PGL_CS2
[B] Legacy vs. Inner Circle - PGL Bucharest 2026 - Group Stage: Round 2 Low Match (0-1)
04-06-2026 · 11h 10m
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The bomb's down to 15, spots one on the bomb side floor, the flashbang's a perfect
Nice rowing, a lot of trouble here that does...
What?!
Needed a full-coup this one, high ground as well, Jukes goes down, locks, trying to recover it here, cemetery comes in with a deagle,
Road is showing his back, unfortunately, only 10 seconds left, he's got...
OHHHHHH!
Shots as well!
And there's a chance he's going to recover that M4.
Nice shot from Miyabi, he continues that strong form, so he doesn't get taken down here as he
gets himself a lovely hat right here.
Make it a quad kill.
And they're pushing them.
I do love this from the T side, but it almost backfires.
I like the idea of catching the CTs before they can even set up the retake here.
Damage it's not over yet stay against the second player as well a triple
Make a walk no one moves in finally over the top through the window
Don't you not getting credit fault on a double a triple kill from fault and it's all on no
Tries an item, but he's out of bullets and both comes in with a 4k on the retake
But a 3-0 lead for focus. It's a fantastic story
And you know it comes back to that conversation you had yesterday
You know, if- if Paravrish... Oh my God! Okay, Peltianot!
I think I loaded it to a Paravrish, just a time. No, no.
Open the utility, because he's making... Ah! Okay! Peltianot! Batters them!
Oh, walking out.
He's already deep towards the side. He's in yo's.
Deagle! Okay, little taste of the Mongolian Deagle.
It's... Oh my God!
Okay collateral for 910.
It's done really.
Oh my god, what a round from 910 and no reaction from anyone.
A ball attempted, there's Maka that cleans up the mess.
He shows us the speed, Maka misses the mix.
A swing from Red she gets him across.
He's departing a bomb now.
Maka goes!
Maka connects! Jumping no stone!
It's...it shows up on the screen.
Probably gonna fly.
They're very close.
Oh, he threw a snap.
Both reach on it.
Blast it for number three.
3, 2, 1, 3.
Oh, snap with the ace.
You see that?
Yeah, it was perfect.
This round's over, everybody.
B bomb site is helpful.
4 to 5, that's all.
They're in B, the bomb will go down.
Oh!
That's B 250 from downtown.
Fast flying from electronic,
I think you should have their backs turned here.
Captures the planner, exposed.
Very good timing on that flank.
A nice activation.
He's got an electronic.
Oh, blam!
With a quick spin.
That's fine.
This is a run.
They could lose another one.
They could lose another one!
It's a simple.
So we're now 3D war.
Saving clutch for full.
Oh, electrolyte, he's got three.
Tuck that clutch.
Nice mid-nice.
Find the second kill on zero, fix.
Yeah, he's gonna close this.
Yeah, that's enough to kill up these from each of the pistols.
Ah, Lotto can't collect a second one, so miss him.
The one versus two, the duel.
Good morning Counter-Strike fans, we're live!
We're going to try and get the
best to the playoffs. Hey, well,
a bit more counter strategy play
before we can get there on the
day number three for everybody
playing at home might feel that
the days are endless with all
this major qualification. Yes,
happening. The major
qualification is done. Everyone's
qualified. Everyone's
qualified or not qualified.
If your face I saw the
spectacular. Yeah, it's
If your face I saw the 32 teams that two teams
Yes, and I was telling you about my spreadsheet
Yeah, Chad has been very spreadsheet. Yeah, very spreadsheet focused in the last couple of hours
Kind of like a spreadsheet. How many of these teams are at the major?
one two three
Three three three legacy my VR and energy. That's what we've got to look forward to we've got legacy my VR
a bit of a Brazilian battle. Now that's interesting. This is actually what I'm looking at right now. So my
spreadsheet for those people playing at home is essentially all teams per stage and region
and the teams that they have either won or lost against in 2026. Just not full this names they've
played. Yes. So not like I haven't put if you've played against red knits 10 times. I haven't written
red knits 10 times but I've written red knits. And if they've lost to them once would you
Yeah, it's just to show, I'm calling it body of work, right?
The body of work of 2026 for the teams who qualified for the major.
For example, Legacy's body of work, which I was just doing, would be wins against Game
Hunters, MIBR, NIP, G2, ParaVision, Monty, Astralis, Navi, Yawara, Audic, and GamingGladiate.
Honestly, there's some names in there.
With the losses, would have been against Sharks, MIBR, BC Game, Foot, Aurora, and
9Z.
through M.I.B.R.
Yes, but they also have beaten M.I.B.R.
Yeah, so it goes both ways.
So we actually are very interested to see how that one can transpires.
We've got NRGI ballers.
I'm very excited just because I probably haven't cast the J.W. game since about 2016.
Okay.
That is 10 years ago.
Yeah.
So it's been a while.
And I was very excited to be seeing that young man in the server.
Yeah.
So a young man came out of my mouth.
How old do you think J.W. is?
29.
really 36 one of the pig somewhere in the middle 33 you got closer with that
one he's 31 but he's still going yeah he is he's kind of like crims that the
eternal sweet number since crimson's like only 28 that's what freaks me out I
think crimson's also about 31 now he's pretty good old 32 33 yeah he's not
28 what is 31 Freddy now this is Swiss if you guys look over to the a stream
right now Henry might be on explaining it to you but we can do our best over
here now you start the tone off with all 16 teams in the same bucket as the bucket over there on the
left kind of like a bucket of crabs and everyone's scrambling to get out of the bucket right now
sometimes you scramble too hard and you end up at the bottom of the bucket that's where for example
yesterday 3d max for taking on voca or phase were forfeit losing to wildcard yeah but sometimes
you're scrambling hard and you get more to the tippy top of the bracket and that's where
your foot and you're owning nrg in a 2o type of thing but sometimes you're a crab who likes to
weight. And that's what we find ourselves today with today's matches. The crabs who are 1-1.
The crabs that have not wriggled too hard but not wriggled enough. Yes, these are those crabs.
Yes. Okay, so this is our bucket of crabs for today's indulgence. So two of our games are of
those crabs. Yes, two from that crab bucket. We've got legacy memory of them. What do you like?
What do you like the most though? Is it what's your favorite game? Three of Max probably.
I'll have our buckets three rounds max at the moment is it good for those boys?
I keep forgetting who they are now. Okay, probably a legacy. Yeah, or NIG eyeballs. Yeah. Yeah, one of the two.
Well, we've won today on the beach. We got the best two games, man. And that's because we get the crabs.
Who have you got?
Hello everybody in Twitch chat as well.
Who else have we got?
I mean any recognizable names. I haven't seen Peachoy in the industry.
Peachoy? We've got RM, chat to RM one time.
It has to, the person is Matt, Matt's big store.
Matt's big store.
Just a little, I've seen them in chat before.
Dim Son's back.
Except Dim Son's back.
So it's great to see everybody coming back for this match.
Kamistrak ahead of us right now, but we'll get into it.
Good morning, man.
So a few tidbits I suppose to keep in mind,
one of which legacy changing roster this season,
they brought in Alton to replace Lux as in-game leader. They've had some more flash in the
pan type results recently with their little foray over to Europe, where we saw them at
the EPL and they were taking down the scouts there and everyone was like, oh, okay, we
gotta worry about these guys again. On the other side of the server, we have MIBR who
before this event hadn't gotten a win against a European opponent all year, because they
hadn't played against a European opponent all year. So they started off with the
loss to Astralis, but then they beat BCG, Simple's boys yesterday, two to one,
They have a European player their own it's LNT being game leader and they've got young like Clint from Russia in the team on the AWP as well
So it's a Brazilian mix. It's kind of like the furia method. We're calling it the furia method
They still haven't sanny. He's great
Ben and Xero had some nice moments yesterday right now had a couple of crisp kills. Yeah
No, I mean if anything I'm intrigued to see you know what the ceiling is
Like this from MLV I think there was some especially that T side I was it like I had aberrations
you know, these new gen ITLs, the Swedes, ETR, LNZ, three letters and about three calls, but they're good, but they're good calls.
Yeah, I think, was it direct calling?
Yes, yeah, it was, it was, it was that pattern calling where they just hit A like six times, conditioned them, and then they could just play with this with their rotations.
Well, it's interesting today with the head to head we have right, obviously we know that Art's left to some of his crazy moves, but it's a little bit more tempered, and he also has a mad man in the side cut with him, Duma, who loves to push as well.
It is tempered though, isn't it?
It is much more. Well, you have to. It was like James the other way, you know, it can't all be passive.
We've got to mix it somewhere in between. So, there's your Vito.
It's a big harder, isn't it? He's got a big melon like I do.
So, we've got the Inferno-Arrage Nuke-Mountpool. Dust 2 and Ubisoft first wave bands.
That's to be expected. Ancient overpass going out in the second wave,
and then Nuke being that third and decided if we need to get there.
Now, I did mention they have played against each other this year, and it's gone both ways.
But that happened at the same tournament, and that was at the start of the year.
So the one that was actually the more important victory was MIBR of the legacy in the final of the Rush B Summit season one
Actually, so consolidation final so for the third place
One thing that I just want to talk about while it's on screen is the fact that you know with the 10 wins one loss
MIBR did not elect to pick ancient as their map instead going for this
Reasonable inferno, but it did give legacy chance to ban it
I'm curious as to whether or not they picked inferno for their own strengths
or if they have deemed it weaker by their own analytical standards?
It could be something to do with the respectful legacy.
You take a look at legacies run on Ancient as well,
and it's not too shabby that it wins against the Shrouders, Monty and NIP
in recent history of EPL, so there's some European opponents.
Whereas on the other side, again, it's a haven't really played against too many.
Maybe feeling as well, it's easier to temper the chaos on Inferno
than it is on Ancient, which I think is fair.
Mm-hmm very late as long as if you don't engage the banana nonsense. You can avoid the banana nonsense
Chakes out. So if you ever guys don't want to be in
The tough time just avoid the tough time just avoid the tough time all together tough time, right?
It's that simple. It's like turning off your screen
Yeah, but what happens that words what happened to great and determination just great when they grit
I was watching this is a really nice
like Instagram real guy does interviews with these kids and I'm not
sometimes inspired by what these kids are saying. So what do you mean boy and it's like you're actually
great you know. How old is this kid? Really? I don't know how old old kids are.
Yeah you don't really. My perception of time is warped you know like I don't know. A two year old or
three year old. Maybe he was seven. How old is this? He was talking. The three year old's talk a little bit.
No, but he was having like a proper conversation was probably closer to ten then no boy was small. He's a small. Yeah
But boys don't start really getting that grace until the mid teams. All right. Well, that's the end of that segment
We're gonna move into the inferno segment for today. How old is that child?
Yeah, I'm gonna find it
You know, I could tell you to be well parented. Yeah
I'm gonna need shoes for yeah, and she you can have a chat with her, but she's about
six foot seven. So, she's very
tall. Girls go quicker. Art
responsible for middle. He's
going to be getting this info
safely. I think here it comes.
Yep. I like the setup though.
The fact that he's just taking
the glance from long. You might
not be expecting a passive
setup on the other side of
things. It's been the pit
balcony. Yeah, we are wrapping.
Oh, he's done well, does very well.
Taps the head of Venom Zera, gets back to sight.
K, I'll look at the back one into the smoke and steal the pit players
and now finally Brenno with an airhead shot that's opened up the sight.
Should see a plant here.
Bare minimum.
Got back though, looking good.
Yes, good clicks from Sassin as well, missing with the chip.
The strategy got them a bomb plant.
Yes, it did.
It did.
So it should be a pretty tidy force coming up to the nays.
I just keep reflecting on my spreadsheet.
not because I think it looks pretty with the colors but because I think it's
actually quite interesting at this reflection point of the season to take
a look at it's exactly what it is it's exactly what it is
MIBR essentially got to the major by just beating Brazilian teams which is
fine it's it's a regional qualifier but I think then you know if your legacy
you should be putting these guys in their place to some degree.
Because you lost to them to start the year essentially.
But you've been hanging out with the European teams at the Cool Kids table for a while now, you know, legacy.
Yes, I think that the thing is we have higher expectations for legacy.
So the domestic matchup is going to be familiar for MIBI and the fact that hey, we're playing against other Brazilians.
Brazilians, but in terms the caliber of Counter-Strike we have seen legacy show
Better form against better opponents in 2026 so take that as you were or as you will
Or as you want because we're going into a B execute right now to play a CT site
While we are to delay the boost is in play
I'm loving that new name obviously thrown from like seven different spots
And then he's gonna keep nine and he'll go ahead of that CT smoke.
Lato! Spams away for another one to climb.
Looks like the bomb plant might go down again.
So similar to the pistol, but I think sort of aside from a killer to...
You know what I get, might be a real good deal of voicing this one.
Here comes Art, bit of a team flash situation.
Actually, no, that came from the side. Excuse me.
Doesn't lead to anything, though.
He'll get some man, doesn't he?
Breno does his best, but we'll go down.
It's the same. Breno gets a kill.
Breno gets a plant.
I am interested to see this moment was in pool. I think as it was thrown. Am I be out carbon in
Headbutted into
An orc of corridor there, but all good
For people
Interested I see some people having the conversation invader 1989. You must be turning 37 this year
Yeah.
The M phase will be playing today.
Yeah.
Against Inner Circle.
They will be competing.
That is what we have received word upon.
So, I don't know how they're going to play.
With their heart and tatters.
But, they'll give it a go.
Play this now.
It's a grit.
That's what I'm saying.
What do you want to listen to?
There you go, from the MLB hour, there you go.
Got a few of those brought down into round number three.
Not to be confused with the deco, of course.
Russian streamer.
Which does sound like he does.
Gave the old Russian steamer.
Yeah, steamer. That's something else.
Yeah, there's something else.
How do you know her?
RSSLL underscore underscore pointing out sands in second round AWP. Yeah, there is there is some keen eyes into its chat
People are watching people are paying attention
There's visual and audio watches and listeners great to have you both
But it's a regular
No, I've decided there isn't one v five situation with a unarmed Desert Eagle. You just want one. That's why you bought it
you bought it for what? It's Linus your highness. No, we get it. Take what you get which is the one.
And now we get the gun rounds. So let's see what the tempo of battle will look like as MIVR
equipped their guns. Klim will be coming in with the AK-47 AWP in the early exchange between
Saabtian and Klim. No but how nice is this right? CT side you've got your AWP out already
You've got a techno and full-nades armor and five grand in the bank. It's pretty good. That's a good feeling
Okay, what is that approach gonna be we're seeing top mid lurks smoke and
You know the pixel to stand on as well
Yeah, that's a sad start for her art. I wonder if it's going to have any ramifications because
you know, they are going to be weaker now on that, what looks like the B side of Gamble
Day 3. Can I still call it a gamble when it's not the whole team?
Yeah. Yeah.
We just like the expected amount of rounds in a map. We have expected setups, right?
And that's just the way she goes. So you're expecting to start three strong
B but then finish with three players a or not even finish mid down drop some needs for him
Okay, so you've got flash bang line up
Then I'm gonna be entering and the setup is not good because if the mid crossfire doesn't win out
They will lose to the kid waterfall. Yeah, you have to win out mid fight cleanly
Well, no need more. Yeah, this in drops back. I mean, this is actually quite a good spot
He's giving me a good place to deal with this bill. Get the first kill, make him.
Funnel the man, got a great slash work.
Sends them out for success. It's you, kill, coming into my lens.
These mollies spread. The still-do-mal gets two.
He's gonna get run out of his PC, 50, somehow still alive.
Brought down by Clip.
25 or 20 now.
Two of them.
He's coming in, but he will get the bomb down safely,
and that feels like it should be round for Lago to retake this.
He will give it a look.
He could get a burst on the uncrouch, and he has it.
Clim, tight on the mini pit, and then Zeon's sight.
All right, go, go, go, go.
Nice head shot.
Oh!
That's a clutch.
Oh, a splat, oh, mate.
Their brain blown out of the back of their head
with that one.
4-0, what a retake.
That was lovely.
Really, really nice.
It's not a nuance to that.
Just laser beam with the A4.
Popped him.
Wow.
But it looked like he was in full control the whole time.
No stress whatsoever.
Well, Art's not going to be spewing about that one.
True. Let's see if we can get away with an aggressive play.
It doesn't have to be straight into this one.
But every round at MIBR, they're getting in and they're getting the bomb down.
So free out of the four rounds, they've been able to achieve the goal of planting.
You don't go there early.
You can avoid the craft.
Yeah, stay out of the bucket
Stay out of the bucket
Flash, maybe? Nah, right. Okay, let's go.
Brando vs. Nysim
And...
Nysim, you're not gonna be too happy. You didn't find the headshot.
I think it's in the angle as well.
I think if the cave jumps on the sofa, maybe he doesn't get spotted.
I don't know, yeah.
He calls it Claire in his head and then...
because you're susceptible to a little bit of hole, but another opening death.
This time not on arc.
They've got top banana control.
They don't have bracket, but they do have boiler and holes.
There's boost being illustrated.
Land of the hero of the last.
To die is arc.
It's not to funnel over towards this B bomb site.
Sounds on the long side.
There's no key block, so the vision will be maintained.
The defense is in the wrong place for this one.
motor smoke does he play ahead of it you'll have to go in his site will he's
gonna have to go bananas crazy yeah not gonna be easy to sound like a flash
you took so close hey all right four to one you're gonna lose one eventually
let's have she goes that's counter straight you can't win them all
Pokemon is you gotta catch them all, but did we ever?
Oh, we did.
So a lot of you did.
We did.
You did finish the games.
We caught them all.
I still miss the Pokédex.
I had like an actual physical Pokédex.
Don't know where I got it on holiday somewhere.
Was it red?
Yeah, it was cool man.
And I think I could type in the like the code
and it would show me like a little picture of the Pokemon.
Okay.
When it was just the original 250 or whatever.
Yeah, the original 670.
Well, he found him. Cost him his M4.
Yeah. I'm not sure where he was going.
There you have it. 4-1. MIBR are on the board.
And that's good because if they had another round where they found a clean opening kill,
but were unable to convert off the back of it, that would be very worrying sight.
So good stuff for MIBR. Get underway now.
One more of those and they can...
I wasn't going to say break the bank balance, but it doesn't really appear to be that way, does it?
No, sir.
So there's residual cash on a couple of members.
Art has opted to come in with an MP9.
He could have been dropped at M4.
This one's going to potentially be a quicker move towards A, an extra body in second mid.
So this is either just the opening game, but again it's just doing his own thing.
Oh, he loves the mind game.
Nice, nice.
What are we doing?
It's gonna work.
It's gonna work.
He's gonna get to the backstab if he starts the search.
That's the short side.
Now he activates.
Got to on his plate.
Stopper duty.
He gets the first.
Takes the head off finds the upgraded to five on four.
The fact he sticks around as well.
sticks around as well. He's playing his game isn't he? I think you know it's great to have
tricks and these little moves. I have no problems with them. I think it's very important you need
to have it at the highest level of Counter Strike. It just feels eventually you run out of them.
So if your whole game is just tricks, you know your bag will run dry. I just think it shows
his personality. I think I love that this game has such enough depth. But you can see a player's
personality in their in their gameplay decision making. It's not just, there's not one answer
into how to play around.
This is a 3D3 retake of the B site where there is another smoke to replenish CT spawn.
Is it a fuse kit available on sands in the aura?
Still.
This is a very tough retake.
What's wrong with just having another go next round?
I think because it's a 3D3.
Oh, you've had your chance.
The rod is in the water, but the rod has just narrowly missed the fish.
Because that's what you do with the rod is you're looking for fish.
It's kind of like a spear.
Yeah, a spear, maybe it's more of a spearfishing.
It's a spearfishing.
The spear tip is in the water.
Well, it's a broken spear.
The fish actually just ripped your whole spear.
Yeah, blood thirsty.
Which are fish.
They are fish, sharks are fish.
Yeah, sharks are fish.
So when that shark in King of Finding Nemo says,
fish are friends, not food, is it Finding Nemo?
I think so.
Bruce, my name's Bruce.
Sharks are fish.
Who is this fish of friends not food?
Yes, shark's a fish.
He's just like saying he's friends with himself.
Yeah.
All right.
Squirrel.
Yeah.
Because I don't know if that's shark eating fish,
but sharks are fish too.
But she can do chicken too, so.
Sharks like bigger fish like whales and seals.
Yeah, seals, I bet they taste deep.
They're blubber.
This one to break in MIBR.
Is this the last round of reading?
No!
Is this a replay?
Andre, if you're trolling us right now, if you're just replaying last round, these guys are talking about sharks and fish.
They'll never know that this is the same round.
I thought they braved the box.
Even the buff up. This is a tough round. Surely they've got the four.
So lucky. That looks like it should have done damage.
And he's probably got more. Let's have a look, little cache of maids.
Yep, scooped up a nice extra smoke.
There's a third on its way from this end, so they are expecting action on the B-boxer.
Yeah, arts clearing second medium. I didn't get the rotation as sad as it is flashes in the moment.
They're pushing through off the flashes.
So they're looking to try to disrupt with a full push.
Nice headshot.
Oh!
Chancellor comes in. Now onto the 5-7, but denied.
but denied, Brenner pulls him back into the two on two,
ready for contention to make this a one round game.
Ford position, adopted by Venom Zera,
aren't approaching from the banana side
and he's still got spawn for Sadzim.
Not easy clear for an AWP.
Maybe Art can pull him away,
hoping for a jiggle out of the new box player,
still again with these disadvantage
or rather uncomfortable retake scenarios.
Art still searching, starts to make noise,
hoping to pull the attention away,
But don't barrel. Barrel is spotty.
Understands the setup. The timing's not good.
Brought down. Art will have to dip out.
Try and maintain that collage for the next, but MIBR,
you can't deny that they're getting into bomb sites.
You know, for the first couple of rounds, the Legacy 1,
they were still getting into bomb sites.
And now, they're faking some turns of the game.
So we have to be partial behind this AK.
But, yeah, I think problems two-fold.
Obviously giving away the opening in that other round, but this is where that's not great, and then you lose to next you fine.
This time you're in a lower buy, you have information, your stack is in the right place, but your initial body goes down for free.
So even though you're trying to multi-kill your way back in, because you've not a five-man stack on that site, the trade game was always going to be tough.
So it was a nice attempt from Paul, but a 2v2 post-bang without all the maids and all for an MP9, no kit, it was always going to be tough.
I can't actually give the AK over to Dumount to contend a banana.
It's only a cop and maid for his troubles, but, all in all, it will be up to the banana control leisurely.
the
just a little bit 19 points of alphadum out
but they'll actually send another ball forward you're expecting a damage
art your steaming off
but it's only doesn't swing easy turns his back
think for sure inside is swimming in that moment
block
gets you to say you don't realize it
but they are at your front door
I'm back we go
I'm not filled with confidence for this round for legacy
Just that save day K and the other three on the polar opposite side of the map. Yeah
I like it though, it's just the execute simulator
Making sure the smokes are still dead. Jim has a flash. You have to use the best flash ever
Thanks for the call. Here's their flashes. Here's his.
And a spam connects. Hang on. 5-7 has balanced his ballerty.
Insani goes down. Art straves out for one now.
He's another from the 5-7, but the flashed layer was good.
You can see it caught him there just in that moment of transition as he emerges from that clean smoke.
Well, give it a look, right? Go over. Try and shake it up a little bit.
See if you're able to get another AK. Do a little bit more financial damage.
You're not winning the rounds.
How lucky do you think you have to be?
Oh, there was someone here.
There's a suspicious looking chicken truck.
This was only meant to deliver on Wednesdays.
Yeah, right.
He's got his nose to the ground,
trying to see if there's any goodies left in spawn.
Anyone drop a fence for a flag?
So the B defense will have to win the rounds
in the next round.
Yes.
Because they've been executed on B three consecutive.
So here's what I'm suggesting.
They're going to take the AWP over towards B.
Oh my God, they lost the door.
Good damage.
Or they're going to play aggressive banana control without joining them.
But LNZ is going to be a step ahead.
He's going to call a poppy A play into only two.
That's my prediction of the future.
OK, you looked into your crystal ball.
You might be asked all the bookies for any of them.
That's surprising.
I think it's surprising.
I think let me see Amira in the rankings.
I will say that the fact that you lost around but you left with 3 AK47s on the CT side is a good, you know, silver lining.
And you've already got four rounds on the CT side. If you get one or two more, you're fine with the half.
One more of your five, two more you're happy, three more is great.
Which is good.
Good.
So they haven't charged down banana. They haven't put the AWP on B
They're playing a very passive setup across the map
Of course he's going for it
Our core glimpse of
It's the same result and MP9 in the back of your head are doing dark things
good chunk in a damage source to be players LNZ and Insani catching a double wave from the HEE barrage
That's actually completely repelled them looks like they're on the back foot and I miss him already pushing apartment
So legacy of government
Great spot though. He's not holding across can't do anything. He's pushed fully. He miss him cannot do anything
He's just imagine they stay in banana. So action is really on our
Okay, last scene, getting that kill towards Boiler. He's borrowed into Pit, and it seems
going to be flanking them for the mid-side, but it's a bit too late. They're already up
towards the long side.
You're hearing the library steps too.
This is a good brave play. They're up the arch.
And the new one, Dumau. There's Sadzintorp as well. Solid reaction, legacy feel like
they're everywhere, but still good find back for Klim. Pivoting in towards the
site and that's where art is borrowed down perfect on the mini bit it could be
denying if they go for the default plan save fun
save fun they shall oh make some noise charging in trying to deny loses his
head not ideal insani and clim to close it down just later he's already had one
one V2 on this bomb site you have to go for another time
So now they're smokes and flashes or rather just flashes
Thank him for a swing
Double swing like that in so many clothes
Kill for inside that shouldn't be happening again
They get the jump on them in halls to have the information Nissen is playing because he's assuming they're not coming back to come back
Means you're acknowledging that we may just die to a guy sitting in the second window or
They're on a timing but they've been able to hit the gap
This one's gone around the world, Artvin's stuck in pit and Art won the last desks within this round.
He fumbles the movement, completely flops that.
Should have the element of surprise and that is an ugly looking round to lose right there.
So MIB Art 5 to 4, now the autopsy.
Missed it twice.
I'm very proud of how those Venomzera wants them to know the apartments have been taken.
Okay, so you've noted the orb on banana.
It's clear that MIBR are not in any rush.
That's where they take their time.
And there with the massive roll that they're able to garner off with their moves and
LNZ with an open run to Art.
This is the this
Why even bother is it even worth it?
Just the you know, Yanko is really quite vocal about arts approach
Yeah, why it's probably not good for tier one and you're seeing that here
Like why does everything have to be
Right, because the highest level is a battle, double kill, and then how you're able to capitalize
in those moments.
If you're just doing something out of the box every round, that's fine.
I see Elements like his decision making where it's like, it's like when you're playing
a prem game with us, you know, I'm going to do the thing that-
You should win the round because it's fun for me as well.
I'm doing this because I want the way we want to be satisfied with me.
Yeah, and I get it. You want to be annoying. You don't want to allow defaults to function.
I really liked his push on the first rifle round. It looked like he had a good idea.
I know that they're going to scale with this smoke, and I thought,
but that doesn't work, and it just looks a little bit silly.
I think that's one of the key issues.
And it's one of the issues where it can get old very quickly,
not even with your opponents, but your teammates.
My in-game leader is fucking dead every round.
It could lead to resentment.
He is, but it's so good what it was.
How entertaining is it, you know?
And this is it.
I'm probably being a little bit harsh here.
He is being involved in five opening duels.
He's one, three, lost two.
Yeah, okay.
But the man he's been eating alive has been Brenner.
So that one, he seems like it's a bit more
of a pre-meditated prep version, which is good.
That's nice.
That's what you want to see if you're able
to find a weakness.
It just it just is hard when that opening exchange is happening and that's not always being converted as well
I'm sure arts finding that quite difficult to work with too
So this is six straight rounds now. It was the pistol with the conversions. It was a Lato clutch
But now it's one-way traffic for MIV up
So partial by to see if they can sneak one back in before the final round of the half
It seems way too easy for them to be able to get away with these B executes.
There's even been resistance as they're executing, right?
The fight's trying to catch them coming through the choke point, but they have had a leisurely
time of being at the set up and punished range and it can be extremely suffocating, right?
You get the smokes into the side molly, the flashes and away we go.
It's just you know exactly what you're planning for on these rounds, right?
Okay, so we're going to remove these silencers, so they can push through the smokes.
always accounting for that but what are we flashing for where are we mullying what are
we removing right what fights are we actually trying to set up whereas the ct's are guessing
it's like well what do we think or where is the safest spot to stand or where can I be
anti or where can I react and you don't even know when the timing is coming right you can
have educated guesses is on the face of the just before are they using a he but right
now mibr seven straight rounds on the t-side this is looking good it is it's it's hard
to fault what we're seeing right now.
But again, I find their T-sides, like I said in particular,
MIBR's T-sides do seem to have a good, you know, degree of tier one polish.
There's always the flash that's, you know, that's, I always keep saying second wave,
but I don't know if that's the perfect term.
