus dead first.
Alright, if they win this, even more earned.
Aurora have the whole map to work with. Toshi has a great angle.
Can he be patient enough to wait on it?
Because Aurora are looking for Maus aggression.
They want to punish any push.
Toshi stays on this line. You'd like to think he can take one with him.
Before he repositions. So, there we go.
Before she hits his, now they can cross ramp, big problem. JL might need to go back.
Before she gets cocky, but it pays off.
Double kill, JL is ramp.
That's too much. Three going down, leaving it on the young man.
Xalex 1v2, can he read this ramp drop? He is staying upper right now.
They've got money, he can certainly justify giving this round a go.
Been in his head, in this map.
Does he not hear them?
has been planned. It's taking so long. And now tasked with a very important 1v2. Okay, it's either.
But they're right there.
Too late for that.
It's lost you in a spot where you have to make noise so they're gonna have info to play with.
They've got a crossfire set up. There should be no winning this for Zelex.
One thing you've noted about his play is great at these 180 kills but
but this is a round he doesn't even attempt,
just throws in the towel when he's not given any type
of a fight, huge 4K from Likardia.
Absolutely.
Pulling through for Aurora when they needed him to the most.
Poor, and that was on two AK by as well,
the aggression for spanks sure it gets one,
but I don't think it's worth it.
Like you said, gives them another gun,
gives them more info.
Torsi did so well only to be stubborn.
Two kills, the re-peek, I thought was crazy.
The third? You're asking for an AK. This is Aurora you're talking about. They're sharp shooters.
That was a 3v2. The mouse fumble.
And here we go. Overtime. Or Aurora drag us to map 3.
Fono waits. That just gets risky. Gets very risky.
Inside of this smoky pod. Right in. This is that AWP though. And Zelex covers his teammate.
teammate. That was Torsche dead, but Zelex stops it.
It's a massive bailout kill, isn't it?
Now you've got the advantage, Torsche's orb still remains a threat.
An exertion freed up from the yard moves into assist JL on the rampside,
allows an earlier drop into wards lower.
Oh, this is a hard round to call now.
You just need hard entries and Zelex has dropped into A after his heaven kill.
They've got outside control.
They know they dealt with the one player taking space JL is gambling B
insertion has ramp so
Yeah, he's the best bet right now for Aurora, but still Spinks and Xalex who have had an uptick
And they keep it going all on them though needs to be a multi kill
Spinks able to hold on an important thing an important double. Oh, I'll follow through this one decided in overtime
Spinks with one hell of a hold
That team Oli as well that's so awkward it spreads down from heart roof it even gets a team kill after Zalex finds a dink
Shut down on that top site the two rounds where mouths are weakest on a they hold against the Aurora push
But there was no support. There was no rotate. No one gets there quickly
You needed multi kills to stop Aurora. That's exactly what sphinx gives you
It's been one and two kills from Spinks and Zalex on these A-hits, but it's just been enough to keep Mao's in the conversation.
Feeling like Aurora, we're gonna go back to the yard bin where they found the bulk of their success.
Mao's play heavy there to stop.
N.O.T., it's being spammed out.
Out towards main, a huge kill when you think about how important he's been in the top site holds.
Session doesn't look happy with that.
Confirmation. One could be down.
Centaur is playing very late, this is fighting three hard entry on JL, our ramp.
JL's certainly fallen off in this second half, the ramp area has become really problematic.
A bit of a roll reversal from what our fears were, heading into this CT half, right?
The A site has actually been really stable.
And so about as clean as you can get for Aurora in that first gun round.
This is a nuke that's played T-sided.
Yeah, I think Malz have taken a lot of opening fights that haven't really done them too well
in this CT side, right?
Beards Spinks getting very aggressive.
He's involved in 10 opening fights.
He's won seven of them, but he was mostly on the T side, getting success.
We've had a lot of peaks into the yard for exertion.
A lot of swings in door for spanks to differing results.
When you give Aurora a 5v4, they are, Matt just calling them into really good positions.
Can now survive a little bit longer at the start of these rounds?
I mean Nukes also just such a test of your protocols and CTs in terms of your ability
to rotate quickly and appropriately and it's something Maus have kind of struggled with
even in the five on five so the moment you go a man down like you really feel the lack
of resources, you really feel the burn in pretty blind all game.
Again with the yard control this time, a player in at lower early, Spinks down there.
Yeah, I was joined.
That is insane.
Toshi has just taken down Soulfly, keeping exertion alive.
Spinks, here's him coming.
There's two players here.
CJL, no, he's arrived from ramp.
That allows Spinks maybe to hit even harder.
He wasn't spotted on the jump check, so chance for him just to dart out and get a free kill.
Had a 3v2 go against Maus earlier, can't afford to have another one of those come through, it's just Wakadia, but he was the problem in this round last time.
Oh, that's a big strong position though, and then...
...contain, not getting up that ladder.
So reassuring B hold here, nice to see quicker rotates for Maus, they've learned their lesson from that last fast cross from Aurora.
Able to shut it down on B site.
So trading rounds, one more of this half, and like you said, a T-sided game here on Nuke.
So Kanarora, keep that up.
It's not the guy you want to lose early, if you're Aurora.
He's got a bit cold in these last like 10 rounds or so.
And a 5v3 is Torsche's lobby aggression, Nets another kill. JL's come in early into lower with Torsche taking up the ramp room on that orb.
Early lower rotates is the name of the game, and Torsche's even supporting.
See Torsche fire off, now you overlook JL, make some noise so they know about it, doesn't make dealing with him any easier.
And what should be an impossible 1v4 out of Oxyc tries to commit to this bombplot, will be given it.
So the timing pressure on Maus, they're closing in from all angles,
Spinks in the vent, he's got a 1v1 in front of him, has to take it cleanly,
gets past Spinks with no problem, Woxic flashes Brutal and they're chasing him down,
exertion closing in, both players here giving chase, denying Woxic any room in that clutch.
Oh yeah, trying to cross out quickly but they sped up immediately off that info.
In a nuke that has played T-sided,
Maus just took two on the CT side in overtime.
That is a big blow, dealt the way of Aurora.
Yeah.
Playoffs two rounds away.
Another chance to get there.
But an Aurora that has definitely woken up.
Just needs Antares now
to keep up what he gave us back in that.
Start of the game!
There's a one-player performing on that CT side!
Smoke's down, Boxer gets no info, they re-break.
Zalex is very patient, he's going to be able to cross with that second wall.
Down he goes.
Monks in pigstorsi, nice shot.
They're going to use the counter-rooper.
It's all fly dropping down, here's him running around.
Nice nade, even. He's going to hang around on this off angle.
He's been punished here before.
Jail's waiting for an over commitment.
Zalex has found a timing. He just walked through the smoke.
Back behind enemy lines Alex bailing them out with a double
Oh and as they go to chase him
Exertion plays out through the door
So quickly things have gone wrong for Aurora
Now there's low HP on two of these players
What cardia may as well give this one a go
If you can find exertion this becomes a very doable round
Noise made back in the lobby and so exertion repositions
What a position for JL.
If he doesn't see him going up, that means he's only going door.
Great catch. Good way to play at low HP.
Maus on a match in series point, a round away from those play-offs.
Just an excellent recovery for Maus.
It did feel like the choke was happening coming into their CT side.
We had Aurora win seven rounds in a row across those two halves,
and Maus had disappeared.
Show back up on that CT side massive recovery from Zell X great top-side holds
Even with some rounds where they had no idea what was going on completely blind out called
Mouses of dug deep and they have two chances to finish this to take it to playoffs here in Astana
Aurora getting desperate they go with a double warp and it's antara is taking it over with Cardia
Yeah, there's a sign of the struggle.
One of the things that's just been sick to see for
Maus is that oftentimes in these kind of pressure moments where the games would
start to get away from them, things would tighten up and just keep tightening up
till the end of the game. But it feels like actually they've been more down to
take risks as matters have gotten closer. They've continued making adjustments.
They stopped falling prey to those outside pushes that were so faithful for Aurora on that streak.
But Faith is just put at Xalex to walk through outside the smokes to wrap him, and he gets two kills.
Faith well placed in their rookie.
It's back alone again in the yard.
So I'll fly back garage learning from that previous round, but is this just going to be a mainsplit?
Xalex was 3 and 16 at one point in time, like this is one hell of a recovery from him.
Here we go, this is the mainsplit from Xalex, it's an APOP.
Blocked by the Molly that's gonna slow the roll.
Zellex dead out in the yard as Soulfly spams him out of play.
3B5, they won't break through this top site.
And so the attempt of the pace change, active main lurk for Zellex, shut down.
And all dead in the heart.
Wapsig's got Toshi in a box. Aurora looking for double overtime as finally they break this three round streak from Maus.
From Maus.
They make a really nice adjustment there.
They're hyper fixated on that main lurker.
That's the guy who's meant to really punch the backline
and open up when Aurora are looking at that top hit.
But Salfi back garage, a main player as well.
And no one over commits.
Matt is playing very safe with his Molotov there.
Blocks them, ruins the timing of that top hit.
Set plate denied onto Maus.
And it's all on this round.
I move away from any type of a set piece, anything too crazy.
Zantares has been able to sneak his way up close.
He was doing this a lot in regulation.
I don't know if you expect it in the final round of overtime.
No, not with an AWP, not with no glave smoke.
My god, Waxham was in the open when he turned from that flash.
Banger shot the Santoris. Oh, Mr. Torsche. He's so scared of silo and then there's why jail drops it on the roof trades
Go back and forth 3v3 who calls who?
Crossing a
Garage for match and with spinks dead on this lobby like mages in such a strong position
He's gonna kill dead to rights
Exertion falls, trade back for Torsche, and now 1v2 attempt.
Got some room out towards A.
And drop. Never a bad idea, but Wikati is trying to get one step ahead of this.
Rerooting rampside, this does split up Aurora.
Still find a give time for Torsche to take as long as possible to plant,
because it's going to leave options open, it's going to leave positions and gaps
that Aurora have to worry about. They're grouping Heaven though.
And this is a great remedy against an AWP.
Oh no.
He isolated it.
Oh, hit me!
Down to the Tech 9.
Toshi steps made.
Wakate is gone on.
He's going to try and put a fresh mag in.
He's going to try and face him with the AWP.
In comes Wakate giving chase, and he will shut it down
into another overtime.
Got to respect the full reload in the site there for Toshi.
He even got it primed,
but Wokadia goes wide and saves the day with a 3k.
Nice try, not meant to be.
Malz have to earn this one in a second overtime
as Wokadia is putting in what hell of a shift in the
face of Zantara's going quiet. For some
while now, Wokadia is making up for it.
Dear, oh dear, that was scary. Aurora almost fumbled a 3 on 1.
By making steps in heaven
Let's go back to basics
Grouped ramp hit
Search has got a flash through the smoke but so flies such a good position this flash will go past him
Not affected by that
Walks the carives on the rotate just in time to keep the advantage for Aurora need this fight just wall bang and leave
Cardi would love them to come in.
That's Atari spamming.
The hopes that takes attention away from Cardi are it's not worked out.
Excession brings you back in to this round with that entry.
Wait, wait, wait.
Oh, oh, man.
Stuck it.
JL picked off.
Tagged through the smoke, forces a reposition out of exertion.
And then Torsche, though, a long time spent playing together.
They have what it takes to answer back.
This was a two on three.
That Torsche all pitting hard.
the back stab from exertion who's making moves the whole time Torsche is pulling attention away
push through the window smoke flank that last player do the balls on mouths right now some crazy
calls i think zantara spamming is good there in window but i think it also set off exertions brain
he realized why would he be giving away his position right now that's because wikardi is hiding out
great check in that b bombsite a difficult round to recover for mouths in a 3v4 they do it on
be. They keep winning from unlikely positions and this game, if Aurora loses it, it's going
to hurt so much and playing catch up the whole match and forever being able to keep up with
mouths. They just can't take the lead away.
I'm not able to win that, now it falls to Toshi to try and trade. Little awkward here as it's nearly the lineup, JL!
I'm able to thread the needle on that fight.
And the defense is split up.
Maga back here in the lobbies.
Antares down at lower on the orb with exertion out.
Ramside chance for him to wrap into the heavens.
And that would set you up for the A play.
That means Maga is the make or break.
Because they are coming back to the lobby.
They are planning on linking up with exertion.
Can Maga ruin this round for Maus?
Definitely can
As long as jail kind of baits torsion just gives him space to die
You don't want to get lined up here. Imagine hold the shot
If they play too close together he does but the clear from torsion is in and
Maga in the position that was the make or break tumbles down with nothing done
Santar as too far removed and
A mouse looking for back-to-back T-side rounds. That's what eluded them in the first OT.
And now that you've spotted Zantares, you have no reason to give this guy a thing.
He needs to save. Look at the money right now. They can't buy a rifle, let alone an AWP.
So this gun is integral to that next round.
Insertions found it on the way out.
Not just back-to-back rounds, but no money for Aurora.
This should be a 3P here for mouse.
Unreal. Just dry-fights outside.
And look at this by 1M4.
Aurora could not be in a worse spot. They've kept up all game. They're gonna start running amounts.
Yeah, Lobby crunched that was the bomb on Zellex in Lobby alone
Spinks does what he can from the back of the door, but with Utile coming down Spinks is now trapped in comes Torsche to save him
Barrowing down the ladder make sure they can't pressure Spinks
And so considering how horribly that started with the bomb tumbling away is the first death of the round
Now's have done well to recover it. Oh hell of a shot from the Woxig scout, but he's getting chased
MP9 won't offer the resistance, Toshi gets past him, low HP on Toshi, Spinks looking fine and a play into this lower bomb site.
It's not a play, he's faking it right now, his teammate's still waiting back in lobby Toshi, just definitely wants to regroup with his mates.
Mate, Mikadia hasn't fallen for it though.
As Toshi tries to make noise, he's going to go right back up.
So Mikadia low health, bordering 30 kills, but if he picks the right position and they
walk into him, this might work wonderfully.
He hopes they go heaven.
This has been where Mikadia has done his best work in these very late round clutch moments.
Torsche out of the one that could have won Maus the game earlier.
He's low on health, but a line up here in the heart does the work.
FOUR!
And he's dead straight away!
Both of these rounds where Torsche's meant to just be the bait to set up the trade.
He has found the tech nine tap.
And that is a flawless T side out of Maus.
They now need just one in this last half of OT.
Aurora, they've been treading water, they've been playing catch up.
Never the team in that position across the finish line and lock in the win
They now need a flawless T side of their own there is no room for error
To what she's feeling good he is absolutely saved them in these last few rounds on CT side on T side and
So mouse swap
They take a breather
More than a celebration, more of a celebration than anything I imagine, because they're going to be feeling pretty invincible right now.
Game in the palm of their hand, playoffs on the horizon.
Three chances to shut this series down.
Oh molly does the strong smoke, he's going to make the twice here for Aurora.
They're not crossing with it either, it's just Santara's behind main, so he will be
able to call that.
That's going to perhaps change the plan here for these tees.
8x second up and they're going to grab JL pressure.
That's to be the guy that delivers for you in these high pressure moments, JL.
Is the ramp take place to a maid?
up the room and you've got an early drop out of Spinks into lower.
There's too much Aurora faked this so many times back on their early T side.
This should not be a surprise for Maus.
They're still 3-2, they still have a triple set up on top, that's surely enough.
This A site ended up being the stronger one of the two for Maus, whenever it had to stand
and deliver it did.
And often times it was only two players here.
This time you've got Torsche's AWP to lend a helping hand and it will get that opening.
Mousa, the playoffs are right there!
I don't know!
They just have to stop this spillover!
Cack it!
Aurora managed to reply!
Zantara's entries all day!
Wait.
Spinks' backstab goes and accounted for.
Zantara's dead!
And both players left out here in the heart.
They're gonna try to swing him together.
Spinks!
Lights him up!
Knocks him down!
Mousa going into the playoffs in Astana!
It's a hard fought battle. It takes a lot out of them, but through multiple OTs
They end it flawlessly
Maus headed into the playoffs with their heads held high
Spinks is my new favorite there
You can be you're allowed to be a bait or if I'm gonna pull off a clutch like that
All you want Spinks get it done. Wow. What a game. That was a that was a wild one
You know the crazy thing is we were sitting in the green room as you know, the game was going through regulation
I was planning on just being able to come in here and talk about man like Miles's T side on nuke was actually really well done
You know even just the creativity when they lost the pistol
They did like all this crazy misdirection and then pulled off the crazy around and then even just throughout their T side just really
Well constructed rounds where you could really kind of always see what the game plan was they executed it well
But then just all that organization and you know protocols just faded away on their defense
they just look so lost sometimes in the CT side.
Yeah, I think that's the common thread we've been seeing from them
and almost all the maps that we saw in Dust2 as well in the past
and a couple of other maps too.
But I want to give a particular shout out to Xelix
because he's been having this thing where he's very hot and cold, right?
Like you had a great map on map one and map two kind of falls off.
The first half was a bit small from him.
But then in the second half, he really, really made up for it.
Like, he was looking so much better as well.
So yeah, Kudasimasa closing this one out.
He's a prominent Aurora, though, they almost had us one in the back with the biggest mistake they made on their seeking side for me.
We were praising Miles' seeking side, but also Aurora was just giving so much space, so much freedom for the T's to work with.
And then when they tried to go for the re-aggress, it felt disjointed.
It'd be like one player slowly creeping in, lobby, one or two guys, and Miles I think they did a very good job where when they got the map control,
they didn't just, you know, idle around. They were always ready for the re-aggression coming out, and that just got punished time and time again.
So, honestly, I felt like the first half, well, you know, it was a done deal, right?
The game was done.
But, yeah, Aurora put in a bit of a fight.
I do love JL, but listen, funny in the camera, just a character altogether.
But that T-Side we talk about, he was the guy.
He was him, and he was getting so many opening kills.
I think it was like 12 and 6 or something at one point as well.
So, yeah, Mr. X-Navi looking really good here.
Yeah, really well done here from Malus.
Again, like, I think considering the circumstance that Malus found themselves in, in this tournament,
what the future is going to be for this team and the uncertainty.
They have looked really sharp in most of their games.
Like, yeah, they've stumbled in a couple of maps here.
They had maybe a bad key side here, a bad C key side there.
Those are all to be expected of the growing pains
of what's taking place right now,
with Zershmi coming in here, with Zuts coming in for the accounting system,
with JL transitioning back into playing in a more serious format
after being away and being a content creator for a while.
So I think that I've been impressed with a lot of what I've seen.
There's definitely some things to tidy up,
but this is now a mouse you can almost somewhat get excited for.
And it's just the, some of the intangibles, right?
So it's like just a pep in a speck.
Like when things are going bad,
and you're like, oh shit, you know,
they're pushing the overtime.
That's when the old mouse used to crumple.
But now with the content creator, an academy kid,
an exertion calling and outfragging almost everyone as well,
suddenly they look exciting,
suddenly they look fun.
And yeah, I think it was a right call from Psycrone.
Look, we don't know how deep they're gonna go
in this tournament yet.
Like obviously we did a playoffs congratulations,
but it's going to be a pretty packed playoffs as long as the favorites deliver.
But still, I think it's already a win for the mouse organization.
Yeah, I mean, they are called group stagefors for a reason.
So, I mean, they do still need to shed off that idea of them struggling in playoffs for sure.
We'll have to see how it pans out and we'll see what their opponent is.
But I will agree with you. So far, the eye-test is pretty decent.
It's also funny because on the flip side, you have Xanax who's going to be playing his first arena game, right in front of 8000 people.
On the flip side, you have the guy who lives for the arena, JL.
So which one's going to come on the top? We'll find out.
I mean, this has absolutely nothing to do with their game play
and very little to do with Counter-Strike.
Okay.
Do you know what's lovely about New Mouth is that there's so much emotion.
So when they do well, they're like excited and they look hyped.
And when they do badly for the first time,
this is something that always bug me about Old Mouth is like,
when things went wrong, they looked like bots.
like there was no emotion on their faces and then they would lose and it would kind of be like
we'll be back next time now you see the frustration in them you can see that they're like reacting
and again nothing to do with Counter-Strike but it's just refreshing because it's like oh wow like
they do care like they do want to win because i i did feel like that was maybe missing a little
bit i know some people called it aura but i also think that is why i think you said about when you're
stuck in the same place for so long like you keep playing second fiddle to vitality for an entire
season and then the second season comes around and now all of a sudden everyone's surpassing
you.
You're still a top five team, you're still making a lot of semi-finals, but you can't
get it done.
So I think it's just a change of scenery is probably uplifting.
So I'm actually really sad because I'll never get to have him on a desk as an analyst purely
because he seems to be playing so damn well that maybe this might be a permanent home.
JL is with Banks now to celebrate making it to the playoffs.
That's right Sam.
I do have the rookie JL.
You know, we've never seen this guy before he's learning his way back into a server back into a team
Let me just ask you that bit of rust across going through these games just them getting back into a new team again
Or did you feel like it's kind of gone already? No, no, I feel that there's still rest but I feel like game by game
It gets better and better. So I mean, I think yesterday I felt confident in my game Friday
They were lost again, but today was even better. So yeah game by game on build back into form
That's good. That's certainly a positive sign and looking at this game you had against the rule, right?
There was a lot of it where we would say yeah, you had full control at the beginning of the map
Then it starts to slip away
Then you go all the way to overtime is a lot of back and forth fighting
Where were the calls coming from whether the ideas coming from in order to change rings up and just
Maneuver around the Rora to get this win because they were pushing you. Yeah, I feel like we had the game under control
But it just that the delay situations were kind of messed up in a way
But this is like this is due to game knowledge and yeah, we've been at him for what two weeks
So, you have to expect us to, but the fact that we have them under control and they haven't made any changes and the team we played previously haven't made any changes.
So, the fact that we have them under control and we just lose on ourselves, that's good because we can fix that and then we can win the next game.
Looking at that where you say you lose on yourself, was that the case on this 9-Z game yesterday?
Was that where it was like, you thought it was more you than them?
Yeah, yeah, of course.
What do you think of them though? What's making them a bit special right now? They've had a good run man, you've got to give them that.
They're shooting good and they're confident in their own place, whatever they come up with, they're confident in that and they will go with it no matter what, even if it's bad for them, they'll still go for it.
Sometimes it catches your guard, you block them on a side and they're like, okay, let's still go with it, but we're already stacking another side, so I mean, don't play it by them, but yeah, next time it's going to be different.
Next time it's going to be different. Let's see if we get to match up from again here in Astana. Looking at you having to go through role position changes,
You've got some sports you like, but there's obviously some sacrifice needed at the same time.
What's been the hardest part of this for you?
I don't know, the situations that I'm in.
Like, early round, okay, I can do my plays, but then when it's down to a minute,
I have no idea what to do, where to go.
Like, I do have some sort of idea, you know, it's not awful.
It's just weird, like, you're playing a free, free collection, and I'm like, I'm having.
I've never had any in my life on T side.
And I'm like, okay, I got to play from there, and then I'm just holding an angle,
I get to hit from down below, I get surprised, but this is experience.
you learn and you can watch skybox you can you can do prep but you still have to be in
those positions to kind of get to know them so I'm playing against experts in their own
positions and I'm kind of the rookie in those positions you know what I mean so.
Well that's right we've come full circle do you beat a rookie again you know.
Yeah probably not I mean I don't mind it's fine.
And also I want to look at the difference for you because obviously you had such a good career
on Navi now coming into MOUs what differences do you notice in the game in the way things
are done comparing it to Na'Vi.
Mmm, preparing it, I mean...
You didn't stump me just that I'm picking my words, you know what I mean?
I mean, here it's more of a team effort, so to say, yes.
You feel like everyone's on the same page?
Yeah, I mean, we're trying to be at least, yeah.
That's certainly a positive sign.
And lastly, you made it to the arena.
You haven't been there since Austin, right?
We're not going to say the show match of the last major doesn't count.
That's not a real thing.
Is this where we get the best jail?
I hope so.
I mean, I'm getting David.
I'm getting better day by day.
So of course, yes.
And it's in Astana.
Have you seen the fans?
You're mental.
I mean, I hope we play not against the Russian speaking team.
So we can get some support, you know, that, but yeah, I'm happy
regardless, even though if you play against anyone else.
Well, you're the one that needs to make sure Maus gets some more
supporters in right?
You need to be cheering and pulling them along.
Give them some encouragement, bringing everyone into it.
You can speak a bit of the language.
Working progress.
Work in progress, and that's how we'll end it.
Sam, let's go back to you.
J.O. the rookie, because it's a couple of new spots.
I like what he said there.
So this is a thing that you need to take from that,
is the confidence, where he says,
we are, the games that we've lost,
or the rounds that we're losing,
have more to do with us as a team,
not knowing each other, making mistakes,
we can fix that, versus saying, well, we're being outplayed.
Whether or not you agree with them, whole different thing.
But the point is, that's how that team is feeling.
That speaks a lot to the attitude in the camp right now,
Which I think is inherently positive based on that if we were to dive into some of the words that that jail was spitting there
I think there was like a few different things that were really good nuggets and that one one
It's about you know being more of a team effort
You're not underneath the struck rigid system that comes down from like one person that everyone has to follow
It's more of a collaborative system
I think which is probably a nicer feeling for jail to have a little bit more agency
I think he's right as well
You know is you can only do so much in practice
You have to get real reps on the server against elite competition to really understand what situations you're gonna be put in and
not handle them on the fly.
And so it is going to be a learning curve for Jaleigh, though he has a lot of experience.
He's obviously done great things in Counter-Strike.
He's in a new environment.
And I think, you know, he's getting through some of the growing pains, but he's definitely
showing you the impact he can have as well.
Yeah, he dropped a couple of nuggets, which I would have liked him to drop it when he
was on the desk as well, right?
But I think he really hit the nail right there when he was like, listen, you can be on Skybox.
You can, you know, do a lot of preference or whatever.
But when you're going to be playing positions and beat situations where you haven't experienced
before.
And he's going to apply to Zelex as well, right?
He's a young player.
It's not just about the positions, also the level of opposition you're going to be going
up against as opposed to, let's say, an academy team for Zelex or tier two teams and whatnot.
So yeah, pretty cool.
Also, just good to hear from JL being in a team and just this positiveness and, you
know, I'm dead inside, Sam, I'm like a dead bitter man.
JL makes you smile sometimes.
Oh, I'm happy for you, Blair.
Thanks.
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teams is making it through to playoffs.
They get to walk out on the stage to an incredible Kazakh stun crowd.
Will it be Team Falcons or will it be the Mongols?
We are about to find out.
And now, Belay and Dust are here to break this down.
Are you excited about these two teams, boys?
Kind of, yeah.
I am.
I actually am because they haven't played each other in a long time and I feel like
even when they did, it's kind of irrelevant now with all the changes that the teams have
been through since then.
It's two like fiery teams go up against each other and I'm ready for you know a nice slugfest here
This is a long long time ago right there
There's a different IGL kicks in no longer with the team and of course for the Mongols pretty much the same thing except
Sends you the star player
New the star player no longer different Mongols and for the side of Alka's new IGL completely different scenario here
But I'm excited. I'm really excited. I'm excited to see my boys deliver and see if they can pull off a repeat win here
against Karrigan and his boys
Have the Mongols earned the title Asian Mouse name?
No, I I I I've argued against this I actually annoyed me with someone bought it up because they're the combination mouse because they actually do have some aura and they're actually
You know the fun to watch even though they might
Capitulate and piss me off. There's a lot of fans off sometimes
I think they're a fun team to watch overall, but I will say this though
The most the one thing where Mongols where I struggle with
Standing them would be the fact that they seem kind of complacent. I would say complacent
They seem happy being the place they are at. They're okay
I don't think now's forever okay being second place right and that frustrates me coming to this event for example
Almost everything you saw spirit you said you saw in a paravision kind of fire you say that because it would be
Truggling at its event everyone's prepping super hot a full month off
And then you just prep for the final one week or so against Asian teams at that to basically just dry prepping
That is not ideal if they really want to elevate themselves
It's not gonna require more than the Zeno trying to pretend to be bad Mazzino and they need to really you know
Boot camp in Europe for like a week proud to the event right you can hit the ground running instead
You saw the first came back against magic. It was a struggle fest. They have recovered however, so that's the the bright side
I'm really annoyed that I keep hearing these reports of them not practicing. What the hell are you doing?
You are a professional Counter-Strike team who has at one point been a top five ranked team in the world
You've been in a major grand final number one ranks at one point
Yeah, exactly those are the expectations that you should be able to live up to now
I understand they've been through multiple roster changes, you know the whole control as standard situation the whole you know
Embedding Cobra, that's exactly why you need more reps and more practices get Cobra back up to speed to allow you to be a competitor again
So I do get annoyed by all that but they definitely still pack a punch me while on thousands
They're going through their own struggles right now
Now you know, trying to bring in a new in-game leader,
Kerrigan hoping that he can fix the woes
that have been plaguing Falcons for quite some time
as they've never lived up to the expectations
that should be expected of a team
that has this type of salary cap
and this type of talent on the team.
I just want to say, in defense of the Mongols.
And then we'll move on to Falcons,
so either of you won't have a chance to respond to this.
But, you know, this team was sharing a room,
like there were five of them sleeping
on the floor in rooms in Europe
so they could make it big.
and they're now some of the most famous faces in Mongolia.
They have made generational wealth.
So what if they went home and took a month off
to enjoy their success?
Oh, no, you can enjoy success.
I think this year is where I was kind of gearing it at.
Like, I want to see, I mean, unless they're saving time
until, you know, doing bootcamp for the major,
that was really where I'm at.
But my entire thing is like, you know,
you're a young team.
This time to strike, right?
You never know if you're gonna,
you'll be able to kind of capture them the magic
you had once upon a time.
Ninten's having a hell of a run right now, for example.
It would be really cool.
Yeah, that's crazy stuff from the opera.
And it would be lovely to see the team kind of peak together
and contend for championships.
Right now, for me, Mongols are not a team I can believe
could be a dark horse even to win a tier one event.
I want them to get to that level
because they were that team for maybe a couple of months
last year, and I wish they were a little bit more
motivated to do that.
We've obviously got Falcons on your screens right now,
and the conversation has been on the new IGL.
I want to change this up a little bit.
I want to talk about, you can see the back of his head,
Kiyosuke the the next donk was how it was phrased when he was signed he was meant to be
this superstar he came into this roster i don't think he's being terrible but there seems to be
an ongoing narrative that he's just not doing enough here do you think the question is do you
think that maybe we're being a little bit unreasonable he is a young player who came into
to a top, at the time, sort of top five team,
and yet we are demanding that he perform at the level of Niko.
Yeah, I mean, I think for me, it's this.
Kiyosuke, whenever he came into the team last year,
he really hit the ground running.
He looked like one of the most important players
coming out of a rookie situation.
He had so much impact as an entry,
creating openings, playing the aggressive CT spots.
Like, he was so, so talented.
And I think the issue for me is this,
is that all of a sudden his entry production's gone down,
because I think he tries to go for a little bit too much.
We see it time and time again that he needs to have a little bit more discipline.
I also think that when he gets to the playoffs, he drops off heavily.
And to answer your question then, Sam, no, I don't think we have to sit here and crush
him for it, but there is some learning and lessons that needs to happen.
And Kerrigan's the perfect guy to deal with star players and to try to help mold them
into what they need to be to have impact consistently.
100%.
I was getting called slurs on Twitter last night because Derral said, why are you attacking
Q-Soo?
Why is it called a minute?
Because I know how good he can be.
But sometimes I agree with you. It seems like it's a piece of famine here for the team
Look looking at the map. There's nothing too crazy anubis overpass. There's no two maps
It's gonna be banned out
Here's where things get it spicy for me
That's why I'm gonna be leading the way of Mongols apart from my Asian bias
It's just when it comes to the maps of Falcons have looked decently so far Mongols love them
So Falcons have picked ancient Mongols love playing ancient if it's Mirage Mongols that's their best map
You know pretty much and the Mongols have also been leading heavily
I mean they've been leading heavily in the dust to a Falcons and Mongols have looked incredible and does today
rarely pick it when whenever someone picks it against them G2 comes to mind 13-1 or 13-2 was a
scoreline right there. So I don't think there's any safe space for Falcons to kind of work with here.
I think Mongols are going to be comfortable no matter what the three maps are going to be.
They went with Inferno yesterday as well with G2. I feel like they're trying to force Inferno in
and kind of mix up their map pool right now. Well also Falcons hasn't played Inferno yet since
Kerrigan's come on to the team so I think that's going to be interesting to see how they operate.
You know because they've been changing a lot of spots around and stuff so this will be their
their first test on Inferno in the series.
And yeah, Mirage last map, not too shocked by that.
I think both teams are going to be pretty much happy
with the decider here.
Inferno, I think Inferno is the map
to watch for me personally.
We don't know how Falcon's going to be.
And for Mongols, yes, it was a labored effort coming in
against G2 yesterday, but it seems like they're trying
to kind of mix up the map, let them a fan of it.
They were picking New Colotte this season.
Now Inferno coming in, not really going for this Mirage
ancient all the time.
And that's something I've been harping on about
for a very long time.
You're surprised by the dust to pick from falcons not really it's a whole map
Yeah, I mean yes, they got one CT around against 90 that was absolutely pitiful
But you also you almost have to say that was an aberration because I thought they looked pretty strong on the other two games
They played monosy was unhinged on the map yesterday by the way super aggressive super good-looking
It just did the tea sides though. It still feels like it's something lacking there. Yeah, I'm also interested in this
I don't know if you picked up on this whenever you were watching, you know
August played Dust 2, you know, earlier on against G2 and even in their game against
Spirit. They've kind of moved Cobra on the T side. Like Cobra used to be kind of playing
middle with Blitz and kind of like an entry-pack guy. On the T side now he's playing inside
the B tunnels and more of like kind of an aggressive lurk and they've kind of moved
Techno into the mid zone here. So this is what they used to do. So this has been kind
of a big pivot to see Cobra and Techno swap. So I'm curious how that plays out when they
get to that side and how they organize things.
Yeah, I personally, I enjoy watching techno lurk in all honesty, especially at T-Side, I think he's got the, like, just experience to close us a few rounds here and there.
But listen, I'm down for them to try experiments and move things around, and so just being stagnant.
And that's the one complaint of Overside of the Mongols, is they're very static and very stagnant in what they do, what maps they play, the roles they position themselves with.
If you remember when Techno, when they moved things around EWC last year, he just absolutely demolished everyone, right?
So you got such heavy hitting pieces so you have the freedom to move things around. So I'm excited for this match
Kerrigan's obviously come in and I think he actually mentioned this in an interview probably with James Banks where he said his job is to fix
The tea sides, okay, which we have spoken about this super week on this team. How much time
Do you think he needs realistically to get that done?
That's so much he has to do man because again
It's about wrangling in Kyosuke because you don't want to totally new to your star player
You want them to have some
Comfortability to go for plays don't want them to play not delusional and the play to win
but you do have to make sure that he's not completely, you know, getting way too far out in front of utility or in front of people who were
trade for him and they try to think care-goodness. He says do the buddy since like hey you're sticking with me
I'll go and first you trade off at me. So we need to see more place like that. I think he's needing his magic stones bringing it out
Just like people are like here. So I I prayed that he doesn't just get a kill and runs into the bomb side by himself
So those magic stones were once described by Maui
He did a full analytic breakdown the same way many people do a map replay
And he walked me through each of those precious stones and and what they represent and the different things that they are meant to
To bring to you as a player. I can't remember any of them
But basically the idea is all they always do is every time every time Qs you get over peaks
It makes it just a straw rocket. Stop it. Stop it. That's why he's got six of them right there
Perfect. You might need more than that though in one game twelve twelve on the same site. Yeah, absolutely like
like they have magic powers if you like that might be what focus so I do know
that there is a black one called on X which is meant to give you confidence
I actually wear one on my wrist so don't mock care again man sometimes it's I
think it's a little bit of a placebo but it it helps it sometimes it helps you
know just to remind you where you need to be focused yeah the other focus for
them besides you know the whole case you gave me that we've been kind of
beating around I think the other thing is trying to figure out a way to get
Tess is in a position where he can feel more comfortable and more active.
And I think that's something Karrigan identified in the interview of like,
I want this guy to be a little bit more selfish.
I want him to go for a little bit more plays.
And in some cases they do allow him on a lot of these T sides to be a little bit
more involved in trading and not necessarily always just lurking.
Or even when he does work, they're trying to give him a little bit more freedom
to go for more plays and it is playing supportive.
So I do like that.
I don't necessarily vibe with some of the like positions they've put in them,
like they moved them to the B anchor on dust two, uh, where Karrigan's
taking over the A side.
I don't necessarily like.
I think personally, I'd keep him over there, for example, having someone to kill a suitcase
over there, I think that's rough, right?
Because the thing with Tessus is he rarely makes a mistake, that he's super smart what
he does, and sure, in some of the maps you can kind of free him up a little bit and give
him the confidence to go for a place and whatnot, but on certain sides, B bomb side does too.
Super notorious for being the most impossible side to retake.
I want to have a guy who's going to stay alive, get a couple of kills, you know what I mean?
I feel like that's why for me, Tessus is in a lot of ways the most important piece of
the puzzle that Karrigan has. Sure, Morrison can pop off, sure, Niko can have the incredible
game, so curious who could be unplayable, but Tessus is reliable, and reliable players
are, they're rare.
Doesn't it annoy you so much, because now that you've said that, this is something that
annoys me, is the narrative that we keep seeing that Tessus needs to be replaced, because
I'm like, why?
Because people are stupid, Tess.
This is my thing, he's like the hardest worker in the team. He takes all the rubbish spots
if he has to. He does all the dirty work that you need. Like if you're going to have a team
of stars, which this now is, right? Manasi, Niko, Kiyosuke, Kerrigan. Tessus is there as
that sort of anchor player to make sure that you've got someone who can take out the trash,
if you like, right? Why would you want to replace that? And who would you replace him
with? I think it's a terrible like...
Well, the reason is so that XANA can continue to stay on as a coach for a little bit longer.
That's really the reason why you want to kick.
That is a fair take, that's awesome.
