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[A] Lynn Vision Gaming vs. PARIVISION - CS Asia Championships 2026 - Group Stage: Elimination Match
05-22-2026 · 9h 44m
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Ladies and gentlemen, beautiful morning down here in the studio for the perfect world eSports.
Counter-Strike, we love it.
We do love it.
We do love it.
Even at 6am in the morning, we love Counter-Strike.
It's so beautiful.
It's so much fun.
And yes, the Counter-Strike Asia Championship 2026 is what we are all here for.
And we're here for a lot of finals, Counter-Strike today.
Not only do we have the upper finals,
not only do we have the lower finals just for the groups,
we also have the first quarter finals for the playoffs.
So it is going to be a long day with some high stakes.
A lot of teams getting eliminated here.
Yeah, we're about the point in the tournament now
where we have to figure out, you know,
who are the favorites to win the entire thing
and who do we send home before we begin with the playoffs.
So it's about the time where teams will have to step it up.
You know, there's no more sleeping pillows.
There's no more hiding away.
There's no more not showing up on any given day.
If you want to win this tournament,
today's the day where you have to step in. Yeah really much so as well and I
think we're gonna get a couple of answers to potential question marks that
we've had leading it up to this point you know whether team X is in form
whether team Y is actually a dark horse for the tournament and so on and so forth
and kind of just like where they're at leading into the major and I think the
good thing that we get to see you know especially as this first game of the day
which will be here on the a stream legacy and team Falcons and this will be
really be a test not only for team Falcons and what we've seen from them
but also where legacy's form is at because they had a pretty stellar run on day one.
Yeah, without a doubt, you know, for my mind, this could potentially be a grand final worthy as well.
You know, I think two of the teams coming into the tournament who are the pre-determined favorites
and just to note on the format as well, you know, Lusa that game will then play a quarter final later today.
Yeah. Winner goes straight to the semi-final. So in terms of this format, there's actually a bit of a carrot in that regard.
If you win the game today, you do not have to play a second game later on today.
So, a little extra at stake here for both Legacy and Falcons in that upper bracket game.
Yeah, you could actually skip a pretty tough, obviously, playoffs opponent, which is a massive benefit.
And I'm excited to see Legacy play. Obviously, this is going to be a real-world test for them.
They had a great showing in Atlanta. And they won this tournament last time. They won CAC 2025.
And arguably, both teams are going to be getting tested to a stronger extent.
You can see that Pathways here, Legacy taking out both Tyloo and NRG.
and then Falcons going through M80 as well as BC games.
So, look, that BC game, best of one,
was actually a bit of a thriller.
You know, they almost dropped the bag there,
but they still managed to make that game
against M80 look pretty easy yesterday,
the day before even, just to get here.
So, yeah, a few crazy things going on in the upper bracket,
but then the lower bracket as well,
like Maus is here.
Maus almost getting eliminated a few times already.
So, things aren't going super well for them,
and they have to play for their lives again today.
That's one of the teams that we expect today
to just have it all right. Ben, I've had a slow start to determine for Maus.
But then again, you're facing Payne, who are showing greater and greater signs, you know.
Recently, I saw Big Oceo come out and say they still don't know with the whole
arping situation whether that's going to be NQC or safe.
But at the end of the day, if your Maus and your aspirations are not to be
the team like team gaming and not go into a playoff right here,
then you've got a long way to go. So I'd expect Maus to show up today.
Yeah. Again, this is one of the question marks, you know, living up to it,
obviously losing to Tyler in the opener.
that's not what we necessarily expected that I'm not sports, but
they should be able to deal with the team like pain, but pain are no easy, easy opponent.
I mean, I think a lot of people have ran into that issue of big as you're having like a monstrous game type of thing.
Yeah, we know that they have a super solid nuke that is difficult to take them down on regardless of what kind of form they're in.
So most are not going to have an easy time, but they don't really have that much room to make mistakes like they've had previously.
I think that's the thing, you know, with all of these Brazilian teams, no matter which one you're playing,
They always bring a slightly similar brand of Counter Strike to Nuke and you can never tell how explosive they're just going to be the best on the day.
Alright, that's always great to see, but let's turn that discussion into this first game of the day.
Let's have a quick look at the Vito, where we're going to be playing this one, because I think that's going to matter more than a few people think.
Yeah, especially when Kerrigan is coming into Falcons, we've been curious to see if that's going to change anything in the map pool,
or if that's going to change certain of the maps they like to pick into or certain of the maps they like to avoid.
Now overpass and the newbies out of the way. There's no big surprise, you know
He's not going to try to integrate a complete new map into the team
But yeah in terms of what do you pick and where do you go for that could be slight changes
Legacy picking does too. I mean, we've seen Falcons struggle a bit on those two so far in this tournament the BC game
You mentioned
Like your BC game probably could have won that game to be completely honest had it up in for Kyushu
stepping up in a very vital moment and
For the likes of Falcons to go with ancient that's been a staple for them as well
So no big surprise so far. I'd say yeah, I think if you're legacy in this situation as well
You're pretty happy because again, you've leaned pretty decently into maps like that's to an inferno
You're gonna get you know at the very least one of them leading into it and then you can have your decider
Obviously be a comfort pick as well. So it's a legacy like map wise having mirage as your decider
You're feeling good about that even if you're going up against felt
Yeah, it's three maps, you know, that is very open as well by design,
because two ancient Mirage players get to express themselves, you know,
place well into with the flair of the Brazilian style of playing Counter Strike,
the Art Wave, the Pace here.
Exactly, and then you have Falcons where you have all these individuals
that need maps where you can express themselves.
So I think for both teams, they're quite happy with the map.
Yeah, it'll be fun.
You know, this is a fun map, Paul.
We've seen a lot of the puggy maps so far this tournament,
and there's no changes here.
So we get to see, as you mentioned, everyone express themselves.
I'll be interested to see what Mirage looks like against both of these teams if we need three to decide how this one's going to look.
I think it's going to be interesting, I guess, interesting look regardless of what map you end up on.
Again, to me, I never would have expected to see legacy in the position they are right now.
Obviously, bringing art in for Luxe, I didn't necessarily see that as an immediate success right off the bat,
but apparently they've kind of just found something that clicks with them.
And if that's kind of what, you know, sets off, do my own, what sets off Lotto, et cetera, that's fantastic for them, because they've always been brought up as a win conditions for legacy.
But it seems like, yeah, they've just been more solid as a team overall ever since Arc came in, which is definitely something that I never really saw. It's not a future I predicted to myself.
I just saw that we got the VIS predictions right there, and I kind of liked that, you know, but also noticed that if legacy beat Falcon, they jump from 12th in the position into being seventh in VIS right.
There's a lot of stake in that regard as well and we kind of sometimes lose sight of that
because yeah, sure, we have the Major coming up and there's plenty of opportunities for both
Legacy and Falcons to gain more points at the Major, but if Legacy, a team currently ranked
number 12 in the world, want to make sure that they get invited to the Tier 1 tournaments
after the Major as well, regardless of how it's going, beating Falcons and doing well at this
tournament is a great step ahead of that, you know, so they've been trying to establish themselves
once more as a team to be reckoned with and obviously, as you said, you know, it did well
at a couple of recent tournaments,
gained some points, but beating Falcons in a game like this,
where you also secure a spot for the semi-final,
that could be game-changing for Legacy.
Yeah.
It's kind of cool actually as well,
because they have long-term effects,
which I think, as you said, it's very easy to forget about.
If you think about, like you mentioned it
at the start of day one, right?
There are three teams here
that are not qualified for the major.
Some of them, you know, basically secured their spot
at this event by things they'd done by February.
Yeah.
You know, it's a DC game being that example, right?
So, Legacy have an opportunity here
the tournament. It's a
kind of almost regardless of
how it actually pans out at the
major, they can still be. You
know, actually a part of the
international tournament scene
going to the SC or tournaments
if they do well here. Like it
matters that much. Yeah, it's
all about the flow and effects
and some very big experts that
we have on flow and effects
are going to bring you all the
action, all the fun and all the
excitement for this first
I mean, it's a great opening
game for today. I mean, it's
really important. I think the
desk are really building this
narrative, but. Obviously for
legacy in particular this sets
up the entirety of the rest of
2026 and that's how big of a
kind of difference this one
game could be just with the
rest. It makes such a huge
leap for this side who actually
want to be a consistent team
one of the biggest teams in
the world. I mean, I think
it's really important that
we're going to be able to
get into this. We're going to
get into this. We're going to
get into this. We're going to
get into this. We're going to
get into this. We're going to
get into this. We're going to
a consistent tier one contender,
but it's a really, really difficult matchup.
No two ways about it.
Team Falcons taking on Legacy has all the markings.
I've been an absolute banger,
but we'll see whether we actually get it.
Legacy, the reigning champs here as well at CAC
looking to go back to back,
but they've got to scalp this Falcon side first.
If they want any chance of it,
and we'll keep telling things,
of course on that dust there,
which Legacy loved to lean into.
Yeah, I don't know.
I'm quietly excited for Legacy,
I think the Falcons the current form of the moment puts them in a really good position. They will have their sights set on that final
And perhaps one that they can potentially take here
Start off with some short control. R is just about able to survive
That must be right in the max range or maybe through the the corner of a
Wall potentially all the same they've managed to get their space in towards short. That's what legacy we're after here and
to be able to do that. It's
getting a little strange over
here. Lato holding out on that
flank. The shots are looking
really quite clean from
Falcons. Of course, we've got
our lucky to be alive. Certainly
unlucky to be in this one
versus four. I actually think
legacy of kind of coming towards
the end of the season. I think
we're going to have a lot of
to be in this one versus four.
I actually think legacy of kind of coming towards at least this round for me and show
a bit too much respect like legacy. What we see when they do their best work is when
it's this sort of blazing aggression and the flying into fight and it's super wacky, especially
you know, arts style of calling, you know, you love it. I hate it, right? But it is so
different to what we see at the sort of top level. That was a very kind of just average
round by legacy. They just go for a really slow default offshore. It's just not them.
I feel like for this side, their best work comes from pace.
It comes from crazy styles of aggression,
which is going to catch tier one teams off guard.
They've got to bring this, you know,
South American flair to the server
and we just don't see it there.
So I don't know, I really want to make sure for legacy
that they kind of check themselves a little bit
and realize that they're going to find success
by a little bit more of the kind of like overconfidence plays,
which definitely can be crippling a time trial.
When it don't work, it can, it can really hurt the confidence.
It can really kind of affect the mental a little bit.
you're going to be really
zoned in and really sort of
overthinking things. Changing
your game up a bit too much
could certainly be the case.
Nothing coming in this round,
of course. Just that one flash
of the game. It's going to be
a little bit of a mess. It's
going to be a little bit of a
mess. It's going to be a little
bit of a mess. It's going to be
a little bit of a mess. It's
going to be a little bit of a
of course, just that one flash doesn't really do anything for them, can we get a single kill for the T side? No, we can't.
How are we going to Niko? Just like old times coming together to see that round off, but legacy really quickly of course looking for the gun round those AKs in play in just a moment here.
Okay, for legacy. This is a chance to sort of dispel the slow start. I want to see really early map control from them right flying out and towards long diving forward and towards mid and sort of forcing Falcons back a little bit. I think at the moment we're seeing from these opening couple rounds of Falcons are given the
the luxury at the moment in just so much space, so much room to manoeuvre, because Legsie
aren't making life difficult for them, but of course it was only in the opening couple
of rounds and that one was a throw away. This is where I want to see them prove what
they can do, and it's going to be a name and flash combo as they look to take some long
control. Lacto swinging out, and that's more like it catches Niko, and this is going to
give Legsie a bit of control to now scale with, but I re-upper this smoke by Karrigan,
slows Legsie down and forces them to just try and figure out how many are actually towards
Yeah, moving quickly short as well.
Dumau, it's a bit of work,
but he does manage to find the kill.
Naisuke ready on the edge of the smoke.
He finds two Tessus, also able to chime in.
It's all suddenly fallen apart for legacy
after some great openers.
Santhin finds himself to be the only player.
He's just picked up a kill there.
Will reveal his location.
He's also left incredibly low, so...
does not seem to be happening.
You should be able to make the
cross and a bomb plant. Is that
flanking player of ministry has
well stopped flanking. Surely
not be able to take this one is
what you would say. It's a
difficult one for legacy to
stomach. It looked fantastic.
They just get ahead of
themselves. It's that fine line.
You've got to be able to check
the aggression from time to time
He will get his head taken off so low HP be damned.
I think he does well to get the bomb plant.
Yeah, the reposition is not bad.
I mean, he's just so low there.
It's surely next to impossible.
And this is kind of the thing.
For Legacy, it actually starts really well.
Opening a couple of kills, coming through.
The space is really good.
But it's just a class that Falcons have, right?
They can kind of fall back on so many different people
to step up.
This time, it's kind of Sukei who fails them out.
And I think without him as well,
they'd be in a lot of trouble.
So very early time I was taken here by Legacy.
However, I do think it is pretty I think it's needed though, right? I agree not a great sign
But I think I don't know that this is like a really decent opportunity for him to get on and say right
We are not playing how we play like this still doesn't feel like legacy at the moment
We haven't seen anything crazy. Hey, we haven't even said oh, what are you doing yet?
And I think that is probably a pretty good sign that legacy aren't doing what they usually do
We've cost legacy numerous times this year and every series, you know every map we get
What's going on here like what we actually doing we've not got that yet
So we're still looking for this Brazilian side to really wake up in the server
Falcons however very very clean start really nothing to critique them on at the moment
They continue in this way
I mean of course favorites for a reason favorites for this tournament and they would love to prove it with a clean win here in this series
Yeah, I would think so especially because you know
It's been a little hard going for Falcons in their opening games, to be honest with you.
BC game bring it a bit close.
Same of a M80 to be fair.
Yeah, M80 really quite legit. I was going to say about BC game, it's like one of those where, you know,
the way the game unfolded and pistols and things like this brought it, I think, a lot closer than it should have been,
but M80 game feels pretty legit.
Yeah, I think that's kind of
what we're getting at, really.
So Falcons, perhaps some time
taking in between, but also
perhaps a game that they're
really quite looking forward
to, in a sense,
formidable opponent. Nice
fine to kick things off. Oh,
my god. I think that's a
really, really good
thing. I think that's a
really good thing. I think
that's a really good thing.
Yeah, we need them at 100% in
this game, though. I think
the game. I'm so glad to be
here. Nice find to kick things
off. Oh my God. I mean, I've
seen anyone ever be that
blind. Goodness gracious.
Crazy flashes coming in, but
unfortunately, uh, it doesn't
quite work out for legacy. They
will all fall. The setup just a
bit too strong. This counter
flashes a bit too strong and
Falcons move up to four in a
road. This is what we really
Tess is so well as well on that anchor position. I feel like for him
He's in a position where it's very easy for him to even be one and done and they scale through and towards B
Or with him being so blind falling flat immediately
But he steps up massively from that car position
Just catches one before he gets blinded crosses in the right place and all the rest for
Into his lap so Falcons 4 and 0
Still remains to be nothing really to complain about
Well, only damage on towards both Satsun and Dumar to kickstart this one a second aid behind as well
Round new graffiti on the server. Yeah, what is that graffiti? Looks like a
They just came out I think while we were in bed. Oh, yeah, the stickers
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, yeah, there you go. Very cool stained glass window. Yeah, love that. It was like it came out like 4 a.m.
Yeah, yeah, so I've not really had a chance to go through it with a fine tooth comb, but I need to my pickums
Yeah
goodness
Hope we don't miss the window on that one
Get everything synced and whatnot the you know
Always a classic
The video in the hotel room and all that. Yeah, it's going to move that they go for early information for contact
It's quite risky, but they've not got a lot of time to cancel here.
They're going to move back in towards B and this is split coming through.
They're waiting as well.
And listen, just on the edge of the smoke, there's two players towards the site itself,
but there is enough attention being drawn from his CT players,
and that's where Tessus can step up for two.
They overlook Kaisuke, but he cannot convert the gap that he had.
And this is more catch him.
Sadson swooped down for the rotate.
He's getting spammed down as well.
the game. So, you know, all
the way down. You know, a
molly towards C T. This is a
really awkward three versus
three and Falcons. We've already
caught them retakes on this
side. They're very good. Lovely
little boost as well. I mean,
absolutely brilliant. Great
fine. They needed that kill. I
think you're. Thanking player
in carrying and maybe just has
to send it. You know, find
sadzen as early as possible.
Trim those numbers. Not going
Tess has done so well.
Kai's suitcase has been having a good game.
That's his first slip-up in my mind.
He just needs one kill from that.
It is wild, but it doesn't quite happen.
But yeah, really savvy breeze to just
lock the round to make sure that there's no
real chance.
Yeah.
Really well done as well from this one.
It's a quad kill from him, but
it all comes off the back of his patience.
He's waiting in that smoke for that B-split.
that B split and he waited the attention to be drawn for the doors players off the back of
Tess's is double to actually give him some scope to come through.
I see there is the first and we always speak about the snowball effect for this legacy side,
but it really does need to get going quite quickly in this one.
It's a chunk of rounds, I think that they need.
This is kind of the problem.
You know, you get that first, that's great.
You're not going to get 13 zeroed, but like beyond that, you need to convince us of a bit more because some of the father try to look very, very clean and that previous one, it comes down to a missed mechanical moment from the UK to be honest, how often is that going to happen?
It's a small mistake and it's a very easy mistake A to make and B to fix as well.
So so far so good this double off set up working wonders, kaiatsu came honestly both having
their moments shot there on that drop down but it's so so close you don't want to give
them honestly these opportunities the legacy after going for something again little punchy
little pacey as well with a nice but standard B split. It then slow it down. It just gives
Falcons these opportunities to isolate them, which they're so good at doing.
Yeah. I think the double awp is a great read. It's also kind of funny. Kai's UK's like,
wasn't my fault? It was the M4. He put me on a different gun and I'll be fine.
Could not agree more.
Yeah. Yeah, sure. Could not agree more.
It's still it works quite well into legacy and you can see they they go 5v3
They don't do anything and now they walk into a save so
Yeah, I mean lacking a bit of the bite that they usually have here. Yeah
These are sort of the worst kind of rounds as well for like a T side where you've got three of you in like 30 seconds
And you just like we've just got no chance here. We've got no information
We've got no space no map control. There's no chance of us winning this
We've just got a shell up like it's the worst possible way for a T side properly to kind of like lose around because
Mentally it puts you in such a horrible spot. Yeah
That's a crazy scoreboard to see it's still early on but mr. Art with less than 10 ADR
And it's gonna stay that way. It gets well that way. Yeah. Well, yeah, it'll go down a little bit more like
9.5 instead of 9.8
Which I mean those tiny percentage points do matter to him at this point unfortunately
0-5 how long will it go for art? We'll keep an eye on that of course, but also just a really
Difficult situation again. They try and get him going based on the spawn
And he is just pipped to the post by the AWP. You know, it's really getting difficult to get through these
Scoped weapons. I think it's safe to say
another back foot round here for legacy to try and
Pick up the pieces, they're going to angle towards B, but that is well defended Falcons reading this situation well.
Yeah, at the moment, it just really feels like
kind of two young stars on Falcons on the field, they've just been given opportunities. So many of them.
That's a spin up close. He's been shining so far in these B hits.
I feel like he's always good for at least two.
He's going to play up close and they've got a good thing about this is
Essentially the attention will be drawn by Kaisuke, and potentially even Niko as well,
who are both in this position, Tessa surely just gets overlooked.
It just feels so weak, to be honest, but we'll see.
The orb drawing attention, no Spanish to find one, Tessa strikes in, maybe if he can get
us another it would be great.
Support's already here though, so it's really going to be difficult.
We're going to have a little
more time. We'll see what
comes out of this. The captain
is left in the clutching
situation here. He does well
for that first. He's got nine
seconds. And it's just not
enough. Needed to cross the
double doors, of course.
Absolutely deadly towards that
B. Bombsite. It's another round
that ends in the save not quite
as egregious, but still legacy.
This is not looking good. They
really are a shell of the team
and they are playing very timid. Yeah they do just look scared. Another time
I've taken and absolutely valid. I really feel like the way in which we're
seeing legacy play right now I just be burning all the timeouts to start
things off like I just feel like if we continue to be in this rut and this
first off never gets going this map is a wrap already. So I don't really hate the
idea of kind of burning all three in this first off just to try and shore up
something like I just feel like you need some foundation in a T side of us to you cannot afford to go into as your CT side
I like such a meteoric recovery required and hope that you can just turn it all around
It's just not gonna happen. Definitely not against Falcons who are way too disciplined to let some of that slip in a game like this
so
At a six one score line
It is a very concerning performance by legacy at the moment. This is
you know, I'm going to be
on the same track as I've been
on the same track as. Maybe
really early doors towards a
series or any map number one,
but this feels like it's on
track to just be like a cake
world problems. Yeah, well,
that's why I was going to say.
I think like time outwise and
whatnot. If you are a coach
stood behind the team that's
performing like this, maybe.
The comms like this. You kind of
foresee this happening for the
entire series. You know, we
can see if they can say exactly
had legacy in some kind of control. But now I think you really start to pay attention
to Team Falcons and what can they do while they're behind? You know, how do they look?
What sort of moments can they create? And the thing is around like this, you know, is
that Hero AK? It's a lot of pistols around it, a bit of armor and whatnot. You know,
it's definitely not super easy, but you would still call this a bit even, sad sins left
slow falcons capable of coming back into it.
Nysim, oh, I've got a good gap here.
Small step, heard, you know, doesn't seem too bothered.
Thank you.
Down position way.
That's unreal.
I think that might be your gun getting in the way there,
to be honest.
Nysim's so scared as well.
Looking at that's the meme right there.
Indeed.
He's going to get behind it, but they are keeping high on this.
Oh, my God.
he actually might be able to line up a couple here, they just feel for this to be known!
Confirm your kills, guys, confirm them!
He doesn't!
Aniko and Tessa is going to get kills apiece, Aniko looking for another, he's spammed down
through the smoke by a Latok, Kaisuke, they're here for a spam of his own, the AWP will ring
off 4-1.
It's all on the shoulders of the man who started this round, Satsun, 13 points of HP
and a dream, he will stick the plant this time.
I've got the very least. Oh, not even he doesn't even get it down in time. I thought he had just half a second to work with, but he doesn't. Wow. So that makes even worse. Yeah, doesn't get the plan. Then dies. Yeah. Don't often drop a yikes, but that was a yikes, man. I don't know, man. It's really not looking good. No, not looking good.
good. Nysim, why is that in your head? I think, you know, you've got the man advantage, there's a
rifle at the end of that kill, you know, and all that kind of stuff.
He's like touching him, it's your point where the second you get the kill, you're immediately gonna have the rifle.
You know what I mean? Like, yeah, just go in for the fight, but...
But I just, yeah, very questionable stuff, and then obviously, again, not leaving themselves
enough time. They're angry here, they want to do something about this, and there's only one
One way legacy nodes to sort their problems, hold W for S-Mouse 1, we have seen it even
up a key kill for missing.
This is what I want though, this is what I want from legacy, like I want this kind of
pace of CS, this is where it feels like we have a bit of a chance and they can slowly
start to incorporate themselves back in towards a game like this.
But you know, I curse door lines for this country and they look at the try and recover
it a little bit, 7-1 as feels quite familiar tones in a sense, but that's not really
It's a really nice shot. Two
versus two. Nico. I'm honestly
looking to recover this dynamic
duo here. Of course, Nico
coming in from long makes it
look easy as Lato was not
expecting him that fast. In the
one versus two. All the
information that he needs.
Money is low and got that all
ever ideal looking to walk
through the smoke. Hiding in it
for now. Really playing it
really do play well I think that may well have been communicated from somewhere right.
Nico has not got a kit. There's not really one going to be down right. You see where
all the kills have come in. He's obviously gone past the guy that's already died and
not spotted a kit. So I think initially he wanted to push that smoke. Yeah. And someone
said you need to live this. What around is that though? Some great shots landed. So integral.
and it continues to be such a good showing.
Eight to one now.
I will say despite losing the round though,
that felt better from legacy.
It did.
I mean, they find the opener again though.
They're just not converting these opportunities.
Art finally got a kill.
I'm still unable to capitalize upon it.
But it really does feel like I just,
you know, at this point,
live or die by your style, I think a little bit.
Like, you know, we've kind of talked about it.
I just think there's so much respect
two Falcons but will it be a round not converted once again which would be
damning to say the least hasn't follow up with a second moving towards B
honestly misses his moment you Molly comes down trying to split up the pack
here he's gonna work I mean who is this smoke for guys like they eventually get
one in there but it's obviously just so much space given across because the
The initial smoke misses.
Munisee does not miss.
That's the one guarantee here for Falcons.
There's no bomb plant yet.
Honestly, it's a bit far away from proceedings.
Niko's walk through.
Inadvisable moves at times.
Munisee is on a 3k.
I don't think they needed to force those fights necessarily.
Niko, perhaps expecting to catch them planting the bomb,
but legacy, they put a pin in it.
They do so again.
Munisee gonna go down and they have played them off
the field there man. Two versus three, Munnesty gives you just an unbelievable moment again,
same as the previous round and Falcons trying too hard to win that one. I know it sounds
silly but I think just wait it out and play the numbers game.
Yeah, the owners are on them to plan, right? You want to put that pressure on them and
they just give them the fights. Sergeant Alata do really well. Sergeant in particular, the
second kill that he gets. I think without that they can't even scale in towards B so
there isn't really a round to be had there. He's given them a lot of life, that is for
sure.
And the two rounds so far won by Legacy, one off back off, two bits of individual heroics
this and the first time with the quad kill. Sans in this time. Look down at the feet of
Monocys, you can play through this, this is so risky but Monocy, so far you can afford
to do so at 11 to 3, make that 12.
He gets in, gets his kill and gets out.
His Lato will fall untreated as well.
What is he able to reset?
A break on the smoke, but he can't see anything behind it.
Oh, they know about him being close,
thanks to the burn on the fire.
But I mean, what a game he's having.
Great movement around that smoke.
Just to play it as safe as possible.
He's not ready for this juice, though.
Oh, it's quite landed.
Yeah, he's a bit too on edge.
Tested with a big fine.
Survived on very low HP.
of the game. It's a great
coming in. It's getting really
quite messy here is legacy of
picked up that pace Falcons.
This is maybe a bit more of what
they were expecting touchdown
made this him alone spanned in
the end by Nico. Goodness me
need about four observers to
catch everything in that round
as it's happening all over the
map Falcons bring it to nine a
really good half here on their
opponent's map pick. So yes,
legacy of turn things around in
They're looking good and like I say, I think this is more of what they were expecting in the first place and I feel like as well if legacy has started this map like this, I can say, okay, yes, it's not quite working just yet, but I can see what you're doing and this feels like you can still always be like an uncomfortable team to play against.
But the fact that it comes so late in towards the half where basically it's already a right off here in Dust2, that's the annoying thing.
That's where this like respect is way too much respect that was shown right at the start of this map was so frustrating for us
Because it wasn't legacy a
Thrive in chaos we kind of saw it a little bit definitely not to the same level
But you know with Limvision yesterday where it was very much like the the carnage of the chaos
But it also throws such a spanner in the works and that's something that legacy do at a much higher level
Do about carrying and trade blows, but he goes there backside
We'll get one of the MP9 up close with Tess as there's a lot of damage, but just can't quite confirm the kill.
And ADLs won, it's Kayasuke or close it.
And Sadsin and Lato in a 2 vs 4, and surely a next to impossible round here for them to recover.
Miss shot by Monosy the first time, second time makes up for it, and the Eagle just does not ring out through
Falcons take a very dominant 10 to 2 half and legacy. Unfortunately their map pick is not going the way they expected.
just not good enough from legacy really. I think they will know that and recognize that hopefully able to work things through. It's obviously quite animated and vocal, but yeah, it really is a tough start for them. And I just don't rightly know where it goes here.
I think it's a lot of work to
do in the brief. Time that you
get me while the falcons just
nothing to add really keep it
all the same, you know, should
be able to close out from here.
Yeah, you ask a lot of
questions. I think if you're an
avid viewer as well, it's like
just to where's the conditioning
where's our long bursts, where's
the sort of fake outs and things
in the early portion of the
you know, you know, it's
really, really, really, really
difficult to get around. To
really figure it out to really
be like, okay, our
instinctual slow players just
not working. And honestly, I
think a lot of teams will
benefit playing like that from
the get go is just kind of
terrible really, you know, like
on dust, too, I think you have
to establish that you can be
Is there anything for legacy to fall back on realistically? It feels like not really a pistol to start off would absolutely help this situation and sats in for the first so far
Spamming through into war's long
Sky suki the first to hit the deck there's information about the pretty aggressive stars by legacy so falcons are just gonna fall away and reset
Yep
Can we get a little offbeat with the timing here? He's ahead of the pack
to be the hero. As you would
generally expect, I think. Meanwhile,
the rest of the team going to
pivot and hit that be bomb site.
A couple flashes. It's that P 250
in the hands of Nico that we look
towards here slightly off the
mark. Will they be ready for this
particular angle? Lato needs to
give us one. Uh oh. Not good.
This is some shots. I think
Oh, not good. This is some shots. He does get it second time of asking. Oh, and there you go chiming in eventually to perhaps just save the round carrying and does his job, but only for one. So I'm going to be down to Tessus and Lato. I doubted him for a moment, but he does recover well. Legacy with the pistol.
They have a lot of work to do now.
Dippin and diving in towards back plan. I sure
Okay
There's like a bit of a checklist to kind of like get in towards this game again for legacy like the road to recovery is obviously it feels
Nigh on impossible, but
You still want to start follow up force by
First two or three gun rounds and then we can maybe at the same the idea
As you can tell we're not really believe it's just yet
you can see. You can see
this. You can see that. It's
going to take a lot to really
change our mental about this
Falcons look, even with losing.
Pistols A. It just feels like
there's no way outside of this
standard that we've going to
come out in towards this game
with that. They can let this
slip. Honestly, looking so
clean kaisy because it's some
really nice moment. Test. This
is just so reliable as ever.
Yeah. Crazy how he's managed to
you know, survival is sort of
iterations. You feel like at
Um, I think it's one of those kind of great things when you've got all these superstars
Like, you know all these kind of big names on these teams or whatever
And obviously that became a bit of a sort of a joke for for the falcons in a sense
And tessus was still at the top of the park like nearly every time like he's so reliable. He's so consistent
Worth his weight in gold in this team for sure
One smoke here for the falcons
unfortunately
Could be at the same time as a ct smoke
So they just stop the test is they're trying to prove for this one if they can probably need one more kill
Okay, there you go. I mean close it to the site
Yeah, unfortunately, he's missed that window right?
Close the gap Danny will go
Money maker there for art as he does get himself a 3k so a
Lot of what this is about is kind of damage control closing that gap proving you can win some rounds so on and oh my god
Yeah, I was gonna say a little bit of an update 11
Oh, yeah, my boy. What's happened? What's going on, guys?
Really being on a decent run of form.
I might be on my be stopping them in their tracks.
I mean, I guess, luckily, similar to this, it's like it's just like a seeding game,
essentially. That's true.
I think it's in the 70s, the quarters, but man, that is damning.
On a pluggy map as well. It's one of Furno.
Like that kind of feels like for, for beta, a map in which they would feel okay on.
Yeah, that's wild.
Insanity 15 and 600 at the heart of the half.
Pretty mental stuff.
So two pretty one sided showings across both the streams here.
This one feels like it maybe got a little bit of a lingering aroma that they could actually
something brewing for legacy.
And I think a lot of it comes down to this gun run, which has started well.
I think that's what we saw right at the start of the game. Some of their T side rounds ending in saves and all this kind of thing. I think the word I used was timid and really did come to a head by the end of the half.
started this one well so I mean that's kind of good to see aggression is successful, can they hold on to the round?
Honestly it is really, really looking good.
Damn, unfortunately not going to be able to really break too much.
Hiko goes down, it's only one player lost, two a nice shot but in the grand scheme it's not going to make too much of a difference for legacy.
So starting to look a bit convincing here, one more rifle round maybe we do start to believe.
I think Falcons and a safe and sorry at time on in the next couple rounds would be a good idea in my opinion
Yeah, I think it'd be a smart call
Just take a beat right take a breather
This round of course is a little bit of a throwaway. I think it's on 17 though
I think absolutely feels like a nice time to call it right
It's on a kind of mic and just sort of have an idea of like how our legacy approach these CT sides
What do we know is so far in terms of their aggression they like timings and how can we try and punish them?
There's a couple of gimmicks that legacy of throwing in that are actually quite smart
You know you got that one into a short which is becoming a little bit more popular now, but you have a smoke down
There's a gap on the left hand side and it obviously allows you to look into a tunnel sort of as a bit of a
Sort of one way quote-unquote
These gimmicks you really be used properly one so Falcons slowly but surely figuring out what they're doing
I feel like they should win from here. I'm not going to lie to you. Right?
It's UK on the AK with the armor and the low HP bars. Get Karagan sent down long, try
win from here. I'm not going to lie to you, right? Kaiyazuke on the AK with the armour
and the low HP bars get Karagan sent down long trying to clear that out or hold it.
Art really is there only saving Gracie another heavy tight Satsun. Lucky to be alive. They've
not got eyes on that long position. It's all going to be on Kaiyazuke here. Definitely
a doable clutch though. He finds that first. One HP for Satsun. Spots them both out here
as well. Just trying to goad him into the fight. Where's the second player? Oh! Kaiyazuke
It's just so damn clean.
The accuracy 100% and he will flatten them a big clutch.
I felt it.
I felt it in the water and a huge cut for team Falcons.
Just the amount of damage they had dealt as they were moving
up short.
You could just see something brewing there.
That's looking to sell off.
I really thought when it turns to look towards site,
that was where he was going to get caught.
Because they're double swinging through CT.
But they actually give him the opportunity to isolate
rather than that kind of what should have been really solid spacing of playing off each other and insta-trading
kaiosuke though
class once again
Falcons threw away and taking legacies map pick to kickstart this series
We fought the corner will force so that's it i'm doing my way
Unfortunately for Legacy, you know, we were kind of being slightly forgotten just because
of how crazy that round was.
But at the start of the round, we were saying, this is the round that actually feels like
if Legacy can find us cleanly, they're going to put themselves in a decent spot because
you just have this opportunity to scale up now, right?
You know, you're chipping away.
Then it would be 10 to 6.
That's reaching this.
That's two gun rounds of difference.
and that feels like an actually achievable recovery.
It's certainly a moment that you have to watch as a player and a team,
but you don't get ahead of yourselves.
You know, someone says, like, oh, they should be low buying here.
And I think it's only natural at a certain level of the game to think,
okay, well, we've just won this round, we'll be fine, you know?
And you take just a moment, and then you've got Karrigan in from Longley,
didn't consider him, and although he doesn't find a kill, he did so much damage.
So yeah, I think Legacy will be kicking themselves to have overplayed their hands slightly.
Great flash.
He's looking for more, and lucky to survive that.
Oh my god, two dead to ride. Karagan want to move.
These lurking plays by Karagan are really having a lot of efficacy,
and they continue to throw a span of the work to Legacy who are so baffled by them.
them. It's all down for Nico and Tessus against Nissen and he just gets caught on the transition.
Falcons will find 12, map points for them. Yikes, that again is just a small move. It's
very similar to the previous one on the pistol. He goes up long on his own but the beauty
of these lurks by Karagin, even in that pistol one, yes he doesn't get the kill on Sazin
but in their mind they start thinking how many is there with him, right? And he starts
I think it matters worse as well after all of the things that I've gone wrong for legacy.
Farkin's got 12, look at the bike.
Yeah, right.
Damn, you can't even get a famouse.
Well, maybe they obviously take the time out and angle towards a pretty heavy utility
bike to try and make that work and you can see why.
They've got an idea for it.
Good early kill comes in.
Ah, it says I don't want this.
I'm not playing too good, I suppose.
So that's nice, he's kind of taking the sacrifice, sticking around as well to just keep control
all along.
There is a player that's crept in, does some damage on the way out, could be a difference
maker, saps it, flash comes around, he's able to turn away from it, but as he's trying
to trade up, misses that shot.
So a lot of damage done, could be a big moment for legacy, meanwhile Falcons trying to re-aggress
and find a different avenue of attack.
Nice, by Nessun. Complete oversight. Carragans just doesn't expect anybody in towards lower.
I have no idea about the doors player and this is where Dumaul makes his move. Gatches
monosy. The legacy are going to stay alive on this lesser by. The question is can Kaisuke
get anything on the tail end. Pad the stats but also keep it pricey for legacy.
oil tools x-walks to stop that jump pop he's trying to really isolate some from
the fight he's got a bit of time to work with as well not that I really feel
like there's life in this round this would be a catastrophic fumble if you
let that one slip wouldn't be the case do now closes out clearly so legacy
fine six we always ask the question though when you get around like that
when it's a little bit less one is it replicable and this is the issue legacy
It feels like this has been quite a consistent thing like first two the two rounds they're getting towards that
first half they're
Really like against the grain and it quite fortunate in a sense
I mean, maybe you can maybe so that satsen Lato like postplot or like you're not preplot
I guess whether they just pause play poorly play exactly and it just feels like really for legacy
They're not like earning rounds quite consistently and even there like it's cool
It's like a gimmicky round of a lot of pushes and even like you know
that kind of pushing through long, catching modesty, you know, laying towards round, things
like that. You can't get away with that in a consistent manner. To the legacy, we're not
building like really solid rounds for us. The good news is though, by winning that round
in that fashion, you've broken the money over towards each side. So you should be getting
a seventh.
Smoke and a deagle here. As all Falcons have, they are grouped up together looking to play
all five in the longhouse. Any damage going to be good here to just make that comeback
train quite difficult for Legacy. Art hidden away. You might go over look, the AK trying
to draw attention, goes down a bit too easily. Art going to have to find multiple and he's
only found one. Satsun does trade back, but all of a sudden the round opens up and a few
options present themselves to Falcons. And Legacy are preparing for that quite early actually.
Lato is all the way over on B even though
There's no way they could be here in that time, but he's he's very much prepared for that
30 seconds
Bomb is making the long old run towards B the rifle test is going towards a I
Think if they get this right
They could draw him away. There it is. Little bit of a turn in from B. They do sacrifice
Tess's, but it's a bomb plan. Niko will spot one and Lato is fully dedicated away. I mean
he had armour here. I'd be so on his side for this, but we'll see. A vintage Niko moment
on the deagle. He's looking for that first, trying to line up the crosshair. Doesn't spot
anyone just yet. Late moving. He's now been seen, so they should surely have him dead
to the right and indeed he will go down. The bomb plant is very helpful though. Yeah, you'll
take that. It's just having a slightly more padded by in towards the next round, but you
could really see how that could fall into place. I think you're right. You know, if
he has armor, I give him a chance at ice-dancing a fight or two. Time are taken by Falcons.
First fall then, but I think it's a bit of a sign of respect being shown. There is a
little trajectory from legacy here, which could be concerning. I still don't feel like it is, you know, as we've kind of been building on. I think even the seven rounds they've got a large kind of chunk of those four legacy haven't really convinced me that they have an idea of how to break down falcons.
hard to break down Falcons.
They're gimmicky rounds.
They're slightly random.
And I think with that, there's no real pressure for me
for this Falcon side.
But just want to shore up this one, right?
See it off.
You're right at the finish line.
You see that at the final step.
And I think that the Phosonic is making sure of that.
And she come back into the bite.
Want to see on the orb?
I think he's alongside it.
Full belt of Utah as well.
There's not that decoy.
You can see it, there you go.
But normally people, like, run the decoy and then
after it kind of pops, you then swing and you kind of have that gap.
He actually goes for the decoy down, moves towards top shore.
Just to distract away and confuse the information, maybe.
Expecting him to be in towards alley at the start of the round. Either way, it doesn't see much action.
We have our on a boost up here, funky angle for short.
Waiting patiently on the Falcon side to make sure they set things up nicely.
Let those players work middle at the moment and they do take a good clean swing.
Maybe knowing about the angle or spotting a shadow perhaps.
Lovely find there as they take the long control nice and slow, nice and methodical.
Sats in on the AWP, looking to save the day. He's got some support as well.
Well, lovely one two punch coming in, that's incompetent, that smoke would work there.
Certainly look dangerous for a moment, but it's forced Falcons away.
Oh, monasy, what is going on here?
He is hitting some ridiculous shots.
He can't miss at the moment.
It's crazy.
You're around this corner, the next big deal.
He's going to swing it.
He's going to swing it.
Yeah, that is really quite dangerous.
Do not feed the beast.
might just have cost you the game, honestly bro. We'll see, Sadson, nice find, onto the
5-7, keeps them in this conversation but they will have to concede the bomb plant. Do not
feed the beast. I think you're right, this might have cost them, and honestly might have
a chance at another. He can hit, he steps coming up through short. Damage dealt by the
80s, posted. Waiting for the swing round this corner, but it's actually the long rotate.
He starts to make his move, scaling through, time is ticking in there guys, we've got Kit
Shaw, we've got no utility, we've got to ice set these fights.
I think this is done by virtue of the clock, not by anything else, legacy I've left this
too late for me as they're starting to make their move in, they're going to dive in but
it's going to be a perfect stick on this, oh probably not, because Monossey's there
and that's what we said, won by virtue of the clock but also by virtue of those shots,
to be able to do that. We're
going to be able to do a lot.
A map. He's hard. But what I
map from the Falcons and we
still ask that question. We're
all legacy. Yes, we've got a
little bit more of an
introduction slightly in a few
rounds here and there, but that
is not a good enough start. No
and I feel like, you know, in
their heads Falcons had that
one dead to right. We are going
to throw it back to the boys
to break down that dust to.
and we thought it was going to be much faster.
Good to see Legacy, at least, you know, showing time to bluff in that second half,
almost making the comeback happen.
But again, Team Falcons, they got across the line after what was a very dominant first half.
It's one of those games where it feels like it's pretty evident, you know,
how much skill there's within Falcons.
Because I don't think if you were to dissect all the rounds
and how they approach the game and how they actually played out,
I'm not saying Falcons didn't play well.
What I'm saying is that I don't think Legacy necessarily had a worse idea
how they wanted to conduct themselves on Dust2 in terms of opening the rounds and where they found
themselves and how they were spacing out the map, but whenever it came down to actually closing out
the rounds, you know, whenever it came into the scenarios where, okay, Tessa steps up and gets a
multi-kill he's not supposed to have, or Nico steps up and gets a double kill. Like it felt like the
individual skill, you know, with Monizzi as well, in particular on the AWP, was the different maker
this time around. So again, not to take anything away from Felkins, it was good to see them play
Well, we did see in the second half, you know that sometimes that T side is a little bit rocky
You know we saw it against BC game as well
But at the end of the day when you have so much skill on the server where monasy playing well
Nico playing world Qsuki winning a 1v3 at a crucial moment as well
Like it's it's almost hard not to make the case that it's the skill winning the map and not necessarily falcons being a much better
I guess structure team at this moment. Yeah, I think you kind of get to see that
But on a couple of occasions, obviously, because the Legacy are interested in getting this
into basically a track where they can be a little bit chaotic, where they can cause
confusion and whatnot, and you basically had the peacekeeper monocy.