But I find, I have such admiration for not the first couple of flashes,
the do-do-do, when they're first starting their move through the smoke,
if they're pushing me or whatever.
It's the second wave where the defender gets vision back,
they've made progressions into the site and it's behind them for that next fight.
that next fight, that next potential.
That being just the layering was the biggest use, yeah.
Because in terms of an execute, you will,
you want to have like an entry flash,
and then you, you know,
but you know, those aren't, yeah,
that's just to force them back,
remove the vision for the couple of steps,
and then another one, then another one.
But that, when a round works perfectly,
so some of this is dry run,
some of these are moves,
some of these are just ideas or concepts.
Yeah, it is the peer shift.
Okay.
And it deepens up a lot of pace into the mix,
unnecessary freight onto our opens up an avenue on the long side accelerating for a head on collision
sadzins all primed and ready nails that missing down on the short side so pressure onto sadzin
from the apartment side as well he's going raptor and they double swing it lovely unity there but
still kept level low hp so low two points of health for insani and klim can they turn this one around
on probably nuts all picked up makes sense on that low hp from insani still got that
one shot one kill potential.
I'm sure Climbomb's at back, he's like bruh I'm low too.
Yeah, he's gonna go round, I think that's actually quite an inspired move, he's gonna
sit towards the apartment balcony and the approach from Lato is through apartment, so
it's gonna come down to this collision.
That's fine from Lato and Sarni, they're on that AWP thing at the time, Sarni's
favour and he hits the first, not dead yet.
Planted for him in pit, looks like he's done enough to win this round, gonna
to be run out by do now just enough time for the diffuse just enough time it
doesn't have a kid oh no he does he's got one oh oh oh calculated why is he
I thought it was tight before he went scavenging bloody Nora okay well they
get one perfect a half-time break which we're in right now so here's some
break music for everybody.
Quick break.
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Alright guys, I'm going to pull out page 432 here of the strat book from Letny.
I.I.V.I.I.
And column 6, you'll see the flash bar you color-coded for more.
I'm going to be pissed around number 4. I need you to remember the...
...the life of the...
...the drop.
I need that AK. Well, he is going to be able to buy AKs.
It's crazy, mate. Your idiot, you know.
He's one of the guys. He's one of the guys.
He's got great energy. He was a very smiley fellow when he
saw him around the event. Two from two on the pistol round
feeling... I don't want to say mandatory, but it wasn't
the most inspiring first half by legacy, was it?
was it? No, I mean I'm starting to see why MIBR might have elected to go inferno rather than the ancient.
That's a lot of nades right Chad? That is like a, that is an unusual amount of grenades to have on a pistol
round. It's a good amount of nades for a BXQ to do a full man stack though. Yeah okay, let's see if
I think there's some sound which is a weapon that's been feasted.
Oh, there is the molly.
They've got that reaction flashed.
They've got an LSE throws it out.
It's starting to get flashed.
And it's fine because you ran into the stack and Venom Zera's feeling frisky.
Taps three heads, jobs are good and Doom out.
Is he going to have to jump on them?
It's highly looked like he's holding for this eventuality.
You're on the terrace.
Well, I don't. Beautiful. Really nice.
They split in the pistols, but I think this one is going to mean a lot for MIBR in conversion to map number one.
We've got my rounds coming up next.
Yuka's the third and decided if we need to get there, but no plant going down means it should be a relatively quiet round.
Unless we want to see a T9 force, there's no AK.
Could be a little dropped.
Can the coach hear the communication that's happening from round to round says dead ships?
Yes.
So here's a fun thing with the coaches guys.
The coach is in teamski and he can hear the players talking but he can't actually
hear the game sound.
So, it must be quite stressful for a coach in diffused situations when he doesn't know
how long is left on the bobbies.
He's relying on the reactions of his team members to know what the bloody hell is happening
down.
I'm a big OG fan now. Bobby and Casper Cadian Mother. Who would have thunk it in the same
team? Come on now. And they've gone green. See that? No. Do you agree now? With Envy?
maybe but jersey do you know what teams mivr be an issue i would like to know
okay there's some fun names on here gaming gladiators
i love those guys fake debiru fake debiru yeah
starlings starlings okay so elon musk's fan club imperial yep legacy yeah ctn
E X. That sounds like some pre-workout.
Crackers.
Yawara.
Yawara.
Sola.
Amorella.
Okay.
Now we're sounding like football organizations.
Red Canids.
I know them.
Aruga.
Aruga.
I swear to God it is O-R-U-G-A.
Aruga.
Ninzee.
Sharks.
Four magic.
Bounty Hunters.
Oddyk.
So they're the number two team in this tournament.
Magna.
No one else can touch them.
And they've lost to legacy, uh, shindon, sharks, imperial and game gladiators.
Someone just acted me and said glow.
Moist goose.
Moist goose 77.
1977, an older boy.
To be glooping, to be honest.
Big fan of the Arugia team.
Arugia?
I can't have a real team.
Perhaps aggression first rifle round is going to be punished by Nyssen, he's going to deal with that of Brenno.
So the opening gambits, I think maybe Brenno didn't like getting flanked every round by Art, wanted to see if he could catch a bit of a timing, but now at a number disadvantage,
he flashed forward in Palace, beautiful work, Venom-Zero with the alley-oop.
That's nice, really enjoyed that.
Venom-Zero's getting flashed now. Look at this team play.
He gets his, Venom-Zero gets set up for one, Klim goes down but Venom-Zero's managed to double up.
I talked to the quarter on the relay, he could be found here, Doomow is going to isolate you with a nice tap on the swing.
He'd give it a go, Limey.
Yeah, he should.
Give us your clot, shoot, shoot.
Get the spear out, you know?
Get the spear in the war.
Track the movements of the sands in and the Doomow.
That nade, if perfectly placed, is a ki-
Oh, it's not quite that great.
Well, he doesn't know.
No, he doesn't have x-ray.
No, he doesn't have x-ray.
He doesn't have x-ray.
You could still win this.
No, he knows what one of them is.
That's going to be good coming in.
I've actually changed my mind.
Guys, I get it.
You won this round.
You can have it.
Maybe I'll take your life.
I'd like to, but I also wouldn't mind keeping mine.
Someone said that...
...aruga in Spanish means...
...cantapilla.
I like abalone.
What are we learning today?
Cantapilla.
Okay, three round game.
Brenner, but good teamwork. I like the teamwork we have between Venom, Zera and Klim on the A-bom side there.
I too enjoyed that.
Didn't win them the round, but definitely was enjoyable to watch the team play.
Two Maktan's, one for Art, one for Nysim. Nysim is the apps default, I'm wondering if he'll be elsewhere this round.
They want to try something a bit more punchy, try and knock over MIBR's money with a set call. Doesn't look like it.
I think it's fine anyway because nobody bar LNT has Kedama on the CT side so these MAK10s can do work.
This is an APOP. This setup is in a lot of trouble.
They're in hot water.
Right.
They're in.
Even if, even if that mid defense, they went one for one for one, they were dead from out.
That setup was designed to win mid, and they couldn't even do that.
So they weren't ready for...
When I see that set up, my thought is that they're just going to deal with the default,
but they had to deal with essentially an all-in.
So they got more than they had bargained for, and unsuccessful.
So money, fleeting now for MIB up, all they lose at all.
LNZ and Insani looking to hold onto their guns towards B as we do just draw this into
Two round game after this will be confirmed bomb probably about 10 seconds to go before that nation
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And alternatively there was this something called Valhalla or something Valhalla my dad gave it to me for Christmas
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Okay, you know is tobacco can smell good
You wear you don't smoke cigarette smoke, you know, I smell like tobacco
You're gonna fancy cigar
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Yeah, that's something like that. Yeah, I just bought some shoes from there
That was a dumbest.
I just found a quality gun.
About 7 months later.
I've worn the ones, so that's nice.
Alright, well the saved guns over towards B with this trap set up right now.
One of them on a boost towards CT,
one of them up close towards the mouth of banana,
the flash of the ready, but they've only got one to make it find an R.
And well with the boost, that's a lot of information,
that would send the team quite quickly spiraling into an A control.
control. Yeah. Okay. So,
I think just look for exits.
Okay, right. They're actually
over here in time. They
haven't. Okay. They can't.
They can't contend. It took a
little too long on this. It's
just that one of the M4s is
still on B. So, if both M4s
give it a go but have a crack right now it's gonna be pushing this is this is
okay I need something he needs one or two kills it is slower down one two
LNZ did get it it's only a quick Lotto's in a good position to catch me these
rotations in they get the info off of it
it's always wrapping up I'm not really aware of it you know he couldn't have to jump on at
at least one. Does he just walk out?
Here's one. I've seen this one.
Oh, I'm sad, dude. Problem solved.
Okay. This will be the gun round now.
That was just the eco with the save. So let's see if double digits will be one out
by MIBR first or if legacy can tie us up nine nine.
Tactical timeout has been taken. Conversation to be had.
Let me on the microphone.
A real eclectic mix over there.
All players and personalities on the MIBR roster looking to start some more European campaigns.
They're qualified for the major.
They're now here at PGL Bucharest looking to do some damage and a win against BCG.
There's nothing to turn your nose up about.
So a good win for them yesterday.
Let's see if they can continue that today.
Now, to start off the year, when Lux was still on this roster, legacy lost to MIBR, this was
back in January.
Right, so we've got a four month body of work that's played out in 2026 so far.
It's the next two months essentially where you can start to ramp up.
It's not four months, it's only three, January February March.
I don't even play for the first two weeks of the season really so it's kind of still
much.
In my mind it's still 2016 or 15 and it was Cologne and Titan was on the other side of
the server.
That's right.
Ten years in January in January in June this year since since I retired
Ten years ten long years
That could not be that's a perfectly timed on his engagement. How clunky did that look?
I mean understand
It just always looks a bit silly running out of a smoke
It doesn't round still on I guess you had full banana control. So you
knew it had to be a
That's approaching from the long side. Oh, I'm sure it's on a certain partners with it's Clem. That's gonna have to get one on this
That's it on the short side to coming in from long
No way!
Yeah, the defense just cracked.
Open, starting to be able to try and play for the multi.
Does get a jump onto one, caught the other, reloading.
Doesn't find the kill.
Massive round, triple out of Lasso,
satsing with impact, and yeah, extra allowed plop from Coach.
So on one hand, really good shooting there from legacy,
good patience and poise, and went under pressure,
walking into setups, being able to handle that.
Rubbish for them, IDR.
Yeah.
VenomZero gets you a 3v5 for free.
I understand he gives his life back with that move.
We can question that, but still, this setup,
it's just about, I understand this is reductive
of hitting the shots, right?
None of this felt rapid out of the MRBR players,
where on the other hand, when offered the opportunities,
Legacy were able to breach in,
so back down to just the pistol of MRBR,
your lead has been squandered and Legacy
and we'll be charging to take your map choice.
WHU could be potent. Who it is, he's an infantry down with Delta, now converted upon by Insani's
post half wall on the 5th center. Was it 2 nades? Just keep going. So then you know this 3B.
Good point, well made. Alan's Z-trap to the standby position and is going to be escorted
out by the easy venom.
Well, Legacy will get himself up to ten in a moment's time.
Nice shot there from Nism.
He's got some good aim.
Yes.
He's sharp.
But this should be double digits now for the Art Led Squad.
And Sansen's no slouch on the rifle either.
Yeah, I think.
Like he's definitely got his self-stable.
I would like to see when AnimGraph 2 does get added to the main client how or if
because a lot of people talk about how in CS2 it is harder to orb. Now obviously the orb has had a nerf in the sense that only has five bullets before you have to relearn so there is a nerf there but a lot of CS2's conversation has been about swing to win and this is where when I start to talk about this it's hard because people are so emotionally invested in their opinion.
Yeah, they have a hard time hearing what I'm trying to say
I'm not saying that they there aren't parts of CS 2
But I bet make it beneficial to always be fighting and always be in motion
But also that concept and how good players have gotten are also good concepts, right?
So first of all if you look at the level of player and how good they are with their
Prefires, which is I don't mean they're running around the corner pre-shooting
I mean the crosshair placement on their straits their g-balls how procedural how ready for fights they are that in the modern game
Is very very high and then you add on to that the idea of being the one to be
When to swing if your crosshair placement is perfect, and you're the one initiating the jewel
You're ready to react where the other is waiting for the cue for them then to react
Yes, but you know I am putting myself in this fight. I have to click now. Yes, they're going
I'm waiting. I'm seeing. I'm clicking. So it's always going to happen faster if you're the one who's
Especially if you're not in the smoke, you're not coming to a flash
There's not a molly at your feet, right? Like you just getting to be able to go through the motions
Well, I think we were so, you know, I think we lack the nuance when we talk about, you know, when we use terms like
Pika's Advantage. You talk about Pika's Advantage for me. I think most people use it. I would assume that's just about like the why I Pika Advantage, but actually that is the Pika's Advantage
What you're describing is an extension of the advantage of the Pika
Sure. Yeah, and I think obviously there's another thing to do with the the angles in which you're approaching walls
Are you close when you're taking?
You see players to you, right you see players as well as this one. It's a great start
For a floor back there doesn't find it
I think yeah with the way you're approaching angles
There's some players who are very good at talking about this stuff like your kinder and game if people go back and watch some of
James content with your kinder on his YouTube channel. It is in Russian, but there are subtitles
and they talk about the micro of how they're going for certain peaks on angles. Am I wide?
Am I close? Am I crouching in? Am I wide swinging? Am I jiggling to bait? That level of the
game would be a really fun one to get like a kinder on a desk for a long time to talk
about the game theory behind those.
You have to find the right player as well because it is it's a concept that I think a lot
All of the professional players obviously have their own understanding of but very few can articulate why that's a key point
Yeah, I think I you know, I think it's just something you learn and you learn through you know your own process
That's what I liked about the mouse
They always
We're able to articulate their counter strike IQ well. Yes, right? And I think that that is as you're saying
It's not an easy thing to do you talk to some players like it just
To it is like a feeling
To them it's instinct as opposed to
like a conflict decision counter terrorists win okay well we're all tied up 1010 we know
MIBR games have to end 13 11 or 13 10 yes that's the rules that's the rule ellen's he told us so
he's gonna take it
under molly our force are really wanting this space they will get a native to
Sandbag it went down the pop inside brought to 40 the one back knocks on the door to now bottle of flame
After a spent that backing off at sunny will get the room
No, you're so nobody won that but you know made it seem exciting. I was actually really I just I genuinely think you should do
More of that. That sounded great
High map control. High map control. High map control.
Yeah, no, it's a genuinely. It's a new thing.
It's like might be an Inferno exclusive initially, but it's definitely good.
There'll be a bit of top mid. It's a player's already on brackets.
There's a bit of high waiting. There's a second wave after the arch smoke.
Then there's one nothing. Yeah, but that does tell that there's probably someone there, right?
Tough crossfire to break. Very tough. How into B they go.
There you go. All right.
He's trying to go flash and swing off the ball.
Oh, they're doing the dance. Easy.
Fine for LNZ and being art.
He's hoping that they get overlooked.
Venom's even clearing it.
Such diligent awareness from Ventera.
Again, that's, you know,
it's the round over, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
And they'll probably have to save this time, too.
tough. It is. Look, I think that MIBR played a better game overall. Yeah. I think that
they went on what is it a special seven rounds in that first half. He did split the pistols.
It was a Lado clutch as one of the first four round four legacies. It was a nice one
I think that was exactly the fourth round of the game and if they close now with
what will need to be two consecutive rifle rounds and then one against a
hodge podge bit of everything I think overall and I the R I've had a better
uh look if we can take out rounds
oh it goes fresh it look at him go he wants this fire he's gonna try and take it by force
the friend of garen in the perfect position to track the back of his head number two not gonna
happen lato provides the covering fire dead from the flames lmc found one on tibino
Now the name for my to the back of the site and he lines up a headshot
Such as when Paul is at his angle very well anticipate the swing from Paul
He's already two kills deep finally brought to his knees by Nysim
Very threatening Clim's already here as well
Only be tempted to go for the mantle up or is he going through
He used to get to the smoke
This approach, up and over, attracts the head of the top off of Nysim.
Clem does finish off the job, now Lato in the clutch, already one under his belt.
He's the juncture of the game, can't do it, can't hack it.
Brenno closes it down, a team effort, and you're right, it might be a good place
in some of these late round situations.
Yeah, it's taking a look to reflection on the first half again.
The final round of the first half was that Jim Mount diffused.
Yeah.
So it's basically...
I'd say, excuse me, it was the last round of it.
Yeah, so pistol win, fourth win, eco win, then a 1v2, and then a demount of few, so none of those were clean rifle rounds where it felt like they were definitely stronger right now.
It's under the final of Inferno, 2-Tec-9, three rifles to complement that.
We're a bit more limited in the U2 department, it's still more than enough to work with for a move, as they saunter up banana looking for a fight.
Arthur, this is best way to the TEC-9. It's the perfect gun to start a play.
I'm taking that with me.
Okay, so you can see he's not in the incendiary, so they're actually hoping that the first body player gets something and then you throw the flames, just like that.
Beautiful setup work for one.
So please down in Sarny though.
Oh, he gets them on the spam, this and down.
Now they're operating their disadvantage hamstrung.
Great spam!
This is the team play on display once more from an IBR.
You only got the angles now.
One goes down, the sounds in and out.
I've got the nades for the retake. They've got the kids and they've got the man advantage to the good right now is
To get past art. Yeah
Lnz likes the way that one takes that is gonna be 13 to 10 the scores on the doors as
MIBR's strike first in this domestic derby.
We know who's qualified for the Major,
but this stretch of event is to see
who's gonna be in fine form.
And MIBR, picking this one up,
him was a fun game from start to finish.
Just one map away from putting himself in a 2-1 bucket.
That is one best of three away from the playoffs at Bucharest.
This is nice.
You spend most of the season grinding domestically,
going up against other Brazilian teams,
other South American names.
You come over to Europe
And you're finally putting all that hard work of the last three months on display.
Venom had a very good map.
He did.
He feels...
He's one of those safe pair of hands, good for two.
Yes, side players.
That's what he feels like to me.
So he doesn't...
The only time I was a little bit curious about the play was when he swung through the library
and the Flash stayed...
It was a bad Flash.
Yeah, the Flash wasn't good.
I mean, I think...
I don't know where I was like, kind of, Powerful's most interest in following the
the red it's in the form, but he does sometimes tap flak, like some people are
loving criticism towards him, but he's green. Is he not green?
Yeah, pretty green. We've seen him before, but only in splotches, right?
So, again, how can you be catching flak when this is the third series on European soil?
And the brand of Counter Strike they're playing is very solid.
Yeah, it's not gimmicky. No.
It's not hurried, everything is a bit more calculated.
And right here, we've crunched the numbers
and in a 23 round game, it might be out come out on top.
So that's it.
I've got one, I wanna, I'll remember,
but I think it's you guys can remember too.
There was a conversation the other day
that I was monitoring on Twitter regarding
how crosshairs used to be once upon a time
and how that's kind of impacted the expectation
of players in the modern game with modern process. We'll talk about this during the
next map, but I did see this conversation. So just so it's out there in this.
Okay, we'll come back to that. We can come back to it. We have like a slow
around or something along those lines. But okay, then it's the first map here
of the B stream done for the day at PGL Bucharest. We do have Mirage up next,
Nuke if we need it. And then following that we are in an accelerated
schedule will be NRG vs. Eyeballers. So if this is 2-0, this could be coming
quicker than you're expecting.
Because right now, it's slated for two hours time.
But yeah, Mirage up next.
It's gonna all break.
We'll come back.
We'll do Mirage.
We'll talk about crosshairs.
Go hydrate ourselves.
And I'm gonna go do some more spreadsheeting.
Yeah, do your thing, man.
Catch you in a bit.
Bye, guys.
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What is going on everybody down on the floor with LNZ of MIBR?
How did you end up on this team from an outside perspective, quite a wild card?
Yeah, I think I wasn't expecting it either. I think when I was benching in Heroic it was
maybe in a tough spot to get a lot of offers and I didn't get too many to be honest, like
I didn't have many choices, which I don't only see as a negative thing like joining
me but that it was not the only choice and I took it because of that. I took it
because I think we have some good pieces here and I think maybe people don't see it yet
but I think we can do something good like with this roster and project.
How excited are you to be in this roster and to have started this journey now with MIBR?
No, I'm really happy because I got into a place where people already respected me before
and I have a lot of say in how we do things which I think is a good thing for me and
I get to learn a lot like how to lead more and maybe lead in a different way, but still
my way, you know.
And I think I'm in a place in my career where like I've had many good coaches that are really
good at leadership and I've learned a lot from them.
So for now, for me to do my touch of that, of everything I learned, I think it's going
to teach me a lot about how I want to do things, you know, and I'm still quite
a young leader.
So I think it's something that eventually like had to happen.
me joining like maybe a project that is not as established and make them hopefully like
an established team in the like top 20.
Yeah. How would you describe yourself as an IGL and what sort of effect do you hope you'd
have on the players in MIBR?
Good question. I've never really like explained myself how I am.
Pre-all the sport?
Yeah, but I think I've started to be a lot more like hands-on like helping players.
I think that's with my like leadership style that I care a lot about the people
around me both as persons but also like players that I want to help them and help them evolve you
know when I see something that's maybe a bit off I try to find solutions for it you know or be there
as a friend as well like if they're struggling and I've learned a lot from like like I said
before the good coaches so I have my way of like having a I think I like a lot of structure
but I want people to flourish in the structure you know so I wouldn't say that I'm some
some super structured IGL that wants everything to be perfect, but I like to have some things
where like this is how we're going to do things and then this is where you have your space
to work, right? Like I want people to have their own touch within the system that we
play. So yeah.
Also in a personal development sense, because you know IGLs are always sought after, there's
never enough of them out there. Since you're such a young IGL, do you, this
could be a tough question but do you see yourself as like an appreciating asset that you've got a lot
of personal development and growth to be had as well? What do you mean like an asset in Norway?
Like as time goes on can you see yourself giving more and more value to this team? Of course like
that's always the goal right that you always want to give everything you have and like improve as
a player and as like a person right and I think I'm a lot about like self-development so
If there's a point in my career where I stop developing, then I probably don't even want to play anymore.
So I think, yeah, like I always want to give more and be better at what I do.
Awesome. What are the hopes and expectations coming into this tournament, PGL Bucharest?
My hopes at least are that we are just competitive.
I think we're still only like three months into this project, or yeah, three months in.
And it's our first year-on tournament, so I think it's unhealthy in a way to expect too much.
because we also didn't play any European teams, only in practice, right?
So, like, we can lose 0-3, but as long as we're competitive and give everything we have,
that's all that I care about.
With this stuff in mind then, do you guys see Bucharest as a big opportunity?
Yeah, like, of course these points don't do anything for the major, but...
In terms of practice, gelling together, etc., I guess is what I mean.
Yeah, exactly, and also for future tournaments.
We have a big chance to increase our land cap a bit in the VRS system,
and also just the experience to play against the better teams in Europe.
I think it's something that you will always learn a lot from it,
and you obviously learn more in official than you do in practice.
So I think this is a fruitful thing overall for us to play,
and I'm very happy to be here again.
Well, we're very happy to have you here and wishing you the best of luck.
Is there anything that you'd like to say to everybody watching before I let you go?
Just share from me in the book, guys.
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This one, 13-10, MLB, MLB Impress.
Everyone's happy about that.
We've got Chad, we've got Machine,
and yeah, we're going into Mirage up next.
Now, we came into this one thinking legacy,
you know, they've been doing more things in Europe.
They've been hanging out.
They made a change.
They got rid of Lux.
They bought in an art.
They were looking rejuvenated for it.
However.
However, they have lost the first map to MLB.
And this is fun.
It is fun.
We've had some fun counter-strike.
I have to say, I think LNZ has this trip to Europe,
getting a couple of imports into the MIBR ranks does seem to be paying dividend.
Did you think he'd have more of a tan?
Yeah, I thought a little bit more of a tan.
I thought he'd be a little bit browner.
I thought a necktap was in his future.
Really?
It's going to rock up.
It does have a one sleeve.
That's what I'm saying.
You think soon, LNZ, necktap.
Spend two years in Brazil, you get a necktap.
That's the deal.
OK.
I think that's part of the immigration proceedings.
All break up with me.
Yeah.
One of the two.
One of the two.
One of the two.
One of the two.
you're going to get a big old
crow on your neck. But, uh,
all right. Well, everybody
Welcome back. It's 10 10 in the
morning here on a Monday. It's
the 6th of April, 2026. And as
we all know, we're here for one
reason and one reason only.
Counter strike. Everybody's
favorite video game. It is
going to continue. There's a
lot more coming up today, of
the morning shift over there. And Jason, Henry and Andy's and Jason. Yeah, you can go and
join them for the A streamed broadcast. And a big news report is that we get to see face
plan. They're not giving away a free win today. Well, I don't know. I'm not sure. It really
depends on my word. What type of counter strike they play. They are here. They aren't
for fitting. Thank you. They are for fitting. They will take to the server. Yes, they will.
No one's saying it's a free meal. They're not getting rained out, you know. They will,
they will be taken to the server in some degree. Are they shells of themselves? Yes, most
likely. I think that's going to be quite an exasperating finish to the season for
them. Yeah, it's tough because they have, they have Rio coming up, they have Atlanta
coming up, they've got Fort Worth coming up. They're not going to the major. Oh,
you could just smile laughing because it's so sad you'd have to do is you'd have to like
team talk it out where team talk it out how many more team talk do they have a team talk it out
as in let's like you know how do we not get mega decreto doing this one event we focus on the
next season okay well they need to make some roster changes so yeah start that would make
sure all of attending all of those events completely redundant start those roster
change is no sap rocky you know what I'm saying well you can't who are you
gonna get the teams got in the major takes just available true well that he's
right everybody all right let's get this one on the way we're sorry that's not
window smoke that's not miss because it's a cold smoke yeah definitely didn't
It was aiming for it though.
Not his best work.
B-split, up cap.
Cap.
Mmm.
Ben and Zera.
Ben and Ben, bam, bam, bam.
Another one.
Lacto, good trade back.
Now start to pinter in.
It's going to be up to LMC.
Good, easy to cross that.
Waiting for the Aps player now.
Back to the horizon.
Big Aps up through the short side bomb.
Down now.
Sands in counter way out.
And it's just up.
Three.
Coming in.
Long range, not a fight for the dual barrettas.
MIR, we'll pick himself up for the first two for one.
Okay, so we're starting strong here for MIR.
I would just walk everybody through the expected CT positions of this team.
You're going to have LNZB, the swishing in leader,
and your Bianca kind of gets that shit job.
He's not, you know, doing an apex where he's taking con.
He's going to jump swabby.
Venom will be his sight holder, the short player.
You will obviously have Klim as the AWPer,
So you can be starting short window anyway, literally anywhere your compiler will be in such
Towards the a bomb site, so that is the expected outlook for the defense
So we will be taking comments from people in twitch chat
So let us know how you do and how you're watching
It's a Monday. Is it a public holiday for you?
probably
I don't think it's just good
Friday, but I think because bad Monday, I think in Australia, you get a four day long weekend.
Do you get a four day long weekend in the UK for Easter?
Maybe. I don't know. I haven't really looked at what you must have known from when you were.
I haven't lived in Australia for a long time. Yeah, I haven't lived in a show for 12 years.
Yeah, but like school holidays, whether in the wild, you know, I don't know.
for a long time yeah I've been living a show for 12 years yeah but like school
holidays
we have holidays at kind of different times because of summer
winter yeah so we have different lengths
just curious if you guys have a four day people in chat if you're from the
united kingdom right now and you're in twitch chat
do you get a four day long weekend for Easter
Thank you shrimp again. We'll talk about the crosshair combo next eco. You're a little bit late, but we will get in the next one. Good job
shrimpy
Hello to
Jamesy
Easter Monday 4am
It is Easter Monday public holiday. We chillin
Yo, yes, so I just what I'm saying. It's a you get a four day if you're smart and you save up some pay pay days
What you do is you take
Last, last week. Last Monday.
We take four days off. Anyway, gun round, A-pop.
Ooh, not even pop. Just a silent slink.
A sneaky snake.
There's a little girl where Prano can die, as he has.
A sneaky snake indeed. Now the jig is up.
It's a Molotov. Keep jungle.
I'll stop him. I'll enable the cross.
Need to start piping through CT, boys.
MRB are still heavy towards Middleton Cat.
Not expecting his A finish, but now they know.
minute 15 on the clock as the bomb goes down. Now we have 40 seconds.
Spring is sprung. Can they get into this one? Heaps of smokes.
Make that opening incision. And Sony looks like he's going to be the prime
candidate coming from CTT from Jungle. Oh, doesn't hit the first bullet one
chapter to the headshot angle. Smoke on the golf club. You can play through it.
I'm going to get on the diffuser, do not hide in the smoke and you'll be able to do 3-click, find him, not too bad, you don't need to hold it, up to Latton, the power from Klim, late retake, that's what you want to see, and again, MIVR impressed.