So that's the reason why he's there. So I was like, man, I got one more play I can
maybe this doesn't work out. But no, the other thing is, listen, the only time I've ever really
made the suggestion that tests maybe should be removed, it's not in the sense that you're kind
of referring to where it's like he should be cut because he's not good enough or because he can't
be useful. I think honestly, maybe he would benefit in his career individually, besides the backs of
money that he's getting, to be able to be in a team where maybe he does get the play roles that suit
him a little bit better. Like maybe it would be like mutually beneficial if he did move on at
at some point to be somewhere.
I would love to be able and we'll never be able to do this
because no one will ever give us an honest answer.
But I would love to sit a player down and be like,
would you choose to play the roles you're playing now
with your bags of money?
Or would you like an opportunity on a less successful team
for less money to play what you want?
And just to find out where they sit in that, in that.
Listen, I'd all honestly, if I'm to test this shoe
to be under the leadership of Karigan,
the players at Niko,
And honestly, like literally, literally like, you know,
the once in a lifetime players, I would stay there, 100%.
Even the money wasn't that much.
I will make a point.
100% is that much.
It felt it is that much indeed.
But I'll tell you one thing we haven't touched upon
and why Mongols making a playoffs at this event
is very important for them
and getting more reps in the arena.
Let's go.
CobraZero, despite having to have to fill some very big shoes
and doing so far a commendable job,
sure he has some stinkers here and there,
he's been very solid.
And if you look at all the playoff appearances he's had thus far this year, apart from I
think the, I think in Kluge for a mistake and a couple of maps here and there where
he did have a good time, he has actually struggled with the playoffs quite a bit.
Like it's a bit reminiscent of what Senzu was once upon a time, right?
But Senzu took a while for him to wrap up, it became that playoff star, the playoffs
monster we saw from him.
So I feel this season right now for Mongols, the main thing is, apart from obviously winning
events are going for deep runs, it's for Cobra Zerik to feel comfortable on the stage.
Because the rest of his team are Blitz, you know, Mazzini, Ninten, they don't really feel
the nerves anymore.
But his reps are important, and that's why for Mongols, you need to keep making playoffs
at all these events you're at right now.
Yeah, this is a perfect opportunity to do so.
You're up against a team that has struggled, I mean, even when they beat Matzi, it didn't
look the cleanest.
They did lose to Ninten.
They have had their struggles.
They had a game where they couldn't get more than one CT round on the map, you're about
to play them on.
So there's definitely some vulnerabilities out there that Mongols would exploit.
and models are a team that, despite all the things we may, you know,
be frustrated about with their limited practice or, you know,
the fact that maybe sometimes they're not as creative as they need to be is that
they play fun counter strike.
They play confident CS and they're just really fun to watch because of the style
that they play and they can be very effective.
I mean, the results they've been putting up this year are not too shabby.
Honestly, like, yeah, we would like to see more,
but they're still consistently placing in or near the top five every
tournament that they play and they're occasionally getting, you know,
good wins against other fellow top five teams.
So I think it's been solid.
We'll see if they can do it against Falcons.
We used to speak about a team called Miles, the way you just did there.
Look how that ended up.
Yeah, but the difference is that Miles had the exact same team for over a year
where our Mongols went through multiple roster changes last year.
I shouldn't have.
That's a big difference.
I should have just gone to Harry Hugo, which is what we're doing right now.
Yep, take it away.
Thank you, Dustin.
Means a lot to have your blessing, heading into this one.
It's the Mongols taking on the Falcons, Hugo.
Looking forward to this winner heading into those playoffs.
And, yeah, it's been a bit of an odd event for the Falcons, right?
They're first outing with Karrigan at the helm.
Oster 9-Z, but no time to think about that,
because this pistol round is off to a rip-roaring start.
The Mongols bring the heat into the tunnels.
Falcons.
Oh, no.
Melt away.
Yeah.
I don't know if it is time to think about the losses, Harry.
Because, let's be honest, right?
Sure, 9-Z, incredible run.
They've come through. They've upset, they're surprised.
Luchov might be the go.
Luchov is the go.
The question is rude. He is the goat. But to be honest, Harry, if I look at this game, I say this is the first proven team that the Falcons have had to play, right?
They've taken down K27 and Monty, the Jits on the latter had to clutch that up. But this is the first proven top squat.
So this is going to be an uphill battle for the Falcons, you'd think.
Considering they struggled against Monty, only just winning those two maps out.
And they lost the 9-Z as well.
So Mongols have looked hot to trot, to be honest.
A very close game against Spirit.
The 9-10 is having a great tournament as a desk established.
So a nice aggressive pistol here from the Mongols to set the tone.
And Koba's feeling good coming into this game.
So that is a pistol locked in by the Mongols.
A team that do not sit back, do not relax, and do not respect you.
It's one of the weird oddities though of Karagan all over, which is, you feel like he's good
be good teams and bad be bad teams. Sure. This team is more than Karagin though.
See, Monosy just put on a show in these games. Fifth highest rated player of the event, 19 and third.
I mean you have three Falcons players, top three Falcons players all higher than the second best
player of the Mongols. But none of that matters on this round. Full moe down here for the Mongols.
Gun round coming out now for the Falcons.
I do love to watch Mongols and dust too though.
I mean the veto for this one is pretty sick actually, I think it sets us up for a great
series as the deaths are kind of talking about, right?
The idea that there's actually a lot of overlap in the map all of these teams, they all like
caught the others selling, so you've ended up with three good maps for both squads throughout.
Short control here. Four players for the Falcons, go and take to the short area.
That may have dunked the car again, but it got stuck in the window.
The lineup for Goose or Default?
Or Ramp?
Anywhere, let's see.
I'll just go explode him.
My 10 swings out first.
Mori could get the better, because it would have baited him into Blitz.
Still should go unchecked, and he even holds the shot.
No way, MP9, talk about value!
Let's get away with the double that throws this whole round into Jeopardy, or at least it was meant to, but it's Niko and Monosy.
These have been the two IT players for the Falcons here in Astana.
Yep.
The damage on the jump shot out of Mizzinho. Monosy is but a shot away from certain death.
Oh!
You'll give chase!
At 3 HP, he brings the fight to Mizzinho, and now a chance to get this bomb planted for Niko on the long side.
Take no closing in, but nowhere left to run.
It's a Falcons round, Niko and Monosy able to combine and save themselves after that blitz double.
Yeah, that's a 2v4, right, as Mongols are moving up ramp to fight them again.
I can't believe that one more bullet landing on Monosy, one more jump shot,
would have certainly set up Mongols for that round.
Low time, bomb down on the site, but instead Monosy chases that kill down
and him and Niko clutch up, bat a big round for the Falcons to start off their guns.
Nice try for Blitz though.
Ninten's orb does not wait on this CT side.
And this is going to be quite the orper's head-to-head.
Once Modesty gets his going.
I can't control Taken, but Blitz is trying to hold on to it, I can't even give him a
lot of maids at the start of this game, he's still going to get his hex-axe here as he's
faking this A-play.
I just dropped down spawn as well, this is meant to be brewing for the Falcons, and
Karagin looks to backstab Blitz, knife out, nothing he can do and now rotation's cut off, 9-10, shotgun or AWP.
That's a saver, thank goodness. He holds on.
But they're going back to Kat!
Oh, 9-10! It's really hot, he's burning alive!
Good double from Karagin, man. Getting stuck in there on the CT drop and the guy to go and clear out the site itself.
Let's say no to that. Save call for the Mongols. Falcons tying it up early on.
Yeah, I mean, Nika goes out B on the lurk smoke and he falls, so Mongols, also Falcons, change their mind.
Back up Catwalk and it works out wonderfully.
catching 9-10 in between positions and he gets stuck in that default molly, carrigan. Big round.
Big output. We've had him go quiet in most of these games individually, right? It's not
necessarily here for the firepower. He's definitely struggled to put up kills in some of these games,
So Starling Strong is a good sign. Falcons will be grateful. Breaking Mongols money early in this map.
Just these two saved guns.
Also had just some excellent games out of Niko here in Astana.
Yeah, as we say, right, Tim, and Monosy, the two top performers right now for the Falcons.
Niko has been lights out, feel like the 9Z game in particular, really lit a fire underneath Niko and Monosy.
Alright, little boost there to put the...
AK to work, nice gimmick to net you an opener.
Okay, it takes one to the dome, so certainly some cause for concern in this round.
They're going to go into the AK again, Techno controls the spray for the first.
Can't take another headshot, can Nico?
Barely gets out alive in the tunnels, and very split up right now are the Falcons.
That's another gun retreat.
Really, too, I know they have the bomb site, but this fight is everything right now.
Tess is getting aggressive. Barely gets out of there alive.
God makes it in.
Honestly, can put it down.
Looking for the fight initially, but 910's giving room to climb up.
As we go the ramp.
Smoke and monosie looks eager but as that first one fades there's a huge gap here
does he realize it's a gear? Miss shot for monosie!
9-10 with a chance he's grabbing it but where is Tessas gone?
Back to lock behind him. 9-10 doesn't realize and that's Tessas with the round.
I don't think he figured it out considering monosie was also trying to cross into that position.
God, I do hate it when players come down lower on their own and don't flash short.
I know it's a low econ round, you probably don't expect the AK boost to do all things
there on techno.
The kisser just walks into lower and offers up a free kill.
You still see it from the best players in the world.
It doesn't hold Falcons back from finding that anti-echo. It just makes it very expensive
Mongols early time out
And this usually means one of two things play a bit more safe or they're rushing mid
Let's see which okay
Ever a fan?
Long rush setup. Molly out of the blue bin means Niko can't cross out through those long doors.
And now with the advantage you can just settle back into a nice 3-2 setup, have an extra
piece to go down and watch mid, that's going to be a point of contention here, but carrying
getting flashed through those doors. Left race folks. Sets up amidst me quite nicely.
Kiss again, upper. Sneakers really bad to carry him. Hello, moving in. Cobra's here
is holding this and he's sure he's gonna get locked in. Yeah, just six cents shoots through.
It's like no dealing with a lurk through this smoke, but he just looked away,
still gonna recover in time for one and a half. Cobra is here to keep a lid on this B-bomb site,
and while Marcy hits a banger shot, winning this round is unrealistic, blitz there in time.
Mongol's bouncing back and breaking that three round streak.
It's expensive for Falcons after coming up with a clutch.
Let's see what the B spawn gets scoped up early.
I want to see what the B spawn gets scoped up early.
Trying to force an opening pick, his teammate to run in under the cover of that AWP, Techno
good for the first, but now the defense falls for Cobra, it does have support, 9-10 off
in the window right behind him, eyes off with nothing done, it's Karagin and Kiyosuke with
the openers.
Mongols get shut out of that B site.
Two players fast in through the tunnels.
Amonysiob gives you some concern that he's about to have gun on the tunnels position.
Yeah, nice angle. Just wider than the box.
Nothing Blitz can do there and so Mizino saves.
Falcons do find success on that B site.
Kyosuke getting his first kills of the game.
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Oh dear, it does spread but it gets out.
I was all the way back at long so it's an A-side finish here for the Falcons.
And re-smoked now is a big problem.
And we're about to move out.
Smokes has scared them away.
It's instantly left, he knows it, that's gonna scare them off, he's gone back to the site.
You go mid to be with, they got a pat right now, it's triple A.
Oh, what a spray, what?
Crazy double out of Kiyosuke.
Liz breaks the smoke, does what he can, but it's a dying effort there from the captain.
Techno on the auto shot, he has a lot of responsibility, clean execution on the first, but he's getting split.
No one in this room is Inyo, locked out by the CT smoke, monosy, holding this position.
Sweet, I'm here for monosy. Surely not.
Why not?
Give me a good reason.
Won't be too...
The CT doesn't like his odds, no kit.
And that orb, very tempting in 910's hand, so...
It'll be a good teammate, he'll back off, save that gun.
You can in character and just get given the round but my god that's spray for
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2k close again. One step all he needed, given the confidence to go for that, and that's restored to 4v4.
He's on a roll, he can be very scary.
Back to this B bomb site, Falcon's making their game plan pretty clear at the start of this one. Lots of B hits.
You always wonder as well, you know, they've been hauling onto mid for a good while
They might think 910 hasn't been able to cross out since that long pick. They know he ran here straight away
They are going into that AWP
910 one miss shot costs him
And he able to get a second one off before all is said and done
one. Oh, Carrigan. I'd be
blind. No problem. And that all gets to make its way back in Amonesty's hands.
Carrigan's best kill count map is 12 frags in the Falcons Jersey. That was a 13-11 win
against K27, 12 and 17. He's already on track to match, if not beat that. Seven kills in
just nine rounds. But yeah, this B site proving to already be the mood for Falcon's Marvel's
spamming timeouts here on this site. This techno is caught off. They've sleepied the
wheel, they fired one shot on him early but didn't wait till he had visual population.
got that smoke in, it was too late, Falcons just charge it. They had to. For a team that's
as threatening as the Mongols, Falcons are making them look humble for now. This tag finally
connected to the policy.
You could cover a little hesitant on the cross, didn't go with the Nade and that's
cost him half his health.
They're just going straight up for him it to be.
Out of sport.
No respect.
They broke, don't fix it, it's where they found a lot of their success here, Techno
dead, not even getting a fire shot.
So we're living on borrowed time.
Brutal.
These are very pasty rounds.
Not over thinking, not over cooking.
You know, you rarely see something new in dust, too.
These days, right? Very rarely.
Probably comes through every six months.
But at the moment, every team at this tournament
has just been doing this kind of stuff.
They've just been abusing to be bomb-sized.
Something Parisian started the year with.
I mean, we would see games from ParaVision even back at Bounty, where they would just
go B for, you know, 10 straight rounds in a row on this T-side, faking A, B Smash, mid
to B, B Smash, B Smash, it was just incessant, some of the executes we were getting from
ParaVision.
I feel like everyone's now doing it, because you can win a round in two entries, 20 seconds,
look at them hunt as well. Alcans just searching towards a T side right now. A commendable
half and one that Mongols have yet to gamble triple beyond. Game plan is perfection. But
I'm always going to hold my breath in this kind of game right now because the one thing
The thing about this has showed us is, even when they have these dominant first halves,
man, all their games are going down to the wire.
They are taking a while to close in that second half.
So this one won't necessarily be an exception.
Because Mongols are a comeback team.
Yeah, I mean, they had a 9-3 and an 8-4 half yesterday versus Monty, and both of those ended up getting very, very close.
And on the flip side, Mongols had a 3-9 and a 4-8 half against Spirit. Both those rounds came down to either 13-11 or overtime.
Sure, they lost them, but this team doesn't give up where the going gets tough.
They get going.
Karag and Kart 4 to play first. It will be a free kill.
Oh, scary.
Got it.
Kiyosuke trying to look for a entry up cat. His team is still poising on the mid to B.
Got a lot of attention on middle right now for the Mongols. Two players behind that smoke.
And you've lost two opening gambits here Falcons. So how do you win this?
That's psychotic!
Only Blitz! Only Blitz would do that.
Push it in the 5E3, out mid-doors, and he jumps up cat with the AWP, looking for the finisher as well.
Togo's got his back.
Blitz.
You know what he does best, the last thing you expect.
A bit of a weird round for the falcon, man. Two solo fights taken against the partial or
against the force fire, rather. Just kind of arming the opponents and leaving yourselves
trapped down there in mid.
I think it comes because they know Mongols are putting focus on middle. There's two players
fighting them, so both Karagor and Akies you can realize, I probably have a 1v1 in my position,
Yeah, when both of them fail, that's what it looks like. Just failure to launch.
Come on, let's wipe them off! Oh my God! Blitz through the smoke again!
I'll pay the price this time!
Two kills back for Falcons, even Cobra getting killed or attacked on the cross.
I mean, B is tempting now, they just saw Cobra make it over and Karagan heard all these steps,
so he's calling them back through spawn. This is a good call in the last round of the half.
And I feel like it's an 8-4 guarantee right now.
How are they still selling something on A?
Cover is ahead of that molly.
Okay.
Now he's not ready for that.
They've just got that B site. They should know it.
Sure, Techno's alive. They don't know he's mid to B.
And actually he has lower flank, so hold on a second.
He's read this well. He now hears a confirmation.
Honestly, he's out of this one for the moment.
Techno fact-stab is about to ruin this for the Falcons, holds the shot as well, wants
to make this a double.
Can't find Nico, it's him and Monosy.
Nico's got two players to contend with, gonna try and phase the smoke, get him behind them,
lose his Monosy down there in mid, but the instant trade available from Nico out those
doors.
Well, he makes things harder burns him down even lower one shot would end Cobra's round
He's got the shadow to work with doesn't matter because the Mongols are so quick
All in all that's a good recovery on the half man
We were saying even these super one-sided halves have been tricky for the Falcons or the Mongols
Thanks to that low econ win and the fast flank from techno here
They managed to scrape together five when all is said and done
and should be enough for them looking at this second half.
Yeah, I mean, if 9-3 made it to 13-11
and if an 8-4 made it to overtime,
5-7 is a win for the Mongols in the last round.
Let's see if that holds through though.
Nice play from Techno.
The call was right for Carrigan,
but timing set off the Falcons
and Mongols played that 3-V-2 very well,
Did not overplay on any of their players, realizing how winnable that still was with the bomb down in the B site.
So, did the Mongols do enough here in this first half of play?
from the Falcons.
I can hear them in lower.
I was trying to bait them in to these Tessa's Dolbarettas.
I'm really going to try and challenge him here into the crossfire.
More doolies arrive on the short side. Honesty.
I didn't use to put the hurt on.
It's heavy mid right now, so heavy in fact that A's been left wide open.
How'd you realize that though?
Oh my goodness.
These guys are crap through. Tess is still watching us here.
And so yeah, no.
Yeah.
Falcons lock it down.
Shocked they decide to commit our middle after seeing,
not just the double setup, but the jewelies close too.
So, Mongols hand over a pistol round here to the Falcons and they will grab it.
A rare eco for the Mongols on this tea side.
Just the Blitzdeeck.
They know they dinked Kiyosuke in that mid-fights, that's going to send them back over towards
B. It's still a re-smoke available here.
You don't even want it, you want the fight.
Oh, I take it back.
That didn't, so it'll be that bad now.
MP9 attesse's quick work made over the glocks.
Well, this teammate's fast arriving out through here, no worries here, 9-10 is a dead mat.
We're sharing for attesse's to save that great eagle kill from blades, but it goes no further.
And here is the buy for the Mongols, really starting this game on hard mode.
Sure, they won that first pistol, but 7-5 down, and pistol converted for Falcons.
It's gonna have to be one hell of a T-side if this comeback is to be a reality.
I don't know.
Across the board, Falcons hitting harder.
got it!
Oh, it's moving quickly.
They're ahead of that block smoke.
That's not going to do anything to slow them down.
Carrying against the info, at least,
for the A site star.
Oh, no!
Very claustrophobic.
Cloak Cobra.
Fold line.
Didn't even put pressure on from the shore.
Honestly, just trying to dance around this smoke
is getting whittled down.
It's the Kiyosuke Backstab
that looks to bail them out.
Bomb here on the back of Blitz.
Captain who trusts himself a lot in these clutch moments.
Obviously, Roots. So quick.
Even if you expect one, you won't be ready for both out of the long side.
They definitely saw him there.
At a certain point, if you just run, in about two seconds, just swing it together.
Nice.
Just, I mean, a millisecond on that timing.
Saw his leg go around the corner and so Blitz had the right idea but dawns a little too late.
Making a great move in the mid-round.
Despite, you know, that play for Niko maybe could have just wandered around straight up, but Hyper flanked the Kiyosuke, shoots three players in the back.
the back. Yeah, frustrating death but right now Falcons laughing all the way to the bank.
It'll be a very galvanizing win for the Falcons if they're able to take it cleanly.
That's been their big struggle here in Astana.
The Yukon round to deal with here.
And so, paranoid about the B-Play because of that...
It's B-Smoke leads them to believe that they're correct in their read, but I think Blitz
is heading through CT.
Chance to deal with monosie.
And firing off, though, as that short play comes in, he'll give up the space, and so,
now this position from Blitz isn't worth a lot.
I don't know how you win this if your Mongols have no rightful to take a range fight,
try to hit some Deagle shots. Is your best bet? And so Monacy found.
No flash, no way! Double kill comes back up and Mongols are doing this 3v5 in the post-parm with pistols!
Check that radar, cause Falcons have fumbled!
3 on 5, not a death for the Mongols. Tech 9s and Deeks is all they need.
What, what fantastic shots from Mazzinho towards the long side, man.
That Deagle deals with both. He beats an AWP and AK at long range from the site.
Oh, flicked down as well, little adjustment.
Oh, flicked down. Terrorists win.
It wasn't exactly aiming in the right place.
What a banger shot to take the AWP out.
And to be honest, that felt like this game was about to be a stomp until Mongols pulled
a very unlikely round out of the hat.
The Mongols realize they've been gifted an opportunity and they're not willing to throw it away right now.
This is a very calculated slow round that is going to end on that B bombsite, and they're getting faked out Falcons right now,
but there's nothing they can do about it. It's Tess's D-Gamma and B.
Don't leave it too late. That's all I'm going to say. Good Molotov pushes Tess's into a new position.
20 seconds shouldn't be possible so income Mongols.
See the testers here, there's only so many places you can be and that one shot gives
it all away.
No issues for the Mongols.
Clean finish in towards that B site.
Three round game but that buy round's coming.
Still, they've at least set themselves up with money for the next couple of rounds thanks to this clean one.
They know he's a scout, they just don't even want to peek it really. Why bother?
Help me out now.
Oh, yank. The bomb blow it, probably not.
It's gonna get it though.
So, not a bad save here. Gonna buy an AWP, can give someone that AK.
Who gets it, Nico or Kiyosuke?
Well, we got our answer.
I was asking you to guess, Harry.
That's time out, the Falcons have had to use all game.
Yeah.
Are you worried?
does feel like that classic late game activation for the Mongols. Man, when this team learned
to start strong? It's over for vitality.
I guess he can last this position but eventually he's given a path to leave, waiting for Niko
close middle but Catwalk is very open right now.
They're still hedging their bets on the late-mid to be. That doesn't look like the case at
the moment.
I hope in that re-block on short changes things.
This is around where Monosy's going to need to hit his shots, although is that back off
come in because look at them leave seems like this will be the mid to be after all what
What Falcons have been waiting for from the start of the round?
They're sticking to their guns on this, Niko never moved.
Kiyosuke near 5, he's supporting.
Oh, he got him! 20 seconds though, where are you going?
They're gonna move on. Gotta make up your mind that's the bomb dropped in the backstab in from Karagin.
Looks to seal their fate down here in middle 9-10, doesn't have the time or the help to go anywhere.
next stab won't be able to arrive in time. Kiyosuke runs for the hills as Falcons steal that round from the Mongols.
Great round for Kiyosuke. Perfect cover for Niko and it just runs away when he has to to win the round,
refusing to give up that 1v1. I love that Karagan pushes long as well.
It's the perfect move to crunch Mongols with low time in middle.
Niko had all that info from earlier. Karagan reacts very well.
And so Falcons a difficult round but that short block smoke did change the tune for the Mongols
Wonder what caused the
Changer the call there. They really had no info to work with it felt like Mongols didn't know where anyone was
And Falcons sat in their cell of the entire round
decision they'll come to regret here as they've got one more by to survive
but I need a bomb plan if you want to keep full rifles going I mean look at
How can they have... Famous Double SMG?
It's not pretty.
I'll attend with the spawn.
You're not gonna get another peek there, Tess says on that little jiggle.
That's all the info he needs.
Okay, Nico crossing the road. Oh dear, just spam off sound.
I intend to saw him go back. Mongols, I don't think they want to doubt themselves again.
They wanted this cap play last time. It's tempting once more.
I want to see AWP on long. So Mongols, go into the eye of the storm.
The smoke leaves a little to be desired though, and as he goes down a path, throw it right
in to the monosy orb.
It's his and then falls back, set up to play retake here.
You've seen Falcons fumble this round once already.
Five on three, this time, gotta be cleaner.
No flashery, take short, they leave you up there for the clutch.
I'm about to sweep this. MP7 gets to close in on 9-10.
Techno with a pick up.
Honestly, a Niko with the reply, Techno can't clutch as Niko's Famous proves to be the answer.
Massive 3k from him, the other two belong in a monosy.
That's been your heavy hitters for the Falcons and they both deliver their onto that point.
Massive from Falcons moving away from short this time and just fragging outside by side.
I think somewhat scared from the last time they were back on Katz.
triple from Nico and Falcons probably feeling some relief after losing that previous situation.
This one coming out a lot cleaner. Learning their lesson and sure, Mongols get the bomb
plant they get a decent enough buy to stay in this game but they have felt a bit gapped in this match.
12-7 numerous opportunities for Falcons to close on their map.
I want to see now getting involved in middle as well, gonna give him a quick rotation to that B site.
And he'll need it. No one there but Tess is right now at the MP9, this is punishable.
The whole map is quiet, Kiyosuke gets back in position.
Holly forces to go ahead a little earlier.
The Mongols want if 9-10 and Cobra come through with the entries though.
So it can be forgotten about.
He's been broken into. Falcons are too far removed.
So much damage though.
If one of those kills can execute Suké, let alone both of them,
then Falcons are certainly eyeing this one up,
but the money is not there to risk it.
So a little pocket pig into this B bomb site
Throws Mongols one more round at the end.
All good rounds to lose, but one that you can write off.
And I mean at the end of the day it comes down to one more bullet.
needing to connect there for Kiyosuke on his Sprite.
The Mongols have more depth on this T side because right now A's feeling pretty closed.
Have yet to really try too much along.
I don't know what to do with this.
Caragin takes the hit, drops his rifle over to Tess's just to help that B site out a little
bit.
Then when you B anchor on, constant SMGs down the close of this half and look at the walk
for Kiyosuke.
With the orb covering over on short, you've got quite the army to face out here in middle.
Three players. No gunning for these early fights. A monisy trade keeps things in Falcon's favor.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Falcons just spam blocking in their positions. Mongols know both
Long and B have only one player, but there's very little they can do about it. Resmokes
come down, and Mongols are all split up right now with that bomb in limbo. It's just gonna
to have to frag their way out of this situation. Is there a flash for Cobra or does he just
walk into potency? Three kills deep into this round. One of the top players of this event
and for a reason, his Dust2s have been sublime. And Mongols just keep walking into this AWP.
Falcon's back off on short. That gives a bit of room for Mongols to maybe lay and execute.
A trap. Falcons fear of long.
And so Mongols are getting closer and closer.
Is this a monosy ace to take the map?
Well, three, two, three kills to the good right now.
Monosy chance to close this map in style.
Niko Lenz a helping hand and from the Zeno he's getting boxed in surrounded here on all sides.
Monosy will seal the deal with a stellar 4k that AWP sings as Falcons lock in Dust 2.
Falcons claims Dust 2 a much greater showing than what we've seen.
More than one round to the side. Hell yeah. Let's go Falcons.
That was really good man. They've done it.
They're not gonna give you the bag, first.
Yeah, no bag for you.
It's...
I gotta dry, bro, come on.
But what I loved about this, and I'm gonna sort of answer with this, and you can jump
on from there, is I am seeing during PGL Astana, more of the monosy of all that I loved,
Brats, and it feels like Karrigan is bringing him back.
It's there, the spark.
The flash is back, baby.
He's so back.
I love it.
The flash, the sparkle.
We'll workshop that, but that is what I'm saying.
Yeah.
I lagged.
I lagged 100%.
Flash, the best nickname for him, and he is the Flash.
Frustration, Nicaria here there.
But look, it was a concerted effort coming out from Falcons over here.
And especially for me, look, the T-Site, what I liked was, you know, it was very emphatic
what they wanted to do on the T-Site, right?
Then, sure, tomorrow we'll be able to get a few rounds here in the first half.
But the second half, what I liked a lot, is how they were able to respond back immediately
real quickly.
They're like, alright, these guys, you know, they're pushing, they're abusing B a little bit, they're trying to, you know, sneak up towards A.
What did they find around?
P.O.S.K. pushing up towards mid on the buy-around right there, right?
They don't allow Mongols to, because Mongols one thing they've been doing is pulling off all these comebacks to the time and time again, making them very close.
Push up towards mid.
Well, Monacy just pushed up towards top mid.
But, but here's the problem with the Mongols. I'm sure they agree with me on this stuff.
When they kind of lose their first couple of picks, right,
like when they, you know, down four versus five
or three versus four or something like that,
they again become a little too individualistic.
Now, against a lesser team like a Magic, a K27,
or even a G2 for that matter, they get away with it.
It's also that there's this thing that you could do
that would help you navigate those situations better
when you got to official matches
that you could do before the game.
It's not to pee, right?
Yeah, kind of remind, I don't know,
it's a tough one to put my finger on.
Practice, that was not the word starting with P that I was thinking about but
there you go. What? Get him out of the gutter. But look, Kiyosuke,
the stand-up player, he had a bit of a quiet start so far in this map but
once he woke up he was looking really good. T-side as well who's working with
the pack, he wasn't making any many mistakes. Yesterday we were especially
critical of him, he gets an opening pick, just runs on it and then tries to
buy off more we can choose but he was finding crazy impact over here.
Especially when we're going for this a hits from the mongold side
It's so quick to pivot back up just flanking in from short and also you can see the calm just so much better
There was one round in particular. I think blitz was left alone at one versus two in a bomb side
There were two players to which short it immediately tests and kills together
We're just going to be ramping all the way around from long so very quick
Reactions very good mid-round calling as well and this is I personally feel this might be one of the best Falcons have looked so far at
This event they're growing and looking better. I did watch that map going
I kind of like it, like I've been a little bit critical. I said I didn't think it was going to work
The sonic care again relationship. He's a hater. I know I know it's not what do you mean?
This is fantastic exotic. Now. It's like hey, I'm not doing anything
It's not hate it's simply nice fin
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Disappointments time and time again, but this time I went wait that this I thought this does too looked really good from from Falcon
But the thing is, this is what they always needed.
Like you got a bunch of stars,
you got to have someone that can wrangle
all those stars together.
Because look, for all that I hate on Xotic,
one of the things that he did say in one of their vlogs
that I totally tapped into is that they were putting ego
before the team in a lot of situations.
People trying to go for too much,
people trying to be too much of a star player.
I get that there is a balance to be struck
where you give your individuals freedom
to express themselves and have those impact moments
that make them star players in the first place.
But at the end of the day,
everyone has to still fit underneath the same umbrella.
There still has to be some end goal in mind
that everyone knows needs to be achieved
and you need to work towards that end goal.
And I think Kierkegaard's the perfect guy,
whether it be his mid-round calling style,
or just maybe coming in with a little bit more authority.
I think Kixon was a good tactician.
I think Kixon will still have value elsewhere wherever he goes.
I think many teams should certainly be out.
But this guy's a true captain.
This guy's a true leader of men.
He's someone you can rally behind.
He's someone that you're good at respect
because he's done it so often with international lineups.
So that's why I thought this marriage would be very good.
It was unexpected.
But when it happened, it's like, hell yeah.
I'm kind of down to see where this is going.
This happens all the time though.
This is the honeymoon period.
We all get very excited.
We're all very committed to this couple.
They look very happy.
We all think this is the best story ever.
And then you start hearing stories that aren't so great.
Like maybe he's not as nice as we thought
and maybe one of them is cheating, like that whole thing.
So I do worry that we can't get too excited just yet.
No, I think we can get excited.
I personally am.
They call me a romantic for that, right?
Like I agree with us 100%.
It's about respect and zonics as well, in a particular interview you alluded to that
you needed someone where the player commanded respect and character is someone who commands
respect from any player in a scene right now.
And also I just want to highlight when it comes to why we're so critical of all these
seems Falcons, Mongols and everyone is, we live in the era of vitality.
We've been living there for a very long time and we have to hold them up to that standard
because that's the sort of team they're looking to take down.
That's a team, that's their final boss.
you're trying to rank up to reach the final boss.
And the thing is, you look at the way,
you look at how, for example, some of the rounds
which plays out when Kioski goes for some of these plays,
they get a little too aggressive,
they go for this hero moments,
and that's how they allow their opponents back into the game.
And you look at that and you're like,
Robs wouldn't do that, you know?
Zai Wu wouldn't do that.
None of the plays, Mezzi wouldn't even do that.
And then you compare, it's so easy to compare,
and you're like, if you're gonna beat Vitality consistently,
you gotta play like them and better them at their own game.
And that's where I think Karrigan's trying to shape them up to be.
Not to be vitality, but to be the best version of what this lineup can be.
Not to be vitality, but to get to them.
Yes.
Because the bottom line is, Falcons at times have been able to beat Vitality because they do have...
Only to be able to beat them twice this year.
Yeah, and I'll tell you what, man, shout out one time to Nuflion, it's 100% win rate against Vitality, bro.
I was just saying, it's still out there, that's a secret weapon.
Just in case, he's got to be on that sub-line up.
But no, seriously, that is the biggest issue is that, you know, when we're trying to think of, like, who could top of Vitality?
It would take a team like Falcons that just have that crazy amount of talent.
or maybe a spirit configure things up because the talent that they had like
that's what's going to take at this point and we just we've been waiting so long
for Falcons to actually use this talent for something other than just being in
the top five like it was actually worse than mouse we keep bringing up the mouse
comparison they're worse than mouse because they had even more to work with
they still couldn't win so this is why care again was needed and I'm hoping this
is you know because here's the thing everyone is going to be hate watching
Falcons and I get it I totally understand why because they have all the
money they ball the star players you'd like to cheat in the system if they're
not a for real team.
I don't know, since they've got Karrigan,
I think that they brought out a team that they've been
very far.
But the reality is this, is like,
I want good Counter-Strike.
I want to see the best teams possible.
I want to see as many title contenders as it is,
because it's going to be so great
if I tell them to keep beating them
the next set story even better.
And so if I topple them, we finally get that story.
I just want a good Counter-Strike,
and I'm glad that Falcons is finally playing it.
I love that you brought this up there,
because it is a conversation that comes up a lot.
Are we too tough on these teams?
You know, if a team is making playoffs regularly,
that should be celebrated or whatever else.
and that the bottom line is no, like if you want to beat vitality, we have to be tough
on you. And surely you have to be tough on yourself. And on that note, that's what I'm
worried about with Mongols. I don't know if they're having those tough conversations,
because at the moment, I mean, we alluded to it in the pre-show, you see it there on
Dust2. There is a lot of individual pop-offs, but in terms of working as a team and fixing
some of those team dynamics, it doesn't look like that is being prioritized.
It's the same thing all over again, even back when the head sends it was well, like the
the same criticisms I had about how they approach certain maps, how they approach certain ramps,
how individualistic they are. They had controllers for the stand-in situation during the major
time last year and even right now with cobras that were coming in, the same criticisms I
have. Sometimes they look really good but it's always, again, that scrappy, super aggressive
individualistic sort of style that works for them but they don't seem to have a backup
plan. And I've said this a lot about Among Us, like you need to have a deeper playbook,
they just don't seem to have the deep playbook.
And again, you look at the support staff.
They might be the one team in the top 10
who don't have a support staff.
It's basically clearly just Mara, that's about it.
And so, and again, I also have to ask the question,
is there a good assistant coach available in Mongolia?
I don't think so, because look at the Huns, right?
They're the top three team in the region.
They suck as well.
And if you get in someone from outside,
there's a language barrier as well.
So it's a bit of a conundrum for Mongols.
Yeah, now, again, to confirm, this is a projection.
We don't know exactly what Falkwell to do.
This is just paragon-slotting in the kicks and spots.
We'll have to see if they change anything.
I think it's going to be the same.
Yeah, I would imagine so.
I think T-Side will probably be the same as well.
I think it's just more about how they approach them.
That might be different.
But as far as boggles, they want to get into this series,
still have a chance to push the third back.
We just need to see them bring organized pace.
You kind of strike.
You kind of mentioned before that the scrappiness,
that guy could all work well.
Furious made that playstyle work.
It's because they're on the same page.
They're decisive, and they react very well.
And so that's what they need to be able to do.
They're a team that has, when I watched them playing
successfully have those really nice like heavy openers you know towards B or
mid whatever their intended target is and then they react very appropriately and
they just keep pushing the issue and they have good variety and how they do it.
You can't see what we saw on Dust2 where one guy gets picked off and all of a
sudden everyone's kind of lost like they need to just kind of organize that
chaos and harness it because it's so fun and it can be very effective but you
have to be on the same page. And I feel obviously since it is still only a
projection as to how they're going to be playing the B bomb side but Q's keep
playing there. Look, it's going to be his first real test alongside Carrigan.
And obviously Carrigan is going to be setting him up, like how Kicks must
setting him up before when he played on Inferno, but it is still untested, right?
And I think that is something the Mongols are going to be assuming,
are going to try and abuse the B-bombs at early on.
I think that is where we're going to be seeing a lot of how that first half is going to play out.
I'm so excited. I still feel like Mongols have a chance here at this map.
Okay, well, we'll find out if you're correct. Inferno, the first time we get to see Carrigan's
Falcons on this map and how they're gonna play it. They have the opportunity to secure themselves a spot in playoffs if they can
2-0 this series, but you can't write the Mongols off. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be back back after this
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I got dunked with me here from Team Spirit with the Mongols Covers era.
Dust 2, what do you notice that is different here?
Goose is not on the side of the wall.
Yes, well done.
Duck?
Yep, goose.
Yeah, goose.
Goose.
It should be on the behind.
Exactly, you're correct.
The goose is moved.
Yes, the goose is in the wrong position, the first one has been found.
Second one?
Yeah.
There's three to five.
Oh well.
The goose is too easy.
It should be easy, right?
Palme, about Gameliz?
Oh no, that's how it is.
It should connect like a player can touch it in such a game, right?
You can touch it, you can see it.
You can actually walk up to this one.
Yeah, I understand.
I think the sign on the elevator.
Yep.
The A sign?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The A1 on the corner.
Oh, in the elevator?
Yeah, elevator.
Is that...
It's not there.
Yeah, I just kind of feel it.
You're like, what?
What?
Okay, I can't recognize it.
It is.
Hey, it's not there.
I was pretty sure that it is...
It's real?
Yeah.
One more.
You're doing good.
It's supposed to be easy, man.
It's supposed to be.
No, it's not supposed to be easy.
Maybe the behind the windows, is there a tree?
Oh no.
No?
It's like a tree.
You are thinking very detail.
This one, it's something you hide behind on long, it's very popular.
The space behind car is like so much bigger than it is.
Yehzy long?
What is different around long?
