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to watch some goddamn beautiful Counter-Strike.
For all the Counter-Strike enjoys across the globe,
we are back with CS Asia champs for 2026.
And it is Grand Final day,
but also best of three for that third place decider.
I'm Matt and I'm joined by the two beautiful analysts
that are gonna be on the couch with me all morning,
Tim and Vendetta.
Boys, how are we feeling after a,
I'm hoping a well rested night?
Yeah, pretty excited to get this third place
decider underway and conclude the tournament as a whole.
We have a best of five Grand Final and coming up afterwards as well and I think different
talking points heading into today, one being Insani, can you win the MVP if you finish fourth
at a tournament?
He's been insanely good so far.
Yeah, he's making a great case for it.
Maus, pretty important game for them just for their self-understanding and weather that
right now.
So I think there's a lot of different storylines we can attack and should be an exciting day
for Counter-Strike.
Yeah, absolutely.
So again, we haven't had the blessing and seeing MIA all that much leading up to this
on the morning shift, but really excited to see how they've kind of developed again.
They were one of the teams, as all teams do, kind of in pre-tournament interviews going like,
hey, we improved so much. We've done a lot of great things and we're the best we've ever been,
but I would be here actually showing signs of that. And this is obviously great going into,
you know, a major in a couple of weeks and whatnot, but also again, VRS, all of that good jazz.
So really excited to see my VR here. Yeah, there's a few things as well that like,
I think it's quite interesting. We've been setting up the narrative of this being the,
Pretty much everyone's under the microscope moving into the major, but all the teams that didn't quite make it
They're setting up for that second season. And if we're looking at like MIBR, they came into this
I think 31st ranked in VRS, but if they win today, I think they'll end 15th or up towards like 14th as well
So that's a huge jump for one tournament
It is a huge jump for a 4-1 tournament and also super important for after the major
Now obviously they can gain even more points during Cologne and who knows how well they're gonna fare there
Without that playing
But if you want to make sure you get invites and get a chance to establish yourself for the second part of the season
You know to get invited to the PDE events to the EFT and a blast events
You got to do well now to make sure that you're heading into the solo break with enough points in your bank account
I think also for my VR they haven't had that many opportunities to play international events as well
So for them to kind of again get tested against international opposition and actually see that they can they can actually put up fights
You know, they can be good teams and they can do well
It's gonna instill a lot of confidence and that's what you want going into the major
So I think even if they were to necessarily or possibly fall here to mouseports in a third place this Saturday
They can still feel good about how they performed
Overall for this tournament because I don't think many people had them placing top four here
Yeah, look for me
They've already thrown my confidence off a little bit into the major because they are playing I think Thunderdown under is that first round
So I've seen here like maybe maybe it's not a 3-0 angle for Thunderdown under
But that's conversation for another time this best of three is going to be also a test for now
you know if they go out fourth place after what we I guess we've seen from them in the playoffs
I'd expect there to be a big W on the horizon because we saw signs of MIBR getting that little bit shaky yesterday
But let's touch on the good points. What do we like the most from now so far here in the playoffs?
I think they just need a bit of time to be completely honest
You know you can definitely point to certain players and say a guy like Spinks hasn't really been in his best shape
You know you want a bit more from him usually a different maker and I could be the greatest star
Mouse have to offer you know when he's on it, but he's been a little bit lackluster
But overall I think mouse have been playing okay
You know the way they lost to falcons yesterday wasn't necessarily too bad
You know and yeah considering that selix is coming in as a new young prospect jail has just returned after a long break as well
I think there's plenty of potential for development
So I'm not too worried about mouse, but maybe winning this tournament was a bit too early in the bus
Yeah a little bit early, but again like you said you kind of take the good with the bad here
So okay, it's things not necessarily setting the world on fire right now, but you have Celix
Kind of just getting over the hump. It seems like he's been rather consistent
I'd say throughout this tournament, which is a really really good sign for someone who's a rookie, right?
He's getting thrown into the deep end quite early as well
Like it's you're coming from the NXT Academy team into just S2 tournament. Yeah, it's a major
So that's not an easy adjustment to have to make and he's been doing great so far
And I think that's really, really nice for the team as a whole to have your newest guy into the team, obviously with JLBJL, having a little bit more experience, you could say.
And also, arguably for Zilex, he's in some harder roles as well, but still performing on the scoreboard, performing in game to game.
But MIBR, you know, as they're walking out, let's have a quick chat about them. Obviously, that down on the screen in Sani, he has been on fire, like, with every single game, even when they're losing yesterday,
He was pushing 30 kills.
Yeah, he's been playing hearts out, you know, arguably one of the best tournaments he's probably ever produced as an individual and that goes without saying because he's been producing good tournaments, you know, throughout his career.
Yeah.
He's a big talent. He's a great player. Does he sometimes struggle with consistency? You would argue yes, you know, when he has the potential to put up a tournament like this, then why doesn't he do it more often, you know, at a high level?
But just the fact that he has the potential to do as he's doing right now
Just the fact that we can have a conversation whether or not maybe he deserves to be the MVP of the tournament even finishing third or fourth
Speaks volume to how well he's been playing and I've said it before and I'll happily say it again
You know either he will make sure MIBR becomes relevant at the top tier scene or he will have to go
Is on the novel yeah, it is kind of crazy like he's I think we've become a little bit desensitized
To the high ratings between the two players in particular
of this, but the name of Zai Wu and Dong. And Sony is putting up like Dong and Zai Wu numbers
at this tournament, which is crazy because again, he doesn't have necessarily the strongest cast
around him. And again, that's not a slight to the MIBR team. Generally, as a team as a whole,
they've done above expectations and I'd say most of the players have played above what you'd expect
in terms of performances so far. But and Sony has just been so far ahead, everyone else in this
tournament at this point. Yeah and then you know the other funny thing about MIBR is yesterday when
we're looking at those top five players it was almost the whole lineup. But Jane who was there
at fourth place so it was a great thing to have a quick look at. I'd love to see how that would
have adjusted you know moving into today's games as well obviously yesterday we had some a scorcher
at least in one of the semis and then in the other one you know only the two mapper but legacy
showing that they are here to go back to back so really stepping it to MIBR and hopefully waking
them up because I'd love if they would have awoken the beast if we get to see a bit more out of
everyone else here on MIBR. To me it's a big test for MIBR in a sense as well. We're heading into
to the major right and we expect them to progress to further stages where they'll face teams like
Maus. In the beginning as you said they're facing plumbers and unemployed players over there in
Australia to be completely honest so that should be somewhat easy for MIBR but if they were to
make it to stage two or stage three for that matter then the facing teams like Maus you know and
and to see here whether or not they have what it takes
to beat them in a best of three,
I think that's quite relevant
and interesting heading into Kulou.
Yeah, because that's probably like the one gripe I've had
with their tournament runs so far
is the fact that they looked so fantastic
leading into the semi-finals
and everyone outside of Insani kind of fell flat
in the semi-finals versus Legacy yesterday.
So I'm hoping that was more just like a one-time instance,
something that we're not necessarily going to see
be a recurring theme.
As a whole, like as a team,
they don't really have that much experience
as they're playing at this level
or at this stage in a tournament.
You know, usually they would be knocked out by now.
So it is a bit of a learning curve, I would assume.
But maybe they've gotten rid of most of the jitters,
having played that semi-finals initially.
For me as well, just touching on the video quickly.
Overpass Ancient Mirage.
I feel like if we get to Mirage,
that'll be the more interesting of the maps,
just from what we've seen so far.
MIBI have been absolutely loving the Mirage gameplay.
But I don't know if we're going to get there.
Overpass, the maps have looked pretty damn strong on that.
and that ancient as well.
It's been a relatively okay map for them,
but if MIBR get going,
that's when I'm kind of worried about Maus.
I think it goes without saying
that Maus are the favorites in this game,
and it would be slightly disappointing
if Maus didn't find a way to win it,
but there's different ways of winning.
I too would be happy to see Mirage being played out.
I too would be happy to see MIBR apply a lot of pressure,
but when I look at the maps as well,
I see Maus as a clear-cut favorite for over parts,
and I see ancient as being very vulnerable as well for them.
So it would require MIBR to once again, maybe exceed expectations just a little bit.
I agree with you, we saw against Legacy that there may be limits to how well they can do right now.
And I think a team like Maus, despite it being a third-place decider,
they have a lot to play for as well in terms of VIS, you know, playing the major with Brolin.
So they're going to lose a lot of points as well.
So everything they can gain and accumulate in terms of wins, points, prize money is also important to Maus.
Yeah, no, it's huge for them.
And again, they want to have a good feeling, even though they're not going to have this exact five at the major.
for the five who will be playing. They obviously want to have a sense, like a kind of good
sensation going into it as well.
And for JL, I believe that will be his last game, you know, the next couple of months,
you know, he's not going to play any, anything, you know, during the make. All right. So he's
going to go on another extended break. So to speak. So he should be motivated to have
a good time.
I mean, face it, Pugs. Basically the same.
Yeah, you know, depending.
Sometimes.
Yeah.
But yeah, so far, obviously, we haven't seen JL hit the form that he was when he was in
Navi before he left this for the extended period. But you know what his ceiling is and you know what
he's capable of. So hopefully, you know, if he does lock in, you know, hopefully doesn't stop playing
for too long through the play-and-break and comes back in that second half of the year to show that
Maus are yet again another top contender. Yeah, I think he's been all right. You know, I mean,
I don't know what I expected from JL to be completely honest. It's very hard to assess a player who's
been out for a prolonged period. I think he's done okay, you know, and I think, you know, you probably
I agree how well that there's more to him.
You know, there's a lot of potential relying within jail,
but all things considered, I was a bit worried he'd be doing worse than he has.
So I've been okay and pleased to see him back.
Yeah, he's been serviceable so far,
and that's really all he could have expected out of him.
I think people underestimate how tough it is to kind of get into the groove of things.
Again, just playing Pogs and whatnot is not the same as playing tournaments.
I know that seems like a very obvious statement,
but I think it goes a little bit by the wayside
when people consider players coming back into the form.
Because they're all-
Some people need to hear it, though.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
And for JL, I think he's done an admirable job
of just kind of taking to the level yet again.
He's going to need some time to get adjusted.
And obviously, Miles, as a team, as a whole,
are going through pretty significant changes.
So Q'sness is not necessarily coming into the most,
like a safe environment to kind of slowly grow
and get back into it, either.
So all things consider, I think,
they can necessarily be unhappy
with how this is played out so far.
And I think JL probably feels like he's slowly getting into the groove of things.
Yeah, it's weird because you know, Maus are a very, very consistent team.
Well, it hasn't been a very consistent team, but it's like the first time in a long time
where I feel like they've hit any level of turbulence.
And obviously the new guys are trying to find their way in the team,
trying to sort of figure out what they need to do.
And I think today is going to be a very good test for that.
So hopefully, you know, kicking off with Overpass on paper should be a Maus dub,
but you never know what we're going to get with MIBR right now.
I think it comes down to Insani, it may sound a bit ridiculous to say,
but when you have a player who's been so good throughout the tournament,
he's the one that can change the tide of a game.
He's the one that can change the dynamic of a game as well.
I think we both agree that Overpass is a map leading heavily towards Malsch.
We've seen what they've been able to do, they found consistency with it.
It's been the go-to pick for them throughout the entire tournament,
with Sellex and the team as well, where he does some of his best jobs.
So in terms of screwing with that perception,
then you need something extraordinary,
and the one extraordinary thing MIBR have right now is Insani and his ability to perhaps
send a CT side to give it to Moush, you know, make sure they only get away with three or
four rounds and by then making the game competitive.
I will also say that it's an exciting opportunity really for some of the other players on MIBR
because I think if you go a couple of months back to when Clem joined the team, again he came out
of the D2 Academy team and kind of felt like he was a little bit out of nowhere and probably a lot
a lot of people thinking like surely there are more I guess set prospects that you can
go with within the region or and whatnot for that opera role, but he's shown that he has
potential to it when he has a pretty high ceiling when it comes to what he can produce.
So I think this is a golden opportunity for him again, who's fairly so like inexperienced
to really kind of put his mark on the game. And I think he can be a nice X factor because
you need in signing. I think that's a given. Yeah, if you want to be competitive, he needs
to be there. But I think Clem can be that like X factor for this MIBR team to make it really
you know, it's a great way to
get into the awkward for us.
Well, let's see who has the X
factor, but two X factors that
are going to be bringing you
all the action we've got now.
We've got screwed boys. Take
us into this third place
Decider. Thank you very much.
Yeah, looking forward to getting
into it. Honestly, I used to be
a big fan of the X factor, so I
think you know, this should be
a fun one for us to check in
with the M I B R. We didn't get
to catch them all that much to
you know, falling flat yesterday,
which is a little bit difficult for them.
Yeah, really, really hard kind of series,
and it seemed to affect them into map number two there.
Will it affect them into today, you might ask?
I think, you know, you say they look pretty good.
Let's be real, Insani looks pretty good.
He has just looked so, so solid
and so consistent all the way throughout as well.
But I really wonder now, when, you know,
this is a conversation we were sort of having
as we saw the stage walk out and whatnot,
they look kind of dejected, right?
A little bit more so than Miles.
I think Miles is still going to play to the occasion
play for this third place, but from my view, it was like a little bit of a tilt thing. It probably
feels, because probably deservedly, off the back of yesterday, 9-3 up, letting that slip away,
and then letting the series go by the wayside to a domestic rival as well. It can obviously
really, really be quite tilting. I think they all believe that they should have been in that final
over legacy, especially in terms of current form in this tournament. Legacy had looked shaky
all the way throughout. MLB had looked clean all the way throughout, and they felt a really,
really important hurdle in front of the crowd. So, they're really open, I think, you know,
that they can kind of sort of
answer back here, but miles. We've
spoken about it, especially
even in towards yesterday's game,
especially after that map one,
they've been ramping up as the
tournament has been going on,
getting better and better as
things have gone by. And you
know, obviously, I have to be
clear favorites coming towards
this game. Yeah, I would say I
would say, um, made the life
very difficult for themselves in
the series against Falcons and
if they can get off to a stronger
start, I think that's ultimately
all they need. You know, like
this game. We're going to be
going to be playing in the
last few weeks. I know so
yeah, and I think as well.
Moving into the overpass to
begin with things like this.
It's going to put them in a
much better position just to
have something that they're
super, super comfortable with
and obviously a map that this
newer look mouths. I think a
really try to angle for top
end of their map pool. It's a
pretty good one at the moment
as well, because I think you
know, a lot of teams don't
necessarily shy away from it,
but also are picking into it.
So we'll see how that plays for
a great opportunity to get
back to the team. The team
comes in. Cyclone going down
the team here and indeed excited
for it. I think this could be a
close one if I might be arcing
tap into a little bit of that
group form in the same vein.
Mouse. I think they'll be looking
to really just put a nice bow on
this tournament. It's like, Okay,
we lost the Falcons. They're
probably going to win the whole
thing. Let's be real. They're
the informed team at the moment,
and I think that if they can come
away with that third place to
obviously, you know, we've been focusing on Insani, but there's a guy on the other side who's had a really
electric tournament, Zelex, and I think they're both playing in quite similar positions and having
the same level of importance to the respective side. Their head-to-head is really one to watch out
for heading in towards this game. Overpass, we've already spoken about this map specifically for
Miles. It's such a solid pick right now. It's really getting incorporated in towards their pool.
So let's see what MBR have got for us in terms of our response, but I don't know, it really feels
it's quite difficult to fathom a way to find success if I might be all because do they just have the same floor and ceiling the answers probably no
Right. It's a very good point. They have to defy the odds
In order to convince us
As we'll get a lot of space up long and get up first forwards quite aggressively
I would have said catching a lot of players off guard
But actually not some bad kills coming back around from that CT side Climb on this flank with some assistance as well him and
LNZ looking pretty good.
Bondas go down, but squeezing that CT side into a really weird kind of retake at the
moment.
Miles is very, very split as well.
Can't really help each other out.
Difficult possession.
He'll go down too easily.
It's going to be onto Torji and he can't get anything done.
It's LNZ with those Juleys looking very, very good to kick things off for MIBR.
Yeah, really nice to see as well.
this map is a real punish pick, you know, on towards MLPR.
They've had a really rough time ago when they played it throughout this year.
One win from five, you look at that, the only win being over Galoreys,
which we're not really going to take too much stock into,
completely frank as well.
And then quite consistent losses, you know, BC game, Astralis,
Shindan Imperial, and Shindan Imperial,
domestically very solid sides, they're going to be wrong.
Shindan's probably top end of tier two,
within sort of the domestic South American side,
a scene may I say, but they've just been really struggling to get it over the line and some of
those have also been really one-sided as well. So the hope is that they've shored it up a little bit
here, especially considering as we said we really sing the praises of Miles on a who remain flawless
at the moment. A nice start, get that CT side going. Of course sort of one plant, Miles can buy it back in.
It was out for ZLXJL and Spinks and a couple of technologists, two round ours, they bolster
the U-Tilt for miles.
And once again, looking for a similar kind of play,
up towards mid, take from bathrooms,
but this time a little bit slower.
Scaling up slightly.
They're actually being, again, given a lot of space.
Klim is on this one side, then the other kind of spot.
Ooh, Optin, stick around a little.
I can't expect him in this position.
Flash coming in for him as well, actually,
if he wanted to use it, but not the case.
So he's just going to fully hide away in the corner behind the smoke now as well.
Zelex, meanwhile, will take the space and look to go through it.
There's a break that comes in JL Tychlo, but Clint, unfortunately, didn't know what was around him,
gets chased down, and Sany also going to fall.
LLZ at the back end of the site here, can't do anything.
That would be a save for the remaining two, and Miles with a great force by win here.
Yeah, really nice done, and it all just kind of comes off the back of Zersh and pushing that smoke.
And Sunny drops the smoke from dice, in towards the Vider.
And Zersh just waits for his time.
He has the reload coming through, and he just dives through to the Tech 9.
Really, really well played, and then they can just sort of barrel in towards the A site
as a bit of a pack and overwhelm, and which is exactly what happens.
And Sunny will fall, and LNZ not far behind.
Simple work, because Malzah tie it back up.
2M4, well, 1M4 and 1MP7, two guns being saved.
4MBR is good, because they're going to have to force by back in themselves.
There's going to be quite a bit on the shoulders of Jernes and to sort of draw them across the line if they want to get a response at the road.
And the fact that of the matter, is that Miles is able to scope up some guns, which is obviously going to put them in a fantastic position.
So, tied game, 2M4 scooped up, one of PS4, Zershin and Torsi.
Yeah, really nice work.
That play there by Klim, he just stuck around a little too long.
I think once he initially lost that fight as the smoke got broken towards the fighter, you have to get out there quickly and he doesn't, he sort of like continues to spray, uses the full 30, then they just know he's dead to right.
So brilliant work.
Kind of a key mission here from bounce on this map in particular, I think, right? Like, there'll be after the whole series, the world of BRS has made these third place deciders much more important in some ways, bringing them back as well at certain tournaments.
I think there is a mission on
this map that mouse if they can
take it really decisively here,
punch down effectively. Yeah,
keep that flawless start line
moving into the major. I think
that they have a seriously
scary map that they can play
into in a lot of their series.
So. It's about sending a
message as saying goes, so
we'll find out. We'll find out
all those players get caught off. Look, this joins in. They even come close to a kill. Yeah. So
if that's the sign of things to come, it could be a really one-sided affair here.
You're on as that boosted and successful we found from it. It's JL4.
A nice opener. Antonio Del Di, U-Tool damage to him. And then is he going to play up close here?
God, I think in anything, on that jiggle pick, I'm pretty sure as Alex's gun would have been
spotter there. LNZ is coming all of this over. So a smoke down front side of
Divider, it still leaves a gap to fight here. And Zilex surely assuming something's
up, maybe smells a bit of a rat. LNZ waiting to move himself. There's a
catch by Dershion to swing around the corners. Zilex doesn't clear that corner
properly. The downhill fall, break on the smoke. It should cost LNZ his life, but he
gets one before he drops a beer and an animasani. Combined so well. So MIBR bite
the game. They're going to
get a straight back on a force
of their own and they take a
second. Yeah, I mean, fair
play. Maybe we are going to get
a competitive affair. Pretty
good. Really and look as they
will try and string that into
a few rounds, of course, and
miles right back in the same
sort of position. They got a
fourth by as well. So a messy
beginning here as you might
to be honest, and that's going
to fill them with confidence.
The fact that they are able to
win the round, but also shoot
back. That's one of the key
things in a matchup like this.
Can you? Match those.
Ames, you know, on the other
side, those individuals on the
other side.
Sunny.
He's a bit of a deep long control
here as well.
as well. I can sort of allow for Clem to be a little bit more free roaming in how he plays. He is
deciding to sit on the site itself, but the force by wall is so interesting at the moment
of how they're being approached. From ours, it's very defaulty, MIBR. That round was very loose,
just kind of moving, ebbing and flowing around the map and ended up working out for them. Clem is
going to be a spotted out. He's going to fall all the way back, do bank. He just about has given that
luxury. It's a Sanyal open up proceedings. That long push is good, but JL quick on the flank as
because they've taken a site,
and they're bottomed down with it as well.
This now becomes quite a spicy, Zellex.
His push on Bank it would be huge if he goes for it.
That plate is huge.
JL gonna get four, and they line up from dice.
They all just sit themselves in place for him, and JL,
he'll take that every day.
That was a nice, in total for him,
for in quick succession to shut down the retake
towards a and mouse get another response the force by wars are really really going now yeah I mean
there was a big it feels like miss carpins sat against core great spray control coming in from
jl I mean as has been touched on and talked about it's kind of his last game for a little while
yeah the roster here I think it could look good and if they keep jl in it which I don't see why
you know, he's had some decent
moments and decent maps and whatnot.
There could be something to this,
but unfortunately, he's just not going
to be around for a little while. And again,
he might decide himself that it's
not quite working in the way that he wanted.
You know, something that Pimp
touched on the desk. It's quite difficult
to kind of like judge a guy who's been
out of the scene for a while, right?
Obviously, you want to give him a bit of time
to sort of get back into things.
But yeah, you know, I don't think
I don't think he's doing like great either. It's definitely I think a sort of empery is not like the jail from Nardi in that peak yet, right?
I don't think it's time to get him back towards that, but I think it's kind of that feeling at least in my mind is like, we know what his ceiling is.
Sure. And if Miles can find a way to unlock that once again, which obviously we haven't seen for a while, then it becomes really interesting.
Yeah, but you also have to ask the question is this team looking for him to do that? You know, I think that they're still figuring things out themselves.
out themselves. Do we have to
like Zellex leading away? Is
Zershin going to take all the resources which is kind of what he's doing at the moment, at least for an IGL, you know?
Yeah, I mean he's farming now, right? Exactly. You know, like, are they going to angle it that way?
They're just sort of figuring it out because they also know that they've got a dodgy situation for the next few tournaments and whatnot.
It's been all over the place for a little while.
Realistic with JL like we've seen them worry, you know, we've cut work costs and bought three times
We've seen quite a few times where he is just playing anchor spots. So it's obviously it's a little bit harder
You're not always there. It's a little harder to have like really shine in their situations
but
So far
In this game it's been a pretty interesting one
But the 4th World War has finally concluded with Maus going back to back and with a lead now taken, it's one they can build upon.
No buy out for MIBR.
If you're going for a similar sort of play, just diving into a short water,
he's being turned to pressure and he'll lose his life. JL with another transfer.
He got a 3K transfer earlier and he does it once again just two rounds later.
Continues to prove just how short the aim is looking today up to 10 and 2.
And then as he's scooped up on AK47, he would require something miraculous to make this
round work with no armor and towards the OCM of a little bit expensive, couple of consolation
kills, you take them all the same, but the round goes away and Miles, they send the lead
to two and already four rounds T side in the first six, most teams are pretty happy with
that.
Yeah, they've started to spread out, right?
They obviously have broken the game down a little bit more and it starts to build a
to be able to do that. We've
got to be able to do that. We
got to be able to do that. We
got to be able to do that. We
got to be able to lead for them
build some cash as well. But we
are going to find out if I might
be archer matchup right? There's
often when the force buys in
play and finding success. It
can be very, very unpredictable.
But now that the guns are back
in play, you do expect.
Mouse to perhaps start taking
over. My PR on that back foot
going to figure themselves out
here. They've got a decent
back at the tournament and just look good and is there going to get caught.
Xalex will find Klim as well and everything is just slothing into place for miles.
They really can't put a foot wrong at the moment.
Auntie, here's a lot of information here.
I don't know why he's necessarily going to be able to do with it.
He's halfway still around and that is unfortunate.
JL keeps them coming.
That's another low HP one as well, by the way.
36 HP finds another kill.
We're going to be on the
half by once again. Miles will
get their fifth. They're going
to eliminate everybody there as
well. So very quickly, this
game takes a turn where it was
once quite close. We've just
had a lovely individually
based round coming in from
miles. M. I. B. R. They try
and move, you know, to get
back into it. It's it's red
and convicted. It does not
look good. They'll be on the
half by once again. Miles will
be up to six already on their
the ball. I mean, it's not
like it's a really early doors,
but you can feel it. All smell
blood in the water here, right?
And miles the sharks are
circling like this is has the
potential to be really quite a
damning map the way miles are
playing. They have got such a
good read on it might be all at
the moment and continues. To
feel like a real pressure point
in the pool for this and be
outside. Obviously one that we
are going to speak of feels
like a punish pick and
the game and they're going to
be able to put it on as well.
Are they still heads in that
semi final? Yeah. Actually
right? You know, as things
that go wrong here, it's
pretty Ebo bro like Yeah, not
a great series. They can't
necessarily say that they've
left a piece of themselves in
it. Um and then you've got
play again tomorrow. I think
after that game, you just
want to go home. Yeah. You
just want you just want it to
be over and focus on what's
Mouse if anything the most consistent third-place team going we got
PGA start on a PGA inclusion a poker we got probably 22
We got boss London as well like these guys know know what it's about
Boss bounty last year as well
The major
Yeah, you know
Talking about a team who love a bronze medal right you know what we're talking to the goats right here
So you get enough bronze and like melted down as it become gold
There's a fragments of golden there that can yeah, baby
You know, he's electric tiger forward. You'll find one and then see we'll see it off
I'll say it was on but the bullets don't quite connect and be honest and it's all that's left now as Venom zero will fall the bomb
He will go down here and it feels unfortunate that he doesn't get the kill there.
He's somehow still alive but only just barely 14 points of HP in a 1 vs 2.
And again something quite special I need to put there.
Both tight and he scooped up an AK but by the time he gets it set and ready,
Spinks will swing to see it off.
Little close there, but it's miles who win all the same.
I think he's going to be
going to be a little bit more
more aggressive. He's a little
He's a little off the mark.
Could have been crazy, but not
quite. Yeah, it's very, very
good now for miles.
Might be hard enough to give
me something in this next
rifle round. Otherwise, I think
it will just be. One team
one team directing traffic.
But we'll find out. Timeout
you know, in in these playoffs,
maybe not necessarily or like a
bad piece of themselves yesterday.
So they still are looking to learn
a thing or two from this third place
to side it.
Yeah.
And you see as well, like your forecast,
right, the VRS pretty important.
I think it might be our are in that
bracket of like, is it going to affect
certain invites and what not into
next season, depending on how things
to be able to get a lot of
players to pan out. Yeah, the
RS realm, right? So every
every game really does matter,
especially at this often. If
you miss two or three
tournaments in a row, you can
say goodbye to the rest. You
know what I mean? Everyone
else is going to be moving up
while you are slowly slipping
down. So pretty important
stuff and nice to get the
forecast. Yeah, it's one of
those that definitely just
you know, as we saw it is way
tournaments. This bronze medal really would make a difference.
For Miles, win or loss, nothing changes for them. They stick around fifth.
Insanity. This flank, depending on his timing, could be absolutely massive.
They just have to slow them down, come into his monster, or if Venom's there,
they get both. And Zilex and Spinks fall, Biorand is now going to get one of his own as well,
but they have made this a doable affair. There is still this flank brewing though,
keep eyes trained on this, Klim. As long as you stay alive, Insani should be able to seal the deal
in this round. The bombs should be able to go down and Insani makes his move. He's not all on
JL who's looked excellent thus far, but surely this is now unimpossible. He is so low. Single-digit HP
and a smoke now on his feet with 30 seconds. What do you even do here?
Yeah.
Dave would have taken him down if he'd stuck around.
25 seconds left.
It feels like he's lost that sort of element of surprise.
They've got together now as well.
Surely the train comes in.
Yeah, they both move on to M4s in the end.
So MIBR, key round to keep the hopes alive of serviceable
first half, and they do indeed manage to get it.
They'll be pretty satisfied with the way that they do it.
Save that all.
upgrade some AKs, you know, it's not a bad look now, but miles with the immediate responsive
timeout. Yeah, I respect it as well. Right. You know, I think for them, they've already
done, I mean, I would say more than enough on the T side, like six on T side, you're
actually flying. I think, you know, for, for us, because sort of what I'd say, you get
five and you're sitting pretty happy, fours out bare minimum. To the fact that of where
they're sitting now, love and life. But I think, you know, if you're cyclone, you know
I know that this is still a really quite consistent and quite comfortable MIBR at the moment.
And you know that you can essentially seal this map already by virtue of a really solid first half.
So, I want to really try and confirm things in place before that second half really begins.
Yes, and I mean, what have Miles done? A timeout comes in from MIBR, they just rush me.
You know what I mean? Like, I think they can kind of take a step back and be like,
Okay, that's around that. We know there's a risk element to it, you know, it destroys the mental if it works
But they're not always that successful. So I think there is also
Some blame on miles, but it's like they didn't necessarily pull out their most advanced move
But now they might be looking to do that in sunny no captain's Alex and another as well
lovely double opener for him
might be out with some new found confidence here potentially. They are able to step away.
Five on three looking pretty damn good at chasing flashball and JL has been so consistent
with his aim, with his AK 15 and three. Yeah. Just give them one back. As long as he's still
alive, I still believe at this point, felon's eight. He's jumping for information. It's
just a wrist is not worth taking for me. However, Insani will fall. He just looks that left hand side.
Our customers life. So,
back now into three versus three. Toshi's advanced up long here. This wrap towards A in bound. It's
imminent in a second. A lot of damage dealt towards Torsi and J.O. now needs to be very careful.
got to be headhunting here into or transfer but the flash is fantastic. They're blind,
we're blind. JL falls over 20 seconds after it looks like they're just going to fall back.
Yeah, to be fair, we did talk about this, didn't we? Like the change, it's not great from a spectator
standpoint, but it does give you like a fresh sense, reminds you just how blind everybody gets
and just how effective those high level flashes are as well at times. Definitely should be changed
Yeah, I just can't see yeah
Bomb goes down Spinks is found towards you. I like a vision there. If he was a little bit healthier
Maybe I'll give it to him. He can hear the players round
Developing and he just delivers in the most beautiful way. Oh, that is sumptuous you take those what a clutch run around from him
I thought of what he's talking written off the round by Miles, isn't that 2 vs 3?
He's like, yes, you're going to get a consolation plant here, but I really thought that fear
renaissance was rotated over in enough time.
The nosecope to seal the deal, towards you, beautiful work.
What a time for him to step up.
Miles guarantee a lead now.
And I've heard you've got round-hound so much going on, it may feel like a long time ago,
But that is off the back of Cyclone's time out.
So real respect, kind of whatever he's called
or brought to the table,
it really felt like it was a lot of it down
to Zershin's mid-round call there,
just to drag the fuck down towards B.
They kind of got shut down initially when JL falls,
then it's just like, let's just pull them on his back.
We know we put a gap in, we spotted three.
It's a foot race to B and they won it.
I think the initial idea failed to be fair.
You know, like they got down by JL,
I think is what I'm looking
for in mid, you know, like
that initial mid idea was
just completely counted. So.
A big clutch some big fights
here from Alex. He looks to
get himself in the conversation.
He's having a great tournament,
but a little quieter on this map
because far contact left is
perfect. And that will be the
round. Clim is up top. How much
they can do about stopping this
They even now have eyes on him expecting him to potentially come from this angle.
Zelex, he wants a moment, lovely little three piece for him.
It's not quite as exciting as some of the JL kills or of course that clutch, but.
He does find some really nice frags there to just hammer this one home.
Eight rounds on the T side of overpass.
We would say is a winnable spot, you know, really, really by a dominant first half.
Yeah, honestly, sort of feels like it's all but done already.
It's really difficult to recover from this.
Yes, MLBR can have some really masterful moments on their T side, but they would require themselves to tap into something quite special.
But Zilex learning from the best around him.
We've kind of spoken about this, Zirsh has taken over his IGL, his numbers have only gone off, and Jail's having a map like this, it's...
Where he sits with either of them on each side, it's perfect people to learn from, what a made it, Zilex.
who will find beer and his aunt
for she holding it looked for a second like his eyes were turning away but
thankfully locks back in as clean will fall and now for LNZ not insanity no
chance in hell surely in a two versus five and I kind of love this from miles
initial openings initial finds I think just pump the brakes it makes life even
worse I'm not be all after still in this yeah for sure especially in around like
this they tried a light something but still trying to have the confidence to
make a move, you know, not just
their style. It doesn't work
you know, you have to respect
in a certain way that they're
not just like cowering and
letting the big mouse come at
them, but yes, it has fully
frozen down, fully quiet and
down, mouse. You might argue
at times this is a bit tedious,
isn't it? Five versus two.
Yeah, that's a lot of a cook.
But also, yeah, it is just kind
of like, let's let's get it done.
And even it might be, I might be
feeling like it's sense.
It's not scary, but not that scary.
Yeah, for sure.
93 at the end.
teammates as well.
House looking very, very good
throughout.
I think they will be pretty pleased
with that.
It was a dodgy beginning.
Maybe we felt it was brewing to be
a competitive affair, but Miles
giving us what we expected this
overpass continues to impress.
just by virtue of winning out that force by war, it just put Miles in such a good spot.
And I just think on top of that as well, you've got your individuals who are looking so unbelievably
Chris Jail, you know, we continue to see his brazes, he's looking great. Spinks having a couple
of moments, Alex warmed up towards that tail end too, that pausie clutch was fantastic, like this
so many individuals that you can kind of pull on to seeing the braze of Miles, where on the flip
side. The real narrative around
MBR is like, if I might be on one of
chance, we need to get in San
Edo, why he's been doing best this
tournament, and he's just not
really like not doing bad. Don't
get me wrong, but it's not being
crazy. We saw him the other day.
Was it on one of those maps of
3.28 rating, which is absolutely
insane.
Didn't know I went that high.
Yeah.
Excuse the pun.
But, um, yeah, just we're not
getting them tapping into us that
level. Miles got such a good
I'm really firm. I'd be off something quite special or quiet on this T side. I don't want any chance.
And for me, I don't really have a lot of belief in a map that they've had real problems with.
So the pistol round, honestly, could be everything. Miles, you find the 10th and lock it in here,
and it might just be all but over before it even really begins in the second half.
The curtain call maybe we'll find out
Told you holding out long here. It's a pretty widespread but also quite
Beautiful fair shot there piece of 50 a range. Yeah, somehow not finding the headshot. Maybe through the corner
Maybe just outside of that range, which you don't usually consider
Nonetheless it scares miles away from long so damage and some map control
MIBR set themselves up nicely and a slight rotation from Maus.
It's certainly not an over-rotation.
A nice bit of information gathering here for Zershin.
But where's he going to go with it, right?
He's got to be careful not to just get too excited
because he's in the right place, could cut them off,
could slow them down at the short pipe.
Nice pickup from JL continues looking crisp.
And now Julie's in prime position, taking down one,
slowing down another, rotation's gonna slowly make their way in for Miles.
A lot of players now here, JL inside the smoke as well, are they ready for him?
I don't think so, they've got Zelex to deal with, and he's finding all the kills.
JL with the knife! Oh my god, he's in the right place!
They completely miss his Ben and Xera.
Not sure if he got one off in that smoke, it doesn't matter, Zelex, he's kept it.
Cool car, man, collected.
We'll see Miles move up to those double digits, and the beginning of the end now,
as we alluded to MIBR. Not a bad start. They found that kill. I'm lucky to not convert it.
Maybe, maybe we would have been in their corner and it could have been a better showing, but
they walked right into the trap. I'm going to see what the hell JL was doing on the end of the postman.
It's definitely one of the pistol rounds of all time. Really no idea what was going on there,
But it's fine miles and still find the round on the left spanks. So he gets one a clip a
Quick trade and fine
P9 scooped up to
We are gonna go quiet behind this I say that as they ramp up the pace they might go for a hit toward P
There is you tool to respond in the Molly
We're trying to split up the pack, but they're gonna go through the flames as well, and it's not working out for them at all
I'm not going to be able to
get to the top. Uh M I B R
also living up to expectations
in their own way. It was
supposed to be quite harsh
back for them. So yeah, things
looking good for miles as they
start to really scale up. This
team. Then, of course, they've
got punched that they just lose
out J L who right here is
having a really great
performance. You know, this is
No nonsense entry, let's say.
Really good stuff from him.
Opening pickup here for Zershin.
MIBR on the weaker by, as you can see, and I think things are unfortunately starting
to come to a realization that this one might just be over.
Torji on that.
Does reveal himself towards the bank here.
They might get a bomb down, I think, to be fair.
Spinks it long.
That's going to be a problem. So the retake looks pretty good in my mind
Yeah, you're right
And I want to get aggressive here speaks to get double swung and actually going once one there's pretty impressive
And I feel like on the other side community to stay alive with Venom's ever get the kill third to be any real chance of this
Because now they can just overwhelm
LNZ's that range with this eagle
But it's unlikely you can do anything really to deny pop shot deals damage, but he can't find the kill in selects
the game. They're just
waiting as they're upgraded
the weaponry. One point will
at least alleviate the
investment. The pressure of it
for an RBI bar. It just
continues to be an absolute
nonstarter of a map. Nine in a
row. I mean, it's a difficult
feat for any caliber of team
here, particularly against
the team in the very least, you
know. So really going to be a
challenge. It's taking the time
out again. I have to respect it.
Still trying to look for
something serviceable here.
Some rounds to work with
something to go back home and
break down and how did we win
that one? You know, using even
the domestic play where they
seem to be struggling on this
map. Yeah.
We're not so sure. I think it
the way that miles have gone.
What street can they on now, man?
It must be a pretty crazy one.
We just saw it there.
I didn't quite get the chance to count it.
Ah, they did have that little blip in the middle, unfortunately,
that does affect that street.