Just showing up whenever Legacy were about to kind of get going.
We saw it multiple times with their attempts at B splits and so on.
Yeah.
Monocy would always get that very, very calming effect kill in mid, for example, like through
the doors just before the smoke pops or something like that.
that just halts legacy to a grind, like it completely stops them.
And I think you have more instances of Falcons showcasing brilliant individual skill, more
so than the team structure being what kind of solved legacy in this one.
And I think not as if you have to give them a ton of credit for doing so.
Yeah, that's why he's the standout player, of course, in terms of the stats looking crazy.
A lot of those kills though, look, if we were running with the old stats of RWS, he would
have lost them because there was so many rounds where he got some nice flashy kills, you know,
big three-piece and then everyone else just got picked off at the exact same time. And, you know,
that's why for me, I feel like, you know, Tessus needs a little honourable mention because of all
of that crazy anchoring, you know, dealing with all the gun rounds in that first half, which set
them up for an easy winning game. And that's been a bit of a trend and something to look out for
as well. Tessus seemingly playing better and better, you know, as we spoke about coming into
the tournament as well, with Kerrigan coming in, you now have a player who's willing to sacrifice
in every essence of the game, right?
Kerrigan is willing to take whatever spots needed,
and Tessus has been freed up on certain CT positions
to do a bit more, you know, and to be a bit more comfortable.
So, again, something to keep an eye out for.
I'm not saying Tessus is going to be the catcher that's behind Falcons.
You're always going to look at Monizzi Niko and Kyusuke for that.
But if you just get slightly more out of Tessus, you know,
than you did before, then you're a long, long way,
because you also do say that Kerrigan coming in,
you know, comes with the caveat that Kixon is a better player.
Like, he's a better fragger than Kerrigan, right?
So someone else had to make up for that and so far, Tess has been able to do that.
To me, Tess is this kind of like the stereotypical Danish writhler, in a sense that he's just reliable.
Like you can put him at any sort of job task and he's going to do well at it.
And he's going to be very sacrificial, he's going to be very, you know, selfless in how he plays.
And I think every top team needs that kind of a guy.
I mean, Vitality would have someone like Messi, right?
But yeah, Tess has kind of slossed into that role so well.
And the fact that he's now obviously got another selfless day into the side that's going to give him a bit more room to
Showcase his individual skill, but I think he is kind of like the glue that keeps Falcons together in many ways
So him having improved improved performances. That's going to be you know a fantastic sign for the Falcons going into the major and speaking of you know
Significant in performances some of those lurks from Karrigan as well
Just like finding perfect timing through the smoke that would have just been so annoying to play against
So, shout out to Finn for getting that job done as well, but of course, that's just two off the agenda.
We've got ancient of a quick chat too. How do we think this is going to go?
Do we think legacy with a bit of momentum towards the end is going to really help them come into map too?
I think it could, you know, to be completely honest.
Falcons are yet to show me that they are reliable, you know, as a team, you know, over the course of a best of three series.
They always have moments where they fall out of the game and they always have moments where they fight their way back into the game.
So I think it would be disingenuous to say that legacy without a chance on ancient,
but no doubt in my mind, Falcons are still the favorite to win,
but I'd expect a competitive game and a close game,
and we do know legacy and the way they approach Counter-Strike as well.
Ancient is a map they can play at a very high level, as you can see here as well.
You know, a map they have played quite often in 10 years as a team,
so I wouldn't be surprised if we get a competitive game.
And then again, it comes down to me to how much impact Modesty can find with AWP.
I think he's always going to be one of the biggest difference makers on the server.
Oh, 100%. And I guess the issue for me with the legacy on this map is the fact that they've just been competitive, I guess.
So they've had good games, there's a game religion, they've had close games, there's this Navi and so on and so forth on Ancient,
but they haven't been able to kind of get over the finish line.
So, yeah, maybe we're kind of just that's where we're setting the bar.
We're expecting them to, you know, give a bit of a fight to Falcons.
But it's kind of hard to see that they're going to bring this to a third map, if I'm honest.
They had to either do better on Dust2 for me to believe a little bit more, or just straight up when Dust2 to feel like a 3rd map is a reality, because out of all the maps they have in the pool so far, Ancient feels like one of the more comfortable ones.
For me, I definitely think that it's looking like we might be going to 3, I believe in what we saw.
Always a believer in the underdog.
I just love Brazilian CS and I can't get enough of it, which is why I would love to see a cheeky bit of mirage
But to get there we have to see legacy win ancient and of course that is gonna be coming up just after the break
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to get into this one. Falcons.
I think with a bit of a statement
to get a couple of kills out.
It's all down to Nico. So a
pretty good way for legacy to
start things here on ancient.
Niko hoping to get some kill
bonuses on a timer as there is
a player coming in from behind
him. Actually the one in the
side that takes him down. So
pretty clean stuff for legacy
here on ancient. Yeah, that's
what I'm talking about. Yeah,
that's what I'm talking about.
I think that's a really clean
stuff for legacy here on
ancient. Yeah, the exact way
they need to start as well. I
just think when you look at
obviously, you know how things
panned out really, really poor
starting towards their own
mappic barely got going took
them an age. Actually really
get to a point of being
competitive. So they needed
this that they need a strong
start. They need to really get
out of the gates nice and early
here on this city side just to
feel like we have a chance of
I still don't know if I have that faith. Ancient obviously it's such a good map for the Falcons and one of which they've really been utilizing to
Punish a lot of top teams. We're going for a punchy landing towards B
We dive it on through and the opening double will come the way Akai Asuke. He looks for more
Had a triple with his Mach 10 drive by as they break open B and legacy caught with their pants around their ankles
They're calling for a save already with that being said an instant response from Falcons
that's the way you really make
your kind of presence known
in towards this map. And I
need to be a little bit more as
well. I want to see it here nice
and early. The pistol was just
a test. This is the real round.
I'll see you'll go down, but
Falcons looking very, very good.
And honestly, one of the best
positions you can be in, you
know, it's east side that win
out that force by. Yeah, sure.
They've got a couple players
that say if everyone had gone
down, it'd be awful here for
I mean, it's just like, it's
like, it's just like, it's
like, it's just like, it's
awful here for legacy. But
yeah, it just screws your
economy and. You know, a lot of
teams. A lot of teams are very
unsure of like how to recover
it. It feels like you should
fully force here. That is the
general rule of thumb, but, like
your money is just so bad.
Sometimes we talk about this.
It's like maybe you just go for
a few Deagle's or something
like this. The other side of it
though, and what we often don't
that they can answer back with a force buy of their own which may well be the case. Also it's kind
of like that two of them are on double eco you actually do have the force there. Yeah like three
you know we do have those m4s saved but in terms of like personal econ it was one point four k kind
of thing you really can't. But the point I'm making is you'll see the money unless they win here of
course the money just stays awful for a long long time yeah really quite tough to manage
little one-for-one in the AMA to kick this one off.
Yeah, winning at the force fight,
and winning at the force fight like wars, as we like to say,
where, you know, they kind of trade these force buys back and forth.
Being the type that comes out on top,
that is such a big difference maker.
Tessus has missed that window.
Doom out.
He's actually here.
The flash is good, but Tessus will get out in time.
Doom out.
With one of those M4s, can't punish.
They're doubling back towards B.
And at the moment, it's only Lato here with a pistol.
They've got enough utility as well to flush him out, but they are drawing numbers back
to B.
Then there comes Molotov into wall, sure.
The fact that we've got actually enough players here feels like it should be really quite
spicy.
Saito doesn't do much kills a piece.
Tessus gets his, and this one I was trying to pull them back over to wall a day.
They don't have to commit to it because they've still got time, but it really depends on
this red room fighting.
Now the fact that he gets it, that is a free path into a plot and a post-part to be set
up and the chance again and doubling up in the rounds but very quick actually
Dumau and Lato are here as the stars of his side but they're diving a knife out
Dumau that's questionable bomb dropped all on Teslas to bail them out and he
does a quad kill to his name my god that was a little uncomfortable as force by
walls go but it's Falcons who come out on top and now legacy do have to take a
step back so it is that little runway for the Falcons to work with but very
I guess he was going for the
need immediately expected him to
plan. It's pretty well read from
the Falcons to just grab a
little freeze there. You know,
fake the bomb out. Is there
anyone around where they coming
from? Because positionally, it
felt really good for legacy. They
were like on that perfect beat
of being on the flank following
in the footsteps of your
opponent where they might not
expect you that fast. Yeah,
and where they might not expect you that fast.
They caught off guard themselves in the end.
Big Nade damages everybody.
Playing in the cave.
They will still try and move forwards.
The R on the back in a main.
He's not part of this little move over here.
They will start to pick away the numbers.
Falcons.
Going through the motions.
But I mean, again, it's not quite as easy as it first looks.
And now perhaps just playing it super safe.
Like, Karagan finishes round on the backside.
Unfortunately, Dumau pushing forwards into his doom.
But there you go.
Karagan able to get one and make some money.
And no grades in the AK.
Scooped up off of the corpse of Dumau.
3-1, only the one character you're not too upset about that.
And this is that early test for legacy
to see just what level we're getting out for them.
It did feel like they were warming up
towards that tail end of Dust2.
It was a bit more of a legacy that we've been wanting to see for a while
And we kind of said it like we've got that if we got that legacy at the end of this to to start off the map
It could have been kind of interesting
I still feel with like how good one is he was playing and how good Kai's 2k looked
And how solid test this was as well that
They would have had enough firepower to fall back onto close them up regardless
And maybe we're about to actually find an extra 10% or so, but all things considered
into the winner position where for legacy it started much much better and they put themselves in a spot where there's a lot
More to be desired here, but actually feels a bit like the legacy that would be wanting
See they dive in towards an elbow player there art goes on his own and honestly finds do now
Too isolated easy fights just gifted over towards Falcons
I think that bomb, looking it's way over there, slowly, really be sure though I think is the
question because legacy are very, very prepared.
Utility comes out, I do feel somewhat worried for this, you know, the numbers don't look
too bad.
Lato in a good spot, Satsyn still has a sight line to work with here.
Last comes over the top, Lato turns around, not quite in time, it's Nism on the edge of
the smoke.
Now it's the order might go over. Look, he misses the shot. Can they cross away? It looks like yes, it's close on the time, but they do finish it off. That flank coming in from behind as well is able to just confirm the round. Falcons picking up a fourth.
There's a very small window there for legacy and it actually nearly kind of comes with fruition especially off the back of that double
It feels like there might have been a bit of a chance there, but
Yeah in the end not to be
So a 4 1 here to start things off a bit more of an even game on that b-stream
And it'll be our bait that number one of course was
Very one sided we kind of tuned in when it was 11 1 at the half it ended 13 1 in total so
complete domination from over on there matt pig
like, run up the rises, you know, bait love. It's a bit more of the game we're expecting.
You know, if you get a, you know, a crazy recovery from legacy, we could have a two
trillion size directly to the semi finals. Hey, potentially trying to talk into reality,
I suppose. Yeah, at least give us a third on this one.
Legacy and danger of more of the same as well is the thing here. You know, it's still very
very early, but Falcons starting to once again really pick up some motion. Yeah, I will say
though. Despite the score, I may be not paying that pretty of a picture. It does feel like
there's more here for legacy. Yeah, just like an air of the weather approaching this CS.
They're like, you know, the confidence in the fights that they're taking and whatnot.
It just feels like this is a bit more of the legacy we wanted. Now there's obviously the
other side to this where you essentially say who cares like do you actually even have the ceiling
to be able to compete or even the floor really to compete and this is kind of
better how Falcons are not sure really. I will say I think I see where you're coming from I think
on the CT side we just see a bit less of them like how they're building rounds and things so
it's possible that the sample size is small enough at the moment it doesn't look as bad but I mean
the start of Dust2 was just really quite awful. So it could only go up from there.
Yeah, I guess with Dust2 as well, the issue is like even getting a kill felt kind of hard
for legacy, at least it feels like we're kind of getting a little bit of something. This is a
nothing round. And he's showing up like that. Doom out. And I guess at this point as well,
you can. Yeah, they'll be
after him in time. To be honest,
they've got plenty of money
themselves. I don't see why
there's not at least an attempt
to hunt this guy down. Really
playing it well, though. Three
players on top of each other.
Naked goes in softens him up.
Maybe not. Maybe not going to go
for it. Four players stacked on
top and not peeking around the
corner really trying to go to
So. Yeah, I'm surprised that
no one even has a look for
Falcons on that one. Time out
coming in legacy back in with a
bike. Gotta make this one work
as that score line is really
starting to stretch ahead and.
Falcons. They've done it once.
They could do it again with the
domination factor. Yeah, it
really does feel like the
Falcons is just kind of one of
those things that at the moment
we can see them play 80% and
just have enough to really look
It was like, well, I mean, we
don't have to be in the
game right now. We just have
to be in the game right now.
It was a huge loss. It was
dusted for large kind of
portion of the game. We're kind
of to like 90s of the game. They
didn't really have to call
anything crazy to like win
rounds. It was like, right,
which is that monocle in
cars. You can do everything
and test is have his moments
too, and that was more than
enough. And it still feels
like that's the case here. Maybe
they had to lock it a little
bit. You can't. That's what
we spoke about. It was like
12 seven. They call that time
People wild around to close it, but done all the same.
So we call those a successful tactical timeout.
Legacy hoping for a successful one off the back of the air pause
as they come back in to the bite.
After taking a span, a much more passive approach
to start off here for Falcons.
And he could just miss his that window.
He did peer through the smoke in towards Ram,
being with us half a second earlier.
He potentially could have caught Doom out there.
He doesn't
Smoke down do you know it's gonna push in front of this there's a right-click smoke
They're gonna overlook it. You go for but harrigan quick death of the trade. I think you'll take the trade for sure
He's a little grenade, but I think you will take the trade in that situation obviously legacy trying to do something is cool to see but
Is it gonna be convincing enough?
I mean, you know, you can't help but be a bit frustrated at what you're seeing here that obviously Falcons will start now landing their shots.
It's this is a bit more acceptable, but this in my guy four versus three, you're five one.
What has ever possessed him to walk through that smoke?
The charity of legacy just gifting rounds over.
Yeah, crazy.
So kind of them.
just gifting rounds over. Yeah, crazy. So kind of them. Oh, all he can do is save.
He's not going to give this one a look in. But the question is, can he save? Because Kaiosuke
holding it towards elbow. And he's got to afford to take that sort of fight. He's going to win
it every day of the week, six to one. And just as we were saying, we'd love a successful time out.
You know you follow up for legacy
So many kills gifted over in quick succession as well
Just all too easy
That means that really is as falcons are quite rapidly pulling away like already six rounds T side ancient
By every metric we would kind of say here and say this is a really decent half ready
you know, it was to end six or
you're pretty happy with that.
On the T side. It's just the fact
that the way they're playing like
they're on track to just walk away
with this. Yeah, for sure. And
it's just kind of getting better
and better. The rounds getting
more and more convincing. We're
looking at an individual level
conversation in places, but I
also think that legacy. Just
really lacking their identity.
Yes, thinking that somehow.
the game, but they're just
obviously pretending to be
something that they're not. And
it is getting the better of
them. I think that gap may well
be too far gone. Yeah. But we'll
find out you're right at the
cusp of the potential turning
point. Potentially not going to
happen in this round, though, as
it is just the lower weaponry
falcons playing a really annoying
slow, which feels against the grain.
Art spotted out.
Down he will go.
The A-bombsite looks right for the taking.
Sadzen is here, reveals himself,
looking to try and at least find one.
It's a great Molotov.
And the flow of these rounds
is just absolutely perfect from Falcons.
Yes, it's slow.
Yes, it's methodical, but it is working really, really well.
A couple of nice shots landing.
A crazy, deagle moment gonna be required here for Lato.
They know all about him.
That might just be the first that he needs.
So, Tessus is also low here, one good clean head shot,
Carrigan comes in at the perfect time.
Half a second later, and I think Lato can get his crosshair,
move to Carrigan's head, but not going to be the case,
Falcons will take it, skin off their teeth in the end.
Half a second later, and actually then we really
start to become believers.
That was really quite close.
Is that first shot that really kind of opens it up?
It's like, okay, he's on here.
Before she legacy on
Kind of look at those stats as well. You can see why Falcons are picked into this. It's just such a good map for them
But again when you're against this legacy, you are giving you so many opportunities
She gets so much free real estate every single round on this T side already guaranteed lead now
And you can see the stars really starting to shine as well.
Kaisuke 12 and 4 are the gates for him.
It's fantastic. Tess S8 and 2.
Another kind of stalwart showing from him.
Mr. Consistent on towards Falcons it feels.
And I guess he just can't seem to deal with these kind of players.
We're leading for an A finish.
Bombslock committed.
You do have Niko over towards Ram.
Just trying to draw attention there.
And it's working. There is two three towards B and then they keep it the numbers here
They go for a bit of a pace you're popping towards a they should just be able to overwhelm art
I mean, he doesn't have any Utah so he's just got to fight this
Flash is a little dodgy there. I don't know what's happened to that one
We'll start to break in as a
Of that smoke. Yeah, they're very very ready mission. I sat in he will go back in for a bit more unable to get it
Art gives up his position, however, so they're looking to just keep a slim man advantage.
It now looks a little better, but the kills come back around.
KayaSuthK will get spammed down through the smoke though, that's what I was waiting for.
It's all going to be down to Niko here.
Satsun's got him dead to the right, and Legacy will finally break the deadlock.
In the nick of time, still a recoverable half here for them.
If they can get this one going, it's going to be a long road.
And Falcons of course, immediate timeout coming in to make sure that there is no hope for all the results.
Sassan does so well. That re-aggressed by him for his first kill is so important.
If he actually plays that little nervy and gives him the space and just waits in towards CT,
they move forward in towards the site and it probably gets into a position where the legacy just do not have
the uterity to give themselves an in-road back in towards that site because they're going to re-up those smokes.
It's a really, really important from him that aggression, that slight wildness that we always want from legacy, but it now needs to be one of a few, right?
They need to close out this half. I mean, you get to a 7-5 and I feel like it's okay. 8-4 is like the absolute bare minimum.
But they can't afford to get to a point where we saw in towards that first half talking about like 9-3s and 10-2s.
two's that just it just does not give you the scope to recover in that second half on your CT side
on a t-side may I say
Doom out and Satsang up close it's Satsang he gets that first Doom out
get one of his own and he gets a double in fact before he falls good job for me to go for two
and Satsang two of his own as well leaving all on the shoulders of Tess S1 vs 4 required and
and surely an impossible task.
Bombs scooped up and he doesn't have the full belt of utility.
Molly's smoking a double flash.
How does he wanna play this?
Smoke doesn't quite go where he intended.
I think he wanted it on the site itself.
He's got a second to work with.
Plenty of Utah dropped as well,
a second Molly at his feet, but it's all for naught.
He was really trying to draw out legacy there,
but one of the rare times that we want legacy
to actually be a little bit patient,
they are at the perfect time.
The Opera again, it feels like Samsung having a lovely couple of rounds here to really just pull them through.
Great little spam in the end there, wow.
Fantastically found.
Legacy up to three.
Give me four or five and maybe I do believe in the ability to take this map, but three is still not quite enough.
Falcons with just about enough money to get another buy going.
Starting to run a little drive, maybe a bomb plant here would help them out in a big way.
I think losing this one probably
forced them to make some
decisions in terms of how they
want to buy in the next.
Wow.
And Lato with good control of
lane here.
So starting to recognize a
little as they rebuild their
confidence that Falcons play
very, very safe in the early
round.
Yeah.
It's a really awkward position
to try and reclaim as well
when they've got this crossfire.
You've got a Molly close right corner and then swing together, which is quite difficult.
Or is this all part of a ruse?
Because again, the bomb is not here.
They're waiting for a mistake.
They might not actually get it.
Honestly, he's trained on the angle.
He's waiting for somebody to come in towards that crosshair.
And Lato is inching closer and closer.
Now we'll get that smoke down and sort of forcibly denies any sort of attempt, really,
for now to go towards B.
I hope we'll control coming through.
But they don't have a lot of time for this.
Keep an eye trained.
Dumal, it felt like he was there ready and waiting.
And Damien stills on towards Lato.
He should be dead to right in a moment.
It's hard to force it in the second place,
but he's now completely trapped there.
Pistol bolt out to get a second for Lato,
which is actually pretty damn commendable.
18 seconds going to be.
I don't like it.
I don't like it.
Nysim's not gonna get checked.
Nysim's not gonna get checked.
I think he has the round here if he plays this correctly.
Just really wait patiently, six, five.
Yeah, there's no way, there's no way they've got to kill him.
They've got to kill him, two seconds left on the clock.
Where's he playing for?
They just about take him down.
I think it ticks over into one remaining second for Falcons.
Nysim, I mean, really tried to play it
as perfectly as he possibly could.
But what do you do there?
Do you go early?
Wait a little longer, you know, count the three and try and take him down in that last half-second.
Remember what happened on Dust2 for him though, so he'd just go a bit quick.
Really quite tight in the end, but Falcons will get it.
Really dicey round, but all that matters is Falcons find it, and a really nice recovery, super super late.
Sadzen, opens up proceedings, we kind of said 8-4 is that bare minimum 4 legacy and even
that might not be enough but just give yourself some foundation, just some sort of stability,
something we never really felt we had on that Dust 2.
It's going to be a boost up there, should be better rides, nice little move there as
Niko will find Lato, do Mal going to retake this space in towards Cave at the same time
the game. It's a great
time. Carragane goes to the
legs. We started praise on the
legs on dust, too. This time
it gets called. Yeah, trying to
capture timing. It feels really,
really broken to go for
something like that. I mean, we
would definitely penalize a lot
of players, so you know, got to
hold into the same kind of
standards. Quick trades coming
in here, though. It's the
advanced MP nine that really.
Messes things up for Falcons.
like I say a slightly different beat on the timing. It also I think messes up his teammates however.
Yeah, shaky stuff.
Kaisuke left in the clutch. Definitely not impossible. Surely the player behind indeed does take him down so
it's workable loosely. Just about eight four is that their minimum that we want to see any team,
any map, any side hitting. And legacy do get there. They're going to have to find a pistol. They're
going to have to make us believe it's not super convincing. I think they may be towards
the tail end change up their style is so substantially that Falcons just didn't quite have the same
success rate. Yeah, we always talk about like our checklist
as well for. We have like an eight for it's like Pistor on has to be found forced by converted
as well. First gun round, then we start to believe then you can start to put yourself
into a position where you essentially chip away that deficit down to naught and actually
flip the pressure on towards Falcons, put a lot more onus on their gun rounds being successful,
but it's quite a big ask at the moment because it's the legacy side that haven't been
the most convincing and they haven't been the easiest to rely on for things like that.
Like sure we can talk about them getting a pistol, but quite similar to what we saw at the start of
Ancient where the four-spire can get flipped and that allows the Falcons to scale really quickly.
So let's see, the arm moving on towards that T side and you generally believe with legacy that
you know, this is a side that.
I really puggy and they they like
to back themselves in the fight.
You didn't really see it on dust
too. But again, this does feel
like there's a little bit more
and offer here for legacy on
ancient, but.
So that's the case.
What is the play for this pistol?
It might just be a pace you want
towards be.
I say that they slow down.
Just pausing as soon as they get
aggressive burst for sure. There's four players for Falcons ready to go. Tessus hitting away.
Julie's in play here as well. Tessus takes a couple looking for a bit more. Will be taken down.
There's still support and still a lot of players to get through. Munisee has been smoked off.
He can't really help out at the moment. And unfortunately, Karagan and Niko not quite deliver.
Munisee looking and thinking, but unfortunately gives up the idea. Maybe a good idea. Art had
half an eye on that smoke push. Legacy moving away. Still going to be looking for him here.
Sads in spots him and now they'll pick up the pace to try and get away from him.
Bomb plant going to come in. Nice little smoke, but is he going to have his work for Albert?
Certainly not impossible. Just to follow the traces, Sads in so close to the smoke as well.
Unexpected, lovely, lovely adjustment from him. And Legacy will get the pistol once again. So
So now we might be on.
Falkens don't have that same cushion to work with as they did on Dusty.
Yeah.
Tesla's really well for two here.
I think Karagin just had an opportunity to really confirm a kill that he doesn't.
It's this fire, I feel like for Karagin, he dealt so much damage which is what really
felt like he gave us a bit of a chance there for Falkens if it wasn't a piece of legacy.
Nice work from them to see it off and this is where you can start turning into a little
bit of a believer for legacy pushing this towards a third map. No forced buy for
Falcons so it should be a simple and easy one to find it. Again we talk about
that checklist pistol round. This forced buy or a full buy back in kind of
conversion which they should be taken pretty easy considering that Falcons aren't
bringing anything to the table. And that first gun round then we can start to
to entertain the idea of our legacy drawing us towards a mirage and move forward towards
B there was a sort of a gamble stack around Red Room they're just moving as a park where
you guys got a flash so it still could be kind of expensive.
Yeah looking to do any kind of damage here it's a great flash as well.
Tessus manages to find one.
Okay we've got another one coming in I mean it doesn't look too bad.
We've got our hands on to any decent guns here though it's the big problem.
seems to have spilled in an awkward way and legacy will see it off if I saw the
three-on-three and then you get like a rifle in there somewhere and whatnot but
they just couldn't recover the guns in time so nothing too funky little bit of
damage some kill bonus coming in me you know that's certainly what you need this
early in the morning yeah on the roller coaster that is this series of it as
Well, Cork's group.
Goodness.
No T poses, though.
So unfortunately, we have, we've had a couple of dardens.
Yeah, we were in the green room and we saw a scissor on bait.
Yeah.
He was T posing in the start of that number, too.
Some kind of a glitch in the system, you know, I love it.
Sci-Fi horror movie potentially might be my favorite moment.
I've been a part of casting like I, I, I can't remember the last time I cried
laughing. Yeah. It's a good start. Four Falcons as Lato. Will fall there, waving out the smoke
here. Honestly, you'll miss the opportunity. Second half asking you to get a leg. That's
not exactly what you want. He's being pressured here round towards Donut. But under pressure
is where diamonds are made, and he is really shining at the moment. He looks for more,
but it's going to be caught. It's Sanzin and Nissen will combine, and this actually gives
them the ace right now to work with. Plans to come down. Post plan to be set up. Not an easy
to make this move, but it's
time. He's got to be perfect
as this starts to scale. Miss
opportunity. Samsung can't
confirm the kill. Kaisuke one
foot in the grave and so is
Tessus, but this is not exactly
healthy himself. Tap on towards
the bomb as tests looks to draw
out the fight and it works. He's
got the time as well about the
skin of their teeth. It's
Falcons who win that first gun
round. I mean so damn close in
in the end, isn't it? Absolutely crazy. The early shot, the nervous shot onto Karrigan
as he just spot the outer layer of his jacket. You know, there really wasn't an awful lot
to go at. Legacy will be kicking themselves. They don't manage to convert that really one
bullet in it at the end. It does make all the difference. Legacy needed it. Legacy needed
They found Nico super cleanly. That was the point I was going to come back to if legacy won the round
He goes down without a fight and that could have been the turning point for them, but unfortunately not
Falcons again just showing their extra layer of class Nico advanced here in they made
Whose flash is that and a team kill as well. Oh my goodness
Panic setting in here for legacy as the mistakes start to really stack up
And it's going to cost them to remain shadows on stacked on top of each other but as he goes down and this him is ever consistent
Couldn't win the clutch in the previous round. Can we get it here?
He did not need that damage as a flank coming in from behind him. He doesn't expect him falcons will see off another
Now hitting double digits and starting to look very very good. We might just catch it somebody panics and right click to flash by accident
Yeah
Do you know what happens to the best of us?
It really does, but that is really unfortunate.
And then, you know, it's two unfortunate moments.
It's Art who's trying to set them up,
and basically he's going to go sort of die for the team,
be the cannon fodder as they're diving out on tour day.
With a flash in hand, it flashes the team,
and then the other unfortunate thing
is the team kill to follow it.
Yeah, yeah.
It's two small things, but they make such a big difference.
Double nades to open up, no plant for you,
and the nade that breaks open the smoke
allows for Karrigan and Tessus to clean house on the B site. Easy shutdown for Falcons who are just
a couple of rounds away now from taking the series and booking this spot all the way to the semi
finals. It's not the end of the road of course for Legacy which is the positive of this series.
A lot of say they just go into the quarters so it's fine but Falcons skipping a stage getting
the trophy, which is. The
expectation for them out there.
Tournament obviously they put
this in every tournament, but
they are the clear and our
favorites. Here at CAC and to
be honest, you know now signs
already play like it. We were a
little bit unconvinced earlier
in the tournament, but especially
even against M 80.
With a nice five able to advance
quite quickly here. This is the
art move looking for though,
I suppose we know of him and normally we ask all what you're doing when he pushes and like he dies, right?
And in a move like that for the fact that he gets a kill and then damage even on the second
It is true. It's pretty valuable. Especially information wise. Yeah
At times, you know, you're up against though, right? Just keep your gun up and he'll probably keep advancing
But all the same like you say it's it's a weird sort of fake out as well. They double pump it
But Falcon's ready. They've got plenty of people here where they might say all that's clearly alert. Let's rotate around
They are incredibly ready easy pick up on that low HP player the bomb as well hitting the deck
It will be recovered as they go in for that plant
They get away with that Falcons. I think are happy to let them have it Nico meanwhile in a very good spot
He's lost his teammate in the side and stuck together here, but the shots are landing for the T's
Really good stuff. He'd be looking for one more
Maybe now starting to turn a little back to you as they realized around should be there's
I can't stop. It's all kind of
be careful to give him the
first one might be all he
needs though. Look at the
water here as he looks to
advance them all sides
unfortunately and he can't
shoot in two directions at
once. Legacy with a big
round. Yeah, an absolute
stellar performance of
Doom out there as well.
Little bit quieter into all
this kind of the series,
even this map, but he's
really warming up and these
are some sharp shots from him.
Nice trouble to win that. I think Tess has, you know, it's sort of done enough to make it awkward and
even despite his low HP with always a threat out towards long.
7-11.
4-round game here. Falcons close to that finish line, but
neither of them is on towards Nico. We'll leave him low and Sads it opens up proceedings.
A quick swing to find Falcons. Not the start they wanted in Karagin.
I've got a call from the grave to recover this one, but you look back to what it does too, and how many opening kills did legacy get, and what unable to convert the round. It felt like quite a consistent factor. So I'm not going to count our Falcons just yet.
It's true. If stacked up the B site, legacy might be able to read into it this time around. It's been quite a commonality for Falcons actually.
actually. No attempt at taking any more control.
I've been a mid presence legacy really. I think not wanting to mess this one up. It's
a key key round. Break back on Falcons. Oh, damaged in the smoke. Yeah, he's got to be
careful and they need a tad too deep. It will be a B play in the end. So they've read
that well. Lovely stack in the
cave here as well. You feel
should just net a kill. And if
it's misplayed, you can't really
cleanly come away with two here.
So we'll see what legacy do
around this. This round really
for me feels like it's a lot
like I say, okay, because he
has to hold this ramp
progression because of modesty
position on towards that top
box. You can be quite exposed
to ramp as they swing on
through. He's going to fall off
the box. I think as this round
starting to progress, this is
actually the right call for
him. No about one now two
Kill, needing a little bit more, monosie, can't find it either.
So Niko and Kaiyashuke, the two versus now two, but Niko falls all on Kaiyashuke.
The young gun is having a fantastic game, cannot do it.
And Latto sees it off with a three piece for him.
And now we are getting the stars aligned.
Dumail on that previous round, 3K.
Latto in this round, 3K.
That's the superstars, the legacy starting to shine and there's now a bit of belief
I mean, I'm not sure if I'm
going to be doing here for
legacy to. Well, get close to
talent this game. Honestly
really well, Bill. You know,
like if they played that wrong,
Falcons could have walked away
with it. But legacy I think
really, really keenly. Make
sure that all the pieces are
moving in the right way and
playing their parts. To
perfection. It'll be an eco
Yeah.
Great, Nate.
We'll take Nico down pretty low.
That's the one you've got to watch, right?
You want him to be unhealthy.
But he does manage to just thread that bullet through.
Really nice.
Fine.
Tessus will go down.
Legacy just got to be careful always.
You know, you see the names on this team.
There's always going to be capability.
Hi, Ashok!
On the AK, low HP.
No armor.
You can't be serious.
He's made this a doable round.
Munisee picks up the AK out of the hands
of his fallen comrades.
very very very low on ammunition though he's got two bullets I mean you're
looking for the headshots here anyway
oh gonna be rough picks up another he gets a need out oh man I feel like you
know crazy pre-fire something like this we could have been on but he opts to go
for the nade what do you do there yeah precedented kind of moment here Niko
meanwhile a complete reposition while all this has been going down he gets
spotted out they get as excited but legacy will see it off and now bringing
that score as close as possible, 9 to 11. Falcons quaking in their boots right now.
Yeah, you can just see like, there's just magic in Kaizuki's hands. When it starts
to click, so fun to watch. But Falcons feeling the pressure in a second time out. Legacy are
actually making a real game out of this. This is what we want to see too, right? This side who
sort of we know have the chops to be a really interesting team at this tier one level.
You're also spoken about it as well, you know, it's a point that Despo brought up talking about
for legacy like this tournament as a whole is unbelievably important. Like if they actually
want the invites towards the top level events and if they want to really essentially hang with
the big boys. They've got to
a couple of these big teams
and if I look into particular
as one of them, like they've
got to make a deep run here at
CAC playoffs is great. Sure.
And it feels like semi finals
at least is kind of a must just
for them to be getting this
tail one invites the ST events
for the second half of the year.
Yeah, which is heavily, heavily
under contention at the moment.
Exactly. It's been a stacked
season and the same thing for
Bay as well. They're in a very,
very similar spot. Maybe I is
Even if anything they're like far enough out already where like it's the only way they're gonna be in contentious like getting a win, right?
There's the real value of this tournament, you know on the surface
I think you know you look at it. I think people like well major invites are locked in but
This is unbelievably crucial for the second half of the year
yeah, especially for
PGL Singapore the tail end of the year as well like
like getting an invite to be
able to be playing at some of
these tailwind tournaments and
getting the VRS from those
tailwind tournaments could lead
to your invites to Singapore.
So just one of those where.
Yeah, I think you also missed
like the mad scrambled with
that we've had this time.
Yeah, teams and organizations
could be much more savvy.
The next major cycle to be like,
right, we've got to get locked
into these little lands and
stuff if we need them way ahead
of time, you come with a good
with a good find. Oh, a good double. In fact, 30 seconds left on that clock. It's not looking
good. I'm going to see back in his man here as well. A great setup, but Niko has lit up
the scoreboard. Bom hits the deck. This infights himself all alone. He's not that easy. Kaisuke
tries to take him and will pay the price. Only 10 seconds remaining here though. Surely
not a chance. Niko fall. Trader's instantaneous and Falcons will get the map and series point
here looking good while doing so. Yeah. Just a pure numbers game there, unfortunately,
you know, for Nissan, he has these moments. The Spidey sensors were definitely tingling on that 180,
but it wasn't to me. 12-2-9. And to make matters worse for Legacy on top of all of that,
MAP, Series Point, Falcons, the money has run dry. The worst possible moment for them to not
be able to facilitate an investment. It's now. You've got Lato and an AK, a scout out four sides in
and some pistols. I mean, Nissen's just got a Glock. So, yeah, doesn't exactly paint a pretty picture.
And they're diving towards me, they're looking to close it with something. KC, Carrigan's wide,
some old wee, but it's SS for two, looking for three. And he's shutting it down just when we felt
out. It's not like we need to
something special out from
legacy. It's all run dry
sadson with it all to do and
surely next to no chance. He
gets a tag, but it will not be
enough 13 to nine Falcons close
it. They made to work for that
map a little bit more. But in
the end, all that matters to
own the series. Yeah, and
looking good. I mean, feeling
happy for sure after that one.
A really great showing from
you can't see a player or two
maybe drop off. Maybe not quite
have that super sharp performance.
You know, they need the big
stakes and whatnot, but I think
they have applied those stakes to
this game. The semi final
important. The victory conditions
important here at CAC and yeah,
overall, a really good showing
from them. I think legacy or a
team that just fit outside of
that bracket, you know, probably
don't scream them very often.
Probably don't have as much
knowledge of the modern legacy
I think it does make a difference in the end. Yeah, I think you're absolutely spot on so really really quite interesting
But enough from us. We're gonna throw over to all the boys on the desk to break down everything from that map number two
What an absolute series and I was wrong legacy won't able to bounce back
But Falcons making it look damn good although legacy again having a bit of a late resurgence in ancient
Gives me hope that later today they are still gonna be able to qualify into the cities
Yeah, I think that's fine enough, you know. I think Falcons were the battle team in this game.
It's not one of those where you can argue, you know, could have gone both ways,
or maybe Legacy should have won the second map and pushed it into a third.
I think from the start of the game Falcons obviously took Madison to their own hands,
and again we saw the individual bullions coming out from some of the players, you know,
spoke about Tess's once more, really doing a good job and finding a lot of impact in this game.
And sure, Legacy came alive a bit in the second half, and at some point you made us believe that,
okay, we have a competitive game, but that's kind of also what we expected.
you know, Legacy is by no means a bad team.
So I think it's one of those rare occasions in Counter-Strike
where we actually got what we somewhat expected.
Yeah.
And the winning and...
Things let us go into plans.
Exactly.
And Legacy making the game competitive without being close to winning.
Yeah.
It's kind of been their, I guess, trademark, which is not the greatest of trademarks when
it comes to this level of Counter-Strike.
But yeah, they've been competitive and ancient, not able to bring it over the finish line.
A little bit of a thing that is concerning to me, considering what we've seen out of
these two maps is the fact that legacy have had a rough time getting started,
like getting going, had a slow start to Dust2, slow start to Ancient as well.
And we see that once they kind of get into their groove,
they're a difficult team to deal with.
So I'm a little bit saddened by that because I think we can get to see more out of legacy.
Again, if you win the pistol like they did on the second map in the first half,
you kind of need to convert that second round.
You can't give it back to Falcons that easily.
Like that set you up for such a disastrous economic or economical state that it's
It's kind of hard to see this turning out well for you.
So I think they got punished heavily.
And that's what's going to happen
versus top tier teams like Falcons.
So they kind of need to show up that.
I think they did a good job of adjusting
once we got made the way through the game,
once we got onto the T side.
I really like when they actually play up tempo,
that's where they seem to find most of their success
on the T side as well.
And you can tell once they started slowing things down
as well, once Falcons didn't necessarily give them
opportunity to find early opening duels. Legacy struggled a bit really to figure out what they
wanted to do. Yeah, I'll look at that though. 1.98 rating here. Just an absolute stellar performance
out of Tessus who today he is here to play and unfortunately for us the viewers we don't actually
get to see him again today because they qualified into the semis tomorrow. So yeah, shout out to
Tessus for you know really picking up the team especially in a lot of difficult situations.
It's a healthy sign for Falcons. Naturally, for Tessus individually speaking, it's nice.
Had a bit of a stocking some period, you know, later stages would kick in. But for him to come
alive and for him to be a different maker, you know, occasionally, that's when we remember Falcons
being at the best. You know, when they first brought in Monacee, they were playing without
practice. Tessus had a couple of, you know, big grand final appearances where he was actually
the best performer for Falcons. And that's where the came dangerous and close beating
vitality down in Sydney, I believe it was, you know, Melbourne for that matter as well. And
I feel like for Tessus to be a player you can rely on and have a solid output,
that's going to give a little bit more of a leeway to the Kyushu and the monisties of the world,
you know, so you don't have to always be at your best if you're monisty a Kyushu,
which could make them a bit more relaxed as well, so you don't have to force the issue.
So I think it's a very healthy sign for Falcons that he's coming alive.
Yeah, I mean, think about the second map now, right, on Ancient.
Did anyone really notice the fact that monisty went something like 7 and 16?
No, no, not really.
It wasn't, it wasn't needed.
Exactly, like every night again, he forgets an opening pick with the ARP etc and that's like, okay, that's great
That's a nice bonus, but we have Tessus and Kyosuke kind of just cleaning things up. So it's good
To be fair we did touch on that right like he had his performance on dust too
That's definitely a bit more op-centric than an app like ancient where it's a little more claustrophobic
Yeah, so it was expected when we spoke about it and it happened
But you know, that's the thing when you do have such a strong ruffling core that are all able to excel in their roles
Then you can still have a pretty dominant performance looking like that
It's a luxury. If you're Kerrigan and you're looking at your squad, you're looking at the
playmakers you have, it's even for him, even for Kerrigan. He probably, at times and face,
we've described it and I've been pretty harsh on him as well, saying that statistically
speaking he's having his worst period ever as a player. Obviously, that's not a good
thing. In face, I reckon you would have a bit of a bad conscience about it sometimes
and realizing that maybe if I played better we could have won more of those games or would
have qualified for the Major. Whereas he and Falcons, it's not for it to be a sleeping
pillow per se for Kerrigan but he can kind of get away with it you know it's not it's not the same
you know guilt feeling that he's going to sit backward because you got Monsi you got Kyosuke
you got Niko you got Tess for that matter as well yeah funnily enough there were moments though
like at the start of Dust2 I think he was like five and zero or five and one yeah he was going you
know crazy but I heard we have a Kyosuke interview so let's see what he had to say about that one
sometimes those are frustrations because how they play what is their style
But thank you for the congratulations.
But overall, the situation is very high. Are you satisfied with the current state of the team's performance?
We're looking back to this tournament, the only series that is close is the game against MAD.
So are you happy with the team's current form right now?
Team's current?
Team's current condition.
I'm happy.
We're just going home.
We arrived and we're going home.
Shen and I are very confident right now.
Everyone is very happy to be able to come here to play.
So right now, we're confident.
Of course, there will be audience in tomorrow's game.
If you want to know that no one in Shanghai likes Falcons in China,
what are the goals and goals you have for the next four games?
And what do you expect from the fans who will come to the stadium tomorrow?
to your fans here.
Let's say to China for an 11.
I love how they are cheering for us especially.
I think they are insane.
Supporting me and Nico and Ile.
It's insane.
I hope I didn't go a little before.
And I will just enjoy my time.
Welcome.
Expectations.
I hope we're going to win.
We can take the victory.
That's great.
We will enter the fourth wall tomorrow.
In today's interview,
there will be a small session.
Let's invite Kyusuke to finish it.
Here is a trophy sticker.
Kyusuke also got a map of the Falcons team.
At this moment,
it also means that Falcons has entered the fourth wall.
Thank you again Kyusuke for participating in our third interview.