The car.
Yeah.
The car is different.
Yeah.
The positions.
It's like hiding.
Yeah, I'm like looking at very detailed.
You were looking at very smooth detail, I was thinking.
I like it, but you were too smart.
Yeah, okay.
The car moved too much.
Oh, very good.
Easy.
I thought there was only one.
No, three out of three though, you did it very good.
I like how we did the first one, you said the goose,
and then you moved forward, Donk.
You went like this,
and you had to look a little bit closer.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Falcons find themselves just a
map away from the playoffs here
at PGL Astana. Got to say their
run so far hasn't truly been
quick work made of them over on Dust2 despite an attempt to come back for the Mongols and
Falcons not having to go full force to close it out. We now head to Inferno. It's Mongols'
map pig. It's one that historically Falcons had trouble with, but not so much as of late. However,
we're yet to see them with the new roster in Karaghan at the helm. However, Karaghan or Inferno,
I don't mind that, Harry. I don't know about you.
you. Well, I don't know, man. Like if you think back to the kind of end of phase, I
knew nothing was going right, but they went on a huge lost streak on inferno. So not coming
into this necessarily would be the best of recent memories on the map.
But this is a new team. This is a classic map and there's certainly the firepower to
get through it. Let's see if Mongols have something special prepared for this one.
Because it was a... I'd say disappointing game from the Mongols. Potential. What ifs, but not quite.
Honestly showed up, that's for sure, so he gets a CT side start and potentially the orb soon as well.
Solo B for Kyosuke.
Double apps take an active stance in this pistol, that's two entries for Mizzinho.
Might even be able to make it a third, Nico knows he can't afford to go down here as the
Mongols quickly try and arrive at a site, Nico puts them in baskets, they're leaving
in caskets, Nico's head on a swivel, ready for the apps pop as well, Mizzinho cut down
That 3K only manages, Niko bails out the Falcons!
Yeah, Mozzino puts his hands up, what more could I do?
Double entry, Niko just locks down Portside, hitting every single headshot.
And side by side, with the prodigy, pushed down by Arna, it's all five between him and Kisuke.
Got a feel for Mozzino here, everybody falters.
And Niko hits some sharp shots, he has certainly been playing.
Some of his best since Karen joined his team.
I see it just drops over this AK to 910.
This guy is a laser on the rifle.
Falcon's just block middle, send him back to spawn.
Full banana control, but after clearing it out, Karagin won't over commit, allowing Mongols
to really take this space.
Oh, they're beating that smoke buddy.
They'll help me grind in, one for one.
Each time to the AK, maybe worth handing it over.
Oh my god, I mean, Andy Blitz would do that.
His Nico's spraying away and decides to screw it.
I'll run it in with Carrigan dead at the back of B.
On dolls are broken in.
Blitz is probably my favorite player, dude. He's actually psychotic.
Fall, jump through the smoke, chases the next. He's not a knife, but he's dead.
I just love the way the brain works.
So insane.
He is like a mad scientist.
Hair poking up in the air. He's just been un-retricuted.
Ooh.
There's no kids, alright. Have some concern.
Oh, yeah, no, I'm honestly, I'm winning this. Just nice shots at the end, innit?
Won't complain, he'll trap one more man in the bomb site.
Oh!
Oh bro, gets out with one.
Don't see.
Oh, he died to a bomb.
So, one gun saved here for Mongols, but an eco-winner, forced by a win, with that hero AK from 910.
So, huge round to pick up here for the Mongols.
If Kiyosuke waited till that smoke bloomed in Banana before he swung, he would have just had that one kill and gotten out.
I think he went a little soon on that.
It's Falcons with a timeout.
Ultimately, it's not really a map they've been playing all too much this season.
For a while, it was their pick.
But, better judgement prevailed and we see a lot of ancient from the squad even though
where they batted out against Mongols second phase of this series.
I think also, you know, like for the rest of them, we kind of got away from the...
because there was a time where like this was a really rough map to see them on.
And that was back when they were picking it.
But I think that was the idea, they started to get over that hump a little bit when you
think about some of the squads they were able to beat on this map, taking Vitality down
on it a number of times.
Best thing Furia on it when Furia were kind of at their peak.
There's some like super legit wins as time went on.
As you say, one of the...
We're gonna have to bring out all too much this last season.
This thul's here, give the Mongols a run for their money.
This one's out of mousepad there.
The Kyosuke and Karagan have this 2v2 in them.
I needed that one, you feel?
Yeah, clean open with the deeg, suddenly the conversation's very much there, but with
that all coming through, Mazzinho is able to stop the caragum walkabout.
And so, crisis averted for the Mongols.
round into a crossfire like that but Mongols put the pistols down and this is
where they get the chance to streak ahead on this T side. Honestly, it's all coming
in the next round. All things considered.
It's a good start to this game for the Mongols. A team that we've been saying
will say, we start slow and come back. They really get the comeback last map.
Last map was Kerrigan's highest rated performance in the Falcon's jersey yet.
Yeah, joint top kills to his last one, so that was nice.
We had lots of impact in the early T side rounds.
I got him.
All under control here, five alive, despite the dinks.
Test says maybe the goat of almost doing cool stuff with the pistols.
Hey, he got two in that pit hold.
Exactly, it was almost enough.
Here's Falcons with the guns back out, all for monosy.
It's the one map where not having a kit doesn't really matter, because you're saving anyway.
Now that you've said that, watch him lose the shot by one second or something.
Let's see.
It's an early triple start over towards B, Karagin and Kiyosuke facing with Niko, lining
up some supportive flashes.
Ouch.
Oh, the flash got him!
So we couldn't finish that spray, Techno, on his last legs, but walking nonetheless.
Tess has pushed past the monotone.
Oh, VoIP recovers in time in that Alt-Miss, but still no punisher for Mongols.
Oh, you want to try and go to monosy again?
This sneaking from Blitz right into his crosshair.
Not the guy you would have nominated to be shift walking around that corner with how
he likes to play.
But it's returned the advantage to the Falcons.
9-10 in an interesting position here.
Our trap going to be attempted, Nico's got eyes on it, but for how long will CS timing
take over?
Nope, stays on the line, gets the spot.
Still, he's cut off from the B rotate now and just decides to die in the fire, I guess.
Stuck on something, on top of that table.
Karigan solo B hold, but a gap on this smoke to try and work his way through.
Teammates closing in up through Banana, you'd love even one from Karigan here.
That's the bomb plant denied, and that's the round!
No way, Carrigan!
Able to just slip through that smoke and they're checking back side right there. They are not eyes on
That second difference and what a perfect kill to win the round for the Falcons. That is ridiculous
Well that'll give you some good rating
Oh, dear. It's a kicker of a round to lose for the Mongols, because put that bomb down,
suddenly your favourite, that was Karagin, very low.
Q2K, flash in again for the banana fight, and this time, far better results.
They've walked through the smoke.
Hello?
Realising that's triple B because Nico got the flash assist.
So Cobra's taking the gap.
He's had Nico and spawn.
Should be an easy kill.
Nico running in.
3 on 5 and Mongols have a position to keep your attention.
Honestly, picks to hold the long side.
Through the smoke, into Karagin.
Just what Paragon wanted.
All time, Bombsman back on ramp with 9-10 anyway.
So, we're never really in the position to try and go quick into this A-play.
9-10's even been wounded as he looked up through Banana.
They're gonna link up with Mizzinho.
That Monacee AWP continues to be an issue.
And 9-10's so hurt from that Banana skirmish,
really doesn't have any choice but not to play.
Monasy's everywhere.
I thought they had that gap along, he immediately takes it back, so...
I mean, Cobra had so much room,
but opts to...
take a risk,
instead of waiting for his team to join him.
I mean, that's how Mongols live and die, isn't it?
pushing through spokes like that.
In this case, it is death.
Counter-terrorists win.
Welcome back to backgrounds.
It's a pace change coming, I mean they tried to take banana quick that round, it was perfect
flashes from Niko, it's getting very strong utility in banana right now, supporting this
triple B start and Valkars are going for every single round.
Yeah, they still have yet to be punished on the other side of the map for it, this time
Monosy makes an appearance here with the orb, feel like that's got to change the plan for
the Mongols.
You now know it's another one of these early B-starts.
Tech 9 tries to break ahead of the molly.
Kiyosuke's got the cover.
I thought they were trying to get out there, but 9-tech makes a round and the flash hits him again, so...
Oh, my shot, but Mongols are still learning that Falcons are not giving away this control for free.
It is coming at the cost of their life.
Monosy, second shot connects, and Tess has seen you.
So you're going nowhere. Back to spawn with you, Mongols.
Falcons just keep building on this CT side and...
Yeah, you kind of expect a pick up a pace on middle, right?
We saw Cobra take that gap last round where he walked through the mid-smoke.
Mongols feel like the kind of team that should just be punishing this Triple B.
You feel like surely with that walkout through the apartments out of Mizzinho,
they now realize like it's Triple B every round.
I was also kind of curious, for the longest time,
like the meta shifted away from these constant banana fights and the one team
that still did it consistently were the Falcons. Would that change now that
Karrigan's in here? This is the first time we've seen this roster play it, but no
it has not. They're gonna try and go in banana again. Kiyosuke sleeping up there
in top B, however it is a slaughter past that point. Karrigan collects four pads
out those stats and puts down the B assault. It's Glocks, we can write it off
a nice entry but still triple B and to me I think a lot of that for Mongols is just trying to
again confirm okay do they do it again even on eco do they still play triple B and they got that
confirmation once more so what do they want to do with that info it's still mind game you would
expect Falcons no Mongols no it'd be crazy to keep going triple B but they might just try it
let's see how Mongols decide to deal with this problem because with how fast these rounds have
have gone to Simferno and even if there's some save, some slow rounds, Mongols are losing
the round in the first 30 seconds, it feels like. They're getting put into 2v4s, they're
getting slaughtered by Kiyosuke and carrying them in Niko and Banana. So there's a problem
to solve here, Mongols. And part of it could just be waiting out this Banana util. What
is the answer for Mara?
All right, not triple B this time. There it is.
And so the Mongols, they've been telling themselves for the last nine rounds
they can't go B every round and this time they're right.
Still Falcons are active though, they're using that
aggressive, abs plate to get info, test is clear as it goes back.
And after Mongols make a bit of a fuss and banana,
gonna walk back up middle.
There's no warp in this T side either.
Monacy is still ever-present.
Not exactly playing scared is Monacy.
Not being that time for a re-smoking middle.
Mongols are right here in the cusp.
The Falcons go back to bomb site. Monacy rotates triple B.
It's as Falcons reclaim banana.
Can I reconsider this?
There's a lot of resources right now. Mongols have picked up the pace.
back to mid to be. Oh my god they are going to be with the bomb. This is crazy.
Monacee is three dudes coming his way. They're already past him in the spawn side.
Clean execution out of Blitz. Nintan killed his teammate in Banana.
Carraghan might be able to win this round by stealing away that bomb plant. Instead he's
just going to try and buy some... Wait the bomb is still Banana. Hasn't moved the muscle.
You want to suspect this? 9-10. Good for the first. Did Niko can put him down?
What? Backed away? No? Karagan's still here, guys.
Karagan thought they were leaving. 20 seconds he can with the round.
Oh, three players there, ready to face him.
And you know what? Fair play, Falcons, but not really knowing what was happening in that round.
I don't think Mongols could be here.
We have the X-ray and the radar, and I couldn't tell you.
Yeah, well, 910 killed the banana player, but he also killed his teammate in the same spray.
Oh, respect.
He didn't want to keep going, because they didn't know where Karagan was, right?
Was he half wall? Was he hiding coffins? Was he back site and so
910s playing safe letting his team clear B for him and that's when Falcons get the mid push off. So
Yeah, he gets trapped. He doesn't trigger discipline. It gets a bit scary, but good cover Mongols move in a pack
They at least trade out efficiently here
Yeah, that's fair I'd kill my teammate too in that
My 10 still hits so hard on this rifle.
We've always said with the Mongols, man, it's a team where everyone wants to be the
AWPer.
And their AWPer could be such a good rifleman.
Honestly, if a Mongolian superstar AWPer appeared...
Yeah, like the Mongolian, I would cut my 10.
him on AK he's fine. Now you'd have a new second AWPer so Blitz wouldn't be happy. Maybe
that's it Harry, maybe they can't send Zoo so Blitz could AWP. You never know.
Alright, he pushed.
Yasuke might be blind, doesn't make him any less deadly. Good for the first, Molly burns
out the next guys to try and come through and Niko's even spotted that they were trying
scale over the top. Kiyosuke with a quick reposition inimates this chaos as Nikko's got him covered.
And Tess says, was gonna commit to this, but then realizes, wait a minute, I can be a little cheeky here.
Oh, what? I'm caught escaping, but they're gonna recommit because they killed Nikko. Knowing
Kiyosuke is alone for now, you can play back and spawn. This is a good setup for Falcons. They can
and close the back door, but also not die for the sight.
Tessas can't afford to give them this kill.
Nice reflash from Monosy,
and now they run back into Tessas patiently waiting.
Balkans do not overplay their hand,
and Kiyosuke is turning into quite the rock on this B site.
Liking what Balkans are doing right now.
Mongols are trying to get tricky.
They are just relentless on his beatings.
Anything to stay away from honesty, I guess.
The problem is, usually, you know, the Mongols are always willing to buy into the craziness,
but here there's so much indecision in the mid rounds that it's giving way too much
time to the Falcons, you know, like the time you spend running between B and A is just
time for Falcons to get ahead of you. And that's what's happened kind of multiple times
in these T side rounds thus far. And sure, the craziness worked in that 1B hit, but more
often than not, it isn't. In fact, they do all that only to still try and end B. I know
Blitz changes mind when he was last alive but that barely feels like it counts.
It's all a bit too chaotic.
Great util softens up Blitz.
You know someone flashed for him, you know the tendency to start triple B, Niko is here.
Hello!
Goodbye.
Does that draw them back?
Anything but to play into monocies off, they've got four here right now that's going to walk
Look at him! He's got all court-jumping, but it's a nice trade to keep Mongols in this round, and Monacea's at least slipped past Mizzino, but...
...is he really considering this?
Arm has been planted.
SAVE would be apt.
Monacea wants to play the game.
The game plays him. He can buy an AWP.
That's his teammate's problem.
Sorry guys, no money.
So we're going to have a couple of players on SMGs here at the last round for Falcons
and uncles have set themselves up to split the half.
I mean, yeah, if honestly did save you would have had like a proper buy here.
Yeah.
I didn't feel like X is one, gonna change anything here.
Yeah, and you're dead on it.
Felt like that because it wasn't going to.
It's kind of all the risk, none of the reward.
Oh, careful, you hit those nades, Niko knows he's coming.
I'm flying, gonna try and phase into the smoke.
Ninten, get him, run up!
And Niko playing it forward is a great move.
Techno might have slipped the net, but he's all alone.
1v5.
Falcon seem aware that someone made it past.
Techno's in one of those positions for a while.
I'm out long.
Wait, you're all dead?
Oh.
Nothing to do here.
Falcons waiting for that info to come their way and it's about to...
...shot the Odyssey, swing for Tess's, want to punch...
...and Niko will find that third, patience pays off.
Great half for Kiyosuke and Niko.
I think a lot of Niko's impact as well, not even just coming from
his kills, but the utilities he's throwing, the rotates he's making.
Falcons had a great idea of what Mongols were doing
at the start of every single round.
I think it could have gone a lot worse for the Mongols. Finding a couple more at the end of the half
When they lost four gun rounds in a row four rounds in a row rather
Five will be enough we set that on dust two and Falcons just finished strong
And when Mongols were in this position on dust, the pistol got away from them and had
just put Falcons into such a prime position and they could forget about the kind of lack
of success in those rifle rounds in the first half by winning this pistol here and now.
Dolbara is for Tecno, nice little chunky utile there as he's left solo over towards B.
There's more than enough resources for him to be able to stick this out and allow the quad stack for the Mongols on the other end of the map.
And that's a good way to start.
98 damage headshot, you feel a bit robbed.
But Monos is very limited now.
I'm gonna be throwing utility instead, Techno ready to block, he is all on his own so don't
wait too long with this smoke, he knows utility will be coming first.
I'm glad he dropped that in now, because they were lining up their smokes, their flashes,
just wanting to beat the timing, they're gonna try and come through this with those flash
Bansh bangs. Techno allowed to get out with one, left full blind, and the chaos 9-10 was
hoping he could make a move. Doesn't happen. The next two coming up from banana side. No
one here to meet them. Falcons get set up in their post plans. They've got crossfires
established. Clean shot for Blitz and Info now. Both these remaining players.
Come to the reposition, hoping that Tessas can buy him some time to map round spawn side,
but that doesn't come through and now Niko's got to seal this with taps, defuse is covered
by the pillar and so Niko pressures on him to make a move, blitz buys enough time and
the Mongols rob that pistol round.
It feels like Niko's banking or Tessas taking one win in there, that bomb is not for him,
Mongols is fearless 10 seconds stick in the open because Niko's back in CT.
It's a nice round for Mongols, a sick retake in a mannedown round, but...
I have an awkward reposition for Niko.
Niko just keep the pressure on for Coffins without needing to commit.
Bang his shots for Blitz.
One more body shot would have saved the round there for Niko.
You always get this bloody school line. Everyone loves it.
Everyone's losing their minds right now, I can just tell.
You can run from it, you can hide from it. The 6-7 arrives all the same.
Here you go.
Okay.
On goals.
Looking to tie things up at 7-0.
That says dead, that gun gone.
I feel worth saving, yeah, I'm going to slaughter the middle, and an extra AK for the Mongols.
I guess someone told him to get the loss bonus.
What if they ran away now?
No, Mongols would never. They take the fight.
And Nico loses his AK.
That's surprising to be honest. I feel like T side, Inferno, just lose the loss bonus.
You have a chance next round.
Someone could take a MAK 10 in the 4-by.
Doesn't have to be you
Currently if I'm wrong, but I don't think Nico had armor so that was proper. He did
No, he didn't he didn't arm crazy. Yes, that's why
So take back everything
But then monos he buys armor this round anyway
But how's Nico meant to know he's gonna do that pray
Yeah, you buy on the next round
Someone could always buy armor
Now they're all on the same page
It's fine
I took a good reason. Strong positions, just eagles. What could go wrong?
Oh my god. Honestly, they're blind there, but they can't follow up with a miscino.
Oh, say.
Transfer is good, and the Mongols take the lead.
7-5 down, three straight rounds, Mongols back in business, and now some answers need to
be given by Falcons in their rifle rounds.
Triple B star for the Mongols, maybe gonna try and give Falcons a taste of their own medicine, 9-10.
Force back by the UTEL, hung around for one shot.
Falcons might look to uppercut you here, they've got that top banana control.
At least in the gives you any doubt is Tessa is still lurking out towards the apartments,
but you see slowly peeling back to link up with the rest of them.
Orphea gives you some pause, right? The idea that that was the triple B start for the Mongols.
So they won't decide to go quickly. They know they've forced a lot of UTEL out of the B site.
You can revisit that later if you want to.
Let's carry good cooking.
Smoke out over towards the long side.
And this smoke poses a question to the Mongols.
So they're going to come through it and they're going to wrap arch.
Well, they've got players on both ends of this smoke.
And it's the no scope and Blitz holding the other side of it.
idea but Mongols have eyes on all the avenues that lead out of that smoke grenade and so
trapped down here on short it gets very claustrophobic for the Falcons.
No surviving the cross, a clean up round from the Mongols.
Sick from 9-10 right, I'm honestly struggled to, if he didn't pick the right side off spawn
he was kind of not playing into that first half. 9-10 is everywhere in this round.
I mean, I get the idea for Falcons, you just see what happens when it all goes wrong.
You play both sides thinking, hey, they'll only cover one, but Muckles, four rotated,
four players A, and they have both sides of that smoke, so it just makes Falcons look
a little silly when it goes down like that, offering up two free kills.
Parking's yet to give us a competitive round on this T-side.
Now Mongols are getting eager, pushing down banana, leaving blitz here, not giving it up at all.
We smoke available and hope to cover the lethal hold of this A site because hoping for an overextension.
of this crossfire. It's an
absolute slaughter. The
monocled. Off of the case. It's
good for one, but that's it.
It's so comfortable in every one
He is a really difficult guy to get past right now. Falcons are throwing themselves at him
See why Mongols are so obsessed with the B bomb site in that first half. It is just simpler
Spacing easier trading
Right now Falcons getting ripped apart piece by piece five rounds on the CT side in a row
Honestly, all finally come strong on the seaside, it'll be the difference Major.
Uh oh.
Oh, ho, ho, ho!
It's an STL to be, Niko Prefire CT.
And that might just set them up for an execute at Mongols.
Almost jumped on it there in mid or falcons, pull all the way back and just go in together.
Strength in numbers. Uh-oh. Volume 2 connects.
Oh, does he know?
Contact.
Go on the entry over towards B, used to be one of the most fearsome entrymen in towards
this side of the map, but dead at the door, doesn't even do a point of damage.
Double par-loot-cake.
Good for the double entry, and suddenly, the round's back on.
9-10, open the retake, Mazinu up through banana.
I'm hoping that someone from Falcons offers something to this AWP.
I'm taking a forward to go slowly for now.
Mazzinho is still a little ways away.
I'm going to clear every one of these corners out through the banana.
Tess says, gets rid of that orb.
One less thing to worry about, but now is to hold his nerve in the clutch.
Mazzinho, time running out.
Got to be quick here, and Tess says, no time for his games.
Just takes that fight straight up, big clutch to win, breaking this streak out of the Mongols and getting the Falcons on the board.
This was a 7-5 half.
Tessus doesn't want the pistol to repeat itself or he's dancing and trying to dodge a new sound down behind U-Box.
Just full swings to finish that round. Good confidence on display in what has been a very shaky T-Side hit for the Falcons.
Finally breaking through, by the skin of their teeth.
That's far from comfortable, right?
But around nonetheless...
...more from Honesty makes another appearance.
Skarrigan takes the hit, maked him for him in this round, waiting outside of A with the triple B-star.
The window is open for this A-play.
Going quick as well.
Full blind.
They get past him.
Fast flank in through banana, but Niko hears all of this. He's got those reinforcements delayed and that gives the rest of the Falcons time to just focus forward, focus fire into the A site.
And so a perfect time for that pace change over at A.
Falcons starting to hit their stride with back-to-back rounds.
Exactly the round I expected from the Mongols in that first half when they kept seeing you know
Modesty B or Niko B as well throwing flashes just a fast mid pop and no better round to do it
After you win out banana control right as a round that Falcons rushed banana with Modesty's orb and got full control
because Mongols didn't want it and so a bit of fear used against them Falcons
Explosive A-Play and a simple entry onto Cobra's Hero has a cascading effect.
One round game now.
Terrorists win.
Money is good for the moment.
Mongols can get a couple of buys in here.
corner all three dunk him down he's basically a dead man you see all that
you tell that's gonna keep the triple B in tow right the idea that it's gets
tagged up they hang around extra few seconds he starts to rotate out but he's
not much of a reinforcement at this point in the round
The smoke time is annoying. Falcons are going through though and inside since Copa Zera they don't even know because Techno takes the glory.
Falcons, that's a bit desperate. Going through that smoke they get sideline, ugly spray for Tess's. One more where that came from but is it too late? Apparently not. 2v5 brewing, they've got the site.
Kiyosuke's kept the dream alive and now a chance of that plant.
Monacy's got it.
Kiyosuke just staying gun on.
Delayed plant for Monacy.
Has given the Mongols a little bit more time to work with.
He's just got to block Moto and fall off back.
Good.
The best smoke you've ever seen.
It's a tunnel for Monacy.
He hit his.
Easily done the double-aught post plan 2v5 4k from Kiyosuke.
I can't believe Blitz walks through on his own.
That feels like a massive mistake for the captain on low health. No teammate behind him.
Just stumbles through that smoke.
Don't... don't... don't...
Don't... don't...
Don't...
Think of Tessus as whiffing that round.
They win that.
And now the Molotovs are at the end of their tether.
See frustration setting in.
And if they lose this, they're broken.
That puts Falcons on the track to the win.
The track to those playoffs.
I'm almost standing set up for the Mongols. This is not the type of round to be taking crazy risks in.
Especially not when we've seen two rounds where falcons exploit the gap on long
Still fearful 910 rotates with the orb let's hold to be solo
Considering his final bit of utility here 40 seconds falcons are eyeing up this a site going into the stack
Oh, lucky.
That's exactly what the Mongols want.
You've got to close on this round to save themselves in the series.
I tend to start an appeal away, but still close by.
Sight hit comes in, good flashes, good openers.
Cobra trying to barrel on through, gets the line up and saves the day.
Niko left as the sole survivor, brings him down low and finishes the job.
You've got this head-to-head blitz moving in a little later out towards top mid gets here quickly and quietly
It's a guessing game for Nico. Is he able to piece this one together?
To kills deep already got a cement it with the hat trick if Falcons want to win
Oh, no the swing lets him down and blitz delivers in that clutch the Mongols
don't go down without a fight.
Oh, captain shows up when they need it most, may have fumbled the previous, but Blitz saves this.
So that felt just made for Niko, clearing everything on perfect timing,
perfect crosshair placement, could not connect the headshot.
And so Mongols break that streak of three, a massive hold for Cobra's era.
In the middle of the site, three kills and delays Niko for so long on that last.
But Blitz picks it up and mongols that one step closer to a third map in this series
Mirage bound to be a brawl if they can get there time out first finances dangling
And I mean if whoever loses this round is gonna be broke it all comes down to this
You win that last one as the Mongols to dodge that free part to the win or at least keep
yourselves in it, but that pressure never truly goes away, you're dead on, both teams
the money on the edge.
This is really just going to be a pacey round in towards, eh? There's no effort to take banana.
See now.
Boost up for CobraZera, hero of that last round, playing in tandem.
Was meant to be the case that you walk into the meat grinder, but Falcons blistered their way on through.
Dude, Mizzino took his hands off his mouse. He scratched his head as they mid-popped.
No way.
Yeah. Just for a millisecond.
But he got it back in time, but that definitely affected him.
Oh, disaster.
No way. It's his head just cost him the round.
I mean everyone got massacred, it was a nice pop, the flashes were right there, but that
did not look like good timing for Missino.
Top performer here, for the Mongols, on an MP9 up close and Falcons just destroy middle.
They're going hunting as well, they're going fishing, getting these guns out is going to
affect Mongols by.
Yep, this is a very punishing hunt.
They will get out with the AWP, the big ticket item, and Lee survives.
But yeah, if I'm Mongols, I'm buying here, gonna drop a rifle over,
and just try and use your best bet, which is the AWP, to find a map point.
It's Falcons who just eviscerated them in middle.
High-risk Corbett, that's Karrigan.
And it pays off for now.
Maybe an itch Falcons want to scratch his...
...trying to win on this banana fight.
Plus I'm going through this smoke.
There were two players waiting.
I'm not doing that again
Cover zero the M4 boosted in apps 910 orbs is mid
Falcons
Waiting for now
Let's get get messy or just moves in catches test as four players around this corner gotta be careful
I tend to have to burn that Molly to get away from the native customer smoke. I'm gonna be
as always meant to blitz blocks again that is last one
now ain't she to break this open
oh 910 gives him a smoke as well
if feeble fake by karagan throwing some uter on a but 910 is back site AWP there
There is no molly to burn him out.
This is on 910 and Blitz.
The series, the playoff point for Falcons, all on this.
Open kill goes the way of that SMG and now the 910 AWP.
Given some room to work.
Flash, showers 910 wrecked, Kiyosuke's opened things up, but barreling through is Techno.
All those SMGs bring the fight to the Falcons, and it's the Mongols getting onto map point first.
I think SMGs might have done better than rifles could have in that position.
Jumping through the smokes with flashes in your face, Falcons so low on time, had no time to waste,
and they just get caught between position.
Stuck in the pool.
Mongols drowned them with a 12th round.
I love that call for the Mongols.
full chaos and relief as overtime at worst is locked in. That's the last time out of regulation
burned by Falcons. No orb for Monacy here. And Mongols did the hard part you'd like to think,
Like winning with lesser weaponry.
Falcons have struggled to find what consistently works in this map on the T side.
Couple of explosive and long pops have been their best moves.
She is closed.
They're left with three shambling their way up through banana, looking for this B hit.
They've got a three on two in front of them, but they've got to get these entries and they've
got to get them cleanly.
If they want to have any chance in this post-plank, will it get that far?
Techno dead first, Blitz spams away and the Mongols get it done.
The full 24 rounds needed.
The Mongols still have more fight in them.
Playoffs decided on a third and final map.
Okay, so half time the score was 7-5 to the Falcons, I know we criticized their T-sides a lot, but this one, I mean, 11, it didn't look terrible, however, Mongols were still able to claw it back, so my question to you is how did they do it?
I mean, I do think Thomas T-Side was terrible there, let's be honest, they were reliant upon some kind of heroic moments to pull that thing off, right?
I mean that 2v5 clutch, for example, with Kiyosuke and Monosih was in the way that they won one of the
10 four rounds they actually got on the T side. And it's so sad because their CT side in the first half was so good.
They were basically winning the round in the first interaction very often.
Whether it was their banana aggression with Kiyosuke, whether it was Monosih having impact with AWP,
they were dictating the pace of the entire first half and looking very sharp, but we flipped sides and it's like, what happened?
Yeah, I can see where you're coming from. I feel like it's also both the teams punishing their opponents for their mistakes as well as, so to speak, right?
We could see we alluded to in the preamble to this particular map reset, you know, Mangle is going to be testing the B bomb side again and again,
and they did find quite a bit of success, even though Q2K was pretty solid overall.
And we could see Faka just starting early B every single time.
What I have a criticism of the Mangle's T side was they were very one-dimensional, they were going to keep abusing B and then they're like,
All right, they're gonna be starting 3B early every round.
Now we're just gonna be throwing the early banana molly,
early banana smoke, the half-odd smoke,
and then it just blew up towards A.
And the read is pretty easy.
Like for anyone completely much read,
it's gonna be a hit coming in.
We saw it around number 12, for example.
The second half was just basically
some classic Mongols BS.
Alongside, I agree with you.
I felt like Falcons, they did a very good job
in the T side in the second half year
of trying to, of just getting map control
and keeping the Mongols guessing every time, right?
But what I feel like the Mongols where they succeeded was when they're being aggressive in your face
and again the multi kills coming out from all these players
Blitz at the end over there, even Naitan getting a lot of early picks
They did a very good job of this early bracket's presence
which kind of disrupted, you see so many rounds right Falcons
slowly walking up to its bracket, slowly towards banana
and just getting shredded by the Mongol side
Dude I saw one, the first gun round Falcons played
they tried to creep through a smoke at Art's side
and literally got opt like no so by nine ten sitting in the archway and in the
moto guy to swings as well so you're talking your first gun around thought
was let me push two guys drive through a smoke and hope that we don't get caught
like I'm sorry I was a little bit uninspired by what I saw there on the
T side but I agree with you that models did what they were supposed to do they
made things you know difficult they got in their face they played for they
didn't play passive and so for that yeah they get credit for you know pulling
off a nice comeback I know it's not exactly a radar screenshot moment but
the second pistol round where they had the bomb down,
all the three T's and the Mongos with two versus three retake
and Blitz hit some blinder of shots, but again,
that's around, I feel like they're gonna play
a little bit more safer, right?
They had a crossfire set, but it really wasn't
a crossfire either, and Mongos, yeah, yeah,
he just gave the finger to them as well.
That round was very critical, and also the penultimate round,
the money's kind of broken, they have an AWP saved,
they have an MP9, and I was like, all right,
they're gonna be saving for the final round,
trying to push him to overtime.
It's a just go for the force by two MP9s,
M4 just bursting out through the smoke.
One thing the Mongols are good at is just thriving in that chaos, right?
And that's how they basically drive Mongols, sorry, Falcons, into the mud and like,
all right, let's do some grapple. And that's how they pull off the wind right there.
However, with the grappling in the mud, for I think the first time in a while,
we got to see the likes of Niko. I mean, you mentioned that the star play is kind of popping off a
little bit. I did think that that's been missing from Falcons. And I'm seeing it a lot more with
Yeah, no, I agree because having a hell of a tournament in comparison to some of the other
Performances we had seen from recently so I do think you're spot on with that also like I'll be honest
He could almost did pull off the blind river clutch in his own right?
I keep yeah
We have that one you want against blitz on lane and if you would have won that round that you're going over time all of a sudden
We're not talking and you read it perfectly as well. Yeah, it doesn't blitz was super quick. Yeah
Yeah, he just made this missed a shot. It happens, right? So, I mean, yeah, there was definitely some impact moments
I actually thought Kyosuke was a little bit more reserved in this game on some of this banana aggression
on the CT side, for instance, he might get a Karagin.
I think that is a Karagin influence, right?
Just kind of restraining him in.
And I think that's a good job overall.
Sure, he died a couple of times.
That's going to happen against the Amers on the side of Mongols.
But when he was being set up, he was getting his double kills,
triple kills, just shutting it down.
So overall, I know it's, again, you've got to remember,
this is the first Inferno being played with this lineup, right?
So, yes, they kind of passed the test, but yeah,
T side, a couple of mistakes, and Mongols will punish him.
So is that how you'll define Falcon's Inferno so far,
with what we've seen?
You played it fine, but a couple of mistakes.
A couple of mistakes.
Look, like I said, the city side was pretty solid overall.
They had a good adaptation starting early towards B,
for example, and I really liked the defaulting, actually.
Many rounds that have like banana control,
they had the top mid control,
the Mongols left kind of guessing,
caught in the middle of nowhere.
There was one round where they started early three
towards B, they went for the fast pop at mid,
and Kobra was caught by his pants down.
Yeah, that was huge.
That was huge.
So they had some really good moments,
but that's the thing, like against the Mongols,
who made a couple of slip-ups.
Again, it was 13-11 game at the end of the day, right?
very tight affair. Shout out to Mr. Mazinio though. He was a rock. You don't really remember any of his
kills, but he was so solid on the A bombsite defense, just so stable for the Mongols.
Yeah, I think for me, like my final assessment of Falcons there was that I saw some good things on
the CT side. They didn't really change any positions or anything. They kept things very
much the same. And then even on the T side, the default spots were about the same. And I did like
the pacing change that you're referring to, where they were punishing people with like some really
nice, just fast-paced mid-takes. But I felt like their overall just defaulting and mid-routing wasn't
and Estadios it needed to be, and they relied a lot on big aggressive plays or heroic clutches
to get them around what they got. So something that still needs to be worked on clearly.
We now go to Mirage. This will be the decided to find out who is going to be making it through
to the PGL Estaner playoffs. How does this play out for us?
Look, this is Mongol's best map, at least on paper. This is a map they always used to
go for every single time. Right now we've already seen Falcons with a couple of reps
on this map as well. They look reasonably pretty comfortable too. Obviously, in a Kyrgyz
It's okay, it's gonna be, Kiyosuke Monasey is instrumental.
I feel that Ferno, because of the way the map has done it,
like in Monasey, we couldn't really see him shine the way
he did in Duster and other maps,
but I think he's gonna be, he's gonna be the guy
that looking forward and of course setting up Kiyosuke
towards mid.
But for the Mongols, the fact that they haven't been
Rodgers to the side, they're gonna be on cloud nine.
Yeah, I mean, I think this is definitely a map
that both teams are gonna feel comfortable playing.
I think you're right, Monasey is just such an
X factor with the op, particularly on this T side,
being like an entry hopper, not just some guy holding lines
and setting up riflers, but a guy who can actually
call his own number and provide the plays.
It's a tool that Kerrigan hasn't had for a very long time
in the box to use to implement his strategy.
So I do like what I saw.
I mean, obviously, this is going to be very fast.
Face CS from both teams.
Both teams like to play the aggressive executes.
I think I also like that Falcons made a great change
defensively.
I think moving Tessus to the A anchor role is great.
I think he was overqualified to be playing B.
Kerrigan used to play B on phase.
I'm glad that he just took that up.
And Tessus was actually really, really thriving
in some of those CT rounds where he could get aggressive A
Ramper Palace and and be more of a playmaker. So I'm hoping that we'll see a better Falcons here
And obviously one good sign for the Mongols is Blitz at least recently seems to have kind of regained his form as well
Yeah, we saw the pistol round just tapping away to set especially when you know, you're talking about on the other side
Good monestee you got Qsuke and you got Nico and you're out dueling them and also just individually
Him finding his form
I think it's a good sign for the Mongols because he'd really fallen off
He was at one point called the hardest-hitting IGL fragger out there, right and right now
looking good. Mirage, cons position, the rotate position, the star position, that's where he plays.
So I'm going to be keeping my eye on him. And also, Cobra Zera, you know, sends this position
towards B-short. He has this propensity to pick up a secondary AWP. When Senzu was doing it, I used
to kick a puppy. Whenever he picks up an AWP, a puppy gets kicked somewhere out there.
I mean, not really kicking a puppy, I love dogs. But Cobra Zera with a secondary AWP is actually
lethal for us. One thing I like with how they do it is it doesn't play static towards short.
Sometimes the swap swap around depending on a spawn towards A and 90 it goes towards a B apartments for example
So it's really hard to figure out where the secondary op is going to be positioned
So if they do start building up the money on a CT side Falcons T side, they've had a few woes
It could get interesting. It all comes down to this map. We're gonna find out who's going to the playoffs after this
The unexpected move and something to get used to as
Falcons Karagin now sits in front of me 36 years old
You've been wearing the Batman mask for ages, but you finally grew some wings, so how's it going, mate?
I mean, it's been long two weeks, right? With everything changing so fast, coming into now two tournaments, bringing some of the system I know and I guess they were looking for.
So very excited to start this journey in the Falcon's jersey.
Very different like the meaner than I've seen you in previous events and feeling straight away coming into it
But how did this come together? How did this move happen?
Yeah, I mean there's been rumors obviously I'm gonna talk deeper about it and in another setting but basically
There was six days for this transfer to happen before deadline for Cologne
Yeah, so it was something that happened really fast and I didn't know if it was possible as I had just re-signed my contract few months before that
So it was not an easy transfer and it was not something that it could have not
happened let me put like that because of the time frame but in the end it
happened and yeah but very stressful days at home not knowing if it's gonna
happen being excited but also being sad been part of face for a long time so
now I'm here and I'm obviously very happy to admit the guys and play with the guys
Just closing on like this phase situation there's obviously a lot of
speculation of you leaving FaZe, people talking about teammates not saying goodbye to us saying
it was sudden. Can you give us a bit of like your side of all of this?