Michael Quinn, Olympic gold medalist Swimmer has done it again.
Dude, I mean, Inferno was one thing, but the late, like, that's what the best teams in the world are doing.
These super late A-retakes, if you can pull them off, you're a strong Mirage team.
I think that if you're happy to go for late-retakes, which I don't think anybody is happy to go for a late-retake,
but if you are like a para-vision and you know that whether we win this retake or we end up saving these guns,
Both outcomes are acceptable. It kind of
limits that pain but MIBR was well hold up. It's going well, but it's not really going well
But let's go for it anyway. Yeah, what is this one?
It's a little bit more than you'd imagine, isn't it? It's it's
Me too. I guess the plants are gonna help and the damage you want to keep the pressure on so you're investing a little bit more
Oh my god, the Tecna headshot finished off now by the D.
At least this buy is very grand, and three kills deep into the A site, but flood legacy.
Couldn't do it on the rifles, we'll do it with just the one.
Yeah, well done, okay. So skirmish in the middle, they get up and in the smokes very quickly,
they apply a lot of pressure, and what was the pace changes worked out nicely.
Legacy on the board, three to one, scoreline reads, will be another buy into the next,
if LNZ and Venom are able to hold onto these.
Klim with 5.5 can bring out another orb.
Venom with the 1400 loss is going to be
a bit touch and go with the drop,
so he's got 1,150 right now.
You're gonna add 1,400 on top of that, everybody.
And we'll play together.
What is 1,150 plus 1,400?
And then this is where the blues clues,
like, timer comes up on screen.
Two, two, three, four, six, oh, okay, yeah.
and then everyone, we can work it out together.
What's that number?
2,550, but don't forget the extra $50
from that one kill that was had within the round.
He can drop a Famous.
That was fun.
But it's, you know, he had like blue's clues.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%.
Or bluey, I guess is what they watched in these days.
All right, well, he has dropped a Famous.
They were able to get an MP9 on Brenno,
the A anchor, Insanity to complied with the Famous LNZ, the B anchor with the A K.
Let's go there. Smooth moves.
In an early sort of short side, is this just going to be a palace?
It's just so art.
So it's just for a different palace.
I hate these calls when you have full nades, but it probably
is going to work.
It probably will work unless Klim goes lights out.
That's not for a star. Solid tracking.
The reaction is wrong. The insani probes up from the staircase, finds another, sads him down, still the flame moves, climbs.
That's O that's found it. But access to the site is granted. What's this lurk on B supposed to do? Do you have to slow down?
Because you're on B, but the bombs leave your parents.
Okay.
Okay, wow.
But it's going to be too quiet for too long.
long. Nothing's happening. Guys, they have the side they haven't planted.
Yeah. When did the penny drop?
You think they could be hiding inside? They could be filling the van in the lato if he
just goes down for free. Now you know. Now you know. The next question becomes how sloppy
are they with the rotate back over? Are they aware that the wall has been pulled over
their eyes they're still smoking around okay they're not they're aware now yeah
but now you're under the time crunch the 42nd you've got kids but you've got to
assume that someone is borrowed deep into what you will check everything you have
to but oh I don't know good little versus these guys
second as well hard to hit the shot this him strikes onto LNZ still goes down
from the grave, a little martyrdom from the HG.
And some sendier, he gets it onto the bomb,
it lands successfully, rots the clock,
there's nothing for Insanity to do.
Art has pulled it off with the most art-coded maneuver
I've seen in some time.
Yeah, that's wild.
I thought it was actually helping
MIBR the fact that they were still clearing a smoke
because when the penny dropped, it's like,
OK, well, now we know that they came before.
If they come on ladder and are like, oh, hold up,
they're not here, rotate it back.
Maybe they give one over lazily.
But regardless, same outcome, three to two.
legacy break the funds of MIBR through a bit of a all-in call right just an apps
pop that turned into being something a little bit more measured or let's say risk
a at the end but they're forcing back I guess because it came down to the 1v1
but you're digging it you're digging a hole right now with this type of force it's a
deep double scout as well. I'm going to be interested to see if I can pull that off.
And one thing with double scouts is you want to show them early because you want to get the tags
so that you can capitalize. You don't want just to get exploded on, which is probably what's
going to happen here to poor LNZ. I mean, he can get the body shot and drop off. If he nails
that quick click and then a tap of the W keeps going off, he's good for that tag.
Okay, that stops that stops them out. They're not going to go. Yeah. So now the a defense
hasn't moved the radar. You can see they've just stuck to their guns. Clem aware of this
possibility. Good x-ray toggle 15 points to Gryffindor. The way they're playing this.
Yeah, it's all there is up LNZ to worry about short. You want Clem to stay ticket
though. Oh, big rotation. Well, it can't be. It could be.
Get the info. Come back. Ventage smoke.
That's headshot. They just lined up the clotheslines two of them.
I never thought this would happen to me.
I got a bit too much.
They forced for this, so you have to be critical.
If this was an eco and they just missed the window,
but they forced, they shoved for this,
and they've made a bit of a mystery there within the mid rounds.
So 3-3 all tied up will be an eco now,
legacy should be taken to lead.
Crosshair.
I think something that intrigues me about CS,
Yes, it's like what happened there was at least my analysis of it is that you've someone has proposed where they could have gotten off to like
We this is with what we've seen and what and how much time has passed. They could have done
Sometimes players will acknowledge that too much, you know like it's a bad habit that everyone forces I know I'm really guilty of that like
They could have they could have slow walk for 30 seconds and be X by Z
I need to account yes, and you end up like you just saw that kind of losing the potency of the round that you started perfectly
I think the biggest concern of them was having no mid info, right?
Which you did you would have had if that's why I said Clem has to stay ticket with the scalp because it could hold the cross
Even if he just gets a lick of information, right? He doesn't he's probably concerned about a window boost
That was a nice way to open these up against the eco
But crosshairs, huh? What's the deal with these crosshairs?
Is it maximum tweets or something like that on Twitter?
I don't know. Wait a second, he's hit two headshots and now a USP headshot from...
...Clin.
Brenno's president of the order's just put...
Where is this coming from?
No, there.
They've already won a 2v4.
Let's soften up a bit more.
getting guns back now everyone's equipped at least venom back at the site he's
playing for the denial how good are your clears sweeping
let's go let's go let's go let's go let's go now venom Zara should be able to
oh three kills deep into the round
saving them from red faces after the Breno digs still they came the hands of
Brenno for the finish fake on it hoping for an overreaction going to peek into you again
Do so at your own peril missing ready to punish you as well
Confirms his post plant position lnz on to art though denied up to missing
They're going to double swing playing the numbers tries to isolate denied Brenno pulls it across the line with lnz
Double kill on the dig lnz arrives in time for the retake
mi br steal one away
That's a wild round to win, especially Art opening up to Cicero, it's the Eco, but these double Ds, it's not the kindest Duel you've got here for Crenno.
Just jiggling around that default box and unleashing is Klim, I don't know if he's won as well.
This is where I get a bit worried, Klim walks in, I thought Venom would have heard the scope.
Again, we will have the language issue over there with the Russian side, Sweden, and the Brazilian side, all in all they do is make it work.
They stick the landing in LNZ, that's the way that one tastes.
one taste on eco victory yesterday they were the ones losing eco is like they
couldn't count
wait is it what the round has started yeah look at him the round has started
little guys at the end of the apps in the smoke guys you can't this isn't a
sustainable way but it is cool but Alex it's not sustainable this is the same
reason you like 3D Max is because they do fun things but it's not sustainable. It doesn't
stop it from being fun. It's fun until it's not until your teammates are all pissed off
Yeah, real real, but you know it's fun from like in the cows that I'm seeing right now
There
Renault does need something that's more than something that's everything
on top as well. See you later.
Duma left in mid. No man's land.
L I B R have found their footing.
The money is in the mud.
Yeah. Muddy money. No one wants
money money.
That's huge from a couple of
statement rounds and back to
back nine five brutal.
That's impact.
Those last five frags making
like a montage of like things
positions the anchor can thrive
in. It's a two of them default
box.
Deagle and then just stacking
up and delivering pushing the
jungle smoke another must you know it's a must in your A playbook you've got to be able to
catch that timing as they're advancing play the edge of the smoke there's a reason team can
follow you they'll use two baskets go but now you can just edge the smoke you can always take
that fight on your terms. Just because one saved AK not sure
maybe too much more invested behind it this is great from Brenna again on the highlight reel
So essentially there was a Nade King video which was to do with why you miss your headshots
I didn't watch the video so I don't have the context of that but Zul, you know the guy who
sometimes does some modding stuff, he's essentially quite retweeting this and cut me off when
we get to an execute.
So Zul's retweeted saying this is how it should be, people use static crosshairs
I believe all guns are hundreds and accurate and proceed to complain about netcode instead of questioning their choices
Which is right right not all guns in terms of some you can
You need to be completely stopped some you know, there's a little bit more wiggle room
But he makes this point about static crossers
So then the last bit from Zool I think is is very deep people should think about this
Someday most people will understand that shooting in CS is purely about
controlling the odds so knowing what weapon you have what type of environment
you need to find yourself in knowing what type of weapons or setup you're going up
and that's essentially the game overall right with like so yeah so this is
where this this maximum tweet tweets guys get involved yeah he says most
people that came from 1.6 basically knew the fundamentals of how those weapons would function
because you would have a cross-hag gap depending on the weapon you had it would change so you would
use small crosshair but if I used a diggle it would be a bigger crosshair like it would still be
the spread visible spread yes and I still play with it today which is not how it functioned
in 1.6 the not the weapon gap but the gap when you spam and that's because it was always dynamic
Cross says for me coming up and how you knew alongside
Just off the same day cake and some you
Too much just stands and sprays the deterrent
Off the back of the last they line up spray sands in good
How they turn that around this Molotov's low weaponry they leave with a round and they leave with guns
That is silly these batch of rounds we've had so both teams essentially the echoes now one of them save the bigger gun being the AK
But when the eco is one with the Brenner dig there was also the MP7 in the mix. So
Wow, okay, that's two ecos
in
Three rounds yesterday was two ecos in four rounds
So that's a
It's not what you want to see
It's not what you're hoping for really if you're an MIBR fan
How many times in one tournament has one team been re-killed?
I would like that.
If we had like D-Trams around, that'd be the question.
I don't know how we would find it, because what we'd have to do is we'd have to set like
a value indicator.
So, would the value of two mounts, Kevlar, AK, U-Till, have to tip the most of threshold?
How do you define the threshold?
Right?
This is where you get into some murky waters.
safe gun need somehow pass out the safe gun I'm not sure I you probably can
because it depends on if you go like equipment value or value of what's
invested in that round so that it gets tough
hang on it's not so holding this or yeah yeah the two man holding this there
won't be a flash this will just be a swing
so it's not it should have a heavy disadvantage in this one
just swings it still gets his head shot and a second man down to art as well
Well, Venom's error.
The second piece of that aggressive
scene to move up.
I don't think he was trying to do that.
Maybe he was. I think he was trying to drop it.
Well, he did drop it.
He did, yeah.
He just pulled the pin.
What the hell, okay.
He's finished.
and a very empty bombsite right now as they investigate in towards middle
Brenno and LNZ find themselves out of position, so legacy
to not only tie things up but put themselves in a powerful position to win out the half
What the fuck
I thought you'd have a sats in now, Brenno will take his place in the staircase
How am I walking this staircase?
The flash, he's a dead man, look at that, just so bugged
Saving this one, Climby.
Thank you, so...
Let's go.
Yeah, well, you know where he is.
Does he actually... if he had a kit?
Or if there was...
Is there a kit around Connectivity?
Yeah. I was gonna say then, I wouldn't mind
having a link up here. It's actually...
I guess he's just faking death count for the save.
Fair. To be fair, to be fair.
To be fair. There's a kit.
Alright. Extra blue.
Andre, who's doing context observing?
for us yeah because they're on it
but yeah you're right our legacy uh not only closing the gap but they could kind of run away
with the last couple of rounds here, Maneus Pune, AWP for Clem. But already, as you said,
two rounds have been turned on his head by the Lord, right?
Yeah, so it could keep happening at this stage. It could definitely, especially knowing that the
AWP is in the mix. It's another one of the scenarios, try and show and use the AWP early,
or they're just going into an A-piece. Okay, this is, I like this. This is the Keeper
simple stupid method right you don't have to worry about okay how we're going to avoid
you all are we going to look for it no let's just do an execute let's use the smokes to
come up some key choke points then it's layering our mollies and flashes and remove any possible
threats.
All the Molotovs down.
They're open, I can see them.
They're clearing out.
Uh, yeah.
Look at that boost.
It's up your fur, but you're out boosted.
You might as well straigth the grass and spray some of those down.
So important and effective.
I'm just keeping this one very clear.
he's got an exciting prospect of himself.
He's concerned.
Andre's just let me know on Discord
he said that it's locks up.
Yeah, sure it's a locks up.
He's doing the cinematics and the context.
Alright, 65 in favour of legacy.
Still a little bit early to know if Nuka's going to be needed, but we're definitely edging
in that direction ever so.
Oh
He's smiling about it. Sorry, Clem. I can drop you an alt though. I've got 5,750 schmackaroos
So he's gonna hook up Clem regardless. It is just gonna limit you till when
Potentially diffuse kids across the board here, but we'll take a look on the other side
You can upgrade your pistols you leave flashes and spawn
Everybody should have all the goods for legacy for this final round of the first half
tree yourself
not a single diffuse kit but around I have to go for
on his own up mid is he undetected is he completely undetected he don't know
know what to say. No one's gonna push Shaw into him. At least not with the setup that
we can see. So if he wants to use this forward position, he's probably heard rotations around
marker and window. So there's pulling them back into what will be a B finish. Now they
just need to get Clem off the line. As soon as Clem drops Van and Art starts rounding
that short corner, life becomes very difficult for Klim. He's on his own. It's all on Klim.
All on the Milkman.
Oh, that's amazing shot, and they're, oh, actually, can't you see through the wall?
Oh, God, I can't see, God, Klim, is it so much trouble? He's off in the crowd, and I'm going to give him much opportunity here.
Swinging at him, doing how he's to flash. This is crazy! Still, Klim manages to do it!
A quick nice go for good measure, takes another, Clem shuts it down!
The pressure on his shoulders and he thrives.
The orb, close combat, lovely work.
How's he got no way with that?
Honestly, they threw the kitchen sinker in and the sponge is one of the most cheese.
They're parving, it's very standard parving and he's been able to
Pipped the gaps are very very well done there from mr. Klim. I mean I actually would love it
You know, I've seen there's Kenny S has been playing these like maps where they recreate the scenario that pros were in
Yes, you see if you can do it. Yep. Oh, that would be a really good one like okay. Here they come
These are the part things that made it. Let's see what you can do
Can you do what Klim did because I don't know if anyone watching could saw that no scope, isn't it?
That's it. That makes the rounds so very well done from clean
That AWP worth it's weight in gold so fortunately Insani was able to drop him that
But we are all tied up the pistols in front of 2-1 in favor of MIBR. Here it is again
So Molly behind him, player behind him, the art one, okay at this point art is just he's screaming back side
This one comes for the trade doesn't even get a chance. It doesn't even get a chance that no scope
Stunning
and they might be i make it three out of the four pistols
investment on util two smokes one for brando one for lnz flashes on lnz and climp
i'm gonna be setting up for a very b-centric pistol as util just being scuttled along the ground
there two players in true underpass they're the problem they are the problem right now
this is really cool you're gonna get like a fast flanky here i'm throwing nade
You need to kill up kits down next to the bomb missing with a double click
Sounds like a really nice counter. Was that a picked up flash as well
So that went a long way and no bomb going down means that mib are likely not forcing into the next so
brand-o this would be
One hell of a 1v4 attempt, a minute and seven on the clock, completely surrounded.
And one and done, the fourth to mount pops out of the apartments and secures seven for legacy.
Oh wow, someone in chat is incorgeable, you were here yesterday.
Was it incorrigible?
Incorrigible, yeah.
I don't know what we've got at MEN's events, but this is a very Australian...
He asked Australian, because the question he asked about Nism,
guy on the far-right legacy, is that Guy Sebastian?
Guy Sebastian? Are you in your niche name?
No, so we had... You guys had...
Do you have UK Idol, British Idol?
So we had Australian Idol.
And Guy Sebastian was, I think, the original winner of Australian Idol.
Okay, so it's like your season 4.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Not many CS players that look like Susan Boyle though. No. No. She was on like Britain's Got Talent. That's it. Britain's Got Talent.
She was Britain's Got Talent on her singer. Yeah. Had a glow up. She was very good. She was very good. I would say better than Guy Sebastian. Okay. Wow. Yeah. Guy was, they were done pop.
pop on a show. Okay, okay. We've got like gath gates and stuff like that. I can't do that same kind of system. Okay, I've just realized that I can also come up with random names as well.
Yeah, right. Okay, gath gates. That was gath gates. He's a boy, obviously. Alright, into the gaths. Legacy with a bit of a bonus to work with.
I'm done, okay, I'm done.
Ah, he's dead.
He's off, I mean, it's too- too- too well, sir.
What, aggression?
Jumping out long to put, like, pushing underpass every round.
Yeah.
Yep.
That's, I mean, I know that would annoy me.
If I'd be observer to a game like this, I'm like, where's this crazy guy going this round?
Why is that number going over there?
Let me just follow this guy
So you got two parked ramp and you got two working mid with bomb
I don't love the way this looks looks funky
Okay, so you're up short
Not if your a player is not gonna get any kills Brenno down for free
Venom you
What do I do now it's very let the mid players do something and then maybe you get one in the back gonna run at a time
Nice for clean
Europe nine to six
Insani
Taken down by Sanzin as he attempts to leap of faith into the window
now it's just clear looking to save with 20 seconds left on the clock and we'll call that one over
past we'll be taking uh a gander at the a stream right now alex any questions uh are focused
still playing well they won the first map very convincingly i will let people go and find the
school on themselves they are on the second map right now this one is a much closer affair but uh
They are flying over there.
What's that?
What record is that?
Are they 1-1?
Yes, Focus lost their game yesterday.
They did, okay.
Who did they believe it to?
They lost to Paravish.
But they did have one map that was close.
Okay, I was curious to see how that match up would have felt.
Yeah, Inferno is 16-14.
They pushed Paravish to overtime.
Nice, well, that's impressive.
Pushing Jane Team on Inferno, it's nice.
I would say this series win for Focus
is another one I would strongly favour them in.
So, you see, it started well.
I wasn't sure if it was that way too, but it's clear with the AK, a couple of upgrades around it,
and some idea of setting a little bit weaker so far in the second half, but
we've only played one gun around here, so it's a little bit too early to completely right them off,
however, legacy are set for 10 as long as they can keep these pistols at bay.
Flashes, really nice, Flashes forces two Malons with defensive stance.
Backs away, throws out his incendiary.
And now here they come with a double swing with 3 CTs here to receive them on the side.
This is the best way to position them. They want to check in, nice from Insani and they keep it at level.
The tech lines need access and they've granted it now.
Important from Insani with just five points of health available to him.
He wins the duel and the bomb goes down.
He's not going to find him short from Sanzan.
Oh my God, he gives him a warning shot.
Oh, well, when Sanzan hits that head, she gets away.
I don't know how he's still alive.
It's a lot of ability, it's a lot.
He really does, especially now, Messi's crazy.
He's got a good time ticking away.
Using that smoke to their own targets now,
they can block the clock further back turn.
Those Sanzan strikes again.
They don't know where Klim is hiding out.
Rage denied this defuse, but he's the perfect covering fire.
The pre-fire headshot, not gonna work!
He's got it. He's got it.
He's got some steel away, round ten.
They're rather intense on the retake, but they found their footing.
After those silly games over the woods short where Insani lives,
you think that's enough, but he's actually, like, not being able to take the fire.
His teammates are covered up on the side of the room.
This is the exchange. So, Sansa, precious the side player of Brenno.
It forces inside of your suite.
Oh.
Damn, dude.
USB-H, your respect.
Just trying to check that he's not on that ball, but.
Obviously, if you could play that again,
if you could go back in time, you'd just
stand still for a second first.
Oh, can't strike.
What is this?
Well, that was a competitive round
with a light level of investment.
Let's see if they can do it now.
The guns are out.
Second rifle round, second half, but.
Why do I feel like Venom's good for this pre-M1 tap?
He could do some sort of nerdy little craze.
Lines up against a pillar and then swings wide.
Oh
I love it. He's a nerd. He knows what he's doing. You're not doing that alone. I yeah, so Lano goes down
So that's a still posted then I'm
I'm not to give it away for free. We'll flush off the line and
You're stuck now. Oh, I see jiggle bait. Yeah, fine. There you go
Wow, a lot of admiration to the way he's approach that.
I don't have a lot of impact on the rod, but it's starting strong in this one.
It looks great, I don't know.
It was.
Let's see if he watches.
Oh, oh, oh, oh!
That'll be accidental.
The margins!
Well, Art is the only member on A right now, and he might take down Venom.
I don't know, Venom seems like he's doing all of his clears.
He's got a vantage. Yeah.
Too easy, LNZ though.
He's had some hot-hatches with the shots, doesn't he?
He really has.
It's not loose, 20 seconds. This one's dicey too, as soon as you get to the top.
Yeah, getting a double push nice from LNZ gets his fur jumps over towards the Tethering position.
Got a plant open.
That job done does have the plant open.
It's susceptible to this sweep, but once they go down the guard, the Sanzi connects.
So winnable. So winnable.
It's still weird, LNZ has to do it all.
Oh no, oh he's missed it.
Oh no, it's not deep enough.
LNZ can just play out the round now.
Swings for the fight!
What? That's audacious!
Okay.
How has he done that?
Just decide, okay, you're probably starting to make your move now.
Time for me to go swing in.
Well, you've actually got them teetering to some degree.
I understand that they're going to be able to get the full buy right now.
That's not going to stop them on the legacy side.
legacies up but the fact that on that light fly where you had the same day
can detect nines around it it comes down to the one view one way just can't get it
across the line but LNG pulls out this one and now if you win back-to-back
rifle rounds money will be a problem for legacy and then RBR are back in this
in a big way. This to make it 10 to 8 going up against an eco,
No saves.
Just rolling into the line of fire,
Santa gets a freebie.
Santa doesn't anticipate it,
although he can't expect it to smoke to the yard,
so this time got that.
Opening kill, no legacy.
You've got an Adam Zera with a potential timing.
Gonna be parked on palace,
we're gonna be playing later.
Evacuation mid, they've just left the bomb alone.
Am I tripping?
Now you're not.
Oh, that's round.
Yeah, okay. So look, it was exciting to see
Ellen see have a good round last round,
but let's get on to Nuke, shall we?
I'll have to.
They did it. It's not that they didn't have their chances.
They did it. They just squandered a couple of them.
So, there she goes.
We want to see who's the best from the region,
and we're getting to see a couple of these forays
at the moment.
It is wild that the highest seeded team in stage 2 for the Americas is 9z, I'm pretty sure.
How are they looking at your spreadsheet as far as teams? What's their body of work looking like?
Not a great body of work. It's an extensive body of work, but...
They've done that thing where you play a lot of games online against lots of teams.
I'll just read names. See how many of these, you know, Alzon? I don't know how to say this.
G-A-L-O-R-Y-S.
Okay, those guys sharks heat stars fake to be row red canids
Shinden gaming gladiators imperial bestia
Audic Mars born mouse game hunters pain legacy and red canids Academy
That's the time I know about 70% of those
That's what the tail ends a Mars born you mentioned them. Yeah, I'm not so they're American
Yep, yep, and then they lost to Shinde, again, that added MIBR, Shachmatarian's skirt.
But again, it's a regional location and they beat a lot of teams, rebranding them.
Legacy, who we're watching right now, being one of them.
Lovely.
MIBR being one of them.
Oh, this legacy from CT side is just full to the brim of moves.
I got 13-7, look at that, I got 13-7 here, when you abandoned Clem alone with the bomb
in mid, and then he died, yeah that's when you knew it was coming sooner rather than
later probably for the best yeah and I do like watching our on new Chad doesn't
he's made that really clear actually so first of all for you guys are listening I
personally think I'm on let's see one new yesterday against Inner Circle so they
have played at this tournament so far whereas MIVR they are yet to play at
this tournament and they're coming up with two losses that is correct
This will be their first new con European in the soil.
There we go, thank you, that's what I'm saying.
There's something.
And, yeah, so, Nuke has spelt N-U-K-E.
It's the third map of the series.
E-T-L Booker S.
It's closed it down nicely.
Let's get it started, shall we?
Split series, legacy, respond with comfort on display in their big play.
Yeah, so it feels like they could've been the ones who've had this in too, right?
the first map of this one was the map choice of MLB Aaron Furno that was 13-10, this one
was 13-7. And if we're looking for some standout players, I feel like it was a team effort for
ARK throughout. If you missed Furno and now Mirage has been keeping up these crazy ARK
maneuvers. He's been very confident I think would be the best way to put it. Satsum had
a couple of nice moments. We'll get it in the highlights of the replay, but we
that Renault Double D, right they had to have an E. They lost the two now saved 8k rounds.
Right so both teams having some eco-finchers that are in here but more impactful for legacy
over MIBR.
He was using every gun after something.
The AK, the Maktan, the pistol, the AWP, whatever he could but the Climb round as well right
So MIBR, I think they needed more individual heroics.
So this is the same with Legendary Inferno.
Okay, yeah, sure.
Legacy got this many rounds,
but one of them was a team on clutch,
one of them was a Lado clutch,
whereas now this was MIBR's first in the back, right?
LNZ having a big round, team having a big round.
Some players giving the step up to just,
that could be a different thing right there.
Didn't know when to stop them getting double digits.
This is the LNZ round I was talking about.
We had to win out.
There's four kills in total for LNZ.
A nice round for the Swede, but all in all, in vain.
Get away from MIBR.
You can take a look at the scores on the doors.
Whoa, what's going on there? How has he got...
I'm checking, I'm checking, I'm checking.
That does seem wrong, but he did get 37.5 ADR.
I can't imagine he has a 1.66 rating off of it. It could be like 0.66. That might even
seem a bit low. Either way, Venom wasn't that high spread. He wasn't. He wasn't. But he
did look good on the card. He did. He did. And you got a little glimpse of that sneak
peek because that might be Nuke. It could be Nuke. It was Inferno. It was. Maybe
He's only allowed one good map a series. That's the rule. There is a rule. You gotta share. Yeah, you gotta share
Okay, that socialist counter strike. Yeah, that's the way she goes around to it. All right, everybody
Well, we have another map of Counter Strike coming away for this first series
I think you guys should go and get hydrated go to the bathroom if the sun's out a nibble
I'm gonna try get some fresh air on my face. Good luck. Oh, we're on the shady side of
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With Probeni of Furt, Nitro Nick Canella of NRG, with Wreck of Wildcard, Demow of Legacy.
Do you still spam smokes now, as much as you did before the change?
I think I spam the same, kind of like it's not yet a register in my head that there is this update.
Yes, but less times. You just want magazine, that's it.
Yes, I don't really, I don't ever remember a situation where I've used like all my clips and around.
I would say yeah, I think it's a very like position dependent thing, right?
I think as an anchor I'm not spamming smokes a whole lot compared to other positions.
I think when the update first came out, it seemed like it was going to be changed a lot,
but it didn't really change that much in my opinion.
No, I think just the first day, just some peace arounds.
Like, you spend me a PSP, and then you just go reload, then you wait,
and then you just change your life again and go back.
But after it's okay.
The M4A1S, you have less bullets, so it's not kept in my head
that if I spend too much, I won't have bullets in the end of the round.
The biggest change I saw is, or I've seen is more for like pistols because
like I'm Rage and I rotate, like I'm a B anchor, so I go B, I shoot the Venn,
I shoot the little like wooden thing at B, on the B window,
and I have one mag left and I'm like, oh, crap.
Okay, maybe I should start like knifing that, you know?
Yeah.
So overall, no, not really.
I
I think their Mirage was more convincing than M.R.B.A's Inferno, but at the same time, you've
won your map choice, which is normally how you like to see things go down from this side
of the screen, and probably that side of the screen as well.
So in general, we're on track for what will probably be a competitive nuke.
One would assume so, yeah.
Our biggest takeaways for me as far as the individuals are concerned, we got to
see a couple of highlights throughout.
I think the team that's impressed me more has been MRBR.
But I think the individuals and some of the other ones
has got to be legacy.
I think, oh, especially his garage was just ridiculous.
Do it like every single move that the boys from legacy had,
it just worked.
Aggressive opening maneuvers, the Utah
to set one another up, it was there.
And so were their opponents.
Just having a quick look right now
before we get this one underway regarding
some of the key figures, right?
We've got some stat lines that kind of determine
We all play into them right so one of them be the pistols what we've split the pistols on both maps so far
So we are two two in that department
What's favorite legacy for this one now clutches if we take a look at
This series so far there's been a couple of them right there's definitely been a couple of clutches inferno
We had four
butches to three the side on
Mirage we had three two going legacies way opening kills on Mirage also in the feather that backs up
exactly what we said about their opening moves.
