⚠️ VOD is unavailable.
pgl VODs on twitchBroadcasts 30+ hours are truncated. View the Raw Transcript VTT for the full version.
Music
Music
Music
Music
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
the
the
the
the
the
the
the
the
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to
another beautiful year of the CS
Asia Championships for 2026. I am
so excited to be here. We got so
much good counterstruck on the
menu coming from the Asia region
with teams from all across the
world. I've course and Mac and
I'm joined by the two
beautiful analysts that are going to be joining me for the first half of the day.
Pimp and Vendetta, boys, how are you feeling? Good, good. You know it's pretty
early where we are right now but I'm excited to get some more Counter-Strike
going and it just feels like this endless circle of top tier Counter-Strike
happening at all times. We just came from Atlanta, Astana and I'll straight into
CSE so if you're into Counter-Strike I guess it's a pretty good time to be alive.
Yeah it's pretty great and honestly this is a pretty significant one as well.
It's like the last S tier tournament heading into the major. This is kind
where you can see the final fine tuning of a lot of teams that are going to be at the
major simply. So you can kind of get an idea of where teams are at, what teams are kind
of leading in the right direction, and what teams are definitely not.
Some teams from what we've seen definitely need a little bit more practice too, so definitely
these officials are going to be the best.
I'm talking about Liquid already, huh?
Yeah, that game's coming up shortly, but yeah, these are the 16 participating teams.
As you can see, I think the top-rated team overall was,
it was Miao's up there, Falcon's actually in at the 4th moment,
and they're going all the way down to, I believe,
LinVision, who is the bottom seed coming into this tournament.
Yeah, I think the most interesting part about the teams you know
at your screen, as Sven Detherset, as well,
you know, a lot of these teams are heading to the Major.
Three of them are not 3D Max, NIP and BC Games,
so essentially, you know, this is their Major,
this is their testing ground, you know,
this is where they need to do well
and farm a lot of points for the VIS system as well,
so they get invited to some of the bigger tournaments
after the Major West.
For everyone else, did you see on the screen right now,
apart from BC Game 3, to make an NIP
as well as a testing ground for the Major?
Yeah, it's very much so, and I went in.
Obviously some teams have a little bit more legwork to do,
leading up to the Major than others.
I mean, one team has already been in,
which we have, which keep looping back to them.
But no, it's gonna be very interesting.
And yeah, this is a big moment.
And as you said, like, even though you might have missed
down on the major for the cycle, VRS points always going to matter.
So for the ones who weren't lucky enough to qualify,
for some teams that probably felt like they should have qualified through the max,
this is a great opportunity to showcase that.
Yeah, you can still mingle.
You can still be there amongst the top teams.
And of course, put your hand into the prize pool for some winnings,
which is going to swing that VRS points moving into the second season of the year.
And this is of course what they're playing for,
about $400,000 USD prize pool for everyone to take home as well as the
Club reward for everyone that is returning and our speaking of returning
just did want to touch on legacy are here with a different leader but they are
the returning champs from last year. Yeah and a team that's on a bit of a street
right now to be fair and they did well in Atlanta really came in hot
you know and were part of the semi-final and also absolutely smashed
bedroom in the third place decider in that game and you know before
heading into Atlanta they also won a domestic tournament so it's a team
with a lot of confidence so safe to say that they're starting to to peak at the right time.
It's kind of fun as well because I think everyone who saw them when the previous iteration of CIC
were really excited again like a new Brazilian team you know you finally get to see you know
Lotto Dumau who've been on the radar for a lot of people for many many years you know ever
since they came into God sent with taco and whatnot finally kind of hit their stride now
you're thinking like okay a legacy they're going to be like a new a new kind of just
that you see in lots of tournaments they're going to be, you know, the new Brazilian team that's always there.
And then they just didn't. They just kind of fell off a bit of a cliff and obviously they had a change.
They swapped out Lux for Art of all people.
And at that point when I read that news I was thinking to myself like, yeah, Art how did you necessarily been setting the world on fire and flux.
So I don't really see how this is going to help by any means.
But like Jacob said, you know, they came into Atlanta did extremely well for themselves.
Lotto and DeMar looking absolutely on fire, aren't even fragging like it's 2018.
So it was just cool to see. I'm hoping that's a start of a positive trend for them.
Yeah, Sam. And look, classic art, old-school art.
If he comes back and brings back that form, that hyper-aggression,
that's always something that you get to look forward to as a spectator.
Maybe not if you're playing against him, of course,
because you could just turn up at any given moment.
But let's go through the games that we are going to be covering.
Today, here on the mainstream, 3D Max,
oh, this is B-stream, sorry, yep, so 3D Max,
up against MIBR, we'll be playing simultaneously
at the same time as our stream,
and then Bate and NIP, Legacy and NIG, and Pain and M80.
Also worth saying, as you can see on the screen there,
all of the first initial games are gonna be best of ones,
which could cause some upsets, and being, you know,
GSL, double E-limb, that could also throw the whole bracket
or both these groups into disarray.
So we'll see what we get.
Once the day rolls forward and then if we jump over to our stream of the a stream the games that we're going to be covering initially
Our paravision and liquid which will be the first one up moguls and Lynn vision going head-to-head the Asian derby
Maus and tyloo which could be an interesting one depending on if tyloo wake up and
What new Maus are going to be looking like as well
And then I think the one that a lot of people are interested in a lot of eyes towards that Falcons and BC game game
To see what ends up happening down there
Yes, some cool games initially. The Falcons vs BC game, there's always going to be star
traction to that game, having monocle on one side, simple on the other. That's always going
to be fun to watch, especially in a one format where everything is at stake. We have seen
Falcons sometimes come off a little bit slow, that would care again. Safe to say that
we don't really know whether that at the moment looks somewhat good in Astana and
see if they can continue with that. And then, game of the day for me up until we
got the news you know was was definitely liquid taking on Peruvish and
unfortunately for Team Liquid Melts didn't make it in time as far as I'm
aware the playing with Fleshy that coach which means Peruvish and have no
excuse not to beat the shit on Liquid. Yeah you know it's a blunt way of
putting it but it is very true like Fleshy yeah he did used to play it
professionally right but that's six years ago and that wasn't necessarily
at the height of his career by any means either I'd like to explain
for what are the iterations of Budapest 5.
So it's a bit of an uphill struggle.
It was always going to be an uphill struggle for Liquid
as well.
I mean, you can't really lie.
The form's a bit dreadful.
Yeah, and the problem is that you've
gotten mulbs back into the team, I guess,
except for the first game now.
And he hasn't really found his stride.
It's a little bit better than in G2,
but whatever he has a good game,
the leash falls off the cliff.
Ben Nath has a good game, but both the Legion mulbs
are not able to contribute.
And they just never find their stride.
There's never like multiple players on liquid playing while at the same time.
Yeah, well, they haven't found which map we're going to be going to, which is Dust 2.
When I was looking at this and you've obviously, you know, lost one of the heavy pieces of firepower from your lineup for Liquid,
I would think you would want to avoid the pug maps as humanly, as much as humanly possible, especially,
I think it's Paravision, which is built on some of the best puggers ever known to man.
There's always two stories to that, because I get the thought process, but also, you know, Dust 2 is a relatively easy map to,
to slow them as standing in, you know, it's limited how much, I'd say,
tactical knowledge you need to have, you know, as a player on the server.
The good thing with Fleshy coming in, obviously, he knows everything.
He knows the playbook, all the stats, would be able to teach him some,
some of the nades that the maps are maybe essential in terms of throwing.
But in terms of his positioning, it's a player you can try to hide away
and try to mask the fact that you have a weakness, especially on the
T side, whereas when you move over to the CT side, it's going to be
tough for Fleshy to find the impact that's needed for Team Liquid, which then put more
pressure on guys like Na'Fly, Elise, you know, Shuei for that matter as well, someone else
have to pick up the slack of Noff's opinion.
Yeah, again, it feels like it.
I'm a little bit surprised, yeah.
Dust2 kind of seems like the most, I guess, 50-50 map in the sense that you might get
into a good start of things, and like Jakob said, you can hide away certain players
to mask your issues temporarily, but it's also one of Paravision's best maps, just
straight up.
So, I don't feel like you're doing yourself any favours if you're liquid, but then again, they don't have too many strings to play off of here.
And that would have been the cool conversation coming into this game, Mac.
You know, Paravish and going up against Team Liquid, two teams who are in each of their own respective, say, crisis at the moment.
Yeah, dipping for you.
I feel Paravish and you know, have been such an inspiring story throughout the entire year.
No one expected them to start off as well as they did.
No one expected them to be as competitive as they have been.
We saw on Clush, we saw at other PGL tournaments as well.
and even in the beginning of the year at the Blast Bouncy, how well they did.
But now they kind of realize that getting to the top is the easy part.
Staying there is the tough one, whereas for Team Liquid, it's the other way around.
It's been bad all year long, you know.
But then the same sort of like scenario right now where both of them are coming in
with no confidence, both of them are coming in, you know,
desperately needing a good experience here at the CAC to find some confidence
for the major as well.
So I think in that regard, there's a lot of pressure on both teams,
even for this being an opening best of one game.
I think we're going to have
a quick chat. Now let's talk
about vibes because I'm seeing
I'm seeing flashy. It's a big
smiles on his screen and I've
got two vibes guys that want to
have a quick chat to us as well
and they're going to be having a
chat to us because the game is
ready over you. Neon Scroove.
Yes. Thank you very much,
gents. We are very quickly
into the action here as Mac
has mentioned, so you know,
happy to be going on much of
an intro for myself and now,
but we're here for the game.
We're here for the team
they're saying it all quite nicely that as a pick here this could be a little bit
interesting and I'm certainly curious to see particularly on the liquid side of
things if they've done their homework coming into this if there is a chance
of of taking this map but gonna be a tough one of course with that standing
situation we're straight into what to be bombsite no mess around here from
Pyrovision as they get the execute out looking good thus far but the
rotations are pretty quick I think it has to be set into the three versus
Shuei looking good, brings it down to just one, and despite the execute, Paravision, they fall flat.
Yeah, and unfortunately, now for Sway, what are you doing in 1 vs 3?
The real answer is probably nothing to be perfectly frank.
Bomb dropped in an unrecoverable spot, but he got 50 seconds to work with here.
Try and find a way to scoop it back up. It feels unlikely. He's going for a reposition.
back in towards me going to
try and isolate a couple of
fights is the only real way
that this round is lost is a
gross misplay by Team Liquid.
It should be next to impossible
for his way. Let's see.
His way forward CT clear. He's
got a pretty good understanding
and he should really realize
that all three are here. One
spot to win, though, not
gets the information of a
shoulder peak and this
round should all but slot
into place. It'll turn around
that corner as well. The
and easy stuff or you can really ask for there is now for close it. Liquid kickstart. Well,
this team with, you know, obviously so many different narratives around them. We've got
the talk of this team just struggling. I think fundamentally as a whole and then on top of
that, you've not got mouths here for at least this first game. Having your coach flashy
stand in it obviously makes quite a big difference. All expectations are pretty minimal. So
any rounds a good round?
No, it is true. And I mean, the funny thing is always going to be on something like this.
Does that make you play a little bit better, you know, pressure off in the B01?
Yeah.
Can you kind of remove all this extra curricular stuff around form and so on and so on?
But it's tough to say, of course. Paravision, start of the year.
Really good run for them as has been mentioned by the desk.
This was kind of one of the maps they did it on.
They were underfeared for a long time on Dust2 actually.
I think the entirety of Blast Bounty,
every time they picked it, they won it.
So it's a difficult map.
And you can see why Jane with a lovely find
to open up the round.
Honestly, that might be all you need here.
They've got the cross smoke dance.
A lot of SMGs for Liquid.
In my mind doesn't feel super confident,
so creep up long.
It's looking scary here right now.
There's money to be made though at the same time.
Break on the smoke and be set up behind.
Alish, look at us a little bit more as long as Ultimate who gets the first.
They're trying to shut them down as they digress.
50 seconds as they start to make that move up ramp and Shuhayle get both.
Pistol pulled out as he looks to find Zelo.
Him with a Glock will get one himself and it's all on Jame who opened up this one.
His consolation kills but it looks like a second for Liquid is inbound.
Yeah, well saved. Really well saved.
despite the the opener coming in despite how well
Paravision was shaping up towards that a bomb site liquid
using the weaponry to its advantage, basically.
And indeed, Jim, the man that started the round is just going to look to save here.
15 seconds on that clock.
He should get away with it. It's a scout into the next round.
And unfortunately, not all that much happening in the end.
Not getting that bomb plan.
I think with the first kill, that's what they really, really would have wanted.
just try and force the roundout for liquid. In the end, it looks pretty simple. So we'll
see here, you know, I've kind of fudged the numbers a little bit. Pyrovision might look
to go for a buy here and they will indeed. And a few glills out and whatnot, maybe not
the cleanest, actually quite a lot of glills in the end. They've opted to go heavy
on the utility here. So I don't know, this buy is not great for me. And the B01,
you really have to set the pace well. I don't hate the idea about saving the
Scout though because we see it becomes so common on Dust2 where you're all poor by that Scout.
Two rounds in a row anyway. Force buying in the full buy regardless. You know,
Wartig does this a hell of a lot for Aurora but it's ultimate to open up things. With that all,
you'll find the first one for a second. Just misses that slight window on towards Belchinox.
Break on the smoke. Looks for more but already this pressure off Liquid are looking
pretty solid to be fair and this is the first true test of what Power Viging can bring
to the table here in towards dusk two and the T side is not starting well short move coming through
right or pop flash through just to try and give them that crew pop in towards short
as they want to dive on forward she way he's setting up the god flash from goose
I've slowed this round out massively
just the one trickle smoke from noter a job to try and bait things out low on resources here of
of course, James does have a
smoke, but he's in a different
area. So trying to flash their
way through and creep forward
to contacting up short to great
break for ultimate. However,
she does well gets one before
going down. It's this sport
that they just can't really
contest at this stage of the
game. The lack of utility,
etc. Is not helping them out.
Jane going to go down easily.
Liquid looking good. Paravision.
It's it's looking pretty loose at the moment and I don't think that's the
Name of the game. They have to be very very careful here
Yeah, there's a real kind of lack of discipline at the moment before power vision
It's become quite costly in these early rounds for liquid again because as you were mentioning
I do feel other looking really solid it does feel like
Having flashy in the side is just not changing up anything
For the better that is hmm. Yeah, I mean, you know, you just have to lean in a in a slightly different way and
I think it's a good idea to
play. Um like like we've set
sometimes players kind of enjoy
it. You know, you can have a
bit of a free day. You've got
beer one standing in. It's not a
whole tournament thing. Yeah,
no expectations. You can
chill out. And I feel like if
anything, having liquid one of
the prime examples of teams
that put a lot of pressure on
themselves and the pressure
doesn't exactly pay off. Let's
say so. So far so good. Six
and over ultimate to star
to make a safe path himself.
Oh my god. If you just push the
little forward, the altars got
a freebie. Yeah, I'm not wanting
to overstep that line, though,
right? Really quite dangerous
move, but he creates some space
for a leash. I think they knew
what was going on. They knew
there was a guy hanging around.
No, it will make his way out.
He's crept pretty well here.
Yeah, I was going to say
should be able to spot him.
Ultimate actually looking pretty
good at the moment seven and
zero.
at the moment, seven and zero, some quick shots landing as well.
Got that all power as soon as possible
and it's really paying off for him.
So, lovely little start.
Jame overlooks the angle for the second round as well.
He's going to be really doing a through diligence now
on towards long, following this one.
Tag through the door, dole is pulled out
and now goes the way.
Paltryock all in his shoulders.
He does get a consolation kill,
but that'll probably be as good as it gets.
Bomb, he's on his back, but it's surely impossible.
Now, we'll see it off.
And with only the one casualty, that slight half investment put to bed nice and easily.
Four and I'll look around the gates, in the best of one, I'm like what I'm seeing.
Against the pistols, against the full, but you know, all really really good science here.
We do have a much stronger buy this time around from ParaVision, so we're going to be a big deal here for them to just get this off the ground, you know?
We ultimately as well have not really seen them bring around close the entire time.
So, not looking too good.
James seems to know what's up here.
No peek comes around from Team Liquid though,
and certainly a good idea, you know, play it safe.
Not taking any chances.
He's spotted a lot of that crossing though.
So it's decent information for the T side.
Still a paravision keeping, it's quite slow.
Their default setup has been very, very similar.
It's like, early bit of use a lot of tools long,
But the bodies are heading towards shore very standard stuff for this D2, but I want to see para vision
I've some of these pocket moves that kind of made them quite interesting to watch
There's what made them quite difficult to play against in the past
You're gonna play of course I kind of like this move actually this is kind of interesting
I feel like it might get overlooked flash around my corner
He gets set him they just can't quite find the cross in the right place no to yellow proceedings
the first time he's seen
Paravision with an opener that
actually has some substance
behind it. That scout one
earlier still got shot down.
This one feels like they can
actually reset the round. Yeah,
and obviously the full buy and
everything, you know, feels
really, really good here. So I
think we're going to find out
what the move might look like.
They've got a good read. Look
at this. Yeah, very well set
up for it, especially with
Flassie on high. They do find
a killing towards mid. Keep
your eye on that. Elise
going to stay alive. Just go
down after his best. Of course,
himself all alone that opener again making all of the difference lovely little Molotov
does split them up the op misses the shot and naf is most certainly on for this maybe if he'd
nailed that kill unfortunately it does get away from him it's a slightly bit of reposition
genius works out well he knows about belchonok he has really good information on this it would
seem as he rotated around maybe you start to doubt yourself slightly tap on the bomb to draw
him out but he's already out now we get the headshot all the same and a big clutch coming
in from that flight? Not even just the fact there's a 1 vs 2. It's a 1 vs 2 on the B site,
statistically one of the hardest sites to retake in the competitive pool at the moment. That is a
massive round from NAF to keep this flawless streak going for Liquid and Paravision,
God, that's got to be tilting, right? It finally feels like things are starting to click. Numbers
advantage. You're moving towards the B site, plant down, we're split up as well, and
Jayme just doesn't even consider the fact that he could just reposition and look towards
I think James in his mind he's like he's definitely moved out of the door here
And he's trying to isolate me and I've got to wait for this Molotov to go so Belgium can fight with me play contact in a sense
But it's a perfect isolation really well done
That's liquid to open up proceedings again off the back of ultimate
He continues have a really solid star ultimate and a fair few critics of his time in liquid
But this is a really nice start
he's got to be able to get
his hair off. Trying to get
into a fee here or lining up
in front of each other as well.
It looks a bit rough in all
honesty. No two is going to be
a big moment here. He's so
blind, but he lines them up.
They just did not check their
angles. How has he ever gone
away with that? Mental way for
para vision to get their first
round and how para vision
has a whole good way of that.
There should have been two
more kills and towards be
down my hair. I think Ultimate gets kind of unlucky not hitting that second shot but man what a way for
them to get their first round but now they need to build upon this. Use this round as a catalyst,
give themselves a bit of a springboard to actually get in towards this map. It's obviously been a
really poor start but they need to fix things and plug these holes rapidly. We leave foundations
in this first half like at least five rounds to each side is for me it feels like a necessity
especially for paravision individually just to wake up in towards this tournament. Yes
and yes, they can always be a little bit kind of coin flippy, but this is a part of issues
that have started very, very weak and he's a pick up the slack very quickly.
Yeah.
Fully agreed.
And a big round, you know, they have to be able to string them together here.
The sporadic isolated rounds, obviously not going to do it again.
You're in that B01.
Everything feels so much more important.
Yeah.
And I think in a tournament like this, you don't want to be getting knocked down
into that lower bracket early, you know, it's ended up being a lot more.
I mean, it's a lot of stuff
that's been stacked than maybe
it was on paper a few months
ago. So it's a pretty scary
teams to contend with. Very
winnable game para vision on
paper. No, it is so sharp. Oh
flashy blocking like all of
them. I don't know how they
fully read into this. Oh my
goodness that yet they've got
a bit of an idea that he
must be in that smoke. Maybe
the team. They're going to
have to get the ball around in
a row here. Save out from the
rest of team liquid losing a
bit of their mojo. Still a
fair chunk arounds in between
them and Para vision, but the
past couple looking good for
the T side. Yeah, the funding
efficacy towards that B site. I
think in particular, you know,
we can I said it initially
the default for power vision
is just generally heading
towards short and seeing what
space they can get towards a
but this is a whole a lot
When they find weaknesses and they find openings, they just continue to push down on that pressure point and that's what they're doing with B site right now.
So a second in a row for them. That kill through mid, that's the big one.
And one towards the liege, that's what gives them the space and essentially it gives them the kind of the call of, okay, let's go.
Let's ramp up the pace now and start barreling through.
Flashy had an opportunity, there potentially could have been, it's one of those rounds, a complete 50-50 where either walks away with two kills, he walks away with none.
and unfortunately it was the latter in this one.
So going back to back,
puts financial pressure on towards liquid.
Open play for Ultimate, M4 for NAF,
but the buy around that, pretty rough.
Just P250s for Aleige and Shurey Flashy,
nothing for him, he's keeping money on deck for later on.
Jaymer went up the head to head this time,
there's ultimate will fall,
but you'll just get scooped up.
Aleige, denied, straight away.
So another kill coming in and another
Orp player drop. This time there is nobody around to pick it up.
We've already got Zelo all the way out, scaled up on B.
Now through B, so I think this round is pretty much going to be over.
Maybe indeed, yeah, keeping a hold of all the AKs and whatnot.
Might be a bit tougher than first thought. That was...
I was dead on.
Certainly a sitter.
We've seen a few of those more recently.
I was dead on.
Maybe the old Anim graph and all that.
That might need to be a demo review core speed.
Yeah, where has that gone wrong?
Me too 50 will find yellow
If they can make it a little bit expensive here liquid at the tail end
I don't think it's the end of the world
I think for now in particular just keep on the m4 keep as much money as you can on deck but for sure
Hey, I don't hear the idea of going searching and force you for him
It feels like it's unlikely gets away with anything no to got this position dead to right if he does push through
He should be dead as way will slightly overextend though and down he goes
and same for no to make his move will eventually falls now this rose become very expensive
We won't change the results, but it would definitely change how thick the wallet is for power vision. This is absolutely
Flip things a little bit. I felt like it was going to be a nice, you know
One casualty but a third round of the board simple stuff build up the economy anything bought though
Thank you sort of the all but that is it and the round does go with the way of our vision
But I real scare there
No, it is true. It is true, definitely going to help liquid in some ways, you know, with
all the kill bonus and stuff. But we'll see here, it's starting to close the gap and
now get worrying for liquid who were in the lead, have they kind of been figured out,
you know? So just going to have to try and reassess here. Always easier said than done,
against a team that James is leading close shot from Ultima looking for more as well as he breaks his own smoke over there.
Meanwhile out towards Long, a bit more aggressive this time, half looking sharp.
We'll find the head of the first. The Nade is good as well.
He's done a decent job of a lot of pressure on him to deliver at least something.
He did just that. So 4 on 4, they're able to slow them down.
Not a bad start for Liquid in particular.
I'm just going to go back towards the A site, smoke for the cross, one of those cars as well,
no one present.
Two smokes by liquid here, that's a slow pyrovision now, one front site, one lurk, one
lurk towards the long, which keeps the pressure on.
James, where are you at this though?
I wouldn't just be able to see if anyone was to cross back towards the car.
It looked like there was a slight temptation by Aleve for a second there, but he reigned
himself back in under a minute to work with. You've got Belch knock in the
back lines holding for a deep rotation. You won't get it. It looks like he's just
trying to keep eyes on a flank but the question is does he just thought the
set the flank himself? They're moving towards A now. Flash over and the two
can now start to cross. Oh they move away, they move away from long. Gonna get
I think they're really looking
for something towards middle,
which they are indeed correct.
You know, as you've mentioned,
there is some presence around here.
Oh, we activate well the low HP
making a difference. So all of
a sudden we might be back on
still have that open play, of
course, in the hands of James
Bond going to be planted for him.
Long winded round here.
I'm going to start scaling up.
I mean, so many of these
players are going to have to
I mean, so many of these players so far back for liquid. It just doesn't look super comfortable at this stage ultimate dealt with as is a leash
Clean from Svay as it will be power vision to take the round and it just even though they had the man advantage
It just didn't feel good enough. Yeah from liquid like you kind of sprinkled it in a little bit
Oh, maybe a save is a light way of saying perhaps they should say yeah, yeah, exactly
That's the kind way I'm saying you've read this wrong give it up like you your chances getting into that retake
very very slim. Unfortunately it's just a bit of a weird mid-round where there is
that presence coming out but I think because of the pace of which paravisions
serve they just don't back themselves.
So for the cross it looked like a leisure tentative to join but he actually
doesn't you stick around doors. It should be paravision tying things up
though so yes poor star but the recovery's been excellent and they're
starting to do it now in a way which for the most part is a real
confidence border. Bar that one round, but only James survived. Every other round has felt quite clean,
and that one in particular. As post parts go, that's pretty good.
Also up close, we've already sung his praises, 11 and 4 for him out the gates, 10 and 3 for Nath.
Both of which are here around this corner, and I'm going to be flashing this video to try and
fight them. We're working in favor. Shuhei ultimate kills a piece, and Nath gets one more.
The short crunch is excellent, but James just can't cock the open time liquid one around to steal a white
Yeah, that's kind of
Very very questionable. I don't know why there is
I suppose maybe they're wanting to go for more of a contact flash
type play but
Walk it into short like that is so risky. I don't know why you wouldn't
Lay down a little flash, you know to start the red especially a game
Like an eco low buy type thing the rule common thing that we see so often nowadays molly in that corner
Yeah, exactly. When you've got a full bind you've got you know all the bells and whistles
Why not expend them a little bit but that cost them it's a real oversight. Yeah some kind of utility
Yeah, right like when you're so strong get it going
Really quite questionable stuff and it might cost paravasion in a big big way
You know an unexpected round for team liquid. They now find this one
They'd be a real threat of the eighth as well, of course
so
What looked to be an even half has now potentially gone liquid-sided.
We'll find out, of course.
We've got to convert this one.
Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself and liquid have to be careful not to get ahead of themselves.
Trading of utility in towards middle here.
A minute and 10 left on that clock.
A light look in from Shuhei trying to keep that mid-control as the split smoke comes in.
Not much really presenting at this moment as Team Liquid kind of the opposite of the previous
round playing pretty far back here.
50 seconds to work with.
The ultimate is pretty isolated towards the site itself.
If they set up the pace, Paravich could really put them under a lot of pressure.
This is exactly what they're going to do.
If you go now far towards long, he'll do well.
Ultimate hit his shot just on the edge of that smoke.
looking for a second. He's got the right idea. He smells a rat. He just can't quite the shot.
Zelo drive by with the tech 9. Might want a little bit more as well. Bomb can go down here.
They can't deny this plant really unless the plant isn't stuck. And initially it's not.
But the fighting works out as J.V. and Zelo combine and flash he's all that's left.
It wasn't M4 to be scooped up there and towards me but he just doesn't want to risk it.
So he'll fall away and save. He does have it in the back pocket and that's about as good as
it gets. Paravision bite back
with a fifth. So it's still
keeping this first half
competitive. They've hit that
bare minimum that we asked for
as well in terms of recovery of
five. So I think from here on
out, I think they can be
relatively okay. Yes, the start
was poor, but since the guns
are coming to play, they have
been the strongest side. Yeah,
another unbelievable round as
well this time from liquids
way ahead of themselves on that
retake just super messy. They
I thought they might try and
like boosts to take a look at
the site, but they just sort of
walk it. It's very, very lazy. I
think both teams at the moment
are under the microscope, you
know, a team liquid for a much
longer period of time, but
obviously super poor form from
both of these teams. Nothing
kind of see why, um, with
rounds like that and you know,
para vision losing out on the
is a fan of high-level counter-strike at times to watch liquid throwing away a pretty good opportunity to
separate themselves here paravision right back in the conversation not punished for losing the silly round
That is unfortunate for a leash
I'll give him the unlucky card on that one paravision straight out long not wasting any time
You get themselves that double advantage now and this looks really quite good to even up that scoreline
and the heroes certainly gonna be needed.
Another low HP player as NaF close to finding two.
Is it set up for Flashy?
The standing coach here about to make his money's worth
potentially as he rolls round for the double.
And indeed he's dropped that bomb.
This messes things up severely.
James is incredibly low.
And this looks very, very doable.
So I define that enemy to play a will.
Flashy will fall eventually.
It's all on ultimate. He's walking through the smoke. He should be dead to right in a second. He spots who first. It's James who converts
What a recovery. Yes, but my god some of these rounds gonna want you were touching on there
It's not exactly the prettiest of viewing I think is the the kind way of putting this
But ultimately I tied game at the half, which is something we'll take at the very least
It's a very very different games what we've got going on on the B stream as well
I was checking with that one.
3D Max and MIBR currently playing
the B stream.
MIBR 9-1 up.
So they're just completely
dumb-sounding 3D Max.
Another side, they've also had their woes
in 2026 in terms of form.
Yeah.
Bit of a tough one.
I want to say a pretty good run
at the last CAC.
Did 3D Max.
Yeah, finals. They lost the legacy
was it was right at the peak of their powers you might say but unfortunately things have flattened
off kind of an interesting conversation we might you know hear about it in the you know memoirs
or whatever it may be when the likes of maca or lucky does a little tweet after the fact that
we've interviewed them a couple times you know for games and stuff and yeah some of these decisions
and moves and you know missy coming it could kind of comes from above yeah it's not them
Yeah, the org the org wanted to say that's moves my least favorite thing
We don't like I yeah, we just died. This is not especially with the French teams
Yeah, like as a senior you got to be very very careful
Pushing those guys in the wrong direction. You know
It's obviously not worked out for the better at least for now
Pist around
Fight to the important and I would say actually for team liquid more so
just because again, I was
You know I hate to say the the scary numbers but that was six out of the last seven rounds. I went the way of
Paravision so
Liquid this is good in towards be quite quickly
They're gonna plant coming through as well
Which is gonna put them in a decent spot was he look like this post corner shoo hey flashy ultimate everybody got it involved so quickly and
Liquid shot down the regress back in towards be what a post one that was a
that's a really nice pistol to
take. That'll boost the
confidence on towards the sea
side. Yeah, I mean massive
brute force. What else are you
going to do to be honest? You've
got no one on the site. You've
got a dead flank or a really
weak flank, even if he does
manage to make it through. I
think they really just wanted
to try and force their way in
maybe bring it down to like a
two versus two and get like
kit on the bomb. Make things
weird, but yeah, pretty,
pretty flat as to be
expected with the type of
that they're not going to be
expected with the type of gamble
that they took in that round.
Looking to defend long as best
they possibly can. Another
stacking moment here for
Paravision and another failure,
perhaps. The glocks are out.
They will be just about
successful. Plash needing to
bail things out there, but a
flawless round coming in from
liquid. Kind of needed to be
the case because it is
I think the first time I've
been to the M fours by is
becoming quite popular again.
So they're straight into the
straight into the M fours. Look
into answer back. You know,
find the force by no, you know,
I'm not, you know, I did my
little. I mean, we spoke about
this so many times. My little
spreadsheet and I kind of
basically we ended up casting
something hundreds of games
across the span of 2024. And
I did a little spreadsheet
just kind of saying how
successful force buys were. And
I think the EU was something
I don't know if you've been
catching him on the on the
cameras, but maybe maybe give
it a look next time. He's like,
you know, his arm is all the way
outside. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So
kind of fun to see, I guess. Not
as popular these days. The low
sensitivity. Yeah, I think
it's a little bit of a
little bit of a little bit of a
little bit of a little bit of a
little bit of a little bit of a
little bit of a little bit of a
the next round. This is just
the guns kept alive from the
previous. So even in this one
week, we kind of like to kind of
build a narrative like it's not
a must win round. If you can
still get two or three kills
out of this, you actually be
pretty happy. Yeah, that's what
you can tell someone's a bit of
like a go. Yeah, an old head.
Yeah. Very 10th round here by
liquid. I mean, this is
essentially a bonus by as well.
You know, for them, they got
plenty of money to reinvesting
We actually be pretty happy to be perfectly honest.
Let's see, there's smokes for the cross.
Elise is gonna find this gap.
No one up close, belching up on the edge of this smoke.
He'll forth to the hands of Elise,
and this now gives them a runway in towards B.
Yeah, I mean, the boost up maybe gonna save them,
James, ridiculous find to give them the man advantage here.
You know, really quite clever from Team Liquid.
Smokes there are often useful like faking things out.
They're just straight in there. Very, very simple stuff here, which, you know, you would expect with the stand in situation, you know, maybe not wanting to mix things up too much, but they do lose the man advantage, the B bombsite control.
It's like, which way is the pendulum going? You don't rightly know. With that kill, it feels really quite good here for paravision ultimate below the window, turns away from the first, but not the second flash, and he's absolutely demolished.
I really needed his teammate there. It's very very close. Yeah very close on the diffuse here. They will just about have it, but
Could have gone the other way if if ultimate, you know avoids that second flash takes a couple of kills
It really could have gone the other way. Yeah less than two seconds
On that bomb going off
But the flawless retake and I think that for for power vision that's huge for them. I just think for their mental state more than anything
more than anything. There's probably even partly a bit of a thought process in the sense of like,
okay, not only are liquid struggling, yes, we're having our own issues, but the parameters like
not only are liquid struggling, but it's also liquid now with a stand in without miles of flashy
playing. I think potentially you can have that mentality of like, I don't know, maybe this
is kind of easy, I can just like, I'll aim them in a way, right? But it's not been the case.
And I do think liquid are playing quite well. Again, like touching on that round,
it's a smart move. You send the leash out to the feelers around that smoking towards
and they just ramp up the pace
and towards be it's so so well
done and I think for para vision
they're still realizing that this
is uncomfortable to say the least.
Time out taken.
Para vision, of course, so we're
going to find out if they are
able to keep this momentum going.
It's been a very back and forth
game to be fair.
And first one of the map as well.
map as well. Like, oh, I guess, for both sides, like, they've just been happy to let it play
out because it kind of has been slightly changing hands, but there's been a decent amount of
back and forth that they don't feel like they're, you know, struggling in the sense
or starting to kind of get to a point where things are uncomfortable.
Quick moving from Team Liquid. Nice find from Noter. It doesn't stick around. It doesn't
overstay as well for me. Meanwhile, the hit out towards B goes heavily south. They
have no chance through that smoke so often that we see that of course flashing Ultimate the only
two that remain Ultimate has managed to be a bit of a nuisance in the backside quick drop down
or imagine they are all trapped in towards B here so I mean the kill's in the right place
for sure gotta be careful gotta give the respect no to thinking about taking a peak here but they
have the bomb. There is no need to throw this round away, right? Don't allow liquid the easy
fights as it were. Now, when it comes to moving into this B bomb site, I have a strange feeling
that this could go well. A lot of it may be riding on Belchonok's angle, being that first
little look or the molotov in towards him. Ultimate looks good. It's into the two
the wild swing. He really does
bail out paravision. Yeah It's
a real kind of make or break
position there from notes up
because. Sam of had easily if
he swings too early and he goes
down with bell truck falling.
You just assume that that's all
but an impossible round to kind
of see off there in the one
versus two. So well done from
him. Really nice move. Well
I'm going to see off there and in the one versus two. So well done from him. Really nice move just like that tide game again, but it's liquid to run out of money.
It should be a simple one. James will open up proceedings. Down goes the leisure. This should be an easy one to put to rest.
You'd like a bump on here for liquid. It feels pretty unlikely to be completely frank.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Deagles though.
Always a bit scary.
You never know.
You never know.
Another thing we've seen, you know, sort of come back is the, the deco.
Yeah.
A lot more teams going for it.
And again, as well, there's something about all players on pistol.
Yeah, of course.
You know, keeping our ultimate here.
I'm having a great game.
So yeah, looking to hopefully capitalize on that if possible, but you feel in rounds
like this, you know, that higher buying team, if they're able to find the opening
kill.
goes well. A lot of the time it's all about a deagle headshot out of nowhere and then everyone
groups together and they try and overwhelm the site, right? Capitalise on the panic.
I don't think it's going to be all the case here. James just got caught reloading a little.
Zelo picks up the slack so looks good for Pyrovision. See them take the lead, I believe, for the
first time in the game actually, right towards the end. So this is looking good.
Team Liquid have hit the wall at the worst possible moment.
Yeah. And this, you know, round of 18 is such an important round for Liquid.
It's on that brink of sort of, say, a make-up break.
I feel like you lose this and you're in such, such trouble
to the point where it's like you've essentially got on this trajectory right now
two proper gun rounds to work with.
This round here, if you lose this round of bomb points,
you're playing up until 11 and at that point, you know,
maybe your chances have already all but slipped away.
This is massive.
Shuhei's gone out into war's long.
A smoke down by his way, who actually is going to give them that control.
He doesn't want to stick around too much.
He is isolated, so he knows that he's fundamentally at risk.
Zealot could be huge.
He could be turned off here, but that nade is mammoth.
The amount of damage dealt, and Zealot will dip in to get his kill.
I don't know if he realized there was a second nade, but it might not matter.
Oh, big one from Shuhay, meanwhile.
They're able to at least figure out where Notar is at.
They're going to fight fire with fire here, though.
Great.
Couple of flashes, something that Paravision been doing an awful lot is one after the other, heavy contact to make a play work, and it does just that, four versus three, almost in the blink of an eye here, just gone under a minute, Paravision trying to take a bit more space, figure out where they are, and honestly, if they can make their way in towards those tunnels, it really could cut off the round.
They've gone the other way though clearing towards short towards long the last known location of
these T side players and actually really not considering be at all
Which is of course incorrect so hopefully they figure that one out quickly Belchonok is in between angles
I think he was getting there in time. Yeah able to slow them down 20 seconds
Not looking good for liquid right gonna put themselves under a lot of pressure rotations now start to come in
It feels pretty good all of a sudden for Pyrovision. They played this well, Jane gets ahead.
All the doors smoke, Belchonok surprises. Now Fly, and it will all be down to ultimate. Not gonna happen.
Pyrovision looking very, very good here as we get into the dying embers of
this dust too. It was a very, very small window that I like we could have worked with there,
but I think it essentially comes to the back of the banner. We would have had to have
pushed that smoke. That's the only real way they could have caught Belchonok moving back
the back towards CT, sort of
helping out those A defenses.
There was a kind of a brief
window where it felt like
Paravigian believed that's where
it was finishing.
I think they thought they were
out towards Long and they just
stayed there for the entirety
of the round.
So you can see that wrap coming
through no turn, all the rest.
There was a small window, but
unfortunately they missed it.
And when the Molly comes
down, by that point,
Belchock dies back in towards
the side, James on towards the
door, and the round's all
but done.
That made huge damage to open
up proceedings, but it's
the real aggressors, the
small things by Paravigian
by a power vision. I'm really giving them these big edges now. And one of those rare feels
like a litter. Unfortunately, despite that strong start, I feel like the chances I've
run out, like we said, no bomb part, no buy here. About trajectory, only two. They've
already used up one of them. The next would come in towards roundabout 20 and that's
to keep them alive in this game. So here and now, he needs something quite special
belching off. He was looking for something. You can't quite find it. It's Jamie and Zelo.
He's actually going to shut down the B and Gras that comes through from Liquid.
Really easy. A massacre as they dive through the tunnel and Naph is all that's left. Nothing
really he can do. Nota will deliver the killing blow. Paravision 11, two away now from taking
this best of one. Those are the moments as well. You have to try and capitalise on some of
of the intensity and pressure on the liquid side. It doesn't even come close, you know.
So paravision really looking good once the guns have come into play on this CT side. And I
think maybe taking some time to figure things out. One of the big things, one of the big
vibes is of course the fact that they took that time out just as they started to get
back into things and they were like, right, let's get this one. Let's win the follow-up,
sure that we start some momentum and it has done very, very well for them to kick things
off in that manner.
Aleige, ready and raring to go, it's a perfect flash, cannot capitalise.
Rough game for Aleige.
I don't think that was necessarily a free kill, you know, it gets away from him for
sure, but not going to be the best, he's going to feel like he should have had that
one.
And it's one of those that I feel like Aleige on a good day hits that.
Yeah, for sure.
Maybe he can take some guns away.
It's only an M4 that he's at risk of losing.
So Liquid at a key moment are able to find a round,
keeping the dream alive here.
It's a... That's what he's been waiting for.
Lines up a couple.
He's really concerned about a flank.
Just not there. Lovely finds from him.
It's going to end up being very costly.
And you know, if Liquid are trying to close that gap
you know, you want that three
players at the very least and
then drops are easy, but this is
going to cause, you know, maybe
like ultimate gets caught a
little too expensive. Yeah
decisions to make as well. Looks
like he will get a drop. He's
having a decent kind of showing.
I believe it's actually flashy
who is like, no, no. Have my
axe. You know that kind of
thing. Yeah, they make they
make it work. They make it
So it's not as bad as it could
have been for sure. All the
same. Power vision going to
take the time out here and make
sure they get this job done.
Yeah, I think you know as well
sort of those with those kills
at the end. I think of anything
are just nice for the
confidence again for power
vision. I think it's something
that's been ramping up
throughout this match. That
lack of open play for ultimate
of course going to make a
difference. It does give
Jane such a kind of a free
range to work with. I mean
he's obviously having a
fantastic game himself will be
speaking my ultimate and
and singing his praises, but James 21 and 9, he's loving life at the moment.
He's making up for Belchinock who's not playing too well, it's one of, you know, quite parallel
things we're having, a quite high impact rifle on both sides, not stepping up, but both the
AWPers are having their moments.
And the supporting cars in terms of the rifle, Xelo and Nota, similar to that of
enough and she way
liquid
behind it's within reaching distance but provision of two away it's so close
jammie angle first flight is easy don't go she way and he'll reposition
again it's it's such a aggressive kind of peak you know
it's no flash there's no molotov to help with that
So I think they're gonna be kicking themselves to give away such an early kill.
James sticking around here.
Feeling confident. I mean, has he spotted the tip of the head? I don't think so.
But still, looking very, very good as Liquid need to picket things out.
I think their early opportunity at a frag now, I was gonna say, is missing.
Belchonok.
He's open.
Overlooks, yeah, when his support is really quite far away.
No, it's just going to get a chance to maybe recover things though. They don't smoke things off
Three versus three, I mean it's it's difficult to tell which way this is gonna go with those piravision players been so far away
Do they maybe think about a safe here, right? I think so. I think so too, but the thing is they have money
That's the kind of like slightly yeah, like for straight
Station James 11k like give at least a little look in you never know
They've already pulled off one DeSerita. That flawless one earlier with all four staying alive. It was fantastic. So they are
sort of late off with a bit of a discussion. Give this one a look. Molly off
bound into the feet of Elise.
He's putting out a position for us. She wants to put me to move the fight.
Which doesn't work out. Zero for one. Flashy gets one, but it's Wei who trade onto us ultimate. It's all on Flashy.
He can't quite get it. There is just enough time and Paravigio are gonna steal away this round.
It looks like they were set up
to save and they repositioned.
They put themselves into spot
where let's give it a look at
a soft look if we can get a kill
we might ramp up this retake
and exactly that.
Paravigin hit 12 and for liquid
that is a tilt and I will say
the one big thing that molotov
on towards the leash is massive
just forcing out that big box
position makes it so much easier.
It's definitely an autopilot call.
I think it gets into three on
three and then they go okay
save right you've got Jane here.
He's probably just immediately
immediately hit that button in his head. But they do decide to go for it. And you see what happens sometimes when you do go against the grain, especially, I think, confusing team liquid, like subconsciously, they start to feel a bit safe. They start to maybe someone on their side throws in the idea of, like, oh, I think they're saving, you know, you take your eye off the ball and you see what happens, paravision looking to try and close things out here if they can.
It's a straight open fire liquid are frustrated to say the least trying to activate ultimate they go in for the one
for one
And now we'll look to back away
They're definitely some frustrations. I think losing. Yeah two or three really key
retake slash clutch moments. Oh
No way, I think that's out. I think is he crouched. He actually misses the gap. Wow. That's crazy
And the first thing that I
think is really easy. But you
can get. Yeah, I think what
you're saying the
frustrations you're also
really see for liquid is an
air of desperation as well in
some of the moves they're
making on the seaside and that
for me is that it was going
costly. You try to make a
move. James Zelo. They're
combining so well. This is all
but done. To remaining but
also it's going to try and
keep them alive. Yeah, maybe
I mean, it's like, you know,
it's like, you know, it's like
well scaling up long. And
somehow getting away with this
always steps. He's still
however able to create a kill
and in the exact same moment.
We unfortunately lose all of
that excitement, and it is
indeed provision to take things
that second half in particular
is just so damn clean from
them yet. I just think for
liquid. I actually think to
So five out the gates. We're kind of flying. We feel like we're in a decent spot
And then it just all starts to crumble or paravision eventually wake up and once they snowball
They're so difficult to stop but as a whole for liquid. I wouldn't be too annoyed considering their circumstances
We're gonna throw it back to the boys in the desk and they can break it down for you
Thank you Naio and Scriv what a game that was and
We were all thinking it we're thinking surely this is not the best of one where liquid pull the upset and alas
it wasn't. Yeah, you had pretty much all the win conditions going the way of Team Liquid, right?
If you were to describe, okay, how do they wait us standing, remain competitive in a game against
Paravision, win the pistol, convert, get off to a good start, win a couple of ridiculous rounds,
you know, or a couple of rounds where Paravision don't really do what they're supposed to do,
and then same thing happened in the second half. You think to yourself, okay, Liquid,
you kind of bottled it, you know, by not getting more than just the six rounds to begin
with, and then you win the second pistol, you convert again, and then when it got down to
control the buy-rounds and all the, I guess, finer and miniature details of Counter-Strike,
there was clearly one team better than the other.
So in terms of making the game competitive, yeah, Liquid did everything they could, but
they would never really go into win-win with it.
Yeah, and again, as soon as we got to equal standings, level playing fields for both
sides, Paravision just were sharper.
And it feels like a bit of a bummer for Liquid, honestly, because again, we've talked
about, and this goes across the board for the Liquid players, they haven't
playing all that well and one player in particular obviously who gets a bit of
flag for that is Ultimate. Every now and again he will have just pop-off games or
pop-off series right but they're far and few between. I mean thinking back to
like the last one I can remember is which is G2 at Kato which is starting
to become a while ago right. So yeah so like seeing that kind of a performance
kind of go by the wayside and them not being able to actually you know
get across the finish line is a bit of a worrying sign. Obviously they do have
unusual circumstances having to play with Flashy but I don't think Flashy
necessarily was a detriment to the team in this one. He didn't make a fool of
himself by any means. Yeah he put himself in positions to get traded you know
essentially like the stand-up for him right like just jumping in playing
around the team doing as much as humanly possible but look that is that it's
unfortunate that it ended 13-9 as you mentioned already both pistols going to
Liquid and still the scoreline being 13 to 9 that one is definitely going to sting a little bit because pistols and best of
Ones are so important. Yeah, it's not often you you win both pistols and convert, you know in both half and don't end up winning the map
So so in that regard, yeah, it's a little bit disappointing for team Liquid on the other hand
You know, you got to give it to to paravision as well despite getting off to two bad starts
They they found a way to to recalibrate and and kind of re-enter the game
James in particular had a fantastic showing, you know, being all over the place and being a bit more aggressive than you normally see JV, which is nice to see.
So definitely positives to take away from Paris-Vichin, but then the day you know, when Liquid is not winning a game where Nfly is playing as well as he is, where Ultimate is finding impact and you win both pistols, then it kind of is what it is.
And I hate to say it, and I hate to see, you know, Alicia at the bottom of the scoreboard
on the liquid side as well.
I feel like without Malph, that's the one player you look towards and be like, okay,
he has to carry even harder.
He has to be involved in even more opening duels and create even more space.
And he was unfortunately nowhere to be found.
So there were a different world where Liquid potentially could have won here.
But at the end of the day, when Alicia's playing like this, then there's no way.
Yeah, it is a bit of a sad sight because it's kind of a trend.
It's becoming a trend.
Which is worrying.
Obviously, you don't have that much of a pool to pick from because, again, Liquid, right now,
tends to show up at a tournament and get knocked out, so there's not a whole lot of data,
but the data that we do have is saying that at least he's not in his finest form.
And look, he's at least got the lower bracket to try to find himself again, right?
Yeah.
And there's best of threes, there's more games to play, but at least,
in terms of the standout play, we had Jane there, but it was just so much going on,
Nilo as well able to get those rotations in. There were so many crazy crispy rounds
And even though his KD was like just above one the amount of impact he was having was actually insane
But that is gonna end the discussion for the first best of one of the day
We have another one to get to it is gonna be Mongols up against Lynn vision coming up just after the break
He said she loves you but she can't love me, but I love you
I won't play window anymore.
What's going on?
Play your role, one expert.
The human body was built to noble.
Not traffic at Dennis get one singular posture for 12 hours a day.
It's time your chair evolved.
This is Secret Lab Titan EVO.
Ergonomically engineered for you.
Gamers.
Hybrid Warpists.
Artists.
Back in your every move.
music
music
music
Welcome back to the CS Asia champs for 2026. We are one game deep and about to jump into
the second best of one of the day here on the A stream. Of course, I'm Matt. I'm joined
by Van Vetter and Pimp. And we're going to be going down a bit of a rabbit hole here
with Asian CS because we're at the Mongols and Linvision to have a quick chat about
one team on a pretty hot streak and the other in a rocky sort of patch. So Pimp,
What are your thoughts on how this match-up should go?
Yeah, a bit of a regional match-up, they say it, you know, and also, you know,
as we often talk about when we're in Europe or in the States for that matter as well,
you know, I could be a tournament where both teams want to do well,
both teams as well heading into the Major.
So I think they should be coming in a pretty good shape
and pretty highly motivated in order to do well against each other as well.
The Morgals has been an interesting case, you know, the last year, I'd say.
So, you know, with the roster changes, with Senzu coming out of the line-up,
with then, Kogor Sera now being part of the line-up
and the odds at the time with controllers
where he actually did better than I think
a lot of people would have expected
and the Morgans as a team kind of stabilized more
than a lot of people would have expected.
So I've been low-key impressed with what they've been able
to do, but as of late, basically ever since Khrushchev,
it's been a little bit more shaky for them.
So I'm not sure what to put them at the moment
where as for Lin Mission, it's a team that we see
pop up every single time heading into the majors.
They're not consistently part of the tier one circuit,
not consistently finding a way to climb high enough in VRS and get invites to tier one tournaments,
but they always come in with a bit of a flashy way of playing Counter Strike and a massive
upset potential in best of ones.
Yeah, I mean, you kind of hit the nail on the head because we haven't seen them vision
since Budapest at an STR tournament, right?
So it's been a minute.
They haven't played a lot of international opposition.
Obviously it's been mainly teams from Southeast Asia or the Asian region in general.
So it's always kind of curious to see what they've been
cooking leading up to a major because, as Jacob mentioned,
they do have upset potential.
We've seen that at previous majors.
They're a fun team to watch.
They're explosive.
But they are kind of going up against the big brother
of the region right now.
It used to be Tyloo.
Now it's Mongols.
And Mongols, for what it's worth,
even though they don't necessarily
feel like they have that Dark Horse to Win
tournament kind of power to them or aura to them
right now with Corbazira, they
have stabilized at a pretty high level,
Which is kind of cool considering how much of a loss a player like Senzu should be to most teams.
But they've been able to stabilize pretty well.
You know, they're a solid, I'd say, like top 18 most of the week.
But I'm sure their ambitions are higher than what they've currently been delivering.
Yeah, and look, with the roster swap and Koba's ever coming in,
who else do you think really needs to rise up around him to get that win today?
Because we're talking about consistency being a bit all over the place.
But when you have Mongols all firing at the same time, that's when they're most dangerous. Yeah. Yeah
I think 9 10 has done a fantastic job of kind of rising to the occasion with the absence of Senzu
For me, I think and for many others that the obvious person to look at is Mizzinho, right?
Again been a bit of talent for such a long time
And obviously still is a very young player, but he tends to have very much on or off tournaments
Asana was an on tournament which is a little bit worrying coming into this because it could be an off tournament
He's been very much, he can get you a 1.15 tournament and then he can have a like 0.95 type of this ordeal
which is not gonna be good enough for Mongols if they want to obviously like achieve
something more than potentially quarterfinals.
Yeah, I'd agree with that, you know, it just feel like MCNU is the player that has the highest potential of elevating himself in terms of consistency.
Yeah, 9-10 have been finding a bit of that consistency, but then again, like, I feel like it depends on what kind of glasses you're wearing when you
Assess the models are we assessing them as one of the favorites to win this tournament?
They're not sure thing
We need to see for more from MC new and and nine ten obviously to to find out of impact
Do we assess them as a team that just needs to stabilize still you know and remain competitive when in the top eight
You know heading into the major is it is it the expectation that we want to see them in the playoff?
Or is it the expectation that they do well in in stage three as an example?
It's very hard to to kind of pinpoint what kind of
Assessment you're doing for for the moment that we got I think it's gonna be interesting to see obviously like fought
No team is going to make a change ahead of the manager now, obviously.
But it's going to be pretty telling, obviously, the result that they get from the major,
what they decide to do immediately after, because, again, if they want to make some sort of changes,
it's the ideal time to do so. And there are talents in Mongolia still.
And it seems to pop up from absolutely nowhere, but they do have exciting players who could potentially add more.
And again, Corbazira hasn't necessarily hit the ground running. He's been delivering fine.
But you do have players like Tickwock and Shing is Warriors who's been looking better within the Asian region than what Corba zero did when he was in the Asian region
That's true. So there's so many of these Mongolian teams that just have so much firepower in particular
And it's just when they get a chance on Mongols that we get to see what Blitz can actually do with them
But of course before we jump into this one, let's have a quick chat with our beautiful casters, Naio and Scriv
and he's absolutely doing it to
him going to be down to just
Amelia and West Mellon to well
try and get this execute going.
I think that's what they wanted.
But unfortunately, there's been a
slight spanner in the works and
well, a big flash back around.
See if Mongols can keep this
one going.
Yeah, I mean, the one great
thing about this game is that,
you know, being a kind of a
We're actually expecting fireworks here these two sides both like to play with a fair decent amount of pace
So that start I feel like that's what I want the info for the remainder of this ancient but
For technical with the doolies looks for multiple and he's gonna get sir at the end. It's a little labored
Look at then on the last three for Cobras era tuned for techno
It's kickstart proceedings here for the Mongols now talking about these two sides as well
the basically every single time they've met for the last what six encounters has
been flawless for the Mongols brought up to map they've looked comfortable and
that's of the span of like the last like two years right as they've always had
the number here for the vision the expectation is more of the same here but
last time they did meet you it's been a while since September last year that
these two sides met so interesting how this one goes how obviously a lot of
change for both of these sides since then, but it's a 13-6 all the way back down. Amelia,
with the first to fall is Mazzinio, re-aggressions with the FP9. It looks for a little more. This is
money being made, but it burst lock. We'll get the trade.