As the time frame is obviously it was sudden, but let me just put out there before anything
was leaked, before anyone was known to the public. By the time I had a feeling that it
could happen, management of FaZe already told the players. And so I was not the first guy
to tell the players, because I wasn't sure what was happening, a kind of communication
broke down in the negotiation, because obviously I wanted to change the Falcons, that's what
I needed to do in my career.
So I wish I was the one to tell them before management told them, if they give me a heads
up, but in the end they were told by management, not by the public.
And I also wrote individually with a player, them not saying goodbye on Twitter, I cannot
control that and I can understand if they are sad or upset that it happened but I
think this is the first time I've done something myself in a career where I have
a good feeling and this is what I needed because it was rough times the past one
and a half year in phase. Can you give me a bit of insight just what it was like on
your first day or across the first week some moments you had there? Yeah I mean
we just go straight into it obviously I have a system so I had to kind of break
down what I'm going to implement for the team. And in my opinion, it's better
just to start with me being comfortable, understand the players, they like freedom.
Let's find the balance together as a team. And obviously over time we have to
figure out how to win the biggest trophies. That's why I'm here and that's why
they also brought me to try to bring something else into the team. And as
As far as these two weeks have gone, I am very happy.
I am also very, very looking forward to these challenges.
The first week, a lot of confusion for me because I played the same spot names for five
years in a phase.
So, a lot of spots, I could just not say the names because it is so unbrained with five
years in this team.
Oh, so they have different callouts.
Yes, different callouts.
There was a struggle, but I will do mistakes during this tournament when it comes to call-outs,
but it's something all the time that comes, but I'm very impressed with the individual skill,
the chemistry they have, but also seeing some things I want to work with.
And that's part of the challenges that I'm looking forward to, how can we improve on that,
but it's always going to go up and down in the beginning, these two tournaments we have.
Purely figure out more freedom, less freedom, more structure, a little more set on T side
and obviously the city side has been fantastic,
so I'm just hanging around and being the anchor there.
Enjoying life for a bit, right?
Yeah.
Now, of course, I have to ask this.
First conversation with Nico, give me it,
give the world it from the realistic side of things,
not the drama that keeps us being built up for no reason.
Yeah, I mean, you have to think about this, right?
We were, in my opinion, still trying to mature as players
and as humans.
We have deep respect for each other,
we understand each other,
And I can just say the conversations we have about the in-game, it's really good.
He has really done a great job to perfect his secondary calling.
He's offering a lot in his leg positions.
He's giving me a really good macro perspective.
And then I understand it and I can follow his idea or I use his information to create another idea.
And that's the mixture we have and he knows if I'm not using the idea it has, it's because I have something else.
And for me, it is important that he knows he can speak freely, constantly in the rounds
because he is very smart.
Obviously, we have Elias Wall, who has spoken a lot.
So it is a balance to find an official game, when to listen and when to follow the view
I have in the game.
And we're going to have disagreements, but that's the only way to improve, right?
We cannot all be in the same page, thinking the same counter strike.
We are going to do mistakes.
And for me, with Nico, there's always been a very direct, honest conversation.
I think that's where you work the best. If you can talk direct and being honest on how you see things
That's where you improve the most as a team. Did you come in in one of our just positions on some roll stuff already?
Or you left as is like whatever. What are we looking at with this falcons?
I've see the side not much have changed. I guess some few positions have changed, but
Proceed the side. Nico has been calling great. She decides Falcons. She decides been fantastic. I have not touched that
My main focus has been on T side and let Nico do the
calling a CT side together with mostly Ilya I would say, with T side obviously
there has, I'm a different player than Qxian, but there are still some roles
that take the same, but I'm leading differently when it comes to mid-round,
right? So there are some scenarios where people have to adjust and with my system
everybody has to be more flexible. Sometimes you're lurking, sometimes you're
interdependent where you are on the map, how you ended up in the group or not.
So there is an expectation of every player to be more flexible and more experienced in these mid rounds
that has been the main focus for me to let them know how it can also look.
And we're not a finished product as a vignette.
But I'm just looking forward to see how we strive under the pressure of official games.
Now, many tournaments back to back, we were always here for you.
Whenever I sat with you on the interview, we're face-climbed, we're coming here to win the trophy.
trophy. What's the expectations here now you're Falcons?
I think I haven't talked with the guys but I think the expectations are high in Falcons.
I'm not going to sit here and say that that's the goal and ultimate goal right now. I think
for me as a leader there's two events where I get to know the guys in the group stage,
in the playoffs, wherever we are, what you need to adjust but getting to Cologne. I want
to win the trophy and lift the trophy and bring Major home for Falcons.
I'm looking forward to seeing it. Thank you very much for all your words, Kagan.
Good luck going into the tournament. Let's see what happens.
Thank you.
Falcons versus the Mongols rages on.
We're on to Mirage is the third and final map in this series.
The winner going through into the playoffs,
loser dropping down to that dreaded 2-2 bracket,
where the games become all or nothing.
You go we're going on a mirage. How do you feel about this one? It's great map for Falcons, isn't it?
Right? We've seen this recently not just a win at this event, but coming off the back of Windsor Rio
Remember at Rio, they took down shore kicks in but they took down spirit vitality and fury on this map
So you can't really have a better track record than that
We'll see if it keeps up with this new roster, but this is up against the Mongols who they really struggled on that
opener against Magic on this very map. It took a 9-3 comeback into overtime to close it out, a really poor
CT side, which is a surprise to see for the Mongols, a team that historically have had
great results on this on this very map, even thinking back to, you know, win at EWC or a major final against team Vitality.
So, you know, I think we got a competitive series, but I'm definitely hedging my bets the way of Falcons.
A bit of a slower finish there on Inferno. Nice to see Mongols wake up. We didn't get that on Dust.
We go right into this map here. You can see who's going to make it into the Barris Arena here in Astana.
Mid control taken for the Falcons in this pistol.
pistol. Nice set on an A-play. On the rampside, Tessa has dealt with straight aways. This
con presence is also mopped up very, very quickly. This has started to look rough for
the Falcons. Carrying on for a late backstab, but it hinges on Nico getting away with something
here back in the connector. Two captains clash and Blitz comes out ahead. Tricky round here
for Niko, he'd need the ace clutch.
And he has info on two of these players, and even then as time passes, they could be anywhere.
Never seen Techno 4K, he comes in surprise when he plays out from the jungle side.
That's a pistol round for the Mongols.
Yeah, massive pistol here.
We've seen all these strong starts for Falcons across this series.
So, Mongols getting out with the bag straight away.
And no bomb plant for Falcons either, so it should be an easy start to this game here
now for the Mongols.
Some of the best pistol players in the world on this team, right?
I'm sure you'll have expectations of Monoski and Hiko, without a doubt, but Mongols always
fun to watch.
Techno's even going to get the SMG-4 rifles here for Mongols, straight to the top of middle.
Falcons wait for an over-commitment blitz will not give them one.
Interesting to hear that interview of Kerrigan talking about expectations and
while not laying them out on the line necessarily for this event, I think it's still
Clear to be expected that this team should be in the playoffs
and this was felt like the perfect test given
Previous runner team
Have not been top squads. This is without a doubt the best and the most proven team
The Falcons would have to defeat to make it in to the arena
They've taken them for a spin
And I think a team like Maus, having locked theirs in earlier today, only puts more pressure
on the Falcons, right?
The idea that for Maus it was more of a full revamp, right?
New man is the IGL in exertion, bringing in two new players you're kind of uncertain
on.
And Xalex from the Academy and JL, effectively out of retirement, you know, taking a big gamble.
Here it is an IGL change, right?
the Karagin addition but the rest of the squad remains the same and Falcons
always haven't been so public about how much money and resources have been
poured into this team expectations are still high it was never a team that was
getting crooked anyway right like if you ever since Kierzuki joined it's a team
that was making playoffs at every single event so
it's explosive off the rip Falcons out the ramp and Mongols in the palace
Let's push their face and find every single kill.
Facing the dirt here for Falcons, not a single frag in their first gun round.
Mongols flexing.
That is right into the stack and right back to pistols for Falcons.
That is rougher, first gun round as you could have hoped for.
You know, you mentioned that dreaded 2-2 day, Harry.
That is tomorrow, 3 more BO3s.
There's some scary teams in there.
Winner of Paravision versus G2, one of them guaranteed.
Winner of Monty Huns, Monty Reed, showing good face, of course Falcon's already beaten.
John Roura wait there.
And of course loser of Fury of Gentlemaid's Hulk.
Like this.
He's a double from Nico and it's got the round going.
Oh he fell!
Even these quick two trades back in middle of at least.
The Mongols are shot and they are going to charge the site!
Okay, problems gone for the Mongols, despite two opening kills for Niko, it goes no further.
But the point I was making was that two days still scary.
I think Timokuraura have proven a coming in with a tenacity to this event.
Showing some great individual maps and some refined calling from Maja.
Paravision is always a dark horse, one that falcons are well familiar with.
So safe to say, this third map of Mirage proving extremely important.
Even outside of the whole dodging plan tomorrow, I think if you're a new team,
You would very much appreciate the extra day to get ready for those playoffs
That's far nothing out of the Falcon's to get us too excited here on Mirage, it's been the Mongols dominating
Still okay for now, but there's one more man who got dinked in that slowly ramp on a season six health
The AWP is at least going to make life a little easier, but Cobra might make it difficult.
Full Palace push.
He's going to clear out the T spawn soon enough and look at Mongol's move.
They know it's coming.
I mean, Falcons have walked into stack after stack so far.
This round is no different.
Two players at B. Big push for Cobra, not overdoing it.
And a third in move.
Falcons into another stack.
This has just been one step ahead in the early stages of Mirage, and here as he rounds the corner, but Mizzinho making up for it.
Now the support at 9-10 arrives on the AWP with Modesty dinged up earlier on. There should be no winning this.
Good flick on the first. Mizzinho has been in great form and an HE picked up. Just able to get away from it is Modesty.
I can't follow through though with Cobra arriving on the short side.
The Mongols keep it flawless, 5-0.
Gonna have to start seeing some faking for Falcons here because Mongols have believed
everything they've been told.
Every first volley of Util, every push confirming an area clear, they are just full gambling
right now.
And Falcons have not given them a reason to doubt it.
zero, with perfect positioning, and so it's time to get tricky here on this T-side.
It's a gift to the fight before in that round down middle, and it lasts long.
Saved by the bell there on that monosy clutch.
So another boy comes in here.
Three smokes in the middle, straight away, Malcolm's coming through.
Oh, nice.
Oh, nice!
I'm gonna get stacked.
I finally have 5v4.
Kisuke, now behind these boxes teed up with a flashbang.
Very nice way to extend this advantage. It's the lower walk for Mazzinho in a
Karagan head ripped off 5v2. Absolutely unforgivable to let this round get away
from you. There should be Falcons finally breaking the silence. They're quite
split up. They're gonna get grouped back on A and Karagan is also lurking B.
Probably gonna walk in first, try and get some info for his team. Oh 9-10 just missed
it. So Karrigan might even have the drop on this AWP. He starts to make noise though, so that's fine
for Falcons. They can just charge towards A together. Techno is not going to rotate. So there's
still a fight to win here for Falcons. And Tango's picked it up. Kisuke in connector, back turned.
This was a 5v2. Now it's hanging in the balance. 20 seconds left here. Fight him together. Kisuke
closing in and yeah, they're waiting for his arrival before they go. That at least alleviates a lot
of the threat in this round. Techno dead, the 9-10 off with a miss. So Falcons able to get through.
Finally that five round streak broken. They don't let that one get any scarier.
Yeah, they didn't cower at least. There were some awkward timings with palace player going first,
not waiting for Ram to come out, but ultimately they play off Kiyosuke well even if he dies there,
they're going to get that trade. Two players swing in stairs. So, of course for concern,
Jussiet, first round on the board. Mongols a nice attempt with nothing to lose and recognizing
very quickly that Karrigan was just a decoy in that B bomb site. They'll have to rebuy the orb.
Honestly, it's back on here. It's picked up.
Is he on 200 ADR right now?
Pretty incredible.
I mean he was in great form all throughout Inferno and he's brought that with him onto Mirage.
Finishes the top performer for the Mongols up there alongside Blitz.
910 AWP to open up this round.
It's a Falcons might have found success with that first man advantage one the fight before it lost
This time though, they're starting on the back foot and it's the alert removed
Loud move control
That open palace Falcons never have a bit of room. Oh
Honestly just missed that getting into place is blitz
it's staying here is crazy but with a double scope from honesty blitz could
peek out they've all missed each other there which will make this position all
the more surprising if falcons do walk into connector and monosy after a flick
he finds nine-turn back at ticket blitz still waits for his time to strike and
he will ahead of that volatile drop in one kiyosuke important trade three on
3, Niko's locking B.
Yasuke and Niko are both wounded.
Might be time for Karrigan to put his name on the board, but he's dead straight away.
I'm loose.
Niko on the other side of the map knows he's got a kill here,
but then really is to get a run on.
He's got 20 seconds left. Bomb drop down in the connector.
Cobra's error.
Taking an angle to fight here.
Now towards the jungle, not expected Niko was not ready for that reposition out of Cobra.
It's round the world isn't it? All the way back CT hits the craziest timing out bench.
I thought Niko was about to see him there.
But at least repeats back in. Doesn't let Niko stabilize in that clutch.
And so hey, they got their 3v3.
But Mongols still frag their way out of that round.
Broken by it here, test is on a pistol, as long as he gets us on.
9-10 starts window, no one here, four Falcons.
Holding for aggression.
And fair enough, Mongols have made a lot of moves in the CT side, right?
Beer Palace pushes from Koba Zero and 9-10.
They're fighting the ramp as a unit in the first gun round.
And they'll do the same again.
The CT side where Mongols had such trouble against Magic to start off this event.
Three rounds in that first half, they pulled it all the way back, and won in many over times.
They're not having any of those slow stars today and what a time to be 6-1-up.
It's not like they were trailing behind Falcons this entire series.
As soon as Falcons get to a third map, suddenly they're getting lapped.
No way he converts that.
That's bomb loose bottom mid.
9-10 AWP.
Really causing issues.
It's Kiyosuke right now trying to put the team on his back with that double.
Honestly, has it looted the window player as well
and even able to turn on a dime dealing with CobraZera.
This was manned down for Falcons.
They'll end that way too.
Modesty dealt with on the double swing.
The Mongols keep this skull and looking very pretty indeed.
Falcons are taking the fights and Mongols are happy to oblige
every single time they're clutching out these rounds by the skin of their teeth.
But rounds nonetheless for the Mongols.
These are moments where you expect Falcons to excel.
But Mongols, happy to swing for the fences.
Techno big clutch, 7-1 lead, Vero AK, in a pistol round here for the Falcons and they're
just going to go B-pop.
Techno alone.
Another A lead.
There's quite a gap, but the longer the map is quiet, the more paranoia the Mongols feel.
Cobra's era start to move right now. There's the info they needed, AK in the apartments,
Panic button pressed. That was Falcon's one attempt at that opening kill. How will Kiyosuke find it now?
I'm gonna have to kick-sand his leadership. This was a pretty 50-50 map in terms of the sides
for the Falcons, but you think back at your phase, in the tail end of Karagin's time there,
and their T-sides were rough on Mirage.
Oftentimes, if they were to get the job done, it would be in that second half, it would be on the CT venture.
Certain point, calling on to get you so far, you can get someone to go big,
and Falcons do not have that player right now.
Tessa 0 and 8. Kiyosuke, Monosai, both on 7. No one's saving these situations as they
get plucked apart one by one again. It's a flawless round for the Mongols. A well-timed
flawless round. After close clutches for Mongols, they finally get a moneymaker.
If you're the Mongols here, you just got to keep this up as long as you can.
You're forcing Falcons to burn all their pauses here in the first half.
Even that causes problems to the longevity of this one.
If they were to try and launch the comeback, you're giving them next to no room.
And as you say, finally a money making round, even if something were to come through for
the Falcons.
Not like it breaks the Mongols, they get to remain competitive.
I think Falcons are expecting more fighting in middle in the early round, right?
They're super hesitant in getting out behind mid.
A couple times, Monosy's been behind tap with the first spawn going fast.
But for the most part, they're expecting Blitz to get involved, players out under.
That's not what Mongols are doing.
They are heavy focused on sites right now.
So Falcons spam smokes again in the middle.
Nobody is home.
Let's drop some molly and disappears and again Mongol's focus ramp and palace.
Eiko and Tessa's here, there's a flash behind this.
Big first hole.
Hi, he's on the board.
Still a flank from his Eno though, he won't find the bomb, but he could get behind it.
And actually Falcons in a very strong position right now, even holding this push,
Honestly, the awareness, realizing what Mongols have been doing, and Blitz can't get into
sandwich in time, so this feels like Falcons on the board.
Everything slots into place.
And four rounds is not too late.
I hope this is a bit of a turning of the corner for Tess's, right?
Took him a long time to get on the board.
has never exactly been a high-fragging IGL.
You can't have two players go entirely missing in map three.
And so first two kills of the game for Tess says,
their high impact, they lead to this round win.
Alcons, they want a bit more of that
if they are to recover on this half.
Yeah, at least they seem to be figuring it out, right?
Shown by the fact that we have a double anti-flash set up here, we have Monosy holding the Palace
push even after they kill a guy on ramp.
Falcons.
Realising what Mongols are doing.
So the same round called again, it looks like.
Honestly, supports out there, all goes back.
Again, the same round for the Mongols, same results, massacre! Tess says bloodlusting, but I say that's worth it.
Two for one, Tess says on three health.
Honestly, he always started in the B apartments, he's holding it for a push at TV.
Look at Kiyosuke, he just walked into B.
Right up Catwalk while the chaos was going down on A.
It might just be a save pre-called by the Mongols.
So consider us at that turning point.
Let's go the right way.
Carrogan really struggling 1 and 10.
Biggyad is highest rated map in the Falcon's Jersey on Dust2.
14 ADR.
Take a rest, wait here.
I'm considering our hopeless this felt just rounds ago right the idea that you could scrape
by with four on the T side that would be enough to keep you in the conversation you have those
saved guns to contend with from the Mongols they'll be able to cobble together an investment
around them. So it's by no means a guinea round. You don't have to worry about a 9, 10 AWP.
That's very much out of the picture. Honestly, he gets his and puts it to work straight away.
Tess says ready for these aggressive ramp moves that they've been handed across this
This last reek of rounds.
I mean, it's so stubborn.
I was going to get three rounds in a row,
and more rounds and a half.
I'm just gonna get found.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down!
Underpass, underpass, Niko waiting.
It's insane from Techno.
Niko looking good for another.
He will get found.
2v1, they can speed up towards B,
but they are split.
Tess is reconsidering.
He was gonna go out ramp.
He's needed.
in this B site. Carrigan kicks the bomb down. I mean, 9-10's been having a great tournament
out here in Astana. And these are the two struggling players for the Falcons left in
this. It's the late position on Tess's bomb planted for him. Should make this now an impossible
4-9-10. He'll catch Carrigan straight away. Now Tess has arrived out on shore in with the
backstab, Falcons will secure those four T side rounds, a streak of three down the end of the half.
Yeah, I got to feel like Mongols kind of gave it away there at the end. You know, they were really
relentless on that ramp push, just starting every round the same. And Falcons just said,
hey, if you're going to do it, we'll be there every time. Shut it down. And that's what got them
back in this T side, even putting Marcy there with the AWP at the end.
and so Falcons deal with the Mongols opening move and then we see those slow closes that
do just fine to find four rounds on their T-side. It's enough. We know that Falcons
not plagued by the Zonic pistols anymore. It's actually their assistant coach who calls
in these days. And it definitely has made a difference.
Look at the ADR for Mizzinho and Blitz. Great to see them carrying that momentum forward
from Inferno. They were the two top performers there. They bought that energy with them onto
the decider. Even though we say four rounds, you know, it's enough for Falcons to try and
make a comeback happen and the CT sides have been where they've done their better work
on Mirage historically. This is still a tall order and it all hinges on winning this pistol.
It's very small margins opener for Mazzinho a site lost convincingly Falcons a man down for the retake
Cons smoke is brutal as well. At least Falcons have the majority out from CT here
They can burn out a player from the back of the site. I need to
Get on one player. They move in quick together
Bumbles brawling in the middle of the open find to take these fights as we know and Tess says delivers a double big double before the kid
He's dropped out of ammo, Karaghan jumping around and he needs that stick, but they're not having it.
Mongols, pistol round on top of an 8 round half and they are running away right now.
That is both pistols in this map for the Mongols.
Trouble in paradise here for the Falcons.
It's just so fun, man, because they're so streaky.
Even when you feel like you caught them on a bad day,
that's what it felt like on Dust2.
No one was hitting, you know, they were in OK positions,
they couldn't really close any,
and then they just show up here on this third map and dominate.
Careful.
Let's get out of here, careful.
I know we're turning the USP round, but weirdly,
Falcons have done a lot to cause some chaos.
They were moving towards B,
But after getting spotted, they've gone back.
So with, let's say this position.
I don't even think you attempt it. You got an AK. You can take with you. You're out of position.
I'm planted that adjustment from the Mongols, realizing they were walking into the stack, only confirmed by 910 on that swing out through the spawn.
Sure, didn't get a hell of a lot from it. Just the one kill, but the info was all the Mongols needed.
Worth trying to trap them in the site here.
So with the exception of Kiyosuke saving the AK, Falcons are gonna go group together in apartments.
So of course Mongols exit the other side and keep their guns.
10-4, this will be a hell of a comeback!
It has to start right away. There is no room for error here in this first gun round.
You really are feeling the kind of 4v5 effect of having a player who just can't win a duel.
The caravan really struggling in this game.
The ceiling not exactly popping out, but the floor is in the basement.
I'm looking among those confidence right now, just running down here.
Great cover.
Multiple brawls all around the map, and we'll get out with the advantage, Tessa, smoke spam.
Drives it home, left on a blitz now, in this one on three.
got an aggressive through the apartments and Blitz shouldn't clear this that's a free kill right
there for Carrigan. You'll take it when you get it a little upgrade as well. Balkans win out that
first gun round in a 4v5 no less smoke break in middle denied was Nico
and then it gets a little loose and modesty shows up better late than never here on this CT side.
So Mongols call a pause before the next attempt. You can already see that money is not ideal.
One of the scary things about playing against these blitz led Mongols
rosters is he's a man who loves to play with the pace and so I think you're
gonna burn a lot of this uterl early on Mongols can try and use that in a
Variety of different ways, they're very very good at these up tempo rounds.
Ones like this, where you're running with a lot of tech nines.
You only need a couple of rifles, maybe a perfect time for it.
Likewise though, you can put a lot of fear in the Falcons just by keeping it a little slower.
You know, going for a second timing on these plays, wait for some of that early U-Tile to get burned through.
So the Mongols set their sights on an A-Split.
Why? How does that not hit? The aim punch wrecks monosy.
Burn out on top of the balcony. Tess has got to drop off, but he falls into firing flames, burning alive.
Techno traded back.
Kiyosuke from connector finding a couple and carrying an in spawn.
Keeping this round in the favour of Falcons. 3v1, there's no way you're getting away with a stick, right?
Surely not. Kiyosuke doesn't jump on it.
Open plant, smoked off, confirms Blitz's position.
That's gonna let him get out of stairs.
That's that cross.
Blitz cuts his head off.
20 and 7 on the captain.
Over the stairs!
Blitz is out for the ace!
And the captain of all the individual effort,
but he can't get past bottom performer, Karagin.
How is Karagin the one to save them where all else failed?
Unreal shots from Blitz, that final bullet kill on Kiyosuke.
And Karagun just sprays him down. Better late than never indeed.
Blitz was onto something special there.
All the pressure on that final fight, Karagan delivers and Blitz immediately force-pies.
They just can't believe that that...
That's what we end up with.
Four kills deep on his way to the ace clutch and it's Karagan who proves to be too much.
21 and 8, 5 and 12.
It's like the score line keep closing up.
There's no denying Blitz's individual form, though, in this series.
Some of the moves he made on Inferno, man.
Think back to that first half, jumping through the smokes, finding gaps.
Just so annoying.
Well, he's got to hit the banger here on entry.
Monosy spots him coming out ramp, and it doesn't cost him a thing.
This is after that slow start on one hell of a recovery as well.
Cobrazera, his time to try and clutch up, but dead straight away.
Backstop for Mazzinho, one accomplished march, Kiyosuke able to put him down.
And now it's a three round game, this Falcon CT side roaring to life.
That's indeed it is.
That 1v1 might have shut Falcons out of any chance of winning this game, but now, Mongols
have to dig deep.
Have a recovery as you say from Tess's and a confidence inspiring clutch to dive.
So the Falcons know this is well within their wheelhouse, in control for the Mongols,
Monacee waits, fire off with the orb, decides against it.
Quick rotation to B, Niko gets out of there.
For a moment it looked like Falcons were scared of a B-pop.
Maybe they should be.
Three players adorn this B site though, I'm honest with you with the AWP.
Usually good just to catch that first player crossing.
We'll be techno on the tech nine.
So there's techno dead.
Nice man out of the apartments.
Cobra good for one.
Rest of them start to barrel in now. They can't get past Carrigan on short.
The rest of Falcons now pull up, no Brazzera, no road left to run as Falcons are closing in.
Clamping down upon that B-play.
And it felt like maybe the gap was there, maybe the timing was there.
Falcons swinging mid as Mongols go for that B-pop.
But Monacy hits his shot on the cross and no one can gain space inside of B-side there for the Mongols.
That third rotation that makes all the difference as Mongols go storming into a stack
Depression ever goes away for Falcons models have made a really good job of at least making these rounds pretty competitive, right?
So money's not exactly flowing for Falcons. They really can't stomach a loss and will be limitations
It's something that Mongols have to keep in check right you have to kind of keep Falcons in this vulnerable position
because they're still looking for that one golden round that opens up the route to the win.
These ones are, as you said, still scary for the Mongols, but honestly, again, has that cross.
He's just not missing on the CT side.
Karagun showing up with a double, and Kiyosuke is right by his side.
This triple beat again, Maul's Mongols.
Blade's feeling like he can do no wrong.
He's gonna give this Glock a go.
We'll make no mistake about it Falcons one round game
In the mind of blitz the craziest option is always the best option. What's he planning here?
Do you think Nico heard him on that push in the top mid so he's come back around and find him no
tricky business for blitz a
One round game as Falcons are on one hell of a hot streak and that one comes through cleanly
Suddenly those money worries, they're gone.
Mambos burn their final time out as they get more than they bargained for from this falcon CT side.
It's a CT side of Mirage, man. It's the best place to be, especially for a team of superstars.
Honestly, on this B site support has been integral plucking a free kill every single time
Mongols try and cross the window.
Kiyosuke has been performing all game long, now given room for other players to step up.
Ever since Karagun's clutch continued to build back into this game, Niko not yet been a requirement.
But this is Falcons from 10-4 down, yet to drop around.
needs some help. Stop in the middle, but Niko, the game he's having, he's not actually swinging
out mid through the connector. He's playing reserve, looking for a late round as well.
That kill available here from the 910 AWP. Oh, barely gets behind the box on that smoke
Honestly, sighted towards B.
Mom, coming out under on blitz if you want it done, do it yourself.
For the meantime, take no vcaragon, an opportunity for an x-ray.
One more shot on that one.
That's grenade.
Let's see what we have to concede.
40 seconds.
Why are Mongols going?
the Mongols going. You've got to keep his eyes on the window. They just boost up into it right as he starts to reshuffle and so an opening for the Mongols will they be able to seize this opportunity as even more flow through a site wide open
Honestly, holding down B doesn't matter because the Mongols have got this one under lock and key.
It takes them a very long time, but they do not let Falcons tie this game up.
Even the save is not safe.
Don't want to lose too many players hunting this down, to be honest.
There's still going to be some resistance from Falcons, so watch out.
As Monossey looks to hold onto this AWP, they are running at him.
Can't move off this site, 9-10 on the line, and that is enough to keep the Mongols happy.
Three players surviving, all removed, and multiple rounds needed to break the Falcons
Bank.
Our Mongols up for it.
Double entry from Techno, right? We talked quiet players, but he's been at the bottom of the board all game for the Mongols on that window boost a
Lot of responsibility and delivers on to Nico when they need him to now Mongols go for something
Quicker. Yeah, little pace change here set piece out towards a
Monosy in the right place as he's been mobile on this off and rips the head off of Techno
Can't celebrate for too long though. Night 10's got an immediate reply
They see that AWP, it gives them some pause, they've been facing monosy, a hell of a lot
over the wards of their B bomb site, you learn about him on A, and you play for distance.
Moving away with this bomb.
Can he tuck in?
That would be the smart move, if Akiyosuke, and he's done exactly that, he's going to
get information.
Hearing Mizuno run back through spawn as well.
Falcons still aren't stacking his B site, that's a really aggressive move, it's going
to get punished.
bridge too far here for Kyosuke and that's why Falcons were putting a B-stack in position.
As Kyosuke sold them down the river Falcons are still going to gamble,
giving themselves the best shot on this AAA hold but they are down a man and Mongols are walking in.
Now you're hoping for heroics flying blind in this round.
They are in the right place.
Monosy off out towards the spawn and he's got his partner in crime, Nico alongside him.
And Tan holds this sight line though and if Monosy goes any wider he goes right in.
That AWP, Monacee lightning fast, second shot misses but Niko's there to bail him out and now it's just Muzinho
full blinded to flashbang and they've got him here in a box, Falcons claw it back, a man down and late to the party they still get it done.
No business winning that fight Monacee straight into an AWP on a headshot line and Monacee rips his skull off.
What a beautiful shot!
Falcons flood!
And Mongols...
They did everything right! They put themselves in the perfect position!
They're caught off the plant in the open as Falcons just run in together!
Everybody does their job there!
And carrying another double in this unbelievable recovery arc!
And put Falcons around behind again!
One girls go all in, last time they were able to dodge this tie game threat, difference
is here, and broke at the end of this one, and they no longer be Falcons playing catch-up,
suddenly they would be the favoured squad.
Every time they hit beam, honestly, he was here, he always plucked a kill from the window,
this time it's just Karagun on the site.
him for the recovery from the one kill half, but now we see just how far that
recovery's gone. Kiyosuke helping him out from the short side. The rest of
Falcons all arriving. Damage done for Carrigan into the apartment, softens them up.
And now he's got the rest of his team pulling up to finish the job. A shut down
on the app here. 11 apiece and money broken for the Mongols. Fast travel for
Falcons. They just swing it together and it's again that entry for Kiyosuke that
gives him the warning sign straight back to that B bomb site and everybody home
Mongols have a broken brittle by to long out this third map round 23 and they put
all in. Monacy is the man. He has been everywhere in this game.
Even though they bring out Galils here, they do so at the cost of any util. They've got
One smoke on Mazzinho to try and make a play happen.
That just doesn't cut it, does it?
Sure, you have a couple of flashes, but you need to use them well,
because this orb has just been...
the figurehead of Falcons.
How can you make life uncomfortable for Monosy?
He has the window boost on lock.
I need more. Niko, get some both.
About Mazzinho in top mid, only question mark in the round is 9-10 lurking out of the round.
What's going on? Mazzinho with a line up and hold on. Has Mazzinho just given them a lifeline?
A second chance. There's the 9-10 lurk. And oh dearie me, it all falls on a caragon.
What was meant to be an easy round after Niko's double is now in jeopardy.
The clock is on his side.
And the wrap for 9-10.
He has to commit to this jungle flank.
If he does, he could end this with the kill.
Karagan turns around.
9-10 whips right into him.
Don't tell me that Karagan is the salvation of the Falcons.
Get on this swing!
Mazinho puts him down!
And it's Mongols after all.
They will always go for the fight.
They will always go for the re-peak.
Masino, four frags, finally overwhelms Karagin's clutches.
How do they line up and connect to like that?
Two players open, and Niko swings in to help, so that's just more food, fodder, four Mongols.
That was Falcon.
They did the hard part.
And it is one man who gets them over the line.
Mizuno, rivaling Blitz on this T side.
Mongols playoff points.
to get to run it back in overtime or the Mongols snatch it away in round 24 not once but twice
over at the tail end of this playoff series. Winner heading into the arena loses to keep
on battling tomorrow. After Mazzinho's heroics and massive 4k, the momentum sides with the
Mongols just so Mongols to win that round with no you till with galils with a budget by
Ouch
Max damage on to Nico
Blitz does not allow the favor to be returned Mongols have that mid-control
She's all pees down the connector. It's just been blocked
Here comes that boost.
Take no last time, he's able to best Niko in this head to head and this time he's not
going to be there.
Niko's just reposition of the con side.
Already pounce on this site.
This is taking the bomb up here and at the top of connector a risky fight in front of
him as Niko looks for that trade.
That's bomb dropped.
25 seconds left, it's a big problem as now the Mongols are scrambling.
Hope it doesn't have the time to do anything in this round and so Falcons get it through into OT.
Yeah, you gotta earn it here in Astana, third map going the distance. Falcons to find Dust 2.
Mongols clutched out Inferno and here on Mirage from 10-4 down despite all of the disasters,
still Falcons drag it all the way.
Monacy is having one hell of a map and it's not gonna stop now.
Spent a lot of time dissecting the individuals on the multi-million-dollar Falcons roster.
But for the Mongols, it's a very top-heavy scoreboard as well, right?
In a lot of these rounds, it's been Blitz, it's been Mizzinho, the guys to bail them out.
Techno largely absent from this third map.
Cobrazerra yet to have his impact either.
Will those individuals ever come online?
Mongolus set up here for the Falcons, the double ramp push.
Gonna get blocked at the first sign of contact, Blitz on his mid-lurk.
Often finds strong timings and not afraid to walk through a smoke, but this will be
the round to do it.
There's nobody near middle right now, Niko Palace push and cross there in the wrong place.
Even the AWP misses.
Letting them down, Niko lifts up with a double.
This is making his move, and Mongols need him now more than ever.
Monacee's got the cover, Tess has not even required their out towards the ramp.
This has got a lot to do here out through the connector.
Monacee shuts him down!
It's done!
Counter-terrorists win!
Falcons with a squeaky clean round, four alive at the end of it, Niko's Hail Mary pushing
through Palace, the only casually in that round.
Yeah, Karagum recovery earlier now, Niko recovery.
You've sat at 10, 11 kills for multiple rounds.
Had a couple of crucial multi-kills.
Dude, Monosy, it's on rails with this guy.
Perfect peak as he gets up on the stairwell.
Mongols go back for an A-Smasch.
Monosy in spawn again.
No dead, but the Mongols are in, smoke's down to cover the approach.
Only Avenue Open is out towards CT, do you really want to go and challenge this monosy
orb?
With the things you've seen it do in the last couple of rounds, you'd tell them to force
him back.
This gives you a little bit of room to work with, but we'll make it in.
Just has to hold, his whole team's coming from connector right now, they're rotating
CT to group him, if he maintains his space what can Mongols do?
There is no reflashing to spawn.
Honesty executes Cobra.
And now the site starts to feel very small indeed.
Mazzinho gets run over and Blitz has got nowhere left to turn.
A hulking 3k from Kiyosuke as we've gotten into overtime.
Falcons level up.
Back to back.
Clean rounds now on the CT side.
The T side was woeful in that first half, but if they can go flawless they give them
themselves the best possible chance of getting this one over the line and into the playoffs.
Yeah, and it's getting to the point where it feels like one or two players, those two Russian
superstars here for Falcons can get them over the line. Monacy walks, so Kiyosuke can run back
into the spawn and all the kills between them put Falcons right there. Relieving to see as well
these star individuals for the Falcons, leveling up as the pressure has been applied as opposed
to falling off. Yeah, this was very loseable, to be honest, not just 10-4, but think about
Carrigan losing that 1v1 clutch very late in the game, when Nico let them up connector
onto the Masino 4K, would we not have seen Falcons crumble there in the past? But now
Now they lead by two.
Swing and a miss.
enough being scared of going B with how one-sided all the B-holds have been for
Falcons they've shut them down every time but again it's Karagin alone round
after round. Kiyosuke out wide on short, re-clearing mid with his team.
And this one is one or lost in these midfights with the Mongols also looking
for this space. It is an all in brawl in this final round of the half in O.T.
So it's coming. They initiate.
Blood bath in middle, blitz out under shooting ghosts.
Tess, as comes chasing two versus four, it's never felt freer.
And so Tecno looks for the solo clutch, Masino must take kills with him.
Masino with big damage, but it all falls on Tecno. Bottom of the board right now for the Mongols has to get a move on.
Has to have faith that Masino has pulled him away.
way. Techno one B three is what's demanded if the Mongols want to have hope in this series
still. Don't count them out. Here's them coming as well in the market. Needs a miracle.
Those techno and as they close in execution falls upon him Falcons flawless on their CT
half good check on Tess's only four kills in that entire overtime for the
Mongols oh don't tell me that that does not paint a pretty picture here for the
Mongols who have choked this game from ten four up to the Falcons three
chances to finish and find a playoff birth Tess's as well big 4k round with
Did the clear on the clutch to find that flawless half?
Here we go, double orb, everybody gets to try it.
Copa's air is turned.
10 and 21, trying something new.
At least keeps the B site somewhat locked down.
Mongols don't move away from this ramp control.
But Falcons are in no giving mood, playing very spread on this default.
The 910 has quite the rival to replicate in this ticket position.
But me more modesty is top middle.
I mean, we had slow starts across the board for almost everyone on Falcons in that T-side.
Karagin and Tessas were the most notable, but everyone was struggling.
You weren't getting given openers.
It's a good trade for Kiyosuke.
What if he goes even further than that?
What if he runs all the way home with that 3K?
And the Mongols missed their chance.
Falcons down but not out and there's the close, Monosy and Kiersuke claw this one
over the line and into the playoffs the Falcons complete this comeback and we
get to see them now in the Barys arena.