So right now, we're pretty even with most of these talents.
There's nothing that's like, oh wow,
they're winning despite giving away all these opening kills
or they're losing all these clutches
and that's why they're losing it.
No, at the moment, everything seems
to be plastered out there on the water.
In terms of Nuke for this year, again, MIBR,
hard to gauge, haven't seen them play
against international opponents very often
and not on Nuke at all.
to go to Europe and play against the locals. Yes, and they have played against Legacy at
the start of the year on Nuke, but with a new in-game leader, this is when Lux was still
there, now that Artea, it's a completely new look team. And also, since then, there's
been more growth from NIVR2. This is after LNT just grown. This is going back about
two months since that last play. So, we'll take that with a grain of salt, but it looks
like the fist bumps, excuse me, are in. We're about to get Nuke underway. So
I think
That one over this pumping or
There's no knives here. There's no nice. I'm pretty sure there's no
Keep me nice
Starting on that CT side here on nuke and a lot of you to invested Valencia scratch the granite and him with a full belt
Ramp clean maybe that's anti maybe that's a gamble, but either way they're about to have a
and gunning and gets just one.
T-Sat up, the advantage now.
Dream-Mail activates the long side.
I think he spots the toes of the bounce.
He's hard to track. So hard to track.
Runs out of bullets.
Last one is all he needs.
Hits the headshot.
I can't believe how blind he must have been there.
Crazy.
All right, well-insigned.
19 HP in a dream.
Of course.
That was pretty ridiculous.
That flash.
That looks so funny from poor Venom Zera.
I thought it was impressive how evasive he
was being wildfully blind, you know the backwood jiggly wiggly, they call that one of the
biz.
Well that's just around the invader of legacy to kick off the third and the siding math business
so funny.
Last bullet.
What?
Yeah, that's an odd looking one there, they're going to go for the force without the plant.
Okay, Snappy would be proud.
So they've thrown you too, so this is telling you there is an investment, especially
Oh, door-floor, no, right, so he's the face of this.
This is love.
Their scorching speed into the walk to arrive late.
Fastened in their internal timings allow.
Now, do you know, down quick.
Lato distracted, could go down to Insani.
Still considering the option.
They flood into the site.
The trade is there.
Heaven occupied by Nysim.
Burst with the MP9, a range puts Venom low.
Sads it.
A patience from him.
They're going to be rewarded as he catches Insani walking
for the Heaven wrap.
But with Clim's Tech 9 frag, it's
put them into a winning streak.
Tina, what are lo-fi wins?
Yeah, they haven't all over. Justified in their force.
Well, he's going to be up there to hold on to this one.
A couple of details that I enjoyed with that, the run boost was cool.
So, first of all, you will have seen in Sunny's POV, the flames spilling over on top of Main.
That's a CT incendiary used to block a smoke for a smoke wall early outside,
so we'll keep our eyes on that until we see any forced gaps for MIBR's chosen walls.
The second part was that Mustang molly.
I think it was the perspective of Labo when he was on top heart
He's unable to actually guard heart because the Mustang Molly which is the rafter above high has been burned away
But also it's just on the on the front lip
So we try to stand above and kill them as they're spilling out so that worked two-fold
Very well, they do
That one one and put themselves in a strong position to be able to win out of the economy wars early
It's just as tough with the ladder because you're back-heading the huts.
I want to kill them as they're coming out of the choke and now I'm a whole lot more susceptible.
Save them for, it has been drop sands and we'll take a scout for the troubles, it's
art and sands and they will be the outside duo, shans and the rotator are the guard
rifle.
A combo of Lado and Duma holding A and this is a tall crab.
Good timing on the blocks, Moe.
I don't know if they actually want to go around. It's sunny.
Ah, there we go, okay. I thought he was going to start piling to what's main, but he's just played close to the wall,
which is a smart movie knows the scout was under the side doesn't want to be open to heaven
now that he's down there we'll try and split B through ramp and secret
very clear indication of their intention starts in the follow on straight through the box but
Stenham's area in the dirt now are in the right place he just slid into the ramp room just in time
time. That's it all on to
one another. I should just fall
into place here. And I wasn't
able to convert just yet. Three
rounds deep.
40 seconds.
everywhere at the moment. I
mean, there is no better
thing. It's something, you
know, people credits I with
for being one of the best in
the world out is just
always being in the right
place a moment or two
before.
So if you can't be there, it's all about your read of the game matching or surpassing your opponent's pace.
And what you're bringing up there is why it can be nice to have your in-game leader playing grotator roles?
Yes.
Because without having to communicate with somebody else to do it, you're able to be in the right place.
Now the biggest critique that comes with that is in-game leaders tend to be some of the weakest mechanically.
No.
So I was like, okay, you can put a player who might have a better read of the situation,
but is he able to deliver the output required and some teams do put the in-game leader in those rotating positions, some teams don't.
And some players have the read and the mechanical ability, and then they're really scary.
Yes, and then that's...
Tywin.
Yeah.
Well, that's one of the nice things about being an AWPer.
Well, he's an AWPer, so he does everything.
He's doing everything. All right, Nissen, you're up to bat.
Good luck, son.
A little bit of bait.
He sets some up, gets caught, look at the other way,
but a nice tech nine find, and bends it up.
This secret lurks key.
Yeah.
LNT's got a freebie.
He is.
Oh, bends the strikes.
No.
OK, let's go.
Take it, bro.
Just take it.
Didn't clear.
Clear.
Seems low.
At least LNT gets the info on this,
and so the teammates don't go down.
Yeah, but this is now four straight rounds
with nothing consecutive.
you're right like this and didn't play trigger discipline and then just like mop up all of them but
it is interesting there's only a couple of places that this and could have been you knew that he's the
ramp I think it was the the vent the vent where he was so locked in on control like stimuli yeah
yeah he's double door like no one's double doors so you just don't even see it either the someone
else was down there already okay so again back for tip for tap for tip for tap and these are
hard rounds to win right these aren't like full eco's like we saw MIBR lose one yesterday that was
really tough to watch on overpass so these rounds and we also saw some of these on Mirage there was
hero weaponry they won the closest thing to a full eco themselves in this series right it was the
Venomzerra saved MP7 and the rest of them were on USP but these are these are force buys so even
Even though these are rounds that you think you should have an advantage, it's not a huge advantage.
You don't have all the weaponry, you have all the utility, you might not have the required armor, you might not have the defused kit.
So you are lacking on either side of the server as we do go back and forth in this economic tug of war.
People in Jewish Shed are so hard, they're getting Eka, well they're not getting Eka, they're losing the four spies.
Yeah, everyone's spending all their money.
There's a big difference and they are tough rounds. There's so many of them.
There's a 5 man round on a gunny.
They were on the mid boost. They were on the mid boost.
It's not the worst. This one's done well to have found the equalizing double.
It's a rotation that would be a ready.
It's just got cleared to the floor.
That happens too often. I see people do that too much.
It's enough for wall.
It's the same thing. It always hits that lip.
That same lip.
The damn lip.
Well, both coming in from ramp.
Clem has a smoke, then Mzura has a molly.
They're going through the door to clear.
They are. They might.
They're going to overcook the poo chip.
They're going to be.
They're seeing a boat.
They're going A-story.
They're still going to finish B.
So they were just clearing back then.
Okay.
And I don't think they know that they were spotted.
side delivery this is no yeah it's not meant to be a dig at Klim here but he
loves a peak he doesn't he like imagine if you died there there's a 2v1 that
guy's trapped in door then I'm going bro why let me take contact first then
you swing and what's funny is it's like it's hard to to criticize when it
works you know like exactly that's why I'm sitting here I can't say but yeah
Exactly what guys this is an eco. I know art has a mag 7 you can call this one
I'm calling this one an eco. He'll probably get three kills. Yeah, but it's an eco
Regardless
You're getting to play your own game of Counter-Strike while everyone else
if you know kind of doing the strats and
Guys you guys all do the normal thing. Yeah, I'm buying a mag 7. Yeah, I know I've got lots of loads of info
I've cleared lobby actually
I don't like the apex mag 7. Yeah, but that's because I think that he would do more with
the five hundred percent and ten percent. I'm pretty sure this guy is back at
heaven. They can't go up ladder.
It does get one. I'll get awareness. They can't go up ladder now.
Hello. Oh my God. Do now gets two headshots. Brenna, we might need your help, bud.
Wow. Wow. You're right. About
three kills. This wasn't up.
This is still a pack in a punch.
So costly, but they will be able to
reinvest no issues there is that
was the code. Now the guns come
out. Art will operate as the
yard rifle. So does he start
down deep?
Look at that from two
look like a uh
Cheaper yes
Going on three here
On the back stop just the first down gets away
Damage is done for the silo player will pick him up
four on four
reset the round now
Oh, but there, do you must call Brennau.
And you're blocked, Clem.
Do you go after this? You're alone. He has to make a solo and be able to move up.
Did Brenna try to lurk vent? Is that where he died?
died. I'm still trying to work it out. Yeah, it was. And then he had the AK instantly, so
then he killed him with an M4, so it must have been an event skirmish. 50 seconds,
decent amount of room, Klimkin's smoke squeaky. So the biggest worry now is heart and ladder.
Mollie Heaven? No, Klim just... just gonna shoot him I guess.
Full belt.
No nades. Here we go.
Oh, and now I know you're close to dead.
And then now he's gonna go, you see this is why I don't throw nades.
Well, he threw them earlier.
And then he forced the influshed out, nice run from here.
Some of the replays were now wanting one here,
some coming inside, and the pre-fire nails the headshot.
5 T-Rounds of Neutron now. They are starting to run away with this. It has to be a partial
buy on the other side of the server. So this is looking very good for MIBR. This is solid
T-Counter Strike right now. Right there, they're in a numbered disadvantage for a very long
time.
I think MIBR's T-Sides are head and shoulders above legacies.
They're less gimmicky.
Yes.
It's more regimented. It's more structured and I've got a lot of admiration for the brand account that they're playing right now
It does work out nicely when you know you smoke off door and then there is someone CT then on that
Just the fact that there's supposed to be a language barrier
You'd think the T side would have actually no well
I've had this conversation before and there's been good counterpoints made that CT side is actually harder with the language barrier because it's
Rotations and it's nuanced. It's not just two coming a two coming B. I think
Your theory is where a lot of the hard work is done and how do you set up the theory?
Because you're essentially reducing ideas, concepts, moves to code words
and then you're combining them together to be whatever counter-strike language is.
Down the bench goes LNC, grab Rush for the rest of them and we'll even polyp- oh.
Probably deserved.
I'm sure he did
Just drops after them. Yeah
Yeah, I just I think it you you're going okay in game leaders just bent drops at he's probably
looking more at the radar than he is at the ladder because the idea of that is so
obnoxious and he's not focused like he should be and he gets pipped to the
post. Yeah, it's a gangster move from Doom out there. I'm just dropping it. Yeah, here I come. No ladder,
hijinks, no like bait with the legs, it's just BOMB! I'm here. That is kind of the Doom out way. It is. Exactly. It's very Doom out. It's very Doom out.
How's everyone doing in the Twitch chat today? How is your Easter Monday going? Are you well?
Are you fed? Are you caffeinated? Are you hydrated?
I see a lot of, there's a lot of madness. Yeah, there is. I don't know how that, day
one it felt there was more whimsy. Guys, we're looking for fun good times. Good times,
guys. It doesn't all have to be...
Doom and gloom.
and BAD. Yeah, let's enjoy what we're watching together. We're all spending this time the same way right now. Another top go. Go, go, go.
I don't want to flash. That's the best possible strategy for us for this now. Do now that store on the defense and double, make a triple kill.
LMC about to go down with this little flash, but you see all the moves he's making, underhand, smoke push, USP. He's supposed to biff.
I did like the execute. I know it didn't work, but I did like the execute
There we go now we're talking
Copper coffee does say I'm starving. I could eat if you're starving that's
Food they should make make a
Make a gourmet
I hate to brag that I became home after I broke out yesterday.
Homemade bagel, let's not even fake him.
He's...
Art.
He's got a kill.
He's the outside player, by the way.
Who? Art?
Yeah.
Why is he...
Because he does what everyone wants to...
We've talked about this.
Yeah.
But I feel that it's going back to how it was when he was on Fury,
when I was watching them at E.P.L. it felt less often.
Now it's every second.
It's got his warehouse controlling, Sani.
He's gonna...
...take two steps of the orb, and that's a big shot to hit on Sanzin.
Just the one and dark portrayed.
Art, what?
Come on then.
He's gonna win it, he's gonna win it.
He's gonna get up to fight control.
He's gonna get into the force just like you all expected.
And legacy tech.
You think he meant to fall?
You think he meant to fall?
That's like do not.
Here I come.
That's the spider man.
Here I come.
The batman.
The batman.
He did the superhero landing, you know.
Fist to the floor.
Yeah.
I like how this side is done.
We have scouts here.
Yes.
Chef's Meagal, it's five in the morning.
Should I drink beer? That's up to you, Smigal.
That's your choice.
However, Chef's Meagal's a good name.
I'd give you an extra five points to Gryffindor.
Actually, I don't think Smigal would be a good friend.
No, it would definitely be a Slytherin.
Time's up.
What? Oh, he didn't pay up.
He called it off.
Tied half possible for legacy still six rounds T half MIBI they're happy with that but not to give away the full momentum
They're gonna take this eco next round will be to buy around open new viper seven before we swap sides
Clem given an opportunity to try and search with this scout so an upgrade to do some damage tickle a couple of players
Violently
I think it's in one on either side of this guy.
Yeah, keep it efficient. Let me help you, sir.
Get the spawn, are you?
Let me give you a help.
I might just settle back into something.
Map control again. The vent drop into round rush is good.
The A rush that didn't work. I'm a little bit disappointed for them.
It didn't work. I liked the call, but now in the final round,
I think just play it out and aim for the similar fashion as how you were able to find the previous conversions
Which wasn't easy because some of them were number disadvantage scenarios
So to make space outside behind the smoke will be lined up by LNZ Venom Zera
On top of red just to assist with anybody that may have pushed back red or below silo
in the ground player starting outside so they can put this AWP to do with ramps.
So Art and Nism, I don't think anything found is inside of the boot cross.
Really well timed with the flash there for that room.
That looks seamless.
Very rehearsed.
Redpoll still available for Nism to get a frag as Main has been smoked off.
Venomzer probably wants to jump around but there is a player unbreakable.
Did he catch the glimpse? Not at all.
That's been infinitely delayed by art.
So noisy. They know exactly what's going on.
Free frag, unless it's easy onto Venom Zara.
Well, you just go B now. You don't have a choice.
You're going to need Brenner to find something on this rotation,
as the rest of you try and brute force.
Do you go Venta? Hey, I don't think that's the play.
You could try and sell it with like a smoke on the crow.
You don't have one.
You got nothing. You just have a flash.
At least it's now flanking.
Bound.
Last round of the half, boys.
Give it the best shake of the stick you can.
You can't sounds in primed and ready for that door to swing open
It's actually what's up, and I missed it off though from New York and now a dead
orper
fake black
Excuse me. I thought it was the other part
Okay, now do not drop fence once again missing
on the scene
Goes down all the doors by do now inside
Oh
Today he had to hit that inside here otherwise in that situation bomb on the backside
He's never gonna be able to ward them away in that situation say good shooting do mouth as we do time things up six six
Take a look in the interim the a stream you go and check that out focus versus wild card still raging on
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Stay ready and raring for that one. One more half a counter strike to play before we can get there. And these teams, in case you are just tuning in, have split their picks.
And we are on the third and decider.
righty-o winner of this one is this is one one so we won best of three away
from the blouse loser is one best three away from elimination
I'm not surprised because the level of competition you get to play against on a regular basis,
but it's not really what I'm expecting.
My expectations would have been surpassed.
It just is, it's weird.
It worked for Fury, they got super lucky with the Molotow's Vines.
And then the Kinder Redemption Arc.
I am not surprised because the level of competition you get to play against on a regular basis
living in Brazil is similar to if we're talking about China or in America or Australia.
The huge difference, we hold up a second, into a we spill, the jugglers get one, LNG
from heaven will pour it back to a man advantage.
And it's a tough thing to have a few of them on to there, still looks like they're going to be good for this one,
for them on the planters, mud into the side, take these fights, and ooh, wow, look at that.
They can go down here just for the body shot, but it doesn't matter if the precision's there,
all of them taps their head, and then they're let's out on the wall.
Alright, well they're ahead on pistols, forward side.
Okay. That could be very, very easily. It could be a differentiate factor.
No, that's not true. It's 3-3, it was the force by back.
She's the force spy back on the T side.
So, never mind. Let's flip this thing.
That's still not a massive determining factor of this one.
But maybe the force spy back will be.
The legacy give a shove here.
Just putting that bomb down.
Means it will be the lighter of the force spies.
But it worked for MIBR in the first half.
Anyway, the point, presuming counter strike, is eco.
there is so essentially what the SK luminosity period of dominant that success
the the has helped the Brazilian counter strike scene thrive to I would I would
say one of the most talented just individual country turns just sheer
amount of players coming out all those balls right I'm reading off a lot of
those names. Some of those are just names. It'd just be like if you and me made a team
and we called them chalice. Like that was our team name. But some of them are like fourths.
And sure, we're talking semi-professional small salaries, but still they have a lot of those
teams that you know, there's a lot of names that exist within the Brazilian semi-pro scene.
And it's a shame that we don't have the best Brazilian team isn't a full Brazilian team.
Yeah, that is right. But the best Brazilian team is Furia and they have two imports.
I just it would be cool one day to see that happening.
But the international counter strike, it's rife.
I think it's the future.
But also, you know, that's why I find these ideas
of like a nation's cup type beat where like you get your clan based style.
You know, you have your world championship, your world cup,
where you do get to kind of tap into that national pride thing.
If you can just hide with the VRS.
That's also a very good.
locations on tournaments in the modern day. Oh yeah because it doesn't work like it used to.
Shout out to Ben B 2727, this is already six to eight. Ben, in favour of MIBR. Shout out to you once
on. A bit of a bonus here for MIBR. Two SMGs are famous and Clim with an early move is
do now diligent outside making sure nobody is up close for early Intel
Oh the Molly's perfectly timed
Spam hit him as well from Insani's found ass
Oh okay, still get him
He's in the middle of the bed
Traded out by Clem for position enables the trade
How do you do that?
Oh I'm hiding out of the back for Breno
Oh it finds the swing of Insani
Catches the trade attempts
Clem was lost in sequence. We're gonna be on high alert for this double door position if they're trying to break a hole, so they're trying to land it in the brooch.
Oh, that's a haul!
He puts his head in the vice, invited by art.
Yeah, so that's it. Oh, I'll have a look at him.
I'll have a look at him. I'll always have a look.
Let's see what's going on with this haul.
It's nothing to do with that.
I'm just going to go back to the other side of the map.
I'm going to go back to the other side of the map.
Venom?
Venom, you just saw a guy.
You told him.
You hit him with a knife.
He's had enough.
He's had enough.
Okay, I didn't see the conversation you saw about this guy.
Maybe there is conversation about this guy.
People are having conversations, man.
Ooh, there's some numbers for you to read.
If you want to read them, you can.
There they are.
So any VRS points accrued at PGL Bucharest
will have no implication on the major four cologne.
However, it will for Singapore.
And for MIBR, that's a 10-point jump
if they're ranking if they can pick up the word.
That's a legacy.
I think what if I
How is that my VR right now after playing domestically all season long?
This next couple of months before the major is where I'd want to get international reps in yeah
You get some good results there like an event like this you can put yourself in invite range
Hopefully that's what you want to be an inquirer. You essentially you want to be somewhere in the top 20. That's where you want to be
That's the goal
How detected is this link down in secret?
It's very quiet
This lnz addressing this so yeah, but no need so it's just a jump spot that run away
It's gonna do the classic they're not gonna chase him
but at least not quickly they're not gonna give away the game only one man's
been noted is their support for LNZ kind of you'd hope Brenner would be on his way
to worry about luck he has no help I like the angle he's adopted he's backing
himself of the clear he's about to get this molly we got from zero to a hundred
as I think you should save.
That's brilliant.
Very well-strong shooting.
Oh, there's been a client.
And you put that, you like, you, you watch that
with this perspective, you feel helpless.
You feel completely helpless.
I had the info.
I knew that they were around me.
I feel that there needs to be some accountability
for the rest of the team, though.
Of course they could be lobby,
they could be radio, not making any noise.
But like, go, look, go find it, go.
There's no noise.
There's, there's not, like, it was completely silent
across the whole map, so.
That's what we talked about when we said playing in the black box, when they were doing inferno and saying you know,
bragging, that's how it can feel. If you only looked at X-ray off POVs at MIBR that whole round, their information was they could be down to secret.
That was it.
That was it, right.
8-8, third of the side of the map, there goes his T side, he's got legs.
I think that it's interesting to see teams in this band, which is 20 to 40 I suppose.
because this is not just these two teams.
There's more teams to play.
But teams probably about 20 to 40 in the world have...
I don't know they're on eco, but it's still it's just this would be the...
Wouldn't this be the worst round to do a vent dive?
Yeah.
But it's works.
He's gonna be doing some crazy ramp flanking.
They're gonna win the round.
Yeah.
But yeah, anyway, the band, those teams, they obviously have a very...
I think these are very good players. These are very good counter-strike players, but we're not talking about the elite level, who are playing the chess game all the time.
Sometimes these matches can look a little bit more like checkers, and that is also a symptom of the variance of these squads.
You know when I talk about the 3D backs I say, they reinforce playing aggressive because that's when they get their best results.
The same thing happens to these teams in different...
You can play against one team one day, play one style, it can work,
and then you try and use that style the next day, it doesn't work.
So, just the ability to have so many different ideas and options,
that's where teams 20 to 40 in the world are lacking.
So, they have ideas, they're good ideas, they can shoot,
they just don't have enough and they don't have enough variety.
And they can't make the variety work.
Whereas you look at Vitality,
their whole thing is variety in the way that they call and approach the game.
And I understand I'm comparing what is now considered by...
I don't know if I want to say the general consensus, but hopefully that way, that I'm trying to do the best in it.
But that's the key, that's the pinnacle.
That's right now what we're comparing everybody to, the top of Counter Strike.
So, unable to save everything they would have hoped there might be our legacy of taking the lead and we have ourself...
It's high now.
That's nice.
Now recap at some point of your stream.
You can see there was a bit of a tip for Tat to start.
This still went legacies way.
N-I-B-R responded.
Legacies one out, third round, until a run from N-I-B-R.
It's the second half of play, we've seen MIBR pick themselves up the pistol and the conversion,
but since the guns have come out, we've seen three in a row from Legacy.
Well, this will be four.
Well, let's find out, shall we? It looks nine to eight!
This is not your brand.
We're just going.
We're just going to find the group that harassed them!
I
Sounded like a mad dog dad get off the couch
Yikes, bro effective model
Someone's gonna see
When they go back to spawn that there is one of my favorite
Type of harass moves that aren't used to do with furia because remember all their new play used to be body century
And you'd threaten you're doing it but what they would do is there would be mollies everywhere on the top side
And there'd be so much hot spam and wall bang going on that's from Yuri and case or other
They were all and they were able to like soften up and put the top side under so much pressure early
But said this is where once upon a time his strap book was a little bit weak
It was yard
Claws and right now a smoke or has landed successfully, but insani. He's ahead of this information. Am I br?
in a prime position to just find that immediate headshot, do-mail, court-crouching, opening
kill provided, and then he'll use their smokes against them, so we can see.
The left silo looks like flash is at the topside, whether or not it's connected behind
it, doesn't look like there is from the door side, there is two merging in, down the
bend.
Wow.
Wow.
It's creative, I'll give him that much.
It is creative.
And that is two.
That is true, Clem. Yes, that's just in time. Not going to quite hit the flick.
Oh, the power left arriving. But they have the numbers now, Chad.
It's going to be hard to see this post-pack going in favor of legacy.
Uh, Clem's the only one with a kit in this situation.
Okay, yeah, that's a good point.
I don't love this round, MBR.
It's time to go to late.
Oh, makes a step.
Orderable.
The flank comes in and Stani's patience prevails.
Gonna be another round for MRDR, breaking that run from Legacy.
Alright, well look, two early stages in a second half but it feels like we're already
out in deep waters.
An important one there, there is gonna be more than enough money for a buy on the
T side, don't you worry about that so they can keep the pressure up.
I like how the round opens, obviously inside of you being ahead of that smoke wall, not accounting to that legacy.
And you can understand why. You input so much resources into the topside play to make it look like it's a hit.
You're hoping to draw that type of a player, so he's closer towards main.
He doesn't have the intel. LNZ having to restrain himself from the cheer until that defuse is confirmed.
Bits up. They do convert the 5v3, turning across this time, lip of secret. I've come
in earlier this time as the smokeball starts to dot the yard. Clem, they're playing forward,
overlooking Sani's position. They do opt to go down secret.
I don't know if they clear it.
There's no ground for it sounding to find another opening incision.
It's not cleared and you're absolutely right.
So free flag onto our house position.
Clearance? Get another one.
Working well in yards. Sounded to be trying to go for some quick war bangs.
Oh my gosh.
Hang on.
Oh, Clem goes for the flick to connect it, so still that amount of advantage for my VR.
He's turning still here.
And the Molotov should be safe from that on the box.
Well, he's dead now.
Yeah, okay.
I think the red box, I've seen people kind of just laugh at that Molotov when they're up on it.
Maybe it depends on how it's thrown.
29. Pressure on the T side to find that bomb plant.
Smashing the bomb back and this is the fight.
That's the fight. Brenno goes for the lobby clear.
Now knows it's going to be coming in from yard, yard centric for the remains.
Venom should have a free spot to barrel.
Nails the headshot.
And that's a possible one.
Okay. Couple of nice shots from Venom.
It's been a while.
What is going to not humble the money completely for legacy,
legacy to definitely bring themselves into a point of conversation there's the
ability for Sansen to get an AK the rest of them can upgrade ever so lightly and
they'll take a timeout to do exactly that and you all know what that means
Perfect time to start typing vitriol into the twitch chat, that's all going to be to each other, come on.
Let it out. Take out those frustrations on strangers on the internet.
I'll get out of here.
Okay.
If you want me to break your door, it's much better.
You can take left side.
Back out of the way.
Technite, right side to do now.
I know, you jumped. This is a full bike.
Well, it's time to find the staff.
Oh, spotted ahead. Spotted is one.
Information does go both ways.
Oh, Pippardo.
Oh, come on, Sid. Take nine head shot.
Of course he does, but Clem, click on the spade.
It's not gonna be good for an MDR 11.
Oh, I caught an house, Hans and Pepper,
but he's able to drop.
He can get the bomb down.
OK.
It's gonna help them not to win this round,
but maybe the next 11.
Oh, Clem's not clear.
Clem's not clear in this.
No way in the world.
OK, so you're going for the trigger discipline,
hoping for more.
It's just gonna be clean you have to take it eventually. I think a knife would be great here
A knife would be huge for the bank balance. You're right. 1500 bucks
Nice guys, that's the clock wrought as much as you can team side up against this one-out three-man unit for the retake
It's very late very labor. It sounds as if you find a way to get them off that box. They're starting to diffuse
Getting on it now getting on it now
11 to RDR
They took the time out to decide at the scoreline 10 to 9 that
Forcing in that scenario was better than taking maybe a hero AK with a couple of partials behind it
That was the ball of sport they deemed
And now they're gonna do a rifle with a couple of upgrades
But it's at 11
Yeah, but if you just on that last round you have full AK at this round
So last round you didn't have full guns this round you don't have full guns, but you're taking a part from so next round you do have full guns
But and they took a time out to discuss that
One goes down the tech lines are working
We're gonna plant though are just punched in that code immediately
So he's quick to this from secret he's got the info he's got our book
good for the year 12th just do now that's a okay well yeah he has to be
really a little more than that's a kind of still disconnected
why is it always so late intense with these guys boys I'm freaking out this
is never just laughter I don't know where he is just in time
God these late retakes are admirable, they put a lot of time off the time, Mirage first, now Lute.
Very good.
Now it is the full rifle.
I think I'm putting him on my pickaxe.
Sorry?
Can I put him on my pickaxe?
Really?
They're stage 1 team?
They will be a stage 1 team.
Yeah, they're my pickaxes.
Okay.
They're impressive to me.
to be a 0-3 team or?
No!
Absolutely not!
Alright, just check it.
That's my dark horse.
There's always a dark horse of the maybe.
You have to know who it's going to be, Chad.
And I am saying it's M-I-V-R.
So the mistake...
That's my opinion.
You don't have that.
The stage one field is
Game of Legion Big,
Beth Boombate,
Heroic Sinners,
M-A-D,
NRG Sharks,
Gaming Gladiators,
M-I-V-R Literature,
Tyler Literature,
Thunderdown,
and I Know-Fly Quest.
Oh, I wonder which one you're putting in.
Eight.
Eight of them do have to go to the next stage.
So actually, not a bad shout.
You think Alcorin is going to play a good game on the road?