Okay. I thought I was going crazy. Come on. There's something a little sideways.
It's CobraZero on the hood, but then in the kill feed it says Mazzinio.
So something slightly backwards.
Never mind.
There we go.
Nothing.
It was all an illusion.
Techno able to find one into one's little.
There is a trade back.
Zach is making money on the MP9.
It's actually pretty nice fall in vision you would say.
Litz is able to potentially get this one done.
The first one done it's
a couple of players, then
some money made. So, you
know, Limb Visions by here is
going to look a little better.
But we'll find out. I mean, it
just one of the big things as
well, like the main, I think,
narrative for Linn vision is
like, obviously playing a lot
of lands are able to make like,
you know, contention for the
major and things like this
within their own region, but
massive, massive gaps at the
moment in the international
games, you know, for a while
there, we were seeing a lot
vision, a fair decent amount of Tyloo, but yeah there's just these huge gaps so it's a lot of an
adjustment period I think unfortunately, and that is going to make this a tough tournament. However,
I could put them down as a BO1 team potentially. Yeah absolutely and I mean especially kind of their
current form at the moment. Limb vision on a 16 match win stream, the last time they lost was
10 weeks ago like so these guys are only no winning but this is all domestic so you've got
You've got to take it a bit of a pinch of salt.
Zack has got two though.
That is pretty damn huge Westman against Corbaugh.
Dive out!
And Techno and Nazinio has given a bit of life into this.
9-10 and Techno left.
And call me two on the other side of the 1 vs 2.
Yeah, looking good.
Fun plan.
Nice and easy.
I should be able to do something with this here.
Call it two or clean for the first.
He's not quite ready for techno though, is he?
The bait and switch!
And it doesn't matter!
The mechanics, able to take him over the line
and a big clutch coming in for LinVision.
A great way to start off proceedings,
get into the real counter strike.
LinVision to clutch it up.
It's a huge round to find, not only for just kickstarting this T side,
but it actually put pretty immediate pressure on Tours Mungles
in terms of their reinvestment.
We see Masino go back in Tours just a beagle for him.
the team. Well, the off got
scooped up by call me to right
again there. So that's a nice
little addition to how for
their side, but he's done so
unbelievably well. That first
shot particular is the one that
really seals the deal for me.
Well done and that realization
that there wasn't somebody
lurking around that smoke. They
were double stacked in temple.
Huge from call me so and it's
scary getting Zach around towards
an all this early. What size,
you know, we see
absolutely thrives in the T side
orb. Combat shotgun style
awpings like to call it. It can
be scary. Cobra is going to fall
a little jiggle peak there with
a mac 10 a dink to start things
off and seeing it off as well
by Amelia. It's a vision. Find
first blood. Just moves on the
cards. It's actually in vision
It's ill place M4. It's all they need. They don't know about techno
Yeah, let's find both and they can probably just leave techno there and still keep control of that area
But non-advances wrestled back in a big way from the Mongols
And the longer techno doesn't show his face the better that's what really helps our proceedings
He's still waiting for them to make that move through
and then we're going to go
to the next group.
In vision is setting up for a
beat 35 seconds on the clock.
You've got Blitz tagged playing
up towards cubby.
Our rotation coming over for 9
10.
Does go down a little easily
there.
Still got 9 10 in a decent
enough position. There is a
cap on this smoke story though
knows all about it. Yeah,
to get away with both. 10
seconds. Zach. It does not have
time to dawdle around there and
he needs to have time to go for
it. Man alive. That's rough.
That is rough for Limbaz. And I
think there's definitely an
argument to be made that. Two
opportunities for good trades.
Yes, they just don't capitalise.
They don't make it work and
they are rightfully punished,
but the Mongols despite going
Blitz double is huge, but it was like we were saying, it's an oversight.
They don't know about Techno.
So when Blitz falls over towards Cubby, and they're buying this, probably, you know,
a partial thing of, there should be no one cave now, right?
Because Blitz had moved forward over towards Cubby here.
Has anyone taken that spot?
And there, that Omen and Oaring, that lack of rule, decisiveness is what kills the Envision there.
That double that comes through with the MP9, nice work, and puts media pressure back on towards the Envision.
Yes, that's a day to be people to buy around it isn't exactly bound to fall call me so trying with the Eagles West Mellon. It will get the trade.
Yeah, I mean, I'll take that at this stage. Keep things a little costly for the Mongols still not in a position of this could be winnable.
Find out what this all can do.
You can hear a jump peeking here.
Bad idea, Booth's going to come in though, and that does make it pretty easy, yeah, that's
what they were waiting for, unfortunately it's still not quite fast enough, is he confident
missing out a couple of opportunities, that was definitely a kill on the cards, he's
looking to get away from the nade.
What's the idea here though?
to the right. So we're
going to get to the right
side. We're going to get to
the right side. We're going to
go all towards shelf going to
join with the packing towards
mid. Where do we actually want
to go? It looks like a late
move toward a year is the plan.
First fights me trying to get
past 910 and all posted on the
angle down. Good story. Flash
as well to try and give him
the opportunity to get out.
He does. He did spot one. He
just doesn't need to fight
because that's where blitz
can come in. Easy word. This
is the push and pull that
to make the Zaka, you know,
want to hold onto the or probably
still going to lack the utility
and whatnot. Amelia obviously had
to go down, get that loss bonus.
Zaka will be able to save it.
Absolutely. But the Mongols really,
really good turn around from them.
Limvision big clutch and everything
gives them that first round, but
Mongols able to just kind of keep
it together. I think generally
speaking, going to be the better
you know, I think that's a
little bit of a. Disparity. I
think in some of the teams
taking part. Um so certainly,
you know in the lower bracket
side of things, they might be
able to make a deeper run, but
I'd say the Mongols are one of
the favorites for this
tournament. You know, we're
sure Falcons obviously looking
pretty good off the back of a
starter, but I think the
Mongols could potentially
squeak through here.
through here and yeah put them in the finals but we'll cross that bridge when
we get to it they still got to take down limb vision yeah I'll think about the
finals you never know what can happen at these tournaments cause I think for
all of us even the last CAC talking about legacy going all the way that was
a quite a shock for this and I should kickstart a question quite a nice
little period for legacy as well they followed up with another finals
appearance at Bucharest. Don't know who's man, but I'm with you. I think Monzo's to
make a nice round out of this. We'll have to see. Techno, Leibniz, but we'll get the
kill. Monzo Lassie pulls it. The pistol, but it'll lose his life too. Call me Sue with
that Salve's AWP. 2 vs 3, it's not impossible. I'm starting to regroup here as well.
I got 9-10 posted on the angle and he just doesn't need to move here. As long as
doesn't as well. It should be fine. But just to say that, he just starts to pull a little
bit further back. The issue is, because he's alone, he can't keep eyes on Ram, but the
CBO makes a move and call me soon. Knife out, down he goes and starry the last man. Nice
shot from him, spots a second. Oh my God, Cobra gonna get his head caught in the vice
and now a one versus one, 30 seconds, starry against 9-10.
I mean his HP nullified, right against that orb.
Really could happen for him. Steps out. Oh my goodness.
I think maybe just getting away with the timing.
Not quite sure what that looked like for 9-10.
He's seen him. He's maybe got information that he's low as well.
The USP is out coming in from behind.
It's the orb that does it actually, but all the same.
Starry not ready for that flank.
That is unfortunate for at one time one of the hottest prospects coming out of China.
that round in a sense, sorry, three kills, they recover it a little bit, they make it contendable and it already felt like it had been written off.
I think there's positives to be taken, like silver lining, let's call them.
However, it's tough to really mentally sit there and be like, okay, that was actually a decent attempt when you're five one down.
You already know that in the scope of the best of one, you are losing traction quite quickly here.
Time I'll take it.
moment to talk as well and we can see what the response is like for Limvision
but unfortunately the issue of them is they don't really have the money to go
for a full buy so it can only be upgraded pistols for this side. I saw that they're
really scary side upgrade of pistols they got a nice couple of players who on
the Deagle for example can look really really menacing but it should be a
right top it should be an easy one for Mongols to find their 6th. Yeah you
would assume so. I think obviously the Mongols going to play this one a bit safe. They do
have the forward facing Techno but ultimately not too aggressive here. Molotov in, slows them
down there. There's Sabi around the A-bombside and it's a decent little setup here. Actually
really, really quite considering it as 9-10. He's here on the AWP, gets some utility
I'm quite a kill for him, but he's still looking. He's still going. He is Molotov down.
That makes life awkward for sure, but they look to pick up the pieces where he left off some damage done.
Maybe one more kill on the cards, but not really looking too likely.
Call me, see the only one left. They know all about him, and he will go down.
If someone goes to see it off, they lose one player. They recover the orb.
You know, it's all very good-looking stuff here.
then vision we now start to worry can they get off the ground again or is it
just gonna be Mongols the whole way through. Honestly nine times gonna feel
hard done by there. There was four kills like I kind of feel for him. He gets the
leg of the second guy behind and even that one that sort of felt like there
could have been a double collat on the table but he does his job and the rest
of the rifles are there to bail it out so nice to simple six to one
already guaranteed worst-case scenario is a tie game for the Mongols on the
CT side you can be very happy with that. The way they're playing are plenty more
on the table. Techno will get his but it'll fall to the flames. At the same
time Cobra's air and makes his move, Corbisiu just doesn't account for the
aggression. So Cobra gets one for free with those smokes down as well it's
impossible to properly trade unless you run out of ammo and that's the
Perfect timing for Zaka.
Yeah, that's certainly an overlooked consideration, I suppose, for CobraZera.
He will pay the price, the ultimate price.
9-10. Trained in. It's a great flash.
I mean, if you pull that trigger immediately, you might have gotten one, but still it is an absolutely fantastic flash that comes in.
They will be able to get the bomb down now, and well, the Mongols feeling themselves.
the smoke here. It's away with
it for a bit too long. You
might argue. Let's have a couple
of targets. Yes, no extra mags
by the way. He only had 18
bullets. Step now as well. They
know all about him. They know
all about him. He's just
waiting for a peak to come his
way. It's not really happening
at the moment. Slowly, but
surely creeping up there. He
will be rewarded. So Lim vision
second round on the board.
I think it's a great way to
get into a great contact flashes.
Just have to turn into a few
more now is of course the
argument. Yeah, that's a
really decent run. I think you
can take that and hopefully
start to work with it. You can
see the ins and respect shown
by the Mongols. As they call
for their time out there. They
want a moment to talk. They
want a moment to kind of
reset things a little bit and
sort of these for themselves
see that what went wrong. I
think there was like just a
couple of small mistakes. One
in particular, which I can't
really blame him for is that
unfortunate time and. He did his job so well initially like that pushed down ramp is a really
good move. I love what he's done to kind of reagress and then of course get a free beyond
call me so sneaking through the smoke, but you gotta go two ways about it. You either
move your way down, get your kill and then a really aggressive like re re upping all
the smokes, dropping a lot of utility, really making your presence known that I have got
this position. You have to work to fight this back from me or the other side is
immediately get your kill get away right for back play the numbers game play for
the advantage and he sort of does neither he's like in two minds about it
sticks around a little bit too long but he isn't showing presence and at the
same time then he runs out of ammo so it's a bit more confidence even in there
it's a small mistake it's costly but it's only the one round it's still
six or two and I'll make up for it immediate well yeah nice find and it'll
do what I'm saying re-op the smokes made your presence known this is my
position you have to really set the bodies to come fighting for me and they
do but let's final take a tag yeah come at the same deal though he gets one kill
and gets taken down a bit too easily you know on the trading moment maybe less
damaging this time around because it happens so early on and it's only the
one for one and you know there's not kills happening elsewhere techno's
timing absolutely perfect so they will manage to net the advantage got zacker on the orb he's
tagged up pretty low things are looking good for the Mongols the bomb as well considering its
options where do we want to go with this they will eventually pull it back towards B but the
defense looks pretty short up zack is going to have to hit a pretty crazy one here and unfortunately
He misses out, 9-10 will take him as team damage done, four versus two, the bomb late
to the party and they've actually shored up their position on B, especially with this push
from Mazzinio.
He's gathering lots and lots of information as he gets further and further in, so not
looking too likely here, 20 seconds left, might consider the save but they are looking
for hail Mary contact here. It's just not going to happen for them surely. Yeah, nine
cents. He's it off. The Mongols move up to seven. So they've won the half. Yeah. The question
of how deep this now goes. Yeah, how far can they take this? I think it's sort of the question
mark on kind of both of our minds, right? Because at the moment, they're still not
feeling that they're really under just a massive amount of pressure. To be honest,
I mean, you see these kind of pockets of moments of limvision, but fundamentally,
Mongols are considerably stronger. I'm not gonna much better read but they're also getting more individuals online at the same time
It's some of the desk brought up right it's like nine times recent form has been a mac in it
We casted him recently and he looked so so good
So it's kind of come up for back that way. He's looked so strong
And he feels like he's the real kind of spearhead for the Mongols
Attacked numbers who lost with joining him. Are we all getting players joining techno only one for one there?
Well, I too should have been the guarantee, but he just flops up the spray a bit
Yeah, this is slightly I think they'll still be happy with where they're at. Oh, man, the timing move from Cobra. It's so
Disrespectful almost. Yeah, the balls to make that move fly like just no no flash, you know nothing around that
It just swings in well, but he just gets the perfect timing, you know, he knows what's up
He knows they're trying to set up a little bit
Starry does survive but barely
They might just have saved the round for them
And this is the trouble, you know, Limb is and they go down they go behind they lose the initial contacts or the initial idea of the round.
They just really do not seem to have a plan B.
Not that you've got much to work with here to be fair.
AK's nice.
Apart from that, it's like nothing right?
Yeah.
No utility or anything along those lines.
So again, I wouldn't hate a save call for these guys.
They've got cash in the pocket
But they don't star eats a nade
Amelia eats a bullet in the head so mongols looking really quite good here. I
Think the double digits feeling more and more likely
Yeah, the kind of the road we're on right now Lim vision
They're struggling to really kind of properly scratch the surface
It just feels too simple it just feels a little bit too easy for the mongols
You buy it back in
This one falls flat
Investors gonna be a little funky into the the the last round of this half, especially they can't get a plant behind it
The only one of any sort of residual cash properly is call me so
That'd be a bit more of a pacey around there early use a lot of flashes and call me so just dive it in towards the fight
He's taking so much damage just to get here
Yeah.
West Mellon, Molotov's off for now.
We've got to wait a moment before getting that bomb down.
Oh, it's a double spray down for Blitz that does it though.
Techno able to hold his line as well.
They have lost the AWPer, so you've just got to be a little careful now.
It's very quickly swung back.
But a nice spam from Techno's season off, Zaka on 40 HP here.
I think he's exited. They think
he's he's picked up that bomb and
move back towards a. Back towards
mid, but Blitz with a quick
reposition here. He's going to
start to discover a really,
really nice flank. I think this
will see the round off in all
honesty. Saka weighing
patiently as they again,
vision like to do not afraid of
a freeze call here trying
force. An over swing Blitz
the game. I mean, we're
even lacking like bomb plants
and everything from Limbison.
It's been a very rough half.
Yeah, exactly. It's very
simple, right? I just think at
the moment for the Mongols, they
can brute force through a lot of
the city side and not really
break a sweat in doing so. We've
had. One round. We've had one
round. We've had one round.
We've had one round. We've
had one round. We've had
one round. We've had one
round. We've had one round.
We've had one round where it's come down to being won by the Mongols from a diffuse. That's it.
Every other round is kills or just saved coming through Fallen Vision. It's not exactly the way
that they've wanted things to start off their tournament as well. A familiar phone and an
opponent they know so well and the results have always been the same. It's always been a one
side of the fair in this matchup. Mongols have had their number every single time. It looks
like this 16 match Winstry come in vision will end here. Unless I think drastic happens towards
that second half. But I really can't imagine anything you kind of expect the Mongols to
ramp up even further on to the side when they're in control of the pace, the tempo of the game
might get even more damning, far around a play, they're around a 12 and the Mongols are going
in for double digits at the half and the way they're playing they deserve it.
Yeah, there's some teams that have the crazy comeback in them.
I don't think Lim vision are one of them at least in this matchup, you know if they were at their own level or punching down a little bit
You might expect it, but yeah
they're not on the
That kind of trajectory in my mind
This is one of the games today that felt like a done deal on
Paper yeah before even began. Yeah, yeah, maybe you bring it close. Maybe you get a favorable map, but unfortunately not
I think we've got. Been the case
here. And we've gone for a very
simple call on the limb vision
side. Let's try not to die. Yeah,
let's just try not to trust that
first minute. Let's try and keep
you know, five alive and then we
can get that execute going. See
what they look like. And it has
kind of developed a little
pulling off an a fake here
something off the back of it. We'll find out. They're not fully biting on the Mongol side.
Still have a defense over on B. Cobra's era here with the Molotov. You just have to clean things
up over on A before rotating around, but the setup still looks decent. You can get away with two
players on this B bomb site. Of course, Tecco is burning alive while blind. Lucky to be alive.
Don't know all about him. He's just looking to hold the line in case he can.
by some time, but it's going to go down a bit too easily, so LinVision, with some thought behind the
round, might just have done it. 9-10 left all alone in the 1 vs 3, insanely fast, onto the first.
He's going to have an idea about Amelia, you know, being towards ramp, towards cave, maybe
starry, distracts away though and takes him down, and LinVision will net three. I think the
the difference between that nine
three and 10 to is actually
pretty monumental. So they can
get a pistol here. We can maybe
start to think about comeback,
but it's going to be a lot of
work. Yes, still an incredibly
long road to recovery. Fall in
vision, and they just not really
got those individuals stepping
up. I mean, not seeing Zach
play to level that we need
starry had one moment where
really wrote in this one. Same for kind of Amelia and call me
Sula. We're just not getting these guys really stepping up and
being essentially the heroes, right? You know, they are super
required in a match out there. It's like a vision of going to
beat the Mongols. They need 110%. Maybe even a little bit more
than that to really be able to kind of put that pressure on
some with flip side. Tetra's looking so solid. He's getting
tested every single round that it feels like he's good for
always at least one. And then on top of that nine tens
looking solid as ever blitz out in his moments, but
to be able to do that. We've
been able to do that for a
couple of years. We've seen
you start off the half really
really hot as well. Shut down
the A presence like we're just
getting these individuals who
can be complete shutdown factors
and that's what the vision do
not have at the moment. This
pistol an absolute necessity
for this city side. You don't
find this. You don't have a
chance of taking this best of
their best foot forward. Are we
saving strats for deeper in the
tournament? We'll find out. Is
it going to be as simple as
just charging in with those
blocks? Just got to be careful
the bomb right at the front
there through that smoke. And
indeed they do just call it for
a moment. Call me see the first
to find a kill on that CT
side. However. Not the best
science bomb going to go down
rotations are in. I believe
there is a kit dropped
the game. He's going to get
out. West Mellon. Maybe make
them think about these over
peaking moments. Intense around
here somewhere. Oh, you know,
size spot the leg. He's trying
to get out cleanly. Not going
to happen for him. Blitz takes
him out in the side. He takes
too long playing with his food.
Perhaps Zachary. It's not
impossible. There's two low
HP players here. Get those
headshots lined up, but he
doesn't have a lot of time
I think it's a good idea. It's
a good idea. It's a good idea.
All over for the side of
Limbison Mongols, saying double
digits getting the pistol on the
board. It doesn't look good. Yeah
I think I'm right and saying
that kid spilled towards big
box in the site, but like even
for him that one versus three
like he would have had to not
only probably gone to kills at
the very least then scoop up
the kid, then get back on
towards the point. There's
no chance. After all longer
than five seconds to say.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly So all
getting closer and closer to seeing off this very simple best of one so far
it's our force bite by live vision a couple of eagles is as good as it gets
another round that should be kind of simple and a good opportunity as well
these three Mac tends to print some cash and they might be doing that as well
and towards Red Room there's a lot of bodies here a lot of fights about to
through blitz the CDL or getting their hands on the Ecos. Making some money but also I think
just seeing these types of rounds off cleanly is gonna really start to hammer in that final nail.
Call me Sue doesn't manage to find ones. Just gotta be careful. You know you got two
deagles on the crossfire here could get a little dicey. They have done decent damage
to be able to get a little bit
of damage. Well as that one
kill. It is techno who is
feeling safe on beat. He calls
for the bomb and they will get
that plant going over zero in
the lion's den a little bit here.
Yeah, going to get flanked out
by call me Sue. It's only a
Mike 10 drop. But like I say,
there's definitely potential
for things to get expensive
I think there's one in the
cards for him here. If he
scales up a little.
Potentially.
You can body shot him.
Same for 9-10.
They are both body shot to
pull.
Oh, man.
The sound bait.
It's a classic.
11 now though.
So close after this time for
the Mongols and so quickly
as well.
kind of smoking about this already, but it has been a bit of an effortless display. They haven't really
had to even kind of move forward into that fifth or sixth gear. I think you can touch on it. You
can sort of save the strats here a little bit. You can play this very, very basic, very kind of
fundamental. Just rely on the individuals to get their kills and win by sheer brute force.
And that's working for the Mongols. They don't need to go too practically deep.
They can save that for further in towards the group saw in the playoffs where we expect to see them.
Break open, and in for the best, Starrie not quite able to capitalize before Misu, uses the information for a big double.
Perhaps keeping things going here.
No about Starrie trying to dish out some damage onto him, the Nades not quite getting it.
Meanwhile, hey, the horrible Techno Array.
With the headshot, Mazenio gonna catch West Melon getting giddy.
All of a sudden round is absolutely back on despite the two-piece into what's middle techno has just missed out the timing
Big fine from Amelia the bomb can go be they don't know it
But indeed mongols can really gain some ground over there
They will soon time
Double money down for the CT you rotate a smoke out towards long simple planning towards default and
She's on for the mongols
It really should have been but he's actually on especially that move by Mazzinho that one goes immediately and I'll change things
Flash over where are the other two rotating in from 9 10 a swing and I finally just take a think but I get a skill
And that's all that matters on the shoulders of starry
He got oh so close in a clutch earlier and now they're caught upon him again
And it's not enough as in yo move it around that CT position
You'll find starry and how the Mongols recovered that round. I don't know but it sums up this map for them
Yeah, big time
I mean the sense of just timing that they have in this game, you know to walk through those smokes and whatnot
It feels it feels like they're at home. You know, I think playing
Against the Asian Counter-Strike and whatnot. Yeah
It does feel like home for them
Having some fun with it
Will they get away with the same kind of antics in future games?
I think he's very quickly going to become the question because Lynn vision
Need nine rounds in a row six to overtime, which I just don't really see happening here unfortunately
Can they build up a bit of confidence, you know for their next matchup and whatnot?
That's basically all we can lean on at this time
that's melon
Also way, it's a good job. He's thinking about re-aggressing here. I'd yeah wouldn't advise that
I'm not sure if he's going to
win. He's going to lose his
head. Call me shoes found all
the way down a Molotov coming
in as well as well to take one.
It's looking very good. Mazzino
chiming in with another. Just
to remaining jacket does manage
to find one, but Amelia in the
one versus three to save the
day here. Yeah, and well, he
doesn't. I think is the long
You don't really break a swear.
We kind of touch there.
This little vision side never scratched the surface.
They never showed us anything that really felt like it
offered up any opportunity or any sort of, I guess, narrative
for us to build up of actually can they do this?
That was easy.
That was simple.
And that was expected by the Mongols who love to see it.
We're going to throw it back to the boys on the desk.
Thank you, Naya.
Thank you, Scroove.
And thank you, Mongols, for speeding up the day.
That was a very one-sided affair.
And that was the end of the 16-match win streak that the Envision were on, so Mongols still wants to stop it.
You know how with movies you have an excitement curve, right? It's a gradual build-up towards the end, and then it kind of drops up when you get your resolution and everything.
I think the excitement curve here peaked at round 3, where it called you to win the 1v2, and then it just slowly ebbed out.
There's been disaster happening in round four and at that point it was the Morgans all over.
To be fair, it was a disappointing fall for the Englishmen that weren't able to make it
more competitive.
Yeah.
There was a couple of rounds, you know, where you could argue they had a chance of winning
by then applying a bit of pressure towards the Morgans, maybe taking a dent into the
economy, but it really grasped infrastructure at that point.
This was a non-competitive game, but a very strong performance coming up from
the Morgans.
Yeah, and then look, one thing that is kind of showcased by the highlights that
we're seeing as well is the fact that there's so many of these situations where
You just have mongols placing up to find one pick one pick one pick one pick like the the spacing or the trade
Or I guess the positioning for limb vision to be in position to trade or players
They're just kind of take it on themselves to take a one-to-one duel and more often than not actually lose out
It's just so persistent and if you're limited you can't do that
Like you're not the team that has the best individual players in your region just full stop. Yeah, that's not the case
Like if you're mongols, yeah, maybe you can get away with that, you know, you do have Zidoo, you got 9-10
Liv vision does not have that luxury as of right now, and I think
We saw them getting heavily punished for it as well
because maybe they've been able to get away with this kind of stuff for the you know, foreseeable
I guess the more recent past right because they've played for
Well basically just regional opponents, that's enough
Yeah, it's sort of being like that though and you're talking about getting those picks and falling away 9-10
I think it was four and zero and openings might have been five and zero towards the end
He was very good at getting those shots and falling back and you could see him and Mazzinho blitz and Techno
All very close to each other in terms of the kills and we were saying who needs to step up
They kind of all did today. They made it look way too easy
If anything is it's a good confidence booster for for the Mongols and MC
You're right
We spoke about what is it that that requires it's required for the models to take that extra step
You know what we once again consider them to be maybe even a favorite to go all the way in this tournament
Well that requires MCNU to have an on-tournament as you described it as well.
Requires Ninten with the AWP to have impact in general.
You know the AWP on a lot of different teams right now is a bit lackluster
unless you're called Sairu, Monizy or Mordor for that matter.
So if you have an AWP player who's occasionally able to stand out like 9-10 have been
then you're already quite far ahead in terms of your competition.
So I think there's positive signs here for MCNU and the Morgans boys.
But at the end of the day I'm left with a little bit of a question mark
in the sense that LinVision didn't put up enough of a fight for me to actually assess the Mongols in this game.
If anything, they just move on, you know, and then next time we'll get to see them in a best of three.
That's when we get a sense of where they're at.
Yeah, I think that's exactly fair.
Like, well, you would have liked to see Mongols just being tested a little bit more.
Sure.
And LinVision weren't up for the task today.
That's just really the bottom line of it.
And look, in best of ones, you kind of expect the games to be a lot close than that.
You kind of expect, you know, some of the underdogs to have better chances.
But unfortunately that wasn't what we got out of the envision and look we got another game coming up after the break
So let's see who that's gonna be and we'll see you soon
She said she loves you but she can't love me, but I love you
I won't play Windo anymore.
What's going on?
The human body was built to know.
Not rather to test in one singular posture for 12 hours a day.
It's time your chair evolved.
This is Secret Lab Titan Evo.
The ergonomically engineered for you, game, hybrid work, office, and the new every move.
I
music
music
music
Welcome back to the CS Asia champs for 2026. We are two best of ones deep and
have two more to go before we jump into the beautiful best of threes but of
course boys that last game was a bit of a sleeper let's not let's not beat around
the bush too much and hopefully these next two best of ones are actually
going to provide a bit more fun and a bit more action. I think so you know
especially the the next one for me is interesting I'm very curious to see
mouse play again, you know, after doing a great job in Astana and bringing Jail
alive again, you know, to some degree. So curious about that one. Also did see
MIBR smack the hell out of 3D Max in that opening game on the B Stream.
Didn't really see that coming to to be completely honest. So yeah, action
have been happening so far. Yeah, again, I'm you know low-key kind of excited
about what we're about to see because again I always find it fun to watch
Asian teams because it feels like they kind of go into the lab and then
And we'll see what they've cooked up
once we get to that part.
And obviously Miles with a very, very new look of themselves.
That was debuted in the start.
Of course, of course.
And we are jumping, of course, into group A.
Group B is almost done.
We're just waiting on the result from that bait and nip matchup.
And winner of that will play Mongols.
So as you can see, 3D Max is going to be going against ParaVision,
which I believe is later today.
And then down in the lower bracket, MIBR and Team Liquid.
And then Vision waiting for the loser of that bait and nip game.
But that brings us to group A,
which is where a lot of people are putting their attention because some of the bigger names,
some of the more interesting teams in terms of the changes in terms of the lineups are
coming in here and that man on your screen has, you know, set the aura charts pretty much
off the scales for Maus.
We'll see how they go against Father-Tales.
You set a pretty low bar though.
Like, you know, let's be honest.
But yeah, now G.L. coming into 10 miles gives him a little bit more charisma if
you want to put it that way.
Riz, he's all the young kids are calling it, no, but yeah, and I mean speaking of young kids as well
they've actually brought another graduate into the into the mouse side, which is you know going off of
history probably a really good move. The one thing that has been a little bit of a difference
compared to the previous I guess you should want to call it like promotions, is that a lot of the
former NXT graduates in torgis or shenanigans and so on and so forth, they've taken to the
the level quite quickly. And I think from what we've seen out of Silex so far, it's not
that he's necessarily made massive mistakes or anything like that, but he hasn't necessarily
had his moment just yet. He hasn't had his welcome to the league type of game yet.
Well, what a chance up against the likes of Twilio, who can be world leaders, can be
pretty sharp on land. They've got some very good individuals, but Zellex, this is his
time to shine.
It is his time to shine, right? And he's getting more and more confidence as well
playing in Astana and doing as well as they did as a team. It's going to give him
bit of confidence and maybe buy him a bit more time. The issue in that regard is that we have
the Major coming up very, very soon, you know, less than two weeks. So we need to see those signs
of improvements now at this tournament if we want to consider Maus as a potential dark horse to
make the playoff. The Carrier is obviously the playing with Brolin at the Major and not with JL.
So a little bit of a messy period, so to speak, for Maus. But overall, it's just nice to see
them changing. Right. Because there was the whole conversation we had for Maus for such a
a long time, they were a stable team, they were a good team, but they will never win anything.
And people were getting kind of mad about that to some extent, so bringing him jail is nice,
and then freeing up exertion to be an in-game leader seems to have really given him a lot of
confidence and spurred his game up to a level we haven't seen in a long time. So think some
moving, what in the mouse camp, in the right direction I'd say, so I'm curious to see how
they're gonna land not only in this tournament, but even more so after the major when we
get to see the full lineup, you know, with a few battles as the tournament on the
on them in. Yeah, for sure. And look, you know, the difference is here, of course, the spotlight is
on Maos because of those recent changes, because of their run of form. And we haven't really touched
too much on Tyler, but we sort of know what we're going to get there are the 110 heroes here in
Shanghai, these individuals, they can be very crazy, speaking of crazy G there. Oh, and also,
if you didn't see it on Reddit, it is Torsi's birthday. And we had G singing happy birthday.
So jump on over there and have a little look at that video. It's very wholesome. Yeah, lots
of friendly friendship between both teams as well, a little bit of banter before jumping into this one.
Yeah, I think there's a possible set to not like G, really, from what we've seen out of him. And
honestly, I kind of like the direction that Talu have been going as well. Sure, there are results
that have necessarily been, you can't talk about a 16 game win streak or anything like that,
that we saw Limvision had, and obviously we saw that that doesn't really matter too much.
But for Talu, I like the fact that they've brought in fresh blood. So they brought in
Zero a couple of months ago from change the game
I think he's been looking like a hot prospect for a while in CTG. So seeing him actually get the chance in Tai Lu
I think he's done okay for himself so far even though Tai Lu having to sincerely hit the ground running
I like that they're moving in this direction of I guess it's kind of like somewhat mean to say but like leaving the old guard behind
You're not having necessarily the recycling of like attacker and so on and so forth
You know gradually coming into the line of yet again
It has to happen at some point.
It has to happen at some point.
And I'm glad Tyloo have kind of made that step in that direction now.
So I'm excited to see where Tyloo take this.
I like that they have like a new guard of players.
And I think they have very, very high ceiling.
I think there's a lot of potential in this lineup.
Well, let's see if that room is going to be made.
How high the ceiling is, how high the floor is, or low the floor is.
And of course, the guys that are going to show us all of the building.
Neoclines crew.
I'm really looking forward to
this game. I think has the
potential to again be a bit of
a bomb on a bit of one side and
one the kind of the same way our
previous series was, but. Tiley
always have a little bit of
something about them, especially
internationally as well. Zero
somebody that I've kind of come
to know quite well. I was out
in, uh, God, it was this is
back in March. I was doing an
event where it was his first
kind of international tournament
ever playing with that change
the game side and he looked
really, really good and he was
of the heroes that roster got
the three open qualifiers, then
got the three groups into the
playoffs. It was kind of
out of nowhere. They were
definitely one of the unknown
quantities, but he individually
was unbelievably sharp, so
definitely worth keeping an eye
out for. But all signs point
to that mouse should be taking
this pretty damn cleanly and
very, very similar towards that
Mongols match up. And of course
the roster moves they've made
as well in NBA terms. We
call this kind of a win now
to, uh, you know, manifest the upset, aren't we? Like, we want at least one of these games
today to go, uh, against the grain, against the theory. Well, it's just not looking super
likely. We've had that first kill come through for miles. So she's going to take another
looking very, very good while doing so. Nonetheless, five versus three. A very good spot here.
I think stuck for ideas and do
have a little utility. Remaining
but. On awful lot going at this
point. All tough comes through
force of spanks into a slightly
shaky angle. You might say I
mean, it still just doesn't
feel like it has the energy to
it for Tyloo here. Those
blocks closed the gap and it's
I really thought they'd overlook JL there, right? You know, you kind of take that first contact.
Don't expect a double dark setup, but they do, they clear it, and they're doing so.
Now, post plant, the most advantage, Hans-Alex and Torsi, to try and fail them out of this one.
The Hungarian Dior duo need to go huge, and it doesn't start while it's all on Torsi.
Birthday point needs to go huge to keep Maus alive in this pistol.
The title looks so solid in their post plant. I say that, he does get one, but that is all he'll get.
in the end walking away with
three lovely work coming forward.
That's how Tali want to kickstart this best of one here on Inferno out the
gates nice and quick. A bit of a pacy punchy pistol round and it does
catch miles off God. It does. It does. I mean, certainly, you know, able to get
in there and like say close close the gap. That was kind of the one
thing they got away with the two usb's in the dark trying to play off
that maybe needed to go slightly earlier if we're being picky, but we'll find out here,
I think, as things continue on. If I was just have to be careful, too much respect, argument,
you know, things like this are going to come into play. Tyloo will come at you quick and
I don't think there's going to be as much of that push and pull element and all these
types of things that we talk about on Inferno, the slow down play, particularly in a BO1,
They're gonna look for a lot more moves like this heavy contact with the flash
Into the five versus four now
Looking pretty comfortable mouse gonna try and re-aggress and create something of their own but not quite happening
They will back off and look towards being stead which I think is gonna be the wise move for tyloo
Yeah bees open
to get into the next round.
Surgeon is here. Just trying to
fail a bit of presence for this
mouth side, but the site itself
completely barren Bob goes down
and I think you just re uses
force by and towards the next
round. You can't really get
in towards. Back in towards
that B site off the rack and
smoking towards CT one and
towards coffins. At that point,
it all put it on the fair to
do. We'll try and shell up and
save. That being said as well
The pistol to start was pretty clean of five versus three that they flipped on its head and
Now a chance as well to build up a little bit in the gun rounds to be this as it is a force as well for miles
I get opportunity for for Tyler to get a nice little springboard to start off this match
Which is exactly kind of what we want to see if we are trying to breathe the upset into life
Reuse those guns in towards an X-Bot Tyler know that it was a force as well
They heard the MP9s. They know about the bits of Utah and the upgrade of pistols.
So they'll understand as well that they're saving and using it again.
But they'll also understand that they have much better firepower heading into us next round.
It's going to be interesting to see this crop of players, you know, back on the server, honestly, especially JL, of course.
But I think Zelex is a player that a lot of people have had their eyes on for a long time.
I felt like some changes for mouse needed to happen. I know
Quite a lot of the discourse has been around was was Jimmy the right guy. Yeah
And there's a few people a few plunder time that they're maybe saying he was completely the wrong guy. So
We'll find out on that one in time, but not the the greatest debut. I think it's certainly
Messy, you know getting this kind of team together
together. All the same. Still
some fantastic names on this
team that they would hope
allows them to start vying for
wins. That's the thing. You
know, they had a team that could
make semis that could maybe
make a final, but they need to
get wins. I think the Miles
organization is expecting bigger
be careful man same kind of things happen to spirit but you don't fall down straight up short here
a lot of damage from these smg's coming in it's mercury from the side though who looks good
torsion at the back end of the site will he be expected he's going to be the only one left
does manage to burst it's a little broken unfortunately and can't quite get it going
it was a world where he clutched that but a little broken and it will be tidaloo just about able
to get it. Yeah, much more
expensive though as well. I
think that's kind of partly, uh,
you know, a silver lining to
kind of walk away with that was
that bonus by the second attempt
out of it. Now they get the
full buy and this is not kind of
proper test for Tyloo. Yes,
it's still a bonus for them.
This is the truth. It's what
Mars going to look like on
their gun rounds open play
for Georgie. The rifles
alongside a full belt to
utility. So all things
considered, it should be
miles kicks on in their
campaign here on inferno.
a little wacky and have a few individuals that can definitely take over and around and especially one of
Zero Mosaic or G with the AK we look towards them in particular
And slow around here for Tyler you flash gonna send in Mercury
Just control take in they can start incrementally getting closer and closer to the A site
But it's our commitment to play the bombs not near them. This is just them probing for information. Yeah
I think trying to create the
first kill is what they're after,
but now it's not really giving
them the space to do that.
Goodness me.
Look at the stash over here.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Zershin's going to get him
moving forwards as well.
So looking to kind of double
made things in if he can.
May well have been a little
delivery from JL as well there.
Is that bomb?
Is that bomb headed in towards B? Tough to say at the moment.
A lovely, uh, lovely made line-up series.
You know, if they're scaling forwards at this stage,
I think there would have been a lot of damage out there from Zershin.
Unfortunately, they are headed towards A, so we don't get to see that.
You know, made damage is often pretty exciting stuff,
but they're scaling this execute, and miles are not buying it completely.
That makes it here. Spinks, swings in for 1-0, quick on the trade as well.
Looks for a second paulgey on the pressure.
It's Mazea that sees him off for the move by Mercury.
In for the flank, all but seal this round.
Surely two versus four now.
The remaining two of Zershin and J.O. who were primarily playing out towards B.
Surely it's a shell up and save move for them.
They know they've got no real way of looking in towards the site.
No kit to work with either one flash Zershin.
No chance in hell.
The jailer get out of it will be Tai Lu for to start off this T side and this is what we want to see as well
Four on the bounce but the immediate kind of gun round go in their way
And not only just a gun round a gun round which is a bonus round for Tai Lu
That's really quite impressive to only have one casualty as well
You're very happy of how things are proceeding at the moment jam young scooped up an orp as well
Which can be dropped over towards G in towards the next round is nothing but positives for Tai Lu at the moment
You're looking very calm, very comfortable in their counter strike and this is what we want to see and there's something we didn't see from LimbVision.
Jenny raises an eyebrow, I think it's safe to say, you know, you win that early round, you still has yet to lose one, it's kind of the key thing here.
So really could get worrying here.
here. Say the new new Miles jerseys looking looking good. Yeah. This is the first time
I've seen them. They might not be brand new, but yeah, looking looking pretty good. I've
got to say that I'm still I'm still part of that camp. There's too many jerseys that
are still black. That's true. That's true. I'm sitting here saying I like me a power
vision. I like me a gentle mates, you know, a dash of color. Talu, I quite a Talu
you know, yeah, yeah, seek to your primary colors. I quite like that that that red
Mal is one they had for a while. Yeah. But honestly some some some color. Yeah, I mean black is in or
maybe it's one of two ways color. Yeah, maybe there's one or two ways you go about it. You either for
me go like, you know, like Power of Vision s I lean into your colors or it is Carmine corp
right on and CS. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Carmine corp right. Yeah, for instance, they're now doing
like jerseys which are like you could wear as normal clothes and they're really cool or like
having spirits is a good example that's like it feels like you just wear as a t-shirt yeah right
it's like a grayed out kind of color i like that i get behind that but i like the color though
either way tylo back towards beat is once again a horde of utile towards ct with zershino scoop up
another made potentially on towards half or could be very very good right about now
Yeah, I mean exactly what he did in the last round, you know, really super effective, unfortunately, holding off ever so slightly, thinking about it, going to get a re-smoke down here, and it might just be the perfect time, because they were lining up pretty hefty execute, and break open the smoke, and they're feeling confident to try and go for this.
It's a break-over from Zershin, aggressive move, considering he's the only one on B, really quite aggressive. I mean, it's the kind of round where you're given license to do that, I suppose.
Jail with a big find.
It's certainly going to make them move forward.
Spince has got a kit.
This certainly feels doable.
Zalex is insanely late to the party, though.
So he is essentially a 3 vs 3 on the site itself.
He's going to start scaling forwards.
A leg onto Torji is lucky.
Smoke comes in.
You know, they're a little desperate in terms of the utility here,
but they're going to try and make this one work.
Jesus go down.
with one, which is JL being that rotate player in between.
But Zersh is getting caught off guard quite a lot at the moment.
He's trying to call around himself being the solo hold towards B
and he isn't working.
You can see now they've immediately flipped that sort
of mentality, but they've got three initially towards B.
And Spinks now falling back towards the A side
to shore things up.
But a bit more of that onus are actually
taking banana control rather than what
Maaz will be doing early, which is actually not
playing that much presence.
Biv early utility, but I said
she's sitting back on towards the site
I'm trying to invite in the pressure.
Tyler, we're happy to play that.
If you're going to give them map control,
they'll take it and they'll work with it.
Orgy.
You get one of these, he does, but he's instantly traded.
I think that's about perfect for both sides,
you know, the way you would expect that to go.
Tyler, it's what they like, though.
Early kills.
Fills them with a sense of confidence
and you can see they're moving relatively quick, I'm sure.
Not a bad setup.
Zellex will spot some man on the edge of the smoke.
Stressed their life, and he's doing a good job of it.
It's all gonna be down 2G.
You'll have to find three overall,
not likely not on your life,
and Zellex has held the line really well.
Yeah, they needed a bit of a hero there.
Zellex falls, the site falls with it,
and in doing so, that gives Tyler another post bomb,
which we've already seen, they're very, very solid on.
That's absolutely gonna help things out.
The initial trade felt pretty good, but it's actually just Alex who from this pit position
does so unbelievably well and especially this bounce player falling gives him a bit of free
real estate for the news around.
So fantastic work, Miles finally get their first on the board and now it needs to be
the first of a few.
We need to start very similar to what we saw from kind of Power Vision in our opening
series.
You need to use that as a strength board.
Kickstart to salvage the CT side.
Early days could be traded, Zershinkun take a lot of courage and he does.
Abels are back away though. Lovely little fade away natives they give up the banana control
on the CT side. Trying to pivot things around you know, stay ahead of the curve as it were.
doing a good job of that reaggression comes in spotting nobody here
set up in a very very nice way for the mouse side of things a lot of damage done
it's all unconfirmed same on desertion but I think Tyler looking kind of worse
for wear and you have to figure this one out however mouse go back to what they
have been doing which is the foray one towards B it might work out for them
Just the one smoke seems to be forcing Tyloo in towards this A trap.
They've read this well as well.
You know, you look at Mao as they've got four players here ready to fight.
Spinks go into the smoke.
I love this move.
He can have so many dead drives, but he gets caught by the flash.
G's flash is fantastic.
Zero get the kill.
Miss shot with the orb as Alex is here.
And they might have to call upon the youngster again to bail them out.
He got Torsi on the site.
He's trying to get the cross.
Time is ticking as well.
Twenty seconds.
We've got to go.
But there's that move through long.
We've already seen that happen a couple of times, that flanking play, which is so, so strong.
Bomb planted and now a difficult two versus two.
Yeah, which is kind of crazy that they're able to do that, right?
Because you play them four on A.
I suppose they lose one super early and have to try and bolster things, but long being so vulnerable.
It gets sucked in, right? Into the site.
A pin in it, you know? Keep an eye on it.
Into the future rounds here. Looking very good.
JL on high.
there is a kit for Zershin if
they want to give this a late
burst, but not a lot of time
in which to do that. I think
they're really banking on jail.
Being able to find a kill. They
are still going for it. It's
easy for most air in the end.
Talu answer back immediately.
So maybe from bad to worse for
the side of mouse. If this is
going to turn into another
string of rounds. Yeah, and
this is where it differs as well
from that opening game with
power vision, right? Because
obviously the power vision
The recovery was quite quick, once they finally got around it, it opened up the floodgates a little bit.
Anything but a Taliou getting that instant bite back does make a real difference.
Ours, once again put onto the back foot, it's an MP9 for ZX.
They do squeeze out the four by a round here, but it's everything left in the wallet.
In towards round number eight, you four-flying this one, you're in serious trouble.
possible. Let mouse feel like they have control of things, but able to reveal the plan later
on in the round. Lovely little smoke here from the bottom of banana. Facing out towards A.
Nothing they're quite convinced, unfortunately, and going ahead of those smokes is a bad habit.
JL only able to get one. However, they've kept the trades pretty tight into the three on three
you. You're going to be
going to be going to be now.
Going to be needed, but surely
would you find in that one? You
just have to move away. My
goodness, I really playing them
off the server at the moment.
Absolutely fantastic stuff.
These mouse guys are frustrated
sticking around for a moment.
Just see if anything comes
their way, but I think with
no obvious kills, you just
I think this is going to be
a good half. I think you're
absolutely spot on. I think
this is going to partly where
we look at kind of this matchup
specifically talk about the
title. They love playing
internationally. It's
actually being quite consistent
talking point within the
region is that you know, we've
always sort of had essentially
Tyler and Lynn vision being
the kind of top sides coming
out of China, but the talking
point for a long, long time
is that we're going to be
able to get into the
top side of the tournament
and we're going to be
able to get into the top
But the talking point for a long, long time
was that Lin Vision was so good domestically,
they had Tailu's number,
and they had the rest of kind of the Chinese scenes number.
But when it came to international, they could never crack it.
But it was the other side.
It was Tailu maybe not always flawless domestically,
but internationally, they were a side
that actually felt that they could contend
with some of these more international teams,
whereas, you know, kind of a bit of a running joke
they even have in that kind of Chinese scene
is sort of like, Lin Vision prepared for Tailu,
Tailu prepared for the rest of the world.
That was sort of about this narrative.
And this is exactly what it feels like right now.
It's the fact that, you know, for LimpVision,
they always feel like they've got that extra edge
on Tyloo in a domestic matchup.
But Tyloo have got eyes set for the international stage,
and right now it's absolutely paying off.
They're looking sharp, they're looking clean,
and they're really, really making life difficult
and comfortable four miles.
I think as well, sometimes you see Tyloo,
like just on your point,
like missing a season of ECL,
which is going to be quite important out there,
Or maybe the odd, you know, super domestic tournament might even be a LAN that they kind of missed just to fully prepare.
Yes.
So they're a really good team, I think, into the BO1 argument as well.
A great opening game for them. Now it would be pretty scary in that upper bracket, of course, but...
Definitely, definitely doable.
Oh, man.
Wow!
Man! What a move! They break open the smoke. There's no flashes or anything.
and it works beautifully for them.
That's about as contact heavy as you can get through the smoke.
They'll just keep the kills coming in.
They'll just keep the rounds coming in.
Up to eight already.
Dare I say it, you know, are they gonna stop winning
before this half is over?
Yeah.
Miles are just getting walked all over, man.
This is crazy.
Zero is really showing a bit of his class as well.
He's not running away in the numbers department.
He's got a really horrible role
of being set in first into every occasion,
but to get away with two there is massive.
both players playing in a sort of anti-flash position and he does so unbelievably well.
Pile up to eight.
And for Spinks, and Zershin, all they can do is save the M4.
And this MP9, respectively.
It's not a nice spot to be in. A nice safe exit through second mid as well.
Another round that comes through, but it's flawless again for Tilo.
Up to an eighth.
And completely against the grain, but the same sort of feeling as that previous series of
One side not really breaking a sweat. This is tyloo. It's quite
Fundamentally simple counter strike, you know, it's a lot of just like pot flashes in for a fight
And we try and get the numbers advantage and then we just go quick
You know, you see there's a lot of it kind of the EU top-level kind of strike where you get a kill
And then you freeze up you try and draw out numbers you rotate you cancel
You leave things last minute.
Tyloo are playing this very simple.
We get a kill, take that space immediately,
and if that space is towards a site, take the site immediately.
And no matter how many numbers it costs us to kind of get there,
I love the way they're approaching it.
From ours, it's completely catching them off guard.
Yeah.
A great style.
I think Tyloo may be even surprising themselves in a pretty good sense,
which is always nice.
and everything if that's what they're gonna go for here and I think indeed that bomb is gonna scale up
there's now a smoke in the way with not loads of time left in the round so
you really start to worry here as to what the plan might be for Tai Lu they may be
getting a bit too big for their britches the flash gonna come in it's good on Tatouji
and sell exelt with quickly they make it work once again they continue to exceed expectation
I know smoke spam just to put salt in a wound and
Tyloo moving up to nine in very convincing fashion. Yeah, it's it's you know
You can talk about the way we're supposed to approach these frowns
But there's no luck involved. They're sure that spam on the smoke is lucky
But their approach as a whole this tea side is actually immaculate. It really looks clean
It looks so controlled and it's a bit of a joy to watch as well when Tyloo play at their top level
We kind of know that this is a side that are always, you know
Very brazen in their approach and these kind of really punchy t-side rounds
But this is what we're getting and they all start with a pistol right the pistol that kind of recovery that comes through five versus three
There was already signs there brewing that we could be getting Tyler on the level that we want to see Tyler
What and
That's exactly the case miles look half asleep right now the time zone maybe making a big difference for them
Because they are not present here in the server
And well very similar to the chicken lover van. It's a bit of a car crash so far for this mouse side
That's pretty good.
He's proud of himself for that one.
He's happy with himself about that one.
What can I say?
I'll be honest, I didn't even know it had crashed in the map.
You know what I mean?
I just thought it was a part there.
Yeah, you can see smoke and stuff coming.
I know it so well because I often play music on the map.
Ah, there you go.
There you go.
You're that guy.
I already know Baby Shark.
It's the only song I know.
Probably the worst song you could know.
I know, but it's great in its own sense as well.
I suppose universal. Yeah. Yeah, everyone's gonna know it
There may be a language barrier within my team many of us and so what they're saying but we can we can all connect behind this
the joys of music
No joys for miles
Timeout comes in once again. They're just trying to salvage what they can here. It's the third of finals. Well, right?
Nothing seems to be working. It's a
just has not gone going here we maybe had a little bit of hope for them they get
that first round like okay here we go some kind of a comeback maybe there is
something on the cards not seeing this from them the double-nade down banana
will net a frag and it's well read because Tyloo a lot of the time have
been hanging around waiting a moment before they scale up in towards
banana but they change up as well jam young sharp as a tack for that
frag it's gonna give them a path big gap into what's being that's a that's a JL
smoke you know been out of the comp scene for a little while will indeed make a
few mistakes from time to time but maybe inviting them in as he finds an
important kill for mouse yeah they kind of need the need of that trade pretty
immediately and they couldn't get it but zero this move from him this really
He could flip the round on its head,
he'll catch Torsi, looks for more,
but he just can't quite deliver.
A second on towards Spinks.
It's a Mercury-Mosea, two versus three.
They've already converted one numbers disadvantage round.
It was all the way back in the pistol,
and it was a pretty triumphant one at that.
How did they make this one stick?
They got one HE to work with, that's it.
And they're opting just for the gunfights
on the flip side mouse.
Molly, made in a flash,
two of which are in the back pocket of Zellex,
and there comes the first.
The flames down to Newbox, but he presents, but JL with the swing, he very much is, but
there the issue is, he's stuck here, he has to fight through the nail from First Orange
and the con JL will trade four kills in the round for him as well, the newboy on the
block four miles, will net their second, but even still the road to recovery here,
four miles is long and treacherous.
Yeah, right, and there's still potential that, you know, Tyloo bounce back in the
the same way that they did last time.
Uh oh.
Don't leave him hanging like that.
He really did. He really did.
That might be over the line already.
And we'll never know, you know.
Shredding his fist bump.
Did he ever get fist bumps or did he not?
We'll never know.
Tai Lu, time out coming in from them
as they look to immediately bounce back,
take a 10-2 half.
I think that would be enough.
This is kind of the point you brought up earlier, right?
Mentally speaking there's such a vast difference in 9-3 and 10-2. I think Tyler realized that as well as anybody that they know that
They can crack into us double digits in this first half there
Already 90% of the way there to the finish line not only in terms of literally speaking but also just like that mental side of things
They know that you get a pistol you've more or less all but confirm things
And I could sound respect being showed as well. They know what miles are about
They know they can't let up at any point. They can't get comfortable despite being you know
9-1 into 9-2-1. They can't afford to ever let slip anything, right?
You know, that kind of classic saying, give them an initial take of the yard.
Fast-moving here from Tyloo, is they're going to get themselves out middle, no messing around.
Looking to maybe be an attempt to the V-Rap here,
they find from Spinks and it also really just reveals the plans.
So, if that was your whole game, it ain't gonna work anymore.
They have to pull back some control towards Long.
What are they gonna try and do with that?
Torgie is trained in on the AWP here to attempt the frag on Zero.
He has to stay trained in, yeah, he's right on top of him there.
The X-ray vision, it's a missed shot, and Zero does manage to find a kill.
Torgie misses twice, Jam-Yung takes him down, and suddenly,
They are the ones in power.
Oh.
He needs onto Sphinx.
And I'll leave him worse for wear.
They're really quite trapped in on the site for the most part.
Mosaic has picked up an orb.
I'm going to try and make it sing here if he can.
We'll find out.
Meanwhile, in the apartment, Surtian slowly builds up.
JL straight into the orb.
Surtian knows about it, but it does not matter.
Mosaic, one man army with that boomstick.
I'll leave it down to Sphinx here.
There's a team kill.
kill. Wait a minute. No time.