Congratulations to Falcons for entering the fourth wall.
Everyone,
We expect Falkhion to be a great match in the next four matches.
Thank you, Bruce King. Congratulations, Falkhion.
We'll have a short break and we'll be waiting for the next match.
See you later.
To be fair, you have to be happy with your current condition when you're winning.
That's the thing you're striving for as a team.
It's good to see Falkhion having success so far.
But with everything we've seen so far this tournament,
do they look the most consistent out of all the teams?
I mean, I guess possibly out of the team is here, right? Yeah, I would say they're the most consistent, but I don't think they necessarily themselves feel like they're hitting a consistent stride of, you know, I guess confident performances, if you want to put it that way, because they do have a couple of games where they really have to dig deep and struggle to find a way to get across the finish line.
But that is a bit of a hallmark of a good team as well. Like even on your worst days, you're still finding wins. You know, that was like a kind of the thing about Na'Vi, for instance, for such a long time.
For instance, for such a long time, it's like, yeah, you're not really impressed by what you're seeing, but, you know, they're still advancing through the tournament brackets.
So you can't really fault them for it. And Falcons feel like they're at that stage. And considering the fact that they've made a pretty significant change, obviously swapping out their in-game leader, I think that's totally fair.
Like, you can't necessarily hop on them too much for that.
I think it goes without saying at this point that they're the favorite to win the tournament and I don't think anything but a win would be a little bit disappointing for Falcons.
I think if we want to build up the narratives and build up the stories for the Cologne Major,
then Falcons winning this tournament, you know, a tournament where they are the predetermined favorites,
where the only other contenders, so to speak, would be Maus, who are struggling a little bit in the lower bracket.
We're not even sure if they're going to be part of the playoffs.
We're going to find out about that in just a little short time here.
But to be completely honest, if you're Nico Kyoski and the rest of the Falcons squad right now,
you know, going into another semi-final or final here and losing out like you did in Astana,
that would be disappointing.
So I think at this point it's it's it will be Falcons winning or busting in a sense
And you know is that fair to to put those expectations on a new roster probably not but that's just the way it is for
Yeah, well look speaking of expectations
We are gonna be sticking with group a here moving to the lower bracket of course stream B group B
That's still going on. I don't think that that game's finished unless it had into a third. I think there's nothing
Yeah, so they've got a third as well. So I jump onto this B stream
Well, we're gonna have a short break and after the break we get to see a bit of pain a bit of mouse and see if mouse can meet
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Welcome back to the CS Asia
champs for 2026 where we have
had a lot of fun and Falcons
taken a two zero so off to a
faster start for day number
three, but I don't know if we're
going to get the same thing
here for this lower bracket
match. One team going to get
the back best of threes which will be very interesting to watch but pimp tell me who's taking it
oh good question i think you're right you know i don't think we're gonna get a as clear cut of a
winner as we just did in in the falcons game i see maus and pain as being more equal at the moment
and that's not necessarily a good thing if you're a mouse fan to be completely honest because on
paper you'd say maus big favorites coming into this game one of the predetermined favorites to win
the tournament as well but the way they've been playing so far here has not really given me a lot
out of confidence. Where's for pain? They're trending upwards. They did well in Atlanta.
They've done well here so far as well staying alive. And I think in the best of three scenario,
this is a game that can go either way. I'd still have mouse as my smaller favorite in
that sense, but I haven't really been impressed by what I've seen so far.
Yeah. Now, to me, this is two teams that are kind of inching towards each other towards the middle, right?
Like mouse obviously being on a bit of a downward trend, mainly because again, they're going through a pretty
significant roster change. They still have a lot that they need to figure out. Whereas you mentioned pain,
You know reason yet in Atlanta had a pretty pretty positive showing again
They've been one of those teams that we've had kind of on the cusp for a long time and kind of waited for them to break out
And they bring in exciting pieces and you start to thinking think it to yourself like this is gonna be
When they finally like make their mark or where they become a main state more and more or less
But it's yet to happen
But but they've been training upwards. I think especially snow in the last two tournaments have been a positive surprise
He's probably been one of the most I guess discussed players in terms of who pain probably should replace
You know if they were to make changes so that's right
Like depends on which point of pain you're talking about because when he first got in there
He was doing an exceptional job and it was a point where he sort of got really stagnant
But today and in this tournament. He is actually you know the top top rated playoff for the team
So yeah really showing his worth, you know, whereas if you talk about Atlanta
It was more so you'd see especially on the playoffs, you know period doing a fantastic job
you know one of those new pieces. Yeah I know it's cool I think if we could get
more consistent performances out of obviously the team as a whole which is
obviously what you'd like for every team. Yeah that'd be great but it seems like
Painter at least trending in the right direction for right now which is nice to
see and again they still have some maps that are pretty safe and certain for
them that they can feel confident going into almost regardless of what their
opponent is which should be you know a good sign for them to at least make it a
very competitive game which is mouse. Sure the caveat to me is that they're
still you know uncertainties in terms of the roster right now they're playing
with would safe you know I think big or serious said the less than 24 hours ago
you know being being asked about it they're not quite sure what's gonna
happen for the major whether it's gonna be safe or in QC is gonna come back in
and it's still up in the air you know which is never a nice position to be in
because as we kind of been labeling this tournament this is the final tournament
for them to test out the shape you know to test out what works what doesn't what
kind of maps do we need to work on for cologne etc etc and if you had a point
where you don't know whether the man on the screen right here will it be even
utilized at the Major or not then you're already far behind. So in that regard I'm a little bit
curious to see what's going to end up happening in that situation but in isolation to this game
I think Save has done a good job of sustaining for Pain, he did well in Atlanta, he's done okay
so far here as well and he's a player you can rely on. Yeah I think that's kind of the good thing
for Pain as you said he's reliable but you've also mentioned this in the prior days the fact that
we've had a bit of a trend in CS2 where offers are not necessarily where they used to be like
Not many teams can say that we have a star studded off player who's going to win this
games, take over the game, that kind of stuff, you have a lot fewer of them than what we did in
the past. And NQC kind of was that for paying for significant periods. Yeah, I'm like, he was the
guy who got brought in here thinking to yourself like, wow, this is a new hot prospect. He might
be moving on to bigger and better things eventually. And him being sidelined potentially for the
the major as well. It's probably the worst player to have sideline outside of maybe an
IGL if you're pain. Yeah, it's like one of those players where it was definitely a right odd
die. But before we jump into this, because we don't necessarily know how long it is till the game,
we need to talk about mouse because if they go out here, that would be catastrophic and
not anything that anyone would have expected coming into this, just off the name value,
you know, in terms of the newcomers, JL and ZLX, they've been doing relatively well in terms of
of the stats, you know, they aren't right up there, but they are very, very solid in
their positions.
I think they have a lot to prove here.
Obviously, for the major, they're going to play with Brolin, which is always going to
be a bit of a caveat in that regard.
But I think it's very important for Maus that they finish off, you know, the regular season,
so to speak, with a good performance right here, you know, that gives a bit of hope for
the future.
I don't necessarily think they know either whether or not they're going to continue with
this five-man roster after the major.
If they're testing out JL, you know, testing out Celix, that's at least what's been communicated
that is not necessarily for certain.
So, I think there's still a bit of pressure on those two to deliver.
So far, I've been impressed with JL, you know, coming out of a break,
having played for quite some time, he's actually doing a good job.
And I think it's fair to assume he's only going to get better.
Whereas for Celix being the new one, you know,
Maus have a lot of rich history with bringing up academy players
and integrate them into the lineup, but I'm still yet to see his full potential.
So, I think there's a bit more pressure on him, to be honest.
Yeah, especially because of the history that the graduates from the NXT team have had,
obviously going into the main team as well.
like they've usually had impact quite early on.
We saw very promising and positive result
or performance out of Zellix on Overpass yesterday,
hoping to see more of that, obviously.
But I do think he's in a bit of a weird spot
where usually new talents into a team
get a little bit more leeway.
But Miles is kind of that unique position
where, yeah, I know whoever we bring in
from this academy team just kind of fits immediately.
So he might not have as much time
to find his place within the team as he would have liked.
And also, it is also happening while they're having a pretty significant shift in leadership styles as well.
Yeah, good to see the map pool at least is going to differ from what we saw earlier.
You know, we had that sort of pug-year approach, and then at least for the viewers, we get to see a bit more of what the extra is, you know, a complete change.
You know, the strategic maps, Nuke, Overpass, and then Mirage to brawl it out if we need a third.
And I feel like just from what we have seen at this tournament from both these teams, we should need three.
Yeah, I think that's fair to assume.
I think both teams, you know, are comfortable in their own mappics.
I think the Overpass coming in from Maus, it's been one of the maps
they've really been able to integrate Jail and sell it into, I think, Nuke,
as you saw by the win record, by Payne as well, has been a staple for them.
It's a go-to, yeah.
It's a go-to, it's a map to play at a very high level.
It used to be a map that Maus also fancied a lot.
Exertion, the way he plays Yard, the way he's constantly being annoying in Gaten.
Will it take fights on the CT side is usually super, super annoying
to whoever he's playing against.
but they haven't really found that consistency on the map of Nuke.
So I think in regards to whether or not we're going to need three maps,
I'm also leaning towards yes, but I think Maus have a better chance of winning this game 2-0
than Payne would have winning 2-0.
Yeah, I'd completely agree with that.
For me, this is a... again, Payne need to pick up Nuke.
They need to pick up their map pick if they're going to bring into it.
I have a hard time seeing them be able to topple what we've seen out of Mausports on Overpass so far
because that has looked like their strongest map.
And obviously, that's why we're seeing them kind of leaning in that direction in this matchup as well.
So, for me, pain, they need to, I guess, give a traditional pain performance on Nuke.
That's where you see Big Azir doing crazy stuff on that inner bombsite,
and kind of just being the fragging in-game leader
that nobody really expects to have that much of an impact.
Yeah, I think that's probably another good comparison as well.
You know, the game's not too far away,
but Big Azir being one of the fragging in-game leaders
and the exertion sort of trying to transition into that role,
and so far it's been pretty good.
Insane.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't think we've ever seen an in-game leader with that kind of input,
unless you want to go back to, I guess, hey, they've fallen, maybe, like it's been absolutely insane, the kind of input and the kind of consistency that we've seen out of
shirts and so far after swapping into the in-game leader role. Obviously, there's always going to be questions of how long can he maintain this?
Because he does play a volatile role in addition to being the in-game leader, because it's not like he's taken a bit of a backseat in terms of being aggressive on the T side and trying to find openings.
He's still doing what he obviously became known for and what was the strength in the
mouseports lineups even before he became an in-game leader.
So there's a lot of volatility to it, but he's doing a wonderful job of it.
And that's where it gets interesting because obviously he's new to the role.
We're going to give him some time.
He has to figure out what kind of style he's going to be as an in-game leader and what
are some of the differences between being the second voice in the team and now being
the main voice, etc.
It's like going from being the secondary arbor to the main arbor.
It's two different worlds.
One thing is how well he's playing, but another one is can he make the players around him better as well?
Like does he have the ability to play well himself, but also elevate the players around him?
And so far we've seen Torsi's talk a little bit, we've seen Speng's talk a little bit, so whether that's exertion's fault or not, it's impossible to say,
but it's something to keep an eye out for whether or not they're able to regain the strength they used to have in a Galax Spengs.
Spinks. Yeah, I think honestly that is probably the most interesting thing to look for really with
mouse sports because yeah you had Spinks and Torsey Hue in many ways were the two star players of
mouse when we were seeing them. Obviously not winning because that's you know the constant meme
about mouse sports that they just make semi-finals and then get you know get stopped there but that
was Spinks and Torsey a lot of the time kind of being the spearheads for them and ever since
insertion took over, it's been the complete opposite.
So if this is a adjustment period for those two
to find their groove with the exertion leading,
or maybe it's more of a case of exertion
kind of doing the same thing as Bleymifted in complexity,
where he's setting himself up in ways to succeed,
that remains to be seen.
But for now, most sports are running games,
so I guess we can't be too critical of them.
Yeah, well, that's it, right?
It's all about winning.
It's not necessarily about the way you get it done.
it's about, you know, consistently getting it done, even if it's messy, even if it isn't,
you know, the best brand of Counter-Strike or what you want to do. But, you know, moving
towards the Major, obviously, you want to clean that up. You don't really, you can't
really afford to play that kind of thing. Because obviously, you know, Kings at the
moment, Vitality, they finally, you know, got knocked out of the tournament, so it wasn't
the cleanest run to the Major now. But still, it's one team that's managed to sort of figure
them out. One or two teams, you know, getting those upset wins on a team where it's been
a little bit shaky, and you can't afford to be shaky going up against the Kings.
No, not at all, you know, but to be completely honest that shouldn't really be the expectations
for Mausie that are coming in playing with Brolin again, you know, so it is going to be a bit of
a weird one. Yeah. In any way, you know, if Maus somehow somewhere can fiddled their way into the
playoff at the major, that in itself would be a bit of a surprise and probably exceeding expectations,
so I think they have more pressure in this tournament to do well because they want to
integrate the new players, they want to integrate Jale, they want to find out whether or not Silex
is meant for the future. Obviously, exertion is learning game by game, you know, and the
best way to learn to be an in-game leader is on the high pressure situations, you know,
at a stage in a semi-final tomorrow. So, if Maus want to gain some more out of this tournament
and learn some more about what their future could look like, it's super important to do
well here.
It'll be interesting to see, you know, when Roland does jump back in at the Major, how
that team's going to operate, who's going to be in charge, and if they get the beautiful
a dead team buff because you know it's kind of like play like no one's watching do whatever you
kind of want and if that leadership is going to be sort of in between two different players
like brolin could get unleashed you know yeah again like obviously it feels weird to say but
some people might be new to see us but brolin obviously wasn't an in-game leader for a majority
of his career right he was meant to be a star rifler uh you know until the transition happened
in mouse sports. So for him, yeah, this could be a fantastic showcase. Obviously, he wants to be on
the map. He wants to be in the spotlight for a lot of potential new teams. We know, as always,
there's going to be tons of roster changes after a major. So he has everything, you know, laid out
for him to possibly do really well, not having to in-game lead anymore. Because I'm going to assume
I would be shocked really if mouse for some reason decided to kind of revoke the the privileges that
that Sheridan has as an in-game leader just for the major
and go back to Berlin, that would be insane to me.
Cause that would be like the biggest statement of like,
yeah, we don't really believe in what we're doing here.
So yeah, I think, you know, possibly that team buff,
that kind of stuff could actually be a factor
for a mouse board in a positive way.
It'll be funny.
It'll be funny to see how it all plays out, you know,
and an interesting watch.
Of course, you know, we also got the stickers update earlier,
which we didn't touch on this morning.
So make sure you get those pickings in,
sure you put your money where your mouth is. And then, you know, other hot topics as we filled
on include many, many things. What was the one with the in-game change? Something to do with the...
Oh yeah, so earlier, if you were watching and you were like, why am I getting so flashbanged,
the boys who I am going to throw over to right now are going to tell you exactly why that's happened.
Scrooge, Nayote, take us away. Yeah, cheers. Like, yeah, of course, update last night,
the game. It's like, you know,
it's like, you know, it's like
a courtesy of my goat. Chef
kind of he we have a little
chat this morning. We'll both
get flash bang all morning. But
essentially a new update means
the way that kind of like the
flashes are now on the
spectator side. You know, he
normally it's very fated for
us. Doesn't really affect us.
Now it does. Now we really
quite immersed in towards the
game. We feel the flash
bangs. As much as anybody does.
I want to feel immersed Mr Valve.
John's Valve can you implement this please.
This has the makings to be a really quite interesting game.
I'm looking forward to it. I do actually feel like Payne can still win here.
Miles have really looked a little shaky, but we'll see if they can tie up those loose ends here.
Zellex gets two to kickstart, Karaya gets two of his own to respond.
So a quick level of the playing field back into three versus three and a plant if you had.
It's not really a good idea to
get that pistol on the board.
So starting very, very well
here, you know, when you see
this map come out for this
squad, I think you really do
just have an air of confidence
in their ability. It's kind of
in the home stead for paying
for a long, long time.
So, you know, it's a good
game to get that pistol on the
board. So starting very, very
well here, you know, when you
see this map come out for this
squad, I think you really do
for a long, long time at all levels of the game, whether it be internationally, domestically.
So we'll see. Starting off with the pistol, I think, is really quite good for them. Miles,
I still don't know what to make of them, what version of this particular team are we going
to get. They're dropping maps and series that they're winning and things like this, so it's
not been plain sailing with these new look players. So I think Payne are really in with
a chance of taking this series.
Yeah, I think you're absolutely right, you know, we've just, like, the desk, you know, accurately we're touching on this, you know, we've seen really how,
I think, in particular, Spinks has been struggling under this new leadership and it feels like for him it's really difficult to get those numbers back up.
And there's the thing, like, Payne has some really heavy hits as their own, regardless.
These two new guys in towards this side, Pariah and VSM, say, new, loose term, but newer guys on this side, really are quite sharp.
You know, when we get prior playing at this top level, it's so difficult to deal with
and VSM sort of become kind of like our favorite character.
He just seems like such a funny bloke.
But so, the first default, the SM will join and prior gets his, but safe is just caught
on an island edge in the open.
So exposed, can't really do anything about getting away and is the issue that the bomb
is now dropped with him.
Yeah, not looking good. To say
the least cost prior a lot to
get his one kill. I think you
tacitly save it unless you use
areas able to really turn things
around, which is not going to
happen. MP nine by worth its
weight in gold as miles will
win out the force prior. No real
option. Got a smoke course got
the AK, which is the big thing
I'm making a way trying to get in towards T spawn. So no safe happening
It's gonna be a really weak force by then for pain to try and answer back with but miles a big big boon for them with
like that. Oh
Damn might be our yeah, that's too very one-sided maps over in that series. So I think it's safe to say that they
Not really all that prepared for them. Yeah, they've got their pocket map of Mirage and they're everything else
the other side of 13-1, map 1, 32, map 3 is pretty damn wild. That is for sure. But a
nice response from Miles here. Time up this game. Of course, you have to force by any
of your pain. You don't really get a choice because of your double eco situation, but
it's not exactly the nicest. They've kept an AK alive. Using that as a little hero
in this round would have been brilliant, but nice, it's in the least. The smoke did
hit Spinks there, but he didn't scale us forward and he just about gets out. The Spam was pretty close to big as
there, I can't find the trade so he gets in, gets his and falls back to safety.
Should be all good from here you would say. JL at a good spot, does take a ding and go down quite easily but
he's grabbed a lot of information there of course. Horseshoe's gotta be careful, he's tagged up, had
to be able to create an
escape route for him. And
they've got player downstairs
ready to go on this B bomb site
Spinks. Surely able to stop
them, but they're not going to
dedicate in which in a way is
information for Spinks that he's
able to trade back the pain or
perhaps looking for a move
towards hell, something on these
lines, but obviously desperate
for anything. Particularly that
really big deal for pain hit.
Yeah, it looks like I want to go
for a dive in towards the top
site.
Tertian is here. He's just low,
so that's be so crisp.
Yes, I'm not first with the
contact. The bomb will get down
at VSM will get his.
Well, can the bomb get part of
different stories swing and a
denial really nicely done.
VSM will get the trade will
eventually fall.
It's not like you're going to
get a lot of damage. It's not
like you're going to get a lot
of damage. It's modest. It's
definitely modest, you know,
keeping the mouse icon as low as
you possibly can. They're three
kills. You take a couple players
who are suddenly quite rich, uh,
to be honest with you, the MP
nine by. In that way. I mean, I
suppose that's something you
don't necessarily think about.
You know, it's like you go MP
nines across the board on your
force. Yes, you've got automatic
Yeah, I mean so it sort of doubles the power of the force by sometimes. Yeah, I mean there was obviously a bit of a period
Telling the last year into this year where we were kind of talking a lot about the fury of the back-to-back MP9 buys
But you can really see that that sort of validity in it just printing cash nice and early having a nice thought power to pull back on
It's just one less thing to really have to worry about
Managing the econ in a sense because everyone's flush for cash
the
Pain this is throw away the force by force flat. So this low bar. We're not expecting loads
Very slow around here. They're not really made that much of a move out of spawn to be honest
I would like to kind of call this one a bit of an existence timeout, you know, you just sort of take a beat
You don't know if anything too pacey
You know this round is for the most part already a write-off but a moment for kind of big as error
just to figure out what do we actually want to do in towards our next gun round.
First one comes easy, they're set up quite nicely here as well to just
mow them down, trading kills. 4G then Zershin then, 4G then Zershin. Spinks gets involved,
so looking good. No real difficulty here for Miles.
Pain however, you know, you've got to stomach what happens, you lose out that force by,
You just have to go through the motions really and you're waiting for this moment to prove that you can answer back
By around coming in but as we've talked about a lot man, you know, you really lack the utility around the edges
That's it a lot of flashes, you know, there's only three flashes here, which feels like a pretty big deal. So
Yeah, we'll find out we'll find out if pain can work with the slightly lesser by
He's going to play it from range.
Outside smokes for the cross and everybody's scared up towards Redcliffe.
Quick, oh lord, he's got a nice shot and the second with the support is Alex.
He's pretty damn good as well.
They are making light work of this outside play and Zershwin's going to come up 4-3.
brought it up on the desk but Zershin you know when he wasn't calling his yard
control was always fantastic he's one of those really really uncomfortable
players to play against he's got these little gimmicks these little moves he
likes to pull off and he's so dangerous and he just picks his moment there
perfectly and obviously his individual form has been fantastic whilst calling
around himself towards you the first shot is nice but yeah Zershin does so well
twice in these three and a complete oversight by paint they get shot down
the fact that they're full gun round barely makes it past red crate not a good look yeah no for sure
but definitely i think miles are ready for that you know the the beats from pain perhaps getting
slightly ahead of the smokes to come in try and get the first kill and then the smokes land and
it's very hard to trade they had two players playing super open in from heaven and then of course
a player coming in through secret they were very very ready for that round and the way that pain
like to approach it. She's not great. You know, pain can't start things off with their
little tricks and gimmicks. Miles might be in for a pretty one side of the fair, or for
you till here, but still looking good. Really, really happy to take the fight to the moment
on the mouse side of things. And it looks very successful. You know, we're on for another
flawless round here if this continues. It will be down to safe and yeah, nothing happening.
I mean, this is crazy. Miles, you see where the money is out for that CT side already.
I think as we kind of look at it, it feels like they should be taking the road map picks
and then you look towards that mirage as an after the side there, but if pain lose nuke,
that's what things get really worrying. Mouses are 4 for 4 on overpass and it's felt like
a real pain. I didn't. A real pain point was what I was going to say. You really hate to
say it. It's not when you cast them here because that's a big round from big, but it is a bit
of a pain point for, uh, you know, excuse the pun for this side because it's really
struggling on the map. It's, you know, easy. The weakest in their pool.
Oh, safe as found himself in a pretty good spot here. Actually, there's half an eye on it.
Flash is a bit annoying there, isn't it? I think maybe we'd have had the chance at
taking him down. It's a loose throw.
Xalex meanwhile is pushed through
King's amount of flank he's got to be careful though gun needs to
Come out here
Oh, this is perfect. His timing is brilliant. He's gonna have at least two death rides
He will spot two quite quickly. Oh and all three as well
He's been seen early on and the weaponry lets him down that is unfortunate
Meanwhile, BSM what the hell's he doing there?
Brings it down to a three on three only
to get a step on. Torgy. It
feels like he's in the perfect
spot. Where does that bomb
want to go? And as jail falls,
it should go be, but it's going
a right into the trap that
miles have set here, and it
might just be enough. Torgy
holds the line and well, Spinks
was completely unknown about.
They went left should have gone
right. Pain will pay the price
the closest they've come in
quite some time. Yeah, when
they catch jail, there should
catch JL they should be scaling right that they should go immediately down towards
rapid they just don't they over complicate and overcook the situation. I think
Xalex here as well it's obviously a great information gather but he gets like
one and a half that dink on towards the second player really ends up becoming very
very good there we go of course to see off snow. Time are taken by pain no
shocker really obviously things are not looking good for this side and a pretty
I think, you know, we can
say and he can see this is
part of the water. Mouth
working very, very crisp and
we've been critical of miles
and I'll probably, you know,
I'll say quite deservedly is
as well. Dropping amount of
technology and to M 80. Like
this is a side that. Definitely
do look a little weird and a
little comfortable. Of course,
I lost the tyloo to start off.
I mean, they just never looks
good in that game. So it
definitely not being the
tournament that they were
hoping, especially being on
paper, considering one of the
favorites. I mean, I think
on paper considering one of the favourites here at CAC but not playing anything like it.
This is a lot more. Like the mallards that we want to see.
Pain can barely get going. And they're in this awful lintel repeat cycle which is so difficult
to break because of the lack of bomb plants which is full buy in, find no success, you get a few
kills here or there but you're not getting close. Lack of bomb plant, low buy, you go again. And you
You know, because of how quickly things can scale,
this half can run away from paying so quickly.
For them, oh, it's two that line up as JL clothesline
is the second.
It's all unsafe.
It will scoop up an M4.
Yeah, good luck.
I feel like it's the reads from ours as well.
They just look so prepared for a lot of these rounds
in terms of their setups.
I think a pretty key thing that they've got going here
There's two players that are in and around Heaven and Hell.
If there's outside presence, you've got two guys.
If they go towards ramp, you've got some backup there.
Really, really nice setup in that sense.
And I think it works well around Pain
to recognize that they're a big fan of the B side rather
than A. Things down below should be able to see this one off.
Safe.
taking it quietly. And a silent drop, definitely on the cards. Can you get the bomb plan? I
suppose is his big question. And you would say not likely, right? He's all by himself.
He's what makes it difficult. No, he's made now. It's being should be able to set and
cancel it. They play it safe though. And don't go barreling on it. So we will get a bomb
plan kind of an important thing for that econ as you mentioned. And I mean, settle wise,
it's just one too many players
the hold coming in. It's not
anything new. Round goes
against him. He will go down.
They'll take the bomb plan. It
is small steps at the moment for
pain. A big buy on the cards
here as miles are. Starting to
dominate. Yeah. Safe and getting
all part here. 7.3 K for him to
work with it. You know with the
bomb what it does actually give
them of course that fully
full wealth to Utah, put a little bit of residual cash in the back pocket, so it's not super
doom and gloom, but a 7-1 scoreline like very, very quickly in a dive position. It's looking
quite akin to their Brazilian brethren of legacy, right, where they just couldn't really find the
form and we had this exact scoreline in that final mark at one point.
the game. It's a great
game. Different gravy here,
though, right? You might be
forgiven in the previous series,
right? Legacy tough for them to
get their heads in the game.
Stakes are pretty massive here.
This, of course, is a knockout
game and then playoffs for the
other team. So it is boss may
for the team that loses here and pain not getting into it.
I mean, it'd be a pretty sad way for them to check out
of this tournament, unfortunately.
Guys, starting to look like the case.
You are right on the corner of it.
Zershin, the back end of the warehouse,
an angle that we've not really seen from him just yet,
not necessarily going to be needed.
Wow.
Spink so very clean.
The toes spotted.
VSM can't do too much about it.
He's going to drop down.
He's lost his teammate, though, and he's got a whole team to get through, not going to happen.
Miles are dominating what is happening to Payne.
Where are Payne?
Have they shown up to the game?
You know, is someone else playing for them at the moment?
It's really not looking good at all.
Yeah, this is crying the spirit past in the server from Payne, right?
Come on now.
Come on now.
But I think as well you know as much as we're obviously quite critical of miles in the sense of because we have such high expectations
I mean do have high expectations of pain, but maybe not to the same level
But they're torn it's also not being great drop them out the tyloo lost to an 80 as well
Which is quite damning my best of one, but my god. This is so one-sided this jail gets three or she for two
Pain they can't even get close like this is the most one-sided
We've caught it in a while. This is for sure brutal what miles are doing to pay at the moment the rounds don't even have
Anything to make us excited about you know what I mean?
Yeah, the closest we've come is like a 1b3 bomb plan by the time I'm getting my color point done
I yeah, it's just that like this is actually like how it's feeling like
Pain cannot scratch the surface. It's so one-sided another time. I'll take in but I
I don't know. I hate to say I think the match really done like it is not one like there's just like nothing here
Yeah, I mean the Brazilians stuck in a rut today. It would seem that tells you all you need to know really off in the RBR
Well, that is true boys. Yeah, but here on the a stream for sure. Yeah
The differences as well is that like, you know with legacy is like, no, it's okay
You're still the player still good to the court horse. And that's you know, the point you're bringing up
This is to stay alive in different states. You should be able to deliver a bit earlier. I think the timeout
I'm not sure if it's going to
make a difference right. I feel
like you should have. Perhaps
kept forcing the timeouts until
you get your first gun rounds.
Just get off the ground for
goodness sake. We see this
happen once in a while, though.
When that pistol lose the force
by and you just can't get back
in. Yeah. So looking to change
that story. We write history a
little bit here. How quick like
I mean credit to them. Yeah. Yeah. And again, woken up big game able to deliver it. Maybe
a shaky start to the tournament. They lose out the B01 against Tyloo. What's going on
there? They're dropping maps in some of the series that they've been winning. Stay alive
here. This looks like a Mars team that indeed have woken up on the right side of the bed.
the damage to kick things off they try for the boost safe and able to find the kill.
Spinks is really quite low off the back of the start of this round so
see if they're able to turn this into anything. Pain on the timeout, winding that clock down,
changing things up, the outside control coming a lot later and in a very different way. Less
predictable you might argue, Stowe gets a kill onto Torgy so we are on for a round here.
Yeah, Spinks got lagged by safe really early into the round.
So I was not vulnerable.
They're bleeding and they're going out towards B.
You know, in any sort of situation,
we ought to be kind of saying, I just go for a save there.
To be honest, you don't if you're miles.
You've got so much money.
You just may as well go looking.
Nearly everybody's max money.
So like, why not?
You've got really nothing to lose.
It doesn't look like it's really going to make a difference.
now. Yeah, one keep on the AK, but like,
obviously, because sphinx is low, I guess, keep on the
all. But at the same time, it's like, sphinx could easily
just go in and I wouldn't even like care, you know, you're
gonna have the money for the orb. And you already know that
there's no on the other side. It's not exactly like a double
up T side. There you go. Now on your fault. JL fellas
smooching in the doorway. Yeah, this will tell us not the
time. Yeah. Well, a game. A
strike to win. Damn. You can't
even kiss your homies anymore.
You really. Yeah. What is this?
What's a world nonsense? What
is this? Welcome to. Finally
get there. Second. Oh man. I
just think like this map just
feels like a right off like it's
it's good that we off the back
of the time out. Do find
success and the call and it
seems, you know, probably brought
in there by ricks is like slow
getting out of hand, it felt like pain panics, like they were like really
frustrated as you kind of put it and I think in that kind of being quite
flustered they were going way too quick. It's obviously you know speaking, blessing
but it can also really be a curse and it was the latter for a long time so that
slowdown does work. Once again step up the tempo a little bit, opening trade
one for one.
and it looks like Painter is going to play this one slowly and maybe they will be rewarded.
Big fine from Zershynz, keep the round alive. Can he get any more here? It's been looking
good. That comes close. It's not quite in the head, though. Double up set up now. Torji
with a spot, which they can necessarily do about this. The bomb is in a dangerous place,
could really fall into the wrong hands and Torji has really worked this out. Oh, they
lined up for a second. I've been hopefully seeing them not the case. JL going to get
caught. That's the biggest worry. Not what you wanted. Pain will just scrape together
you know, it's a little bit
too long. It is a shame. They
seem to have found the way to
win rounds right at the end
there. Just doesn't happen
early enough. Yeah, no,
exactly that. There was a small,
small window towards you when
they line up for him and towards
the end of the game. So, you
know, 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
you know, toji when they line
up for him and towards main.
If you got the cala who knows.
Even something as small as of
jail actually got that kills
was heaven. Yeah, could have
been the rather itself because
then toji isn't forced into the
fighting credit. You can just
step away and just be, you know,
a bit of a thorn in the side
outside. But. Either way, small
things they work in favor of
paying. They do get up towards
a third. But three rounds off
your T's like it's just not
good enough like we kind of
pretty decent. Anything more is good. They've made lives difficult for themselves. So there's,
you know, we always talk about this checklist that needs to come through is a lot of things
I've got to go right for pain to even get to a point where we can consider the recovery
pissed around forced by first couple of gun rounds that even being a position to contend
here from outside that just looks so unbelievably clean. And it's the old guard of miles that
The two new boys haven't really had too much of an interjection.
Torchi's Urshin and Spinks all had their moments in that first half and it starts well.
The double dink, look at the reaction from Pariah.
I'd be the same, the double dink is just damning.
Yeah, that is tough. That is very, very tough.
They're going to go flying into the Juleys here. They've got to be careful of that.
What do they want to do with it? Torchi finds another though, a key frag from him.
He's open.
A lurking player.
that's why they wanted to go
towards big said a man down in
that toji with Julies of his own
playing a discipline here though.
I think they understand that if
they win this round game comes
with it because error to find the
first in this clutching situation
but searching going to take him
down and miles get it done really
quite a nice pistol from them
great discipline shown to not
just send it. You know a lot of
teams do that in the pistols.
They lose their sense of self
As soon as those jewelies reveal themselves they pull back really smart quad kill from Zershin to
Like mechanically line. He's just not dropped the beat anything feels like he's just getting better like since taking over
The rain that I GL it just feels like he is so so crisp and in a lot of times even you know when this like new form team came
Through and the small marching scene of it. He has been really only that consistent saving grace
The man he's having such a good game, 17 and 5 for him, 15 and 4 for Torji as well.
4 spy, 4 pain.
Oh, it's snow.
Had the right idea if it just misses.
The window a little bit.
Just a little bit to the right and he could have got a decent amount of damage off with
that 5 cent rain.
Now they've got one down towards secret.
The smokes fade as well, Payne will be questioning themselves.
Also, this is a kind of round that we sort of say,
if you're going to turn this game on its head,
like you have to take a round that is a bit of a statistical anomaly, right?
You have to find something that is unexpected to go your way.
Yeah. And this will be here.
Shots getting close here with the scout.
So just got to be careful not to give him too much room to work with.
And indeed, they will start to pull away.
Interestingly enough, nothing bolstered.
Oh, downstairs is starting to happen, though.
It's starting to happen.
Snow going to join up.
Spot could be big from Biggie's era on top of the silo at the moment.
Wasn't quite sure where he was playing out.
So could make this work quite nicely.
I love that, though.
The need onto the double doors still an awful lot coming in
and snow still around with his five seven, a lot of low HP bars.
Only 15 seconds to get it going.
He needed one more for us.
It's not going to happen prior to junior coming in.
Oh, they know about him.
He's been seen a little bit and quite savvy, I think,
from JL.
Could have gotten dicey if he went down
and no bomb plant, things like this.
But they do see it off.
Rowning themselves 11 and mouse.
Surely now, just a formality to see it over the line.
What do you do if you're pained?
I think you have to eco this and just try and get
the best buy possible, but.
Well, do you know what?
I'd actually kind of say the opposite.
Infrapred Infrapound, you know what I mean, like the games are right. The buys are not really the problem
Yeah, games are right off just forced by to the end of this, right? I like
There's just no real chance. They're gonna go for that hero M4 or VSM
You are our only hope. Yeah, VSM
My king we need you here. I mean he needs something huge
Take his air his pot all the odors on him to deliver and it doesn't start. Well, he'll lose out the aim door
It's a very good way to make
sure that you're not going to
get into the game. So I think
it's a good way to make sure
that you're safe. And for
thankfully is recoverable and
safe for make use of it. But
things just get that smoke down
on the very least and they start
moving towards Ram. You're going
to realize no one's here, so
they've got a really, really
strong part of the map to hold
and they don't need to commit
down towards right just holding
top ramp or having the ability
to rotate through it is going to
draw pain off the sides. I
think it would be smart as well.
It's highly unpredictable. They still don't have confirmation as to whether pain are forcing or not
They've just seen the end for and then the guy got easily traded
So it could be a full spent here and they
Don't rightly know how it looks. So yeah, gotta play it carefully. Gotta play it carefully
And indeed they do they will be rewarded a nice easy a hot pump
I think that M4 will try and
save into the next round. Then
everybody else look for the
active exits. They really want
to get their hands on to a rifle
if they can actually. Yeah,
they're so only seen the M4. The
only two fights if not one
towards ramp. It's just that
recovered M4. Proud fall.
I mean, the two remaining Pistols are snowing big as error.
You may as well see if you can get anything.
In the end, that'll be that.
So, miles up to 12.
It's just a formality to close this now.
Like, it's really not been a competition.
It's not been much of a map here.
Two hours, and it doesn't paint a pretty picture
for the series, does it, right?
Nuke felt like a necessity for Payne
to make anything out of this game.
I mean, it's just a formality.
Yeah. To make anything out of this game. Unfortunately, it's just fallen so flat. The third and final time I'll take him by pain. You could argue, argue too little too late, but there's not really been much of a game. So you've not many opportunities.
Yeah, well, I suppose. Yeah, rather, you kind of just have to let that happen. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. It stinks. Say it's gone off.
We've got the M4s alongside it.
We've got one kit for bigger Zera.
We do have a full-body youthful to work with.
So it's not over until it's over,
but mentally and morally,
it feels over. For Miles,
who have really not put a foot wrong in this map,
I just can't see a world paying
care of as many full-buys as they want,
and Miles will close it out eventually.
It's a small thing here.
I was watching this the whole time while
time I was going on because there it does $350.
He could have bought a HG. He got a smoke. He could have bought a HG or a flash.
That's what he could have gone for and he hasn't. I don't get it. I don't get it.
You're not helping. It's a tiny tiny thing but like come on man.
Either way PSS in a good spot could get some damage done. He gets one and a half.
Is that going to be enough for pain to work with? If we shall have to find out a gift for snow
the back pocket. So from the
heavens, Spinks works into his
process, because there in a
good spot here, he does well to
find one lot of damage being
traded back. But not quite the
kills from ours just yet. It
could unravel. It doesn't be
because they're will see it off
and he makes up for his lack of
an extra flash with a three
piece to keep paying in the
map. Yeah, 350 in the back
pocket. Three kills in the
wasn't going to be using exactly who needs a flash when you can have 50 cows to the
cranium you know I mean and credit to long long road to recovery for pain
first steps always the hardest but miles he's got 70 map points it just feels
like they could stumble and fumble and trip over the line and it would still
plenty of rounds to spare. I kind of like this from save. You know again for pain I just feel like
you're at a point now you've got to take risks. And going for a little bit of a look into war's
lobby will pay off. Down goes Spink, Spock, Torgy. Minds one of them so quickly. Indeed nice trade
back. A lot of damage done. It's Alex with a big fine as he managed to slip through the cracks.
My advantage now and this is what mouths do best from a position of power here on the
the T side of nuke they could be anywhere and that's how they like to play it. They're
creeping down secret. Are they going wide outside? Are they backtracking? We don't know.
Is the unfortunate answer for pain VSM with a nice find and dips away and well up towards
heaven if they can get the bomb to join this and the round is most certainly on but again
confusing things a little. There's an autopilot from jail. I don't know if you caught that
Yeah, the latter move down quickly.
He's going back up.
Can't do that anymore.
Snakes and ladders as he's moving forward.
Yeah, yeah.
JL up and down.
God of five, it's back.
Oh, yeah.
He knows that is almost as perfect as it gets.
Bomb going to go down here.
Safe with, yeah, just no idea.
Could be anywhere.
And it is over concluded by Maus.
13-4, a big steal on Payne's map pick
who never get going.
a nice rifle round just once.
Yeah, an absolute nightmare start for Payne,
though, in towards this series.
The desk brought it up.
We did as well.
It just felt felt like that nuke is an absolute must take
for Payne to have a chance.
You've got this over boss coming up next.
Miles of four from four from it in his tough times.
We're gonna throw it back to the panel.
Well, welcome back to the desk,
where we are gonna break this one down.
And what a nuke game that was,
but thank the bloody lords that Maus have joined us.
That is what we were expecting from them from the get go,
but it's not what we got until day three
when their lives were up against the wall.
Easily the best performance we've seen from Maus,
all term and long.
You know, in isolation to this map,
you had everything going for you that you wanted to,
exertion playing out of his mind,
tossing, finding a lot of impact,
JL coming in, you know, in the last round showing,
he's also willing to join the force,
and overall just a very strong performance
coming in from Maus.
Now again, how much can we allow ourselves to be disappointed in pain-gaming or putting
up a better fight, not being more creative on the T side and applying more pressure?
I think there's something to be said about that, but at the end of the day, I just got
to tip my hat for Maus.
That's kind of the Maus I expected at this tournament, and that right here, that's a
Maus that is definitely considered to win the entire thing if they can keep this level
up.
Yeah, again, I just want to go back to what you said, going into the matchup, right?
What was exertion really good at on CT side?
Being annoying, aggressive, and in your face.
Yeah, and what did he do the entire CT side?
He was annoying, aggressive, and in your face.
Yeah, and what did Pain keep doing?
They kept going to him.
And you said it just now, right?
Like, you lacked a bit of creativity, a little bit of,
I guess, a sense of wonder.
Like, Pain may be exploring other parts of the map,
but they kept going back to this well of thinking that,
Maybe this time we're going to be able to kill Cershin, and the one or two times they were able to do so towards you was quick to rotate, Sphinx was nearby in main, it felt like we saw a bit of a broken record from Pain on most of that T side where they were just kind of testing the limits of like, well how good is Cershin really?
And it didn't really pan out, we got a very clear answer that Cershin's definitely on point.
You know it was a battle of two sides and even in that second half
There just wasn't any petrol in the tank there or gas rather for pain gaming
So unfortunately for them. This is not looking too good moving into mouse and mat pick overpass
Yeah, if we keep up this early, I guess what time is it in China right now?
It's like midday, you know early afternoon. Yeah, you know, they're just
Casually going through it. So I think they realize that you know, they have another game off the back of this if they get that win
So they are bringing the A game now. They're looking formidable and they know they've got a lot of counter structure play today
So get this game out of the way as quickly as humanly possible
Yeah, that's that's what I felt like for for mouse to be completely honest, you know
But also good to see them closing it out
I feel like we have these games often, you know where team gets off to a good start Falcons is one of the best teams in the world
They're doing so, you know, then they allow the opponents back into it and you sit back and wonder for two or three rounds
Oh, maybe they're coming back. Maybe they're losing grasp of it
I love when a team is getting off to a good start and actually close out the game as well, you know
So it gives clarity not only for that team
But also for us, you know when we have to to address the game when we speak about the game
There was one team on the server and nuke that was mouse. There was no two ways around it
There was no, you know pain could on this key round that could have won that pistol
Maybe there would have been in it. This was as clear-cut as it possibly could have been
Yeah, this is probably our biggest complaint about miles when we saw them play versus energy, right?