I don't think so.
Where are you going?
Not so brave as the flames.
And they've got this two-man yard squad.
How do you lose this one?
Yeah.
It's not like that.
You get Beno and Tim, both get kills and then Ben and Zara swings in
and you get zero kills from Ramp and then the two people that will yard
they were supposed to be kind of the late flanker
are actually going to have to do it all on their own.
how audacious they were willing to take that fight but that should be round.
Should be match.
It might be ours post plan looks solid.
I'll force this fight with the holocop HGomber.
Trying to evade but with no success.
Nice find to pull it back to just a one round one play advantage.
Now you wait and you let Doom out work right?
You want to be able to connect with it.
The fact you've got that one for free it's all good but there's two before it's truly on this.
30 seconds to have to go for it.
They don't have any other choice, but there's a real chance they win it. They're all playing rapper
Picking into this. Yeah, it is just close it down clean with some impact frags 23 in the third map
You can only have one we discussed that
He's chosen to save it all the good
Deciding now tears so it's who one before M.I.B.R. One
Best of all the away from the playoffs here at PPL with her and that's gonna feel damn good yesterday
We discussed the M.I.B.R. Got that first win against the European opponent for the year against BCG
Now, Legacy are our team in stage 2, who they've just taken down.
And this is something that, obviously domestically speaking, the bread and butter for MIBR.
This is where they picked up almost all of their wins by the BCG.
They have been against domestic opponents.
Now, this one's done in Europe, so it's going to fill a whole lot sweeter.
It's a 1.25 million dollar event.
There's other big names here like your paravisions, your Mongols, your Australas,
we've got Foot, some other promising teams.
Legacy were the one for me, they were the 15th, right?
they were the maybe they can make the playoffs we need to see more of what we
had earlier on in the season the EPL the tenacity but the more I sort of are in
it today it just felt like everything was you know it was using what's the thing
you shake no not a snow globe oh I am not a protein shake the thing you
shake it's got a window magic able felt you know and it works sometimes
It didn't work other times, but I would say just as less there's less volatility
Of course
That leads to the win in the end. I think that was a very entertaining game the counter strike for sure
Had a ties and lows for both teams
Mardiado, I mean just
Consistently good on his late retakes my biggest takeaway is that he sides were impressive and their CT side of intakes were
Impressively well thrilled for considering there is a language barrier
Yeah, how temper they were, how they were able to play those situations later, not get too stressed out.
Ben and Zera had a very good first map, but definitely cooled off a lot since then.
So maybe some of those critiques that you were saying online, yeah, somewhat warranted.
But also, in terms of this lad, what is he, 21 years of age, in terms of the teams that he's played for, he's played for Red Canids, right?
So this is kind of his first outing.
So if he can make some steps and progressions, that would be great for the team overall.
And you're learning under an EU IGL as a young Brazilian talent.
That's really good.
So, yeah, crazy result going on in the Astrone game as well
for people to go and check out.
I can't quite believe what I'm reading over there.
But that is the conclusion of the first series of day three.
Ring on NRG.
Yeah, that's it.
NRG versus iBallers.
We've got North America versus Sweden coming up next.
The story is all this time, I do believe.
because the world, the world on the start-up when America came into existence.
So, but no, seriously, NRG with Grimm and the roster,
we get to see more reps out of them.
I think they got, they broke their loss streak just the other day against Bait.
They're now on and off.
They lost to Furia.
They beat Vokar.
They lost to, they got owned by Fort yesterday.
Yeah, that was bizarre.
They got, what was it, five rounds?
They got five rounds total and two maps yesterday against Fort,
which is, we think, Fort are good.
Yeah, but I thought NRG were decent.
Yeah, they shouldn't be that far off the pack.
Whereas iBall, as last two games,
have been a loss to Alliance and a loss to the Mongols.
13-7, and then it was a 13-7-13-7 in the Mongols game,
because I had to look at it.
Oh, for the iBallers?
Yeah, it was really GW's interview,
and he said like it's not the,
it actually wasn't the worst.
They had some good takeaways.
Oh, I'll tell you what it was.
They had six-six halves,
and then they got blown out in a second.
Both seven-one halves.
Yeah, so there's something there.
Anyway, we're doing a pre-match.
Let's talk about that when we get back from our break.
Yeah, let's do that. Let's do that. All right, so Eyeball is versus NIG. Coming up next, everybody. We'll see you shortly.
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What is going on everybody, a very special treat for all of you at home.
Now down on the floor with one of the best orbs of all time, multiple major winner and
an absolute legend, JW of Eyeballers.
How's it going bro, great to see you.
Great to see you, I'm happy to be back.
Yeah, just tell me what are you feeling right now, being here at a tournament
of this scale? Obviously very happy. It feels great to be back in this kind of environment.
Just get the feel of like PGL taking care of you, all these things outside the game. All
you have to do is focus on CS basically. It's almost like playing on easy mode while
the other kind of tournaments are more on expert mode I would say. How's the pressure
coming into PGL Bucharest.
So the pressure going into the tournament,
I wouldn't say we have any pressure at all.
We're here to have fun.
We're here to show our game.
And I think the pressure is on the others.
They should be beating us on paper.
And we're here to make that not happen
and show what we are capable of.
But when it comes to the pressure,
I would say we have no pressure whatsoever right now.
And how much of a realistic chance
do you think there is of you guys upsetting teams here?
I think there's a big chance of us upsetting.
Obviously the first goal is to make playoffs.
If and when we reach the playoffs,
then anything is possible.
We can win the whole thing.
We can go to a final.
We can go out in the semifinal.
But as long as we get to the playoffs,
I think that's when things get really interesting for us.
What's going to be most important for the team
to have a strong result?
Potentially have strong groups and reach those playoffs?
I think the most important for us
probably going to be that we need to focus on ourselves and not so much on everything around.
Perhaps some teams are going to scream, I don't know what the environment is going to be,
but I think as long as we focus on ourselves and bring out our game, then that's going to be,
that's going to put us in a good position. Other than that, I think just take the opportunity
because it is a big opportunity for us and try to develop as much as we can, it's a great
environment to accelerate as a player and get these kind of vibes we need to team and learn
from it. So I think on and on, no matter the result, I think it's a big win for us no matter what.
One of the more personally related questions that I'd like to ask is considering you're
you're a founding member of iBallers, considering you're JW, is it difficult at times to be in
the sort of position that you're in? Is there like where you have presence, you have or you
have the experience and you want to use that to help, but can it sometimes intimidate some
of the newer guys etc. Perhaps you get what I'm getting at, like what's it like to be
in your position in this team?
I think it was perhaps a bit harder like in the beginning to get people to realize that I am an equal when you're a team.
It's not like I am their boss or anything like that, which I am not anymore.
I mean, I have a stake in organization, but I have no say like business related stuff anymore.
So, yeah, I think we have had that within the team for quite some time now that they see me as an equal and we are here together.
And other than that, I think I just do the best I can to put them in as good a position as I can do.
Obviously, I feel like I have more stuff to do within the game, but I don't feel the need to be a star player anymore.
I don't really feel that I need the Hiko frags or I don't really feel that I need to show myself to the world anymore.
So it's more about pushing them forward and help them show the world what they can do.
can do because I feel like I have already done that part but now it's all about making
others better for me.
Jw, thank you so much for your time. Is there anything that you'd like to say to everybody
watching at home before I let you go?
Just a big shout out to everyone supporting, being there. It's been a long time since
I played on the stage but I'm happy to be back and let's show the world what
I
Get it!
Well, howdy y'all. We're back from North America. That's what we're here for.
My name's machine. I'm joined here by mr. Bertschl and it's the eyeball is they're gonna be taking them on
Yes, just go be
That was a help us. Yeah, I was gonna
We were just there hey is good hey
They hey you get this you're getting this
I hope you're okay with this.
That was more Finnish.
That's all I got.
Swedish team versus an American team.
Yes, I'm sorry about that. I just had to get out of my system.
And that's fine. Sometimes we do.
Now if I said to you that these two teams have no head to head history.
That makes me feel excited for the unknown.
Yeah, and that's what we're here for, the unknown.
Energy versus eyeballers.
How many times do you reckon Grimm's ever played against JW?
Zero.
Yeah, I don't even know it's maybe once in our online car. Can someone go find out
NRG's official
Twitch account is in Twitch chat right now. They should be able to tell their social me. Look, that's free. That's
Go find it out. Tell us
Anyway, long story short energy versus eyeballs
It's Bay versus 3D Max on the mainstream right now with Hemingey G and Anders B.
Just curious enough over there they have played since 2024.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven heads heads.
Whereas now it's the first time.
Yeah. So there you go.
We ain't got the novelty.
Do you want to see something you've never seen before or something you've seen nine times?
You know?
Yeah.
Think about that.
Yeah, I think I own NRG's social media person.
Their message got deleted by moderators.
Oh, get moderated.
Get wrecked by moderators.
Enjoy that one, but then you're piping snarky.
But is it gonna be the energy of day one?
What do you mean energy of day two?
Pick your fabric pose here.
OK.
Hold on.
J-Bex is going to take care of it.
I think he's doing, is he doing bang?
Yeah, like kind of a breathing arm.
Bob's doing it.
Oh, Bob?
Wait, is that Steve?
I do like Bob.
I'm Dex.
Dex is going.
How old, Blinster?
What?
That's exactly what he was doing.
I don't know what that's about.
That's the how old blimp sledge.
I don't know what that is.
No, I'm just making things up.
OK.
But yeah.
All right.
That's pitter behind them.
Not the bread, but the man.
Oh, I do like a bit of bread.
Yeah, the man.
The man is there.
But when you come from the store,
they go stale so quickly.
That's the thing.
You got to make your own bread.
Get your sourdough.
Get your KitchenAid out.
What's it called, that where you have a sourdough?
Your starter.
Yeah.
Overpass ban from NRG.
No surprise there.
It is cute! Let's go!
Is it a Dust 2?
Oh, it's Eyeballs. I thought they might go Dust 2, or a Nubus has the punish.
So I'm surprised we didn't see a Dust 2 with a pick. So Maraj coming in from NRG.
Didn't Voka pick this against NRG just in the day? I'm pretty sure they did.
Nubus getting removed in the second phase by Eyeball.
By NRG, excuse me. That means Eyeball has had a choice between Dust 2 and Inferna.
I think they'll go... Oh, I thought they might go Dust 2.
question about um eyeballs before we get started do you like do i have permission to call him bob or
does he prefer bob xd does he want it bob xd every time uh so inferno's already banned that's
my yeah you can call him bob everyone's okay with bob just call him bob okay he's okay with bob
i think that's fine it's not a real name is it but he's not called like bob ayy even if
his name if his real name was Bob Jonathan Jonathan so Ira how old is he 22 when I was
20 like in my early 20s I remember things like Bob was just a really funny name my
granddad's name was Robert we called him Bob so ancient is the third man I'm so sorry
But he knew garage and ancient that's the thing you forgive you and
I
Just looking right when you look at Hosea V and you look at the match stats in the last three months. I just I'm a little bit
confused
The inferno ban
Fair enough eyeballs have a 36% win rate over 11 maps in the last three months. That's a lot
Whereas energy have a 62% over eight. All right fair enough
The nuke pick makes sense. NRG have a 17% win rate over six maps. Eyeball has an 83% over six maps though
It's it's their actually least played map
Of the last three months. So that's kind of keep in mind
Then in the second phase dust 2 went
Eyeball has have a 43% win rate with seven maps played but NRG have a measly 12% with eight maps played
So I thought dust 2 might feature here and
and no Anubis either. So all right, they took the decider. New to kick us off. Mirage will definitely need.
That's a guarantee. And away we go.
Off to the races. This is a needless pistol round. Isn't that fun?
Oh, we do like these.
Not a single Granada.
We're just going to run out of heart on the timing.
Nice round.
The shot is led into the side and the first one to Sonic quickly controlling the
Gilberettes is grim as they occupy lobby heavily. Nitro not gonna want to
overcommit here. He has hold so much more value if OC and the lobby crew can
start wrecking house.
Oh wow, Bobby's been in the headshot. Bobby! Bobby with two.
I see Grimms a bit of a dual
barata aficionado. I think I
can state this is a fact to
energy will get more maps and
more rounds in both maps and
they did yesterday by the both
now. Yes, I that means they
will get five or more round
good sound from the eyeballers baby ball in GW man he's only 31 we established
his earlier did he's just 31 who is the very first major MVP everybody back in
2013 winning in dreamhack yong shipping back in the NIP era I suppose
toppling them on stage devil walk dropping his trousers
off course didn't do that cool trick that I haven't tried to do
with the trousers we can zoom down a ladder if you do a jump
oh yes you've been practicing I haven't been practicing
can you do it no I don't think it would be good for me very often
wouldn't it look cool to show your skills when you throw the nades then
silently to send extra quick to help your boys right
You're cool.
Where are you throwing the nades?
From top.
Where is this one?
OK.
You know, I saw Monosly playing with it.
He would actually be able to use it in a practical sense.
I would just screw it up and be like,
why did I even try this?
Yeah.
It's just like, why are they even
going to try and go for this?
Should be the save now for NRG.
They lost Sonic again as the first man,
and they'll just be holding onto their goods
for this four-spy and using it again to the next.
So it's so funny that CS has mechanics like that, right?
Because from my understanding, when I watched the video
Honestly explaining it you just have to hold like you have to have space bar or you know a button to jump. Yes, not scroll wheel
You position yourself in that like you touch the ladder then get off the ladder with jump hold jump
And then go all the way down
You just slide it down it like a lot of those
Not intended right?
He goes down that's 600 bucks extra for grim and the re-investment five balls
But a lot of those mechanics that exist is they become these fun quirks of the game that are if you know you know
But they always they always get patched out or moved away from I know for example
We're 1.6 with like the bobbing that you could do so let's say default box on inferno imagine that the default box on inferno
You couldn't physically see over it if you were standing. Yeah, yeah, you could
Just stand behind it and hit tap crouch and you would just your head would bop up and you could see there's also something
see once the bomb was planted you could actually use the bomb as a footstool so
you'd plant use the bomb to give you a higher elevation and then jump on that
box. Oh that's so geeky. Yeah there's a lot of a lot of nerdy things. That's the
fun of it. Yeah but but because it's not intuitive. Yeah of course but learning
like you know learning the game and discovering those little tricks that
you've been getting beaten by you know and like oh that's how they were
doing it. Dead. That's the opportunity to at least pull out a gun. It won't
Bobby boy handles bro.
Now they just need to get out ramp to get down to be and join Bob.
The boost to worry about the scout as well. This would be tough.
Yeah, he finds out the multi-ozy connects as well.
Okay, important back.
That's decks with the double.
That has that kid and the smoke.
Sonic to sending events. He's flirting with that.
Anyway, it's not held actively by Bob.
with Nitro approaches from the secret staircase.
And this one is just about damage now.
There is the kit on Nitro that does change things.
A lot.
An awful lot.
It's that headshot like that.
They're gonna group up,
trying to get the smoke on the bottom of the dome for this.
They're gonna give us a proper shake of the stick.
Could be an awkward little moment to pick the dubs.
No, that sounds like it gets nervous,
especially when they disappear into it.
and then I throw hit the head shot now you can just sit there a few what you do
in Dex you know
Dex is not ready for the game!
Save them anyway!
Dude!
Damn!
Damn Dex!
At it again with the 3k!
Damn close on that line but they'll make sure they get the pistol and the conversion
short not necessarily the cleanest but that's the guarantee eyeball is three
zero start as the guns now come out for NIG really good pivot here just
Spindin's not the finish off Grimm brought low by JW.
I guess someone's probably screaming, could have a kit.
Yeah, if he's got a smoke he's probably got a kit.
So, it's flawed logic.
That's how you should live your life.
Yeah, that's how I'm just, that's how I'm being right now.
Got a smoke, got a kit.
You got a kit, you got a smoke.
Oh, Grimm, oh.
Dancing around the smokes was Bobby.
I can't believe Sonic won that.
Thought he'd really overcooked the poops there.
Did that change the call? Looks like it.
They were set up, postured, ready, waiting to go.
Hoping to force that rotation with the secret space.
Now they need to change their tack to do eyeballers.
Back to Yard Lake.
It's like he's repossed right now.
How do we dream last night? Tell me more. I wanted to call this spot trunk this one this position trunk and then the spot
To the
To the left
Won't be able to explain it. I don't worry. We'll go but I wanted to call it a spot tree
But I don't know why I don't know why I was doing about that either another you're dreaming about naming counter strike positions
That actually speaks of volumes
man is living and breathing and dreaming counter strike there was there was no
pushback either everyone was just happy yeah tree and trunk tree and trunk by
sides
is trunk to the corner Nico plays in like okay Nico corner to be trunk well
that spot where Sonic was I whatever he's I called it trunk because it was
was a thick old red box that would make sense that the other ones tree if
if you're reading it from CT side.
Yes.
Keep going.
Yeah.
Oh, he's dead.
Huh?
Oh, before he gets the ball down, JW.
Yes, the X-600 by Screeze team.
They're happy with this.
What if he won it, somehow?
All right.
What if he won it?
What if he did?
What?
What's the need?
Then dips into the smoke now.
Oh, he had his fight.
He had his fight.
Not an easy one.
I was maybe setting the expectations a little higher.
You were.
I think you had your rose tinted glasses on it, your sweet tinted glasses.
Yeah, I got them out of the box.
2013 vintage edition.
Yep.
I didn't know it was vintage.
Like with the Magic the Gathering cards I've been ordering.
They're all vintage.
I always scroll for like the crusty old ones.
Oh yeah?
They're typically cheaper.
Used only.
Yeah, I like the ones that are like, they give, they have like a scoring system for
the quality of the card.
I always go for the PO, which just means like poor.
Okay.
they're all crusty and they've seen time.
They should make it PL, is there a PL?
There is, played, yeah.
It's poor, then played.
Then moderately
mo, whatever mo stands for.
Mo, moderate, okay.
And then you've got like
pristine or whatever it's called.
P, P something, P-O.
No, that's poor.
NM, near mint.
Near mint?
Not Monday, yes it is.
It is Monday.
And how'd you go around?
T's have
This is what happens when that decks round coming down to the 1v1 round. They lost so many casualties
So they they are able to something by it just will be lacking maxed it down to a Mach 10
JW on a Scout
And last round they got caught trying to cross secrets and his bot want to try it again
Or does he want to offer a different smoke wall variation because we're
Essentially learning what game plan I ballers have come in with today
I'm still able to
call from the sheet. This time, many more bodies outside to take the space.
A different smoke wall. Diagonal variation.
It can do a second layer.
Ooh, that's nice and rosy.
Sharp, sharp. Quick over the smoke.
There's the second layer.
There's the incision, the scouts, and GW gets nothing.
Here comes layer two.
I like that you do diagonal to clear out under silo, close red,
so you can't get flanked.
Then once you've got red control, second wave,
essentially you're not meant to be down a man,
But you are in this scenario
If you bro, you bro
In this type of a wind is important for NRG not just this round
But in terms of a series again there another team will be keeping our eyes on in the road to the major and then it start peeking in form
We're not peeking but showing better form. Yeah, and they've only played against good European opponents
This is a middle of the pack European opponent
What's taking these sites?
Ooh, Rolf.
I'm really too happy with his spray there.
27th of April, perfect.
The Waffa and the Dex.
Counter-terrorists will be handled.
Got Eiko now, four-eyed bullers.
The Swedes will have to relent
and take the...
near...
nothing investment.
Dex could invest in a Deagle if he would like to,
but everybody else is going to have to be keeping
things relatively cheap, P250 at most, because you're only going to get 2400, not even P250.
Presumably, a bit of a newer viewer, we have FrickyTV asking who TF is OC.
It's a great question.
How would you describe it before an OC? Who is it?
OC was probably about five years ago, maybe six, an up-and-coming North American
AWP who played on extra salt alongside of your floppies and your JTs in the world.
True, yes. And was, I wouldn't say being touted as the next big AWPing prospect from North America,
but definitely he was on the docket. Yes, yeah. We're always looking. When a new name emerges,
Is he always like, could he, could Tanbe?
And they gave him a go on Liquid.
Didn't really work out.
He had to kind of drop back down into the,
I wouldn't call it doldrums of North American Counter Strike,
but he was not playing on the main or main-ish rosters.
You know, the ones who were actually
getting international opposition.
Then showed some really good form again.
And Exotic, who was open for NRG,
decided he had enough, wants to do IRL things.
Okay. And then OC comes back to NRG. Yeah. So that's OC.
Do we read chat? Yes, we do. Piras. We do read chat.
We'd like to make this a bit more of a conversation.
Yeah. Because you're sat at home. We're sat at home.
And the players are sat at an event in Romania.
I just wonder how many people are watching on the couch as well.
I think a lot of people are on phones.
I think the couch viewing experience is the best.
before I can't throw a smash.
Tricks says it sounds like they're talking about Coosa.
There are a lot of similarities there.
Oh, double-nade, dunk, nitro, dead man.
Now they're into A.
Okay.
It's only from the Heaven side.
I'm going to try and pin Seren from all these different advantage rounds.
Grim.
Oh, quick on the dispatch of Rolf.
J.W. Trading, but nice flash work.
O.C. sets up Sonic.
Double of the flash bang from O.C.
Lovely and solid from NRG.
the fact that you open the round with I don't want to call it a free kill but you
manufactured a kill where you didn't have to use any bullets right there and then
it's unfortunately falls apart like that you're gonna be feeling a bit rough
high ballers now you were talking about this earlier when we're in the last
series yesterday they're gaming against the Mongols they had strong first
halves which was 6-6 but then they were only able to win one in the
second half of both of those maps whereas NRG yesterday only got five
rounds over two maps and they're one round away from equaling that oh they're
going for the geeky one respect wire ballers and heavy smoke landing and it's
gonna matter because that's got the kill on tonight row and Sonic catches bullets
through the smoke on main decks with a double OC audible grim drops in tech
nine headshot grim over extending and decks will punish he is having a
marvelous start to this tea side 11 kills from decks OC getting tricky with
it slips into the lobby. Dex is tech nine, call it a deck nine.
It's just Jwb is great, he's a Glock. You're not scared of a Glock.
Yeah, I like that he's partnered up for Austin. That enables them to have a bit more potency.
You don't feel like winning this, you don't feel like you've got a chance of winning this
now. Now Jwb's got an upgrade, jump over.
crazy if he's gonna kill us
the tech 9's be hitting
i-fallers a stabilizing big win from Dex on the tech 9
he's had some good impact doesn't he so uh
there's a couple of rounds from Dex especially when Maxster is yet to get going 0 and 6 from him
it's not the end of the world for NRG but you wouldn't
love to be converting that if you want to have a strong CT side
now you're a little bit wobbly
there's no way what's up you asked how they're watching you know we got the on the sofa yeah
and uh laras am i saying that right uh pyrus pyrus says watching during my lunch break at 240p
sitting on a steel beam on the side of an under construction skyscraper i i would love that to be
true but prove it prove it tweet a picture of it at me right now because i like to preach it a lot
i don't really care about the 240p yeah but the what you must be seeing right now must be pretty
Because all I can see is all of Chan's TV weabies on his shelf in 240p. Yeah
How do you need to get my nice chance? I think I'm rocking 480 right now
It calls beyond that 4k lifestyle, you know, I like Jason Moses. Oh tool laser eyes a million dollar man million dollar man
Here's a good one for all your home. Hopefully you land it
He's trying to smoke squeaky door needs a little bit of an edge forward. There you go. It's a tricky one
That is tricky because he hasn't landed a property. You wanted to go inside the door everybody
caused that's caused by a mistrun smoke that rounds in 3d5 will probably be
lost by mist rounds this one's right look in my way yeah look at that land
did
still winnable but they're so low roll back site
down. Grim's tempted. Yeah, just gonna die. Yeah, I think the gun covered spotting
roll there. Yeah, nice off angle. It's a bad round to lose, NRG. You can't be losing that one.
Eyeball is five. Looking like six. Do you think Bro only came up as well because the smoke
was missed? Do you think he wanted to leave the vent? I think he saw him on the way up.
because the smoke was missed and so committed.
Whereas if the smoke was good,
then they wouldn't have been out
and he'd have been able to go up to the air.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
Which is funny, those details do, I mean, you know,
that there's no shortage of ridiculous ways
to lose around.
Yeah, we had one in EPL where Hunter missed
like an A main smoke on Anubis
and it ended up just going the basket's corner
and then it did cost them.
And it didn't, like, obviously
there's a lot more things that happen.
But it's the way you see, you know,
You're exploiting tiny lapses in your opponent's expectation.
That's an unforced error.
Yes.
It's a footfall.
They did so hard to get the first two kills, then to fumble the round like that is less
than ideal.
But they are going to shove again.
So, I've always been in a very strong position right now to have a silly whiff
it first half play what like some cool ideas yeah and I think that with what I
watched against the Mongols it felt very W heavy on their tea sides and I didn't
like that this feels a bit more structured
very special this whole play so it's Jw doing Jw's oh this round push could
unravel all of that conversation. Forget about that.
Interesting.
He's escorted forwards, but with Bob finding him, he doesn't fight in.
Then reveals he peeks into the Alpric Max.
J.W. from the roof does go to combat Alpric.
Wow!
Bob's here to shot so steep, Dobbs!
What a turnaround!
Okay, good luck now, Sonic, you're dead.
Bye, J.Dobbs, doing him dirty.
Masterful on the descent there.
had a whole plan they have to scrap it because of the aggression lobby but Bob and Jw partner up and get the job done
Now it's the energy eco for the final round. I hope I wish we had a replay there because Jw from his POV
This one bang
Playing with the ladder
Is it a shade of Jw of all just fun business on the ladder for sure
See ya. Oh, I like that. I enjoyed that. I'm getting my rose to the goggles out. Where are they?
So this should be seven hours that
Max will get on the board with his second kill there showing some
confidence against the eases important Max does get going there wasn't one that
people were quite excited about this lab but
never really came to be
Prim is going to be so upset
Spitting chips
Oh, that's some old weirdos.
Alright, back's up. That's an AK given back over.
Poppy Boy's missed a bit of U-Tilt.
Anyway, this goes wrong.
Well, if they go up the ladder, they get to the wrong.
If you go up the ladder, I might just leave, I guess.
Okay, this works out better.
Yeah, just go round to B now.
Guys, don't.
In what world is this?
Oh, there's a gun up there.
Oh, that's through the floor.
38 seconds.
Okay, it doesn't do it.
It's not your fault.
Why?
Why do we need to go ladder?
What was the?
What was the goal then?
Especially after you were established, there was a player there.
You got the info and everything.
Guys, why so stubborn?
This is a rather counter-strike baby.
He wins it, watch this.
That was a good one.
That was a good one.
I enjoyed that.
Counter-Strike, Daisy.
Yo!
Going up ladder when you know...
So now you know there's a 5-7.
Where are you going, JW?
What are you doing?
Well...
At least they won the round.
No harm no foul.
That's what they say, right?
That's what they say.
That's what they say.
allegedly you knew that there was like if you put your arm in this hole yeah there's an alligator and
it doesn't have to do a lot to buy you it might not buy you might not it doesn't have to do a lot
to buy you and you are yeah here's one arm boy is my other arm
seven seven to four three on three though thank you to uh sonic for putting another on the floor
Well considering how NRG have lost number advantage rounds, this one in an equal state
doesn't mean anything. These are less now. Dex is the go.
Yeah, he's really nice.
And they're both on A.
Here's one clear. I'm trying to stop. Yep, perfect. On the men's flop, he goes down.
Master mode. Opportunity to cut.
She's done very well. Eyeball is thriving.
Beautiful. Okay. Max wasn't the most glamorous of halves, but it does end with a nice little clutch to extend the lead.
So looking very powerful on their map choice of Nuke. It is Mirage up next. That's been the
selection of
NRG who
For the last three months, they're nine and two on Mirage. Whoa, but there have been roster changes that have come in here and some of those nine
three of the nine are against Marsborne, Voka. One of those is the Flomland, which is the
sound of the year in Vegas too, so that is it's quite a ways away. Whereas for iBalls,
I know we're still a whole half of Counter Strike away from this, they've been playing
a decent amount of Mirage as well. They're lost yesterday to the Mongols, but other
than that they've got wins against European teams like Harok, Academy, MetaSport, Young
ninjas nip so yeah then they're okay names not great names
all right so it started with a 10 kevlar pistol and ends with a max of clutch
someone asked why there's no musical sound effects sorry that's my job I did
mess up let's anyway let's get a second half underway here
It's getting groovy between eyeballers taking on NRG.
You've got some Monday listening.
You're here.
It's lunch time.
What's on the menu?
Taking a break from having some interviews.
Taking some calls.
Having a chat with your colleagues around the water cooler
that these days is called teams.
Having a small eyebrow.
Once it was Skype, some of you.
You might even use a Monday board. Maybe even a Slack. Maybe. Maybe a Discord for the newer generation. Sharing your screen, having a good time.
Maybe back in my day I was on Ventrilo. Raid leader. Going through a divorce, just helping him out. Yeah.