Kind of like analyst Thorin tweeted when FaZe gave up Karrigan. See if this is a time when this
organization will learn they don't have FaZe fans they have Karrigan fans and
Dammit, I am a Kerrigan fan. Falcons is going to the playoffs. I don't care what you have to say about this stuff
I don't care if you tell me this is messy counter strike. I believe that man sitting right there. I actually believe
I'm telling you what they didn't need just another superstar
They had the two that they needed today because Kiyosuke and Monaxi made a miracle happen, bro
I mean Mongols are really gonna be kicking themselves because they played such a good CT side man like Blitz
Mazzino, they were locking down that entire A side in the mid side of the map, dude.
It was closed for business, but then he swapped sides and Manasish is just so freaking good.
Kyosuke did so well, this fragged out of his mind, I mean, it was unbelievable.
Oh, absolutely.
And also considering the fact that Tessa's Kyosuke and the character combined had one
kill, I think in the first six or seven rounds, right?
It was looking super grim for them, eight and one, the score line, and then they had
a few Hail of Mary rounds at the end of the first half.
you get like two, three, four, you're like, okay,
maybe might be a little bit more reasonable,
but that was a hell of a shutdown coming out
from the men.
You could see Mongols were left scrambling,
even despite what looked like was gonna be
a screenshot of the minimap.
The four verses two, Masino just ran away with it,
but they still able to convert around on that.
Especially in the overtime, I like how composed they were,
but not like super static, super still aggressive
in your face and shutting down the Mongols.
That other time was clean though,
that was the thing, clean, the focus.
I love how he's getting his pieces to work, it's not fantastic CS yet, but damn he finds
out how to activate them and get them moving.
Also considering Blitz was almost about to steal away the game from them, then 1v3 post
blind destroys QCU, it takes up Montessy, I think it was Tessus, and then Karigan with
a 1v1 captain vs captain, and a 36 year old god brings it back.
Wow, yeah, I mean this was just, it was a fun game to watch, obviously it was messy,
Obviously, we can talk about the mistakes that were made,
but it was just a lot of fun.
Team 2 aggressive teams just kind of duke it out.
And again, you got to give props to the composure of Alphons
to make them come back on the CPC side again.
This is one of those games where Kiyosuke,
there were a couple of times he maybe went for a little bit
extra, but there were also times where even for action,
he got it, especially that closing round.
I mean, in fact, he just basically pulled those
through connector for three kills to basically win the game.
So I mean, if this just goes to show you what Alphons could be,
you see little hints of, OK, this team has loaded talent.
If it can all be rained in just enough,
if you can strike that balance between individual freedom
and coming together and being synchronized
and how you wanna operate,
they could do so much damage.
If you are seeing hits of that,
and as you have seen in the past,
but something that feels a little bit spicier.
I agree with you, but also-
The caragant, yes.
Yes, yeah.
It is, you know, the face bullshit, it's coming here.
It was never face, it was caragant.
It was caragant bullshit.
But like, here's the thing,
this round in particular, right,
it came down to the two of you,
one at the end right there.
That was curious, getting the opening kill to a stop there.
Swinging out wide within a second, he dies,
and then these are the mistakes which are avoidable.
The final round, for example, this round,
this is like him just running on in,
he gets shot by the second guy, gets the kill.
But even though he continues to hold doubly
to get to the final, the third guy as well,
he knew his team was coming out from ramp, right?
That aggression is a lot
because you're working in a concerted effort
with your teammates, you know, it's a hit coming in.
And just when he just overstays or overextends
in scenarios where you really shouldn't be,
is where he makes his mistakes.
But here, all forgiven, they get the win.
Consider his 1-5 or 1-8 at the beginning of that thing,
to end his MVP hell of a performance from him.
For sure.
And I love that we're starting to see these performances
from him as well, more and more.
I think we've seen quite a few times now.
Yes, Grants had a few times during Astana
where he maybe hasn't risen,
but a lot of these maps, Kiyosuke is coming to the party.
And just look at where he's getting all the kills as well,
right?
He's almost like a straight line.
And on CD side, I mean, Dust,
he was basically bailing out a car again,
Time after time, whenever they were going for these B hits as well.
Q-Suke is on the market. You have Mimiko playing the two-star CT rifle roles.
I mean, it's just so hard to get past that. They can just run them through the blender.
And it makes up for, like, even if you think Kerrigan's a weak leak on the B anchor role,
and you want to try to punish that, the fact that Q-Suke can be there,
Monezzi's op is so dynamic, it could always rotate in the right position at the right time.
Again, we all know that Falcons has the right weapons, and it's just about harnessing them.
And today, they were able to do enough to get it done.
I would love to be able to hear from the Falcons and figure out what is changing in the calling
that is allowing it to activate like this banks is worth Niko now so hopefully we can find out
I will try and find it out for you Sam and that is right I've got Niko with me here and
you may play us Niko. Karagin's safer now? Of course he is. I mean you know the first players
for him this year I think so he has a lot better than it was before for him. No all jokes aside
I just want to have some fun with you on that one this was a crazy game an intense game you had to
fight so much back against the Mongols in it as well. Looking at that CT side and just how the
calling went for you, how you were trying to work it all out as it was getting crazy, then
over time you seemed to hit another gear. Can you just explain it all to me?
Yeah, I mean, I'm just trying to recollect everything now, but obviously we had
Danny gain pretty good ideas before the map started, what we can use against them and what's
good and also what we had done before but yeah it was I felt like I was in a good control like
even though we were getting a bit you know shut down on the T side was very hard I still stayed
in the game throughout the throughout the whole map and I know that we have one of the best
cities out on the garage right now I think we have actually came back multiple times already now on
this side and I just feel comfortable I think you know the kids are also insane on this map
They're getting a lot of multi kills and just about putting him in a comfort zone.
And we also, we just have a lot of things on Mirage right now.
We can go aggressive very fast.
We can go aggressive later on, we are also good when you play passive.
So we have a very good balance of everything.
And when everyone's hitting the shots, it looks like this.
And as you said, you know, when you get to overtime and you come back,
you obviously like, you know, now they're your space to breathe,
your space to make more mistakes.
And you can just kind of do a bit more riskier place as well.
So we just felt like that, you know, we cracked the code and we just understood what what works.
And it was just kind of easier to take the duels, you know, in overtime, which just helped us.
And but overall, a team effort, really, it was hard. It was looking very hard, you know,
internal stuff. And then we started getting smashed on Mirage. So really proud of how we
stayed in the game and how we kept believing until the end. Yeah, you really believe that it
paid off for that one as well. Looking at just the route you've had here to the playoffs,
some maps being closed, obviously there's a loss in there to 9-Z as well. How much of these
moments do you put down to just maybe not being as comfortable and prepared as you want to be
with Karag, and with how all the pieces are being used, because you haven't had as much time?
Yeah, we didn't have much time and I think it's crazy that people expect us to win this event.
I think one thing is to change just a regular player on the team, but when you change IGL,
you changed pretty much the whole system, you changed the whole team, you know, and
the work day in and out trying to, you know, constantly adjust, get into the Fin system
that everyone feels comfortable. So it was, we knew it was going to be messy, you know,
in the groups and all of these teams that we had played so far, for example, I wanted,
they looked very strong on practice as well. We knew it was going to be hard. I think Mongols
also, they always keep delivering and obviously Nines, you know, they also beat a bit of Maus yesterday.
so they all play very strong but for us it's just about kind of getting the data, you know,
learning the fin system, how much space we can take, how much space he gives, the energy, you know,
we're finding out how we behave in these tough moments, you know, who needs to bring up the mood,
who is going to be, you know, just a lot of a lot of different things, you know, it's just one
player, it's just, it's it's competing your system. So for us, obviously there's no goals,
I would say for this event, but I think playoffs was kind of, you know, mandatory and I think yeah,
the minimum and now we achieved it and you know the reason you know we struggled before in playoffs
and the reason we brought Phoenix to get over that edge and I'm excited to get you know on the
stage with him again after what eight years he's a he's a big showman and looking forward and I'm
going to enjoy it. Hopefully you put on a show of it as well. I'm expecting that from you guys but
Looking at just Carrogan now, you obviously worked him in the past.
What is your initial thoughts on how he's working with the team,
what he's getting out of the, not just you, but other players on the team
and how this is working currently?
I think it's working very well, even though the results were messy,
but I think we feel very comfortable in the game.
I think for us, as I said, he brings a different style of game.
You know, it's not none of these players
played with this type of IGLL before in my opinion.
So it's a lot of learning and for us, it's just,
it's easy to, it's really easy to fit into his system
with these players when we are leading,
when we are feeling the momentum, right?
But when we hit, when today the things were a bit rough,
this is where if his system needs to work,
we need to be constantly 100% in the game
if his system wants to work.
So I think today we showed a little bit of weakness
in that part but other than that I think the Fin system obviously there's a big
reason why we wanted him on the team we believe that he he'll be able to take us
to the next step. Well thank you very much for your insight one final thing on
this though you did say during this interview just now like you think it's
crazy people expect you to be able to win this tournament but you might have
some of that belief yourself right? You always have to believe that you can
that you can win the tournament and I understand why people think that with the
players that we have. But for us, you know, we need practice. Yes, there's no
Vitality and Navi, but we need more time. And still, it's crazy to me that
people still find us the way. Well, let's see if it does end the crazy when we
get to that point. Nico, thank you very much for your time. Sam, let's get back
to you. It's not crazy. I think they need to lift a trophy. Look, I think the way
I'll say it is this, if it was any other team, and they were swapping the in-game
leader, there would probably be a lot more great.
Oh, they met too many swaps.
They don't have any more time.
I'm getting there.
I'm saying any normal team, you would say, let's give them some grace in the game leader.
But you're supposed to be an exceptional team with top tier talent.
Expectations are different in that situation.
So I can understand why he feels like they need to hold back a little bit, why he feels
maybe it's a little bit overwhelming, the pressure.
But at the same time, it's like, no, you have so much talent.
You don't have any vitality here.
You don't have any knobby here.
And you have Kerrigan.
You have Kerrigan now at Wranglin and things on the stadium.
I do feel like winning should at least be you know in the minds. I can't believe I'm gonna be a faculty defender here
But a carragans I'm gonna give him a little bit of time. It's fine. They made her the playoffs
I agree with Nico at least he knows that it is mandatory for them to at least make it to the playoff with the field of teams right here
Right now, you know top-row placing and even to lose against let's say in a hard-hitting spirit or something like that
I feel like it's fine. They're learning because from day from day one right here till day four
They have definitely improved so well as they went right there
Do you remember when people used to hate watch falcons now we're like they can
have more time because they have Karrigan. I love it. I love how the seas of
change have started to flow. Falcons have added their name to the list as has
Maas they are joining 9Z and Spirit in the playoffs. Who else will be there? Will
it be Furia or Janselmates? We'll find out right after this.
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I gotta take my mind off my face
I won't play window anymore
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My next interview is with a very special guest and this time last year we saw
Molodoy join Furia. I remember you feeling confident playing in your first big
event. It was home country, home soil. So this was your rookie year, right? It was
your first big event. No trophies then, no MVP medals, no anything to
But what emotions and feelings do you have right now coming back to this event as the player you are today, like all the things that have changed for you?
For my mind I think nothing has changed, but I'll say I might be able to take responsibility in terms of how a player, and yeah for me it's all, for me it's nothing to change, I'm a normal guy.
Now, when we did an interview and we were talking at the beginning of this year, you had a new approach.
You've always been very confident. Always.
But you were telling me you were watching more of your own demos, trying to see your mistakes
and what you were looking to make improvements.
But it is when I look at your gameplay, maybe sometimes we're missing the magic of Mollardoy.
You have some very high moments, but the consistency has dropped compared to what we saw before.
do you understand why? I think I understand why but for my mind I want to
change my game and I want to change game to help my team and maybe before I'll
play a little bit to individual game and a little bit to myself and for me it's
not so good because you are not playing to one of the game you playing this team
in CS this is a competitive player if it's maybe individual game I can do
something magical, but when you play with a team, you have to play for only a team.
Yeah, you can do something magical, but you cannot win trophies individually.
This is a problem. You can maybe kill everybody, but you're still losing,
but when you lose, you are not happy. This is a problem.
But yeah, I think I'll try to change my mind, I will try to improve myself,
myself and I'll try to improve not only myself and only I'll say to my team as
well and yeah I'll try to change my player.
Can you explain to me how you are then helping the team with this change like
what kind of things are you trying to do?
I'll say we are talking a lot of time about system how can I help every time and I think
I'll try to do not more individual game, individual play and for me it's all because when I join
the footer sometimes I can do individual games, sometimes I can take overpicking and maybe
this is a problem sometimes, yeah but I'm still confident, I'm not losing my confidence,
I think I never lose my confidence.
That's very important because Counter-Track is a game of confidence as well.
Now, obviously this event is kind of similar to Rio, because Rio was so important for the Brazilians,
this one is so important for you. But do you feel like this event, especially considering,
not just that it's in Kazakhstan, but you played so well last time around,
you have a special feeling that you guys can turn it around now and have a deep run again?
I'll say you want to win this tournament for sure. And yeah, for me, this is the same in
in Brazil because how people are supporting in Brazil, for me it's the same in Kazakhstan.
But for me, only for me, I will say, custom people like me and support me.
And I very appreciate this.
I want to say thank you for this guys who come to watch me and who come to support me.
I very like this because it's hard to explain who are not sitting on me.
We want to win this run for sure, but we are not over thinking about, and we don't over pressure
something, and we just enjoy this game and play Contourside because it is a dream, it is our life.
It is a dream to do, right, and it's a lot of fun to do on there as well.
You ready though for stepping back onto a stage, making playoffs, going for this deep run because
I remember right, the first time you took the microphone from me, you were talking to me, you had that confidence.
Now it's going to be even better, right? If you can do it again.
Yeah, of course I can do it. Why not?
I look forward to it, man. Well, thank you very much for your time.
Thank you.
Good luck going into the tournament.
Thank you so much.
And let's see what you can do in Astana 2026.
Thank you. Let's see.
Welcome back to PGL Astana.
Always good to hear from Molodoy and indeed James Banks.
But for now, Richard Lewis, your host, me, will be talking to the panel about the game
we've got coming up, which involves Molotoy, Furia, Gentlemates, Maui Snake, Prof, there
we go.
I pointed at things and said the words.
Fantastic.
That's your job as a host, I think.
Oh, yeah, no, yeah.
I'm going to be no doubt employable moving forward.
You're really good at the pointing hand thing, gestures and all of these.
I feel very, like, pointed at when I'm on your desk compared to other desks.
I actually do use hand movement quite a lot.
a lot. If anyone has noticed that, that is one of my strong points. Hands move, the legs
and everything else.
Just keep them to yourself.
Yeah, actually.
That's got some people a couple of legs.
Good advice. Anyway, so look, why don't we set the story of this fixture up? I want
to start by talking about Gentlemates and who better to ask than one half of HLTV's
editorial team?
I don't think that's my job, but okay. The thing is, I spent half of this day just thinking
about can this game be interesting, right?
Obviously, if you're as huge favorite and gentlemen,
they have some things going for them,
but their season is a weird one
because they started off very strong in the open lands
at the start of the year, like January, February,
and they peaked at number 16 in the VRS.
And at that point, we have these simulations
and percentages, odds to qualify for the major.
They are at like 82%.
And what they did after that is literally not play anything
for a month because they're trying to kind of optimize.
Everyone's trying to optimize the VRS and you know not to lose points then later on they're coming back after a month
And they just suck. They just lose to everyone because you know, they haven't been playing
Yeah, they realized all of these teams are actually catching up to them
And they should have been playing before as well and they just they just they they're disappointing
They they lose game after game
They crash out of two or three open lands and they miss the major and these are teams that these are players that barely played any majors
I think Alex played two, maybe Mopos played one, or something like that.
I remember Mopos at one.
The rest of the team, they've been around so long that you feel like they are bigger names in the scenes,
but actually Martina's never played a major.
Wow.
That's how we...
Truth-took.
Yeah, that's not something you really expect.
And then what happened after that is they cut their coach, right?
And now they have their previous analysts standing behind them.
And I think cutting your coach, if he's a part of making these decisions, I think he's completely justified.
Right.
And I mean, I think that the thing with rep keys being brought in as the coach has actually kind of helped them
There's one crazy thing I noticed when I was looking at gentlemates demos is that in the last two weeks or so
Every time and they didn't used to do this before I looked to compare
Hmm since he became the coach in the last two weeks
Every time they lose a tee pistol without getting a plant they force by and they have set piece plays
So I think he's bringing some new ideas to the table because the team used to just full-glock eco the next round
That's kind of what the meta says to do
Yeah, but it actually has led to them getting some kind of cheeky round wins versus some of the teams here at this event where they'll just
Forced by off of a pistol loss on T side and I think that they've actually upgraded their strategies
I think they actually have more ways to get map control
They're more of a contact heavy team in general
But they have just a few more ideas of what to do in a round now gonna need lots of ideas today because they're taking on
Furia, but I do have to say Furia, they're not talking about yesterday's game against
Spirit in the hood.
All you want to put that one out of your mind was a bit of a car crash, not really clean.
They definitely had their opportunities to get it over the line and weren't able to.
Yeah, I mean, Furia had not a great start to the year.
Definitely on the downward trajectory, I mean, Fort Worth was a disaster for them crashing
out to FaZe and GamerLegion and I know Yakindar was kind of riding that off, it was unexpected
styles and all of this, but you're losing four maps straight out and you're out of
the tournament and obviously the whole fallen situation, I think it's overdone at this point.
The main story is about this guy, Molo there on the screens, home country, he debuted here
in the top leagues and had a great performance, great first year, rookie of the year and this
here he's been struggling it all turned around this this event and now even in
the in the game yesterday against spirit that they lost he was really good
that's that's what they can carry forward I would just describe fury in
2026 as mercurial they're very difficult to read tournament to tournament
whether they're gonna be a contender or they're just gonna bow out before you
would even expect it so to see Mola doi hit the ground running at this event one
it gives us something to be excited about given we're hosting the event in
Kazakhstan and I'm pretty sure what he's from Astana if I'm if I'm correct right
I mean that's that was what we said last time. I think originally he's like outside. Okay. Okay. Well, he's spent
Astana claims him. Well, he's on billboards now
He has done a metro area. Okay
Regardless of that, it's nice to see him in front of his home crowd play as well as he is because he's just been so disruptive
It's so fun to watch when Molotov is
repeaking like he was last year when he's breaking smokes with such efficacy
and see what we'll see the map pool here to see if he's going to have all those
opportunities
we're going to see which one they prefer over on puria will be like for the
inferno or the overpass
uh... when they get the pick
yeah feeling an overpass i think they have a win streak they're not super sexy
for for gentle mates i think that makes sense
to go with and nuke for for gentle mates also not a
not a surprise
nuke or inferno generally the two maps they like to pick
I think that's why we're probably going to be seeing an inferno decider
I think the both teams want to play that one both of them have like picking it in the past
I'm personally extremely glad that fury has kind of moved away from inferno being their first pick when given the option and now
They're relying on overpass a little bit more so that should probably a map in their back pocket
I think that's going to give them a huge edge in the series already and indeed
We are going to be going to the handshake inferno decider here
We've seen some good gentlemates games on that map if we get there like they just blitzed heroic yesterday
So I'm not counting it out to be competitive against the three maps, but I don't think it's gonna get there
Oh, that's interesting. So no chance for gentlemates on you feel them
I just think that the style that gentlemates play is way too contact heavy
They throw a lot of utility but frequent like they have some of the worst flash assist numbers of any team in the top 50
They just throw a lot of opening utility to set the battlefield, but then they just kind of walk into angles and fury is just gonna eat
That up in my opinion. Yeah for me. I know this kind of sounds
The classic but if they get momentum there a team that likes to play with that
I think Mopos is a player that characterizes that
Insanely well like he's a guy that's gonna push a smoke. He's gonna do something
Unexpected but for that to work
You need to kind of either have map control or you need the other team to be on the back foot to be able to have these little
mind games and reads going on. I just feel like Fiora at this event, I think it was Monty maybe
in the first game where the CT side was just such a lockdown and the way they use the beta that is
now you know stacking nades outside and just having four nades going on the smoke wall,
you literally can't make any progress anywhere and then you know mobiles can't really do anything
lurking around or fighting gaps on the T side because there's no gaps.
Yeah I mean my worry here is the CT side is where it was kind of all coming apart yesterday,
sure that was against Spirit. They do have the best entry fragger and indeed arguably
the best player in the world to pick you apart. But double gaps there and easily exploited.
Weird thing also about Fury going into Nuke CT side is that the three guys that you expect
to be really good on it, I'm pretty sure Yekindar, Kcerato and Moloadoy, past three months,
I think they all have a sub 1.0 CT rating. It's actually the T side where they've been
a little bit better but given how good they looked against Monty I feel like
they've corrected some of those issues from that the sample size shows when you
zoom out right yeah I did well listen we will be able to find out if you're
correct Maui because we will go over to two of my gentle mates yeah I said it
well done in the back in the form of the Lord is in scrum I wouldn't say your
best but some of your best Richard absolutely thank you our experts for
break it down this one moment we dive back into another fury a game a fury of
who we have had our expectations skyrocketed once we landed in a stana
so I'm hoping to just kind of forget about yesterday versus spirit where
fury almost felt a little like uninspired by themselves the quality of play
they brought to the table this is a chance for them to just stomp again at
the start of the series on nuke exactly like they did to Monty we could have
could have seen them win yesterday obviously it didn't happen it was a
very close match and I think there's no way and no world in which they were
looking sort of emotionless because they weren't feeling anything. If anything, I would assume they
are feeling too much. And I can understand why the story for them in Astana is a pretty big one,
the story for them with Fallen is a pretty- there's a lot of things probably on their plate right now
mentally and I think they showed they were prepped ready for the event, but the mental side of it
is just a whole other test. Now this one should be a little bit easier than yesterday, but we're
here to find out if it's going to be a long one.
Molly for Cacerado to have to handle, two first kills come out for Fury up, and Davi G the only one to answer.
So nicely done Fury, able to hold that 8th floor. There was a layered execute there for Gentlemates.
They had a plan, Moe. They had the Nades, they had the plan, they tried to put it in place, and then they just get shot upside the head.
So Fury individually, gonna shut that one down with ease.
And I'm expecting basically from every dimension of gameplay that Fury will be able to do that.
And I think even yesterday's game was probably a bonus for them. Yes, they lose but they played, you know, deep into overpass
I think was good for Furia. I think playing
To the point where they got pushed on three different maps and had to just get all of it, you know, the ink out
Sure, the gunk. Yeah, the gunk anything that was kind of slowing to roll
Because from what we've seen they have the tools. They have the tactics. They have the new ideas
And they've had to uptick in some individual form, right?
We really kind of put, like, Yukindar in the spotlight yesterday.
Yeah, like, his third map was a little bit better.
Mm-hmm.
So that helped out a lot.
And obviously, Molo-Doy's been perfect.
Gentlemates are really hoping to get the Furia that played this map.
It for first, that was total blowout losses for Furia.
Not the Furia, the completely trounced Monty at the start of this event.
So there's been this hot and cold element, Maui discussed it, how if you zoom out, kind
of looks a little sketchy for Furia, but you don't even have to zoom out fully with that
recency of rivals.
And Counter-Strike, I mean, three months form, that really doesn't matter.
What really matters is last week, if there's enough games, two weeks if you need a bigger
sample size.
but that's pretty much how it goes in CS.
Things move fast.
Not in this round, per se.
We hit 30 seconds.
We've got three players still over towards Squeaky.
And that last piece of Util for the hot flashbangs to get it rolling.
And Kcerano retains vision and control with his teammate up above it.
So, just stomped on inside of this bombsite by Furia.
Never meant to get too much going, but with the fact that they had their tech nines
in utility, you'd hope for more than, say, what, 60 damage.
So, good start for Furia to convert their pistol.
That was something that was also weird yesterday
with, you know, Spirit.
There was a couple of times where Furia kind of
let them back into games because of those half-bys.
And that's something that they,
I don't think they're going to want to allow
gentlemates to pull off today.
I think we saw definitely that Spirit
were individually in it.
They were sort of mentally fine,
and they were willing to, I think,
let bad rounds go and move on to their punish game
which ultimately was the decider, I feel like, the difference between them and Fury up.
But I certainly would have argued that, you know, they were the better team overall, I think Fury has still had that, so...
We'll see how long we can hold on to that narrative. I mean, this test is everything.
Mopah's gonna try to make this a sneaky moment.
I got the secret.
I mean, just to go and check to see if anybody hasn't been watching this, but looks fully
calmed.
the look and not seeing. There was, in fact, two more players out here. Mopaz, excuse me,
never does join him through the secret counter push, but goes back down to that lower site.
This guy's just kind of walking back and forth, not really sure where to go, what they want.
They're not taking the bomb anywhere, and everything is kind of closed. So, not exactly
sure where Gentlemates would like to go on this round, but with Deagles,
could just be about getting one or two kills.
Phopos has made it through that lease site, I believe, unnoticed, so there's a world where
he catches Fallen off guard now, but the way he approaches it, let's Fallen react.
Not fast enough, Ramp now belongs to Gentlemates.
That could damn well open the door for the bomb plant, not for this fast rotation down
by two.
You kick out here to stop it, takes a Tech 9 shot, that was Phopos, the closer of those
two.
So, all things considered, that felt like it was gonna get them absolutely nothing.
Finding two kills on their chance at a plant is something to work with, but the 3-0 start regardless, secured by Furia.
And it's kind of interesting that the early ventrop, it felt like Furia were thinking about it, but the longer the round went on, just being silent for that long, it opened up a new timing.
It must have helped them open up a door as well to get that Rambler can play.
So now we go into a rifle, there'll be no hops on the board.
Forward press to start versus the first gun rounds of gentlemen to find themselves collected
up inside a lobby and met by smokes.
I'll force them to pause momentarily.
You're on the site silos, just perched and waiting for the hot play.
Just trying to draw a case or auto actually towards outside with some outside pressure,
It's not really doing anything you can here still here.
There we go.
His auto goes down though.
You're just gonna have to do this on his own.
Ooh, he's got a second chance at a malty.
Now, Molledoy up from Heaven's gonna have to get in and try to make up lost ground.
They're gonna plant on the front side of hot.
Fallen doesn't waste a moment. That got them off the bomb plant.
What a dive!
Wow.
Fallen hits the bomb site, sprints in, and slays them.
Yeah, they trusted that Mollie to work, but they should have protected it while it was going up
and then look for the bomb plant, rush the situation a touch, got freaked out when they heard Fallen hit the ground.
A little rough and a little too fast there for gentlemates, that's still a good punish for Furia.
And that's the kind of tenacity that had me believing in Furia with their first best of three wins, first two bests of three wins, excuse me.
Fallen with just no caution.
Inspires the troops, rallies them into the interruption on the bomb plant and forces
gentlemates back into this, gross looking by, solo Galil.
A good amount of utility and some of it already trickling in through the skylights.
Here comes that top main play, the Galil in question, meant to thrive.
Instead gets stopped again a bit separated are the hot players, but we get at least the slightest bit of a rebuttal
Alex is only gonna find that one inside of Maine
And so the money starts to grow the confidence starts to grow and furia off to the 5-0 start
Yeah, it's not looking looking too sharp here for gentlemates if this is how the game plan is gonna go for the rest of the match
A lot of these upper holds are I mean the upper attacks aren't really close enough that you'd be like
Oh, you should try that again. I think they, you know, barely got themselves into nearly a post-plot position in the round before, but I
Wouldn't say they were in full control of any situation and then made one mistake and let it go
Not fair, you're gonna be pretty happy if this is the style of play that. Central mates are gonna be coming at them with
They might be scared to go for the longer rounds and try to fight them outside, but
If you're gonna pick nuke you have to
Cautionary utility
Stack inside of Main and those nades just off the Marcus.
Sosal had already hit the top of Main.
Got three players grouped up behind the red box. They've not gone for the silent cross, but he got wind of it.
K-Sorado just enough bullets in the magazine, but he's gonna get dived on.
Sosal makes the activation into that, gets the trade.
Players downstairs, Ykindar's looking to handle those ones.
As Mollidoy goes for the killback on Main, maintains map control there.
And this lower swing, right there for your kinder to double down on, but Alex will walk away with half health.
Ooh, more pause gets tagged going down the vents.
Looks like Alex actually wanted to feign presence go back, seeing the bomb had been spotted.
But instead, there'll be a commitment.
It could open this door, but it's being watched.
It's a 3v2, but the two both on half health.
Oh, but he caught him.
Wow.
Fallen walking up, blindsided by that walk-out.
Suddenly, things feel a little more wind-
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
It's not gonna work, okay.
No, he's got it.
That's crazy.
1hp there for Mopaz.
No surprise to see him trok.
Alex wants to go for the reposition,
but he's already been spotted trying to walk up along the wall.
So there was a big disadvantage to have to go up against there
for the gentle mates.
No surprise to see Furya keep winning ways rolling.
I did like the boost on the back of the site.
You don't see that often.
He gotta do something, you know?
Yeah.
No, I'm saying no, I'm saying
Not meant to be no
It did ultimately reveal both players are there
It's been tough to kind of get your hands on fury right now. They feel like this ball of electricity the way they're playing some of these moments
There's really no hesitation in a lot of the plays out of fury. So halfway through the CT side and flawless so far
And because Molodoy hasn't died, he's happy to stay on the AK, he's got 14,000 bucks.
There it is.
So now you made me mad, I'm gonna buy my AWP next round.
You're actually just powering him up by killing him here, but a 10 and 2 start from Molodoy?
Excellent.
You were already trying to prop him up as this cross comes through from gentlemates once more.
Can the 4v5 be won by Furia?
The bomb gets spotted crossing, so they know it's with the pack right now.
Okay, Serato freed up, doing his own thing inside of Lobby.
There's a chance that he finds Mopaw's eventually.
This Mopaw's solo trophy move.
You can see these CTs starting to go for a bit of a pinch as they understand that Lower's
being contested.
This could be cleared from the back side of Lobby, but it isn't right now.
So it's possible Fallen just dies here if he's not careful.
There we go.
First secured.
I mean...
Okay.
Okay, well, as I was gonna say, if you even lose these players upstairs, they have a lot of...
a lot of way to move lower.
Good trade back. Good thing they had a second player here inside of Lobby.
That's gonna be a numbers advantage strong on the B site, even if somebody was home.
But that's not the case. Both of Furious players still upstairs.
The 4v5 they face seems too much to surmount.
And here we have it. Seven rounds in.
Gentlemates will collect a terrorist round win.
We anticipate Molledoy switching out onto that office. He's on the brink of 16,000, but Kasurata will need to be bought for that spine
There's so much cashier for Furia due to the nature of the first six rounds
Again as Mali brought up that's always been interesting at least these last last little while that Furia
Overperform on their T sides. They love T side
They actually you know that would be fine if they didn't like kind of struggle for some reason on CT
But they've really shaped up their CT side. We've seen their nuke right now
And Alan is resulting in some confident looking rounds.
So at least run and respond said it's good.
It's on a full buy, it's using outside to get to lower.
They don't risk it all on a rush.
Oh man, are they going to try that again though?
At least this haven't worked.
Just want to go back to it.
Yeah, let's see if this is the difference.
Alex is able to clear back site, no Heaven support but Kate Serato hangs onto his.
Oh, no mini moxmox.
Okay.
Comes out a bit late, flash with it.
You've got these players stuck, is Fallen gonna dive us alone?
He goes through, he was barely done with the reload.
Both your players over on main couldn't come out at the same time, now they're just gonna
force the issue.
Ykindar still picks it up, Malabdoy up above, dealt with.
And Ykindar caught with a knife out.
Gentlemates hang on for dear life.
Wow.
It's crazy to me that Fallen was going through on the single flash as Reload was barely finished
and those main players still smoked out of the engagement.
Very low likelihood for any trades, and so we see Gentlemates hang on.
Yeah, he could see here the call flashing and he's like, alright, well, there's no other
time I can go.
Either this flash works or it doesn't.
And if it works, I'll have time to pull my gun out.
At least put together one kill, but for Gentlemates, I feel it's very important.
win that rounds and I just feel it would have been really embarrassing if they
tried another upper hit like that and it just totally failed still looks a little
risky and I'm sure furia are kind of upset with themselves not be able to
handle that once again but in terms of their money it's well it's actually not
fantastic somehow balladoy two rounds ago $14,000 I think that's not to call
an anchor, but Quesarado kind of really broke. Going into that last round, everybody had to buy a round
of him. So we go MP9 and 5-7 for Furia, but at least these Molodoy AWP features here in round 9 as well.
Second round of the CT side, he's had one.
The Kindar is going to find damage on the cross, but it's the AWP to pick it up supporting over
top. We haven't seen a ton of gentlemates walk through that smoke, and so to get exposed this
This time around is the perfect chance for Furia to get the 5v4 going.
They'll hear that vent drop and already down secret go-to.
Mopaz is much deeper than maybe Furia could anticipate.
Yeah, they're really slow to get to ramp.
Once vent was taken over, oh my goodness.
Yeah, they're not ready to take it off.
MacTennie's going to clean up one plus the assist and Alex finds the headshot.
Alright.
I mean, they know vent was called, but getting out there that quickly was pretty crazy speed
out of Mopaz and it's a round winning play. The two best guns of the round here for Furia
will save, but now Gentile may actually make a T-side out of this.
It's a 4v5 rebuttal in this round as well.
All that needed to happen I think when they realized they couldn't break those smokes open
again outside. They got their kill, but once they heard that knife and vent,
vent or sorry, ramp became the only way to get downstairs, so they needed to get there quickly.
They want to control so badly that they rode off the threat of that Astralis push.
Respect, Mopaz, because he's got to do that with the Maktanak.
Kind of freeze him up to push as fast as he did, but at the same time,
you're taking a duel to the player control.
Alex was right there to tether for the 2K,
but he didn't waste a moment slaying the Kitar.
Oh and Alex that second shot nice sequence out of him over top of the panel
We saw the money under question last round this time Furia sure they get the two better of the weapons saved
But what's gonna get sprinkled in around it not even Kevlar for Yuri nor you kind of are they'll have a few grenades to play with
There's a kit on the field, you know
There's enough for Furia to cause an upset here, but gentlemates have had their hands properly
Securing these last three rounds
Just a matter of avoiding Maladoy's AWP and skirting by Quesarado's M4.
Quesarado currently changed up.
Over to the ramp room this time.
He's constantly on that A floor.
Not this time as they try to get tricky.
Looks like Fallen wants to kinda bait for him.
Switch it out.
Oh!
That helps!
A 5'7 headshot just like that.
He's picked the perfect angle, hasn't he?
They're throwing him another gun.
But they went back.
And now they don't clear this. No chance.
They want to take ramp.
They might feel free to.
But even if they don't take ramp,
Kcerado can confirm this.
They might feel like they have more information than CT side, but they don't.
Uri wants to flush them towards Kcerado, and that could do it.
They come through.
Ah, he stares at the gun, didn't think they just walked that smoke like they did, and that's gonna get them fully away from K. Serato.
Nobody hold the- oh, nope, nevermind, right behind the vent.
Well, it's an accuracy for ya.
Smoke grenade creates a famicuity, frag grenade lands there for damage.
Still close enough to take a look at this, but it's high-risk, high reward with these
two guns to be saved again.
Yeah, getting out of the vent would definitely be tricky.
You don't know if someone's waiting for you on the squeaky side, so it's another round
earned here for gentlemates where they're willing to take risks.
Walking back through that smoke was obviously the big one in the lobby, but no surprise
Is that Yuri isn't holding it?
Oh, dear, this is weird.
Though I say that, and in case Roto did confirm both of these guys, we're going back to Trophy.
That's that threat the gentlemades won't know though, so they watch this back.
They have no clue how close they came to just giving that over.
Yeah.
That's the S for ya.
Four consecutive.
It's a fiery start for Furia, but things have cooled off.
They've still managed to get through because of this constant save of the two guns.
Two rounds in a row now, we get five rifles up on the side of Furia.
Round loss bonus kicking in.
Eight four CT side best case and high hopes for a T side in the Furia camp.
There's a shift in the tone here for gentlemates as their plans have started to work.
to finish off what he started with the upshot but that he already in the secret
Now, two will quietly cross over, but it's held by Quesarado.
He survives barely, goes for a swift reposition up into the floor of A site instead, and lets
Martinez become the tip of the spear lower.
That's been an effective part of their game plan to get this Venn's control so quickly
and so early.
So, it's pretty huge find for Quesarado, also still retaining control side.
So what do the gentlemates do in response to this?
They're a very lurky team and it's actually worked out in a few of these situations.
Oh my goodness.
13 health for that one.
Totally distracts Mopaz.
That is beyond.
Because it's the usual main player that's pushing into lobby.
It's gonna confirm last two players downstairs and there's already everybody on the scene to deal with this, so best of luck, Martinez 1v5, not gonna happen.
The fact that K-Cirado survived the first fight in Fence, let alone the second in the blobby push.
That's not even like the kind of push. Like, not taking any damage on that is insane, so...
We get to K-Cirado. He's been awesome.
Now 11 and 5, surpassing Uri with this last round and tying Molo-Doi at the top, or the top, rather, of the scoreboard.
This second shot.
Woof!
And then hook, line, and sinker through Yikinder, so he gets the freebie blindside inside Main.
Gentlemates, full by for the final round of the T side.
Having shied away from playing outside in these recent rounds, that was something that
Didn't really feature the start of this T-side, but we've gotten there by now.
Little change up for the Molodoy position.
Oh, he's popping that open, and he sees more than one!
That'll be a kinder on high alert, but Martinez was afforded a crossover to secret with the
bomb for now.
Minutes of play, no pause.
Taking a look at A site, but gets smoked out from the doorway.
Unreal consistency out of Molledoy in these last few days.
I just haven't seen a map where he really disappears.
Safe to say he wants to play on that Astana stage again.
Kindar to face three momentarily.
Shave Salsall off the play, Alex comes through, trying to open up the A site, but Keisarado
is going to mow him down.
It's a ton of damage for Alex to have to stomach in an already unlikely 1v4.
That one makes it impossible.
K. Serato's got his hands on these last couple of rounds, keeping that strong core of Furia
standing together.
And so they do recover two rounds to close out the half.
It's a very distinct style here from Gentlemates in that first half.
They go lurky to try to get lower control, to go for the vents plays.