Could you ignore that, which I like doing it?
Yeah, sure.
It feeds into narrative.
Yeah, then it's 11.
What do I like to say?
Like 10 in 11, that kind of thing?
Yeah.
that's close to a streak.
It would have for them be.
Sort of 11 out of the last 12, right? Yeah, yeah.
It's sunny. No, beer and isn't first you for.
And there you go, right? You know, I think all the narrative
right now might be on their chant really came off the shoulders
of can we get in sunny having one of those performances again?
It's just not being the case, 7-14 for him.
Bjorn is in at 6, I mean, no one's really properly set up to the blame.
And when things are panning out right now,
it could be a chance to end this map with nobody hitting double digits in the kill department.
So damning starts, and also kind of damning when your eyes yell is the top fragger too.
It's never really what you want to see, but it never got going.
45 seconds, MBR.
Look back to be L and Z, dance with the devil there and toss your CM off, so it might just
be curtains in this one, the nails in the coffin, getting banged into place as MIVR,
an early grave for them here in Miles's map here, can they've just never really opened
the door to a conversation about competing.
The force buy was kind of interesting in the opening, three or four rounds, but it's just
been one-sided, one-way traffic.
Adam Zera for one, Clem for one of his own as well.
And now he's got it all to do.
A quarter clutch required, and it will not be the case.
Pinks will see it off.
Wow, what a one-sided map.
There was really not a lot for quite a positive note,
4-0 on behind that one.
No, yeah, it is tough.
I think in the first half there, you know,
a little more competitive, obviously,
with those early rounds that you touched on.
But even some of the rounds in and of themselves,
it was kind of a 2v2 situation.
But unfortunately, that one lives up
To the expectations, we're going to pass it on back to the desk.
An unfortunate situation for MIBR, but I dare say it's not unexpected.
We touched on it, mouse have looked like such a great overpass team so far this tournament,
and just got off to the right foot, I guess.
You know, you can see at this point, everything is just really going well early,
as soon as they started to get the guns going.
And JL, of course, stepping up as well, having some huge, huge moments early on in the game.
Credit where credit is do mouse playing a fantastic and clinical game of car strike the one moment in the game
You see you right here where it could maybe have been a bit closer
Torsi comes in with a 1v3 clutch
I believe it is you know amazing display would with data would be at that point in my be I could have made it
64 they could have made it 65 as mouse would have had to save and then maybe we're talking about you know at least I
Wouldn't say a competitive game, but but a closer scoreline
You know and something to hope for heading in for the second half unfortunately
a very tossy puncture that completely.
Miles winning the pistol in the second half
and at that point, it's pretty much game over.
So where could it be, too?
Clinical performance coming in for Miles West for MRBR.
Can we allow ourselves to be a little bit disappointed
that we're able to put up a better fight?
I think so, with how they played so far this tournament.
Then again, overpasses, the lovely cast has also mentioned,
you know, a map that historically speaking
has been a struggle, some one for MRBR, even domestic.
Yeah, and I think that kind of just tells you
all you need to know, at least about how they've fared.
I guess what we should have expected going to Overpass as well.
Also, it doesn't really help, like the one player I kind of launched is the X Factor here for MIBR Clim.
Essentially just being a non-existent factor, more than an X Factor, which is not really what you want from your offer on Overpass.
I think they get off to such a rough start in terms of just not looking like they're really ready for the game to start.
So they managed to win the first pistol round.
And in the anti-eco, Clem launches 25 bullets
into a concrete wall off of a nade being or a smoke
being blown up, et cetera.
And getting caught out as a result for that,
MIBR managed to, again, break Maus with their force by.
And then in the next anti-eco, Clem
is now playing so passively that you have four Maus
force players up by both headshot and flower pots
before they've even spotted anyone else.
But it just felt like they were
playing a little bit scared, honestly,
like a little bit out of their depth.
To be fair, I just had a quick look at the stats
in terms of like the opening kills,
and there was eight opportunities.
There was five moments where we did see MIBR
with a 5v4, where they weren't able to convert the rounds.
So that could have given them so much more room
to breathe here in Overpass,
but we just didn't see that happen.
So it's big kudos to Maus.
Playing from the 4v5 has always been very difficult
to convert rounds,
and Maus are just doing it round after round
But as mentioned earlier, we weren't expecting MIBR to have too solid of a performance or win this map, but three rounds definitely not stuck in the fires in our confidence for them.
But there is a chance, you know, there's this downtime between the maps where ancient could go completely the other way.
Yeah, yeah, again, I like it. You're like in the Department of Hopium with me here, because we're going to cope together.
and like one of the things that we can clutch out is leading up to I think it was 10 to 3 or something so obviously
Already going way, you know way wrong for for MIBR things are already going in the
In the right direction for a mouse the second highest damaging player on the server at that point
Insanity still gets off. Yeah like sitting at seven seven and fourteen or like
You know not the most fantastic stats still closing in on 180 at that point. So like he's still
shooting stuff it's just not dying or he's not getting a little bit of a
note that little bit of extra help from from his teammates where for them to
actually convert on the damage he's doing so he's still shooting well which
is I guess probably the best thing you can take with you from from overpass
going into agent but yeah yeah I think it makes the exercise you know easy for
for you might be out to have that team talk right now where you say okay it's
overpass it's a map we haven't figured out yet we're playing mouse you know a
formidable opponent on the the very map there's no worry about it let's forget
about it, let's just focus on ancient.
Whereas if you come off a loss where it's 13 to 9,
or you lost an anti-equation, you shouldn't have lost.
All those things are always going
to play in the back of your mind,
and maybe they have to be talked through.
When you're MIBI right now, you're
out there talking about what's going to happen on the next map.
There's nothing to take away from all of us.
There's nothing that needs to be discussed.
There's nothing that needs to be addressed.
It's just forgetting about that map,
and then focusing on your own map pig, which is ancient.
And as cruel as it may sound, that exercise
is sometimes easier when you're not competitive whatsoever.
So if we're on the whole Hobium-Copium train right here and we're trying to find positives
and leeways for MIBR, it could be the fact that obviously they knew they're going to
pick Ancient coming into this matchup.
That's all they have to focus on now.
I know we'll pass.
Forget about it happening.
You know, treat this game as the best of one now and try to stay alive.
It was definitely just sort of like a shake it off angle, you know, hit yourselves together,
moving into Ancient.
You could see that with the stats that were on screen before.
Out of all of the maps in the pool, this is the one statistically that we are going to
to see MIBR have a much better chance than Mouses,
for at least the last three months.
But they need to shake them.
There was just absolutely no adversity.
You've bought Mouses in overpass.
So we'll see how they react if adversity strikes them.
But what's the confidence levels
before we jump into ancient?
Is it gonna end here or are we going to three?
I mean, it's not sky high for MIBR.
I guess we gotta be honest,
but we did see a mass sports
that struggled a little bit versus energy, right?
On ancient, we've seen an MIBR
that has been very good on Ancient at this tournament.
So I'm gonna give them a cheeky 50-50
to bring it to the third,
which might be a little bit kind
considering what we saw in the first,
but I'm willing to give them a 50-50.
I'm willing to give it a 50-50
in terms of whether that's gonna be competitive or not.
Yeah, yeah, okay, fair.
Yeah, that's probably better.
I think Maus is going to close it out right here.
I see no reason as to why they shouldn't.
And to me, it would be, to be honest,
slightly disappointing if they weren't able to close out
the map after what we saw on our pass
and what we've seen from Maus so far in this tournament.
But I'd also be disappointed if MIBR is not able to make a game out of this, you know.
So let's go with this.
Let's do it all around.
All around, you know.
Let's go with this.
Maus are going to close out this game, but it's going to be in a double-dead fashion
for both teams.
So we're going to have a bit of a back-and-forth game here on ancient.
Well, even if you're right, that'll make me sad, because I'm here for entertainment.
I'm here for Counter-Strike.
And if we go to zero, that's going to be a big break before the grand final.
And we don't want that.
You guys at home don't want that.
So hopefully MIBR will wake the hell up and win ancient.
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well, if you've already just
woken up, you missed the whole
map. It was that quick. Miles
looks so unbelievably good on
towards overpass now towards
ancients, but looking at this, I
feel like it's pretty much safe
to say that everyone's expecting
this to end into miles look very,
I mean, he's obviously sort of
the main spearhead of the
firepower for this might be
outside, and it's a rough one,
right? Not even a single
player against double digit
kills. It doesn't paint a
pretty picture as you know,
into a map number two. Yeah,
hopefully they can make this a
bit more competitive. I think
you just kind of have that
clash of a favorite map and a
least favorite map right in a
way on on overpass there. It
is going to be tough for M. I
think in general to match off
against miles regardless of
map, but it obviously gets
even worse when you are forced
to do that. I mean, it's a
you are forced to play the
overpass. So yeah, we'll find
out here. I think that I'm just
hoping they can give us a bit
more of a competition. Otherwise
it is. Unfortunately, one good
half in the playoffs, right,
which was yesterday, and I don't
think that that's really
something that they're going to
be too proud of, right? And
we're talking all about the
major, the lead up into and
everything. So you kind of want
to be at the tournament that
leads into that doing okay, you
know, giving a little bit at
the end and not just kind of
completely going out and not
to be able to do that. But
it's not going to be a long
time. It's not going to be a
long time and not delivering
anything at all. Yeah, but I
mean, let's talk about the
positive. The other side as
well. J L fantastic showing
from him in his final series
for mouse for a long, long
time, right? Of course, we'll
be playing with them at the
major. So it's sort of the end
of his trial and he's going to
end his trial and I know who
knows that that will lead to
anything long term, but it
feels like expectations are
that it will lead to a bit
more of a long term starts
in the first half of the
season. They had a lot of
players that have been
pulled very well, had them
sort of dead to right. So. All
things and all signs looking
very, very good for miles and
they should point to this one
being settled into, and you
can see everybody just getting
ready as well for that second
map from my VR. We need a
completely different showing,
but we even touched on it.
When we saw the stage
walkouts coming through that it
felt like for this might be
outside. They look very
I'm not sure how upset it must
feel off. I kind of lose that
something finally yesterday
when they felt like they had a
really good chance to punish
legacy, especially in terms of
current form and may let it
slip. So I can sort of see why
for them they are a little bit
upset. But this third place
game means a lot more to
Mabia. I remember you're on a
spot where a win here puts them
higher up the ranking, which
means they get I think it's
16th place. It said they were
if they won this game. And by
winning it, that gets to have a
closer to consistent tail and
invites for miles. It doesn't
the first time I've seen
a lot of players in the
game. They're not going to
lose. They still stick around
that fifth. Um but they obviously
just coming towards this one.
And for my beyond, they're
pretty checked out, especially
as we saw by how they played
over boss. Yeah, I think it goes
to show as well, you know, as a
team. It's like how dig how deep
can you dig like in terms of
every game counts, you know, and
really just bringing that
competitive nature that
competitive edge to every
the first map in the series
is overpass, which is a pretty
tough one. I think to contend
with and just immediately be
playing your best counter striking.
Yeah, come on, guys. Let's pick
it up into. Oh, one of our worst
maps. Okay, maybe not. So we'll
find out. I think that the
ancients should be better. And
hopefully they can do better
in the future. And I think
we'll see what happens next.
that. We're going to be able to
trade rounds. We'll find out. I
think that the ancient should be
better. And hopefully they can
be a bit more competitive here.
Um I do worry they start off on
that T side. I think that it
can be hard for them to kind of
just deal with the way that
miles are going to approach
things here and deal with some
of those individuals that we
already saw firing on all
cylinders and able to trade
rounds able to trade hogs even.
We pointed out like Zelex was
quite quiet and then he just
the other way, but it's all
falling into place now in sunny.
In a one versus three rounds,
the corner loses his head.
Torsi sees it off.
It's spinks for two kills a
piece of towards the jail.
I'm not sure if you can see
the other side of the map.
It's a really good start.
I'm not sure if you can see
the other side of the map.
It's a really good start.
It's a really good start.
and kills a piece of towards the jail and Zellex really nice. It actually looked like I'll be over
On the right track there to take out the space. They dive into all this cave as well
All things looking pretty solid to be honest, but they just get destroyed. This shelf control is so important
to miles
Start this one off the way they finished over past pretty dominant quite statement win. I think in that round for short
He's got very little manpower to work with one spot out towards the ramp.
The bash comes in.
Doesn't feel like it's happening here, and Zellex even smokes himself off to confirm the save.
So, they will concede it.
Man, that's going to taste their own medicine with the force by win.
Taking just one player down on the soft exit.
Zellex thinking about sticking around, but he would prefer to keep his weaponry,
as we know, at the start of overpassing, it's very back and forth with these low highs and lows.
It's very akin to that level on just sort of the opposite way round. Yeah
Climb just got catch ZX right at the end there as well
That might force you on to an eco
No, you got a force by monetary speaking. You have to you don't really get a choice it you're in double eco
Everyone sit around 1k
Even if sort of one person survive you just are happy by virtue of the finances so
Double MP9, and then you go out for JL.
That's by Warr as a backhand for them.
Those are pretty good of themselves.
They won it out into Warr's overpass.
Look at them there once again.
Torsi kind of fight through Red Room here.
He could be cordially loading.
Is Insani going to step up his pace?
The Mollie will force Torsi back.
He knows about this, but Insani wins out the fight.
Now that's a good position to hold.
he's been tagged very, very low.
Just being alive all the same and having the numbers of authors could really help out late
in towards this round for MRBR who now holds quite things down.
Slow build up in towards the cave trying to use this man advantage indeed to their advantage.
You know, our mouse is actually stacking quite heavily in here, so could be a good read.
Where's that Bob going to end up? I suppose it's the key question. They're looking to move through the smoke.
Have a little move. Zershin left in the corner. Maybe he does need some backup over here, but he's not going to get checked.
Oh, God! He goes so far. He's not pushed for that.
What is the game plan here? Zershin out in the open, able to get into the fight and he smells a little bit of a rat.
There's some kind of alert going on. He is correct. It's just a question of where it's at MIBR
They wanted to pivot towards a
With this LNZ information but Zerchen is in the way and they just don't have time to dawdle
It's Alex gonna go down on the backside quick trainers there
The next man of spinks was in the right spot, but he will fall hang on somehow
I'm a low HP player. What a round from Zershin. He has done it all for miles.
Yes, cerebral work from him. L and Z survives by a sliver of HP.
Zershin's done so well. Three kills to his name, but they are so damn important.
And the four spies back and forth. One of those is quite expensive still for miles, so...
heavy reinvestment required.
He's just done so well. It really felt like this was the fight that's actually losing the round.
When Sphinx falls and Bioran is giving the chance and a plant, that feels like it should be all but done at that point.
For the end not to be both sides.
We'll get that reinvestment back out. Triple MP9 coming through.
Four miles as they're diving through into shelf control.
That split of the upper B presence is fantastic,
but Bomb is heading towards A,
and really towards, he can't deny, as much as he's trying.
There should be a plant here.
Just a moment's time.
He'll break on that smoke,
because he looks to continue fighting.
MP9 going to dive on through as well.
They're just printing cash.
Alex for two.
Zershin one of his own.
It's a flawless round, but it might be hard to get a plant.
Yeah, just catching them in.
So I think they will be happy.
Like you say, making money, MIBR, they do manage to get the bomb down, so they now have a choice to make if they want to keep the buy going.
If they do want to take a half or whatever it may be, but some bad habits kind of creeping in again for MIBR there.
Very frustrated, very quick.
short mouse to Amsterdam, but
I think MIBR with some classic South American approaches
it does cost them in a big way and
they will actually take the hard eco here not looking to chase that force bike.
Relax. First JL insertion kills a piece.
There's a consolation for Insani, that really should.
in this one. Torsi. Nine bullets left in the chamber. The bomb, pretty desperate to be picked up there.
Unlikely, it's seen off. Simple work. Only the one coached me. You don't really care all too much.
As Maus, find four. And different to overpass, there wasn't really that back and forth or force buys, which Maus ended up winning
and taking a 4-2 score. And this one is just the one. Maus take it and they set the tone. It's gotten on very important
in round of the 64 Nib art in what has already been a real non-starter of a series with the opening map and the start towards this one
Really hoping they can get going a lot earlier because unfortunately they've already got going
Oh the flashes super effective here from the mouth CT side
I'm going to be able to get that first kill, but they do trade one back. Meanwhile, there
is, yeah, a slow creep. Azershin tries to get in. The trades look good. It's all really
worked out well. Zelex could have just refaced, tried to trade spinks, but it lets Azershin
come into the conversation. They've lost control of A though, but I'm going to go down.
It could be a scary beat-take if they play this correctly. JL with a great find there.
Yeah. How do we get them over the first? I don't even know. They're so well done and
We'll see off Klim. Tough angle for Klim to fight from as well. He has so many, he has to keep eyes trained on.
Chances were pretty slim already. The bomb plant's nice. Just because of, you know, bomb plant has lost bonus means consistent bias to come through for MRBR,
but we're already quite quickly getting to a point of being a little concerned for MRBR who four rounds deep, it's not looking good on a 5-1 scoreline.
the picture for you, really.
Faking things out towards B.
A chase from Venom Zero here.
Could have been successfully.
He does not quite find it, but he does draw attention away from A.
So Alex caught in the back.
He smoked off, lined them up,
and traded. I was hopeful for the third.
Meanwhile, Ellen Z goes down on the other side.
So it is looking good. The B-hold
finds great success. It's all going to be down to Pierre and Nazzani.
So blind.
He will take the awp shot in the gut.
So a mouse move up to six again.
Looks stressful for a moment, but is it really?
They survived with three?
Yeah, yeah, exactly that.
It's one of these things where the only real positive
that we can continually talk about is just they
are getting to a bomb bomb.
But it's not even the fact that we're
getting to a post plant, right?
They're getting a bomb down and then they're dying pretty much
immediately afterwards.
We maybe have a little bit more of a feeling of it
if it's like we get the bomb down
and we set ourselves up into a post bomb,
be trade out and miles maybe just have the slight edge. That's not really even a consideration
at the moment. It's still one sided and it still feels pretty effortless and you know
I look at this as well and I feel like the Cyclone watching on or Zershin calling. He's
not really having either of the maps kind of dig too deep in this one. They're more than
happy to sort of chill and play it quite loose and already Miles is calling so he's quite
loose on the Zershin but if any pro don't fix it and speak of the devil Zershin will
step up and he'll get his kill on towards Insane. He continues up a rough showing highest
rate to play at the tournament coming in towards this series even despite yesterday's loss.
At a 1.42 second place being Jame in a 1.25. So he was quite a margin of a lead spot.
Yeah, he's really struggled today.
I mean, it's not good for MIBR.
I mean, just not the way you want
the tournament to end right to
very one sided maps after a
difficult loss yesterday. Got to
give us something and they know
that time out coming in.
They look to make a bit of a
decision. It is a hard choice
economically, I suppose.
Plan would have really helped
right now. It's like it's quite
sad of anything. Yeah, I really
is just all the context of like
I think we're keeping the camera on miles most of the time, but it might be our faces probably quite, quite saddening.
No, exactly that. You know, I can remember for those who maybe missed yesterday's game, Mirage and Legacy's pick in that semi-final.
They might be are have 93 first off and they choked it and they got swept in OT as well like it was rough
And then they went into was there my pigment Furno 10 to half down
Is how it started and of course it was a very easy ending for a legacy. So it's been rough to watch they've
Bowled out in quite a tough manner and it doesn't stop well. He pulls this one here in his hand
First few four, but they were nice fine from him. Oh
direct
Gawley and Sanny realises, Gawley realises!
What am I stuck on in Xelax who takes too long to have all the Cogs worrying that something's not quite right here?
Numbers advantage, 4M, I'll be on the post one, that's what we're saying.
Finally we get to talk about a chance at a post plant.
4M, I'll be on it, it might still end the same.
Asersha will level the playing field and of course she's there with that orb.
Asersha trying to find Insanity and deals a lot of damage, spinks, makes his move from the back lines.
that flank. Finds form towards you, missed shot. Venomster are trying his damnedest.
This is close on the time here. And I have a feeling they might not have it. And they
all do. The actual, the huddles are really up there.
Yeah, I think it was on 10 seconds on board.
It's good to say.
Rather than a kit, the fuse.
Even with the kit, the fuse though. It's just shy of a second. So my God, what was that
very close indeed? The miles find eight. And we'll say, that was what I was asking for.
might be I'll get to a post-plan where it feels like we can compete here but the fact that actually
squanderer 4 versus 3 with like what 15 seconds on the clock that's pretty tough. Yeah no for sure
right and the problem is it's like you know the players that you're killing are not the right players
you've got Zershin who is the absolute problem child at the moment and then Torgie as well on
that orb looking pretty good. Flash comes out Zershin double kills the fire he's just ridiculous
I think it's just so done. So
done. Try and fight fire with
fire, but miles have shown up
with a flamethrower. M I B R
still. It's sticks and flint
trying to figure it out. Here
in his own does have that bomb.
That's all I'll give him here.
This is certainly a doable
clutch. Alex is low. Georgie
time as well. So he can keep
his confusing. But Torji, let me
just stop you're out there. Yeah,
he was like, wait a minute. What
do you say about me? Let me just
put a cork in that conversation
real quick. 911 Yikes. I mean,
it's just again that never began.
It really feels like might be
you really question like, you
know, you don't make assumptions,
but like, did they do any prep
I just think after yesterday's
semi you'd be so. Yeah, so tell
it is right so sad. Yeah, it's
maybe like. What are these
things man where you have a team
like this? It's obviously an
interesting project, but the
players from the Brazilian end
have not really gone
international like ever, you know,
so how do you deal with those
tough losses? Is it like all
sunshine and roses in the team
or is it five people in separate hotel rooms, six people I guess as well included.
But yeah, it's really difficult to say. I think it would have been a hard one for them
because I can tell you they would have wanted that game.
Yes.
They were playing Falcons. It's like, you've got to keep it realistic here, guys.
This might be a bit too much for us, but a beatable team.
Will play out to be occasioned.
Exactly.
I said one for one to kick things off here.
So that could be workable for MIBR and the dying embers off.
is off. Oh, there's half. Hello. We've got control of the Navy. Oh, Alex and the man
jail still here though. He drops that bomb. We need to get through. He's so very blind.
He keeps the kills coming. So much damage done. It's going to be on Spinks in the one
versus two. Can he revive this? I'm not counting them out.
Full HP. It's Pio Rezzan who is three points. So all but that already.
strong gust of wind and he'd be
blowing out of the round and then
he's not exactly healthy himself.
They doubled back towards A and a smoke
down over towards CT and now draws
Spinks over for this rotate.
A kit of smoke and surely you
of course give it a go. You've got plenty of money.
You've got nothing to lose. Why not?
I've seen a Spinks clutch.
super proactive in this map thus far, but that would be an awesome time for it.
And potentially even something just as simple as it's a fuse in that smoke. You'll drop it,
he tries to bait out the fight, tap on towards to try and catch a bit of a spray here. Not
a lot of time, there is the one kill and now he might just have to stick it. He's got to find
it first and now he's going to stick it. It's going to be pretty damn close, but he might just
Pippert at the post, Spinks with the ninja defuse and B.R. Anderson cannot deny and M.I.B.R cannot even
buy a round right now. This is rough as Malzlock in double digits in the first half. Yeah, I mean
you just found the series. It's one of those where like if you're writing some kind of a,
you know, sporting movie and they have that difficult game before they make the big resurgence
or whatever. I don't think you'd make it this evil to be honest. Yeah, this was like, oh,
there's potential for that awe-inspiring. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is like, actually,
the movie would end. Yeah, yeah, actually, maybe I'm not cut out for, you know, being the best
footballer in the world. I'm going to hang up the boots, I reckon, you know what I mean.
Goal for was only 30 minutes long. Yeah, I've been really liking paddle reasons. Yeah, yeah, actually.
maybe maybe I will just do that I can't do it of course maybe it's not for me
I'll stick to the book Z-Lex and smoke himself out and he actually will just get
out of the edge of the smoke and Sanny can't find the gap he probably needs to
be a little bit more committed on that left hand side if he wanted to find up
just above the smoke, find around a play here I mean whether you win or not is
is not exactly like it's going to make believers out of us to
miles who have really not broken a swear.
And we've used that time a couple of times, but this is the epitome of it.
Lindsay spotted also a shelf by a spot as well.
One for one trades and it still remains that way.
In the two versus two, Zersh is left low.
Yeah, had to drop Zersh now.
I think that was your moment to really take over the round.
Would have been a three versus one.
They have banked the wrong way.
So you will. Oh, that's a smile. How does that get up there? That's that's crazy. I've never seen it that kind of mistake
Yeah, that's wild. That must be stuck on some kind of a pixel. I'd love to see that if we can get it
Either way, it doesn't really matter all that much because they've got one player coming in from shelf and he's going to do it
All I was going to mention the flank as well, but
jail on the org
Why not have some fun with it?
And again just not looking good
this level, we, I don't think we've casted a series like this one side, at least, at least it's been,
we've had some pretty, there are quick series in our time, that sort of like the tier one level,
but like, man, like this one has just never began, like at least it's been like times I was like,
oh, I thought okay, half, like, you know, you maybe got like four rounds and a half, like, that's okay.
And also, when you, when you watch enough high level counter strike, there does come a point
within a round where it's like, okay, this should be like 80% one way or the other, like, these guys
the top 25. Maybe you know,
teams that play the tier one
tournaments quite consistently
and have that experience. You
can turn around and be like,
Okay, none of these teams should
lose this round. And then it's
like, Oh, crazy clutch or those
are the big moments that we all
get excited about. Yeah, it
actually just feels like every
time that's happened for M. I.
B. R. And they get around that
looks really winnable. They just
lose it in like the softest way
to lose it in like the softest way. Yeah, their composure is just terrible. Yeah. Yeah.
And also considering that we started what 6 AMR time, it's now 10 past seven. And the
series of Ante-End, it's really painting a bleak picture. We're diving out on towards
B. And he's there. And Tani's got two. So actually the MyWlife left in them. Oh, Spinks
has other things to say about it. Porgy puts himself into a one versus one. It's B. O'Reilly's
He is giving the luxury of sticking this plant so we're not losing the round you've got that going for you
Biorna's not made his move
Armour no kit no utils spotted out as well
They'll deal bits of damage to each other tall. He takes a thing through the wood. He now swings to go
Oh, my be are absolutely nothing is going right for this side
He landed the headshot through the wood
like what do you want from me oh my goodness it is you do really just have to feel for
my PR at a certain point man hey at least a crowd of being treated to an interesting
show match you know yeah yeah when does the show match over and where's the final one
they might be are just going to take off their masks and it's all like you know Kenny S and
you know, it's not like you're
going to be able to do that.
You're going to be leaving at
half speed, and it's just way
easier for them. Um Yeah, then
he lands the headshot runs out
of ammo doesn't kill the guy,
and it's easy enough for
torgy in the end who's been
having a great map here. So.
Yeah, it's a rough old time.
They are headed into one speed
as four players here. So I am
might be are going to do
to lose the game 30. Yeah,
that was kind of fun. And the
four spies are caught. Yeah,
they've been looking really good
recently, actually, winning both
four spies, but losing the game.
That's objectively just hilarious.
And they actually might be the
case because you're right, they're
going into the stack here, but
it starts so well as Zershin gets
to JL one of his own with the MP5
until actually take space in
towards short. So now they get
this C four down in just a moment.
They're gonna be really sitting in
a good spot. Painted nice and open. Nadell tag open, tag up LNZ and it's left down to
the European Imports.
Smoked off now as well. Play him on the scout. Not really a one shot. One shot to close it
out but it is miles of course closing it out. 13-1, 2-0, third place to Sider. It ain't
no fang. That's a really quick series. Potentially one of the quickest series I might have casted
like ever. Yeah, the right. Yeah. M I B R struggling to get into it. And to be fair to them on that
second map, it was really quite rough. We'll hand it back to the boys to close up on up.
Look, yeah, rough is a understatement. I was the fastest. Oh, it is a feels bad if you're a M I B R fan.
And we tried. We cope. We did everything we could on the desk to try to help them out. But
They just couldn't help themselves out there on agent.
No, that was a very one-sided game, if I've ever seen one.
I could be the fastest, best of three that I've ever been a part of covering,
to be completely honest.
MIBR just didn't show up whatsoever, you know.
A couple of rounds in this game where you're like,
okay, you should have won that, you should have won that,
but again, it wouldn't have changed anything.
It felt like Maus were not only one step ahead,
but probably eight to be completely honest.
So not much to say outside of, you know,
tipping my hat from Maus,
coming into a third place this out of game
for a team who's been used to playing for Trophy, for a team who's been consistently a top three team
for the past 18 months. It's not an easy exercise but they came in with a clear determined goal
and a clear determined mind to just get this done and dusted and what a way to do it.
That they did. The one round they got was the fourth spot. The one thing that's supposed to
set you up for success because you've messed with the economy of your opponents, you're getting
like, getting easily into the matchup and it's just, like, the plethora of just odd
mistakes and odd individual decisions at times from the MYBR players, again, it can
be a thing where they're slightly dejected from yesterday or maybe they just aren't
really used to it to be only at this kind of level or this kind of pressure of playing
obviously like a third-place decider, could be many things, but it doesn't feel like this
should be the norm.
And I don't think, obviously it wouldn't be here if this wasn't on TV.
It wouldn't have managed to get to some of my finals in the first place.
It has to be some level of like tilt or whatever going on.
Just that the main wasn't there, they were making so many mistakes.
And you know, Kudos to Maus as well, the Glazed Vest can begin.
They played spectacularly, but they also punished MIBR every single time.
You look at the stats here, you look at the numbers,
Zershin having an absolute field day here on Ancient.
And overall, what was that? Four rounds one, had a quick look at the stats.
already touched on the opening kills and the unfortunate conversion rate or lack there of four MIBR
I think they got three from eight over on overpass and here they got one from five
That's that's the very very bad five before conversion rate
I mean, I think that's a really telling part right because I think on average teams are somewhere about like 70 to 72%
Successory when they get that opening pick. So it just kind of goes to show how I mean sure you're not getting that many chances
if you're MIBR, but you're not taking advantage of them at all when you actually do get into
that scenario. So they've squandered a ton of it, so it should have been more of a competitive
game than it was. Sadly, MIBR just was nowhere to be seen today.
Yeah, and I feel like we've probably done them a little bit too dirty. Of course, it
was a tough watch. Everyone knows that. It's also a tough loss for them. But look, let's
talk about the positives. Who is your MVP overall?
I mean, good question. In this game, the way he played and the way he found kills 12
and the world was pretty impressive.
Okay, well, I heard we have males on the stage
to have a quick chat too.
CAC-2026 is actually a competition
that is a bit of a challenge.
Although you are in the competition,
you have successfully won 2-0 in the MFDR.
But from the defeated team,
you have reached the competition,
how will you summarize this competition?
Congratulations on the third place of the tournament.
It's been a roller coaster for you guys, for mouse.
You went through a lower bracket,
all the way to the third place.
How would you summarize your journey?
Thank you. I think the tournament went pretty good. I think the beginning was a little bit
rough versus Tyloo. We didn't play that good, and they showed up really good, so they deserved
that win. But we are really proud of the lower bracket run we had. I think it shows really
good mental resilience. And yeah, I think we also put up a decent fight versus Falcons.
I'm a little bit sad that we couldn't take them on Mewk. I think it was a really good
and I think we had the comeback in our hands,
but it was not meant to be this time.
And yeah, I think the third place designer was just...
They were not in the best shape.
I think they were a little bit tired after yesterday's game,
and we just took the game in our own hands, and yeah, we ran over them.
Overall, I think this game is still going well for us.
At the beginning, the first match against Tian Lu was not very good,
and they showed their abilities in the first game.
They performed better than us, so we lost that game.
But in the other games of the losers' group,
I think we played better and better.
In fact, we lost in the match against Falkens.
We lost yesterday's game,
but I think they have more sense of the game than us.
And when we played against Falkens and Nuke,
we had a chance to turn the tables.
But unfortunately, we didn't win the chance to win.
Today's game, MIBR, they might have been a little tired and tired after yesterday's match.
They weren't in the best condition.
We can take the third place in today's game. I think it's not bad.
Just like you mentioned, you didn't have a chance to turn the Falcons over yesterday.
But I can feel that today's game is obviously more relaxed and more natural.
And it's also better and more confident.
Do you think it's too much pressure on your team?
It's still an important issue for you to face the wall.
Like he said, yesterday against Falcons,
You didn't make the comeback, but you show the firepower of Maus.
Do you think the reason that maybe it's about dealing with the pressure
when you face the top tier teams, or if you have summarized
within the team after yesterday's losses?
I wouldn't say it was a pressure this time.
I would say it was just a really small mistake.
like for example the second round of the game we failed one of the smokes and I
don't know it's just we lose on to eco and it hurt us they will punish these
these kind of things will punish us and I don't really necessarily would put it
on the pressure it was more just like I would say the we need a little bit more
time to get it as a team we are still really like in the early stage you know
JL just in like a month ago and yeah, we need a little bit more time together, but I'm really happy with the results we showed.
I think we got 10 wins in the last two weeks together with the new lineup and yeah, I'm really excited for the new season if you can continue with this lineup.
But of course we have the major first.
I don't think it's too much pressure.
For example, in the second round of the game, we missed a good chance to smoke.
We couldn't punish them when they were facing the first-person game, but they were beaten by the first-person game.
We made too many mistakes, so we couldn't win the game.
We only have one month to join the JL team.
We need more time to play together.
After joining the JL team, we won the 10-game victory over the last two weeks.
So I think it's a good result.
As the current champion, we can achieve the 3rd place.
I think it's also very good.
Next, we have a major game.
So we can work harder and put more experience and practice and summary into the next game.
Of course, in addition to this,
Zilex is also a very young player, and he's the same age as you.
So, the two players who seem to have a lot of pressure on both of them are the two players with a lot of firepower.
For you, how do you evaluate these two new players, JL and Zilex, at this stage of the game, what do you think of your team?
How do you think, how they performed during this tournament?
Yeah, I think he selects a great guy.
I think he's super, super talented and I think he has a great future in front of him.
I think he's only 17 and I think he showed really good games so far on the stages
and I think he's really calm and yeah, he's the same country for me.
I also suggested that maybe we should pick him up in the NXT team back then
and I'm happy he got the chance to show what his people are of
And I'm really proud of him because I think he's doing a great job.
And I hope he can get out of the full potential of his talent, you know, in this team and show what he's capable of.
Of course, ZLX's little guy is very young.
He's only 17 years old.
He and I came from the same country.
We actually saw more potential in him.
He can show such a wonderful performance on the stage this time.
I think he's going to be very pitiful in the future.
And he's very calm on the stage.
So I think if we have more time to practice together,
I think he can release more potential.
Actually, I wanted to pick him up from our youth team very early on.
And then we thank this opportunity to let him have a great time on this stage.
That's great.
Of course, in the end,
you have to know that many Chinese fans
really like the mouse that you support.
Do you have anything to say to these fans?
The fans have continued supporting you guys, Miles and yourself,
Tosi, they love you so much.
And the crowd is crazy here.
Any words you want to give them?
Yeah, I just want to say thank you for cheering for us,
and we love China, and Liu, Liu, Liu.
Ha ha.
Thank you.
Tosi, thank you for your support.
We love China very much.
Thank you, Tosi.
Great, great, Tosi.
Thank you again, Tosi, for participating in our interview.
I wish you all the best.
Because they've won the CAC 2020 season,
they're about to start the next major battle.
Congratulations, Douding. Congratulations, Maus.
I've got a minute of insight coming through there from the interview.
And good to hear from Torshi after that W, after that third place win.
But, you know, as we were talking about just before the interview came in,
MVPs, for you in particular, who would be your go-to?
For this game or for the tournament so far?
Let's start with this game, because we have a lot of time to fill.
Sure. Let's start with this game.
I think it depends, you know, obviously, the reasons he buys you to say Xersion from the performance on Ancient, I think Jail was fantastic on Overpass, so one of the two either works for me.
Yeah, I think that's a fair assessment. I think Xersion, it's obviously cool to see him, because he didn't have the greatest of semi-finals yesterday, so him having a bit of a bounce back in that sense, it's a good thing.
I'm always kind of fearful about him dropping I guess down to what it should be like an expected level for an agile, right?
But he's still producing fantastic fantastic games. So
As long as they can continue, I'm happy, you know, it's fun to watch aggressive players do their thing
especially when he's tasked with such a massive responsibility as he is so
Maybe yeah, recently buys, but I kind of really like what I saw from surgeon. Yeah, okay, cool
We can put that up there. Now, conversation for the greater MVP, we were throwing Insani's name up there, but with that game, certainly that takes me out of contention for the whole tournament.
Unfortunately, yes. Now there's no way. It takes something extraordinary to be even in contention to be the MVP if you're not in the grand final and let alone if you're not winning the tournament.
So for him, I think he had to, first and foremost, win this game.
And second of all, had to have a better showing.
Still the highest-rated player at the tournament.
And odds are, you know, that unless Manassee or someone else goes
nuclear, he will continue to be the highest-rated player for the tournament.
So that one, he can chip to his name.
It's definitely an EVP worthy performance, but MVP, unfortunately,
Fransani is now out of the question.
Yeah.
I actually think, you know, the guy I saw a bunch as potentially the problem
on day one might be in for an MVP here after
has semi-finals and that's Nico. So again he had immense impact yesterday versus
Mouson in the semi-finals. We saw it time and time again and he's been a
consistent performer really so far this tournament. So that's a
great sign if you're Falcons. I think if he has a pretty decent finals, not
necessarily anything crazy. I think you can make a good case for him being the
deputy of the tournament. Yeah there's a few players especially on Falcons there.
You've got Nico who as you just highlighted I've seen like Monossey
hitting some crazy highlights and pretty consistent across the whole thing as well.
The cool thing with Nico is that he's changed a little bit, you know, ever since Karrigan came in.
We see more of him, you know, being the lurker on the team side, you know, actually going back to
roles he used to play, what, five, six, seven years ago, you know, again, he's had a long, long career.
So there's definitely some development going on within Falcons right now. A lot of people say,
yeah, Karrigan comes in and, you know, it gives belief, but there's also things changing
within the team. We see Tess is moving certain positions. We see Niko on the T-side now taking
more of a lurk role, you know, maybe being set up to be the the the rubs of vitality with time.