15 years of age just talking a guy through a divorce and that's the power of the internet
That's the power of the internet you really grow up quick
Yeah, I learned what sleep apnea was from a teammate in a tent, but he was dying
Sounded real weird. His name was warlord
What was it you guys raid leader of warlord?
Yeah, what a way leader was a lot of warcraft
Yeah, he's actually a name of someone ours
Yeah, but the nickname of warlord would sleep out here in the tent was what I learned what that is
Okay, but people just stop breathing in their sleep. That's not that it does it's scary. It is scary
It is scary. Do you breathe in your sleep? Let us know in the chat
Your menu's machine, okay
There's a hacks
The real the real ages know it you do you have anything else in here? Let's have a look what else we got
What about Raid call chat you have one Raid call no, I do know of Raid call was never on Raid
call. I did use Ventrilo. Yeah, there was one more son of a name mum. There you go. There you go.
Mumble was another big one back in the VoIP world back in the day back in the day voice over IP
I'm so happy we got iPoders on our screen today. It's a real treat from PGL.
All right, let's get started.
I'm going to play a little bit of a game.
I'm going to play a little bit of a game.
I'm going to play a little bit of a game.
I'm going to play a little bit of a game.
today. It's a real treat from PGL.
Is there a replacement team as well? Yeah.
DJ.
We're back on the way. This is around second half.
This time both teams have some nades.
Flash outside taking space, scaling heaven and hell. Grim
off to the races. I'm not gonna hit the first bullet. It's Rolf. Feeling the
pressure it's got support from beneath in the locker area and the first block
but it's not gonna connect we're in dancing with trouble and does get put
down Bob XD sickest nickname professional counts right next to only
just goes off the sleeves they get some funny names went in when Jay-Z walking
Jay-Z walking was actually a player it's pretty good actually
They got a kit, but need to get a wriggle on here, iBallers.
Nice tap from Nitro with the CTs on this retake.
If iBallers win this, they are set to succeed on the just bro.
Just got to get knock them off the bomb.
The 10 second defuse to be locked in and it's theirs.
iBallers 9, NRG 4.
Thank you.
Yep, that is exactly what it is.
to trombone. This is huge. Let's not forget that you know the the strong half they've had
that already they've really tasted what it's like to have a good half but they haven't
tasted what it's like to have two good halves back to back. I think that's one of the fun
things about you is that if you can have a strong T side and a strong T side is five
rounds. Yeah. They've managed to get eight then you know okay now we're on the CT side
of our map choice this is where we feel we have a very good understanding. They brought
What about the second round all?
How does this go wrong?
Oh baby.
Oh, in slow.
Next up, can be tested.
The perfect flashes,
layered nicely into the entry room provides.
Pops can die from a barbie.
Pops can get dunked on.
Tech nine's into the top site.
And all of that for Norco.
Save your all.
Sorry, this is what I meant.
Get them through.
Get them through.
Can I find a couple more naves maybe?
Yeah, I...
As I mentioned yesterday, I am still a purist in the sense that I don't like the second round orb.
I would have preferred in this situation him to have a 5-7 or a P250 with Hadamaran Nades.
And then he could have brought the orb out when he knew it was going to be something a little bit more...
I guess because the bomb went down, so you knew it was going to be a force.
But what variation of a force? Is it a force where they go Galil heavy and they try and take yard space, then orb's good.
The variation where they go SMG and tech 9 heavy and they go erupting into the A site or not so good
Not so good
Well, that's better than the pistol. Ah, well take it back because they did save an AWP in M4
So, you know what? They're just good at each other
fair
I've dropped two MP 9s here. Okay. They've opted for nades
So 257's an MP9, they're saved off, they're saved in 4 and a smattering of U2 goes up against NRG into round number 15
Like this, as early as KW, we'll have to move
Gips away
You've got roles responsible for this potential top site
yard crawl for
NRG squad
I don't want to get out of there, the only rifle in the round it would be bad to lose
but worse to lose the position where it can't be picked up.
Okay W's in a great position though, they've only seen the North, they're counting on their
trusting their flashes and they work.
They're going to scale in a minute.
How many more peaks does he go for?
One, at least.
Oh and Dex catches one slipping.
OC was looking towards Seeker, it gets caught out, at least the trade there, they deny the rifle.
Bob's going for some long range 5-7 hit triangle here, this is a bit mad.
That's just gotta remain stubborn, I feel this is a long bomb.
Oh, the smoke walk, bro, wins it out.
Oh, salvage!
Yep, salvage is a great word, they dig themselves out of that.
Tense, for a moment there.
Like Dex playing off of his teammate, JW off of that opening kill,
springs to action through the main smoke gets it back now to have to be the eyeball
with eco with the 2400 loss coming into the next and become a two-round game at
that point
soft leg shrimp correct we are always reading chat but we are remote so there
will be a slight delay.
I can't cast uncount so I'm gonna let you keep counting.
No, I'm okay.
A bit of a lobby crunch, classic.
I have all those keeping it.
Almost a minute. About 50 seconds.
You're about 50 seconds late.
Maybe you get a little USB headshot, but they're gonna be clearing this box properly.
I'm not losing it, but you might get yourself a little something else 300 buck a roose
Can they get the AK's they've got one of them that's good enough
They oh
I see. It's down to eight dubs.
Bob dies. Yeah. You're back to
where we started. Bob. Play a
safe, Bob. And he's dead. Okay.
What was threatening?
Exciting. Time is the biggest
Oh, okay, and there's a gun available.
Gun available? No, in the dropping vents.
Well, he should know because I think Bob threw that there.
Yeah, I think so too. He's picked it up, okay.
So you get a Molotov as well for your troubles.
They're gonna give it a look. I wouldn't hate it if they saved.
Dexter, just play it close.
I don't know what I'm doing here, but now it's an active one.
Oh, he's coming for him.
There's another one!
Oh, it's that long way!
Put the way down, Talia!
That's a ego!
At another, we need an eco-tally on screen at all times.
What did they invest there?
Flash?
USP's an economical.
Oh, wow.
That is mad.
All right.
One of these sounds we will use every time there's eco in.
I don't know which one it'll be.
What's the eco-win sound?
Maybe it's this one.
I can't believe it. It's
just a game that's.
It's just a game that's
just a game that's.
It doesn't really work in this
context because they are
Swedes. They are Swedes.
But like maybe it would know.
It's just a grammar. It's
what up now? And then I
Yeah, it works.
Or it could be this one.
Yeah, I love it about that.
That is probably...
When was the last time you went to the circus?
Circus-O-Lay, does that count?
Yep.
I think so.
What was that?
A million years ago.
Probably about ten years ago.
Damn.
Last time in my life.
No, you know.
I bought parlor tickets.
Well, he asked me to...
I was buying tickets for myself and my partner.
Yeah, and he wanted to come
So but we were going to get him as I can you grab me a ticket? I was like, yeah
And he never paid me back for the ticket and a service load ticket somewhere between like a hundred and two hundred bucks
That's not like a chocolate bar down the shop with anything is it never paid me back. All right. Well, that's something that's unacceptable
smoke Granada
Flash on top. It's just like a little force you till moment
Yeah, I don't think there's any commitment behind this
They're trying to try and force out some type of a reaction you can see with Nitro down secret so
You've lost the yard control are you gonna push in a lobby?
And that's what they were hoping to force to handle for the move like that
But now suddenly congregate towards ramp they need to get past the JW wall
Spam back connects. Nice from Dex. Dex having a great time on it.
W, you look a little bit lost right now.
Still nice to get help out in the East, and, oh, Niceray removing his honor and crime. Nice stuff.
That explains why he was lost, because they knew somebody was down or could be.
Couldn't find him.
And then it made him look a little bit stunted, coming through the door, but the eco-wim was good.
You need the rifle rounds, though, boys.
I
Don't grip sticking out decks and now it's just roll feeds the hero of the last round has walked in undetected right now
Let's the back step on the healthiest member and then you got low HP, but no time
Just hope that they don't see just sits that if you unless you just sit through the fuse unless you just sit
Oh
Fumble to fumbles! Fumble Lena! Fumble Chino! License to fumble! Fumble McFumbleson, a fumbler!
Both of them didn't want to make the move because both of them were low and then the
The comms would have been, he could be defusing, Grim goes to make the players too late.
Oh my god.
Boys, that's... after that and the eco loss.
Oh man.
That's...
That's... that's... that's not good enough.
Oh, the question is, is diabolos kind of over-complicate things?
I don't know why, can you go off getting open doors to get down?
I see the vents though, it's gonna make life difficult for Maxi. He has to smoke to unloop.
It feels better than last round, you know.
Last round I felt like they were under a lot of pressure even though...
they've still lost...
at least a lot of room on the map, right?
You have to see what's a concern and it feels like everything.
Obviously B being the biggest problem, but...
passive on yard as well, trying to catch them as they slip back through his JW.
This is a weird angle.
This is gonna work, grab your words.
The angle works, they weren't looking at him.
You'd get the empty as the time.
Get any kills?
Rolf's just the one.
OK, in what crazy out-of-the-box fashion
are you somehow going to lose this round?
No way.
Well, I thought last round there was no way.
Yeah, last round too.
You know what, let's just strap in and see.
If there was a kit on Dex.
Yeah, right with the kit.
And then they both stay heaven,
and they wait till they start running away.
And Max tries to cover while Dex
sits to defuse or vice versa.
I wonder if Maxon gets his hands on an upgrade. I think that is priority. Wouldn't you just
go look in the yard? Ah, you don't have to. J.W. died right there. Idiot. Come on. You
saw him do that. You saw him. As much as it steals pretty rough for NRG right now,
way back into the game is is is wide open right they lost two stupid rounds
they know that they never should have lost but that is actually a positive sign
because games not over yet they will have these two saved guns that will most
likely be echoed behind so next round they're shoving okay I take well I
don't take it back you are now getting to play against a famous 2M4s
was an eagle at an MP3. You win this round, get eco next. That's 11 to 9 and you're back
in it. Easy on the wall. Easy's the key word. They just walked all over them. So now it's
just about tightening up the ends to the rounds and not losing to an eco, which is
coming up next. You're all good. You're back in it. You can still win this map.
feels bad when you see the score line.
You just have to remember where they came from.
This plays.
So in case people did miss it, Phase will be playing today.
At PGL Bucharest, they have made the trip from Belgrade to Bucharest,
and they'll be playing against Inner Circle.
there's a little bit of a circle.
There's footage of them setting up to play.
Now, I can't imagine their mental is going to be in a very good state.
The future of the team who knows, but they will be playing later today.
That is the next game.
Can they turn a 0-2 due to four fits around?
Or is this just the goodbye tour?
You know what? Knowing the track record of phase after they don't make the major after all of this.
I think the thing is when you look at how bad everything's gone it shouldn't even come as a surprise to them or anybody
with how poor the level of Counter-Strike has been, but I think for them to have actually
got to the point where it was so close. And you had to be the big who had already qualified.
So Big actually had less to play for in terms of qualification perspective, but still managed
to pull it across the line. So respect to Big for, I think the win for Big is more
of a, hey, let's add this to our body of work for this season. Because otherwise,
if you take a look at the teams who have bigger beaten, it's kind of like, pretty
is it like european it's like european m i b r m i u
Prim gets an opening kill Bob, he's gone.
I don't know if he likes being anymore.
There's not a secret, but sat on his arse by Grim.
What's Sonic's Slayer? Are they lockers?
I don't know.
He's getting a rally when I see it.
If it's a static one, I think it's not.
Where'd they go dude?
Okay, on top of the main.
This is all erupted quite quickly there.
Look at my back, room goes down.
Dex peers out to see if he can draw another in their favor.
Nitro with a minute on the clock will take warehouse control.
So established in yard R and RG.
Down towards B there is one man, that's JW.
He's just gonna play from the double door side.
Three will come knocking in a moment as the lobby lurk of Bro
is the disconnected piece for now.
Oh, you didn't fight the Nuthalus even you did, that's the uh...
A couple of vermiceous aint slowed him down?
Yes, yeah, absolutely.
Oh! Not letting them dex today though, is it?
21 kills deep for the CT side, he's a big reason the eyeballs are up in the lead, but for how long?
Max is aware of this potential for the Bro lurk, but isn't gonna catch him.
Rolf down ramp, bomb yet to get planted.
There you go, that'll be round. Okay, Max does should save.
And this is what I'm saying. It's fortunate that eyeballers are at 11. Sure. They had to capitalize on the mistakes
But it hasn't been team Counter-Strike that got them to 11 maybe up until nine
That's otherwise there's been some rounds that energy have fumbled
So just that one round gap and yeah the fumbles have shaken him off.
Good to see that coming into the freeway, this was played from the squad, especially
when Grim performing as well as he is.
Only four frags for him, opening kill, get the start of this round onto Bobaik's feed.
Bobaik's done.
Solid names from the...
You like the eyeball as names?
Yeah, because you can read them and you understand what they're saying.
They're palatable?
Yep.
Personally, a fan of all of them.
All of them in the server today.
You know, there's no Steen Guard or anything like that.
How come the Swedes never got mad at us for calling him JW?
Yeah, they didn't.
That's because the Swedes are cool like that.
The Swedes are cool like that?
Yeah.
Shouldn't it be J-W?
Actually, it's J-W.
We say J-W here.
We never got that from the Swedes.
They just let us do it.
They just let us do it our way.
Shout out to the Swedes.
Yeah, respect.
Respect to Sweden, man.
You got legs, you got houses.
My other things.
Electricity, people, fruit.
Yep, you guys have sand.
Sand's nice.
Sun, like three times a year.
Water.
Running in your taps.
Gotta respect that.
Save them for.
I'm not sure.
It's killing Scyler.
No, it's killing Scyler.
I'm third.
I had shot.
I came from A.
Okay.
There was the third.
You bang on.
So they're good with their nades.
You saw them in the first half get 3B openers.
Oh my god.
I like that.
It can't happen again.
I got it.
Bless.
I knew it's too good.
Oh!
Oh, see?
You're ruining the fun.
Stop trying to win the game.
Cool man.
But now where it feels like it is completely in the realm of energy taking this round, they fumble somehow.
Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
Somehow, some way.
You died to make it, you have to go one head shot again.
Not hit it immediately.
I don't think it's a favourable fight for you, Mr Nitro.
Yeah, that's fine.
Rolf dead, Max to the man who saved.
There was a... there was rounds around Max there for a moment.
And I... maybe it just came from Prof.
But he never... he's never impressed me.
I didn't know this hasn't been a single moment.
No, yet.
True.
put them all together. We put Plopsky, Maxter, Hampus, Wenton, Wenton and Disco Doppler and
Disco Doppler in the team. We call them the flubby gangsters. The Vikings. Oh yeah, not
the Sweden. I like that. Or just Sweden. Just called Sweden. Just Sweden. Just sick
name. I don't know. It might be taken. Oh dear. We have fun. We have fun around
Yeah, and people would have written them off after they lost those two rounds not here
Not here. No, sir. I heard Chad's house. No writing anybody else. No, sir. Chad's house
Respect under log
All star secret that's the guaranteed frag if ever I said we don't have to look at it
Okay, there's the guaranteed Frank second times the charm. That's what the saying goes decks good for one
I don't know if that's his middle name.
Great delaying.
Yeah, not bad. I don't see however constantly trying to win the game.
Who's here in a 1v4? How's the first? Here he is.
Oh me, oh my.
Oh my.
He's got full belt as well.
No funny business with a smoke though, that's a shame.
That smoke pluming down B could force rotations that he's begging them to give him.
Here's what I'll say.
If NRG win this round, so let me say, let me try this game, if eyeballs win this round,
this game is 100% going over time.
Okay, 100%.
100%.
OC will need to win the 1v4, which will be an ace, to make sure this stays in regulation.
Okay.
J.W. hits the leg shot to make it even more difficult, hamstrung further as O.C. get after
just stick it to hell, but J.Dubbs finishes it off strong, convincing scenes, but we have
however received assurances from Jazz House that this one is going overtime. That's 100%
now if you recall. Oftentimes in commentary we discuss the necessity to avoid absolute,
saying 98% gives you room to kind of wiggle, you know, room to manoeuvre, however, when
you do safe things, I don't know, for example, like 100%, you can have it thrown in your
face by Twitch chat in one minute and 50 seconds time.
Let's see, shall we Twitch chat you versus me?
Let's go.
Let's see if he can go south, he's going to open and kill.
You wouldn't shoot right now?
Bro got a kill after JW, he was feeling himself, he was feeling himself, yeah he
was.
the only way that they feel like they're gonna win this is by making plays as opposed to just playing
like standard default counter strike they're trying to win as if they're playing against a top team
and they're not so overtime yeah all right smug mr smug over here was right the whole time
time. Max and Rolf just lost two
geese to fall into place. They
encourage I'm Max adjusting
his monitor. It is hard when
you see players uncomfortable
and you're like, bro, just
shoot them. I know you can.
Can we just lock in? But some
people do have I was using
stage fright return for a
while. It's just performance
for that we do tests for that
it was going to be a fake is mastering what it means
they're playing ancient as their first map inferno and the nuke in that series
bait versus 3d magic guys go at that one as well if you want to watch in
conjunction with this one. So someone said JW over OC over Dexter over Simple over
Tens over Brony J, I think that's the LeBron son, over Ronaldo, over Brochiova
alternate. Just JW's better than all of those people. Okay.
Good to have fans.
Someone said Max had 5 kills at half.
BT dubs.
Well, handed with 7 I think.
You got 2 kills in the second half then, quick maths.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it did feel a little bit, it did feel a little bit quiet.
Especially with dubs having a headset, we'll kind of get a couple here to play.
I should have got a longer music mix.
It is fun though. Like I could definitely see myself being a button pusher
Yeah, I did up faded down
So I turn it on turn it off imagine right we had something like this, but it was a stream deck
Yeah, and as we were casting the HUD was interactive for us
So it's like I think the observers and the whole team over there do a great job
But that's all but they the only way they communicate with that through us is visuals, right?
imagine if I could be talking about round timeline and hit a button and then the round time like comes up when you know
Obviously you wouldn't want me to do that when there's a site execute going on
But you would hope that I am sensible professional discretion to use it in a car war
And then the next iteration will be and we used to have this but having like a
Telstraator at the cast of desk so you can just draw on live
You know so you can draw on the radar as things are happening and try to draw attention to certain things and be a little bit more interactive with it
That's the future. It's the future. We're not there yet. It's coming
I'm gonna jump on to the forums see what people are saying this soundtrack
It's kind of like Sherlock Holmes ask like I'm okay. You're creeping around a house. No, no
I'm like the clues are all coming together
Like I'm going
Hankerchief. There was a bloodstain on a Hankerchief, and under his fingernails, there was a soil that's only found in Northern Europe.
Then you tell that by the taste.
Yes.
So not a lot happening around the space.
obviously excited that FaZe are gonna play but that's about it as we get
overtime underway here we go here we go I don't I I think NRG deserve to win this
map more but it's not about who deserves it's about who earns it and you earn it
by doing it so let's see
we are in space Nitro supported by Sonic the rest of the team in Lobby OC with
The AWP, JW the same for the defence, JW.
And starting early down towards B.
Trying to lock down this secret line.
Towards main is Maxter, back of warehouse is going to be Bob.
Nitro, can you get past the AWP? You couldn't last time.
You get JW a second shot this time.
It's just the first one that's needed. Now ramp pressure.
Passing bombs on the back of Grimm.
JW is in a position to fall back AWP.
No commitment here of energy they've got them well they've got the territory but
at what cost no nitro pulling the strings now from the grave I think eyeballs
don't feel super comfortable right now because you know J.W. can be split from
ramp as well as secret so J.W. is going to be feeling pressure and that's what's
forcing this lobby excursion.
Oh see didn't fall asleep with the wheel there on the hold. Catches
densely arrival trophy and now Bob is under a lot of pressure. He's going to get swung on.
All too easy for Max to though. Catches the secret aggress. Sonic was so focused on catching
the warehouse player he wasn't ready for that. Eyeballers to take the third round of overtime.
A row nine in a position to win. This is one of their better right around overall.
I would say on the CT side from Eyeballers and they didn't try and do anything gimmicky.
Yeah. They'd played a standard round. They didn't try and push hard, didn't come down to an
an eco-winner or a crazy defuse in front of two players' faces.
This one was just nice.
Start to finish rifle rounds.
So good job there for eyeballers
as they do get on the board immediately.
The JW way too easily.
That's a good rounded round.
Can net you these results.
Counter-terrorists win.
Lovely.
This is the Cattella J. Dubbs, top of the tables.
They're changing tax so they were going for some space. Yeah, he's in the right place again. He's gonna clear you out. Oh
Narrow mess on the shoulder peak. He did that on the last round of regulation. I'm not sure why he's gone back to it again
He's had a good round and it's that's what he does when he has a good round
He goes for those but it's also wild like they're playing aggressive outside to Bob is
Ruffling anymore
Hello, this is a crazy guy.
Yep, nice from Maxter, put Sonic in the dirt.
Now the bomb's lost in lobby, Grimm forced a scarper back.
Re-gain control, but there's a smoke in your face.
How quickly this round can go wrong?
JW opening death, into two in quick succession.
Dex and Rolf, excuse me, Maxter,
managed to pick themselves up the territory lost.
And now the bomb's under their control.
What are you supposed to do?
smoke and a molotov to work with so you delay them for longer over towards
radio that's gonna get them down to about 25 seconds
they will have to make a move through this you don't want to flash push it you
don't and you have to wait it out and then just hope that you can trade
where is osu going okay they think that they're going to be able to get
the bomb without
25 now after the nades
Here they come.
Rolf just got a contact with Magster, Magster, a real opportunity to just get one here.
Can't do it.
Worried about the anti-flash position, Rolf forced back away, they're gonna have to
generate some more Zarya, the power of the addition from the deck.
Yeah, Glenn's scared, he's playing for the kills, him and Rolf combine, and there's
just no time for Nitro.
Can't win it all!
He's got him!
He's got him!
He does!
Waited!
They waited and they pull it off!
A fumble from Eyeballers!
Crazy.
How do you lose that round?
They're all coming out with 30 seconds left.
There it comes.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Bob's stuck, right?
Did that push me? Stop.
Wow.
Then we'll use that Viggs.
Then we'll use that Viggs.
Oh, boy.
It's boys.
It's boys.
Oh boy, it was, boy, it was, boy, it was, boy, it was.
What the hell, you?
Top pop.
What the hell was that?
Tier one and a half counter-stack is the most fun.
It is, isn't it?
Lots of goofs and gas.
No, it doesn't.
Sometimes it doesn't make sense.
But that's why we like it.
Kaboom.
I love you.
Bob.
What's a Sony?
Look at the health from these early lobby mates. It's really got them rattled.
Someone just put a really funny name. You know how they come up with names like players and stuff.
I Botless.
I Botless? Sounds good.
Stop that at all.
funny as people twice job to show funny as humans on planet Earth guaranteed
Mr. Hot Molly very convincing
so I had this trouble
that was slick yeah it was the
the like me doing what night hold up hold on the type all is alive yeah you're
right the like the thinking I'm selling something by throwing it like a late
hot Molly and a couple of flashes thinking that that was gonna do more
to force reactions like I just learned that you till and I saw I see you know
you call like okay you guys go ramp I'll sell top but I'm not selling top with
couple of names like that. You know, even at the the low level
kind of strike that I'm competing at, you know, it's not, it's
not convincing. You need bodies, you need someone walking out
squeaky door or stropping main to really sell it. If there's
in certain scenarios, sometimes it can be enough just because
you know it's going to force low level communication. Yeah.
And that chatter, right? If I'm a ramp holder, I'm hearing
nothing, but Utah's going off on a and even though they
go yet and there's nothing, there's no bodies, you still in
that moment will probably glance the radar to see what
free information you can glean and then by doing that that could be the lapsing judgment of focus
that's right so it is you know sometimes you look at a fake and you go it's limp that's not that
one okay eyeballers are good to say i mean you got them in majority of the rounds on the CT side
and your t-side was where you did the best work you know you got that that's a good point that is
is a very good point especially with an 8-4 half on your T side this map should
already be over yeah and considering how two of the rounds came to iPaulers on
their CT side in regulation overtime is where it actually started to look the
most convincing so now it's just about finding the close but financial woes
will not be the problem for NRG OC has found the open onto Bob outside but
he's had to help this time Rolf is down B
Excuse me, not Rolf.
I might push Lobby though.
You should just take Ram quite quickly, if you're good into a van.
You can't come down to either go secret or you take Lobby control now.
You need to react rapidly, NRG.
They have managed to get that bomb planted.
That might be enough.
They actually didn't go to the outside.
Kajo down, Cargo down, Carnivore to go down.
Dips into the van, it's multiple for two fronts of JW.
There's a nice flurry back from the CT's on the retake though.
J-Dubbs gets caught, Dex gets nothing on his Ramplug, and so now here's Rolf tucked in the corner.
Nika, multi-calf, finding Nitro, loval, welms him, still Max Dirt, in it to win it, one head of a clutch.
It's a tie tonight, I just wanted to have a clutch.
Could have actually been a clutch considering.
So there you go, tie it up again, 14-14.
You're on a terrorist win.
I like that defining dragon.
I think for the events coming in the near future,
I want to see NIG look better than they are right now.
Again, the two rounds they lost the first half of our unforgivable are rounds that are like...
So easy to wipe away in the in the bottom of view, right?
Because everybody knows what went wrong in those scenarios. Exactly.
Face from death. Oh
Plumb there, Sonic. It's in the open decks. We'll turn that one for free. So opening kill is Bob will
be ahead of the smoke wall
Knowing that Sonic's dead taking all this room
So happy near it doesn't jump up to jump up good part everyone's dead Bob doesn't even have to do anything
Double OT almost secure just two kills away
Hey, you got the info on the steps, so he's going to get a free one.
Done.
Terrorists win.
OK, I have all his map point.
I will say, I will say, I am enjoying the liberties taken by Luxa here in some of these
scenarios where context can, will we do the information better than POV?
I agree, I agree.
Like that hot exchange before, where the players in the side made for coming through,
I thought that was class.
I
Real nice balance where like
Will this be
If energy somehow pull this back in a double o t and a win you I see them winning the series to zero I
I think I'm still gonna back them for the series regardless of this map loss. Yeah
Good sign JW hasn't gone for anything outlandish
These juggling aids on the roof
Oh guys, I said double AT secure in two kills time because they have got double AT as a minimum, right?
Right? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not
secure. Yeah. Well, it is
secure. Exactly. The worst
case they have double. Yeah.
That's what I thought. That's
what that makes sense to me.
I heard it. That's exactly how
I heard it. Come on, guys.
Keep up. Guys, come on. You're
quicker than this. I know it's
a Monday. Everyone's a bit
sleepy when we came back.
Keep up with this stuff. This
is high level stuff. Get a
double espresso in you.
Okay. Well, it's a top fake
ramp, pincer, and, oh, rather a ramp take. No pincer involved. Still dropping and committing
to this. Ocea's not able to help him out, so Grimms is going to have nothing. Absolutely
nothing. Empty hands. Sonic the next man on the scene. Open the door to his demise,
eyballers. They've got the advantage. Bro's been heard. Two coming in from the
ramp side, one approaching Deacon. Their advantage, JW extends. It looks like Nuke
Luke is going down the guggler for the NRG squad.
Just Nitro and OC to try and forge a path back in, but Eyeballers have really shown their
proficiency on this map.
Well rounded, two side effected, JW closing it down top of the tables and a nice shots
from OC, he's going for it.
Only option is to give it a good go, Rolf denies and secures, Eyeballers up a map
a redemption from their shortcomings in the second half of their matches versus the Mongols.
This time it's two good halves put together and some extra on top.
Yeah, this is the Super Bowl for eyeballs, right?
To give them an event like this, Jett will be saying how happy it is to be back at a tier one event.
Now, obviously not all the big names, but still nice to see them putting up a bit of a fight.
They are in this 1-1 column by only playing one game because they were meant to play against FaZe but FaZe 4 fits.
So this is only their second match in the tournament and you would hate to be down 1-2 and you haven't actually played a game.
So you haven't actually won a game. That would feel just as nice.
So it is nice to see them at least able to pull a map here.
I want to reflect on the half. There's a couple of keys.
There was one at round 9-4, right? This was early on in the second half.
We had, what is the eco win?
It's a bit later than 9-4, wasn't it?
Yes, okay.
10-6, they won their 10th round with that full eco.
JW and Bob XT outside, worked together to get that.
And then there was the Rolf defuse in the following round.
That's what got them to 11.
But I think otherwise, here it is.
So this was the eco victory, but yeah,
that was a nice shot there.
Shot at the deck.
And then Rolf at long range
with the every seven against that frag bomb not planted for them and then this is where
Roltz just snatches away their diffusion of following. That's what gave them enough
to get to OT. But at the same time it wasn't, when you look at how poor of a CT side it
was for both teams, pretty, pretty tough.