I'm garage the fact that it's like, okay, you have all your wing conditionings
happening right like you have the player that you need to perform performing
but you're not actually creating that gap you're not closing the game out as
efficiently as you might should and this was definitely an example of it like
yeah we're just gonna get business done done and over with guess obviously that
doesn't look great for paying going into overpass but they do it at the very
least get to start on that CT side well that's it right you know it is
definitely one of the more CT sort of maps in the pool in the current
iteration but with mouse hitting shots like that if they get aggressive up in your face
gameplay then yeah I'm a little bit worried for pain. Obviously I had that faith in the
Brazilians earlier with legacy potentially taking it to three but usually with pain I
have a level of faith but right now I have to win this. You should be a bit worried you
know to be completely honest I will give you a win condition though for play gaming and
And last time I saw them play overpass, Peria was all over the place.
Like he had an outstanding performance in Atlanta,
where he was constantly fighting in connector,
constantly fighting kills on the A bomb side,
constantly roaching towards B whenever needed.
And he was all over the place, you know.
So if he's having one of those games where he, I guess,
singlehandedly can buy a bit of time,
buy a couple of rounds for paying gaming,
and get into it, that could be interesting, you know.
And that could be a win condition for them.
But if he's not playing well,
and if he's continuing the path he's been down so far in this tournament,
way. He's just been a little bit
Irish to be completely honest.
Then I'm having a tough time
seeing pain. Yeah, that was also
a little bit of the disappointing
part when you when you look at
Nuke, right? When you look back
at it, the fact that they were so
insistent on going, uh, going
back to trying to figure out
surgeon in yard and everything.
I kind of left Peria in a spot
where it's like, I'm just going
to hang out in lobby. Hope that
something positive comes out of
it, you know, from the guys in
yard. That doesn't happen. Now
I'm left with not a whole lot to
do. Yeah, never really gets to
kind of impose himself on the
the game as well. And you'd like for a player, you know, of his firepower to be able to put
a bit more of a mark on the game. But I don't think really his team set him up to be in
a position to do so. So he hasn't necessarily warmed up either for Overpass, where you know
he's going to be crucial for them.
Yeah. Well, I think, you know, what we saw from him was his ceiling at Atlanta. And there
were so many moments as well. I remember specific points in particular where it was either off
prep or just pure luck and timing, but he'd be able to infiltrate the defenses, like get
big flanks going, you know, get like nice. I think the first round of that game on Overpass was the one one one
be five, but it was the flank. Yeah, I sent it was a beautiful beautiful sequence of events.
But I don't know if he's going to be getting that lucky this time because Maus today feel like they're at a differential on two
They were playing in Atlanta, but alas Overpass is coming up and it won't come up until this break is over
So lucky cells in get yourself hydrated. We'll see you overpass just after this
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Welcome back to C A C. We are
here for map number two, of
course, looking very much
forward to this one. I think
miles. Unfortunately for the
case of the series might just
be able to finish things off
here. But pain. Nothing to lose
anything always possible, right?
We'll see how they do with
their backs up against the wall.
really good. It's really
good. It's really good. It's
really good. It's really good.
It's really good. Very safely
say that map number one. We
didn't get pain at all. They
never really showed up to play
and it got dominated on the
map. And it does throw us
proud of the works. We've
already spoken about this
overpass. It's just a great
map at the moment for mouths.
Small sample size sure, but
four from four is really good
and the pain is the weakest in
the pool. So it's not a good
position to be in for the
Brazilian side. We're on the
brink of elimination here from
a CAC and honestly, it feels
like, you know, finally, we're
actually getting mouths play
like just just being miles.
that we felt coming in towards
the AC should show up, but we
never really got that in the
opening stages. The loss of
tyloo dropping maps here and
everywhere. Finally we're getting
the form. This man in the
middle version looks incredible.
The calling was good, but
fragging. He was unbelievably
solid. No, it is true. It is
very, very true. I think it's
one of those things when you
look at miles, the namesake,
the players that they've got.
On paper, you would say, yeah,
should be theirs every day, but
coming into this particular
matchup, you're going to see
a lot of players who are
playing in this tournament.
They're not going to be
playing in this tournament
today, but coming into this
particular matchup after how
they've looked in this
tournament and a bit more of
the recent form at large. We
maybe did give pain a decent
chance, but it does seem that
mouse, uh, kind of realized
that this is do or die, which
is not a position that they
should really be in. Yeah, at
this stage against this kind of
team. So I think they're
looking to make a bit of a
statement for the tournament
and maybe for some of the
Yeah, he loves the camera and I think it loves him too to be fair. So, you know, it's completely fair enough.
We're all doing a bit. What a contrast, you know, yes, I'm happy smiling despite being a map down and then jail.
I think he's just trying to be funny. Yeah, kind of just locked in there. Yeah, it's the vibe. But yeah, I think, you know, five looking good.
I think they're in a spot where
now they can come in towards
overpass and just kind of go
back in towards their own right?
It just feels like a series that
set out for them to take so
clearly now. And the expectation
really is that they should
we're kind of looking at this
with them being able to put up a
similar type of map and
performance that they brought to
Nuke to get flashbangs by some
of them.
Well, difficult for sure need
the old blue light glasses
maybe for that one.
the game. But yeah, I think
it's a little bit of a
resurgence. I think the pain.
Found out how to win rounds
towards the tail end of the
first map, but unfortunately,
it just didn't happen fast
enough. Didn't give themselves
enough room. And yeah,
obviously left it up to the God
slightly with things like
pistols being so so important,
which is not really a position
that you want to be in. So maybe
with more of a read and more of
the game. It's like, you know,
it's like, you know, you can
read and more of a sense of
themselves as well. We saw this
quite key time out come in the
second time out that they had.
I think it was like nine one,
though, unfortunately, you know,
it was like this is, uh, the
turning point of how we're going
to approach things and they did
indeed squeeze out a couple of
rounds. Maybe if they can come
into overpass with that same.
Sense of approach. I think maybe
maybe it starts better here,
but it is just the fact that
that kind of thing against the
miles that at the moment are
maybe angling for this to be
towards the top end of their
map. Yeah, absolutely. It
feels like they're trying to
get the reps on the belt on it.
And it's, you know, it's kind
of a perfect symphony of
obviously being pretty good for
them at the moment, but then
being so poor for pain on paper
that map that we've continued
to say they're really
struggling on. They've got a
few decent reps as well, but
it's just never really come to
fruition for them. So all
things are painting a pretty
bleak picture for the
Brazilians here. We've already
saw legacy get pretty destroyed
As you see, Biggs error very very blind. BSM goes down far too easily as does Biggs error.
And now things look really good for Miles, really good for Spinks.
It's going to be down to safe. They know where he's at. Bomb has been planted here.
He's found a couple. Surely no more you would say.
Especially the fact that Hintour short tunnel's urchin is holding for exactly that.
So really nice pistol coming through from miles. They just wait opening 20 30 seconds just to see what the reactions like from pain of
They're going for anything a little bit pacey quite, you know, aggressive in this easy stance, but
Fantastic work. Jack is double super important. It's also the fact that the flat from graffiti doesn't affect me to drop them towards site water
So miles continue his dominance streak off the back of that 13-4 nuke
to see pain. Find their form.
And maybe this is just the case
for the series as a whole.
I go for a force.
I don't hate the idea again.
It just feels like for pain,
we've got to get something a little bit odd
to work in our favor.
Just to kickstart a bit momentum.
Just to change the tides here.
Yeah, it never really had it.
Never really had it on that first map.
you can't get off the ground
again, but it's going to be
more of the same that makes us
work. I'm sure they would be
worried about that as well. You
know, really quickly. Reality
sets in for you and you just
have less of a playbook to draw
from on this map as well. So.
Yeah, it's it's not great
signs. If things start to go
south fast. We're still very
early on. So we'll try and keep
some positivity for pain.
Looking for a play over on B
right? It's just one of those things when the vibes are good, it is good.
He ascends, peeking off. We'll get two, but I tell you, rare.
MP5 is out, 4JL. They'll get one with him, but he's dropped down.
As Snow has found the second of his own.
Oh, tap from Zellex, and he's looking for a double.
It's all Snow around Pillar, and Zellex is looking to put the pressure on.
Look at the time. Five seconds, got to go, and he'll see it off.
Zellex, that is an insane round.
to find to bail out miles. And that one tap on towards CT is absolutely ridiculous.
Yeah, I don't know what to say. It is not often you find me speechless.
I do not know what to add. Honestly, I can attest. Well, indeed.
But right back at you, to be honest.
But, you know, a moment like that, just like crazy, what in all of it?
What a shot. Got to see that replay again at some point.
I need to see that. I want it, you know, slow mode and it was so quick. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, as well, the worst thing about it is that it was finally looking quite good for pain.
VSM's double is really important. He then falls back when he dies. He's instantiated by snow who then gets a second to follow up.
It feels like, yes, it's actually clicking. The force by his legs behind this, we might actually be able to keep the pressure on towards miles and then there's that top.
You know, you're going to
be able to get to the top of
the world. And just think
about everything. You know,
encompassing this whole
series. You've just been
absolutely collapsed on your
own map. You're about to win
the force by. And then you get
banged like that. So I mean,
it's a really, really
difficult mental state to be
in. Yeah, I think the pain.
Yes, you're getting beat, but
sometimes it's like, Lady
love. Yeah, exactly. The
universe is just against it.
It's one of those things that I actually really kind of like I feel for safe in that round because what he's doing is right
He has to be the information guy
He has to hold from CT so that snow who's not playing any contact on pillar knows if he's moved out of shore
It's just the fact that that's like a one-on-a-hundred shot. Yeah, they're trying to play time. It happens so fast
That how do you react? Yeah, you know exactly that's crazy speaking of this round's fallen to bits here
It's all down too big is era
being pretty simple just the way I said the fights, Jail's got a couple.
We weren't really expecting anything fancy in this one,
as I shall close it with the Mach 10. Flow flawless, four miles as they find
their third and continue this flawless start.
That was always a bit of a throwaway anyway, but now we get the buy back in for Payne.
So most seats had a map in the
for an hour. So just one of
those where Mao's. They just
look unstoppable. Yeah. Yeah.
Super important round. For the
map for the series for your
confidence. It just you've got
to convince yourself that you
can remain competitive. You're
not going to be fighting a
constant uphill battle. Maybe
one of the steepest hills pain
might have come across in their
try and progress through Bartholomew, which it feels like of course they're doing now.
He can actually get behind of his timing as well, but also,
Stave can just draw attention from the site, dropping a lot of youth,
so he's making his presence really known from Dice.
So he might just get overlooked there completely.
He's not.
Yeah, quickly.
Stay check.
I think they'll take that though.
It's the AWP at the back end of the site here, Stave.
Very fine, but still able to find a kill before fading away into the smokes.
I'm going to go down, man advantage for the CT side. Very workable, but there's no back-end
presence. No one coming in from Conn really is going to make a difference here, as Torgie's
also cleared a lot of space, so I think they're going to know about the fact that it's a lot
of CT presence. They're like so close in person, looking for multiple, they line up, the double
could be big. The double could be big, JL finds a clean headshot as well. Torgie, the
linchpin, the last man will get it done, and Miles to take it. Pain, they come close, but
just no presence on that backside.
I think really calms the waters for miles.
Yeah. And they just quietly see it over that line.
And we spoke about this at the end of Nuke as well.
Nuke was a story about the old guard,
the quote unquote veterans of this miles side
who are shining.
This is the new guard so far.
This is J.R. and Zelex who are really giving them
so much space on the T side.
Zelex is on a real form of a seven to one for him,
but just feels like the two Ks are coming
their quick strides for him and Jail's having some really good impact of his own.
4 and 0 and yeah he just continues to go from bad to worse before Payne needed that gun round
and the fact that I don't get it they continue to fall into the same issues that plague them on Nuke.
Well very quickly this map running away from them. Now I don't know if Jail was spotted here by
this matchup like right here today that the floor of miles is higher than the ceiling of pain that's
how things are feeling at the moment so it's like a lost cause already just cannot get going.
Who is shooting back? Yeah you know what I mean? Like we saw like a little bit you know like like
these pockets of moments and it was like one in every eight rounds or whatever where we got to see
somebody get like a 2k that's as good as it gets. We're popping in towards B here there is bodies
here to meet them safe or find one but VSM cannot capitalize on his position into monster safe.
Now second for him but that'll be as good as it gets. Mouse pretty clean in the end you know
they've gone into a stack site there and still walked away comfortable couple of casualties.
For the grand scheme you don't care because we're getting to that similar narrative that
we brought up quite early in Toursnook like they are just stockpiling cash so early.
I don't even know if it can get any more. Yeah, I feel like the highest I've ever seen is like 14. Yeah, can be quite one is that's got to be like
It's like it's got well. Yeah, I think they have to like can't have one technically right exactly
Just yeah, that is metal that's it right it's a wrap yeah, yeah
Starting to look that way. I mean, you know, it's more of the same here and pain again just unconvincing
Can they even win a damn round? You know is what starts to creep into the back of your mind
Crazy stuff
Trying for a boost up in an early kill
I was recognizing here with another big by round that they are going to be trying to find that first one
Common response. It's to a grass and they're so ready
Again, he's just
Undeniable at the moment
I mean nothing goes right just absolutely nothing is going right for pain
This is a wrap like it is it is just a wrap. There's too much going on in their heads as well
They're like really safe shouldn't be unscoping there. He's nervous. He's like, oh, I don't want to hold this one too long
Why if they come in from yeah, it's like no just play it simple hold your line do what you're doing
You start doubting yourself you start second-guessing yourself. Yeah, you know
To quote the movie in the book fear is the mind-killer. Yeah, it really is a
Very very self-fulfilling prophecy. I think you have a big spot for bigger Zera here
It needs multiple of course,
Spandown over to slightly the orb,
trained on him.
And he was not gonna live very long there.
20 seconds remaining, four miles.
That's maybe a little worrying.
They are headed into a fee,
which is where the presence is at.
They think they're ahead of the curve.
There's a molotov in the way.
A smoke as well.
They have to break in.
It's not looking good.
Oh, Alex comes in at the perfect time.
Death from above and miles will be bailed out
just in the nick of time.
I think about five seconds on that clock,
former big spills, dangerous, but still successful.
And again, it's the youngster, the Academy graduate,
who fails them out again with some ridiculously sharp shooting.
My oh my, pain, even when they've got that
like bit of fortune in a sense of sort of mouse
going into the stack, which is essentially
going into the stack, going into the save, and still it doesn't go in their favor.
You got a feel for this, this is just brutal.
Door open, Molly towards top corner as well, gives JL back control,
and there's Spinks again ripping heads for the first.
Looks for a second, has the support, Nade over towards site,
trying to catch the retreat.
The re-aggressing Conn is good.
Pariah and Big Azera, they combine well,
and maybe honestly for the first time, the entirety of this map,
We've actually got a numbers advantage for pain, but it's very quickly brought back. Then pariah gets his so they keep that numbers advantage
And the bombs dropped
Yeah, towards you might be the one that we circle back around to. I think he's maybe the uh
avoidable death the unforced error
It's quite nice from pain at the top end of con it's been a common play for miles to get two man short control
So that's okay. I think because they have been countered
So as he goes down probably walking down this ladder also drops the bomb also drops an orb
So I think he really
Needed to just be more careful
30 seconds flash down
Do you want me to say he's 13 and one yeah, just does that like on
I'm. Can't complain about how
it started. It just kind of
shows how screwed they were.
Yeah, I can critique that round
a little bit. Well, I suppose
there's a Molly fire. It's hot.
Yeah, avoid it. Hot is bad. Yeah.
And it will it will indeed kill
you in the game. We can't
strike. And it's your own. You
know, he should know that from
real life. Yeah, to be honest,
but it's also a fact that like
he mollies and then just full
blinds himself. Yeah, it's
I think you're right. It is
one of those things. It just
shows just how done that round
was like by torches death and
that bomb spilling forward. That
was it. The rounds are right
off. And how do you have the
off on that angle to be fair?
Like with very little time. I
think they had to go fire. You
know, long way around. Yeah,
you want two ways. You either
try and split through common
You know long way around yeah, yeah, you want two ways you either try and split through common shore
But then retaking mid to late round sure controls horrible and then go towards mid late round
You have no idea if someone's push playground push long someone's sitting in politics. So
It's easily fixed. Yeah, it's six one towards he holds his hands up. He goes my bad on that one guys
Yeah, a little bit overconfident
It happens. It's not the end of the world, but it's just like
I guess we're like half wrong about it is because it's been like all series on like next to nothing to critique miles about so it's like I guess in a way is that the first time we get to talk about them in there and not like a super bright light.
Yeah.
Like that flash rang was for example.
Well, yeah.
I'm praying this gets sorted.
Yeah, I can't be gay.
My eyesight's already bad enough.
Yeah, we're kick starting things at like 6am here like this is wrong.
Yeah.
And look, my, my hearing probably sacrificed for this job.
Not going to lie, you know, we've got to have the game a bit loud.
We're going to have production a bit loud.
We've got all these flashbangs going off.
Apparently the frequency of them is really bad.
Yeah, tinnitus.
I'd like to keep my eyesight.
Yeah, I'll trade my hearing for the eyesight, please.
Goodness sake.
Well, 40 seconds.
This time, con control is kept.
And once again, moving back towards B.
This can be really die to the VSM has the chance to get a shot for here, but he's just in transition and Zershin will dive on forward
He'll get that first and look at the take that space with it. Spinks can't convert, so Pariah gets his but there's Zelex again
Finding some form with the support of JL that numbers are slotting into place. Molly down to try and deny the plant
But it won't be able to the numbers get punched in and Zershin and Torsi in a 1 vs 2 and for save
the back pocket, but an all
pretake is difficult at the
best of times, and especially
when you don't have you 30.
Yeah, it's tough. Look, it's
tough. Look, it does come very
close for pain to be fair.
The mouse are just type man.
The trading is so good. The
spacing is really nice. The
ideas as well. They get ahead
slightly ahead of that flash.
Just again to mix up the beats
and the timing so that pain
So the pain can't get a full read on what's going on
It looks great it looks great
They're really in their groove if this is what they're trying to create as a team
Is this the moment it all comes together or do we just have such a weak pain team today that yeah
It's making my shine. I think it's a combination of both for sure
The ramp up into the tournament is definitely a fair argument
But pain
Not what you wanted, you know, you win a round
Really quite a nice one as well
And you just need to close that gap and find a few before you let another one slip
Miles immediately back in after they took a timeout as well pain won the round and they were like
Timeout we got to make this work. You know, we've got to create something from this. It doesn't look good
So miles right back to their winning ways
Lie on the car. Thanks to the slightly lesser investment of pain's win
That is their one saving grace here is that they can re-invest
Raya Junior to open up for Phoenix. Oh
but Zalex
15 and 3
Continues to be such a problem for pain a
try and solve
probably and lowest what they see there was an opportunity there's ocean can't
React in time
They don't realize it. How kind of good they've got it towards a at the moment flashes over a fantastic and we're feeling
the front of them as they just try to slow down this move towards the A site. But Miles
has got plenty of time. Minute on the clock, there's no real worry here for them. You can
already see as well, pain, sort of desperate to get some sort of information to work with.
And that's where the overextensions come through. Pariah spotted, pop shot taken, missed. And
and then I'll be a nice little bit of info to go off.
Nice pickle from VSM, I get them back into this bigger area as well.
So coming from behind, VSM not dealt with.
We're going to be on Torgy as well to find that one, but he's left incredibly low.
Surely going to fall here.
Surely.
Taking some numbers away though.
Oh, 20 seconds.
He doesn't have loads of time.
It's the only shame.
If you had like 10 more, I'd be here for it.
He can get B. He can get there. I'm pretty sure it'd be close, but I'm I'm agree with I think you can make it
Yeah, I think you can make it. It's a race towards heaven really for pariah, but I think you get the point out
It is perfect. Yeah, this is wild
Oh my goodness prior junior somehow able to survive the tech nine out
He's got no idea where he's coming in from though, and he's just not considering him off to the left
from pariah junior
He's so incredibly well played to get that timing
Drops down as well conceding the fact that the bomb might get planted doesn't panic doesn't just fly into heaven
Nearly from Georgie, but not quite. Yeah golf clubs all around for the attempts. That is a really really impressive
Try they get so close. I honestly thought the native do it
He's on 19 points of HP. Like
it is so close. Fine fine
margins and it's just a little
oversight. He just doesn't
expect the contacts play up
into his bridge. That fast. You
know, I think we saw him
looking around. Maybe that's
as he's getting shot could also
be a combination of. Finally
considering it. They also knew
his operator was tagged so that
had been conned over like they
knew he was like one shot. So
that's probably why you know the
You know the Nate goes over he and his mind is already saying right if he was there the need would have seen him off
It just goes a little deep. Yeah
Really really close. It is a second on the board for pain
But you know no matter how the remainder of this half goes
It's still a bad half from paying the fact that you've allowed the T side to get seven rounds is already very impressive and
As we can kind of expect there should be a pretty decent response. The only issue is for miles
But maybe the first time all series they actually do have financial issues in and around
Deagle out for torgy and well spinks in jail on the Galils
It's the first time we get the better by really for pain
See if they can still make it work Prius heard these steps
Pretty close for safe as well. This could be a great cell
I'm not sure I agree with that the train comes back in immediately safe takes a quick shot but nothing too convincing of course
You'll take a one-for-one on the T side especially when you're on this lower by around to be honest
Safe trying to reposition
just fine one can you get the next
or you scaly drop there the date doesn't see him off so
reposition pays off in the end he sold his teammate down the river but
in the long game it does work out. Spinks is holding this
the idea by snow is nice but Spinks is locked in on this position
oh I speak too soon no way he's saying I'm a U-Tool
no way that timing is brutal
The snow is an eight timing on that move is absolutely perfect in the end 30 seconds two versus four
You say surely impossible, but towards you made a good attempt at a one versus four
So I'm not gonna count them out just yet 20 seconds though for the work given it won't straight into all it's safe
We'll be a quick trade from zelex, but it's all for naught as pain find another round
And it will finally break the econ over towards miles
So round number 11 is a bit of a throwaway pain should be getting a fourth here
Yeah, I mean looking slightly better again. It's a resurgence towards the tail end of the half
Maybe mouths in the same vein as yourself feeling that they've done a lot of the hard work already
And some closer finishes you do take
Some licks I think it is safe to say the momentum shift
In the world of Counter-Strike, but they'll be happy with seven thus far if they can make it up to a
win out that pistol you know this is a great position to be in not expecting
anything out of this round maybe a plan to help them will be 250s in a flash so
yeah just hanging about for now maybe there's some aggression to come their
way I don't know the pain will want to mess this one up though yeah let's see
honestly if mass gonna bomb all of us they'd be pretty happy when the round
itself feels so highly unlikely. JL being sent forward. Probing for info but also gaining
my own space. I'm not spotting really a lot yet. Resursion down towards B as well. I'm
wondering, I think they're going to come and join him. It looks like they are. Down towards
Connector they go. This could be a dive in towards B. There's three players there though
So it should be pretty easy to see this one off and that's a really healthy made
I can't see
Neither can snow he takes two down with him
It looks easy in the end as you would expect. It's good to see him. Maybe
gaining some life as well
Yeah, also covers the lead and kill feed for a second. Yeah
Rightly know what's going on the immersive
So big I'm assuming he gets those kills on an eco, but you know in a in a bigger round. I
Could make things a bit more exciting. You just truly don't know what how to find out
As is perks follow on the whole
I
Seventh to four scoreline. Yes, there's a little bit recovery here by pain
But I've been saying even if they get five we're not exactly gonna be singing their praises. Let's say
There's a poor start and it's allowed miles to already have enough rounds of this T side surely to be fine
It's some form of a recovery though, which I think they can definitely be happy with given the way that the series has gone
You may be competitive for yeah for sure
You got to remove all those extra curriculars and just be like we're kind of in the game the numbers are close
Let's just have a good T side, which again, they'll believe that they can do
to the right of you. Once I
flash being lined up BSM
straight and ready. Oh my
goodness. He's so blind that
he doesn't fire. They go
straight past him. Zelex
finds all three though able to
spin back around. Holy what a
round he has once again. Big
Uzerra suddenly alone and
mouse. We see them tested in a
big way. The bank breaks. They
I'm going to go for it. I'm
going to go for it. What a
brilliant individual over from
Zellex is ending the half on
20 kills. Yeah, Miles end with
eight rounds. It still feels
good enough. It's still and a
gun round, though that will
close the gap on an eight for
will see what pain have got for
us. Yeah, absolutely. It just
feels like you know for pain.
A little tail end which is nice to lean on but that poor stall again is really what kills them
Mouse on a pistol hit the start it off and this is its wraps so
We'll come it down to this
Oh the B stream as well
pretty interesting game there Mongols power vision. Yeah, and so far 12 for to the Mongols on map number one, so is
Yeah, Dastan death stairs are going to be back and raring. I think it's safe to say and it is on
Pyrovision's pick a dust to just make things all the more damning. So something tells me you might
get a couple more viral moments on Twitter and Reddit. Yeah, he's not having a nice time. Is he
over there? It's been a real few weeks for the team in general. You see the one with no two
yesterday like one ancient and then there's have like a shout a man oh right yeah vibes
aren't good man the sign off there he shaved his arrow now he thinks yeah you know cock
of the roost I suppose well we're back the way here pain on this T side an unenviable
task to recover this deficit on the T side of overpass against a red hot mouse all signs
point this being sealed in to.
I have to see.
Pretty slow moving here.
A lot of presence generally from ours towards B but
slowly but surely the park is moving up towards A.
However, that's not the bomb.
It's the draw of attention.
A lot of bodies here.
It might actually draw people off B, which is where the MVSM can make us move.
They're all going look at beat empty. Yeah, they're all going. It's worked brilliantly
This is the go a
Team track OB yeah exactly right here, and it might just work for them look at them moving
We'll see though. They've got to maybe keep a bit of strength on these a players first kill comes in for Derek
I'm gonna go down second landing. They have enough of a man advantage
It won't come in as too much of a surprise because they managed to retake the space on a
you know, it's not like you're
not going to get away. You've
also now got because they're
isolated out towards long, so
it all looks a bit funny here.
They're going to need somebody
to go crazy. Maybe it is VSM.
He's in such a good position. He
nets those kills. They are all
over the place right now. What
is going on? How do we retake
this one? And I think all of
this confusion is going to work
out for pain. Time that bomb is
Paying perhaps giving us a game here as they take the second half pistol. Yeah
Love the call. You know, it's a gimmicky pistol, but
So pain I can get behind it really they've got nothing to lose or they can make cause like that and it is a
perfection of that means
Go away in the old chat in the team chat go be and that's exactly what happens
They sell the rules the park moves towards the A site and
CSM, out towards Monts, they get a stop bomb down, they've got an immediate post bomb set
up there, the two players coming through and you get quite aggressive, it's the right way
to play it for paint.
The worst thing you can do there is get the bomb down set on the site, you actually want
to get quite further forward to try and take as much map control and cut off the rotations
that the mouse can pull off and that's like what happens.
I'm surprised that Zershin's dualies do absolutely nothing, I don't know where those bullets
We're going but
Well now just got to survive it right is the issue for pain they have suffered to the force by before
And miles it doesn't look too bad. I like the scout. I like the mp9
They've got the scout all alone on a as well. So as we like talking about something
Against the grain
They will start to rotate players off of B towards a
I don't know, at this point, right, it could still dip down the connector, especially if you have a lot of presence along.
I think they'll be looking to act on that in particular.
45 seconds into all day, Spinks playing similar position to what we saw from Pariah in that first half.
first half and he didn't have a lot of success because they were constantly clearing him.
Even going one for one, felt like a big ask. I think now for a spin, she'd absolutely take that
and it's exactly what he does because at the same time Zershin will find a shot of his over that
eagle. He looks for a second, he's pretty low and he can't convert towards VSM. Now back into a
three versus three, Torsi. Intors transformer gets a body shot, needs to support his Waldo and he'll
get it from JL, but him and
towards the four simultaneously.
And it's all on the youngster,
21 and eight, but surely an
impossible task for him.
Eagle and eight.
I'm hoping to dream really.
If there's anyone that you want here,
it would be this wonder kid at the
moment.
So far away from the bombsite,
lacking all of that information again.
I think the time is going to get
away from him.
No, Kate. No chance, really.
We might see him find the shots, at least one of them.
But around itself, not looking good.
Gonna take the fights.
What do you want to do here? They'll be binding to the next round anyway.
Unfortunately, does not happen for him.
And so...
...how's that gonna hold things off?
The hard eco coming in here.
A little bit of some upgrade of pistols, maybe, but yeah, pain.
could be big could be big I think the gap closes certainly here find this next
rifle rounds and we're even yeah it's very quickly gonna close if miles can't
put a stop to them don't even as well they actually find the next rifle round
they should be taking a lead because the money will get broken sure again on
towards miles so finally something to get across one for pain something for
us to get our teeth into map one it was just pretty simple every round I was
like, yeah, I was good for miles, not good from pain.
And it just felt like we'd rinsed and repeated that.
This is finally feeling like we've
got a bit of a competition here, especially considering
life on the line backs up against the wall
and all of these, I don't like those that I like to throw in,
but we need an extra 10% out from pain, and we're getting it.
Jail up close, got a lot of squads.
The contact clash is great, and he's behind the solid two,
the second aid, or see-off pariah,
but he does his job to get a double there.
They were hoping for a bit more monster presence, unfortunately, and I think indeed they send
Pryor out maybe to kind of live up to his namesake a little bit and just fish out the
impudation, see what's up.
Great little flash.
Can't find the kill.
A lot of bullets coming his way, a lot of pressure for him, Torsi's going to go down
as well.
So here we go.
This is the moment that Paine might be able to turn things around, start the conversation
for the third map.
Well, our mouse just gonna shut them down before it gets going and
Wake us all up to the reality that they are just better good players. Yeah
This is it but getting those kind of three on the bounce to start off this half is
Just a nice little
Breath of fresh air, but I saw a relief really for pain just to feel like we still actually have a chance in this
this. If it's something as small as losing one of the pistol before spot would have put
them on death's door and then back in towards the investment is towards you start strong
soldier across. Down he falls and they just can't even get close to trading him.
Spinks hiding Zershin around the corner with him as well. This feels like a decent enough
So they're gonna move on top of each other now all spanks overstep for sure
I don't know. I mean your teammates backing off. I think you just go with him
I think he honestly thought there was like an extra second like we try to transition to divider
Awkward I just phase the top end of that smoke before the bottom end and of course that's where the or pass that advantage on the elevated angle
So yeah back into a four versus four
They've reopt this control and
Oh, Zershin. Look how looking.
So what's nothing?
So what's the call that he makes?
It feels like he's going to draw Torgie back down towards B.
Not the right call as we know.
Yeah, false information. Torgie's got to be careful not to fall down, haven't I think?
They're also not really feeling B.
So a lot of guesswork going on here. Zershin going to get a smoke down.
Needs his teammate back, needs to kill himself.
He's so very blind here, but it's worked to his favor.
Because he can't see it.
When he finds another you can't be serious and now the support has arrived
You move up to the AK!
Zershin!
Two guns, four kills, absolutely brilliant for Maus
How in God's name is he stay alive there?
He should have been dead after the first
But that is miraculous inversion
Gets this, should get traded
He won 80s on Breyer who has no right to lose that fight
Scoots up his AK and uses it
To destroy pain, what a round from him
Captain Fantastic, he just continues to deliver Zershin every single time that
Miles need a bit of a saving grace. His leader steps up to the plate in such a
fight around for pain to keep the dream alive in this tournament.
Zershin has all the ideas. Ridiculous stuff.
Absolutely huge round to follow up as well if you look at this and you say for pain you
look at this.
Wow.
Miles get very close to the finish line but Snow, it's a great start but an instant trade
from Sting to get a freebie for second save, where are we looking, volley down and Spinks
get another.
The lack of trading and spacing by Payne is brutal to watch at times.
Yeah, I mean just trading rounds like it's nobody's business here.
I think he recognizes the fact that it's a lower buy, a weaker buy, and someone might be after that gun.
Perfectly calculated. The third is crazy, though.
Yeah, especially because he ticks in the molly. They know exactly where he is.
The human version, a little quiet before this, right? We've all been looking at Xalex, but it's nice to see that we are able to step up in a big way here.
here a lot of damage done there because there are worse four where 30 seconds left for to get through the bomb quite far away actually
And he's gonna walk its way in so maybe
Is someone gonna say save or are they going for it? It looks like they will try and give it a go, but
To no avail absolutely here. It really is not
Make much of a difference if you find one kill or not, Zershin writes him off
the game. It's not. It's not
looking good. Double digits for
miles as soon as the guns have
come into play. Domination
turned up the dial to 11 and the
game series and tournament might
just be over for pain sooner
than they had hoped for. Yeah,
now it really does feel like the
finish lines in sight for miles.
This round's a free beat. No
money for pain to work with no
investment. They needed that
The spirit's high, keep that ember burning.
I should be getting 11. I'm already breaking that much of a sweat.
We'll see. We've seen some weird rounds in the past and again, you know, for pain.
A bomb point here would go a decent way.
if they can get it I think miles are just so clinical at the moment I would say
there's absolutely no way nothing around at all of course they look so good
they're able to keep these rounds pretty clean clock spamming away smoked off at
moment, not really much that they can do, it's hoping to, how has that ever happened?
How has that ever happened?
Hoping to just like, death by a thousand cuts here with the box, but it doesn't help if
you're killing your own teammates.
I can't see that though.
I mean, technically, it is death by a thousand cuts, it's just, you know, the wrong way.
The wrong sword.
Yeah.
The worst samurai, whoever lived.
Yeah.
Swings where the enemy hits his mate.
I like to say it off. It's
22nd kill. You know the term
we kind of use is like he's
quiet and down a little bit,
but he's not. It's just like
Zershin Spinks towards each
other. I mean, everyone else
has stepped up to the point where
he like he's not any less
sharp than he was first off.
He's just not getting the
opportunity because they're
dying so quickly to especially
the likes of Zershin and
Spinks. You've really picked up
their form in the second half.
I think on overpass, it's a bit
hard to get. An individual
side. You know, it's a, uh, uh, five man effect or like three players, you might say you need
one good on B, one good on a. Yeah. The only time you really see it is if, um, it's like a Bianco
and they keep going. Yeah. Right. Right. And then they're also given like every round, they go like
two for one, right? So the, the, the stat line flies up, but paying a threat, a bit of variety
and they actually are leading away from his Alex's position anyway. So he's just not getting anything.
He's the only kill he's really getting at the moment, like rotation kills in. Yeah. I mean,
I mean, that's what I would call, you know, look at the scoreboard, it'd be like, right, we know that guy's playing A.
We just don't B all the time now.
Just ignore him, yeah.
And I think when he's playing this well, it's not that part of the strife.
Absolutely. I can agree more.
JL, he'll fall.
It's a bold move by Pariah, but it's bold moves that pain at the take.
In an absolutely vital round.
This is it.
Do or die for them in this tournament.
All the money put in towards round of a 19 to stay alive really you lose this
on a bomb plant the buyer is going to be next to nothing in the next the VSM
gonna find an important one of his own to the two new boys on this painside will
start well to give them a two-man advantage but this is a nice move here
double stack as they push through Zershin and Zellex getting a bit of short
water control it's not an easy fight to take that one through the short tunnel
They might overlook Zellex.
They seem savvy. They seem ready.
VSM has just been spotted. The black hole in the least.
Zellex!
Oh no, don't do it.
Coming alive.
Don't test it.
Have to be very careful, yeah.
You're not feeding him.
The trade doesn't happen.
They will give the position up.
Oh, no way.
As he finds snow on the lurk,
we are suddenly in the two on two.
35 seconds remaining here.
where did they go? They were first thinking about A, but then the Orp is over there and their presence has been given away.
Zelex still around. He's not quite ready for them. He still lands the shot, brings it down to the one versus one.
Torji on the Orp is hearing the time. He's got the angle and they convert it.
Oh my goodness. Zelex and Torji, five kills between the two of them, backs up against the wall and they figure out a way just smashing it down or something.
to the right. He's got to be
able to get a gun against their
head. Absolutely incredible and
a time out. So you can just have
a little think about that one
pain. When will they learn stock
testing zelecs? He is in a
double form right now. This is
just brilliant. So I'll play
from the both of them, though.
That Torsi controls the Vida so
important because they were
rotating back up towards a when
that kill comes through. They
know they don't have the time
to really clear all the angles
starts into place, just miraculous stuff, but pain, you cannot be losing a 2v5. There's
no two ways about it.
No, at this stage, absolutely not.
Exactly. In no world should you ever lose a 2v5 in a full gun round both ways. Sure,
if it's like a 2v5 and you're an eco, whatever, it happens, but like that, that was poor.
They're trading non-existent. Zellix, that second kill in particular worth his weight
That is the one that really actually opens our eyes to hang on if there's something brewing here
So a map and series point mouse
And a chance to talk once again, but imagine the last chance they get to talk at this tournament for pain
The day damage is insane. They run through a Molly. They eat a HEE. They take some bullets for good measure as well
PSM gonna go down. I mean it just is frustration
desperation maybe from pain
Do they have a guardian angel here to save them from defeat?
The answer is no at the moment. A lovely two-man in towards short.
Two kills off the back of it as well. It is once again Zellex who is maybe
just going to get pipped to the post for the 30 bomb. Yeah. Especially in a game that
is relatively one-sided. It's a hell of a start line in Counter-Strike 2.
I'd love to see us reigning at the end because not only obviously is he again
crazy amount of kills. He's had so many impactful rounds.
Yeah, I think the K-Star would be the one to really consider.
Like round swing and stuff like that as well.
Diculous. Last two, four paint. It's safe in pariah.
To save face and...
I mean, realistically, it just feels impossible. They're moving towards B.
Two versus five. That has absolutely no legs behind it.
A flash and a smoke to work with a pariah going for contacts.
He'll get one insta-trader by Zellex for his 28th kill.
And with 20 seconds left, safe on 27 points of HP,
he knows he's got no chance in this one.
What a showing by Maus.
Yes, it's a little closer, but a fantastic performance.
And towards the two clothes, that is the Maus
that we've been longing for since they've made these changes.
And now, Payos gets really interested.
It does. I mean, look, it's been a long time come in, I feel, but we understand what they're going for there.
It looks absolutely brilliant. I'm very jealous of the fellas who are going to break this one down for me.
Mate, don't be jealous. Don't be jealous. You know, we're just doing our job. You're doing your job.
And hey, you are speaking for the people, getting fully blinded.
But alas, Maia's doing a fantastic job and huge kudos to Zellex for that performance,
worth a stellar overpass.
I just about to say, you know, that's a breakout game for Zellex.
Finding impact left, right and center.
Really having a strong presence, a strong showing and doing it at a crucial moment as well.
You know, qualifying for the playoffs for Maus in a tournament where they've been
struggling a little bit, you know.
Now we get to see, okay, when he's playing well, when he's finding impact,
together with Xersian, who once again just over the course of the series,
you know were fantastic then we look at a mouse who can most definitely go and aim for that trophy so
very pleased to see it a little bit unfortunate for for pain gaming that they face mouse in in this
form but good for the tournament good for mouse and good for the excitement as to who's going to
win the trophy. Yeah I mean there's definitely a completely different level to the mouse burst
that we see today compared to what we saw on the previous days really this is just outright really
really really good and I think you have to give a lot of the credit of that over to to Zelex
he was a bit of a beast in the overpass game earlier and no different to today as well. Just
incredibly sharp, so effective and efficient with his entry over towards the B bomb site.
It felt like at a certain point during that T side, mouseports just kind of came to the
conclusion of like, well, B is working a little bit too easy. Let's see if we can win on the A
bomb site as well. That never really came to fruition, but they kept going back there.
That's why we see pain gaming getting four rounds. That's literally the only reason because it felt like mouse could do no wrong
Whenever they wanted to attack that be mom's side. So
What the score line might look or suggest that it was slightly competitive
It just wasn't the case. This is fast forward snap all day long
Yeah, there was so many little moments as well where you know
Big clutches came through to make the skull and look as inflated as it was and then also we'll probably see in the moment as well that
That's what 1v4 situation specifically on the A site was.
Oh, yeah, the exertion, yeah.
Like full white, getting into a crazy position,
isolating every fight.
You know, maybe a little bit of a misplay
on paint gaming's behalf,
but at the same time, they were all white.
They didn't know where the hell they were getting shot from.
It was just an absolute masterclass of positioning.
This one, exertion, absolute menace for this four pieces.
And that's just the individual quality you have
when you're a mouse ride.
You have exertion, you have settings in this game,
you know, stepping up out of nowhere,
Spinks following up the following round with a triple kill by himself as well
You know, they lose the first play and in Torse I believe it is and then Spinks gets a triple kill all by himself
And you know, that's again, that's what it gives you to have the better players again
We can talk about you know how to pain come into it how did they set themselves up on that T side?
I think they had a pretty good idea of what they wanted to do and how they wanted to test mouse and
Essentially, they were successful, you know getting the opening kill in the first couple of by rounds
But when he doesn't have exertion, you know doing what he's doing in that 1v4 scenario
You have sphinx following it up the next round with a triple kill all by himself
Then it doesn't matter what you do. How well then at the end of the day
You're gonna end up losing unless you have you know your own individual qualities that can match that and let's be honest
There was nobody from the side of pain showing up today. He did me point about 2.53 rating
That is probably the highest rating I believe we've seen so far. You know that consistency of the T side as well
Just one round every round is part of it. It's getting involved. Yeah, it's absolutely insane
So an absolute masterclass from him and that's obviously for us who again, I think everybody's kind of new to watch things Alex
At least obviously at this level when he was in NXT
He's not running into the caliber of players or the caliber of teams like pain
So to see him being able to do this and having the kind of successes you see four out of four opening duels one
Brilliant obviously we want to see that translated into other reps as well not just him being an overpass merchant
But I'll take him being an overpass merchant, you know over nothing
Yeah, so so far two for two in this tournament. Just absolutely destroying teams on that map
I can't wait to see what they're gonna be able to do in that quarterfinal because they're gonna play back-to-back
So if you didn't get enough miles in these two fast maps, they're gonna be playing again shortly
It's just gonna be one of their things so yeah, yeah
It's a it's an interesting affair to be talking about and yeah good to see Maus finally
Turning up, you know, just when it mattered most making the playoffs
I'm a little bit, you know, sad that we don't get to see more pain because we know what they are capable of
But at the same time we get to hear it from pain as they get the exit interview
Tough luck today you guys have to enter a journey here
Mouses is strong teams. They definitely
They definitely put a lot of pressure on you guys
Can we talk through what's your feeling right now?
feeling
I'm sad because we were with a lot of jet lag yesterday and playing a lot of matches and losing today is tough, it's hard, but of course we know that Maus is a really strong team and yeah, it was a bit hard to play against them in some maps and yeah, a bit sad.