Yeah, not a lot of time here.
Needed those kills way earlier.
They know how to play that.
It's 10 to at the half and.
Yeah, absolutely enough in the
end. It feels for Tyloo. What is
happening here? Yeah, some really
full on faders over towards
miles. Expectedly to be honest.
They're in a really horrible
spot at the moment. Just no
one stepping up to the play
and very similar to kind of
narratives that we built up,
even kind of in that previous
series talking about how
there's a vast variety of
There's a vast difference, you know
We're kind of very akin for for Tyler in the Mongols where you're getting not only consistency coming through in terms of
The teamwork and the calling and all these small things, but actually just the individuals right we're getting so much more in terms of
Impact and firepower from them, especially comparatively to what miles are offering up. We're just not getting any heroes
Yes, we've got heroic moments JLs 4k is kind of one that springs to mind
But outside of that it's very very thin
It's what we can grasp on to for this mouse side things are pretty damning and I tend to do it
It's that point that we bring up like it already kind of feels like you've morally one here as long as tally
No, just completely turn into a shadow of their former cells
It'll be an easy easy close here and even something as simple as a pistol should be really a
last couple of nails being hit into the coffin a
Massively important for miles to kickstart this half. Well, but it needs to be
the pistol forced by first two or three gun rounds before I even feel remotely confident
about saying, okay, there'll be something here.
We're about to find out. We really are. Something smells off in the mouse camp. Not only on
this map, but I think in general, since these moves have come in, unfortunately,
still time to settle, of course, as you put it, the wind now maybe not going to
live up to that unfortunately.
Well there's a thing we'll win now if we don't win it looks even worse.
Yeah, so we're gonna find out in future but right now can they take the pistol, the
Julius of Zero still alive in the apartment, he has a decision to make as he wanna over
swing and try and get the crazy kills, or is he just gonna try and keep that control.
G moves way too fast.
His man advantage Tyloo, always hard in a pistol post plant though, the motosmoat
coming in so they kind of just forced into the short play and really look into bank on that not going to happen as
Zellex sees them off
It's really well put together. Mose here eventually is going to work his way through that smoke
They needed one of those short kills though. It's planted quite nicely
The back end of the site. There's just no time for Mose here to really get it going. Unfortunately
Should be the pistol for miles will all the kills go the way of miles or is Mose here?
to go down to this bond as
well, which is a bit nasty. I
think he hadn't taken any
damage there. So the cheap
head armor and all that argument
for him. There you go, jail,
trying to keep the energy up as
miles potentially on the road
to recovery as you put it. Yeah,
he knows the importance of
really getting the vibes good.
You know, really getting that
kind of feeling in towards this
game solid and also asking
you say it's probably sort of
difficult to do that, but
Difficult to do that because that was close. That was damningly close. It's not a kid in play
Foremost air who knows what happens right at that tail end there
You're gonna be potentially stuck it just because he knows that last guy's towards short and that real safe plight towards the cubby
Could have been interesting
You know that force by out for tyloo
Can't really blame them for going for it off the back of getting as many kills as they did and also if having so much of a
Lead you've got that breathing room. You've got that space to take a couple of risks and a couple of gambles to try and
and see this off as soon as.
But that's the first step.
You know, we spoke about that checklist,
pistol round, forced by first couple of gun rounds,
then I can start entertaining the conversation
around recovery.
So the first step out of four.
The first step, you know, often the hardest,
that's what they say.
Yeah, it's recovery though, I think.
for him and as you can see, they turn away.
Most airfields confident he's having a great game.
He's hoping for some kill bonus,
but he's never going to get that chance.
So, Miles, going through the motions here,
they guess correctly, you might say,
choose the correct door
and they get themselves a nice fourth round.
We're not believing just yet.
Tailu still in a really great spot.
Yes, exactly that.
Reuses guns and swords tonight.
They've set themselves up in a nice place to play for exits as well.
Zero and G in particular have the opportunity to at least make this a little bit expensive,
but also at the risk of their second attempt at a force bind towards the next round being a little worse aware
and for where miles are, especially with the HP that they've got as well,
they can afford just to take a significant damage to the C4, but not entertain the fights.
Okay. Little dink. That's fine.
All five stay alive. It's all
the matters for miles and for
Tyloo. Just yeah, second attempt.
At that force by for them.
Double 59, double 57. But the
Utah is well behind it.
Be nice to see them do something
with this, I think. Yeah, I
want to see something gimmicky.
Right? I just feel like you
know you've got to buy into
the next one anyway. Do
You know push banana or dive down second me. It's something just a little bit different just to try and keep miles on their toes
I think they will though they've they've replenished a lot of the smokes, especially
So they're looking to just play that kind of annoying
Inferno style
Hang on look at the minimap there is a push to apartments
It could be tempted to actually start moving a little further forward. Yeah
This little doorway though is your point of no return in theory right? Like there is someone on the other side of it
It's a very perilous
journey to the other side
But we'll find out it's gonna be another be here. I'm watching for ty loop and they have again
tried to
Bolster things up on a
recovery of the smoke just kind of in the nick of time. I think they were about ready to get moving on the mouse side
decent nade damage. Rotations are very, very, very slow. Jam Young again sends it by himself.
Tyler have got to watch themselves. They're on a low by, they're far ahead, but I'm just feeling
some of the energy on the fights and the swings. It's very confident, maybe even on that, you know,
fine line of courage and stupidity state. You have to be really quite careful that this gap
That does not close their position is not quite untenable. Just yet. Yeah, and they've got to find a better way now to show the B defense as well.
That's kind of the big thing. I think most areas spotted there. Spinks. Probably has another dead to right and he will.
Oh, it goes there. Again, they don't really care for Tyler in terms of like the fact that people are dying.
They know they're going to be rebinding towards the next. You obviously want a little bit more of that econ showed up though.
You know, in particular for G and Mercury, if not taking any damage, you just are able
to go in towards the next with a nice stable full-by-round it, use it as well.
These are these first steps.
They've done the first three steps out of my four-step recovery program, you know,
pistol-forced-by-first gun round.
It's the second gun round that is the interesting one.
They find this for miles, and then I can start to believe about the recovery a
little bit.
But for Tyler, this is the first proper look into what they can bring to the
table or play the G got the rifles alongside as well full belts utility
Mouses you find round of a 16 though. I start to believe that's a sick throw on the board
Probably a set of behind it as well as money gets broken and before you know it that is within arms reach
And that's where the pressure starts to sit on the shoulders a little heavier for Tyloo. Yeah, and this is what I'm saying
They've got to be very careful. Hopefully they are aware. Hopefully they're able to just kind of shore things up ever so slightly
But we'll find out. It is worrisome looking at the start of this for Malz. This is where
you put a stop to it, if not, maybe I do start to lean that way. I think they are certainly
capable of the comeback with the crop of players that they have. A difficult fight.
The jam young wins. He's been the one that we've been watching with these overswings
and very confident fights, it works for him here.
So it seems like the confidence is indeed going to pay off.
Not a bad idea.
Another space coming in, Mercury does lose his head.
And G dealt with swiftly.
So all of a sudden, it is down to just Zero,
who is also unafraid to take those fights.
He gets one, he backs away, he's looking for maybe another.
The flash comes in, it's all about buying time
for the rotations of course.
Fortunately for JL, the jam young kill
just comes a little too late.
JL looking potentially clutched things up here nice little Molotov
Think we're forced to fight out. It's not perfect. He takes a dink and he will go down
Molly spreads in a weird way, and I think it does allow zero a bit more space than perhaps jail expected
and that unfortunately I think put sir a
Stopping point to our Cinderella story for miles. I live immediately are back in the game. Yeah, exactly
that really well done by zero just doesn't seem to fall flat under that
pressure miles pretty ready to rebuy into was this round and the next to be
honest so if it's our loot to still close it out from here they put it through
it the hard way we like to call it you know it's not against kind of these
lower buys or these half investments of all the AKs here and towards the next
even if things fall flat and nonetheless Tyler was so close to that
finish line now all but taste it on a push as well I kind of like this
entirely it's aggressive but it feels like the right move you can afford to
send jam young down but on it's you know a range of mosaic there as support
jam young trained and ready that's not even gonna check oh no and it's the
easiest double of his life he's heard the bomb drop there as well I believe
So decent information as well as those two kills not looking good
And mouse
Really disappointing stuff, isn't it? You know not even checking the angle there as they break through a smoke and everything it just really
feels quite lazy
Spinks does trade out G
What more have you got for us?
So I shouldn't weird some long control
Not totally out of the question just yet.
I mean to roll 2v2 on the A site,
and potentially if things go well,
could lead to a pawn, a post-plorn there,
might just give them the extra edge,
but time is of the essence.
25 seconds to work as they're making their moves,
spotted a lot of damage on towards Zershin.
This could be kind of interesting now,
they know about this crossfire,
they know how difficult it is to try and deal with it,
and Xero and Mercury combined so well.
only the one courage D4 Tyloo as they find 12
Mapping series point in this best of one like I said there is a little bit of cash left over for miles
But it's been a non-start of an inferno for them
This is crazy
Tyloo playing really good counter-strike, and I think miles just very slow know what to do against them
And yet is a lot of these
rounds and overlooked angles and whatnot on so bad that I don't even feel the graphic property.
That's a, that doesn't pay a bleak picture. I don't know what goes.
Indeed. So looking to be over pretty swiftly here. A lot of game damage coming in. Mosaic to open
things up though. They just about survived the getaway. How does he get out of that?
Maybe some look on this hide for this matchup as well. Perhaps we've not considered that as
much, but nonetheless, Tyloo in a winning position now and looking to really take this one to town.
Mosair does need to be careful. They've gone for a boost and then decided not to do it,
and they're going for a boost in towards new instead. That reveals the location of another.
It's a little messy there. Jam Young able to stay alive thanks to the smoke. Mercury also around,
but they've done pretty worse for wear. It looks doable four miles to break into the
the bomb side the very least and a super late rotation from zero I think Miles will stay alive
another round at the very least yeah but just the fact that you have to go flawless for seven on the
bounce to tie things up is a big ass murky gets caught on the smoke spam by Zershin so another
little additional silver lining for miles when it's very bleak period that they're in here
Yeah. Come on Inferno. Yeah, the very least staying alive for now. It's a nice be here.
It's worked quite well. It does give them some sort of oversight into like how we can
find gaps to work with here, but still very much unconvinced. Winner of this game, of
course, takes on winner of
legacy RNG energy now say and.
At the moment, 64 to energy in that game kind of an interesting one,
because like we've seen this year we've caught energy quite a lot.
We've actually seen some decent moments from them like I think Oc in
particular courses impressed us a couple of times and we've cost to them.
Sonic has some moments to here and there like it feels like a side that
they're trying to work.
I mean, we even recently we were kind of catching them and they were
talking about how they were kind of taking a step away from some tournaments as they weren't
doing that great and they were really actually trying to finally work as a team.
They're going to integrate all the players and especially integrate Grimm properly in
towards that system.
Then you've also got that kind of story about legacy, reigning champs, right?
They would love to go back to back.
They made a fairytale run in the last CAC and it was sort of seemingly out of
nowhere and pretty unexpected as well of all the teams that were present there.
I think a lot of people myself included had 3d max is sort of my favorites all the way through is that my real dark horse
But I will contender in a sense
But you know it feels like
To me the way it was set up
I think most people would have expected miles legacy to kind of be the the winners in those games
So if I can get through it, especially in our G can pull off an upset
As an upper semi finals goes for through pay
That's not a bad one if you are telling trying to make a run on home soil and it starts well
Well, was that? We'll find the first year as Zershin 4 is now going to call for the grave.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, not all that much went wrong for them in the previous round, just slightly off the mark.
Yeah, there's a couple of fights.
Yeah, just take the same sort of approach here, and that's exactly what they are doing.
A quick scale from Spinks makes it look like he's maybe the only one over here as well.
They'd be confident to take another fight on him.
Smoke goes in four versus four and the bomb looks to join them on a it's well defended
All in these smokes keeping it simple here for miles
Howl to stay alive just slowing things down right now
45 seconds jam young post on the angle with the AWP
So I'm in the molly but a motor smoke will come through.
They've got bodies here they need to bring back Mercury now.
One smoke towards CT is going to keep his attention drawn, looks out the way they're
setting up they are all but committing towards his A site.
They start scaling up through, they're looking towards long, nothing there, they're going
to dive up through short.
This is going to be a big hole required from Xero and Jam Young.
Yeah we'll find out, Molotov comes in, forces an awkward fight, the auto is overlooked, no
it's team damage if he found just one more bullet in there, he could have lined them
up.
My goodness, Torji, I think what spinks behind him just shooting through him, I would have
been Zellex, nonetheless it looks messy for Maus, but they do just about get it
done.
Tyloo struggling to close this one out, I have so many rounds to work with that
I think they had those three
players still remaining on a it
would have been a vastly
different story. Yeah, it just
drew over Mercury. I feel like
he feels like I need to support
those a hand. Yeah, not to be.
I will at least now forced
to sort of take a step here. You
know, they don't have loads of
cash to be able to rebuild
you know, they don't have
loads of cash to begin
rebounding back in and they
kind of two minds of where you
go about this. We've got enough
rounds spare that we could just
try and go for a force. Mosaic
and murky can drop over. They
can squeeze on the buy around
this or what feels like the
smart to call it's just half
by around these two rifles.
I'm going to pistols bit of
armor, better utility as
well. Just try and win it by
a bit of fortune with a
slightly lesser by five
seven to the right
positions in the right
hands can be still really
really scary and that is
That is what we're going to get.
Double five, seven, four, zero, and G.
Jamming on the round and out with a deagle.
Nades stack, it's a nice idea.
My thing to actually a teammate,
but it still works out well.
Mercury going to get two for it.
So this is what we're saying.
Nades and U-Tool, and then,
I'm going to pistol to the right spots,
can be scary.
I mean, even then,
damage on tools, Alex and Torsi too.
Yeah, I mean, imagine they don't find
the flukey kill through the smoke.
Certainly we're in a five versus three.
would have been really different story jam young has retrieved an AK here this is still doable though
Talk about how it could have been better. This is still a pretty good looking moment. You've got three rifles now
a kit as well to work with
Some utility retrieved, I mean
Really is workable
So that's worse for where we need a hero for miles
just to keep them in the game.
Yeah, we get them the eighth round in this comeback train.
We probably look towards Spinks, don't we, as well?
Is anyone who really kind of feels healthy enough
to take confident fights?
It's Alex and Tosya, one-tap-able.
I do love this little double-stack setup.
Uh-oh, zero.
Round the corner on the railing, looks good.
That's the hard kill.
This one's easy, and he's played it to perfection.
they're going to steal it absolutely wild stuff coming in.
Tyloo taking down Miles.
It's a bit of effort in the end,
but honestly, they look great.
Yeah, I'm really, really impressed
with kind of the way Tyloo approached that.
The issue is in games like this,
especially when there's a real on paper favorite,
is that, you know, unfortunately the side
that's the underdog can actually show them
too much respect, or they can be scared,
or a little bit nervous to try a couple of plays.
That's not what we get.
Tyloo come out the gate,
absolutely flying in for Miles.
That is a nightmare start to this tournament.
Yes, it's best of ones and we can kind of take that
with maybe a little bit of a pinch of salt,
but fundamentally, they know they've been destroyed
on that map and for the vast, vast majority of it,
it was a really one-sided affair.
Credit to Talu.
That's the way that they want to start a tournament
on home soil and these teething issues for mouths
are still causing some problems,
but I'm really impressed how they approached that.
They've integrated zero in towards this side
really really well.
He looked quite confident, especially on that T side.
He's set into the Gordler in every single round
as the space creator.
It's a really unenviable job at the pro level.
And I think he makes really a good effort of it.
So I'm really impressed.
I like what I see from Talu, from Maus,
there's a lot to be worked on there.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, a very poor showing.
They will know that it's not like it is
pipped to the post, you know, 13-11 or overtime.
Like if only this clutch went our way,
oh, that was kind of unlucky.
You know, there's certainly some really,
really messy rounds and overlooked angles
and all these kinds of things, you know,
just get massively in the way
I just don't know what to say, but I do know a few guys who might have an idea of how to break that one down
Azure on top baby, that's what I want to say about
Pailu always love a little underdog win there
But we were watching some crazy crazy CS and some very nice ideas from Pailu
Which did put them into this position where we've got our first or second upset of the tournament so far
Yeah, I think it was a great showcase of why tonight matter player team like Tailu and in a best of one
didn't get to talk much about it as well, but the map pick ending up on inferno historically speaking a map
Tailu have always found a lot of success on you know at the Budapest major was the math
They constantly kept picking and wanted to play as well
So they have a pretty good history with the map and then as they spoke about during the cast as well the integration of
Zero into the lineup and seemingly just a bit of a fresh look in the Tailu camp and back to the old route
You know very willing to fight very willing to be aggressive and almost proactive in all the aspects of the game and the way
they moved around and as you can see here as well you know that the willingness to just
put your body out in front take the dual heads on and you'd argue that that should be okay if
your mouse but this game you know it felt like the better individuals almost won to some degree and
honestly speaking coming into it but that's what I thought it was going to be the other way around
yeah no again positively surprising we've been here before though we've been here before we've
been surprised by Tyloo opening a tournament series in very convincing fashion only to be let down
So we're still not convinced obviously that we're going to say, you know,
the tyloo guaranteed to make, you know, stage three of the major or anything like that.
But, but it's, this is fun.
Like this is a fun result to have happen because rather than focusing on, you know,
maybe the mishaps and miscommunications in the south of mouse,
this is tyloo out playing mouse.
Yeah.
Really better part of it.
And we saw so many of the cool moments, Jacob alluded to it like that.
Tyloo, yeah, they're super aggressive at times,
they've kind of learned and found that balance of like when to pull back when to kind of
prevent your opponent from getting information or more information than necessary that you
can actually play off of and then punish them for it by being extremely proactive in your next move
on the fee side so it's just incredibly cool honestly from from Tyler yeah and look there was
unfortunately just not enough done from Maus in the first half to give them that breathing
and you can see that the comeback was certainly happening there were moments they got that
momentum back but they just didn't have enough and it took a couple of mistakes there but yeah
Tyler individually you're looking at the numbers there most they are standing tall going so so well
on the ruffling and on the other side of things as well now as look some of the newcomers are the
ones that were doing the lifting whereas the guys that have been there for a while you know we
were talking about Zershin's performance in Astana that didn't seem to translate into this best
of one today. No it didn't really come through but at the very least yeah that is the one
positive from the CT side was Zellix and how he kind of handled himself and Pit. Obviously,
not a whole lot of positives from the CT side, but that was nice to see that it didn't kind of
get flustered and do away with it. So he was one of the shining lights, I suppose, for Maus on the side.
Yeah, and if anything, you know, Maus winning the second pistol converting, it made it look,
you know, at some point, oh, maybe we have a chance of this game, I'm a competitive, but
as soon as we got into the first by-ron, we again saw Tyloo take over. And, you know,
You know, you can speak a lot about the mishaps and the miscommunication and mouse getting
off to a slow start, you know, Torsi having his birthday today, not having a performance
to be proud of at all, not getting anything done, unfortunately for him.
But at the end of the day, you know, it is Thailu coming in and playing well.
Shiro, Gam Young, you know, two of the youngsters, two of the prodigies within Asian
Counter-Strike that is being labeled to be, you know, players to look out for
for the future, also at a higher level.
It's good to see them showing signs of life, but as you also said, you know, I want
I want to see that from a more consistent point of view.
I want to see that in a better position.
Not just a one-off.
Not a one-off, you know.
Not only just today, I want to see tomorrow, I want to see it in the playoff.
I want to see that, you know, transpiring from game to game to game, because Tyloo
has been one of the few teams that, when we occasionally see them at tier one tournaments,
nobody really likes to play them.
Nobody really disrespects Tyloo.
Everyone is coming into that game, you know, being a little bit afraid, or maybe
these guys are better than we think, and sometimes they have that upset potential
to them.
It was mouse who got the got the feeling of exactly that. Yeah, they had to play them in the best of one
Which is just never really a comfortable place to be but look that is the third of four best of ones
We have one more big one coming up and that's gonna be coming up just after the break
Which will be Falcons up against BC game the young goat against the goat. Let's who takes it
She said she loves you, but she can't love me, but I love you
I won't play Windu anymore.
What's going on?
Play your role, you won't expect.
The human body was built to move, not trapped at the desk in one singular posture for 12 hours a day.
It's time your chair evolved. This is Secret Lab Titan Evo.
Ergonomically engineered for you, gamers, hybrid workers, artists, and back in your every move.
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
music
music
music
music
music
music
music
music
music
The
something about that music that just makes your shoulder, you know, really get into it,
but it also puts a smile on your face and how could you not have a smile on your face
with this matchup that's in front of us, Team Falcons up against BC game, some of the
best players to ever grace us in Counter-Strike going head-to-head.
Yeah, I mean looking at the name list, pretty impressive one.
I think maybe in some instances you might wish it was like 2022 instead,
depending on current form and whatnot. But yeah, it's going to be a fun match-up for
sure and I think they have different reasons for being interesting obviously.
Yeah, I just hope PC game will show something because I'll be completely honest. I'm a little
bit afraid that we're getting another one-sided game to be completely honest.
There's a lot of positive movings within Falcons, you know, people are smiling again,
people are taking pictures and seemingly being happy. Obviously them doing well in Astana
also helped with that. Despite the Grand Final being a 3-0 loss, there was still overwhelmingly
a positive experience during Astana. Good to see Monizzi fighting under the leadership
of Kerrigan. Good to see Kerrigan, you know, back smiling, having a good time was for BC
game. If I were to find one positive, it's that they're participating in the tournament,
You know, then they're not part of the major.
We hear Tas, you know, saying that it's important for them to do something that shows the community
that they're willing to fight and willing to change things.
But for BC game, it's yet to be any sort of positivity story coming out for them in this season.
Maybe they're trying, but we're not seeing the results of it.
Yeah, look, they're definitely putting a lot of work in, especially one individual.
If we've seen a couple of highlights out of simple lately,
he is starting to sort of get back to a form that he can be proud of
and that a lot of the fans are going to be going crazy off.
But up against the likes of Monosy,
you know, both of these authors head to head,
they are interesting individuals,
but with the recent changes to the game,
Orphean is almost so back.
So out of these two,
who do you think is going to be standing taller
at the end of this one, even though, you know,
on paper Falcon should be taking the whole game?
I mean, I don't think it's that
controversial a little bit of opinion to say that Monosy
is a better player and a better offer.
Like in 2026, just I don't think
there's that much of a discussion. It's nice to have the the idea of simple, possibly, you know,
returning to 2022, 2021 simple, and so on and so forth. I don't think people fully understand how
hard it is to maintain, not even like simple level, obviously, but just like a world class level
in Counter Strike. So kind of just being gone for as long of a period as simple was,
not playing competitive, Counter Strike, being at the best tournaments, having the best
matching day to day, like how hard it is to kind of climb back for that and how few players have
ever been able to do so. Like that's no easy feat and there's the reason why you see people
when they start to fade out they just kind of stay faded. They don't come back from that.
It's always cool to see someone who's had always like a pretty insane work ethic,
like simple, but it comes to putting hours into the game, attempting it,
but I think still we need to see a lot more before we can try to think to ourselves like
Simple should be in a tier one step. That's one aspect of it
You know another thing is doing it on a team that is clearly dysfunctional. You know, yeah
Yeah, like what's the vision behind that's that's the thing, right?
It almost feels like regardless of how well simple is playing that's not gonna move the needle for BC game as a team
And that's where to me
It's been a little bit disappointing to see them right because you'd you'd highlight simple and say he's a massive win
Condition for BC game and in theory he is still a massive win condition
But in terms of that team, you know, coming together,
yelling together and finding chemistry and synergy,
it's just been a little bit disappointing to see, you know,
which you also see by some of the statements, you know,
that Simbland and other players within the team has made,
you know, you know, not following game playing, you know.
Yeah.
Simi, you're not having the greatest environment in there.
They do bring in Sensor, who's obviously another big talent,
you know, and another great player to bring into the mix.
But it doesn't matter how much firepower
and how much talent you have within the lineup,
if they can work together.
Yeah, they can't get that game plan sorted.
And then also the other thing is even though that's dysfunctional if you look in comparison both these teams
Falcons have always sort of had that sort of stress issue there
But Karrigan's been there for one tournament and all of a sudden everyone's smiling everyone's happy
They're just feeling it. It feels like a level of chemistry that we haven't seen from Falcons
So the hate watchers are in shambles right now
That's the thing though with Falcons right because I don't know if you agree how we're coming into this tournament
I can't expect them to win the tournament right now
teams have the luxury of making a roster change and then instantly people expect them to win stuff,
you know, but that's just the pressure of being in Falcons. And I don't most argue, you know,
with how well they played in Astana and, you know, me having hopes for them to come into Cologne,
to potentially be one of those teams that can upset the likes of Vitality, Navi, you name it.
I need to see them continue the same path I saw us in Astana, and if they play as well as they
did in Astana, then I think they're one of the main favorites to win this time.
I think that's completely fair. And I think one of the, I guess, the biggest drawbacks
of Falcons in the past was never necessarily that they didn't obviously like have the individuals
they've obviously had that it's been the fact that they've gotten rigid they've gotten stuck in their
ways in in not mid rounds but mid game two late game scenarios and matches and I think probably one
of the best people to have on your side in that kind of a scenario is a guy named Finn you know
and and Kerry gonna strong that throughout his career that he's able to kind of find magic
or like some sort of slippery way to get back into games or at least not necessarily getting
stuck as much. And I think that was a bit of a consistent issue for Falcons under Kixon,
that I think we might see just kind of solve itself rather quickly as well. Because you're
getting, you can't find a more experienced guy behind the wheel than they can carry again.
I think that's exactly what Falcons need. Especially with the pieces of the puzzle
that he has, right? Like he's just got that, you know, screw you mentality in terms of the
of the way that he loves to play Counter Strike.
And you have some of the best players
that you've seen highlights from,
not just in their officials, but also in their pugs,
where they love that, I'm better than you type of Counter Strike.
And if you have an IDL that believes in you,
has faith, tells you to do what you wanna do.
If this shows some more success for Falcons,
like that's a beautiful thing to think about.
And as you said, I think you're headed right there
by saying that the players around him
should also feel that there's a chance
that they elevate themselves.
We heard Kyushu say that it's amazing for him
experience a corner like here again that is able to mid-round call you know fast and and till out
whatever one has to do in a very short time and then obviously modesty freed up with a repeat that's
always going to be a dangerous prospect and certainly will be and a dangerous prospect is
both of these world-class orpers going head to head on fast to naio skriv take us into the
last best of one yes indeed thank you very much we are ready for this one always a story
when you've got these names on the server but uh well i think my co-commentator a bit more
to be able to do that. I'm
not going to be able to do that
more than me. Going to keep it
realistic, right? Hell Yeah
inside. Just have not really
delivered. Unfortunately some
headline signings, but it
hasn't really lived up even
since adding like Senzu in
there that you might expect as
a guy who is going to be able
to, you know, perhaps
changed things for you. It
just hasn't really been the
case, but we've got some
the bomb goes down. You know,
they're really, really difficult
to let this one slip to be honest.
You know, the remaining two are
Niko and Karagan will just
stay over towards the A side.
They know they've got no real
luck in towards this one.
And a simple round to start
with.
to start things off for BCN.
That's what we want to see. Get
this side really starting to
click into place.
Just wondering if there's any
chance of the hunt here, but I
feel like it's sort of
unnecessary of anything.
It's the pistol round. It's
not a requirement really, and
it will be a very simple
start for beats game, which is
what we want to see. This
is a side that I'm on the
side of the game.
So I'm going to start
with a little bit of a
which is what we want to see.
This is a side that have obviously had their own teething issues.
They of course got that kind of talking point of Scronk
who's like a standing IGL, you know,
we got a chance to speak to him off too long ago.
And, you know, he was not talking to us about,
he knows his job here is just to make the star shine around him.
He knows that he doesn't really want to become
like a focal point at all.
But at the same time,
you also need to see him put up a bit of,
you know, just some sort of fire.
We call it Atlanta, you know,
we were on that kind of big game.
And I think it was like, you know,
started for him like oh and 14 or something before he finally got to kill it was it was a rough look
for for scrunk so yes he understood it is sort of like narrative I want to make sure that the
stars around me shine we've got so much firepower but he also still needs to slightly hold his own
in a way and he does get some opening kill you'll take that all day simple
spotted by monosie towards suicide the hinge smoke will come through
is that forced by by Falcons greater pistols the one scout form honestly can still be a little bit scary but this should be BC game getting a second on the board and then the third to follow it as well to kick start this dust too which is exactly what we want to see we all are kind of painting this maybe slightly bleak picture I think the desk and ourselves or sort of reiterate those points of this should be very one time and Falcons should come in towards a game like this and make light work of BC game.
game. If you get a nice spring
board to start that will alleviate
some of those narratives and some
of that pressure. Yeah, and I
think BC Gamer live practice
team at the moment, just hoping
to really get some rounds and
build the confidence into the
tournament, right? More and
more official experience. What's
working? What isn't working?
And as the death kind of
mentioned, just trying to
I think you're kind of in two minds at the moment, it's either people you think because
simple's in the server he's just going to take over, which we'd love to see but isn't
really how it works, or on the other side of things where it's like this team just
doesn't really do an awful lot and maybe just get in the bag a little bit and somewhere
to play and keep the for sale sign out.
Pistols lined up well here, but it is those rifles that come out on top at least initially
Carrogan overwhelmed as well
It's looking good. I mean flawless surely money see might even argue to keep a scout
I spoke too soon of course absolute classic
He will go and keep the scouts. So I was kind of correct in terms of what was gonna happen, but
Yeah, he found that one kill looking for another hit not afraid to die
He'll keep those fights coming. I think he will go down here in the end
BC game, it looks sharp, it's not a bad start.
Yeah, there's no complaints about how things have opened up for this T side.
Being that a force by the foreshore, nothing saved as well,
there should be an easy throw around for BC games to get third on the board.
So, an opportunity to build up a little bit of breathing room over this falcon side
that are always going to quite quickly claw back.
Nothing really I've known in this one. Tess has a deagle, P250 for Gaiosuke, with a couple
of HEs and a flash. Yeah, should be pretty simple. Should be pretty easy. Dominate comes
out to us long as well. No one's even there for BC games. Wasted. Take a bit of time.
I can respect this about 5Bs again. They just don't want to end up running in towards a stack.
Same time you see a move here, Senzu's being sent out towards B. He's going looking, you've got Tess as that
lone eagle in the round looking to try and catch a couple of heads and he's
way off the mark. I can't even connect the shot.
An easy opener, sight taking, smokes down as well and
a virtue of that, the round should fall into place.
Yeah
Can we take a kill? Can we take a gun is really what they are after here scrunk at the top end could get overwhelmed
There you go clean on sir. Hi suitcase gonna take a dick
We'll go down so any kind of damage is going to be satisfying here
The thing kind of set up. Okay simple does stick around so I was gonna say
you know, you might have to
get a lot of the right.
Carrogan could tempt them back
towards that bomb. Yeah, I mean
the recovered girl. You know,
you might hand this off to
maybe someone like Carrogan and
he'll get more utility out and
whatnot. All the same. Another
good clean round from BC game.
So picking up steam and again
in that position, if they find
They've got five zero with a threat of six zero like they can put themselves in a very good position.
And I think they could be capable given the way the early rounds have gone.
There seems to be no hiccups as far to be a little bit careful.
You never know.
First going round now that will come through for Falcons the first true test of what BC game got to bring to the table.
We generally consider this a bonus by but continually got five AKs across the board.
It's not so much bonus by is generally one that the Mac 10s and the girls are still in play.
Nothing of the sort
This is a really nice
but quite early litmus test of just really how decent BC game can be on this map
What level we're gonna get out for them here to kick starts the AC?
On the flip side as well for Falcons coming off the back of the finals
In a star that
Be the heavy favorites here at this yes, they would absolutely love
to prove that this is a side that really are compared to especially just prior to the major itself. Yeah.
Yeah, keeping it going. I'm pretty important for some of these top teams, I think, to keep their VRS
nice and high. Yeah, lost for the majors. This is actually a big one for not maybe so much these two
teams, you know, BC game, of course, not at the major and for Falcons, they're all but confirmed
that they're going to be chilling. But for some of the other teams around them, the legacies
a great example of it like they need to make a pretty decent run here. And it's also a Kaisuke
Tessus kills a piece for their miss shot by him honestly on the AWP but he does have the support
that is so quick to get one on towards simple Senzu solid for the trade but still a two versus
four which feels like it doesn't really have much legs behind it. Let me get the bomb plant
my costume of chunk and skunk wow he does well to not fully over swing just try and stay safe
sense you actually goes down before him. He's surely overwhelmed here. If they can keep it clean,
that would be nice. That is going to be the deal as well. So Falcons wake up as soon as they can,
right? The pistol can be tough. A little bit of a random element. You know, I don't like to
lean on it too much, but it is certainly there, right? Especially those glocks charging in.
One good headshot can change the tide in a pistol. As soon as they get the guns in,
They look very very convincing actually so really really good clean showing thus far
BC game thanks to the bomb plan
They can answer back and there is certainly a chance for them to keep things interesting
Yeah, this was residual cash for them for not only of course this round but the the following round as well regardless of result
A good way to start things off for falcons first buy first bit of success as well tessas
I get tested quite early here towards being he is all alone. It's gonna be pretty interesting
He's a problem towards window. He gets caught by the flash. He's quite too much
He's caught out of the open flying through his crazy toy purposes beat is baron now
Bob will come down momentarily in the VC game. This is a really decent spot to hold in a post plan
Yeah, he thought he was behind the pillar. Didn't he? Yeah unlucky
In a sense for Tessus, they will just move to save by the looks of things. No one really in a good enough spot
To keep the kills keep the damage to the info even
The who we are
The scoped weaponry seems to be making a bit of a comeback or rather the scopes assault rifle as I should say
The org out for carrying it
We saw a creek didn't we a rare creek a little bit ago VSM. Yes, and I was yeah
Not just once guys. He was really using that thing. He really was literally like every round
He could he could bring out on new he was he was constantly going for it. I've asked him the August viability
I think it'd be really solid the creek not so much
We'll see he might bring it out here. He is playing so yeah, we're gonna find out very very true
That's just one stuff from BC game first one of the water falcons and it looks like you know
I think even internally for me
I was all thinking right is this where the floodgates open now
They start just rolling with the punches and can really build up a bit of a lead on the seat sign kind of run away with things
It's hard but no instant response and instant timeout taken here by Falcons
Sonic wants to cut the bleeding early, which is the right course way to approach this but I
Think in particular being that is a best of one
You know you don't have that room for error. You can't afford to let this slip
of this takes on winner of
pain animating and it feels like.
A pretty good one to be honest.
You know, it all expectations are
Falcons very winnable without
follow up. I mean, they've also
got quite a nice group. You
say like the second strongest in
their group. Was mouse who've
already now dropped into that
lower bracket. So you kind of
into a spot where Yeah, it
does feel pretty good for
Falcons. And all BC game to
way to the upper final. I burst out long here for BC game. They will be kind of just given
the control. Meanwhile, there's the classic response in the upper tunnels. And good timing
from Sensu to catch all of this. He does well. Takes a dink and able to get away.
I mean, it's kind of wild. That's okay. Going to be kicking himself that he doesn't
get this trade sent to the giving him the chance at it.
Trying to keep him interested.
Meanwhile, some control downstairs.
Nothing quite spotted.
They keep quite aggressive forward mid-control
as it were on the Falcon side of things.
55 seconds left on the clock.
BC game with a loose amount advantage.
Yeah.
But really unsure of what to do.
This is so aggro from Kasuke.
He gets caught, especially if he can't even get a kill.
And a lot of trouble.
He does need to get two.
Here's the first.
Wow.
We'll be given the luxury of falling.
He's dropping a smoke behind it as well.
Honestly, second down of asking, we'll find that kill.
Nadine towards lower.
Could be huge here.
Just as he threads the needle between the two of them.
The Molio forced it back towards site.
25 seconds, we've got to go.
He's strong.
Tries to make a move up long.
Oh, nice from electronic.
might just open the doorway.
Munisee as well, overwhelmed from all sides.
And with 20 seconds left on that clock,
they managed to break in towards a absolutely wild BC game.
It's not a bad looking round as they get their mechanics out.
It is not over just yet,
but maybe unfortunately it starts to look that way.
What is going on here?
Electronic knife in hand has left it all down too simple.
He's expecting something out from long and it's just never going to come
They're playing off each other if this motto is well-placed could make all of the difference forces to fight out
And it will be found guys UK have that one. It's Nico to get it in the end
It's a little close on the diffuse here because of the oh
Wait a minute, I think still have time goodness me
Yeah, it doesn't even tick into that final second was still that's a little worrying little worrying
I think it's like a really big
recovery in the round itself.
I think he gets his kill and he
goes away on trade. But you
can even see like he could get
to kill and he joins back up to
kind of, you know, play in
through short, but like, well,
what is the post part there?
Over fighting over facing if
they just play a default setup
on towards that itself, BC
game win that by virtue of time,
but they just give the
opportunities to Falcons. It
is a really big recovery in
They just give the opportunities to Falcons.
We don't even get to see the electronic kill,
because it was just kind of so easy.
They just completely gift one over.
Flash, Kaisuke, backplot.
He's to go huge here.
Molly and his feet, so he's going to try and fight
through the flames, but it's scrumptious.
It will open up things.
Simple or fourth on the hands of Tessus,
but they've lost the B site.
Knowledge in the kills, though.
Knowledge in the kills.
Manus, he finds a wild one through the doors.
Maybe the dream is absolutely alive here.
I think the bomb plant, it's gonna happen.
Crazy with a tap.
Just seeing if there's anything coming his way.
And I mean, there is a H.E. here placed well.
It could be devastating.
They're gonna save it to break open the smoke though.
And unfortunately that doesn't create all that much.
A lot of presence moving away from the ramp itself,
thinking about how they wanna approach things here.
Falcons looking for another good clean retake.
Kattis catches a fight but no kill coming in. Meanwhile, Karrigan reveals himself. It's looking a bit slower. The Molotov is good. They will burst forwards. And again, it's late. It's methodical. It does make you worry slightly. But Falcons clearly been putting the working on those lovely little retakes.
really really nicely done. Wow, sure. That's such a sharp shot as well. But the Molly and
the blind as well that sees up crazy and then they just move in as a unit. It's so coordinated
from Falcons. And they made this one round game. There's money to work with a time
I called by BC game as they realized that the luxury and the lead that they had to
kickstart this stuff to is all but being squandered a one round game in which Falcons
are really ready and rearing out and this is again what we're saying you need to prolong
just for as much as possible the floodgates opening for falcons and unfortunately it's not very long
they've got rocking and rolling in quite a quick fashion there is still a positive to talk about though
for BC game they've got six bomb plants already right which already is kind of quite nice positive
thing in terms of talking about like at least the game plans kind of working we caught them
Of course, not too long ago, we were talking about it against Bait.
Yeah.
And like nothing was going to plan that.
They couldn't even fathom and execute.
Like that was too big of an ask.
At the very least, this is a few early positive signs
that there is a little bit more still on offer here.
Simple.
Spots two crossing.
Information to be gained, but he doesn't take that shot.
that risk of, honestly, swinging behind it.
Just to give you a little tidbit, I just sort of double-checked. They didn't get the Dust
2 out in that bait game. This was the one, of course, that they brought very close against
Vitality. Yes.
So maybe that Dust is a little better than they realize.
Simple up pretty sharp.
Yeah. So they tried like a punished pick in the bait game and it just did not
go well for them.
Anything bot-ponishing?
Yeah, well, yeah.
So we'll see how the Dust 2 develops as we try and lean on that.
BC game with a pretty good advantage here.
Able to get away with it.
I want to see his looking, he's in the right area, but smoke in the way.
So nothing spotted just yet.
Need to be smoke comes in.
Is it real? Is it a fake out?
There's also a lurk smoke towards B itself.
But they are going to take the short route towards A.
Karagin is kind of the only one on this A bomb site that really, really bolstered up B, so it's a lovely move from BC game.
Doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to work just yet.
Trickle smokes to come through, now start giving the game away.
There's not much we can do about the bomb plant, and honestly, we might just be saving here.
We might just be conceding this one for Falcons, unfortunately.
I've got loads of money that I'd be tempted to at least play proactive in the exits, but I think you're right in terms of round itself
I think they've realized they go for a gamble call when they don't have the numbers advantage and
They just try and hope that it's heading towards being with that flashing towards me that lurks work out from tunnels
You kind of have a feeling that it might be kind of that swing coming through
But yeah in the end not to be the only thing that would have changed things is if monocies stayed a little bit closer to the doors
He could have been that early warning system or actually they're canceling on those B plans going back to a and maybe they can
got numbers over in time to actually fight for the site itself this BC game we get a decent
response and they're still denying Falcons from tying up this game or really getting things
snowballing. You know, we had a real worry coming in towards this matchup that it could
have been just author domination like a really ugly look right but I'm pleasantly surprised
by what I'm getting from BC game at the moment. There's there's like I said, there's
There's a few things that just feel like they're going right. The consistency of bomb plans.
Well, it doesn't feel like a lot, especially, you know, if we see bomb plans that come through,
we don't win the round. But it's at least just signs that like these are gonna finding
gaps and they're getting their individuals together. And the way they're approaching
it right now is quite simple. Like it's a bit of early util to kind of probe for information,
but they're just sticking as a pack, right? They're playing together, they're playing
for the trades. And for the most part, it's working.
I like what I see. Smoke down to deny them coming out from Taddles. Karagin and
Well, one with the HG and Carrigan spammed through the smoke to see off crazy that's the start that Falcons needed here round number nine to get a double opener.
Indeed, really well found from them.
Should be able to convert from here as well. BC game you can see spread out pretty wide just looking to try and find the odd fight.
is there a peak that comes
away. At the moment, not the
case. Just keeping it slow.
We'll start to group up. Still
got a minute left on the clock,
so definitely room to again
create those bomb plans, which
have been pretty pretty good
That's some success here, but there's more bodies here to meet them.
40 seconds on the clock, a smoke will come down, Niko caught by the flash, and he's just
going to try and draw them in towards Kaisuke, then Molly will force them forward towards
the fight, but she gets one, Niko will then get one of his own, then quickly try to
buy Electronic, who is all on his lows, and they die down in towards CT, it's nice.
He does get one, damage on towards Monosy, but time is of the essence, bomb on his
back.
versus two. Knows where both of them are, but it might not change the outcome. 15 seconds
needs to plant is being flanked as well. So he needs to step up the pace and miss shot
again by Modesty. Might actually allow him to get a plant out here, which he just about
gets. Just about gets. It won't change the outcome of the round. Of course, Falkers
will be getting their fourth, but it's adding it to that tally and he continues to keep
a little extra cash in the back pockets for BC. Game. It's true. I mean, you know, they
can keep fighting, but I think Falcons in recent memory have obviously looked like a
much better team. Once the guns have come into play. This tool was obviously a food
for the BC game side of things, but it's better. It is better. There are improvements
from the last time that we saw these guys out at the very least, and they seem to
to be able to punch up. Kind of okay. And it is a case of how long this continues. But
as we said, got to prove they're serious, got to prove that they can hang a little bit
in these bigger tournaments at the very least, you know, not against top 10 teams,
but can you make a map competitive? Can you maybe knock on the door to playoffs
and once in a while squeak through.
James Falcon's here.
Looking good, but it's still early.
And I think BC game, because of some of the names
that they have and, you know, the one in particular,
they really do have like a big fantasy around them.
As soon as you see this team, you're like,
oh, we want them to do something,
you know, we want them to be exciting.
How great it would be for the game
in the world of Counter-Strike,
But not always the case. So we'll see. Falcons starting to look a lot better.
I think if they can keep things going their way, get a decent half,
could be a pretty difficult CT side for BC game in particular.
I'm told, sure.
Katsuki can hit all of this.
Double stack long, a re-smoke as well that comes through from Monosy.
And he'll be that first line of defense towards a...
You can fly around, scrunkle, dive down off the back of the flag, straight into the hand of Niko, who gets three, Kayasuke will light up for one of his own.
So the initial idea by BC Games cut on ice but they walk straight into the big man himself and Niko lines up three of the simplest spray down kills he'll get.
Leave him electronic. That lurk towards B all alone and with 18 seconds he is just shelling up and saving here. Falcons will be tying up this game five apiece.
I think he's going to see some
action needs to be careful not to
go down off the time in all
honesty and then we'll get
taken out just in the nick with
about one second left.
Really, really well.
Perfect spot. Just here's that
flash, you know, knows what it
means. Very, very ready for
that. So it looks even it's
starting to get a bit
deceptive.
to get a bit deceptive. Uh as
Falcons. Slowly turning the
dial up. It has been indeed a
bit of work to get them going.
Adjusting to BC game. I don't
know how much direct prep they
necessarily would have been
able to do for this particular
head to head. Given the busy
schedule same for BC game to
be fair. Lot of travel leading
events on the other side of the world. That's the game but still it does affect things of course.
Falcon's slowly getting into it looking good against the pistols as well.
He says simple with a clean find.
Simple. That's the opportunity with this Deagle. Can't quite connect. He's so low as well.
Oh there we go, all catch monosy.
Looking for a little more, Karagin.
In the back lines with simple show
and a little bit of that old self.
It just creeps through in moments.
Tess, that's only good for one.
This is really dicey.
It's all on the shoulders of the new man in this side.
He can't quite convert.
It's a one round to take four BC games
seemingly out of nowhere.
But it comes off the back of a lovely three piece four
simple BC game lock in a sixth
the pro to around in this half. Yeah, a huge blindside from BC game. And the simple effects
delivers in a big way a number of times. Falcons will be very disappointed in that one. It could
be in the grand scheme, you know, with where the score line sits. Very silly one to give
way. We have the double orbs set up for falcons so frustrated back with the
vengeance potentially but you know they could have turned this off around they
could have had it in the bag in in their corner and how it's even at best and
against them at worst so really big round from BC Gear.
The group up is up towards B and it's not even a split, this could just be a complete
barrel through.
It's going to be really tested here, couple are going to be probing down towards lower.
I wonder how much of this is actually going to be a commie, you've got a molly on towards
the short corner. The flash through the doors control. They can actually just move their
way through. They don't know it yet, but they can start having a little look.
It looks like their plans are being cancelled. The bomb is joining this little group towards
shore. So how do they want to play this? They've got 40 seconds to the sides. They've
left two lurking towards upper tunnels. So by all metrics, this feels like it should
be a B-split.
just depends of what kind of fashion right is it speedy is it smoke heavy
and really nice fine from scrunk says it goes overlooked does fine too keeps them
in it it'd be a little shaky I mean following the traces a little bit as
well it kind of works out nicely simple sticks around to find another through
that smoke it's all gonna be on to car again here and it is not looking
likely BC game been chasing a big win for a while and the match up here against
the Falcons might just be their chance it looks like they're gonna have the lead
moving into our second half seven to five a nice spot to be and you get a
pistol behind this as well to kickstart this to decide a BC game could start to
really really answer the idea about the opposite we have this feeling coming
the game. It's a very good
game. It's a very good game.
It's a very good game. It's
going towards this matchup, but
it would be very one sided and
all metrics point towards it.
There's nothing really that you
can argue against it, especially
considering. You know, BC
Games form Atlanta. Sure lost
to vitality. You can't really
fault them for that. It's a
lost debate. I think in
particular that was the rule
damning thing of like the
level that this BC game side
of art. I'm like what I see.
It's pretty damn good. Yeah,
it's on the other side of
Yeah, I guess the tyloo one was pretty good. That's true. That's true. I
Don't know. I'm pretty down on miles to be honest
I think that seems gonna start tumbling down those rankings. We already have well
That's gonna be a rule hits the VRS that loss. Yeah, it's true. It's true
I technically sure though it seems like Nico has something up
With his PC I assume
I think it's going to be
interesting. Some sort of
little box. He's got go. Maybe
the audio box type thing. Not
quite sure. But doesn't seem
too much of an emergency. Yeah,
we are back into the actions.
That is indeed good BC game.
Already picked up one pistol.
Just looking for the seconds
could be huge for them.
to eventually go the way of BC games so if they can keep that in their favour for as long as possible, I'm really looking hopeful here.
Yeah, it's a huge ramp.
You get a pistol and you can start once again springboarding to start this CT side and
give yourself a bit of that breathing room that we always like to talk about.
Simple stoolies.
They'll a lot of damage towards Modesty, but it'll take a ding and it'll force them back offshore.
Spam on the smoke, not gonna find success.
It's trying to limit the options for Falcons early and towards his T-Side round
So it's not a line of like with the decoy I guess. Yeah, I'd have to kind of go back and
Track that a little bit
But it feels like a slightly different mid-doors smoke using the decoy is like your
Lead line or whatever. Yeah, it's just the one thrown at the suicide. Yeah
It's not very commonly used anymore. Just generally because it leaves such a big gap for players to pair of over. Yeah
What I'm saying is with the decoy it have to go back and do a check
I think something's gone on with the lineup and it did fill the door
Hmm, so I think plus decoy
Either way either way attack coming in. Yeah, that's awkward
We do have crazy in a pretty good spot of the car. Honestly. He's bought a lot of time
We're dropping that bomb. It's very good
They will get the pistol and no contest, not even a bomb plant. Hardly any damage done. Falcons, it is not a good start into the second half and this is getting serious now. BC game not far away from pulling off a pretty hefty upset.
Yeah, so what you want about BC game, these pistols are clean as, both of them have been really, really nice.
And that's gonna, like we said, give you a little bit of a runway to work with.
What is he in towards? His scalp and around it is nothing.
So he's hoping to tag up a couple, hope that the Glocks can see him off or vice versa, but
it's unlikely round for Falcons to steal a white.
So BC game should be getting a ninth.
And a very slow approach to kickstart things here for Falcons. We don't have really a lot to work with. If you get a bomb plon over on like this, you'd be pretty damn happy. Anything else feels super unlikely, but using modesty to try and enter in towards A.
And the ramp you've got simple. You have to meet them. And the timing of his molly or his nade could be huge. You've got a second nade behind it as well.
Drop in his position now. He spotted the Molly could be huge, but it's actually gonna be a little bit late
Thankfully, there comes electronic his MP9 will ring off for one bomb will go down though
And that's all you're really looking for around like this winning it is out of the realms of possibility
But a plant is huge and any other kills you get you'll absolutely take a couple of kills in a bomb on it
What is essential eco?
You're not too upset about that. No, that is true. That's true really gonna bolster your buy into the next round
So yeah, definitely feels like we
are on huge round on the cards
carrying with an investment in this round means he's going to feel the burn here in round number 15, but
Shouldn't be too bad. Get him on a Mach 10 all the same
Really big round if BC game find this deny a bomb plan. Yeah
I think we start to talk about them winning this win in this series. So yeah really worrying time for team Falcons
going to have to pick this up sooner rather than later.
They are starting to run out of runway.
It really feels like this potentially is kind of the most crucial round we've got as well of the game thus far.
Like if BC game can convert what is essentially a bonus buy, it puts you in such a good stead.
Ten and probably the eleventh behind it as well with that broken econ.
Unless Falcons can apply on a few kills.
This is a huge round here.
to get a head of the problems.
Maybe creating solutions for
problems that don't really
exist. They've got four on A
all of a sudden. Ignite on to
Karagin. I'm sure Karagin is
going to be sent forward on to
the box as well. Just gives
them incrementally more and
more space up towards short.
Little bits done here.
An awful lot of damage or even
information prior the side
of a sudden, Ignate onto Carraghan, keeps a light smoke going. The issue with this as
well is they have dedicated so heavily to A that it's not like, you know, that quick rotation
route is going to be available. Yeah. So I mean, if crazy doesn't find a couple kills,
they just say the round is just over. Yeah. Yeah. And nothing, nothing. How did he?
What? Yes, one. Yeah, but like, see the door, the door, I guess. Yeah. And then
that's a little, little funny,
but that's the round. Yeah. What
that is. It's a gamble stock.
It's a gamble that doesn't pay
off BC game. But then they got
drawn towards the idea of a
especially the early Utah
up towards short car again,
fading a bit of presence. They
are a bit more presence than
there was actually. Kind of
available for them. So we'll
be falcons up to a sixth and
very similar to kind of how
things panned out the start
of this match in that match
of this. Uh matching that
first half is it's BC game.
You get a nice star. You know,
it's three rounds in the bounce
for them where they looked
pretty good, but when the guns
came into play, it did look
stronger for Falcons. There
may be lacked consistency. BC
game got round, spotted and
dotted in here and there, and
that was enough for them to
take a lead and that will be
enough for them, of course,
to take the map, but Falcons
have looked like the sharper
side when there has been
full guns and play on both sides.
So definitely can't count them out just yet.
The savers come through those, so they just reuse
this by, in towards the next one.
It's three rounds of difference.
A BC game note that this can very quickly be eradicated.
So they're going to call for a timeout as Taz looks
to try and shore things up.
Yeah.
Still on the edge of my seat with this one.
You know what I mean?
Like, I could swing either way.
Really is a tight game.
the game. You know, you know,
you know, you know, Falcons
more than capable BC game. Like
say, been chasing this big win
for a while. You know, when you
look down the previous matches
column, there's gaps in here
between tournaments and whatnot.
But they're losing some very
questionable games. A lot of
tough games for them that
they're just also not really
able to prove that they
it's a little bit rough to look at at times so something like this would be great for them it
would count as a win even though it is that v01 and it might set them up in pretty good stead for
the rest of the tournament as well to just prove that they can to themselves but here we are
back into the action and the utility out nothing too quick from the falcons to kick this one off
So moved. Carving one once again, trying to get a bit of short presence. I drew BC games
towards the A site in the previous round. They don't want to fall for the same tricks,
but they might get aggressive here. Deep molly as well behind might give them a runway
to try and actually meet them in towards that position. There's smoke for the cross
and Kaisuke has got information outdoors so they've got a pretty strong position to hold now
and a good amount of map control for Falcons. Tessus is still here, out towards Long, lurking,
strong swing straight in towards his death. He gets clothesline by Tessus waiting for exactly that
fight. Open up for Falcons, exactly what the Doctor ordered. Electronic, they're making it bold
move. I love it. The flash is pretty good and everyone's blind but Electronic just cannot
I mean, I kind of like it from
BC game in theory in practice,
not so much. I think the theory
is that they're trying to get
into the rounds trying to be
present. But they just lack
the firepower plays right into
the hands of Falcons who easily
dispatch them.