No hell wraps, very little ramp control.
a lot of different stuff and uh... for the most part
it didn't work out obviously fury out
had a lot of a lot of control in this half but
uh... that small streak in the middle of the decade that could definitely help
when it comes to making a comeback
but you're saying we have high hopes for the t-side of fury up
yes like that's their or that's their
their comfort zone
and very hesitant to be like this is the
You know what, Furia are.
So they'll be this because it's hard to put your finger on it now.
It's sort of like, I know there's a lot more going on, but, uh, yeah,
Yuri's 12 and six.
K seratos 12 and six.
Molo is 12 and three.
Yeah.
That just feels like your wind conditions have come together so far.
Eight four lead on top of it.
A terrorist pistol win for Furia could spell disaster for the
Gentlemaids matpick
They'll go two sets of burrettas both of which with Kevlar
Separate the two oh
I got it of that
Slide dog
Finding a 5v4 by a smoke spam Yuri hits the ground
Gravity not on his side as he's dropped to 30 health and Martinez with these burrettas pressed into the cheese
is going to find the bomb at his feet. Way too easy.
To start of this pistol, 2v5 could still come together as Molledoy looks to be the solution,
doubling back now with their Berettas, but blindsided by the push.
And so, gentlemates get active in the pistol, love the smoke spam through Squeaky to start this,
and then from that death, you just kind of see Fury up, seemingly having to play a little faster than I think they wanted.
And at that point, trying to catch up, never happens, gentlemates ready from the get-go.
Yeah, I'm liking how gentlemates are not afraid to take back space. They're not afraid to
Look for the smoke spans and not just play reactive. They are very proactive
It looks you know in that first half it looked almost a little bit gimmicky or just a little bit too heavy on the risk side
But also they're the ones who are coming up against a team like Furia. They have to take some kinds of risks
Wise man one set scared money don't make money
Go for it.
You can't say, gentlemen, I've played with any fear.
Furia with a bit of timidness in this. Don't go for the bite.
Gonna deagle on Yuri to see what he can do.
Well, that's what he can do.
Laser.
I think his name is like Martinez.
Martinez.
That's true.
I like that he added that for us.
Sometimes I just throw a little spice on these names for fun, but he's really set that one
up for us.
Here comes Cacerado's era.
Yeah, that goes about how you expect it with rifles inside of main like that.
Again, bow down, and it'll be Furia with a buy in the third round of their T-side, as
Gentlemates trail six rounds to eight.
It's an impressive amount of notes and highlighting there for Gentlemates looking really professional.
The good game plan here to go up against Furia.
definitely feel like they have visualized this head-to-head ever since
that CT pistol. There's a certain confidence and swagger the gentlemates
moves here. Martina has swift to the bottom of silo. He's got support as well
on the other side of that smoke so the longer this goes on the less likely
Yakindar is to get away with this kill. You'll find it before Alex really gets a
chance to punish. Oh, the headshot from Yackindar back to back.
Ludacris. That's what you're looking for.
And it's three guys outside. One's in secret. You can try to stop them there.
It's also always in a good spot. I know. That's only one frag for him.
Both CT's downstairs. Malu, do I heard that drop so they know exactly where the last two are.
Easy move up through heaven to the A site. Oh, thank you to Yackindar if you're Furia for
That second frag outside. Pure reactions.
I mean that is kind of why like he hasn't, we've just been talking about him as a win condition this week, haven't we?
Yeah, because when he's good it's just so high impact. He is like, uh, like on the same level as Moledoy and Donk and everything.
Just, by the nature of him getting openers.
I mean that second kill on the red rocks push.
Woo, sit down, brother.
I was worried he'd be a bit too timid and then that smoke would fade and Alex would have the chance to peek from the short side of red
But he made that move happen at the perfect moment
I knew he would still have them separated
Not so cost-effective by the end of this round
Kcerado does kill low pause there towards spawn before the bomb clears him up. So the sole survivor in Davi G
And a three-round fury elite
Yeah, look at the money do that really puts things in an awkward spot for furia. They better hope to win this next round as well
Yeah, that was testy
But an op on the CTs will not be a feature for furia. Here comes the Mac 10. Oh
Okay, okay, I was like the galil nades
It's
Okay, so out of sold back, maybe there's the Mac 10 is there the Mac 10
Or just a full save so that they get an off in their next gun round and then
Someone gives him the galeel
armor
Money nothing all he wants is money not okay. Oh, there we go. All right
We had to explain that as quickly as possible because that was crazy
Juke's us out like that
I mean they've got a set idea here. It's a very sparse utility. They're already down
to one smoke.
Ton of molotovs though, if they want to blanket that up her sight. What did that come from?
Huh? What?
I did a bullet just hit the ground there. That was crazy.
He took damage.
Wow, squeaky spam.
Do it again, I dare ya.
I mean, the longer this goes on, you can't even run spot if this is what he's looking for.
Just to get as much free space as possible since they don't have full outside utility.
They also know that gentlemates like to push things.
Yeah, but no one's holding for this push.
Two players inside of the hut. That wave of Molotovs comes flying out. They go four players, squeaky, strong, trying to dive the vent.
Dink for Sossil to have to handle, and Molodoy cleans up on that.
Yukindar will not get away with his outer antics. Op is on the scene, but as Martinez remains occupied with the player back site,
look, he's throwing grenades. Keisarado would love to try to dive this, and he'll get the headshot.
Mopaw's right here as well, but you've got low health on all three theory of players
There's an edge here for gentlemates
But what they don't have is a diffuse kids
22 seconds on that bomb they're gonna have to get this one moving and they don't really have utility either
So that's what you need a couple of headshots back to back Molladoy reveals himself
They're gonna try to get on it and it's not planted for him
But that 10 second defuse all the way off and with that it's a Molo doi clutch
Wasn't he in a position where Molo would have had a jump off to kill him? He would have had to
I mean
He was on the right side of that diffuse. I feel like I actually just stick that
I mean it would been the only chance to win the only chance. I still don't think he gets it
Molo doi's got too much time left still four seconds to push out
So okay, but I'm thinking what comes close to be honest because I think Molo goes around the inside
Let's watch it back with the replay.
The railing being in this way.
Can I ask these shots from MOPAs here predicting fall into peak?
Yeah, box a half-night. It's another five seconds.
Oh, okay. That's tough.
A position that didn't feel like it would need a clutch,
but still what happens is that if you look at both sides of the aisle,
They're spending down to 0 and the T's, they're not going to have an AWP here.
They're not going to have an AK maybe, I don't know if you kinders got one on the ground, but...
This one's up for grabs.
I absolutely wouldn't mind being gentlemates here even though they have 3 MP9s.
It's been a couple of these moments for Furia where they win around, but then it's not cost-effective
and they've got to bounce into the next one with Galil's.
Two-five death wins.
This T-Side is very frail and yet double digits for Furia off that Maladoy 1v3.
Such a grand opportunity for Gentlemates, but also we look at Gentlemates by and it's a
big risk for them.
issue different team and I think this is where their play style could actually
benefit them on a round like this like they know how to get space back
happy to press into their opponents it's not gonna win that dual
Nate's open up the avenue Mopas goes for the hot control they've wrapped around
the site already and they're concerned about that trophy push good presence of
mine from Molotoy. Mopon strikes and you've got three kills in a quick sequence and the
bomb wants to go downstairs. Dory takes a shot to the head but survives it. And Martinez
now is going to have to retake with an AWP and no kills.
And he wants to cut off Uri going to ramp. He's not going there. And it also, yeah,
he really thinks that Uri's waiting for him. Uri was waiting for an opportunity to get
the vent. Very crafty. Might even take this one outside to look for Martinez potentially
No, he's he's downstairs now and a safety Martinez can go and hold on to this op
There's no chance for him to retake
That's nice another four kills it's gonna say keep the price tag high again and again. Yeah
Yeah, one player saving really doesn't do that much
still gonna be a lot of concessions so much more money than what gentlemates
have though even if you are limited and so now this becomes the important round
it doesn't I mean Martinez still has an op so oh man gentlemates are doing
something really crazy she too smoking para vision oh my goodness
they're never gonna get good oh I thought they were eventually gonna get
good for elimination by the way I mean no shame losing a g2 they are good but
at least make it closer than that I think Doston will be a shit we'll also
be a little angry I will lose one of our Kazakhstan representatives all while
Now, Furia hoped to put Moledoy on that pedestal.
So can Martinez save the day?
They're putting a lot of stock into that. They wouldn't have bought if he didn't save this up.
And so they have basically the same buy they had last round, maybe even a little better.
One less MP9. And more grenades, that's for sure.
But at the same time, Furia also have a better buy.
Yeah.
I'm trying to keep this from close.
I've got some nail biters.
But it is ultimately Martinez with the task outside, met by smokes at a minute thirty-five.
If you're trying to be as careful as possible, Martinez wants any opportunity to shoot.
Rending to Heaven wrap smokes, that one's wide open actually.
Fine fallen with his hands busy, Yuri's been spotted as well, that's two more players on
the crossclash.
Ouch!
4HP.
That's more tick and Alex is done for in the flames there.
The Martinez can't do anything about stopping that cross downstairs and these CTs have still
not moved lower.
This is a crazy position, what's even happening right now?
Another freak frag for Martinez.
But honestly worth it, right? You stick around long enough, you swoop on, get a bunch of kills,
and force this Yakindar-Molodoy, 2 vs 5, to try to...
Oh, that's gonna help.
Insta headshot out of Molodoy.
That's his chance to get off site.
Oh, they both can go control side. No one's coming out of the vents on this side.
But another moment here where bomb is planted back site, so it's not gonna be for them.
They could get flushed out into the open.
If the player's on site already, tap that bomb.
It's gonna start to force Yakindar to maybe move faster than he wants.
And it's being held.
Nice.
Javi G inside of the single door has got this one. We've seen Molledoy 1v3, 1v4 feels too much of an ask.
Gentlemates, patience outside. Make sure that none of their players get caught off.
And that 10-second defuse is all the more dangerous when you think about how slow they were to move lower.
It's crazy how much value Martina has got out of his position, but he was the AWP that saved everyone,
trusted him and bought behind it, and he delivered three frags.
that's about as good as it gets and uh... because it's been so many
close shade for furia
their money means they've you know
i mean they've they've got to just chill yeah they're back to bust two
thousand dollars across the team
one people it's on all the ways hands this time
healthy reset
genomics on the been on the break of this a couple of other times
Two successful clutches in this map so far, both of which belong to Molotoway.
And that is an element of keeping the gentlemen away from these easy anti-ecos.
Once they get here, they feast within it, triple for Sossel as nobody's allowed to entry the ramp,
and the gentlemen cut that lead down to three rounds now.
Yeah, totally recovered their position, their economy, their odds of actually coming back into this game.
And they make sure it's not a free win for Furia.
Furia saved that 4k last round to keep the AWP available now from Aladoi to buy.
And you know Martinez is AWPing outside with that sequence he was able to get last time
fury I had guns so no surprise to see Maladoy go for this hunt.
Maladoy now posted on it.
Passed the dodge to the flash as Ykindar goes for secret, Martinez wins the head-to-head.
But Ykindar will stomp Alex out of the round and a very quick move, lower once again, threatening.
As Sossil drops, no ramp up this time around.
Fallen's going to try to dive lower looking to join up with Ykindar who on 16 health is responsible for the vents.
And so Davi G. Swift to just drop in through this has taken damage in the process
But it's a bomb plant on the Astralis side one over towards control and fallen plays the rafters
He'll go clock here and this makes it harder
Double ramp retake being put into position. I mean it got one kit and it's on Martinez here towards the ramp retake
He's also the guy with the utility
Flash trickles out from the single door fall and just looking to keep this tucked and the rumblings of the ramp retake now
come forth. Galil for damage, no frag. And a
Stralis player busy with the single door, gets the kill before he has to, and
it's looking to be K Serrano this time. He'll close in on it, and another round
Refuria survive with one single player. To pick that apart, they really
needed to get Yuri out of that spot, and Fallen obviously, not super sharp right
now, is struggling to get his kills, but put himself in a good spot at a clock,
and played his piece properly to not die, time pressure became immense in that situation,
and the retake was just too slow.
Numerically, Yukindar's not lighting up this server, but another moment with big impact as
he opens up that lower play immensely.
True.
Molledoy was definitely scared for a moment.
Molledoy gets blasted by Martinez, and Yukindar sees that as a chance to be the hero, so he was.
to secure Furia's 12th.
Now Martina's new line,
gonna completely catch Okikindar
and he doesn't fade away.
What X is happening?
He's around for the silo re-aggression
and gentlemates will find a 5v3 comfortable
thanks to their AWPer again.
Oh, he thinks there's no way that retake,
uh, repeat could happen with someone watching secret.
I know a big chance.
Ooh, nicely played.
Fallen toying with Davi G.
We get a wide swing out from Sossel, a second layer to this Hellplay.
A lot of bodies outside still as that flash connects, both ends.
Utility doing heavy lifting right now.
All it is looking to blindside it, I don't think they anticipate this Groshkross.
But he decides to just hit the pause button as Kacerado and Fallen double back towards Lobby.
They wish they had something, they have no utility between these two.
If they could take those slashes off of Mollidoy, it could maybe elicit a lurk, putting some pressure towards Ramp.
But now Mollidoy has to read their holding from here. He's gonna crouch underneath this.
It was two players spotted out here once upon a time.
It's an awkward transition there for Mollidoy to have to catch, because Sossil just decides to start moving.
One vent drop and Mopaz clears out the bomb.
Trying to elicit something. Look at a play. Some mind games was Furia with what little they had in this 3v5
Oh, man, follow Mike. It's low. He's good
A galil for your troubles. Good, sir
Economy's been a problem for Furia throughout this second half and this round will be no different
Galil changes hands over to K-Sorado. We get some utility sprinkled in. They're actually buying behind this.
And they were gonna have...
Really? What did they even get here?
A second Galil.
A couple upgraded pistols and early grenades.
Man, money's been super tight.
This one's going fast ramp.
Alright, to test Sossil.
He's gonna mow down one, go for the quick move, and that's gonna be the rifler down to 27.
White swing for your kinder empty handed as Alex hands on
And while case Rados made it lower
Actually, yes, also is watching for this
Be spotted as he falls back
Nice kill for him and a name for your troubles
Woo! Keeps it clean here. Executing Furia on the approach one after another. Only Uri of the five Furia members able to get a kill this round.
Ramp's going to be held onto. Gentlemates, close the distance. The very least, securing double digits on their map pick. Two rounds to overtime.
And now Furia going to have to full save in round 23 because of that two Galil Force by they brought forth in the last one.
Let's see where it performs a little bit of a problem here.
Your kidder has a chance to get some bullets off. If he gets that kill, that would have been sort of an exacter moment for the team.
But otherwise, Sossil has to be given so much credit to put up three kills on a ramp hole, get the lower play happening.
The communication was obviously good to make sure he was safe from control side and he made sure to watch it as well.
that's hilarious just in case just in case
that's exactly what he's doing
get out of my vent oh my gosh
Well, Pa's gonna walk back here.
No way, P.S. Arata's got no way with this.
Well Pa's keeps his eyes on it, but...
Wow, they stopped now.
That's an AK for Fallen.
Oh, and Yori just got a second Glockio.
This was five clocks, nothing else.
How did they do that?
Oh, what a beaty-dade.
It's gonna blow him out of the round.
Yakindar's got the M4.
Another...
Oh!
Another nade.
Another nade.
Still way more than you should ever get with 5 Glocks.
A little extra money for Furia so that they can get all the trimmings in the 24th round of regulation.
Yeah, it's nice for them to get a bomb plant for sure.
Everyone's been spending to their bottom dollar in each of these rounds.
It's actually hilarious, just underhand grenades down.
You know they have no armor, no guns, very little health.
Very rude.
I'm throwing firecrackers in a molehole.
Used to do that in the outback.
Yeah, there.
Alright, I mean, Martinez has brought back his storyline in a massive way on the CT side.
It's generated lots of opportunities.
I wonder how fury has given him so many
It's gonna make Yuri feel like he's been found out
Okay, Serato again try to test this squeaky smoke
smoke. He pulls off some wild antics and he's right on the edge of it as he slides out finding
mopods unprepared spotting a player back site 2. Davi Jesus is not the element of surprise
he'd hoped for. They set Heaven ablaze, take over A and have a man advantage in the post
plant. Smoke onto main. Like you just said, so many utilities still left over. To try
to keep them all at bay, Martina is up into heaven.
Oh, addicted by Case Serato.
And so the 2v4 has to come together for Gentlemates.
Furia's T side has faced economic problems in so many rounds, and yet finally buying
down fully in that final of regulation, Furia will rob away the Gentlemates map pick and
look much happier today.
Right Connor a map of victory that epitomizes the fury we have seen at this tournament so far
They get themselves almost over the line. They're there you can see it in the distance. They're waving at it
Yeah, it's gonna be easy and then their opponents always find a way to come back in typically before
Furia close out. So yeah, it's just been rinse and repeat today
But gentle mates will probably be feeling a bit sore after that
Honestly, I felt like this was over six rounds ago, so for General Maid to extend it.
Well, we tried his in front of the door.
That's true, yeah.
But then to extend it in the fashion that they did, I think that the way that they handled
a lot of the on-bomb side situations, some of the retakes towards lower, was commendable,
but I also have some worries for Fury.
I thought that this team looked great after the first two series at this event, but they're
just taking a little bit longer, and the polish still feels like it's something that they're
trying to regain despite the fact that series to series I'm still just kind of
unsure of what I'm gonna expect or what I should expect. I think the comeback
started with that Martinez round when he was just in garage with Yop and the
rest of the bi was kind of not that great right and that he gets the first kill
and seemed like no one from Fury is actually trying to deal with it in
any way they're all just like burying it inside like I do with my feelings and
just thinking it's gonna solve itself it never does of course they lose
around and then almost, you know, over time for Gentlemace, I think they had a good chance to do it.
Right there, Prof. That's where it should have been over when WG sort of comes off that deep view.
Yeah. No reason. And we were just like, okay, they're toast. They're mentally checked out.
And then they battled all the way back, only you lose to it in 11.
Yeah, I mean, it's a shame because I definitely feel like this was a must win map for them.
agree and then you come close and just feels like a classic story of the underdog
you know they kind of they did well guys they did well but now it's all out of
their hands going into overpass where they have a six match losing streak we
need to have a conversation about Jekendar's performance though at this
event there have been so many moments where his inability to cut fine kills
that should be rudimentary by his standards it's eluded him I feel like
That's the one missing piece because Moldodoy has totally shown up
I'm glad that he's the standout player here as we're highlighting him his activity on the CT side was
Definitely felt huge reason why Furia got off to the lead that they started with in this one
But I mean, I feel like he's having to do 50% more as he's getting
50% less from one of his main right-hand men in Yakendar
Yeah, and especially you can see here on the t-side right where you want your kinder to be doing more obviously
You know Molodoy best will in the world. He's he is an operator. He's got the rifle. He's got the AK a lot on the t-side
I'll see you want your kinder to be doing damage and I agree. I think you know
We saw it yesterday against spirit where it really stood out, but that was I know he just
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's rough
Yeah, I mean you definitely expect more from from the T side Freak in there like compared to ball
I even though most I picked up a clutch that he probably had no rights winning the 1v3 on B
Ct rounds where he got kills. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, how does it get a 48 80 r 0.99 rating broth? Well, I don't know
Who do you need to call it?
I don't know the Latian the Latian mafia probably
99
4880R is crazy.
Traded deaths.
Traded deaths, you know? He was in the right space to die.
Yeah, okay, right.
When he was not getting kills, he was dying the right way.
Okay, yeah.
Team player, I suppose, right?
Yeah, yeah.
That's something that evaded my eye test there, I guess.
Yeah, it's a new stat that we've put in.
So, but now look, I think Furia, they are a little bit lacking this year.
This has been the problem in terms of we saw them on day one, day two,
Again slightly weaker opposition. They blew them out the water. You know the batted heroic the baton Monty great stuff
You come up against slightly better teams and then their deficiencies become way more up slightly better team gentle
Heroic in Monty are better than gentle mates. Yeah a few of us on the analyst predictions put those teams into our teams to make it through
So nobody put nobody put gentle mates no no no one consider gentle mates at all
It's like what does this team actually have? Martinez is kind of kind of decent on the up
But like they're these two teams are the two oldest teams two of the three oldest teams at the tournament
I feel like for for gentlemen, they're just like such known quantity across the board like salsa
Is maybe the newer guy you had a few like individual moments are like oh, okay
That's nice Martinez still has you know way to go
But the rest you kind of know what you're getting from and it's not that crazy, right?
Mopo's had a really good game. I thought he wasn't gonna be able to get into it
He did even on the T side
He had one ratty round and he got into lower and then unlock the defense
But it's just like you know, this is not the team Fioriash should be should be struggling with snow
And look, I think you've had all of these issues with fear in in that map
What's it out to me is your kinders kind of back to liquid level your kinder
You're not bad. Not that bad at this event in the last couple series. I don't know. There's been some moments.
There's been more moments that I wanted to see from him. And then you've got Yuri who's kind of been a bit absent.
He had one good Rio and that was just the aberration. That was him returning to the 2025 form.
But then now we're getting him kind of whatever happened at New Year's. He's got to undo all of that.
all of that. Yeah. Because he was a totally different player in December. Yeah. And then
we've been pushing them out of Fallons, reinvented himself as a rifler. Reinvent yourself again,
maybe, because the game was pretty rough in that one. The one thing I'll say about this event,
and I feel like it's a weird trend, is that the stars have shown up. Like, we've got Monosy,
Donk and Molotov, all firing off. Like, they're going ballistic, even 9-10 if you want to pick
out a Mongols player. But then some of the supporting cast members at this event just
don't seem like they're all there so they gotta whoever it almost feels like
whoever gets the most help come playoff time is gonna be the champion you
2014 Counter-Strike and the star players carrying like a bunch of bumps and
friends
Fox plus some energy going on in most of the teams right now no it's it is quite
crazy like watching Donk like spirit I mean spirit but we actually just watching
Donk like it just feels like nothing else is happening
Molotow as you noticed amazing this tournament and it's just I don't know
I do feel like the whole discussion about like fall and retiring at the end of the end of the year
I don't think we should take away from maybe they should make some changes before that
Because it's not why are you waiting so long for you to like fall off off of being like a tournament major
Major favorites last year to be like, okay
We'll figure everything out next year
Like I think you need to get ahead of the curve if like Yuri or or your kind are not really cutting it
you can or maybe can take over as the IGL, but like,
what is Yuri really doing that someone else can't?
Are you even implying that they would push Fallen out
before he retires?
No, actually no.
But maybe you should change some of the other players.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
Why don't we talk about Overpass?
Sure, wanna do that.
Great map.
Yeah, a big fan.
No, I'm sure you're a big fan of the map too.
As I always say, for me it's a unique value proposition
in the Counter-Strike space right now.
It is the map that has the, you know,
harder timings, you got to know when to rotate,
you got to know when to hold them,
know when to fold them.
It's kind of one of those.
And Furia are very good on this map.
Can't argue with anything you just said there.
I saw so many things that I've liked
from Furia's overpass at this event.
I love the way that K-Serato
pressures the B bomb site by himself.
I love the way that Furia can take up to bathroom control
generally pretty safely against any form of defense.
I also think that they just have the best mid-rounding
on this map, on the T side still,
knowing exactly when they're,
without even seeing their opponents
rotate to one bomb site or the other,
knowing just off of feeling that they have done it,
so that they pick the right and emptier bomb site to go to.
So, heavy favorites for me into this one.
Yeah, that's one of the things that Fallen
is really good at, that I think,
still compared to most IGLs, he has that little feeling
of like, okay, we can go back,
We still have enough time and not getting caught off and being like oh actually we went to the bomb site with seven seconds
Now we can't plant like a Aurora special or something
So I think that's great in the city side of like this Moldova and your kindar on a actually works really well
Especially because Moldova is is sick
So just quickly before we gonna break this is over into strong strong victory for I want to I want to see Martinez pop off
He's been a sick player for them. Yeah, but it's over 13
13-7. 13-7.
Oh wow, you didn't even call this a scar, that's a first.
Alright, then we're gonna go to the break and we will see if that 13-7 does manifest on Overpass in a few moments.
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But she can't love me.
But I love you!
I won't play Wendell anymore.
What's going on?
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I've got Aurora's newest member with me, Soulfly.
Yukinda with me from Furia.
Zwei from Paravision with me.
It's time to play Spot the Difference.
How confident do you feel of like details, little details on the map?
Well, the thing is, I'm not really sure.
Is this on site?
Okay, this is the obvious. This is the side silo. One has to be two, but it's the X.
Good start!
So, there's no silo. There's one more silo on the side.
Okay, we're like out of one. I don't know how it goes.
Silo.
The heaven closed?
There's no heaven.
No heaven yet. It's up.
The second thing is, Heaven is locked for some reason, we closed Heaven bro.
There's no Heaven.
Yeah, that's the difference.
Yeah, that's the difference.
There's no Heaven.
Yeah, the third one is probably some other detail that nobody would care about, which
is Shadows?
No, Shadows are there.
Shadows? No, shadows it. Shadows it, damn.
The third one.
The hat looks bigger?
No.
Okay, I'm starting to go crazy.
You're trying to look at so many different things now.
Hmm
Okay, give me give me a hand. Is it on the lower floor or is it on the higher the higher on the floor?
Yep, it's on the floor. Yeah
You use this object a lot if you play a side. I
Was playing good side
It went bro this one saw you kick yourself inside
The drop down. Yes. Okay, great. I got three you cook that was quick. That was quick think of this
You would come down from heaven as multiple ways the things like that makes you know
Don't waste help and you don't take damage. Yeah, bro
See it's so obvious when it's like that a
normal jump you
Like you're not getting full damage from the Minion.
You're sliding down.
Yes.
Boom.
Yeah, I'm the new guy, I think.
This is, yeah, new kid's yours.
Okay, new kid's yours.
It was a real test back on Nuke for Furia but they passed it and we know that they also
kind of had one hand tied behind their back because of the economy and some of those rounds
and so a fresh start here on Overpass, a map that I think they want to improve on from
what they did versus Spirit yesterday. Like you said at the start of the series,
we really got some reps in on that close affair versus Spirit.
I think Furia will be happy that just the economy resets going into this second
map.
I know man. That was, that game was tight.
But even though Furia had like a lot of economic struggles towards the end,
honestly, gentlemates had to overcome so much more.
Very true.
If they didn't fight,
force up behind that op and then start winning, like they, they,
there was no chance it would have got crushed.
So that was a very impressive attempt at a gentle mate.
A little more than I expected.
Maybe I just didn't expect the minimum out of them,
but expected Furia to definitely look very comfortable
today on Nuke.
So we'll see where that leaves us here
for the second map, I think.
Furia, we did finally see a more convivial atmosphere
and they won, they got excited about it.
They were just one map closer and felt like we should have won.
I think it just feels realer today.
Yeah.
Gentlemates.
You know, you don't have that additional pressure of like trying to stave off spirit,
another tournament favorite.
And you're not wrong.
It was very close.
It's a 13-11 win on Nuke.
Three 1vx's back on that map.
All three of them fury his way.
Well, you know, that's the difference between gentlemates potentially even going
to overtime or having picked up their pick.
So we'll see what they can do on overpass.
They get to start on the CT side, at least for them.
But this map is a little more wishy-washy.
They definitely wanted Nuke to get us to Inferno.
That's how the analysts broke down the map Vito for us,
that that was kind of the gentleman's agreement.
We'd duke it out there if needed.
Just, but Furio wanted to just fast-track, you know?
Vito is so good for Furio.
And I think yesterday's overpass game
is gonna round them out.
I think they learned a lot in that match.
They showed everything when they got to overtime.
I think they were just so much better towards the end.
And I think, again, I think they got all the bad juju out.
We've seen some excellent rounds from Furia on Overpass.
T-Sides are just mad impressive, man.
That fallen guy, he's a pretty good in-game leader I hear.
Yeah.
So good that maybe he should never retire.
Does that make Molledoy Brawny James?
Brawny James.
Please tell me you know who Brawny is.
I don't know.
It's the Brawn Son, he's in the NBA at the same time.
I didn't know that.
I thought Brawny was like a play on scrawny
and then I thought, how can I make this about myself?
Here's a name that almost doesn't sound like it would, it sounds fictitious, but no, real guy.
Oh, just about as real as that first bullet, Yukindar deletes Martinez.
Now the bomb is going to follow suit behind it. Yukindar with another tap and he's been finding, he's just been kind of sprinkling in these big impact moments.
Yeah.
Very threatening when he does decide to take over a round.
And now he's using your USP against you.
Beautiful stuff here for Yukindar. I want to say that's...
Three bullets?
Three bullets?
Wow, we didn't really get to...
I think it is, I think it is.
Definitely two, because the USP saw his ten bullets in the magazine, I just can't confirm the Glock.
There's a feeling in the server.
We didn't see it, but I'm almost positive from where he died at the Vider there.
There was one bullet.
And didn't shoot another. Three bullets, three kills.
There's one bullet back from Alex, so...
The genius.
Terrorist pistol win for Furia on a map like Overpass.
Ooh boy.
Well...
Two terrorists, win.
That's Kevlar Barrettas for Davi G.
And a set of Kevlar for Alex Saved as well.
But that pistol round, safe to say, all thanks to you, Kinder.
There's CobraZera, fan of ColdZera, and there's Davi G, fan of Summit 1G.
My goat.
I didn't see the first hill again. Was it one bullet?
I wasn't paying attention.
I was adjusting my standing back.
Oh, I blinked!
Sorry.
I would like to sit down.
Fury, I just have all the attack on this map.
You've fought too many.
Tell me you've seen that before.
Here comes the scout for Martinez.
As he looks down towards Parra playground.
Falling back.
it's legal I know it's not a pixel walk it's just another past slide it's legal
You can run, brother. You're not supposed to be able to hide, but Mopaz does get away
with 40 health still. Martinez missing a couple of shots.
Oh! Third one's the charm. Long player's going to whittle him down as Maladoy opens
up the door for Fallen to take over site, but there's still a couple players here and
they were well armed. MP9 strikes. Whoa, what the heck was that?
got the bomb, there's the support for Mopoz, but Rotator gets cut down to size and it's
a third of Fallen left over, the bank push coming wide, both CTs confirmed, Dany G has
gotten nasty with that SMG, but he's lost all his teammates around him, so it's gonna
have to be him and him alone, a player to peek over top of the dice, he's finding, there's
so much damage.
They rebuff it.
I swear they must have.
Like it's just doing insane stuff now again.
Chev clipped the fallen cat to...
Jumping away?
Yeah, it's nonsense.
Yeah.
He's jumping from cat and gets a kill on Donk in a shite mirage.
The hedgehog.
No, it's getting some weird...
It's like looking stronger than it did before they nerfed the accuracy at a distance.
Right.
It's bugged.
It's bugged.
I do also just wonder if...
It's bugged.
Have we adapted?
No.
What do you mean?
Have we adapted to the new accuracy?
The worst accuracy yeah, but you know you can still I mean, but it's just different you know it's different
But it's it's worse at a distance. Yeah, but maybe we've just gotten better with it
I've gotten used to it
This is insane level of cope that I'm hearing right now
You're watching the same rounds as me. Yes, it's not the same as it was a month ago. Nope
But we have had a month to practice with the new MP9 bro thinks he's on the team
I'm just saying oh my god nerf the five seven no
What else do I use
Here's another one three kills off those five sevens and a looming threat inside of me
Hey there nerf the five seven nerf the mp9 what is going on?
Okay, Serato, there's the wide swing and they pulled this round
Those are great listen to get rowdy or Christ
The double headshot with the 5-7 and the first one's instant kill.
Uh...
First one's instant kill, because that's ridiculous.
It's $500.
Yeah.
Like a D.G.O. wouldn't have done that, it cost $700.
And I've seen some dialogue online about nerfing with 5-7, and many people get up in arms.
Wow, makes CT side harder, why don't you?
Why you got a nerf a good thing, but it's like, it's just the one-shot headshot it's
got to go.
Why you got a nerf a good thing?
Bought everything, man!
It's the one-shot headshot that's a problem.
Why could a 5.7 do it in M4 camps?
And if you can answer that logically, I'm waiting.
And don't tell me, well then just let the M4s do it too.
Buff everything.
Well, that upends Fury's momentum, doesn't it?
It's a fast track to rifles as two AKs in the hands of gentlemates.
Fury will take their chance at a buy.
Mmm, do it.
They threw the deep monster smoke, but they're not watching it.
Now you've given over control, Fury of No, they can just try to bounce site.
Flash is finding their marks, Davi G jumps into the mud.
It's in its'''sosal, but the Tech 9 peek over top, and the Tech 9 shreds the same way 5-7s can.
No pause, leans back on Graffiti.
Him and Martinez to come in from the same position here, versus 3.
Oh!
Holo-Doy's AK headshot, and that is why if you smoke the monster pipe, you gotta keep an eye on it.
Keep an eye on it, yeah.
Yeah, it's especially anti-eco.
Even if you think they're going to come through it and you're like, oh, I hope they do.
You saw the setup in B and where everyone's dead, it's on the back of the site.
They're not really active positions to watch, even the front of Monster, even if it was
smoked there.
So they kind of allowed that to take.
Don't...
Oh, man.
What?
Don't go to the...
Five-seven.
Oh, five-seven.
Okay, very good.
AHHHHHH
Damnit J-Raz
Damnit
That was annoyingly good
Pretty funny guy
J-Raz was cracking jokes in the hallway the other day, everyone was laughing
Really?
It's cause he's like 7 foot tall and super buff now, so even if he's not funny we have to laugh
And that is what you learn about life, except the best comedians are other fatter skinny.
Thank you.
That's stupid.
You give them an inch, they'll take a mile.
Sorado finds that smoke unwatched and punishes they grab their AKs back and at least for gentlemates
There's still guns in this next one
But that's just a gut wrenching feeling knowing that you could have really put the pressure on furya if you could just convert versus tech
nines
Add that to the pile of close cool bin moments sprinkled into this series already
If you let that pile grow large enough, Furia are going to secure playoffs today.
Definitely, liking this B set up a little bit more on paper, but no decisions have been
made here for Furia.
Sometimes they send K. Serato out alone to go and take a peek, and we saw how audacious
he was around squeaky and he was very in tune with the timings.
Did it matter if there was a smoke in his way?
He knew about every movement you would make in front of that smoke like...
Looks like Fury have waited long enough that Gentlemates abandoned this very, very strong
up heavy hold over on B.
Not a ton of map control for them, so they're worried that this is a late A-play.
Those nades gonna blow Mopaw's into tomorrow.
But misplaced, and just kind of announces the various intentions.
Shadow Advantage for Alex makes that fight very easy.
Bomb starts to buckle back up connector, and they're gonna activate on B in the meantime.
In case Arado's starting to swing out and his kills just continue to collect on bathrooms.
Eugh!
Well, I mean, man, with the push that happened at the top of bathrooms, it was like 27 seconds.
I thought, oh, he's doing this pretty early, but no, it was, it's Furia who really didn't
do anything for this whole round, so we allow gentlemates who we know will eventually push
for space.
Do so, and it was a great 2k by Alex.
shadow advantage up there. It's a brave position to do when you aren't as alone as
he was, but yes you are correct. Debbles in the details.
Sketch you by for Furia yet again, but you've already seen them pull one off
with less.
I feel like Fury will want to come and hunt down Alex this round, but he's cautious about
it.
On the pullback already.
Sneaky, sneaky, and, uh, oh, I mean, actually they would have loved to not see anything.
Even though they do some damage to Alex here, it's only gonna sound the alarm for gentlemates.
They don't want to abandon post over on the B site, but that might be through their detriment.
Let's see if Furya can be more decisive than they were last round.
Yeah, they aren't even pulling a third A player over.
still be fine, but there's no op on this back line.
There's no op to protect.
Davy.
Oh, he's the Flash.
Does some damage, but still gets cleared out, and now Alex, also fighting a bit of a flash
in his face, just gives up a ton of distance for the T's.
They try to go over top of the dice to deal with him, but he's got the singular kill.
That's it.
That's all.
It perfectly counts.
Yeah, I do. You want to try to retake? Maybe they'll make a mistake, but you also might want to keep these guns up.
They're already so close to it.
Fallen stomping over towards the truck has just led himself down into Mopaz.
Martinez is off to X-1, but missed second chance. This spells disaster for Sossel.
As you'd think, now they won't let him escape, but Fallen will let him have an evacuation plan momentarily.
Still thinking about it.
Well, they know where he's gone now.
Yeah, I can cut him off at the cross.
Oh, damn!
I feel like Vaughn wasn't even around that corner.
That was wild.
Benz bullets for Furia's fourth on the T side with majority alive as well.
It was committed this time for Furia and the rotation wasn't there for gentlemates.
They saw danger, but they didn't believe it.
Maybe it was last round where Furia actually did change their mind.
That was in the back of their heads.
The slash is too good.
And again, because there's no moth on the back of the site, that position's a whole lot weaker.
Sirs don't want to get the first kill and then they can kind of tag team it
That was ridiculous that he was like fully behind the wall again. It looked like
Welcome to welcome to invite
I miss when it was called invite I
I can barely remember those days. Just a cool thing to call it.
This is what you piece together, huh?
It's not just scraps, but MP9 on two players for Gentlemates.
That was a very healthy looking approach to the A-bomb side out of Furia.
We'll see what kind of adjustments Gentlemates try to make.
to make. It's already three players at A to start and playing into the bathrooms again out of the gate.
All the noise off on the field in anticipation of a long push just in case
gentlemates want to get frisky. Like you've mentioned always kind of pushing off a bomb
site at some point. Our gentlemates it's their style.
We're going to try to tap back into the A play from around to go,
but smokes in the front bathrooms, it's gonna have a fury on a high alert.
Somebody's got to be home. We've got a crossfire set in front bathrooms.
This is a crazy setup. They have no one back on A.
E-9 though.
E-9 man. Go crazy there for Tevi.
Sorry, are we nerfing this thing too?
They also just didn't hit him.
Here comes the flank out of Alex, activated for that play.
and long control of Quesarado denies, that triple setup works wonders thanks to an MP9 mowdown.
You know, I'm all for nerfing the MP9 and everything, but that was very close range and they just didn't hit a bullet on him really.
I think they tagged him once, so respect for making that happen.
And a great play from the top of bathroom for this 2k.