Yeah, I mean, I know you've backed NRG but I definitely wouldn't be ready to write
them out of Mirage. Sure, the stats don't look great. We'll talk more about that
We do come back but 28 on the totals for Dex 29 from grim
So yeah, the individuals firing on both sides big takeaway for me was JW still doing JW things
I like that enjoyed that. I think Dex has had an incredible performance
There was a lot of impact in that first half, especially I wonder if so we had art now into JW
How would you like what would be a trifecta of crazy players who would be a third to go?
Like if you had another team coming up next
I probably think of one like both of them are so well known for their
Well, I would say I would have said flusher
Okay, I think he always brought this kind of he was ahead of his time
I would have I would have gone with fur
But he is he was he's essentially what your Aggie rifles are easy your kinder, you know
Yes, all like insani today for example, so maybe doesn't fit the same the same bill
We're talking about guys off ladders
Revolvers, let's ask which job what who else do we put in that category?
Art.
If you wanted to do something that would be completely different to all of you would add
Jane, but it definitely still has like a flavor.
That's distinct flavor.
Yeah.
Oh, I like that.
Yeah, we are looking for the same kind of craziness and we're looking for your own just
like, you know, you've got your own.
That's lying.
Yeah.
I don't know what we're looking for.
We don't know.
We never really know.
Just let us know.
Yeah.
In about 60 seconds we can read it all and we will be doing so.
We'll get back to you guys in map 2, right?
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I see, you see, we all see, oh see, Josh, great to see you, how's it going bro?
It's going good, how about yourself?
Yeah, great, super excited to chat to you.
Let's talk your most recent result, right, 0-2 lost to Falcons, 2-0 over Bait, and
a 1-2 lost to Theria.
Perhaps from an outside perspective, this would be seen as like an okay run, all things
considered, but what are your thoughts, what are the team's thoughts on this run?
Um, I think we weren't too hard on ourselves. Um, we only had about a week of practice before
that tournament or a week and a half ish. So I'm not going to lie and tell you that we're happy
about it. Like obviously we still want to beat these teams and Falcons, for example, we played
them in Krakow and we lost them one, two, and it was a very close game. Actually,
we've had a lot of opportunities to win so going up against them again you know we wanted you know to
show you a better face and you know we ended up losing 2-0 which kind of sucked but just try not
to be too down on ourselves because you know we are still implementing Grim into our system and
haven't had too much time with them so yeah it's been it's been good so far yeah let's stay on
that point the point of Grim so recently introduced to the team were you hoping to get out of
him, how do you see him fitting into the lineup?
Well, I've known him for a while, honestly.
We were coming up in the NA scene together, I'd say, at the same time period.
So it's actually kind of crazy that we've never played, but yeah, he, honestly, we're
not looking for too much in a player.
We wanted more, I would say, consistent firepower first.
D's obviously, I think, in my opinion, like one of the more mechanically gifted
players in the team so he brings a lot of raw aim to the team but as well he has a lot
of experience and he has no trouble dealing with high pressure situations.
His communication also isn't like too much in terms of as a lurker or an anchor he's
not going to have too much to say but at the same time he's feeding that important
info that is consistent that he learned over the years that he needs to do and so he
Yeah, he just brings a lot more consistency, I think, for our team
so that we can build our base a lot more.
And talking bases, actually, you know, the project as a whole,
like yourself, DAPS and Nitro have been working on it the longest
together, especially yourself and DAPS.
Where do you see yourselves in this current most recent iteration
of NRG?
Yeah, well, obviously, DAPS, he came in first as an IGL player,
and he stepped down after a bit and moved to the coaching robot for myself.
I would say my beginning stint on energy was not the best.
I would say like I focused a little bit too much on trying to accelerate our progression
and in terms of our expectations were too high.
I think I had a lot of wanting to prove myself after the liquid stint.
I felt like I had a lot more to show still.
And so I was picking up players where they're not as experienced.
And so there were times where it was very frustrating.
And I think my expectations got the best of me.
So I would say one of the biggest struggles I had as a player
was my mentality.
I was inconsistent in ways where my confidence
would dip in certain periods.
And then it would rise in other periods.
And so I think I had shifted my mindset more from being
so hard on myself and being more just like, I'm human.
I'm a player.
I try my best, and that's all I can do for the team.
And I can't be too upset at myself as long
as I know I did my best.
How important is it for you and the team
to get a big result here?
The biggest thing, but it definitely
something that we want to see in terms of is are we progressing in the right ways
you know after just having a bit of a boot camp where are we not focusing on
the right aspects in our team and how we want to progress so yeah I'd say it's a
good way of showing like are we on the right path to becoming a better team
I'd say. Well it's such a pleasure to chat wishing you the best of luck as
always is there anything that you'd like to say to the fans watching from
home before I let you go?
Yeah, I just want to say, you know, thank you to all the fans and NA who stay up and watch
our matches.
I know a lot of the time zone difference makes it hard for you as a tuner, but I still see
a lot of you guys, you know, in the chat and like on Twitter and stuff, you know,
showing your support.
So we really appreciate it and yeah, we'll do our best for tournament to show that
NA still has it.
I think it's a full bottle right normally it needs to have like half and half I don't know where I put my water bottle but yeah we're back what's up what's up everybody do you think that guy was actually on a steel beam oh he there he is back to work is that him I don't think he's on a steel beam I didn't he didn't tweet us Lauren's in chat Lauren Lauren pansy scotch
Scots has made it. Well, that's the thing. What's she doing it? What have we done wrong? Yeah, usually that means someone's been talking
So, yeah, you see these idiots on the internet. She's definitely seen us idiots everyone say hello to Lauren say hi Lauren
All right, let's let's focus shall we guys this is a game
This is a one-one game now to one one game with weird context because eyeballs got a forfeit win over phase then they lost to
Mongols and the actual first game
But they're still in the 1-1 category taking on some of North America's finest known as no remorse gaming
That's NRG for those you play in at home. We're about to go into their map choice of Mirage
We saw them play this against Voka
W there however, they played against foot and they got
Fisted yes feet to fist it was yeah, bro
Bruff bruff bruff it was bruff bruff it was bruff bruff. Yeah bruff. Yeah, bruff that was
I saw some guy was trying to pitch that the youths should start saying IGL like let me
IGL this one like it when you want to take the lead.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let me take IGL.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah.
It's starting to I could get behind that.
I bet you would.
That's nice.
Yeah.
Someone taking social responsibility in a group setting.
Yeah.
Like, hey, we go out for beers.
Yeah.
I'll take IGL.
I'll start the WhatsApp.
So you're going to pick like the play.
Yeah.
Okay.
No, I saw it was a young man. He looks like more he's more of a Valorante kind of
I'm making assumptions purely based off of his haircut. Yeah, okay
But he was saying like, yo, why don't we start this thing because I'm thinking like I'll take IGN on this and I was like
Yo, that's like a thing that we've been saying for ages. Yeah, why not make it a thing?
Normally start saying IGN. I don't know what's next. Let's do it. Let's bring it in. Let's make it
Make it popular vernacular in the big 26
Big 26. I'm just waiting to get
the players situated ready to
go. My rage is the map and
expectations are for eyeballs.
You set them pretty low, right?
What was the stats you gave me?
It was like eyeballs. It's not
a terrible map. They played it
16 times with a 62% win rate
whereas it's played 11 times in
the last three months for
opponents being in North America positions. This is nice. This is nice. So I mean I can
do that thing you normally do. So you can see Rolf is going to be working with Dex on
the A site. Jw is going to be open everywhere and you've got Maxter and Bob XD as that kind
of short B duo. Obviously Max going to be fine for mid with Dex. I think that Maxter
and Dex play opposite spots. Okay. But maybe that was before yesterday's game.
I'm looking at yesterday's skybox of their match against the Mongols on Mirage and Dex
was short.
Okay.
I mean, don't they say you put your best name on short?
So let's put Dex there.
Yeah.
There's also, Bob was also playing B-Abs and so they didn't play a lot of rifle rounds
against the Mongols.
I'm only using one map because I want, if you want the most up to date positions,
You either do it just with the most recent map or the tournament just before if nothing's
happened right and you want to keep that at a relatively low amount as you go broader
and broader you start seeing players in more and more positions and it can get a little
bit tougher there but yeah.
Who else is going on in here?
Cab 69.
Hi Cab.
Hey Markey, Markey.
Oh, T-Cup 2018.
Arante viewer equals girlfriend steady job goes to Jim CS viewer equals allergy to job application never talk to women's
occupied parent basement
T cups what is it 2018 2018?
Keep it keep it together mate
I'm all his name remembers me to that weird
Serial of Rick and Morty. Okay, uh
Uh, let me try that. What was that?
It's like about a weird serial in Rick and Morty.
I don't know where the weird serial is.
It was the same one. I remember the same one.
Yeah, the whole, there's a whole thing about that.
There was a whole thing about that.
Yeah. I've never seen more.
Reddit individuals outside in one place.
Buying sauce.
Good sauce, though.
I smuggled eight bottles of my favorite Sriracha honey back plays.
It's like glass bottles in my suitcase.
You smuggled them.
Well, I smuggled them.
And you bought them overseas and you took them home.
Yeah.
Yeah, maybe smuggled isn't the word.
Smuggled would be if you're doing something illegal.
Okay, well it felt illegal because it's such a good source and you just can't get it
in Malta.
So I brought it back.
From the UK?
Yeah, glass bottles in a suitcase.
How's he going to get that right?
Well, I'll tell you.
Very diligently.
Yes.
some some plastic at different layers you know so like two bottles lined up is
like a line and then roll then two bottles lined up in a line roll and then I
shoved the whole thing the whole roll of Sriracha honey glaze into the sleeve of
my winter jacket I wasn't gonna raffle around lots of padding very padded very
wise I I was very proud of myself so a good way to do a glass not a single
like not a single cracked bottle not a single little bit of sticky honey on
my clothes that's nice very happy you've done well there yeah and I'll be
making delicious honey and sriracha meals for the next month.
Okay, it's just one second.
Oh, no, no, hang on.
We've got a call.
Hello?
Why do we have a tech issue?
I don't know why you asking me.
I'm the caster.
I don't style these games.
I work, you know, it's something to do with a headset,
I think that's my guess.
That was me live answering a viewer's phone call.
That was cool.
Saying cast us.
I imagine we could do coolants.
That would be abused.
I'm just telling you.
You can't do coolants.
Because you need to have that five-second delay with the red button radio.
They did that.
How did you do that on radio?
Because there's a producer sitting on the glass box on the other side
listening to everything ready to hit the big red button in case bad words get set on my radio.
I was going to say.
So there is a slight delay on the phone call to what we're hearing.
Yeah.
OK.
And also, I think that you need to vet these people, too.
That's kind of what the producers do.
They talk to the first.
Make sure that they seem normal.
You can't get any guarantees with that.
But Spongebob, do you wish you were born somewhere other than Perth?
No way in the world.
The Australian's kind of go over the source, man.
Perth is one of the greatest places ever.
And I've been to a lot of places.
He has been to a lot of places.
And I can attest to someone that's also been to places.
Australian's really cool, man.
Just too far away.
Yeah, it's too far away.
Teleportation.
Circle.
Did Rolf go close ramp, intentionally make a step and then path back to slow down this A attack?
That would be cool.
Because he was definitely audible.
A little cache of grenades for the routine.
Here we go.
He till dumped in.
Ramm moves first.
Pies to be the second prong.
And that's the end for Rolf.
Bro, out range finds the headshot, NRG into the site comfortably, CT as well as a deep post-mars space already acquired.
Keep your eye on the bomb, it's being juggled back, we're not interested in doing that, it's going to be Nitro.
But it's the flash, I guess you'd want to wait.
You don't want to wait, just throwing it now.
Jiggle, flash, connects, headshot found, nice on the way back in from Dex.
It's trying to maintain that form, you see what's with him on the move.
the info on a second jungle side still though overwhelming so two on two smoke on the bomb
makes things a bit weird though Dex is low though yeah he's easily going to get spammed
on down you'd think he would think that he would be easily spammed on down oh no he
could be easily spammed down two in a series so far they've got away with high work rate
robbery on these diffuses geez I can't believe that oh I mean there is nothing
No, there are worse things in Counter Strike, but it's pretty, it's a tie up there on the list of like
hearing it effuse and spamming the smoke and running it over your knife and missing that and you just want to die, you just want it back.
You can't get anything done as a check, I can't believe they won that retake, it's a very well done fight, all this misery for NIG to continue.
It's a very frustrating way to lose the opening round of your map choice, but still lots of rounds to play,
It's the type of force they've been able to elevate themselves with, an AK, a couple of
Galils, pistols, and enough utility to get them this mid control, window smoke, top cat.
Now they're peering down for an A-split.
Oh, that's just the one, trade from Grimm.
Maxster has to be able to clear this out, popping out the pros, the Lill and Garret.
Great reaction as well, swivels in towards the staircase.
Rolls are happy to receive a smoke push from Ocey and this force by has gone nowhere.
North American Counter Strike.
North American Counter Strike.
You could just say that and leave it only if there's anything else.
Jacob, come on, brah.
Dude, why is this now a conversation of a round that could have gotten out of control?
Oh, he hasn't changed a bit.
The Wunderkind.
Come on, yeppah.
Yes, brah.
He can't be doing that mate.
I get it.
I don't know.
But why?
You've just lost two.
Ah, two players, that's two for reinvest.
That's a buffer you could have had for yourself going into the first gunny.
But how good would it feel to knife him?
Jumping out of the window, maximum disrespect.
I would have felt great.
Yeah.
No one says it's like the most financially wise decision.
if you could pick would you rather be entertaining or win you can't have both
you can win occasionally but you're not gonna win like all the time and all the
trophies well I'd rather win you'd rather win
Yeah. Yeah. Same. Because like, big entertaining is one thing. But I'd want to be entertaining
while I win, you know? But I understand. It's a nasty good question. What if the trade-off
was you win? You're very boring in victory. I would do it. You still take the winning?
Yeah, I'm James.
I'm Harvey.
Yeah.
Well, this is an eco that is turned into a 2v3
with a bomb down, but don't you worry, Dex is here.
Try it, Nifor.
Nifor.
So let's get Dex.
We get Poi.
We get Brawler.
Poi Brawler.
Get right, coach.
Frabo is actually coaching.
Okay, Frabo got the kill.
Frabo, we could actually...
Okay, that's nice.
Use.
I'm sure he's also coaching.
Best Swedish orper?
The best Swedish orper is Dracon, but you're not ready for that conversation.
Dracon stepped down from Johnny Speeds for a while.
Loomie, no.
Norc.
Fozy.
Of course it's fozy.
So we just need one more player.
I don't even care about player profiles at that point we can work it out. Yeah, I actually think that could be fun
That's the rough stuff. I'm gonna call them
Whether we could we decided we're gonna call it Sweden. Yeah, we were just SWE. Yeah, sweet
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Yeah
I see in this 5v3 boys. Give it one back over Jw's low as well. Maxter is sandwich
Is your death gonna haunt you? Never mind. Yes, I have a look to the sandwich position still good for one is Maxter
He's trading, but Bixby's swinging and he's come down to bro. They pulled this back into even contention now things get weird
Occupied, fragging bro pulls it back and high ballers have let this one slip
5v3, they got two kills in the middle
Ugly. Ugly.
Ugh.
What in the f*** happened with mail on the roster?
Telling you now.
Yuck.
Hey, Swedes in the chat. How do you say that was a bad round in Swedish?
And I will not fact check you.
Right.
I mean, I don't have the capacity to fact check you. I'm just trusting you.
Let me be clear. I don't want to say something rude.
I'd like to be able to say that was a bad round in Swedish.
Just tell me how to say that.
No funny business, no extra words.
Yes, I'm giving you my trust.
I'm saying that I will say what you've said,
but I'm giving you the trust
that you're not going to ruin my career.
Well, that's trust I'm giving you.
That's a lot of power to the people.
I'm just asking for a little bit of insight.
I like to learn the languages.
You have to say something like,
that isn't a little owl or sugar.
And I love you and thank you.
Let's have a look at this guy roll stats
It's never good when Chad starts asking these questions. He's the third highest rate of play for the team
The height so this is it's a dex of a performance day. That's is the second lowest rate of play for the team
Jw's the lowest ever tied right?
It's Bob XD and Max that who were the highest rate of players for them. That was a good one full flashed as well G dogs
I guess we're opening but as we saw that's always indicative of the outcome.
That's in 261 maps, this five of them together.
So Texas had a real over performance today and an under performance from Max there?
Yes and Rolf, because Rolf looks like a duck out of the pond.
Yeah he does.
Looks like a fish out of the water.
Duck out of the pond.
He's been making things look a little hard.
Sorry.
Oh, like a...
...
Oh!
It's another open kill that they've done nothing with.
He's feeling a little easy to walk into.
That's where Rolf's playing.
How many of those games are online?
That's the next question you're asking, so...
see a team who as a five man have played what are 280 maps together or something you have to start
asking yourself how many of those are online and if it's anywhere near 50 percent that's bad
this is the vrs reality though isn't it 181 of their officials are online
Okay, so they're wonder max is playing with his chair in his mono. He hasn't yeah
Man still got the land jitters I had those so 70 said it's still 77 maps played on land
It's nerve-wracking stuff
I didn't look if people were telling you how to say it in Swedish.
Oh yeah, the Swedish, any help?
That's that, that looks good.
I trust you.
He's got like a Swedish name.
Yeah.
That's that, I'm darling Runda.
Okay, the only one I'm not certain about is now.
Yeah, that would just be round. Yeah, I've said a nasty word, but I trusted him. So that would just mean bad
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking that's
Was a bad round like it's does it does the right amount of words there is yeah, thank you for your help today
appreciate you
Ronda, okay
Hey guys, that was a blog
oh music sorry that's all right we're back under what they are in an eco anyway
couple of saved guns for this one AWP and an AK I'm not hating on Rolf he
just hasn't he hasn't he's looked at like a duck out of water a duck out of
the pond that's all I'm saying he just doesn't look super comfy didn't look
Not looking comfy here.
They're making me anxious.
I think that's how it's rolling now.
Yeah, you are. You're getting pulled in now.
Oh, JW rolling back the years!
He's got more!
He's got more XD chippin' in!
Traps him on the drop down!
Bro Scott, number three!
Sit down the wonder child's here!
But aren't you?
After America, the 1v4 takes down Dex, three to find, plenty of time on the clock, sub
50 seconds.
JW!
He's reloaded, he's even trained on the line.
This should be his every day of the week.
J.W. is four.
Oh, he gets it all.
Get home.
Rolls.
Sucks his catchphrase.
Gets his second.
Eleven kills D.J.W.'s not loose.
Skipping a B.
Well, he just essentially won them an each other.
Yes, sir.
Thank you very much.
Yep.
They knew you did that.
Confidence was starting to wane a little bit.
He makes them say Uncle.
That only works if your uncle's name is Wayne.
Yep.
but my name is Wayne.
So.
Kablam, kabloom.
Energy are in the financial woes if they lose this one.
So actually very important round for a streak of fry ball
they could go three consecutive if they win this.
He's got JW on this angle.
Take that pot shot and then deer. That's his plan anyway.
There he is! The Ducks back in the pond!
Oh! Pushes for number three! Ocie's fiddling with his nades!
He's just the mightiest of Ducks!
The mightiest of Ducks.
Rolf shuts them down and the financial ramifications as you highlighted, that's worth two.
Rolf Reinhardt, you don't see that every day of the week, do you?
Let's go, Rolf.
Let's Rolf and die.
Okay, well, Master's dead.
But it doesn't matter.
Because you still have to break this impenetrable setup.
If you even give them a sound cue, you'd let them know, here I come.
I'm gonna pick up that flashbang probably if I use it there.
AWP ready to track him.
What can he do except drop in?
Save.
This will be better.
I gave it a go. Best round from Rolf yet.
Four in that one and shutting it down ruining the money should be a light buy.
Ooh, it's actually a tacky timeout.
I
My ball is up in the lead second map of this series
Before it's from Rolf slow start, but an underperforming Rolf has not held them back competitive map one and looking to take it in three
No, they actually won first yeah, they won first map. Yeah, okay fire that he's yeah, that's right. We can read recall
Yeah, thank you. Yeah, the beauty of not being live
Pistols for the no remorse gaming roster
That stands for
You get your fingers off those bugs that at any point anyone could even say anything and I could just
Yeah, let me say that Swedish thing again. Yeah, okay, whatever. Yeah girls today
All right, Rolf you did the hard one this is meant to be the easy one which is actually the harder one so yeah
Give us the beans here, Rolfie boy.
It's Rolf in time.
He needs to play retake.
He cannot contest this.
How about that?
Start from there.
Look at Don get scared, don't he?
Yeah, right.
Rolf's back.
He's getting dunked on.
Smart from Rolf.
Chose that.
All these jets.
Just playing full retake,
not giving a free kill back over.
Maxi boy's here.
You need to throw the flashes.
No one needs to go through a jungle.
Or jungle.
younger. We can all just go through C2. Let's go younger. We've got so much utility. This should be easy.
Oh, this is a good one. Don't you bro? Sell something back from OC. The pressure onto
Woodside diffused now though. They're spamming away after JW onto OCB. Still though,
Sonic and Nitro could stop it. The knife running at a not in time. Another one from under
that knows is NRG the post plants are being constantly denied by these diffuses
eyeballs understand the objective if the bomb goes down and we diffuse the bomb
we win the round yeah nothing else matters that's it they've really
prioritizing the diffuse now there's gonna be a three round run to put
eyeballs up to a 62 lead the guns do come back at NRG lost bonus plant and
all the goods get themselves 5 AKs. No AWP for OC. Jumping into underpass with the
jarring of course is JW. Oh okay, that's a very committed CT. Things are not looking great, things are not looking ideal.
They're being spammed down by Grip. Dex commits to one, gets OC, no attempt from Maxter or
there wasn't a chance for Maxter, no success. Rolf though, pushes in from
connector and clears them out and this fight in middle has once again been won by eye ball
is the difference being bro has space on A. He's heard the audible from the connector
players who've talked sandwich and hopes for an overlook hopes for an overextension does
Rolf. Overcooked the proverbial here. It's gonna have the support soon from Max to
who's starting to hedge over.
Where's this smoke destined for? Trust you can't Rolf. Trust you can't.
I guess it's gone out in time, anti flash turn, frag found, nice throw in the club, but
the knife!
Just as easy as that, I bought a CT side haul, gets better and better, it was what, a 9-3
half on the T side of Nuke, and now they've managed to wrestle 7 CT rounds already.
I think with 8-4, but either way, regardless, your point stands, right, a very very strong
first half of the player and now this so it is another partial buy opportunity for NRG there might
even be a hero AK or two smatted into the mix but that was fumbled but that whole thing was fumbled
right the deck's getting spotted coming out of the window late yeah right so then JW's screwed
you're hoping to at least be somewhat undetected in that type of a plot. JW's here that they
They are setting up the execute towards B.
Oh, Broggett's leg shot throws up by the window.
That's respect. The H2 to punish the Jays works out.
Dumpster finish. Tracking while full blind, of course,
because Bob ex-D's on him.
Damn.
Problem is shots from the GW all, but I have to do it without the scope,
but Nitro does find the flurry to finish.
Now, 3 on 2. Still, Maxler should be set to collect it after...
Miss.
For this to be interesting for...
Oh my god!
Huffle from Nitro, that was instant take.
He knows he can't commit to the bomb.
Oh!
Stams it, Dex hits him with the damage as well.
Nitro single-handedly trying to make this round a reality.
Roth catches the timing through the smoke.
Nitro was otherwise occupied.
And now it's OC with the Desert Eagle.
No armor.
One versus two.
He's dead.
Round to the corner.
Easy for Dex to close it down.
A solid team play.
J.W passing the test on B with pace.
The Rolf ball is right now.
This is a cold amount. Yeah ten and five. He's popping off when I mentioned he had one kill
So, uh, it's Rolf in time
It is fun to make it a verb. You're right
In the time out now your heart's beating
Oh yeah. Pressure amplifies.
It's pounding in your chest.
You know that you are owning them in this first half.
You could be two owing NRG right now.
Eyeball as a team, battling 280 plus maps
of Counter Strike played 180 of them online.
Now on land, back in the tier one,
JW playing like a young man,
calling the shot, hit it behind,
hitting some bang and staying alive,
bringing the pizzazz back to Counter Strike.
You're going to be able to two o NRG a team
who is qualified for the major
in the America's region can you be in a match tomorrow for playoffs contention?
That was the wrong one.
Here, nice two dubs.
It's meant to be the same like that.
He's just not lost it.
Still got the groove.
Check this one.
Oh my god.
Sorry about that.
You are the winner.
That's like my goal is all.
Oh
Dexter's back. Oh
Right now. Yeah, he's just the best thing in the world
Especially after this rumor I heard that model
People gonna join eyeball is crazy ashes the coach ashes the coach
Oh, he's using a 1v5, and he ain't winning this.
No sir.
I can't believe it.
We woke everyone up in Twitch chat.
Well, I'm still in recovery.
It got them all.
I've got like a cold sweat on my brow.
Another Molly!
Alright, OC.
The American Sniper, piecing this one together.
Piece of U2 after piece of U2.
Second Molly lands.
Four body scab behind the flames.
And OC can't get anything done.
Eyeball is now confirmed their ninth.
God, they could even fight in here.
They could even find the double digits on the defense things are flowing sure the win rate wasn't great
You know it looked like a strong a strength and a weakness
Like a strength friend RG and a lot more vulnerability for the eyeballers, but the results are speaking different dates
You know they played these online reps they got through those games
But now the extra juice of land is motivating them to find their footing decks with a strong performance
Over performance on map one. Now into map two. We're starting to see the true colors of Rolf and Cug.
And Dex has just opened up the account, smashes the skull to smithereens of OC Top Mid.
J.W. Dynamic has ever all this B space. Not only do they have the opening kill, but they have a very good idea that the finish will not be through the B apartments.
Right now to turn the screws to get them 10 before the halftime break. Just four more.
Frank's defined as Nitro. He needs to call his team out of this mess.
Rolf finds Roth though, that's a big one on the head to head, a big scout to have removed.
Now blocking the mid smoke, Dex. Oh surely they know, Grimfield working out, he thinks he's stuck in the wall.
Oh he's stuck on Dex and stuck downtown! A double from the mid smoke, spams away, three in total from Dex.
Just Nitro here. CW seals the half with a Desert Eagle headshot.
dominant staff this is pure pony dry now on display by eyeball is just three
more rounds that's the pistol that's dealing with the force and that's one
follow-up and that'll be done dusted and call it a two one bucket for the
speeds
Okay, you can't do both what about what are you trying to lay us and I'm just trying to build a kind of atmosphere atmosphere
No, you could you could put like you could attack while you have
Yeah, that's what I'm you have this
I hate it. But I do like the Hobbiton one more, so if I would go back, let's try this again.
Ten to two. Eye ballers three rounds away from not only winning a map, but winning a
series. See it again from Dexter KMD. This is a crazy headshot through a smoke, straight
field, straight five, walks through, catches another and leaves with the green. Respect
Back to Dex you can see his eyes were going all over his screen. I can't believe you got both kills
Yeah, I don't know how Grim didn't kind of clock that it wasn't clocking to him. I
Think I know that's a term of thing that they say but I think maybe thought he was on the bench
I know I know but you're in a gray screen great and I can't talk cuz I knew up prime candidate myself in this mode
The headless U2, Bob's gonna get popped here.
Yeah, 4 backstages should be dead now.
Oh my God!
Wow!
That was quick on the double head shot.
Bobby Dazzler from Bobby Boy.
Yeah, now Nitro's got himself a kit and he's got a little bit of a problem.
Max the flank in it, distracted and destroyed.
Bob brings him down, nice quick taps from Dex and quick one back from Grimino's seat.
Dex in the clutch though.
Wouldn't write it out.
This one is coming, he's jumping, he's looking for that head shot, doesn't find the
immediate deletion.
He actually hit him! He actually hit him just on the crazy smoke spam!
Dex knows he's being monitored. How does he play this?
Did she do a silent? Yeah he did.
He definitely did!
Where's the goad? Where's Dex?
Dex dude, you're gonna catch him pants down round and round.
What a clutch!
Sick round from Dex!
Oh, I mean, oh, that was
beautiful. That's a chef's kiss
clutch. That's what when you're
sitting there practicing it
late at night, you're thinking
about what if I was in a one
V2 and I kill the guy
market and then I'm very rare
that you have the mid round
occasion in a clutch where you
are able to use something
like that. So when you do see
it come out. Beautiful. Oh,
wow. I'm feeling like 5% of
what he must be feeling. And
that's a sick clutch. Yeah,
Dex. He's in my line.
Man, in a series.
Yeah, definitely MOS for sure.
Broke. Broke.
Yeah, just catches Rolf on his early progressions.
Max has got another one to deal with.
It's an SMG battle.
Two nimble, he's grim.
It's gonna commit to a way anyway.
Like, you can have it.
You can have your palace position.
You know where you are.
OC nails the hedgehog to XD.
You wish you could pull the plug now,
but you're too committed at this point.
Full commit and Dexter flying to his demise. Nice fight again on the MP9.
Well, it's not the first force by win in this series so far, and it probably won't be the last,
because we will be getting eyeballed as force by him back.