And if anyone can play that role, you know, with his understanding of timings and understanding of
space, then that would be Niko. Now, it takes some time before he gets fully into it. But if this is
the early signs of Niko in some of those roles on the lurky T-side, as we saw on New Yesterday as
well, it's going to be scary to face Falcons. Because if your pack is going to be monosy,
Q-shoot and care again creating space for those two and then your lurker is Niko
That there's no weakness within what in this lineup. Yeah, it just goes back to that joke about they just need a little bit more time
But when you constantly make adjustments when you're playing different roles that you haven't played in, you know
So many years as well
You do need a little bit of time to adjust. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're all human after all, right?
So and yeah, it's like a dick of said again
You're already seeing these small adjustments the fact that you don't have
Kyosuke being the the solo yard lurk potentially or the one kind of tag teaming with niko outside
The fact that Nico is getting that responsibility to do by his lonesome at times now and you saw kind of what?
Well the impact that you also got from it on two occasions really with which kind of just sealed the game in favor of Falcons
Too so a lot of small adjustments really cool stuff
And again, I think for someone like Yosuke as well like being able to play part of pack as well when you're a young inexperienced player
It does give you a little bit more. I guess supportive network
He's obviously got the skill to play on the extremities and play for himself in that sense,
but I do think it's kind of nice to know that you have Karrion kind of taking the bullet for you
before you and Monty swing together.
I think that over time I think this is looking like a pretty good recipe for Falcons to find success.
I'm going to say a wild guess here, Mecca. I have a bit of a hosting experience
and your next question will probably be something along the lines of,
okay, so who do you got for the final, looking ahead of that game?
We're speaking the case of Falcons right now, obviously.
Obviously, we're speaking the case of Monizzi, we're speaking the case of Nico.
Falcons is in a must-win game against Legacy in a couple of hours.
Not only to win a trophy, but to make sure that they come into the Major with all the confidence.
Because I guess for all the Counter-Strike fans out there, with all the respect,
Legacy has done a great job bouncing back.
Legacy is not going to be a team in contention to win the Major.
Falcons with confidence, with all the player material they have to work with,
could be a dark horse to win the entire thing.
So, selflessly, I want Falcons to win, so we have another contender for the Trophy,
So we can speak Navi, we can speak Vitality, we can speak Falcons, Furia, Spirit who just
won a tournament in Astana, so potentially you have five teams who can all contest for
the trophies.
Regardless of the legacy winning this grand final on Upmak, it's not going to be them.
It would sting if this trophy that is just there in front of them gets fumbled.
Also it would be hilarious to some degree.
There is.
So many Falcons hate watches out there who would just have the best Sunday ever if they
somehow drop this one to legacy.
So it's a win-win.
It is a win-win for everyone.
But for you, Vendetta, are you on the same bandwagon?
Are you thinking Falcons are gonna get the W?
I mean, it does seem likely.
And again, they've been the team that have had less,
I guess, oopsies so far throughout the tournament as well.
They've had a pretty consistent run of it,
leading up to the finals.
They handled mouse about as good as any team has done
so far here.
And I think that was kind of the main test.
Legacy had been up and down.
They've already ran into Falcons so far in this tournament.
that didn't really pan out for them. So a lot of things are pointing the way of
Falcon said I think that should be expected as well but again I do just
have a sweet spot for legacy as well so even though I don't see it very likely
of them winning I would be happy to see that obviously going back to back is a
bit of an achievement in itself and I also think that could be again it's not
gonna send signals of legacy potential major winner but it could send signals
of potential major run ruiner for some teams. True. Okay. And look, on that note, I would be
so devastated if we had two flops, you know, one super one-sided third-pasta sider and then a super
one-sided grand final. Don't worry, Felicans is playing. They'll find a way to make it. Okay.
Hopefully, hopefully on that note, that is us done for the week. We've had a pleasure
for you guys joining us for all of the morning shift, but we do have three
fresh faces to bring in the grand final and a big extended break so go get yourself fed go get
yourself ready there's a big grand final coming up in just over an hour enjoy it and make sure you're
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in powerhouse of legacy will falcon secure their first trophy with new leader caragon or will legacy
prove they are worthy of being back to back cac champions let's find out my name is parlor i'm
still one of your desk hosts and i'm still joined on the desk by striker and blare gentleman how are
you doing and are you hyped for this grand final every day we counter strike parlor is a great day
it is and a championship sunday even greater that's all i'm gonna put yeah striker i'm feeling the
the rush as well. We're all decked out in perfect world gear. I think we're dressed for the occasion.
They're swagged out right now. They do have great gear, man. We got we got the Shanghai
Mage ones. This is a first CAC official perfect world match back in 2019. Jason has one as well,
Moses. He lost it. Yeah, awesome. Well, gentlemen, let's start breaking this one down. Yeah, we've
We've got Falcons, we've got Legacy, let's kick things off with just the general lay
of the land.
Where do you see this one going?
Strikes not with yourself?
Look, we have to think that Falcons are coming into this as pretty heavy favourites.
Obviously, they are the team that just got in Keregan, exactly for this reason, for them
to contend for trophies.
They didn't manage to Anastana for the debut, but this is their second chance and realistically
it's going to be a much easier battle than it would be against Spirit.
Yesterday Zonic gave an interview to HLTV where he pointed out how things are going well, everything's going according to plan.
However, this is pressure of lifting a trophy.
It's like this stat yesterday that Monacee has never lifted a trophy with the Falcons jersey.
It's kind of crazy, but that could change it today, right?
And once you get that taste of that win as a five-man unit, every individual in this team has won events in the past, apart from Kyosuke, obviously.
But if they're able to get a win over here,
I feel like pressure-wise is really going to help things out heading into Cologne.
How dramatic already, would you say, Karrigan's impact has been?
I feel like at this point we can say a hugely positive addition to the team.
Yeah, I really like this Karrigan addition a lot because it makes a bit a lot of sense on paper, right?
I spoke about this before, I do think that Falcons are kind of the spiritual successor to FaZe in that,
you know, they're the ones who want all the superstars as we saw from FaZe early in their days, right?
And who else would you want back in your team than a Karrigan in this kind of a team who
has always been able to get the most out of the pieces he has, regardless of how much
firepower, how much overlap and things like that.
He's always been able to make it work.
I mean, he was the original superstar captain, right?
I'm sorry, like superstar team captain, so to speak, when he had the Penguin Lion up
– Kingward Lion up, sorry – Penguin.
I wish they had been called Penguin, actually.
It's a bit of a mechanic.
Well, it was kind of a – it was a player.
Well, I'll tell you what about Kagan's, uh, his spider-grapher over here is good at two
couple of things, right?
That is utility and going in first for Q-Suke.
That's one of the strangest, uh, spider-grapher I've ever seen for a player.
It's like a bit of a mouse thing going on.
Shout out to him.
They made quick work early today, Paolo.
That was a quick one.
Yeah, it was.
I mean, we weren't here for it, but MIBR just disappeared against Mouses.
Yeah, everybody at home, if you didn't see, our third place decided to end with Mouses
absolutely destroying MIBR.
Yeah, I just wanted to get into this the thing about Falcons and finals. I was looking through it
They've been in the final six times with monosy dating back about 13 months from now
They've lost three of them to vitality one of them to furia one of them to Paravision when they had nuclear on the
Lennep at bounty and then the last one would have been at Astana when they played against spirit there just this this last week
Right so this realistically going up against the legacy team that obviously is coming in as underdogs into the whole tournament rather than
even just this final right they've got to be feeling like this is this is the
way where they can win it because if they don't I feel like they've got to
find the way to put the curse on them to be honest yeah honestly this is there's
no excuse here but you're coming in like you know you it's not your first event
either you had a starter run right there where you went up against a very hard
hitting spirit so understandable loss in the grand final so we're here but
coming in you beat in mouse yesterday which was a bit of a bit of a hard for
the fair especially coming down in the final map as well so right now the
Faggards are very much aware that this win is kind of theirs for the taking, so hopefully they're able to pull it off for themselves.
Very shortly we can turn our attention to Legacy. For now though, let's make sure everybody at home is keeping an eye on their screens as we welcome our teams to the stage.
I think Robin, go through too many details at this point. We should enjoy a bit of the fanfare and show going on in Shanghai Striker.
I'm just curious what it's going to look like for the reception in terms of
Legacy we're talking about getting all the support yesterday. They are going up against the Falcons. Yeah
That is very very heavily favored by the Chinese crowd. They love them them some Falcons to be honest
There's not there's not a lot of booing with a Chinese audience, right?
I know I feel like legacy will be shared that a lot of love yesterday
But I just feel like Falcons are gonna get a much bigger
I mean, I think a flaws and you know, cheer is coming in from the Chinese audience, you know, Nico has been a mega star in that region for a very long time. And then more recently, we've seen monocene QCK and being adopted by by those very quickly.
But hope I hope for some some positivity to emanate from the crown for legacy as well
But it's gonna be tough when the Falcons are coming out
Did you guys see that meme though? I think this was like a month ago a
Tarragon and Niko for that came from China and then Tarragon's got like a
Like a police siren on his head and it's like an AI made and I didn't see that I went big all right
I'm gonna know what I mean. I don't watch it. Yes, not calling
I don't know what he's talking about.
Okay, well, it was a great piece of AI work.
And there's our trophy as well.
Who's going to list it when it's also done?
Falcons or Legacy?
Seriously, the women watching.
Alright, Legacy seem to be descending on to the stage fast.
And yeah, there was a little pop there from our crowd.
And since the boys are coming out, perhaps a good opportunity
to turn our attention to this team.
So a very good tournament run so far and so far have only lost to Falcons
They now have a chance to rematch them and see if they can call themselves back to back CAC champion striker
Yeah, it was also quite quite a one-sided affair
So I think they're obviously gonna look back at that tape and see what they can do differently
I do think it will start with the veto
But I mean we can get into that when we when we see that on the screen we can see there's a bit of a different approach to
To the introductions here one by one
Look at this, look at how like Dumas is loving this, the guys are, he's yolked as hell bro.
Feeding off the energy, Sarge is now stepping up, the Orpah, big grin on his face and there's
a pop for each player, not too much bias, we'll see about the bias when the fuck we
guys come out.
Then our ears that I think are going to get blown right, yeah anyway guys let's talk
We know these guys are the current CAC champions and low key I feel like that's been a massive motivation to this team.
Yeah for sure, look this is a crowd that they're familiar with even though I think it's a different arena this time around but look these guys, they're here to enjoy themselves to be honest.
Yes there's a bit of a thing going on with them where they are putting some pressure on themselves to win because they just have the passion and they're just so competitive that they really want to go for the win.
But they're obviously not going to be at the same level of pressure as Falcons, the pressure is all going to be on Falcons.
Yeah for sure, and I think for Alex they've already, I wouldn't say overachieved, but they're going to be pretty happy with where they have the position they've made in this tournament right now.
Having that top three run towards Atlanta right now, yesterday, kind of making two-fourth of an idea.
They have clearly shown that they, of course they didn't play mouse, but they did kind of beat whoever they had to, pretty convincingly, apart from of course Falcons earlier in the tournament.
I've been taking a mongrel too for me with one of the picks to make it there but anyway, here they come, Hala.
Yeah, and he's got bigger guns.
That was doctrine.
That has to be AI.
That was... maybe it was the angle that it was like from the bottom up.
That's a massive one.
He looked like Pasha more than Niko to be honest with those guns. Crazy.
A big rule of the Falcons, land.
Niko first to step up. Yeah, one of our true megastars, one of the goats of the game.
This is the guy I'm looking towards.
He's going to be his element right now. I know there's always the finals thing,
but Niko, the experience, he's going to be going out there to do everything he can to lift that trophy.
But that's exactly who I'm looking to step up, right, because the finals that I was talking about,
the six finals that they've lost, Niko's actually going to be the first to review them.
It's been kind of a scene with Nico for him to be great all the way up for the semi-files.
We obviously saw it yesterday.
He was making so many big plays, especially towards the end of Nuke,
where he was making those plays from down to Ramper, where he was getting the flanks off.
But that's what I want to see out of him in this final, right?
Especially against this sort of an opposition where he should be in his element.
We haven't necessarily seen it from him though.
This is so cool. This is such a...
Yeah, I think it's for Purple World knocking out of the park right there.
No, 100% agree with you. I think it's gonna be a pretty interesting couple of months for Nico, right,
heading to the Major as well, to see how he's gonna thrive.
Tessus, for me, has been a bit of a question mark for the side of Falco.
He's been in the green room saying you're Danish goat whenever he's on the ground.
He is my Danish goat, but the struggle for him is not because he's bad or anything like that.
Just the new position, just playing right now in the moment, looking in the garage,
looking at Dust 2, looking at some certain roles where he's not super comfortable on.
So it's about how quickly can adapt for me in the long.
And I feel like if he's able to get every opportunity, you get in an official rep,
you try to fix somebody's small problem.
So it's going to be an important test for Tessus as well.
I just want to say though that as much as it has been kind of a work in progress for him,
for some of these transitions, especially in thinking kind of Mirage A anchoring instead of B anchoring,
he was actually doing really well as the B anchor, but the transition towards A has been a bit of a struggle.
Well, you're not going to keep that car again today, right?
Well, that's one thing, obviously, you know.
But the good part was that Tessas has had a couple of great CT sides on ancient,
where he's gone from cave to the B anchor instead of, like, with Kerrigan going into cave.
And he was actually having a really good time in this matchup.
And the same thing with Dust2, where he's gone towards the B bomb site as well, from long,
where Kerrigan is now.
He had a great time when he was playing in this match.
So it's it's a it's actually actually
You can see some signs of progress from tessas. He's actually having some big maps even in those positions
Which is great. I mean this is exactly what you want to see out of him great moment there is each of the players shook hands or
If you say in the UK spud
Bumpfist and then at the very end of course are both coaches and zonik and
Adi are at her. I'm not exactly sure how to pronounce it guys talking about coaches tactics
How deep does the tactical deck have to be on both teams here?
I would say more of the weight is on Falcons and perhaps, if anything, legacy could lead, lean, sorry, into a bit of chaos.
I think that's what legacy does need to do in this matchup, to be honest, because they're not going to win through playing the better brand of Counter-Strike.
We saw it a little bit yesterday that I was a bit surprised by, that they were actually quite timid, quite tame, let's say, in the matchup against MIBR that I expected to develop into a little bit more chaos.
But we know that when Art gets the opportunity, he can call for some of these big explosive plays.
But the same thing happens on the other side.
We know Karrigan has brought that little bit of a spiciness.
The phase bullshit, as we've called it before, into this Falkenstein.
How did bullshit?
It is.
Yeah, I think we're going to start calling it that instead of phase.
I think it's going to also depend a little bit on the maps, right?
Obviously, you know, it's going to be a best of five.
We're not going to be seeing overpass or a noob is coming in, right?
And I feel like Inferno, potential weak spot for the Falcons, especially in the CT side.
And I think that's what Art's going to be looking to exploit.
He's super fast, poppy plays, catching some of these players off guard,
especially towards B, where Falcons were struggling quite a bit earlier in the tournament as well.
And I think I agree with you. I think that's what's going to happen.
For Falcons, I'm not expecting anything too tactical.
I think it's more going to be about the synergy,
you know, just kind of working on the defaulting a little bit,
and just playing clean counts, right?
Don't have too many holes. Don't have these missed comps.
Because I was seeing even Niko and Tessa struggling a little bit.
I'm expecting Mirage coming out from Legacy here, the first pick, Falcons maybe with the Ancient.
I think that's the order we're going to be going with.
And then Inferno from Legacy, Dust2 from Falcons because that's their most played map.
And Nuke as a decider if we do see it.
Yeah, let's see Mirage, I think. Oh, there's a new pick coming out. This is from...
Oh, here we come to see.
I think it's Falcon.
Legacy is...
That's a curious one.
I'm actually surprised with that.
They are 4-0 on it in the last couple of tournaments, so I'm thinking that that...
Hey, all you need is LASO on the B-side, 1-B-3, with an AWP, no lag, right?
There's the Ancient. I'm not super surprised that they've changed it up from the last time around.
Obviously, they picked Dust2 and they got kind of slammed by Monosy on the picks when they were playing the T-side.
So, a change was coming. I expected the Mirage more, but I guess it is coming in the second round of bands anyway.
I don't think Falcons were expecting this either.
And you did say, like, you know, we need a little bit of a curveball being thrown in by them and the curveball is indeed going to be this early nuke.
So, what do we have remaining here? It's gonna be an industrial pick.
So, Inferno decided...
I feel like Inferno would have been a better pick, honestly, for Legacy.
If it goes on to 5, I don't know what's gonna happen there, because it's a...
Is it gonna go on to 5?
The thing is, that's the thing.
I don't think that it should at this point, but if it does,
then I think Falcons might be in a little bit of a trouble,
because they've only played this Inferno twice.
It was two struggle buses of maps against the Mongols and the MAD.
I think one of them was 11-13 loss.
The other one was an overtime win over MAD.
So it's obviously not going to be a place of comfort for Falcons.
While Legacy have actually shown a lot of good things with this tournament.
You've both expressed quite a bit of surprise at this Vito.
Can you explain that a bit more, blessed on with yourself?
Nothing to crazy.
It's just that Legacy have always gone with this Mirage pick.
It's a home map.
They're super convincing on it.
even yesterday when they were 193 down they were able to mount that comeback and I feel
faculty have had a few struggles especially in the CV side but new coming in they're just
holding it holding it in to this. That man was the reason why faculty were able to close out
new against miles yesterday. It was looking a little rough, it was looking a little confusing but
the fact that on the T side they're able to become and composed at a really cool round we saw
we're going to read it, top of the red is a post about how they broke the window with a molotov
and then people got the timing right, got the flank in but they did come down to
not kawaii niko, what are you know, good niko. What's with the crab? What's with the crab? I don't
know, right? I'm not a weeb here, all right? You got to follow or something. The point is,
they didn't show a few cracks, they didn't show a few struggles, but even for legacy,
they play a very scrappy nuke. It's not like they're super honed in as well. So yeah,
I'm expecting a little bit of chaos from legacy to try and maybe catch Falcons of God here.
I love the fan love in China. One of the best crowds in eSports, we can see some
monosie fan love there as well we saw a bunch of um posters for nico to there's been a lot of
falcon support. When we were there for the xanghai major you know there were rails and rails of fans
standing outside the hotel basically throughout the entire day and night and i'm sure the players
have been um receiving the exact same treatment this time. That trophy has also slowly become iconic
apollo like that's been there since 2019 for the first cac as well so beautiful trophy over the
years like we had a few trophies becoming kind of like a mainstay and the CAC trophy that's
that's the one which one of these two teams are going to lift. Guys I'm going to trust our timer
and assume that that is roughly accurate for when we're getting into this one. We can of course
divert course if that's not going to be the case but strike from Blair let's start getting some
final thoughts and hard predictions strike yourself. Are you looking for the whole final?
Are we looking for just one map? What do you prefer bro? Whatever you prefer. Look I do think
that this is a final for Falcons to lose. They should come out on top. I do think that Legacy
has some fight in them and I'm thinking 3-1. I'm going to be disappointed with Falcons. I think
it's going to be a couple of tight maps here and there but Falcons should take this one 3-0 because
they're looking for the major and against Legacy they should try to make this as clean as possible
3-0 for Falcons. Alright, well gentlemen as always thank you for your thoughts and to cast us through
the game. Let's carry it over to Anders and Henry G. Yes, thank you very much, guys. Welcome
to Super Sunday here at CAC. We've got a grand final for the ages. Falcon's getting for their
first trophy of this roster and legacy looking to defend their title as the champions of the
previous tournament. Yes, Henry. I can't wait for this. I think it's going to be really exciting.
The storylines are all there. I think they're still a great job breaking everything down.
in the Grand Finals, right?
Okay, So much drama going into
this like everyone knows
already. Yeah, Falcon should
be winning it. We said that
before to be feel like
Harragon is enough and X
Factor to get them over the
line. They've been in so many
Grand Finals before never
seen the closer now. Nico
seems to be an amazing form
right now with some new
roles. New positions,
lurking more especially on
this map of nuke. I feel like
they should be doing this
three zero. They should be
making a statement
performance with the major
around the corner. I don't
the Major around the corner. I think that's a very, very good shot that they're going to be doing
just exactly that, but luckily we will be finding out very soon as we're gearing up to head into
the opening map here, the CAC Grand Final 2026 in Shanghai. It's the defending champion's legacy
of the most new look Falcons in a best of five. So, delicious treat. What do you think of the
win factors for legacy here? Who has to turn up? Who has to deliver the goods to stand a chance?
So we even take a map off the Falcons. We've loved what do miles doing
We've left a lot of those doing those are the two headlight names in his team
But you and I have been talking a lot about Sadzim now. Why is that actors?
Well, it's because early on in the tournament he was missing even the easiest shots
Yeah, and I think yesterday he proved that doesn't have to be the case. He was playing better
Here's the problem though. Now you're matching the rings monocene who is one of the sickest authors in the world of all time
Yeah, of all time. And especially on Nuke, that is his playground. He's disgustingly good at playing this map.
So I don't know, like this is going to be very tricky. I would say, I actually think, if Nisman and Lato can keep playing the way they were yesterday,
I still think Dumau has another 15% in him. Like, playing good, I respect what he's been bringing, but I think there's a higher ceiling for Dumau that we're currently seeing.
I think he might be onto something there. Bear in mind, as you mentioned, the reigning champion, the CAC. They love this arena, the crowd loves him as well.
and the last two games. The
last two games. So as Strikers
said, this is Falcons final to
lose right now. There's no real
pressure on legacy. No one's
expecting them to win. And if
anything, they're getting better
and better as the tournament goes
on. They've already played
Falcons. They lost to zero sure,
but I feel like they've actually
ascended since that matchup. I
think they've been playing better.
No question about it. Maybe the
ultimate ace up the sleeve is
just out of the way to the place
Calthruyne. They really calls it
with the actual final right now.
Nuke Falcons on the CT side.
Interestingly, they picked Nuke.
I thought they'd go for Inferno.
It seems to be a slight weakness for the Falcons,
but either way, CT star for them,
and we will see.
Smoke's deployed early towards main entrance
and we've got two players towards Asilo.
It's Niko ready to take battle.
Can't quite find the headshots yet,
but he does do a little bit of damage.
Actually, the favorite of Gravixi,
getting Dumau there.
It's Tessus with the first kill of the Grand Final.
They are trying to make their way across.
Bombs down.
Yeah, you're right.
running down, stay alive if you can, Dumau.
Another five seconds could have made a difference here
because that's stopping us from rotating.
This is interesting.
The bomb has been planted.
We've got a five versus three,
but this is definitely winnable.
We've got Nissem on the back step towards the ramp
waiting for rotations.
Easily detected though, lovely shot comes in.
And now a five versus two.
Art and Sadzid to try and defend Anders.
We know Falcons don't do a good job winning pistols,
but this one seems locked in.
Even without the defuse kit,
I don't think it'll make a big difference here.
Nice shot from Art.
You're gonna have to replicate that.
That's much like you all times, and it's not available.
Ergon will take him down, and for once, Falcons pick up a pistol.
That's a very good point. They never seem to have a good star ever.
It doesn't stand.
Categorically, throughout the history of the Falcons,
they never get off to a flying start.
It's always like 5-1 down before they wake up,
and they need to have like a partial by victory.
Then they start to cook.
But that's a great pistol from Falcons there.
As you mentioned, they're not the end of the world for legacy.
Managing like a bomb planted,
and they will be buying in the second round, you would imagine,
but they have had some interesting approaches to the economy in this tournament so far.
We see them get the bomb down, not buy up in the second,
take some like maybe a partial buy and then buy up again,
but we'll see what they're going to bring to the table.
Yeah, one of the teams that brought up the legendary Furia of my 10 buy-up.
Yeah, exactly, right? It's been really fun.
So they are going to be forced by a couple of AKs.
That's meaning they have to sacrifice Kevlar somewhere.
So Nisman sads him, just operating with pistols,
And you can see very tentative here from Monosy, wants nothing to do with these fights, let them come in towards the bomb sites here,
bleed them dry, make them use their utility.
I kind of love the fact that they didn't smoke for crossing yard, because they have AKs, and they know that Monosy doesn't have the AWP yet.
Yep, true.
Because like if you're going to win a round, find out, hit wall, maybe, then now we'll be the round to do it.
Even without the AK though, or the AWP rather, this is still pretty good.
Really nice from Monosy, just getting the opening kill, slowing things down with a unique defensive smoke there.
It might be a pushing through with a bear. My art loves to push a smoke
That's true. That's kind of his calling guys whole thing thriving in chaos
Presenting the unexpected
Karagin looking for information here
Unnecessary push to all grant by itself. I would say but this room could definitely fall apart
Harragans got yourself a lot of trouble lads. What are we up to here?
Once monosy gets the kill you don't really need the CTs to be doing much of anything like you don't need to do that at all
You've got a 5 on 4. They've got a bit of outside control, sure, but
it feels like pushing into a lobby by yourself wasn't necessarily the move.
Let's say Texas is in trouble as well. This is all falling apart now.
4 on 2.
One going to be planted. There's no kit either.
This is definitely interesting. This even a monitor one to answer.
If they were trying to retake through the hut, now they're going to be funneled into the smoke.
That's towards the other side.
Unless Niko can manufacture a ridiculous double kill right about now, it's going to be all over.
He had a couple of bullets. I couldn't even reload that one.
A little bit of spam coming through onto Lancer.
Actually, deep connect on him.
He's in the corner and they know it,
but a good headshot from Lancer.
Legacy looking to steal this round back.
Honestly, without the kit, he's done a lot of damage.
Will not make a difference.
Lancer with a triple instead,
and Legacy's still the second round.
So all the conversation about good starts
and winning pistol rounds, you can pack all of that up.
Oh, they're gonna have to force by themselves.
A little bit disappointing there.
I understand the idea of you've lost a bit of outside control.
You're holding players towards the ramp,
you. Exploring your options,
but I feel like you're overste
in the mark. Solo play towards
a lobby there. It was a nice
shop in the Desert Eagle, but
it seems like they're a bit
flustered there. Getting there.
Feathers ruffled are the
Falcons as we go. One one. We
are going to have an exciting
first map. It seems here we're
going to have the force by, of
course, coming in from Falcons.
Scout for monasy. One of the
best players to use this
particular weapon to see whether
you can have any impact here.
This time they are going to use
a smoke to do what across
quickly here as you mentioned arts like to thrive in the chaos but this rap
push does work out because this time as he finds Nyssen opening kill once again
with the Falcons actually just to get a nice little rifle here we'll see what
happens yeah hate the fact that this someone's playing that far forward in a
lobby when you're doing this for one split I feel like the lobby player
It has to be a bit more defensive, oh, it's a strong move.
You're down, Arms!
If Faltz can steal it back right now, then, yeah, you're right.
We have an exciting start.
Sounds a bit crazy, but maybe...
Oh, no, the fact they've got two players down here.
It is a planted foul, because I thought they'd have zero to no presence,
and now they're answering back.
It's going to be a five on two, and they're favour.
No one left, as Dumal has to fight two for Nail.
His teammates have dropped.
The bomb is down on the floor.
Call the ambulance, as it looks like Aragon and Co.
managed to make this one work without suffering a single casualty. Dumao 49 HP
holding towards the double doors is hoping to take a couple of players down
with him but there will be a great return to form here. 30 seconds remaining
and they're being disciplined now. I think they learned from their previous
mistakes in the last rounds. Take it easy when you have the advantage. Nice
shot from Dumao. Make it as expensive as possible. Absolutely and even perhaps
even more importantly if you can get a couple more kills then there's fewer
rifles they can pick up and carry over. So just make sure that they can't do that as much as possible here to Mao.
Not half bad, I suppose, by getting a couple of kills. You know that around was never going to go your way.
I really think, so, again, listen in this position. Like, that 4-1 setup is so common and you know who that lobby lurker is going to be.
So when you nameplate listen in that position, you kind of can guess the rest of the setup very, very early on.
Yeah, good point.
Weird round.
Getting to that bend, the 5-7 waiting for them.
Very clean from Falcons.
2-0 manages to hit a couple.
And it will have to be the 4-spy.
Once again, the wall of attrition is underway.
Here in the grand final of CAC.
They're 5 molotovs in this round.
So some sort of upper execution.
You would imagine with that many molotovs,
but Time will tell.
Smoke's going towards outside.
They've been deployed.
Just one player to use another.
do now how much fire can you land on the site like behind the silo inside of the
site parts I guess many like you got you still have three more mollusks
after that they're really trying to sell this idea that players are going to
be going towards outside it will be the upper execution I'm imagining here yes
got to be with the river of flames yes indeed get ready for it this should be a
lot of fun whether it work out it to be seen so get through it I'd imagine three
Molotovs in towards upper. Double flash up. Hope for the best.
There at the Molotovs. And here we go.
The entire A-bomb side is on fire.
Carrigan is running to try and escape the flames.
It's Lato on the opening and what?
And around. Takes down Tess's fantastic work on the P250.
That Molotov fails, otherwise he would have been a brilliant
cherry on top for what was already a really cool execute here.
here. Legacy. They want to burn the feathers off the Falcons. Three versus
four. Bombers planted here. What a dramatic beginning to a grand final.
I'm not sure you can win this one of your Falcons. Smoked off. Nice shot though
from Nico. The retake now will begin. It's gonna be back and forth kills. One more
remaining is left. Can he find the double here? One versus one and stepping up.
It's a force by victory and amazing unique upper execution there with three molotovs landing
In a synchronized manner and it's very very effective
You could see how blind everyone is how uncomfortable they were as a p250
Scrambled out of their heart and find a couple of kills. I can't believe they pulled that one off
They picked you for a reason they had this one in their back pocket
That's over the double kill on the p250 is a CT trying to find salvation on the a bomb site
And he finds two more here to clutch the round with a quad kill in total, just a sublime round to Lato.
You mentioned him right at the start of the broadcast. It's one of the players that's playing very well. Here we go.
That was the ace of Lato, just to know.
And it's going to be another upper pop here, legacy of firing in all cylinders.
It looks like they are going to be winning the aforementioned war of attrition.
This season, interesting now. It's going to be very uncomfortable for the Falcons.
They have to eco next round, you might even consider saving already Anders.
The little you have, the two Famous and Digo, I think they're off.
And the heart of this element getting to rush the bombsite with a Mac 10, you know he loves that.
Yeah, once he's got in the zone and finances a momentum on his side of the server,
very difficult in-game leader to play against, very unique style, very aggressive.
We'll be constantly pushing smokes and presenting these fast-paced ideas.
And this is some cold water that's at the base of the Falcons.
They're walking into this once and no, guys, you've already played them this tournament.
We already 2-0ed them, no problem.
And Legacy have been cooking.
Those executions, that's going to be a problem.
They keep running that towards the upper bomb site. I'm not sure how you get a handler.
Coldwater is what they need after that long execute.
They've gotten molten petroleum to the patients dead.
Okay.
legacy turning up the play in his grand final the reigning champions of CAC not
going down without a fight. Malcolm's looking for their first trophy with this
roster because they're gonna have to work for it. I think it's the framing that
Stryker brought in here is so brutal when you think about who fair enough losing
three times to Vitality is one thing but this is the setup this is the one
way you've got to say okay like again they lost the spirit last hour and that's
That's also fair play, like Donk is out of control, but this is a team like they're never gonna live this down if they come in this one
You already beat them in this tournament. You already beat them convincingly. So
Okay, no days no force by hedges to know this is the same weapons in the previous round
So they're gonna try and build up their economy here. We can't just keep force by this one will spiral out of control
So it is legacy looking like they get the fourth round, but you never know
Monosian Niko do have the rifles. It's gonna be a deagle for Kaizuki and we have got a boost towards that ramp
Using that outside utility once again Molotov towards secret. We have got Carrigan
Sneaking through the smoke himself just trying to steal one away if possible. He's the player with the USP
They're gonna be setting up more utility up
All clear to us. Dark goes towards the window locker room. Maybe yeah
That's interesting you normally see these thrown from basically C spawn. Yeah, that's pretty cool
It's all quiet for now. We hit the one minute mark. They've still got plenty of Molotovs
and this is such an art maneuver. Just creeping out. It's got a guaranteed kill here. It's
USP towards upper and the Famous is nowhere to be seen. So this should be enough to win
the round. They've got so much control towards upper. No Zord Molotovs coming in. Get the
hell out of there. The skill for laughing towards the ramp.
should be going down as well and this will take care of him. That's round 42 pure contact play towards the bombsite creeping out. I would to love that. I want to sort of veto. I was wondering why legacy would open things up with a new pick right. They'd be starting on the T side. It's a rough place to be. But they've obviously been working on their setups or executions, their ideas and how they can counter the Falcons. And yeah, I really feel like they might be onto something here. They're looking very confident. And now they're clean sweep of them. All five players surviving.
surviving now it begs the question do we see a timeout here there's only going to
get in and say be aware of those rushes those upper executions are working very
well for them they still have two galils in their mix so they might be trying to
do something quick and uncomfortable once again very important rounds here we
do have the monocy AWP that could be an absolute game changer this is where
I'm honestly became becomes very lethal and dangerous they can smoking up the
yard well enough but shutting down monocy on the side of the map is very
very, very tricky. CT side nuke is his best role, so you gotta be careful. Oh, he misses
the first one. There he is! Ah, he's gonna be aggression again. That's how you do it.
No! You keep the pressure on, you keep it speedy enough that he can't relocate in time.
Nico's dead! He's okay on the high ground here, but they're gonna be down the vents with the bomb.
There is nobody different down below. Should be a bomb plant happening in the next five seconds here.
Honestly, they had to play it towards Seekra.
Call the AWP, there needs to be very careful here.
It's a 3 vs 2.
They might have to save it.
They might have to.
You don't have the kit.
You're quite far away from the bomb site.
Yes, segregated as well.
You've got Q2K towards the ramp.
Yeah.
Honestly, at Seekra, I think it is planned to contain here.
I don't think you can really go for this one, are you right?
They have to call it off, and once again, a quick upper pop.
Coming in from legacy cores in the absolute chaos.
But that's if you were gonna take down monocy in this game. I don't think you're
gonna be relying on sad center out all pin you're gonna be relying on the
aggression and the craziness of art to basically yeah so uncomfortable that
monocy can't play his own game. That's very cool. I'll be honest as well I work
up this morning feeling a bit crazy I thought maybe they just see we're gonna
try and hide a band new or dust to even though they're good maps for legacy but
just to try and get anubis in the mix as a bit of a weird surprise because we
I knew that Falcons were going to ban overpass no matter what.
So I thought like this is such an underdog situation.
Maybe you try it. Maybe you say, you know, to help with it.
It seems that there has come up with some new ideas, some new executions, new strats,
and looking at counter the Falcons and it's working very effectively so far.
It's normally Carrigan that thrives in the chaos, but Art is the master of it.
I'm afraid he does not care. He'll push every single smoke.
He'll walk out, drive with no utility.
He will catch you off guard. He will not be playing there to CS.
But I guess that means we can return to the storyline that we had at the beginning,
which is that, you know, Falcons don't have good starts,
but they find a way to pull their way back.
And I mean, we know Paragon is well known for that as well.
So yeah, the thing is, the money is still a bit of a mess.
If they'll save the AWP in M4, sure.
But do they buy up around it?
They'll go for the partial investment, the Desert Eagles and 5-7 for Tessers.
It's getting a bit uncomfortable there now.
We've got a Mac 10, but do now suggest we're going to keep the pace up.
So you will find that first kill finds a Mac 10, but they're not skimming up just yet.
Prove the smoke, he'll go down and just another quick strike.
Cool that a spawn. That's rush ramp this time, boys.
It's actually a very scary moment there.
There was a chance that that one rifle could have sprayed down
at least a couple of more players, but Sampson gets his first kill of the grand
final through the smoke. Nice. And bear in mind, that's for some rotations
down towards lower. Two CTs went down, but realizing they've reset the round,
I'll get a focus their efforts towards upper month. Wanna see on the other hand will be
Trying to find an opening himself confirms it outside. It's clear. It's Lato patrolling towards that squeaky door tests
That's on the other side
Round to the Knife's edge with monist in the AWP, but they can't recover that M4 towards ramp
So it's off
Tessus does give the kill on to art here
On this himself on this site
It's the
Paragon to take down. Oh, nice blow it up. Another headshot comes to Paragon on the double tests with the double of his own
So the teams could get a bit of work here on the Falcon side
Feels like they needed that huge
And like we said legacy never call out a spawn they wanted to rush the ramp up
I see who can manage you to get one drop of smoke
They weren't feeling super comfortable on a prospect tried to reset the round in towards upper they go and
Then tests with the 5-7 close range. You know how devil deadly that can be he manages to get to him
There's an eagle from Karagin as well. He's probably one of his best positions historically upper bomb side on you
It's very good. It's best work if you ask me
I mean, it's very true
Yeah, because he doesn't mind the pressure necessarily
Smokes outside, but they've already got Nico in his advanced position the Molotov is not gonna lead down on him
And so he'll be all right for the minute here modesty
Rare position on top of the roof of garage gonna be taken down to mouth
Now, they re-smoke it for a second wall, but nobody's thinking about Kiyosuke in this position.
They'll take down Ars, and it's another cold start here with the Falcons.
You're right, the money was a problem, but if they can keep this going in the round, they're going to be just fine.
Monizi, do you want to try for a wall bang? No, he's going to wait. No.
That's more play for Monizi. They're going to have Laura. That's not a problem.
Kiyosuke low, but just looking to find one. One player to overlook him.
Now, they're going to get the plant down eventually. That opens the solo door.
It's going to be Niko on the other side. CT's rotating down already.
The next kill for the side, the outcome of this round, Niko, taking matters into his own hands here.
An equal trade, but a 4 on 2 overall.
Bomb planted down towards Lola, trying to rush and take them down before they have a chance to recover and reset.
It is going to be Falcon stringing rounds together now.
5-4 bomb planted, should be one more buy available for legacy.
But it's had the look a bit more convincing now.
A bit more comfortable overall for the Falcons.
Honestly, that nice opening pick on top of the garage.
And then, hi, Suké, getting a couple of kills there.
One towards round, one towards Lola. Nice work.
If you're going to prove yourself to the better team, I think winning a couple of assertive rounds like this one, after a bit of a weird and fumbly start, I think it's a pretty good look for them to be able to turn this around on the legacy side.
So time out being called early.
Just get the Mac 10s out.
That's the way forward at this.
Yeah, keep the speed up.
Yeah, keep that speed going.
I think they even swatted, honestly, when he was jumping out there.
He wasn't aware of it, but displayed it very well.