Nice to play, probably my favorite angle on this map.
And a triple inside bathroom's play crazy. You don't see that ever but it looked good
Part of me wonders how good it looks if he doesn't get the double MP9 kill
But he did get the MP3 kills
We can't take that from him. I mean who's not getting the MP9 kills these days
And Flash, over top, bunch of them. Good counter, you tilt. Sossil here to help out. Yeah, keep an eye on the monster pipe and suddenly B site holds strong. They're gonna murder Furia on the attempt to come through.
They've got a side game eight rounds in.
It's just geometry that that's the easiest way to kill teams coming to be.
Is while they're running through this long vertical pipe where they have to press W the whole time,
that's where you need to get them.
That's where you set the ambush.
That's why in the older days you always protected the front gate.
So badly.
Oh, another thing to be careful of is even though you have an AWP here, you still only
have two.
Yeah, it would be the first team to lose to the hostiles.
Oh, now you're awping.
Gary's scared.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
And now you're safe.
AK in the hands already, AWP for Molladoy.
Yeah, so that's the other thing to be worried about on Overpass.
You could be spotting with two, but at the end of the day, you have still given up all
of bathrooms your teammates have not rotated over glocks launders yeah was it only no there's
this deal for kcerado but you didn't get a kill with it so glocks them are you really going for
this this I don't think it's a good idea it's an op on dice box try to destroy with it bombs at 12
seconds still winnable for sure off activates molly wait inside of the smoke now everybody else gets
cleaned up. You can't find him! He's trying to get him and it's covered! Saucer covers from outside
bathrooms unreal! There's no way they pulled off that retake. He knifed the
default box like three times, couldn't kill him.
Well excuse me, I thought there was no chance that that was gonna be possible.
Double Glock Entry.
Wow.
A retake that starts at like 15 seconds. How many knives?
Look how close he is.
3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
I can't believe he doesn't get the knife kill.
I mean, he knew what he was going to do before that.
before that, kind of even began.
And an eighth knife swing would have gotten that kill.
Yeah.
But Sausel just finds the headshot.
Well, you know, we talked about back on Nuke how all the
clutches came up the way of Furia, how all those close
rounds kind of came up the way of Furia.
Gentlemates have added a couple down to the board here.
They're making their lives difficult by damn near losing
blocks and by not watching the monster pipe that one time that got Furia in but
gentlemates have also won a round with less with the five sevens on long for
example so now the magic if we can call it that is going both directions and that
could definitely open up the door for gentlemates to extend this game
considering that when all the magic was furious that was still 1311 leap monster
open. You think Mollie got caught on something? No, because he was like why wouldn't he press
forward into the player? I don't know, because he was like inching his weight in. Like you
look like a chomp omp from Super Mario, you know, the kind of, whoa, one chomp per inch
worked his way into the contact, but he also backed off. What, he pushed again? Yeah, Alex
This is insane, bro.
And I don't mean nuts, I mean, like, maybe clinically insane.
How dare you, perspective psycho, that was insane.
The first place was already ridiculous.
Again, they're not scared.
I
Kind of suck in the life out of the room for fury up these last few rounds
The thing about Tony Blondetto he has the brains and the balls whoa, that's the whole package
AK is already out wide.
Molotoy lets him know where he's at.
It's pretty active fury across the map here.
We had the Uri-AK wide swing bathrooms, the Molotoy-Degal attempt down long, and now this
Kcerado boost outside of B site. Multiple plans of action.
So far, none of them bear fruit.
I can't even let them get close. Dangerously close.
So a nice sequence here from Sausal to survive that, as well as dropping two bodies on the short side.
Short side, gun will be picked up by Fallen, and Vopause just lets them extend out a little more space to trip over their own feet.
The AKs will shred what was left of it.
Channelmates truly piecing together a CT side now.
They have taken control of this first half.
They find themselves on fire.
And we will have one more round left for them to play on the defense.
Yeah, truly this could have been
Eight rounds or something for Furia in a couple of these critical moments, but now they look at a best-case
Five round T side, which is fine, but I think for them. They know they could have done better
And for gentlemates, they're looking pretty happy. It's active
They're a lot of their setups are really unique to them. I feel like you don't see them other a lot of other teams
playing the same way
And the game is also crispy and we always give bonus points for that, right?
The team that's actually got an identity that you can look at and say, oh, this is different
because, you know, world of it's hard to stand out when everything's so optimized.
Yes, exactly.
There's a lot of pressure just to be like, oh, this is the perfect thing you should do
every time.
But then then you'll be obvious.
So I think especially with a team as dominant as vitality in the pack, it's like, it just
makes sense to try to do what they do.
Yeah, I mean, that's actually something about Fallen, where he did the exact same thing
when the Stroll was around the top.
Or he was like, you know, apparently obsessed with them, and just tried to learn from it,
and it makes sense.
Especially when you have pieces that are that strong.
But okay, another opening kill here for Martinez.
First time we see him on that line, and it nets them an opening kill.
It's going to be dangerous for Yuri to approach, knowing the ops out here on the field.
It's not hiding in the bomb site, but actually taking these earlier angles, and we know the
plethora of AWP angles that exist here for CTs to take advantage of.
Sure enough, rewarded for his efforts.
And X-Linux.
Ultimax sticking around, and sticking it to Furia here in round 12.
Three shots, three kills for Martinez, queues up the Davi G long flank, he's gonna blindside
another, and he even wants to close.
The Quesarado yet to emerge out through the staircase, late to the party my friend, and
only 4 kills for Quesarado in this half, 4 kills for him, and Yuri, and Yikindar.
So a bit of a struggle for Furia in that department, it started so well, 4 of the first 6 rounds
all Furia, but a nice sequence to close out the half, as it'll be gentlemates to go to
the attack while on fire.
I'm not sure if the attention is starting to come back a little bit for Feria.
We're looking a lot more free back on Nuke.
Maybe started off feeling that way here on Overpass, but...
A new challenge, a new style of play, and a team that's very confident about the way they move.
What was that?
Oh, it's part of the chair.
I thought it was a steam deck
Yeah, just gonna get a quick Hades run in
Two quick spire run little episode of dispatch
What else can you do on that thing?
That's who's asking whoa go into dark web
The silk road steam deck crossover
Best of luck, Furia. You haven't tasted victory in half of a half.
Their CT side vs. Spirit also had its struggles.
And as we've watched Gentlemates evolve into the second map, there's reasons to believe
in their T-Side 2.
Here it comes.
Utility over top.
It's going to be the full commitment.
Molly to burn out the barrels, thrazzles the defense, and Yuri down with nothing.
Oh-ho!
Here he goes!
Mopaz and Alex combine forces and just vacate that bomb site of all of Furia.
Deep angle for Mopaz, he's going to blindside these last two players as well.
K-Sorado too late to even trade it, this is a flawless T-pistol for gentlemates.
A massive shout out to Mopaz for this round and some of his crafty rounds back on Nuke as well.
The entries are absolutely perfect, the headshots are in.
You know, Furia, we're relying on this pistol round to make up for all of those close situations lost in the first half.
Damn, the aim's looking good. One HP, Cacerado. Goodbye.
Bombs got ya.
I mean, I don't even know if the biggest worry for Furia is this game. Again, they've got a great Vito and everything, but it's gonna be their form, you know?
Like going into playoffs. That's probably already where they're trying not to think too far ahead, but sure. Can't help.
But remember, being there already...
You know, you secure it, you got a couple days off, you can maybe try to fine-tune, but...
There's also a matter of securing it.
I'm not gonna waste a moment here, gentlemen. It's just gonna charge!
The 5-7 does it again! Back-to-back headshots out of K. Serato. Luckily for
gentlemen, the rest of the bodies do still push through.
And so thank goodness for their sake they went in five strong
One weird swing at IE's also is so low here you saw him, right? I think so. Oh my goodness. Did he not?
No, they let their guard down. Oh, he just gets off the line, but he knows he's low health
So he takes his sweet time to line that one up. I was so sure he got spotted
That made a would have made a world of difference, but
I think it's like a 5-7 nerf commercial this whole game.
Yeah, this map's been ridiculous.
Top fragger on Furia has 7 kills!
What happened to them? Where'd they go? Because the frag department was not worrying whatsoever
back on Nuke. They look like they're wondering as well.
You know within this series now it's kind of like a broader metaphor for what Furia have
done in Astana. Their first two games, total blowouts, like not even close. The best we've
seen Furia in what's felt like at least a month. Six months. Like, seriously. We got
a flash of it again back on Nuke, despite General Maid's best efforts. A very commendable
effort back on Nuke from the team that now sits comfortably in the 10-4 lead.
And to think now, they had three clutches to win 13-11 on the last map.
One of those goes the other way, the gentleman wins an OT and this is a 2-0 blowout finish.
So Furia can at least thank themselves for being able to shut down on Nuke.
Guarantee yourself an inferno end at the very least, assuming that this CT side is done for.
But feeling like a safe assumption.
Yeah, maybe. We'll still have to see a rifle. They don't have many chances now.
And just by the nature of Gentlemates' play, I feel like it's a team that's always going
to sprinkle in a round here or there, so it's like one of the worst kinds of teams to go
up against when you have such a first blowout, such a lopsided score, like that five-player
monster rush they just threw in last round.
What's to say that even if Furia make a comeback, that one of those doesn't happen again.
Some teams are never willing to go for those risky moves, but Gentlemates, not the case.
Yeah, they almost lost that round to 5-7s, but only almost.
Well, nice shot.
Let's have another, okay.
Martinez will take a melt. Three up here for gentlemates.
Comfy round win.
How far does Martinez have to get? He's good, right?
Yeah, it'll be fine
No pause though
Yeah, oh positive. Yeah
Not fine
This one feeling like a wrap
We at least get the gun round. That's what we said
We have to see the fury of gun round come through here
It is round 16 features an off-on Molledoy
four and four three and fours and that got little sprinkled in yeah it's their
first gun round now every round is against map point so let's see if they
can tap into the perfection that they know we know they can bring one mistake
whoa okay wow it's actually volatile to come back to get the kill it's glad
Someone dead to be honest
What have you got, gentlemates?
Flashbang, Sausal is sitting duck, Alec Stowe emerges for the trade, and Yuri, tasked to
hold off the cross, Mopaz, offered up a distraction and an opening, offered from the heavens.
What a save.
Strikes one down, and Yakindar fasts to start this flank, versus that 11 health of Mopaz,
Martinez could still be the difference maker.
30 to the clock as the bomb goes down and this wrap around.
It's a flank on flank though, and they're going to be watching for you, Kinder.
Good on him to play. Oh, it is going to be Martinez to make the difference.
Another headshot comes through his 13th kill of the map, and a miss shot out of Molledoy.
The one thing they couldn't afford in this moment now, Martinez is going to keep his head down.
Molledoy waiting for the challenge, and the timing there as he does go for the cross.
This one could have been Furia's their first gun round needed to be one and instead gentle mates will take 12 with eight
Map points can't believe they pulled off that win
So yeah anything but perfect here for fury as they get jumbled up no fun out on the
Since he was falling when he was playing
To get a kill but also to be exposed to the second eye out monster
It's a 4v5 win as well for gentlemates.
I mean, Volidoy literally had to save the...
He blew up and the Heavens smoked on this crazy kill to save the back of the site.
Nobody else did anything.
Our genius just rattles them, finds himself into an op.
Just a rock solid performance from channelmates across the board.
Not one weak link.
They just tighten their grip on furious throats here on Overpass.
One piece of fury coming together here again. I mean I think worse and worse. Yeah
Godness just give it up is kind of what it feels like now gentlemates
We said that they were going to be hoping to extend play to inferno
And that overpass could have been where fury of flex the difference, but this fury after yesterday and today
Have left a lot to be desired on this map in specific
Gentlemen, it's making the absolute most of this chance. A miss shot for Molledoy is on an individual level, Furia from Nuke to Overpass just looked totally different.
That three-player core that supported those close rounds and got them a victory on Gentlemen's map ping, nowhere to be found here.
Single-man advantage, all that's left at 10 seconds. Gayserado actually denies the bomb plant. Molledoy's still going to keep this alive.
Just when I said that the individuals with the tray, they piece this one together.
Gentlemates just not able to skip this final step, trip over their own feet, and will give
Fury a lifeline.
Oh man, I mean they barely get that win.
This is barely CS at this point, man.
Lots of playing with the clock here from Gentlemates, obviously.
Fury just having the opportunities come to them.
I mean, if this leads to a round, it's going to be no more utility.
Another great couple of saves from Molledoy at the very minimum.
And so, you know, by the numbers, it's a seven-round game, that's how Furia want to look at it.
All of a sudden, they can start playing better, but...
Again, it's been hard to sort of just, like, try to describe what Furia are right now.
Sometimes great, sometimes they struggle so much, and this is an example of great.
Okay.
Oh, he didn't see that, but the foot was there.
Still trying to find him.
I'm gonna go reconsider it now.
Or just let his guard down entirely and die for his efforts.
So Conor, it's a six round game, never too late to just suddenly become the team that
we know they can be.
I know, but it's just so discouraging that they've been nowhere to be found until now.
Yeah, you know, it's so easy with this new furia knowing Fallen's going to retire at the end of the year
It's so easy to cheer for them and to hope that they can still lift another trophy and to get back to what they showed us in
2025 it's it's just a layup in terms of fan support and it's so difficult to put your finger on the struggles, but
Extending play on overpass round by round six to overtime
And this round is so convincing that you can't help but think they may still have some more left in the tank.
It won't be tactics and strategy so much as attitude and atmosphere, I think, to be the difference maker.
You know the kind of quality they can bring, they can bring the best easy over past rounds
in the world.
Can they do it today?
Easy mow down for Yakindar versus these unarmored pistols.
There's a chance for Molodoy and Martinez will punish on Yakindar, but the answer's right
there and the pressure stays thick, because Quesarado's got nothing to be afraid of versus
Davi G's hands on an AK, but not for long.
Force survive, Furia close the gap.
Round by round, they're five away.
Just look at that block, right? That chunk of rounds.
Ten in a row for gentlemades between the CT and T-side start.
Such a streak.
I really think that first B rush is probably going to make the difference in this game.
in this game, it was so messy.
And Furiel really were in a winning position,
getting that opening kill with Moldova,
and then the saver kills after.
Oh, ParaVision are actually in the lead versus G2.
Just never know what you're gonna get here at PGL Estana.
Who's gonna be good, who's gonna be bad.
Couple series that could go to a third now.
Flash up and under, fallen, full blind ties to the tech 9.
Pressure on Molledoy, unscoped, frantic, butt supported by the rifles around him, K. Serato's
Scott himself is sacked, knows there's more coming, and he'll collect off of Yuri for the assist.
All's good, seemingly. Alex, down to 7 health, has Kaserado burnt out, but with 7 HP and a MAK-10, you'd think his odds are nigh impossible.
Yeah, take the MAK-10 upstairs, but there's no guns up here, no utility to grab, and a rotation coming his way.
I'm not even sure what the value of this is.
If he somehow gets a kill, I'm going to shave your head.
Uh...
No.
Unless.
Nope.
It goes the way you think.
It's never going to happen, so...
Yuri's there for a second one, only his fifth and sixth kills of this second map.
And I'd never risk your hair like that.
I mean, I'm no stranger to the Brittany buzz.
Every once in a while, I'll pull it out.
It's a brightening badge.
Pretty toxic.
Still no op for the gentlemates.
It's a B rush that starts with a 5v4, but not long before the answer back from Furia.
Good on them two have had pieces in position.
I thought Molladoi unscoping there could have led him to be the second casualty,
but with Yuri and Keisarotto to kind of build them up and hold them up.
But a lot of trust in his team in that situation, and that was the right idea.
They've all been playing with fire floating around these smokes very often.
That's the most cost of his life.
But that lurk smoke, he just really wants to be on the right side of it.
Deep-nated spam finds nothing.
Feels like this has got you done for.
Mopaz is coming out to clear this. Say no, Fallen. Our Furia boosts a ton.
Rebeke's vision? Yeah, I'm not ready for this one.
And that deep peek from all the doys, got a 5v3 established for Furia.
Well, it seems like they're actually doing it.
Still need to put an end to this one.
And it's going to be fallen, empty-handed, yet again.
Flash in the middle of the pack is a 50 health Alex.
Banks on his teammates to try to cross over and get this bomb in.
They've got the smoke to cover that plant,
which means three players up, guns in hands,
and ready for the Furia retake attempt.
Four utility comes through from the CTs.
Quesarado looking to press this M4 into Martinez.
Only two players left, and remember Alex is 50 health from early on,
so he's not long for this world.
Sausal gonna be confirmed as he sprays through and the trade's good.
Yikindar's got it, and Furia, three rounds from OT.
There's a lot of great impact out of Quesarado.
He's so good around those smokes and the timings and how little or how much he swings.
So yeah, game becomes three.
Openers are looking very strong.
Lots of boosts and things to catch gentlemates often, you know, it's really not 50-50 engagement, it's just walking away, not really worried about it.
This final round that they need clearly now will not be free, but again, what we saw in that first rush was just a rush that worked, and even if Firiya 9 times out of 10 win it,
There's always a chance, Jefflemates, for the way they're playing.
Their confidence in being aggressive.
Have a lucky sequence.
I wonder if they've got the call to kind of take it to the next level.
Have a G on a solo expedition here, could catch Yuri jumping around in that bombsite.
Here's the audio cue already.
Molly's gonna force him back.
You can't hear that Shirley from long, so they know that there was somebody home off
that utile and that draws a rotation up in Molodoy.
They don't know how many players were just there, so only one as the bomb goes to reposition towards B.
Are they biting down too hard on only a single piece of information?
Ooh, not seeing anybody when they go for the jump spot.
They're more worried about A than they should be. They don't see anything actually outside of the B site, yet Molledoy is still coming down.
Yeah, the A players needed, if there was an A attack, it needed to happen a little bit sooner.
There's the swing over, Quesarado's working alongside Fallen, Fallen who has been empty-handed on a lot of these holds.
Oh, they're not from Smoke of This.
Molledoy cuts down the frontrunner, still three players on site as he dives back into his cover, offers a flashbang, and Fallen's dead with nothing again.
It's a singular kill from Quesarado.
A 3v3 post-plant for the Gentlemates.
As Furia were a little too concerned about that a play and didn't have any deep position inside B
But could still stick the landing on the retake
Yuri's emerge from heaven finishes off Martinez Alex again working the past health recovers the shots
We got the flash that goes beyond trying to hunt down the yopper and they don't know that sassel's actually repositioned over towards monster
They tap the bomb concerned about short side
Baladoy's got it! And so Furia to double digits as a much-needed retake comes through.
It's an excellent retake. All their positions they've played really well.
It's always scary watching a retake unfold because the CTs have to do everything right, but the utility was good.
But you keep flagging it. You know, Fallen's coming up empty-handed on the B-hole so often.
They can have three people here, but if one of them gets nothing eventually, you're thinking that's going to cost you.
But then again, his teammates are now fighting in time to make it happen.
And the Jettamates might be getting a little stressed out.
That was a chance to close this.
I'm gonna try the bomb. Oh dead again with nothing.
And we said from early on that the gentleman's all in. B site could be just all they need,
right? One more for the road. Well sure enough the body's in position, but
Volodoy's gonna clip. Mopaz the rebuke comes through. K Serato's dead again with nothing
this time. Usually good for the one. So much damage racked up, but Alex is here to be the
difference. It is a quad kill for the Rune. He helped establish that the fact that
gentlemates extend play despite Furia's best efforts over on Nuke, this one's
all in vain. In vain indeed and that one is gonna hurt Furia. Their map picked the
one that we were confident they'd be able to beat gentlemates on after a close
Nuke and honestly that comeback note was standing at the end. They were adrift.
They were nowhere in this one for a long period of time.
No, I mean that was just K-Straut on the B bomb site.
I feel like pulling out T-Kills and then allowing time from all of that to rotate in,
but the T-Side really kind of a nothing burger there.
One the pistol and other than that, not much drone.
You've seen that again having a rough game.
I think you went 2-6 in opening kills for the T-Side.
So really putting your team in a disadvantage every round on T-Side.
and honestly feel like not really much magic from Fallen either on the T-side.
They're going into stacks, they're going through pretty well defended areas,
and overall I deserve win for our gentlemates.
A lot of the rounds were a non-starter for Fury on that T-side,
and not even just because Yekindar didn't hit some shots,
but also I'm going to have to give credit to gentlemates, okay?
They rotated players on a lot of the openers, they had themselves a lot of good looks
to kick off the rounds.
I think they started like a double bathroom set up
a couple of times.
They had Alex just doing a great job
as an individual rifle when he was tasked over
on that A side of the map.
So it was difficult for Fury to get the map control
that you would normally expect that they find.
So honestly, I didn't think that gentlemates had this in them,
that they had this many different looks.
They would show this many types of starters,
but I think that also is supposed to show
that this is a core of guys that have played together
for a very long time.
So they can on the fly find adaptations. Yeah, and the guy that we sort of highlighted on the last map
You know Martin has had some like nice moments very very effective here in despite, you know, Molotow's best efforts
It's kind of I know I'm just like actually stunned it this one felt like it was just in the back
Yeah, it's it's now we're putting fry fries in the back
Extra salt please. For me, it just also felt weird how much they forced the A bombsite fury on the T side, like usually we saw on gentlemates now, even when they were losing round, they were getting into B bombsite kind of easy, you kind of can get in their off spawn almost, you don't need to get mappertrol every round on overpass.
Look at this T sidework you put in though.
That was fantastic. I mean CTNT just overall a really good performance from him.
Mopaz again for a good part of this game. It just feels like the best rifleer for no reason on the server.
Like this should not be happening. Mopaz can really be a Fister fan and guy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I mean again K-Strawl that did come alive towards the end and he was doing great work on the B defense between the smokes.
But this honestly could have been done a long time ago and probably should have been.
I think 12, 6, 12, 7, something was more when they had a great afterplant on B
but Furia managed to like, you know, waste more of our time, you know.
You can just say 7, I mean that.
Well, I didn't on purpose.
It's, they are just two numbers.
They do have numbs.
They are one after another, often times they get mentioned together.
That is true.
Yeah.
I mean, it was, it was honestly also, I'd say shout out to Sossel, okay?
We haven't said his name also.
the few times that fury it did try to go for more direct be hits. He was a super solid
anchor got a multi kill over there. So everybody from gentlemates really had a moment for me
in this game. I didn't I didn't really expect that. I really thought that fury was going
to be able to not be so perturbed by all these different setups. And I felt like it was kind
of awkward because there were times when they cleared out bathrooms. I think one of the
early rounds like the very first gun around they clear out bathroom super cleanly flashes
to catch Davi G, trades there for Alex. I mean, they're making sure that no stone is
left unturned. But then I just like the fact that it was so difficult for them to keep
up with how Gentlemates decided, no, we're going to actually add another guy. Now we're
going to add another guy into the mix. And so Furia, I think sometimes they would get
a kill and then they'd not realize or even guess that there's going to be another wrinkle
in the defense, which Gentlemates just kept throwing at him.
Yeah, and so that sets us up perfectly for inferno. I know you've got some prep for this one
So I mean I just think that the well the gentlemates played heroic on this map yesterday
Yeah, and it was just a blowout
I mean it was seriously impressive how well they were able to take space on
Multiple sides of the map simultaneously their utility usage was downright impressive
It wasn't that they were getting flash assist into bombsite necessarily
It was just that they were one extremely explosive on their site hits and two they pressured heroic backs
So well that her oak was in the dark for the entire game
I don't expect fury to allow themselves to be in the dark as much
I think that they're going to try to clear up as much of that fog of war as possible
So I think that it's gonna be tougher for gentle mates to just roll over fury
But if you let them close to a bomb side they can be ferocious with how they're able to trade out into the sites
Yeah, I mean also the just the banana takes were very varied throughout that half
You know one time they just got full rush up to to take the fight on top of a car in that area
Next round it's like triple stack made stack after like 15 seconds get a kill there
They had like all of the different variations against heroic and they worked out perfectly
It feels like felt like every time when heroic changed they changed as well
And that's kind of the nature of this team that you know, they can be streaky
Mopos can be streaky, but the whole team has this momentum kind of calling going for them and they're 10-2 on inferno
Like I feel like even going into this this match
Maybe they should have picked it
But you know nuke is their staple and inferno is coming later anyway
So it kind of made sense to go this direction, but definitely not like a throwaway map for for gentle
Well, I was gonna point that out obviously mean no fury
They have been in two minds about whether it's overpass or inferno that is their best map. They've been picking it
When they can, the overpass is kind of, I don't even know what to make of it anymore,
so no wonder they're confused. But Inferno, just how much risk are they at with this being a handshake?
More than I would have wanted Fury to be in when I entered this series, especially after the Nuke win.
This should have been closed out into via Fury taking down mates on overpass, but now that we're in this position,
It becomes not a coin flip, but for me what what I thought was gonna be more of like an 80 20 series in Furious Favour
It's kind of like 60 40 now
I'd almost am a little bit hesitant to say that because Yackindar once again just kind of had a real stinker of a map
So responsible for banana so responsible for the most pivotal part of map control
Yeah, and he just can't afford to have bad misses that are Looney Tunes
Esk where he's just you know drawing bullets around characters. Okay, that can't happen here
No, it wasn't the 13-7, it wasn't the dominant win on Overpass, I think it also is that.
It's quite worrying, again the rifling duo Fallen and Jakindar are going to be fighting
Banana.
I'm not super confident right now about that combo in the crucial parts of the map.
Whereas over on the other side, I mean I think, you know we talked about Gentlemates being
a momentum based team, the old cliche, but I mean you saw how fired up they were at
the end of that.
hitting some knowledge this is the most fired up I've seen any team at this
tournament so far yeah like they're actually popping off it felt from the
beginning of of overpass they're already in it you know when they want that low
buy round on the CT side they're like you know getting emotionally invested in
the game and it was nice to see I just also feel like this is a map that maybe
maybe it's with their new coach or maybe they've always kind of had this but the
utility on gentlemates is pretty hard to deal with so even if you're you just
want to say, okay, we have the better players. We're going to impose ourselves.
Gentlemates don't let you just do that. They don't let you just swing down mid.
They're always going to be throwing a lot of great utility to flash off mid.
Sometimes you can smoke it off at the beginning of rounds.
They throw so much utility so quickly to take bracket control,
and then they could just hit bomb sites so fast that as you're trying to find a way back in,
like, Molotov is going to try to go, for example, like a short peek on A here.
But there's good mollies, good flashes all the time. They really,
channel mates minimize the chances that opposing offers and players have in
getting picks in the round. All right gentlemen thanks very much we're gonna
go to a break Fallen might want to get Virgil on the phone as Fury need to
find their way through Inferno.
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Gentlemen are coming into Astana and there's a weight off their shoulders but there's
also some stress around all this again.
Alex, the IGL of the team, we've been through this before.
I spoke to you before Budapest Major, so close.
I spoke to you now here before we get to Clone Major, so close.
It's going wrong at the last minute despite we know you can play well and grind into good
position in the VRS and almost be there but it keeps going wrong so just talk
me through this period once again for the team and how you're handling it.
I mean we are handling the best way we can I think it's tough times for us
because we have been working really hard since we make the team but I think
like every time we get closer to the cutoff of the major we start like
struggling and I think we are like we didn't know how to handle the pressure
I would say like in so many important moments and also important games and I
think it's because maybe experience is maybe because we are not performing well
like in the end it's about performance you know it's not only of course it's
mental but for me it's more some mix of both I would say like mental and
performing in the game. What is it that you're noticing though that goes
missing in the mentality because one thing I know is when a game is good for
you guys everyone's loud screaming you have that fire behind you but then when
it's going wrong maybe is it is it that where you can't reignite it you can't
get yourselves going?
I mean, it's not like that, I would say, we are like, we're hype every single game,
even if we are like losing.
In the last evening we played, we basically, I think we did really good comebacks, but
I think when we are like, with pressure, and the game starts not the way we want, then
we start like struggling. It's not about being sad or being quiet or whatever it's like nothing
is working and you know that and then you start playing differently as a player. So everything
is like I don't know, it's a mess I'll check. And you guys have also been grinding a lot like from
the Tier 2 events to then we see you every now and again at an event like this from the other
You had EPL and Rio in there as well.
But that's often where I see you guys are unable to adapt in like the tougher events.
Is this down to it's easier to play against your style?
Is this just you guys struggle against the tougher teams?
Because when you face the tougher teams in some of these smaller events, you do well.
But when you're at the big events where it's this kind of a setting, something changes.
So can you pinpoint that?
I think it's because we feel like we are worse than them, I mean some of us, I would say.
Oh really?
Yeah, so I think we are playing differently because of that, but we are trying to get better on that point.
And I think as soon as we manage to reach that point, then we are going to start playing the same in every single event, you know?
It's like a little switch, right?
Yeah, but I think that's mental.
Yeah.
pressure because we have no pressure here. Like of course it's a really good
opportunity for us to make it great in the ranking. It's really good, very
important for us. But apart from that I think we like there is no pressure at all.
So let's see how it goes in this event. I think as I said before we have been
working hard even if these results are not the result we wanted but we're
still working you know. Now many times you've said to me when we've had
interviews before. Consistency was always the thing you said you were lacking.
But if you're not allowed to say consistency, what is the one thing
Gentleman is missing that needs to happen in this tournament for you guys to do
well, to show your best?
I would say believe in us. Like believe in the group, believe in the team, believe in the
work we have behind. I think it's that I don't see any other point or we have everything.
We work on everything. Maybe we need to work more on the mental side but yeah I think we're
ready. I say this in every single tournament you know because I really feel like we are
ready but in the moment that we sit there and we start like playing maybe it's like
I don't know. Of course you can lost against better team, paper.
But one thing that we are looking for is like to be competitive.
Yeah, 100%. Well, make sure you don't let them stop believing.
That's the main thing. Keep pushing for it. Alex, thank you very much for the chat.
Thank you. Good luck going to the tournament, let's see what you can do.
That belief needs to be there. Thank you.
go into this last map of the series just trying to keep that confidence and self-belief high.
And I think after believing they would eventually break down that B bomb site on Overpass,
that is exactly what has got Gentlemates to this third one.
And slowly but surely we have seen the confidence, I think, of Furia fizzle out in this game.
Think of the way they had that electric tempo in the six rounds of Nuke to start it,
falling, flying out of heaven to retake an A site before the bomb can even get planted.
That's the confidence that kicked off their run in Astana, and it's the confidence we've slowly seen
shrivel up as this event's gone on, and even more so in this best of three.
It's also that we saw it again at the end of Overpass, but then it's again, as called,
the B rush that ends up winning, because that's just going to work sometimes.
It wasn't necessarily a great B rush, but Fallen dies, you know, five rounds in a row.
They still survive most of them. He has a rough map there, and they end up losing because of it,
But they also lose because of just like it must be their headspace and that's what makes them so hard to characterize
We saw peak feria in those last few CT rounds all the ideas everything that we saw on nuke
At the beginning, but like they are actually playing down to the level of their opponents now, which doesn't make any sense like they're
They could actually sort of choose to to run over this game
But they can't kind of unlock that headspace and I don't know
They really really seem like they're in their feelings right now and
Even though they have this excellent veto in front of them. It's one of those things that kind of supersedes all of that
It's like your own mental
So inferno coming up they could win this game
just on banana doing a billion
HE damage and totally outclassing gentlemates like we know that they could
Or they could lose by once again kind of playing down
and maybe doubting themselves and maybe not bringing the communication and
energy, we'll have to see. It's one of the most frustrating things to have to talk
about about a team, you know, all potentially not meeting it, because it's
like what do you say about them coming into a match?
Say that on their best day mode they're one of the best in the world, but then at
other times you just kind of see them shrivel up and unfortunately I want to
Remember the Furia that dismantled their first two oppositions to get to the 2-0 game is great
But Furia to go 2-0 in a Swiss pool
They wouldn't be the first team nor probably the last
To go 2-0 to 2-3 that is a real threat with the teams
We have left over yesterday with the uncertainty and the inconsistency that Furia have shown us
Don't be that team. Turn it around, lock down Inferno, and use those off days to figure things out before the crowd will rally behind you.
Come playoffs. That's the goal here for Furia.
Gentlemates just looking to exceed expectations to find themselves in a top 8 at an S tier event.
Trying to break through to a new level.
Right now, looking to silently crawl their way at this A site, number is strong.
They'll call for a flash on Molledoy soon, once he sees that contact, Fallen throws it
over for Molledoy to commit, but he doesn't get a kill immediately, so good for him to
still recover with something.
He's going to need a fresh mag, he's given a chance at the reload, pressure from the
Archside via three and Molotoy little to be desired there as it's gonna be fallen to try to recover and pushing it out through library
You reactivates with Perettas and you kindar. He's able to come through to get man advantage and pressure on Davi G
Goes for the peak sees you kindars close already case or auto right there both CT
Oh pinned into the corner nowhere to run nowhere to hide good on fallen to emerge through the smoke in a high pressure
situation and offer a kill. That's a team ace for Furia.
It's well done. I'm not sure who won the knife round with this. Maybe Furia did.
On Inferno it's sort of arguable where you're more comfortable, but this flash over library is great.
Even though the first guy doesn't really catch it, Molo-Doi is comfortable
re-peaking into those fights. And as for Gentlemates, happy to get a plant down.
So, it's nice to bring some money home there by Davi, and the buy comes out for both squads.
We got one AK for the T's, and what's really important for Furia is those H's.
I've gotten by one of them.
You know Mopoz is gonna cause some problems up in Anna just like he did on Duke.
There you go.
There's a call out.
That is the threat collects itself, takes a spot on Yukindar and he's quick to move into oranges.
They're quick to make this pounce and a good flashbang here.
We know the utility protocols, strong for Furia on Inferno.
Always good in terms of interruptive nades.
Yukindar finds the headshot on Martinez as the rotators go up and over the CT smoke
and really suck the life of this push for gentlemates.
Rock solid stuff for Furia to convert that pistol.
Hang on to that sort of counter-strike.
They are going to be kind of hyper-aware of all those sorts
of risks that get taken.
And it's a narrow corridor to play those games on banana.
And it's also just hard for everybody
to get one past the kinder.
He understands where you're going to be hiding.
He's going to be very good at placing those nades perfectly.
Gentlemates tried their best to avoid that.
And now they go down to Deagles.
this will probably be a slower paced round
Spheria don't decide to run it down mid
This long range headshot for Molotoy
Gotta be careful with so many peoples on the field, but honestly, just pick them.
If anything, that's the only thing, you know, that fury I have been missing a little bit.
Confidence?
Yeah, like, Molladoi's had it.
Here we go.
Every round.
On for the ace.
Whether it's good or bad.
Go ahead.
Ah, Kindar's gonna take it.
But Molladoi, confident with the mid-peaks, makes mincemeat of gentlemates.
And they will come into this one with their first buy of map 3.
It's weird 24 hours of overpass for Furio between the Spirit game last night and this one today.
Yeah.
But Inferno is where you can kind of just shed that pressure, I suppose.
Cap into what we know to be a Kindar's performance on Banana.
And if Molledoy is feeling the confidence to go barreling down mid like that in an anti-eco,
let's hope he kind of holds onto that energy.
The best area we've seen today was the first six rounds of Nuke,
and that is when they were the most confident in the series.
Fallen's gonna toy with this, but yeah.
The headshot.
Oof.
Get a slam behind the plywood.
Draws the Kindar back over.
First gun round for Gentlemaids features a very easy 5 vs. 4.
They're going to peel back to avoid these AGs very wisely.
It's a full-on emergency here for you, Kinder.
You're trying to space out as utility perfectly, but they're trying to do this without actually
rotating people over.
They have taken over mid-control and passive smoke.
More as a teammate starts to come over, they're gonna push through this.
Flash will be good. Very good.
Interrupts everybody to keep him coming.
K. Serato's gonna clip the kill on Davi.
Gee, we've got damage for Mopaz to have to stomach and another flash.
As he goes through to dive the planter, it's a good amount of damage,
but still three-stamp tall.
Molo-Doy dives it as well, flies in off of the Nade kill.
He's got that first one easy.
Mopaz still plays by Newbox, lost track of it,
So Maladoy strikes for the second kill of the three he needs to fuse kid in the front of the site
He's scrambling for it
Just looking desperately for something and that kit right here off the bomb site
So he's gonna have to push into the dual and that is where so-salt ends it
Making sure that the third of the 1v3 can't be taken by Maladoy
So it's that 5v4 when they pick off fall and with the spam towards car that sets us all up
And the kinder does a great job with his utility like slow things down to get a kill
and it's all back, but again it's all, you know, playing from the back foot the entire time.
This is also a winnable position, but not converted.
Big answer when they get good guns.
Three players B and an early stack up. We've got low-poss burnt to a crisp.
But that's a lot of damage in response for the theory of players on banana.
They will continue to try to hold this line, and they will do it convincingly, mowing down
Alex and Davi G. It's a dangerous game for you, Kinder and Fallen, but it's a B set-up
that remains confident.
I love that the answer to the antidote to last round in their mind is more aggression,
doubling down, peaking with two this time, rather than less.
anyone for a while in this setup. It's Kcerato and CT maybe to make first contact.
The smallest chance at making this happen.
Locked in flawlessly. Five-up Furia. A gun round that answers back by confidence.
We heard the celebrations of gentlemades when they put that one round on the board and that is
of round they won barely after the three versus one almost collapsed quick dose of reality in the
follow-up it's not going to be an easy t-side furious inferno deadly
you just wants to peek so bad
early pressure again down banana he's gonna try to wait it out it's always the
trap of inferno it makes it so difficult versus you know good CT side teams as you
go early you get naded you go late you lose time and then you still get naded
if a team is held on to them and then you wish you just went ahead and rushed
into it early fall back ordained works out beautifully here for you kinder place
to perfection on Mopoz. They will secure car control, which is half the battle sometimes.
Just don't have many weapons to work with.
This won't be a fake. They've got no more smokes after this.
Fall into face into the pistols, cleans up what you kind of started with the Nade,
And DaVeeG tagged down low as well, so Hail Mary moment here for an attempted bomb plant.
That'll help. Martinez clipping one and Alex even finding the boosted case Serato.
Now you've earned a bomb plant off of it. Fallen's got it delivered.
Jump into the new box for Martinez's deagle with a tech nine here on Alex.