Within two rounds, probably
the game. We're going to
dispatch them. Within two
rounds. Probably just one
unless BC game can pull off
another impossible eco round.
They have done it already, of
course. Only another simple
Diggle three K. Well, he's
got one. I like this move.
Do something a little bit
Karrigan's here for two, and Swift SS can probably clean up, which he does.
Takes a dink, but nice work.
Nice spot there from Monosy.
Last round of simple.
Seen off as Karrigan gets his third.
So a very, very simple round two put to bed for Falcons.
They make this a one round game now.
And this is where things become a little worry.
BC game going to call for their third and final time out.
And now becomes quite an interesting predicament.
They're so close in that reaching distance and on top of that as well with snowballing quite well
The pressure is really on the shoulders and this is the last
Intervention that Taz can take in towards this game if things continue off the back of this time out
Falcons will just run away with the rest this half and that's the kind of unfortunate thing for PC games
This is a massive round for them and it looks like they're gonna double up sends them in towards that secondary
Which I can get behind they need to do something a little different the default right now for PC game isn't working
time out. Yeah, I always get
a bit weary of like heavily
stacked timeouts, you know, and
there are only like a few
rounds in between each other and
whatnot. Um it does to me. Seem
a bit panicked. Yeah, but maybe
it's time. Yeah, yeah, of course.
Yeah, yeah. Um what else can
you necessarily apply? But we'll
see. It depends on the type of
time out of course, as we
always like talking about as
You're yet to pick up a rifle round.
That first hurdle in that sense can be monumental.
Alcon's not really showing too much really far back on the default.
You know, they get some tunnels control.
Pretty dynamic duo over there to do that of course,
but in terms of these long slash top mid players,
they've really not done anything the entire round.
nearly a minute in here looking to get ready it is scrunk holding an advanced
position he's blinded up even in the pit they're really ready for him to be down
there he does well to find one honestly so very blind it's played into their
hands that was the idea but it's BC games come out on top of it simple
misses the flick an important one to miss as well because there's nobody else
around on the A site to stop
this advancement. Crazy thinking
about it gets himself into a
pretty aggressive spot here has
to be so so careful. When is he
also taking it slow, but he
finds the frag. Lovely pickup
all going to be on sense to
here. They will know about
him. They'll know the fact
that he's gotten off as well.
Can he beat out money is the
question gets his cross around
it's not going to be a good
shot. It doesn't land, and it
should be the save now. We're
looking to save, but his only
option. I wasn't there's one
real positive for me for BC
game. I like the game proactive
on the city side there. Initial
few rounds that we've begun to
be in play for Falcons. I
think they just be a little
bit too passive. They've been
sitting back inviting impression
Falcons are more than happy.
You're going to get the map
control the ability to rotate
freely. It's going to be
one, Senzu getting one of his own as well, like trying to put pressure on towards Falkins
before they go for the execute, but it's that gap opening, right? You know, when Skrunk falls,
an underman daysite, and they can just sort of slowly but surely move their way forward
behind that CT smoke and get a plant coming through. Modesty, a very vital shot hit by him,
on towards crazy, and everything slots into place. All tied square, nine apiece.
And again that's delivering more than we expected it to but the unfortunate thing is it's feeling like BC game are
Quite rapidly start to fizzle out here
Simple
Spots the first jump just not quite able to confirm anything
Really great finds
I'm going to go back to the
falcons in a lot of these
rounds BC game. Desperate to
remain competitive. They are
just watching, you know, the
victory train passed them by.
A little bit to this round for
BC game. Of course, nice little
smoke there on short. Another
one in the hands of sense
The group towards B tunnels and that's by virtue of this move by Skrunk.
He's got so much information, nobody's long.
He's just wrapping his way forward as well.
Nobody accounting for this aggression, but it might not make a difference.
His pistol's here up close, 5-7-4-1.
Looks for another as well as crazy scoops on the AK,
but he just can't cock the gun in time.
Eiko, Kaisuke kills a piece, Karakuna walks straight in towards his demise to Skrunk's P250,
But it won't really change how this round feels bomb will go down and a difficult retake a bold move by electronic
Who actually will somehow get away of a kill he has no right to get a kill there?
20 seconds or just over as the bomb and then on this get punched in and simple or fall tonneco
And re-smoker doors should see it off and I think for scrunk you would just save the big green
It's a dicey round, but it's falcons who saw by the skin of their teeth walk away of it
But as low buys go that's not bad
Some of electronics decision-making is just kind of when that is insane to him, it is insane
He was like yeah, unless he was red, he was like nine HP or something
He's crabbing through the smoke
And then the kind of the signs go on they doubt which is just hilarious
God almighty base has had a couple of those, you know, I'm sure it's unfortunate right there
was like a reddit post or whatever
So now everyone's gonna have him
Yeah highly scrutinized like every time he goes for something a bit wacky. They'll be like oh this guy's selling the round
You know or whatever, but he's top-fragging. You know is he is not giving us credit. Maybe those types of moves. You know, he's refining it
Yeah
Yeah, I guess okay just baffle about the fact that I walked out like anyone would ever think yeah
Why would you do that? But I guess you're on the pistols, right? Exactly. It's like that's that's kind of why you something a bit gimmicky
I can get behind it
First side though into double digits, and it's five on the bounce for Falcons
This is what we've been saying about
How BC games feel like they're fizzling out here shoulder what spots there for just a brief moment
Simple tries to preemptively shoot the smoke, but convert
really big round for BC game
You lose this and it feels like any chance any grasp left on this dust is all but slipped through the fingers
that first upshot, which is going to land, Munisee looking simple, not far away either.
Oh, tempting, isn't it, when you see the top of that smoke.
Munisee will find great success.
Electronic has a task ahead of him then.
Molotov comes in, it's far too late, they're already ahead of it.
Trying to time the Nade here, but really just keeping them guessing and dropping towards
CT.
he's got a brief moment where
he could have been shot in the
back, not going to be the case.
Falcons up to 11 BC game
reality, maybe starting to set
in that their CT side is just
not going to be able to net a
rifle round. The all important
the all elusive gunman.
He's got a brief moment where
he could have been shot in the
back, not going to be the case.
Falcons up to 11 BC game
reality, maybe starting to set
all important, the all elusive gun rounds. I mean the good news is though, if Crazy and
Scrunk save because of the leftover money for a simple incentive, we can actually buy
for BC Gaming, especially Lost Bonus too, but it's not exactly a nice silver lining
to have. You know, you're losing so badly that saving means you can continue to buy.
It just shows this level, right? Falcons, yes, it was a slow start. Yes, it wasn't
exactly a great first half, but even them at 80% they've got that class about them and
they can show that draw fundamentals are enough. This T-Sat looked a lot better. They do save
crazy as Cronk, but two ahead and two away now for Falcons. It's some close to the
finish line and all Monosy needs. This will be a pixel to work with and he knows
exactly where to shoot. Lovely work. The two youngsters on the side that give them so much space
in towards A. And reaching distance now, kick-starting. And the CAC's on the well.
Close as well for one of these shoes on the explosion of the A.G. to do cross.
maybe can have a little sigh of relief, a little breathing room, big maid on the cards.
To quiet me the mark, a little high from electronic.
All the same, they are being slowed down here Falcons, but they don't seem to be scared of the A-hit.
Under a minute now they're moving towards a simple, that's a gap to work with and you'll find
Carragane looking for a little more as well avoiding the flashes. He'll go back over towards ramp
They're trying to stop them getting their way in it's simple trying to do it all alone
Find a second towards Kaisuke with electronic for two PC game might just be back and simple make sure of it
We finally get a highlight round for PC game and it's that dynamic duo
It's simple and electronic who net them double digits and keep this game and potentially the opposite alive
I mean, the key thing, I think, to consider about some of the psychology of PC games, it's
the decision making, right, that kind of gets away from you when you've been at that high
level and then you're having to kind of build things back up or come back into the game.
So if you're having to think too much, it can kind of take away from you mechanics
almost.
But with a round like that, Falcons present towards short and then they wait and then
go short anyway so there's not a lot of thinking for those high mechanical ceilings. I'm gonna see
looking to leave the charge on this one. It's gonna come in at a bad time for him though not really
able to get anything and...valkons. Now the worry sets in for them. Can they find the return round?
It's a big flick from Senzu but nowhere near in the end. Gonna be another short hit by the
looks of things honestly the way that they are starting to sway this way and scaling some
players up. Can they change up on what went wrong in the previous round?
Not with a back simple or loser's head, Kaiosuke.
Opens up proceedings, looks a little more as a pit player they've got to be wary of, that range is
shrunk. They can just plant for sure, you've got monosy, it has the insurance policies to
hold for these rotations. Senzu's also aware of that possibility. Save for crazy as they
go. Look in this is really precarious. And quite the decisions we made here. Do we give
this a go or do we save and try and play for OT? And it looks like they are going to
go for the latter. And Senzu just misses his window to punish monosy. Yeah, three will
save towards B. It's a horrible decision to make. It's a real pick your poison
type choice. They look like they want to shell up and play for the OT or hope for
the O. T. Really a wild call
at the center of this as well.
11 10. We need some presence
towards B, but not an awful lot,
right? And they over stack that
B bomb site. They did it a few
rounds ago on a. They're not
confident in their rotational
play, I guess. And so prefer to
just trying to go down. Yeah,
well, I mean, look, you want
to try and take guns away from
money does not matter at all for Falcons. I know something about Senzu no
scoping on the b-side of Dustin. Well, there you go. Yeah, this one far less
impactful, but I don't scope all the same. Yeah, he might be able to, you know,
bring back the ghost of it. Yeah, match point team Falcons and they got two of
them to work with.
A couple smokes come through, Xbox and doors. Molly up towards short as well
stop the swing and this will give Falcons mid control so close to the finish line they can almost
taste it but still can't take their foot off the gas at BC game you can't give them opportunities as
we've seen in these pockets of moments here and there. Karagan on the slow walkout middle I thought
it was really going to work for him unfortunately not the case electronic is not caught sleeping
predictable. To play against. Oh goodness a little close for crazy on the timing. He's
on high. Feels like a good spot. Wildly early brief fire though. Sends me meanwhile trapped
away on the orb. Yeah just not gonna work is it from that kind of an angle. Niko late
out middle tries to stay alive and does a very good job of doing so. Wanna see
misses heads for the three versus three it's become a recovered round and
certainly an opportunity now to close things out.
Well the golfers, Niko can hear all of this.
Rotation's coming through, you've got Kaisuke on the angle, but they just go dry in classic
electronic fashion.
Kaisuke, modesty trying to do but electronic with a quad kill to his name, keeps BC game
breathing.
It is such a wild move, full contact through the doors, they dive on in, here they
don't flash the throw, but it
doesn't matter. BC game keep
into a timeout in the full
24. It's just about money to
for Falcons to buy in, but
No, I mean, that is certainly
really, really good to see.
I think if they had another
It gets away from them, but it's entertaining counter-strike nonetheless
It's kaiosuke looking for the elevation
That lets him down and on that orp of course. I think I was more designed to hold the tunnels, but
Certainly something that was recovered in the middle of the round. I'm sure he wished he had an AK in that particular moment
So here we are all to play for
It is electronic towards the top end
Honestly though he's got the timing down parts been 24 rounds, so you'd expect so a really great opener
Meanwhile aggressive super aggressive
Control and electronic has a flatten them
Oh, my goodness. He's back.
He might just be terminate his
back boys. Crazy stuff. The
bomb dropped is the key thing
here. Of course, I think we are
going to the overtime. You
can kind of suitcase. Tempt to
recover things here if they
can a minute and 10 left on
that clock. So loads of time to
get through. But it's that
bomb that needs picking up.
Just sits on the bottom of the
What do we do here?
They can hear this sort of jumpy by Skrunk at the very least, but...
It's not going.
Skrunk's going to draw their attention in, but...
Oh, he nearly loses his head. That is so unbelievably close.
They're fading the jump down. They're trying to fade out of the fight.
There it is! As Kiyosuke gets to the transfer for both,
it's put all on the shoulders of the go.
of the go simple one versus two for him. To push this to OT, Kayasuke is low but he's going to do
something quite miraculous. Bomb still needs to be recovered. Time is still of the essence.
Now they'll get it. Kayasuke looks to close and he will in an absolute barn burner of a best of one
just the bar by the skin of their teeth. It's Falcons who get it over the line but my god
Did BC gave make them work for it? And it's not other than those two a electronic and simple
We come back to a bit of their best they give life to a slide so close for so far. Yeah
Well, this is it
I mean just so many of these types of maps and matchups right that they just can't complete them
They can't get it over the line
And I think it will start to become very very frustrating they picked up that pistol in the second half right and we are like
Okay, here we go. There's something to this. It's just so so unfortunate
I mean, you know, Falcons maybe gonna be checked very early on in the tournament as well to be like that. All right, maybe not plain sailing
Been been a long couple of tournaments for them, of course, but yeah, really really unfortunate
I think for BC game to say the least and
We kind of do want this team to win eventually, you know
I mean and just pull off one of these upsets and they're getting so very close just not quite there
What is missing? It's it's tough to say maybe, you know, you could look at crazies at a pole map
Yeah, they might look at it that way. That sort of thing is difficult to really deal with but yeah, that's that's a tough one
But maybe maybe we start to see PC games start the tournament. Okay ish scale up a little bit in the lower bracket
Hopefully, you know, please that's just what we want. Yeah, they've got a good group at the very least right?
It feels like they surely should be a win somewhere here is kind of like the thought process we have but
We wanted fireworks. We were worried work gonna get it as well
I mean, I think a lot of people would have assumed ourselves included the desk included that we sort of just thought
this would be a nice easy one steam roll by Falcons come off the back of starling show what they're all about but
That's what we got absolutely brilliant game, but not enough for PC game in the end
We're gonna throw back the guys on the panel. We're done for the day and doesn't Henry. We've taken over for the final two
best of threes
Oh, what an end of the game, huh? They absolutely burnt the bean in that 3v2. It was very unfortunate
It was just there that they had the package and they just fumbled the bag
Oh, that was OT, that should have been OT.
That was one of the most enjoyable facing pocks I've seen in the past, to be completely honest.
That was a messy one, you know.
Falcons coming back into the game after a rough, rough start.
That's great, you know, they looked at times in control over the game
and I thought in the second half, you know, when score lines, you know,
kind of stabilised 9-9, they're going to run away with it, you know,
a bit of a messy start, but then that's okay.
And then electronic, I don't know, just popping up
and completely throwing out the playbook to some extent
and just doing what electronic has the ability to do,
you know, to be explosive and unpredictable on the server.
And I bet you the entire Falcons camp
were scratching their head thinking,
what the hell is going on right now?
How are we losing in this fashion?
And then the very last round,
I think kind of summarizes the entire game as well.
You know, a weird one,
electronic brings it back all of a sudden
for PC game to a point where it's almost unloosable
for them, they could have left the bomb
if they wanted to,
they could have played it in a million different ways.
The one way they do decide to play it
is the one where they leave simple
1v2 that's unwinnable despite being up 3v2 so it was just a bit of an odd one but
easily the most enjoyable game we've seen so far. Yeah yeah again competitive you
know if nothing else and yeah like you said it was a glorified facet plug in so
many ways like even the last round like just came deciding to not just smoke off
and pick up the bomb but decided to run after him. Like everything was a
little bit out of black and out of source but that creates for some
entertainment to say the least and I think we got to see some pretty positive sides at a basic game
in that sense just off of the back that okay the individuals just they do still have like a pretty
decent ceiling I think electronic obviously is by far the the shining light here in this game for
a basic game and in fairness to him ever since he kind of just got out of that ideal role he
had gradually been performing better even though it's been kind of hard to see in like the
the muddied results that BCGim have had.
Yeah, and look, speaking of muddy results,
this was so close to them staying in the upper bracket,
but alas, they will have one more chance,
and the lower bracket will be seen,
Falcons play later on today.
In terms of their individuals, Tessus,
we've said, time after time,
he should not be the one heavy-carrying this team,
but he was at the top of the scoreboard
all the way till the end.
Yeah, doing a good job, you know,
and also a player that's seen a bit of a change
since Kerrigan came into the lineup.
Certain positions on certain maps,
CT side has been changing for him and in general I think it would be great if
Tessus could be activated a bit more because there was a period where I agree
I think Tessus was not utilized the right way in Falcons but he was
utilized in the only way that he could be utilized given that you have so many
playmakers within that team right so there's only so much space and so much
he can do and Kerrigan coming in you know he's willing to sacrifice in
every single aspect of the game and that frees up a bit more space for a
guy like Tessus you know gives him a couple of new positions where he
Hopefully can thrive and have more impact. So good early signs for him
And I hope that's a sign of war for the future as well for for says way finds a bit more impact
Yeah, I mean again, it's not necessarily that fucking should need it
It's just a very very nice backup option to have me if he's your worst player then you do pretty well
We do get to certain places where we have this happen, right?
Like it's not like monossey or kiosk you or nico
We're setting the world on fire in this one
So they need someone reliable and that's where you have Tassus so without him
I think it's you know fairly reasonable to say that BC game might run away with it with how electronic was playing
I felt like this was definitely you know a little bit of a kick in the backside though for falcons with how well BC game
Started the game as well. They're like, ooh sort of lock in here even in the second half
It got a little bit shaky
Especially a couple of those rounds with the retake with electronic pulling four girls out of nowhere going in dry
I just no one shot at me guys like what's going on? There's just some crazy crazy moments in there
but yeah overall anything else do you want to touch on in terms of this one or
do you want to have a quick recap of the bracket? I mean just very quickly I kind
of want to see BC game not have kind of similar to what they have with their
opening game which is Vitality right where they show promising moments and
then just fade out for the next series I want to see a good second series a good
follow-up I guess from BC game. Yeah I'm afraid this was the opportunity
they had to be completely honest to to make a bit of a deep run in this
tournament lower bracket game you know there's a long way into the
playoff now. Best of three as well and that's what we've seen the limitations of a BC game
playing with there. What's going on? Yeah, and look, unfortunately, they're going to have
to do it the hard way, but this is what's going down here on the A stream for the best
of ones. Paravision taking out Liquid, Mongols over at LynVision, Tyloo with the upset
over Maus and Falcons as you just saw. BT and BC game in a very close affair, but
the next up game will be MIBR and Paravision for the upper bracket over here and then
later on today legacy up against Tyloo so good to see legacy went and got that W
earlier and then of course you know that's us sort of coming to a close
we've had the the early shift today and we got some other boys to bring you the
the light shift but any final words for all of the vendetta and pink fans out
there? Yeah I'm just curious to see the the Tyloo legacy game to be complete. Yeah honestly, legacy on a bit of a tear at the moment you know really finding the best form coming into to the major and what Tyloo showed us against
mouses, something I would like to see confirmed that that's the
level we can expect from them. So that best of three to me is
going to be so interesting. Yeah, that's gonna just have to
echo that sentiment. I was super excited to see Tyler. I'm
semi ready to be disappointed again. But that's if that
happens, it's likely because we see another really cool team in
legacy doing well for themselves. So it's going to be a
sick matchup. Well, speaking of, we do have power vision up
against MIBR as the first best of three you're going to
be watching here on the a stream and we've got a
couple of faces to get to that that's coming up just
in the break she said she loves you but she can't love me but I love you I won't play
window anymore. What's going on?
Play your role, one expert.
The human body was built to move. Not trapped as a test, get one singular posture for 12
hours a day. It's time your chair evolved. This is Secret Lab Titan Evo. Ergonomically
Let me engineer them for you.
Gamers.
Hybrid workers.
Officers.
Back in your every move.
What is going on, everybody, and welcome back to the CS Asia Championships 2026.
It's time to continue to feel the rush.
We have little talent swaps, so why don't we introduce ourselves first.
My name is Paola, I am one of your hosts, and I'm joined on the desk by the wonderful
striker and Blair.
Gentlemen, how are you doing?
Yeah, all good.
I think a lot better than the previous shift, which had a little bit of an early wake-up
call.
For us, it's been a little bit more reasonable, so I think we're higher on energy and
it's going to be all good.
For sure.
I mean, CAC, it's counter-strike, it's Asia, it's championships.
I like all three parts.
I'm ready to rock and roll.
Yeah, we love them all.
Striker, I wanted to ask because I've been meaning to ask right so striker
Is this a person that is this a name that referenced someone that you know strikes or is this like a football reference?
We've known each other for about ten years like I figured we should clear the air get a bomb of this
The answer is about as boring as you can expect. It's kind of strikes on striker. Okay. Okay, so it's a count strike reference
Basically, I love it and is a kind of striker
But perhaps everybody at home needs a recap of where Blair came from. I know the story
Well, basically back in the days that are having triple X, 420 killer or whatever nicknames to have. I'm like, you know what?
I'm just gonna go to play literally the expression blade. Unfortunately. I got stuck with it because I never thought I'd want to working in
Esports. Here we are. Here we are indeed. Well, gentlemen, welcome. Very excited to be on the desk with both of you.
Before we start talking about the matchup, our first matchup that we are going to cover.
Why don't we talk a bit about what's transpired over the course of today's strike is starting with you.
And what about the results as, um, stood out?
Which matchup has stood out the most to you?
Well, a couple of surprises, I think in that, I mean, the last game was, was about as a little
bit closer than we would have expected between, uh, between Falcons and BC game.
BC game even had a chance to, to take that one to be honest.
So that was one of the, obviously the biggest surprise of the day so far has been Tyler
taking down Maus.
We're going to talk about that game a little bit later.
But yeah, Maus definitely came in.
I don't know if it was just like, or whatever it was, but Tyler, Tyler definitely
went with some fight.
Tyler looked good.
I was like, yeah, I don't
want to stand against chance
against mouse, because mouse
obviously looks super
impressive considering the
line of changes so far for me.
That's been a surprise, you
know, Tyler looking good in
China, something I haven't
really seen in a long time,
Paula. Yeah, there's always
that chance for a hometown
advantage, but I do feel
that tiny result massive for
them taking out the likes
of mouse everybody at home.
You can see our groups up
on screen now. We just
saw group A group B results
so far as well. Strike,
we've got a good field of
of teams here as well. Very excited to watch them all play things out. Yes, I mean, look, the big
ones are obviously Falcons Mouth that have we have just seen in Astana where they were second
and third. So we are expecting those guys to come in as favorites, even though it's always a little
bit awkward when you have back events. It's the best one as well, right? It can be a little
rough around the edges. But yeah, I do believe they should still be able to pull off a
low bracket run there. Blair, top team of yours for the tournament. Who do you think has
have the best chance of taking the whole thing.
Oh, that's a rough one.
Obviously, the four teams coming in from Astana,
that would be one of these guys we would have picked.
I expect Paravishon to finally turn things around.
They've looked rough overall,
but I think Falcons would be the front runners, right?
And maybe Mongols, finally,
it's a time to kind of shake off this.
I say ring rust, because you take these breaks,
they don't really practice,
but hopefully, for me, Falcons and Mongols,
maybe buying for the trophy.
I'm sure if I could put you on the spot as well,
who do you think's got the best chance
of taking the whole tournament?
I've been big on Falcons ever since this carry-in.
So I'm gonna double down on what Bledger said and say them because I even said that they're gonna win one of these two tournaments
They're gonna play they got kind of close in Astana even the spirit final wasn't that bad
It's just a little bit was missing, but there's nobody quite as good here
So I feel like they're gonna have they're gonna have a better chance to take the trophy gentlemen great points
I think we've done a good job of setting scene
Why don't we turn our attention now to our first matchup of the day everybody at home for best of ones?
They are finished. We're now moving into best of three territory and the first best of three is going to be MIBR versus
Paravision at least on our stream here very interesting matchup gentlemen
So the journey so far for both these teams MIBR beat out 3d max and then if I
Turn liquid liquid exactly what a stand-in situation as well by the way
Yes, yeah, it was a close it was a close match to I mean between Paravision liquid liquid also in a good position to
to take that down. In the end, Jame came up big with a performance to turn it around, to secure the
win for ParaVision. And yeah, that means we see... I'm just looking at the veto here, and I'm just
looking at if somewhat what we were talking about before the game is going to come through, because
I have a feeling... Right into the veto. Yeah, we've got three minutes, guys. Sorry,
Stryker. Carry on. No, it's all good. I was just wondering whether, because I might be
on actually a pretty good position to take advantage of ParaVision because of the Dust
Fuban, which is obviously a very common pick for ParaVision.
But perhaps the only map we can be like, oh, they are kind of the favorites on, right?
Yeah.
I'm slightly surprised about the Mirage pick.
I wonder what they saw from that, because they haven't played that so much in the
regional scene.
And I was thinking more in terms of Anubis or Ori Sverno as a punish pick.
Obviously, one of those came through in the end for the decider regardless.
So I think they're pretty happy with what came out here, to be honest.
Yeah, for sure.
vision has just been a rough run, right? We saw a couple of interviews from Daston as well where he
did not mince any words as how his team is playing right now. He never does. Yeah, but that being
said, you know, you go back to the opposition they had, teams like G2 for example, who you know
can be really good on a good day, coming to this event in particular, apart from the Falcons,
the Mongols of the world. I still see this para vision being a team that should be able to
feel comfortable. Despite the fact that you look at the maps, yeah, Dastu is not there.
There should be weaker on paper and certain other maps, but then again you look at Jane you look at your Zway and all these pieces
They should work together also seeing no time with a shaved head. I guess that is what he
The price he had to pay for what happened over in Astana, but that's not he's not looking good
I'll tell you that but this is a must win for Paris. Yeah, let's
Tighten the conversation here bit with regards to dust on so, um, you know, we know he's become this big cash
We've known behind scenes for a while
But sort of most recently at PGL Bucharest became a bit more of a public figure with that amazing speech
I think there's a lot of pressure on
Paravision at the moment. James seems to be rising to it here
I wonder what their expectations are. How far do we think Paravision in their current form can go, Striker?
It's kind of funny because the language between James and Dastan could not have been anymore
Could not be any more different when they talk publicly because Dastan's always like these guys will be kicked by the other major
the game is like, no, we kind
of expected this slump to come
like we have some solutions to
good cop, bad cop. Right? Yes.
That's that's the situation
over at Perra. I'm getting worried
that we've got to move things
along our cost is and this match
up are ready to go and the cost
is involved. I energy and
Anders boys over to you. Whoop
whoop. Whoop. Indeed. Yes.
I might be honest. Power
vision. We're back in the hot
seat back in book arrest but
covering CAC. How you doing
I'm going to go ahead and see
how you do it today. Doing very
well. Uh it's it's you know it's
a little bit early still but I'm
enjoying this. I think it's
going to be some fantastic
counter strike. I want to see
what power we should have come
up with. There's so much drama
around this team right now. What
kind of drama? Just just you
know, just starting the
background already with the
belts, you know, like there's
all this stuff. Did he get
to get to you as well and
shave your head? No, but
Copenhagen has I've been
saying, you know, um said,
said, you know, in a
polite way, probably to go to
the gym a bit more and you
It's the funniest thing. It's the funniest thing he did. And I respect him. He's not a mean person.
He's just a caring guy.
He's telling you how it is.
Listen, I've known a guy for a really long time. He said,
Well, he said,
Hey, man.
You ever considered going to the gym?
He said,
So, Anders, you gain a little weight?
Okay.
If I were you, it's funny. It's really like culturally, it's so off-key, you know, but I love it.
No, it's cool. That is nice.
There's the shaved head we mentioned there.
As we get ready for the action, ladies and gentlemen, bear in mind,
this one's in the playoffs. We've had the best of ones. We'll look back through the archives right
now. I did have something to my tongue. So it might be our 3D Max to bed 13-9. Power vision
took down liquid, but bear in mind that was a stand-in situation. They did not have mouths.
They had flashy. And to be fair, 39 scoreline with a stand-in, still pretty good. Doesn't mean
anything unless you actually win it, I suppose. But maybe a little bit alarming for power
vision in that sense. So you can't put liquid away comfortably with a stand-in. But
But I don't know, Paravigion is still my favorite going into this one, but they are still quite streaky and inconsistent this year.
They are, and I worry about their map pool as well. I just don't know what's going on.
Like, this veto is so strange for me, the fact that, like, we knew that Ancient was going to be played.
That's the one map that these two teams have in common, but Mirage as the, you know, they were always going to end up picking a bad map
because either going to be Mirage or potentially Inferno, either which MIBR is going to be really good on.
So either way I think if paravision go the distance it's gonna have to be on ancient that they win it and then on the third map
Even I think they're gonna struggle so I'm a bit nervous for this one
And I think there's some some big benefits to this early mirage map as well coming in for MIBR
One of them is Insani. I dare say Henry. I think he's the best connector player in the world
Okay, I thought you're gonna say the best Brazilian player best Brazilian player in the world
You could make a case that I guess you want it to
a lot left to be desired. Um, yeah, I'm excited for this one. And is, and, uh, our first game
of the tournament. Best of ones are out of the way. We didn't get to do any of those,
which is a shame. I know you like a best of one. They are dramatic in their own way.
You have very little time to turn it around, but you're right. And also the fact that
you win this year, you qualify straight to the playoffs straight in there, like on
day one, day one, that's it. The job done. Yeah. What a luxury to have if you can
actually make it the whole way there. Yeah. I really enjoy Klim as a, as an author
to be honest. I think he's better than people were expecting, maybe better than I was expecting.
TV Fan, I've always had a lot of respect for LNC. He's just one of those Swedish expats who's kind
of, you know, went abroad and I feel like he's doing great work. So I think this MIBR team
is better than I was expecting. I think at PGL Astana, they ended up taking down legacy.
That was the first moment when I thought, this is actually surprising. I thought legacy
were going to be significantly better than this MIBR team and I was wrong. So they've
They've been on my radar ever since.
Well, speaking of radars and things to coming up next,
we've got Legacy vs. Tyloo in the next best of three.
That also be a winner, advances to playoff situation.
Tyloo looking pretty decent under us.
I don't think I've said that for a while,
but it took their mouse earlier, 13-7.
Like we've been a big fan of Tyloo for a long time,
especially Jam Young.
Yes.
But it feels like that team again,
this fell off the face of the planet.
Is that disappeared for months?
I think you and I, we got baited into being
Tyloo fans by that.
a lot of players. Yeah. I
think that's a lot of players
like the fish of playgrounds
run in Serbia. Yeah, because
they looked so good and they
really started playing badly
almost immediately afterwards.
Yeah, true. That was the most
romantic run as well. They
was their coach playing for the
group stages and the quarter
finals and then, um, gee,
actually turned up for that.
The grand final. I think that
was a 10 of a five a.m. in
the morning. But yeah, that
was a good run. It's nice to
see Tyler, at least causing
some excitement here, taking
I think that's great news. You want the confidence in that team. I look forward to that game
It's gonna be a really banging game as well
But this one, I don't think it's gonna be lacking either you could see there some positions
Clim with the AWM. James Wells is gonna be playing like I said when we switch halves and MIBR go to play the CT side
The fact that Insani like he's not just I think the best connector player in the world
He is by a wide margin like what is he like about him? Is it the aggression? Is it the the calculates it plays?
I what what do you think he does so well there?
Why did you thrive it's it's definitely a mix of the like he's not afraid to take those fights when you put down some of
The smokes that I meant to push the CT's backs. He's so good at finding edges around those smokes
But just to really hammer the point home right he is at a 173 rating
Number two in the world is going to be case a rata about 148 and then it's npl Santaris
Cabani donk down there at fifth place or sixth place
So it's just like the gap between Insani and everybody else in the world in the moment is crazy for that position
So it's a bit of a luxury in my opinion also because it's so central to the map
You're going to have to fight him at some point.
Won't be easy, but we'll see how they do.
I want to see, James recently, I really think he's such a fun player,
but I feel like through the struggles of this team,
he hasn't been allowed to show his personality much in the game.
Like he's all-paying, he's as good as it could have been.
He's usually a very dangerous player in those clutch situations,
and I feel like we haven't seen enough of that either.
So I feel like we're getting robbed out of seeing the best version of James,
because he's actually a really fun player in my opinion.
I think that's fair enough. I think, uh,
James has completely turned things around in the last year or so. Oh, yeah.
People thought his career was over. They thought there'd be no chance of him
lifting trophies once again, being in tier one CS,
but he's done it with his Raktag crew, uh,
plucky underdogs and hopefully can have a good showing at the major
enders because the last few tolerance for them have been a little woeful.
As you said, Dustin is a man that wears his heart on his sleeve.
He'll let you know how he's feeling. He said he wants to kick most of
players, but it can't because the major is around the corner.
I'm not sure that's a good or a bad thing for morale.
It will definitely wake you up and get you locked in.
There's definitely be the back of your mind.
And we're hoping to see the best look at them going forward
because they keep saying they make a lot of mistakes.
It keeps happening at every tournament, though.
Have they learned from those mistakes?
Can they convert those mistakes
into something we're promising at this tournament?
I think this is a very important one for them
before the major.
I fully agree.
Yeah, I mean, they should be able to turn it around.
they certainly have the motivation to do so.
So I wouldn't be surprised if we're going to see a bit of an uptick
in their performance here.
Individually, some of the players, though,
I guess we were talking so much about the Ori was,
the CT side for MIVM.
But to be honest, the CT side as well here,
Selo on the CT side, top rated,
if you look at the top 30, for the A anchor position.
That was really, really good there.
Second to the world, funny enough, is Breno.
So they've got a couple of players there
that are really strong at anchoring the bomb site over on Mirage.
I think this could be a very interesting game.
I still think it's going to be all three maps.
I think it'll be MIBR picking up this one.
Ancient could go to Power of Vision.
And I guess we'll see for the rest of it.
But yeah, we've got all the hallmarks of a good game here.
Well, that's all we're looking for.
So yeah, just to reiterate, MIBR picking Mirage.
Power of Vision, of course,
with Ancient and Inferno if required.
I think you're right. I think it will be required here. I don't think there's much separating these two teams with PowerVision being in a bit of a questionable shape of form right now, but it looks like we are just getting ready to kick things off here. Bear in mind that this is the Group B upper bracket semi-final.
Winner does indeed advance the playoffs here as day one. So we're getting a lot done on the first day of the tournament. We're not messing around.
I kind of like it, you know, not just straight to the point
We want to get these teams through to the playoffs if they deserve it
If they deserve it, Yvanda's team's in fit. Exactly. Yeah, the final judge here
Just to reiterate, you go to the playoffs, but you still have the upper bracket final in the group
So you can let the next game will decide whether you go to semis or quarterfinal
Okay, yes, so I still have another these not like you don't play
Tomorrow, I think you play again on Friday to decide whether you're in the quarters of the teams
Which actually I guess could have a massive implication depending on who you're going to be playing early on there
So that could be fun. There's going to be some theory. Should we have a look at the results so far?
It's it's quite early on. It's any more like 10 in the morning something like that. Yeah, it's 11 a.m.
Right now, so we had as mentioned Paris taking our liquid 13 to 9 3d max also might be our
1390s of two teams on the screen right now
Mongols absolutely dismantled in vision 13 3 yeah baits massive victory for them taking out NIP
We had Tyloo, I guess that's the upset of the day so far, Tyloo beating Maus 13-7.
That was a huge result.
I think for Maus, that's going to be alarming to say the very least.
Quite a brutal format.
They lose the next game.
There could be curtains for them.
Legacy taking out NRG 13-10.
To be fair to BC game-anders, 13-11 against Falcons.
Pretty bloody good result.
All things considered, the fact that they had them on the ropes, there was a chance
to win that.
I'm not too mad about that for BC Game 1311. Not bad. And M. A. T. Taking down pain, which I would say is a pretty decent result as well. That's really great.
The fact that he owned them there looks like Swiss shot popped off along with Jabba. So yeah, good stuff so far. I'm a lot of catastrophe going on today.
I can't stress that enough. We have got a beat stream as well. Yes. Where we have got the Mongols taking on baits as this one MIBR versus Power Vision goes on.
lot of CS and then we have legacy versus Tyler Lou and the Falcons we play again today against MAT
I've got to be honest this
The the NIP bait result that you read out there that is so surprising to me as well
I don't know how to judge this bait team. I feel like every time I watched and they play
Some really uninspiring counter strike, but then they have results every once in a while that make them look so much better
So I just don't know what to make of it. So maybe it's more reflection of NIP. I'm not really sure
But yeah, they'll be playing over on the other side as well
There's there's too much going on massive racket and you just finished up at the Astana. Yes stream. Do you have a good time?
Well, if we did have a great time a great we got we got to learn a lot of interesting things
One of the things that we actually did a lot of on that B stream was Perry vision. Oh really? Yeah, okay
Recent expert in okay. I wasn't in the country. It wasn't watching much CS
So you're going to have to be my guide here in the country on us.
You were I was away doing things, things and stuff.
And that's the mission.
Well, the thing is, in my opinion, I could be persuaded out of this.
But in my opinion, Sway and Belchinoch are the two supposed to be
the two star rifles for this team.
There's supposed to be the sort of the core rifling power.
I think Nota and Selo are both they're more sort of doing the odd jobs
around the place. And then obviously, James could be
jailing and rifling and orping and all the rest of it.
But I feel like Sway and Belchanoch consistently just don't show up to the level that I'm expecting.
And that's really annoying. That's really frustrating to watch.
Because I actually think the rest of the team is working kind of well.
So I don't know what's going on there.
But that was like the repeat story that we had throughout the standard.
On the B stream was just, you know, where's Sway? Where's Belchanoch?
Why aren't they getting enough kills?
You know, where's the core of the team at?
I guess it's one of those things.
Now, once you've caused such a ruckus and you found so much success
in taking so many scouts and a couple of trophies here and there,
the targets on your back at this point. And it's maintaining that level,
maintaining those victories. You're no longer the plucky underdogs.
People know you're a dangerous team of world class amers and great
support in terms of the coach and the in-game leader.
All is very strong as well. So everyone knows now, OK, this team,
we have to account to them. We have to make sure we watch their demos,
analyze them and what's going on here? OK, are we live?
We are live. And let's get it into the action.
Looks like is this a gun round? What's going on?
No, sure.
Okay, I guess.
They're warming up.
Still warming up.
I was like, we missed something.
Yeah.
I was getting nervous as well.
It would have been funny though.
I was lost in the source there for a second.
Well, hopefully we're just a couple of seconds away here again.
Still somewhat early on the European side.
Maybe even more so if you're in the center of Europe, you're just getting up to watch
on Counter-Strike.
There's been a lot of that.
Yeah, we're an hour ahead, aren't we?
Yes, we're up.
Yeah.
So yeah, it's real early.
us with us. We appreciate it. But I know there's not going to be many of you, but, uh, and as
we'll keep his eye on the Twitch chat, the YouTube chats, all the chats for it. All the
chats. That's what I do at my own expense. Doctors been telling me, stop doing that.
Don't we believe it could be the course of terrible things. Well, to reiterate,
we just joining us the best of ones are over. We are into the best of threes. Now
this one is for the playoffs. We have got power vision taken on M I B R power vision,
me the favorites. Been inconsistent, been streaky as of late. You can see the odds of
reflecting that on your screen right now, but I still think I'll be a barn burner on
the best of three.
I think it will be. This is my sort of, I guess my bar for good Counter Strike. I just
want to see people who really like they're in the game. They're not, you know, scared
of anything that really going for it. And I think both teams are going to be showing
that like the days of, of Jane playing that slower version of Counter Strike, everyone's
on the wall, but I feel like mostly this is a fun time.
There's still some glimmers of that every now and then, which I appreciate. But they're
very systematic team. They like to make sure that everything's done by the book on their way,
on their terms, and they're waiting for the perfect opportunity to puncture those bomb sites.
I'm so not confident in this variation team, to be honest. I think if the odds, like you
said they sort of reflect that Paravision are the favorite team here. To me this is much closer
to a coin flip in my opinion. So I'm worried for them but apparently we do have a quick break Henry.
Alright get into the mix so get some of the drink maybe an early morning coffee or something.
Get yourselves ready and we'll be back with the action in a couple of seconds.
We're back. Let's go. All
right. M I B R Para vision map
one this series for the
playoffs will be a T side
star for the Brazilians as we
see no time is lovely. Shave
dome holding toward that
connector early execution
and there's three players popping out of the palace and Molotovs to the flashes come through and we'll see who will draw first blood and
They already played like a retake so this is intentional for the parry vision side
But you know what Henry they do have a smoke of the kit as well on the CT side
So no matter what happens here this can still be one even if it's just one guy left as long as you got that smoke kit combination
You're gonna be fine. That is a deep counter smoke though and with four blocks on the other side
This should be dead every single time.
Klim and Breno get a kill each,
but Bell should not very need to took two in return,
and unfortunately that kit is lost miles away.
So, Jaym has to run. You can't sneak.
You just got to go for it here
and see if you could find it.
Tapping the bomb, no one's going to be buying that.
Klim in a little bit of trouble here.
Where's his teammate?
Oh, they don't need him at all.
Instead, it's a double for him and a double for Breno,
and MIBR win the pistol.
Very convincing scene tip.
MIBR, nice basic game plan out of spawn.
3 players towards the palace, basic utile, some good flashes, no two goes down quickly, bomb planted,
and then that nice aggressive push in towards CT spawn pretty much confirms everything.
There was a moment there when I felt like Bolshnok could find some decent impact but only gets a couple
before he's taken down. Bomb planted, no chance of jame, as you mentioned 3 versus 1,
even if he gets that kill, no kit, no chance of winning it, and it will be,
not necessarily a full eco, we've got a couple of HEs, a smoke and a flash,
But no upgraded pistols apart from Zillow's 5-7. So we've got a bit of an A stack here zero players over towards B
We have got Belchnock with the smoke. He's actually got
And he's got with him as well. So what's the planet? They're trying to push to a ramp swing it towards middle
You can see my BR not taking any risks here. Yeah, I
Guess that's the key point of this round, isn't it?
You pointed out just no risks being taken no ones running into the ramp or anything else
They're using the Mach 10 on LNC to check out the connector.
They've got another Mach 10 on Venom Sierra,
so they can pretty much investigate this A site as much as they want.
And they pretty much are.
The stack is gone from the ramp and LNC hanging around.
Those HGs are now going to be very hard to find a spot for.
And they almost committed to the B bomb site.
But because the Mach 10s have cleared out the A bomb site,
they're now going to say, well, just come back then.
And we're going to have a great time plan of the bomb here.
Don't think this round is going to be any kind of an issue here.
Nice little attempt, I suppose, for parry vision.
It's fun to even try something, but great use of the Mac 10s.
That's what they're designed for.
I mean, it doesn't get much better than that.
The Mac 10 farming that amount of cash,
you are in the realms of an AWP if you wanted one.
Oh, you're right.
If, massive if, or you could just take the bonus round, Anders.
Bonus round meaning you hold onto the Mac 10.
You're calling a pocket strap, you're keeping it fast, you're keeping it nimble,
And you're trying to overwhelm players that potentially don't have helmets on the other side.
And speaking of which, James doesn't even have Kevlar full stop.
No to a bell-shock of our helmets.
So, this is normally when you're bringing out the executions.
Nice.
You don't really want to be running the defaults of the Mac 10s in plays.
You want to try and get them in position early,
and collapse on a bomb site quickly,
pincering and using speed and aggression to your favor.
I'm glad you caught the armor situation there on the CT side.
That could be very, very interesting.
Of course, if he keeps his distance, maybe it won't be a problem for James.
But right now, he's at that ticket booth.
My cellos here. Instant pick off. Jane will take down Breno, so no problem to start with.
Three versus five here. Like you said, it's a bit of a bonus situation.
So for MIBR, might not be the end of the world if they don't win this round,
but it would be good to do some damage at least.
You want to find a couple of kills. It's not looking good for that prospect right now,
but it's a five on three. Plenty of time remaining. LNZ with the MAC 10 patronage
towards the window. Got a lot on his plate here. Full belt of Util as well.
it's clean with the bomb holding up in towards that connector position hoping a
CT will present somewhat of a mistake but not gonna happen no to a strong
position finds a headshot and presumably the round of that kill shouldn't be much
left to do here Molotov to flush out one of the players nice little alley you
now they can find one more kill here maybe get a bomb plant and it's a
pretty successful round we'll see both the players without helmets are here
though now he's picked up an AK so it doesn't really matter any more good crossfire they'll
shot the one to get the kill and you know exactly where Clem is so no surprise at this point 28 seconds
and everyone in position here for the paravision side they do get another kill so I suppose that
does add a little bit too they also keep up with the two AKs well I think of a paravision they
might not be too sad about this almost a bit of a handshake you're going into that third round
yeah they saved two weapons two of which the AK 47s here jay mohawk onto his AWP and get
itself with Kevlar now as well. Power vision have arrived as we get into round number four here.
As mentioned, the bonus round in the previous still a buy. A couple of concessions, quite a lot
actually in terms of utility. It seems to be the greatest casualty here. We've got a couple of
Galils. AKs with just one smoke. We do have the Clem AWP. It's going to have to do a lot
of heavy lifting here in round number four. Aggressive is Belchenok. So is Clem. Hopping
that smoke open towards top of middle. We'll find Nota to find MIBR. A nice opening kill here.
They'll reset the round with one minute 30 on the clock and maybe to straight back into an a execution with this advantage
I'm just you know, Henry
I love to complain about this but when there's no smoke in the window and there's only the smoke at top mid
This the CT's have to be worried. They blow open their own smoke at top mid
It's such a tell and yet people get caught by it all the time
I think that's exactly what happened another time. You should think why is there no window smoke in the fourth round?
That's a really good reason why that's not the case. Well, here we go
Oh, bad advantage for they can't hold on to it.
Brenno finds a second kill, Clem will get his as well.
And now we've got Belchalk, who needs multiple frags here
on the A bomb site.
Gets himself a couple of headshots, finds the hat trick.
Two versus one, stealing this round away.
It's down to Clem.
Gets himself a hat trick as well.
50 seconds remaining, needs to find that bomb.
It's not impossible, is it?
Another smoke going up here.
Is he going to hide inside of it?
It almost looked like it.
He's got a good reader where Sway might be coming
from the edge of the smoke.
And Sway still takes him down.
So close to getting the clutch there was clean like you pointed out opened up with three all kills, but yeah wasn't enough oh
That's really heartbreaking. Am I be out at nice opener as well?
You trade out kills effectively towards the palace everything is going so well
You're right open out smoke open getting the freebie essentially then you have nice training positions here
You've got the man advantage, but then Belgium Ock the baby squirrel and is
Mowing them down very clean shooting with his AK-47
And this is the kind of stuff that you asked about Astana. This is the stuff that we didn't see to the same extent.
Now it's still early days, but if Belchnock is going to be showing up for this tournament with anything like what we just saw there,
then this will be a very different parry vision team. And they actually, I think they have a much better chance of making it deep.
So I'm already a little bit excited. Maybe it's too early to be celebrating, but I do like what I'm seeing there.
Round number five, and they are already straight onto the bomb site, but Notur and Selo are going to get a couple of kills each.
and then they can pretty much focus on the A side here and they know no one's
coming B bomb should be planted I think. I think you might be on to something there
the round on necessarily over with that of Zara's position here Anders, things get a
little bit more interesting. Great shot finds way three versus three pressure now
on paravision for the retake they have got a couple of smokes they've got
one kit to work with back of Noto but aggression has been called MIBR
continuing to make things difficult here but a 2v1 advantage paravision
need to get the skates on. The bomb is ticking at some pace. They find the kit and need to
find LNZ.
Nice closest wall to Tech 9. Gotta be very careful coming around that corner. They do
have helmets, but this Tech 9 could be so dangerous. Bell should not be nearly misses
the spray there. But then again, so did LNZ. They're on the bomb and they do have the
kit as well. It's not going to be a problem. That's three in a row for paravision. Now
admittedly this is a more expensive round.
Yeah.
But MIBR don't necessarily have a ton of cash going into this next one.
Well, that was their fourth spy.
They had a couple of girls, some tech nines.
Yeah, sure you get the bomb down,
but it'll be another partial going forward here.
Power of vision, really starting to stretch their legs
out on the CT side, looking comfortable.
Yeah, even in that two versus one,
it didn't feel like for a moment they were gonna lose it.
And this is the pick of MIBR viewers joining us as well.
The Group B upper bracket semi-final winner
technically advances to the playoffs.
So it goes to the Group Final on Friday,
where they'll play for the semis or the quarterfinals,
but the headline is win this series
and you're in the playoffs here at CAC.
Van Albo, as you mentioned, partial buy.
A couple of upgraded weapons, most notably Venom Zera's AK-47.
Deagle's otherwise, and well, speaking of AK, that's been removed pretty quickly, and Sani will pick it up.
See what he can make of it.
Oh, the flash is down there.
Wrecks them completely.
Noter gets a double-game.
We'll pick up Klim.
So far, the hero, AK, I like the attempt, but it hasn't really worked out for them.
Man, I'm searing Climber getting some kills, but Insani is yet to be fully activated, but I rate him very highly as a Ryan Flur.
I think most people do, to be honest. So let's see if they can get him thrown into the mix.
Let's have a look, shall we?
Not impossible to win in 1-on-4, very unlikely, sure, but if anyone was gonna do it on MIBR, it could be Insani.
Thing is, Paravision are giving nothing. Oh, I say that.
They do offer himself up towards connector but well positioned and no real threat of losing the round three players survive
This would be the first tactical time out
I would imagine and is about my B.R. I'm calling that now
It was born a row. Yeah, I've got money again. You're bringing out a UMP on the T side of Mirage question mark
Um, I guess yeah, let's get rid of that. Okay, that's good. Let's get rid of that
That's not really a thing CT side short T side. I don't know
So yeah, galil for better than zero and it's said things better rather and no timeout so we are getting into it
Another compromise gun around here from our VR with the galil in the mix everything else looking pretty good though
It's interesting though. I agree with you like four in a row
You've got the timeouts for it and you do need a couple of more rounds here. This is your own map pick
So yeah, they're on the T side, but still so far it's it's been the pistol and around and that's it
You want to be able to pick up something more.
James, for once opening this position, this is very rare with the AWP for James.
If you look at how much time he spends positionally, a lot of it is going to be ticket proof,
a lot of it is going to be window much less over on the speed bomb site.
But it does afford them the ability to switch up and throw a cello over towards the other side.
So that could be in itself kind of a bit of an advantage.
See how this plays out for them.
A split looking likely.
Bomb here on the back of Klim, setting up the standard U-Tilt.
Molotov for the steps.
They're trying to get players in towards that connector position.
It's Denim's error to open things up.
Insani starting to show some form here.
Can they break this streak? Can they find Zelo on the bomb side?
He absolutely can.
It would take something magnificent now from Zwei to save this round.
Three versus two and the big man himself, James, still alive.
alive. Bomber only just going down here. You'll definitely give this one a look, Anders. Looks very
good for a MIBR, but you want to make sure it's as expensive as possible. They've got tons of money
on the CT side, so we'll see whether they want to actually give this one a look in.
Zway certainly seems to think so. Oh, the cross-air position was perfect for him, wasn't it?
Now Breno's revealed this position up in the Palace. James knows it. He's got the
AWP. I think he made a bit of a jump. Yeah, he's pretending to fall back down.
Breno, is he going to be pre-iming the way that he was? Looking the wrong way, Breno,
But he still picked up the kill. I'm sure that he was peeking the lower part of that sandwich
Yeah, listening to the audio there. Oh, that's such a close run and fair play to Shway
He did a very very good job showing up towards the jungle there
And he's supposed to be playing the B bomb site early on
He's only there because James opening on the other side and that might have caught my VR of God
Like that's why he gets his double kill
to be able to do that. It's
way. Excellent work, and it
looked like changing everything
he could the fake drop down.
Yeah, fate successful. And he
had the cross on the correct
position. Just uh, uncharacteristic
missed that from James. He
played it to perfection. You
think he's hitting that shot
all day long, but doesn't
work out and it will be M. R.
BR breaking the streak of four
rounds in a row for power
Bottom of the barrel loss bonus. So they have to make do with a jaymorp. Sure
What else we got to work with here an m4 for belchin oc is an 11 and 4 right now
Zillow will have the m4 as well just juggling some weapons around here
So we'll see what they can bring to the table 5 7 for no sir this way. What have you got my friends?
We're on the ground or your usp
Oh, yeah, he's 50 no armor. He's got the Sanjir all this time
I
For the boomers who remember
Where is Sanji these days?
Round number eight. You're right. They had less money than I expected to yeah
I assumed it was just getting out of control like winning four rounds in a row, but
Apparently not that you have the G more though. Sometimes that's enough
Less confidence maybe after missing that last kill that was yeah
Yeah, a little rough.
Thought he had that one for sure.
When you play like two perfection and then miss the sit-up,
no worse of a feeling.
But we're going to the B bomb site.
It would seem in this particular round number eight,
we are going to see an MP7 in the hands of L and Z.
Get a little bit of that Mzera smoke down towards window.
B split as mentioned.
I got to decide now you're playing in front of that smoke.
You've got to go together.
Can't be half in, half out.
They are segregated by the incendiary.
First kill comes in favor of Paravision.
started to look like a bit of a nightmare Anders. That was not easy kill
that towards Shaw. Three versus two, Ellen Z will pull one back. They had a
three man stack. They had the boost inside of the bomb site and they had
Sway who was he was he was boosted. He was jumping for that. He was trying to
bait them in with all the jumping. I mean, you had so much time in the clock
and as I said, you see that smoke come down. Yeah, someone needs to
decide are we going through this or not. And it was unlucky. You got it.
You got segregated like I said, but in century, but like you can't have
said one player out and then go one by one after that. You either have to just go through
and run through the fire cells and try and trade it out. Playing it like this as I did
one by one. Sure it was well played by PowerVision, good setup there but I thought like once
that smoke goes down you have 50 seconds. You could have called it off. You could have
waited until you could have gone in together and not beat such a scramble but it will
be PowerVision pulling one back.
That cell opposition is insane as well because it's so hard to flash him because he's
looking through the triangle, you know, in the actual structure of the bomb site.
It's so insanely hard to flash someone who's there.
So love everything about it.
Now we've got a secondary up for Sway, and we've actually seen this before.
He can get this job done.
So suddenly Paravision from having very nearly no money bouncing right back now, they've
got the AK and the double AWP, and oh, did the gun block him?
Okay, Selo I think he knows, but it looked like the gun model was actually stopping
him from spotting out claim there on the other side. Still, it's a four versus five and yeah,
he's going to go check. Alright, he did see it. It's all good. Jane is covering the ramp.
And I think suddenly, we should are looking honestly better than I was expecting. I thought
the CT side was going to be worse. You said you had a lot of confidence in them potentially,
Henry. Yeah, as the potential, the favorite team here. So this is looking good for them right
now. I think looking at the teams in attendance and is like, I think it's a no brainer to say
that Falcons should be aiming to win this one. Like they got to the Grand Final last week.