I'm a bit sad because I have to overcome a huge gap in the game.
I had a hard time playing the game yesterday.
I've been playing for the last two days.
But I have a strong team.
If I play with them on the ground, the players will be more difficult.
So I'm still a bit regretful.
Back to the map.
You've always been the strongest map.
Which part of today's game didn't make any sense?
Let's talk about map 1 nuke. As always, you guys go to map. It doesn't went quite well as maybe you expected. Do you know what went wrong in that map?
I think Nuke was a map that we didn't make the things correctly, we didn't play our own game slowly and do something in the map, but we tried to play more fast, but we didn't happen in the game, and yeah, it was very hard to play against them.
Sharchong was smashing me on the outside, and it was hard.
You guys definitely put a good fight out here from loser bracket and put it out of the way now though the journey has end here
Major is coming next and what's going to be the preparation for you guys?
We will go to Serbia and do a bootcamp there and we will work a lot, work so hard
and what's going to be the preparation for you guys?
We will go to Serbia and do a bootcamp there
and we will work a lot, work so hard to come into the Major with new things and with a strong Maple
and yeah, of course we will work a lot and hope that in the Major we play more good CS
We will continue to do more training and to develop our own map.
We hope to have better fans in the future.
There are many fans who like you. What do you say to them?
There are many fans rooting for you.
Rooting for your team and you especially.
So any words to the fans here?
Yeah, of course.
I have to say thank you for all the people in China.
They all defend that, uh, cheer for me and support me and my team, uh, love you, shixie, and yeah, shixue, it's, it's, uh, a lot of, it's very happy that you guys love me and love my team.
Oh, I know I have a lot of fans here who are supporting me, including my team, and I'd like to thank you all for your support. Uh, thank you all, I love you all.
Thank you for accepting our interview, and that's it for this interview. Let's have a rest and see you later.
great to hear from snow and you know and also you know the pathway to the major
they're gonna have that boot camp so they can you know work at all the kinks
you didn't really say as to you know what that roster is going to be but it
didn't sound like there was gonna be any changes so maybe we're getting safe there
yeah maybe it's still up in there as you said you know which is obviously a bit
of an issue for them but at the end of the day you know pain are trending up
still I'd say you know losing to Maus is it's okay you know current state of
mind where where they're at I will say you know it's a year ago that we had pain
in the major semi-final in Austin, right?
We're pain being part of the tier one tournament,
making the playoff, it's a different world today.
Pain is not a top eight team anymore.
Pain is not a team we should expect to be within top eight.
So for them coming into the media,
I think progressing from the stage they started
to the next one will be ideal for them.
I don't see them as a player of contender at the moment.
I see them as a team who can definitely make it tough
for some of the better ones,
but in order to make the playoff,
we'll have to see a different version of pain.
Yeah, I really think that has to be the mindset
going into it as well.
They can be the dark horse that makes life really bitter for a lot of opponents, really,
and they're going to be a tough nut to crack, but seeing them making a playoff run seems a
little bit far-fetched. You can have as gross tinted glasses as you want, but that is going a
little bit too far considering what they have to deal with. Again, you don't even know who your
primary oper is going to be a couple of weeks ahead of the major. They do have a bit of an
uphill battle in that sense, but I still agree with Jacob in the sense that, okay, it didn't
look impressive today, but I think that's the best showing of miles that we've seen. So no shame in
losing to the mouse team like that. So they're still trending upwards. They still, they still
should have a sense of like good feeling about themselves going into a major with that bootcamp.
Yeah, Stonks, a hot topic. Exactly. But of course, commiserations to pain, we have to say goodbye to
them. And just before we go to the break, also had a quick look at the top players so far in the
tournament after that game, Zershin, he shot up and Zellex, I think he was like right down the
the list, but up in the top 10 now as well. So that is a beautiful performance from them.
Let's see if they can keep up that consistency moving towards that next game today. Here you go.
So here is the current top players Insani. Yep. Yeah, just look at the gap.
Yeah, look at the gap between Insani and we have two monitors. He's having a tournament though.
He's having a tourney. Yeah, because we have two monitors in our green room. So we get to kind
of have a secondary eye on the second game on the beach team. And some of the things that we've seen
out of Insani that hasn't been on the mainstream just yet has been absolutely insane. It's kind
of what we saw from Zelex on Overpass there. That's what Insani is doing like time and time again
for MIBR now. They've been very much the surprise team of the tournament for me so far.
Does feel like a question of time before Insani either make sure that MIBR becomes a top contender
or someone else will snatch him up from that team and make sure he's playing in a team that can win
stuff because he's been he's been in team for quite a time. You know, he's been a great prospect
for MIBR, a great prospect for Brazilian Karnasweig and as you said like we've
been watching some of it you know averaging a 1.6 rating, I don't care
who your opponents are, I don't care what you do, that's crazy so far from MIBR.
I was so far the biggest surprise of this tournament straight into the semi-final
and have been dominating the opponents. That's it, it's just been hard carry
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introduce ourselves we've done a little talent switch out my name is Paula still one of your
hosts still joined on the desk by striker and Blair guys we made it to the top a how you feeling
top six even actually top six yes indeed yeah feeling good we had the group stage come to an end
and it was it was on a good note I think with that come back from from mongol so happy to to go and
keep going listen it's a Friday Paula you know I love Fridays it's all about parties and the party
is going to be in the server. I'm definitely feeling it.
Indeed, certainly going to be some amazing camp strike action at this portion of the tournament.
And why don't we start breaking down this first quarterfile? So legacy versus Mongols.
If we had to set the tone, I would say two teams deserving of this spot right now.
Which one is going to go forward from here, though? For me, it's a bit more unclear, Striker.
Yeah, it's going to be interesting because there's, yeah, we have a little bit of a different vibe
this time because the group stages came to an end. Both of these teams have played already today.
Yeah, and we just had mongols finish their game with the comeback on rasuals talking about about an hour ago
You know so for them to play back-to-back series
It's always a bit if he whether that means that you want up or is it going to be a bit of a tire?
It's like tired situation later on you situation can be perhaps about you know the good thing is for the side of mongols
They didn't you know extended to with three maps, right?
So I don't think they're going to be too worried about that
We just saw you know legacies run we can take a look at mongols as well for mongols
They started off in a very convincing domestic match of win over LinVision.
One thing I like about Mongols is they never struggle against other Asian teams.
Unlike, let's say, what happens to them in Brazil.
Bate game, that was a bit of a surprise.
A bit of a, shall we say, close-ish affair, so to speak, but Bate got the win.
And then, of course, lower bracket, again, barely scraping a win over Liquid.
But against Barre Vision, they look pretty solid.
Sure, the T-Saturn Mirage will touch one of the later strikers,
but they're looking better and better as the tournament progresses.
trajectory it does seem especially based on this most recent matchup against
Paravision that Mongols are peaking and perhaps peaking at the right time
arguably a higher ceiling for them than legacy could they be favorites here I
think they are definitely favorites considering their pedigree considering
the fact that they just play at this level so often they are in these quarter
finals and these you know decisive games quite a lot more than a legacy side
that we haven't really seen at this level other than you know that we just saw
in Atlanta where they lost the first playoffs game, right?
And before that, it was something like half of a year
before we saw them, or last time that we saw them
in the playoffs, right?
So for Mongols, this is another day in the office.
For Legacy, it's more of an opportunity
to punch above their weight.
Yeah, I think for Legacy, the most impressive thing,
obviously, with the small sample size we have
is the fact they beat Navi, right?
I think that was the biggest surprise,
the second best team in the world right now
over in Atlanta just a week ago.
But again, that's a thing.
It's a very small sample size altogether.
For the Mongols, leading in this event,
Even though they didn't make it to the playoffs off Astana,
if you look at the teams they faced off against,
I'm talking about every top team,
the G2, Spirit, Falcons, you name it,
they had to go up against them and got a couple of wins,
couple of very close losses as well.
So despite the initial little shaky start they had here
against Liquid, comes to mind, for example, the Loster Bay,
I feel like they are finding that Astana form, so to speak,
and considering the feel of teams here
is a little bit lesser, I for one,
I'm gonna be very disappointed
if they don't make a deep run here.
I feel as though we need to highlight, of course, legacy RR current CAC champions from last year.
Perhaps some extra motivation for the team, Striker?
Yeah, this was where they kind of started off their uptick in form last year,
towards the end of last year. Nobody really expected them to pull off something like this,
and then they used that for the next four months to be able to play some of these events a little bit more often, right?
So, yes, a little bit of a history for them for sure.
This is something we're talking about in the green room, Paula.
Like, you know, which way does my veto is going to go because both the teams don't play an oebus and obviously mongols
They're not going to be taking any chances
We we kind of expect this in the ancient band because recently legacy have struggled in ancient and with that taking out the equation mongles
Like, you know what we can go nuke or inferno in foreign is going to be the pick coming in for legacy
This is the big question. Do you go for this punish overpass and you go for a dust 2?
I don't know mongles are pretty solid there and they like yeah, they like their dust 2 but uh, excuse me
Ooh, Mirage. So that's a pick into Mongols, to a Mongols team that obviously picks it a lot, so that's a good thing.
And they're going to be starting to see T side.
Yes.
Yeah, Mongols have struggled so much on a T side, so for six rounds across three maps on a T side,
but they started to see T side and we saw the way they locked it down earlier, just as an hour prior against Pyrovision.
So it isn't you who could decide, or even so, that's going to be interesting, because I think, I think Mongols will be happy with this.
They'll be very happy.
Because Mirage they generally pick regardless of their results sometimes they just they just play it a lot
And then they just seem confident that obviously as we've touched upon so far
I feel like their issues at this term and they have not necessarily been
Global as much as very focused towards one half of one map, which is T side of Mirage
You know so if they can fix it from what we just saw even in the paravidion game
Maybe they had a little bit of a talk that could be could be fine
But then you as you said before I think we would have expected them to potentially even pick into it
Yeah into into legacy. I don't think that legacy is too unhappy with this either
I think these are three maps that they're also comfortable on in general now that they play quite a bit
It's nothing. Yeah, no big surprises is just curious about the some of the order here
but if we're talking specifics and
Especially keeping the veto in mind. What can legacy do here?
Any any any details that are gonna be most important for legacy?
I think Inferno is going to be a rough one, I feel, because Mongols have looked pretty solid on it recently late, right?
So I feel it's going to come down on the map, because on Inferno, Mongols have beat Falcons, G2 and Liquid, back to back to back.
So it's a map they're very comfortable on. Mirage is a problem. You're going to be starting the T side here.
You know Mongols' T side woes thus far. Do not allow Mongols to get like, I don't know, like an 11-1 or a 10-2 CT side.
Try to win the pistol. I know it sounds very simplistic, so to speak,
But if you get off it with solid T side, start, get four, five rounds, maybe a Mirage,
I really feel they have a chance to take that map.
And maybe, mountain number three, new, could be anyone's game.
I have been told that our classes are ready to go.
I think the game is as well.
So let's get quick final thoughts and prediction striker starting with yourself.
I think this is Mongols.
I do think that they are just much stronger on the map in general than on their legacy.
Yeah, I think Mongols should take this.
In fact, I'm going to give you a map prediction.
It's going to be too well.
All right.
Well, gentlemen, as always, thank you so much for your thoughts.
the game. We've got a lot of
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at home. This one is ready to
go. It's our first quarter
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you. Oh yes, indeed. Thank you,
boys. Great breakdown. We've got
legacy versus Mongols. First
quarter final of the tournament
and is I feel like the Mongols
are the favorites going into
this one that warmed up. They
just had a huge comeback
against Para vision, but legacy
always a hungry team always
difficult to put away. I think
plays out once again welcome ladies and gentlemen here it's the CAC whoo that's
the Cobra Sierra the first kill of the quarterfinals gonna be taking down
this one here we go then five on four make it three techno for go the jumping
glocks that seems good as well cut out for him gets a gush as well down 11
points of help he's got no backup coming whatsoever and is what CTF is
about to say he's running back towards a you
Get back here, Dumau!
Okay.
Need some help?
That should be around.
I don't like to call them too early, but what can you really do here?
Art and Dumau.
Not much to say, not much to do.
You've got no kits, you've got no nades.
Yes.
I think that's the essential part.
In this kind of retake, if they had, you know, a smoke and a molotov and a, you know, a confused kit or something like that,
then it becomes more doable.
But you can tell.
They're displaying for the exes right now.
Um, and that's very valid.
Um, I guess it's not super new information, but every Kelly on the CT side now is 50 bucks extra for each teammate
So definitely looking for these exits here. Hopefully staying alive as well says 50 bucks right there for everyone
Yeah, I think it's good to remind the people
Sometimes you'll come back after having you know disconnected from the game for a minute
Some things do change in college right and they'll save Kevlar. I suppose do now. I don't think we'll save anything
But he gets a kill
That's nice. So he gets to hold on to his USP and
And take a bit of extra money into the next one a lot of teams like to force by on this CT
Second round of inferno
5-7s MP9s can be deadly at close range lots of awkward and tight choke points on this particular map
Definitely some kind of miscommunication that was happening in this moment
You see after you throw us the grenade amount he runs away
Yeah, you can see it in the minimap now like it's like what he was running off and your teammates just been gushed
And you get someone there as well like he needs to back up, bro
I don't think it would have been a massive difference maker, but still like definitely didn't help
We've got a max seven
one of the few maps you have a bring that weapon out on is going to be inferno, but
Max seven five sevens a
scary prospect sevens
Second round
They'll release on the next patch
Yes, hopefully we can get back you imagine the memes I
I do like you at Mag7, don't get to see nearly enough, an art is kind of a wild character that would do it.
It's just for those infernos so tight and uncomfortable. Mag7 just makes a lot of sense, I guess.
There's an argument you made, nuke can be a thing as well.
That's a Miss Molotov, I was supposed to go towards short.
Went straight in the smoke, unfortunately. Gonna have to do it again. Actually, might be better off doing it like that.
It's flushed him out completely.
MZNEO.
Be careful there, lads.
So much willingness to fight in the middle here for legacy, I haven't really been able to find the opening.
It's a little bit sloppy so far from Mongols, but I'm going to be executing him towards me, I say executing him.
He's showing presence with the smokes, the bombs towards top of the middle, they're trying to cause some rotations right now.
They're leaving one player in the form of Techno over there.
That's caused a little rotation from Doom how he's going to back up B this time.
Maybe a whist one of the smokes towards the coffins on the B. No, it's not really matter, it's not growing there anyway, but it's just interesting to see.
to see. You're right there, it's very deep smoke. Just flagging it now. Okay, Lato, he
actually gets one here, the 5-7 down to the pit. This is a bit concerning now, 15 seconds
on the clock and Dumau started to get there trying to run out of the smoke. It's a good
head shot as he brings down Cobra Sierra. Now down to 9-10 and Techno here and one of
them already beat up quite a bit. One HP. Yeah, exactly. Single player health and oh
my god, he nearly got him with the max 7. Okay, this was not a good round for Mongols.
of missed utility, a little bit of a scramble, didn't get much information, but they get away with it by the skin of their teeth.
But it doesn't really matter, Anders. They win the round. It will be Dumau, one of the star players for sure for legacy, saving an AK-47 and a helmet.
So considering you took down three players, Anders, you might invest a little bit more than usual, considering you got an AK-47 here.
Maybe get a kit, maybe get a few P250s. I'm not saying partially buy into it, but you could justify a little bit more than a full eco.
He can do Malcolm drop his 5-7 as well, right? So you're going to have that.
I feel like it would be so exciting if they really went all in, just, you know, obviously a crazy choice, but it depends on how much of another team they are, I suppose, if they really feel like this is going to be a hard game.
hard game so any kids I'm seeing a couple more five sevens of p250 they're going
quite heavy on utility so you can see three players about kevlar wow sadzen
will bring out kevlar five seven but no kids but do now actually put a lot of
utility himself so this is a very winnable round mongols after that
previous performance run number two I'm a little bit worried for them very
sloppy protocols missed utility felt like they were uncomfortable throughout
Let's see if they can pick up the pieces now do mouth flashed off towards top of banana
Desuaded from the angle and it's gonna be banana control granted towards the Mongols, but smoked off a half wall
Let's see whether they want to commit over towards be or start to explore their options in middle
Two cc players waiting this out of the matter. This is the correct cause the two five seven players could be miss him and sadson
One of which doesn't have armor and cobra's era bravely helping himself towards arch
This is a key jewel and is on this and wins it 5-7 little bit OP about range
It is but you know what he had no armor whatsoever
So all it took with one bullet from that 10. They probably wins it he pre-fired that angle as well
Yeah, kind of nuts. Thankfully, it's only the Mac 10 given over so it doesn't change things too significantly
Had it been a rifle. Maybe that's a real problem. They're inside of the smoke both of them
I think he should walk past techno. He's already down into pit course here
He's going to be going down to him.
He did see him there.
And that Mac 10 there's to Mal with a stolen AK
taking down Blitz.
And now it's a bit of an issue here once again
for the Mongols.
They're fighting their way back,
clawing their way back into the round.
They are getting bailed out
by the individual skill right now.
The general approach to the round
looks uncomfortable, looks messy,
but they are hitting some very nice shots.
9-10 is the player to actually
dig them out of this hole right now.
Good grenade.
but I think you'll be saving these two rifles.
Nice rifle legacy.
You've kept the Mongols extremely modest.
Yes.
Going into these next few rounds here.
They have zero loss bonus built up there, that in mind.
And in terms of the reinvestments here,
thankfully they'll save two rifles.
It's a big if, I think if you do now,
you go for a bit more of a hunt here,
try and take them all down if possible.
But yeah, this is looking a little bit messy from Mongols.
That's worth saying, I think.
And also you're gonna get to celebrate in the same ways.
Yes, you win three rounds, but it's kind of a struggle.
You're not going to come in thinking, oh yeah, we're actually
cracked right now.
It looked like you should have lost that round as 9-10,
head in a swivel, hitting some ridiculous shots,
bails them out.
But either way, we're trying to bring good vibes there.
They got the 3-0.
It's all good.
And it's going to be five rifles across the board
for the Mongols.
And Sadzin will bring out his AWP here.
Round number four of the others joining us, day three of CAC
here.
We've got quarterfinals kicking off right now.
There is a beast room going on as well.
got mouse taking on baits and that's our other quarterfinal running
simultaneously here but this will be a very important man and his legacy can
win this it completely breaks the bank of the Mongols so huge huge route look
at them bringing satsino with the AWP right as they pick it up we're not how
rare that is with the other team on the CT side normally that orb is
always gonna be found somewhere near the mid or maybe sometimes in the
departments over a day, but very rarely this early on.
Now, it's going to be drawn back.
They don't get the immediate engagement
that they maybe were hoping for.
So it's just down to the two people
that are normally at the B bomb site here for legacy, which
is going to be Latso and Dumau.
Interesting to see Dumau kind of pick up the Galileo instead,
because it's Latso that's playing more of that supporter role.
He's going to be flashing him in.
So you'd think the A here would want to be in front,
but maybe the extra bullets on the Galileo
will make a difference.
Back towards B we go.
They've shown a heavy mid presence.
They smoke down towards the outside, the Molotov at quad, pushes CTs back, removes vision,
and ART is trying to rectify that right now.
You can see ART actually exploring what kind of sound cues you can find towards the quad
side.
No one's home though.
It has to be the execution.
The thing is, and as you can't really mess around here, you have no presence on the map
whatsoever.
You've been smoked off, and every second that goes by, you don't know if you're being
backstabbed.
You have to execute now, and you have to go through the smoke.
You have no time to waste, because you have no control of the map.
That's exactly what they're gonna do. They're following your recipe exactly Henry straight execute on to it
No delays any longer 23 seconds techno and a miscino coming in with a kill each to open up the bomb side with and sanson
Can't do much with the AWP here on the other side
I think this is what the Mongols who so well on the T side of inferno harvory if these kind of executes
That's that's where they do their best work. Well, this is their best-looking round by a mile so far. That was very nice
classic Inferno play. Like I said, removing that CT vision towards middle.
Keep them guessing, keep them in the dark, and then quickly making way towards B.
Five-man execute, no messing around, no lucks towards upper middle and all
backstabbing from the apartments. Five players getting in there using their
brutal aim, and only one casualty found. It's worth criticizing the legacy side
though, because you said the danger, and I think it's a thing that's
worth lingering on here. When you're that stacked up on the map, you don't know
someone's pushing up behind you. The legacy worked and there was what like 30 seconds left?
Should I take a moment? I feel like it's down to that smoke down towards Archon. Like I said,
the Molotov. We talked about arts. He was still smoked off towards the quad site as well. He was
playing behind the smoke listening for sound cues and he didn't have any information. All right.
Definitely a case to be made that they could have reacted with maybe some retake utility towards B
and that should be a bit more proactive and lock them out. When you have no information,
you do need to show presence elsewhere. So yeah, definitely options available to them. They allow
Mongols are fully executed on them when you're in the dark on the map. I feel like someone
wants to question. Yes, there should have been a reaction. Maybe not towards middle or retake
utility towards B. Anything to make them uncomfortable.
Let's follow that story though. Now we've got a double orb on the CT side of Inferno. That is rare.
Don't see that very often. They saved one, they rebuy another one so ART could do some
double orbs on Inferno as 2016 sort of behavior. But let's see if it works out.
Oh, that's definitely true. There was a point in time where everybody was trying to make
teams that had two or-
I remember like it was like Shox and KennyS and G2. They like started this on Inferno and
it was like unbeatable for like three months. No one knew how to take it down.
You can't stop them.
But um, yeah it's been a while but I'm here for it. No reason why I can't. Why I just
be glad it's just not super matter I suppose.
They're getting very close to that short position. This is an important kill and so is that.
Sounds off when the AWP takes down MCDO and now they're kind of getting pushed away. I was getting worried because...
They've left B open. Lato is there I suppose but he's very deep. Like there is a chance...
I think he needs to get his coffins or something. Thankfully they don't have much space on that side of the map.
There's the Molotov towards the sandbags. Rotations will come through and Lato has got a smoke for him.
He's got the incendiary. I'll buy some time and they can actually rotate him.
Yeah but to put it off, on your point they had very little information on the CT side.
even as they got those two kills they really don't know what's happening so
again they have to have a hard time rotating.
I know.
So this is a very loseable round right now for Legacy in spite of getting two openings.
It's time to rotate over and of course they're going to go for this one but...
Dude I'm worried.
I couldn't tell you why.
You've got a five on three situation and you don't have any presence in towards B.
Play someone, call for anti flash.
Do something.
Art's gone down trying to flank in from banana restaurant 910 on top of the box here this
spring.
It's not the best spring we've ever seen but it gets the job done and now the rest of
back on out. I think you diagnosed the problem in the previous round. Again, they had no CT
information. They were just so far away from anything. But they had 5 on 3 advantage. There's
no real reason to... You've got a double-op setup. Why is one of those orbs not a coffins or just
holding the CT angle? Why are we leaving a whole bombsite open and a 5 on 3 advantage? It beggars
belief answers. Yeah, it does. A 5 on 3 advantage, you've let them walk into B with no resistance
What's so ever that disappoint? I think it's compounded by the fact that in the second and third round
It is so much damage that you felt part
They're just a bit that just on the cusp of being able to really shut down the Mongols here
And now we're coming to these rounds and they're just letting Mongols kind of get some rounds that they shouldn't be able to just having an orb
You've got two of them, right one of coffins or one towards emo the back anything by an open bomb side
That's just unforgivable the fact you've let them get in there and your response to the retake was boosting a player up
He gets taken down and I know as a player beneath there as well. And then there's okay now
We've pretty much won the round. We know there's an opera underneath
Yeah, we're trying to retake with two orbs as well. So we've absolutely cooked ourselves there
I just don't know why they're giving them so much freedom to walk into what's be it doesn't make any sense on the other side of it
To right if you really were gonna rotate four people to the a bomb site
They almost have to go and like check arch get two people make sure you find even if you get traded
Who cares are you still got three more people at the bomb site?
So it's going to be fine, but yeah, disappointing to see the least.
We're in round number six now.
They've had good opportunities.
They can still bring this back.
This is the double-op setup is when the retakes are going to be a real issue, as noted in
the previous round.
But they'll still rock it for now.
Two miles and he got a USP and there it is, he's got an M4.
Sands and whoop and things up, whoosh, Copa Zera goes down and now this is more like it.
Utility prevails as we've got another five on three, five on two.
Gonna be the first one on the board for Legacy, need to build upon this.
Huge boost in the middle to get the opening shot that I was very nicely played.
Legacy, it's obviously not too late, but it's hard for me not to think about the idea that they could have probably had
maybe even like a 3-2 scoreline at the moment and this would have been their third round of tie of the game.
That's absolutely doable here.
Instead, they've gone the hard route of learning the Mongols, build a bit of an economy, start
to get back into the game, or sort of continue to be in the game much, much longer than they
should have been able to.
50 seconds, and I think the Mongols are realizing they're not getting any easy kills here early
on.
Don't know if they want to try and do more damage in the round, I suppose we could try.
In terms of the finances, it wouldn't be the worst idea to save some weapons here, but
we'll see what they can do with it.
a CT spawn smokey setting up. Gonna be boosting a player up in anti flash and then a Molotov
towards Emo I believe. Good Molotov here could actually work out. Smoke is gonna be up so
R is blocked off. Has he got the liner? I don't know. He's not sure either. There we go on either side of
itself. Fire everywhere on the bomb site. 13 seconds on the clock. What a headshot. They can actually
Nice and he is such a strong player individually, but that's a second player.
Honestly though, again, if Lato is a little bit more panicked if he runs away from the monotone,
if he shows himself to hear the footsteps, anything like that, I don't know, that could
have been winnable. Nice round from Legacy though, a little bit more proactive, a lot of damage from
the utility towards a banana area, nice advantage. This time with the advantage,
he's actually having players in the B bombsite who would have thought that would work out,
But that nice work
They boosted over and still had to shoot someone for the smoke I
Thought there was an old smoke that they were shooting through but so like I said saving the two AK's there might have been the better idea
You can see that
Economy now
Definitely fractured as we've got a little B rush going on here Mack tens making their way through
It's gonna be very difficult to hold this one off a swarm of teas making their way through but latter will stand strong
He gets himself a triple kill here that hat trick as you now will chime in as well
They're finally arriving on the server here and blitz has been found out
I will take care of the moment error you can get out of this smoke and there we have it should be
Quite the nice situation for legacy to build back into this one now there's still some cash there today took like a weird
Partial by in that previous round with a couple of rifles Mack 10
I think this a pocket strategy rush be keeping catching off guard. They'll still have some money going forward
We'll see whether they want to invest with a couple of AKs here and some pistols.
Yeah, I think they had like 1000 or something on techno, so they had a bit of a bank going
on.
So it's more of the same.
They are all in with two rifles, one MAK 10, two TEC-9s.
It feels like an apartment's pot.
It does.
I was literally about to say the same thing.
I was like, yeah.
Great mind.
Yeah.
Great mind.
I would say that's very likely to happen here.
So you can run for your basic default utility, you try and get apartments, presents, once
you push the seat, yeah, you can see them setting up for it right now, and then three
players towards the end, but that's a nice smoke.
Art is aware of this prospect.
He's trying to shut this down now, dissuade them from even considering this idea.
Oh, it's his 10th day of run through, he doesn't try and trade him, he will kill all three,
I'm pretty sure.
Oh, the flash is so good!
So blinded!
The flash is so good!
Now Nism, all of the pressure is on him.
He's got Sandsim with an open side of the bomb site.
Now he's dead, and Cineo's found him already.
But they forgot to check up on Nism.
No one's actually checked up on him.
Oh!
And Cineo takes him down anyway.
And Lato and Dumau, they're the last ones left.
Just trying to get away from the madness of the A bomb site.
Damn, son.
That way to get started.
Okay.
Well, there it is.
Like I said, that smoke going down the apartments,
he can feel that sort of play coming through.
But what a nice little idea.
Soon the apartments, you have that small cubby at the end right.
You go through a flashbang behind themselves into that cubby,
pushing through the smoke as it pulled.
And we saw it from the do-mouse screen.
He was absolutely devastated by the flash.
Soon as he goes down, the floodgates open,
and you fall in this position, overlooked,
you think, OK, he's the linchman here.
He's going to save the day.
And a crazy 180 shot from the graveyard to somehow take him down.
Secures the Mongols, another round of four players survive,
and they upgrade to the AKs.
They find an AWP and as they are back to their winning ways and dominating the T side of Inferno
The individual performance some of these players here
Didn't see a thing. I see you throwing grenade like right before then what a reaction crazy work
They're looking very sharp. They're so talented on the come to mechanics
That's always been the great fun watching Mongols like sometimes they make some mistakes
They really want to make this double or a thing, huh?
Like this is that standard setup. It seems arts will be aggressive. It's gonna work
good idea
He's sticking around
Sonia to know it's now
Yeah, that's actually worth replaying that round in slow motion to see
oversteps that line. Brilliant work.
Do Miles rotating over?
He's going to try and spam through the smoke, I guess,
but surely not even worth looking into.
Yeah, it was a nice idea.
Not a bad play. Art dismissed the shots.
He had a couple of opportunities there.
First one, arguably should have hit that.
Second one was difficult, but as you mentioned,
MZNU just plays it so well, basing at the shots.
And as soon as you miss a shot of that sort of range,
you're going to get sprayed down.
The impressive part of that was MZNU
was to follow it up with the kill towards Boiler Room as well.
round already over when he gets a second kill. I think, I can't prove this, but I think stylistically,
if that had been Monosy in Art's position, getting Monosy to actually shoot the second shot when
you're shoulder peaking him is going to be really hard. He's so ice cold. You're not going to be
forcing him into that kind of situation. Yeah, that's a good point. Hunt's definitely worth while here,
but they are smoked off. Maybe not worth just running through and going into certain death here.
Let them save what they can. It's going to be an AKM4 and AWP.
Double AWP setup doesn't seem to be doing that much for Legacy and we've seen it
be a bit of a struggle on the retakes as well. Tactical timeout, one that's much needed here.
You've seen from Legacy and indeed that's the case. They have pretty decent money loss bonus
certainly there for them. I guess if Art had been successful pushing into the hallways like that,
it would have fulfilled one of our other sort of conversations which would have been getting
more CT information or maybe putting more pressure on the Mongols. So it's sort of a reason why you'd
want to do it. It just backfired in this particular round. I mean if he hits that first shot,
he gets out of there, resets the round. Yeah, it was a nice idea. It was actually a good play.
Yeah, unfortunately, if you don't hit the shot though, that can fall apart very quickly.
Zoom out a little bit here, Henry. We're at the 7-2 score. How bad are things for legacy at the moment?
Like, is it hard to max it on? Can they do something? They definitely can still come back. Yeah,
If they even get four rounds, like Inferno's, a weird map like that, like, right, it's difficult to say whether it's T-sided, C-T-sided, it comes down to pistols, momentum, legacy, sure, a few fumbled rounds, some questionable decisions at times, would they, like we said, that five on three, would they stack the A-bomb suddenly be open?
Right.
Hopefully, no more blunders like that, and they should be fine, they can win this round for sure.
Lots of good damage here, and arts, aggressive towards middle, it takes a bit of damage from that Molotov, but everyone's...
Re-positioning, resetting as we try and up to some banana control here courtesy of Tecno4k.
The scoreboard looks so weird for the Mongols because there's been so much saving on the legacy side
that it just feels like they have fewer kills than they should have.
That's a good point.
Yeah, but that's also why legacy keep having as much equipment as they have.
Normally there would be at least a couple more saves in a game like this one, but...
Oh, nice nading spawn.
Ouch.
Oh, didn't quite hit enough.
Can do it again.
It can do 50 damages, great Anders, just so you know, so if he is in the perfect spot
in CT spawn, Blitz can get a kill here.
That's what he's holding the angle.
We have the same setup, right?
They're all on banana.
Yep.
And nobody on LAC knows anything about what's happening on the other side.
No one's pushing up.
They're going to be right on top of the smoke.
Techno, how brave are you going to be flashing their way through as well?
They're going to be trying to get right out there, but while flashed, your mouse still
and a kill and Latto once again with a great hat trick from behind the bombsite.
Going to be getting three with the AK. What a lockdown.
Really nice. An AK-47 of Latto's gets himself a hat trick.
When they're given the opportunity, when they have presence in the B bombsite,
they've got a great hold. They've got nice crossfires. They just got to make sure they're
actually in the sights to hold them at bay. Mongols trying to play through the utility there.
This time unable to make it work. We're going to have a tactical timeout this time for the Mongols.
And they denied the double warp. They could have picked the one up there in the T-Ramp.
I think they realized every round they've had a double warp, it's been a disaster.
So let's just stick on the rifles, boys. It's not been working out.
The interesting thing is the T side of legacy, like since Artscoming is the in-game leader,
now they play a very unique style of Counter Strike. It's a lot of pushing smokes and
instinct, finding gaps, threading needles, however you want to put it. In my opinion,
not a very sustainable approach to top tier CS, but it's certainly entertaining.
It's fun and they're actually one of the few teams in the world that favor the a bomb side on inferno
Yeah, so so that I kind of agree. I look forward to seeing what they're gonna be doing
It's a good thing they do that as well because
Mongols have a very hard B defense insanely hard to break through. Let's get into it last couple of rounds here
It's been entertaining of nothing else. It's in great
skill on display here Lato especially
Fantastic hold of the AK 47 and speaking of which you got three of those now on the CT side deep smoke
Molotov's grenades exchanged, spam down range.
HGs hitting the mark as well, blitz left, reeling a 46 HP.
I'll leave the utility.
I'll let you've done enough in terms of showing presence there.
Then rotate ART back towards the A-bombsite.
Four you said would be doable.
Oh, absolutely.
See if they could get there. I mean, five is still on the menu in theory.
Especially with the low money there.
Testing out the apartments is the Mongols.
I would love to see, you mentioned the term retake utility for that top banana position.
I mean if they do that now, they force legacy to go back and re-clear top banana.
That would be, but they actually, they don't retake it.
They just throw the smoke on the CT side, which also blocks their own information.
Well, let's see.
We're going to be going towards that arch side, smoke down towards the library.
the library sat in. You've got to hear those my friend absolutely railed by Cobra Zera.
Five on four. They have got brutal mechanical skill on the Mongols side but they are running
out of time. Two men set up in towards A. It's going to be down to Art and Nysim to defend.
Yeah, no one's rotating over because again they don't know what's happening at the top
banana. Gotta be careful with this bomb 910. He's alone on the quad side. Play it towards
actual but if he dies that could be round it's also true 19 seconds they try and push it absolutely now
not much of a defense for having three people there i mean yeah like what can you really do i
don't think it's necessarily bad play it's just a sick shot from cobra's era i want to see that
on the replay we can slow it down a little as well would love that most sure we have the
technology but that's the drive-by was wild the fact that orbs holding that line he's ready for that
play and he just wide swings you one taps right that's honestly the round when you lose that sort
of play that's such an important part of the bonsai you're holding it with the orb as well
you're hoping your rifles can cross fire and focus towards shorter maps as soon as he goes down it's
impossible to hold against a five man attack i do feel like for as much as sand since had the awp
his impact just hasn't really been there and again i want to say why is he not holding a little bit
closer to arch they can look into top mid so here they have some warning and you can maybe get a
it is it is very passive uh... very passively i thought i was looking for
round number twelve
i guess the brats or the he's not really feeling himself like especially
considering is receiving those sorts of shots make a forty sevens like
when you've got your a w people are holding a very important angle when
you just seem to get his head blown off with no flash
uh... you think it was just happened that
that is fair point
and that's kind of the the mongols treatment at the beginning right now
legacy. Well that's what happens you play the Mongols. They might not be the most prepared
or drill team but they certainly are one of the most skilled in the entire world.
All vibes. All vibes. All vibes, no crack. Exactly. It was kind of working. I don't hate it.
Same shop as Sads in again. Didn't work out. Was it Sads in this one before?
It was art. So same angle but different orper. Sads in. See what he can make of it. If there's a
flash vendor comes in here and this one goes down there was a chance of a double kill with Blitz
It doesn't seem like it'd be set up for the alley you'd flash
Gotta hit this adds in there's no two ways about it. We need this one
Crikey
It's not good under that's not good unfortunately. I love your cell for it though
You must hit it and in one second
If you're holding the angle you've got to believe you get that shot
He was nowhere near it looked like he panics when the swing came through
Yeah, and I feel like I've seen that a couple of times out of him in this half
So definitely an issue that fourth round is looking impossible at this stage
You put all your money into this double up philosophy for your CT campaign
I just don't see how it's paid off in any way. It's been the rifles of Lato
The rifles in towards the B bombsite and it got you the couple of rounds you have yeah
This double up setup though has been underwhelming to say the very least folks on the positives though
That's a fantastic half in the Mongols. It is nothing too flashy
these hitting shots and recovering deficits and the five on three for me
and when they win that in towards the B bombsite that's when legacy it felt like
the wheels fell off yeah our comms were kind of all over the place I still can't
really justify a five on three advantage of an open bombsite this is no
need for it. Not that it would have made any difference what sort of a plateau
where I was at the end there when he pulled out the incendiary he wants to
incendiary that pit position because you can actually do that from the archway
it's a really cool incendiary you can throw to retake now he's in a one
most for so then it would just want to make a difference by just finding it out for the
folks at home that haven't seen some of that technology.
9-3 in the first half.
It could have been.
I think I think they cook this up this this map at least they need a bit of a reset.
This is the pick of the Mongols to be fair.
We move on to Mirage next thing is though that's all about mechanical skill all and
right now in terms of where the favor lies in that regard Mongols are blowing them out
of the server.
I think sadden needs to find some confidence. They need a nice pistol victory here some conversions. That might not be enough
They need like someone to
Step up deliver the goods and show they can actually go toe-to-toe
With the raw skill of Mongols just to reiterate legacy are one of the few teams in the world that actually prefer the a bombsite on this map
And that's good because combined
Playing that be supportive role
It's really both Blitz and techno are some of the best in the world that it's obviously they'll both play the same role
But it has a bit of an overlap there. So I would say this B bomb site is going to be
Really really hard to break through legacy might have to do some good work and they do that actually if you if they can be
allowed to get close to that short position over at the A bomb site
They're really dangerous. They're really good at finding that and here's an opening grenade in return
But they've already backed on out techno is dead
Just as I was praising the B defense leaving blitz here. He's gonna go pick up the grenade
That's probably really important and the rotations here. Look at how fast they're rotating
Nice smoke as well, Anders. It's going to be complicated now for legacy.
Smoke has blown open, but Jumao, finally, given them a nice advantage.
Should be enough to win this round here. They're trading out kills.
Blitz at the back. He needs a couple more here.
It's just going to be him alone though. Three versus one.
Surely nothing to say about this. They actually take the bomb over towards B.
So yeah, round has been won and it will be confirmed by Latto.
Nice work. Convincing pistol there. Exactly what they needed.
This game is not done by a long stretch Inferno, especially can get out of hand very quickly, especially the CT Finances.
I would say you don't force by this one if you're Mongols, but we'll see what they opt for.
You've got such a nice lead here to spring out the guns in the next round, but they are bringing the 5-7s and Kevlar out, which is also fine.
It just means if this doesn't work out, which is the more likely outcome, you're going to be full eco and then struggling a bit in your first gun round.
I've got four grenades as well, curious if they're going to be able to find anything.
I think Techno dropped his over the blitz, but he's already been pressured.
Arts, he has no chill at all.
Yeah, that's a classic.
That is the art, isn't it?
Yeah, he doesn't follow the rules.
He has his own play style when it works out.
It can't be glorious and it's as simple as that.
with the same keyboard since like 2007 that were the W keys stuck, you know, stuck everyone
in the wild. Like, ah, I guess I'm going forward then.
That's really nice. Get the round done with Mongols now hoping to save their upgraded pistols
and the MP9. Got another go in the next round I suppose, but you might as well go for a
bit of a Hunter with a Mac 10s at least. And you can see him coming over to Mal, coming
in to join the fun. They want to take down a couple of players if possible. Go for a
I like it. Yeah, I mean, it's absolutely worth it. Farm ups on cash. They are a little bit
slower than I was expecting. I wanted to see arts and do my like, I completely agree or
maybe just some kind of follow up and really do some in here. Not going to be the case.
They'll let the rest of the mongrel, but they also know they know they're against the next
round. So they've got to be careful some of these angles. Okay. Signs of life here for
legacy pretty brutal first half convincing pistol though very clean
second round should be more of the same here but bear in mind Mongols do say
they're 5 7s and MP9 so yes still a few more bumps in the road here
three people at the B bomb site a little bit early on should be seeing you
Molotovs to these corners, making sure that no one can hide and jump out at you with a 5-7.
It's the first Molotov in, and I think they know, I think Art had a bit of a sense that there was going to be someone trying to peek that corner.
Deep smoke coming in though from the CT side.
Good intel here from 9-10, they can actually vacate the B bombsite completely.
Hopefully scramble over in time, you can see them trying to get towards Arch, but the smokes are coming in.
Speaking of smokes, Split's going to try and lock them out.
He's a player with no weapon though, so yeah, it's a USP in a calm, really doing a thing, 5-7, maybe he has a chance, speaking of which, there's one of them.
And Xenia brings it back to an even kill. Looks like advantage for Legacy, should be absolutely fine here, and that kill, two kills, we'll confirm that. Nice shot.
Quick work from Satsun, yeah, we want to see that, we were a little bit critical of him with the AWP in the first half, but...
Look at Lill. Looks to be singing for him at the moment.
It was a killer flashbang that came in from the uh from the short area to set up that first 5-7 kill but
but after that they managed to hold on. Great news for Legacy. They do need it.
Three rounds in the first half. We're still in the early stages of the second half and the Mongols
they're going to be buying into the next round no matter what happens here. 9-10 I suppose.
Could be fun if you could get even more money but not going to be the case.
It's good work. Very good work. All of a sudden this game is back on. It felt very flat in
our first half. Legacy though. Finding momentum, finding that mojo. Blitz is still on two kills.
I want to say part of it again is because there's so much saving in the first half that it's some
of the scoreboard may be still a little bit weird but now that he's playing again that deep
position, I hyped him up a little bit. I think he's going to be good in it. Surely you can add
to the mix. Let's have a look shall we? It's been smooth sailing on a seaside campaign.
Three rounds in a row. Molotov towards the corner here from Jumaou. CTs were stacked. We talked
about retake utility that might be deployed any second now. I think it just has been. There it is.
So now the CTs do they want to push round and actually investigate who's there? I think they
absolutely do. There's the flash you're hoping that no one's home. Oh you've got to be ready for
for that angle and thankfully Tecno is. Huge flashbang to set it up. Yeah you got three
people there. And that's the sort of initiative we didn't see from Legacy in the first half.
That's what we were asking for right and you can see that's what it can do for you. Push
them back, get yourself an advantage, deny control and then you can reset the round.