Not the first kill through the smoke, Tess S. Running down the plant up and that's more
like it.
Nice cash injection there for the Falcons.
One round game here ladies and gentlemen.
We're just joining us.
Good morning.
This is the grand final of CAC 2026 on the map pick of Legacy.
An interesting map pick as well.
Knowing they're starting the T side of Nuke, they presented speed aggression, interesting
executions with triple bullets off some T roof and it has been uncomfortable for the
Falcons.
They're currently one round down.
side of Nuke and now we have got another buy. It's the Orca Sads in and Nissen on the
Tech 9 here. Sads will go towards the side of position with the Orca. We'll see if he
can open things up against Monosik.
Well I just remind you as well the fountain is seated with the pistol round.
Yeah, good point.
Wacky start here, which we appreciate. That's exactly what we're here for. If they don't
win this round though, the money is going to be very low on the legacy side. So there'll
be a lot of trouble here. Double wall set up and if you're wondering why, it's because
because you can't blow open both the way you can, but you're gonna have to use two synchronized HGs.
And I haven't really seen anyone try that yet.
So yeah, you're gonna use four smokes, and it's even just across one player over.
Dumau is gonna be there, but the rest of them will be in the lobby.
One towards Mini.
So this is a bit of a fake right now. They're really trying to rotate people down,
and it's working. Falcons have brought two people down below.
This is gonna be a split towards the bombsite coming in from Mini.
Great call out of legacy. Tessus goes down.
I think he's got them in their pocket in this round. What a strategy.
He's pulling them around the map. They've got no chance here and there's two players in towards the vent, two towards the lobby, no presence towards upper whatsoever.
There's four smokes towards outside. So convincing. They didn't see it coming. A perfect flashbang in towards main opening kill on Tess S.
I don't think you can do anything about this. Niko would have to do something unbelievably good towards the squeaky door right now.
and he's a pre-fire this, and that's it, they're even going for it.
Tech9 on the other side will take care of him.
That's another round for Legacy here.
Perfectly called by Art.
Hook, Klein and Sinko with his smokes.
Because you're on the Falcon side,
you think there's no way they're going to commit four smokes
to run one person or two?
Nobody down, like why would they do that?
They got this two-man position to Flash main.
Yeah.
Four Art, and he comes in with the drive-by,
and Tess is completely blind.
You can see they've been working on this T side of Nuke.
It's it's unique. It's exciting and uncomfortable for the Falcons at two round lead and they'll manage to hold on to an AK and an
AWP on the CT-7. Another tactical timeout here because Sonic can see they're getting pulled around the map.
That's beautiful. I think you're right though. You said it a couple of rounds ago that they look prepared on this T-side.
Yes. Absolutely onto something here. This is this is so cool, right?
Because you are picking in to what might be one of the strongest maps of Falcons. This is an ancient, so you picked it against them.
Yeah, starting on the T side exactly with a plan to crush them. That's actually incredible. It's the best time to do it
Right. It's the first map of the grand final. No one's warmed up. Yeah, I'm you're getting into the server
You know what the fanfare the crowds adrenaline's pumping and you're coming in with this new unique nuke game plan
Yes, it's ruffling the feathers of the Falcons. They look super uncomfortable on that upper bomb side, especially they're on high alert
They're rotating everyone down. They seem to be operating with zero information at all times and yeah arts
As he said he's got them in his pocket right now. Damn. Try this at home ladies and gentlemen. Try and say unique nuke three times
I don't know how you did that. It's pretty impressive stuff. Thank you, man
Here we go then upper brush and is with a look to things to falcons hold them a bay apparently not art
Cracking things open once again falcon showing zero resistance here
It's down to this ramp push back to a three on three, but he's gonna be dropped
Critical double spray down to bring the round back, but you have to love this
Art is bringing down Brazilian flavor of country into the matchup. It almost gets them the round if not for Nico
I think they have that one as well. Just again aggression on the T side. It's overwhelming
I'm loving this and is what a way to kick out this grand final. It's not slow. It's not methodical
It's rock and sock and counters strike balls to the wall each and every round something unique and different
This time fast paced in towards up and they get a two over in frag.
You think that's enough, but Niko stepping up and Monace closing it down.
Well, I'll steal a talking point from you earlier in the tournament.
You said this kind of counter strike might not be sustainable over the long run,
like over a whole season for legacy, but it's good for upsets.
That's what you said.
Yeah, absolutely.
If your team are hitting their shots, if your economy and the momentum's on your side,
you can definitely steal away a series.
Maybe even a trophy here from the Valkyries.
Final round of this first half.
Valkyries are going to tie things up 6-6.
Okay, well it's an awkward spray for Nico, feeling uncomfortable, letting them cross this time, so the smokes will be utilized to get down towards lower.
CT rotation's coming in to be carried, and he needs at least one against his tech nine, he gets dinked in the process.
Kai-Suke, he's in a one and done position, he needs to be very careful, looking for the triple kill though.
Can he find it?
He needs to get repositioned here, calls for monitor to join him, as the bomb is in towards Lobby on the back of Sanzin.
Tess is trying to hunt him down.
Yeah, they put the sandwich in, and that's the bomb as well, so you're absolutely right about that.
Oh no.
Try to be careful right now, and even shot in the back.
Dumau, does he have a clutch left in here for the final round?
I think this could be incredibly important.
Six is already pretty good for Legacy, but you better believe seven is going to make
him feel a hell of a lot more comfortable going into the second half here.
Problem though is, he's up against Monosin, Kizuki, I mean what a duo.
Man, you've got to plant the bomb as well.
It's Dumau though, bro.
Stout player, make it for him.
Wait, you fired the shot?
He knows where he is now. He could have walked straight into it, but Monacee actually fired the rifle. That's rare.
Monacee is usually so disciplined.
Twenty seconds on the clock here, Henry. He's locked in the corner. He knows Monacee's holding him there.
He's expecting there's going to be another peak. Oh, there we go. We'll flick from Monacee.
And Falcons will get the last round, so they tie that first half at 6-6.
It's been a very dramatic start to this grand final.
final. It doesn't get much better than that as a spectator. It had absolutely
everything. It wasn't just slow defaults into executions or trying to get the map
control. There was a crazy strategy deployed whether it be upper rushes,
ramp rushes, river of flames into all the upper site, artists walking through
squeaky door of no utility, eco victories, deagle kills. It had absolutely
everything. We are in for a barn burner of a grand final here, ladies and
gentlemen. But well done to the Falcons. They were looking down the barrel of a
very disappointing CT campaign here on Nuke. They were actually down five to two or one stage and
thanks to Niko Kaisuke as well managing to get some excellent rounds. Kaisuke just another
finishing the first half at 13 to six and yeah six six after the way it was looking I think they'll
take that but it was definitely a very impressive performance from Legacy they are very very prepared
for this grand final. He's a player that's been expressing great joy about playing in the Kerrigan
system even early on like he seems to really enjoy having this kind of leadership here so
seems to be showing on the scoreboard as well. That's with Falcons winning the pistol by the way
and losing the second round obviously then going back to winning the third it was madness at the
beginning. But really just getting started Anders. Yeah. Why do you see legacy on the CT side? How
aggressive they want to be? What sort of out-and-guard strategies they're going to bring to the table?
here we've got Dumau with the dual elites. A smoke is being deployed early as well.
Speaking of smokes, one down towards main entrance, a waterfall smoke allowing Niko to
find some space for the P250 trying to crack things open here. A few skulls on route.
Hagen has a Molotov, so they're going to be splitting the A bombsite presumably. They'll
try and burn up Lato. I think that's where the pressure is going to be on him. No, in fact,
they throw it onto the hut instead. Oh, it's going to be absolutely fine. Dually's here on
On Dumau, he'll get the kill, Art finds Niko, but Kisuke, he's got one in the corner, he is a sick pistol player by the way, do not underestimate him.
Even in this 2-on-3, he could bring it back, he's got to be careful here, but they chip away at him.
And Lato and Nism, able to finish off the round, and Lato by the way, clocking in at a 17-7 scoreline, my god.
Look, he's 10 kills out of anybody else on his team.
Absolutely killing it.
Niko without P250 gets nothing.
Kaizuki you think maybe there's a chance here.
Valato, rock solid
in towards us up a bomb site here.
They do not get the plan. They don't get much done.
Three versus one, nothing he could do.
And it will be legacy taking an early lead here.
Well no bomb plant, it suggests we'll take a full
Eko, so just one D.
Couple...
I'm not even going to flashbang the rock brazen.
Glock's in the D.
That's about it.
Because he's sad to be preparing himself for the AWP.
himself for the AWP. He saw this from him a few times this tournament. To stick with
the pistols and get the all-power for that first-gun round.
Try and just make this as clean as you possibly can. Don't lose anything if you could avoid
it. I do love the fact that he's got the doulis just in this one here playing that secondary
position. This should be a very hard round to break through anything here towards the
you ramp. There's no armor as well. So yeah, we've talked about this many times before.
Try and bleed out some useful from the CTs here on these full Ecos then choose your
position. Try and trade out at least one kill if possible. If you get the bomb down,
that's the jackpot. It's about as good as it can get here. Miss him. Setting up sides
in here. He'll go for a couple of kills and then when he goes to the reload, the jewelies
will be able to pick up the pieces just like that. Nice work. Clean sweep. Like you were
looking for their Anders. Yeah, beautiful. And now he does get the AWP for that first
gun round. So far, so good. This is going swimmingly. Look at Karagan buying a Mac 10.
Okay, we know what that means. That suggests we're going to be kicking things off with
a bit of a rush. Now on the helmet watch front, they all have one. So he's not going to get
either shoot, get him fast, but it's not going to be like a very clean entry in. See, Karagan's
got in mind so it'll be dropping the smokes here whether they'll use them is
yet to be seen that's a fending that squeaky door utility being deployed now
art towards outside and with that CT vision we have a bit of rotation as well
Nisman's gone down towards lower to patrol that secret area that's going
towards main to back up arts Karagin getting ready to pull the rip cord get
himself in toward that upper bomb site. Similar sort of approach we saw in our first half.
Molotovs go in the car again to try and open things up.
Burn it all out here if they can. Later it's exactly the same strategy. All the Molotovs
and the opening kills go the way of Falcons. I think you should leave with your legacy.
Yeah, this round is done. Okay, well, legacy getting a taste of the room medicine and boy
is it ever better. You're right, pretty much a mirror strap there. One player with the
the Mac 10 we knew what his job was. He was a sacrificial lamb.
Carrigan has to run in through the flame and then see if he can get the information and his teammates can trade him out.
Thankfully, though, it went so well with the Molotovs and Plashes.
The FCE managed to get a couple of opening kills. No problem.
And you're right. Legacy, no choice but to save.
Here's a bit of history for the kids.
How far are we going back?
This is for the archives.
We're going real far back.
Okay. Hit me.
Carrigan wasn't always this SMG in-game leader.
I would say that he was he was made a believer in this kind of Counter-Strike by force because
He ended up playing Chopper so much when Chopper was on Vegas squadron
Chopper basically invented the Mac 10 madness meta way back when and Karrigan hated it
I remember he was complaining about it at events like not on camera necessarily but off the camera
He was not happy about how ridiculous he was getting shot down with it
But you know, he's he's turned it around now. We've got a ton of them those SMG IGLs
It's a very postive weapon for what you have to invest in the run and gun sort of mentality you can have of it
You can catch an angle run through some flames and catch a CT with an aid in the hand or retreating
Very annoying to deal with super mess up as we get into round number 16 here
They're nice to see three weapons bear my legacy and art. This is the kind of bullshit you'd expect from him
What is he up to pushing outside at the start of the round? I've never seen anything like it. Oh
That's so aggressive
That is just quintessential arts gameplay there. No more reason. I saw he had some flashbangs behind him
He's trying to present some roofless aggression, but it's so crazy
You don't see many ct and game leaders try that maneuver. Let me tell you
So that all happened so quick
Smoke was running in was that the tea smoke to put out them in San Diego
What did he throw the smoke himself like there's so many questions wasn't ready for that
What's looking at that wait? They might be they might actually be able to do this boost up in this round
So early this is falling away
Well, you wish you would stick around because do now is gonna need him
They don't need to check for the boost but this and you gotta come back here and help out scourge
Down though a double kill brings them back in a 3d3 if miss him have been there this would have been all over
Down to Nico. He's not afraid at all. Oh
My god remember who he's peeking on that side. You know that it's Nico
Maybe Grand Finals Nico, but still
Carrigan in a one versus three and yeah, he's seen the player back there
He's picked up the bomb and he wants to make as many quick steps trying to lure him in
Don't count him out yet
You might only have 18 bullets. You might be alone here, but let's see what he could do
They're not actually coming up behind him. That's how the first man to take a swing. He goes down and Carrigan now four bullets left
Oh, no!
He got to get the kill, but that got exciting.
Oh, it's so unfortunate.
They get that opening kill.
They gifted a frag from Art essentially.
They reset the round.
They group up towards Lobby.
They decide to contact play towards the ramp.
It's the way forward.
But the perfect counter-run is the boosted flair.
They barely check it.
He gets a double kill.
The rotations come through.
The round falls apart.
Carrigan did well to get the bomb planted.
I'll give him that.
A chance to even win that round.
You're right.
If he had a few more bullets, you'd never know.
But this is what it was like from kids who go to POV to see what's he up to the in-game leaders pushers to give it to the
Freebie, but you know
Striking down there from above
Time to get another round here. I've got a respect in this and for taking that fight as well
That kind of been easy, but I'm crying it to seven
Dude, they've got them back to the wall. Yeah, they win this round the money on the time is
No round feels normal at all
There's always something bizarre happening each and every round.
I love it.
Let's get into it.
Round number 17.
Money's still available here with the Falcons.
Remember the fact that Legacy or even in the grand final might be partially down to the
fact that Lado had the ridiculous 1v3 orc versus the Mongols on this very map.
That's a very good point.
That avoided overtime.
That could have been it.
That could have been the Mongols coming right back.
Lato stops this round and takes down Tess's.
Okay.
They're going to smoke this off out here, but do we have any names?
It's not at this stage in the game.
Team Falcons looking a little bit shell shocked right now.
Passes goes down with no real resistance.
Five on four and Sanjuri suggests they know.
All the Nader should say, they know exactly what's going on.
They've locked him out of the smoke as well.
Huge.
What do you do now?
You push through this with the flash here, trying.
You almost have to, right?
All right, I don't think you can anymore.
They know that you don't know how many rotations
have come through.
That's a good point.
Maybe you activate the lurker and Karagin up here, try to see if you can find some pressure.
30 seconds for Karagin.
Yeah, they have to. Try and push it.
Woo!
They actually find the opening. That is disgusting from Karagin.
That brought them right back into the game. They had no other way out.
Look at 2 miles position though. I think he's going to be overlooked here, but no, Nico Jackson.
Huge recovery here from the Falcons. Needed this, it felt like...
Like, Cessus goes down early, but they fight back.
Karagin creeping out of the squeaky door, finding the opening kill, which allows him to take up out.
That's why I thought it had to be him, because the rest of the Falcons were locked down elsewhere.
Like you pointed out, they really couldn't go through the smoke.
They had no idea how many people were there.
So Karagin was the only other player in a position to find any information or even any opening.
It's a brave maneuver. Huge, very artistque from Karagin there.
walking out. Binds the timing, opens things up, enables his teammates to come through main entrance.
A sigh of relief here for Falcons. A very clean round here. This is important. They can take this all the way as well.
It looks like they're going towards T spawn. That would be massive. A sad tumour hold on to his AWP.
Here he goes. Well done for checking that very, very difficult angle. How do you know if it looks?
Dumal could have won the round there, single-handedly. Time out.
especially when you've already got a kill on the hut there is exactly a chance
that's what I was thinking yeah very well done
that's a lot of money
that's that's around that legacy I'm gonna be thinking about if this doesn't go
their way still not too late obviously nine to eight is the scoreline here they
They've saved it up, they've bought a second one, there's no way.
This seems like...
You said there's been a little more rounds.
No, and like double orbs on you. Used to be a thing in CSGO.
I don't see many teams running it in CS2, I'll be honest with you.
And the reason was, is the retakes on the lower bombsite were an absolute nightmare,
but you can take the ramp, you can take the north towards ramp,
and then we'll have a really strong outside and upper bombsite,
and we'll see how they deploy it, but that's...
Was it legacy double orbing on Inferno?
Yes, yes, he was.
Yeah, and by the knock so yeah one towards ramp you could go towards secret and position yourself there
We'll see what they go for
Yeah, very unique to have double off on a CT side of you and satin's making it work
You'll find monocy to kick things off here beautiful shop to take down one of the world's best snipers
Many fills in this game he was just bottom of the scoreboard now. He's tired with carrying and so goes down
Yeah, but he domed single handedly. It's art though sneaking his way in.
Oh, look at the 8K to final, and Tess is now coming to life in his grand final.
Four versus two, huge round of typings up and break the bank of legacy.
You have to push here. I feel like if you're Dumau and Sans, and you've got to manufacture something,
that's what they're doing.
I don't know, wait a minute.
Yeah, this is kind of sick.
We could backstab them.
They're both going up.
I'm not even sure what they're doing.
Wait a minute.
Yeah, this is kind of sick.
Wait, the backstab them.
They're both going up.
I'm not even sure what the bomb is at the moment here.
It's on Karigan.
Okay, he's walking in through the lobby.
But Dumau, how action packed if...
Oh, there's the shot.
Dumau, do you want to jump right now?
He's waiting for it.
Tries to take the silent route down,
but the Falcons, they must be confused.
Where on earth are they?
Oh, you guys gonna get found?
Yeah, you might get shot right in the back of the head.
He's turned the corner now.
So the timing...
It has alluded them for the second here,
but this is where it gets real critical.
30 seconds on the clock.
Nico they've made the bomb site. They look a little bit confused. Why is there an all-pour on T roof? Yeah, what's happening?
You're never expecting that if he had been three seconds more forward
Exactly now the bomb is lost and lobby now whole round could just crumble from that moment
So thankfully they will be saving thankfully for the Falcons. I should say that was it was looking like there was a moment where that kill
From the T roof and then the chance to backstab with the MP9 as well
They could have completely sabotaged their efforts, but they get away with it
It will be nine nine here a three player surviving
Are they going to justify a hunt here in towards T spawn?
They'll all be leaving out of main entrance and it looks to be them heading towards city spawn themselves
I thought what do now want it to do was set up so that as soon as Sansen finds the op he just jumps on
Faith alone, he just doesn't like he just does you know hopes that that's the moment obviously easier said than done
But look at his opening
That was the shot from Tessus. It was very nice.
Tessus who came out of the game to get the second one. Tessus securing the round down lower.
I brought up this point last time they played this map legacy that Nism loves playing that railing.
If anyone watched our series, they did save it.
An enormous amount.
And I think I said in that game so much that I worry about people taking that fight and just clearing him out, but...
They're going again with the double orb setup.
Yeah, they saved both of them. Why the hell not?
Yeah, it's gonna be an interesting game here on the second half. Nothing.
Seems to make sense, but I'm here for it
You cannot say this has been boring. That's the most important part here
Too off saved. I mean if they win this round then I don't know what the Falcons are how they can justify that
It's the mouse close no one should check him either and he does get taken down
Which is absolutely critical because there was a molotov on the ground there
He could have picked that up and ran away sneaking and he's pushing
ART AGGRESSIVE! Even for the end of the week, he can't stop himself!
Niko goes down! No one can contain ART! You cannot leash this player!
Another kill for ART as he is lurking them into lobby with an AWP. That's a sniper rifle!
Unbelievable scenes. It all falls apart, thousands are trying to break through and towards you at the bomb site,
rattled. They are not enjoying this at all. No, they're not. And this is this revitalizes
all of the conversation about Falcons and the Grand Finals, the Niko choking. We all
know all the storylines. You have a couple of rounds like these and it just makes it
so much more dramatic for the Falcons side of things. Oh, Kai Suki is actually lucky
to get that second kill as well. We saw how blind he was there. Ah, it's a beautiful little
backstab gets himself a couple of kills, Satsen improve the smoke, they're closed things down.
Not that it matters but they're both flick headshots as well.
Yeah, it's so sick. Damn dude. I didn't know what to expect when we came into the office today.
Thought it might be a bit of a blowout for Falcons would be manhandling legacy here
but it's anything but legacy it got them. They're back to the wall, they're put on the
He has not been nearly as impactful as I thought, not that he's been playing badly, but I was expecting, especially on that CT side, that he would be able to shut it down, and now he's playing the T side AWPing.
and now he's playing the T side opening.
Arts relocated, he's down below, the only player here on the legacy side has rotated down,
they've got Sadson with the other AWP on the ramp, so they can actually afford this.
The weakest point might be if you can get into Mini here.
If you're on the Falcon side, if you can somehow block off the garage or kill Nism
and hit that bomb site, I think that might be the best choice.
Kisuke is going to be clearing this out or at least attempting it here.
He saw it, it doesn't matter.
Art's lightning fast.
Getting the shot there and now Nissen's confirming.
They are going to be out.
They are trying to split through Mini.
I think that's the right call for Falcons but can they make it across as the question
here?
Flashbang's good but nobody's fighting him and look at the clock Henry.
We're down to 24 seconds here Falcons.
What's the plan?
What are you doing?
The bomb is being brought down below but the Orbs they're waiting for.
It is.
And there's even less time, 10 more seconds past, and no scope from Huff, just made it.
As a chance, they can get the bomb honey, we'll get the bomb honey, and Niko and Tess is having...
OHHHHH!
TASSEN!
How has he got away with it? He's won the round and Niko to hunt down Tess's!
And there's no time here.
My god, what a game!
I'm speechless.
High flying antics.
High Octane Counter Strike, double-orbs set up on Nuke, running through the flames denying the plan.
It looked like they found a gap down towards lower, a sigh of relief, but anything but its arts opening things up.
He gets an opening kill, Tess is down the bench, he thinks, okay, they've managed to find a way through.
Niko, that kill towards upper as well, but there's no time remaining.
The Desert Eagle running through the flames, finds Tess, there's Satsin, saves the day there.
And we'll go back to a single AWP setup here, and it's an eco for the Falcons and Bizz.
We've got pistols and the saved AWP of Monocy.
he has to do absolutely everything here and it's a great start he will find him out towards
ramp trying to find that next pick he knows it's likely to be an AWP there.
Yeah but if anyone could murder the entire team here it would be a monocie.
They must know that they've got to respect the fact that he's still got that weapon.
Oh Nico as well known for a D-Gord team he's going to find out it's super smoke.
Wait a minute, that's what he's not just a blind shot right?
Did he get it? Yeah, through the squeaky door smoke. I guess that's it. It was a smoke hill.
I didn't hear a grenade either. Yeah, they blew it open. Okay. A bit of fortune, a bit of luck perhaps, but it will be a five on three.
Still very possible for legacy to win this round. Nico looking for a second.
Wondy getting absolutely delivers. No luck there. That is pure skill.
What an absurd carousel. When he really gets going here, that's all only good for the one he's overwhelmed and overworked in that position.
Okay, and there's nothing to do. We're right back. Oh
Niko's desert eagle my god
Yes, and he thought they were done as a falcon to find a way
Opening kill from Monacy laid the foundations Niko built upon them
And now satan could do nothing but save here
I hope we have that Niko killed the first one through the smoke
I just you want to see and it's possible that art tries to spray through and that's the that's the timing there
But either way you're absolutely right the second and nothing to do with luck at all
Yeah, that was just beautiful counter-strike if they can find sands in here will be very significant and they have
Finally advantage for the Falcons
huge cyberleaf just your one D go and block Sanders and they avoid map points here
That's how below. This is the opening for monocie. You expect to hit that sort of shop ridiculous scenes here there for me
That's the show we were looking for. The second was just sublime.
And then the fact they take down all five members as well, just a carry on the take there.
We are going to see...
They need to make a financial decision here.
The money is not good. I don't think you can justify force buying at this stage of the game.
You have to let them tie things up.
They've gone... Like, the thing is, if they buy anything on Samsung, obviously, that's going to prevent potentially the AWP.
They have done the hero from us of the hero and force in the past like this is a team that loves to push the edges
Or what's even possible with the economy the thing is you're only gonna get 2400 into the next round
Okay, you cannot really justify any real expense at this point right a couple of upgraded pistols
Sure, I think you need every single dollar babe
Let them get to 1111 and then you can still try and close it out in regulation. It got some five sevens
I know you love a good fine set. Oh, yeah, who doesn't?
Niko, knows the money's low, knows that probably Niko.
He'll be picking up the pace here, arts.
He'll be going down quickly.
He didn't expect that they were going to be that fast.
He could only have a USB, I believe,
so maybe he was going to be having a hard time finding impact regardless.
Well yeah, Falcons look a little bit more comfortable again.
Kisuke's been playing very well, he's up to 20 kills,
but Niko and Monos, he's not necessarily that far behind.
For a moment there, Tess is lagging. We don't care about Karrigan's kills, there's not what he's here for most of the time.
I mean, he'll have some impact for one, he certainly did at one point there, picking up a double with the Deagle himself, Karrigan, in the match.
But we don't want him at the top of the scoreboard. Tess is edging his way forward here, going to fight against Nissen.
Really good protocol there to try and make sure that you're always going to be ready for the fights.
He thinks one, but Karrigan still takes him down.
So they've made their way through this round very respectfully.
How can we take him down like so, and, right.
Constellation killed there for Sansen.
Okay, he'll be attacking.
That's true.
It's been very uncomfortable, very chaotic,
as you might expect from in-game leaders such as Art and Karrigan.
But all we know is that, and it's been very, very entertaining.
One of the best maps of the entire tournament so far.
What a way to kick off the grand final.
This is a real treat, isn't it?
And the fact that Mirage is the third map,
which legacy of really good on job,
I think there's this, there's a lot cooking right now,
but much could be decided depending on who wins this,
the momentum, the early, you know,
advantage of doing that.
We've got, it connects that.
A lot of action here.
Guys who came loves this maneuver,
getting down towards the, wow,
secret steps. Look how quickly he's down. There's a reaction. I don't think they're
gonna send anyone down just yet. So he's got three raven and lower bombsite for now.
Tima's gonna try and join him. This is actually brilliant. Falco is taking a
page out of the legacy playbook here and saying we're gonna play so far you're
not gonna expect it. You can see the now coming down the stairs. He's instantly
dead unless they can find a kill right now. If not, Kisuke he will not be stopped.
A double. They burn Art out. Tessus with the molotov and they're already on that
save protocol. They probably were on the first two kills alone. Say you'll not be allowed to,
monocle. So sad since he's about to make his escape retreating back to the CT spawn. Falcons
look to be the first to take the map point here. 12-11. They could just steal it away from legacy
towards the end. Or we could have overtime. It's going to be rough to get there for legacy. They
have no money. Thing is, they're the sort of team though. You give them a few pistols,
Couple of rifles. They can make your work and as you know it
And the thing is is what you could be so worried about what arts or cooking for this final round of regulation
It's gonna be very tense. Do you slow it right down?
Do you go for a fast play yourself? So just try and counsel whatever they've got in mind? Yeah
Might be worth the time out from exotic district I come everyone down and talk about what what could I be bringing to the table here?
That is a good point
But they've already done the boost and lobby or it's what ramp ramp. Yes
That again is probably dangerous if you're on the CT side, but maybe there are other wicked tricks at here
They've done art is pushed in for us in the yard. I
Don't even really want to try and guess what's happening in arts brain because
So time I don't know like I said MP9's
pistols
Falcons a cyber leap you're not gonna get a better chance than this to close out
The opponent's mad pick. It's not been a fun outing for them.
It's been chaotic to say the very least, and it all comes down to this.
Contestors hold them a bay towards the ramp room.
Flash through, he certainly can. It's a great position.
I thought they were going to go through hot and squeak at the same time, but that's not the case.
Lado's been playing up on the hut there.
Oh, and for what they've taken down Kyusuke, that could be...
That's an AK.
It is an AK taking over. It's also a Molotov stolen.
He's side Molotov here, not the incendiary could absolutely make a difference.
We never know.
Tessus is low as well.
All of a sudden this round gets a lot more competitive.
Butts, arts.
He wanted the aggression.
He wanted to find the information and, modestly, was waiting for him.
That's the AK removed, bear in mind.
Rich, Pionnissimo, and Latta as well.
Should be enough now for Falcons to take this first map.
Three kills away from doing so.
There's only MP9s and pistols to stop them.
All three players positioned towards upper.
And indeed, Gamble stack in towards the A-bomb site.
But if they do go in towards upper, there is a chance
and there's the MP9s can do a lot of devastating work
and towards ramp we go, it could be the Adilic Cool here.
35 seconds.
So they're sending in testers first.
In case there's a boost, they'll find out.
You can see how tense that they are.
Everyone's so scared of walking around the corner.
Okay, they hear the footsteps,
they hear the flash bang, surely they're still thinking.
They're putting it to fate.
It should be GG.
Monace has got the red rotation.
Let it go right. Okay, that's it surely. Yes
The flash is back in the grand final and that's a great way to cap it off here a slow start
Falcons they return and they win the opening map on you
What a way to finish there yet congratulations to the Falcons.
They take map one.
It was legacy pick of Nuke, Striker and Blair.
Latter did everything he possibly humanly could, but man what a map of counter-strike
on Nuke.
Art came in with a game plan of the first half.
It seemed like he had the number,
but then some classic individual plays
from the superstars, net falcons again.
I for one am entertained.
Is this watching falcons or is this like phase
from three years ago?
That was like, that had such phase vibes
from a couple of years ago.
When it just devolved into chaos to a certain degree,
like individual moments turn it, right?
The Nico Diego that just turns it at the last moment.
What an entertaining game.
So many rounds that we could get into to be honest super entertaining
I don't think there's a better way to describe that map
It was just pure entertainment from start to finish a lot of chaos
I want to float an idea here with you guys and so car sukey huge performance by him across the entire map
Monossey was strong throughout but really came alive at the end that being said though
I feel like the most crucial part with Nico that deagle round round 21
I feel like yes, it's right on screen at the moment
I feel if they don't get that, they lose probably 13 blinds.
Yeah, it would have been a really dire situation for Falcons if he doesn't get that.
The impact of that round?
Yes, he was pretty quiet on the seating side. I was still waiting for him to do something.
It was still kind of the same Niko vibes in Grand Finals that we've talked about in the pre-game,
but obviously to come up with that kind of a round at such a crucial moment, yeah, what a play.
For me, it felt like deja vu because he was so reminiscent of this round against
Fury and that epic quarterfinals that had an Astana T side the money's broke in Astana that is money
So it gets out the AWP Niko has a deagle wrestling with glocks
Almost the same round except in this case tests has had a deagle of his own as well
And it pulled off into the classic bullshit round. He used to give us finding so much impact
I think he had some pretty cool rounds near the end of the first half of the T side right even though
It's like mainly one killer piece and just how much space was getting early on just like pretty much
the first half of the season
and he's got a lot of
players that are going to be
playing on the left side of
the match, channeling his own
in a flash. You saw the one
round rushing down towards
lower catching rotations off
guard as well. So yeah, so
just a very well played around
and also just in general. I
gotta give credit where it's
even though the first half I
felt like there was some a lot
of unnecessary city side
aggression coming off from
Falcons, which lost him a lot
of rounds. They had no
business losing on the T side.
That was a very good calling
from Karagin and using his
pieces to perfection. Yeah,
it but that round 20 right there the round before the Niko Deagle where Falcons were sort of spread
out mainly outside it was getting super late in the round we're like oh this is done it's done
this they've got no time to go be then somehow they get there they like finagle all the angles
they get down there finagle yeah and then um they're managing to pretty much get a plant
saws and stops it but that was something um that almost worked I just don't think we would have seen
in prior iterations of Falcons.
But this is what I was talking about
when I'm talking about FaZe from three years ago.
That's around where that FaZe would have pulled out
in some way like last 15 seconds, you know,
just kind of like they're all spread out over the map,
but suddenly they all converge at the same point
in one moment.
You know, I mean, you keep saying the character
but that's where it kind of specializes in, right?
There's mid round callings where it's like,
you see a tiny little narrow gap, you know,
10 seconds left, you see a small little position,
immediately goes for the call,
Tessus gets a kill towards the AWPer.
I think it was odd playing behind in the vent room.
And yeah, it's very close rounds,
very entertaining game overall.
But listen, if I'm legacy, I'm feeling super.
I wouldn't say depressed or whatever, but frustrated.
You're going to be very frustrated.
Because that was a very, very solid T side
being called by odd.
You saw they were gifted a couple of rounds initially.
And then those fast upper hits, we
knew it's going to be coming.
And Tessa was having a nightmare of a time.
And they did just keep going upper.
And there was not much Falcons could do.
But then we saw a good adaptation from Karagin.
He's like, all right, we got the guns now.
They're going to be going outside.
They shut it down outside.
It was, even though it was chaotic, even though it was,
there was a couple of wonky runs here and there.
It was a very high level kind of mind gaming happening
between art and Karrigan.
I have to say, Karrigan, Karrigan kind of made the mistake
of letting it devolve into chaos early
in the first half, right?
Because it was like second round where the 5v3,
they have outside kind of unlocked.
They have them contained outside, right?
And then suddenly Karrigan peeks out secret alone,
just being able to be peeked from like four different angles
that you don't have any idea where they are,
just really unnecessary.
Then it goes down into the force by then from there,
legacy have all the momentum.
They have all the space, all the economy to work with,
to go for some of these fast A hits.
They're doing a really good job exploiting Tessas,
who was just being left alone on A a lot of the time, right?
They just got picks off of him
and then you can't really go even for the retakes.
And I think a particular run comes to mind as well.
I think round number three memory serves,
we're on the T side of legacy
where they have just this lake of fire on the upper bomb side,
There's some really cool ideas, nice executes coming in as well.
They clearly had done their homework,
they knew what they wanted to do.
But then the CD side, like Milan said as well,
it kind of devolved a little bit into chaos for me.
It reminded me of watching the classic Jackie Chan movie,
Drunken Master, where it's just like everyone's drunk,
everyone's duking it out.
But yeah, that's where Karagham thrives in.
And by the way, these are the sort of games
where the old Falcons would have lost.
When it comes to these late rounds,
late game scenarios where they don't seem
have one united voice kind of commanding and kind of pulling the pieces together and I feel that's
again the caragant effect coming into play bear in mind again this was like his map pick this is
a map where carark Falcons have looked a little bit shaky so to speak so the fact that it got it
done I think they're gonna be pretty happy with that yeah another funny caragant moment was that
1v3 he was in where he had the bomb he almost got it bro yeah and like um yeet of the ladder
there's the the player at the bottom of ramp but behind the boxes they see each other
This is so smart. You wouldn't do this. He's just like, I'm just booking it straight to Ladder.
I don't think the player's going to peek me. And he just gets there for free.
And then there's a player just outside that he sees and then that player runs, tries to chase him.
He just zips up, drops off, gets the bomb plant down.
I imagine if you're a player on his team, I don't want to overstate, but it's sort of inspiring.
It's like, man, he managed to get a bomb plant here.
That was the objective right there, get the bomb down, and he knew the guy ladders probably
not going to peek him and give him the 1v1, they were going to be going in for the retake.
And honestly, mind if it was Karrigan like 3 years younger, he probably might have clutched
it out.
He managed to get a kill off, the second frag starts running out of bullets, that was another
cool Karrigan moment that you wouldn't necessarily expect from other IGLs or other players in
that situation.
I mean, you're talking about it being inspiring, right, and I think this is, like it sounds
kind of stupid to call it out on that kind of round or to compare it to that kind of
around but I think this is part of the reason why Kiyosuke is starting to feel
more comfortable in in some of these playoffs moments right because he was
talking about how crazy Kerrigan can be and Kiyosuke all he all Kiyosuke wants
to do is fight. He wants to go for outfraid duels, he wants to just hold W and
run and kill people right and if you have Kerrigan in front of you and
just leading the way and then you can just play off of his information and
all that stuff you will thrive because he's that kind of a player. I'm glad you
bring up KS2K here because coming into Astana we saw his numbers in the
Fathons jersey playoffs to group stages to playoffs or group stages to be
averaging like 1.25 or something at a super high rating overall and then he
would drop off to like a 1.1 or 1.2 rate sorry 1.0 1 or 1.02 rating.
Astana he was delivering in the playoffs even here as well for a
slap in the grand finals 1.6 rating finding impact time and time again
especially in a T-Side as well.
So I really feel like, even though it's still early days,
but Karrigan and his Falcons team,
he seems to have kind of activated, so to speak,
in this channel that Super Saiyan for Kyosuke.
And now in playoffs,
he seems to be a whole different beast altogether.
I think he might actually be on route to get the MVP
if he keeps going this way, to be honest,
because we've had kind of Lato up there for the legacy side.
He obviously had a really good first map as well.
But on Falcons side throughout this tournament,
it was pretty split,
but then Kyosuke has been there
pretty much every single game
and the playoffs so far as well
that they managed to win.
Even yesterday against Miles,
he was, he had a couple of great games
when they won the second and third map.
So, yeah, this is great stuff from Kisuke.
Yeah, stats for the tournament up on screen now
for Kisuke.
Number eight in the tournament,
but right now you're really finding his top form
in the first map of this grand final.
Guys, let's look ahead, slightly at ancient.
What are our expectations going in?
I feel like Falcons are going to be coming in hot, Blair.
Yeah, absolutely. I feel ancient is a map, which we expected Falcons to go for this pick as well.
And even the last time these two teams played, it was Falcons running away with a pretty convincing victory overall.
And I think the one thing they look really good, the T side, even though certain maps might be a bit of a question mark,
I really, really like the T side coming out from Falcons.
One thing Karakin does a very good job with is setting up Kyusuke.
Kyusuke once holding W, he's like, you're going to go mid, but I'll tell you when you're going to go mid.
And I'm going to have the utility ready for you.
And he's always good for one kill, maybe even to just cracking open the mid bomb side, sorry, the mid part of the map.
And then you also have these super fast rushes.
Last time I was playing this legacy, the pistol round, fast B hit.
Second round against the eco anti force, but under fast B hit.
Such good conditioning and Tessus, you cannot discount my Danish code.
He's so good, he's so good on the lurks.
I like owning it now, live on the broadcast.
Yeah, absolutely. Listen, he's so good on the lurks and especially towards aiming when, you know,
If your legacy and trying to go for these double pushes trying to get some information towards aiming on the CT side
He's ready to just stop you. He's gonna get the kill still live is so good and he activates at the right time as well
So T side here looks phenomenally well for for the side of foul
Yeah, I will say Tessas had a really good game last time around as well
Obviously, it's not something that you necessarily expect him to do as well
So it's not not something that you can rely on from game to game for from Tessas to put up these kind of a numbers
But what I saw from him was the improvement on the B side.