They didn't get a map unfortunately there but still this playing field like sure you've got some
heavy hitters. You've got mouse. You've got pain. You've got a tyloo legacy. Some big
names. Mongols are in there of course. You've got liquid. Like I don't know why you mentioned
just for historical significance I suppose. But yeah, Paravision and Falcons. I think those
are two teams I'd like to see in the grand final. I think that would be sure pretty epic for me, but
as the power vision to turn up so far so good. Better than again, I've got the recency bias of
watching them there in Astana and I really wasn't impressed for the most part. So
but they've shaved their heads now. They've shaved their heads. So presumably that means
this is a new look, new attitude, a new era of power vision. I mean, it's not the first
first time we've heard about the ball buff. True. Chewing gum in the past has been a thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you're desperate enough, you'll look for anything. If you had chew gum.
What? Really like little teddy bears or? Yeah, get a teddy bear. Rocks potentially on the desk. Yeah.
That's a lot of weight. True. Does Carrigan still do that? I think so. I haven't seen
them for a while. Surely. Surely. We'll have to check it out later. Somebody
investigates. We're in the 10th round. Money's back on MIBR, but honestly, they're
It's time to put some rounds on the board here for the first half. It's kind of fading at the moment.
We'll see if they can pick up another one. This is their map pick.
Jame is just barely getting out of there, but Nota steps up and picks off LNC over the smoke in the middle and Sani in the window takes down Nota
and he catches Jame on the first kill. That looks so awkward. What?!
Oh my god.
Zero with a straight-up wall bang cello with no chance to fight back like I said
He's a champion at anchoring this a bombsite cello, but he's kind of got wrecked in this one and
Damn no nothing to fight for here. What a wild round
Loving that insani with two a brutal kills there helping themselves all da bombsite
It's comes down to raw individual skill
MIBR seem to have that in buckets of space in this particular round
They'll find all five players of paravision and get themselves back on the scoreboard here
We go six and four with four players surviving as well,
just for the Dr. Rawlard, for the Brazilian squad,
and they'll recover one of those orbs as well.
But it looks like Paravision are sticking
to that double or program here.
Dwayne and James working in tandem with the sniper rifles.
They still have a little bit of residual cash.
James with 3200, and we'll see you over at Runnabour 11.
We'll get them back to their winning ways.
MIBR, showing some signs of live fear,
still keeping their head above water.
It feels like sometimes the double orb is more efficient
when it's a complete surprise to the other side.
Sure.
Maybe it still is.
Maybe I don't realize that the money is there for it.
But it does allow them to rotate quicker
towards the middle and A bomb side
as long as they leave sway over there.
Send the airy going up and,
yeah, some power utility coming out as well
from the CT side.
The bomb is leaning all the way towards that A side.
So it could just be a split up through connector as well.
Could be.
Could be indeed. Zello will be patrolling towards the palace, he's been pretty decent in this position so far.
6-9, not a deft, but he's had some impact, always seems to find one.
As we get ready for the A bomb site smokes coming through, James will join them from CT spawn here.
Gonna be smoking off the palace themselves.
Smoke down towards window.
Oh, he's gonna be setting up the blind smoke.
Oh, it doesn't answer!
He read that so well, Zello.
Holy!
Got to be careful though, he's still very low on health and so is LNC on the other side.
He goes down.
Brenno will find him.
No touch trying to catch LNC in the corner.
Thought he had the opportunity to spray him down as Jhin catches Insani.
It's now down to a three versus two.
Belchak is quick, but he couldn't get back behind the stairs.
Brenno catches him.
A missed opportunity for Sway in CT spawn and Brenno just knocking them.
Our left and right three kills in this round.
MIBR find a fifth round.
I think it's a huge relief for them.
was looking grim and at one point there they lost four in a row to begin with.
Yeah and at this point as well we go into the final round of the first half.
We talked about that double orb set up in the previous.
That money is actually pretty non-existent here.
Jayme as we mentioned had some residual cash.
He's got 4,200 but you're bringing out SMGs here, pistols, maybe a scout.
That's a rat. So it might be should be able to tie things up
to close out the first half of their map pick of Mirage.
Definitely a slow start wasn't looking great but they say bombsite.
As you'll know a few rounds
Was a tactical time out there to discuss their options as we see what power vision of bringing to the table here
Only one rifle purchase so far that's for Jane. No one else spending the cash just yet. You're assuming MP9s and 57s here really
57 for Nota and Zelo MP9 for Belchnock and Sway with the pistol as well
so
You can see that excess utility from RBR and spawn you can leave a flashbang
recovery in the mid-round they left an author and spawn as well I think they
have okay yeah you got the extra cash for it you might as well so this might be
some they might as well as for a execution or a full-on fake here then
usually open go back towards B the funniest possible outcome is if someone
of them see decide finds that all I know that's right that was my next point
I was like whatever you do just keep track of the AWP you don't have to
overcook this one okay well full-on executes MP9 are close with the flash
Bangs are so good and Brenno is going to keep it going. Another two kills look at the flash coming over
the first three kills heavily assisted by
So much fire in the sky and it's gonna be sway alone in a one versus five with just a pistol
So nothing really worth talking about here. Just very efficient for the attitude of your did not eat it
Yep, not even a factor. I especially getting entries like that Brenno and Venom Zera
up sinking their fangs into what they sites no problem no rebuttal should be the clean sweep here
this is just a formality now but it is going to be Clem with a nice shot to close things down
ladies and gentlemen we go six six we have got a game on our hands here have a look at that replay
it was Brenno cracking things open here great flashbangs away you can see Clem getting all
those assists here that's a beautiful execution that there's some fortunate shots through the
smoke. I'll say that, but still very well done. Great timings up against close range weaponry as well
with those five, seven MP9s and they barely made a dent. So they win the pistol round and the second
round and they go on to lose four rounds of the run. It looks pretty grim, but then they make a
reasonable comeback here. Six to six. Suddenly it's looking more durable. I mean, it's pretty good.
If you lose the pistol, I don't know. That feels like they are back. They're the ones with the
morale going into the next half without convincing number 12 as well there. It's going to be
PowerVision feeling a little bit frustrated. We'll see whether they can bounce back on
their T side now, but MIBR certainly turning up. We can have a look at that little scoreboard
here and as we've got VenomZera at the top of 14 and 9, Klim with 10 kills as well.
At the very top though for PowerVision is Belchnock 13 and 8 and then everyone else
coming up hovering in between 8 and 6. Jayme No-Turn is Elo and Zwey. It's a great
team effort so far from PowerVision but VenomZera has been stepping up and going above and beyond from MIPR so
He will need some backup here very important CT half for them
We're going to see the dualies for Clem it's got Kevlar and a smoke to go with him as well and
Early smokes going down from the T side and as we'll smoke down towards window and connector so a B splits
Looks like it could be on the cards here
That's very interesting so a lot of utility for a pistol round here on the T side also
that means no kit because of the dualies which is a kind of a surprise pick
Belgium ox here in the flash in and here in the footsteps as well if they
wanted to go beat they could do it right now because that's a lot of
information for people though on the defense here for MIBR and it feels like
Paravision are waiting they've called a complete freeze on the map and the
waiting to see if the CTs are going to be more aggressive and they will be
but it's Ellen C to find the first kill in the second half here taking
down cello so four versus four as they do get him killed right afterwards
It's still kind of minute on the clock and they're moving their way up palace position or the bottom of the ramp
I think for for Belchinox, so you could join in here
But let's see what Venom Sierra could do always missing with the USP once you missed the first three
You're in a lot of trouble here Brenner trying to get the job done. What a headshot
James it gets cut down and suddenly this round is looking more difficult again
I thought they had it at least for the bomb plant
But Insani sneaking on in the bomb is being planted no to taking a big risk as nobody was covering a
A third headshot for Breno is he's pretty much locked at this round of down, no to the last man standing, Breno! Quad headshots to get this for him IBR.
Well, as you mentioned though, Anders, the bomb does get planted. So sure, impressive round from Breno especially. Don't take anything away from him, but the all-important round number two coming up next, you know they're going to be buying up.
Whether it be Tech Nines or Galolz, I would say it's probably going to be Tech Nines here considering who we've got on the server.
But yeah, you've got to get the bomb down and you cannot be celebrating too early.
If you lose this next round, it's actually worse than losing the pistol itself.
So let's see whether they can hold on. The job is not done yet.
He kind of came out of nowhere in the Brazilian scene.
And I remember at the beginning it was kind of a meme because nobody knew how to pronounce his name.
We call him Breno.
People say BRNNRZ.
BRNNRZ.
Very hard to pronounce.
to pronounce, so Brenno is our shorthand.
I think I made that executive decision.
I just said to him, I was like, no,
we're just calling it Brenno.
That's the first name.
That's what we're doing.
You are a leader of men sometimes.
Yeah, I appreciate that saying.
I said to him, whatever commentators we're just doing,
Brenno, OK?
Let's make life easy, everyone.
You want to have some crazy name?
That's fine, but don't expect us to try and say it.
Yeah, but he's been playing very well.
I feel like his career is maybe not
sort of like a rocketing climb,
but I feel like he's steadily proving himself
to be a really reliable player, which is kind of cool.
More of that.
We're in the second round here, the second half.
Still map number one.
And with MIB, I'm winning that pistol,
even with the bomb plant here, if they can set them,
if they can win the next couple of rounds,
I think they're looking good.
They're coming out swinging.
You can see they've got no MP9s on the CT side.
They want to play with the firepower here.
Gone for rifles across the board,
short of some concessions with utility,
but it's known as a bike coming out here.
They want to go toe-to-toe with these rifles.
There's a couple of galils in the mix here.
It's going to be a bee finish.
Problem is, you've got what?
A couple of smokes which turn up is enough,
but you've been smoked off yourself
in towards the apartment.
That is the brutal smoke to deal with now.
20 seconds, you're going to have to just sit back,
which paravision are more than fine to do.
Let's be honest.
This is no problem for them.
What have we got left?
One smoke and a flash,
so you're going to be smoking towards the kitchen
or towards shore.
Hoping you can find a pick.
I'm glad you bring it up
because you said this at the very start.
They don't mind playing late in the round.
So this is where the 20 sometimes is.
It is going to be very late indeed, some 20 seconds now and it's already off to a good start, three FAMAS kills.
Selo's got one but that kill had to come right away, not when the rest of the team is practically dead, they've got no health left at all, even a bomb plant.
I don't think it's going to be possible, fantastic defense.
And that's, you know, you discuss this idea about, you know, do you buy the SMGs or you upgrade to the FAMAS or M4?
The FAMAS really did great work in this round, so it was worth it.
Absolutely, it gives you that range.
You can make ParaVision commit to bomb sites
before they actually have any idea what they're up against.
And it will be two in a row for an RBR.
That's the all-important victory right there.
Denying the plan there as well means
we have pretty much full eco coming to round number 15.
I don't think you can justify any Kevlar here.
James has the author.
He's the one who does get the Kevlar, which is a little bit baffling.
But that's fine.
He hits a tech nine.
Teagle's otherwise given his way on the Glock.
Bomb down a T spawn.
He's going to try and work some picks.
possible. MIBR need to present some discipline here. You want to keep everyone alive. Let
them come to you. Same idea as the previous round. No one needs to ever commit. No one
needs to be hunting for these eco kills. Keep it clean. Keep the money strong. Because
you know with Paravision on the server, you might think you have them in a prime position
that they are one of the most difficult teams in the entire game of CS to put away.
Yeah, you really shouldn't be underestimating them. Even if this is a bit of an away
map for them. Don't give them the chance to really get back here. Belch knocks them
playing very well but they still have a lot more firepower in that Parivision lineup that
they haven't really managed to activate fully yet. And now they're on the T side as well
so when they get to the AKs I expect to see some really cool entries coming out from
the side as well. Sello's trying to sneak his way past but not nearly as sneaky as
he thought he was. Kind of gets caught in the B apartments. Or I believe the
It's true. We can try and bring
that back. Mr Ben. There's
always some sort of ruby joke
going on here, but for now,
just going to be belching.
Oh, hoping to get a plant and
I'm afraid it's not looking
good. You would need a crazy
one D. Yeah. And then plant
the bomb, but Ellen's is
technically alone. There's
some backup coming in. There's
the one D. Anders. Doesn't go
for the quick plan. It was
available to him. He should be
ran down now here. Bit of a
shame. He doesn't get the
plan, but still he's not to
know this. He's not going
Still, he's not to know there's multiple players around him.
I would have just gone for the plan, but their money should be fined either way.
The problem is I don't think they can afford the AWP, because, James, as I mentioned, a
questionable decision to get Tekken 9 and Kevlar, considering the AWPer, that's costumous
AWP in this round.
I think that's a worthwhile discussion though.
Sometimes when you delay the AWP, you just don't get it at all in the second
round.
Especially in CS2 and R12.
Yeah.
Especially when he's kind of like a backborder to squad his AWP, see whether it's going
affect things though, it's definitely a capable rifle up, just an interesting note I suppose
as we get into the first real gun round here on the T side for paravision. Get me running
a default smoke down towards window, oh nice bit of aggression here from Breno, gets good
information earlier than no one's controlling that A ramp.
And again Insani is playing that window and when he's not there he's going to be switching
to either top con or straight connector so that's where you're going to find him
majority of the time. He doesn't really stray that far away from either window or jungle or connector.
He just runs around this little part of the map, which is not that uncommon for players who are playing
the center of the map. But again, like I said, he's very strong here. So Steve Parivision can find
a way to break him. Clem also playing very close to the connector. So Breno finding himself
somewhat more alone. He's jiggling that corner with an incendiary in hand. So if anything
happens. He's hoping to be able to drop that run away and just everything will be fine. 50 seconds
on the clock and it's going to be some kind of palace involvement here. They've already got the
bomb up there. Let's see if Paravision can do this. It's very tense right now. Time ticking away.
Bombing towards the palace indeed. A split looking very likely but as usual time is of the
essence. 35 seconds here. Molotov down short going to try and get that connect to control.
No tell tip the spear on this one flashbangs. No good. Claire will be waiting for them and cello the crack things open towards
They've got Breno to deal with a strong position finds the ak-47
22nd remaining now belch nor keeps around alive three versus two. Yeah now
They know he's in the palace that was just a wall bang coming down there sway the one to pick up Breno
That's impressive 13 seconds on the clock. So they will find one more
He's reduced to 19 health and now LNC sneaking up trying away
all the way all yesterday was run and the round is going to be there but a sneaky way to win it
there for Swedish LNZ. Wow well played LNZ a scary moment there. Fills me a teammate to
dropping like flies the time is running low. He finds the old important kill though denies
the plan and then just has to get the hell out of that knife out leap around its corners
guarantees the round and double digits here as MIPR keep themselves in a prime position.
Bear in mind, this way we'll get no extra money from that one-handed. So we'll stick around
$900, so it means you can't drop. The loss bonus will be accumulating, but once again,
no plan there. So this looks to me as a tactical timeout, I guess it is. Yeah. Didn't see
Dustin talking all too much, but paravision, oh, there we go. There we go.
It's going to say, I do the talking most of the time.
True, working out who's going to shave their head next if they lose this map.
The best on death stare is legendary at this point, you know, get some of those still shots
where he's looking at somebody is great.
This looks a little uninspired right now, I'll say that, like we're doing the same
old thing of running the clock down, not really getting a ton of map control, and
then scrambling out of the choke points.
It's not looking, yeah, that's promising right now for power vision, especially
the finances the way they are they are going to be buying this one again standard smoke
stands towards window it's over middle bomb down a T spawn for now Brenner we saw this maneuver
before gets the intel that no one's close up parked up toward that A ramp then we'll play
the pixel our stomach is doing the incendiary now to do with the smoke playing for that
intel and we're going to recover the bomb courtesy of jame here he's currently 8 and
11 he'll be operating with the tech nine this round smoke towards window honestly
though for this kind of a setup if Breno is going to be this much alone on the
ramp if they smoke off the jungle and the stairs behind behind Breno then his
teammates kind of have to come through right they have to run through the smoke
to help him here we go the Nandas another a play here hopefully a bit more
time left on the clock yeah I'm glad you said that it does seem like they
are going to be executing this a lot faster it's gonna be very very similar
idea remember last time Kim got the opening kill on the connector there
There with the AWP, but they knock out Breno.
Klim still picks up Sway, and that's good,
but the mid position is still there.
No tears still lurking around in there,
so there is another chance,
but he's been found and traded out.
That's a huge trade for MIBR.
Now they can focus on just the bomb site.
They don't have to worry about
getting shot at the back any longer.
Belgium are already damaged here.
Yeah, that's scary.
35 seconds.
Even though they were quicker this time,
they still have to worry about it.
Smoke being blown open,
and Jamie couldn't catch Insani.
He's just highly behind, and now it comes to swing back instead.
Insani, he peeks in and takes the fight to Jayne.
No fear at all, and Belgium are unfortunately late.
You pointed out he's already low from earlier.
Yeah, that's why I say significant damage.
You had 100 HP, you might be believing at this point,
but just nothing to do, nothing to say.
Again, no bomb planted, Anders.
We are going to see this perfect run of form, 11 to 6.
They have yet to give up a CT-sided round here on MRBR's CT side.
And now, what do you do?
We've got maximum loss bonus, but again, no plan.
Do we just keep buying?
Do we just keep going partial by partial by partial by
and just hope for the best?
I guess it's an idea.
They purchased the P90 there for a size.
I saw that.
I was excited.
You're going to get to 12.6, and I was like,
you haven't really got going here on the T-Sat at all.
It's been quite flat.
No real 10 situations, or it felt
that the round could have fallen apart from over the yard.
It's been quite comfortable.
No P90.
Sarah Tonin was in my brain for a moment there.
Now you've just got nothing but cortisol.
I know.
Thanks to the courses all again.
Can't help it.
Maybe not as much though as Paravishanar experienced.
No, I think you're probably right there.
But, and there's the end of the day,
this is their opponent's map pick.
That's true, yes.
I guess it's fine.
Ancient coming up next.
It's just the way the second half has gone down.
They haven't really had a look in.
Need a bit of a miracle.
I hope it's a bit of a disaster.
I'm afraid it's going to be Zillow going down.
Brenner will find him no problem and what are we going to do next is back towards a couple
of smokes no flashes and hope for the best I suppose it's not really much you can do with this.
Honestly if I'm comparing this to Astana the fact that Bell Chinock and Sway have both been playing
better than they did in that tournament I still think it is a good look it just is a bit
disappointing to see them pick up no T rounds yet. It would be nice if they get just a
couple on board just to prove something here but I do take your point it is the opponent's
map pick so I'm not gonna get too desperate here Insani started to get
activated they haven't had too much use for him yet okay right now it's gonna go
down on top of the ticket booth here we go yes I'm just as interested it could
be something a tecton okay they still have some health left if they get the
bomb planted oh that's a okay kill then I'm zero not realizing his helmet
was showing through Insani does get one and he's working on more but he's
gonna get shot down in fact now it's just felt should have been a chance
If he finds LMC early on, you never know.
You never know.
Shout out to Clint, he's 18 and 8 right now with the AWP.
So doing good work.
Doing God's work.
Excellent.
And that's going to be a potential clean sweep here.
We are yet to drop a single round on the MIBR side
here in the second half.
Kind of nuts, really considering that we
have Paris Vision and James Dastin,
like these tactical masterminds.
T side of Mirage, you'd think we'd get a bit more
output than this with the young talent they have, but it's all being quite slow, lacking
map control, scrambling at the bomb sites with 20 seconds to go, and it's just, it's
looking pretty up for it. I would say like, let's run some defaults, let's get some map
control here, let's just have some fights, allow the young guns to actually get a fight
going. Here we go. By chance, finally, looking for some early jewels, but it doesn't
work out. Breno's been making that maneuver at the start of every round. He's been
happy to do it comes out on top and it looks like this could be a straight-up
conversion in the second half not going to drop a single round here got a five on
four it's another difficult buy four power vision for the max loss bonus a
couple concession of grenades James Lowe and CTS remain very active punting
for information now they're taking that player down towards the a ram they're
going to try and inquire about the setup here the bombs down a T spawn
and is you so we've got Breno who's going to spot that bomb in the next
10 seconds. Hello. There it is. I'm glad he called that Henry. That's kind of...
Information is better than that. Let me tell you. He's saying it as well. He knows there's going to be someone on the round.
Oh, I made a step. I made a footstep. Okay, it's fine. It's fine.
I think he knew. I think he understood there's such a good chance here.
Unfortunately, this round is super cooked for Paris. It's so done. You might as well just
try GG now, but you can't win this round. What are you going to do?
About to surrender what are you gonna do guys? There's no way out. I think they know James a great in-game leader, but this one is done
Right the referee should be calling this one out. He says that no as they find a couple of kill 25 seconds
They have to go back and pick up unless you don't know who you're dealing with and unless MIB I fight them in CT on
T spawn if they do that sure they can win
But otherwise it's so far away. It's no way to even plan right?
He's running with the knife out. There's no way to even plan. We must know that the yeah, that's the whole point
I think. What a way to finish.
Notes running out of time here and M.I.B.R.
will pick up the opening map.
It's their own map pick here on Mirage.
It's a 13 to six and exactly zero rounds
on the T side for Paravision.
That's really disappointing, isn't it?
We would have liked to have seen a lot more from that.
It was 6-6 in the first half before M.I.B.R.
waking up after losing a ton of rounds early on
and looked like Belchnock,
which is absolutely slamming them in those first six rounds.
But yeah, very disappointing from Paravision in general.
And boys, what do you make of that one?
Paravision, zero rounds in a second half.
What do we make of it? I mean, I can only speak for myself, but MIBR have come to play.
That is a very strong first map win against Paravision.
Striker, what are your thoughts?
Yeah, ZTR is making a cameo, zero to your ounce for Paravision.
I'll just say this, the best teams Paravision have beat on Mirage in the last couple of events
have been one wildcard, second Fisher College, so that's two NA teams
and otherwise they've been they've been struggling on this map. So yeah a little bit of a punished pick from from MIBR side and obviously worked out.
Well, let's get your initial reactions as well.
I just want to say that was Paravision who were up 6-3 in the first half 6-3 and they couldn't get a single round after that.
So 10 in a row for MIBR. Look, I felt like MIBR in the first half they made a few fumbles some of the post plans.
I think they could have played better, but at a bombsite they struck in they they struck the a bombsite time and time again.
the 66ers thing is competitive and then man power vision that he saw it the final round
I feel like encapsulated how rough it was just completely lost
You know there was no chance in hell to put him to win that
James running with a nine part as well with ten seconds on the clock
Not much you could really break down and I do wish we had a
Dastan cam I would love to see a Dastan cam if you ask me a follow
Yeah, I mean maybe we'll put that through the chain and see if production can sort it out until then
I mean look at this, look at this round from Brenno though, that was, that was kind of the turning, not that.
Berra-Enezanne.
Berra-Enezanne striker, alright, we have this talk in the green room, I know.
Just because some people can't pronounce the name.
Yeah, guys.
But I also heard like all the way at the beginning that it was like completely different than that and then just people picked it up.
So I'm just, I just refused to be this part of this conversation.
So the scoreboard up on screen now, yeah, we can see Brenno Berra-Enezanne had an amazing match.
Belchinock fragged out for paravision and in fact let's stay on board with him quickly because
Henry mentioned his name, it ties into one of your initial points that you were alluding to, Blair.
Which was that things started off very well for ParaVision, and then they all just went downhill.
Are there any other deeper reasons for that other than it just not being a favourable map for the team?
I think overall, it's a symptom they've had so far.
Even for Belchin, a lot of the kills he got on the CD side was kind of individually popping up by himself.
It was not like his team was flashing through him or just working in tandem as a unit.
He was just having a pretty good heater of a starter seat.
So the T side was just so flat, bro.
Just look at it.
They got a bomb down a couple of times.
The pistol run comes to mind.
They got a bomb down, so not able to really convert it.
And then running out of time.
Final round as well, running out of time.
Classic James, he is right there.
But overall, just to kind of put it in a very simple manner,
it just felt like MIBR, we're the better team.
We're just crazy to think, because initially,
when this team came together, a kicker got removed,
L and Z came in and I was like, this is Furia from Timur, right?
Like, it's not really going to click.
It's not really going to click, right?
It's not going to click.
It doesn't make sense.
And Furia, they kind of bought lightning, so to speak.
And it's not going to happen here.
But it's worked out.
Even in Bucharest last month, you
could see how clean the comms are.
Even the execs are working so well in tandem together.
It wasn't just Insani show or Klim popping off at the AWP.
And you look at it, and I'm expecting Paravision
to have a better overall cohesion
in the way they're approaching it.
It wasn't there on this map.
And you can see it's a map thing.
But having seen them in Estana as well,
I feel like there is a deep wrought setting
into the team, the pressure of expectations,
the more they're losing, the more
the players are not able to quite shoulder
that pressure setting in, not just from
outside, but also internally as well.
So for a prior vision, they need to turn this around
because coming up as a major.
And considering the start they had
at the beginning of the year,
it's going to be a big struggle
struggle like this come cologne. Yeah and I think we saw this all kind of some
of the same issues that we saw before where you know they're looking into to
get a little bit more consistency out of no time ZL right because it's not
necessarily going to come out of Belchernaug who obviously we saw pop
off in this game but he's the anchor he's kind of more the X factor player
than anything else he's not your consistent star right but it's those
two guys who kind of struggled to put up the numbers right from from around
connector from around short or will ZL plays the anchor and sometimes as
well and he just wasn't he wasn't having a good moment there it was
through Belgium having some of the couple of those big multi-cales in the you know a lot
of those times that piece I probably could have even gone a little bit better for a might
be our if anything because it was that one round you know that kind of turned the turned
the the course of the game at the beginning from Belgium are that you know help them get
the economy up and and for might be our to struggle to break it so it really could
have even gone worse for for provision here.
Great points gentlemen. I love the expression used deep rot was it.
Yeah, there's a deep rotset again, yeah.
Maybe a Scarlet Rock.
All right, hey, Magic Reference.
OK, no.
Any Dark Souls players out there?
No, no, no.
All right, if you're a Dark Souls player, let us know.
Striker, I wanted to take your brains a bit about something,
which was the trajectory that MIBR have had since Bucharest.
Blair sort of mentioned, what are your thoughts on where
MIB have been at and where they're at right now?
Well, the thing is we haven't even seen them since Bucharest.
So what the trajectory is, they've basically been,
They've been in the lab.
I know each other, we spoke to Insani.
I said, we, I mean, I know I'm not here
necessarily representing, but it's hard for me
to separate myself from that.
And he was talking about having a big, big bootcamp
leading up to this, because right after this
is obviously the major.
And so this is the time that they've had to put in,
to put in some work into their map pool
because they haven't necessarily been able to
so much in the past because they had local event
after local event, then they had book rest.
But since then they've had the months of time off.
So I'm just curious to see how much further they've gotten since that time because I think
as much as there were some flashes from MIBR at the event last month in Bucharest, there
were also some gaps and it was clear that this team is still struggling with some of
those communication parts where they were even talking about VenomZero not necessarily
having his English up yet and he's coming up to terms with that new reality, right,
where he has to speak English in a team for the first time.
And this is actually where MIBR have the best chance to show a good result from
here to the Major after this time. And also got a bear in mind, like for a lot of the teams coming in
here, I think we have four teams flying in from Astana, I got Maus, Mongols and these boys, and
from Atlanta, we have around seven teams coming in. The remaining teams are in the likes of
Yuri, NIP, Lin Bish and Tyloo showed the play a lot of local land. So MIBR on paper should
kind of have a little bit of ring rust, but clearly they're looking super sharp right now.
They've been putting in the work. They come in kind of refreshed, no travel lag,
none of that coming in and they're showing it in the server as well. Yeah, so super impressive.
I just like the small microplays that work together as well.
Again, considering that the majority of at least the Brazilian side
have never really played in English-speaking or in international squad,
the fact that they were able to kind of gel together so quickly,
I think a lot of credit has to go with the way of Ellen Zia and Letny as well at the helm.
It's been an experiment where I'm looking to like...
Huge pick-up line. It's outside the box thinking as well by the organisation.
Yeah, very outside the box, right?
And I won't lie, I was an unbeliever initially when this came together.
And this is happening at a time where from South America you have the likes of a 9z punching, you know, quite above their weight class.
You have legacy, you're looking very strong. They look really good in Atlanta as well.
And of course, for you being furious. So it's really cool to see, kind of see this resurgence from the Brazilian teams again.
But this time it seems like they're more consistent.
It's not just like a one-off, pop-off event, and it's kind of disappear, right?
So credit where it's due, man. It might be I've been looking pretty solid so far.
Gentlemen, let's look ahead now to map number two ancient Paravision's pick. It is an advantageous map for them
I don't think it would be
Incorrect though to say that MIBR have a chance at least based on the last three months striker
They just have MIBR thanks to playing so many of these local tournaments
They they actually have a really deep map book playbook because they just play every map like pretty much consistently
They they'll always be up to to play anything
I do think that it's they are going to struggle a bit with the Paravision style because I think that's ancient is probably the map where
That's the Jame identity comes through the most because he is very happy to just stay in T spawn and just let sides play and see what happens
Like he will stay in T spawn with the bomb and just wait for information to come in through and then then see what happens from there
You know like he's like a black widow just feeling it out
Yeah strings as it approaches and I agree with you
I feel I still wouldn't kind of paravision obviously one of the hardest teams to put away
Historically in a 2-0 fashion right and even recently even if you look at the results where it has been kind of rough
They've lost three out of the last four maps play, but I'm looking at sure they got one win against Fisher College
I'm not really gonna be reading up to much into that
They lost the Mongols and ancient specialist team below the 9z who again they look phenomenal
Recently and against g2 where ancient is one of those you know strong strong map so to speak
It was a close affair, but they got the dub and they lost sorry in a very unfortunate fashion
I guess you can say it over time. So it's not like they have completely
Crap the bed when it comes to the comes to ancient overall
There's no dust to ancient coming and I still I still believe they should be able to take us to map number three here
Paula, yeah, I just think that's like a player
Please go ahead with any final thoughts and and where this best of three is going strike start with you
Yeah, I just think that that ancient and that's to have been the consistent pieces of the the map
map pool on Paravision side it was more the Mirage Inferno where they start to struggle
and then the rest of the map they basically don't play you know so as much as their map
pool is weak ancient is the one that they can rely on at least to some degree.
I agree I think this one should go to map number three and as you pointed out I think
stylistically they're going to be starting on the T side over here somewhere where James
really does enjoy to work with and also I feel like at Mirage they were just so
ultra passive right and the CD side expect a little bit more mobility coming out from
extremity pieces they're not going to make things as easy. Map 3 should be under quality.
All right gentlemen as always thank you so much for your thoughts. All right everybody up next
it's map 2 ancient between MIBR and Paravision. Is Paravision's pick will they be able to bounce
back? Do not go anywhere. We'll find out after this short break.
I won't play window anymore.
What's going on?
Play your role, one expert, on to the next.
The human body was built to move.
Not trapped at the desk in one singular posture for 12 hours a day.
It's time your chair evolved.
This is Secret Lab Titan EVO.
Ergonomically engineered for you.
Gamers.
Hybrid workers.
Artists.
Imagine your every move.
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
have had Mirage is MIBR taking on
Power of Vision, a pretty convincing
victory from the Brazilian organization
in that first map, not dropping a single
round in their second half, but we do
move on to Ancient though, and that's where things
could change quite dramatically here.
Power of Vision, one of the most difficult teams
ever in all of Counter-Strike to
put away two zero-enders. So I feel like
they've got something left in the tank, and it's
going to be an uphill battle for MIBR to close
this one out. You know what I think, Strike have brought up a good point
in the desk as well about how difficult
can be on this T side. It's where the majority of the work on this map, they win more rounds
on the T side and he does do this thing where you never really know what the attack is going
to happen. They could be anywhere at any moment. So very frustrating, very hard to be up against.
I do think MIBR have their work cut out for them, but it is also a map that they play,
so it's not like it's a completely done deal. But I will say if Sway and especially
Belchernaut can keep playing the way that they were, it's still a pretty good template
for the rest of Paravision to kind of follow up on. But we'll see Insani on the
the T side of this map is pretty damn strong as well.
So don't underestimate him.
I'm not going to.
Nice. I have no plans to do so.
Mostly speaking to the audience at home.
Okay. There we go.
But I feel like you, if anybody,
who are or not, you recognize those people early on.
Well, let's see what that might be.
I was impressed with what they brought to the table.
I will say though, that's those same old frustrating signs
from ParaVision.
Like when they get into the T side,
running that clock down, no real map control,
scrambling at the bomb sites.
That's the paravision you don't really love to see.
There was a lot of questionable decisions
with the economy as well.
I felt like James couldn't really get the all power at all.
I just felt like they were playing
on the back foot constantly.
I suppose if you're on the T side
and you're running the clock down that low,
but as a result, the CTs don't know you're coming.
So there's only one person defending.
Like if that was the outcome,
at least we'd be more excited,
but that wasn't really happening on Mirage.
It seemed like every time MRBR knew,
here we go, we're into the second map.
It is going to be paravision,
starting on the T side.
MIBR on the CT side.
We're leaving a map number two. We are all important right now
You aren't gonna go to the playoffs here right away if you can win this series
It's very good points and it will be an a execution
They kick things off it all five players in this side of the maps way to provide the smoke towards CT spawn and towards Donut
You can flash over as well. Look at the read. Here we go
They might be on no, we have a good idea actually onto something there
The first smoke is deployed second is why you seem that you two come through nice flash bang Bruno trying to get away
There he gets caught there, that's dangerous, but Insani, they're already in this donut position
and they've got claim in here, what a setup.
Three people at the A bomb site early on, it's a position that normally has exactly
zero people at the start of the round.
Sway is in deep trouble here, four people on the other side, he's got four bullets
left.
It's not doable, good work with the dualies and they had that call out of spawn
MBR, they felt like this could be an early A attack.
of crazy the counter that three players in the a bomb site full execution from
paravision they don't find a plan once again barely find any kills two in total
but it's not a great work these jewelies in a ton of damage in the first and
finds no two as well. Clem there with a covering fire with our USP finds two
headshots five on two as mentioned no plans but a couple of kills there this
way at least kept them around competitive sure but that with no plan is
gonna be another full eco and another a attack here. Is there any utility to speak of?
I don't think so we have a PT 50 no Kevlar and just gonna be trying to find a bomb plant if possible
So you this oh, yeah
Reminded me to get a chance to say anything inside. He's really good at kills. Yeah, we'll save it for off the round
He was pretty messy does get taken down and I think that's the only goal of the round
Get that bomb planted right now. It's not gonna get better by waiting
They're just gonna show up with more and more players
Trying to jiggle for it here. No, it goes down the bomb is planted. So I say that's what they wanted
That was the objective good job. I suppose but I do want to say 33% of the time. Yeah opening here for
Mibr is going to be three mid and 2D and zero a
Okay, interesting. Yeah, so like they were and that's true for a lot of teams by the way
Yeah, so I guess for a pair of vision to make some sense to try and test this early on and see what happens
Well ancient all about conditioning your opposition if you can find that with control towards middle convincingly with three CT players there
then you can start mixing things up and
bolstering the B bomb site, maybe having the AWP go towards A occasionally as well.
So yeah, I'll be interested to see how that thread develops as we get into round number three here.
It's going to be AKs across the board, Paravision as you said on Mirage.
T side economy was a bit of an issue. Playing down some early smokes here, one towards the red room
and one towards the outside of the K position as well. CTs for now though.
Just one player committed towards Bidder. We have got two more with him behind the smokes.
I'll come join him as well, that's Bruno, packing up Insati.
I think I'm going towards A once again, looks to be the case, huh?
They did have that three mid opening, so already you're going to find out there's really nobody here.
But the start of the road is in very quick, how the smokes are coming out as well, that middle of the bomb site is very interesting.
I wonder how they're going to react to that parry vision.
They still have Selo on the other side of the map, he's testing the B ramp at the moment, but that might be for a late lurk instead.
He's actually running up there and it's just a surprise. There are still two people waiting
I don't think MIBR know that this is genuinely an air attack
Well still winnable for Paravision believe it or not especially with that kill from Belchnock there
With all the space they've got on the map the bombs are planted yet, but CT's starting to lock them in
It's gonna be defensive plant
CT's allowing it to go down 4 on 3 in favor of MIBR
Kits available on this retake. Two players coming in from Donut, two from Spawn.
Next kill, good to decide the outcome of this round.
Yeah, they got smoked some kits as well.
The wrap suddenly right in.
Insan finds two to begin the retake.
A third one, a quad kill in total, as you just, you know, that retake looks so easy.
I actually thought for a minute that was winnable there for Paravision 2.
Well, no dice, I'm afraid. It is going to be 3-0.
They've got a loss bonus accumulating and a bomb plant this time.
This might be a tactical time-out territory. You could buy this one with Galils and a couple of AKs.
I think you're more likely to go with the Tech9 tier, maybe a hero AK in the mix, but say MIBR, dominating them right now.
They had to open a bombsite there, and just that little lurk in towards B does nothing for them.
So they lose a player over towards the B side of the map.
Then the denial of the plant through the smoke courtesy of Insani as well, 5 on 3, and his fellow around was already over.
When they killed Sello on the B bomb site, they actually rotated the third plane onto B, like it was so sure hot.
So his fake did technically work.
His fake worked pretty well.
It just wasn't enough.
No turn in the middle.
I actually think I rate him pretty good for entering into the middle on this map.
I think he can do some real good work.
Well, it's a Sarni that gets the best of him.
I'm afraid it's going to be a five on four.
Significant damage to him at least.
Three HP.
But what have we got to work with?
As mentioned,
They've gone for the partial buy here of the Hero AK.
And that for mentioned AK, cracks things open in towards B.
Getting uncomfortable now, some utility being deployed.
This is the best chance they've had in some time, Anders.
Good flashbang through the control of the bomb site.
But the fact that they're stealing their own AKs back here on the T side is kind of massive.
Bomb being planted now.
There is still great utility for the after-plan for that incident.
Or they missed its injury.
Massively fails.
What?
They threw it straight in, he's supposed to jump.
It's a fail jump, but that looks so funny.
and they could use that grenade later on.
Bell shot, another head shot, and it's gonna be
Venom Sierra going down.
Clem trying to hold on to the round,
just barely, but they're low on health.
And Sway, he has all the advantage right now.
Clem needs the cleanest head shot of all times,
and he's not gonna get it either.
Sway with a double, and Paribish
and getting around, they have no business getting into.
Well, there we have it.
The tech nines, the AKs, a nice simple approach there.
Cracking things open, finding that opening kill,
and a missed incendiary,
I don't think that's the reason they lost around there, but it certainly makes things a bit more chaotic on the comms
Here's the opening kill we're talking about Belchnock finding LNZ
Just get himself a second there towards Renault as well and then it's way to close things out in the 2v1
I do actually wonder if that insanity would have landed on Belchnock's position behind the penalty
It definitely would have been a different round. I'm not sure if they win the round off it
But yeah, yeah, certainly doesn't help that you further incendiary your own feet
But Belchnock is still doing work again
This is one of the things last time in a start. They were really lacking but
really early on having a bit of an impact let's see if they could get one or two rounds here when
no two finds the opening kill in middle even if he dies even if he's converted immediately afterwards
you're gonna take that claims picked up the orb and he was amazing on the opening map so let's see
if he could put it to work here and shut down paravision who once again are testing that a bomb
site earlier and we did warn you we're gonna see a lot of these kind of openings three mid
Well, there's time three of the A-bombs, I think, but they stack it over there, boosting
all the way in the back.
Yeah, that's what they're doing.
But nobody on the A-bombs site, which is really the key point.
We're back to the same template from earlier.
All five members here have a paravision trying to break through the initial choke point
and they're done so admirably.
Great control here.
Bombs be planted, no problem.
Now, to even give this one a look at even the CT side, you kind of sacrifice everything.
You haven't found a kill through to smoke.
The bomb goes down, the money's quite fragile, it might be crazy to even suggest to Sanders
but unless you get an early pick here towards that temple, I don't think you have much of
a chance of winning it.
Love to be proven wrong here, and let's see what they can do, Incendiary's coming in.
I don't think it's a bad idea what you're suggesting here, because you can already
tell it's going to cost him quite a bit here in Sarny.
He's got a great scoreline, it's 10-2 and he will find the kill on Belchernock only.
How has he done that?
Venom Sierra finds one more and they made that leap.
That's crazy.
Incredibly easy.
I don't have words for that one, um, you got a five on three, they've got the defuse in you, it's fine baby, okay I'll throw that, you lose the round and holy, dude you got a five on five, I can't tell you how Paravision only finds two kills on the retake, I don't know, and you could tell from the defuse, if they lived even a short while longer, yeah, that's that round anyway, what kind of setup have they got where people are going down like that, it didn't seem like there was some crazy flash bang set up there as a Cincinnati pushing through a smoke and temple, getting a double kill and the whole round was just, you know, like, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I
fell apart I was speculating do you consider the save here I think that's
I honestly look obviously look silly now because they did it so well but I was
of the same mindset and it's that's the maddest part is that Insani had to
push through the smoke to even find the first kill and just made it look easy all
the grenades in the middle a big big disaster there for paravision a five
on three essentially like yeah and it all comes crashing down you find a
free bomb site yeah CT's don't get any kills like you pointed out sometimes
you'll get a kill before the bombs planted for the smoke?
None of that happened?
Crazy work.
Oh well.
Slow start.
The only round Paravision that picked up so far
has been with the Tech 9s here awake.
That's exactly what they've got right now,
but it's not with the rifle on 0-5.
Historically they do the best work on the T-side Paravision,
which is another reason why this is a problem.
I was looking very likely to be 5-1.
I can't believe that MIBR convert that previous round.
Or the Paravision give it up,
But which other way you look at it?
Yeah, well, Insani's on something else. He's 12 and 3 right now.
Well, there's another one. Make it 13.
Keep it going. Add to the board. We did call him out early on on Mirage for being very good.
But again, this map he's definitely also strong on.
Venomzera, easy couple of clean up kills here.
LNC, no one's able to check him.
So no chance they're even getting into the round.
Oh, dear. Not a single kill here by looks at things.
This is way with attack 9.
it will be Venon Zera to close things out. The whole reason we're having the
discussion about saving in the previous round because the economy was so low and
exactly are but now they have a perfect round. That's what they needed. They are
looking very comfortable now. Power vision anything but they're finding all the
space so they keep going to that A bombsite and getting it for free
essentially and then unable to convert the advantage and the space they
find and fair enough though they do have a full buy here. One concession
this way he'll go with the Galil. We have got the Orb for Jane. Bare bones in the utility
but we'll have a look what we're going to be deploying out of the audience. Lots of AGV
exchange inside opening things up once again. Belchnick will answer back though but an opening
four on four. Damage inflicted towards LO as well but he'll be holding towards that
B lane position but speaking of which L and Z is on the prowl and pushing down the
B ramp. Timing could be disgusting here and indeed it is.
Okay, at least they don't let him get away, but still very annoying, isn't it?
Notice had a brutal first half. He's been thrown into the middle to fight every round, flashed in by his teammates, and he just hadn't been able to find that opening kill, so he's 0-7.
But it's because he's playing a really unforgiving position on the map to be fair to him.
Sway wanted to fight there, gotta be very very careful.
Bombers leaning back towards A and that's a result of Belchinov taking over this donut position.
But then again, if Venom Syracan walk past here, then who's really flanking who at this stage?
I'm not sure.
Belchinov's wondering how have I cleared all the way into donut without finding anyone?
Oh, he doesn't commit to the back stab.
And he himself could have shared in the back by Sway who's now coming back to spawn.
So, yeah, there's a lot of moving parts around us.
So they've got an open A bomb side once again.
It all comes down to this kill. Venom Zera seems to be very aware of this.
Now he's got the footstep. Sound cue, got to find that advantage at least.
Three on two. But again, Paravision have had so much time to establish themselves in the A bomb side.
You've got the AWP on Jame as well, but no further utility on this T side.
It comes down to raw mechanical ability, Jame and Belchnock to try and get the second round of the board here.
They must. They absolutely must here, but a nice incendiary. What a setup.
Venom Sierra just alley-ooping himself to the box.
He's all the way down to 11.
It's a great flick to begin with here,
but he can't find the next one.
And it was called out.
They knew Klim, he's going to be able to find him
and they all have kits.
So should be absolutely fine for the diffuse.
It will be MIBR to pick up another one.
And I've got to be honest, I think
if Sway doesn't run through T-Spawn, which I don't
think he had to do at all, then
there's a very good chance Venom Sierra turns around,
goes to Pelvar the bomb site,
and gets shot in the back.
So the footstep there, I think, making a big difference.
Another convincing finish here.
Getting the information that Jane had being tagged.
Pistols are drawn out.
And we go 6-1 here.
Bomb planted, but money in the bin once again.
Got the pick up the pace here.
I don't think they can afford to go slowly.
And I can get out of here.
Just the execution looks like it's going straight to all day.
You keep leaving A open.
No one's ever there.
So let's just run in there and hope for the best.
Yeah, A rush.
Why not?
It's happening in Starner as well,
where they kept going to one bomb site all the time.
and it fell you what Henry didn't work out
it didn't work out
it's time to see this whole
disasterous
it was looking so promising there
for about 5 seconds
still something to play with
they've got a bomb down but how much damage
is Insani doing? where is this coming from?
he's everywhere
is that me?
he's up to 17
holy shit what was that?
they're all a liar but they're still a dine
But let's do it. I could have set up get the crossfires enabled get some smokes down in sunny
Just comes into like 400 damage out of nowhere
You got a wonder at some point if it if you're you're sort of getting fooled by the fact that you keep getting the bomb down
Which gives you the illusion that you're kind of close to winning the round, you know, but you're really not
So good
um
Seven one just to know Brazilian players on the server. I love to see that
Still a meme still an old meme, but a good one. I find yes
Yes.
Always a good one.
Put it in the chat if you enjoy that as well.
Yeah, there's so many numbers we have to avoid these things.
Dude, just to note as well, 4 AK-47s, the AWP, the Royal Flush, on the CT side, it's pretty
wild.
And that's opening kill you thought they were going to pick up there.
Klim now really misses out on the opening advantage.
And you can see they're throwing caution to the Windmile Power Visions.
Just calling out a spawn.
No more defaults, Anders.
Five-man attacks.
Let's get some rounds on the boards here.
Decent space once again, but you've got to get past Venomzera, which they cannot so far.
Well, he's been lights out the swallow in the city, so he looks back with the damage.
He very nearly takes down Jame on top of it.
Look how low they are.
They are very low on health, you're absolutely right, overkill with the AWP, as Clem will
find a double, and...
This is cooked.
This is really cooked at the moment.
Like, this is the point where, like I said, you're just calling Strats out of
Now nothing's working. They called the fast a rush in the previous round
This wasn't a b rush necessarily, but it was a b execution
But no real pressure applied there Venom Zera. I'm not sure they're supposed to Molotov him
There was a Molotov near him for sure. Yeah, but it definitely wasn't ruffling his feathers
He gets a double kill two and a half kills really and
No, we're near winning this round when we told the beginning of the broadcast about the kind of mistakes of
Paravish need to iron out
I think something like a Molotov on Venom Sierra is one of those things we said well that has to land that's got a
That's got to push him out of that corner every time. Yeah, he looked way too comfortable
I'm assuming the fact they weren't checking that area the game plan is that positions Molotov I think you're right
We heard one near him, but the fact that he got a double kill and 80 damage on a follow-up player as well
that just can't happen and
Because Clim missed the opening shot. Yeah, true. They had a window like yeah, it's a chance. You need two players at the back there
Yeah, kind of crazy. Jay might go down off the time here boys. He will. They're gonna be hiding this one
Everyone showing up. Two for one. They're still kind of close. You've got to run them down shortly. There we go.
Oh, it goes from bad to worse. He had $100 now. They can drop him like a P250.
Might not even be worth it, but keep on the clock.
Oh dear, that's like the worst possible outcome there.
Yeah.
Even the Molotov in front wouldn't even have... If he'd played the third rock corner,
he wouldn't have pushed him out. So either way, like, no smokes, not good enough Molotov.
It's a lot of things. Do you just have to week over here considering James financial situation? Probably yeah
This is the devil's will he ever financially recover from this one?
It doesn't feel like it does it oh boy, this is that I was told of the analysis that's he sighed
Ancient because it's gonna be huge. It's gonna be a lot of rounds here
They've had all the space. They've had the bomb sites. They've made the right calls
They just can't hit their shots when it really matters
That's what it's come down to for me like that the hot that post plant crossfires and the angles are holding seem too aggressive and
Then they spiraled lost too many rounds. Yeah doing these out of spawn calls and again finding some space
but yeah, it was like they they've kind of
Got nothing left in the tank with Jane going down off the time. He's full eco. They do drop them a p250
They are partially buying into this quarter heavy investment considering where they're at
So I'm going to pistol some Kevlar
And we have got a here-away K. Bear in mind the only round they picked up so far was a partial buy with the AK so
Yeah, but it's in the hands of no two again. Who's having a stinker one and nine
He's at such a hot time and again. It's cuz they're playing those three. They are opening so much at this time
Insane stats must be off the charts right now. Let me go check in his ADR
He is out of control with an 18 to 4 scoreline
LMC walking down the bottom of the ramp is going to find Belchenok and the fact that it is Belchenok
suggests that there's more of the team here. It's only if you find Selo alone he's going to be
looking and they're doing something else so yeah important kill to be name-clading early on here
Insani finds more, he just keeps adding to its way, gonna get tested and he'll get brought
down it's another multi-kill 20 and 4 for Insani. Unreal. Can ultimate rounds here,
It feels like the game's already done, I'm afraid.
They've just got nothing left. They haven't turned up to the second map.
They didn't get a single round in the second half of Mirage.
And it doesn't really feel like they've got a single round here on Ancient.
Surely they've got one, I'm aware of that.
But it was like a partial by victory, they got a couple of nice shots.
They didn't have to work too hard for it.
It's good. Really good though for MI Beyond.
I mean, sure.
Don't take anything away from them.
Like, the way Insani's playing right now,
like, I don't know if anyone can stop it.
Like he's getting opening kills every single round it feels like.
He's currently 6 and 0 in opening duels.
That's what you want to see. That's really wonderful here.
When they're on 0, they watch straight into shots almost getting another one on Jame there.
The headshot lineup was good for it, but he has slowed them down.
It comes with danger man.
Yeah, he's in the smoke waiting for them.
Is he going to get flashed his way through? No, he just keeps it straight up.
And Klim is there to avenge him.
What a few rounds for him.
Simon doesn't get a multi-kill and it's left Jame.
Dude.
Locked in the bomb site, he doesn't even have the bomb with him either.
Again, they're throwing caution to the wind.
Three players run at the B ramp, hopefully the best.
Got sprayed down, no real pressure applied, wasn't blind, wasn't smoked off,
not molotov, they were just trying to take aim duels.
Lost two and a half kills again, Insani with the back stab.
In another kind of world, Henry, where they make some of those early A rounds work,
they could force the CT scientists to be at A earlier.
Conditioning them, like we talked about before, right?
And then that would make it easier for Nota to fight middle.
Like there's sort of everything there. I'm guessing we're calling another rush out of spawn now because
everything else has just gone terribly wrong for them, but
Five players towards the east side of the map no too luck in towards middle two and eleven now
Sort of be fat got a kill on the previous rounds
They've thrown the flashes over but no two didn't peak now. They're walking through after the fact
That seems so risky. Good space though. They've got four players out towards middle
If they are going for that a split, this is actually looking quite promising
It's gonna be a lot of pressure for Breno here. You're gonna get some backup coming from insani
And that could be a scary prospect here. Brenno, we need multiple kills.
Brenno's had one of the most boring first halfs ever, and Sani ready for another multi.
They line up, but it's only gonna be the one. The MP7 up does him, and Brenno can't make work.
There we go.
Belchock, who's been the short short.
Gotta win this, boys.
Almost anything they've been able to do in the first half here,
Shot goes over, and Belchock nearly dies.
But Klim can't find him, and one alibi grenade in return that lands on the last three players of MIBR.
be our another one on bitim's era it should be a second round which is really far from good enough here for paravision but
it's got to start somewhere lurking through the middle is belchinock he's low on health so he just wants to be
having some kind of an impact towards the red room and the rest of them they should be able to hold it
they've had a terrible job at his upper hand so far but this one is in the back sway with the double belchinock
gets a double as well and it is a second round for paravision. Two will do. I think someone said that before
before. It's going to have to do this time. Paravision, very weak opening half here. Insani,
very strong 21 kills, five deaths here, hovering around 280R as he goes into the second half
here. Brutal as Paravision, yeah, they don't seem like they're up for it. Tactically looking
out of their depth in terms of the 1v1 duels, no one can hold a candle to Insani right
now. And yeah, some desperate calls towards the end. Lots of A rushes, lots of B ramp
creeps and sure it worked out towards the end the a bombsite finding all that space once more this time
a pretty decent crossfire setup to actually get the second round on the board
but get in the other lot more that came from the standard chance around us.
You always need one friend on a team who's going to say two's all you know tens all they get you
know yeah but uh someone has to be the optimist hopefully.
Two's all we get boys.
We're not going to get anything more I guarantee it we're done.
Two is all we get.
Oh
Man what a first half. Hey the thing is though
If you lose this pistol might be our and it starts getting out of hand, and you know, it's paravision you start
Thinking to yourself. What that should be actually lost as though imagine reaction. Oh step
Like after insanity's has dropped 20 kills in the first half 22 kills in the first half
Imagine we actually lost it guys. Well, let's check in with that thought if it goes down that route
They're going for the full A execution.
We've got double flashes, double smokes, molotov, free of the post plant, all for defaults.
Yeah. Now, the one mistake I think they can make in Paravision defensively is if they fight way too much in that donut position.
It's fine to take a peek in, but if you fight to the death here, it could be a bit of an issue.
Jane backtracking and still landing the headshots.
That looks like an impossible shot.
Belchinocky is going to fight to the death.
And I feel like that could be very risky, but they've got the man lead only for a second.
Back into a 3v3 now.
They find NMSira and now the bomb how do you encounter this stage?
LNZ's walking through donut and claims on the other side pay a ticket they could go B
They could actually could with a minute on the clock. They could
But will be Anders that is the question LNZ trying to find a gap and opening
Sewing the seeds of doubt into the mind to paravision right now
Trying to force a rotation. You can see them thinking about it now
Should we place a player over towards middle B?
Yeah, they've lost track of the situation now, so they're going to be hunting for a bit of intel.
Bombs will still be towards A main on the back of Clem, hoping the CTs play themselves here.