Oh China run right, that's a bold play for them out. He heard the reload so you thought
there's a window of opportunity. Okay well it's not a bad pitch but unfortunately
There was a second player there. Oh techno with a failed jump you wanted to get up on the barrels there now
He's actually a little bit exposed potentially so is his teammate techno. You've got to survive
But no
No on health both of them. There's no grenades though on the other side
I mean this should still be a doable retake, but all it takes is one mistake
It just depends over the overlook miss him here in towards that tree position. I
Have seen your Spanish bullets as well. Yep. Okay. Oh, yeah
I think that 910 even is dreaming about this. He might have solved the deal. Anyway, this
is sick. He has to win this round now. Yeah, after blowing up your teammate, you definitely
got to it. You can see 910 anywhere from the put this banana position. Okay, it's all
good. Yeah, you can see that sigh of relief on his face. He is thanking his lucky stars
that he pulls out one off because you know your teammates in towards that tree position
and then you just blew him up after you got the two on one advantage.
A bit of a blunder, but like you said, the perfect play.
After this one, Anders, they have the advantage.
I don't like that they stick around.
Sure, you've got the retake utility down.
And this moment here, I feel like there was opportunities
to fall back and play the bomb side.
Oh, that one.
That's it.
Maybe it was Nissen's fault.
Maybe he said, do you have a grenade
and he doesn't specify how you want to?
Yeah.
You've got to really be precise in your language, man.
That's a good point, but...
I need a grenade pin in the grenade still.
It's legacy, getting a bit of luck on that side.
To be fair though, that push through the smoke was an excellent play.
That guaranteed the round.
Even the low HP.
9-10 had no idea.
It's a well played.
Man, we're right back in.
This game has opened up again.
Let's see if legacy can throw in at least some of those A plays that I was talking about.
Their splits is one of really good if they can get some of that arch control.
I think that's uh, it's one of them their expert plays here
The thing is Anders, when you build up this momentum, everything's going great
These are the sort of rounds that often fall right
We'll see whatever happens here, it's CobraZera up to the plate first
There's some significant damage, we're realizing he's been found out
Gonna fall back to more defensive position towards the library
Lash is making things uncomfortable here
Both sides of the server
Yeah
But they have no more flashbangs on the bomb side right now
There was Blitz coming in to throw his last flashbangs to help out
Bit of a banana split here.
You're going to see that make their way through CT spawn should be the perfect call.
We do have a flying omen in the form of blitz who's rotating that through many a lot of noises there.
So that should be, I think, only techno 4k remaining. He would have to do something unspeakable here to
fairly pull this one off. He needs a triple kill with a 5-7 for this round to be possible.
Okay, well, you've lined it up for us. Let's see what reality action we'll deliver here.
Twenty seconds. He's trying to get his way through. He just wants to slow it down.
If you can at all maybe to prevent the bomb can't delay it a bit, but he's had no chance. You could even find ways of the smoke
I think so far from the triple that we were
requesting
Now it's more for formality. Oh wallbang shot. That's good work satsen. He's picked it up
They're already disappointing for us half, but he's up to nine kills at the moment and
Blowing open the wall to take down and senior was not a bad at all
They actually don't lose anybody in this round legacy close to tying up the game at this stage
They've got all the momentum. They've got a lot of money as well on the seaside
Wow, you wouldn't think this is a 9-3 first half kind of game
Anything can and will happen in mr. 12 CS 2 and is momentum is a hell of a drug
It is and
They just look so flat. There were so many weird mistakes from legacy at the start. Yeah
But you're right. They rediscovered winning the pistol. I just think the general approach on the CT side like focusing so heavily on those double orbs
I think that was there unraveling
Now with the AKC and we talked about arts unique t-side cooling
Keeping it very fast very loose spotting gaps. He spotted the gap there towards CT spawn B
Split coming into where you're to see a lot of that like on the fly kind of avant-garde calls and yeah so far so good
And they're right back into this one five rounds in a row plenty of money
Mongols need to start showing some resistance here. Do they have an answer to the pace of
Artenco? Speaking of which, Artenco is barreling his way up towards Banana. He wants to get stuck in here, Anders.
I love watching our play. It's so wild, right in front, but he comes out, oh and Blitz keeps going.
He does get nuked at the top of Banana, but still, very good trade and Mongols will accept that kind of a deal.
And that's the life of being that banana entry though. Sometimes you just can't find the right moment.
Miss him on the other side investigating here. He couldn't have found a better time in Cobra Sierra.
He's going to hate that. And a miss shot from 9.10. Let's miss him live on the other side of the map.
That's a problem now. Take those alone at the back of the sights. I don't think they're going to directly grenade him.
But he's going to be put under a little bit of stress.
He just needs to play for his life. He can't really challenge until they're planting the bomb and trying to find him.
He's on a very defensive angle. He needs at least one and survive as long as he can.
Cannot afford to go down quickly here.
Oh, they're gonna come check you up.
That will do.
It's not bad at all, actually. His teammate though, 9-10. He's right there, but the smoke makes it so that he can't help out now.
Oh, god!
There's another miss shot!
9-10!
What the heck? That was Lato in the return.
He was lights out on the CT side with the AK. He got multiple triples.
And now it's MCO 1 versus 2. If anyone could, it just might be this kid here.
15 bullets left trying to get up on top of the box, but he doesn't realize there's one right down below
and they will win the round legacy. They run it back, they tie up the game.
Winning only three rounds in the first half. Now they're back to nine.
A flawless T-side campaign.
And that started off technically a five on three. I sure blitz got traded out after his double kill true
But a man disadvantage there and somehow some way still coming out on top
We said the player the back of the bomb site had to find at least one delay the plan
Certainly did that set up 910. I just don't think he was ready for the shop
The smoke went down if he hits that as a very very different round-and-ars, but it's gonna be an eco here aggression from the CT looking likely
In terms of what they've got, they have got some Kevlar, decent bit of utility, 5-7s,
but Legacy looking to take the lead here, it's being down 9-3 and again Blitz found
out that pacing of Legacy is just brutal, but so is the 5-7, only one found and that
is round.
I'm so surprised the speed death defense isn't working better normally.
This is one of the things I think that does make the Mongols very tricky to play on this
map, but...
It's just not meta tier one play, like I see a presenter right now, and Mongols are just
struggling with the pace, yeah, they're not handling it well.
Every single duel they've ever got, knife sour, the backs turned, we saw it on the previous
round towards the quad side, knife out trying to jump up towards, and it's not expecting
these overly aggressive T side plays.
Well hey, listen, we were saying that legacy were getting the Mongols treatment because
of all the incredible mechanics that the Mongols were bringing, but right now, Mongols are
getting the legacy treatment from the art treatment.
exactly. He's kind of stomping on them. Yeah, it's very unique when legacy get going. They're
in the zone. All the calls are working out. All of a sudden, Baral is high. And they're
going to take the lead. They were nine, three down. Another teammate comes in this time.
Sadzen, the one to suffer doesn't really matter too much. They've got tons of cash on this
T side two players of five digits.
We're coordinating each other so much.
I don't know.
You learned anything from MAT.
It's that you throw Molotovs, you get to see me.
That's the way to do it.
Oh, they cheese.
Exactly.
OK.
Well, like you see, this is quite remarkable.
I'm not going to lie.
It is.
Seven rounds in a row.
I'm excited.
This is shaping up to be too much of a one-sided game.
We don't want that.
These are the quarterfinals after all here at the CAC.
And this just denotes the pick of the Mongols as well.
So you've let them right back into the game,
let them take the lead, and they're picking at the pace again.
We're going for an apartments rush.
Go for the flames, boys.
Get stuck in.
MZinho finally shuts them down.
Surely a round for the Mongols is available here in number 20.
Their first on their CC campaign.
You could see once again, Art is calling a Hail Mary strategy.
We're going to rush the apartments.
We're going to run through their utility,
and we're going to keep our foot on the throat.
Thankfully this time though, the Mongols are able to answer back and find their first round.
I say that with baited breath. It's a 4 on 2. Let's see how it unfolds.
This should be a lock-in.
We've said that before with the Mongols here and somehow legacy found a way back.
Alright, 9-10.
Who's missed some pretty strange shots, I think, in the second half so far.
Not gonna be this time.
MCNIO finds his third and they do shut it down.
And you know what?
That was a three-man early stack at B.
So if they got even one kill their legacy, even if they just trade out MC Neo for a two for one
That's still only one person defending to be brought of the bombsite here. So it's a little really good for a lot of arts
Yeah, I don't see like you've got them in your pocket right now. They're uncomfortable
They're floundering they can't handle the pace why not keep it going? But MC Neo finally does shut them down
Here we go then like we said the money is unbelievably strong. They've got maybe one more buy in reserve here
Mongols need to streak a couple together
It managed to get a couple of AK-47s with a 910 AWP.
Grenades. Send down towards bottom, banana, barely doing any damage.
There is a grenade for the half hold though being set up. Anyone home? Not quite.
They're dodging so much in this utility at the moment.
This could be another fast B-pop and is playing in front of the utility and is getting in there.
It's crazy how fast these guys play.
Well, you know what, they still trade a kill and they're going to get the one on Blitz as well.
as well. Techno's back here and they know that he's the other B player so they're going
to be looking for him. No scope done! Top! Satsyn has found it! Are you missing the
scope shots? Just don't scope at all is the answer.
So fast. Unreal scenes here. Round still open for the Bay but the fact that I'm missing
should decide that one. 9-10 won't be winning this with the AWP.
This is absolutely wild. They got the two opening defensive kills you think, okay well
that's probably going to be good enough. And it is and like you said he's not going
we're gonna get he's down to 13 health around the corner we go here Sansen I
think smartly disengaging he knows as a player towards the other side the
problem is kind of okay it's gonna save he gets a quick kill there there is a
wild where he could win it but Sansen saves a day there they can fast as
usual legacy dominating that banana area through all the utility managing to come
out on top once again a very quick execute towards a B site pays dividends
and after a 9-3 deficit once again they're on the lead 11 to 10 finances will be in turmoil
has to be a tactical time out you'd imagine
it's not too bad the bi-among us have available there will be concessions okay not too many
this is just a very important round obviously for more reasons than one legacy one round away
for a map point here in the quarter final at CAC
And on their opponent's map pick, are there dreadful starts?
Oh, absolutely.
Investing into the double ops on the CC side and getting almost no value for all that money.
Yeah, that was the problem.
Had they played a more traditional setup, I think they would have got a few more.
The Orbs were not connecting that first half at least.
Sads in no fighting to form on the T side.
Okay, well, I love this.
What a great twist to the story.
So they have no kits, I believe, and a Famous in MZM, so it's still a pretty decent buy.
It's not as strong as you might like.
And I guess the Formasus is to make sure they get the extra utility.
Yeah.
I want that.
Don't want to be skipping out.
It is Inferno after all.
Thanks for going down towards outside.
Two players waiting towards Quad.
It's CobraZera.
Can have his World Cutout for him though.
smoke on top of the quad takes away a lot of vision.
Going through the protocols here, flushing out any potential CTs in the other side, flashbang
over the top, we'll take a swing with it.
You might finally see one of those A-spits, but the bomb is down at the bottom of an honor
and that's a bit suspicious to be honest.
Still not really committed to this part of it.
They could go back through CT spawn again.
Nizim.
Oh, oh, what a miss from Techno.
That's disastrous.
They must know there's only one player at the B bomb site and they
Maybe they might not actually guess it. It's 9-10 that's over there. They could have been thinking he's on the other side
Because they've already found the 2B anchors, so doesn't matter. I guess they get the kill on Corpus here
So now they're gonna be falling back. The bomb is waiting here this whole time
Okay, he needs to get out of there do not take that challenge go through in the past get to all the apps
Nice work around legacy and sorry technically need to be getting that kill sure that round is lost in that interaction
There was still a chance he gets that
Fends them off
Pushes them into the defense. The fact he doesn't doesn't really do any damage there
I'm so sad that Cobra Sierra died because techno and blitz have both gone down
So if there was a world in which legacy thought okay B is open now
Yeah, and they just could run for it with the low time especially with the bomb being there
There was a world in which nine ten could surprise them, but it's all in the past now 12 to 10
They might actually do this Henry
You're gonna do it and is this the round look at the distinct lack of utility. They have one smoke remaining at this
Wow.
Rushing down the second middle.
Desperate play.
A 9-3 lead crumbling.
Right before our very eyes.
5-3 now.
The full reverse sweep is upon us.
In the quarterfinals, Mongols completely collapse
in the second half as legacy.
Step up.
Okay.
Lids coming back now,
living up to some of the hype,
defending the top banana position.
that's what they needed more off here. You're not wrong about the collapse of the Mongols,
they're going to be sad about this no matter what happens here, they do not want to be
even playing overtime, they had this map locked down. Nice pursuit for Azinio, no one's checking
that. How they recover this round, I'll never know, but we'll see what happens here. Let's
see. Two on one. It could still be on. Lato has played an outrageous game. Reminded he got the
AK on the CT side. He has back to back triple kills. He's up to 20 and 9. He's had
Unbelievable impact on the game so far, but now he's in the clutch on 1 versus 3 and he's already got the first one 35 seconds
He's gone through the smoke. There's no way he could get back to the bomb site
He had a bit more time. I'd agree with you
But like yeah smoke going down and it's gonna be Lato nice idea nice attempt
But that's one at that. It would have been cold for sure
But that's crazy work for Mongols who even win that you go to a five on three
That point and all of a sudden you somehow come out on top with Famous and no nades
Like you can see how desperate they were going into that round
No grenades at the push second middle of two players lose both for said players and come out on top still that is going to be a
Real gut punch to legacy there. You should have closed it out right there and then
So we go to the distance we might be four rounds if we go over time here
Mongols are back there. They'll be able to pick themselves up dust themselves down
I think they end up winning it if they get to overtime
They've been a little bit flabbergasted by the pace and the aggression coming in from legacy
But starting to get a handle on it now
Classic art counter strike. Oh, it's fun to watch. Yeah
I've said it many times. I don't think it's sustainable to win trophies
But you can definitely cause upsets with this sort of approach. Well, they'll take that for now, you know, get us that closer
Very enjoyable to watch indeed
So let's see. AWP on 9-10. It's gonna be here, which is a techno behind him. Blitz all the way over on the other side, but they're gonna start to rotate that. They're gonna make that rotation legacy.
Trying to get that controller top banana as well, or at least pretending like they are. For the minute, all they've done is really thrown the molotov and they're backing off towards the middle.
Nism is in the apartments
Mongols have one player on watch duty towards arch and that's Cobra Zero is just thrown in a incendiary towards the middle
We said this in the entire first half when legacy run the CT side you have to have some information on what's happening in that top mid position
Cobra sir is not really feeling it
You wanted to stick around but he's been pushed slowly back around the corner grenade right on top of you more importantly
Perhaps a headshot straight onto blitz Cobra zero spins around he is ready for that one
Another great spray down, gets the headshot onto Nism, and now the bomb is at short alone on the AWP of Satsen.
He's walking in scoped up. This is very dangerous here. This look at 40 seconds for Satsen connecting.
Cobra Sera goes down and they might have threaded the needle on this one. Legacy.
Only three rounds in the first half, but this second half has been godlike for them.
Tecno and 9-10 now left to try and recover this round and get this one into OT. It's not looking like me.
They are stepping closer.
Techno up in the apartments. Can we get any flash over perhaps? Oh, he's off it already.
Latso, he's got to be out.
He's a shot right now with double kill for him.
22 and 9-10, there's nothing you could do to save this round.
Latso will end it with a great triple, a quad kill in fact, and 23 kills.
What an insane comeback for Legacy.
Absolutely unreal, and as you go down 9-3, you're looking flat.
double orb setup hasn't worked out whatsoever but then you bring that spicy Brazilian flair to the T side
very aggressive, very pacey and he's pulled the rug from underneath the Mongols and steel
their map away an absolute disaster for the Mongols. And as said that was some classic
art counter strike and I could not agree more we call that a CAC what a victory there over the
the Mongols for legacy. Mongols were way ahead after that first half and then it all collapsed.
Strike up left. Blake, you wanna jump in straight away?
A pure weak when you're strong and strong when you're weak was written by Sun Tzu in the art of war.
And I think that's what art pulled off there, because listen man, that first half, it looked like it was done, right?
Mongols is abusing that A-bomb set time and time again, and then you switch over, yeah, I did win a pistol, sure, whatnot.
But that B hit, while Mongols, I feel like they could play that way better.
There were a lot of mistakes being made, individuals kind of slacking off as well.
Techno, for example, comes to mind, but credit where it's due.
That was Art rolling back through years, channeling 2019 Fury and running away with the win.
I mean realistically it wasn't that one-sided towards the beginning, right?
Because it all started with those two back-to-back 2v2s on B,
that 1v1 that ended with Miss M or Sabzin pushing through the smoke to kind of subvert 910,
who just pushed through on the other side, right? And then next round again the 2v2 on B that
then end up going the other way, but from there it is kind of legacy subverting expectations
with some of these timings. This was exactly one of those rounds where they caught off
a couple of players just not really expecting that hit to come at that particular moment
and then she was just running away with it. And it's also like you go to the final round,
like round number 24, what a ball to call this round, right? It's like we've been conditioning
the Mongols with his B hits time and time and time again and then you could see once an A hit comes
in, Blitz kind of caught out of position out in the middle of arch kind of to its long.
And the Mongols kind of left scrambling every single time these hits were coming and they're
never in a comfortable position, not able to get much of map control as well.
When you don't have banana control, you're in for a rough time.
Scoreboard up on screen now, if we had to highlight individual performances, Lato has
gone so big for legacy there.
overall I'd say Lotto is having a good tournament here at CAC. Yeah he's the top-rated player for
the team and that's usually the case for Lotto. He was also the one who gave them a little bit
of a cushion on the CT side right because he was the one with the triple kills from Dark
where you know those were the two rounds where Mongols tried something a little bit more pacey,
something a little bit more on timing like a pop through smoke on B. Lotto was there just to shut
them down both times and that obviously helped them get those three rounds that they needed to
to survive this, or to try to go on this comeback on the second half, right?
And then he continued, where he pretty much left off.
I just wanted to give some props to, like I said, for that last round,
because there was a moment where, you know, Cobra got those couple of kills,
where people may be a little bit too far ahead of the play.
But then, I don't know whether it was a call from somebody,
or just like they slowed down, like let's molly off site.
Just a notch.
Yes, just a little bit molly off site, make sure that that guy is uncomfortable,
so we can pick him off, and then we close it out from there, 3v2, easy peasy, right?
So very controlled in the end.
I don't think it was like the classic kind of crazy art style
that we sometimes see a little bit where they get extended
or where they make some of these crazy plays.
I just think they are really good at playing
on like very specific timings that are catching people
off guard because they're not used to those.
And it's also like even the one apps round
where they just went for the fast push towards apps
and Mazzina gets double killed in a shutdown around,
I think the first CT round that the Mongols won.
I don't think it was a bad one necessarily, right?
They've been conditioning to be so, so very well.
And in the Zeno, if he saw that he gets a first,
he's going to transfer his sprays onto a great spray
to get a 2K.
If he gets traded there, that round works perfectly.
They get the kill, just going to be Cobra alone on the A bomb
side, they're going to be swarming him.
The round wouldn't have been done right there.
So credit where it's due, man.
That was an incredible T-side from Art.
But if we go back to the veto, do you
think legacy, or at least Art, had a big grin on his face
when Mongols came in with that Inferno pick?
He didn't mug them, for sure.
Mongols, I don't necessarily think so,
Because you can see in the first half, they were really struggling with an A defense.
Arb is trying to be aggressive, so I'm pushing towards absolutely A-W-P.
Just getting shut down time and time again.
Bzina was a beast by the way in the first half as well.
And the B defense, pretty solid, but it did come down to Mongols.
I think they were trying to catch them off guard.
We didn't see too many B executes, so to speak, for the Mongols.
And Lato getting a couple of kills.
I don't think they were necessarily happy, Paola.
But then I think on the T side, when you kind of get to dictate the pace of how you want to play,
I think that's what really worked out for him.
And also, I won't lie though, I felt like Mongols' banana defense was very mid, honestly.
Yeah, they didn't even try to go for it a lot of the time, to be honest.
And what they did, they were getting traded a lot, and obviously when that happens,
you have the bombsite being really weak.
So, look, I don't think that they were necessarily so much better on the map
that they were happy to get at that, because realistically,
one of those clutches I was talking about early on goes the other way,
pistol round goes the other way, this is a very one-sided scoreline for the Mongols still.
So I think there was every world that could have gone the other way, right?
Let's look ahead now to Mirage, map 2.
It is Legacy's pick, and based on raw stats of the last three months, they are massively ahead.
Blair, let's start with you.
Yeah, they are, you can say that, but this is still Mongol's favorite map.
It is still on paper their best map, if you ask me, right?
Sure, they've been flirting a bit with the nukes of the world in Furno,
and Ancient obviously the second most played map for their entire lineup, so to speak.
But Mirage, the problem as we mentioned in a prelude to this game is that the T-Sides are non-existent right now.
Six rounds across three maps in which two of the maps go 13-11 and the other one which he lost in Liquid is 13-9.
That's not painting a pretty picture.
However, what could be going the way of Mongols is the CD-Sides are very, very solid on this map.
9-10 is a beast on this map.
They even switch up a little bit with Cobra's playing more B anchor-ish, so to speak.
And I think he's doing a very good job because
Technoman that he looked rough you could see some of those duels where he was barely landing a single bullet and what should have been a free kill for him
So I still believe models have a chance to bring it through. I'm not my Asian bias shining through
I think that I think they still have this one. I mean we do call you sit in Asian bias or hang ban as well as Blair
So I don't know if you can really fight those claims so strongly right now. I I reject this claims
I think it's fake news parlor. I don't know where you're getting it from but it's all fake. It's not real
All right fake news for now. Let's go back to some true news and strike out
How do you think Mongols can wake up on map 2?
Look, it's got to be through fixing the T sides.
I mean, even if it's just getting the pistol and then getting conversions,
and from there, it gets a little bit easier, right?
Because that's been the debate of their existence.
This tournament, even before this tournament,
what did we say, three rounds that they want to go across
three different halves of T side?
That's six in total, yeah.
Six rounds in total across three.
Effectively, half T sounds right.
Yeah, it's like out of like 32 rounds.
Yeah, something like that.
So that's obviously a pretty damning scoreline.
I do think that as much as legacy
have been comfortable on the map,
and it's something that they've been playing quite a lot
and have a big win rate on,
it is through kind of, let's say,
sub-top tier opposition, a lot of that.
In Atlanta, they did have a lot of success,
but it was teams like 9Z, like M80, or Energy,
or something like that,
that they were beating on this map,
and like the best map win that they have on it,
dates back like two months against the ParaVision,
I think, which was even online at EPL, you know?
So obviously as much as it is a place of comfort for legacy, they're not necessarily used to playing the top teams on us
The impression I'm getting guys is that you both think we're gonna end up going to three striker. I
Yeah, I don't know to be honest
Yes, I just struggled with with mongols with this because they look so good on CT sides and everything works so well
9-10 and like some of these plays that they have every time there's an A hit you know that somebody's coming through a smoke
There's a pop flash like they're so quick to react off of information when they're playing on the CT side
But then their T sides completely crumbled were it was so bad where there were
9-3 up in the CT seconds liquid against liquid by the way
Yeah, kind of like so a very strong team right now and they got one round on the T side like it's like it's not a lack of
Ideas is just seem to have lost that X factor that on this map and Blair mr. Asian bias
you definitely think we're going. I reject I reject this title this
I think we're going to three. I think we're going to three. I feel like
individually they have kind of like you know they're still pretty wide awake
right I think with seniors looking good. Naitan didn't have a lot to do on this
map but we've seen what he was doing earlier with the AWP against Pirate
Vision towards the mid position as well. I see ancient coming up Mr. Pala aka
Mantruz. Alright everybody at home yeah it's our first quarter finals legacy our
current champions are up 1-0 after winning Mongol's pick and let's see what happens in map number two
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is Anders first map
completed bit of a horror show
and then it's completely collapsing in the second half.
We move on to Legacy's pick now of Mirage,
and the way they're playing right now, they might be able to carry on that momentum
into the second map and maybe get a 2-0.
They avoided the overtime, they had a great second half,
but as the desk are pointing out, this is also a good map for the Mongols.
I don't want to get too carried away. I hope we see a third map.
There were mistakes on both sides, really, but it was really entertaining Counter Strike.
This is what I want to see. I love watching this sort of stuff.
But you said he's bringing up Brazilian flavor. Yeah, you're aggressive. You can't be bought by this
I'm glad we kind of had that conversation before the
Inferno game got going because we've got exactly what we wanted. It's unpredictable. It's fast-paced
It's out of the pocket, you know, it's like you never really know what's gonna happen
It's all an instinct and spotting gaps in the map and that was a prime example of how powerful can be if your individuals are showing up
And you're just making decisive moves. You can actually run away with that second half and recover a 9-3 deficit
didn't even need overtime handers. They did a 13-11.
Very, very good work.
Lato individually was playing...
He kept them alive.
Bear in mind, they only got three rounds in our first half.
He got them two of them with triple spraydowns until that beat them set, right?
So unless he had that sort of output, even though everyone else was quiet,
he gave them enough runway to run away with it in the second half.
They came into the second half. I think winning the pistol, winning the first six rounds,
was in a world like just very good stuff.
Yeah, absolutely.
Maybe another storyline to carry over from Inferno
into Mirage once we get to the CT side for legacy is whether or not they'll try and look for more information because
Admittedly, it could be a bit tricky on inferno to get that CT side information
But surely on Mirage Henry date they should be able to get more information on what's happening
Like you can do all these pushes to top mid
But you know be apartments or even in the palace or bottom a ramp like there are so many ways the CTs can know what's happening
So you'd love to see them try something different. Maybe even give up the double or
Maybe even give that up. I think the thing is double open inferno not really a thing double open mirage
Okay, is absolutely a thing all right. You like that more
Yeah, like inferno as we saw that like if you're trying to retake the B bomb site like you just done
You can't really do anything about it like if you're smoked off you the double. That's why it's not necessarily viable
I'm not like I said, I don't think it's like impossible to make that work
But it really did look quite weak for them
I expect to see it again in a mirage and it's a lot more serviceable on that particular map
just to note while we're getting ready to get going here we have got another
quarterfinal running simultaneously to this one as we bait versus mouse yeah
so the first map is concluded there mouse have picked it up 13 to 8 and on the
second map right now and they're up 9 to 4 but bait just won the pistol 9 to 5
actually so they're playing ancient right now they've got a third map
potentially on the horizon we could do as well as we get ready for the second
map of the series Mongols licking their wounds after having a huge lead and then
losing in regulation see whether they can bounce back with a pistol victory here
Cobra Zera, dual elites, HG Grenade for Techno and in terms of utility to the
T side at Plathoravet we've got decoys, smokes, molotovs and flashes.
Oh that's over the opening kill he got that's about to say and a P250 as well
well that's gone now. Yeah unfortunately couldn't keep it going they do not
Oh that is smooth 9-10 even attempting to mid air shot it should have been
criminal to even try that it is three people left alive and nine ten just live
as long as you can the bomb is actually somewhere behind him but he's gonna pick
up right now and he's just gonna pick it up and run because they are
controlled the back position yeah huge pain checking this I mean he even
pretended to check yeah it's a lazy clay I'm afraid someone's gonna take the
shots here low on health is nine ten surely gonna get overwhelmed it's right
back in the hands of legacy a lot of problems right now for the Mongols
Oh, wow.
Techno goes down, Nism.
Band-late look in the corner.
What a play.
The lazy clear that was coming in.
You're absolutely right about it.
And then Celio cannot get the retake on.
They did not have a kit either.
That's rough.
So disappointing after 9-10's efforts towards middle.
Getting you a massive advantage there.
Yep.
There's Lato, the opening kill, with a 9-10.
Gives him a nice advantage here.
Beautiful shots.
But Nism.
Cobra's there.
Yeah, he won't be doing that again.
Because he was aware of the prospect there was a gap there, and he checks it but doesn't check quite deep enough
So that's what we call a lazy clerk and it does cost him the round now
My reason for thinking we're gonna see a third map here really has a lot to do with 910
He missed quite a few shots on inferno. I rate him very highly as an orper
I think he's not a very reliable. I don't think we're gonna see that
I think we're gonna see a different 910 on this map. He's in the conversation from top 5 or I think that's definitely
And he wasn't playing like that. I think on the on the first map
this one though I imagine he's gonna he's gonna be ready those kind of usp
shots maybe that'll set them up nicely but they still lose the round
boss by here on the second 910 got a sniper we'll have to make do with the
scout this time though deagles 5-7s here smokes being deployed towards connector
and the window pretty standard stuff so far flush any CTs out getting some base
in that control talking about flush them out that Molotov's gonna do wonders
could have to force him in towards the window. Oh, he's very aware of what's going on here.
Dumau did significant damage towards Techno. He gets the hell out of dodge. And we've got
lots of control towards Shaw here. This is going swimmingly. This art detector second
player though. He doesn't, but gets away with it and still goes down. Where did that grade
come from? Wow, CT side is bounced off my blitz, I think. But that was crazy. It's such
an open position for Corporal Zero. He could get flashed 10 million ways, but he wasn't.
Okay, man advantage, but low plays here. We're gonna make our way back towards A. We have got Lato and towards the apartments.
Bit of a focus tool to be bounced up in the Mongols zone.
Get themselves in position. They don't really have any smoke sanders. They go after us, go in contact with Lato, trying to find the openers here.
I mean, he could molotov this position. That would really help them out, but it's unlikely that he's gonna be able to do that.
Yeah, he's molotoving that shadow position instead. 9-10 goes down.
MC in the old today spotted I think they did that might have almost showing up on the radar there for a second blitz still very good work
A double headshot will bring down two seconds in this in me. All right. There's no time at all here
How do they slow it down so much once they even though the double kill came in you would have been running with the bomb surely
Well, there we have it
I was looking so good for a second that legacy
Managing to dislodge their setup make them uncomfortable
showing some presence over towards short and then a fast rotation back towards A,
but there's no time remaining a double kill with the Galil. Saves the day and
Legacy now on the back foot. They all have a bit of firepower here. They've got an AK and a
Galil. Techlands to go with them, but Mongols shut down the Apple mentioned
Bementium early, not letting Legacy spiral out of control here and another
classic art sort of play here. We saw this in Inferno as well. Three players
towards the apartment, basic execution, smokes go down, throw a few flashes over, and try
and just flood out of the palace, and here we go.
Yeah, pure speed behind this one again, it worked on the front, so why not on this one.
Smoke is up towards the top of the stairs, that actually does connect with the scout
going through 9-10, having a bit of an impact here in CELIO now, starting to waste its techno
4K with a good double spray down.
So they will get rid of it, the aggression has been nullified, and Mongols back in control
in spite of losing the pistol, that's a huge turnaround.
They really need this map, obviously.
We're at the quarterfinals here,
so it's time for the Monrules to show up.
Well, that's very promising.
Excellent hold.
Good shots in the scout, weakening them up
as we get into a full E-Carrier.
Something to maybe look forward to for Legacy on the T side.
They are a team that are in love with the idea
of boosting in a window on this map.
Taking window control, sort of,
to do significantly more than other teams.
So that could be, you know, in store.
We'll see if they can throw to now or somebody else in there to cause havoc
It's always fun when you get the tease, you know to take that deep window control
Not gonna be in this round as they will have a single flashbang
Don't know how good a flashbang can be
Wow
All right, wait a minute
Robert Sirus struggling to find more he's got three bullets that hasn't managed to reload yet
In fact, he's gonna pull out the 5-7.
This one's a pretty good sidearm for this kind of scenario,
although they are dinking away at him.
Getting a bit scary.
Surely they can find him.
Oh, come on.
Third clock headshot that lands on him.
Finally, he's dead.
OK.
Well, they win the round.
It's not a comfortable one, but it wins a win.
Not bad, though.
It's not bad at all for the Mongol.
Sorry for legacy, getting a few kills there.
But we'll see how it affects the finances going forward.
So Mongols in the lead.
the bear might be just joining us they were up nine three in the first half of
inferno and still lost in regulation
that's true
double all this return to the server henry
like we said mirage that is quite a matter
i'm glad you brought that up
just just inferno it's not really
and we saw why
yeah we tested that proposition
we weren't impressed
oh the molotov i think
he wasn't really connect with nine ten there he's watching over the smoke so
It wasn't burned at all by it, means he can stick around and try and take a look here,
Sansen, testing the smoke but not finding anyone.
We'll get a grenade that lands somewhere in the air above him.
And this mid control obviously is essential tactically on the T side of Mirage, which
is why the CTs are going to try and deny it as much as they can.
Right now it's Techno who's playing in this position.
Big round here.
So basic mid control granted towards legacy smoking off deep and towards that connect up
This some of the opening kill that's all the around the contact play as well
But let's once the back of the man advantage sits with legacy
Let's fighting towards that connector and this and keeps on finding ground here to AWP the shuts him down
There's significant damage, but a double kill for 910 the double orbs set up working out nicely here
That's all keep them in it, but 910 continues to frag
Triple kill for him, Art in game leader up against two AWPs. The HP not a factor here, but the time is 30 seconds remaining.
Bomb down on the A bomb site. I don't think you can really do anything about this, but let's see.
Okay, that helps.
That helps a lot.
That's very interesting. I'm glad you brought up the bomb because that's obviously a significant factor. If you had it on his back, he could go anywhere, but he has to run this way.
the Corbusier is ready. It's another very expensive round. That's a double off.
They can only save one of them and they lost two people in the previous round.
So it is going to sort of bite into the economy a lot here on the Mongol side,
but they win it. They're still off to a good start.
But maybe if they could have got up with both the orbs, that would have been a more of a celebration perhaps on the Mongol side.
The thing is the money is busted. So we shouldn't have too many knock-on effects here.
All they can really bring to the table legacy is tech minds and maybe a little at the very top end.
they have to take a partial wear. It's a question I suppose. Without in charge of the vehicle,
are they going to be more dangerous to Tech Nines? It could be, you know, speedier. I mean,
yeah, there is always that idea. They're going to have a hero AK in the hands of Dumau, from what
I can see. It's all the drop set. So we're assuming there'll be Tech Nines to go around with it.
I'm expecting some sort of pocket strap here, Anders, like you're going to send in the cannon
fodder with the pistols and the armor, and then you want to be setting up your star,
Doomow with the AK you want to have they'll probably go towards a maybe go for a mid split. We'll see
Yeah, towards a we're going so throw the default smokes towards window and top mid
Super mouse with the AK in the middle. Oh, he's running straight. Oh, he just wants one opening
910 finding another one
Oh
Holy off dual that is one hell of a crouching shot from Lato all the way across the bomb site
M-senior though doing good work still seven bullets slashed very economic with those he does get taken down smoke
That's a glock onto blitz that kills him sad some solo anything touches me. He's gonna be going this in finds a headshot
Straight through the smoke nism has crumbled them three kills in this round. What an outrageous result
No way, that's the round they win. We thought the hero AK could step up. That's what happened
to Dumao in that AK. But Lacto from way downtown in the Desert Eagle, you thought, okay, though,
the round's over. Enzenio, nice little double kill, but it's the Glocks, the burst fire anders.
Nismgith, the M4, and a ridiculous sequence here. Spamming the smoke, finds Techno and
Legacy are back to their winning ways. Closing that gap now and the money is in turmoil. The Mongols now
Now, piecing together, what they can, they've got a couple of rifles, an MP9 and two pistols here.
Arts, once again, very fast towards top of middle, goes through the smoke, heading in towards shore.
They are none the wiser as well, he gets into his ladder room, undetected, this is a very powerful potent position.
Yeah, even when he's not running, he's aggressive.
Yeah, it doesn't matter.
Very unique play out.
It's so hard for the CTs to know that this is happening, that you could easily see a CT put a guy in here.
With him in that position, I think he's going to call them back towards for a B execution.
Okay.
Considering he has full control of Short, knowing they don't have to worry about the angle,
they go in, B exec, he backstabs from Short, catches any players that are focusing towards
the apartments.
That's what I'm guessing, but this is a good reaction.
Mongols got two players down towards the underpass, they can backstab through that area as well.
So the round is not confirmed by any stretch of the imagination, really strong position,
four legacy, that could fall apart, but now detected, and arts, well there it is.
strikes and does find 9-10. Really well played, like it's a high-risk maneuver from Arthur,
say the least, the one that has worked out quite nicely. Can they convert the round?
Now, MZenius here with the M4. Yeah. Right, there's the right spot here.
They'll spray down one of them, they need a bit more. And another shot comes through.
Great work for Ecenio. Oh, I like the door. And you laid it out for us a bit,
20 seconds before they actually got there with the art position, and everything was
lined up perfectly. It looked like it should have been a done deal.
It was the 5-7, we didn't see it from his POV, a double kill from the 5-7 though.
You've said many times, pound for pound, the best pistol in the game or the best weapon?
Best gun in the game, not even best pistol.
Especially if you can find a really cheeky corner and get some one-tap headshots at close range.
Very disappointing finish though, legacy. Couldn't have asked so much more in terms of map control,
opening kills, they flood into the bomb site and yeah, that 5-7 that deals with them.
Who was that in the back getting that kill with the 5-7? I didn't even notice.
happened way too quickly. Oh, so right when legacy we're building an earlier
comeback, it's natural. So, Art and Jumao got the opening two kills there. They
had a five on three, essentially, and all of a sudden the wheels fell off. There was
Cobra's error with a five seven. He gets a double kill, so it goes to a three on
three, then Emsenio stepped up with the M4, got the man advantage, Emsenio ends up
getting a double kill, then Blitz came in with the MP9 to close things out. So they
a five on three against the pistols essentially there. But it was Cobrazera, the last man standing,
gets the double kill, sets a Benzino, and they steal the round away, that is huge.
What a difference it makes, just as their economy was faltering and they were with the backs of
the wall, they revitalize it again, and it does another thing for them, it makes sure that this
910 AWP stays alive as much as it can early on in the first half. And I feel like 910s,
He looks different from Inferno.
Again, like you said, this is more of an all-friendly map.
He's back here at D.
Back of the B hallway.
And that allows for more of a rotation towards A.
You could see Cobra Seara's close to middle if he wants to B.
Who is going to take that first fight and step into the lineup against 9-10?
He hasn't missed many shots. The only time that he's really been in trouble was Lada with the eagle somehow landing that shot.
Every other time every other encounter 910 is looked so sharp on this map
And he's gonna be tested
Cobra Cirrus got no more grenades 910 has a lot of utility
So if he gets a shot here and falls back there's the first one and send the area straight down
He just wants to stop the rush from coming in so they can't hunt him easily does miss the next one
But then the backup plan is already in effect Cobra Sierra gets one
Good after three and low. Oh, he's dead grenade right on top. Oh, you'd be stuck. He would have died
Okay, I can't run 24 seconds. That's a very good point Anders
It all comes up to art and he's been found out by 910 great awareness here probably gets his skill as well
He's on for a quad kill sad didn't nothing you can do against this one
I'm afraid the blitz will find him stronghold once again that should rupture the finances of legacy back down to a partial buy
We know they can win them
But so far
Mongols are looking very very solid here
There's nine ten
Opening kill was his no problem
Kobrazera to pick up the pieces in a nine ten with the awareness here
That was the only chance they had it asked the backstab but nine ten with three blitz to close things down
But they're very promising now once again, but bear in mind on Inferno Mongols are up 93
It was more of the same exactly what we saw here. They were dominating our first half and in the second they crumbled
But to be fair, it was on the T side where Lexi did their best working in fire.
Yes.
Okay, that's probably an important context, you're right about that.
I said maybe the tech lines are going to be more dangerous, let's see what kind of speed
this can bring.
Pistols and a Mach 10, but it's just not enough here.
They can't even punch through the wall to the B bomb side at all.
Art's got to kill, and I won't help them right now.
It goes down, leaving Sandsyn.
I guess that is.
There's such a key difference when going for those B rushes whether you get even one kill at the start if you can sort of touch
The ground of the bomb site and get one kill on the CT is it's on but they never really made it out
So great shutdown seven to two. It does have a similar quality
I guess as to the first map only in reverse. Yeah
It will rounds to go here legacy
We'll have a buy. Not everything they need. They have the AKs and the AWP, sure, but missing
some key pieces of utility. More than enough to work with, though. Smokedown towards window.
Blitz will be burning incendiary in response. We've got one player towards the A-bomb, so
we do know Nissen likes to lurk out there by himself and try and work those picks. But
I think the CTs might be exploring that themselves. They could be pushing into that A-ground,
Confirming it's clear for now.
Double all back.
Legacy.
We said four rounds in the first half of Inferno.
How many rounds here, Legacy, before we can find it acceptable on the T side?
I mean three.
Apparently it's fine.
They can make it work with three.
Okay.
We know that.
The data to back it up
But can be a little bit more of a CC side of map at times
I know what you're doing here, and I guess the Mongols are showing that 910 again
God he's been good him and Cobra Sierra both
Powerful players and this you could see that probably should have just been a straight kill their hearts
Angel watching over his shoulder as he survives that encounter and he takes down Cobra Sierra
What? Wait a minute, it might be an opening!
Take no 4Ks, dead. The bomb site's wide open. What just happened this round?
Art hit a fantastic shot, apparently.
Cracks open, that B bomb site blitz in front of the molotov, though.
They might overlook his position, but Nism's got it covered.
And that will be round.
Finally, breaking the Spree-Kamongals here.
Legacy will be posting that third.
Pretty decent round as well with 4 players surviving.
And you're right, that shot from Krober's era, like, the fact he doesn't hit that.
A bit of a sit-down, really. Like, it was...
felt like a killer all day long. I mean, it gets punished for it and art somehow wins the 1v1 duel.
It's because art is crouching around the corner. He's like he's going slower than
then Corpusira is expecting. If at some point we were to call it a Pasha Peak,
you got Pasha Peak. That's how that's how we missed the shot happens even to the best of us.
Shout out to Pasha one time. Always.
I do call the fact that Nyssen was holding the angle even if the Molotov was down.
It's an easy mistake to make I guess.
Like you let one player through and everyone thinks,
oh don't worry the Molotov is taking care of it.
Absolutely.
Let you say the AWP money is still pretty strong on the CT side.
Right.
Haven't seen a crazy amount of CT aggression though.
No catalyst pushers, they've needed it.
guess now they're running this double orbs set up you know you've got a turret
over towards B you can have a strong set up in towards A oh yeah that's good so
you don't you don't necessarily need it and the fact you're winning the majority
of your rounds anyway just just keep on trucking I would say I'll accept that
explanation yeah that's nice they did double push into lower into the
underpass at one point that's when they were on a pretty difficult yes half by
there and they ended up winning it in the end but yeah being pretty standard in
terms of the Mongol setup. Definitely not standard for legacy, like some very
interesting aggressive fast-paced maneuvers. Some have worked out, some not so much.