And they want to try to press into Fallen before reinforcements arrive.
He will shave one off the bomb site. Late play from Sossel.
Pistols with a ton of damage, but a fifth on the board for Furia.
really saves a day running at that quad player and if you had peeked from the other side that would have been safe
Just to get that bomb down and dead
That's a close call for furia and again
That's why I say car controls have to battle sometimes even though you can't do so much damage with this utility
just uh
Just how close they are to actually planting the bomb and being able to throw that one exact that very simple exact
This throws a right amount of RNG. They got a good entry pack. It works for them on Overpass 2.
Really good outcome there for channel mates to keep the money on a thin edge.
Furio the big reinvestment. Still impressed that Sausal cuts audio at the correct inch.
I think he actually hit, like, uh, like, kind of a surf, because when he landed, he didn't make any noise at all, and I think that would have blown up his position.
Although he gets shredded by the trickery.
Another good name.
Oh, yeah.
Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm.
Martinez has been muted here in map 3.
One kill to his name so far.
Never an easy task to get that op online on the T side of Inferno.
Yeah, I mean, if his teammates get him there, uh, we can see, we see what Martinez can do on a CT side.
He was great on Nuke CT, great on Overpass CT.
5 vs 3 brewing towards the A site now, double smokes, out middle.
Plans here on the Moto side and Davi G with the instant headshot.
Molodoy, Hail Mary, run into the bomb site, it's gonna serve up a distraction.
Oh!
A second from him alone, and so Uri a little bit later on the peak, but that's perfection!
The tethering between the two serves up a rock solid hold.
Yeah, they had no pit mollies there to really scale.
Molodoy gets that extra frag, but to be honest, that angle from Pit was going to destroy them anyways.
So they're just kind of showing off, and Martinez, if he's going to sit here, okay.
No guarantee he lives.
Oh, after time.
No off. $3,000 left over.
At least he had something. Damn.
Molodoy getting away with that sequence.
Yeah, that's great.
Great. And again, I mean, good rounds or bad rounds from Furia, Molodoy is always there.
He really extended an overpass where it would have just been over with his rotations over
to B.
There was a certain swagger about Molodoy coming into this third map. The moment you
saw him in the gun round peeked those five Desert Eagles down middle.
We were hoping that it wasn't just a symptom of being an anti-eco, and that he could keep
that up.
Well, here we are, mere rounds later, and he is off to the races 11 and 3.
That is enough to keep Fury up out of arm's reach for Gentlemates at this point.
But still, we've seen Gentlemates battle back in to the later portion of halves.
Nois is going to remain constant in the mid-play, drop a body early, and send
gentlemates down a dire straight.
It can dark constantly.
So good at this time.
Constantly threatening and looming over these smoke grenades in his furia, starting to tap
into the comfort zone that is Inferno for them.
It really is the idyllic B player in terms of how he positions themselves.
themselves find time when he's alone like even in a rotator spot I don't mean
there's anyone that you trust more than him so it's definitely been putting up
his half of the bargain
the smoke's are never too late
It's got 12 bullets, actually. No reload in for you, Kinder.
Fort, it's just they tucked in. We've got K-Sirado with utility to support all this and Fallen starting to find his kills.
His struggle's on overpass. We're a real factor in losing that B site time and time again, but Layer Number 3 here in K-Sirado...
So I'm shooting that.
Bomb got planted.
Okay, well, Sossil, maybe there's a chance.
Starting to get wrapped by the banana setup, worried about CT as well,
but nobody's home on this side, so he actually finds a pocket to extend off site with.
Molotov dropped inside of the church by K Serato,
sent Sossil back to the duel, he'll lose that one without a kill,
and so, even despite Martinez's best efforts, it's Furia 7-1.
Again, gentlemen, it's proved they're the most dangerous when they're about to exact beat it. They still managed to get these entries.
They've been very good at denying at least one player from getting anything, and in some cases dropping both easily,
but it's not
resulting in round wins.
I'm sure Fury don't think they're through it just yet, we should come back.
Happy to play these dangerous games, you kindar ahead of the ball, it's off.
Will they anticipate this tuck in?
Doesn't look like it, one already passed.
Kindar doesn't know that the player beside him.
He drops Mopedes in the background, falling caught off by this proximity as well, but
he's able to climb up onto the oranges.
need to cut off the rotate, the bomb is right behind it and fall in a little labor but he'll get there.
It's supported by Kcerato enough so for this man advantage to be maintained.
And the NAID takes off some chip damage. Oh, off shot misses.
Still a chance to pry into this site, falling so low.
KAMI-G finds one blinds, falling toppled as Kcerato leans back to coffin again,
doesn't get exposed as the nade goes deep.
He's trying to line up to stop this bomb plant.
It's all off it.
Mollidoy finds the leg shot.
That's gonna soften up.
The post plant, Sossil doubles back towards Banana, collects his.
And a man advantage in the post plant here for the gentle maids.
Martinez off angle versus Mollidoy.
Mishot in between the CTs,
and Quesarotto's gonna flex that push forward.
A CT player on the smoke,
Merches and gets the headshot.
Wait, stop that.
Gentlemates by the skin of their teeth will take their second round.
Gotta respect their B entries, man. You let them get that close. They can always pose a threat.
It's a miracle that Sossil comes out of that smoke and gets the headshot after getting spotted.
Frustrating for Fury to give that one away.
And uh, you can replace Native, right?
But his screen was fully blocked off by that side of the car.
The gentlemen have their foot in the door.
A couple of kits here for the CT side, but also a couple of smaller weapons.
We're gonna pop through this.
Haven't seen anybody risk it this deep down banana, so perfectly timed, sprinkled in by Yagindar.
Molotov is able to puncture on the other side, and a nade that's gonna soften both Martinez and Alex down to the halfway point.
So in a round where there's some limitations, Fyria just weaponized them, kind of turning it into more of a strength and a weakness,
as the MP9 and 5-7 can play freely with this threat down banana.
And yet again, gentlemen, it's still the suffocation that is Furia's B-side aggression.
Molotov's patient hold pays off, Sausel dead, and that bomb, spotted on the double-pack,
has 25 seconds to figure out this solution, or just tuck tail and save.
It's getting out of here. Off's the best thing about this situation so far.
And it's cool to see him like, you know, very wary to give Furia some credit here in their tactical play,
just not knowing when suddenly it could all fall apart, but we see the best of it right
here. They have that flash play to get your kinder to go through the smoke for his kill.
But even after that, the Nade to respond to their next move as soon as they refrag your
kinder, they know how to keep on punishing.
It would be a timeout coming in for gentlemates.
Just feel like someone needs to tell a joke over on FURIA, you know?
I see what you see, but I think that's that pressure of,
We gotta do it from all of the way. We gotta get back on this stage.
They weren't able to pull it off over in Rio.
It's gonna do a wee wee wee or something like that.
Yes, that's something.
Is that why they pay him the big bucks?
Yeah.
Well, I mean...
Apex is kind of the best at it and...
Can't tell me it doesn't bring some...
enjoyment to the table.
Aw.
Dunked on Mopaws.
That fire about to spread, he hangs on to the angle, but here comes the peek, fallen ready for the spot.
And it is another man advantage out of Furia, so Inferno is really where their party gets to start.
Don't leave anything up to chance, don't allow gentlemates to find anything more than just these two they have.
We know that the threat looms in their ability to group up and bounce,
and that could still occur here at this B site that is just still fallen and Yakindar.
But Fallen and Ykindar on this B site looking much better than the Fallen and Kcerado of the B site on Overpass.
And, uh, well, I don't put the blame on Kcerado.
Yeah, Fallen had a stinker, that's for sure.
He knows it, Gentlemates knows it, feels like that's why they tried to exploit it.
We get this back site, Hold by Fallen, who's now got a 3K in the round.
The Kindars got themselves one and an assist for falling for the road three and a half kills
It's a full house between the B defenders. Tell me that bomb site's not shut down in its entirety
Just set for perfection so many times already with Furia, but yeah, we've got that we've got the half
I mean now no matter what happens. They
They have had a master class here
Extremely solid couple of the B rushes came in and seemed to her gentlemates
are the best is when they can, you know, really work together as a pack and
They did deliver some very impressive
Kills trying to entry, but there's only two given rounds
And don't play execs no real arch wraps like a lot of these rounds are just
The way feria want them to go. Yes, that's that confidence of a CT side on inferno, right?
It can be so suffocating and I think gentlemates have felt that just gasping for air this whole half gasping for space
When you have Moledoy kind of intermittently going for those mid-peaks as well, it's like you've got to be cautious on that side, plus Banana keeps getting charged down over and over.
I would hate to have been gentle-mates throughout this half, but at least giving it one more chance to go towards B, Martinez collects a headshot, and with that, a damn near open B site.
Kacerado sets default ablaze, gets real close to that smoke and he'll call for Yuri to give him a flash to just dive through.
He tries to take the route towards Banana. Oh, it's a double for Kacerado.
Coffin player is able to answer back, Martinez on the 3K has done everything here for gentlemakes to make it happen.
Sausal catching the Banana Flanks got his hands busy, two separate 1v1s, and unfortunately now it's going to have to be that Martinez ace.
Martinez Ace. Well, it's right there for the taking, but forced into the CT cross.
Oh, it's all five. If you want it done right, do it yourself.
That's excellent out of Martinez.
The show, he can have some T-side impact, no off necessary.
And it was only be this half out of Gentlemates, but that's how they started it.
That's how they end it, and they get a round out of it.
Give yourself a little more to work with with that one three rounds of a t-side on gentle mates
I'd said when this game started the most confidence we saw from fury of this series was in the first six rounds of nuke
That is now changed. That is the most half or the most confident half was the most half of all time
But one of the most halves of all time
Still shy of double digits
But I think if you were to ask furia right now, they would say yeah, we just found our game
And it's great that it comes by way of fallen and you kindar
But the two of them combining within that be defense
Look at poor Yuri, just anchoring A.
Saw no action that map.
Three and five.
The one time Yuri had any action was when Molodoy was in the bomb site.
Still got a triple kill, he'll be off.
When he was on the perfect angle too, yeah.
I swear that's the only time we even saw Yuri's POV that happen.
But I don't think he'll be complaining about it.
Go ahead, enjoy the free ride, if that's what this is.
Gonna have to be shut down on the T side.
T side they've gotten over to the arch so they thought but Davi G sends one through the smoke
Case a lot of emerging from the apartments gets turned on by Martinez
Moledoy and Fallen trying to piece this together still they cleared out pit
They've got their bomb plant at the very least they've earned a chance to hang on here and there's still a Molotov on Moledoy
When and where though I
Feel like you yeah, you just want to throw it Lane eventually in this position even though they're low
Oh, we know that pistol rounds are all about headshots.
CT's come through that smoke, they spot Mollidoy,
U-Till on the ground, falling with a chance to clutch.
Hit a chip damage, Molly goes past him, and there we go.
Gentlemates able to finish off what they started
so convincingly.
They had to be aware that gentlemates
are gonna try to push through a smoke.
They think they've done that so much, but yep,
they also had the HP on their side to be excited about this.
Another pistol round win for them.
Why not give Mollidoy the hero AK here?
utility tech nines and we know inferno can still be won over by these lesser
guns so we got the exchange of utility down banana and both teams walk away
still full health
Server goes silent, and still it's a long rotation to that B site.
They decide to position themselves inside Banana, drop their smoke grenade in front
of the MP9, and that is all the utility barring a flash that Gentlemates still have now at
B.
It's keeping Fury of floating at the base of middle, leaving both options open, no apartments
control, they are going to go 5 members strong towards B and Davi G starts to feel like he's
got the memo.
This is a number strong flank behind Fury, we'll see if they anticipate it, but right
now Fallen setting up Nades with a bomb in the background, it's going to go well in the
forefront but it stalls out and that mid-bush.
They got both B guys, now the smoke however, that's a whole different story.
The Kindar tries to pepper through, they just want to scoop that bomb up and get out of
But that's not going to be afforded to them Davi G is almost dead
Sassel the M4 on the line cleans up as you kindar tries to retrieve that bomb
So good activity on the mid push reading that for what it was all in towards B stalled by flashes
And they get mowed down by gentlemates. Yeah the same play 10 seconds earlier
Nothing really changes except you know fury don't get flanked right away
But still, Gensel makes the info move. On mid, they were always ready to support their B players, and their B players knew that was coming.
I think that was surprising about the situation, was not having a third guy rotate over through CT with that knowledge.
knowledge. Two-spotted jumping back, you could have done a 5 HP.
You'd still overtop it a third player to rotate over. They're really light on
made stuff. They've got a cache of them though, okay.
Trying to tap into a little bit of the economy they built right, having
Molledway on an AK? Yeah, Fira's a little bit more flexible than they are as we
can see already thinking about the A site. It's a double-pit setup. That doesn't
mean there's a gap over on Arch. And so many CTs are still at the top of
He's standing behind that very close by smoke.
Are they just going to turn into a big flank again?
If so, this hole needs to be great.
One drops off the pit, that'll be heard by the player in apps.
It's a double peek, it's a great flash, you catch Sossil in the open!
And Dabby G's got nothing!
That one AK kills Sossil, the Glock's able to then just swarm on through.
And now you've got a daunting task in front of you if you're gentlemates to stave off Furia's double digits.
I mean, you know, last time I said it's not a good idea for them to go for a retake, they ended up winning.
They do really want to try this. Couple players are low.
A majority rifle is here for Furia.
You grab two guns off the bodies of the eight defenders fallen.
Starts to make a move. That's info on Martinez, but everybody else just stow it.
Heads tucked down, allowing for the CTs to take these duels.
Three, cleaned up, Molotoy!
He's got himself to double. They don't have to get it.
He picks it back up, and as he dives for it, real close.
Tobl digits, Furia.
Yes, sir.
Now they've done.
Oh, he was mad about that.
That was a close call.
I can't believe they nearly found those kills.
Definitely got to give him credit, man.
One of the few teams going for retakes like that right now.
But all the Furia's players head talks.
Nobody trying to take these fights
and just letting the Gents run it forward.
Maybe not expecting them to be as brave as they were about that.
Frustrated just how close it got
Half the second difference and we've got gentlemaids 6-9, but instead even yeah
I mean fallen really thinks they're saving right there as he jumps out
That's not what they're hoping for because it did I think you know again versus most of the teams out there
They are saving in that spot
Really good try but it is a t-round win
And honestly the issue was not
That they almost won that retake the issue was that they played three banana players behind a smoke with no arch
Information no rotation and they had it was their own smoke. They had a weighted out to go and help
Great way to kickstart an economy here for fury as well
Right that was just the Yuri deciding to buy in last round give Maladuay another AK but the form that he's in it makes total sense
Back-to-back hero AKs for Molledoy.
21 and 8.
I don't know what they said to the kid in between maps 2 and 3.
But they fired him up. That's for damn sure.
Firing on all cylinders now.
Three rounds from playoffs.
Opa's tucked in behind the smoke on halfwalls.
Got a lot of presence on the other side, and they're not trying to hide it.
Just don't do one of those cute jumps.
Well, Alex is priming the flash for Mopaz.
There it goes.
He doesn't pounce, but that deadline you kicked out, who writes off the threat of half-walled
pappy G, ready to go wide, as the third piece of that B-play does deny banana controller
at the very least makes it costly, but Fallen's still here to take up the information.
Excuse me, is not going to be any squeeze to get into arch.
Two pistols on the field and they're here inside this A site. Martina is pressing in.
Acerado bests him M4 through smoke. It's a triple for Davy this round.
Excellent.
And you saw his frustrations one round ago when they weren't able to stave off the A site.
There's a world here though for Fallen, but that crossover just now catches him off.
but he'll able to catch the kill, smoke for the cross,
guarantees the bomb plant at the very least.
Once to get an early fight, don't find it.
They are split up, but it'll be some time
before this banana player gets into play.
Fallen's gonna roll back the years here
to pull out a clutch.
Trying to make up for the struggles of overpass.
Davi G, three kills into the round,
holds that back church door,
Fallen doesn't bite while he was on it,
but now looking to slip in, just confirming.
Nobody's pressing into him, he doubles back.
He's got a Molotov as well, throws it preemptively,
onto the bomb, and it's gonna spread wide enough.
Davi G tries to stretch out.
Oh, and now he's on it.
But Follin's gonna go wide,
trying to deal with the fountain player.
It's a long defuse, he just gotta get soft, so he will.
He pushes, one, three.
Oh!
Follin sticks the landing.
Wow, he really does.
And this is all to make up for last map, of course.
years officially rolled back sixteen twelve now and i would be three for
fallen on this map same player who one map ago goes five consecutive rounds
with no kills on that be defense
was a driving force alongside the kinder on the ct side
stopping gentleman and their momentum in its tracks
and a rock solid one d three here to secure eleven
I think for a moment, Furia felt like nothing is guaranteed, but 11-5 off of that, and that
gets him roaring as well.
The loudest we've heard, Furia.
The thing about a clutch, people don't really understand, but your teammate pulls out a
clutch like that, it gets the adrenaline flowing for everybody.
The other squad is going to have to sit and think about that.
It's not going to talk about Yuri's ADR, okay?
They did not go A a single time in that first half.
He's barely played this game so far.
She's not been involved in a single opening duel, for better or for worse.
That's why it's a team game.
Some days you're just not that guy.
I hope that made the planet, but their space is pretty perfect to avoid it.
Good damage down range, Martinez from beyond the grave.
Another peek down mid. Feels like gentlemates know they've got a fight for this.
Yeah, bombless pinned in that position, so we take a second to get them loose.
They got the push out of halls. They're here to stack B, they throw the smoke down.
And Fury are actually going to have the right response. They're walking back towards A.
Oh, it's the halls push though. Sossel sees this, and now everybody else will know about it as well.
Side-line, Sossel back at it, shuts down the short play, leaves it all on Ya'kindar with no bomb possession and three players to catch.
So Sossel's push off of the A site, works out. Kindar is going to have to be a Hail Mary sprint for the bomb more than anything else.
Oh my god, he still has time. He still has just enough time, but he's got to prioritize picking up bomb.
He's worried about the dual so he'll try to hunt down the frag and it'll elude him was down to the wire
Did not have spare seconds for that one crazy or they not
Prepared it all for the chance also could have got to the end of Halls. He was just spotted in alt as well
But yeah, even with the push they got up lane
Obviously people had rotated off that information. I
Don't know where they thought he would have been instead
But it blindsides Furia and keeps this game within 5.
Furia's economy bottoms out now, off the back of only Fallen surviving that 1v3 round.
You can see the limitations, and we've seen Furia already win when it's Molledoy's single
AK, but it's a field of tech nines here in round 18
Arch has been a point of contention at a fury up blind though sauce all flashes it good
It's tucked down teammate on the other side of smoke just charges through it that he cuts noise
But he's lost his teammate up on valve will swing wide with the SMG
but still the Tech 9's prevail enough so to try to punch that bomb in.
It gets scooped back up by Yuri,
and Sendiery won't land where it needs to to stop him.
And so K-Cerato leans back into the pit with Kevlar, and that Yuri SMG looks to come and join him
just ahead of the short walk-up here from Mopaz, who does play the smoke now, also has the kit.
We'll see what kind of line he can deny from them. He's on
On arrival, Alex starts to stomp around on the other side, and Kaserado blindsided by that close proximity.
70 health for Yuri. Gun advantage to the gentlemate's side. He buys time. They will run back to the DQs, but he jumps in, and he cuts them down, and Yuria takes their 12.
And now Yuri's playing the game. Ooh, that's a bit of a misstep in for gentlemates.
Damn, I thought they had that trade guaranteed.
It would have been fairly enough time to get back to the bomb, but I think they would have had it for sure. That is pretty rough.
Shades of nuke in the way that Furia are just winning with less, pulling off those close moments.
They weren't able to establish that X factor on map 2, nor were they able to stave off
the eventuality of that one successful B hit.
Gentlemates absolutely pushing Furia to their limits.
We'll try it again as they charge down Banana to give Furia a taste of their own medicine,
but Molledoy's got that cover on the brink of a 25 kill map 3.
over banana with bomb back by T-Ramp. Scout at bat and it's hopped. Molladoy hits the
headshot, tries to continue this push into the B-Play. Alex gets blindsided through the
side of the smoke. And so Molladoy decides to take things into his own hands. A triple
kill in round 19 that opens the door for the bomb and shuts the door on gentlemates in
this 2-1 matchup.
So they'll close in on it, a lethal moment here for Molledoy because his destiny here
in Astana is about rewriting the shortcomings of his stage chokes last year.
Rookie of 2025 will re-secure the chance to play in front of his home crowd and Furia
Show us they do still have the ability to tap into the type of CS that could push this back to the limits.
Yes, a great performance from Molotoy.
I feel like we've been saying that for every Furious series.
And so even though it was a lot closer than they would have liked, they are going to get there.
They're going to get into the stadium.
They're going to get into the playoffs.
And Molotoy has a chance to do a much better job than he did last time.
Yeah, I mean in the end fantastic game from from fury
We were scared about the a kinder fallen combo on B
They passed with flying colors and then on the T side honestly some of these rounds getting very very close
But the clutch factor Yuri came out on top fallen came out on top
Moldova in some of these close rounds and and that that's it
I think 13 6 even feels the first half perfectly fine
But I feel like
Gentleman definitely had a chance to come back on the CT side which was stolen away by this clutch play
Yes, really great to see Furia securing their spot in the playoffs off the back of at the beginning of the event
Great series spirit one had me scratch in my head
Map two of this one also similar story, but this was a correction where where they were able to write their rocks
I mean, you know, there are still question marks here about what's gonna happen moving forward for furia
Are they realistically gonna challenge for the trophy here? I don't know
I gotta be honest, I think the spirit game really put a number of question marks next to that potential for me personally.
Yeah, I mean they managed to deal with these like here two teams I would say, and the first two as I've always said, super, super convincing.
This one not so much, but then the opponents will only get tougher from this point onwards.
And of course the stage, the pressure on Moladoria, he has been insane throughout this route stage.
literally every map I feel like he played as good as you could wish for him
and without him where would they be in this series must be one of the top
players of the tournament yeah for sure and surely top three or so yeah exactly
I'll check that mode out production will be able to help me as well but some oh
you prof there we go there's actually connected to my brain all at all yeah
So I can also adjust. Now it's 1.47, maybe I can bump it up.
I'll add some touches to his name.
Yeah, but I mean, just on the gentleman side of things, obviously.
Another chance tomorrow, and I'm sorry enough here to think that, you know,
they've got a chance depending on who they play.
Isn't there a chance that they play Magic?
Yeah, I think that was what I was looking at. Doesn't mean that it's 100% confirmed
that you have the second game also going on, so we'll see after that.
If it is magic for sure, that's my favorite gentleman. It's easily. Yeah. Yeah, I mean look they were disfondent at the end
But they shouldn't be too down. I mean you took a map off your ear. It was their map pic
You've looked decent throughout you pushed mouse for example on the opening day
I believe it was and so, you know, they they they've shown enough to me to think yes
They could have a chance to get a little place
but the thing about gentlemen it's for me watching them here and the games leading up to it is that they
as many of their players can be are a little it just kind of feels like a
stylistic matchup it depending on maps and how the opposing team wants to play
like this map for example they just weren't quite as well oiled at banana
and so that's why you saw people like Yackindar and Fallen Feast like look at
Fallen's ADR that that shouldn't really be happening but it kind of spoke it was
a testament to just how more how much more well-versed he and Yackindar were
in fighting that area but then you have these other maps where gentlemates can
just actually be incredibly impressive where their contact plays work out really well. They adapt
surprisingly well on the CT sides so they could definitely play spoiler in the quarters if the
matchup really suits them. And this just to really punctuate what we're talking about. I mean the
rating is insane, the ADR is insane, 26 kills as an AWPer. The Heath map, like it's literally all
over the place. It's not like he was just harming one position. He was super impactful.
You even see the CT kills on Banana on the retakes coming in. I mean, it was a fantastic
course.
Why have people been saying that he's like fell off or because I haven't talked to you
about it properly. This narrative is so wack to me. I think he's still like absolutely
on fire.
I don't know. I think the first term is that they play this year. He just wasn't impactful.
This is what he's performing now has nothing to do with what he was in Krakow or in Fort
and previous tournaments so yeah that's that's simply it. I mean I'll speak to it
the the four series after Fallen announces retirement were all bad for
Molladoy and I mean is he more of an emotional guy? I guess so because he was
pretty lights out for a lot of last year except for the biggest moments on the
biggest stages but this year a little bit of a downtrend and then that four
game streak of the two games after Fallen's retirement announcement in
Rio, the two games in Fort Worth were all bad for him. So it's great to see him pump those
numbers up, show the output here once he gets back on home ground. Well, Fallon hasn't gone
anywhere yet and indeed once again he's with James Banks. That's right, I do have Fallon with me
here and Gabriel you're through to the playoffs. Some interesting and up and down performance
you started off the group stage really strong, spirit obviously, it's always going to be a
battle but then this one here against the gentlemates your overpass sees how
they look so strong last time around it did fall flat this time what was going
on there for you guys to kind of struggle so much in that scenario and not
be able to close it out yeah I think we didn't play the best overpass this side
this game overpass on CT we kind of came back on the game but I was already too
late 12-4 very difficult to come back all those rounds but yeah I felt like we
felt flat a little bit after round six or seven we're not really getting any
opportunities to win the rounds but yeah it goes like that sometimes over past this side is usually
not so easy to get many rounds and I think we ended up getting four or five if we're not wrong
which is pretty much common on this half so yeah I respect you do a little bit more but props to
Dan as well for holding up. I want to look a little bit at your map pool as well. I remember
end of last year by far the best overpass team in the world you guys was dominant on it then this
year you started to change things up a little bit have you rediscovered the overpass again have you
lost some confidence in some other maps where is it at for Furia right now? Yeah we're working on
get overpassed where it was last time and I think we're getting there. We played
two good overpasses tournament and one not so good right now that we lost 13-10.
And it's part of the process. The veto system is always going to be something
that's always in change in motion. Maps are not going to stay the same forever.
Only a few teams can do that for so long and for us it's just like that. We have to keep working
on improving the weaknesses on all maps we are working and got to be working to put the chemistry
a little bit higher to have a higher base level I would say but we're working towards that.
And in terms of working towards that looking at the performance you have showed across this whole group stage
Almost being able to close it out against spirit
But obviously losing from some significant lead you had in the half right winning the first half against them
What does it make you feel about where this furious at obviously?
It's looking better maybe than some recent tournaments, but I mean it's still not where you want to be right aiming for trophies
We definitely should play a little bit better if you want to really lift those trophies, but the potential is there
So it's up to us to really show when it matters and make sure we're playing with cohesion and got to make sure we're
Making the plans happen
But yeah, it's of course not dominating as we would like to be but I don't think anyone is at the moment
It's pretty difficult a lot of teams are playing good CS and on max around 13 and things can go very fast and very quickly
So you got to be on point very quickly in the match. Why do you think it's like that for you guys right now?
Hard to say I hard to say I think it's just ups and downs
It's difficult to maintain the high level all the time, but that's what we're trying to do.
And I think we have a good chance on this playoff.
And looking at that, a good chance on this playoff, especially when you've got Wolladoy just dominating in every single game you guys played.
Looking at him, when I spoke to him in the interview at the beginning on the media day, he was saying he wanted to focus more on the team play, more within the system.
And then your kinder said he was trying to obviously now play more of the way that benefits him while also working out with the team.
the team. What do you feel like it's been as if you notice to change this event?
Do you see he's going back to form?
He's playing very well, determined definitely much better than what he was
playing in the recent tournaments. That's very good for us as an Alper is very
important to have the Alper hitting all cylinders to go very, very far. And I'm
happy that he's playing well and hopefully going to go well in the
playoffs as well in front of his crowd.
Do you think at all, obviously I saw the reactions when you retired that for
that Molotow was obviously so emotional about it. Do you feel like some of that
may be affected his game as well.
Hard to say, I don't think so.
I think it's more about the way we are seeing things
inside the server, helping each other.
Definitely, I wouldn't go that way.
I'm looking at it.
That crowd, you already experienced it last time,
but this is on paper a much more experienced,
a much better furia as well.
Full focus on the trophy, is that what you're aiming for?
Is that what you're believing?
Definitely, we have a chance to lift this trophy.
We're going to be playing for the Kazakh audience again.
We have done the first tournament
of this furia interaction here,
so it's great to be back on it.
And we're going to have full support from the crowd,
So it's going to be amazing.
Even playing there is going to be awesome.
Hopefully we can win a lot of games and go very far
so we can experience that as much as we can.
Well, best of luck doing that.
Thank you very much for your time, Fallen.
Richard, let's go back to you.
Thanks a lot, James.
Yes, it's good of Fallen to talk a little bit
about what was going on in the team
and address maybe the possibility
that his retirement announcement could have maybe derailed
things, regardless of whether or not he's right about that.
He's certainly right about Moller D'Auby
and back to his best right now.
And I think probably after Donk, the fans have been giving him the biggest pop every
time they've seen him, the hometown hero.
I think he's going to have a lot of support, a lot of help when he gets into that arena.
And as we were talking about, here are the top five players in the tournament so far.
Of course, it's Donk, Molodoy and Lucho.
Yeah.
As I'm expected.
Yeah, as I'm expected.
Yeah, absolutely.
No, I mean Lucho being there is kind of crazy.
and also Zerzh and doing it for the IGLs.
Get you an IGL who can't.
But back to Molodoy, I just think,
we talked about it last year,
he got a little bit of stage fright.
I mean, the adrenaline's going,
the crowd are chanting your name, you're a rookie.
Now he's had a taste of that and he's gonna get it again.
I think things are gonna be different here.
I don't think he's gonna have that same problem.
The general poise was great.
On stage, taking the microphone from James Banks
during one of those interviews, the way he addressed the crowd,
all of that was fantastic.
But then we saw some of the performances like at Cologne
and at the Budapest Major and some of the stages already
this year.
And it feels like those lights have been a little too
bright for him.
I feel like we're going to get a little bit more
of an in-between where think of like Chengdu in Hong Kong.
He was great in those kind of events.
So I think Astana is where he kind of rediscovers the form
for whatever reason that eluded him for the last couple months.
I mean, he's been in this team for a year now and
Fury actually are the longest standing five-man roster we have
at this tournament because
honestly, lasting over a year is kind of rare. That's usually the nine to twelve
months is when
teams make roster changes if they're not doing well.
Fury obviously did well towards the end of last year, this year
not really in contention for the titles. Obviously, they were in Krakow in the
final, but
Vitality exists, so that didn't happen.
Other than that, they weren't really close and now with no vitality here and all of these teams in Fox
Definitely think they should be challenging for a time. Well, you've read my mind about where we want to go next in our
Discussion and that is you know, we've seen fury make it to the playoffs
We've seen a few teams already there's one more day of
Swiss groups left
Where do we rate fury relative to the other teams that we've seen because as I said the crazy thing is it feels that the best team
I've seen so far is 9z
Yeah, I think in my head, there's no team that Furya can't beat, but also almost no team that they can't lose to at the same time.
It really depends on how they show up on the day, and some of these tier 2 teams, they can very easily, and then we see in other situations.
I think it's mainly Ykindar as that pivot man focal point of this team. When he's not performing, it looks much worse.
Yeah, Kandar is definitely the X factor for me on their team. Yeah, if he because in this series, for example
He really only had one good map
It was the last one probably their best win throughout the series and then when he has the bad ones then that's when the games
Get really tight really close
As for being a competitor or contender that is coming into the tournament. I had them as roughly third
I'd say well now I had a miss third and I feel like Spirit and Falcons were ahead of them for me now with 9z being the dark horse
that they are. I just will say I don't really want to face Ninesie early in a bracket if
I'm Furia. I think because it's 3-0 and 3-1, they probably won't, but I still wouldn't
want to mess with them.
Like, yeah, for me, Furia have been baffling at times, but I still got them ahead of Falkens
personally.
Me too, but also, that's a top three for me, and like the order is maybe Spirit number
one, and then 2 and 3, depending on, obviously, going into the tournament, we didn't see Falkens
with care again. And so far what we saw is also up and down. There's a lot of the floor
is nowhere to be found, but the ceiling is really good, right? And the good thing is
Monosy, Donk, Molodoy, all are shooting at all cylinders. So any of them has a chance.
I would say Spirit's my favorite right now, for sure, actually.
Just the Donk factor, basically.
The Donk factor, and I do think that they've actually improved in a handful of aspects throughout
the season. Also, I've just seen them at Rio have a really great tournament run
stopped by the real true number one in Vitality. Nobody here is on Vitality's
level and so I say that I think there's just been more proof lately that
Spirit should be making it all the way. We can take a look at some of the other
results from today and we'll talk about them obviously because they haven't had
an opportunity to do so. As we power through the Swiss, one more day of
groups coming up tomorrow, but you can see we've got our playoff teams largely decided.
Not a great deal of surprise there. Feel pretty good about those.
I mean, the five that we've got so far are great. I don't see why. The 91 is obviously
the biggest dark horse to emerge out of this group stage, but Maus, Falcons, Spirit, I
think those are the kind of teams you thought were going to be making it to the playoffs,
with a mouse team that, oh, okay, well, looks like we just got this update.
Yeah, I was just having this come through while I was talking to you. We've got G2,
have done it, and you can see they've overcome, they were stressed, more stressed, paravision,
because Dastan, Daddy Dastan's gonna have the bell out. Crazy thing over on the front
page of Reddit, while we're getting prepped for this segment, by the way, that Dastan
like the Telegram post saying to replace Nota.
Yeah, I mean he...
Mid-Ownment Life game.
He's been pretty vocal, pretty direct.
Oh, that's a tough look over there on his way, just completely dejected.
I mean, as much as I understand Paravision or not, may be supposed to be winning tournament
after tournament going to grand finals.
Now making the playoffs here is inexcusable.
Yes, G2 is kind of a decent team, but the losses earlier in the tournament are inexcusable for sure and
Some things that Dastan does
For many other coaches we'd be very critical of but it's also different from for a russian team
The the culture is different the expectations are different and the way you communicate is different
Yeah, so I don't necessarily blame him too much for like
like quote unquote what fans are saying,
like ruining the team atmosphere
and putting on even more pressure.
I think it's just a direct way
that you're expected to communicate in a team as a coach.
I think if you remember when we had the event in Bucharest
and he joined us on the sofa
and then like monologue about how no one was safe
on the team and he would be willing to make cuts
if the major wasn't around the corner and things like this.
You know, I love his candor,
but if I'm a young player and I'm a bit vulnerable
maybe catching feelings and catching my emotions.
I don't know if that is helpful,
or if I'm being honest with you.
I mean, great content, great for us,
great for what we do, maybe not great for a young team.
I would disagree with the method in that aspect.
I feel like being direct about faults and critiques
in the server, all totally fine, all fair game in fact.
But just saying, yeah, we'd probably kick one of you guys
if that wasn't happening to major.
that feels like it's just a looming threat, essentially.
And that's, you know, it's similar to the Falcons.
I'd actually relate it directly to Falcons,
how if you're on the chopping block there,
it just kind of changes how you play completely.
I don't think everybody is built to withstand that.
And it just adds an extra element into you already having
to focus on beating the player in the server.
Why am I trying to impress the guy behind me
in a way that just kind of makes this even more difficult?
Yeah.
I mean, I think we can say,
changes are coming in based on a-
I agree with the telegram.
I agree with the telegram.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, we took, I'm not saying telegram is probably what I would do if I wasn't.
Yeah, I would.
I probably wouldn't be like in the post game in the tournament.
I boot noted too, actually.
I mean, other than when he just gets flashed in and just gets to headshot blind players,
I feel like he has a lot of errors in his game.
I feel like he consistently on CT side just kind of takes the extra unnecessary peek more
than anybody else that I see.
He's generally the first domino to fall in what is otherwise a decent situation for them.
And I just see more potential in Cielo.
Yeah, I mean, Noda is probably the best raw aimer,
but counter-strike's more than that.
I mean, there's so much talent,
and Russian-speaking talent, good, strong,
aggressive rifle, I feel like you can find 10 of them.
Give me flits.
I want flits.
Paravision, flit.
Welcome.
No, definitely not.
Let's not be doing that.
Aimer Union, the Kastaner Union, I think it's...
Well, why don't you post and then save the stand?
Telegram.
I see you like it.
I gotta get on television, I guess.
Right now, because it is judgment day tomorrow, we're only going to have the one stream.
Obviously, usually we do have two because of the PGL event, but we've only got this series coming up.
So this is what we've got for you tomorrow.
Remember, all of these matches, all of these series, if you win, playoffs, lose, home.
So, gentlemates do get to play magic.
Monty will be taking on G2 Esports and the Mongols versus Aurora Nightmare Fuel.
Not what either of them would have wanted. Definitely winnable for all three teams
Yes, I want to say even though G2 Monty on paper looks like obviously G2 is a huge favorite the way that they've been playing
It's not really impressing
Too many people out there gentlemen. It's magic
definitely
Obviously obviously up in the air and Mongols or the most standard match of like the opening playoffs usually now
It's to get in the playoffs
one of those two teams in
Mongols in Aurora are going to be really disappointed for not making it there. I would say on the gentlemate side
Don't fall into a trap game. We're not going to cover that one
We're the late shift here
But my two cents on that one is just that you know magic
They probably want to play the contactee style that you keep throwing out and gentlemates
They're a team that they what did they beat vitality at an ESL pro league?
But then they just lose to other teams after that like they they are pretty hit or miss and they don't take your foot off
the gas because that's what I've seen them do before. They beat the big dog, they get some,
you know, they take a map off of Furia today and then they just kind of botch it versus a
team that doesn't look like they should be losing too. So I just want them to stay locked in because
I'd be happy if they made it after what I saw today. Anything about...
Not much. Looking forward to that, to the last game definitely Mongols. Mongols Aurora, that's my
predictions on the line there for the Turkish side to get to the playoffs and Mongols to miss out,
But we'll see how it goes. Oh, you didn't include them. No. Oh, wow. I included Mongols it, but I didn't include a roar
There we go. Okay, it's gonna be it's gonna be feisty here. All right, HL
It's like we're bad. Yes once again. All right guys great hanging out with you over the course of the day
Great hanging out with you guys at home as well. Hope you enjoyed the count strike
We'll be back tomorrow at the same time for judgment day. Make sure you join us
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