Which they could.
Oh, they are going towards B hunters.
They're starting to rotate in. Yeah, they feel like, okay, we might be walking up right behind them in their minds.
They're imagining someone's in this cave, someone's down at the B ramp.
Absolutely nobody's here.
They do not have a kit either.
Oh, this could be an absolute meltdown.
Meltdown.
Surely now you find the Glock, you've got to go for that bonfire.
Go for the bonfire, yeah.
Let's get it down quick.
OK, well, they're coming back on the other side,
so it's not that disastrous a parry vision.
They're not a million miles away here.
Great shot from Sway.
Got to win this now.
Oh, yeah.
Claim alone against the world, looking for an ace clutch
in the pistol round, no less.
Going to get the first head shot.
They're looking very accurate at the moment,
trying to reposition.
He knows where they're coming from.
Reload is in, but this is still winnable for him.
Smoke's going to go up, but again, no kit,
So it's not going to be a defuse here.
They try to hunt him down and awkward jump.
My god, I thought they've thrown it away,
but Jane will see that he finds the third kill in that round.
It's not comfortable, but he does get the defuse in.
It's going to be close-anders, but he has got it.
There we go.
Wasn't a clean round.
Wasn't pretty.
Certainly uncomfortable towards the end.
A five on three comes down to a 1v1,
where Jane will come out on top there.
It'll start to there.
Nice couple of headshots.
You get that kill.
The jewelies go into place.
That's a five on three moment death.
They did pull things back with the Glock,
they're resetting around as James,
that felt like there was nothing to do,
nothing to say, but they have granted a bomb plan here.
James didn't look like he was any chance
of him losing it towards the end of the year,
they are gonna be force-buying in the second round.
10 to three, MIBR will have an AK and a Galil,
three pistols to work with here,
very important round of the Paravision,
losers won, call a GG, there's no chance.
James got an AWP, just to notice as well.
That's what I was saying, who abouts,
the second round AWP?
Which normally ends in disaster.
I think that's the...
Round the history of Counter-Strike.
No one likes second round or...
It seems cast.
So we're going down.
It's a very nice kill for LNC to bomb.
Hello there.
Yeah, they are very low.
No, they should be able to do something with this.
Oh dear.
Alright, so they stabbed him with the Galil.
Bayonet, play.
Only Jane with the ult now.
Who's got any real health?
You almost got to wonder if you could throw this ult all over the sway and let Jane make it the rifle instead.
Yeah, there we go.
No kit either, right?
They don't have a kit.
Don't think there's one inside of the site either.
So this is very tricky.
LNC and Insani could do some real work in this one.
Helmet on Insani as well.
So we'll see if he can find a way
to have an impact against the FAMASIA.
And the bomb is ticking away.
This is already going to be very low here.
There's Insani with the head shot.
23rd kill, doing some good damage.
But you know what?
LNC still goes down.
They can't make it.
Unfortunately, there's no kit to be found anywhere.
technically sure they'd get the kills, but they still lose the round.
Oh, they were so low, they couldn't commit towards the bombsite and the retake until everyone was there.
They do manage to save the Famous and the Orb, so it's not a complete disaster, but it's certainly not good news.
You go down to the bottom of the barrel, lost bonus here now.
You do save a couple of weapons, but it's 11 to 3, MIBR bouncing back.
They'll have the AKs, two Galils in the mix here as well.
You've got to buy, if you're Power of Vision, last chance, Salunir.
Round number 15, J-Morp, Pistols and Formasses.
They had fewer rounds in the second half of Mirage and they would come into this map
and just get annihilated on the first half as well.
There are quite a few rounds all of a sudden where,
or a lot of time where they just don't even know what it's like to win a round.
J-M is at the A-bomb side though with the orb, it's the perfect play.
Defensive position, the flash brown will catch him though, is he gonna be able to get one?
No, big mess, huge mess.
Surely you can't even miss like there's so many people on the other side crazy how he doesn't get one there
So lucky you'd love to see the slow-mo replay of that one
No, sir is gonna end up going down and the bomb is planted and once again
There's not going to be a diffuse kid. I think it's already a safe call
I don't think you can really do anything about this. So MIMB are gonna go up to 12
Just one connection there could have made a huge difference
You're right though because he might have four players in front of them four bodies
And he was blind to be fair, but you think oh, it's gonna hit at least one
Yeah, like you'd have to try not to connect with someone on the other side there
And you're right as soon as he misses those first two shots that the rounds over they don't have their firepower to
Come back through the smokes and you can see the hunt as you might expect is coming through it's Insani
Finding his 24th kill here. Jamie. You've got to be very careful. Not worth it
Oh, we've got to flush him out. You can force his fight. It's a perfect Molotov and it's and a perfect shot
Well played by Jane
says something about how confident Insani is, just wants to go for it no matter what.
Not the kind of second map that I was expecting, although I did say it's, I think MIB are going to be a bit stronger than people expect.
I only say that because I've been underestimating them for a minute, but that victory against Legacy kind of opened up my mind a little bit and said, you know what, they're actually...
Opened up your third eye?
That's exactly right.
Alright, we all need that sometimes.
LMZ, aggressive out towards Mid-Organcy.
It's a pooch burn though, down to 68.
This round could do it.
Paravision looking down the barrel of a 13-3 deficit,
2-0 defeat here.
At CAC, this series was to decide who's going to the playoffs first.
Paravision never really showed up to this series, to be honest with you.
Lots of damage inflicted, though, they have the advantage here for now.
Flashbang towards Donut, doesn't quite catch James.
He's in a position, big miss in the previous round.
Can he make up for it here?
Apparently not. He had a chance to get out of there. I don't know why he's stuck around but it's gonna be LNZ
To find him open and kill the orbs removed
Zillow will be dropping this smoke defensive one in towards the K position Belchinock answering back. That's Insani
The danger man dealt with
Maybe grouping up towards the bottom of the B ramp 55 seconds
This way just wants to get out throws down the smoke
But I don't really gonna respect it. It's indeed they're gonna run right through and a good enough shot from sway
We'll take that kill 45 seconds and there is a man coming in from middle
But note up you've got to be careful here if you attack too early and die
Then they're gonna slip out and go back to the B bomb site so or the a bomb site rather
I think notice doing a fine job at just holding the yeah
He should be able to confirm this round for them. We've either backstab or just catching as they drop down from heaven
25 seconds looks like they're committing in towards be here's the jump up as mentioned
a round winning maneuver and that should be enough to do it. We've got two players in towards K 15 seconds
so it looks like Paravision are going to keep their head above water for now.
We said this would be the play that decides the outcome of the round.
It certainly seems to be the case here. L and Z in the clutch can't even really go over the plan.
He'll just be swung on by Zello. So he might get the bomb down but no chance of winning it
and there we have it. Paravision still in this one for now Anders.
just need another eight rounds after this that's all it's been it's been done
before it's been done many times before the easiest job in the world but someone's
gonna do it someone has to and they have a bunch of players that just haven't
been activated like no turn solo a practically not participated in this
map at all true Jane Bell should not playing fairly well sway started to
get there so it's not impossible that if some of those players wake up that
that we could have a different look per revision, to be honest.
Well, let's see.
That was a compromise round with the masses
and difficult situations there.
Opening picks going in favor of MIBR,
Jane going down towards a donor.
You thought I would spell disaster,
but they managed to keep it going.
Beagle only for L and Z.
The exchange of utility towards middle.
No one giving away too much just yet, though,
to be a bit of an alien here in the T side.
Venomzara is showing presence towards the V lanes.
Big opening kill, completely blind his nose up.
Venomzera trying to answer back here.
Many players in front of him.
Can he find the headshots?
He can, but Belchnock can.
All the meanwhile, they're helping themselves
towards the A bomb site.
So a little bit of a ruse.
Deep smoke towards Donut.
Trying to gain some control towards CT spawn as Brenner.
Almost look like that smoke was too deep.
My shot.
That is a very fine kill indeed.
Sway the one to go down.
Three versus three.
And Paravision thought, okay,
we got the opening in the middle here.
Thanks to no to that should be enough to win the round, but maybe not.
Clem will take down cello.
Bell should not goes next as Ellen see you mentioned it that one
eagle at the start, and he's found the head shot notice going to be dropped.
It's 13 to four.
M IBR with a two and a victory over Para vision.
Very impressive.
I mean, it was impressive.
They played well today, especially in sunny, but I'm still very disappointed
from that lackluster showing from Para vision.
It felt like they just didn't really show up to the server in this series
any point at the first half.
Mirage is pretty good.
We went 6-6 there.
We think, OK, it's not that map pick.
They're not dominating MIBR.
They should be winning this, but not
getting a single round in that second half.
The T sides today have looked pretty woeful.
We talked about the scrambling on Mirage,
and now it looked like they were just out of ideas here
on ancient.
So there we have it.
It is going to be MIBR, the first team
through to the playoffs.
Big congratulations to MIBR.
Big commiserations to PowerVision.
just two really tough maps for them. Stryker, let's start with you. What went
wrong on Ancient for PowerVision? Yeah, I expected a lot more of a deeper
playable on Ancient to be honest. We were talking about how James likes to play
this map and likes to call on this map and very late and all these things
likes to wait it out and boy for all the information. It was none of that
really. We only saw one of those rounds when they ended up in like
that 3v3. Otherwise it was very spawn calling like very early A executes,
early B executes early early B rushes where they just constantly get kind of
stuck behind smokes where they get spammed down they can't even get the
bomb down just very very difficult to decide from from start to beginning yeah
I mean the first round they did when was kind of like this half by yeah this is
the round right just push on in Dutch knock pulls off you know the nice
opening kills where even easy 1v2 and maybe that's when they're like you know
what maybe this is the the solution to our problems just go for this fast
place but then man these retakes from MIBR they were really really
excellent but also paravision what are you doing guys 5v5 bomb down barely able to get a single kill
and I started with the 3v5 really that was the that was the one that started it all off
exactly but here's the thing right even if they didn't manage to convert a couple of those rounds it
felt like MIBR all over and Sonny was having just a hell of a game right there completely
just knocking him out of the server but also overall for paravision guys like you're not
dragging at all like I think no that is just they all ended that game with 1380 on that map
in total parlor across two maps two t-side rounds one
I mean, I don't know what's happening at this point. Like it feels like at some point
The the crumble has to stop up up, you know after like three four events would be struggling back to back
But it seems like it's a never-ending freefall at the moment
I would assume that harovation don't necessarily know what's going on as well
Yeah, multiple rough events now and yeah, definitely off to
Now not an optimal start here. Of course they won that first best of one
And yeah, I'd imagine there's a lot that's one of the reasons why we see a lot of
Frustration coming from their what public-facing coach in in dust on is because it's probably quite hard to to fix whatever's happening
And that perhaps they don't know with that said we've got these scoreboard up on screen
You mentioned in Sandy he went absolutely huge and let's turn our attention back to MIBR
So yeah, we know a sanny went in sanny went off but you mentioned those retakes, but overall strike
I think they're just playing very well as a team
And I think at this point we can say a very strong improvement over blue crest
It seems like the cohesion making sure angles are swung together, etc
All these fundamentals are being covered. I just want to point out there real quickly the amount of kills is really good
It's a lot of kills a game of donut is actually but it was also like how many of them were through smokes
You know where they got smoked off and they just get the opening kill on the planter or at least they get all get some damage off
But what was more impressive to me was that there was never an overstep in those positions
You know they never ended up in situations where like one side was smoked and the other one was peaking or anything like that
They always waited for each other to be ready for the retake for the flashes to coming from CT spawn for the donut guys to react
What react off of the information it just felt like
Paravision never really had an opening even to get some of those kills back when when the earlier exchanges went there the other way
It's also like so confusing a couple of rounds come to mind where paravision they they have Dillman smoked off
They have a closed CD cleared off and then they go for the default planet inside
I just you know line up of a free spray kill under bomb planner as well
So yes mistakes were being made by paravision quite a number of times in a T side Paula
But you can't deny it they were getting punished Insani hell of a game from him even Venom's ever to be bomb said multi-killed
So the multi kills and this is not again just pistols by the way talking about like rifles coming out
So it's kind of like a tale of a rough of the just a dismal T side from paravision
but then a very solid, I wouldn't say reactive,
but just like textbook CT side from the side of the Brazilian line.
But yeah, you know what I mean.
Still Brazilian core, you know?
Yeah.
Usually the thing is that the provision do rely on the CT side.
It's usually the CT side where they struggle a little bit more,
but this time it was exactly the opposite thing,
which is definitely concerning for me
because usually it's exactly a game that you can rely on
to make the right calls at all times.
This felt very shallow from that perspective compared to the usual game
game that we see from Jim Colling. Obviously some of it was just down to yeah okay you were planting in
the wrong place or they were always getting spammed through the smokes, but some of it was also some
misty utility as we saw on the B bomb side or no utility in like the second Venom Zera like
multi-kill from behind. Towards the end of the game they ended up winning that round I think
in the end, but still it just definitely gaps in the T-size that we hadn't necessarily seen
before in ParaVision? It just feels like they're regressing and that's so shocking to see considering
the start they had. You used the word shallow this track, I just want to touch upon that.
Where do we leave, I mean what is this, where does this leave ParaVision when it comes to the
map pool? So you take out Dust2, this is supposed to be a second better map so to speak, right?
Now just the way we saw them in Ancient, now where do you really go from here? Because the
map pool seems non-existent right now. If you don't take away Dust2, it's like there's no map
where they go up against a middling opposition so to speak and you're like, yeah ParaVision
should have this one in the bag. It's looking grim. I know they got that opening win in
its liquid early on. Again, flashy playing into the stand-in as well. But this is the
most, the worst I've seen of ParaVision across this entire season.
But it was also like a liquid game where they realistically could have been in a position
to lose if Jane doesn't come up with a big performance.
And at least didn't have a miserable game.
Definitely some interesting and important points here. I think that's an interesting
comparison to make. At least with regards to the tournament here, you know, Jane
going big in that first matchup against Liquid, arguably wins them the thing. They come into
this first best of three against MIBR, and there just seems to be a lack of real team
play, some mistakes here and there, and they don't come out on top. Blair, you also mentioned
questions with Matt Paul, etc. But guys, I wanted to pick your brains with regards to
what can power vision do? What's most important for them to turn their fates around? Blair
Stolling with you? I feel there's just confidence at this point, right? Like,
For example, on the T side in ancient, like you say, they like playing a slow methodical T side,
but when the aggression is coming from the CT side, it's like that firstly, they don't seem to be ready for it,
just not winning the duels, they're not even swinging out and taking the fights,
and they're just getting punished, which is why they went for these, you know,
accolades straight out of spawn. It's like the default, it's not working out right now.
I feel they need to get at least one comfortable, confident win against, you know, a reasonable team.
I feel that's the injection of confidence in me, because right now it's just been
loss after loss after loss, even to win a close win against Liquid playing with a stand-in situation,
all of that. The confidence seems to be in the bin, in the gutter.
It's just so odd as well, right? Compared to the start of their year or tournaments,
let's say, before Bucharest, there's been such a shift.
Yeah, for sure. It's been kind of confusing really from the beginning of the year. They're
obviously very up and down, and they're always publicly facing, at least Jane was,
and just kind of managing expectations, right? Like this is still a new team, this is still
new guys that aren't necessarily used to playing at this level, but by now we're five months into
the year and they obviously already played the major before that, then they bring in Zwei and the
expectations rise a little bit, and especially after the runs they had at the beginning of the
year, their own expectations probably rise a little bit, but the players are still a bit
stagnant and that's why we see so much frustration from Dust on, right? That there is no improvement
from the likes of Zelo, from the likes of Nota, or you know he was even looking towards
Belchnok if he could become like the star anchor for the team you know to be able to be more bring a
little bit more of that stability you know so I do think it just comes from the individuals where
whether it is down to you know the pressure that they're under there's going to be pressure if
you're at this level of competition regardless on your spot on the team you know and and so I don't
think that this necessarily fair on to to just blame Dastan for all this because it is also
about the players delivering on their spots. When we spoke to Jane in an interview at Bucharest
I'm unsure if it went out, I think it did.
Go and search it on the PGL channel if you're interested.
You're on the couch, so that's the one you're talking about?
No, the one with James.
Oh, James, okay, sorry.
Yeah, when I spoke to James at Bucca, we had him in the interview set up on media day.
One thing he mentioned is that he's, I don't want to miss quote here,
but the gist of it was he was hoping that the newer editions or the younger players
can eventually function without his micromanagement.
Do you think that is something that's going on,
or do you think the problems lie deeper?
I feel like, I think it really ties into
what Dastan said as well, right?
You can have the best late plans,
you might have the right protocols in place,
you might micromanage as much as you can,
but when the players are just
messing up basic fundamentals,
the best late plan just falls apart.
And I'm just looking at the T side, for example,
at how, for example, there's no trading at all.
Like no one's taking the impetus,
And James can't be like, all right, he died.
You know, why are you going for the trade?
This is something you ought to do by default.
And I feel like I kind of disagree with Striker.
The onus at some point has to lie with the players as well.
Listen, whether you like Daston's style of, you know,
being the bad cop, whether you like it or not,
end of the day, it's also up to you to deliver
what he's supposed to do, the bare minimum.
And unfortunately, I feel,
apart from Belcherock, surprisingly,
there's been actually, I feel like the kind of the
silver lining so far and what's been kind of a...
In this game for sure.
In this game for sure, right?
Azelo and Noda just seem miserable, bro.
Like, there's zero confidence in taking the fight they don't.
They seem so unsure as to what to do.
Half the times, they're caught kind of not even taking the fight
because their opponents are swinging at them
and they're not ready for it.
And this is not, I'm sorry,
no matter what system we're going to be starting this person to,
you're not going to be able to survive here.
Just, it's, it's, think of swim.
And right now, they need, there are no life rafts.
There's nothing around. You got to deliver.
Let's leave our final words on the side of MIBR.
So yeah, winners here.
I think let's just touch upon quickly, Linus.
I feel at this point we can be quite confident in his impact,
Striker.
Yeah, for sure.
I think we saw it in this game especially
where how tight the team seems to be when
it comes to those CT sides.
Some of these retakes like 5-5, all these things
that like it does come down to you
have to have a really good system in place.
And that has to be Ellen Z and Luckney, right?
To make sure that when you are going for these retakes,
you're always tight.
you're always waiting for each other, all these things.
So far, really good signs out of MIBR.
I mean, already through to the playoffs,
I think that's their best result probably so far this year,
even including the Bucharest one,
where the competition was kind of up and down.
Some of it was obviously kind of the opposition
that you would expect them to beat anyway, right?
So I do think that it's looking up for them.
But it looks like the impact of LNZ, Lutney,
is bringing the most out of the place.
And we can even see that in Klim as well.
Yeah, I think Klim has been surprisingly the best pick.
I mean, one of the best, better surprise pickups
we've had so far last year, right?
I think he's been delivering with the AWP quite a bit.
I won't lie at the beginning when, you know,
with the cricket situation,
and then once he left and Ellen Z came in,
I'm like, man, you just got to save Insani and save Klim.
But the fact that they put in,
I want to give credit to the other players as well.
The fact that they've really gone in
and put full faith in Ellen Z and Letny,
I think that's what we're seeing here in the server.
Everyone's looking super sharp.
Clint, so stable, so reliable to AWP.
Insane, insane, I think we've said enough about him.
But just the way, as Strager pointed out,
the way they're handling a lot of these retake situations
and the more hectic situations,
why it's especially more impressive for me is again,
this is a very young team, particularly for the Brazilians
with a calming in the language
that they're not used to calming.
When it comes to retakes,
things can get lost in the comms.
You forget what you wanna say
because you use the calming in Brazilian
and entire careers.
So the fact that they're able to switch it up so quickly,
Venomzera included. He was the one guy who was struggling a little bit with English calms.
It seems like they have really been putting in the work with the bootcamp.
So credit where it's due. This team is suddenly looking pretty exciting for me.
Absolutely, gentlemen. As always, thank you for your thoughts.
With that said, everybody, MIBL are heading through to the playoffs.
They take out ParaVision. ParaVision going to have to battle their way through.
For now, we are going to take a break and we'll be back with Falcons vs MAT very soon.
Do not go anywhere.
She said she loves you, but she can't love me, but I love you
The human body was built to move, not trapped at the desk in one single posture for 12 hours
a day.
It's time your chair evolved.
This is Secret Lab Type N.E.V.O.
Ergonomically engineered for use, games, hybrid workings, artisans, bagging in every
Remove.
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
music
music
music
music
music
music
music
music
music
music
and the other guy is still black guys. How are we doing? Hi Mantris. I'm feeling great today.
Oh, it's Bill Paar.
And scenes.
Yes, once known as Mantris, always known as Mantris, but gentlemen, we've got an amazing game ahead of us.
Falcons looking, I feel like we're going to probably speak quite a bit about Falcons, so why don't we start things off with M80?
So recent result for them, they were at Atlanta 13th to 16th, lost to Legacy in Liquid. Where are they at right now?
right now. Yeah, in a rough spot, not gonna lie, especially facing off against the Falcons
team that probably is heading into this as a favorite. So we've been talking about up
to this point, you know, obviously going to be an upper battle. I remember I forgot who
it was. It was an interview from one of the MAT players when they were about to go up
against Liquid where it's like, we didn't really try hard against Liquid and didn't
quite plan out for them. It's been kind of rough for them as well for me, Stryker
because I remember Dracula and just a couple of months and they look good, right?
They beat Monty to the Liquid, to the Aurora.
And you're like, finally, this team's starting to really punch
and look good because I like this team.
I want to like this team.
I want to have this consistent North American team
in international competition.
And then you go back to the frag event recently
with the loss to Marsboard and then Atlanta just not really
putting up a fight against the Legacy, even against Liquid,
apart from the one map when they got completed battered.
But that being said, great opening map against Payne.
That looked very convincing overall here.
Yeah, let's talk about that matchup against Payne.
So yeah, everybody at home, if you've not been tuned in.
So MAT started off their tournament journey,
squaring off against Payne in a best of one.
They came out on top 13 to eight.
Striker, any takeaways from that matchup?
Yeah, I mean, this was happening at the same time
as the other mouse game, I think,
that we already thought, oh, title of game mouse.
So I didn't catch a lot of that one.
I don't know why.
I didn't see the mirage.
I will say it looked pretty convincing from the MAT side,
and that's about it, really.
Yeah, and now they go into a
best of three against falcons.
I would certainly say M. A. T.
R. The underdogs here, of
course, very recent and big
changes to falcons. They
started off their new journey
with Karrigan extremely well
in Astana Blair, throwing it
over to you. I mean, can't
get himself started. I would
rate that performance and eight
out of nine eight or nine out
of 10 is what he said. You
know what? I kind of agree
with them. We had the best
series, at least in my
opinion, off the year does
And then of course we saw in the grand finals where they've made things competitive at least on one of the maps in the spirit
Who are looking really dangerous at the moment for them for me?
Aside from jet lag the other favorites coming into this tournament for sure and even in the opening game where we saw like a
Pretty commendable fight being put up by BC game using we saw it go almost all the way towards overtime
It did have the individual shining Q is to give it a 3k in a final round as well
So even if things don't pan out Xonix looking good Xonix looking happy. I just want to say
He looks very, his stress level seems to have gone down a lot. His cortisol level seems to have gone down quite a bit as well.
He's picking up thin right now, Striker.
You could say it was a sweaty affair.
That's the Danish connection right there. I'm sure he's very happy to have Karrigan on board.
Guys, I want to pick your brains about a certain Falcon's topic. It's one of the topics that's always been coming up.
They faced a lot of... Oh, Blair?
I just want to talk about one simple thing like you're just looking at something on the camera and this is something I feel is
missing. The vibes look it's almost a meme right like all the vibes are good but I'm not even kidding it's not even an intangible
it's a tangible thing when Karagin comes in just the overall mood of the team seems to be so much better they're having a good time
they seem to be finally enjoying playing Counter Strike. Was that a rock paper scissors? Who's going to be yelling I guess?
Yes, or was it a secret handshake? I'm not sure. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know what that means
Vote below rock, paper, scissors or a secret handshake anyway back to the question. I wanted to play
What is it? I just want to say honestly got flowers when he arrived. Yes, that was that was great
He did the carry on parlor. Yeah, I mean the response was funny as well
I heard I heard they got like a whole security team of their own, you know for there to for their trip to China
They're massive in China, they're huge in China.
When some of us were in China for the perfect World Shanghai major,
the reception that some of these players got was insane.
The fan base in China is incredible.
So I'm not surprised and want to see, is still receiving love from that country, from that region.
Going back now to my question, the topic I wanted to bring up.
Let's talk about the vibes now.
Common criticism that Falcons have faced through basically all of their iterations is okay
What superstar are they gonna try and get next is it is another?
Failed roster move. This was a super star. This is a superstar signing. Let's get on. Let's get it. Let me get there guys
And they say some criticism for that and it hasn't always worked
They've been up ticks down ticks and they've now signed a superstar IGL
one of the most legendary IGLs in CS. Is this the final missing piece?
Look, I believe so. I really believe so. Obviously it comes at a point in Care Against Career where he's definitely under a lot of pressure
to kind of prove that he still has what it takes to compete at this level, to compete for the big trophies, to compete for more majors.
Because the last two years with Faze have obviously been a struggle for him, right?
and partly it was due to him kind of starting to feel like he's losing the
captaincy of the team or he doesn't have the solutions anymore right but now he
gets the opportunity to get the players that he wants effectively all the
superstars around him and all the pieces that he needs to have a major winning
or a big tournament winning roster right so a lot of pressure but I do still
think that it makes so much sense that Kerrigan would be the one to take over
the team because it's effectively a spiritual successor to FaZe to the
FaZe identity which was let's get all the superstar you know like when
we saw the let's say the Olaf and Guardian version come together and they obviously started dominating that was the origins of phase
And I feel like Falcon is kind of the same vibe to that, you know, the really astute point but but do you do you agree?
I agree, but also want to add and it's also a bit of a mouse scenario as well, right?
Because if you remember back in the day, I'm curious to hear this
Join in guess guess who were the unpolished gem so this week there was a rock
And it was a frozen guess who is the biggest unpolished gem in modern day counter strike right now Kyosuke right there
He's been a guy and there's a couple of points he bought up in Astana
Just a few days back actually where he had one of the biggest drop offs all year under the Falcons Jersey
Like even going back last year from group stage to the playoffs this playoffs
He delivered yeah every single time and guess what it was it was because of Karaghan not a shadow for doubt about it
The very first time I saw Kyosuke give an interview where he was so like the moment the moment
You're like, what do you have, what are you talking about on
Carrigan?
Smile on his face like, bro, he's so effing good, man.
He's so effing amazing, bro.
And it's, you can clearly see the tangible effect that
Carrigan brings in, not just from the calling, Paolo, not
just from the fact that he is someone who commands
respect, but just overall, he's so good at honing this
young talent to really blossom into future superstars.
We've seen it time and time again.
Look at Frozen.
Look at Robson.
Look at all these guys, right?
So absolutely, this for me has been the best change
Falcons could have made.
Yeah, I know what-
Bring this back just because we've only got a couple
minutes left, from a more general perspective to a more specific one to the match-up.
I think based on all the things we're saying and the things that we've been highlighting,
Falcons, presumably, heavy favourites here, Stryker.
Heavy, heavy favourites.
I would be surprised if it wasn't even competitive, to be honest, considering what we've seen
from Emady in recent times, internationally just have struggled quite a bit, you know,
if you're taking a map of Liquid and that's your biggest achievement in recent
times, it's not a lot to speak of, I'm not going to lie.
Just catching Stryker's Liquid, I mean, also...
No, it's hard for them. It's like tangents, but it's hard for them to not catch Stray's man up,
but wishing them the best, but yeah, not surprised that there can be a wayward shot towards Ligue 1.
It's a rough time to be an NA CS fan, I won't lie, right? I just wanted to talk about a view to real quickly here.
Yeah, do it, do it. No big surprises. We did kind of think Ligue... sorry, Ligue 1.
MAD would actually go for Anubis, pick and throw a bit of a curveball. Instead of going for Inferno, where...
Makes sense.
This new team have only, in fact, only played once, but it was against the Mongols,
who can be a very good team on that particular map.
My worrying thing here for M80 is that the win rate looks good, but it's against kind of mid opposition, lower tier opposition in NA.
The last results, they lost 13-8 to Liquid. They lost 13-5 against Legacy just last week, right?
So they're hoping they're going to fix these issues, because even though they've only had one rep thus far on this map due to Falcons,
I still feel like this could be a two or just because of the Falcons.
Strike with all of this in mind, Falcons didn't start off too strong against BC. I want to leave Final Thoughts with you before we go to the Carps.
Yeah, of course, it looked like a little bit of a slow start.
Obviously, this is them coming into a tournament back to back,
and that's always a little bit of a worry.
We're heading into the first games and all that stuff.
How much sleep have they been able to get?
Because it is effectively the day
after you arrive to the tournament to a relatively
completely different time zone.
Then, obviously, there's going to be some drawbacks to that.
So it could just be that.
It could just be a little bit of a slow start
into the tournament.
I think now that they've had a little bit more time
to get adjusted, obviously, a few hours
since we saw them play last time.
But I would think that they are warmed up enough now.
Well, it's about time to find out, with that said,
Falcons versus MAT is ready to go.
Let's head on over to Anders and Henry G.
Yes, indeed. Thank you very much.
Day one here at CAC, coming to a close.
A big game, Anders, to kind of send us into the evening here.
Falcons taking MAT, not massive amounts on the line
in terms of just working out who goes to the playoffs
and who goes down to Lowell Bracky here.
Falcons are heavy favourites,
but MAT is going to be playing with some hard today.
I think they will. I think this is actually going to be a really fun game.
Um, MAT, they're a fun team to watch.
They play interesting Counter-Strike.
Um, yes, they're going to have to play the absolute best game here to take down the Falcons.
But, you know, the map pool is still being built here by the Falcons.
So maybe Inferno is where they can sneak it a bit of an early win.
It's going to start off right now, Henry.
What are you, are you any surprised, Patrick?
I mean, Inferno has always been a questionable map Falcons, in my opinion.
Let's see what Karagin coming in can actually help them out.
The main thing has always been about Inferno.
They never seem to win any pistols on it.
They always have really slow starts on this map,
but let's see what Kerrigan can do about this.
They'll be starting on the CT side.
They've got double dual elites
in the hands of Kaizuki and Niko.
We are gonna see some damage exchanged.
Lots towards Tessus, finally finished off by Swisher.
It's gonna be an early five on four.
They're playing a very defensive game here
on the T side of Inferno.
Not giving much away at all.
Waiting for that aggression to come through.
They've got the five on four
and still with a smoke and a couple of flashes here.
There are no kits on the CT side.
They have a smoke and an HE themselves.
And currently, three players positioned towards middle,
leaving Karagin alone towards that B bomb site.
Yes, another sort of dual-leafed spawn
that makes no sense whatsoever.
I mean, I guess when they rotate over towards B,
they can pick them up.
Is that the idea?
Niko in the middle, we'll see what the dual-leafs
can actually do here.
Monosib with the headshot,
and Kairi Suki is gonna pick up one on JDA,
but at the same time, they're gonna pack in,
and like you said, Karagin is alone.
He's putting up the smoke here.
He's got an HE as well.
If they smoke him off, there's a chance he can stop the bomb from going down.
Still about 40 seconds and the bomb being planted, all right.
He's going to throw it around the corner right on top of Sin.
That is so much damage without the Kevlar, but he is going to live
and the bomb is going to be planted.
Very difficult retake here with no kits.
Carrigan low, Kiyosuke nor far behind him.
Eva looking like a very promising rounded.
No one got the jewelies.
Good to note, but it feels like an M80 round-benders.
It does feel that way, even though they're a little bit tagged up as well.
creeping into here, sacrificing himself to find out the positions.
Harrigan now in the clutch, it is not going to work.
Sin finds two kills after he's put down to 10 health from that earlier grenade.
So I thought it's very well structured for M80,
like very careful at the beginning of the round
and then making a solid decision to go B.
Yeah, just waiting for that aggression,
which you might expect from Falcons in this particular matchup.
They're going to try and disrespect their opponent,
trying to crush them with mechanical skill.
Aggressive towards the apartments, lost that first pick.
MAT more than ready for it. And yeah, going in towards B after Nico to be fairly fun. I can hear his work at least one kill
He had prime position with those dual elites. If he gets one, it's a very different round
But there we have a caragon unable to fend them off and he will be there with the max seven as we often to
Round number two here. It's going to be a force by from the Falcons
great grenade of the star bear takes
HP 9 down to 60 HP, have Monosy with the opening and Desert Eagle headshot. I smoke to reset the round and enable him to
transition towards the outside.
Again a pistol round lost. You brought it up and Falcons not able to put it on the board. If they can bounce back now
it's all forgiven. We're gonna be fine with it.
Pretty nice little flash bang to hear the footsteps at the bottom of an hour
So they definitely know that someone was there and monies looking a reposition all the way back here as they smoke off on the arch side of
Middle, which means they could go and attack monies position pretty soon if they want to
Any a time on the clock, but now there's a rotation coming in from the Falcons as well
They could have more people at the A bomb site in another five seconds. Oh, this is uncomfortable now from 80
They still have time to work with it, but monies see working with tests. They've smoked them off towards shore
They'll focus their efforts now towards the arch side is Nika to deal with them because suke will join him towards arch as well
So down towards the library is very uncomfortable
A split to be the final call here. I think he might actually enjoy that smoke case you can play inside of it
He's gonna come right through with the MP9. I don't know if that smoke helps them that much here comes the one run through
We tried but slacks was there and they take up monosy 20 seconds on the clock
Tessus you're gonna have to get at least one kill device on time and that won't be allowed for
Wow very good stuff here slacks with a double kill. I thought they were gonna get crushed from those two players pushing through on the CT side
It seemed like a pretty good idea, huh?
Niko going for that smoke he thought he'd be good for a couple of kills there potentially, but well read by MAT well handled in general
They will be finding 2-0 here very comfortable round in the end with three players surviving even after going into the stack there
Karagin
Got the mag 7 would like a kill here on the exit
He might be able to get one but looks things here, but we'll see whether he's remain in the pits
Yeah, could try and do some damage to them and there's a classic thing
But I guess with the armor as well. It's it's probably better to have that as a dangerous element in the next round
There we go
Good work on the MAT
It's gonna have to be a hell of a round from Carrigan to make the mag 7 work going forward
But even there's one kill with it would be extra cash going forward, right?
So you are dead on that
But this is looking nice, M18 stepping up, winning that pistol, fending off the second round, forced by
three players survived should be comfortable and clean in round number three here.
We are going to see some upgraded pistols but no Kevlar, you would imagine.
Five sevens, Deagle's, Tess's with the full eco, it's got a flashbang to be fair.
See if Karagin can make that mag 7c.
Yeah, that flashbang could be worth quite a bit.
But the Molotov there is going to force him a little bit further back.
He does find just a corner.
Tess is flashbang not thrown yet.
Oh, he runs into the Flames Swisher.
With the Molotov, it's going to be the one to get him,
and Kisuke goes down following that.
So, 3 vs 5 to begin with the mag 7, unfortunately.
Not the kind of impact that we're looking for.
No.
And I'm looking at this from a matey.
They're playing a very calculated game.
They're not just rushing into the bomb site.
They've understood, yeah, we've got a massive advantage here.
A couple of players are low.
Let's let them stew in this for a second there.
Let's not run into a potential stack.
We could even just fully execute towards B and walk in towards A,
knowing you're the key players on that side of the map.
Here comes the execute.
Looks like they're going to go into this site,
offer their smoke towards the coffins and CT spawn.
No one patrolling for flanks here, so they're going to have to commit in towards B.
So all three CTs here, I don't think will be a problem either way.
But let's see. Can Falcons fend them off to any degree?
good flashes, swish it, it's very low, so we sacrificed, Lake also was low, there's a bit of a problem here, run back in, you don't even have to stay here to save the Mac 10s, not really a big deal, in fact I'd rather, he's going to be running away, I think it's a good choice, because who cares if they pick up the Mac 10s, but if they do pick up a rifle, that's more concerning into some of the later rounds here.
Okay. Nice try from Falcons. Got themselves a couple of kills here. Maybe some upgrades available, but yes, as you said, there's Mac 10s.
That's all that's there, really. Might as well try and find a little bit more damage to the economy.
3-0 though for M-80. Nice round. Make sure it gets a bit uncomfortable, but you've got those opening picks.
Slow it down. Execute towards B. Establish so they have got that stack in towards the bomb site.
Fall back. Guarantee the round. And it's going to be slacks. Just mopping them up here. Should be fine.
Yeah, should be fine. Mac 10 would like a kill.
No real reason to save you buying next round.
So 600 bucks, you can get one frag of this.
There it is.
Gets a good little now, Tess S.
Making this one awkward.
Not gonna get the triple kill,
but still significant damage to the economy there.
Anders, three zero, sure,
but only one player surviving for Mac 10.
But their money is still very good
considering how well they've done with the Mac 10s.
Yeah, kind of annoying there for a Mac 10,
not being able to celebrate that round a bit more.
We'll see what happens going into some of the leader rounds here
It's got monosy on the AWP slacks could buy one and he will now obviously
I'm not trying to compare monosy and slacks because there's quite a different weight classes going on here
But I think slacks is actually a fairly respectable law
But he doesn't try to be as flashy as some of his opponents, but I mean yeah, he's had a great start as well
5-1 confidence will be flowing
Bit of runway to work we could take some risks with the three zero starts as well
Oh, that's got to be so close to burning Kisuke in the corner, but he somehow just gets to live.
It's a bit of a mystery to me how those models, like sometimes it feels like people are, like you see the flames almost on the models and they still don't burn.
Wild how that plays out. JBA takes a look, doesn't really immediately get a chance to fight there.
Still quite composed, quite calm here from MAT, just trying to establish map control, exchange utility with the CTs without losing any players in the meanwhile, but smoked off towards Banana.
Still with the majority of their utility side here. I'm on a seat, waiting to be activated, currently patrolling the A bomb site with his AWP.
It's the B bomb site historically for Falcons, it always feels weak.
That's hopefully something that could change. I mean, in that sense, I suppose,
Karrigan is a bit of a sort of a boomage-type figure, like, yeah, using the SMGs and all
the rest. There could be chaos up there, so maybe there's a chance for that a little bit later on.
Grenade's back, top, but down to 35 seconds as well. M80. They've really left them more late
in the round than this. Already a three-man setup here. What's happening? What a spray down.
They've hit him through the box. They've opened up the bomb site. That is spectacular for M80.
If Niko didn't come that he wasn't covering Arch anymore, because Monacee was just there watching Arch fully exposed, Niko had fallen back.
Yeah.
Store a player there and it got shot in the back of the head. I guess Monacee was hoping for one and done maybe.
But I feel like Niko had to hold Arch for him. There's no two ways about it. And if he did,
Comet, I'm not sure Monacee heard it.
Yeah, I think you're onto something. There was definitely looked like there was some confusion even at the start of that attack.
But for M80,
I mean something that I enjoyed about this not that they had a lot of choice here
But when they pick up bombsite, they really follow through on it like this
You know that there's no stepping around
They're not halfway falling back all the time and that's great commitment to that a attack and sometimes
See okay, that perfectly illustrates it look at Niko's position. He's a long patrolling arch a local Monastery died
He needs to be the the kind of the fact that it stops Monastery getting shot in the back of their head at least go for one
him retreating completely and selling his AWPer like that's
It's really questionable, but it's going to be the M80 with four rounds in a row here.
Scrap you on there as they try to collapse into the A-bomb side, very late, but yeah,
giving full control of the arch side.
Really worth mentioning as well that M80 do need to win this map to make it interesting
because Ancient is the second one and Falcons are going to be good, and that's not a
map that M80 are going to be doing a lot of good stuff on.
So I think it's critical that they pick up this one, and you know what?
They actually do a pretty good work here on the T side as well.
are four rounds to begin with. Well, like I said, Falcons rarely have a good start in
any series. To be fair to them, Anders, this is pretty par for the course. They don't like
a good start. They like the uphill battle. Especially on Inferno as well. I've commented
so many Falcons games in Inferno now. It always goes down like this. Some of that
character DNA brought in. What normally happens is they bring it all the way back
and then they lose thirty-one.
That's the most exciting way of the
EVO and FaZe to say pay by the round.
Yeah, so see what we've got here.
As mentioned, that B bomb site
can be somewhat of a weakness.
They are going to try and change things up here.
Three players on the CT side defending.
So Niko's late surprise.
They're pretending like it's just a
Karagin and Kusuke like it normally would be.
So if they die then it's just a huge shock
and Niko's going to be back here.
Let's see if this mind game works out.
This is a big risk. Okay, it's all on Niko's shoulders.
You're hoping that MAT have no clue. They are being careful, though.
They're checking it, they're flashing. They are even monitoring this.
That's such a great counter. They absolutely read it.
MAT, brilliant call coming out from them here. They need nothing to chance.
Very disciplined, very effective. The fundamentals of their and theirs.
They're trading out perfectly at the top of banana.
And you're right. Not taking anything for granted.
for Gran City. My thing is two kills there. The B bomb site's open. No. There's still Molotov
in those key positions speaking of which the incendiary designed to flush out JBA actually
leads to their demise and we go 5 and 0. I like the idea from Falcons. We have three
players there. He trade our one for one. That's no good. Doesn't help you out. Karagin
gets one and then KSUK doesn't feel safe towards the Sandbags. Go for the wide
swing. Nothing Nika could do. Good awareness from JBA.
I feel so silly as well because, you know, obviously there's no way to know that before it happens,
but when they molotov him out, it would have been so much better to have Niko with the other three at Top Banana.
Like obviously that sort of retroactively, you know, time works the other way.
But still, very good work from M80. I'm impressed that you could see it even early on.
They smoke off everything, because sometimes that's exactly what will happen.
You'll get a couple of kills at Top Banana and you run onto the B bomb site.
Maybe not exactly knife out, but you are just so hungry to get the bomb planted.
great awareness from MAT to get some of these early rounds and catch Nico and
really strutting him down earlier which which we know is one of the keys to
defeating Falcons if you can if you can make Nico upset early on and make him
feel like he's not having a good game you're doing pretty good. Well he's
definitely not having a good game. I don't think anyone is so far out. Do we
have a monocle AWP? We have one rifle, partial buy here from Falcons, things
looking pretty dire out there right now good grenades significant damage to a
couple but same results both kills relate this time and it will be Nico will
have to do the same as we're hoping for in the previous ground he needs three
kills of the eagle not gonna happen like just farming that money baby round
down over 6-0 confirmed.
Everything about this is shading up so nicely.
It's not really a game so far, is it?
It is not.
They're not every single call, every single play, nothing too flashy,
no crazy fakes or last-minute executions,
just gaining space on the map.
The fundamentals are there, the trade potential is very good
and a few key mistakes from Falcons,
i.e. that brown towards the outside
where monocy goes down and gets shot in the back.
Yeah, and anything is capitalizing upon the advantages and mistakes made six and zero clean sweep
Lake with three farming a lot of cash is mentioned up to eight thousand dollars now
Does he dare use a Mac 10 again does he's got seven point three K after buying nades
They've got two helmets on the other side. So it's not a completely crazy idea. I don't think it is Eva
I feel like in fur know is is one of those weird maps of the Mac 10 is actually pretty viable in a gun round
And Kyusuke is going to be playing that front of banana position.
And he's always playing on the front foot.
They never play crossfires on the bombsites.
The round is decided at the sandbags of car position for Falcons every single time.
Which is fine, but it's like, like I said, it's the weakness on the map for them.
I would say, sure, let's just change things up.
Let's go from a defensive setup, let's bring Modesty over.
Let's just get some control of this side of the map.
But it's always like this.
Yes.
I'm living and dying.
Yeah, we just commentate these guys so many times. This is always the conversation
Yeah, hence the frustration because you want to see them do something different
This is a wild he's pushed all the way into the tea
Arrogant not even able to help me so far away. The thing is we do it every round
They're gonna be ready for it. If you're always aggressive always playing to that corner. They're there. What's the speed?
Hyper aware of the maneuver. That's a nice grenade at least round unnecessarily over
But it's looking pretty good here from 80 once again
Tess says we'll spot one towards the apartment.
Key fights, he will win.
I understand why Tess has had to take that fight
because if he wins, they can rotate Gearsby,
but it's rough, isn't it?
Monocene, taking down JBA.
Cooking.
Now Niko's slowed them down so much here,
that early grenade, I'm a bit surprised
they don't try for it a bit more.
He's gonna be inside of the smoke now
and a grenade right on top.
He's so lucky to be alive.
That's wild.
Well, I assume they spotted him there.
gonna try and pop over the smoke is Monosy but no one home, re-smoke and spawn, retake
with the AWP, it all comes down to Nico who's been tagged down at 30 points of health. They
have a kit, a couple of flashes but this does not look good at all.
Smoke goes up but you don't have another one so if they wanted to smoke out the bomb
that's not gonna be possible any longer and that bomb is ticking right now.
It's Monosy with the kit as well.
Yeah, you're exactly right with the AWP so let's see how this one plays.
Nice shot onto Sin and Slaxi can't find it.
On top of the smoke there, Monosy straight on and Falcons finally pick up their first round.
Okay, that started off as a 5 on 3 advantage for M80.
Kaisuke pushed with the smoke, questionable move there.
It was a blind kill to be fair, but still, Falcons somehow some way make this round work with them.
It's their first on the board, Monosy goes above and beyond for them.
Niko with low HP as well. This kill, very impressive.
Like we said, monosy with the defuse kit gets that.
Round on the board for them, but plenty of money remaining for M80 here.
Now, Falcons have arrived. Can they keep it going?
The banana area is a massive concern still.
And we're getting aggressive once more.
Oh, they're from the T side. It's another opening kill, guys.
Could we just play the bomb side?
The counter flashes they're coming from the T side.
You're right again. Yes, they're fighting another position and it is not working once again Nikos inside of sight now this time
Oh, he's gonna get the double kill. He wasn't playing to bait out his teammates
He was trying to flash for them to take the fight and that just didn't work out
Unfortunately Nikos flashbang it lands, but they're all blind on the T on the CT side as well
So that is devastating and as a result by the way
They knew that Nikos gonna be in there because he'd already thrown the grenades over so they don't they don't have any doubt
about that and maybe
Well, you can't have a different Henry. They have to fight top and I just have to I suppose
Like every single round is like you're getting double kills each and every time though
It's not like it's worked out a couple of times like every attempt has been a failure
Yeah, and I saw you you managed to recover that five on three in the previous round
But you lost two players at banana there
again
Yeah, it's before he is disappointing to watch
much. Like you said, this has been going on for like a year or so with Alchemist, B bombsite
and inferno. I just don't get it myself. That's all. You're always there playing on
this area. Sick grenades coming in from the T side. A lot of credits to MAD. What a
great first half they've managed to put on board so far. Because there's no problem
playing that area, but do you use the retake utility, you know? Sure. Let them get towards
a car first, retake U-Till, flash over, then you can actually like apply pressure, have
some advantages. Jules, segregate the players on the T side. You can disallow that boost
if you do the retake U-Till, the smoke lands on half wall, moments of the car. Then you've
got some advantages there, and you're pushing them back. That's when you should be going
for that aggression. If you're taking a face up Jules every single time and you're
not really hitting his shots, it feels like you've got to change your setup here.
Another way would be to throw a monosie over there every once in a while.
I think the last tournament in Europe, Rotterdam, perhaps, we were saying that.
Yes.
I was begging for Monacee to go over to B, to send him over there.
Well, we're back begging now.
Yeah.
That's what I'd like to see, like, you're right.
And that's normally the remedy for these sort of problems.
And then you get Monacee holding that tight angle.
He gets one, and it means they have to adjust their setup and be aware of that prospect.
We'll see whatever ever happens.
It doesn't look to be the case.
Surely it's a more tentative hold in the CT side.
There we go.
OK.
Defensive smoke this time
Not fully committing to the fight there in the bomb side this time we have got aggro on the other side though
It's still quite a week by with tessus on the MP9 monosie finally an opening pick going in their favor
So
CTs remaining disciplined over towards B monosie's got the opening pick they're gonna reset the round
Enable that crossfire mentality
What's he slipping away making noise right at the end I was gonna I was just about to say it's beautiful to watch him get down from there with
No noise whatsoever all that monotone they're gonna hear the burn on the other side here in the Niko
Standing real tall on that one this time he's got monosies back slacks and sin left and finally some
Sins are life coming up from the falcon side this one is in the bangers kiss you can push down to
What's the bottom of banana and slacks here a little bit of damage? I guess would be nice bombers on the other side
So kind of run B
true
But honestly, they have so little money on the Falcon side if you get two more kills here
That's kind of huge. I don't know if you have to go for it, but it would be fun
We like to have fun here that's for sure
But four players surviving for Falcons test as chomping at the bits to upgrade to a rifle as well
but that was all about monosy there getting the opening pick towards the apartment and notably
falcons not going all in towards the banana they've frozen initial defensive util set up crossfires
on the bomb site recognizing the aggression is simply isn't working and yeah they managed to
have quite a convincing round here and a benign no problem nico nice defense there with the
to spray down the M4A4, gets a double kill.
It's gonna say they have a lot of money on some of the players,
but Swisher actually had $700,
so I suppose saving the rifle means
Snacks or JBA can drop Swisher, and so, yeah.
Yeah, they got money.
They got two players at 10K.
Yeah.
Here's the opening frag from Monosy.
We wanna see him keep this sort of play up.
Stay active around the map.
Maybe give the people a visit.
Show some presence there.
Kisuke pushing down B,
Finally, the aggression is rewarded, gets a nice backstab, killed that, and we're getting into
run number 10, closing stages of this first half. Falcons, the heavy favorites of this tournament,
especially of this series as well, but Inferno always being a peculiar map for them.
Shot through the wall, Niko down to 15, and it's not dissuaded just yet, trying to get out of there.
Monosy will open things up and find Lake in towards the boiler room.
It's an interesting variation to see Niko run down in the middle without the smoke being there.
Yeah, and they have been throwing that smoke.
They have, yeah. I mean, it's such a car, like, the reason you've thrown
I saw it all the time right is so that you don't know when the yeah
so
But um, yeah, he got spotted nearly killed
They've got the opening pick and carrying is deciding now. How do we play this be bombs? I get in there. That's okay
I love this finally. Let's just play the site you see advantage
Make them work for it make them commit to have a strong setup exactly what we're seeing here run that time down
All plays in towards beaver with the boost they should be good for a couple of kills here
You can see it's Karagin beneath, he's going to try and take the aggro and suggest no one is boosted.
He'll be face checking the angle, trying to hold them off with the U-Tail.
Did they block the smoke they did? So you can remain up high.
Kai'asuke will have to go huge here. We'll see what he can do.
Full B execution coming through. He's got the AK-47.
They're assuming they smoked the boost, so I'm guessing he gets two kills around us.
Hopi gets two kills.
Sure, God, it might not even matter. Karagin has found them. One for the smoker.
And there's the one kill necessary, two winning the round but it's actually carrying triple kill.
See how comfortable it is when you have the crossfires, the bombsite under control, you'd tell them to hold them off.
There's a reason you've been begging.
See how much better it goes.
Um, all jokes aside, solid hold, monosy, must have been a brutal shot, yeah, absolutely.
And yeah, really nice play. This is what we wanted to see. Keep it simple.
simple. Play the advantages. You don't need the car control.
I feel like as well on the T side when they're coming in, if you can spot that the smoke
has been blocked, that's an important feature. You've got to call that out on the T side
and it didn't feel like maybe anyone on the Mady Rime.
Well it's to be fair, Carrigan the spray threw down through the smoke as they came
through. True, that's fair.
I don't really think that was the call they were really worried about at that
stage.
We're dying guys.
Yeah, everyone's getting mowed down.
fair that's reasonable but finally they broken the bank m80 we'll take a partial
buy here we've got a hero AK for slacks smoke down towards arch this is the
apartment's pop a strategy is all this time itself and is flashes over the top
that should be ready for it's not the cleanest spray but he's got back up a
modesty and it's no problem this is a woeful star from falcons we're looking
a 7-5 here. One round from doing so. They've actually got five AK-47s on the CT side.
I don't even know how much he got half those kills. He's so fast.
Not a lot of them. They've got a spare AK in spawn now. Oh, okay. Like, that's insane.
So you've got the all four AKs and a spare one. Just in case Monici needs it or you run out of ammo,
just get another one. The running out of ammo thing people are really alarmed about,
But it hasn't happened that often. I've seen a couple of pistol rounds like with the USP where people get in trouble
Sure, but I mean he's gonna have he's gonna manage your your reserve
It's like a huge deal
That looked very weird for JBA. Once he really has turned up the heat
He's been getting opening picks at the last three or four rounds. I think
Another one here all pink as well and in front of us. I think that a lot of people enjoy doing
But he is in the zone now 12 to 6 and
And yeah, I mean, honestly, 7-5 is still pretty good for Falcons, like that's a small line you can work with coming into the second half.
So, M80, in spite of a great start and a really impressive start, they've got to be careful and remember who they're playing.
And you already said it, Falcons. Not known to start these games very well, but it can be very hard to put away.
Well, like I said, we've commented lots of Falcon games. It normally starts at this, a go down 6-0.
They bring it all the way back to a close game, then they'll end up losing Inferno 13-11.
then they'll smash them on the next two maps and they'll go to the playoffs.
That's normally how the script reads for Falcons and these sort of games.
Yeah, we've been there before.
We've been there many times, but let's see, maybe M.A.T. can piece his one together.
In fact, they've only got one player towards B and a five on three scenario
is a little bit questionable, but here comes the rotation.
Kisuke needs to be very careful, he's booted up on the first oranges
but his teammate isolated by the smokes coming in.
Just needs a couple of kills around it, just one would be fine, let's see.
Oh, this guy's back.
Certainly was waiting for the flashbangs.
Carragane down next.
I share your concern.
Even if there was a rotation there,
holy god, what a lineup for him on a seat.
There's that spare AK.
He picked up his phone, comes back,
shuts them down for the smoke and leaves Sin
in a very tricky to win.
One versus three here.
So the church, possibly saying a prayer or two,
because they are going to be coming for him.
They've got kits on everyone.
They've got plenty of grenades as well on the CT side.
and they're slowly waiting for Niko to get a little bit closer on Banana.
Now they're going to start to put it together.
It's really only one position to give me into this stage, and, oh, Tessa still goes down.
Now it's more interesting, one versus two, that Diffuse already happening.
You've got to swing this one wide.
He does get the kill, but not on the Diffuse.
It is a fifth round for Falcons.
Not the most comfortable finish that we take here.