He had a couple of big rounds where he was not getting picked off anymore as he was before.
Obviously it's not a massive adjustment where you go from cave to more of the anchor side of it.
But obviously there you have to be patient.
You have to be very patient.
You know, in cave you're kind of playing off of yourself.
Usually you're behind a smoke most of the time, you know, or you don't really have that much space.
Sometimes you're fighting for middle.
If you're anchoring, you have to be kind of behind the stairs, be patient, you know, pick your timings right,
off of flashes from CT spawn and he was doing that a lot better in that game
against Legacy and I think that was a big improvement from that. I think the
switching to the second half of Legacy at T side you'd know for a fact they're
going to try and abuse cave because that's where Karagin is going to be
playing and that's where some of the struggles have been for this Falcon CT
side right. What they do pretty well however is they were able to
adapt kind of late in the game the past couple of ancients have seen where they
would have Q2K after the initial duels admit immediately pivot back towards B
He's going to be bolstering the B defense and you're going to have monosy as well
Once he's get the stands on the AWP pushing on ramp just being a third man on the B bombsite to help our tests again
New position for him. Kargan. We know he can't struggle a bit towards the K position
So I feel that is something legacy could exploit by a little bit of early conditioning and then going for the super fast
B hits when it's just the two defenders being over there
I think that is going to be the key to legacy maybe tying things up. Yeah, what comes I think?
I'm going to cut you guys off there because we do have to take a short break before we head into map two.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome
back to CAC 2026. This is the
grand final between legacy and
Falcons. Have you are just
joining us? Where have you been?
You missed out on one of the
most entertaining games of
Counter Strike. I think I've
amazing scenes, absolute pandemonium on Nuke.
So heavy underdog team that brought a brilliant game
plan on one of the best maps the Falcons have
and they almost took them down.
No round was normal.
We had everything going on.
It was amazing.
It was so fun to watch.
There was some really interesting moments there.
One that comes to mind is Art pushing the outside area
on the CT side of Nuke by himself.
This really kind of encapsulated the chaos
that we were seeing there on the first map.
But still, it will be Falcons to take the first pick of Nuke that was 13-11.
Moving on to their map now of Ancient.
What are your thoughts on this one, Anders?
How's the stacking up from a stat to POV?
Ooh, I think this could be quite interesting.
I really like this map for Falcons.
I think entering the T middle, the start on the T side count is if I'm not wrong.
And I think Kyusuke is the third best T mid player in the world right now, in the top 10.
behind Donk and Mikaze, I think.
Yes, so generally speaking,
this is going to be a huge thing for them in terms of finding
that mid control early on,
which is so important on the T side.
They've got a lot of really cool grenades,
so I reckon that Falcons are going to be off to a really,
really good start.
They've got a bunch of players on this team that love playing this map,
so I'm just excited for it.
On the other side of things, legacy.
Hopefully, they'll keep the mental intact,
keep the same energy,
just don't respect Falcons at all and make it exciting.
It was looking so promising
over the legacy in their first map.
It felt like they had the Falcons
eating at the palm of their hand.
So many great ideas on the T side.
So much momentum, so much chaos.
Seems to be the operative word of the day.
But let's get into it. It will be the second map
of this best of five grand final.
Here at CAC, it will be the CT start
for the Brazilians as Falcons head
over towards the B bombsite.
Smoke and a flash available.
No initial utility deployed.
initial utility deployed and we'll see
whether they want to go thick and fast
or slow things down a little bit.
Later with the jewelies who open things up.
It does look like they want to speed it up,
but once they make contact here,
they could slow it down.
All right, they've already thrown open the smoke.
They're going for red. They're going for red.
Wait. Yeah, you're right.
That goes so deep.
Bounces off of CT's form.
And now, see if they can make a bit of an opening.
They're going to try and wrap around the art
with so much in his hands.
Listen. Oh!
He has to win that fight
and, honestly, take him down.
Now it's Trouble, Kisuke spins around, gets it with the color kills, it's all on Lato, alone against the world, but you know what, he's got the bomb, you're right, he's got it right in front of him here, and the low on helpers, well, Lato!
Out of the round, Lato! He was a champion on Nuke, he has been playing maybe the best tournament that we've ever seen him play.
And now he's in a one versus one, Kisuke on the other side, the pistol expert of Falcons peeks into him, and he runs out of the bullet-side, Lato! With a giant clutch!
It was looking so promising there, a unique strategy from the Falcons, getting the B-Lanes
control and then Carrigan from the B-Lanes throwing a smoke-erland and CT spawn, they
go through red, they go for the B-split, through the back lanes, they've never seen anything
like it, such a unique idea, but well-hulled by Lato, surrounded by players, gets himself
a triple kill and holds his nerve against Kaisuke, no plant either, as we get into the second
round.
Bullets left as well madness absolutely madness again. I love that. We're sharing that same energy
Okay has to be the eco here
Surely there's a deagle or two out in the mix. We saw what Niko was able to do with that on nuke
Down they'll be cut today didn't pull that one off for now smoke towards short smoke towards long
Flash over try and get the plant down those two chances at the next gun rounds
This one's right here, the perfect weapon for the job, but somehow he does get traded or killed up, right?
Lato, still back at it again.
If not for Lato, that nuke would have been a lot more one-sided, and he's still going strong in this one.
That clutch, and now into a double kill in this round, and it's more of a formality here.
I kind of would have loved to have seen Falcons try a faster push, because you know what, they have a very cool smurf that they throw Falcons towards that B-bomb site.
that actually lands, you know, in the cave, the front part of cave on the city side, there's
like a ceiling gap. It's not even a window. It's like a narrow slit. Okay. Alcons know
how to smoke that really like right outside of T spawn to the right hand side. Yeah. And
that means they can go be very, very quickly. I love that smoke. Well, picking up the pieces
are the Falcons here. It felt like a locked in pistol into a Lato shut them down and that
B bomb site that will be entering with AKs in the glow in the hands of Karagin here.
Mid always such a big talking point and it's a nice grenade to kick things off smoked off towards elbow as well
Tess says is he feeling brave would it be flashed through?
We have got
Karaghan with the flashes and T spawned there they go
And it's gonna be opening kill who's picking them put your arty and them up is gonna be do now while blind getting the double
Said it's your case kind of an expert at entering into the middle, but he's shut down in this round
And now trying to avoid the initial utility, but allowed legacy to get up close and personal.
Smoke goes down, playing in front of the flashes, even while blind though.
That's a double kill for the star player of legacy, stepping up and looking very good
for a 3-0 start in the CT campaign.
It took plenty of time, round unnecessarily over, but they're operating with one smoke
and a Molotov, Kulilvukaragin.
Honestly, he'll be smoking off towards the short side.
Molotov available from as well.
There we go. But you're right, the round doesn't have to be over here. If you get up and get
one kill on the bomb plant, it's suddenly on.
The thing is they're playing this very well. You've got to let them have the B site to
some extent. They don't actually have any further utility. You're not playing in the
bomb site, you're playing your one and done positions because you have such a massive
man advantage here. Nice little crossfire. Art to take that first contact, takes on the
bomb, gets himself a double, no one and done here. He wants to triple. This one will take
but it's a clean sweep there from Legacy.
Great start here, the Falcons.
Stunned a spiral, can't get anything done on our first gun round.
Not a single kill, no bomb plant, absolutely nothing.
Four or three players without kills here for the Falcons so far.
Feeling the pressure once again.
Here's two now, like we said, completely blind
on that second one as well.
And it's arts.
Nice spray control.
Solid.
And it has to be the partial by now.
Lost bonus accumulating, but...
Yeah, a real side to life. Yeah, Falcons with a very unique pistol approach. The B-split
through CT spawn. See what they can do with the pistols here. Molotov.
Oh, careful. Don't want the grenade in hand, Nysim here. They're already out. Nobody realize his
spot. At least double chinicky. Oh, what? Okay, then. Nysim, how did he get that kill zone? Quick,
he must have just pulled his mouse across the desk there. Yeah, that was a nutty flick.
Want to see nothing to do, nothing to say. Legacy getting stronger and stronger, the money getting out of control and there's another clean sweep of the look to things here. They have got money for days.
I think one of the things you have to be worried about as well on this map when Falcons are playing the T side is, assuming they can get a little bit more map control, Tess is really good at finding those lurk timings over at the A bomb site.
bombsite so sometimes you'll see him kind of walk out there he's gonna be up
against Satsun and now that the well he doesn't have the AWP but if Satsun's
gonna have that AWP he can also play in the big box and I'm wondering if Tessus
is any way to kind of get rid of him but behind that box there's a hard
position to molotov I guess you can smoke or flash it but I am surprised
they're in for a way the Famous and pick out the AWP considering their bankroll
right now that's a good point I think it would be worth it considering you know
The Monocle is going to be getting deployed momentarily, certainly has here, round number 5.
A bit more of a default setup here, two players working towards the B lane,
he got the bomb down outside the double doors, he's trying to establish some basic control,
wait for CT aggression here, wait for others, elbow smokes, see if there's any A main aggression here,
flashed in his TSS, no one home. You can see Sads in there, a snipe up, playing up close and personal with the M4.
I see fools from honesty, but no one giving him a pick to work with.
So what's the play here now? Double stack in towards the cavern.
It's going to be Art and Latto. Niko to challenge first. Is he a flashed in or just
swing this Anders? Time will tell. Latto if anyone could it might be him. Strong shot.
But good return from carrying him. They've caught a pack of plan and it's Art
able to steal this one away. He's going to smoke it off and
They're throwing a little bit of utility onto the B bomb site, but it's all for sure right now.
Falcon's not committing to that push instead.
They're gonna make their way down towards Wildermow. That is dangerous. You've got to be so careful here.
He's spotted one. He's still jumping. I really don't like this.
It's okay. I think he spotted him though. He falls off.
Those are there.
Yeah, so he's just gonna go back up.
The A bomb site smoke off towards A main.
That's big.
It means they can focus on this donut.
Oh.
25 seconds.
Yes.
He wins this round from this position, Aimo, let's see.
potentially, but it comes back to haunt
Yusuke in this round and it's another one for legacy.
What a start.
CT side as well can be very tricky on ancient sometimes.
Absolutely true.
No problem so far.
Everything going in their favor.
As he said, Saturn's position.
The linchpin of the defense.
He manages to ruffle the feathers
and allow those rotations to come through.
Yusuke, nothing he could do there.
10 HP, sure he gets a bomb down,
enables another plant, another fire, I suppose,
but they didn't anticipate the two men set up here,
carrying a nice trade, but arts to take him down.
Sassian wins around in my book, Povaccio.
Excellent watch.
As I mentioned, a buy is available here,
but yeah, the FAMAS comes out on top.
Five to zero, tactical timeout from the Falcons here.
Just something else that's cool to watch for at home,
if you haven't seen this from the Falcons,
they are a team now that throw a T spawn Molotov
to stop the CT smoke that's coming in towards the T-Side and mid.
Yes, good point.
The lands on top and the smoke just pops in the air and it looks like everyone's at a
missed utility but it's crazy.
I was about to say, it felt like Legacy weren't doing that instant smoke, they were throwing
it on the fly from middle, maybe just to avoid that.
It could be the case.
Yeah.
That's a good point.
We'll have a look, maybe we can jump in there, spawn on the side of the round and see where
they are.
Got to be throwing the instant.
Because I went and checked all of the top teams in the world, if anyone else is throwing
it and nobody will fountain this right now. Okay, they are throwing it from early from
spawn. They throw a second one there. Come on, he's okay, trying to get out. Falcons don't
have a lot to work with here. Karaghani's tickling him through the smoke, but he can't
actually find the kill. Art! One more left goes right by his face and there's Sansa again
back hugging the box, which he does love to do. Niko's the one to go down and next to
now he cannot make it a double soul. Still a slim chance to get into the round. AK on Kusuke,
he's about half-elf as well, and Sadson's got his hope healed on that, the old scrups are the
worst possible time, but it might be fine here, a little bit of pressure. Don't want to count him
out, but shooting with the back is certainly a great way to get rid of him. I want to see
Deagle, no U-Till, Boman is back, get out, try and find success elsewhere, realizing that he is
completely shut down booty spawn towards B presumably here they will rotate over in
time as you beat nissan with the AK-47 full half got an h-heater worker as well
they can just leave the AWP floating towards middle and nissan getting in a
powerful position locking him off before even if the chance come to the
double doors they keep the streak going and that was the partial buy I've
mentioned maximum loss bonus of course so they will have everything they need
including the Monacea AWP into this round.
If he wants it, all right, but this is a disaster.
Falcon's M&P can't get going at all.
Tessus, yet the frag, Karagon 1 and 6, Niko 0-6.
That's over the 133 ADR.
Yeah, they're getting walloped out there right now.
If anything, you would think that it would be legacy
coming out maybe a little bit diffused after that first map.
You really get into a victory, you need to get overtime,
But it doesn't work.
OK, here's the end.
That's more like it.
She's going over it.
Squirrelbutt.
Sansen trades him out.
Still very respectable from Kisuke.
That's what you are looking for.
Recovery now required from Legacy.
The first time they've been on the back foot
on this CT campaign.
Lato tucks himself into a very sneaky position here.
There's Karagin detected.
That's all.
He can hear the crowd loving it.
Karagin looks he's going to check.
the pre-fire here comes out on top I think if you're a lack of your
wondering what's happening why is everyone reacting all of a sudden is
him and sands and two versus four they're such a big bank but you probably
don't want to be giving over this AWP nonetheless and yeah stacking up a bomb
slides a reasonable choice at least if they show up you have a chance surely
they don't lose this round Falcons ever fought on to advantage look on this
coming in towards B to be fair, but they are going to fall back. Yeah, they've actually got the space.
Tessus is called, A is completely clear. Do not walk into the capital stack.
So, what he's doing here, this A look roll, it's actually Tessus' second best roll in the game.
He's so good at finding the timings. So that's something to really look for.
Like I said, normally he'd be running into Sandsen and that's, you know, that could be an interesting duel to kind of look down there.
But yeah, good work from Tessus. Doesn't have to get a kill, just has to realize there's nobody at the site.
And legacy not much they could have done in this one. It's the double opening into the middle with the flashes going over the wall and everything else
Yeah
Guys UK delivers the goods there. You keep this clean though
You know really gonna be damaging the finances hunting the CT's and you're the ones who are damage your own finance
Yeah, exactly like it wouldn't do much at all. You can see art or $13,000
That's an AK
test as
Sure, you take one down with anything that's affects you guys going forward
They could actually just pop to steal the AK.
You can buy the AWP, right?
Oh, sad scene.
They'll take them down one with the blast.
Maybe we have to draw them back into the bomb.
Yep, they've lost the AWP.
Oh, no!
But if Niko can get it, that is absolutely massive.
Does he get it?
He does, okay.
Cyberly there, but still quite a hollow victory.
And there's a 4 on 2 and almost everyone goes down.
Thankfully, you recovered the AWPs.
you wouldn't have been on the board by that otherwise.
You're right though. I mean, we've seen this before.
I think most classically on Nuke when you run into the site
to pretend to defuse the ball and you draw people back in.
I just thought there was so far away to do and hear it,
but fair enough.
Nico is 0-6.
Yeah, it's rough.
You can see some concessions need to be made here.
Tess is down to get low.
A few players without all the utility they need.
Florez found the ball for Falcons, but no uncomfortable finish.
Trying to get some mid control once again.
It's going to be Tess S working with Kaisuke. He's got the double kill before.
You can see Miko come online now.
One of the signature maps, one of the masters of the B-Ramp.
Yeah, and it's dropped Sandsen towards front of Donut here,
so trying to keep it interesting with the AWP,
and they're going to go for a bit of a goosh looking over.
Miko's going to be ready for this.
Yes, this is an interesting treat here.
Kizuke, yeah, he was kind of looking, but definitely not ready to take a fight.
And Tess says he can't go through the smoke on the other side otherwise he could capitalise on the fact that he's gonna know that there's nobody on the A1 side, but it's smoke off.
Comfortable now, sure you got some mid control with a man deficit, they'll smoke off towards Dono once again, sad to know the AWP get a blow at open momentarily when he finds an opportunity.
Carragans there and it will be taken down beautiful CSF and legacy. Great teamwork both angles covered
Getting the absolute most out of that smoke. You know Tess is going to be looking this
Sadness is his bread and butter on the map sneaking his way out. That's he's really truly looking it
He's fully role-playing this one crouching his way forward to Mal
Get it back up trying to disconnect but don't go down
Don't give them a way back into the round here flash is coming in for a teammate
Oh, great.
Teamwork, but Monace still finds a kill,
and Nico got it fully blind.
Art to the rescue.
Stops for Bompland.
Otherwise, this round could have been washed away,
but I think now they're in trouble here.
On top of the incendiary, Art gets a double kill.
Dumal with the triple in legacy.
They are right back to winning,
but they nearly came up with a two on four.
And this is a real problem now for Valken's.
Sure, you won the previous round,
but only one player survives.
Oh, yeah, you won.
You don't get a bomb plant this time either, and that smoke break. That was really quite beautiful.
Both angles covered. You're watching players creeping over towards red.
You've got the AWP looking towards the boost and towards middle in general.
And arts. Just great counter strike here.
Forces out of monosy has to go through the flames and runs him down and 7-1 scoreline here.
And as I said, the money is going to be in a really weird spot for the Falcons with no
plant coming through. I think they have to take an eco-wanders. They could get a hero,
AK I suppose but then you had a limiting the all potential going forward monosie has the most cashed you
You really want to put the AK in his hand and limits the sniper potential in the future?
This is spiraling it is really spiraling
They're supposed to be up better than this Falcons on this map, but they do win these sort of rounds
We saw it on you okay some eagles and a rifle. That's all they really need
So much fun to try and see and go for one of those really fast the executes with that smoke
I was discussing earlier, but when I'm really seeing that at the moment, they're not feeling it going towards a it's gonna be a little
Fake on that side of the map into the bombs tucked away outside the B double doors
Are you right?
So I guess they send a Niko like I said a signature move is trying to work that B bombside
But he's going towards the B lane for now. So there's the
Initial wave of utile and they're gonna suggest this is the fake
It's kind of a double bluff as opposed to those and it'll try now
I think they went towards a pull the rotations over and clutch up with the remaining players towards B
hoping the rotations come through.
Alright, that is a very layered approach to the round, if it can work out.
But the problem is, it would be so much better if they could actually initiate a fight over here.
Yeah, the fact that they're smoked off, they feel like there's no point in running out to our sudden death there.
So, they could have to recalculate this one.
I mean, it's kind of working a little bit.
People are being brought away, they had three people at the B bomb site.
Now it is just up here.
So it's not impossible that this can still work.
Deep smoke, they're continuing to sell this right here.
They need a clean kill here.
Yeah, it's not bad actually. Dumaldo very nice spray down. Oh, that would do. How has he got away with it?
He's running straight into two rifles and now he's under the bomb over at the other bomb side. Yeah, it's so far back.
I can't believe it. That's a running deagle. Point-match range against two rifles, although he'll- Oh my god!
No. The rest of that sentence is gonna be you'll get the kill on Karagan at a minimum, but Karagan a flick out of nowhere.
The tech nine somehow comes out on top and now left to enlist them.
They're a little bit of trouble here.
Good crouching for the spray.
It's not over yet.
Has to be Nico as well.
Full on defuse.
Go for it here.
Nico, you need a run.
Right now, all the defuse is through.
Legacy win the round.
After all that work from Q2K, you'd want to see them win this one.
Oh, close but no cigar.
At least they get the Panai to pose.
That was the partial buy with the Deagles.
An interesting idea.
Like he said, a layered strategy, multiple fakes and double bluffs, but Jumao holds on strong.
Kaizuki have a lovely sequence of the designated, you thought Karagan and Attack 9,
even finally they're going to steal around away, but Legacy are bringing some fantastic CS to the
table here in the grand final. They are the defending champions here at CAC, and you can see why.
Great game from them so far, 8-1 up. Kaizuki haven't enough. The only round he picked up so far is
is when he's gone, helpful ever, going out towards middle.
Can't do it this time.
Just an early kill.
There's Niko, bringing it back to a four on four at least.
That double Digo looked sick from the CT side.
It looked out of this world from the point of view of Kisuke
in that last round.
But you're right, though.
He has been the only one contributing.
Look at the kills on everybody else right now.
And he's the aggressive player in middle.
He's supposed to be dying a lot more.
A is wide open, but the bomb is all the way back into the spawn.
You almost hate the fact that they smoke us off.
Or maybe they are trying to draw people over and they'll just go back to attack B.
Ah, so you get all the space, but you can't utilize it.
Actually, this could even give it away, right? You throw the smoke, but there's no bomb plant to follow.
I think it's possible that the CTs are gonna be thinking, well, that feels really weird.
So they're gonna grab the bomb and try and get over that.
Sad to be the AWP patrolling towards that red room.
It's my cup of Doughnut.
Gonna have Niko lurking towards the cave.
Jung a bit of presence before they fully commit.
Question right now is how good is Legacies retake gonna be on the A bomb side if they could even get there?
But Niko holding this line, one kill might do it. He's so curious and he goes down and...
It's gotta go now boys. Yeah. It's kept them over that side of the map. It's not ideal. He goes down with nothing.
Nothing.
Double incendiary on the retake, they also have the AWP but I don't know, if they had
a smoke they'd be in better on legacy but I won't count them out here.
No, definitely not.
Far away.
But they've got here very quickly, Tess's awkward angle, grenade behind him, and Latso
trades that kill out, it's all on Monosy, 1 vs 3, Falcons, the freeze, the bombsite
you'll ever see, and now see if Monosy can hold it, he misses the first shot and Dumau,
not hesitant.
Take a double kill, up to 13 himself with legacy.
They contain you.
Oh my God, where are the Falcons gone?
I know it's a grand final, but they win the first map.
They should have the momentum.
They've had their wings clipped.
Nothing going for them whatsoever.
The only round that's worked out has been Kaisuke,
and a double kill towards middle.
He's had plenty of double kills,
but there hasn't been enough to find more than one round.
They try to send Niko in to keep the players
a mess out of the map. It felt like he needed at least one kill. He confirmed it was a beef
stack but what a retake. Looking so powerful right now. Our legacy. A couple more rounds
to go Anders. Daisuke will try his luck once again. Can he replicate the success of before?
He's doing this alone as well. They're just putting all their faith into this one guy
in the middle. Yeah right. Karagin works towards the cage. They're
Lato the deal wave and well it's kind of going to scale with opening kill once again
Has anyone got any opening kills on the Falcon side apart?
I feel like they're losing every opening fight. Yeah, no one has the QCC is one and three right now
Everyone else zero three zero three zero zero that can't be the case that that one opening chill. No way
round number 11 and yeah they've got some damage on Lato and he's taking him
down for the smoke even there super star if he's super is gone
get one a chance there Anders there is a chance
don't have a lot of grenades left on the T side a couple of flashes to set it up
maybe Nico how aggressive do you want to be he's got two kills at least in the
round the corner we go
shot to pick it up in Sanson and he chance of winning the rounds pretty much
What's going on here? The grenade?
Even if it kills him, I doubt it's going to happen.
Nice contribution there for Nico.
Down three.
Desperately needed that round.
Foley-Mowley. Nico.
Finally arriving on the second map.
His best sequence so far.
Gets the triple kill. Nice alley-oop with the flashback as well.
Made him uncomfortable in the back lanes.
Human rubble is all that remains there.
It's going to be sad to say the AWP money should be absolutely fine
35 for this last round that's three is all they can get on the falcon side now
I guess when you are in a four and three when the bombs planted and you only have flashbangs left
That's what makes sense to go for this guy. Oh, you have to go
Very nice Miko, but I can't stress it enough they need this last round
We've seen nine three comebacks plenty of time to this tournament
Legacy pulling off a couple themselves. They have yeah most notably on inferno
which is the final map of the series, through against the Mongols.
Had a 10-2 second half on that T side, it's wild.
But that's some distance into the future here, that fifth map.
We're not going to be anywhere near it yet.
Second map of this one, if you're just joining us and waking up here.
Nism, run it down, knocked out by Nico,
and now they're really putting on a little bit of a change pace here.
They're going to go for it, quick bomb plan as well.
Oh
Make sure they could get it. He is exploding a couple of rounds. Yeah, he's had enough
Double kill for Nico triple kill in the previous round as he got more left in the tank
We're all blind right now
Chos don't connect but he does survive and get out of the choke point
To be full got no chance but to go for it here is the 12th round
Falcon should never be able to lose this one and they will not
and Karagin, bit of contribution.
Three rounds is what they get in the first half.
That is, that's just on the edge of what's even minimally possible.
I figure less than that, there's no conversation to be had.
Considering you're the heavy favourites coming in for this grand final,
we thought it'd be a 3-0.
It's a great map for you.
And you just about get through new by the skin of your team.
And now you've been outclassed in the first half of your pick of ancient.
It never really felt like they got going at all.
Just a note that was the second opening kill they've had there with Nikos
Which we killed towards the B bomb site. They were just getting owned across the map there
Fantastic work from legacy really impressive teamwork. What do now? That's on this and all a double digits
Paisuke had some good contributions. He gets 12 frags, but yeah, this is looking quite dire for Falcons
We all know they need the pistol here in the second half as they switch over the DCT forces here to be fair
They should have won that pistol if you remember to kick things off. It could be a very different half
They had a very interesting unique pistol strategy that fell apart in the 1v2
Yes, it was the latter 1v3. Yeah, that touched it for them
But that's a really important point to bring up. It should have been found between that one. It was creative. It was cool to see
so
Carigan, what have you got for us?
Jullies in the hands of monosie and this is gonna be a technical pistol here. We've got double smokes decoys Molotov's
Plays making their way towards the elbow. We have got our patrolling the b lanes right now
So that's towards short Molotov towards long as they get ready to go in the middle here and this
That's a strong headshot. I said Kusuke. He's so good in these pistol rounds with Falcons
It seems as all don't win other pistol rounds, but not because of Kusuke
That is what he does very well.
Nico back here.
He's got some other top-down there.
The one, Lato is back.
Look at him.
Lato does one better.
Takes down Lato.
And now they can slow down.
The bomb lost here to the CT side.
Nissan in Arts 2 versus 4 is looking very difficult.
I can't see a way they can bring this one back.
But maybe without that help, that might help.
They pick up the bomb again.
Falcons.
No, surely not.
I didn't even want to say it.
Could it send everyone's minds right now?
We're all thinking the same thing.
Was a 4 on 2, now a 3 on 2. Plenty of time to work with.
They bring the ball back through middle.
Back towards A long.
And you know what? Somehow.
They might have threaded a needle to end up in the absolute perfect position.
They're thinking they're about to sandwich them in the cave.
They're thinking right on top of them, surely they've gone,
but they found the one exit route that just skipped the entire Falcons team.
What is happening?
They will have no kits, but thankfully they're missing.
Available for legacy here.
Another 1v3 pistol situation.
Can Art do the unthinkable?
Surely he can't buy enough time.
If he gets one kill, maybe he can play for time.
But right now, he's going to have to at least fight one of them
fight one of them before that lack of a kit becomes a big issue here okay they
tapped the bomb immediately they put the pressure on him he has to peek and they
can already guess where he is but aren't doing good works feel some seconds left
Nico steps it up, saves the round as Kerrigan was diffusing on the other side
Falkens I can't believe that but the thing is they're not out of the woods
just yet and there's that bomb going down as you notice they spotted the gap
throw to that needle it gives them the opportunity to force by in the second
round which you imagine they're going to do. Nice shot, working things up with the
USP, lots of fun into space. There was a nice spray down with those Jules-Lithes
and Monaceae. The round was over there, but arts, recovering the bomb,
getting that kill. Things got a little bit dicey out there. A nice clean finish
from Nico. As mentioned, the four-spy comes through. Legacy can definitely win
this round. It would be almost GG if Alcans gave this one up. Nico trying to
take matters into his own hands. Very aggressive and thankfully gets away with
That one, 2 HP, it was on a knife's edge.
Tess S feeding himself.
Needs to be careful here.
Carby Spam through the smoke himself here.
They've got the man advantage.
Nico, very, very low indeed round.
Certainly not over.
Carrigan patrolling at the top of the B ramp.
Smoke in hand.
We have got a ton of utility remaining on the T side here.
I'm talking three smokes, three Molotovs.
Flashbang's available.
Going to leave the CTs in the dark for a little bit here.
It's going to be setting up YouTube
It's going to be a cave smoke, I believe coming in I
Think they would have gone for it so quick if they would have got the kill on Nico because they were actually faking beam
Like presents their legacy they have so many grenades in the middle to try and convince Falcons
They were going mid but they never wanted to
Karrigan's got a smoke, it's on the ramp now
Yeah
It's a nice steep smoke. I do hate it when people throw shallow smokes on this bomb site as the T's can hide in them
They can just jump out on the other side.
Is there even a way to get into this round now?
Got to be Molotov in towards the pillar on the bomb site
and towards Khabib under the looks of things here.
They have got one more smoke that for sure
being deployed by ART.
Double Molotov in the site.
We saw the Molotovs how effective they were on Muke.
Can they replicate that success?
And Tess is looking uncomfortable here.
I just can't get right in front of them with smoke.
Oh, this could work, Anders.
Maybe it could, but look at the clock as well.
There's only 13 seconds left.
Listen closely to the people.
He doesn't quite get the kill, do you mind? We'll get one though, but they're running out of time and I think the opportunity has come and gone unfortunately here for the legacy side.
Garth is though good hold, important like you said. They weren't out of the woods, they had to win this early round.
Now they get a chance to breathe, maybe for the first time on Ancient.
At moments, Raspbyte for sure.
Niko, this was an audacious maneuver to set, at least he goes down there, you give them a rifle, there's no trade potential, thankfully he gets away with it with two HP.
and even still then they're holding the B bombsite, the decedent coming out of cave,
felt like that round could have fallen apart but they've managed to get through it
and now it's a full eco, should be 9-6 no problem.
It looks like they could be going pretty quick here, Montice, you might want to fall back just
so that you don't give up the rifle, it's going to be absolutely fine, its great control is
magnificent and the barrel is going to go down in the middle. Now I don't know if I miss this Henry,
It's possible that I just wasn't catching it, but when Niko pushes in like that,
I think the normal protocol for that pushes that the players inside of the B bomb site will throw a flash
That doesn't flash Niko, but flashes every one of the T side. This is as far as I know a protocol that Navi invented.
If you see Navi do it, it's a bit that's going to be pushing the middle and it's Alexi who's going to be setting up those flashbangs.
They made it so popular. I don't think that flashbang came, so Niko was fighting just a straight-up fight.
Well, thankfully he won it. It would have been an absolute disaster if he went down off of a rifle
I don't think they would have covered that game if they lost that round
But thankfully the Falcons were three in a row now and a three-round game
It was looking
The disastrous affair here on ancient but they are certainly back from Karagin
He's got that MP9 pushing on the B route nice smoke
It is going to be an A attack here before players towards a main but that smoke might dissuade them
Bombs making its way back from the back of art right now.
Yes, and Niko has no more utility either, so eventually when that smoke fades from the main position,
surely Monosy has to get a bit closer and on the way, it is going to be Monosy without the AWP.
So mid presence being shown right now to really sell the idea that we're going to be here, but they're not.
Okay, it is going to be the A finish. CTs though, you can see them exploring the map,
Karagin tucked away
Need some backup towards a Miko on a bit of an island right now. This is very often Molotov
I'm almost surprised that Lato hasn't thrown one yet
I feel like it's so common because it burns up both positions. There it is
Here we go into the corner jumping up and Sansen catches him
That is about as good as you could have hoped for there for legacy
And the smoke up as well that could be the round in itself that almost could be
They're gonna be so locked out of the bomb site here, but the next kill is gonna tell right?
Whoever gets the next one will set them up in falcons.
Oh, the monies with the smoke.
He just gets cut down.
You're allowed to find him in case you can.
He could lead the same fate here.
Run away.
You just don't have the money here.
I'm so surprised Nika doesn't have more backup.
There you go, Karagin in the pocket and delay.
You can safely say, like, okay,
they're probably not going to be right now.
If you've got Karagin in that position,
why is Nika getting no backup?
And so I thought what was going to happen is once,
because he threw down the smoke.
So as long as the smoke is up,
I suppose he could be alone.
Yeah.
I thought when the smoke goes down,
Someone else would have moved and it's even like you said with Harrigan playing that front position
I'm confused as well, but the Molotov into the AWP combination was sick from from legacy
You've got a lot of that. There's nothing Nika could do
Suggest that he probably shouldn't have been in that position after he used his smoke towards man
He had no way of really getting out of there Molotov comes through you ride the AWP
Tlucks him out as he tries to escape
There will be a very convincing round there. Thankfully, Falkens will save a couple of rifles
I mean the money is going to be the big question here for the second half right if
Falcons run out of money then this game will be or the map will be a lot quicker
than we want. Look at that first half they win the last two rounds. Yeah I was
missing for the rest of it. Well now they've managed to win the pistol, follow-up conversions
with the first gun rounds was a comprehensive victory for Legacy there.
Bid at their time, waited for the opportunity to come through, the
Molotov is all it took
Got some vision in it, but kaisuki is confirmed that no one's up towards middle
See whether this five-man be attack will work out
They know what they're up to they know what they're doing
It's gonna be monosy to defend though completely blind has to fall back
Lighting the quick here like an art this style is so interesting. They trade our tests. It's still good
He can't get the kill or not. He survives on 21 health here, Kyusuke.
Come and get your smoke.
And finds Nyssen, and he might find this killer down here.
It's so long. A huge impact again as Kyusuke finds his 17th kill.
Satsun has 8 bullets in the AK right now.
Alright Henry, what a great catch here.
Oh, he's wasting it.
What? I see the block.
That's outrageous.
Oh, he gets away.
Why would you do that? With 8 bullets left, now Niko's going to be in trouble here,
in trouble here, but he finds the tech truck and follows up on Kiyosuke's great work. Otherwise,
that would have been a real disaster. Kalkins keep the dream alive. They're not done on
ancient just yet. You're right though. Such a crazy change of pace. You can see this is
what a Molotov and a flashbang over the top. No smokes down, Anders. They're bouncing into
that B bomb site, catching them off guard. There's Kiyosuke keeping the dream alive.
They have crazy spray down from range and detects the T, pushing into what's long himself.
that double kill, two versus one, eight bullets, sad to have a speculative spam, brings it down
to a one on one, but Niko deals with him. Huge round, 10-7 here. Nice grenades towards Elbow,
don't quite connect. And you can see they're calling out a spawn. More often than not, we've
got three players in towards A main once again. It was easy pickings. On Niko, previously,
did this go for a contact play? Knowing he's there alone with the rifle, he has got some
back up this time though. Wow lots of back up coming in and this could be enough. They
are rotating very fast just as you said they are walking over immediately. Arts gone down,
monosy is going to be here with the AWP and that is an easy almost a free kill to take
down this and so yeah this time they've really shot it down. Take it easy boys you do not
need to challenge a man to smoke it off. You can see guys are jumping at the bit to get
involved there, but the manpower is strong here.
Almost a double spray down there.
Okay, back online here, Falcons will have a round.
Lato got to try and cause some financial damage.
Problem is their finances are absolutely cooked as well.
I mean, it's still, I guess, early in the grand final.
But this stage, Kishuke is cruising straight for an MVP medal at this point.
Yeah.
He lights out.
He's the only reason they're still alive.
Yeah.
They could have lost both the two men.
Think of it off, both maps, it's not for him, he was the best player on Nuke as well.
Legacy are testing the Falcons, the absolute limits of their abilities here.
This is not being comfortable maps at all.
Nuke felt like Legacy were winning their hands down until that deagle round from Niko.
That's when they go back into it.
I guess it was our question for Legacy, if they can't use this advantage and win a map here,
then you've got two maps that you maybe should have won, or could have won at least.
Yeah, how much can you do with mentally like it would be keep going it would be demoralizing for sure
considering it felt like
Points especially an angel when you're 9-3 up if you don't end up converting this to especially be losing regulation
The row is gonna be low as an absolute gut punch
Monosy this time backing up Nico
This was solid. No real problem. I'm guessing we've got a partial by
He's got the AK-47, so more, oh, arts got the Mac 10.
You know it's going to be fast, Anders.
These are our favorites, these ones.
He might be rushing cable, rushing the B ram.
We'll see what he's got in mind.
Yeah, we love fast, especially when Anders here.
He's already running into a grenade, but if we go...
...stop, we can send him.
...force him back.
Oh my gosh.
He really, really wanted to attack that angle.
He wanted to get around the corner, but it's denied him.
It's another set piece out of spawn,
and Kaiosuke continues to dominate here.
opening kill through the smoke finds his 20th frag here in ancient forces their
hand they have to go in now test this to defend with Karrigan this is gonna be a
little bit easier they don't quite have a reference on the other side here
Karrigan needs one. Go ahead and get one you're right about that but now he's got
some backup here the Nikko is there as well and they've locked it down
Kisuki's found another one on top of it and he will finally get taken down
I suppose with the minute in. Oh wait a minute. That's how we turned it into a one-on-one.
Whatever we got for ages. Okay, I spam a response. That should seal the deal.
Should. Being the opposite word, you never know with the Falcons.
Yeah. Plenty of time. Take a deep breath. You really want somebody to peak him in.
Lafter needs an ace clutch here by the way. That is important. I'm with ace clutch with
to help. I mean, he already had a crazy clutch on the first one.
That was the first piece of the puzzle against the AWPer, HBNorda Factor.
There we go. There we go. There we go.
Now it's down to Niko and now who's more nervous at the moment.
It is the grand final and Niko's not been playing his best counter strike just yet.
The bomb has been planted. It's red every turn of the round.
He surely knows it's the A plant, so he's going to be coming back through CT spawn.
Lato's been allowed to walk away, and Nico has got no more grenades either.
Lato, he's got some of the sickest crutches of the tournament against Mongols.
One versus three with an AWP in the first half of this one.
One versus three with the dualies, and now he's up against it here,
and Ace crutches on the menu.
Nico, he's going to go straight for the D-Fuse.
He has to, he's going to go down.
Oh, what's-
Yeah, there's a lot of time like here.
Lato, I think he's got this one in the back.
Nico, he's fumbled it on his own.
An unforced error.
He does get the kill, he spins around, tries to get it, I don't think-
Oh my gosh!