I feel like one of the big issues that having still is just getting the mid
control. Like I said, they like the window boosts. They also like those
connector splits to the A bomb site, but both those tactics that legacy normally
like to run on the map are very hard to do when you're not winning any of those
midfights. Better mind legacy won the pistol as well, right? Two rounds since
then. I nearly forgot. Nice grenade. It's not loving that. So it could be more of a like I said those
heavy connector splits when you've got three coming through connector and what looks like one palace,
one ramp. That is something that Legacy actually I think do really well. One of the better strategies
on the map. But it does, it does hinge on them being able to open up the middle. Again they've
Then they got Cobra Zero with the one AWP playing short towards B and 9-10 with the other one.
Gonna be playing that ticket booth.
Every AWP on this map loves to do.
MC Neo could be isolated in shadow if the connector part of the push really comes in,
so that could be an interesting thing to look forward to.
The bomb is making its way back, so they decide to go a little bit lighter.
his hands as arts grenade in his face as well where sub 50 seconds but they're
set up nicely at least they're in connector they actually haven't been
able to do that all that much but they're close enough by that they could do it
still got to worry about cobra zero who's on the other side with the old flash goes through
now 35 seconds on the clock it's running low and that smoke is keeping them back
this could be a bit of a disaster for legacy we're really running it down low good spray down but
it's going on arts and yeah he was trying to get through
Oh, they're so low, Sansen. He's got the bomb here. Time is running nearly out.
Nism has found a double coming out of the palace, and they're still diving around somehow.
Nice little burst. Techno gets one, and he's alone against three. He couldn't follow it up.
It's Nism from the palace with four kills. That looked like a round that let you should lose every single time.
It was very uncomfortable. It wasn't like some tactical brilliance that wasn't around.
No, this comes down to scrappy jewels and miss shots in the Mongols and miss him going above and beyond from that palace position
We said he likes to luck out towards a this time coming out of the palace playing like an absolute king
Huge those if he's four and nine right now. Was he on zero nine?
Did you get four kills on no, it was missing on this in my bad? It's not sad. Okay?
I was gonna say that would be crazy. It was nice. Which means he was on eight. I can do now. Okay. There we go
Excellent with that
I'm just we're adding below 20. I'm all this is another art special
You're right. It's teammates getting ready to pass towards the he's ran out at a hasn't necessarily worked out
But I have got a four and four final round of this first half ladies and gents and it's up against the pistols here
I'll go down with his teammates will be walking into Cobra's era is deadly 5-7
And it's so close, but Nissan has been a superstar on the second
Man, which you don't normally get to say.
I feel like he's usually going to get more criticism.
He was not ready for that, though.
Dude.
With an AWP stolen,
Sto- Oh!
He lands the shot of the Mal.
Somebody has to rein him in.
The bomb is planted, sure,
but this retake is already good to go.
Lato's going to get out-dueled, and now it's Sansen.
Let's see him put to the test one versus three,
and they're defusing on the other side,
and they do not have a kit, but Desimata blitz.
The unlikely AWP to pick up that round.
Do you know what's so insane about that?
They threw a double Molotov, which do stack by the way.
Yes.
He had 100 HP, he runs through both Molotovs, goes down to 20 points of health,
comes in, gets a double kill on the AWP.
This moment right here, look, 21 HP.
They don't expect that whatsoever.
Nism's not ready, he's in the open.
Yeah.
Blitz comes through.
An absolute madman gets the triple and keeps the dream alive.
That was a compromise round.
said the very least they came in at 5.7 MP 9's recovered the AWP and running through the double
Molotov then at 20 points of house to get the triple kill it's so rare that we have to care about
the double Molotov dynamics yeah like normally not worth mentioning all that much but that actually
could have made a big impact there for once and this one was looking the wrong way one more
tick and he's dead you saw it quickly it's half drained there so he runs through it it's a high
risk maneuver but my god does it ever pay off legacy and the fact that happens just as
you enter halftime is why you got a stew on that for the next two minutes.
Well you said you pointed out three was enough for the first half of the year.
This game has been action packed this is worthy of a quarter final absolute on the line here.
Totally agree.
Let's see what they get.
This is what they call a barn burner.
Yes and it's all we want.
Yeah, we just want this kind of counter strike all day.
Second half, and now be the Mongols testing out their T side.
What could legacy do defending?
They do not have a kit again.
I don't know what to expect anymore.
Anything I thought I knew about Counter Strike
would be thrown out the window with this series.
So four man play from the Mongols
in towards the apartment, so they got one Molotov.
That's going to be used towards A.
They're taking it out.
I guess only one player to connect.
Smokes going down as well. Yeah, so it is a nice little fake here, but look at the position from sads in
And from that's all he's hearing it. No one is actually coming. They're gonna for a full retake on this bomb site
I think Nissan was close enough by that he could have tried
But I'd rather he wait for the teammates to get there you sneaking in and he has a little bit of back
I'm right in their face with the USB for the rest of the team. They weren't ready to pounce. That's why I wanted in the
Wait, that's a very smooth shot though sanson gives a little bit of hope back to legacy
Can they actually retake this remember? It's a full 10 second defuse and Cobra Cera
He's picked up the USP only good for the one could 910 bring it back here legacy
Do need this round that they're so far behind already in the first half
So second half here not going to go their way at the start of it
They're gonna have to do what the Mongols did to them and try and win this second half
I like that I like that fate for Mongols
It's a very common
Pistol strategy right now to throw that utility set the one Molotov and a smoke everyone started ready to they bit down on that straight away
way. Finding an open B bombsite and hitting all of their shots, it was always going to
be a nightmare of a retake. You can see them just having to take that leap of faith and
jump through the window after the glocks coming out on top. Really nice. Simple pistol but
very effective. One player faking in towards A while they collapse into the wall so B bombsite.
Legacy take the bait. And now need to decide if they're forced buying into the second surely.
Looks like they are. Saturn's got the scouts. We've got an MP9 for art. Kind of need to
win this one. We'll see if they can do it. Is he going to be aggressive on the CT side
as well? I would assume so, yes. Can they hold him back? He's got the perfect weapon
for the job to go aggressive, but I think Mongols will be expecting this sort of force
by and probably be paying a very tentative second round here. Let's see what they've
got in mind. They'll be smoking towards window and connected, kick things off. Arthur's getting
himself in the ballast so he presumably
going for a bit of a back step here he's
going to park himself up
three players top of middle making their
way towards the wall
that's another early attempt at the
bombsite but again just with the needs
really trying to sell the idea that they're
going to be showing up just like the
pistol so cool for the Mongols and there's
only one defender back here listen with
the five seven
even anything at all here
Okay, I spursed if you'd hit the headshot maybe against them senior no one else is
ever yeah that's the problem I think you might as well save the five seconds
that's a good point and again it's a nice little a fake same utility set keep
players on that side of the map one player waiting and be sure he gets a
nice headshot but traded out quickly it will be Mongols on double digits here
touching distance at the third map, which is going to be Nuke. So nothing to do but save.
They'll hot it up in towards the palace position, saving pistols, SMGs, and the scouts.
They've got one smoke as well, I suppose, but that's a comprehensive victory for the Mongols.
Just here in a obscure, sadistic statistic.
It depends on how obscure it is, but yes, go on, go on, tell me.
With the 5.7, he's got an economic impact rating of about 2.0, meaning, you know, for
every time he buys the pistol, he does about twice as much damage to the other team's economy.
That's pretty good.
That's high.
That's hard to get to.
I'm still trying to digest it, but it does sound good.
If you invest into a $500 pistol, you do about $1,000 damage.
Okay, I see what you're saying.
Yeah.
Cool. On average. Cool. Okay. Nice. That's an interesting start.
So, same smokes.
Get into another very important round here. A chance for legacy shore.
Aggressive in towards that underpass position, but Blitz, like we said, they should be aware of these sort of tendencies from the Brazilians.
Oh, the timing is a 9-0 though. Blitz, the moment he gets off the angle is when they swung. Do they continue that push?
They're not doing that.
But you're right, that is a bit of a nightmare if they keep going, so they're gonna go into
any execution here.
They've been faking this without utility set, now they'll do the same U2O and just go in
off it.
Okay, I like that.
The power of faking it, kind of carrying over, potentially carrying over into the ground.
We'll see, he is so dead.
That's one of a wild ragdoll coming out.
Techno sends Lato flying in the bomb site.
Satsun can't see a thing with a scout, unfortunately.
I have a good time to pick it though and see how it's crouched here in the corner.
It's a little bit awkward perhaps for him and he will go down here against the scout.
That's a nice shot, Art.
Comes flying off the...
The bin and will take down one and even Cobra Zero on the follow up.
Nine, ten and Blitz.
They still have head armor and everything.
They should be fine in this fight, but it's way more awkward than it should have been.
Legacy, a dreaming of winning around like this one to get back into the half before it might be almost too late here.
Nism with a jump on through.
AWAYYYY!
He hits the burst onto Blitz Arrages!
He's got time to defuse it as well, Anders.
How have they fumbled that round?
How have they given them so many opportunities to find those kills?
It is outrageous. It is unexpected.
You don't think he's gonna do anything with an MP9 at that sort of range.
Somebody call the police.
I think they just assume that the Mongols might have just...
Oh, this is dumb. There's no way we can lose this one.
He gets the first jumping hand shot. What is wrong with him?
Look at that range! Look at the burst!
A miracle for Legacy here. They had no business winning that retake.
No resources, no help for one player.
Missed him stepping up magnificently.
Five to ten.
An absolute disaster for the Mongols once more.
All they had to do was play the bomb, force a defuse, but giving them opportunities to find those kills.
with an MP9 at that range as well. If he just hit towards the A-Ramp, forced out the C4 play,
very different story. Of course, he was trying to help out his teammate who was in the battle,
they're trying to present two targets. You can't necessarily expect a jumping MP9 kill to come
through. That's unlucky, but it's absolute robbery here. This is giving really some of these, you
know, the flavor of Brazilian counter-strike that some of us remember from 2015 and 2016,
like that that kind of flavor where everything is so mad you like you said you never know what's
gonna happen legacy trying to bring that style back i thought it was lost for a minute there
okay they're gonna be feeling themselves now sadzen what have you got for us gets up towards
short the awp money running thin for the mongols they're very very important rounds
tech nine for techno right indeed the mongols have to stay the course they just need three more
rounds. Don't crumble, don't panic now. Once again, play the brilliance first half. You're
set up nicely to win this one and bring us on to a third map. I think we deserve a third
map at this stage. Oh, that's a moving. Up towards shore we go.
Putting the pressure on Sansen completely trucked. He's been moded down and ism. Even
he cannot stand up to that. He said it techno with the tech nine and that's worked out brilliantly
should be round they're so far removed from this one surely a little money on the ct side
i don't think they can even consider going for it so there it is it looked like a very promising
situation there it sat in it gets completely overrun awp towards short didn't fall back to the
defensive line leaves his teammate lato on an island and we saw his heroic efforts on inferno
getting those triple kills but he only had to go low this time and good for one but fortunately we will see
a bit of a save coming through it's going to be 11 rounds on the board mongols three players
surviving as well that should be enough to take this map and there's it should be it's nice to win
the immediate follow-up round yeah that the shock of exactly this jumping mat 10 yeah and the sniping
map 10 it's true kind of gone um all right then money looks to be okay with the two saved weapons
but this is the last chance saloon only so many miracles can occur need to find some solid footing
here on their CT side. MP9 for this one. Why not? He's earned it. Get this SMGs out.
Let's see. Bombs back in spawn and immediate indication. They're working at a default. 9, 10.
He has been great. So I'm fragging now with 15 at least on his side. I'm catching that early CT player.
What do you even do? I mean, do you take another risk here on the CT side and push again?
I mean, they're playing at 2-2 right now. I don't even know what the idea could be. You have no control whatsoever. Where would you even push?
You're going to have to sit back and wait, borrow into the bomb site. Art does find one of these. That's towards the connector.
Lato fighting back. Down but not out. Glitch will be in the course of connector. Dumal will take care of him.
and even after losing that first pick, somehow they fall back into the round 9-10
that's a fancier, recovers the AWP, half-elf, got a full belt of Util as well.
Their money is broken, bear in mind, on the T side, so you might as well just save this one.
Can they justify the hunt here? It would be massive if they can remove the AWP from 9-10 here.
So 50 seconds to try and hold on to it.
That's got the bomb, I suppose there is a world.
If they're too aggressive.
I mean, B's wide open right now.
now like he's not necessarily just saving by the looks of his movement right now okay art is ready
well he's scoping a little bit higher i kind of worry about this there is a chance yeah
all this is going on Anders 9 10 missing the easy shot he could have ever got
a step in his mouth before they killed each other make sure hold a wacky round okay legacy
the back into it. But that's huge. And I guess they didn't push, but they rotated a third
player over to the A bombsite in time. Yeah, because you're right. I mean, initially they
were two, two, and I always hate those setups when you're playing two, two, you know, in
a four and five. But they did, they didn't make sure that they had a bit of a stack
of the A bombsite. Well, it was, yeah, the two, two, but they had the orb towards short.
I think it was do mouth. I found that killed towards a connector. It's alleviated a lot
of pressure there as well right yeah it stopped the pincer maneuver coming in
so they could just focus towards the palace and the ramp there but the madness
has returned to the game so a forced by as well yeah this isn't the thing is
legacy have not been doing well against these weaker buys true pt-50s even a
Glock in the mix as well blitzes Glock and helmet see whether you can make a
den here hoping one of his teammates goes down to pick up the weapon our weapon
is lost 910 dropped as well double kill coming in for this p250 it's Techno to find it back to a
three on three damage done towards Cobra Zera but he's still is fighting back to now that was
not the maneuver it's called the murder hole for a reason so it is and this one has to try and see
if he could save them again he's aware that someone could be there Cobra Zero and Techno on the other
side there's still plenty of time on the clock here should have been planned to contain that I can't
even imagine what he was thinking pushing through there getting a back stab I suppose but you've
You've got the PG-50 and 20 HP, finally.
Kobrazera is down with...
They have the advantage, but the round is far from over.
2v1 and Techno definitely gonna give this one a look in.
You warned right at the start of the round,
that this is some of the rounds the Legacy have had trouble with,
and they need to give it away, but they still could.
Just too keen to get stuck into the fights,
we know they're aggressive, but you gotta hold on to your advantages.
Thankfully, it won't come back to haunt them,
nice close from this, and gets his 20 of kill there, 20 at 11.
He's saving them.
If Satsyn can get online with the AWP, which he has not done so far, there is still definitely a chance that they get to have some respite here and this is going to be an eco now, has to be a full eco, maybe a couple of P250s, that's about it.
But a chance to get 11 to wait, Mongols are yet to find map points, so definitely a chance to bring this one back to life, and it relies on Satsyn getting going with the AWP.
Yeah, I was really not impressed on Inferno, and even if it's a map here.
No, he's having a rough day.
And that's fair to say
I'm sad that
Lato ended up losing the AK because you could see he felt immediately more comfortable. Maybe too comfortable
I guess you could say but
On inferno with that AK on the CT side. He was so impressive. So if they could steal one over
I mean, maybe that's another ticket to get back into the game here
But yeah, this wire around the Kim relax a little bit more eagle on corporate Sierra
He's been playing very well
He was the second day we opened the CT side of this map, and it actually worked out quite well for him
That's how back here. Oh my god. What a shutdown though not like this lads ice cold
I mean it's glocks and one eagle should be fine Anders, but that's not a good way to kick things off
You never feel stupid when it starts. Oh, yeah, they're gonna flood the bomb site soon. It's getting uncomfortable
It's getting messy
Might as well let them plant here. Let them plant them. Oh God
You're right though. Let them plant the bomb. Don't take the fights all either the glocks on the inside they pick up the eagle again
Oh my god, this is so stressful
The one deagle and four blocks. It could still be on okay, okay 910 is gonna get sprayed down. That's huge now
It's techno
and
Crisis averted. It's all good
Let's all take a deep breath
We're back. We're back group hug on the bomb side. Yeah
Oh, that somehow got so much more stressful than the first eagle shot fair enough, but
like you pointed out, let him plant the bomb. It's not a big problem.
Yeah.
You end up fighting a little bit too early there on the legacy side and you give up more
than you maybe had to. But fair play, Dave.
About one, three in a row.
Yeah. We said they need to find some solid floating on that CT side. I think they've
got it now. Not the most comfortable rounds. Expensive ones. They haven't necessarily built
up a huge bankroll after winning three in a row. But they're here. They're still in
the game, 2-0 is still possible. Like we said, Satsun really does need to show some form
here if I'm going to believe they can actually pull off this reverse sweep. Or very, very
important on the CT side of Mirage.
They blow open the top mid and the window smoke at the same time legacy. Like they synchronized
those two smokes being blown open to try and get a shot with from Satsun. That's got to
be hard to do.
A lot of resources, extended into it, hasn't really found the much, a very flat default
here from Mongols.
He's feeling out of the map and seeing if there's any aggression coming through the
bomb down the T-Sport.
Somebody remind me later to go check out this round.
Round number 20, I have to see how they sink those grenades.
Okay.
We have a bit of a double setup with a boost going on for Dumau and he's going to be so
far out that if you're coming into the T-Side, you might not check it, he's pixelated on
the side of it.
weird positions yeah thank you for illustrating that like you could it
shouldn't really be possible to stand like that no I don't know why that hasn't
been patched it's kind of ridiculous but whatever next up I'm sure yeah let's
consider legal so he could have been dead nice catch from production I do love
that good camera angle blitz very lucky to be alive because he was not expecting
it should have got out of there as soon as you got detected I don't know why he
days but now again Nysim alone. I don't think he can hold on to this. I doubt it as well but we only
have 25 seconds. Another kill with a big difference and he's there just as Nysim dies. I think you're
on to something though. Dumau needed to step away. It's just like what was his position there? Like
you've been detected you're already like what 60 HP I think he was and you just tuck in in the most
one and dumb position of all time. Yeah. You had plenty of opportunities once you detected to get
back to the bomb site and able to cross fire. At least get a better angle where your teammate can
and help you, you going down with nothing, the round's over.
Nism is good, he's having a hell of a game,
but he can't 1v4 on the B bomb side.
Could be one of those psychology things
where you feel like you should have had the kill originally
on Blitz, and then you overplay your hand
by sticking around too much.
Well, that's gonna be a map point.
Presumably enough to take us to a third,
save us nuke.
Satsen can't get a kill to save his life
with the AWP right now, so.
Okay, say that.
Good work.
That did save his life, 3000.
Remind, not that this isn't anything.
Literally did save his life they did
Community timing
Yeah, four opportunities closes one out
Like I said, even with three rounds in a row. They've not been clean rounds
Losing three players at the Glocks and the Deagle is certainly going to have financial ramifications here. We'll see what they've got left
But I guess I saved the open the AK it's not too bad overall kids
Yes, it's called a double orbs set up in fact and so they were trying to make this work on inferno
never really got going. True. Can they save the day here on Mirage with that set up?
Allows Dumau to be the turret as we discussed in the pregame.
Alibi it's pressure, you can rotate a player back towards A.
So many flashes are in the middle and there's nobody there that they can catch.
Dumau, oh shoulder peeked out. Nice work.
Let's...
Yeah, he'll fall back from that. The bomb is back, so...
I don't know what a bit of disaster he could have died, to be honest.
Could have fallen forward towards Doomow.
Mid-round smoke towards the window.
And looks like a bee, or certainly a split finish here.
Smokes are going down already towards Jungle.
They're going to be molotov-ing off that connector position, or the sandwich position, I suppose.
Arts gets a kill, but MC Neo gets one in return as well, so still a three on three along all spray for Latto.
He leaves 9-10 alone, remember they need four in a row, and this one looks locked in unless 9-10 can work some real magic here and he's going to be denied.
Latto with a triple, he's got the AK back finally, I feel like that's his weapon at the moment.
Very well done. Back and forth we go. Mongols might have map point, but finding that closing round is going to be difficult here.
need to make a big decision right now to get his tactical time out.
Just take the full eco once again. Could get a hero AK here, they really wanted it. Do you need one?
Probably not. I'd rather have 910 have his AWP going forward to keep his money strong.
Okay, that's fair.
So let's take some deagles. Let's take some Glocks. They've got a smoke and a flash.
It's not back in 910, so see what he's got him stored for that. And the B bombsite
has been a bit of a nightmare, let's be honest, so we'll see whether they can hold them off.
Nothing is safe in this series, any round can be picked up, regardless of the weaponry,
all five players in towards the B apartments, it's Nysim who's been the saving grace for
legacy here on Mirage. Keep in the minute, time and time again, but he's getting sold out by
teammates who are dropping in 1v1 duals they shouldn't be part of this is going to be waiting
for the opportunity to strike first contact for art minimal damage towards flip step
here we go they found that gap it's going to be defensive over this and he holds towards the
bench listen cobras here i got the opening kill and that other deal around do it again now it might
Secure a bomb plant if nothing else so that could really help out at this stage in the game 50 seconds
Our nice tracking midair and this and back here doesn't look like the Deagles are connecting all that much or really not at all
Do you know the triple?
Am I mad to say that they voluntarily gave up the double off in the previous round?
Potentially yeah, they could definitely buy it again now. They wanted to I suppose do mouse go 6k if they really wanted to bring it out
I've seen in the past where teams will buy a double off and once it's been revealed
They kind of go with it like they only yeah for the element of surprise
Well, the fact that it was do mal rocky and now he's got the AK-47 yeah
He's gonna be a rifle right the fact he's got his weapon of choice there. It like he said
It was a nice idea. It's conditioning them to think there might be an orb over there
Not a requirement. So if you want the AK instead, they've got two of those now. That's absolutely fine, but
Two rounds away from overtime. Yeah, it's been ahead of a series. They do pick up another or is he gonna leave there? It is on
It could be an exchange weapon
Okay, maybe they just couldn't save it and I just missed that fact either way
We're two rounds behind like you said almost we almost had OT on inferno
We were denied because legacy ended up winning it with a with a really impressive second half
Well, they're starting to wake up here on their CT side. It is the double offset up to now drops over the AK to watch
Latter as well as very impressive for the AK on inferno
Nope.
But now, we need to be careful here.
Can't afford to get one tapped.
Holds a defensive angle.
Flashbang to come in.
He's taking a lot of heat off that.
Confirms the AWP towards B.
That's all Tecno wants us to do.
The question is, do they realize which of those AWPs it is?
Might be able to guess it, but probably not confirmed yet.
Bomb has been picked up just as we speak in T spawn.
Resmoking this position and towards that top connector position as well
They're trying to blind the CTs from knowing what's going on in the middle as they are setting up in that short position towards the B
Bombside are they gonna keep going that way is the question they could also go in through the window a lot of options
Yeah, I think that's what's gonna happen in nice blowing open the smoke 910 connects on the sadson
910 shopping on this map has been amazing to watch
45 seconds this will end up at the a bombside
I'm pretty sure techno is going to be taken on that so as well now it looks wide open 910 again finds a second killer the
Round is locked in round
Nothing I can do here. I'm afraid and there's nissan and do now the B players
512 mad point. That's what it's called it done
Get this so far away
If anyone had been in palace or anything like that, maybe there's something to fight for here
Nissan you saved them with the Mac tell you and you said it was a miracle and I think that's true
But this is asking way too much
knocked out by Col Brazzera but it was really 9-10 at the start of this round
they blew open that connector smoke and they surprised Sansen he was not quick
enough to react. DeMauw alone versus 4 and it's 9-10 to get another kill up to 21
in total and the Mongols give us a third map in the quarterfinals. They certainly
do. Nuke is around the corner and it was the first map where Legacy performed the
miracle reverse sweep they were closer doing it once again here fair play their
second half is looking much better, but it is the Mongols taking us all the way.
Mongols there started with a lead. This time, though, they did not give it up like Inferno,
and Mirage goes their way. I want to bounce right off that final round, first striker and
Blair. That was such a clean way to end out that map. I mean, that's just the dichotomy of Mongols,
right? Like we've been talking about how much he struck them in the T side, even here as well.
A couple of rounds being stolen away by Nisim to ridiculous retakes there, but they take zero points of damage in a final round,
to clean it in such convincing fashion, so I just don't want to make up these guys sometimes.
Structure, I think it was the structure of it as well, and that structure which was shown at most times throughout that second half,
that I think Legacy had a really tough time dealing with.
Well, they generally at the beginning, they tried to go for some of these more explosive plays towards B actually, right?
and then later on they finally slowed it down a little bit.
Honestly, the T-Side could have gone a little bit better had it not been for that 1v2 from Nissen,
which was half a wave, half a bit of a ridiculous round from Nissen in general,
so it could have been a bit of a cleaner closing to be honest,
but it was what I was talking about, like getting the pistol and getting the conversion,
that's half of the battle done for Amongos that usually struggles on that T-Side, right?
And after that, they just had enough time to close it, really.
Yeah, I mean, I remember you asking what the win condition was for Legacy, right, Paul?
And I feel like they did enough in all honesty in this in this first half
But this round again from Blitz just crazy around right there
But he still feel like four rounds you kind of done your job over here, but then in the end there's not to be some Mongols
Despite what we've said so far. They're able to close it out here and T side. Yeah, actually much better T side
I agree with you overall much better much better variation and it kind of
Funnily enough, this is the round that is just like what do you do against that man? Bro short that like it was an AK
That's the most impressive mp9 play I think I've ever seen
It was pretty sick. It was it's up there
I wanted to give props to 910 and we've seen him a lot of them this these highlights and it was necessarily big a lot of
Big plays but there was one key round on CT side where he had the up or two key rounds on CT side where he had the up once on a
Once on B where he
Managed to shut down the the hits when they got a little bit crazy a little bit close for comfort
So he was delivering exactly as we expected on T side the last round
We saw him get the crazy great opening with knowing that there was going to be the smoke break, right?
So so really good performance from him. Yeah, up on screen now, by the way, everybody
Listen, yeah, we know he did everything he could 24 frags copes here with the highest performer for mongers
But I do want to highlight 910
Yeah, when he when he gets that all and he's on I think the casters were referencing this as well
He is very reliable Blair. He's very very reliable, but it's speaking of the off
It was CobraZero as well, you know, they had a double upset up and listen
I remember back in the day when Senzu was wheeling the AWP on the CD set of Mirage a number of
Clothes maps they always somehow managed to fumble because there's a whiff shot that's going for these flashy shots over peaking
I don't think CobraZero does that
I think it's very very much more reliable as a secondary opera for this team and also if you notice the way the plane to be bombsite
He seems to be leaning heavier towards B not always planes towards short, right?
So it feels like Mongols are switching around in positions a little bit for the young gun
Especially in some of the some of these maps like Mirage like Duster we spoke about as well
So a cool to see you know this getting the job done and again from 910
Quite inferno we said didn't really have an opportunity to really shine with the AWP
But when he does manage to get his hands on the RP so very reliable. Alternate he signed apart from the final round
I think there were at least a couple more rounds where he was able to get these opening kills with the AWP
So all in all, you know, a good game plan and they didn't fumble that strike a third of final map is going to be nuke
What would you see right now for nuke? Who's taking it?
Look, it is one goes to our favorites here and generally even just through it
Being one of their maps that they go to if if a mirage isn't an option
You know if the other team is really good on Mirage
It is actually a pig that they go for every now and again. They are really comfortable on it
even you see it on the screen, five-one for them in recent times. Obviously seven-three for legacy,
I have to say something similar that I said about Inferno before this. It is a lot of opposition,
you know, like a bad boom, like a 9Z type opposition.
I think Astralis, when was it coming?
Astralis was, yeah, that's true. That's from Atlanta, right?
Yes, pretty recently as well. I think this one's going to be close affair as well,
like it's in recent form. Also, individually speaking, I think a lot of the players are blowing quite hot for the side of
of a legacy as well. But for the Mongols, I have to agree, I think this is one of the
maps where they don't have any T side woes. I think they averaged five to six T rounds
in all of the past like five, six games have played thus far. They're looking very solid.
And then the CD side, sure, they might get a little over eager at times, but they always
get the job done. So I'm still going to be edging the wave Mongols.
Yeah, I feel both teams here sort of need to play their best of the last map. For example,
legs you need to avoid those little micro mistakes they were making demalgoning court
out on short for example and little things like that tighten them up perhaps and mongols we don't want to see those crazy messy rounds
We want to see rounds like the last round guys. What are your thoughts to be honest sometimes from the mongols
You want to see the mess around but they are
No, I don't necessarily mean that I just mean what more like they thrive in that sort of a play style
And actually it's actually kind of both teams that I expected a little bit more of a chaotic game up to this point
If anything and you doesn't necessarily lend itself to that too much
I mean you can go for some of these fast upper hits and all these things
But it's not so quite so easy for you to to to to divert expectations on the CT side
You kind of have to be very tight on your protocols and I could the way that you move around the map rather than going for some aggressive pushes
Every now and again you see that but it's not really necessarily the map that lends itself to that. Yeah, and I feel
Also covered a couple of the wind factors for the Mongols as you know
You can see Mazzina's having a pretty good tournament overall in general
I think he's gonna be pivotal to what's rampant and you have 910 with the AWP. He's coming alive
He's gonna be someone you have to contend with just looking some of the results models had recently though
They didn't lose to foot and book arrestors a month prior apart from that the wins they had a lot of them
I know it's been a while. There was a weaker looking spirit. They beat mouse as well
The old line of they beat liquid and bait already is tournament. The thing is the score lines are very very close
It was all 1311 1311's maybe a 39 being thrown in there
So it's not like they're winning super convincingly, but they're getting it done against shall we say on paper better opposition, right?
so they should have this one though.
Guys, any expectations about how Art could approach?
We were impressed with what he did on that one.
What can he do on New York?
How can he bring the boys the best out of the boys?
I feel the one potential weak point in the city side here
for Mongols is going to be techno.
I think he's been very, very mediocre at this event.
We saw him in Florida as well.
If he had just hit the shots he needed to hit,
I'm just talking about your own individual prowess.
I'm not talking about his decision-making process,
which is pretty solid overall, but I feel the upper bombsite is something I expect to see some of the very classic
art pop snappy like calls, you know, just popping under the bombsite, some set utility and try and abuse that upper bombsite hole
because I feel techno is kind of the chink in the armor for the Mongols right there.
Stryker, final thoughts with you?
Yeah, I just expect a tight game from Mongols to be honest. I do think that they've got this in the bag.
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Hell yes, I think we deserve a third map here
It's gonna be on a nuke to the side this whole series with if I'm not wrong Mongols
You're gonna be starting on the T side now if you have memory that goes far enough back the Mongols won
The EWC in 2025. Yep, and they played nuke quite a few times like three or four times
They won I think all their nuke maps as well in that tournament and
Every single pistol round on the T side that they played in that tournament. They did the same headless
ramp brush where you jump in with one player who's ducking down and I remember
behind yeah now it's gone on the metro a little bit because every team started
doing it it was so popular so they haven't been doing it too much lately in
fact their current sort of most used strategies in the pistol round are either
going to be like the just popping out of hot really fast or secret to be those
are the two things they love well you set the table nicely there and as we'll see
that we can work it out once we get into the server what they'll be up to it has
to be said Mongols have looked like the better team throughout this series it's
It's just been some ridiculous individual moments that have kept legacy in this game so far.
And some of the players, right?
Leto on the first map, Newsom in the second.
Yes.
That MP9 retake, 2v1.
I can't believe it.
I can't believe it.
I can't believe it.
Yeah.
So, I would say, yeah.
Molk was definitely better.
Team CS overall, but there have been some miraculous moments of individual skill from
legacy.
But it all comes down to this third and final map.
Bear in mind, there is B-Stream going on as well at Bait versus Maus.
I think they just got it to triple overtime in their second map.
So get that up on the second screen as well and we'll have our semi-finalists very shortly.
One smoke suggests we're not going to be going yard.
We've got a nade so we're going out of the door. I would imagine they'll be nading towards the door smoking main.
Or they might have to slow it down though with the CT smoke coming in. It's exactly what's going to be coming through.
There's the nade, smoke, and let me go through up.
Straight out there, Lato. Strong headshot though, Dumau. No Molotov to get rid of him so he does get the kill.
Lattle will find even more.
Two kills, spins around for the fourth.
All of them headshots.
Lattle is back in action
and that must be great news for legacy.
They are the underdog team here,
but if he can perform again,
then maybe there's a chance.
Man, oh man.
That's pretty strong.
Do you wanna hear something wild
about both these teams as well?
Of course.
As it comes to the bomb site tempo for Mongols,
the amount of rounds that they rush,
Either A or Ramp is about 13% for Legacy, it's about 16% on the T side.
That is so... I've never seen that for any team anywhere.
16%, that's so fast.
So, they could be more of the same as what I'm saying.
Well, let's see if they can hold on to the second round.
It looks to be quite an easy one.
I say that, though.
On Mirage, they were losing not necessarily rounds,
but a lot of players do deagles and glocks.
So for now it's up to Blitz to try and crack things open, he's got himself on towards main roof.
Satsen just making do with the block for now, just so we can get the AWP going forward.
He's read it well, there was no plant, very likely they'd fully go here to keep all five players alive.
He gets the AWP for that first gun round.
And they don't lose anybody.
So yeah, he's got Smoke, Flash and the AWP.
It has to be said though, he has looked very weak in this series with the AWP Satsen.
Yes
Normally, I feel like he's pretty reliable. I do think he's gonna get the outcome by 910 most of the time
Well 910 has been dominating him I would say but yes, we'll see what he can do
I mean that could be a huge ring condition obviously if he can return to form the final map here
That might actually push them over the edge
It will be Mongols now with a case like you pointed out. They're gonna be ready to buy this one
It's a
Secondary yard position that Art is playing is also very strong for him. He's very good and on nuke. I think it's his best map at the moment
So let's see if he can find some impact
Gonna be playing a lot towards that mini position
So doing an outside fake here and they've got players going towards ramp
They're gonna try and pop through in towards ramp room as the smokes are going down
I'm hopefully trying to pull one of the CT players away from ramp and there's actually no one home
Not the end of the world
But certainly not ideal for legacy and now you to decide how are they rotating down towards lower?
Our currently two players there, it's going to be Lato and Nysim.
And that's fine, you can allow them to have Ramprem, not the end of the world.
Sure.
But it's how you react.
They put two people down below.
So...
That's a reaction.
But I think the Mongols are probably confused about the fact that they didn't find even a single player there.
So they're probably worried about pushing on.
Yeah, now they're in the dark.
You're feeling uncomfortable here with your legacy.
You're pulled around the map.
So I'm going to drop the defensive smokes.
So you can focus your efforts elsewhere.
This is the dread of playing mute, isn't it, on the CT side, when you feel like you've lost control of where the T's are.
Hard though. Playing at the edge of the smoke, they are going to push him.
You can see on the other side, but really nice timing for Cobra Sierra. It could have been more synchronized if they tried.
Missed shot from the high ground, but out of the vents, going to be Lato climbing through. 24 seconds left to you.
They need to get some more kills to get the bomb planted. That's exactly what they will do.
9-10 and Blitz get a kill each in Nysim, he's come up out of the B bomb site, up of the ramp and now trying to see if he could retake this.
They have missed the timing against him, but 9-10, he's going to turn around. It's a free kill for him, very strange round, a very nuke experience here for the CT side.
Yeah, I really like that from Mongols. Very convincing, outside wall of smokes there, three smokes removes a lot of vision, forces the rotations down towards lower, they take the ramp room.
Knowing the CTs, they have to respect those smokes and have to rotate down into a nice upper-pop.
Trading out their kills and leaving Nisman a 2v1. We had a chance, I suppose.
We saw him win a 2v1 with the MP9 on the Mirage, but...
Outmaneuvered, and it will be the Mongols posting their firsts on the T-Sat of Nuke.
Money's still okay for Legacy, it will be Doom Owl in the 5.7, but Satsun's still with the AWP.
Nisman pushing a bit forward, in fact, but Satsun also pushing the HUT here.
Alright, this one's gonna start to go further back.
They looked for a minute like they were trying to put some pressure on the lobby.
I ended up watching way more legacy demos than I wanted to on Nuke the other day.
Why'd you do that?
Just because I was curious.
And something that I noticed is Nyssen is playing that railing position an absolutely absurd amount.
He loves to hang out on that railing at ramp.
Almost so much that it sort of makes me worried if people are gonna start to straight peek him.
But he's very mobile, he's back up towards heaven now, so trying to see if he can rotate around.
They do have very limited utility, so they almost have to be a little bit dynamic in the defense.
Plato gets a kill, but he is traded out, so now they're trying to push that A bomb site behind them.
Nissen goes down, but since they're finding some impact here, Art isn't able to catch anyone as they come through.
Bomb is on its own, making the drop down vent, but Blitz is still on the upper bomb site.
It's the best call Technic could have made here.
What?
Did he get stuck on the door?
I have a little bit of a problem.
So, Blitz perturbed in events.
They have to come through secret.
Okay, I like this.
If Techno dies, it's going to be a very stressful round for Blitz.
Dumau checking it out. How's no one found Techno yet?
He's down there hiding in that dark position.
Sad to see that it's a long roll spray on both sides of that fight.
While Blitz comes out on the short end of it, now Techno...
Oh! ...found Dumau. Damn!
Confident peek with the 5-7 will take him down a legacy.
round that they had no money left absolutely true bouncing back saddened
getting a couple there as well recovers his AWP three players survive nice idea
from techno to get the bomb down towards lower but unable to find the
rotating CTs on planted looks to be another partial buy here from the
Mongols speaking of vent drops and rushes oh yeah that's the favorite rush that
Mongols do that this would be the perfect time to do it I would say you
to go in tech 9 Kevlar here. Got the HG's to blow up in the door they've got.
Yeah you're right. This actually could be a sick round for it. Let's see what they
agree. They blow up in the door, right into a hail of bullets and an HG hunt. Whatever
the plan was, he's not going to be working longer. Sassan gets a kill.
Absolutely. And he's got out of there as well. Playing this one perfectly.
Yeah, they've allowed them to have Bramperum, got themselves a couple of kills, you want to rotate one down towards lower, that's happening, Arts down there, smoked off for now, but what a huge deal.
They can allow them a little bit of space, planting the bomb, then not the end of the world, Arts wants to take a peek, but the backup is going to be there, and I don't think they can win this round here, the Mongols, but a little bit of damage surely would be nice, get a couple more kills in this round,
And you're gonna start to really hurt on the CT side.
Over zero and now Blitz with the AK.
It's a five versus two.
Now it's a three on, well two on one here.
This one gets one.
Is he gonna be able to save them again?
And this one Blitz, still alive in here, 12 health left.
What an expensive round.
They're gonna win it, but that is way worse
than it should have been.
I think that's a very impressive work for Morgens.
They played it perfectly.
Well, they had like a five on two essentially there.
Tech nine start coming to life.
recover a rifle, start hitting some nutty shots. Sure, not as clean as they would like, but still
winning the round. The money's okay on the CT side, they still have their AWP. But yeah,
still pretty successful there for Mongols, bomb planted, good cash injection. Kind of needed
that plant as well, you can see 910s having to operate with the Galil. Oh, they're not,
what's going on here? Yeah, they've got AKs as well. A lot of lacking some utility about legacy,
looking strong here yeah the fact that they're lacking the smokes especially if
you wanted to go yard I mean you really can't you've already thrown out one but
it's more cosmetic and anything Sanderson pushed up aggressively he's
gaining a bit of confidence we pointed it out he's been struggling with your but
if you can free cover that how's it got away I really don't know that's a good
question oh nice work we'll take that and Zinnia is low as well spotted on silo
arts don't do it it's just fire do not give that one away don't do it out it's
one of the few times we've seen art restraint himself from moving forward
into a battle miss him now under some pressure confirm a couple of players down
towards lower satan does go down eventually that's the opera move by 910
looking for a double here think in the process arts wants to convert this kill
Ova commits doesn't give himself a good angle. It's a wide swing. How is 910 killing everyone?
I really don't know. He's got 17 HP. How does he get a double kill there?
For the Galil as well. He's just walking across the map finding fights and taking...
He took down the Opa and then both players and ramp with a Galil.
Okay, well that's a stolen round. It was looking so good for Legacy. Got the opening kill,
strong setup towards the ramp and then 910. I don't know how he gets a double there but...
I mean, I guess we can forgive Nip Sansen for going down because he was low from earlier.
sure but the the other two surely they win that fight every time I mean they
almost won the two on five in the previous round and now this one I mean
it fair enough it's a four and five that they win but it just looks so easy to be
fair you can note all the mistakes are over peaking but nine ten just hit some
crazy shots there with it's what he does again little so I think they're expected
to win those fights in this case that's unfortunate that he's so precise such a
great player as he gets in all for his troubles as well second round for the
Mongols laughter to say the AK they'll be feeling the financial burn now after
everybody 1400 they are bottom of the barons and the loss bonus they could
buy into it with the AK I will see what they've got up their sleeve it might be
worth a tactical timeout.
Sanston's invested already.
Lato's gonna be playing on the A bomb site that's his position so I guess with the
AK that's that's nice if they can find something but the Mongols
he's revived quite a bit here this is great for them so he got the ult at the back how does this
next kill go for it oh wow the new year is low just trying to get an equalizing frag but 9 10
absolutely dumpsters them in the ramp room this is the kind of play we always talk about anders
when you're struggling for the finances boosting time credit card fortunately now you know two
players are out there yeah there come the grenades didn't really work out lato just trying to maintain
headshot angles even with a low HP damage crazy risk here for corpus era but
you want to take the fight he's confident on the other side both players are
gentlemen's agreement to keep that battle going yeah I mean so do they go for
the boost again yeah they do interesting I don't really hate it I mean
You could have gone down that so sharp.
That really is what a play that is.
20 HP, wide swing, find a headshot.
Sub-Presilient Santar as you give him the WT, and he's off.
OK, back towards Lobby, you go Nistam's here,
and you can hear them comming that.
They tuck himself in towards the ramp room,
which has had a lot of activity.
You can get one and a half kills.
The round is still on.
They presumably face checked this there on the close right.
They didn't just overlook his angle.
Yeah, they have to.
It's not easy.
Check with your face.
You're going to get shot there.
But with the MP9, Techno will live.
It's like, that's 42 health.
But look at the time here.
This is awkward.
It's all down to R already.
They go down towards Lullar.
He can deny their efforts.
He can stop that bomb going down,
but it looks like they're going towards the heavens.
You're right.
So Sadson's going to be the one tester,
but he's in a good position.
I think he's pushed into the hut.
There is a chance that he could stay here,
like look around, deny the bomb plant,
and then that could win the round.
They do a defensive plant behind the silo, doesn't matter either way, that was the right
plant just to know and there we have it, that's rounds.
Oh what a shame, that would have been cool to see Satsen lurking for that kill but yeah,
good position Blitz making sure his teammates can get the bomb plants in.