After being down six and zero, Falcons adjust their setups.
They reel things in, Anders. They stop being hyper-aggressive.
They realized that M80 have turned up the play today.
They're hitting some nice shots.
Once they reeled it in, and they presented that defense
and set up, and Monosy was going for nice opening picks here,
it felt like a very different game.
Recovering a 6-0 to a 7-5, Monosy.
How did he, like, he just waited for his opportunity.
Like, it looked like he was so calculated.
I'm gonna wait here for two or three seconds.
I'll spawn this particular spot.
I'll have taken him down to 0 HP.
All bullets on the body.
Yeah, that's brutal if you're a swisher
on the other side there.
Yeah, unreal.
at the good work nonetheless.
So pistols, always an issue for the Falcons,
not knowing we're winning them.
Kind of needed at this points.
We'll bring them right back to life,
but yeah, I feel like MAT, they'll be okay with that.
First half of the fact, you're up 6-0,
and then you can't really seem to piece it together.
Little bit frustrating, but still a good half.
You're gonna be happy, but there is that sense
that maybe we left them enough room
that they can come back and again.
Oh yeah, definitely.
lot more fun if you've let worry you've let monocle warm up into the series he's
gone 13 and six yeah that's an issue that be bombsite was a little bit
disastrous for falcons but they managed to work it out well let's see let's see
indeed and there's we've got one smoke make it to aggression from lake kind of
this flashbang going over this is a little bit old school as well JBA
throwing the grenades in though he can't find any impact in the round I
I like the start of it. You throw that flash basically from Arch going over the entire building to take that fight
And it just doesn't really work out now
They got two sets of dualies left, but no kids anywhere on the map
We still have two smokes a Molotov two flashes a man advantage. You would do well to lose as if you're Falcons
Just gonna put that out there like if you can find some decent control of the map aka towards
Banana or top middle with this utility and the man advantage. It's gonna be a struggle to get this one over
Let's see what they do with it. The thing is though if they go be and smoke off CT spawn which they surely will
Yeah, do all these could be a fun tool to have like spamming through it's a good point
And all those other side so you're gonna be smoking spawn
Coffins they will flash control it. I got that space I talked about not gonna be telegraphing it too much
I'm gonna drop that initial smoke down and try and collapse on the bomb site quickly
Very good flashes the jewelers and you mentioned could be an issue
But it is gonna be the Falcons taking this one JBA too far removed well plate nice little pounce approach there
Like I said, not to telegraph, look over the full XQ smoke on the fly, flashes behind it and just overwhelming the BD fence.
It is going to be Falcons finding the pistol. I said, I would baited breath. You never know with these guys, but it should be fine.
Anders, it should be JBA here without the kit as well. Just a lot of players to find on the other side.
They're not exactly giving them any free fights.
She should give it three kills in that pistol round.
That's going to be quite nice for him to add to the scoreboard and Falcons winning a pistol here.
That should set them up quite nicely.
We'll see if there's going to be any kind of a weird response coming out from MAT.
Infernal is a map where sometimes, you know, the odd grenades that could do some real work on the CT side.
So always a fan of those, if we can get that put into play.
Doesn't always work. It very rarely works out, in fact.
But it is entertaining.
Well, that's what we're here for at the end of the day, but it is a one round game.
Four spies coming in from MAT and the grenades are out.
They are there towards the top of banana, gonna have to buy that time though, molotov'd off,
smoke down towards the arch side.
Well they could do this other thing that people do where they bounce them off the arch
out by top banana and just kill like one at a time. Now is not the timing for it,
so they're kind of waiting, they haven't spent the grenades at least,
they might not get a chance to if it keeps going like this,
so only two people defending the A bomb site. So it could be a bit tricky.
Moto Smoke, so A finish looking likely here.
Nice Molotov to flush out the close-ranked positions.
Even better from JBA, they're at 5'7".
Doing God's work out there, couldn't find the double in Slack,
so trying to negate this smoke, but well handled by Falcons.
Should be enough to win this round now.
Not rushing the bomb plan, just confirming that the bomb site is indeed clear.
And there we have it.
Gonna be saving the little they have, a couple of pistols and a UMP.
Yeah, I I appreciate that slow approach in around like this one all it takes is is one slip up
You forget someone in the corner and it's it's an awkward round so taking the extra couple of seconds
It's one of the things that I think m80 did really well at the beginning of the first half as a world
now it can's matching that energy
and
Well going back to a tide game. It's gone from six zero up to seven seven m80
Not only great sport going forward here. That was the force by
They'll manage to take some upgraded pistols, a couple of smokes and an HE and a kit
into the following round, the Falcons. Nice injection of cashier, well handled.
Nothing too flashy there, smoke down towards the Arkside, smoke down towards Moto, walk up towards the quad position.
Molotov's down on the site, Tradal kills, no problem.
Yeah, more of this and of course they saved the pistols, but that's you know,
that's about what they're gonna have in this upcoming round. It's not gonna be too exciting.
the CT side. I'll see if slacks could even get the orb out here if they can and not now but
that's gonna say how's it gonna do that take a loan exactly that's coming up you take a loan with
interest and you're right though but Lake and his UMP it's a weapon that's become very fashionable
the last year or so bit of a hipster choice yeah if you want to be different yeah oh nice grenades
Oh, well they were the ones who wanted to throw HEs down towards the bottom of banana, almost
a hundred damage inflicted courtesy of the Falcon Z, so on anything to do with that B bomb
site.
Gonna be retreating back towards A, a four man stack here, MAT.
They can still cause some damage here.
They can still win this round for sure.
The UMP would have to do a lot.
It's the exact same approach we saw before, Anders, smoke down towards Arch, players
in towards the boil on the shore, same Molotovs going down towards the site.
Last time there was only two people defending. Now it's up to four, so it could be different here.
Tess is not really taking any damage yet, but he didn't realize that it's one in the corner in the 5-7.
You've got to be very careful. He doesn't want to get shot in the face, and he handled that very nicely.
And now they might split off into CT spawn. In fact, they will.
Swisher is over there defending B alone, and I think they found the perfect avenue to escape.
But I think they've realized now it was a bit of a stack at the A bomb site.
Don't think Swisher has any chance to do anything.
Put up a smoke and he's quite happy with that. I mean, yeah five on one now. It's wish up
No, it's be seen. He does go down towards the bottom of the banana
But yeah, it should be carrying to close things out
Honestly remember he had the bomb here the footsteps. He was about to run after
Like wait a minute. Oh, okay
At least if you're gonna die take a couple of people with you
Monacy will still find a kill in fact out the bottom of the bomb and Falcons are in the lead now
This is a bit of a turnaround in fact
But the rifle round is coming up.
Maybe they're going to have something to buy here.
Slats can get the AWP, and he will.
So that's going to be interesting to see how we can play with this one
if he's going to have some kind of an impact here.
They need this early on.
I feel like it's been such a resurgence here with the Falcons.
They've got to shut them down early.
They've got to.
Tactical timeout.
Death ball chime in here.
Things getting a bit uncomfortable.
There are up 6-0 on that pick.
Relentless aggression from the Falcons.
didn't work out for them at all. They had to reel things in, tighten things up.
They managed to get a 7-5 scoreline and now winning the pistol in the second half,
fending off the four spies. They've taken the lead here, 8-7. They have got the
rifles they need on the CT side here, slacks with the AWP. One kit there, Anders.
It's in the back of Swisher. Speaking of Swisher, he is doing a lot of his
great work on this map supporting over at that B site. Yeah. So that's maybe
be something to look for that could be one of the weapons that they could bring out here.
Not too late for M80 to turn around at all, but it has become a way more difficult game.
Niko, hard to flash in this position. Swish it goes down early, but Lake is there for
the follow up.
That's...
They traded.
That's okay, but it does favor the Falcons generally speaking, especially on a map
like Inferno. It just spreads out the CT defense quite thinly.
Right.
So if you get an early trade like that, Falcons are happy with it.
Oh, I'm not happy with that though. That's a bit of a blunder.
Not the end of the world, just a bit of reset now.
I think they wanted to take CT vision away from middle, smoke the arch,
Molotov towards the quad side, so they have to pull back to the bomb site.
It has gone a little bit weird, but
should be fine if Tess is to stay alive, and now they've taken the vision away.
Okay, now they can go in towards me. That was the objective.
Capturing other kills, so a three on three wasn't as clean as you might like.
Here's the CT spawn smoke, or that's one for Coffin, in fact.
The lake has some chance to do some work, but he's got the incendiary.
Smoke is going to be right on top of it, could he see through that? Surely not.
JBA gets an important kill on Tessus in the middle, but I'm still interested in that incendiary.
If you could find a way to put it onto Monosie here, he's not going to even attempt it.
He'll let the bomb go down instead, and waiting for his teammates to get there.
One grenade, a flashbang on JB as well, but only Karagin and Monosy left here in the clutch, so if Falcons can get this job done, if they can, then MAD are going to be reeling from that, they're going to be in a lot of trouble.
Chance here for MAD to get around on the second half, it's late through the smoke finding Monosy, and now it's Karagin, the captain of the team.
In a 1 vs 3, the bomb is ticking rapidly, there is a kit on Lake, so you're going to have to find that, but Karagin's walked through and that kill might be at...
Oh, he lines up for the double and even though they pick up the kid again, I don't think it's going to be quite enough time there right at the end. Oh my God.
It's close. How did they have the time for it? It was millisecond remaining there. But yeah, eight, eight, not a comfortable win.
Carragane in the one versus three. The old master, you thought he'd done enough there. Fancy footwork to get through that smoke in a prime position.
How do you wait to the next for second to pull the trigger on the deep use? Maybe it's a different round
But it is gonna be but a skin of that seat and they see picking the round up one scene from lethal weapon where he just
You know cuts all the wires all at once something like that. I haven't seen it. Can't really comment
You have it again. I mean I have one as well ten years old. It's like three of them. I think it's more than that
It's great. Yeah, you should absolutely watch them late
Very good work here. Sprays down to Swisher with an unlike the MP9. Comes back.
That Sin is thrown in the flashbangs. Modesty can't see a thing.
He was blind for so long up on the barrels, and Tess is alone over on the other side.
And they know that he's going to be looking like this. Axel taking him down M80.
Revitalized once again in the second half.
Trying to change things up.
A Carrigan classic, calls for the Mk10 rush over towards B.
trying to thread the needle through the initial utility by running through smokes and flashes
Comfortable kills for a matey. They're the ones stocked up on AK 47s now
They fix a lead nine to eight four AKs stolen over to the side pretty massive
That one did not work out at all
Falcons now feeling the pressure
Financially they give this one up the money is busted have no lost bonus to pull back on
He's in his little molotov at the start. Takes late down to 78.
Silent boost down. In towards the boiler room.
Next down towards Arch.
Niko, catching the smoke.
That's the retake utility we were talking about before.
Right, get the smokes down, flash over.
Instead of taking the bomb under the grenades at the start,
to start, waive that to subside, then claim the position of territory. Look for mid-control
off Alkons. Sin with a nice grenade prepared here.
Doesn't throw it yet. Didn't feel like it was the right timing, but it looked like
it would have been. So we're going to set up smokes for Archie. He gets thrown
another one he can smoke library as well but this could be thrown that one down
towards the library entrance towards B we go late and he's be careful where it's
normally a one-and-done position good flash gets nothing here comes the second
one from sin behind them trying to see to get a rotate over in time switcher
oh he's found three trying to get the quad spray down there but might have been
enough, 2 vs 2 and 24 seconds here, they're going to pick up the ball and there's nobody
in CT spawn except for Perrigan, but no CTs going to rotate through.
So, modesty plays us so well, he's picked up a smoke and Molotov is going to drop the
Molotov at the top, that's 7 seconds, they can't even consider going for the round.
Hold on to your AKs boys, well played, a bit scrappy, bit uncomfortable, but they managed
to get the job done, no choice but for MAT to save here, and mainly because they
the AK-47s, but it will be a tied game, 9-9.
Oh, Sin's rotation put three people on the P-bomb site, and then they even try to catch
them coming up. Banana is running down low. Like everything about this M80 was, I think,
working out quite nicely. Swisher got the triple spray down, but it just was not enough. They
fought their way through, and they had Carrigan and CT spawn, so they knew that nobody's
rotating through that way. And like you pointed out, the utility pick up there from
Honestly huge to win the round with that's going to tie the game once again at 9 9
Might be time for ever tactical time out there. It is
Yeah, you can feel this one slipping away from them somewhat
Some rounds that falcons to be fair having to work harder
So like it's a foregone conclusion and not blowing them up the water. It's coming down to the wire. Yeah
So death trying to rally the troops there they saved to a k-47 the money's okay. There is definitely a buy there
You're just joining us. This is the best of three. The best of ones are done for this is the group a upper bracket semi finals
So the winner goes to playoffs and you will come back on Friday to decide whether that's quarterfinals or semis
Yes, so you can relax a little bit
But it could make a massive difference whether or not you end up in the quarters of the semis depending on you know
Anything for this sort of event as well when it's in Shanghai jetlight definitely is a factor, right?
Having a day off this will actually recalibrate and just have a chance to do some practice and work out
What went wrong the last couple of tournaments and stuff and this kind of gets them all time especially with a karagin in the team
Yeah, that's people of his wedding gold for Falcons
I would say I'm more time to prep and it's kind of regenerate
I think some really good point isn't it's the amount of maps that they need to play
Before getting into the major kind of getting him up to speed on everything and making the team gel
But I mean the desk were saying you know the vibes look good and yeah, it is true like there is something about that
So maybe they could keep it going more retic utility coming in
it's it's standard for a reason yeah neither team really has a lot of money
to work with either Henry like this is a bit of an issue for both sides so this
could be one of those pivotal rounds in the second half that decides how much
you can actually buy for the rest of it Lake trying to get away with jumping
you've got to be out of your mind against Nico of all places why would
you do that it gets away with it so good
Tess says, loves the look on the T side, Inferno, they're going to park him up towards the top
of middle.
B execution, maybe a contact plate, Karrigan seems to like to play in front of the utility
and surprise him instead of telegraphing it, Niko's going to go for the one tap here.
Oh my, it's very uncomfortable for Lake.
Incendiary, I don't think there's much for him because Karrigan folds up, flashed
in.
Wow, he's actually done very well there.
wild yet the incendiary landed the spot but the flashbang is wrecked him. Swisher gets another one
and Monosy is alone versus three and only for a second. Sin the one to take him down by a great
work from Lake that flashbang completely ruined them. Yeah his own flashbang and assistance from
his teammates as well. Did not think he was worth two there but he knew exactly what he was up
against through the incendiary to make things uncomfortable. The smoke was already down the
the flashes were spectacular. He gets the double and we said what an important round
that was and is the money is now ruined with no bomb plot. They have zero loss bonus test
has that's $1400 going into this round up to 20. So if you're playing it by the book,
you're two players around that money. So Carrogan 1500 test is 1400. Some would say
you need to buy this one. Yeah, because if you take a full eco, you're going to
be operating with tech nines and glils going forward anyway. And that's what they're
doing you're exactly right even want to see joining in I don't know maybe look
like a team that could do this right now 10 to 9 they do need this because that
second map of ancient is very likely gonna go Falcons this is the best
position they've been in since they were up 6-0 so mention Swisher at the
start as well I think he came in with about 11 kills I mean the first half
right but now he's up to 17 so he's done he's done very good and again
Playing that support position over a B. He's super good at it. Definitely something to look to it's forward to so
More of that if you can deny found can spin on a control or win that fight a significant amount
That will make it a lot easier to defend on the CT side. Yes, okay should be flashed in here
Does he just face check this blind?
Scary lucky to be alive that
Normally you're dropping a flash from second mid before you peak that yeah, I
Guess it is don't have everything they need in this particular round
There are mine is the four spy with two Galils. He loses one Anders. I'm pretty sure it's GG.
Like, it's gonna be very difficult to take the game, even to overtime if you give this one over.
Yeah, it feels that way. And in big part just for the economic reasons here.
Yeah, they get 1900 into the next round.
Let's see what they can manufacture. I mean, they still got some flashes, so, you know, you got one opportunity at this stage to turn a corner.
corner. You win that fight though it's on. So sometimes it doesn't have to be more complicated.
Smokes going up, another smoke towards the library side and Arch going to get smoked
off as well. Let's see what the flashbangs can do. That's the real ticket. This is just
the groundwork but they need to get around the corner first. JBA he can't continue
it and Sin's gone down. He just slaps here. I said I thought he's a pretty good
AWPer now he's going to be put to the test there right on top but he can't find
a shot. Tess is trying to slim down and now the bomb at minimum is going to be
pons of the year. Definitely give it a look in remate but massive victory here for Falcons.
Lake is so far away. Yeah they're not going for it. I am surprised by that I kind of agree I
thought they would you know just see if they could find a kill there. Surely you must have
known that someone was going to be damaged on that seat on the T side but such a shame.
You had this game in the palm of your hand here against two glills and pistols.
The pound is towards a mechanical skill of the Falcons shines through great flashbangs towards top of middle trading out those kills
monosie finding an orb
Slacks and couldn't find the second shot
Yeah, I'm positive on JBA boosted up a thick think there was an opportunity for him to get the second kill
But it's all in the past now. It's so huge for Falcons
Not only do you save three weapons going in you now get a nice cash injection
$3,500 instead of 1900
You've won the round you save the Norby saves your rifles
And I guess in fairness to MAD the double save here means they're gonna have a reasonable buy in this round absolutely
But if they start to lose now, but this has been a nice tug of war has been back and forth
Uncle who's gonna be coming out on top?
That's what we wanted right now Falcons certainly in the driving seat
We were promised a closer game on the the other game that we're doing between Parisian and MIBR and
Unfortunately Parisian just couldn't show up especially for that second man
They've had their issues for last three months or so now feels that they are plummeting in terms of like notoriety in the top end with the CS scene
I'm yeah, I'm from winning trophies and deep runs everywhere to now looking like
Shadow of the former sales, but I have to shave a lot more heads. I think you might be right and you need that
Um, big rounds here, 10-10. We're going the distance here on the opening map of Inferno.
There's the pick of M-80, they are up 6-0. Had some great opportunities. Last round probably
should have been theirs. Up against the galorels and pistols about a fumble. I've split them
into a difficult spot now. Valkans have everything they need. The final round number
11 here, potentially the map.
See getting tagged significantly. Yeah through the smoke. I think it must have been down to 12 health. That's a bit annoying surely
But now they've rotated a four back to the a bombsite. It's not completely unheard of swisher
Does he have any more grenades with them somewhere in the back surely there's gonna be okay. There we go
Nice job. Okay, so he's got a smoke incendiary HG is absolutely fine
collects all that lovely utile
Now we're going to be boosting a player up, it's going to be Niko confirming, oh that's
a nice grenade from CT Sport as well.
You have to know those by now.
That's the Fallen Classic.
So we're going to park one player up, Niko, and anti-flash towards half wall trying
to fend off any retakers, but it will be an apartments pop.
Three players getting ready here to defend is JBA and Lake.
I'm just gonna flash him out of apartments though is my concern.
Kerrigan's in the middle with no utility.
So I'm not saying it can't work, but normally you want a flashbang.
You're jumping into a bit of a crossfire.
I don't know if I love this at the moment.
24 seconds, the smoke doesn't even land up on the high ground.
Kizuki, that's an open air.
Oh my god, T-V-A goes down.
Who needs a flashbang?
You're just in the headshots.
That's so stupid.
How is that working?
No, no.
I really don't know.
Oh man, he had all the time in the world and Tessus kills you when he lands on the ground.
Yeah.
We're going to have, it's even the first kill that breaks the crossfire, right?
Yeah.
And I thought we don't know how that happened, but that was the guy playing inside of you.
He doesn't even lose a kill.
And you're right, they had no flashbangs.
That strategy shouldn't really work without the flashes.
And they, like he said, they fumbled this boat towards B, like it wasn't a fake at all.
They knew exactly what was coming.
They had the crossfire set up and unfortunately couldn't connect the dots on a few shots there.
massive round to pick up five players looking to survive here monocene
tessus lobe the hunt is on it's who gave itself blood in the water and swish
up holding onto his rifle towards the coffins crazy round gonna see some
replays there that was wild yeah long to see that opening kill from from from
apartments I don't know how they got away with that one that should have been a
very solid crossfire set up there for M80 oh that's rough that's a real
a rough one. Look at the money as well. I guess they save a couple of rifles. I mean that's
maybe what's killed them alive at the moment. They've taken the eco. It's a bitter pill
to swallow. See, they need a miracle here. Aggression. Swish up. Boost it up going
for a novel play. Not a bad idea. Sin. It's got so much space here. So many gaps
and they can keep this aggro up. Nika's gonna have no idea. Yeah, it's a freebie. It's a pretty sloppy set up from Falcons here.
Almost losing out to a USP there as well.
That actually helps out quite a bit. Doesn't a car again might be overwhelmed. He's gonna be traded out.
A missed opportunity for monosy.
Uh-oh.
He'll hunt him to the end of the earth here.
And that's the bomb down at the bottom of the ramp here. So very sloppy indeed.
Yeah, he didn't have everything covered.
You're so focused on our fight towards Banani, you've let them walk down middle and kill you at these steps.
You know if the Seasons of Low Economy, they're way opposite chances that they're going to be aggressive because they don't have the utility to play more defensively.
So, there's a lot of reasons why Falcons should have been more ready than this.
It should have been a call that's coming out there on the Falcon science team.
Just remember guys, they're not going to have a lot of utility, they could try something.
If ever they were smoke up, but yeah, because you get down, you can see with the assistant of JBA, they landed a dink on them earlier.
I'm earlier tests is but he's dinked as well huge for swisher just to get that one headshot through
They'll find the kill on to tests is and so do Falcons have given an opening right back to M.A.T.
Just a bad round from Falcons. I'm afraid and the fact you let that happen
It's a really nice aggressive little maneuver from M.A.T.
But the fact that's even allowed to happen
Suggests you weren't really ready for a round with you know you've broken their economy. Yeah patrol
They're very common maneuver is pushing down middle getting aggressive like the fact you got no idea. No one covering it
And you can get short on the back like, where are you focusing your efforts?
Yeah, because half the time what the CTs want to do is slow you down on banana by throwing endless amounts of utility,
but when they don't have the utility, that's not even an option.
So sometimes they'll go aggressive instead.
Smoke up to try and deny the molotov and then squish it with a very fast boost.
I do like this, I mean there's a way that this can work,
but some of the counter-utilities coming out and Niko pushing in front here.
Let's see if they dare jump against him.
I wouldn't recommend it.
He's not having a bad game, Niko.
Oh my God, he just did eat some through the smoke.
He didn't even see him.
That's disturbing.
Okay, we'll take it.
Molotov down towards the corner.
He's locked these CTs in with them.
Swisher's in front of it though.
Niko, this is a ridiculous sequence.
Lovely shots there.
Swisher will keep the round alive.
Oh, but they're gonna come back to test him.
We've parked up testers in the apartments.
I guess the idea is he's gonna try and catch any rotating players and if he can it's a little bit of a fake yet
Okay, and he's actually done a very good job that multiple smoke has pulled over everyone towards outside of the map
So that should be around
Yeah, there's nothing they could do I wish there was a way of some some kind of a that's why we call it a gamble
Sack, right?
You know, you're not gonna win this round if you display a 2-1 setup
So you take the gamble three players over towards one bomb site
I'm going to have to save if they go towards B as exactly what's happened here.
Oh, he had the footsteps for sure.
Yeah, Tess knows that Sin is there somewhere.
Yeah, true.
Park himself just waiting for it.
Every rifle counts at the moment.
Again, stay as far back as you can.
They might call on over another player.
Honestly, he could try and help out.
If they can get rid of even one or two rifles here, it's going to be so worth
it for the Falcons.
Tess has been very patient here.
He knows as a player and towards his apartments.
See does he check the right angles there?
There is that's the AK as well get this off and I've upgrade for his troubles
That's gonna be map points and 80 do save two rifles it looks like there'll be no challenge on those
Niko
Ridiculous little sequence from him taps through the smoke gets himself a double
Nice to see him hitting shots like that
he
His style of aiming and facing fights. He's a nightmare on that but on that in like that our position is so to be of against
That's all lucky. That's calculated. He knew exactly what he was doing
Yeah, sick stuff
Up to 18 in fact, he's one behind Swisher who's top-fragging
Let's see what we get grenade it down at the bottom
It's pretty decent little tank of carrying a little bit another grenade lands on monosy
Swisher playing almost in the fire. That's maybe too much
There will be Falcons winning the early top banana fights here. Oh, yeah for sure. That's a massive victory now try and do the retake utility at this point, but
Molotovs to deny the retake itself very good response here from Falcons
Yeah, you can see how uncomfortable the CTs are
Do they dare flashing again sin can flash him from the coffins and try and get that control
Can also set up retake utility from that position once again
smoke down towards arch library having three people this far back on beat is
worrisome because you could see what it does to the a bombsite defense J.V.A. in
the corner his teammate monoswap's in that way this still picks up a triple
Karrigan goes down how did that happen that was his teammate burning him
out of the corner and somehow it's worked to get them into overtime unless
This monosy could find four kills in the next 40 seconds.
He's here, and they should know.
He's already picked up the one kill, they're in the middle waiting, and a straight headshot
from Lake.
What an absurd round, I can't even understand what just happened.
They heard the sound tick of the burning though, no one seemed to be reacting to it at all.
It was looking like a nice round there for Falcons, they had the mid control, they'd already
pushed him back towards Banana as well.
Yeah, it's a CT incendiary. I guess it just makes things so weird that no one's really
sure what's going on at all, but we are going to overtime. That's the headline. Okay. Bizarre
scenes there, but they will remain on the T side. Recovering though from the six zero
deficit Falcons. I guess the last round as MAT enter overtime here. If you want your
teammate to peek middle and they're not doing it if you monitor absolutely will
peek middle you have to so maybe that's like the hardest kind of motivation I've
ever seen you have to swing this I'm gonna make you in you go I thought you
are tripping when you said it was a CT incendiary I thought why would anyone
throw that there that's what falcons thought there's no way there's no way
that for the incendiary if your teammates there wouldn't it wouldn't make
sense would it okay well this has been entertaining and now we're in overtime as
well Falcons they were they were looking to steal it away at one point there but
MAT they've been hard up to put away themselves Swish has been playing great
over at the B bombsite and the rest of the team honestly they're not that far
behind at the moment so here we go ladies and gentlemen it's overtime on the
opening map here picked by MAT Falcons would love to win this one and go on
to ancient which is their home kick at the moment.
Oh, he's not enjoying life.
Yeah, battered and bruised behind the half ball.
You can see he wants to call a Niko potentially
get that boost going once again.
But they are taking so much damage on routes.
It's going to be Karrigan and Niko both at 30 points of health.
That has not gone well at all.
Tony Swisher, they're a bone as well.
He's managed to dissuade them completely from banana.
Yeah, wow.
Puffing up his chest.
I think you're right.
They probably did want to boost.
Yeah.
That would have been fun to see.
Smoke's down towards the Arch, flashbang towards the quad site while I had Kai's to get here.
Try and get some control here, but no one home.
That's fine though. CT's operating.
Well, lack of information towards the top of middle.
One player towards B, bear in mind as well.
Smoke goes down.
He's down to a single... Oh, there's another smoke for Swisher.
I was gonna say a single is in here, but that's a lie.
He picked up the smoke just as I was saying.
FSS is operating towards the arch position we'll take we're taken down by sin in fact now
That's when I rotate back. That's a little bit surprising. I think it's like not expecting anyone to be there 35 seconds
But they are gonna commit to this a bomb site. I don't think I made you realize maybe they do now
Lake's down to the pieces together. He's gonna find the first headshot clock running down low
He's still on the bomb site. He wrote it. It's so deep in nobody knows now
They finally figured it out, but Lake he got so much out of that position
It's still a very winnable round here for M80.
Very uncomfortable round for both teams, but very winnable indeed.
M80 with the HP advantage here, there's two versus two.
Monacee realizing that, trying to play headshot position here.
Trying to find those warm taps.
Switch coming in from the apartment, said,
opening round of overtime.
Who will be taking it?
It's on the knife's edge right now.
If they had the incendiary of a Karagin he did it immediately.
Now they've spotted it up.
Switcher, you've got to go.
Karagin falls and Monacee is next.
and sin to pick up that last kill there a good double for him but I think Lake
he got the first kill he rotated into the bombsite and nobody knew about it so once they killed jba
they were still looking for Lake over by the library they were expecting him to be somewhere in the back
and he completely fooled them nearly got the triple kill it's looking so promising there
Balkans unable to hold on in the two on two took so much damage at the start of the round as well
Well, we'll be amazed to take the lead, but a tactical timeout, Deftus maybe trying to calm
things down, he's been very chaotic rounds.
He's been with the core of this team for quite a while now.
One of the less talked about representatives from the UK, but maybe a little bit unfairly,
I feel like he's done good work putting this team together at this point.
Yeah, absolutely.
I think he's a great coach.
Good head on his shoulders, very calm, good tactical mind.
I mean, they're playing really good counter strike at the moment. It's been really enjoyable.
I mean, it's Falcons were talking about, even if it's inferno Falcons, this is still like
the firepower difference between these two teams. You know, you could have come into
this thinking, yeah, but even so, you know, MAD, what are they going to do up against
this kind of a lineup? They're doing quite a lot of work.
Quite impressive so far. It's been a couple of thumbled opportunities for sure, but
you are against Falcons. They are going to best you in the mechanical skill. Fast
of the game, but let's see. Big round here with the 2-0 on the CT side.
Swish up, just a loan towards B, time and time again.
Great work with the utility.
He just doesn't care at all. And they've actually given up on this one, Falcons.
They're going hard and fast at the A bomb site. There's a four-man stack here,
so this is what M.E.T. would love. Flash coming out, Sin, it couldn't have been better.
You will get sprayed down but you should get anyway, but Slax is there to take over.
Oh, shot through the barrel's test. He's nearly dead behind this one
and surely there's going to be a teammate here. They've got three people on this side.
Yeah, there we go. Lake to hit the headshot and no chance for Niko, I think.
One versus four. The bomb is real far away. If anyone can't clutch these rounds,
it might be someone like Niko, but they should set this up.
They've got the bomb in their control. Just deep breath here on the M80 side.
Can't imagine a world where Vika wins this, I'll be honest with you, but you're right.
If anyone could, it might be him.
He's got no utility, three players to find, they're all surrounding that bomb plane very
passively.
You can even let him plant, it's overtime.
Force his hand.
Give him nothing to work with.
There is a cheeky smoke available, I suppose, but he's got to go so much further into
the sights.
too many angles to check and the credit to MAD here not giving him any fights
that's what you really have to avoid a massive difference right now for Nico
between a one versus three and a one versus two
yeah he can't win this no not any longer so little time shot in the back by JBA
I think Nico he's obviously very scary in a clutch but he's always scarier when
there's very little time I feel like he's so good at abusing the last five
seconds or around somehow. Keys to victory here for M80 have just been having one player
over towards our B bomb site having a very strong A site. They're doing a ton of damage
as well each and every time feels like we're getting like 60 grenade damage over towards
banana dissuading them completely and he has a ton of utility so they run over to start
towards B you can see in the radar right now drop the util off park up a player
and they might change things up they might go for an aggressive maneuver here I think
that might be the case around us. We've got different starts.
I do like it. They've been playing that 4-man A early on very much.
Now Niko wants to come through, hoping to find Squisher alone.
Potentially, it's going to be Lake instead.
But they might not realize there's going to be a third player here.
Niko wants to push the issue.
He knows there's someone behind there that Grenade's going to give it away.
Oh, that's more like it.
As Carrogan flashing over Niko to get that triple.
Well, sometimes you can as that Niko off the leash.
He knew he had a gap there. Threads the needle perfectly. Gets himself a triple.
It's a formality now. It would be very Falcon's-esque to give this round up somehow.
Surely even the Falcons can't do this. Like they can't do this.
I can't even imagine a world. There we go. But as soon as you say that,
there's a couple of thousand people at home ready with the screenshot button
One of those like the famous Falcons. Yeah
It's like how do they lose this?
Well, it's gonna be Niko with the 23 kills monosie at 20 as well
One round to show though after the T side campaign true
Is it enough we've talked about the weaknesses of this beat bombsite for Falcons
They go back to the CT side now
Yeah, but he did start to figure it out once they went defensive
defensive like we were begging for that. That's when it was kind of locked off.
It actually looked very strong on our knees.
In fact, yes, please stop.
So precious still on for Falcon's hits to one and an eighty.
So T side here, one round would guarantee double overtime.
And I suppose it's really scary as well for for M.A.
T because now that the switch to the side,
Monace was very good opening CT side on this map in regulation.
It took him a while to get going, but once he started to find his confidence, he was very nimble, very active, but he never seems to go towards B.
That's just one thing I can't get my head around. He's always peeking like bedroom, top-middle, towards the end of the apartment,
like you'll go for those aggressive picks, but never wants to go and join the banana. See if everyone's to change things up here.
It would be fun, you know, just to have it in the back of their mind on the T side, you could run into the orb there,
but we haven't seen it yet, and we won't do this round either.
either. Karagun and Kaisuke see whether they want to go aggressive. They've got that nice
deep smoke, so it suggests they will be double grenades, Molotov exchanged, and they won't
be fully sending in. At least not this round. A lot of grenades, not necessarily that much
damage on either side, so still pretty open round here. Third man rotating over
is Niko. Again, they tried this earlier to have the three-man setup where you'd sort of
hide Niko somewhere. Not exactly hiding this time, but it could still be a bit of a surprise.
Karakin actually wins the opening fight against Swisher. That is a bit shocking perhaps. Lake
will take one in return, but it's Kusuke. They still don't know that Niko's here. Now they know,
now they realize that he was there earlier than expected. And that's why it slowed them down.
I think they might be done for here. Smoked off. Utility running low. We got a four on
three, they know exactly where you are. We have got JBA controlling the boiler room so they do have
a backup plan. Could go join him I suppose, but they're hoping for a CT mistake right now. Slacks
with the AWP, poised and ready to take the shot in CT spawn but no one home. Talked about the
idea of setting up the crossfires when you have these sort of advantages, exactly what you need
need to do here. Good flashbang will come through. Grenade to follow. Niko aware there's potential
of them slipping the net. Let's go down to this little fake from JPA. Can he make an
incision elsewhere on the map and ruffle their feathers?
Shorty gonna have to be very much now. They've been in the bomb back. Wait a minute,
Henry. Now if he can find an opening, they need to pass. Not gonna happen. I think
that kills the round immediately. Yeah, bomb is gonna be running back to T spawn.
Yeah.
Might as well take the orb.
We're working with a similar idea though here this time, right?
Karagin and Kusuke, they get, uh, name-plated to borrow a term from Champ.
Yeah.
Um, and then Niko is there once again.
And you could see that they don't realize that because they're holding a smoke as
he's peeking them, right?
Like they just, they're not aware there's going to be someone in CT spawn like that.
Nice tentative hold once again from the Falcons, not too aggressive.
Good crossfires, Niko, stepping up time and time again.
seems like his head's really in the game right now every move he makes seems to be
the right one catches them out game sense thriving as we get into the second
round in the CT campaign looking for a three-zero clean sweep of Falcons versus
16 nice grenades
More great
That is so crazy
You look at the mini map while that's going on you almost can't see where banana is because there's just so many grenades flying back
Okay, this could be my point already swish it out of five points of health you've lost like
You might just have to go for the B execution and hope Karagin doesn't land a shot, but he's been pretty solid when he's left to his own devices to actually get a couple of kills and B, he's actually been doing okay.
Yeah, no complaints at all.
Niko and CT spawn with the AK, he'll be sitting up flashes once he's smoked off.
Okay.
He can flash like above the bomb site and he'll be disastrous for Swisher and Cone.
So flashes will be set up now.
Waiting for one.
There we go.
that you think it for us, and I appreciate that the flashbangs certainly working out this
time.
Perfect.
Not much you could do here.
And do you see why I was frustrated in the first few rounds, like when they're going aggressive
with banana every single round, like, you've got these players, do you have people that
can deliver this sort of level of counter strike, widely down to a scrappy jewel at the
top of banana each and every round.
Yeah, that is right.
Like, let's play some good counter strike here, let's have good crossfires, like,
better communication, better aim, and Niko'd have a nice defensive position, dropping the
perfect flashbang, setting his teammates up for success, that's how you do it.
It seems to have been sort of the key to being great.
Like, look how blind they are.
Everyone's warm-unchecked.
Right.
Three kills, four in the round because you gave out the way, you got the first one
too, so.
Yep.
Yeah, from the grenade run.
Yep.
So, uh, that's some solid CS.
Love to see that from Falcon.
So they know what to do, they just haven't been doing it.
Now they are though.
Honestly, aggressive this time and looking for double overtime. Is that enough to confirm it? 5 and 4?
TSS
They'll have a lot on his play here. They're gonna be walking through this smoke as well top of middle
Niko's got to step up here. Not ready. Wow. Not ready at all
Yeah, you could tell what a nice call walking through the smoke. That's that's bold try and do again
You're about to lose the map here. If you lose the map, you very like lose the series
just to reframe there's so much on the line as ancient as the second one and we
know that Falcons get to be rock solid on that one. Narragan he gets one shot
through but receives a little bit of the same in return. Kisuke in a one versus four
and they know where he's coming from as well. Covered on the one side with the AWP
it's an easy shot. Double overtime is gonna be an effect here. What a way to
start this series. I'm excited that you know both teams are stepping up to
this level. I mean, everyone's warmed up now, huh? They've got a best of one earlier today.
You're now into a double overtime in the first map, this best of three for the playoffs.
And yeah, nice work from Slack. Seconds of a couple of kills, one of which monosy towards
top of middle, early five on four worth its weight in gold forces and provokes reactions
on the CTs there. But what a great call. M. A. T. Just realizing there's going
to be chaos on the CT side. They're trying to recalibrate, take territory elsewhere,
through the smoke Niko just didn't see that coming at all. This was a very nice call from M80.
Yeah beating the timing there I mean that's that's that's a you know middle of the round kind
of thing you have the idea and you executed almost immediately. Really well done. So double
OT in effect now. I think Blair was talking about this on the desk right but Falcons with this
lineup have only played in front of once and it was against the Mongols but it was a 13-11
It's kind of close or it's closed in get I suppose
I don't know what why I want
So
first to 19 now
Remaining on the CT side which has been getting better and better as time goes on as you mentioned
They haven't played as much as a squad I suppose so learning on the job
Hey, no, if as long as it working as long as they remenber. What is he's going towards B?
We got it. We manifested it.
We're actually getting everything we want right now.
What, a rare day in the office?
Something's working out.
You don't see this too often.
Deep nades, so you're not expecting the op to be here.
Like I said, it happens so rarely that...
down at M.A.T. you're gonna be seeing it coming here.
Slacks is on the other side. He's got the op as well.
They're gonna be able to find anything here. Squishers.
into it. Yeah, what a shot. Now he can just bail to the A site. Yep. That's all he has to do.
He's shown his presence. There is a gap on the map with Arch. He's aware of it going towards
Library. He's hoping they haven't slipped the net again. Oh, wait, he's going to get smoked off here,
so we'll see how much he commits. Yeah, he's going to relocate back. He heard the smoke
landing, so he doesn't want to play inside of that. They are wrapping. You know what,
one good flashbang here could kind of ruin this setup. Counter grenade comes out just to
to slow things down 50 seconds and now the rotation is getting there. The rest of Falcons
has started to show up. Two people at the arch. He's not that far away. What a spray
down for Nico. A very fast double. Okay. This is quite fine. It's sin. Alone against the
world. He's already found two kills. Going to need three more behind that. He'll be
carrying it instead with a double of his own. But yeah, that early Nico double spray
really hard to recover from. 26 kills from Nico. Fantastic setup. All off the
back of that monosly pick towards banana gave him the man advantage as
mentioned as soon as you get that pick you just run back in towards a set up
the turrets and Niko playing very well today monosly some great moments as well
but 1-0 here in double overtime can have the offer slacks said does monosly
want to take that same pick he has done a few times in regulation nothing
one-way traffic going in his favor.
Slacks aware of it now, though.
JVM, a bit alone there.
Making a bit of noise as well.
And I think Tessus is near enough.
I didn't really want to try and react to it, but there are some interesting grenades you can throw if you think they're doing the boost up there.
Okay.
Back to old faithful.
That's it. We're gonna then... bring it back.
Yeah, it's been working so well, especially because Niko is so good at finding the timings
to rotate back to the B bomb site.
So I do like this.
There's the retake utility.
It's not perfect, but it's fine.
Still has a job.
And this side, Sin is in the middle.
He's got two flashbangs and smokes and everything else.
So if they want to do some sort of pop-out of apps, then you can definitely set
them up for it.
He's going to throw a Molotov towards Top Banana there.
Big smoke.
You're always gonna come back here right that is a devastating grenade to deal with the flashbangs
I don't know how they would have to be do even make it out here. Modesty tested already. Wait a minute
There might be a chance here, but this is is now finally he's getting something
Starving at this bomb site for a while now, but a triple will land it nicely and now it's just in here again
Now against the world
Unfortunately modesty will take him down bad smoke. You're absolutely right that nailed them
Yeah, because they had so much territory, they had to smoke down towards Moto. Everyone was there, you can't just say, oh, we'll just wait 20 seconds.
We'll wait for that to go down. You're already like stuck in no man's land.
And you're going to get picked off. And Tessus, you're right, he has had a pretty rough one. He was on 11 kills before this, but what a beautiful sequence this one.
Slides him all up. A boatload of damage there. Nice grenade to follow it up as well. 2-0 for the Falcons.
As they look to close out, their opponents map pick.
Got AKs now on the CT side. Four of them in fact.
money's going to be running a bit thin because you bought the orb twice in a row and you've lost it so
slacks and this has been dropped something. We'll have to make do with the deagle here.
Yeah, that's a bit of a concern. That's kind of what happens. You're right though.
So much to work with on the CT side of things. They're never going to be worried.
Still don't ever get to see the auto sniper, but you know, wall banging banana when cash comes
into the map or properly. The auto sniper will be a thing. I'm telling you right now.
Okay, nice. You can mark my words at this. I don't know if you've ever been wrong Henry,
so I'll take your word for it. This is the year of the auto sniper.
That's a big statement. It's actually happening this year. I'm not even
captain right now. This is it. Okay. 2026 towards the end of it,
you're going to see top teams using it. Clip it, save it. Let's see what happens.
Not on the T side of your defensive weapon, just re-attract that, but...
Fair enough.
CT, auto-cyber is going to be a thing.
I look forward to that.
We do need some more weapons in the mezzar at the moment.
That would be nice.
Kyusuke, he's forced out in front.
That's a bit scary.
Oh, and Maids are everywhere.
He didn't even get a chance to fire his rifle.
OK.
Well, that's what they were looking for.
An opening pick.
They don't even have to seek here.
So, Kyusuke, that is going to be the big execution there.
I said they had the grenades for it.
They're not actually in a position to do so.
So maybe just trying to
Ate out a bit of utility up. I think Karrigan said no go back
They might they might expect a rotation. So he sent Nico away
And said I'll handle this on my own if they come a though
You're still gonna have you know, three people there and two players in a M80 without weapons
Yeah, nice little boost here. There's a light to look into what's arch
This is a killer call for Karrigan because you could see that interaction
Niko was running with his knife out to try and get there and Karrigan just said no
Well, it's a bit of a fake here. You see the bombs towards the middle.
Carragorn just gonna hold.
They're not going to have any.
As long as he can. No one's rotating.
This is so sick. Carragorn's super-
Now, they're gonna find the kill. Can they bring the bomb back?
They're still going A with the bomb right now. They're f- you can't run back.
I don't think they can make it.
Nope, it takes more than that. I think it's about 19 seconds running all the way.
And now they're backing towards the A bomb site.
And the round is done.
Overcooked it a bit.
Five seconds left. Yeah, there's nothing they could have done at that point.
You need a little bit more time to run from the top of mid, and especially when you're
close to the bomb site, and back to the B bomb site.
I don't know what the plan was there either way, because there were 18 seconds when they
committed on that fake it looked like towards B. So if you get the kills, the bomb's still
parked at the other side of the map. Do that with one player. Then you force in towards
the A site, good to go as soon as he goes down. Because, yeah, you get that success
over towards B, but you have no time to really do anything with it. Then you're
making the call, do we go back, then you realize we've got no time, and we've
got to scramble away in towards the A site and yeah just a messy finish there. What was
I expecting too much considering they had two pistols there but still it's three zero
for Falcons here. Feels like a done deal. But you got to go back and say what they call
out of Karrigan even as they are fully executing onto the B bomb. From his point of view he
doesn't know it's a fake. He just sees the smokes, two smokes, flashes around the corner.
It would have been super sick if he got one kill. He would have been a true hero
Sure, that would have been even better, but you're right. He made that call and he did it so early like and not just making the call
But trusting it is one thing making the call when nobody's attacking
But then you actually see the attack coming and you still don't call over Nico
He Nico's just still at the bomb site very very good work
And that's the kind of stuff that you you're hoping for to get carrying it into a team like this one
You're not getting in here for the individual firepower. You're getting in here for these kind of calls
18 to 15 Falcons they just need one more round is it enough
You never know with these boys.
It's going to be three players over towards B from M80.
Smoker half-full early.
They have a little rounds M80 in regulation
when they had Swisher alone
and then four people at the Ape on site.
But I think at some point they started to get nervous
that Falcons had figured that out.
So I wonder if they're going to return to that.
This time it's not the case.
They've got Lake over here as well.
But yeah we'll see if M80 wanna sort of shift around the defense a little bit
themselves at top and on and maybe try something new.
All comes down to this. Looking for that mid control, smoke goes down, flash is over.
Confirming there's OCD presence here, the incendiary from SIN. Gonna get
spammed with the back of that, needs to be careful with the incendiary, there's a
lot of damage. Reclaiming that control of middle,
Slacks will be there at the AWP.
Back towards B potentially here. Molotov down on the corner.
Big kill. Slacks will find molotov once again.
It's actually huge, like you said.
Retaking at top mid position now.
Counter utilities coming up, slow them down.
Oh, Carrigan's pushed in front of it.
Wait a minute, he's in front of the incendiary.
He might just try and see if he can run it down.
There is an opening, but the more flashes that come through,
the more they get slowed down on the T side.
Now the smoke's just starting to get there.
And they've got to be careful.
Oh, blowpipe.
They smoke and they find him.
Harry, you can see it's the opening.
A few suitcase taken down Swisher.
I can't believe it.
It looked like they'd done enough there, mate.
You see him.
Runs in and burns high.
You hate to see that.
That is not what you want to be seeing.
Anders, I think you might be GG.
I hate to say it, but I think you're on to something here.
Slacks and JBA left.
Got to be wondering how did it,
how did we let go of this round?
How did it even happen?
Panic on scene as he runs to the monotope and dies
The bomb is ticking away.
Niko silently waiting in the back.
He's got 27 kills.
Tries to get another one,
but Tess is the one to feast here.
Slacks on his own.
He does go down, but there's Kerrigan.
To clutch it at the end,
then it's a 19 to 15 victory for Falcons.
What a game, Anders.
It had everything.
Back and forth, a lot of the Falcons
were gonna get blown out of the water.
They were down six and zero to kick things off there.
Hyper aggressive towards Padan on the CT side,
but they reeled it in.
They learned from their mistakes.
Sure, it went to overtime.
sure there was some uncomfortable rounds, but it's a map they haven't had a lot of time of
Karrigan on. They got the win and presumably going to be 2-0 here with Ancient Round the
Corner. Falcons getting it done, everybody through triple OT. They win MAT's map pick
of Inferno. Strike up Blair, let me get your initial reactions to what was quite a crazy
match of Counter-Strike. Well, I'll just tell you this, the
all Falcons, they wouldn't have closed it out. That was the Karrigan effect right
There yeah, no, but okay jokes aside like honest to God
I think that was a very solid first opening after a memory MAD that assaulted plan this B bombsite for the Falcons again
This is something the Mongols abused the loss of your plate
So a few question marks, but credit where it's due character. We keep saying it
He's the guys able to rally the troops and close it up and in the end they got it done
Yeah, we'll say very sweaty much more sweaty than I would have expected it to and to be honest
For a lot of regulation
I actually thought that maybe looked like they were playing the better brand of counter strike because a lot of what Falcons were doing was kind of
resorting to somewhat cheap tricks or like early opening moves that are kind of momentum-based.
None of them were really working out well, and maybe we're just doing things right.
They weren't doing anything crazy, just they played all the utility work very correctly
on the T side and on the banana.
They weren't getting caught off by the utility, right, towards the beginning of the half.
But then as the half progressed, they started switching up towards A, they meet Monace,
you know, who's just picking them off all the time.
I think that was a big question mark for me, because everything's working perfectly
at B, right?
like right guys surely now they're gonna be expecting us to be again let's go away
but that's where because the first I think eight rounds monesties just
frustrated right he's getting shot from behind there's no one coming his way it's
a classic eight players especially with the AWP where you lose a B bomb so you're
not going to be going for the retake then they come into the B status
monesties and I feel that's what gives Falcons a bit of a lifeline the
first half to kind of mount this comeback if we were to summarize this
falcons performance yet tough in the start and if we to focus on the good bits
Nico let's go about Nico aggressive confident he looked on fire point I
mean this this round that we're picking on now I mean that kind of effectively
secured them second overtime because obviously you know that ended up going
in second after after that because they would have been 0-3 going into the
second half of this right so that move that was a really nice setup I mean
obviously that's a very that's a move that they've played through before they
throwing that smoke towards Sandbag, and he can just walk through it and jump on the Sandbag to pick somebody off, right?
Really, really nice opening move from him.
I just want to give props to Falcons for the adjustments they made in the overtime,
both of them really, because we obviously saw them struggle a lot with the debomb site,
and then we saw in overtime how much Niko was in CT spawn, waiting with the counter flashes,
because that wasn't happening all throughout the first half for a lot of that.
They were making, kind of, trying to make opening moves at Banana, but then Niko would fall off,
he would be at A, and obviously they would just play the 3-2,
two and they were getting caught off with Kiyosuke and Keregan on B, but overtime hits,
Niko's getting called out to B to support there all the time and it works because, yeah,
MAD think, okay, this is where we have the most success and so we're going to try to abuse
Keregan and Kiyosuke on B, but then Niko's there with the counter flashes, they get stomped
every single time. Second overtime, Monacy comes in to get that opening pick on Banana,
And that's just start off the perfect half for them.
So really, really nice adjustments from Falcons once it does go down to overtime.
And I also felt like for M80 there were a couple of moments where I felt like they started playing
a little too scared. A particular round comes to mind late in regulation with a 2v2.
I felt like they could have potentially gone for the retake. They had a bit of remaining as well.
They were a little scared. The final round of the second overtime as well where
they basically just ran out of time. Just overcooking things a little bit.
but they had B, they're going into it's A,
so I felt like they played a little,
again, they overcame it a little bit,
you know, kind of running out of time at the very end,
but that's what happens, right?
Pressure is on, it's like, you know,
overthinking things a little bit,
the decisions aren't quite there,
and I feel that's where someone like Karagham thrives
in the mid-rounding and whatnot,
so I agree with the great adjustment coming up,
but man, watching Niko tearing a banana to the side,
that was shades of all Niko, that was cool to see.
Let's stay on board with the topic of Karagham
because no doubt had an impact in this matchup,
and especially in crucial rounds, you know,
Near the end of overtime, I think it was round 33,
MAT was trying to sell a fake towards B,
and it was a pretty convincing fake.
They had two players there, trucking utility,
Karrigan's on his own on the B site,
but has obviously communicated over the Michael.
The team's got a vibe, I'm going to assume it was Karrigan,
though, saying, guys, stay A,
and the guys stayed and then cleaned up MAT as they pushed A.
Yeah, we spoke about Karrigan before,
and we're seeing proof in the pudding again
of the impact he's having.
I will say, though, that there were some concerns
with that though, because like early on the T side, it was a lot of momentum calls that
didn't really hit because when they were going for these early banana plays, like they were
trying to boost up over the broken wall, right, or half wall, and that didn't work out. Maybe
they get the one for one there, but they get so much knee damage all the way through.
They do it again, like back to back rounds, and that's like, that is quintessential
care again. And obviously, if you don't run into three people there, that can really
work and then you can just overpower the B bomb site. But I mean, they were just
always there with three guys trying to take over banana or at least do deal
damage with Nades and then it took carrying quite a long time to catch
on to that fight this is not gonna work we're gonna have to slow it down and
then go for some of these later round plays because that's when they then they
found success so still a lot of good adjustments from him by the end once he
realized what what the approach was from from a matey but it took a little
while towards the beginning before before that happened if we're to build
upon this if we were to look back at that first off so yeah good job by
they had a good first half, but on the other side of the server, definitely could have been an improvement by Falcons, perhaps Kerrigan missing a beat.
What else was going wrong, so to speak, for Falcons in that first half? What should they look to change moving forward?
I feel like Stranger pointed out as well, like they obviously were leading early B many a times, but I just did not enjoy the setup.
This one round comes to mind for example, I think it kind of tells the tale of the B defense where it was Kerrigan baiting for Kyosuke,
and a Kyosuke baited for Niku's playing in the back of the bomb site, but that's what I'm going to give credit to M80.
They were dotting their eyes, they were crossing their T's, you know, molotov-ing off every angle, using all the utility and working together,
not ever making an assumption that, you know, a corner is, that there's no one in a corner or something like that.
So I think M80 did a very good job of not falling for any of these small little traps.
But it said they were too eager, I feel, to take these fights because, again, this is what they did against Mongols,
where it did work a couple of times here and there with a set of Kyosuke, he runs in and gets a couple of kills.
But the thing is, what if it doesn't pan out that way, right?
What if he doesn't get that opening kill, and suddenly all of a sudden it's now a 4 vs 3,
and Niko's alone on the bomb site, and they're just going to be pouncing onto him, even though it is Niko.
So I feel like the adjustments later on were good.
I feel like being less one-dimensional, and how they want to approach these early banana positions,
is something they need to work on.
But once again, I think this is a map they really haven't had too much prep time on.
Again, it's the only second official that played under Karrigan.
So, yeah, they need to workshop it a little bit, but I'm not too worried for the time being.
I also have to point out just one thing because like yes first of all they only played it once
in Astana but also they haven't really been able to practice all through that time so that that is the
one inferno they've had to play in like two weeks time so obviously yeah there's there's only going
to be so much time or so much space you have for any sort of adjustments on the map so definitely
could be a weakness that others could could try to exploit throughout this tournament. Let's quickly
look ahead before we go to a short break. Falcons pick up next ancient a very advantageous
map for them based on the last three months.