In the last possible nanosecond!
I thought he was absolutely done for.
I think the crowd cheering got him off the bomb,
because I think you just go defuse that all day long.
Unless you're walk, dissuaded and go for the full defuse.
I didn't think he had a chance whatsoever there, Anderson there.
Final attempt, he gets it done, gets the kill as well.
Niko saves today.
Oh, we're gonna need to get somebody to look at the essentially the bit by bit data. Yeah, how close is that?
Okay, and it comes out the milliseconds for real. I think you can tell on the rest of his team
They didn't think so either they looked really worried there. That was almost the ace clutch coming in. Oh
Is that how they get it over the line on ancient hey, it absolutely could be that shot though from Lato to take that monocene red room
he deserved that win. He deserved that ace clutch. That's that was their mind.
That was just a partial by that was the hero a case.
I would have been super hero level to be to pull that one off.
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
I think this is the best tournament I've ever seen.
Lato play. He's so good.
That's a scary start.
The end part is you get right into the lap.
So again, he's back at it.
And now that you should case out of the round early might be an opportunity
for legacy to finally pull some rounds back on the T side here.
It's been tough for them.
What a game.
Another very entertaining map here in the grand final of CAC.
I hope you're enjoying the show.
New delivered on all fronts.
Ancient a little slow to get going, but now we've got a one-round game.
4-4, low HP for Dumau.
Lato.
Man at the moment.
20 kills to his name.
Took down Kaisuke towards middle.
Then Santin exploring the cave with his AWP.
They are lacking utility to Landers.
One smoke and a flash on the T side here
Dole gone quiet for now as CT's we take middle Nico AK in hand his signature weapon
Blaster will come challenge but in towards cave we go nice shot from monosy maintains a nice man advantage here
Looks like they have to go be
On the legacy side of things all they can really do is smoke short and hope for the best here
I think you're right not many options at this stage
testers who's having a bit of a rough time on this map. Maybe they could get past him, but he's at a bit of an off angle.
She's not running too immediately. You're right. Smoke towards that short side.
25 seconds left. A little bit of a wall bang from Latso. He's hoping to find anybody, or maybe hoping that the spam is gonna force a peek on the other side.
None of that's happening at the moment. Testers very disciplined on this side, back around the corner.
The bomb is planted once again, and Falcons, they should be able to retake this one.
I don't know about that, Anders. It's looks good.
Yeah, I'm gonna lie.
He's got the up at the corner, there's no utility on the T side as well.
And the bomb is slowly but surely taking away, the flank is coming in from me for my Lato.
He's landing more headshot, he's an absolute maniac.
No!
He's firing!
He's almost fumbled this entire round by himself, that flank should have been it.
A good wall bang as they take down south of the Lato, he can't stop, he's on for another
ace.
nearly catching Tessus. It's back-to-back quad kills for Lato. He failed the last clutch
with this one-day get. Not the ace, but legacy up to 11. Lato, he is a madman.
Nico and Abness, an absolute freebie of a kill. And there's another one for the history book that
that could cost him a map here.
How Niko doesn't get that kill, I will never know.
He's completely joked it.
How?
You had a free kill, he swore at the barrel,
you took his time.
He wasn't crouching or anything,
GLaDOS standing there holding a static angle.
You could see it straight away, head in hands.
He knows he's responsible for that round.
No question about it.
Oh no.
And I swear, in that other diffuse round,
he nearly threw it away.
If even a couple of particles have been in a different quantum state, Henry,
that would have been a lost round in that defense.
Oh, my God, Nico. No.
It seems to happen at the worst possible time, always in a grand final for this guy.
You can see Sonic was tapping his foot.
What was it like?
The sort of all the nervous ticks are coming out of the moment.
11 to 9, ladies and gentlemen. Here we go.
And now the money's busted.
Two pistols.
Niko and Karagin have to make do with the 5-7.
And Ames Vitesse says in monosie we'll have to do the heavy lifting here.
Niko's going to be in his own head, but maybe he can find some glory here, boost it up,
spots the shadow, gets the advantage here, we'll take him down, doesn't get the quick kill.
Now we'll have to reposition.
Karagin's going to get dropped here, he pushes.
She gets away with a little bit of a gap here.
There's no one home on the other side.
They will be going towards the A bomb side of the after for this hope.
Having an absolute barn burner of performance here.
It's going to keep the dream alive.
23 kills to him now.
Maybe don't push into him.
Yeah, true.
If you know the pistol, tell us where.
The problem is, Monosy is on the other side.
So if you give up the A bomb side and go B,
you're going to run into him.
Not necessarily a pleasant experience either.
50 seconds, they're thinking it through.
Look at the thief.
I think this is the third time now.
They've recommitted to the A bomb side.
They kind of keep going back and forth outside.
And then we'll be called.
the timing. You're absolutely right. Wait a minute, he's through. He could be in a lot of trouble here
and he goes down absolutely again. How does he keep doing it? He looks like in these last three
rounds he's single-handedly wrecking the Falcon side, Kisuke's down and Tess is
throwing the AWP with the other side of the map and to be honest you might need to save the
Europe to fight for OT. Do you really want to see Tess's 1v2 retake with an AWP? Now that he
smoked off knob really. He'll give it a look in and see if there's a free kill
towards big box but miss him on the backstab here he has no idea that's
gonna be coming through almost zero chance of winning this you could smoke
the bomb and cause a bit of a ruckus but timers of the essence I think you're
already considering the save at this point you have to find a quick kill
here not gonna happen nothing coming through. Yeah unless he wants to go for
a ninja hoping that they think he's saving you up that would be the only
the other way I think sneaking out that's exactly what it makes noise wasn't really worth it in the
end really had to say that all if you were gonna do that you'd have to be way quieter than that
yeah he fumbled the drop down 12 9 I think that was the idea though the orbs hey I'm selling that
idea that should be QT Anders that very they've been averaging $2,000 a player they get big time by
a rifle, maybe one Famous for an MP9. Yeah, there it is. One Famous. And yeah, dude, Nico
missing that shot in Cave. That is going to be one of the horns sent for a long time.
If they end up losing this grand final, he will be reliving that moment in his head.
He's already got a new Eagle PTSD now. Cave on ancient to add to the mix. I think you're
absolutely right about that. So look at the screenshot for the fans at home. To look at
mini-map he had that clean flank coming and that would have been the end of the
round no question about it absolutely 12 to 9 oh Falcons you've got a stomach
it can't be Q2k where the hell is everybody else
monies at 15 because of 13 but they're far away and Lato is brutalizing them I
can't believe I'm saying that our Brazilian counter strike is so much fun
when it's working at this level. It's a real pleasure to watch this.
Maid actually does bounce in towards Karagin here.
They would love a cave fight for the 5-7s.
Falcons are hoping for that. And look at the push coming out from Niko.
He's on a mission in the A-Hallways.
Feels like it's already done in my book.
Don't know how you hold on, but just the pistols here.
What do we say about the 13th round?
It's the hardest round in the world to pick up,
but doesn't get much easier than this.
Fistles and a FAMAS, no utility, no kits.
I don't love this though.
Art, you might give over the AK
and they can bring that back, okay.
Let's kill for Art, Ato,
with some defeatable at this stage.
Dumau goes down next to Monacy
and they know that Tess is gonna be here with the AK,
but like I said, Tess has had a bit of a rough game here.
Three versus three, very little burst.
Takes down Nism, but nothing is done.
As long as Lato is alive,
There's a way to win it.
Flashed, everyone is knowing it.
He still hits the headshot with monosy.
How is it possible?
Now they're in trouble, Falcons.
Two on two to try and keep the dream alive here.
They must win this one.
Malato will not let them.
28 kills and legacy.
Waves tail on the shoulder of the way to map.
Ancient goes their way in the most unexpected fashion
with Nier back-to-back 1v5s.
Or Ace Clutch is coming through from Malato.
I can't believe he played so well.
Yeah, I think the key takeaway from that one and is that Lotto is on absolute fire, legacy
getting mapped to Falcon's pick of Ancients, for your initial reaction, Striker and Blair.
Yeah, look, I know people are going to talk about that Nico Whiff, but I just, before
we get into that, before we get into that, I just want to give Lotto his flowers because
That was a one-man carry. Even from the beginning, you know, the 1v3 in the pistol round that starts it off right from there, legacy of the economy, they have everything to work with, to go for these mid-plays on the CT side, rather, and then, you know, the second half.
Bro, like, listen, I'm just looking at this. I'm actually opening up the exact screenshot when Nico whiffed.
10-9 the score was he had a perfect flank onto its lack of whiffs the kill. They had no money
They had no money left for the T side
They win that round and then we did right now praising
Niko for that great flank coming in and all of that
But you know that's a way to quickly crumble sometimes as they say and unfortunately for Falcons
They're mapping not going their way, but I want to actually start off talking about legacies
Stacey T side. I think that was super solid. I like how they did such a good job
which I was just kind of denying much of his mid control coming out.
Sure, we saw QC get a couple of kills here and there, but he was getting punished by my QC.
It was very late though, yeah.
It was very late as well.
And also more importantly...
Wait, wait, wait.
So that was also the enemy.
And they had no money by the way.
Oh man.
And it's also like he closes it out too, a lot.
This is the last round that he gets another reply.
I think it was a close fight.
3K in the end or a 4K even.
This, like he gets popped from CT and then he still gets the shot off of Monosy before
even gets the peek.
That was a crazy, crazy performance from Lotto.
This was, look, from Nico,
that was such a roller coaster map
because he starts off 170617 or something like that,
goes into the second half, has these couple of clutches
where he comes back alive.
He has the 3K when they go into the B bomb site.
And then obviously disaster happens with that flank
and he has his head in his hands.
I had my hand in my hands when that happened as well,
but no, listen, 2.2.
2.2, wow.
Look at those quad kills at the end.
Those are like almost clutches,
like ace clutches coming out from him, right?
Just an incredible showing from him,
and this is just ridiculous for him from Lato.
Blair, it's interesting,
because round 19 and round 20,
yeah, huge performances by Lato in both.
He ended up losing at round 19,
but interestingly, the key engagements
were between him and Nico.
So round 19, Lato almost gets that ace clutch,
but Nico just about makes it happen.
And then we go to the next round, round 20,
That's the round where Nico messed up the shot in the back, so a key engagement to a big swing round.
Especially considering that, you know, on the CT side, he had still had a very solid showing, right?
12 kills, 180, the 12 rounds played. Switches over to the T side, 150, 80, 2.87 ratings, 16 kills.
The majority of his kills coming on the attacking side as well with lesser rounds to play.
He's just been incredible this entire tournament.
And if Legacy somehow wind up winning the series, winning the finals, he is absolutely the shoo-win for the MVP.
Yeah, and he reminded me in the green room that he was the MVP of the loss to AC when Legacy won.
Yeah, that's exactly it. That's his only MVP from last year.
And now he's on course to another one, to be honest, at this point, because it was kind of between him and him and Kiyosuke,
and they're still fighting it out. It's been these two leading the way for their team. So yeah.
And it's also, well, right now they have traded maps.
Yeah, right. Yeah, and so it's gonna get interesting. I think the next map is gonna be a mirage
That is a map we expected them to pick that is a map where we've seen some
Issues in the CT side for the falcon side a bomb side comes to mind. We've seen
Tessa's struggling quite a bit over there. So we definitely have a given her hands here, but no man like
Even though it was as pimp loves to call it a cosmetic comeback. So this be from falcons
It really did feel like it really wasn't it wasn't it really felt felt like they were going to be running away with this
It's gonna be hard break once again for legacy. But again, man
I gotta give credit where it's due on a CD side from legacy. There was so so fast in rotations, right?
You saw a couple of rounds where they go for this a hit it immediately the big guys already in donut already in CD spawn and
As a TV plant in the bottom, you know, surely there's no one here. Fuck. He's just come out gets the kill
So like yeah, I didn't expect it some legacy. I'm super impressed. I was thinking maybe Falcons would
would come in hot on that T side stop, but it just didn't happen, what were the struggles
for them Striker?
Well they were getting shut down in mid, time and time again towards the beginning, you
know it was only towards something like round 7 where Kiyosuke finally got that double, got
them some openings in mid, that's what they were just constantly up in front of the smokes,
you know Dumal had that one round from the beginning that shut down the first, got it
on and from there, it just seemed like Falcons kind of tried, kept trying for that same place
for either early on in the round or a bit later for the mid.
And they never got the openings.
I think they mentioned it on the cast
that they had one opening until around 10 or something like that.
I think that's the struggle right there.
Because as a preamble to this map,
we were talking about how good they are at slowing things down
and how good they are at leaving tests on the lurk.
But it's all predicated off Kiyosuke or maybe Niko
or maybe even Manasee towards Ram, getting an opening pick
and then trying to read what a situation,
what the reaction is going to be from the CTs.
but we're not going to be five, you know, a man down or even two man down.
Then it gets a little rough.
Also, we didn't see initially early on, we saw a couple of fast rounds
from Falcons, maybe towards the end, towards the B bombsite, for example.
But this is much more of a tepid approach coming up for them.
They were so heavily reliant on Kiyosuke, the man himself,
who once again delivered a hell of a showing despite it being a losing effort.
Yeah, Kiyosuke steps up on screen for ancient and just as Blaise pointing out,
Yeah, he had a storming performance on ancient despite coming off with a loss
Yeah, he's been he's been going from being the guy who's doing the letting down in their previous playoffs affairs grand final affairs
Now he's the one being let down, you know, it's been it's been very much a one-man show for from Kyosuke this
Realistically this whole series really obviously the last map was want to see an Niko kind of coming alive later on
But now it was mainly him
Pulling them forward even three rounds as you pointed out
which they wanted was him, you know, opening things up. Again, you know, he has a tendency
where he gets a couple of kills, maybe overeager, overextending a little bit, but still, like
he's doing so much. And then one round, Polly, you remember with the D. Eagle from Donut,
like what was that for?
Yeah. I just want to circle this discussion back to Lato because just taking a quick look
at the stats. Currently, the only player on his team in this final with a rating over
1.0.
This is ridiculous. He has 50 frags and a 1.75 rating the closest is sardin who's 22 to
That is Jamal who's 30.
Jamal, okay, Jamal was 30 but in terms of rating 0.88 like he is so far ahead of the rest of the boys and then
Yeah excited to see what he brings on the road. It's kind of funny because when we talk about legacy
We talk about how everyone's kind of pulling their own weight, right?
It's not just Lato, it's Lato and Jamal, the 1-2 punch combo right there.
But right now it's just a right her control after that.
It's literally no limbs except one guy, you know, just swinging super hard.
But no, listen, if that's what it takes, so be it.
But here's what's worrying now for the Falcons, because the rest of the team,
the rest of them haven't really, we haven't seen Jamal playing to the level he can,
or he usually does, right?
And surely he's not going to have two kind of stinker maps back to back.
So I'm expecting him to start to wake up as well and Lato, man.
a bomb side mirage you see the way just rocks up in this cake sass and the form he is right now is
going to it's going to get rough. Yeah currently second highest rated player of the tournament guys
let's talk a bit more about mirage general expectations. I feel mentally it could be
difficult for falcons going into it considering how ancient played out strike what are your thoughts
and look mentally I think it's it's the guy we're going to be looking at this probably Nico after
that miss I think he's going to have to do some something zen behind the scenes you know try to
to calm himself down because that that is something that stays in your head for a
while I think especially if you end up losing this final course if they go 3-1
he'll be like yeah okay I screwed that up but but it's it's it's fine we still
got away with the win I think that I have to say I'm a bit worried here for
Falcons at this point because the next three maps that are coming up are all
kind of comfort they comfort places for legacy obviously they have a lot of
playtime on every map because they've played a lot of these local and they've
played a couple of international lines as well but we've seen some good things
out of them from against MIBR on this on this mirage as well where they were
doing a really good job controlling middle you know going for some of these
five-man plays even down middle just like combating that side they were
just always really fast on some of these rotations towards A when the A
ziggurits come out they're really good at stopping these in their tracks very
quickly and that's something that Falcons are gonna have to be careful
about. Falcons is going to be starting the CT side here right and for me
There are many holes many chinks in the armor that legacy can exploit the first one. It's going to be carrying playing towards B
He's fast B pops we saw in the past I think it was against a mouse where he really struggled in some of his B fast B
Pops where there was a bit I wouldn't say disconnect so to speak with Kyosuke is he likes playing aggro short
He's not the one's gonna be playing towards a pillar position all the time
So I feel like that this kind of could be a problem number one number two
I'll look at tests that Nico Nico after that map like you said
He needs to Zen down a little bit and there's always seemingly this disconnect where Tessa seems to be kind of left on an
Island by himself towards a and it's usually him and money's trying to play together
I don't think they figured that out yet. The mid-holds are pretty good
Don't get me right to like the mid-holds and whatnot, but I feel for Falcons
They need to try and be a little bit more aggressive the last time you play Mirage
They never pushed down ramp a single time in 12 rounds. They had they went for a couple of rounded palace control with with Texas and Monacee
one rubber car can push towards the apartments but they don't go for this
extremely place so what happens there is you're kind of just controlling mid and
hoping that your retakes work out and the retakes have been pretty solid
overall but man when Lattice popping up the way he is playing a post plan it's
not gonna get easy. We have the map stats come up on screen we know this is a
strong map for legacy guys to get some closing thoughts here do we think
legacy are taking Mariah's striker starting with yourself and why? Oh I think
I think they have such a deep playbook on this map,
and I really like also the fact that they have places to exploit on this Falcon side,
because obviously you have Kerrigan and BSD anchor, and then you have Tessus on the A.
We see a lot of success from Falcons come out from the middle side, right,
where they just go for some of these pop plays out down connector, right,
and they're really good at controlling that, but it's the sides where they kind of start leaking,
and I think I'm sure that the reprep has come in from the legacy side that they're going to know that.
One thing we've figured out in these two maps so far is Art has opened his own art of war and he knows exactly what to do
I agree 100% I feel like it is gonna be legacy taking the lead and us heading into map number four and with that said
Everybody at home up next it is back to a legacy pick. It's going to be mirage. Do not go anywhere
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It's Niko missing another shot in the back of the head.
It cost him the map.
We go into Mirage now.
The series is tied up 1-1, and the analysts
have said their legacy are the favorites
on the third map, Anders.
What do you think about that?
I think they're right.
If I'm looking, this Falcons have played his map five times
with his lineup in the last three months,
Whereas for Legacy, it's 17 times in the last three months.
So they have so much more experience with these lineups here.
I think they're going to be really good on this one.
And also, how is Nico not going to be frustrated?
How is he not going to be concerned about missing that flank
that we know he's already having the mental issues,
especially in the grand finals?
Always in the grand finals.
Always.
Damn.
It does hurt, but still, it's American, not a sprint.
So it's only the third map. It's 1-1 right now. They keep it for to give up Mirage
So still plenty of counter strike left to be played, but damn. I like that. You're raining it in a little bit
Yeah, I'm not getting carried away. I like that Henry. Thank you. But bear in mind
This is like a season rena. They are the reigning champions of CAC. This is where they do their best work
It was Lato who dominated that second map as well. Here's the MVP of the previous
CAC as well. So looking for back-to-back MVP medals potentially if they can pull this one off
That is looking likely at the moment here. You've got to say and the crowd loves legacy as well
They're really into it. So they've got everything going for them at the moment. I'm very excited about this one
Legacies T side on this is I think it's pretty strong to be honest
And one of the things they love as well
They love window boosts on this one if they could get out or do now depending on what's going on into the window
Then that's where they can really open up the map and they tried a lot more than most teams do
And it's going to be Niko or Monosy who is going to be playing against them in the window.
So I'm curious about that interaction.
Yeah, there's been a few changes with the Falcons as Karrigan comes in.
Obviously, it was Tessus playing that B bombsite before on the CT side.
Now Karrigan swapped out with him.
So Karrigan has always been a vulnerable piece of any CT defense.
He's always targeted in that B bombsite.
I'd use a lack of firepower, I suppose.
Whether that be a trend going into this map is yet to be seen.
But yeah, I'll be interested to see how Tessus and Karrigan do in their new roles here.
I'm glad you bring that up. That's very interesting to kind of, you know, have in the back of your mind before we get into the game.
Somebody to look for, somebody to see, and we'll also find out if legacy wants to target that potential weakness.
Because that's been done in the past two...
I mean, over the years that has been a trend. Try and take down Garaghan with B-Side.
He's set a time and time again for many different teams of his.
But ladies and gentlemen, looks like we are good to go. Yeah!
It's been an amazing grand final so far.
map of the three is Mirage the pick of legacy they will start on the T side here and they're very assertive with their calls
They're going for an execution by the looks things straight away. They've got smokes molotovs flashes
And we're going straight in it's gonna be monosy to defend see if you can do it
These dualies have better come out in a big way. Tessus is behind him
Oh, did you catch them right before any grenade to come out?
But if you can work out if they wanted to now Tessus into a lot of trouble
Oh, what a miracle.
He will eventually go down yet no more bullets either.
But at least they are competitive.
3 versus 3, and if not for Tessus,
that would have been very different.
A lot of grenades landing towards CT spawn,
but they kind of flash their way through.
And somehow, landing a kill on the Satsum Karagin.
That is a wild shot with the USP.
He even gushes after the box, and it's
Nico to take him down.
Woo!
The time to turn around.
What a retake here.
It looked like that was going to go horribly wrong,
but Falcons winning a pistol?
Always not worth it, I feel like.
Yeah, honestly, going down with nothing was alarming,
but Tessus stepping up.
He had no business getting a double kill there.
One, sure.
The final precision to get that double kill.
Very impressive.
Sets the Falcons up.
Legacy can't hold on, but they do get the bomb planted.
Next question, do they want to force by?
In the second round, there's the AK.
He drops.
We earn the hands of Dumau for now.
Deagle's otherwise galore for Satsen.
Once again a lot of Molotovs in the round like this one.
Let's see what they end up with.
Leggings can have some pretty fast B-splits, they run sometimes on this map too.
That's interesting to see if they're going to be able to do that.
Kisuke's going to be here. One minute and 30 a time here.
Oh, he's going to be traded out right away. That's the Galila on the other side.
on the other side. We'll definitely take that trade if you're on the legacy side.
Oh definitely. Nice and early as well. Then to rifle to recover. Gonna be trying to smoke
off the window area. And we're going back towards that B bomb site. Like we said, Karrigan now
playing there. There's the rifle down towards shore. Karrigan, he needs some backup desperately.
Now you're in the dark right now. CT's don't have much information. They've got two players
towards the connector. Nissan will come join legacy towards the B apartment. See how they've
They've got Molotovs and Flash is no smoked.
Monosy in two minds right now.
Does he go back up to be bombsite or hold towards a window
for potential boost?
Makes the right decision and goes in towards B.
Karagin and Monosy should be able to hold them off here.
I think he writes.
Karagin in the position that very rarely gets Molotovs.
And with the Lekas smokes as well, Flash going over.
Deep Molotov there, but Molosy is going to be fine for now.
He picks up a couple and that will, I think,
will cement the defense.
Backup is going to be coming in there.
Yeah, they can't really find anyone with those early molotovs.
That's a bit of an issue.
Nice attempt, otherwise they have a legacy to try and do some damage.
I guess one more kill would be nice.
They're not going to be winning the round any longer,
but if they could have landed a third one there,
they cut into the CG side economy.
But good defense, well played.
Yeah, pretty calm.
We're happy for that right now.
Yeah, honestly, that's the most chill round
out of the two maps we've seen so far.
Nothing crazy happened.
No shots through smoke, no one getting blown up by grenades, no one pushing through anything.
Yeah, it was actually quite comfortable and calm,
honestly coming over to help out Carrigan, alleviated a lot of pressure,
a comfortable hold, and it should be the full eco now, maybe a Deagle or two in the mix,
but a PT-50 and the Deagle for Dumau, should be 3-0 Falcons all day long.
That's been a grand final, you're right, we're very few rounds that haven't been just accelerating.
They're in mind. No one's picked up their map, pick yet.
That's also true.
Nuke was picked by Falcons.
Sorry, by Legacy, and Falcons were at 1311.
Ancient picks by Falcons, Legacy were at 39.
And now this is Mirage, picked by Legacy, and they're going to be down 3-0.
Yeah, with Dust2 as the fourth map, and Infernal as the closing fifth map,
which in itself is kind of interesting.
like it's such a weird map for Falcons that B bombsite always under a lot of
scrutiny it seems like it's the one part of the map they can't really work out
as a squad yeah the scrutiny is coming from you and yes mainly so looking for
a potential plan to be bombsite carraghan should be there nice position to
shut them down that smoke set some up nice he should be there two three kills
there's a third get one maybe a chance of another one D
It's unlikely to do now.
And a shot for that.
Take that. Building up some cash.
I'm even hearing the wee-woos come out.
Yeah. Starting to feel it.
Might be a bit early.
I've just won some of the easier rounds.
But you know what? Maybe that's the way to get the team back online here.
I'll take it round number four.
We've got AKs coming back out now for legacy.
We'll see what they get up to in this one.
It's going to be an all-pound on monosy 2, so that's obviously a bit of an issue here.
Classic smokes to the middle for Legacy early on.
Bit of an incendiary landing, deep up there, you can see it was setting it up through the
smoke.
And they're pushing the middle quite a bit here, Falcons want to make sure that Legacy
can't just take too much mid control for free.
And it always feels like Legacy are saying, well in that case, we're going back to Test
That Paragon, which is one of the questions that you introduced before the game even got started here
Maybe they do want to see if he's gonna be weak
It's always worth looking. Oh, this Molotov is so cool
It's gonna land. It's gonna bounce off the tiniest pixel you could imagine that little strip around the tower there
Okay, it's gonna land on this
That is nice must have been a genius they've made it Henry
We're going to find out how far he's going to go.
We've got Cavalryism.
Carragane.
Carragane!
Inside the bomb site.
Oh, a good return from Dumau though.
It knocks out Carragane.
If you showcase here, but you can't do more than that.
It's taken him down.
3 versus 4.
The bomb is going to be planted.
And Nikos jumping down below.
This is a tough retake.
It isn't even worth going for.
They're so far away, and one of them is the AWP.
I guess they have a little bit of momentum right now so maybe you want.
If you can get this one obviously, you're going to put legacy quite far behind.
but I am worried for this.
Advanced position as well for Dumau.
He's gonna be hard to clear him out.
He's in that corner hiding Nico.
You must win this fight.
He does so expertly,
but Dumau the whole time hiding
in his shot for Monizy.
So now the time's running very low, Nico.
He's almost dead already with this warband shot.
Dumau purchased it, a quad kill for him in legacy.
Their first wife around here,
they pick it up in great fashion.
There it is, attacking that B bomb side.
And I love the fact that you painted the picture for us in the beginning, and you're right as well.
I remember games going back maybe 10 years where this is what can kill you through the Karrigan.
It's an old tradition.
Karrigan did get one, honestly, was that for a second as well, but
DeMau with a quad kill, ice cold, and there won't be one against Niki.
He was back stabbing in from the apartment himself, but
money's still relatively okay. It's not great. Karrigan's down to the Desert Eagle.
Makes his task hard and being that much harder.
And Sender is going to be deployed top middle.
And this is more of a traditional T-Fall here ladies and gentlemen.
You won't see many of them from legacy.
They go against the grain, against the metta.
Saw that especially on Nuke.
Fella they had their map in the palm of their hand.
Falcons have to fight tooth and nail.
They get back in so we're going to win it in regulation.
But here we go.
A execution looking likely again.
All five players here, Anders, and the fence is looking rather thin on utility.
Tess has nothing.
Yes, and he's in a position that definitely can be tested.
You see, it's up on the box, it seems like, so you have to bring very aggressively.
As he came towards Jungle, he smoked off as well. Tess has an island here.
One literally needs...
Yeah, you're right, he's very much alone, but that forward position,
I don't think they were expecting it very nicely played.
But he's set a new spot for him to play in on this map.
He does get one, but he's traded out.
He's like, he's got a big explosion.
Nico, he had a grenade prime himself, drops to the ground.
The Karagin is out of the round.
And a two versus four, Kusuki already gushed up like this.
It is time to leave here.
Monosy, it's not gonna make a difference with that kill.
They'll have to pack up the round.
Another one for Legacy.
Absolutely right there.
Did enjoy that monotone with the previous one.
Tell me more, are you saying you invented that?
Was that what it was?
Okay, so how did that happen?
Sometimes I'll I if I have eight hours free Henry, I'll spend some time running around throwing grenades
Yeah, this this one took a while. I think it was partly there's one of the people
Back when I was a little bit of streaming who was who's helping out with it. So I shared a credit a little bit, but we
Yeah, we came up with this one. I don't think I've ever seen anyone usually program yet. Yeah, I have a couple of models
I try I approach players at the tournament
Please try this out. They roll their eyes and said please
Dude, that's pretty cool.
And so is this from Dumao, Sabin.
Very strong showing in the grand final, quad kill the previous round, triple kill here, sad to define.
Honestly, we do have a 32 scoreline.
Tactical timer now.
Money not in a great spot at all.
After winning the pistol, fending off the four spies, getting that 3-0 start, legacy.
legacy slowly but surely building resources closing the gap the other cool
way to molotswap that box is what Sai Wu throws from top mid oh yeah for one
there which is I think also very interesting to see but yeah they are
out of money monocle AWP we've seen win rounds like these before it's what your
superstar or visitor supposed to do he knows he has to find a pick
manufacture one in fact pushing into the palace as well up against Nism over
there monocled to find a kill he would really love a fight here you're right
he's trying to create the opportunity for himself okay they're not quite pushing
in maybe I got a little bit ahead of myself here couple of USP's so interesting
setup I suppose don't know if it's gonna work out for them but they're in a
desperate position the Karrigan is if they come be he's hoping that that one
smoke will kind of push them away and if not they go into a four man stack with the AWP.
It's all up on a C. Smoked off an hour towards window and the connector.
On the top goes in towards the ladder room so far so good going through the protocols,
slowly gaining map control, B split looking, a likely hit. Yeah, good counter smoke from the CTs
over, goes uh, carrying on, carrying on short as he try and push through this and try and steal
kill away you once them to wall pass yeah that's what I'm for legacy
now again getting in there is gonna get weird
that's a free one now he's picking up
oh my gosh
you'll find it
let's get rid of QCK but there's only 30 seconds left
and Montes is still alive this is a winnable round
oh Montes lost out there
but it doesn't matter they have to run back
they have to run into Montesy
this could be a huge bump in the road for legacy
They try to get through, but Tessus, he can't quite stop this.
17 seconds on the clock. They come back and miss him.
They fight him again. 10 seconds on the clock.
You've got to get the bomb planted. And I mean, right now,
Monosillo's going to hold. No!
The blade, the debris, it stops him. Lato with the spray down.
So close there for Monosillo. You know what, Legacy?
They keep their cool. Stumal with the triple.
He's up to 12.
12. It got very weird.
Carrigan pushing that smoke.
Gets the kill.
Frozen and Molotov.
All hell breaks loose.
Oh man.
Oh you're right.
So...
If Monty hits one more shot on the cross there,
that's round.
And it was the HE, right?
It gave them just enough to cross.
Had no smoke and Carrigan's bringing out the old fateful.
The Org.
rolling back the years say one of the few players that would consistently use
it the rest of legacy of seven kills combined in the mall has 12
somewhat close to doubling the entire rest of his team three in a row for
legacy now and now still quite an uncomfortable by you see zero helmets on
the CT side. No kits and is
the on top of the bench right
now looking over just like
the boomers crutch. It kind of
is. You don't see many of the
young guns bringing this out.
Your eyesight is kind of failing
you, but you're not an author,
so you need some to do it.
It's going to be tested once
again, but it looks like there
are three players in towards
the apartments. Do you know
short and middle.
Smoked down towards the ramp on the CT side. They've got three players quite deep close to the ramp itself.
This could be one of those rounds where they try and boost into the window. I feel like once they're slowed down on the B always, you kind of got to do something else.
But no, they're boosting up instead of just going into connector. I suppose. Monacy ready for art.
That's a bit of an issue. Contact playing towards B, I guess. It is going suddenly.
He's got a free opportunity to get at least one, I'm assuming, there it is, but the spray from Duel is not there.
The guy that's been dragging legacy through these early maps.
He's got a big help from Dumau, the normal monster is not expecting it.
There's a little shot, he's going to go down, so they didn't boost Arlene, but Dumau did get into the window.
And now, Dumau can hold his position, he knows there's a player towards mid.
You are excellent. Yeah, they're right. They're just saving. I think they have to
Once you would you have to worry about the now being there even if I tell you
Unfortunately the B bombsite collapses once again York
Can't find the shots gonna try and get that AWP potentially true do now holding up the rotations catch this monosy
Oh, he got dropped as well. He's playing out of his mind right now
It was Lato the hero of the previous man. Now do now for that star power
The other headline acts of legacy
They don't want him picking up the off. Yeah true
So cool
Yeah, but you're right. Oh, I do now is out of control
Head of a swivel 180 kill coward
It definitely should have been taken it down there and felt like I think if you replayed that round in the slows to slow motion
You're gonna see that as Lancer is taking the first fight
He's crouching just far enough around the corner that it forces Kerrigan to commit further out on his side
The awkward angle, yeah, and then he can't like he can't even disconnect from the fight either
He's just in a weird spot
So what have we got pass you by here and maybe a double kill but SM can't quite find it
We have got the M4 save the previous round with Tassus
I think I started the grandfile saying for Dumau I still think he's he had a higher ceiling
that we've seen so far and for my money this is the first time that I've seen the kind
of Dumau that I've seen before. The Austin Major. Dumau I think kind of revealed his
real nature, his true nature there. And I've been waiting ever since to see something like
that. Again he's been playing well this tournament. It's not taking anything away from him but
I just think he's got more to offer and we're seeing a little bit of that right now. Fifty-five
seconds.
I suppose if you sneak in a kill as they're planning the bomb, it's a 2D3.
I think it's a Molotov today. I think it's a Molotov towards the apartment before the apartment.
That's a good point.
Molotovs could be hard to stop.
30 seconds. Look how careful they're being. As much as we've been talking about legacy being wild and aggressive without and everything, yeah.
Hold it Henry. Sorry. Better safe than sorry.
Another wonderful measure. This makes your carry. He wants to take a ticket. Tap his head.
This team is so far away, so they can't even think about getting in.
Yeah, absolutely true. Dude, bear in mind, Falcons are up 3-0 Landers.
That is true, and now it's 5 rounds in a row against them.
I don't want to get too carried away, but yeah do it, but maybe I will anyway. Yeah, let's say that with your permission Henry
Niko's two and five
Failed flank on ancient like it's hard not to imagine that you know, he's in his own head right now
It's gonna have a psychological aspect to it
Gotta think that and the thing is like there's been a lot of activity towards our B bombsite as we kind of speculated at the start
That's where they're focusing the majority of their efforts and even Nico isn't getting that much action. Yeah
But maybe at some point they're gonna have to find a way to you know to do something more
Interested to see what art to the core here now. He knows that the monosy orbs out
They've saved a couple of rifles. I think he changes to pace up completely. Yeah, I think we're gonna see some magic from our
What has he got up his sleeve?
Five in a row as we mentioned
I'm going to try and find that first pick.
Molotov goes into the T-Sat Molotov as well.
It's a little bit of a nuisance to deal with.
Carrigan, I say to follow the exact route of the spam.
Don't run into that.
The plan is to just go for it.
So, we've got Nissan in towards our palace position, on top of middle, on the back of
Lato.
Three players in the B apartments right now.
I guess sometimes if you will still hit B with a palace lurk to try and catch rotations
But it does also give them the option of falling back from B if they feel like there's too much going on
The bomb is actually
Sneaking away
Lot of utility here really suggesting that there could be something going on smoke. I think failed
I think you wanted to throw that deep into the apartments. Yeah
They're gonna have to commit another one
They wouldn't have to do that if they hit the first one window smoke going up 50 seconds on the clock here
But I don't know Falcon's actually reading it. Well, I miss folks here today. That's another one. You're right
There we go. This is making sure that they smoke that window, but there's a boost up behind them
if they don't read it again, he's not quite pixeled up on the corner, but
Should be able to get this one misses the opportunity there 30 seconds on the clock
The bomb is going to be committed to the a ramp. There are three people here falcons there in a prime position
They should win this defense every single time art goes serve the for a kill, but he's traded out
And yeah, I think the three-man stack here. It should be enough. Nissan and Dumau left.
Should be.
Two versus four and now one player left.
Twelve seconds on the clock here. Dumau, he might be good, but he doesn't have a bomb planted yet.
He's hunting for the kill against Monocene.
Oh, bomb out, making a jump across. He could plant it now.
Surely no way. He's got four bullets left and they're hunting him. There we go.
I was getting nervous. I was getting scared for him.
The legacy, this is too much here.
Falcons, they keep it alive, but I love what legacy you're doing in this game.
Can you imagine if he gets Karagan on the wall bang there?
What an amazing effort though.
Two kills with DiMau against the bomb planted, Eco.
Nice little kill there.
Takes down Satsen.
Come on a seat.
Important shot towards that palace position.
Karagan, it's dicey, but he gets the job done.
Sure.
Five to four, they break the streak.
Five rounds in a row for legacy.
And after the Falcons find their first, they call a tactical timeout in front of Recep.
Slow down and even mentally they might garner from that win.
So, very distinct feeling here that Legacy are the team that's in control, that's sort of dictating the pace of the game.
It doesn't feel like, when Falcons have to win a round, it's a bit desperate.
They're not really playing as much swagger on the server Falcons are they?
They're not like, they're not taking the game to then, they're not pushing up towards top or middle.
We're not seeing Monosig over some wild picks at the start.
They're playing a very traditional CT setup here.
They're not feeling comfortable, not feeling themselves,
and they know legacy.
They're firing on all cylinders to save them.
Very least right now,
Art's calling a great grand final.
It has to be said that we're changing things out.
We were looking for a pace change,
but is this in full speed ahead?
How's that for a pace change?
Straight in the side of the head of Monosig,
and into the A-box, and we go!
That was the AD fence.
It was one player, and he has...
Savaged him from across the map an outrageous way to start that was the
Speed that you were calling for Henry and you've got your wish now three people in connector
If you lose this year if Karigan goes down and sees he spawned in any dream of a retake
I think it's going to be gone and that's why he's hiding back here
I saw this earlier with Nissan actually doing the same thing waiting for his teammates to get here
The flash, the flash down, the steal lands the headshot, test is correct!
Oh, it's one more art!
He's taking down Niko, the retake is still on because they feel like they have to go for it.