Very uncomfortable round but around all the same Mongols losing to that first pick from
Latso, we know he's an absolute demon with the AK-47, gets himself a couple of kills
before he goes down. Arts will not hold on to his AK-47. Bear in mind that was a bit
of a four-spy from Legacy, so should be a partial. Going into round of rate here. Expects
some five-sevens. Not much more than money's not actually in a prime position. Oh, Arts
gone all in. Hello? No. There is no way. Hello? Hero M4 on the CT side? I mean, because we've
already seen the few maneuvers you can really pull off of a Hero M4, like boosting mine
credit cards. You can stack towards ramp I suppose in the back box. I mean I guess for
all that happens is to play with the MP9 which he's going to be fine with. So maybe he just
says I don't care about that. I'll play with the MP9 the next round. That's not a big problem.
Let's just see. MC Neo is here. He could get flashed out for a bit of a peek. They go for one.
Now they know that he's there. And actually they do need the flashbang. That was even a factor in
this one. USP shot from Sandsons. Pretty good. That M4 is the one that they really care about
though. Down with either thing to save them or not. Art peeks straight into techno. They're still
losing some players here on the Mongol side, but as long as they can win the ground, I think it's
going to be good. Oh my god, he's backtracking. That's crazy. Five-seven shots. Should be fine
still. They haven't recovered any rifles or anything. They're both low HP. Bombs aren't going down
momentarily. Good smoke forwards main. Another Molotov for Heaven. It's going to take something
wild and wacky, which is what we expect from Legacy to pull this one off. There it is. That's the
opportunity and we'll take it. Blitz down here below with the AK. He's got the health
for it but flashbang straight in his eyes. They're out of the high ground and Sasslin
comes in. A fourth kill with the 5-7 is such a powerful gun. Remember what I said, he had
that 2.0 economic rating and that's how you get it. Four kills in the round. He has had
a rough, rough series. Hasn't turned up really. And now with the 5-7 goes to town on the Mongols
and around they had no business winning it was nothing to do with the hero m4 no it was the fade away
backtrack kill with the five sevens towards ramp on 10 hp he started with the usp as well yeah
that was teammates five seven and just kept going unreal time out from the mongols that's a disaster
going towards that tight choke point on the map the pistols just kept finding dink after dink a
two on two like i said you think they would still convert it they got smoked down towards main
Absolutely.
A lot of talk towards Heaven, but as I said, legacy known to push the smokes, looking to
find those gaps all the time.
And Dumau helps himself through the smoke, and he had five seconds to even calibrate
his shot, work it out, miss a few bullets, and still find the two versus one where Blitz
could not hold on.
Good flash from Heaven as well.
I think Sadden provided the flash to kind of discombobulate him a bit and then to pinch
together.
Pretty cool.
That is going to be around that the analysts are going to want to highlight and bring up
depending on what happens here because that's legacy getting back into the game
of round earlier than expected and the Mongols suddenly their momentum slowed
down a bit very concerning to see but we are going in around number nine they
will have enough money to buy the T side that's the good news the bad news is all
on Sandsen and Dumau's got the AK wish it was Latso the way that he's been
playing with it but I guess I'll take it DeMauw is a strong rifleer and Nismas
they've really not been playing ramp that hard in most of these rounds where he's
had the rifle he's been elsewhere either in heaven or this time he's down
below they've left Sandsen to AWP on ramp so legacy being very dynamic with
their defense at the moment trying to keep Mongols guessing which I guess is
cool let's will test the garage well this series has been very entertaining so
far whatever you think you know about counter strike to get it anything can
and will happen as you see it can I see his little touch there I think he did
no no way okay I will come out on top double kill for the in-game leader
massive contribution great smokers all they got to push it right thinking
better of it they almost have to you right because what is what's the plan
otherwise but failed boost to look over God if I don't spend a couple of my
I was on the Stairmaster of the gym, he would have been killed.
I thought he spotted him for sure.
It's a good thing that BPLs are no longer in fashion.
I was wondering how far you're going to take them.
We found out.
I'll stop.
That's all I got.
Low HP and the three remaining players if Mongols doesn't look good.
15 seconds, I guess you're saving.
Nothing to do, nothing to say, it's arts.
Who steps at this time? It was Sadson before the 5-7 clean sweep here now for Legacy after a couple of kills
They overlooked the box and yes, he's not happy with AC ones everyone
More than he bargained for what a bit of a honeybeats one more that and that's significant sure
You can afford to lose one
6 to 3 though Legacy
bringing this one
Back in their favor bear my name. They're the ones with a good start this time
They're not the ones trailing back into it. They were up four and one
Yeah, but especially that previous round with a 5-7 really cemented that to be the truth here
But I'm very impressed. I've got to be honest again. This is the underdog team Mongols are
Definitely the team that people are expecting to make the semi-finals water spruce and what a shot from 9-10
Remains one of the best weapons that Mongols have you know arts gonna be bringing some tomfoolery to the table
What's he got planned are you right by the silo nobody seems to be checking it
They found Sandsons, so they don't expect art to be here
There was a hive of players that could have been something quite special
Five on three
Still plenty of work to be done here Mongols don't have really any map control go back towards a lobby
should be there round but they do have a lack of utility and this they don't have
any smokes have a couple of monotons and flashes there is a world of this all
goes wrong for them aka in the handedness and we know he has the
potential to do unthinkable things on the server oh yeah we definitely proved
that especially on mirage show let's just see 50 seconds they are holding this
very good that's how the Mongols should be playing they should be holding every
angle watching every smoke checking every corner you never know what legacy
going to be able to bring Lato up on the high ground here.
He should walk away, but either way, they should be able to flash and kill him if they
need to.
They're in, they're out.
There is a player down towards lower.
Dumau comes down to him.
The clock is his friend in this particular one.
Nine times should get this kill.
That should be him.
It should be in the opposite word.
Dumau, the star player.
They're running away again.
They really want to make sure they don't kill us.
So now they're holding the vent and Dumau has to know that he has to run the other way.
He can't really take the fight against the orb there.
So the bomb is going to be planted.
How wild do you want to be, DeMauw?
I mean, I black guess he's planning to contain you.
It's going to take him so long to walk all the way to the lobby.
Don't think it'll be possible to get two kills.
He's got the kill.
And his e-fuse.
You'd have to find a quick kill in towards Squeaky Door.
Some players would go for this.
Some players would be interested.
There's the quick kill.
There it is.
We're on a 9-10.
And now he's hunting for a Racineo.
You could hear there's still plenty of time left for the bomb now.
the kit is backbuckets, jumps around the corner looking everywhere, and Cedio just playing
rear-round the rosy, hiding from him, he taps the bomb, and now Cedio has to commit to it.
I think he's played it well enough, gets the head shot, but I think even without he had
bought enough time to deny that defuse. A cool attempt from DeMaule.
Oh, absolutely. But that was actually possible to win that round. Well played. Like I said,
the only way he had the chance to win that with that sort of flank, find a quick kill
towards squeaky door, then full speed ahead, hope he gets a quick kill, he'll start to
to deal with 9-10s opening orb kill.
And there was a moment for art.
There's a universe where he gets three-man spray down there
but timing's eluded and it will be 9-10s to confirm it.
It was a four versus one.
Yeah, bear that in mind.
Four versus one, Dumau brought it down to a 1v1.
And you can see that reflected on their finances.
The Mongols are entering and is.
Oh, you're right.
After winning the previous round
with two Mac 10s and two Galils
because they needed some utility.
So Dumau might not have won the round
but he could secure the half.
That is such a crazy outcome.
Big miss.
Should have been a bit more ready for that.
See, Angleey was holding,
seemed like he was napping a bit on the flick.
That's what we've been seeing
out of Satsudabri once in a while again.
Four of the eight kills that he's got
is for the five seven, right?
We won him with the AWP, that's all they're looking for.
I'll boost it up.
Yeah, right, you are.
This is almost as good for one and a half.
Just one round where you don't check hits.
jump around the corner, that's how you want to entry onto that, it's actually a good conversion
for MCNL.
Oh!
Aggressions back, legacy, they love it on this map.
They really do.
MCNL, I can't believe you live.
Here comes 11 health.
Here comes Nissen from lower though.
He's going to find the bomb.
Or is he?
Oh my god, it's so dead.
There it is, he's got the C-400 in his control now, Galil, Mach 10, he's being pushed.
40 seconds, he's going to drop the smoke to suggest he knows this is coming, this is
really well played.
What a read.
a great read, Anders. Drops that snow to suggest. I'm throwing back. I know you're there, but
actually going through it and getting the free kill.
It was such a good read in my mind. I was wondering, did Bits make a footstep? Otherwise, I mean,
regardless, it's a very impressive play.
Very nice. And like we said, Dumal won that previous clutch attempt, the one before.
Yes.
But he has ruined their finances, leading to a victory here in round number 11, and completely
ruining their economy for the final round of the half here. There will be down to pistols
only.
Yeah, I'm glad you bring it up. What an impact to have stretching into the next couple of rounds even
so
Last of the half here. Let's see how this one plays out
Are we finally gonna see one of those vent drops doesn't seem like it's gonna be easy to get closer to five
I'm straight through the smoke and they are trying it
It's alright down we go getting down said they just wanted their favorite plays when they try to go fast on this map
So they're gonna have a bomb plant
but I mean we've seen them almost win the round this one before.
Don't write this one off.
It will be very, very difficult though.
Tech nines, so head armor on Cobra Sierra Island,
he's already tagged up.
Bomb planted very swiftly though.
Legacy, let's see if they constructed this.
Another kill, it's Art on the quad.
If he get the ace to end it with,
that would set up Legacy very nicely.
And regardless, his first half has been brilliant for them.
They almost teased it, almost fell out of it.
Art was great, he does get all five.
Excellent.
massive lead for his team going into the second half.
Art has had some massive impact.
Single handedly won them two rounds there.
Yeah, first half.
They had the good start, four one up.
They weren't trailing the entire time.
And his third and final map there
in the driving seat to get to the semi-final here
against the Mongols.
They had some good rounds themselves,
but you've got to say these contributions from Art
absolutely fantastic, good read,
and it's the solid game plan.
Nothing too crazy, not hyper-aggressive,
allowing them to have ramp from time and time again.
Some overpeaks at times against 9-10 with a galil,
I suppose, but generally speaking,
that's a very good half from Legacy.
It is. I think I said it at the start,
but that the yard position is his best role on any map.
Yeah. Where does the most work?
And I guess it makes sense, such a dynamic position,
he could be everywhere.
So it kind of plays to his style as well.
Four rounds on the T side.
I mean, that doesn't mean that Mongols have lost this.
They're still dangerous.
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely true. If ever there was a map to have a comeback corner be the CT side of Nuke.
Like I said, the Mongols favour the drop vent rush there. Legacy on the other hand, they really like a good ramp rush.
But you really can see many of those. I like a good ramp rush.
Not as popular these days, but I'm definitely interested. See what kind of pistol they're going to bring to the table there.
We have got double molotovs a smoke and a flash suggest an upper pop here. Okay, um, but time will tell
All right, that is a lot of fire to bring into a pistol round
Well, you might be onto something Henry
Lits has gone down
Early, they have three people still the thing the A side. I guess they got a molotov main with the flash
Going on top the Molotov the hut as well. It's my guess
Yeah, there's coming through. Gush onto Techno, but Corpus here at my job. What a
return he's got here. Two headshots. It's going to try and find out.
There's nobody here. It's still weirdly a winnable round for Legacy. As long as art
is lurking and the back in Satsun doesn't die, you just get out of there. You just
have to live. This is about buying time. There is not going to be a kit on the CT side. Every
second counts, but my God, they can't find each other. They can't work off each other.
The Mongols huge they're the favorite team winning the pistol round here. Oh dream alive very convincing pistol as well
Nice idea there, but you could see a lot of teams opt for the smoke towards main and this sort of play for this reason really
Cuz sure you flushed them out, but you still have vision with the USB and
Unfortunately losing two kills like that's always give you a death sentence if they get the bomb planted Anders, right?
Okay, and as we always say it's losing this second round to the force by is actually worse than losing the pistol
That is absolutely true.
And obviously, because the Bobbets are Mongols are going all rifles, no SMGs, they understand the serious nature of this situation.
Yeah, this is a very, very important round.
Mongols will have to force by themselves when they get this one over.
And they'll be running out of time and space.
Get a great quarter-final so far.
We've got some magical moments, some crazy maneuvers, some unexpected plays mainly from Legacy.
See whether they can get anything done here on the 4-spy.
Looks to be a ramp split, two players towards outside, do amount of heavy damage on the cross.
MZNEO playing a passive, just wants to get the information that Cendry does not land.
Not the end of the world, still does help him out a bit.
9-10, what about MZNEO who was thinking around for the fight, so they had a bit of coordination there.
Again, it's CobraZero, double kill in the pistol round, now a headshot to bring down Art.
Dumau is on the hunt though, 9-10.
Is he gonna stay alive? It almost might not make a difference here.
The rest of the team is falling apart on the legacy side.
Dumau did eventually find the kill, but you can't ever wonder if it's too little and too late.
I guess Blitz and MCNL are low on health, so if Sadsun can find an impact,
he hasn't been able to do it with the AWP, but with other weapons I feel like he's been pretty serviceable.
So, I wouldn't count him out just yet.
Nobody from the Mongols really showing themselves anywhere, or timing is just against them unfortunately there.
MC and the other really nice find, double for him, and Dumau, no health and no time.
So the Mongols keep, they survive that round.
To the ground to win.
Keep three weapons up as well, Dumau.
Won't be able to do anything with this, could be Cobra's error to find him.
So, there we have it, towards the ramp room they went.
Dumau gets a couple of kills, but well held, generally speaking.
No real danger of ever losing that one has to be the eco now for legacy
Mongols needed the pistol needed the second round conversion
So far so good
Or we can really hope for
There's a couple of upgraded pistols here. We've seen some p250s. I am seeing a hero galil
Okay, in the hands of do now has a soldier. No still got it. So
So, gotta be trying to use the human shield outside, see if the galorel can find a couple
of headshots here, first opportunity, smokes go down, he's gonna push in front of the
smoke with a look to things here, do now, ready for the fight, but now, challenge by
9-10, he looks very, very sharp so far, continues to do great damage, gets himself a double
kill.
attempt to make a plant down towards lower potentially but it doesn't look like it'll be happening.
Yeah, they've brought it down very quickly.
Nice move from D'Amato to try to do that, but like you said 9-10 has been stunning in this game.
One plant really going to be coming through anyway.
They had three people down here to begin with. Mongols, they were ready to defend everything.
Give it an AK, of course there's no armor on anyone here on the legacy side. It's very hard to win in Nism.
One versus four more damage would be very nice, but when of all I doubt it techno is gonna be the one to find him
Mongols close to tying up the game now eight two seven and
What they have three people survive in the last round four in this one and if they're picking up at least an AK or two here
So they're starting to starting to kill it some cash on the CC side, too
Not bad
Oh my, we've got 9-10 on the ult now instead. Scary.
Yeah. Absolutely true, he is looking very, very powerful right now.
Dumal will have to make do with the Galil, considering he purchased that weapon in the previous round as well.
Orphe starts in. Had his moments here, but mainly with the 5-7.
We boost it up.
Opens air up, opens up the fragging here, miss him or respond.
Dark smoke deployed, R trying to get out. Gets a chance to take down 9-10 but unable to convert him.
Yeah, the swinging here for Dumau might actually pay off.
Lits trapped in the corner, but he fights his way out. It's a huge double.
Miss him and Dumau both go down.
I feel like if they would have committed to the swing against 9-10 at the beginning instead of the shoulder peak,
there's a chance that they could have caught him off guard but once he saw just a sleeve of someone
there I think Sansa is dead as well 9 10 more double kills coming through he's up to 14
tied top-fragging but art who got almost all these kills in the first half pretty much
and that will tie up the game as well 8 8 a time that's been called for legacy I guess they have
they have some kind of money in a round like this one but things are getting super awkward at the
moment here the moment seems like they're right back in the second half I think you might be
on or something there my friend let's see whether legacy can bounce back they're gonna have to
take a partial by here I would imagine arts will have the ak-47 and to be fair he has looked like
the strongest asset here on nuka leased yeah he's had some very impressive moments the ace comes to
mind but I think almost I think are all 14 kills in the first half it might be I think you might be
be right. This would be a perfect round for some sort of a rush here. Like I said, they
are big fans of it, Legacy, and we kind of seen the speed that they could bring to some
of the other maps. And that worked very well against the Mongols, most notably perhaps
on the T side of Inferno where Legacy kept catching them off guard. Maybe they could
do something similar on Nuke here. Lato towards the ramp early, but it's not quite as fast
as an approach as I would like. I'd love to see them try and see if they could hunt down
the mongols early so it's with a knife come on that's why I'm just on that got
anything to say now no I love it do it again with a taser that's crazy work you
think you're sneaking down the vent it's land on the knife it's so funny how
That's a back step, but never mind that
Corbis here, up on the hot tier
Perfect spray down, couldn't be any better
Knife kills and an M-force for the rest of it
Again, almost everyone surviving
They have crazy amount of cash now on the Mongol side
And they've taken the lead
Denying the bomb plant here of a legacy
Where are our legacy gone?
This is the T side of Newt, they should be able to do something more
It's five rounds in a row
For the Mongols now
It's a demoralizing round as well
as well. You never even got to look in. Sure, it's a partial buy, but you've got it. It
scraps the surface there. Ah, it's got to fade away kill. Means almost nothing. Get
into renovating and Mongols now taking the lead at dimension five rounds in a row. They're
on fire. Huge returns of form. Nice one. Jamal with the opening. They do need this now, like
you see, it's been way too one side of years. Eight, four first half of the Mongols. They've
not let up at all. Second half they've come right back into the swing of things. MCL is
pushing up towards secret but Satsen finds an AWP kill so now they've got a two man lead
and a nice molotov. Can't, if he was a little bit further up maybe he could have pushed
in front of it but has to go back.
Can't afford to lose this round, there's no two ways about it. Five on three has to
be converted. Nothing too flashy required, a stick as a group, trade out your kills.
No trade available. Gonna have to assess their options now.
First play goes down. There's the second, back to a three on three.
Exploring the smoke, Cobre is there, trying to buy himself some time here, maybe overcooked slightly.
Who gets the kill?
He's still alive.
He's still going somehow.
Gonna be taken care of eventually. Nice job from our...
But...
It's way more winnable, right?
So two on three all of a sudden.
MZNEO, he's actually got off the vents as well. They think he's down lower.
They've done a great job at really making it hard for legacy to understand what's going on.
Oh, this is a very cool play actually at the start of that 3-5.
With Techno shooting through the smoke, MCNeil down below, and then Copper in the garage, you're not never expecting that.
Both players in towards upper.
That's another good point here.
23 seconds, the bomb coming in from the high ground. They are committed to this A-play right now, and they walk straight into hetra range.
Councilor MCNeil, and you can't forget to escape that corner.
That's so scary, but you know what legacy win it. First round of the second half for them.
with the double kill first round indeed at the second half tie things up and
nine nine money should be absolutely fine though for the Mongols a sigh of
relief though and there's a five on three quickly answered back by Mongols
three on three situation but arts nice kill towards the garage up towards the
heaven's air trading on the kills as mentioned and their first is found sad
some of the AWP he managed to get that second kill from the silo as well yes
Put down 9-10 towards the credit card area that's all we're asking like a couple of orb kills
Yeah, doesn't have to be the flashiest at all. Just get one
You can every round that would be great, but even just every other round. I'll take it
And is him having a bit more trouble on nuke so far getting activated he used he used all of his prayers
Winning that Mac 10 round. That's that's where all the luck went into
It is crazy.
On Mirage, go back and watch it if you missed it.
It'll be in the highlight somewhere, I'm sure.
Round number 19.
Game is tied once again.
Remember, this is the quarterfinals here at the CAC.
Oh, the Mongols would be depressing for them
if they get knocked out here for legacy.
I think it'd be a huge achievement
if they could take down the Mongols on land
to carry on into the rest of the tournament.
They could do it.
Ah, now up to 17, re-committing the smokes outside.
So that's four smokes used so far to get across.
Timing on those eight cheese?
Oh, they don't have any more of them.
Scary on this cross.
I'm making a lot of sound cues, 9-10 in a prime position to open things up, a two-mile
should be going down.
9-10, don't miss those sort of shots.
Sendry to the force, the hand as well, Lata has to commit. Can't pull back just yet.
Cobras-era, has to play his floundering out of the secret area. Nism will pull him back.
But there's so low, and there's Lata and Nism. The walk is wounded right now.
Good flashbang from Satsin. Keeps him in the round.
Just barely perhaps.
35 seconds though is a bit of an issue, but they are climbing up towards Heaven.
Lato being this low on health is an issue and Nism is not that much better off at the moment
in the scene. He was out for blood.
See if you can find anyone that unbreakable box is in front of him so I can't see him immediately
but surely he has the grenades.
He gets the one. He wasn't ready for it.
I would have thought he would have heard the grenades landing on the other side
but it's only 14 seconds as they try and get through with the bomb on their back.
Techno, one kill will do it. They're actually stepping into the flame so he knows that they're going to be there
but somehow a no-scope from...
the 910, there's only 4 seconds left, and it's opportunity, and legacy, steal back the round!
Oh, it was looking like such a lock in there for the Mongols.
All the opening picks they could ask for, then it gets a bit weird.
The AWP trying to come up through the vents.
I think Sansen had the nose scope on Inferno.
Yeah.
Good, attacking the B bombsite, now another one here.
Unbelievable.
It works.
It looked like they were done for, they had flashbang in towards main,
Like we said to keep the round alive. I did love that whole sequence of them trying to go out yard with the smokes being blown open shots
Coming through Molotov's it's like one of those scenes from like an American military movie
Yeah under the barbed wire and people are explosions going off. That's what it is like an obstacle course
Dude, that's crazy. The legacy pulled our round back
Yeah, look at what they had like 10 seconds when they got into main entrance and they had to wait for the flames to go down
Get the kill close CT van. They didn't even wait for the flames
They walked into their own Molotovs showing that they were there like do you hear the singe shot the others and then as soon as that kill
Comes through it's a nine-messon RIP 910. They know he's down towards lower
He already showed his presence down towards secret right so then he's gonna come out of the vent in smoke in a two versus one as the plant in the bomb
Just a terrible position to be in yes. Yeah, that's not a 910 to miss those slides not his fault
Yeah, of course he was in the worst position possible here
Los Adson do you have any more left in you?
you. I have no scope to get them into a bomb plant. Over zero in the vent, knocked with
a knife. It's got the MP9, it's a more reasonable person. And blitz. So it's going to come right
down to the wire. This map will decide the next team through to the semi-finals. Just
a note, mouse to take down baits in quarter of a time. They're going to 2-0 there. Wow.
down on the mouse. Oh, they're pushing this garage blitz all the way in the back, no back-up
whatsoever. That's a better position if there's a distraction, if the rest of the T-Side is
fighting something else, but they were uninterrupted doing that. Art's down to 4 health, but it doesn't
matter, he got the opening. Corporal Sierra is nearly dead as well. 55 seconds. Playing that time for now.
Now, let's see if Legacy will make a choice here. They're much slower in their approach than you
normally see but maybe that's because normally they're playing more of the
regional teams the Mongols have managed to put a little bit of respect on their
name here it's 910 back in those vents again 35 seconds I'm seeing you offering
himself up a bit of a freebie here have no idea do now is that close 25 seconds
now down towards lower they go by the looks things as we mentioned that's
when nine ten remains okay and he's got back up now
we're going back up okay
wait a minute
okay it's all good they're done enough
that's your very good read
good call
make their way back in nine ten
not really much you do this try and survive
the USP in hand right now makes its way towards the ramp room
great work though do now getting himself in that prime position
beneath the heaven
and senior had no idea floodgates open as soon as he goes down
do we know yet who they're playing a winner this one in the semi-finals
probably work it out yeah that could be an interesting kind of thing to to be
m i'd be out
but and they're playing super well i'm actually really actually i'd be out of
this this tournament and and even the last one
so i have falcons mouse in the top side of the bracket but i might be out
legacy
i think both those games regardless i can be really fun all all nice
tonight
Yeah, but you know what? They did knife them earlier, so...
It's true. Tasted them medicine.
Here we go.
11-9.
Money is very questionable for the Mongols.
This could be a fight all the time.
$2,400 into this round.
They'll get $2,900 into the next.
Pick your poison now.
Do you force buy now into nine bad points?
Or do you take the full eco and let them have it?
And have more money in the future?
I think they've already answered the question.
They're going all in.
I was gonna say I would have gone for the force, but...
Here it is then. They've gone with the Anders approach here, the Anders technique.
Three MP9s. It's not looking good.
Scout on 910 and then Blitz on that M4.
Well it all comes down to this here.
Losing this one they would have so little to work with going into the final round.
A 910. Hasn't many to see anyone.
They're also going to be lacking an enormous amount of utility which is
definitely a problem too. Trying to block that smoke a bit going towards Mini.
Using all the grenades outside, it's arts working the corner. I really want to make sure that no
one is hiding in there which I can give us to confirm by now. Scout here, can't quite find the
shot that he was looking for. They've done some damage on the Sansen. Lits, I don't think anyone's
expecting him to be there. Not once. The scout's already run away from this position, you don't
see a second player, okay, mp9 arranged, we still are welcome Mirage, very true, Cobra
Sierra, his boots show here he probably will be dead, but again honestly the clock is running
down low and Art and Sansa are very low on health, this is suddenly looking like a way
more wind of a round for the Mongols, grenade nearly kills Art and the fact that Cobra Sierra
is in this incredibly forward position I think this is such a strong, no matter what happens
on this map. You can look down vent, you can stop them going lobby.
The rounds on a knife's edge. They're running out of time. Low HP, 4 on 4 and MZ has got
the AK-47. They might have fumbled this massive advantage they had financially coming into
this one. 3 MP9s and a scout, 1 and 4. It's collapsing. 14 seconds remaining. Art scrambles
in towards upper, but it's no goodness and can't do anything about it. It was a huge
risk to fully invest into this round with the amount of cash they have, but look where
they leave a band is two AKs, AWP and an M4. That could be the back breaking play that
secures the map for the Mongols here. A miraculous turn around.
It looked like in that four on four legacy just froze up. Maybe they were hoping for
more aggression from the Mongol side, but all they did was burn the clock down low.
And when they find it, they decided to pick it up and say, okay, we've got to do something.
It was too late. They just couldn't do it.
That's such an important round. You're not going to get better opportunities than that
to close out a quarterfinal. You win that round against the MP9s that broke and financially
fully. They would have got $2,900 in the next round. You would have map point pretty much
GG. That's could have been the quarterfinals decided in favor of Legacy had they picked
that one up. But now instead it's back in open contention here. Anything can happen
from this point on this. This series has been really great. I've loved every moment of it.
Round number 22. Legacy can still buy but after this day themselves will start to run out of
money. The Mongols just want to tie up this game and keep it going.
Sandsen missing that little flick and blitz, even though he was blinded.
He still lands the kill on the Sandsen.
Four and five to start this one with all the Mongols.
They aren't going to be fired up behind this one.
MC, you're playing on that railing.
Well, quickly fall back, doesn't want to stick around.
Got three players down towards lower right now in the CT side.
That's a pretty fast rotation.
That's a crazy rotation.
They might have read this perfectly as well.
They have, Anders. They don't know it. They're walking into the lion's den right now.
Yeah, you can't ask for more than this.
Normally, you're happy if you have even two people here.
Oh, but let's thus go down.
MCNEO, they know that he's the second player there.
Does do a little bit of damage. Smoke on the left-hand side means he only has to worry about this for a second,
but now they're founcing right through. MCNEO's in trouble.
Corporal Zero's here. The defender, he's dead.
Three men set up and they still break it open.
Art is low, Dumau will have to do the heavy lifting here, they've got plenty of time to plant, the CTs are quite far away, down the vents Techno 4K will come.
It's the open the retake as well, there is a kit available.
Nice.
And a lot of incendiaries, so if they can isolate a player they can burn them out.
There are minuses, four map points as well.
A 9-10 sneaking in, he's not missed many shots with the AWP in the series, it's rare that he does.
Did he find one not this time and now technical swings in its load three
Elf left the Dumal, but it gets the last in the hat trick and that brings them to series point
Another fantastic opportunity to close things out two chances to do so as
Mention the money gonna be a bit battered and bruised but stronger than it was before
Considering on that round in the MP9 they say four weapons, so it won't be a nightmare with the scouts, etc
still will have rifles but another great opportunity to close is one hour right here right now and
they're purchasing a mac 10 on art you know what's about to happen that's cool you know what's
about to come through the banking on no helmets the bank on no helmets and art's gonna call something
crazy that's I want to see this he is gonna call something wild here either a ramp brush or
upper execution with a lot of utility behind there or if they win with a real round this is
This is gonna be an art special. He knows they're gonna be sacrificing helmets first
Yeah, there's only two of them. He's from the pack as well. Where are you off to?
What's your plan here my friend? Is this where they find the haymaker the knockout blow to send the Mongols packing?
Straight to the boss. He was here and again. He's got no helmet. You've got recover and they are coming for him
Oh, I spray down from him senior. He's lucky to make it through that, but it's not over yet
He's got the reload in, he can't find another headshot, but he might have bought time.
Cobra Seer is there, they realize there's somebody in the vent as well.
Great communication on the Mongol side, they realize that right away,
Cobra Seer plays accurate, will get two kills before finally Lato takes him.
Nism holding this angle, but techno, he peeks it so fast.
And Lato now 1 vs 3, surely the Mongols are holding on tight here.
If money's low on the T side, this should be overtime.
It was feeling so promising, wasn't it?
Oh yeah.
I felt like I built it up and it felt like it's a romantic finish to Art's
brand brush with a Mach 10
We'll see if Latter could do anything about it. I think when art goes for the drop down
There's a second way he just gets stuck. He thought I was about to say that boy. He fumbled the movement
100 100% cost him to kill all right. I was gonna ask that question. I get that enough to cost him
100% it's like it comes down to the money used to that and how do you got down cleanly and had some speed momentum behind him?
He gets a kill all day long he includes kind of apprehensive as well on the drop down
He didn't just go down straight away
Then when he did drop down he fumbled the movement up and I'm pretty I'm gonna say that cost him the kill and maybe even the round
Because that delay means that cobra syrup is now in position to get a double kill exactly like there's like dominoes going into the round
Like it's worse and worse the bomb is planted here. Lato
This would be one of the tournament highlights if you can clutch this somehow
Yeah, the context of a WP getting into the semi-final at the real one like this
Yeah, absolutely, but you know what they are peeking on this side at least two of them
There's the first hold of oh brick as he takes down nine ten and let's go. Can you get this one blitz revealing yourself?
Are you kidding me?
Lasso has picked up one of the all-time clutches
It didn't look like he had any business winning that whatsoever a
Plum goes down the AWP the worst weapon for the job surrounded by CTs
but he pulls it off at three versus what a miraculous round a great series and it will be legacy making their way to the semi-final
What an absolutely incredible last round by Lato 3k
Orp one versus three on that b site
He had no business winning that honestly the fight that he picked up the op at the beginning
I thought that was nailing the coffin
Exactly that's exactly what I'm thinking because obviously he's gonna get Pete from both sides
Like it's gonna be difficult for him to make it work if he gets down to the side
The reason he picks it up is because he wants to get the first picture
He pushes through the smoke
But then he's kind of walked into it because then he would have to go back through the smoke to pick up an AK
And that is again a sliver from the Mongols right a small little things where they were struggling with you know where he is
I sure you don't know what he has the AWP of course
But then why are you not waiting for the player coming out from double right?
Why are they swinging in one by one and it's just so confusing just by the time
Collapsing them together and these small little mistakes man
But yeah, let me jump in there because that was what the issue was there for the Mongols
First guy peeks out dead second guy didn't at that point
You've already made one sort of cheeky little mistake. Let it go. You're still two versus one
No, then the second player comes out on his own doesn't wait for a friend at that point, you know
Momentum the odd technically an artist favorite
1v1. Also the spam of the door there, like I thought was a bit questionable by the final
Mongols player. Yeah, a poorly played 3 vs 1. Yeah, it's all credit to Lato.
Oh, no. Like absolutely steel will to make that one happen.
That was incredible from Lato. I think a lot of his clutches, a lot of his big plays coming
out from the side of legacy, they're very impressive. But I think exactly that's what's highlighting
how Mongols, when the chips are down, when you look at their buy and the buy is rough,
they were able to pull off these bullshit rounds. And then it comes to a round where Lato has
no business winning. Again, it just work in unison, guys. You do this time and time and time again,
and I feel like it is a bit of a bitter pill to swallow, but also a lesson that the Mongols need
to learn. Yes, we've even seen it a little bit more throughout this map, right, because it was the
T side where they gave up the bronze pistols to South Indian, where they were just fighting
in the ramp one by one. They get picked off by a 5-7 and they're just going back and forth.
There was the 1v4 attempt from Dumandr effectively ruined the economy in the last two rounds with the half were instead of a 6-4, it could have been a 6-6
Because going through the 11th round they have like two Mac 10s and then last round they basically have no buy to speak of
So it was long... We're going to get a clip in a second by the way, here we go
Yeah, this is... The first thing's fine. Why go for the repeat?
That shot was awesome
Yeah, so 910 wants to trade right? I wonder if they even knew that there was an up here if they heard him scope? I guess they must have
I mean, okay, even if they didn't know he had an AWP, the moment he takes the first shot, right?
Like, and he's tucked away from him. You know, you have a flank coming in from double.
Sure, it's smoked off. You can wait for him to come from window, maybe, right?
Just taking a time to bomb it. Just fundamental mistakes being made by the Mongols.
And listen, man, at this level of counter strike, you can't afford to do that.
Yes, scoreboard up on screen now. Yeah, Lato with a game winning one versus three.
also top of the table. We mentioned him in the pre-match that he's been having a good
tournament and he was the standout player, not just of Mute, but across that series.
1.36 rating, 58 frags, 11 ahead of second place Nism.
Yeah, he's been great.
He's absolutely been great. Also, it's really cool to see for the side of the leg.
Oh sorry, no, second place for Demal. Demal playing solid across that series too.
It's been mainly D'Amau, Nissem and Latte who has been putting in all the work.
It's really cool to see, we saw it in Atlanta as well, getting the third place position,
and then even over here, the fact that even if one player has a bit of a quiet game, Nissem
had a bit of a quiet map here in Newt, but everyone else kind of chips in, they step
up.
Art as well, he had a great tournament in Atlanta and so far at this event, it's been
a little bit quiet.
He had a lot of impact as well, we saw it with the pistols as well.
So you listen, shout out to Legacy.
I'm actually looking forward to what should be an absolute
insane game against MIBR.
That's very final, Brazilian Derby.
Yeah, we've got the full Brazilian lineup on Legacy,
then the Brazilian mix on MIBR.
Insani has been popping off at this tournament,
and I'm looking forward to seeing those jewels that head-to-head
between Lato and Insani.
I think for MIBR, maybe they were hoping a little bit
that there would be Mongols coming through,
because I think they've been looking so solid
against the international opposition,
but whenever things go down to the regional level,
It's always very chaotic. It's always very unpredictable for anybody that plays against each other, you know, so it's it's it's
On the other hand the legacy I guess probably welcome this kind of a match up, you know instead of like Mauser Falcons of the other side
I feel I mean just to put a pin on the Mongols journey
I think it's nice. I have to cut you off there because our interviews are ready
And we're starting off with an exit interview with techno of the Mongols across all three maps
The score was very close. What do you think is the reason that you guys couldn't close out today?
I think it's because of all of me. I really choked on the key moments, key rounds, especially on the new rounds, the last few rounds.
It was two versus two, that round and also the last round, yeah, everything was so messed up for me.
From my personal point of view, I feel that today's team's strength is more than just me.
It's me who played very poorly in the last game, especially in the last game of Nuke.
Whether it's the last 2v2, or the last 1v3, the 3v1 situation, it's all my personal reasons that led to the team's strength.
maps like especially on Mirage as you can see the people might be seeing that we
changed our positions on the T side also C side so we changed a few things but
it didn't work out at the beginning you know the tournaments the beginning and
And on this time today, we played two Mirage, and we played like back, what it was like,
you know, the odd positions for everyone.
So we closed up the game for the Mirage.
Also, in front of we were leading 9-3, we could have won the round, but there was also the key moments for individuals, especially for me and my bet.
We made some adjustments from yesterday's match, especially from the CT and T side.
If you look closely, you can see some changes in our position.
We also made some adjustments in the position of the sniper.
But today, if we still don't deal with some key areas in the leading situation, I think it's still my problem.
Thank you for your answer.
any team. It's simple, but you know, we're still working and yeah.
Always tough to speak in a lost techno putting a lot of the blame on himself on if his fast
initial answers was the loss was all on him. Striker Blair Thorpe. I disagree I don't think it was
all on him honestly like he was the first guy in the final round he pointed out where he was the
first guy peeking there probably didn't know was an AWP but I think the failure and communication
is more spread out across the team but he did yes sure he had a couple of rough individual moments
in the early maps as well.
So while he does have the shoulder a bit of the blame,
I feel like as a team overall, you guys just
need to tighten your ship a little bit better.
And considering how long the core of this lineup
has been for such a long time, I'm still just so confused.
Like when are you finally going to fix these fundamental issues?
Because if you're looking to contend for championships,
or trophies, or even make super deep runs against your mouses,
against your falcons, against spirit, for example,
and of course, vitality on top, you
can't afford to make these mistakes.
But for me, Apologist, frustrating.
because we see this every single time, every single event.
On that topic, if I'm to throw it over to Striker,
another thing that he mentioned is that they tried some new things,
they changed some things up, some positions,
but obviously where it didn't work out. Striker, what are your thoughts on that?
Yeah, it was the Mirage thing that was curious that he mentioned,
because I didn't notice early on that there were there being any changes.
I think he maybe misspoke and he meant the Dust2CT side
that we were talking about before,
that they changed up where Techno went along and then Mizzini went to B.
But obviously that was not the case here, and we didn't see the dust too.
I just want to tie into what he was talking about, some of the choke rounds, right?
I mean, it is something that is kind of a theme with mongols.
When they do look bad, it is through these situations that they end up throwing away.
It's not necessarily a team problem, it's more these last, like, late-game situational things,
where they just look disconnected, right? Nobody says calm down or whatever,
like nobody takes point, probably, in those moments where they just fail it.
But it was also a couple rounds that he was talking about in a previous round on Yook.
It was the 2v2 where they had to leave.
But it was Milan because our winners' interview is ready with Lotto of Legacy.
The clutch 1 vs 3, how did you manage to make it happen?
I don't think a lot in the 1v3.
I don't play the Counter-Strike, the CS, but I see the gap and I go to the site and after this I think it's good.
God help me, and I won this 1v3.
How much impact do you think Art and Coach bring to the team?
Because on Map 1 Inferno there were two clutch timeouts and you guys all went around after timeout.
You guys almost did the same thing. So how important are the coach and Art playing this series?
Yeah, they are very important. Always they pause and say to the team back to the game
because we are missing a lot of things.
to the game, because we are missing a lot of things, and after that, they are pausing the
game and saying, guys, we are trophy, we need to step up, we need to play our counter-strike,
and they are very important because they put the team always in the high, you know.
I think the coach and Art's work is very important, especially when they are in the
team, they will put the team's morale to a very high level. We will discuss the mistakes
and the coach will also jump out and tell us where we didn't play well,
and then let us stop on the map and do some weird moves.
So I think after every stop, we will all have a higher level of vision
to welcome our next meeting, which is very important to us.
So it's obvious that you can see that
in fact, they are in the practice room,
or in the state of the military,
they can continue to have a constant adjustment.
As a non-faculty champion,
will you have a further goal on this CEC stage?
Well, as a defending champion of last Asian Championship, now you're making it to the top four.
What's the goal next for your team?
Yeah, I think we are here back-to-back to the trophy in the tournament.
But we're looking forward step-by-step.
We want to win the trophy, but we have one game before the final.
We have the same finals first, and after that, the grand final, and make a good sense here.
After we entered the 4th game, we had a lot of ideas, but I think we still need to take it slow.
Because before the finals, there was a semi-final, and there were two matches, and we had to keep up with the pace and play our style.
Legacy's passion also touched the audience before the game, what did you say to them?
We were all affected by your passion in the game, your team's passion in the game.
All the fans here love you and any word kind of words you want to have to the fans. Yeah, of course
I love the the people of China you always support us and cheering for us and help a lot
We we will bring our our passion and aggressive in the same finals as well and cheering for us guys. Thank you
Thank you for your support, Chinese fans, we will use your passion to help you enjoy the game more, so please continue to support us.
Thank you for the interview, we will hand over the last letter to Leto, and we will lock the last one on the back of the box.
throughout it was probably just in flow state. Yeah, for sure. As I said, I don't think that all
pick up at the beginning was necessarily the whole plan going towards the end. So I think
at that point, he was just going with whatever came to his mind at the moment. Yeah, absolutely.
I think he, like you said, you're a hand of God moment right there. But listen, I just want to
put a pin in the Mongols thing, a disappointing performance for them because even in, even in
at least in Astana, they played all the best teams, right? And they managed to, they lost our two,
3 in a quite a very close fashion. Over here you reach the quarters. This is the easiest
side of the brackets by the way. I mean at least on paper you have MI, you have legacy.
Real chance for them to get to the finals before the major convenience. So a bit of
a harsh blow, but for legacy man defending champions. I won't lie, I had Mongols winning
this and now they have a chance to make something really interesting by making it to yet another
finals over there in Shanghai. Lato was also remarking on the impact of
and their coaches, says they're very important,
especially giving them hype.
We know legacy are a team that can thrive
in a environment of high energy.
And it's interesting that rather than talking about tactics
or calls that are all the coaches bringing,
he said, yeah, they give us hype.
Yeah, I don't know if it's necessarily
a very in-depth response there, you know,
they're just wanting to.
I think we're still riding off the cortisol high, you know.
I think we all are, you know.
That was an incredible clutch.
Final point, I guess to bounce off of, is that, yeah, we know Lexi are our defending champions.
Went off to battle their goals, they want that back-to-back, but smartly taking it step by step.
Yes, first step of my BR, we spoke about it before, obviously a lot of history between any Brazilian teams.
They play quite a lot regionally as well.
These two, particularly, they even play internationally. I think last time they played in Bucharest,
that was legacy-taking, taking win, I think, as far as I can remember.
But it is it is always back and forth between these guys. It's always going to be a it's always going to be a bloodbath
So I do think that they have to kind of take it step by step and not just you know feel like they got the easy opponent here
Yeah, for me, I'm just looking at that. I'm like Falcon's mouse
Really exciting. That's gonna be a fun one. I think our semi-finals gentlemen are absolutely
Stack striker and Blair as always. Thank you for your thoughts with that said everybody we have our top four teams
We have some amazing semi-finals to look forward to Falcons vs. Mouse MIBR versus Lexi
And we will catch you here tomorrow to enjoy the action