M80 pretty much been missing on that map the last three months.
That being said though, if Falcons get a rough T side,
is there any chance of four M80 here,
or can we expect Falcons going strongly ahead and winning T0?
I mean, I don't think that CT sides are that much of a,
this is not much of a shutdown map in terms of the CT side.
You have so much space to work with if you're T's.
If you have all the early openings down,
and then there's like so many adjustments that you can make
that you don't necessarily even need middle a lot of the time.
you know, some of these early opening moves to get the picks, you know, you can just basically walk out eight sometimes and you're going to get an open side to get a 5v5 retake.
We just saw it with like the Paravision game where they got the A bomb side, but what happened after was the problem, right?
So I don't really think that we can expect kind of a shutdown CT side from Mimeti to give them that much of a leg up, to be honest.
Especially when you have Ina Kiyosuke just seemingly getting more comfortable as the more reps he's getting with Karakin, you're going to be sending out towards mid and he's going to be a problem to really contend with.
but also in the CT side initially when I think the first couple of games they played against K23 against
Magic as well and towards Astana, if memory serves me right. The CT side it felt like we saw shades
of old Falcons where they try to overextend a little bit. I'm looking at Kiyosuke for example
where he just tried to go for he's trying to bite off more than he could chew basically which
allowed them their opponents kind of back into the game but it seems to have been something
that's being kind of fixed as the more they played so far and again I have to point out
Honestly, once they were coming his way, he was shutting them down with the AWP.
And one thing he saw from him on the CD side, if they get off to a decent start,
to get it off in his hands, he's going to be everywhere.
And I feel like no matter what plans MAD might have in store on the T side,
it's just going to be poking and prodding extremities.
You're going to have Niko maybe doubling up, pushing towards AMA.
You're going to have Monosie bottom of ramp, pushing mid with the AWP.
He's going to be such a problem to contend with.
So I feel for MAD, I just don't think they have a chance here.
I mean, the recent results as well. It's been roughly. Yeah, I will say I'd love to let you jump in
Being told we got to go to a break as always though. Thank you for your force
We can get more of them after the next map and the next map is ancient
It's falcons pick will they get it done in two or will MAT bounce back do not go anywhere?
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to CAC.
We've run the second map between Falcons and M80.
It's going to be Ancient, the Pick of Falcons.
exciting first map though,
And as an inferno had all the bells
and whistles for a good counter
strike game. We had double overtime.
Nico Poponoff, monasy with some
fantastic maneuvers. Sure,
the B bombs. I was a little bit weak
that he got it over the line and
we're expecting them to take this
to zero, right? I think so.
Most mostly because you go for me.
M A T is a team that really
are struggling on this map,
especially the T side Falcons
have four wins with this line.
But if that is against,
you know, magic, Monty and K
27 got three wins, I suppose,
and then they lost to Spirit 13-10.
But just to say that the victory here,
maybe if you look at the win percentages alone,
it's a little bit misleading.
I still think they're going to be significantly better.
Like I said, MAT on this T side,
that is a concern for me and yeah,
I wonder how this is going to be playing out.
But I wouldn't be surprised if we're going to be
seeing a Falcons team that look a lot more dialed in.
Okay. I like that.
Bear in mind Falcons as well,
Nico, one of his specialist maps here.
He's got some signature moves,
especially toward the B ramp on the T side.
Nice.
walking up and just finding kills time and time again. Even you know he's up to it. He seems to be an absolute menace on this one. And yeah,
Falcons seem like they had a nice opportunity to warm up there. They were 6-0 down on Inferno and managed to bring it all the way back.
It was definitely that B-bomb size I mentioned. They were a bit too aggressive, I think. The game plan knows that let's just completely dominate the server.
That's disrespect to make sure they can't run their game plan. M80, they turned up today. They're shooting hard. So they had to respect it,
real things in, and you can see the Octagonal screen right now. It doesn't look great for a matey. I'll be on this.
Then, I'll believe him.
Yeah, fair enough. Especially with our first map going the other way, that was probably the ticket
for a matey to have a really strong say in this one, but again, we would love to be wrong.
How cool would it be if a matey had improved and coming into this one with more of a chance
here? That'd be surprising to me for sure, but I do love a good surprise.
You really do
Yeah, we'll see
They put their hearts and souls in that opening right there swish are playing super well on the CT side defending the B bomb site quite a bit
But I mean slacks even though he's not as flashy as modest
He's still got some very important 80 vehicles like he has great fundamentals though. He hits the he hits the shots
He has to good positioning
Doesn't give up his life for free. Sure. Well, it's flashy, but still a safe pair of hands
We'll see whether you can go toe to toe here. Difficult map at the Opus, sometimes ancient.
Yeah, especially when you get smoked off in the middle all the time on the CT side like that.
Exactly, yeah.
Not the most fun, but let's see where this goes.
Could be the final map of the day here, ladies and gentlemen.
There is a B-stream going on right now between Legacy and Tyloo.
That is also an upper bracket semi-final.
And looks like they're an overtime in their first map.
So, wow.
Okay.
A lot of action going on here at CAC today and it will be Falcon studying on the T side here and a B play looking very likely smoking up towards short and long Molotov either towards the default area or the cubby and in you go but they could be focusing their efforts towards cave as their avenue of approach.
It's going to be slacks to defend.
Molotov landed his feet.
They know they know we're made to what's coming and they want to fight towards the ramp before the cave part of it is pushed in
I actually don't hate that from the CT side
They knew that they were getting pincers and I wanted to take one of those arms out definitely
But it didn't work unfortunately. They couldn't find it off. That's an easy kill for me, Joe
Bullets that's dressed at all
Somehow JBA finds both of them what went wrong there these on
They got so excited like you've given them three fights in cave. Yeah
One by one by one. What are you doing?
Neeko couldn't tell it to the fight because you saw bullets. You know bullets
He had six in the first encounter. You get a clean one tap on the first
I just can't tell you what his team is. Are you trying to win the round or trying to get the kill?
Like what's more important right now? Giving the kill obviously
You've got a wall bang headshot. Oh
Honestly even got the wall bang of the block. So let's have a look at this
So you got one player and everyone comes in one by one.
You can see what they're trying to do.
They're trying to protect Nico.
He should be protecting the bomb.
He's got the information.
He's got a kill.
He's fine.
Don't worry about Nico.
That's absolutely true.
What a bizarre way to start it.
You won't,
she's a fan,
but it's not really known to win a pistol round.
I mean, they've thrown that one away.
Yes, they have.
Okay.
Like, you know, he's there.
Nico heard both of them.
He's killed the first.
Just let it be.
Baffle they give that one over
And if you commit if the CT player commits to swinging Nico in the corner
That's when the rest of the team can be sure wanted to you know
But there wasn't even a full committal to that fight from the oh that's such a tilting round even I'm a bit tilted
That's my favorite
It was on a plate it was done either way, let's see if they can win the second round force by
JBA's in trouble, he's let them in. Should be able to get one, not even that though.
It's going to be a difficult round here, Lake. Smoked off in towards Donut.
Might be able to find a spam kill here, can he deny the plan? We saw a lot of this today.
Doesn't quite connect.
Okay then. I mean, if they pick this one up, Falcons...
I mean, always forget them, sure, but they've got to pick it up first.
Swisher. Takes a lot of damage. They do have the kit on Sin, which is important,
But no more smokes on the CT side. So retake will not be easy nice pick off their sin finds two kills
Very rapidly and it puts a lot of pressure on the remaining players here. Oh, he's too far away
He can't do anything Nico. He was holding for a flank. He was expecting that someone was gonna be there
So they just cleaned it up like nothing. Well done on the M80 side
So they save a galore the bomb is planted I
Don't think they forced by again. I don't think they found enough kills there to justify it
They felt like they were worth a bit more than that.
They get the opening frag, no problem.
They've got smokes down, and not a single follow-up kill
after that.
I do want to say this for the people at home.
We don't get to experience this part of my day.
But every day, Henry, we meet up early,
whether it's early, whether it's whatever.
You're always in a great movie.
You're always like, OK, let's we're
going to go watch some great Counter-Strike.
And then slowly the team's taken away from you.
And that's just like watching that roller coaster
for me is amazing.
I love it.
Oh, I'm glad.
It's entertaining for you, at least.
Let's see, and that's what we've got to work with here. We've got the upgraded pistols. They have not forced board. They've gone for the Galaama
Saved Niko galil
Nome Bruce wallbangs
Very true
Okay, honestly known for his bullshit
Such an interesting kill. Oh, okay. At least they shut him down, but Niko was there on the return
Yeah, that wasn't a kill. That was a slaying
that was in the middle.
Tarragon should be going down here back and forth we go.
HP advantage for MAT is Nico's down to 15 points of health.
If I want to give that rifle over, indeed he has.
Okay, so okay we'll have to step up now.
Okay, this is a very Nico-escaped right now.
That doesn't quite deliver the good so...
That's enough around MAT up to 3-0.
I say that, there is 40 seconds.
Then they're getting ahead of myself
but the bomb is down at the top of the ramp here.
Surely just don't fight him.
You know he has to go get the bomb.
Yeah, it's not going to be happening.
Nice work on Sin there.
Three kills, in fact, in the round for him.
It's another round where there's a bit of worry, perhaps,
on the MAD side, but they come through once again.
And again, this is a map that they're not that strong on.
So winning these early rounds I really
think it's significant, especially if they
can win this Necron.
If they can slap the first rifle
out of the hands of the Falcons, then that's where the conversation for some kind of a
great upset on the map could really be, could be entertained at that point.
Another weird star here for the Falcons, it wouldn't have it any other way.
Always having to dig themselves out of trouble.
The pistol was a lock in.
It was guaranteed it felt like a spoon fed it back to M18.
It was.
And now Lake. Oh, this is a great maneuver. He's timed this so well. They have no idea it's sin through the smoke
Doing so much damage gets himself a double the wheels are already falling off
Five versus three they can fall back now. The hard work is done. They've got Lake parked up in the cubby as well. And is
They'll have no idea that he's made of that
Yeah, almost feels like sin kind of stole the thunder there because you're absolutely right the positioning for late
Yeah, getting ready for him to get a double but through the smoke sin gets to
Should be a done deal should being the optimum though. You can't overcook here
Lake that's confirmed
And he survives as well well played. It's gonna say just don't give them even a chance now
You've locked it in and I said this is the first real rifle round that's coming out of the Falcon
So picking this one up this early on
MAT suddenly with a foreign old lead
And the Falcons much much slower said the only thing obviously, you know the previous version of this team certainly
playing ancient butts
With Karrigan in the mix
Spear is there is the real sort of tier one team that they faced and the rest of it Monty Magic
K27 I believe those are the other three teams that they defeated
So not to take anything away from the Falcons, but it just means that the stats with Karrigan on the lineup are a little bit different
Well, nothing they'll be doing with this round, I'm afraid, is monosy and Tess S. This has
to peel off, Falcon's really yet to get going, would be a very different complexion if they
just converted that, or felt to be a free round in the pistol.
Here's the plate and sin, just getting a double through the smoke, ridiculous scenes here.
Lake still not happy with that advantage, confirms the round, gets himself an AK as well.
clean. Very convincing here. MAT with another flying start. They're just joining us. They were up
six and zero on Inferno before it all went wrong. But GIF did another fantastic start here.
Couldn't ask much more than this. The money is flowing very nicely. These have been very clean
rounds. Maximum loss bonus, though, Anders. So there will be buys to go with this. They saved
two rifles. Yeah, let's see what Sonic has been cooking. They take the time out. He chimes in.
They keep the money strong for Niko and Karagin. They don't necessarily drop too much.
Gotta be focused on some utility here. But we've got three rifles, D-Golf, Tess S.
So awfully quiet stuff for the individuals here on the Falcon side, because we said they're
They're warmed up behind Inferno, you know, double OT, everyone should be ready.
That looked wild, because it looked like his mouse was going all over the place, but he's
still alive, Lake is practically dead, Monocy.
And easy pick up against Swisher, and now Sin feel the pressure, he knows they're going
to be coming for him.
Very well handled, Lake gets one through the smoke as well.
They do clean out Sin in the corner, but you know what, he did a lot more work there
than I thought he was going to be able to.
Yeah.
Not planted yet.
It felt like a done deal for Falcons, Monocy getting that nice open up, but
Somehow some way it's a three on three in their lower health as well
Okay, well that helps out a lot
That'll deviate a lot of pressure doesn't it?
double spray through to smoke didn't see anyone and
Slacks no way you can go for this one. I'm afraid
Finally Falcons will break the streak not gonna be 6-0 this time before one this shot from slacks should be fine
Nope, it's not so that's how this is what money
4-1 Falcons relying on monosy to get three kills there, two of which were food to smoke,
but a beautiful opening kill if the troops have that B-Ramp.
Yeah, the opening is so good. That's also why it's a bit concerning that they have so much
trouble finding sin in that corner. Like it really felt like that could have been worse.
Was that like the first bullet as well? Did you think so?
The first bullet killed two people? Yeah.
There's no way.
Through each other, yeah. That was kind of insane.
Okay, well, like we said the money's good for M80 even though they don't save the AWP
They can bring it out once again
Something that we didn't see at all on our first ancient of the day
Oh, yeah
MIV on paravision was anybody on the CT side pushing into the a-hole ways like the forward yeah, okay
That's that's a fun way to try and deal with with stuff
Especially because Falcons are a team that prefer the B bomb side over the a bomb sign
So if you're if you're playing if you're the a anchor and you're a bit bored sometimes
Maybe it's worth it to push up and try and see if you can get a flank going
on the M80 side that is.
Let's see what they've got on their sleeve.
Monocy feeling it with the AK-47,
sending most of their manpower over towards middle.
A, side of the map.
Kizuke leaving the charge once again.
Can he find the opener?
He absolutely can.
Gets a double, huge spraydowns in towards middle,
but Jabba will still be there on JBA.
I should say, as you do find a couple of kills.
Back to a three on three out of nowhere.
But Niko's got all this space.
he's found the gap.
He needs to be careful not to lose this now.
Gotta be frustrating for Slacks to not hit some of those shots.
It feels like he's in the right position.
He's got the weapon that he wants to have
and he's getting outdulled by Kisuke in both cases.
So that's a little bit disappointing perhaps.
Three on three and then he pointed out-
He's trying to sell this for Niko.
Yeah, like such a deep position.
If anyone of the CT side was here,
they'd be looking elsewhere surely.
Oh, they're running with their knives out.
They don't think they're checking this ever.
Coulda probably waited, but wants to get the kills, a couple of headshots will do, and Sin is already out of the round.
Brutal from Niko.
Like you said, I was expecting him to let the first one run by, but no funny business here.
I'll just take him both down.
Get it out the way.
Alright, well done.
Opening kills from Kiyosuke has to be said. Beautiful work on the spray down, but all of a sudden it's a three on three.
Maybe a little bit too keen to take the space towards middle.
Let the round brief for a little bit once you get those kind of advantages,
but either way, Niko finding that gap,
the cell coming in from Monosy drops like smokes, Molotovs down,
suggesting they're incendiary, locked them out of the A-bomb site.
Yeah, that's such a cool way to play it as well.
Yeah.
With good communication on the fountain side, we appreciate that.
Sin has actually managed to steal the AWP.
That's probably the best thing that he could have done at this stage.
And that's all they'll really have in the next round, to be honest.
Could be enough. Sin 9 and 2 right now.
Saving the AWP.
Bakes the question, do they want to buy up a round up?
Like I said, really nice spray down here, especially that second kill from way downtown.
And then need to go stunning. A couple of shots there.
Secures the round, brings the second in for Falcons.
be nothing if not entertaining today very chaosic
falcons don't like it had so many rounds they should have converts it but I guess
with the new in game leader coming in there's gonna be mistakes and front
rounds it's just part of the journey
if an early grenade there Nico has to sacrifice some utility to get rid of
that's what all they have is the orb and they've got it all stacked up at the B
bomb site
that smoke that's thrown from CT spawn that lands in the T side of middle yeah
I think I think your spirit reason they wasn't it that was molotoving that
out sure from T spawn curious to see the falcons not maybe they haven't
learned it yet maybe it's not on their radar at the moment but there
There are ways to get rid of it because the cat bounces off the wall.
This all comes down to Tessas.
They get a walk into the stack here Falcons.
Orp might get a bit of a freebie.
Tessas, does he have the back stab?
Does he try and explore his options towards CT spawn?
Warbang's coming through 40 seconds.
So Tessas looks like he's going for a back stab once they've taken the aggro.
You can see him waiting, fighting his time.
There's the freebie from the orb we talked about.
Now you know the orb's there, do you just try and bail, go towards A and Tessas
to lock off rotations.
What has happened there? What was Niko doing?
I really don't know.
Was he trying to deny the AK and pick it up?
Something like that. It looked like he was in the middle of some kind of a plan here now.
Are they going to check Tessus this time? Niko was here in the last time around, slacks!
He just runs him down with the AWP!
Suddenly there's a chance and an opening here for M80.
If they get this round a bit early here, it could be devastating for Falcons.
This should have been a done deal as soon as they realized it all was there.
You're right. You just pull the plug, you go back to the A-bomb sites.
They still might be fine, but this is way more risky than it needed to be there's carrying gone down and they know a
Monocy there is have the models off try and put some pressure on no kit though
So it's a full 10 second defuse a monocy. He's fighting his time peach from the other side
That's so smart knows he's not going to be held there
And I think unfortunately for all the work they've done without starting on it. They just don't have enough time
So I'm guessing with Nico there
It looked like he's trying to pick up an a came deny the CT's getting it like yeah
I think it's a real chaotic real quick. Like there's a nice setup there from an MAT like we said
They find out the orbs there they start the scramble back into a test says thankfully did get a couple of kills
We said he would have be the linchpin of that round, but definitely another uncomfortable one
Thankfully for the Falcons they managed to win it just about
Very nice play from honesty. You thought he was cooked off that our model top goes down
But he knows you've got no kids there, right? Yeah
So he plays it perfectly just knows it's the deny the first diffuser if you can do that doesn't even need to
gun at that point, jump around, run the clock down, and it will be the third on the board.
Wouldn't call it smooth sailing, but they have got three in a row.
It's maybe worth pointing out as well for MAT on this map, right?
It's about 53% win rate on the CT side, but it's down to 36% on the T side.
They are playing the side that they are stronger on.
They're struggling significantly more on the second half.
I really think winning some of these early rounds and kind of like they need to bounce
back really quickly is what I'm trying to say here. I think if they could get up to eight
or so rounds of the first half, then they've got a real shot at it here, but I'm worried
if Falcons start to pick up any more rounds that M.A.T. are going to struggle to get into
the second half.
And Chitylity coming out on the CT side, trying to slow things down. Sin pushed in
for it. Sin went late to help him out. It is a slaughter in the middle that Falcons
just decimated.
of stuns here, not playing behind the smokes anymore, up close and personal is Sin, 5 on
2 should be a round, but Niko as we've said, and that's his signature move, AK-47 in hand,
creeping up the B ramp, and it's the dastardly duo, monosie and Niko and a 5 on 2.
Yeah, got him worried about that, but they actually make quick work of it, no bomb
plant being allowed for Sin is 12 and 3, finding a triple in this round.
He is leading the team and kind of making sure to get back out of this one and you know because of all the damage done earlier Falcons
They're not as rich as they otherwise could have been here
They've won a couple of rounds in a row, but they're not they're not drowning in cash on that tea side
They're gonna put together something here, but it's not perfect. Oh, this is what he normally sprinkler and a set piece anders
Yeah
Maybe goes towards a
Mixed things up
You've got a little bit of presence shown by Niko, he'll be holding the extremities trying
to find a pick with his signature move as I keep banging on about, he'll go for one of
those plays and his teammates are going to be ready to pounce it towards a, if he gets
a pick or not.
But the thing is, Slacks is reading this very well, perfect position now, difficult
to take him down with the Tech 9, you're going to have to hope he misses a shot but
let's see what happens here.
He's going to see the shadow as well.
Yeah, true.
So if you peek him a little bit closer, you're giving him another kind of advantage.
I do like Niko lurking over on that other side.
He's got a smoke and a flash, so he's going to set that up to try and cause a little bit
of chaos.
The rest are in the middle though, and Swisher is realizing, and there's really nobody pushing
through here at this point in time.
Under a minute now, they'll find Niko, and that's a huge discovery.
Lake realizing, and this is very smart.
You duck down, you limit your model like that, it actually does have an impact
on the game and it will be just two players left on the falcon side this is huge for m80 i really
think they need something like this carrigan the last hope here nothing he can do well read by slacks
taking that control in towards a main five versus one almost zero chance of winning it save a bomb
plants possible with 20 seconds remaining. Call the molotov, the molotov is a main.
The plant is down. The plant is through. Nice grenade. Okay a bit ambitious there, slacks,
but still it's all fine. I like the idea. I'm going to be honest, even if this half is 9-3,
I still think there's a decent chance that M80 could struggle in the second half.
I really don't trust their T side for this one. I like that.
for you for Niko Swisher saw him throw the utility from the double doors or come over a bit of a freebie
for him very active on the CC side of liking this from M80 when they're lacking information they
are pushing around the map and actually making sure like you saw them pushing b lanes and a main
at the start that they fantasize in towards that a main area realizing they're giving up that
mid control so down to the partial here six to three M80 and a fantastic spots promise they
They lost to a couple of these rounds on Inferno just when he thought they're a prime position to take a massive lead
They'll lose to the pistols and all of a sudden Falcons wake up
Lots of mid control here and is
Straight towards our red room
They might as well keep going if you walk through you find the timing you could slip in behind the defensive line is yeah
This is massive. This is huge
You'll be aware of it the next like five ten seconds. You'll be considering it
Yeah, but I think you're right though. This is five ten seconds too early for anyone to even guess easy pick off
JBA goes down and slacks wondering well, how deep are they right now?
No one immediately behind them, but the bomb is gonna be planted here. Kerrigan still goes down early
They get the kill there, but that's only half the battle the bomb is planted
Let's see if they maybe could do another great retake and smoking off a main
They got slacks with the AWP. So that's one plant there with Nikos being nullified
Kiyosuke certainly not finds his second kill of the round, 3 versus 3, bomb taking a some
pace here, Slak continued to find the kill with the AWP, and they got Utile for the bomb,
Time will tell, it's Monty with the P250, I don't think it's going to be enough though,
as the defuse will come through, he hasn't got a chance here.
Great attempt, very close, very uncomfortable, but it will be NAT winning the round.
But also for Slak's and Sim, great communication, one guy committing to the defuse, you
know he's low, you're hunting him down, that's in the heat of the moment there,
That could have been really bad if they're not in sync for that one.
Just a bit of a shame though, you get all that space.
The opening kill, the bomb plunge, and it just felt like once again, one by one, they're
peeking the angles, and suddenly from the CTs where he commits, we're carrying against
dropped early, and they simply can't hold on.
Easy to say when you're watching here, but obviously if they would have wrapped
around the temple on the back there, they could have got slacks as well in a very
similar fashion, but obviously they don't know everything that we know.
It's true like it did look like the setup for that round was very favorable to Falcons now. We're at seven to three and
Things are looking a bit interesting here Sonic now on the microphone
Trying to see if you get around it the troops need a little bit more
I think you know even one or two more rounds here. It's they're gonna be perfectly fine
Carrying in honor one to nine scoreline. He was actually doing really well on inferno in terms of the kills
Struggling a bit here
It's okay trying to replicate his success he found towards middle
No one challenging just yet. Swisher will take control
Up the cave room will be there with sin as well
Ready for the fights. We call the other side spam trying to
Tempt him in
Yeah
The timing is so good
fine swisher
Three people on the side nobody at the A bomb site so they've gone all in trying to defend this at the moment
Red room is gone. That's Karrigan sneaking on through and now now if they're back in the round here
It's a four on four. There's still no defense at the A bomb site whatsoever
They are really expecting Falcons to show up here like I said at the start
This is a team that does favor the B bomb side by quite a margin
So it's not a crazy bet for MAT that they could be ending up at the site team
Molotov comes in and slacks has to escape
That smoke is up and that's suspicious to MAT.
There could be someone hiding inside.
Tess is right on the other side and they're down to 40 seconds now.
They have to go back and check out the A bomb site.
They're starting to creep away from B
and that could be a fatal mistake here.
They're lacking information.
Yeah.
They're in the dark right now.
JBA completely alone in towards B.
30 seconds remaining.
Wait a minute, this position is crazy though.
He's gone so far in.
This is very surprisingly hard to clear if you're a Niko coming through all he has to get is one kill
If you can get this and stay alive who cares if the bomb is gonna be planted they're checking everything and there we go
Niko is dropped JBA pushed in Oh, no
Round from JBA another headshot takes down Tess's and with same seven seconds left
Yeah, jump him right there might have been a little bit too early, but it doesn't matter
Monos see he can't find the last kill even though Lake was right around the corner and it's
M80 to pick up one more round here. Let's see if they can get up to nine. I still think that was a scary round right up until the end
Absolutely was they had zero information there. They thought it could be an A play
They stacked on that side of the map JBA had to go above and beyond
Like he said an interesting position he holds as soon as he hears the utility landing in the B bombsite
He swings around you catch his Nico by surprise gets the double kill buys enough time and comes out on top
No time to plan. Honestly we'll survive but fortunately after getting so many
kills you can actually drop a kill under so that's something there.
Little complete disaster. The half's not going well at all. Swish has had enough.
Full send down the B ramp but there's Tessus and Niko working in tandem.
They are smoked off. Do they want to push forward? The answer is yes. They
definitely do. Tessus picking up one more kill to get onto the site. He's
actually going to keep calling a triple for him. It's about time that we get
to see a little bit more of the testers in this series.
JBA alone.
Yeah, I like the attempt again,
you mentioned earlier with MAT,
like the boldness to go for those kind of pushes,
but this time it backfires as they were very flashed,
I think on the TZ side, trying to get down.
So almost no chance for the clutch,
unfortunately, a fourth round for the Falcons.
And I said, I think four is enough.
I think they could do enough damage on the second half,
or find out, yeah.
You said three was enough, so yeah.
I said even three, yes.
I'm worried for this one.
definitely am but you can't take it away the m80 is a really impressive first half. Absolutely.
I'm glad they played as well. But bear in mind that's for all the back. Let's go back to the pistol.
Again, it's such a Falcons maneuver. You thought of Karrigan coming in there lose some of that kind of
calamity to their gameplay a 1v3 where you've actually spoon fed the retaking CT to enable
him to get three kills and a defuse. Like what are we doing? Yeah. What are we doing? Still to
of this day. Historians are the baby. What is going on?
Those sort of rounds, it's just textbook Falcons. And that would
have been a very different half. That's got to be one of the
most tilting rounds you can actually lose. Sure, you said
three is enough, four is enough. But like, they really do need
to get a handle on these advantageous situations
and stop playing it by the book, playing the bomb.
Again, I mean, this is a team with plenty of experience
individual player. I mean, that's like, I get it, they need more time, Karagin said, but that's his
counterpart 101. That's unforgivable, all you saw in the pistol. I don't want the more time
extruded anymore. I'm through with it, because I figured out what's happening, right? In the
beginning of a new lineup, they need more time, and then towards the end, you can't criticize
them either, because now they're going to change line up anyway. So there's never a time to
criticize them. That's true. Well, we know a change is coming, so it's a dead roster, so.
Exactly!
I'm on to the mind games, I know how this works, so yeah.
Alright, can they win a pistol?
Is it possible?
Can it be done?
Execution in towards B from M-80, should have another smoke at his feet here.
Smoking towards long right now.
Yeah, right, you are.
Second smoke coming through, and it's going to be a Molotov as well.
sin he's gonna throw that in to put some pressure on tessus the droolies right
in front it's not exactly pretty that is though okay tessus with a very smooth
kill but they traded backs for sure one at more sin trying to plot the bomb and
that pillar is covering him just fine so three on three and I don't think there's
a kit either so this could be a very tricky retailing of the smoke to put
some pressure on at the very least if they want to he's okay pushing in that
looked like a free kill but he's missed the bullets and now they keep
going. He must be running out soon.
But the views are getting the headshots here.
10 seconds on that one.
Swisher swings for the first fight.
Realize when he comes.
They're on it now.
Surely, yes.
They will pick it up.
Kisuke with the double and the goal is his hole.
Definitely wasn't comfortable, but we'll take it.
The Julees as well.
Stubber, I thought, OK, this is not looking good.
This is looking quite scary, actually.
The bomb does go down, so it's not a complete disaster
for MAT.
They will be buying up in the second hit.
But still, it's going to be Falcons winning an all-important pistol here.
Galils and Digos to come out.
If they convert this, I think they'll be absolutely fine.
Falcons can just fend this one off.
Right, I think we're done here.
But let's see.
They should really be warming up into it.
I mean, Monozy's playing very well once again.
CT side, AWPing for him.
Karigan, again, has been missing in the game for the second map here,
but, you know, get him activated a little bit on the CT side and you never really know.
All he has to do is find his 1 kill each round.
Call the setups.
Early utility coming out here. They're not really pushing behind it, so maybe more of a double-pump type scenario.
Nice grenade.
Carrogan tucked away into his K position.
He needs to be very careful. Like we said, there's one kill we'll do. If you're having
a one and ten game, just play for your one kill. You'll double your fractal to right
now.
I mean, that's a good mentality to have. It's not the first time Karagina's been
here, so I doubt he's super stressed about it to be honest. And he is set up for a
very much a one and done type of scenario. He does have tests near enough by.
So ideally you want tests to get like the opening kill?
Or just a dink, take the aggro, that would be ideal, but a car again will be challenged first.
This is one. This is second, we'll take it.
It's absolutely brilliant. Tess is not even needed for the first one there. He's fallen a little bit further back.
Trying to get under the site now, but that's a lot of damage. Kusuke gets a lot of damage.
You actually almost got the double kill, but it's Tess is to pick up one of the one, and the bomb being countered.
I suppose that's a bit of a prize for MAT. They will not be able to win the round though.
It's okay though, that's just some discipline
from the Falcons that allowing the bomb to go down,
not over committing to the fights.
You've got a four on two situation,
you're around to lose
and they've had some absolute howlers here today.
So yeah, sure, they'll plant, but they go one kill.
They can't force up to the next round.
They can partial buy short,
but much more important to keep the Falcons play alive,
guarantee the round, keep the cortisol levels low.
Have terrible memories, Henry, of you saying,
just let him plant the bomb
and make sure you win the round
when we were watching Falcons.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, this is very nice.
I guess, okay, as well, getting that double spray down at the end.
There's never a moment where I felt like I was going to lose the round.
Sure, the bomb goes planted.
There will be a partial into the next one, but it's totally fine.
An execution, looking likely here.
We've got two smokes on the T side, all five players over towards a fast smoke in
towards Donut.
Good flashbang as well.
I'm honestly feeling a lot of pressure.
They could win this round, Anders.
They've got a lot of space and the bomb's going down.
This is pretty exciting.
Yeah, get more money on the T side, Swisher, you've been finding a headshot on Tessus.
And they still are right for the way behind that.
They've pushed CT spawn with three players.
This is actually sick. I don't know if you're expecting this.
Falcons might not be able to, I was going to say, cut that high.
They probably can, but you might lose track of how many T's are actually here.
JBA unfortunately goes down very quick and League is going to fall next day.
Now Westlax is from that Deagle. They've heard that as he tries to make his escape.
escape but this is so far ticked already that bomb is low right now where's the
defuse happening QCK gets one and now Swisher could even find one headshot oh
he gets caught oh my god that's late in the round they just barely get it over
the line but that is a very close indeed Alkins with the retake but for a
second that was gonna work out for them absolutely true I thought the same
thing. Uh, an 80. Opening kill, bomb planted. Bring around the Rosie and CT spawn, pushing
tempo. It felt so good, but by the skin of their teeth, Falcons will diffuse the bomb
and bring us down to a one round game. Insta smoke coming in from Monosy. That's towards
Elbow.
M 80 is actually a team that goes slightly more to A than B, which is very unusual
on this map. Those teams heavily failed that B bomb site. So just to say it wouldn't be
surprised if we're going to see some more of that. Obviously earlier we saw Paravision
trying to go A for an entire hour. Sure, didn't really work out. Well here we go then ladies
and gentlemen. B execution looking very likely here. MAT similar to what we saw on that
pistol. Just getting some basic B control right now to flash out of the double doors.
there as well. Try to get some cave control looks, things here flash over towards middle.
Cave the next objective.
Spending a lot of time in utility clearing this out. They don't know that nobody is
even here. Falcons have not been fighting for middle, they've not been fighting in
the front of cave either.
Carragans still got a smoke. He's trying to hold on to it as long as possible because
he's into that cave position. Now here's the A aggression you are looking for, Anders.
Niko spots a couple of players here and him just staying alive showing presence there shuts down their intentions
They have to go be now. They know it. Yeah, that's carrying using smoke. I think he has so
That was dropped towards the top of the B ramp allowing them to have cave
And they just put another one on top of the ramp there. So the only point of access is going to be escape position
30 seconds remaining. It says in a prime spot. Karrigan
patrolling the smoke
Oh wait, Lake, that's from Red Room, he won the fight against Kyusuke.
Wait a minute, Karagin goes down next and Tessa's stepping foot into the flames!
They had one point of access, like you pointed out, they found another one with Lake somehow
winning that battle from his point of view, that's going to be a crazy fight.
Because Kyusuke's only watching that angle, that's the only thing he cares about.
He knew that was an option, he was looking the whole time and he straight up loses
out to the AK.
That is surprising.
Wow. That wasn't looking promising at all for M80.
No.
No time smoked off a five-on-five.
You know the bombsite's stacked.
They've pushed A main and they know exactly where you are.
And you have a flawless run into the B bombsite,
barely taking any damage.
Yeah.
Like you're absolutely right.
Once they realized that, oh, they
put that front a hallway, it just
felt like Google got only one choice.
And it's not even a great choice.
We're pushing into the only part of the map where they know we're going to be showing up.
They have the smokes down, they have everything going for them.
This is the fight that I'm talking about.
Okay.
That's how they open it.
The one route that nobody even realized was a potential opening.
Like, fantastic work.
It was looking so promising there.
Falcons are playing it perfectly.
Right up to that moment.
That changes a lot.
I'm actually hyped up about that.
Again, this T-Sci, I'm not super overwhelmed by what I've seen from M80 in the past, but
if they could turn it around right now, then, yeah, maybe there was some of the fight for
here.
It was double O.T. on the opening map, and M80 now with a two-round lead.
The money is looking grim on the Falcon side if they lose this round.
This round is fine, but if they lose this one, then there's a chance that M80
could start to run it back quite a bit.
It's like lurking alone outside of the A bomb site and the rest of the team.
You haven't found any fights here.
There's so much utility coming down from the Falcon side that I haven't really had an
opportunity.
It looks like they are rethinking it.
Take it a bomb back.
Now in T spawn leaning towards A. So presumably they'll try and put some pressure on B and
then run through middle.
They're going to have to get rid of Modesty though. He's in donuts. Maybe.
Niko will come set up the defenses here. On the A bomb side, the bomb is making its way
over. JBA will join the troops. Bit of a fake in towards B, can see Molotov smoke
down towards Short trying to maintain three players there. Caragun. Oh, it's not pretty
and it's not pretty at all. Needed that kill. Niko will have to deliver the goods
now.
He's got Monosy with him. Don't count them out yet.
30 seconds on the clock. Another headshot for Nico.
They nearly ran into the grenade. That could have been a kill on Swisher.
And now Nico wants to swing. He knows they're going to have to come through.
We want a sublime defense from Monosy and Nico.
If they don't do that, the rest of the team, they're not going to get that.
They're so far away and with Karrion already gone down,
the last two players would have never made it there. That is rock solid.
Very nice from Nico.
Plays it to perfection. Takes it all the aggro away.
Highsome time and monosie the rotating from doughnut. That's when he peaks again in the flames behind the bomb site
Honestly beautiful sequence to close things out with the Desert Eagle as well a one-round game
Back and forth once more
MAT have turned up today, but that's only one round. They've posted in the second half
Yeah, that's that's the concern that's why that last round was so huge with Lake getting the the opening that
That was their ticket to really get into the second half here
They're gonna have less weaponry. They're gonna have, well, it's not gonna be the end of the world here, but very soon they're gonna be running out of money on the T side.
Only one AK on Niko, though? That's pretty good. Modesty is 21 and 8, my god. Where did that come from?
Ridiculous.
See one.
Helping out with a smoke towards middle as well.
as well. While it's all his nades exchanged, no one's taking significant damage as of yet.
Flashbang from Sin, set up Lake here for an alley you play. Swarsh up, we'll join him.
So we've got some basic mid control here. First objective complete.
Yeah, Falcons don't seem to really fight mid at least at the start here. Earlier
We saw CT sides that you know had that three man set up in middle early on but Falcons are saying now
It's fine. We'll put Niko in a and then we'll leave
Kisuke a monocity depending on the situation playing towards that donut position instead. So
They're a little bit more passive and that does give him maybe a lot more room to work with which at least in one round
They used to to kind of get into that red room position. I think that's the potential danger when you give the T's this much space
Do they want to walk past again?
And it does feel like that could be the plan here.
Although they're holding it.
Smoke is going to dissipate here towards that donut position.
And yeah, this is where they want to go.
Monosy's down early.
That's over on the other side of the map.
So what great work from Swisher.
He's just there lurking to be bombsite.
And he finds a kill to open it up.
Slacks does go down.
And Nico, no one's checking this.
What a weird position.
He does get carried out, however.
Good comms, though.
Nice trade.
He was worth a bit more than one, I reckon.
Oh, in the middle, Swisher surely going
We're catching Tessus.
Yeah, you didn't even think about that.
Tessus running into the middle,
I think not expecting Swisher to still be around there.
Karagin, wait a minute.
Finding another kill in this one.
Lake takes him down and it's all on Q-2K.
See what he could do in the one versus two.
He does not have the kit at the moment
and he's in an awkward fight.
He knows there's a crossfire.
I don't know how you're meant to win that one.
Lake with a triple, Swisher with a double,
especially finding the early kill on Monosie is huge.
Very nice indeed boys excellent round there from MAT and it could be a significant one
Money started to be drained from the bank accounts of the falcons here tactical timeout called by zhonic
last by
Could be him getting on the mic here that's a second round picked up at MAT a very convincing one as well
That's where Karrigan came to life he gets himself a couple of kills there
You thought that might be the round where he saves the day, but not quite enough
I think, did they buy the Orp on Monacy in this round?
I want to say that I saw that picked up.
If they do, this would be a classic round to go for some sort of a boost.
A couple of different ways to do that, obviously, on the map.
Yeah, they have.
So, Kerrigan could boost Monacy, maybe back at the B bomb side or something like that,
like a way to find an early kill.
Speaking of boosts, is it true that I read they changed the triple boost so you're
no longer accurate on top?
I saw there was an update to that.
I have no looks at this myself.
if we're running that patch here as well yeah I'm not sure we're running that
patch and have a test there but I did see something about it okay so I'm not
just hallucinating that's good one from you know W for my sanity at least
Swisher oh he's thinking about it in front of the smoke I love this play oh
what a sick headshot to open up with Swisher
Carrigan good luck my friend yeah MP9 oh he actually does get it you said he
just had to get a kill around now the fire is going to consume him but he did his job the bomb is still going to be planted however and
late again on this late look that's a bit of a mouthful really if you see he goes down and
It works late all you needed. Yes indeed
Well, there it is
Swisher
Spotted the gap played in front of the smoke and a brutal opening kill test sets gets absolutely walloped in the corner
I felt like the ram was done there.
Karagin kept it alive for a second.
He did.
Fair enough to him.
Got that one kill with the MP9, but that's pretty much all they had.
Well, if you heard me cast Ancient before, you'll know what I'm about to say.
Go on.
If you're anchoring that B bomb site, you can't take your eyes off the ram.
You just can't do it.
I say it all the time.
I love slipping the net, I love pushing the smokes, pouncing through.
Oh, but still fantastic work for Swisher realizing, seeing that moment, he sees the grenade bank off the corner, he knows that he's got an opportunity.
I'm very impressed, I must say. Two in a row on the side of MAT, the pressure is on that Falcons economy and even more importantly, MAT are two rounds away from getting his onto third map.
I said, I thought that was not going to happen. I thought that T-Side was going to be too weak. Great time to be wrong here.
He's absolutely showing off for the second hour.
He's gonna be killed there.
It's true, it's Q2K in the middle,
just barely winning out of the fight,
but the pressure is on straight to the A bomb site.
They wanna take this, but unfortunately,
they are going into a little bit of trouble here.
A lot of damage onto Leak,
as he tries to find more impact in the round.
He does get Niko running out of the smoke.
He dies.
Yikes.
This is next.
This is next.
I don't know how Cameron Gens is alive.
No way he gets to kill that. He's dead now for sure, but a two on two, he set them up,
they've taken the bait, and it will be Team Falcons living to fight another day it would
seem. Absolute pandemonium here on Ancient, not the most beautiful game of CS, but certainly
very entertaining.
Oh you're right. This especially was a mad round.
Thank you, it was the opening kill from Q-Soot, and that was the Mach 10 push from
JBA there's not a single helmet out there yeah very unlucky not to get one kill
the Karagin get to like a 360 to even get a Molotov down I don't know how he
got that kill but we'll take it like we said he needs to play for his one kill
he gets it and late picked up a triple in that one he very nearly could have
won the round for his team there so the financial disaster is a foots M18 now
operating with Gilles tech nines a few AKs this round could decide
everything. Bomb down on so there's B doors for now.
Alright that's important too to keep an eye on I suppose. On neither team it really has
any money. This is wild. That last round really had an impact on the game. Still modesty
with 23 kills. In fact you've got a... him and Kisuke but where's the rest of it?
Niko was playing out of his mind on the opening map.
We need him to add to the mix now.
Smoke and flash in the middle, so trying to, you know,
blind the CTs, not knowing if any T's
are gonna be making their way in there.
Lake though could be in trouble.
I think he's gonna walk into monosy.
Gotta be very carefully.
He has to keep fast on over.
He's made it through.
That is huge.
Yeah.
Niko's aware of that possibility.
They're gonna play in front of the smoke again
and then they have to.
The Karagin is now an ugly spray with the MP9, but they do manage to keep it even here.
Massive work for Kyusuke. He nearly got a triple. He hit the thing on the third player even.
That's a wild spray. Because the first one, he's actually tracking that spray for a long time before he gets the kill.
And then he still immediately resets, gets the next one in just a second, and then hits the thing on the third player.
Monosy as well. They knew that Lake Lake, like you pointed out, they knew that he'd cross, so they were always aware of that.
So, money busted. That was the 4-5. They got 1,900 into this round. You have to take a full EK landers.
You have to let them tie things up. I feel Karagin missing out on that first kill was with the cost of the round.
Kiyosuke there managing to get the double with huge SS. Great contribution with the AK-47.
One round game and as I mentioned, has to be the full EK should tie things up.
Karagin's going to have to make the MP9 work again. Thankfully, Glock's no armor.
A chance to boost your confidence a bit, you know?
Yeah.
A chance to farm some money.
We have got to open a bomb site.
Mom, let's see.
Let me get the open up.
They should be fine.
I say that, though.
He is waiting for route.
The bomb is over B.
Oh, you're right.
It's actually in the air.
You're right.
They can't even plant.
Oh, no.
Tess is still here.
Oh, you find him.
OK.
No bomb plant allowed for.
That would have been so much fun, though.
It would have been.
All right.
A weird round.
Got a clean one.
Falcons tie things up 11-11
Everything they need now on that CT side diffuse kits full belts of utile
And lots of residual cash cannot say the same thing for n80
concessions being made a little for sin utility fine, but no awp
It is in three place towards middle. There's some Anders
The change of setup change of pace
Niko jumping up towards heaven, fancies a fight, looking to get stuck in here.
Swisher waiting for him.
It's a great maneuver.
Niko, does he get out of there or is he happy with one?
I think that whole time they wanted to do that mid-retake there in 80, but they needed
Swisher alive on the other side.
And when he dies they say, well, let's try and do it anyway, and that just doesn't
work out unfortunately.
Falcons, heavy mid-presence, they really shut it down here.
They're going to get 2400 into the next round. So slacks pick your poison mate. Do you go for a bomb plan and try and get a bit of extra money for the next round?
You're never going to let him save, right?
Exactly.
I feel like it's trying to save now is so incredibly risky that you almost have to...
But if you're Falcons, you've given up so many howlers today and some of the rounds you've lost, I'm not even sure you would go for that one.
Maybe not.
I think you know what, let's just make sure we win this.
Don't give it even a chance.
They have had some stinkers today.
That is true.
Kind of what they do.
Kind of their whole thing, kind of the brand's whole thing.
Oh, all right.
Slacks.
First incision.
Is this a new Highlanders?
No way.
A new historical moment in the world of Counter-Strike.
The Countains fans are going to be coming through if it
happens, but it will be Tess's nice triple for him.
I must say, just no matter what happens here,
If you told me at the start of the day that MAD we're going to play double O.C. on the first map and
you know, as close as you can get right now on the second map against Falcons, I don't know if I would have believed that.
I'm super impressed by what MAD have brought to this series so far, better than I expected on the C side.
They are playing a team that is very well kitted out at the moment, so you know, it's hard to fight them at the stage.
Should be GG, you've got four AK-47s on the CT side, a monosie AWP that's firing at all cylinders.
You're up against Galil's and Tech9's and there's Ana-Mak10.
If ever there was a way to close it out, round number 24 is the way to do it.
Do not go through overtime again.
Yeah, but like you've been pointing out, when in the past they've been presented with the easier the hard route,
the Falcons tend to pick the harder routes, Kusuke, he wants the easier way out, immediately a quarter kill.
Sprays down, Lake, close to 18.
They can still lose this, don't worry.
Okay, maybe not now.
Switch up.
That could do with the incendiary.
He has picked up an AK here towards the end.
Only 13 bullets.
No one's reloaded that one.
He's going to pick up the bomb as well in a minute on the clock here for the 1 vs 3.
He does want to...
Oh!
Hang on, leech!
Arrogant to the rescue.
It's a 13-11 victory here on two maps is what it took.
But it will be Falcons walking away into the playoffs.
Absolutely true.
A side relief, I would say.
you know, you know, you're
going to have a lot of a
hollow victory of the favorites
to take this whole tournament.
Sure you got a two zero, but it
did not feel like a two zero.
You have lots of advanced. It
is lots of fumbled rounds. The
one that leaves off the page
the most a pistol, the 1 v 3.
So many moments are for like
you should be closing this
one out, but it is never really
happened. But still, and it
doesn't really matter. New roster
the Internet playoffs. They will
come back on Friday and to
show us what they made up to
decide whether they get to
the quarter finals or the
semis, of course, like we
said, they're one of the
We should commend M80 for giving us such a great game.
I think they showed some great canister right there.
Unfortunately, it didn't go to overtime in the second map,
but they had Falcon sweating.
Lots of opportunities for them to do some work.
And I mean, that inferno game was super fun.
I thought there are still some really good calling
coming out from Karrigan, like you see that in moments.
And that's, I think, this team,
even though we don't accept the early team excuse,
it's still cool to see what they're building with Karrigan
early on.
And Niko as well.
He's getting the most out of Niko.
He's looking like he's a world-class form of the state.
every move he seems to be making is the correct one. His aim looks brutal, monosy working
with him. That's kind of all you need to win games at this point. And if Carrigan can
make the good calls in between that, it's going to be absolutely fine. But yes, the
headline is Falcons are through to the playoffs. They do go to zero. It wasn't the cleanest
to zero wasn't the cleanest game of Canada's trying necessarily, but still lots to take
away from that one. Lots of notes and they got the double. So you can't really
complain too much. Yeah, more practice for a team that's just putting everything
together at the moment we do have the boys in this ready to break it all down for us.
Thank you so much Anders and Henry G with the energy and I tell you who had the energy on
the server it was Falcons they make their way straight through to the playoffs. Before we get
into the Falcons though guys let's give some credit to M80 I know it was only two maps but
yeah triple overtime in map one or double overtime in map one and 13-11 as close it could be
in a regular time on map 2 so tough to lose but there are some positives to take away for M80 striker.
Yeah very much a story of of course but no cigar for M80 they'll probably go away feeling like they
probably should could have taken either map here or even both you know this was realistically to be
yeah 100% so yeah again credit definitely deserved but credit also to Falcons because this is kind
of the these are some of the situations that they've struggled with in the past and
Kerrigan has been saying how you know with him coming over he's wondering
whether he's gonna bring over some of that phase identity in terms of how they
struggle through group stages but then they power up in playoffs right and it's
definitely been the case for the group stage at least. Yeah I feel like they've
kind of taken the mantle of you know just get through the group stage get to
do it Rina and that's where you're trying but no honest to God I feel like
M.A.G. really had a solid plan here especially starting from the pistol
round where it felt like you know fact that's kind of threw away the
pistol round of 1 versus 3 they had a pretty good solid game plan 8 to 4 to
quality thinking this actually might go to weigh mountain number three and even
on the T side they did a very good job of something which you bought up in the
in the pre-game second Miss Westrack at the deep arm side with Tesla speeding
and comfortable carrying into its cave they're abusing that time and time again
even in the final round of that game they went for the fast B-pop but this was
like it went it was Kyosuke triple kill shutting shutting it down so close
to no cigar unlucky unlucky Malukko for MAD but you know if they're able
to maintain his form going up against whoever they will in the lower
bracket I feel like they have an outside chance of making
playoff so you know an NT that's an NT if I've ever seen one follow we did have a slight question
with regards to Falcon's T side coming into this one four is okay just about partial guys what are
your thoughts on how Falcon's T side went strike starting with you I mean look it could have
been a lot better had it not been for obviously the pistol round lost which was 1v3 then second
round they have an opening pick but then lose the 5v3 and 5v4 in the 4s by right and they
had another round where they had another 5v4 another post plant as well another post plant and
And then we had the the the monastic clutch where he didn't plant even though he had he had enough time
He tried to chase the guy right like there was a lot of rounds that could have still gone Falcons his way and just first
It's somehow it's like maybe came out came away with all of them
So I mean look at the scoreboard that that kind of tells the story of this of this map
Obviously a lot of that
Those monastic kills came in losing effort like towards the beginning of the game where they were obviously struggling through it in that
Clutch where I think he got four kills
But obviously didn't lead to a round win. So a lot of that was just kind of him
Yeah, just putting up a lot of effort that didn't really lead anywhere
But but obviously later in the game he had a couple of rounds where where he managed to close it out for them 41 41
Flashes that is ridiculous from that seems very high very productive. I mean, it's not it's what it's what's made
You know you throw in for you. He's gonna be a utility guy on the tea side
But no, I agree with that. I feel like especially on the T side, it was, you know, you can see in the kill feed right there, but primarily it was how he was being very passive towards CD spawn area in the defense, but doing a very good job of staying alive, right?
I think he didn't have to be super flashy. In the previous game we saw from him on Ancient, a couple of games we saw in Astana, for example, he was the one kind of taking points towards Ram, taking a lot of fights aggressively, a bit of a switch up coming out from them.
But I feel like, yeah, all in all, it was a pretty good team effort, right?
I think Kyosuke was looking very solid overall.
But Niko, I think Henry highlighted very well how Niko, even from Inferno coming into this particular map,
sure he didn't have like a crazy 25 kill performance coming up,
but he was so reliable in getting this killed and staying alive.
So I feel like Ancient, a little bit of work left on the T side.
But then again, like we said, they haven't had any prep time between Astana coming into here.
So I feel like every game is them just trying to get better and better.
But just to like put a pin on this for me, Paolo.
Again, I'm going to reiterate, these are the games Falcons used to lose.
These are the games with FaZe used to win.
And I feel like Karrigan coming in, that's being kind of the effective.
Sure it's ugly, sure it's tight, but they get the job done.
And that's the important thing.
If we could quickly look at this, well if we bring Niko up on screen,
shout out Niko.
If we could quickly look at this Falcons journey so far from a slightly different perspective.
So we see them as the or one of the favorites coming into this and they've won their two matches so far
But you know, they've not been the best performances. They've been tough performance
11
1311 against MAT welcome back face clan
yeah, so much my point being yeah, they're winning, but
But arguably they still need to step it up, they need to find a bit more of a consistency,
strike a thought.
Yeah, of course.
Look, they wanted the tournament, I spoke about it before, they've just come over from
Astana, this is back to back events, right?
Now they actually have a day off because tomorrow it's all the elimination games,
so I think that's where they can calm things down a little bit, get adjusted to the
new time zone, all that stuff, just get an extra day for a little bit of rest
because they haven't really had the time to because they played pretty much almost
every single day in Astana, then the two off-days that we saw before the playoffs, right?
But then they head into the playoffs, they play the whole, obviously the whole playoffs bracket,
they come over to China and then they play the next day or have the media next day and then
play the day after. So like, that's very little time for you to have any sort of rest tomorrow
is the time for that. And I think after that, I think we will see a little bit more stable Falcons.
Yeah, I agree with you. I mean, I came here from Astana, I didn't have to travel all
the way to Shanghai as well and I feel completely drained. So forget even just preparing for
for the tournament and having some,
be running some scrims and whatnot,
just individually as well,
I'm sure you're feeling super tired.
But I feel like, yeah, just repeating what he said,
I feel like it's just them getting the job done.
And in the end they did it.
Commissurations for MAD, I think,
if they put up that performance
against some of the other teams we have
in this particular tournament,
I feel like they would have gone away with the win.
Individuals, you want to just run it up
with MAD a little bit more,
because if you're looking at the individuals,
everyone at the moment is shined, right?
It wasn't like a one man effort,
like maybe slacks with J-Burse and just popping off,
Everyone chipping in so truly a team effort and I think that's a good sign
I think that's a good sign for this lineup because for the longest time they were a team
I was keeping my eye on from the North American side will the NA team
Well, not a full NA team a majority NA team and I'm like, okay
What can this team really do because liquid obviously we're gonna be talking about them much so
Good science from a meeting and you know what?
I kind of feel like they have an outside chance if everything in the stars line and whatnot to maybe squeeze away into the playoffs
the way they're playing right now
Guys with that said, let's take a look at our schedule for tomorrow. I think if I've heard my producer correctly if I haven't
And I haven't and instead I
Can direct you all to a wonderful stream B because we still got title versus legacy going on
Legacy one map one. They're currently in that map to its ancient
Go and tune in and if you want to know about our schedule for tomorrow
it will be on that second stream very soon.
Thank you very much for joining us,
and yeah, go on and enjoy the rest
of the CAC action on Stream B,
and we'll catch you here on Stream A tomorrow.
Much love, and peace.
Peace.