But the torch run down so low and I think that pill seals the round.
Legacy, they are playing truly awe-inspiring Counter-Strike.
Hanzo with the shot, but all the credit goes to Nissan as he just evaporates the modesty on the other side of the map.
He just goes full Berserker mode.
I've not seen anything like that in my life.
I said a Pace James joy.
He just sprints up middle, gets a one-tap, a monosy.
Yeah, that might get you into the A bomb side.
They collapse into the side itself.
They give me a retake and attempt there,
but ask him to double kill in CT's bomb.
What a beautiful round.
He didn't see it coming.
Monosy certainly didn't.
He had the orb looking at A ramp
and gets domed in the side of the head.
So round number 11.
Okay, here we go, a bit of aggression.
Yeah, but it wasn't all right.
I thought they were going to blow up in the smoke.
They decided to flash their way through,
and they lose Q-Suke, who's still the top performer
for Falcons.
Somebody help him out already.
Newsom has walked through the smoke.
That's so bold.
Straight contacts through the smoke.
Like, I love this legacy.
There's such a difficult team to play against
for that reason.
Tessa's had enough.
He said, you go with a push.
Ah, the go as well. How about that?
Thank you very much. I'll take your bomb.
They weren't ready because they're throwing a smoke.
There's a CT smoke behind Tessus,
so if we're on the T side, you hit the smoke going down, you think,
surely no one's pushing this?
That's actually really smart.
Well played from Tessus.
Arts though. Trying to sneak through.
Up to his usual antics.
Honestly, we'll find him this time.
They've got to be careful though.
Jamal is waiting for you.
And he's cutting him down, and that is the B defense gone.
He's going to cut off the rotations as well.
as well. Deep smoke. They're becoming through the underpass. They're carrying Anika, working in tandem here.
They could find the bomb.
Nissan needs to be careful of this one. It comes down to the timings.
Yeah, but they keep going. They could get flanked themselves by Latso.
They're not quite looking for it. I don't know why.
But the bomb, be careful.
Yeah, you've got to be looking for that. The grenade's not going to kill him.
And again, there's another flank here. I don't think Anika realizes.
But Latso, he was in the palace. So he's come back now.
This is wild, Henry. This is looking like a lekkens. That gives you seventh round.
Oh, I think it absolutely is. I don't think you can really do anything about this.
You've got no U-Till, a three on two.
You know, they've got the B-apartments controlled, and yeah, I think with the lack of money,
you're going to have to save these two rifles for the final round. It's going to be seven to four.
Unreal scenes here. Falcons. Look how they're getting weaker and weaker.
They tried to change things up. We talked about them looting their swagger,
They try to flash Kiyosuke towards the top of middle, he goes down with nothing,
their Art is found, he's straight away with the glill.
And then Monosy shoots Art in the back, which lets Dumau know that Monosy is in a short position,
so he parks up and waits, and because Monosy is at the B-bombside to begin with,
probably Dumau is very sure that Kerrigan won't be there, because that's the normal distribution.
If you've got the Art over there, you're not going to get second player.
So he just has all the time in the world to sit around and wait.
Yeah, and what a shot it was as well. Take down Monosy, you're absolutely right,
right waiting for his opportunity hits the one tap B bombsite open for business and then some
we go into the final round of this first half it's been a disappointing
CT defense surely go four rounds I think that's enough but they won the pistol they've won a
single gun round since going up three and zero oh legacy they weren't really on anybody's radar
except for the fact that they made the Austin major by accident yeah right what a runner was
Bastia failed to... to head you over there.
And then they played incredibly well.
It was mind-blowing.
They've been ups and downs since, I'll admit.
But they're the defending champions here in Shanghai.
Quite a lot of people.
Most people probably thought,
well, Falcons, this is where they are gonna be exploding.
This is where they're gonna lift the trophy,
get themselves ready for the Major,
make sure they're in the right frame of mind,
they're carrying on the lineup as well.
Their legacy have got a different opinion about all of that.
Sick to see.
Final round at the first half, Falcons feels what they need it.
They do have the pretty decent buy all things considered.
Famous for Karagin though.
Are they gonna go for this one?
Dumau's lurking over at B.
Okay, they try to get out, out, but he's gonna die.
Oh yeah, I'm sure.
Dumau, he's been caught on the other side.
I do like the idea of it.
But 3 vs 5 now. Why be a chance for Fountain to finally win? Like you said, a second rifle round is what it would be here.
And they do need that. If they get 5 though, it is still on. There's still a chance here. A lot of damage through.
Don't lose this one now. That's gonna work. Squaring straight through and after.
He's found Karigan missing with a shot onto Niko. Niko's gonna finish the half with 4 kills.
kills. The bomb is planted and now it's a two on two and this could be the
ultimate crushing probably of a Falcons. They must win this retake. They had all
the advantage in the world. They'd already found the opening kills.
Nissen and Sandsen and now the spray is in and Monacee what do you do? Retake in
this with the AWV. Can't see it. They pick it up. Eight rounds in the first half
as they have shot a Falcons team that were not ready for this.
Another gup punch for Falcons to tank.
It was looking so promising.
It was looking good for the fifth round.
And he was about to say 75, not so bad,
but to lose runner, but 12 in that sort of manner.
Oh, it really hurts.
It really, really hurts.
He got the two opening frags there, and Niko took down R.
Monizzi found Jumao, a five on three, you think, okay.
They should be at a close when R, no problem.
The bomb goes down and then Nism.
He starts to come to life.
You got two kills while blind while that's a chimed in as well
I'm leaving monosie and a really precarious situation that could do nothing in the two-on-one of the AWP
So many disappointing rounds here for Falcons and they've had huge advantages
It just seems to collapse and you're right. It has to be said Nico
He's fallen off
He is not looking his usual self right now and throughout the tournament by the group stages
It was looking like the Superstar level would be wanted for so long. Hell yes against mouse was it?
Yeah, exactly one of it like one of his sickest performance in recent memory
You think if you can carry that to the grand final we're really on to something here
Well, and now struggling gotta be honest the camera there and the break the vibes on the Falcons team
They do not look good. That's been one of the changes people have even been talking about
You know with Carrigan dad and nothing everything seemed to be good second half is right here ladies and gentlemen legacy
It's only the third map of the grand finals the best of five
But they are looking to steal this one away. They've already taken ancient in a 13 to 9 fashion
They nearly won on you they probably should have done if it wasn't for that crazy Nico deagle rounds. Yeah, I think they probably take
Monacee is kind of aligned along with Q suitcase. That's at least a foundation here
They're going back towards the ramp
There is a kit and a smoke, and you know I love that Henry.
I want to see a spectacular smoke defusal legacy, let's go.
Here we go, it's with the day bombsite, bomb will be coming out of Palace, three players.
They don't have to fight this. The whole point is the protocol for the retake, right?
So yeah, if you get a kill that's fine, but more than anything you want a 5 on 5 retake,
where you smoke the bomb and you create so much chaos that Falcons have no idea what's happening.
No more grenades left apart from the smoke, no flashes on the T side either.
So they've got the double flash, the smoke available.
Yep.
You're going to be creating so much fireworks.
Who's got the kit? It's missing with the kit, to note.
Oh, here we go. They lose Lato. I don't care about that.
I only care about the smoke and the kit.
Sandsen with the headshot here. Where is that bomb?
They need that smoke on top to create a bit of an attraction already.
Smoke is out now, but Kisuke very nice. Here comes the flash on over.
over he's inside all the great work he's you came he calls their block monosibur
triple as well the entire round for legacy is built around that one moment
that's both pistols in the bag now for Falcons the retake no working out the
legacy Falcons hold on
honestly nice work of the Glock that's it beautiful shot there towards the
sandwich area but as you get considering his strong form this grand final
two young guns working in tandem there and he's going to be the force by from legacy
scouts MP9 and 35 7s first shot doesn't connect
we can't again towards top of middle in towards V we go smoked off for now
because you can see if there's anything available to him
gonna pop this smoke open by looks of things okay courtesy of Tess S here it
comes careful though 5 7 under the side you should have the advance it but you
I never really know, there's one...
Oh no!
Listen, he has well done this!
Why do we have to go for the tightest choke point?
Why do we have to push a smoke right now?
They probably couldn't find a tighter choke point on the map.
Maybe the murder hole, they all try to go through that.
But apart from it, yeah, you're right.
The one point on the map, you don't want to be caught on really.
They're fighting their way back here with fountains.
You're hitting us.
What an absolute nightmare.
And you've decided to do that. You pop the smoke open.
Sure. And then with the time it actually closes back up,
your teammates have to go through and try and trade that.
They're trying to go through a grey screen,
and a 5-7 gets three kills.
And, I mean, just to add to the criticism, right,
it's not like they're under some deep time pressure.
No, there's a 1-2 either.
You could just wait when you say all right.
Well, that's the call they've made.
have no choice but to run through it I suppose. Just reset the round. Just reset the round.
Oh, great stuff from Legacy. I don't think you're asking too much Henry. I don't think
you're being unreasonable. Great stuff from Legacy especially with that 5-7 contribution.
Holy shit, but... Famously, you're very reasonable. But I feel like you're...
One minute, 30 minutes on the clock. Why is this to play? Oh man.
where you're just so set on going towards B out of spawn that you couldn't possibly change your mind?
Don't even know who you'd have to hire to break that down, like...
get somebody who's into, you know, astrology or something.
Hiring a numerologist.
I couldn't tell you.
That's mind-blowing.
You find that you've won both pistols, and that's what you do in the second round.
Okay, now they've stolen a couple of rifles over, two AKs and a Galeel,
which also means the money for legacy is going to quickly balloon.
Eagle shot, not connecting that for Karrigan.
I'm honestly with the scout and I really found the impact.
Alright, there's a couple more body shots here.
Get one more of those. It doesn't come a little bit more fun once again.
Two Deagles, one on Niko, one on Tessus.
But at this stage...
Nobody knows where Niko is.
He's gone missing.
He's MIA.
If he could find a couple of eagle shots, I mean maybe that's a way to get himself mentally more than anything back into this
Yeah, it's a great moment on you think it'd be wrong
But it has to be said
And this shot in the back on ancient I'm gonna say cost them a map entirely, but it certainly didn't help that was a swing round and then some
Yeah hasn't recovered since then I'm gonna stand my ground with the fact that the nano diffuse in the previous round was about
be a similar level mistake. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. All right then. Unified workouts. That's
all. 20 seconds here. You're just kind of going in. You're hoping for a couple of 1D
tests. This will get you one. That needs to go down with nothing here, but that's unlikely
gets himself one test. This is the master of the deal, but too much to handle. It's going
to have to be eco coming up next legacy. Now, huge amount of runway here on Mirage. They're
They're gonna be up to 11 to 5 after this. You can't invest a single dollar into this round of your Falcons
And I really mean that you can maybe test this can buy you a flash of that you think that's gonna help you
But okay, that's the extent of the budget. Yep, not too exciting really
But um, you're right 11 to 5 right around the corner for them
This might as well be a sk boys
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This is the unraveling of the
Falcons. The grand final. They
game they've already beat legacy on brew they beat them to zero no problem it was
actually very convincing just go back to those maps and play they played dust to
an ancient 13 9 13 7 I think yes so dust 2 was 13 7 ancient was 39 everyone
looks super comfortable convincing when yeah and this is just not the same team
last couple of maps bear in mind they've won both pistols here on mirage with a
3-0 conversion in the first half as well I'm gonna be honest I completely memory
hold that yeah but they only got five rounds behind it is a bit of an issue
Ah, stuff. Okay, it's not gonna be sick for any time soon.
They've gone for the classic kind of timeout, you get a chance to talk and breathe and you're kind of gonna chill out a little bit.
Nice if you can recover the mood just slightly on the T side here.
Should be an easy pick up. Alright, nice spin for Jamal.
They did get one kill there on Niko, but that's about what it'll be. No bomb part.
We didn't expect it either. Good triple finissim, and there's the 11th.
So not bad at all here. What's the big plan? What's the what's the big secret coming in right now?
Thing is though, if your legacy, you know that
Restraint it, they're not finding all of their players right now and ECO is not online
If art is feeling it with the AK47s, you push you push. Oh
I like what you think Henry
That would be a real haymaker maneuver. Dreamhouse called the MP9. Well, that might suggest a push, right?
Let's have a look whether they want to get aggressive here
It would be very interesting. I suppose if you were a fan of Falcons here, you're thinking well
Not thinking about that is you pay death
So you might be thinking about the fact that Karrigan is brought into the team to try and get them into these kind of comebacks
Because we know that's what Karrigan does very well. Yeah true
The thing is though, looking down the barrel of map points to 5 on 4, sands in, nice pickup
towards the underpass, finds the top, the second highest braggler on the Falcons.
They have AKs across the board here, minimal utility, a couple of smoke remaining, a Molotov
and a couple of flashes too.
One minute left on the clock, one of these strengths will be used towards the window
room.
Get over towards connector, suggests we're going to try and get it towards that deep
Pop site three up towards shore. We have got tessus lurking over towards a main
Okay
He's watching for any back stabs and palace right now
Ball makes his way up towards shore. He goes into what's connected sound is made now. They live overlooking this
Don't love this at all. What is that?
Because we've killed it tessus. Yeah, he's looking on the ramp
They had four people alive two of them push B once holding middle one holding ramp
So you've turned your your full attackers into just a two-man push towards the catwalk and as soon as that fails
That that is all done. There's no time. You keep this round is unwindable
Like this is can't win three kills
But because there's only 20 seconds on the clock and the bombs all the way across the map sacks into the shot
That looked like a profoundly confused round there for the fountain side
I think they knew on a right to that because the final commitment was carrying and swinging round sure by himself
and then no trade potential, yeah?
Sure, it was a 5-on-4 to kick these off, but they came up with a call, this is the moment here.
Well, then where's the backup?
Then your team-maker shouldn't have decided to head.
The only backup that he had was a flash that somehow did nothing at all to the short player, so...
That was weak from Falcon's man.
I would have even taken a round where they actually go B in that moment, but they just contacted.
They don't make the footsteps.
I think, yeah, they're over-cooking, they're called like a player.
Watching a round they got one part of a connector to pushing up shore. Yeah, though
What was the plan? Why don't just group up and trade out the kills? They didn't even attempt the trade towards sure
It's been four in a row here for legacy and there's been no bomb plants in any of those rounds
It's my point feels like it's done. Falcons can't even get onto a bomb site ring
And they can't even get that far into it. It does feel like it's done. Oh
My they're shrinking here in the grand final. Yes, they are
They are losing their form losing their mental legacy of playing like a team that is just getting started here
Tessus with an important kill. He's done to feel a little bit more alive. It's been a tough grand final for Tessus individually
But I'm not starting to at least clock in some kills. Okay. Nice face. Yeah, this is huge. Okay, should be able to win off this position alone
Do you want to even go as far as say it's unusable? I don't want to say that at all. No, definitely
Definitely don't want to say that. Please save anyway
there it is that should be enough now nice work yeah and I guess for legacy
they're not under a lot of pressure to try and close it right now so going for a
wild retake even in a 3v4 it's not necessary keep the AKs in hand right
nice work from testers to open things up to your suitcase you find that space
towards CT spawn yeah round was done it up again I don't know if we can extrapolate
just from this one round but that's around where they're faster they're a
They're a little bit more loose, they're not overcooking at that T side, they're not still
for a long time trying to make big decisions, but they have the firepower, right?
You've got players like Kyusuke and Tessus even, they should be able to take the fight
in some of these ladies, you know, players in a fast battle, but it does feel like they
are a little bit muted when it comes to the decision making on the T side.
Here we go, 12 to 6, they will need another 6 rounds after this one to get this game into
all the time. I mean we'll take it. Problem is they're going to save three
galils since they finally the upgrades across the map. We've got the orb. Okay.
They found an AK-47. Okay so some increased firepower down but not out but
still seems very unlikely. They'll be finding six rounds in a row and we'll be
seeing this T side so far. But a sigh of relief I suppose. Run number 19 can legacy
close things out right here right now. They're still with those two AK-47s in the
hands of Lato and Dumau, that dastidly duo.
You ask for aggression, and if anything legacy apart from top mid pushes, they're actually more
fond of the underpass pushes.
Yeah, exactly.
That's kind of something that they do throw out there.
A split looking likely here and is with a bomb down.
All right.
Outside the A-Ram, two players going for the mid protocols to try and get some connector space.
It's going to be Nico towards a palace, 6 and 13 right now.
Let's see whether he can have some impact.
smoke going down towards window
He sands in with the AWP parked up in CT spawn by the ticker booth
Yeah dropping the on the utility there for legacy they've used quite a bit of it early on this little minute in ten seconds
Right and what do they have two smokes one and send the area on sands in as well, but it's not a lot here
Wait a minute, Karigan thought he could get flashed through that one. He's gone and dead and this is showing his elbow
Oh, what a weird way to get started in the round.
I have a lot of questions for Falcons.
This looks so disjointed.
It does.
All right, Nico finds one.
We've been searching for him, but he's dead immediately
afterwards.
I was going to try and build that into a bit of height
for Nico, but it's not going to be possible here.
Sazen goes down.
2 versus 3.
He's trying to hold onto the map here.
Legacy, a couple of kills away from taking the third
in the grand final.
There he comes.
Monacy in a 1 versus 3, but they're behind him.
shot in the back of the head legacy with a stunning upset on Mirage 13 to 6 as
they take the third map in the grand final trying to defend their trophy oh
it's just not a good look from Falcon so very very weak it's going to be Dust
2 coming up next they need to find some form and they're going to stand a chance
to take us to a fifth definitely not a great look for the Falcons on the flip
side a great look for legacy they win their second pick of Mirage very
convincingly 13 to 6 now just one map away from calling themselves back-to-back
CAC champions. Stryker Blett I'd like to start things off by asking you guys what
happened to Falcons other than winning both pistols they pretty much got very
little done across Mirage. I mean we said this is why you know legacy should go
with this map at the first pick it is their best map they look super cool or
good on it as well. And we actually touched upon it, you know, there's A side, the holds
don't look that great from Falcon, the test playing new role, characters struggle from
the B bomb side as well. We'll talk about it later on. I'm going to talk about it later
on, but...
Blair, I'm sensing emotions here, because I know it's...
There are, emotions are running high at the moment, Paula. I'll tell you that. But yeah,
just the fact that you could see Legacy barely ever weapon any midfights or midfights, the
But back on the looking for those fights, it said AXEK, AXEK, B-POP, AXEK, B-POP, and there was nothing thousands could do.
They still haven't been able to figure out how to kind of shore up the defences of the extremities of the map.
Striker, your initial reaction to what went wrong for Falcons?
Yeah, I kind of expected them to go for some of these stack code sides, and they did it once, and that actually, when it worked out,
but for the rest of the map, they kind of got picked out by some of these side executes, right?
And realistically also, yeah, the second half,
it looks like they're on a good path
right after the Pistor round.
But then first thing they do in the anti-force
is like a 130 pop through a smoke
and face first into a 5-7,
which just completely destroys their economy,
their chances in the map.
Let's get into that,
because yeah, we all picked up on that in the green.
That's what we were referring to.
Henry was absolutely molding on the cast
and 100% can echo his feelings.
So this is fundamental.
This is like what kind of strike 101.
sure you have this call to pop into, you know, to hit the B bomb site. Small comes in, just
reset guys. You can continue to hit later on, let the smoke dissipate or rethink how you want
to approach that particular run. Instead of just pop it in, it's kind of a half-arsed check from
the first guy coming in. By the way, Karrigan's not even there. Karrigan still was connected at
that point in time. So the ego, I'm assuming, was kind of calling how things are going to work out.
So yeah, I think that was just telling us to how they were kind of not at all composed. They were
They were not composed at any shape, form whatsoever.
But the guy who was composed, who delivered, was DeMauw.
He had a quite-ish series so far, but we said to Stryker,
we said, at one point he's gonna come alive,
and he came alive here.
Yeah, he started off with that 1v3 in the first gun round,
and that's where, from there, effectively,
it was a legacy map.
I mean, it looked like Falcons didn't really have a chance
in the half after that point,
and he was just running rampant
when whatever they were on these B executes,
couple of times on A as well,
when they were rushing through connector.
So really, really great first half, especially,
I mean, we saw he kind of cool down in the second half,
but he wasn't really needed, to be honest.
It was great to see Demau come alive.
What else gave Lacey so much success on that T side?
Because it was a very successful T side.
Yeah, well, I mean, again, like the,
I think Tessus was once more left in Ireland,
and I was actually, you remarked on that before
in a pre-match, I think.
And it happened time and time again,
it was just getting abused all the time.
And also, what is the remedy to that?
For me, it would be a little bit more aggression
towards Ram, for example,
trying to get a little bit of control.
They never went for that.
I think it was one round with Tessus,
by himself pushed down Ram
when it was a four-buzzers-five situation.
He gets the kill onto the C4 guy,
but it still wind up losing the round, right?
It just, it doesn't seem to be a game plan.
Apart from, hey guys, we're gonna be fighting mid.
If they give the fight,
we know Manus is there,
Kyosuke is there, we're gonna be winning these dukes.
But apart from that, guys,
if you're just hitting the bomb sites again and again,
You have to have some plan for that.
Yeah, I would say though, like Tess was actually doing OK in some of these executes.
He usually got the first kill or anything like that.
They went to a 4v3, 4v4, or maybe sometimes even a 5v4.
But then the problem is, if your connector guy doesn't really play off of you
or get some of those kills and those transitions, and who is in connector, Niko?
And that's a problem. We touch upon this.
There's a complete, I wouldn't say complete, but there is a certain disconnect
as how Niko and Tess's plays off each other.
If that's going to be the case, I would rather Tess's play a little more passive, right?
Just trying to play for the full retake, play towards ticker with monosy.
So this is the same CD set we've seen from Falcons ever since Karrigan came on.
I don't see any improvement.
Well, how would you like to see it improved?
For example, on that mirage, what do you think Karrigan could have made on that CD?
I mean, what we see, how they compensate for this on Ancient is they often call out the third guy to be there.
Either it's Monosir or it's Kyosuke, sometimes it's even Niko, right, depending on how the spawns work out, where Kyosuke is playing.
So, a lot of that they just compensate for kind of the gaps that they sometimes have with, you know, a third guy over there.
Obviously on Mirage it's a bit more difficult than that because you can't just stack bombsites in three people.
But it is some of these, like, kind of disruptive places to see these that we see from, like, the likes of Legacy actually.
We see quite a lot where they see the execute coming and then they have instant anti flashes and they actually fight the execute.
If they don't wait for the retake, they fight the executes together, like on a timing, like specific pop flash.
They just know as they're transitioning out of Tetris, out of Ramp, right?
They're just really good at disrupting that. We never saw that from Falcons in this game.
It was basically Tessus by himself who was good for a kill, like you said, like, you know, playing on top of Ninja Box for our box, for example, getting one kill, but then just getting traded immediately.
And a 4v4 is... I don't think the retakes were necessarily, like, terrible, but just the legacy was so good in this post-plans plan.
They knew exactly how much space to take.
They always had a little bit of utility to work with.
Because they weren't defaulting a lot,
they always had so much utility on their belt
to delay the retake coming in.
So just to answer your question as well, Polly,
you touched on what we could switch up.
I would have liked them to be a little bit more aggressive.
Like have a two, you know, have monocy
with the AWP holding a deep angle towards B apartments.
You can stack towards A or maybe have Kyosuke,
or for that matter, monocy and Tessus,
kind of work down ramp, right?
Gagless fights earlier and disrupt these hits because these were just simple execs coming in again and again and again
And for some reason they weren't quite able to adapt to it
I mean the one time that it actually worked was when Tessas was
Fighting on in apps right when they had that kind of the half by when he had the save gun
He went out of apps and they tried to fight that to make sure that they don't have the control
You know to make go for some of these executes same thing when he was close up ramp a couple times
It was it was working out in those moments, you know
But obviously that was they ended up losing that round anyway in the late round
But but there was just one of those only one round. We do have to address the elephant in what is is there an elephant in the room?
Will see elephant where tell us about there is an elephant there is an elephant in the room
What is it and that is Nico?
Apart from that deagle round and you where which was incredible on coming out from him
Which pretty much helped them win that particular map. Oh, yes
Aside from that ancient he was super slow start here a couple of decent rounds and we saw the whiff round number 20
They're already making memes about it. It's in it's in all the all the papers parlor round number 20
Yeah, Nico choke with the AK that should never have been locked that round potentially lost in that particular map now
And this map I think he ended with seven kills. Yeah, and bottom of the table. No impact
I'm yeah, I'm just catching up on that now
We were worried that after that crucial round that was missed on ancient that Nico wouldn't be able to compose himself obviously
Very complex being in there. We don't know if that's exactly what it was
But what we do know is yeah, Nico had a very tough performance on the Raj
Yeah, he had something like 13 ADR like eight runs into Mirage on the CT side and that's what we're talking about, right?
You're a con player. You're the star star star. That is the star role like the con and short are the two guys that usually get the
Best numbers right because they have all the more all the action that they have ever want
Nico just never really got anything going guys. Let's look ahead now to our fourth map. We're going back to a Falcons pick
It's dust to that being said, you know at least based on the raw stats over the last three months
Legacy definitely not bad map for them either strike. Let's start with you
Yeah, they they actually beat Navi on this map back in Atlanta when they were and then like a draw is that rule and Astros as well
On that map. This is again
They play a lot of maps because of the way that they play a lot of these local lands
But dust was actually been quite successful for them internationally as well
Yeah, obviously on the other side it's Falcons that have been playing it's pretty much almost every series that they
They are able to in these last couple of tournaments with Kerrigan
I think they're 8-2 on it at this point one of those losses is to spirit which is somewhat understandable, right?
Just to add a detail there. It was a big win on Dust2 over
Navi. It was also the map that won them that series. So I think that's a great point you're making on.
On the other hand, we've already seen them play this map between in this actual matchup in the group stage when
when
Falcons got away with a really convincing CT side off of a lot of picks out of monosim honestly was just running around the map
Some of these Nate plays that we see down middle
He was just getting a lot of pigs there when they were trying to pick out B split
He was just coming out of CT spawn with an op and just picking them off like as they were going for that mid B split
Right and so he was so disruptive
Something that they will definitely be way more careful about I think in this game because they they will have learned from those mistakes
Yeah, for sure
And I think the other loss they had was that 13-1 anomaly against 9-0, which is not going to replicate here.
And if there's one map where I really do have faith in Falcons, it is actually Dust2.
I think they've really been able to kind of solve a lot of issues they had initially.
I think Kyosuke and Tessus towards mid and B was a problem for me.
But recently, just watching the way they're playing off each other, it's really short of the B bomb side.
And towards long-shore, it's going to be Karrigan, the so-called weaker player to contend with.
I think it does a decent enough job towards long to kind of, you know, kind of prevent any early entries, any early kills, early map control coming in from the side of Legacy.
Yeah, it's definitely a solid map for Falcons. I mean, they play it three times here at this tournament. They start out their campaign beating BC game on it, and it is one of the maps they beat Legacy on.
That can sometimes sort of mislead you, though. You could think, oh, it's going to be the same again.
And we thought of it ancients already.
Exactly, and legacy could easily be better prepared this time.
And again, what I was talking about, it was very much through Monacea Picks,
which is not something that you can necessarily rely on a lot.
Obviously, he will always be a very dangerous player on a map like Dust2,
where he gets a lot of opportunities, right?
He will go for some of those short plays, he just really likes to go on timings
and sometimes find openings down middle or down lower.
And that can be difficult to deal with, but generally it just came in positions
where they didn't necessarily expect him to like face through a smoke and just pick them off of middle and some of these
like little moves that he was pulling off that you know aren't necessarily consistent or reliable.
Yeah, but it is not a C who is kind of consistent and reliable, so I guess I would probably pull it off.
I worry for Nico because his CD side, you know, he's playing towards ramp, he's kind of the rotation player
and so many times we've seen on their CD sides when they have struggled a little bit,
He seems to be the one where he just gets caught off guard sometimes, right?
I don't like how he plays towards Goose, top 10 all the time.
This is a guy who wants a free flow, you know, just kind of like floating
like a butterfly and shoot heads, thing like a bee, so to speak.
But firstly, he just looked like a shell of himself in Mirage, you know,
after what happened in Transparton Ancient.
But we did see him find impact on Nuke.
So if he's able to wake up and show, you know, that is something
which is going to go their way.
But overall, I'm still going to favor Falcons here.
I still feel like it's a map they've had enough reps on.
They've lost only twice, one was at 9-Z, which is just a bad day in the office, and one was against Spirit, very close affair.
Spirit probably top three team in the world right now. So, number five could be on the cards here, Paul.
Alright, so Blair going with Falcons. Me personally, I feel Dust 2 is in the palm of the hands for Legacy,
and given all the context, they've got a good shot of closing this out, 3-1.
Striker, what are your thoughts?
Yeah, I would also back Falcons here, just because it has been their most played map, they are actually very successful on it.
as much as legacy have shown bits and pieces here and there on the map,
it's up against the Falcons team that have,
like this is the map that they have the wraps on that they need,
you know, everything else, it's a little bit lacking in terms of practice
or in terms of officials, this is their map.
Also, Paula, Inferno, deciding map, grand final.
We'd love to see it.
You wanted, right? We'd love to see it.
I absolutely would love to see it.
And with that said, everybody, we're going to take a short break,
a slightly longer short break, of about 10 to 12 minutes,
and then we'll be back with map number four.
It's Falcon's second pick of Dust2.
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Welcome back to the Grand Final here at CAC 2026. Falcons are there back against the
wall right now. A really flat disappointing performance on Mirage but we're moving to
Dust2. This is a map they've already played against Legacy at this tournament and they won very convincingly, Anders.
They managed to pick up 10 rounds on their CT side in the first showing.
Okay, then.
Can they replicate that and take us to a fifth map?
That sounds promising. I'm glad that you brought that up a little bit of history for us if you'll miss that game.
I think that that'll be interesting. I mean, that's what they're hoping to do.
If they get a 10-2 first half, then for sure, Falcons are going to be right back.
I mean, you've got your doubts, they've really just done on the show.
I guess some of those signs that we don't like to see with Falcons.
I guess we're Falcons picking dust too.
Maybe just don't start on the T side this time.
Maybe if you like a seat, you just go the CT side yourself.
That would be a good point.
Yeah, switch it up.
Yeah, we'll see what happens here.
I think that's the case.
I think I can see them in T spawn.
Yeah, so they've opted to start CT this time.
Nice.
Well, that throws kind of a wrench in a lot of things here.
Maybe this will turn out to be a genius move on the outside of things. Maybe not well
Just to reiterate this could be the final map of the grand final if legacy pick this up and judging by the form
We've seen across the board for the individuals there. I could very well happen as I mentioned
Falcons just seem a little bit disorientated
Disjointed flat whatever you want to call it. It's not the Falcons a little like they'll be winning a trophy today
They need to wake up right now
Maraj was an absolute disaster for them winning both pistols and is and a 3-0 conversion
You only get six rounds total
I'm what's going on there and the amount of blunders and crazy decisions and just that one especially towards a B
Apartment to the 5-7 like can't be that in that happen anymore got a lock-in
I think this is this the last the last stretch of what you said there is the thing that really concerns me is the
T side towards the end when they looked at they were sort of running out of ideas and
and perhaps over thinking some of the rounds way too much.
And you look at legacy,
no one's been okay with it,
that is calling executes out of sport.
Oh, they love it.
That is like, they've got the assertiveness
to the score, we're doing this at the start,
we're gonna be attacking this bomb side,
we're gonna fake it.
And I feel like Falcons,
just a little bit too loosey-goosey there,
and then panicking when it came to the crunch time
and just making some poor decisions,
didn't seem like really, we're on the same page at all.
I guess maybe one more thing to add to all of this is the fact
Dumao had an incredible game on this map. At the beginning he was wrecking absolutely everybody.
Then the rest of the team kind of joined later on but you know a lot of credit to Dumao otherwise
Latte has been stealing most of the headlines so far on the legacy side of things. So they
will the Falcons, it's Kusuke, he's been playing very well. We need him and we need a rest of the
team. We need Nico Bakus. We go into the fourth map here. It is going to be Falcons versus legacy
with the grand final.
Could very well be the final map of CAC 2026.
Legacy looking for back-to-back trophies at this tournament.
Another grand final appearance for the Falcons,
but it looks like they could crash out
in a disappointing fashion right before the Major as well.
A step on the T side as mentioned,
Dumau looking to take Madison to his own hands.
He's getting up close and personal.
Flashbang delivered towards top of middle.
Juley's in hand, spots one.
Long range encounter, not ideal.
But he makes it work.
Opening kill, takes down Nico.
Anything probably get out of there as well. Yes, you can. They're already out long
They decide, you know, we can't stick around and fight him. He goes having a rough one. Yeah, a couple of maps
None necessarily in his fault this time, but just that that he doesn't get a chance to play the pistol
It's got to be frustrating. All right smoke for the cross wait them minutes
Random bullets. Oh man, they won both pistols and Mirage doesn't look like it'd be happening here on dust to back
Potential here. Okay, give them some sort of floating in the rounds slightly helps them
But they still need more and he will deliver as well Q-Suke.
Oh!
Good double spray down there.
Do you now will find three as he takes down Karagin last.
And now it's all on Q-Suke here looking for the ace clutch of the pistol.
I can't even begin to describe how likely it is, but he does get the first one.
And he can do his sandwiched in.
He definitely can if you fight him one at a time.
That's not the way to go, but steps up.
Takes a big swing.
And we'll be able to bring him down here.
Legacy win the pistol.
I like that legacy
Showing the confidence getting aggressive to start
Keeping Niko down the mud the opening kill then one for the smoke as well
Kizuke fell like he could maybe save the day here himself three kills in total with no bomb plant
The display of skill. He's been fantastic throughout this grand final. Oh, yeah
And we have got a surprise of force by it's gonna be Niko given the AK 47 maybe trying to build up his confidence here
Hell, yes, that means two players will be operating without Kevlar. It really is down to Nico to put on a bit of a clinic here
Smoked down double doors
Well, maybe it's time too dramatic
But if Nico could turn around the confidence now it would be important in a way that stretches way outside of his final
This like Nico needs an experience of having a questionable grand finals and turning it into a great one
Yeah, of course, it's possible. Absolutely, but
But he needs to prove it, he needs to find that rhythm.
Kind of like the idea that they're giving to the AK.
I know people are gonna be maybe memeing about that,
but I think it's not a bad idea.
He said he had to drop it,
so he couldn't use it, he wouldn't be able to buy Kevlar.
So he has to drop it.
I think I said they're trying to build up Niko's confidence
here, getting back into this one.
First interaction towards Shaw, like he said, no Kevlar.
First player goes down, this four-spy is not looking too good.
Last attempt towards Long, Niko get activated here, Tessa certainly can't, Niko with the first headshot.
We need more than that though, Scout has connected, Arts very low on that corner, Niko wants to hunt him down, he's better be right now, yeah.
How do you, you're trying to pre-fire, he knew he was going to get peaked there, almost surprised that nobody else from the legacy side wanted to help out Arts.
Backstab coming in.
There is a backstab, I'm glad you said that, and we're also running the clock a little bit low here, 25 seconds, couldn't find the next kill, that's who instead with two.
with two. It's a fair attempt I would say to get a little bit of a nice or maybe another
kill but Falcons, not I think a bad try to get out long there. Legacy still, they love
this start here. I mean, like we said when they first played Dust2 earlier in the tournament
then we got two rounds total in our first half. Yeah, and that was on the T side. Exactly,
so now both start and then probably go 3-0. Both those rounds they got towards the B bomb
site that they attacked so much in that game because Tess is the new Bianca now
the kickstand isn't here anymore so I mean this brought this up as well it's
okay actually gets out my final shot he took the extra half a second to line up
the headshot but even now I was able to get the job done
It's back for more.
Dude, he's up for the ace.
DeMau and Lato.
Sack team duo for a long time,
but legacy, and it's looking
very, very good here to get in the grand final.
Peaking at all the right times.
3-0 confirmed.
I don't know if we can
get the AWP out.
Okay, Nico could drop it. There we go.
He's gonna have to give that to Monty.
Neem honestly on Dust too, right?
He needs to go nuclear here.
This is a stomping ground for him, it's where he does his best work, it's the Orpus Paradise, as we always say, 0-3 right now, but let's see if he can start a sink as deep as he can for the CT defense.
If anybody could, it would be Monosy, but we'll see if he can activate it. Renade for the cross here.
Send the Erythrone deep up towards the top mid, trying to hold him back.
Did they put out the Molotov in lower dark even though no CT's are there?
That's interesting.
I wonder if that means Falcons will commit more grenades to check in it.
I think Niko's thinking why on earth would they smoke this?
Yeah, there's no one down here.
Because Niko thrown a Molotov to clear out some of these corners.
I think they're realizing now it's unlikely.
But I guess it buys a little bit of time with nothing else.
Okay, plenty of time here Falcons.
Now I need to work with Kog'G, I need to push any smokes, we've learned our lesson from that one.
All the top's going down towards your flashes as well.
And here we go.
Well...
I didn't even get to the top. I don't know how I think we're trying to, I think I got a bit lost in the source there.
I think you're right. Grenade.
It's actually not half bad.
Remember, you don't need to do a ton of damage just enough to make the M4s a one-shot headshot.
That'll do the trick.
Another grenade on top
That did some damage
Okay, 35 seconds
It's to be a fake up towards your and now do you now knows exactly what character is he's dead man walking
See you and they know that it's a fake as well. Yeah, but they can read this
Oh, that was a prime position all right each way outside towards the scaffolding. It's oh, yeah
Okay, how has he done that?
A huge double. Might still not be enough as Nissan has come up with two of his own.
And with just 15 seconds, even a chance here for Nico needs to find the bomb somewhere in the middle.
Eight seconds of the clock. He has to run for the fight. He wants to get the kills instead of finding the bomb, which he had no chance of doing anyway.
Oh, that double kill for Kiyosuke. I thought that was it.
Again, just quite an ugly round there from Falcons. You see they're trying to get their short control lost in the smoke.
They committed a lot of utils, they molotov-sure, they flashed it, tried to get food bumping into each other, and then, yeah, Karagan doesn't realize he's been spotted, then you're right, they knew it was a fake.
Yeah.
They used those waterfall smokes as the mid-to-be approach. Kisuke hits a remarkable double, but is nowhere near enough.
Excellent hold here. On track for the trophy, our legacy.
Four and zero right now.
On the fourth map, they're up against the pistols and the galil.
I have an opportunity to build up resources.
Striker painted a really good picture early on with Falcons having been in six grand finals.
They lost three of them to Vitality.
This is one of the ones that people will think, you must win this.
Of course they lost to Spirit last go around.
Maybe that's even understandable.
People said it's a little bit early with Karrigan.
But right now, against Legacy, this would be an epic upset.
up sets. This round just pistols, the Galil on Kishuke, but you don't expect him to do too much here.
A couple of kills on the bomb plant. I don't know. My favourable. The kind of form. He's showing individually.
Okay, maybe. He could do something with this. You might be right. I do like the way you think.
Art survives the encounter, but could have been a little bit scary.
Niko with the D.Eagle. Let's see what he's got.
We get the bomb plant at the very least.
I mean, this big serviceman tapping away at distance, it's so close, he's nearly brought down.
Ah, well, this email gets one.
Winnable.
Got the P250, he knows, they're gonna get a little bit close here.
Oh, the Nade.
The Nade on over, doesn't even get a chance to touch it.
Instead, Legacy pick up five.
But for what was in the round, you get three kills on a bomb plant.
I mean, that's actually some good damage.
If you have to build some sort of a narrative here on the south-end side, I'm really trying
to.
Yeah, alright, well, there you have it.
They've got the bomb plant. They will have a decent buy at the very least.
They're down 5-0 though.
And what could be the final amount here? You are the heavy favourites coming into this grand final.
You've already beat this team convincingly on routes to this position. You beat them 2-0. There's no problem.
Yeah. 13-9, 13-7 on those two maps that they played earlier in the tournament when Falcons were feeling great.
Yeah, that was the...
...Houpei upper bracket final.
And the fact that Maus didn't make the final, the fact that the Mongols didn't make the final because they lost the legacy, you feel like some of the best teams have been removed.
Falcons, this is it.
Yeah, after losing out in Astana you thought this would be the one, right?
You get to the grand final against Legacy Shaw, who are a great team and difficult to play against, but you think of a festivied Falcons especially taking their map pick to open things up, they go 1-0.
Beautiful storyline as well, you lift the trophy right before the Major.
Yes.
Such a great way to kind of get everything set up.
If anything, we quite the opposite. If you lose in this fashion and you look incredibly weak on your T-sides,
you hate to think about it, but I don't think you're wrong, Henry, unfortunately.
Could have the opposite effect here.
Let's see if they can actually garner some short control this time.
So far, so good.
Very decent.
Still kind of wide open for what they want to do.
Tessus is lurking on that long position. He smoked off for the minute.
Satsun flash straight in his eyes, he can't see a thing.
At least he'll survive falling back here, but yeah, nice grenade to try and get some pressure on that open the middle.
It also isolates Nism, who's playing this position over at the B bomb site very lonely.
If they go for a B split and commit to it, I don't see Nism coming out on top in.
It's almost like a 1 vs 5 for him over there.
Tessas hasn't seen or heard anyone on Long. Must be wondering, where are they?
Tessas is going back in. They're going to throw the smoke. Really signaling that this is going to be that B-split coming out.
Point-back range though. Where's the follow-up? Surely someone's going to be fighting in here. Tessas goes down on Long.
As Lato finds it, we're now at 37 seconds. Modesty gets a kill. Yes. But again, they look into sizes on this T-side.
Where's the follow-through? Where's the explosion? Once you find a bit of an opening now
They're backtracking towards the catwalk position and do now falling back towards the rabbi sees that he knows
He's confronted again. He's been calling Lato. No one's flanking long anymore
Tess is sorry dead from earlier and we're down to 16 seconds away to one click here Lato deletes Niko
Q2k left and you're right no time in the round here some interesting kills towards the end
But legacy will win the round
This again, looking quite flat, running out of time. No real chance to do anything with
it. Powered in 0-6, Tessus 0-6. Niko, a couple of interesting kills in that. Hero AK before,
but still quite quiet for him. And you're right, where's the trade potential there?
You could've come out of middle, though. Plans there, surely you gotta be trying to take that
kill back quickly. It's the AWP as well. That's when you should be swinging around.
You know what, to give some real credit to Sans, and though it's sick, the tactic he
was flashed and then molotov away from that position, they smoke it up and he plays in
front of the smoke.
That's actually insane play from him.
Very well played to be fair, but I really feel like he should have been traded out.
You're right, particularly the one.
Definitely agree with that part, but just to give him some credit here, because we were
critical, I was very critical of him early on.
They've done that same smoke down towards Lower.
Speaking of smokes, deep one in towards the B tunnels.
getting lined up for double-dots here like Kiyosuke, so it's going to be a B-execution
Anders.
There's a B-smoke from Karagin, he'll go out and lurk by himself, 4 players to explode
off this lurk smoke.
If you like this position from Nisendo, I think he's up on the box.
Perfect, it's the perfect answer.
You've got your teammate, Lato, to take the aggro for you as well.
Okay, now he's alone.
Let's see for how long.
Kasus should be pre-firing this one.
He's just pulled out of the grenade, he's still...
Oh man, come on.
Back out with the rifle, he's lost Lato, 7 bullets left.
Anything more, Monacy will take him down.
There was a moment of opportunity there,
but it felt like he could have had another one.
And now, Bisuke's been unleashed.
He takes down Dumau so far.
It feels like maybe 40% of the output in this grand final
has been Kusuke.
I agree.
For a player that represents, you know, 20% of the team.
That's pretty crazy.
This round will be the first of Falcons.
A little bit dicey there, the double kill
skill from this in upon entry felt like it was all would have come crashing down
once again but great mystery here this job of sadism confirms that it's going
to be a save here on the CT side but they're up six and zero this is looking
very promising for their second CAC trophy here in Shanghai
well sometimes winning the first round is the hardest right you get one people
relax a little bit. I know it
sounds like Corbion because it
is. What's the thing is? Yeah,
the first with the heart is you
got to start screaming together
now. This is the most
important round yet. If you can
win this, it breaks the bank of
your opponent and you can build
us some momentum of your own and
start closing that gap. Sounds
around number eight here. Falcons
need to capitalize upon their
previous success. Carrigan as
you go for the long take quickly
here looks like you might be okay I like it it's actually released through it
faster round some more dynamic play out of the two sides but the counterflash is
very good there not only finding the smoke he doesn't get a chance to play
once again that might be around in itself we'll see where they can pull it
back it's gonna be missing three beats towards short test this doesn't even
consider that angle thankfully doesn't get the double one and C in Kiyosuke will
have to go above and beyond yet the pick two players in this team to clutch up
And a 2v4. It might be these two.
Smoked off as Monosy.
Yeah.
Holes back.
That's the perfect counter smoke.
Yeah, cool.
Couldn't have been any better timed.
So what's the play here lads? You've got Molotov, Smokes, flashes available to you a minute on the clock, hoping CT's made mistakes here.
But the thing is, you're gonna play 2-2.
Play deep on the bomb site, make them work for it, make them commit.
Monosy, if you can find this quick kill towards middle, maybe they're onto something, but time really is of the essence to bombs in towards upper.
The last bank goes over and they know as well they hear the scope in the middle right so they know that he's going to be there
Tomorrow's the one listening in
Yeah, because okay, this one is on you if they could win this opening
It's such a nice attempt yet almost prefire that one. What is he caught in the middle?
And i think all chances here are going to be gone one versus four
Yes, this kid is amazing, but his teammates need to help him out. Give him nothing set him up a little bit better
Yeah, they're just waiting for it. They don't want to fight him and why should they?
There's the first one that's so little time on the clock. Lato
picks up two in the round and I think he was the one that flashed for the kill on
Carrigan at the beginning of the round as well. So just a great contribution here.
7-1 on the scoreboard. You mentioned Tessus and Carrigan. The two Danes, I hate to say it.
Go on to say it. We don't have a lot of great Danish players left in Counter-Strike.
What happened Henry? But they're not playing well at the moment.
They're not playing very well right now, that's for sure. 7-1 and that long take again
This looked a little bit flat here, seemed like very easy kills to pick up in the pit position.
An isolated Karagin, native to Hellenback.
He had no one else out with him, he goes down quickly.
The follow-up kill through the smoke was unfortunate I suppose, with a 5-3.
And a very important gun round, he didn't really do anything with it.
Thankfully the money's still pretty strong with the loss bonus.
And winning the round prior.
That's a cool timeout, it's going to be monoscone the AWP.
I think a few bits of UTIL but they have got AKs to go with it.
What's the call they're carrying? You know, brought in.
To win trophies for this team, to get them through.
What sort of game? But it's two now with the clock, though!
Spraying them all down with the AK-47.
They've been absolutely obliterated. Team Falcons once again get nothing done.
In round number nine, they are getting decimated out there.
This is the demow I remember from the major, it's just the confidence that he could bring to a game.
Nobody from the Falcons signed thought that was going to happen.
Time out, yeah. I bet it's called by legacy as well. Let them stew, let them bicker.
How is that just happened? They are making them look very amateur right now.
You don't see that every day Anders.
But in a different world, this is the kind of confidence that Falcons should bring to a game.
This they should have this kind of firepower, but it comes from to mal the legacy sign. Holy shit. That was wild
I said it from that's that's gonna be a I'm sorry. It's you've got you've got nothing left
You've had so many flat rounds and now we say cool. At least we have money
Let's go. Let's pick up the page or smoke the double doors. Let's get fast up short together
They haven't been showing much aggression and of course do now a k-47 one clip
Mosey mulled down nothing but headshots might be the play of the tournament considering the context is the grand final
Potentially the last map to steal this one away from the Balkans and break their money and break them around
Absolutely insane. He's almost at the hundred and sixty ADR behind that last round. I
Really don't know what the Falcons
It feels like they don't know either
They look lost like when that happens. What are you supposed to do?
I don't know. Take off the leashes and let Q2K and all the time play it.
That was the round. That was the loose the round.
It's just like, okay, let's just group up and see if we can trade out kills.
Yeah. We'll put on the leash again then.
I don't have any more answers.
The leash back on.
Oh no.
Okay, I was about to say, they can find an opener.
It's round not impossible to win. We know they're very skilled with the pistols.
They've got Sanzim in an uncomfortable spot.
He needs some backup and he's going to get it.
And we'll be arts answering back yet.
It's still a great working but it's actually looking quite promising for the Falcons.
This could actually be huge. There's still a chance here in the first half of the eco.
He's found a double kill now.
Lato trying to spray them down. Surely he will not be allowed to rip this round away from them.
There is a 1 vs 3 here for Lato. He's already taken down 1.
The bombs are planted. Yeah, but there we go.
And that is the unlikely slacker at long fountains.
A round they probably weren't supposed to win.
If they could get four in the first half, they're still a conversation.
And lifelike restored, any of the life raft right now, but...
Lovely shot to the pistols, we know their talented with those weapons.
They still won away.
Signs of life here, down but not out, definitely need these last two rounds here.
Marnie's starting to be chipped away at his work, see Art and Lato entering with MP90.
and then the BMP 9 to the Satsum will have his AWP, Dumaldo with the rival joined by Nissen
and we're going towards B bombsite. It is a bit looser. It is a bit more on the fly here.
Need to find that trade quickly. Not going to happen one by one. They go in getting
eviscerated once again, Anders. It's looking very convincing. The bomb goes down.
Monacee needs to go huge. And after winning the eco that's what they come up with in the
follow up rounds.
The only way I could excuse this is your, yeah, if you get Nism killed, then it creates the space.
But once you don't, like you said, it's one at a time, there's enough time for the CTs to move from counter utility coming out there.
Then they had to run for the incendiary, and then the MP9's got the advantage.
Yeah.
Because you have to keep moving, and he can just spray you down a range.
It's a mess beyond the leaf for the stage.
9-2, we're honestly hoping for a shot in the middle.
Alright, he's gonna lag later, not that they know that yet, but it's something to start the round with.
Or at least the best that you do.
After winning the partial buy with the pistols,
at least they have cash.
Say that, but looking for double digits,
it's going to be legacy here.
What could be the final map?
A team.
The one CAC last time, it has to be said,
the lineup of Calibre teams
with nowhere near the level we saw here in 2026.
They beat 3D Max in the Grand Slam.
Exactly, right?
And it took all the maps as well.
I think it was a five-max final.
Sure.
They were definitely in the conversation.
It's their home turf in a way.
Defending champions, but the crown of them they seem to love the stage
Best of five against Falcons a team you've already played in this tournament and lost to and they absolutely smashed you
There was no way anyone was thinking yeah best of five that'll be enough to legacy to take them down
But it's this grand final performance and Falcons. We've seen so many times
The fact that Tessus is looking long and they know that because he stepped into the incendiary
That is some good information for legacy to be quite honest with you
Dumao thinking about the HE, he's waiting for the smokes to go up, I think he wants them to smoke for the execute, I think they've read this very well.
This one could be a bit of an attraction perhaps, but oh no smokes are being thrown, they flash their way in, Satsun!
You've got to find him here, he's retreating along and setting up for a bit of a retake.
Yeah we'll have to get a retake now, good stuff from Nico.
nice. He's up to eight kills, you know, there's actually second best of the team right now.
So credit to Nico trying to get his form back.
It's never too late. Three versus four here. Falcons third round must be locked in.
I think Latos about to shoot him in the back down there below dole.
So they lose Nico, but the rest of it is fine.
Latos so long from the earlier leg shot that he can't do this.
Absolutely zero chance. Unfortunately, it will be a third round on the board for Falcons.
one they desperately need it. Signs of life towards the end of Dust 2 here, three.
It's enough, you can make it work. Just for fun. This is just for fun. Pat's in stats.
Falcons get it done though. It's going to be a very difficult, hard to do his journey
into the fifth map here but at least he got something to work with here with the third round
of the board. Just a re-entry. When they played this map earlier it was two rounds on the T sign
for legacy but this legacy team looks like a completely different team so who cares?
That is important context that the T side was not great in that first show.
So but there is a chance as a coach.
I can't prove this but I think legacy in the last go-around they wanted to test
Tessus who's new in the B anchor role.
They went B so much against them and Tessus they're fine.
He actually shut them down.
It's possible Henry that if they want to they can basically follow your advice
which was to hit Kerrigan on the right side of the B bombsite this time is going to be long.
True. I think there are some valuable lessons we'll learn in that Dust 2 excursion.
And I think they won't be making that same mistake again. It was Tess who got like 13 kills in his seat
outside of Dust 2, so you probably want to stay away from that B bombsite. Seems like he's got pretty
good grip on this situation. Nice work from Niko here, like you said. He's finding his form again.
Really going to have to turn it on. At that superstar level, they're going to recover.
Oh, yeah
It's deficit right now still a massive advantage for legacy especially they win the pistol
Have a look at their buy and see if you can work out what they might be up to two smokes a couple of flashes and the Molotov
Hang towards the A side of the map no one towards the tunnels early smoke down towards double doors or Xbox but a lot of things in fact
Okay
On the top two, pushback in a CTs, it might be inquisitive trying to find a one-tap of the USP.
Grant's in mid control here.
A-Split looking very likely, and is through towards Long.
They're going to be flashed out at the long-doors, and Sadson opening things up.
He's going to sell a double.
Carrigan, can he find anything more? He should be able to get this kill.
He needs to reload himself, trying to scramble away!
And it will be Sadson with the triple kill.
This round, unraveling at the seams.
Team Falcons in a 4 versus 2, it's Monosy,
Kaisuke to try and pick up the pieces here.
They have no kit, no utility, both players with Kevlar,
but they have got buckets of skill.
Now's the time to be heroic.
The whole team needs this.
The whole Grand Final could be riding on this one round,
a 2 on 4 for the retake.
I don't even know how you begin this one.
There's already quite a bit of time off the clock,
considering a 10-second defuser jump at 10th and a shut down.
Lato, the hero of this team in the grand final, up to 14 kills now.
He's back on top of the scoreboard behind this one, but it's Sandsen who opened up with three kills.
And I don't know if this is nitpicking too much, but I think Karagin decides to reload,
and he starts two bullets in the pistol. You know, there is a world in which he decides
to hunt that last kill with two bullets. Yeah, he was very low as well.
If he connects one of them to the chest, it might have been enough.
You've already beaten this team in the tournament.
You should be handling them in a best of five.
You want the opening map there, pick.
And then the wheels have fallen off since.
Good shot.
Collateral with the scout there.
It is going to be the force by it has to be.
Great effort, great contribution from Honesty here.
He keeps doing damage, Anders.
It could be enough.
It's unconfirmed damage, I suppose, but let's see what he can do.
Sets up the 5-7s, the MP9s.
Yeah, it makes it very uncomfortable for Legacy, right?
Yeah, this is kind of crazy actually.
You don't know you've done the damage, but Legacy, no.
The problem is, they're going in towards B.
Tess is going to have to do something unbelievably good here.
Matt 10's coming for him.
Two kills in this map so far.
You're going to have to...
They are low.
We'll ban at this stage here, but Sansen just jiggling the corner all the time.
He doesn't commit fully into the swing, so the 5-7 can't really do anything about it.
It's Caragin's going in
Maybe he's suddenly thinking about it. He's falling back. They don't have a flashbang. They're going to have to save
Yeah
They don't know how much damage is done. I think more or less he knows he hit one at least but there's a lot of shop for this smoke
There's a clap
I don't think you can call it two players are very low. You've got to just save this and let it go to 11-3
I suppose as well if they had a flashbang they might have attacked Caragin in there but
They just had nothing
No chance really. So they're going to save two scouts here on the CT side
But again, just finding the details, right?
Once Tessus gets the first one,
Sansen, like he's so well played that he doesn't just,
you know, run in and take the fight,
he's really optimizing that angle and that fight,
so that it's very hard for Tessus to do anything more.
And there's no utility coming up behind Tessus either,
so Sansen doesn't have to worry about any of that.
11 to three, ladies and gentlemen,
it is two rounds away from Legacy taking the grand final
in a three-one fashion.
wouldn't even need the fifth map of Inferno.
True.
Yeah, this is absolutely shocking.
What do you do here? If he falcons, do you invest all the remaining money?
Try and make this one as strong as possible.
You get extra utility. I've seen a few bits and pieces coming through.
He'll save himself.
Around $2,000, Karagin has...
Double scout push in the middle.
Can you drop the Famas, maybe?
And that's not bad, okay? Maybe there's something here.
That's gonna say you need a Dumau style play where somebody just says I am gonna be better in this round
I'm gonna run and kill everybody
That's out on a confidence
We're lacking so badly on the Falcon side and that means you guys destroying something of that crazy shot from him. That's a mad play
Proper Hail Mary Scout rush middle find the one tap. I don't think I've seen it before
No traditional that's for sure. It's a long take
Kisuke will have a chance to have a few more targets in front of him.
Bremen's have double scouts as well. Could be the perfect weapon for the job.
True.
Can he find another headshot? No.
This seems like it's dead. Back to a 4 on 4.
Karagin. Does he get flashed in or they don't have one?
They cannot flash their way through the front.
Hg's to blow it open with Karagin. Good spray.
Up to three kills.
They growl further. Here we go.
Wanna see if he finds the back-to-back headshots.
Dancing and that's how I dare to not to you don't fight him just if you're
Falcons you know he has to show up here so you want to see some discipline and
the experience on this team surely they could do a carry in the double of his own
Falcons just when they needed it the most. Legacy we'll be fighting championship
points just yet. Okay, he's got to believe I suppose and maybe you well after
that scout shot, monosy. Amazing work. Keeps the team alive. They're hanging on by a thread
right now. 11 to 4. You expect the force by a response from legacy. It's quite a potent
one. Three rifles, a Mach 10 in the hand of Dumau.
They've got some utility in towards the tunnels. All five players inside of the map, handers,
suggests we will be seeing the full B execution. You mentioned it before. This was the approach
they took in the group stages against Valkyries and it didn't work out whatsoever.
Yo, here we go. Take us away.
Great flashbang, Tessins.
Can you replicate that earlier form?
Monocin finds a kill, it's looking good.
On the defense, now they're flushing the way over.
Tessins standing tall.
Oh, he's locked it down on the defense and then to tap it all off.
It's Kisuke coming in from the window with the double spray down.
Valkyries, the first sign of life on Dust2
and an absolutely incredible round here.
They need more of this.
Looks like legacy didn't learn that lesson in the speed bomb site
They want some more nice monosie back in our tests this guy who gave from the window as well nice double kill
He's been fantastic for at his grand final has to be the eco now
That's most convincing round we've seen of Falcons this entire map
And now
Almost certainly gonna get six
It is not too late for Falcons to make this comeback definitely not
those sort of rounds are gonna light a fire beneath them. Yeah. Counting out here would be a mistake.
Counting them out now that they've got Karagin world renowned for making these kind of comebacks.
That's a very good point I guess. You would be a fool to doubt him.
All right. Not too exciting. They do back on out. But again like you've been mentioning,
you get to waste some of the CT side utility.
That's what he really can do.
Hoping to show some presence towards Long there.
Hopefully keep a few players towards A.
He's running towards me now.
Hopefully get Akil.
He'll be up against Tess S.
They seem to enjoy his punishment.
He had a really awful dust too.
So I suppose that's another reason
maybe you want to test him.
But last time it was flying for him.
He did very well.
He's got to go off his smoke.
This is going to help out the stats quite nicely.
Not quite the ace, but I'm going to get a couple as well, but well-held.
Great catch as he's taken, money's set into build now.
AK-47s.
Kaniko and Tess SCF on the defense.
Fine position, and to the double kill, gets the triple.
Honestly, bad to back him up.
Right then.
And I'm a full buy.
This is where Art will be tested. Can he hold his nerve?
Can you find that killer call?
They get some championship point here
on the fourth map of our Best of Five Grand Finals at CAC.
Ooh, he spotted that.
Well, he's seen those.
But I think Nielsen's well aware that some of this up as well.
I think he realized he's been locked in that corner.
Trying to just carry him this time.
Two players in lower.
What is this? Boom standards.
Yeah, you can do this.
So, looking right over.
There is a smoke you can land at the top of those doors but CTs have got a ton of information by the way they've confirmed the B is completely clear.
You can see the player is towards upper and lower. Legacy, be aware of that they've sacrificed the entirety of the map.
It kind of just means they have to go up long. They're going to have to do a long take knowing they've been rumbled here to try and go back now through the double doors and go towards C spawn would be a challenging prospect to say the least.
But let's see what the final commitment is going to be here. I would say just the execute that long would be very likely.
I don't hate that, but my problem with this is Falcons have so much utility.
They have a crazy amount of grenades on the CT side.
And I don't think they'll commit on this first smoke.
They're gonna see what the reaction's like first.
They're gonna try and bait out the HE grenades just like this.
Nice.
I like it.
Now, ultimate formation, Cowgirl's gonna be flashed in.
Don't think he sees anyone.
He's in the open though.
Oh, he's gonna get down.
Oh, and then he gets one.
Yeah, so important.
It confirms that they're there.
Oh, there's backstab for him.
Yeah, but the problem is, he's holding for this.
He's gonna weed him again.
He's holding for this, he's been waiting here for 30 seconds and the timing is out quick for him.
He sees the shadow on the ground, he's able to get the headshots and there you see what's the plan now.
He's got them in advantage here, the grenade shots, out for the Falcons.
The bombers still making its way across here, they had three incendiaries but because they pushed up and were aggressive,
now they're not able to use them, but the bombers being planted.
Modesty, he's realized now what's up knows there's gonna be someone behind this box somewhere
Here comes the grenade to throw one top try and force out that player do now he gets out alive
They pushed him into that fight
They said let's go outside with this one and he knocks both of them out
Dumao wears some absolutely unreal sequences here on Dust2, the quad kill from Jor and now
being flushed out of the bomb site, Dome's two of them takes down the off, no problem.
That is magnificent from Dumao. He has found championship point. One more and legacy will
have back-to-back trophies here in Shanghai. It all starts here now. Santim will get legged.
Monacea gonna flash over, short exchange, no player survived for now and Tess says
they want to take him down, they really want to get revenge
That looked like such a long time to wait for the shot there against Monacea but
Kisuke's got the other AWP now
Oh that's not false, off the Xbox, that's obviously not what you're looking for, might not be the end of the world to be honest
Looks serviceable at least, there's a gap in the top
Yeah, still blurring it open
I really want to see
Is he gonna find the timing here? It could be good. Jamal nearly jumps up into it here scary stuff
He does not pull the trigger double orbs set up just to know it now from Falcon. Yes
flash through the middle and
Legacy they've been so decisive. It's been Falcons that have been indecisive on the T side. We've seen them over cooked rounds
down, legacy, all they need is an opening and we know that they're going to pull the trigger
and go for it.
Nice smoke in the middle.
They were setting up for the B split here, I wonder if that smoke's going to cancel it.
We're going back to that B bomb site.
Yeah, but by the time the smoke in the middle fades, it's going to be what, like 20s, 5,
6 seconds.
That's all they've got left.
This is the only move they can make.
Okay.
Chris Cross smokes, go out.
Lurking towards B, it's Tess, that's up close and personal.
Here we go.
Can he get them again?
Oh, Tess is... It's on him.
It's Kisuke, who's here with the ult.
That's a secondary ult over on the side. If Tess doesn't get this, it might be all done.
Only the one kill.
Oh!
Now they're in trouble.
Kisuke, burning in the window, Tess, and shuts him down.
And Monosy and Kariger now trying for the retake.
Huge kill for Monosy. Five seconds on the clock here.
I thought Legacy had been pushed out.
That smoke in the middle really held them back, but they managed to thread the needle one more time now.
And now they're defending.
A couple of kills here and they are the champions in Shanghai.
Lato and Sansen on the other side. The Orbus on Sansen, he's been huge!
They've done this!
And there is the Hestor Legacy!
Defend their title and crown themselves champions in a generational upset
to take down the Falcons.
What a grand final.
Absolute counter-strike entertainment on display.
It all started with Ancient.
It felt like there, legacy, see that map away, there was a chance to actually do this.
They carried on, Maraj was an absolute masterclass, and you have to say Anders, Dumau and Lato,
that tag team duo have been fantastic throughout this entire tournament.
They continue to dominate and take down the absolute favourites in the tournament.
It's been so spicy to watch.
arts being brought into the team he's revitalized and they look so hot right now at the brink of
the major as well legacy what a what a treat to be seeing them in this way for the Falcons of
course this is a bit of a bit of a walk to the confidants a bit of a shock to the system really
but on the legacy side now we've got to give it up for them here as they leave the trophy once again
Defending their title in Shanghai is fantastic work coming out of legacy. What a team.
I want to get the crowd on their side. They learned this. Save of the moment. Absolutely true.
What a performance and it's taken away. Ladies and gentlemen, you've got to give it up for them
here. They're not sure who to lift it first, but your champions in Shanghai for CAC 2026.
it is gonna be legacy once again defending that title taking down one of the
most positive teams in the world. You've got to go up in here. Your finalist, your champion is legacy.
Amazing scenes there in Shanghai. They defend their title. They raise the CAC trophy once again.
We've got to give it up for Legacy. What a performance against Falcons.
It felt like Falcons just lost any edge they had off the ancient.
And yeah, unfortunately for them, they go home with second place.
Strike and Blair, let me get your initial reactions to this huge win for Legacy.
The Shanghai surprise, you might even call it follow.
But yes, absolutely, Legacy. Incredible run from them, incredible win.
This was the David vs Goliath Grand Finals.
Like, let's not try and spin this round.
Like, Falcons were the heavy favourites for everyone watching him.
But then, Legacy, the final two-maps Mirage,
complete domination and Dostu, striker,
they played like they were the favourites.
Lato, one-two combo, and of course, Legacy,
went a very well deserved win.
I think that's such a good way to put it, Bla.
That's exactly what I was going to say.
You know, you can focus on obviously Falcons dropping the ball,
but I would much rather say that Legacy is the one
who took it into their hands and made sure that it was theirs, it was their trophy, right?
Exactly what some of those aggressive players like, this is exactly what they want out of the
team, like, tokens to come up with, you know, in key moments, cut moments. Obviously, they're
running to high there, like, each one at this point, you know, but that they go for this,
for this mid-push, you know, to kind of deal the final blow, realistically. I mean, that was where
it was decided already. And let's not also forget about the one guy we really haven't had a chance
to talk about a lot. It's Arch, right? He's been kind of the wilderness, a Brazilian counter-strike,
like having less fury coming back into fluxor,
that didn't quite work out.
But we do have an interview with the man himself right now,
Paul.
You helped the team to tear the other team apart.
Where did you get the confidence from?
Demo, today in the grand final,
you completely tore apart the opponent's defenses.
Where does that fearless confidence come from?
I think we just went too much back to back.
And I do work too excited for this final.
I think nothing could break our confidence in each other, and our confidence in our game.
So I just keep believing, believing, and playing, and as soon as everything would come.
I think we are in a different competition.
We have a summary of our experience.
We believe in our teammates.
We fight with our teammates.
When we get into the game together,
we feel our confidence is always there.
It's like we are always there.
We believe in our teammates.
Our teammates give us confidence.
That's great, Zumao.
Next, we want to ask you a question.
Listen.
For you,
the last three-point draw for today's competition
What is the key point that you think winning this championship?
pretty good with the Vitos and I think it's gonna be all right because of that.
Of course, the first map is really hard to play.
Although we didn't win the first map,
but actually everything is in our control,
in our rhythm.
So the game we played later is getting better and better.
Congratulations, Miss.
Also, we want to ask Lato.
Lato, you are very good in the small group game.
and also as the last year's FNVP of the year,
so you have not succeeded yet.
I would like to ask,
what was your thought at the last minute of the last round?
Datto, you successfully defended your title.
Last CAC 2025, you were the FNVP.
You had an incredible run.
Especially this tournament, you also played really confident.
We want to ask you about what was going through your mind
your mind at the very end of the the timing when when you know you're gonna
take the series when you know you're gonna take the champion defending your
title. I don't know what to say because we play against a great team the Falcons
but in my mind always we put the team in the high and say let's go guys we can
And that's it, we won the back-to-back and I would like to say thank you for the crowd
to support us every time and thank you so much guys, appreciate it.
He said, actually I don't know what else I can say, how I can describe it,
but I think my teammates, when we were in the game,
We cheer each other up.
We encourage each other with our emotions.
We are so happy to be on the stage where we can win the CAC twice in a row.
Congratulations, Leto.
Art, after Phyria, we're very happy to see that you lift up the trophy again here, with your team.
We want to ask you, under your leadership, to another champion here in Shanghai, even taking down the seemingly unstoppable Falcons.
What does this title mean for you, career, for your career, for you, for your team?
It means everything. I think we had some struggles in the past, but we managed to, as a team, come back and play very good.
So I have no words, I'm very happy.
I feel very happy. We had some challenges and difficulties, but we defeated them.
I'm here with my teammates. We can win this champion. I'm very happy.
Congratulations, Sassin.
Sassin, you have to know that you have to face the world's top sniper, Monos.
You're under this huge pressure. You're holding back.
What's your feeling now? What do you want to share with us?
The opera on the other side is Monezzi, the best opera in the world, in my opinion.
But I think the game is 5-5, you know, it's about the best team, not the best opera.
So yeah, we lose the first map, but we talk in the backstage to guys, come on, let's go,
let's go back, let's get this back-to-back on China.
And yeah, I'm so happy, so happy with my team, everyone plays so well.
And yeah, let's go, let's go.
He said,
Monancey is the strongest AWPer in the world.
He thinks that this is a 5v5 game.
He is not a character who can decide the direction of the game.
He has his teammates in the game.
Although they lost the first game,
they were still cheering for each other after the first game.
They were still cheering for each other.
They said,
we can do it.
We can turn the tables.
We can fight back.
They cheered for each other.
I think you are the one of the best offers now.
Thank you, Sassi.
Finally, we have a coach.
ADR, come here.
We need to talk to the coach.
of transformation did this team go through during the CAC.
China, thank you for so much love.
Woo, we love you!
Woo!
Thank you, thank you, ADIYA's enthusiasm.
Although he didn't answer our questions,
but we also felt the joy of this moment.
Everyone, I think, although this answer is not as expected,
everything is still not in the right mind.
接下来我们要有请冠军团队跟赛场这边这边所有的观众一起合影
我们要请各位拿出手机打开你们的闪光灯好吗
好的那我们先有请我们的选手来到舞台中央
Please get together at the center stage.
We're going to take a big selfie group photo with all the audience with the strong support here in the crowd.
to the moment with the crowd.
Tide Bangla, indeed, thank you so much,
Jang Bae, D.A.V.E, for that post-match
into your great years with the players
and the coach as well.
Legacy obviously over the moon right now.
Demal, in fact, was in tears,
said that nothing could break their confidence.
I'm not surprised considering he had a storming last series
and so did Lato, especially Lato.
Well, that's what we're going to talk about now
because I think unequivocally the MVP of the tournament,
I think there's no denying that at this point.
129 for the tournament, but it was the final
where he really locked it in, it was 152 final,
and then nine clutches overall for the tournament,
four of them in this final.
So that's...
I mean, he was a different smaker.
So much impact.
Especially that ancient gamer.
That was the backbreaker.
And he was also, guess who it was,
who Nico completed with the against,
it was Lato himself.
Absolutely deserved.
1.294, the entire tournament part of it.
The only one above it is Insani,
who had an incredible group run.
Let's also not forget, apart from Mao Zi, they played every other solid team in this event.
They took down the favourites that is Falcons.
They took down the other favourites on the other side of the bracket, their side of the bracket,
which is the Mongols as well.
So, an incredible run from Legacy.
I won't lie, I wasn't a believer, but they proved everyone wrong.
Yeah, revenge against Falcons has got to feel sweet.
Nissan referenced composure, sort of in line with the Mao.
I do think that's a good word to use for how legacy conducted themselves on the server.
Very rarely across this final, best of five, did they look uncomfortable, Striker?
I also have to say, I kind of have to combat the notion that this is like the classic arts team, right?
Where they're just doing a lot of crazy stuff.
That's not what was happening in the final.
It's not how they won this tournament at all, even the last two series, even the MIBR one.
In groups, yes, it was getting a little bit chaotic, but once they got down to the playoffs,
I think it was solid CS that they actually brought it with, if there was some sort of aggression, usually it was very calculated, very team-based.
You know, there wasn't some crazy pushes through smokes or anything like that, so that's what I was impressed with throughout this playoffs run from legacy, really.
And even they would throw in a couple of jabs right there, like we saw that Dumar around to which short, but he did have backup in the form of his teammate pushing up there as well.
So even when aggression was coming in, it was working in tandem together.
and a one threat. The common threat we've seen so many times in all these retakes when they're
going to be taking these fights always together, waiting for the utility, no overextension. So
they were the better team today. This wasn't just a Falcons capitulation. It was the side
of legacy, things were very, very solid. Counter-Strike of course helped out by the fact that
Lato and Dumal delivered this coming into this event, coming into even Atlanta. You're like,
you're looking at the results in Brazil and you're like, yeah, you guys are pretty solid
with regional competition. You've been struggling a bit overall up and down.
Coming to Atlanta, they look good. Coming over here to Shanghai, they look even better. So
if this is the way they're going to be ramping up into the season, it's a good sign for them.
Staying on the topic of art said that the trophy meant everything to him. I can imagine,
yeah, that's putting it lightly. It's huge for him to be able to lift the trophy with this team.
And it is a massive recovery of his career in general to come back to this legacy team and come
come away with a pretty big tournament victory, right?
Because last year, it wasn't him.
It was when Lux was still in the team, right?
And it took a few months for them to kind of cool off
from that victory and realize, okay,
maybe we do need something else.
And they found it in an art,
who I think a lot of people probably forgot about,
that he could still be somebody who some of the top tier
Brazilian teams could bring in
as like a potential solution, right?
So I think for him, a really big story.
And it's also just touching upon interview
give HLTV yesterday where he said like I'm a different leader right now. I was
you know I was an IGL back in his calling for fury but he's in all these
like 30 years of age right now and he's like I've grown as a person as an
individual as well in the server outside of the server and he's like I want to
get these young guns the average age is like 22 or something or for the rest of
the players to the next level so to speak and I I believe he is delivered on
that account you know he's been again in the wilderness of Brazilian
Counter-Strike with a plethora of players to kind of pick and choose from. I
I was surprised when he came in, but I would like this is not the old R that Yanko used to hate.
This is a new art. I like what it's bringing to the table and how it's making every piece click so well.
I feel like we haven't seen the ceiling here at all, either, for Lexi. I feel like there's even more to come
and that their future is looking very bright, Striker and Blair.
Look, this comes before the major, right? And it was sort of the same thing last time when we saw them coming to the major.
Obviously, it didn't work out so well back in Budapest in the end, so I'm curious whether they can kind of
build upon this this time around because obviously last time yes a big story again but but then it
kind of wanes towards the end of the year and the beginning of the year before they brought in
brought in art so this time I do think that it was a bit more of a like a stronger victory maybe
for the team I think the opposition was a lot stronger this CAC compared to the last one especially
with the Falcons victory it just gives them so much confidence heading into into a major that
you know it's realistically starting in two weeks time and it's also the fact that they've done this
is now in back to back events across two continents, right?
That's not an easy thing to do.
Even Atlanta, they had such a pretty solid run overall.
So the fact that they are consistently delivering
and punching above the weight,
this is a team I can start to believe into.
At least deal a bit of damage come the major.
Striker, Blair, we're pretty much ready to close things out.
Is there anything else that you'd like to say before
I let us all go?
I don't want to touch on one final thing.
It is kind of funny that the entire conversation
with Falcons has been, oh, Kiyosuke,
that's not delivering in the playoffs.
He delivered in this playoff.
He was right behind Lato when it comes to impact,
his frag output, everything.
But man, everyone else, Niko had a miserable game.
And well, another final for Modesty,
which is not able to close out.
What else can I say?
Yeah, seven lost finals in a row for Modesty
in the Falcons jersey.
I think it's eight in a row because he also
lost the Bucharest one just before the switch.
Two Falcons with when Niko came over, right?
So it's a rough look for Falcons, especially
before the major.
It does come back against the backdrop of the fact that Kerrigan's not had a lot of time in this team.
And obviously their playbook wasn't as deep as they would possibly imagine.
And we saw some of the cracks in the team come through in the playoffs when the pressure came on to them.
So I think that's effectively what ended up costing them this final as much as the pressure that was on them.
And that we know that they can crumble under.
And with that said, as always, gentlemen, thank you so much for your thoughts.
Thank you to all of you at home for joining us.
What a tournament it has been.
And our CS Asia Championships, 2026 champions are legacy.
Much love and peace, and we'll see you next time.