JW will give this a good shake of the stick.
I
Played right now in this 3v1 oh
2v1 I
Met less from J.W. I like that from Sonic right jiggling for info then rerouting but the fact that
He wasn't in a position to actually do anything with his teammates. So maybe I don't like it as much as I thought I did
Do you go on your own or do you wait for your boy?
I know it feels risky to go on your own, but if a player is planning that brazenly with you that close, that's not it.
Yeah, right, right.
They're not doing that knowing.
Well, I guess it depends on the situation.
If they knew you were there, but no, you're not going to peek.
Like, if both of them, if you and I, you and the other team, and I knew you were there,
and I knew that you were going to wait for your teammate, I might just plan in front of you.
Yeah, exactly.
Because you're going to think maybe I'm thinking.
But how do you know that? What gives you the certainty?
Well, in that situation, they had no idea.
Yeah, right, right, right, right, right, right.
You never know, do you?
know, but it's about like being more correct than your opponent most of the
time. Yeah, what was that? Yeah, that was good. Whatever he said.
Controlling the odds? Controlling the odds? That's a good way to put it.
It's just, by the way, saying thank the percentages. Yeah, but we as people who
save the same things all the time, I wish people in chat knew just the
joy that we feel in our heart of hearts when we're speaking and we say a
the word that we know but it's
just not in the lexicon. Yes.
And it comes out like wow. Yeah.
And sometimes I've even googled
it afterwards and be like, I did
use that word correctly. Yeah.
Oh, oh.
I don't know. I was just
thinking something different.
Get more fun. Police sirens
again. That was quite a nice
wake music. What about this
one? Yes.
It's a long road, it's a long steep road back up those stairs, you know, like that place
in China, we go on the stairs, that place, very warm, that's what they call it.
Is it known to have a lot of stairs?
Yeah, I think there's some stairs as well.
There's definitely stairs, isn't it more known for the wall?
Oh yeah, well there's also a place in China with the stairs, but I just didn't
know what that was called.
But it's like they do red ball competitions where you have to run up and down the
stairs.
Yeah.
OK, I don't know any of those.
You're pretty famous, guys, though.
That's fine.
Punish them on their own clear right there.
Jw will go one for one.
The dex dropping first gives the man advantage to NRG.
But with Ralf alive, anything is possible.
See, soft-legged shrimp gets it.
Yup, if only we understood what it's like to speak words.
You're just typing words, it's different.
Well, I don't see roll people in match to being able to claw back into this one.
Hold up a second.
Is that 100%?
Well, why are both of them?
What is it?
What's the point?
What is the point of trying to push the road in front of teams?
Are we either all fighting or not?
Yeah, like there should be a code.
We're green, red, red, green.
There has to be, I just, I think,
Bro showed some frustrations on Nuke.
Yeah.
And, oh.
Did they cut noise?
No, it's rounds.
No.
Oh, I see noise.
Yeah, so there wasn't anything to worry about.
It just got slightly mocker.
You can plant default, just plant Max though.
Now you might die, you're lucky OC is a kind man.
4 kills from OC, Pactful on the rifle.
Eko now?
11 to 5 very likely.
Do you think Bob XD's dad's called Robert Smiley?
Robert Smiley!
Pleasure to meet you!
Maybe that's the name of a Canadian sportsman or something?
Yeah, Michael Climbs brother.
Michael Climbs brother, Robert Smiley.
I think you want to make sure you're not static around the smoke, because if you're in motion,
when something happens with a player pushing through, or a flash comes in, you can accelerate
One way or another depending on the inertia
But there is an art to playing around these folks
Press your radar zoom in mine three times
It's gonna take a lot of convincing for energy to put himself in a position where
Saying okay, they can bring this man
Because we don't have
any data in the head to head between the two of them you you would tell you how I'd do inform
my decision could you tell me on the eyeball is mirage stats what percentage of the rounds
they've won were on the t-side do you want just one this year let's just do this yeah
I don't want to I'd hate getting too expansive with the stats I think anything anything
outside of the last couple of months starts to become value months then 2026 max
So we played it 16 times, 1, 10 lost, 6, 3, round, win, this time it's 44, so they're
on, they're on.
Highlighted the double smoke, they're top cap.
I'm going to chat and just say Dex is not a bird or a birdie in Pog. Dex has been the best player of the day for a while, so maybe he's traditionally dead.
I know we look at the stats and he's towards the bottom of the JW, but he feels like the most comfortable player in the server other than JW.
That's because he's a land player.
It could be. People are just built that way.
What's the plan? We're going to have Rolf kind of selling it.
So, doing a fake to draw the connector and window player to have to deal with A, then it opens up the mid gap for you to a window boost, or a connector slink, or a cat crawl.
Or just a straight bang onto Sonic.
Well he's really sold it then, right?
Yeah.
That was very telegraphed there.
Dex does jump into the jaws of OC's AWP row, realising that it's all a bit of trickery here.
Well positioned for this, but absolutely free-frag before the trade comes in.
Both ways!
That's Nitro!
Guess the double kill Rolf was last seen on A.
controls the spray not gonna have enough time to get over there unless they
offer him these fights they can just essentially let him pick up the bomb and
then offer the plant you don't you don't need to do anything else really so it
might just be Ralph playing for the save they have lots of rounds to work
with so you're not too concerned just yet
I think there's another one where the round was already in motion
So Dex is hoping to be able to make the play with the room that's meant to be provided
The fake was pretty weak even with the kill. It still felt like yeah, there's no this is this is to force a rotation
Did they have someone in front of the smoke because I saw as he was flashing at a site plan
Yeah, they had a site plan so that's up. No one's out to Tetris and no one's gonna palace, you know, you said I'm cool. Yeah
What does that mean? That means like a little extra something like a palace player more in
Gaff and stuff with that get the feckles up. Well, that's the thing. It did draw the attention.
He was able to get a kill on the connector player. So it's it wasn't a bad idea as well.
When you're doing that, the all part hanging around jungle. You think it okay. We're trying
if we're trying to force it off. We get the all to ticket so the orbs off of mid that
he also tried to maneuver into jungle while the smoke was up. So this is something where
potentially they've identified rotations. I've got the strap. You do the
lurksmoke Tetris and then from the behind Tetris you throw the Molotov, the
jungle, the one you Nico throws where it stops the auto-line. So you're adding a
couple of extra layers to try to make that play. Yeah. I think you can only
account for so many outcomes and you need to be ready to fight the others.
So that's tends to be the trade-off with these type of rounds. So the
safe day K some upgraded pistols and what is going to be a B-pop this is good
play from bro to be tied with nitro on the side here they should lock this down
go into the side chat they haven't given us see that swing it is escorting
I
Bought a steal it away
That is one way to get 12
That's a safe a K and some light upgrades and you just secured your 12th round that had another eco to the tally
I again, I understand there was an AK in the mix
But it wasn't about the AK so the tech 9s the space being taken I thought the setup was strong energy had to play the side
They were playing an anti-b pop and unable
to connect the worst feeling the worst feeling when you're you've accounted for
you've talked about it now maneuvered use that shot yeah well JW was pulling a
funny face it explains it
any ramifications to that set you
makes it harder for them to find a finish that's whether or not that's
going to be the concern in this round.
He must not redeploy.
Oh, J.W. books him.
An all-pad to head.
O.C. just fell off of the line at the worst possible time and now concedes an opening death.
Another high-flying performance from Jesper Vexel.
Still, the guy has got two really high impact maps from him.
Top-ragging this one.
He had a great performance over on mute as well.
So with the man advantage just need to pick the site.
This is all just going to come down to some good spacing and with the limited newtile that you have placing it well.
It will be the A-crunch because of both position. Now you're getting that intel now.
After you very wary of ramp, you have a player in Palace, you know ramps, possibility site, jungle, not so much now that Molly comes in.
comes in. Yes it is incendiary thrown. On top of it. Oh quick from Dex. Ready for it.
He's ready for both of them. How has he got that so dialed in? My ball is to take it
in too. NRG to be thrust to the one two. That's Nitro can combine the throw and go
2v4. Double is good. Nitro's making it look convincing. J.W. is so disconnected from this, but the plant is perfect for him.
Do they have a smoke grenade? No. Not at all.
Bob XT, the longer he lives, the better it is. Still goes down though, but now they know J.W. is up against it.
Surely he can just peek in on the diffusion. They're gonna go peeking in. He finds the Hunter.
And he's there! Get all down! Beautiful end to the round.
Beautiful end to the series. J.W. puts his team on his back and gets hit down.
Casual weather right there beautiful stuff and that final round, you know, you're screaming about the decks kill
This is good at poise under pressure in that moment Sonic is the player to die. That's the connector play
Right now a anchor still alive, right?
And there was a poorly thrown incendiary in that situation the fact you can pick behind it
But decks fouls them out with a massive double and will secure the series for eyeballers
Wow, so it's only their second game even though as far as series are concerned tending to have been involved in three
But now they are just one best of three away from the playoffs. They'll play for that tomorrow
They got to a 2-1 record overall. They had their fun. They got up to some silly business, but this was dominant.
Nuke was closed. This is an absolute shellacking right now. Beautiful work. Congratulations to Eyeballers.
Yeah, truly. I think this is a big feather in the cap. You could be NRG convincing in two.
Very, very convincing of Charms and individuals. Good to see Rolf come online as well.
He saw this as this was the moment where he went from two kills to six.
A high impact round that had ramifications throughout the rest of the game, broke their money.
And JW has amnesia in the molten tube of JW highlights throughout the course of this moray.
At the end of the 24 kills, 10 deaths, 107 ADR, he was involved in two clutches.
He had four opening jewels going in his favor out of a five total, and he only lost one and nine multi kills.
Solid.
So that's a big bag as far as the stat line's concerned.
You go back to Nuke, that's where we were really impressed by Dex, he had 28 kills, 18 deaths, around 88 ADR, 1.5 through raiding overall, he was very impactful but Rolf also had that defuse clutch, what else was there, there was the eco victory as well, Rolf won, maybe it wasn't Rolf with the defuse clutch, but he did win the 1v7 range, it could have been back to back from Rolf, he does have the second eye swing for his team, but yeah congratulations to the Eyeballers, light work of NRG, and out of the last four maps,
that nrg have played only one has been closed. Yeah, two against foot will blow
outs mirage a blowout and it could have even been worse than the 13 to six reeds
I think this is gonna be good for the VRS implications for the boys of eyeballers
going forward yesterday forecast for this was only plus 22 points oh I guess it's
just because we're in a similar we're in a similar grouping of teams at the moment right coming into
this match today eyeballs were 31 and energy were 28 okay so they're not gonna move it's not gonna
move them in needle crazy but it is a win but in terms of it so for people who aren't too familiar
with how vrs works there's a bunch of different components that go into it i what i would recommend
is if people are curious to see how vrs is calculated at any given time for their favorite
team. I would go to HLTV and go to the rankings in the VRS invite section and you click on
ranking details and it shows you where the points are coming from. So you've got land
winds, you've got opponent network, so that's the teams who you are playing against. The
bounty offered, so that's to do with the prize pool. The bounty collected, so that's where
you place, right? And then you have the head to heads, right? So you direct matches
against one another.
And it all gets accounted for.
essentially VRS is a rolling six months. It's a pretty harsh decay. So, right, anything that
happened over six months ago from now isn't counted at all. So, essentially, the key for this event
for eyeballs is, one, it's on LAN. It's great. Two, the prize money is very high for the event,
1.25. So, if they're able to get to a playoff point, that's a big injection of money for them.
them. Great financially. Also great point basis wise. But for them, invites, you won't
see the fruits of your labor invites until two plus months from now, more than half a
major next season, right? So the flow and effects will take time to see the benefits.
But yeah, great game. We're happy with that.
I enjoyed that a lot.
Fun one.
Really good fun. And it's just been a pleasure to see these older names still kicking around
and doing well. Like J.W. was at the top of the tables for both of those.
You know, it's a very short list of players that were in attendance at the very first major.
Yes, it is. Yeah.
Oh, you've kind of just
kicked a bit of sad news out there.
Yeah, because now Karrigan
has attended every single one because he won't make this one.
So each.
Yeah, I think it'll be apex now.
Who just because it was crims as well.
Yeah, a while.
Oh, oh, oh, speaking of face.
That's kind of sad.
I'll play it up next they're taking on Captain Kirk because zero fix
Now we was a dowie Davi Davi he likes the WSV on it can head trick the scrawny launder's are bringing you that
We're done. They've got two games today. They've got that one followed by the BCG vocal back of the cinema retchie
Match fixer bad for five years eliminate simple. Okay. Okay, so you've got your entertainment sword for the rest of the day
We're gonna go grab ourselves a bev and watch them alongside with you from the twitch chat
But that's it from Chad's house one more of these. Yeah, just tomorrow. Yeah, one more
We're gonna be here same time same place come hang out with us in the mornings. Good vibes today guys
You brought the whimsy. I appreciate that. See you tomorrow. Bye
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down on the floor with a head trick of the inner circle head trick great to see you how
you doing?
I'm doing pretty good great to see you too let's do some good interview.
First things first how long have you been in Bucharest as of now?
We've been around 11 days here almost 2 weeks because we had 2 long events before
this one so we are getting used to Bucharest already.
You joined the team roughly three weeks ago.
How's the experience of settling in going?
I think that by far it goes well.
We have a lot of things to do and to fix, but I see the potential and it gives me hope
and it gives me motivation to fix all those mistakes, even though some of them are pretty
obvious ones.
But I'm happy with the direction we're going and hopefully we can do some damage here.
What are your thoughts on the recent results?
I definitely have a feeling that we could do more at some of the long events.
I'm honestly pretty happy with the comebacks that we were doing.
We had three or four games and we were struggling in the beginning
and then having great finishes.
So if we can continue with that, it will be easier.
And in terms of Draculon, against Liquid it was close first map but then harder.
But against Alliance I definitely have a feeling that we could win the game
the game because on the third map it was a close score and if we were better at some small
situations and clashes maybe we could beat them but hopefully it will teach us how to
play in those situations and we can do better.
You talked to us a bit about what you would like to see different or change within the
team.
What would you like to do better?
I think the most important is to stay calm, tender to have a calm team speak
because when everyone is fired, it can be too loud and you cannot understand all the information
at some point, but overall I'm just saying about the mistakes.
Just play for economy, don't hunt, for example, easy kills like Ecos.
Most important is to be better on post-plans and these finishers of the round just
to be better at finding that important kills.
We have really great examples of Vitality, how they're able to play 4v5 or 3v3 clashes,
so we are trying to teach from good ones.
Yeah, so what are you and the team's general expectations for this tournament?
I think, there are things to say right now, that we don't have much expectations, because
we are still a team and we are definitely playing some better teams in terms of how
they could show themselves by far in the competitive scene. But my expectation is to see the growth
of the team so I would be satisfied with qualification to the playoffs and hopefully we can do it.
How important is it for Dewey to pop off here at the tournament and just go into the future
because he seems like a star in the making. What can you tell us about Dewey?
I think that he has really great individual performance, and his aim is so good, he's able
to do multi-kills, and in the officials from him I just see calmness, but it doesn't matter
for him who he plays, he just wants to play his game even though, like, I can say that
he has pretty much confidence in the game, and it doesn't matter who he plays against,
And I think it is a really nice skill to have, especially when you are up coming talent.
And yeah, I'm enjoying his mechanical skills.
How's the pressure for this tournament?
Is there a lot of pressure or are you feeling a good level of freedom?
I wouldn't say that it is much pressure.
It is some, but I'm trying not to think about pressure.
I'm trying to be in the moment and enjoy the environment.
I think that to be realistic, you don't need to expect to insta-v in, for example, for us,
one event, the PGL Bucharest, if you can do it, then it would be very nice. It will show that
we are a good team already. But it is in pressure, but I think when we play, it expires.
Well, thank you so much. Anything else that you'd like to say to the fans watching at home
before I let you go?
Chill for Inner Circle and see you on the server.
With it.
Hadric, best of luck.
See you.
Nice one, bro.
Thank you.
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Hello everybody. Welcome back to the PGL Bucharest. Be streamed, scrawny and launderers to take you guys through the second half of the day.
And, uh, Moe, we've got a weird one on our hands. I kind of, you know, rolled out of bed, took a look at the game.
I don't really know where to find the mood for this one because we have a phase clan that's hitting the server, starting this event in a 0-2 pool,
and a phase clan that we all now know is out of contention for the major.
It's been the talk of the town in this recent week watching this roster try to scramble any which way back in
You know there was this romanticized dream that maybe they'd be able to pull off the unthinkable
Get to Bucharest O2 with a major qualification in their back pocket
Play with no weight on their shoulders, etc. But that is not the case instead
It feels like the hate watchers are absolutely feasting and anybody who's still trying to hold on to phase magic
Will not find any today
Yeah, there is just no, there's just no more waves.
Like it seemed like there was always going to be one more way, but
without refinishing, that was the land that came out of nowhere.
They don't have that.
They've had to take a quick flight over to Bucharest, do their quick media,
and get right into the server now.
Just to play for a pride and prize pool, essentially.
It's a very awkward situation for Faze because, you know, they would have
been here and they would have hoped to have won their land, qualified to Cologne, then come
to play Bucharest and I think the mood would be totally different obviously, but you know
the great tragedy has already occurred. They're not going to be at Cologne and so that's what
they're going to be thinking about today as they're playing and if they play well then
it's going to be soured by the fact that damn why didn't we do this versus Bay and
if they if they lose it's like yeah we're in the we're at the as Kerrigan said
This is the lowest point of my career and here's what it can even get a little bit lower.
One of only three teams in history to be in a major grand final and then to miss the following major.
And I think the scariest circumstance for face particularly is obviously the the BRS implications continue here.
This is one that now the second half of 2026 is on the line for.
This is one where you've already got two forfeit losses that have yet to be stacked against you in the negative points
So you've got you got to kind of pull out of this tailspin if you're a face clan
I got nothing but respect for the sake that they did indeed show up
I think lesser men and lesser professionals would have just kind of maybe found a way to wiggle out of this event
But they're here and they've got a team on the other side in inner circle
that have shown us a bit of promise being able to take a map off of each of their opponents so far in this run.
You know, plucky group of inexperienced players that are just kind of looking to break into top 50
and really make a test of things in the next year.
And so, FaZe Clan, I would love to just say, ah, walk in the park.
But obviously right now with FaZe, it's just so hard to put our fingers on the problems
and kind of, you know, get a read.
So we're going to have to settle it in the server, Mohan,
We're going to hope that FaZe Clan can show us their best today.
There's been a lot of conversations from a lot of the teams in this VRS race
that have discussed the pressure of it all, how it's affected their games,
how for a month straight it's just been kind of this looming shadow
kind of keeping up to you.
And maybe hopefully FaZe Clan can find some freedom in their gameplay today
because, well, again, the major race is over.
But the race for Bucharest begins from a 0-2 group.
Leave it to FaZe Clan to do something nobody's done before.
And that'll be kind of their tale and their attempt here today.
I mean, they're cracked, they've been trying their hardest to play for very much of the
possible, and you know, they're ready to play PS, and the question is how, how do they're
trapped today, I think, essentially, and I'm not sure they're able to leave behind
compartmentalized with that loss. Well, Frozen goes down right away, he's been a
hero or base plan I'd say and down to four here comes the lower walk up the
rotations are already in place though
and a clean one from Hedrick and the dark player activates zero fix coming
through to cut down the numbers dolly and captain Kurt could barely alive in
this situation so broken catching another kill grabbing a USP and looking
for the bomb plant but the Beretta's ready to roll and those Berettas better
come up big I was gonna say because your other players still such low HP but all
is good for inner circle and their nuke kicks off with a CT pistol win this is
of course the map pick of phase clan and inner circle gonna try to catch their
breath early with a pistol victory and this is you know two teams who they
just played each other first round of the event I'd be like alright phase are
definitely gonna win this but the difference between these two teams
is that Inner Circle earned their way to a 0-2.
Basin just showed up 0-2, no practice.
They haven't got their hands on these tables
and they aren't used to being impressed all that much.
They might even be a little bit jet-lagged.
Well, luckily for FaZe, they've played a many PGL event.
And luckily for us, PGL events are, you know,
gold standard in terms of consistency.
Let's see, let's hope for phase is sake they can try to tap into that.
Yeah, we've already casted in their circle there, they're going to be another like sort of a wake up call team because we saw that they really skill checked legacy on their map pick back on ancient and it's because they were, they were just very efficient mechanically, I think they definitely like on paper, they're not as good of a team as phase.
but mechanically they might be better right now.
Watching that game with crates go down
in favor of inner circle looks like no problem.
The Cubies need to carry the ball back down.
That's what they're looking for.
Man was looking to make a bit of money.
It's gonna get swarmed and dealt with here.
So done for.
But yeah, like a real big skill tech
and I think watching that game
versus big yesterday. There was just like a severe lack of trades, which it's it's you know, we've net we seem to push through the bank so many times, but usually that's just we're making time to let go and actually go and show off their individual skill because they're very individual based teams are very defaulty they're very like sort of, you know, be liberated
take peeks and show off how much better you are as players, but they never really got there versus
big like they couldn't show off those trades. There were just a lot of players just failing on
in really important individual moments, which is sort of the thing it just didn't expect to see.
And it had happened to me, well it's going to be more of the same, you know,
in a circle, they're not really up there in the rankings. And big actually,
they're big ball type of the major, they've been quite good, right around 20.
Crossfit twists into secret, goes unnoticed, and he's gonna have a raw challenge sitting
in front of him.
Aw, but he loses it out to Headshake.
He's able to fall back as we get this ramp play coming through.
Instead, Flashbang's got Zero Fix looking into the wall.
And he's gonna strike from above.
Nice.
Snap down.
Triple kill for Zero Fix.
And that is what you love to see for Inner Circle's first challenge versus the gun
round of phase clan and you know zero fix got to say at times yesterday felt
like he was kind of out of his depth in some of those clutches we saw kind of
like an awkward little split-second decision that's gonna cost you in a 1v1
and it's nice to see him have a big moment early on I think that's gonna
be kind of inner circles hope is to on an individual level show phase clan
they can keep up the mechanically show that they've got form a little
mow down here is phase clan skip a clear is a great way to put those
rifles to rest. Yeah I mean it's excellent. It's an excellent play and a mechanical ability
from another interstitial player. I think their main regret playing, I guess legacy
was the most veto. So here we are again on Nuke, obviously. But now that I think they've
got a Nuke official out of the way, I think that's where the practice that it's not,
Yeah, it probably learned a lot.
That's right.
I'd love to see the evolution of Inner Circle once we get over to the T side,
because it felt like that's where our criticisms really fell on them.
You know, their inability to kind of scale with outer control.
That's kind of what cost them some moments.
Twist, Tech 9, and Kerrigan's Desert Eagle suddenly find a little life in this two versus five.
That was looking like an excellent round from Inner Circle.
They kept the pressure on the smoke very high.
And now, in this one, it's XeroFix to recover the little bit of HP twists had over.
Kerrigan, who is coming off his career highest rating yesterday versus Big, is now...
He's got seven bullets and no reload.
Oh, well, unfortunately for Kerrigan, he doesn't get another shot.
And XeroFix is feasting on the energy that FaZe Clan are letting them build up.
Very costly round, considering that was a 5v2.
But, hey, it's four straight for the inner circle.
Yeah, we were looking at their T side and seeing a lot of the upper splits with Mini,
and they were doing two and three players, which that's like Artsferia was doing that a lot.
They would try to go for a split in that way.
FaceTime also very famous for doing those Mini splits.
So I would be surprised if those were two of their influences or how they wanted to play.
The set-up was fine on how they executed, but they just struggled to be fundamentally
sound in the default, so that's the improvement we're looking for today.
Nice approach, Brokey.
Yeah, I mean.
Head-to-head, AWP dual, head-trick passive on the angle, thought he would get the jump
on the peak, but no, sir.
Over the box goes Brokey.
That's kind of the perfect example of, like, you know, a team that's not comfortable
on the map and what can happen.
Devils in the details.
Very much.
Broke you, the kind of guy that might dance with the devil on a Saturday by choice.
I think if you struck up a good deal, they would have made the major.
OK.
Oh, it hurts.
hurts but hey that's counter strike in 2026 Captain Kirk is still looking for
duals outside you find that frag on broken so double kill from him and we
still go to be to drop into the back of the site awkward by dolly on the reload
unfortunate there that the a1s goes dry so here goes zero fix I was critical
of his clutch abilities yesterday let's see this one in a 1v2 it's carrying
up first frozen tucked inside of the hut so he will find two separate 1v1s
And he gets the first one without taking any damage. This is good stuff. Zero fix gonna tap that bomb and try to get this frozen
reaction or sticking it and that is much better. No hesitation
No fumbling of the clutch zero fix off to the races today with a 7-1 start. Look at him. Go
Oh, I can not smack immediately as he will find inner circles fifth consecutive round
Oh man, Pays are getting chirped out by anybody and every single team they play against they're getting chirped
So that's a very nice clutch
I mean he was super early to the to the retake so I like the speed he's having that definitely caught him off guard a little bit
Karrigan periodically comes in to watch it
But this is also just a great call out in terms of exactly where Frozen's playing from I don't think he made a noise
Got him
Fast moves here from Jacob as he's already over top of Main,
fly before for FaZe Clan.
Mad Advantage did not net them a round win around ago,
but this one was very quick to the execute,
and now we've got Broke down in stairs, escorted by twists.
We've already seen a clean scramble in the pistol
from inner circle down stairs,
and right now they're just kind of lingering inside of Main.
So not as quick to it if FaZe Clan decide to just evolve,
Slowly towards lower, but they pause outside and how the angles have opened up for inner circle yet again
Killback is good
Challenge for frozen gets picked up by phase and then we get zero fix who does not go down easily
Has all of a sudden all three CTs
Still on this upper floor that lower drop never happened and the threat comes back to main
But you're just giving a duel over the player and raptors on it's jumping the Nate out of zero fix continues to rack up
Impact frozen's attempt to come through gets denied and we've got twists to kills into this one versus three already
Oh, I think have the clutch in the tank. This is interesting. I mean, he's a little bit late to come in a mini
But it's a fake plant and twist is worried about heaven with no p coming out of heaven right away
Twisted gonna be on a high alert
He's low. He could actually just died of pistols if he's not careful
again, I know. I know. I know.
Another fake and a trick's not
poking out just yet. On and now
it just has to be wanted. So
zero fake. I mean, sorry,
Head Trick step, I'm gonna walk
up to this.
Trick makes it over to squeaky
now. Playing in the open
floor twists. We'll see how
much of this he clears as he
talks into the box. Hey
trick is 100% going to figure
this out. It has to be back
shot for twists, triple kill for twists in the 1v3, and that is the way FaZe find their first.
It was played quite well there for a twist. I mean, he was clearly trying to cover a couple
options if he wasn't interested in a curtain, but he put himself in a spot to make sure that he
doesn't get flanked. He was watching this a little bit, so Hedrick can't get one over.
Now let's see if Inner Circle can afford to hand over a clutch.
That was a very costly round actually, but yet they've still got a full buy.
It's been a couple of costly ones.
The 1B3, the 2 vs 5 attempt as well from FaZe Clan that boils down to the 0 fix clutch.
So that's why Inner Circle find themselves strapped for cash.
Man, the reality of Counter-Strike with just how fast this game moves just literally tournament yesterday in a different country to playing today.
You know, you think that's just like something that doesn't happen very often, but it honestly, it does.
I feel like just re-packaging your emotions and being able to put them in different boxes and move on it.
One of the skills you have to have if you want to compete at this level.
I think her coat opens up the Jacob.
Twist's already crossed to red.
And Kerrigan's also going to try to draw attention.
Dowie doesn't bite on that at all.
And that's going to allow for Twist to just tuck into secret as Kerrigan doubles back to the other FaZe Clan members who still remain in lobby.
This is kind of big that Dowey's here though because he knows it's not a mini-wrap and they can come back and take a peek and he'll actually get a good fight if he does.
Dowey hears this.
Yeah, but right now he's not worried about Dowey.
It's like worst case there's a trade coming through but Darian might just run into this.
this.
And it's like you're in a moment of so much utility, but if you tell them to keep this
and it's like, Dowie knows that no one else has to move.
We'll see who catches who off guard.
Conversely, Dowie's not worried about someone coming back out of secret, but he's not
Wist isn't going to be, they're going to, oh what the oops, but they've got a bit of a bait going on
Offered blinded, ZeroFix loses his support
Still wins the duel and gets into the cover to dodge Brokey's offshot launch, Dowie as he activates
Getting back around into lobby and on top of that Onyx already got both kills by the times
always gets there the slowest burn flank you could have asked for and the
deagle headshots back to back out of Onik instead who is just trying to serve
up as a split in that pinch instead now twist who has had positioning over
towards secret this entire round the round absolutely fizzles out for phase
plan may have their chances to get into that ramp play but zero fix again
rock solid defense 10 and 2 so far this half inner circle respond
instantly after face plans first it's a pretty beautiful round I mean and
the fact that we get some of that spot,
FaZe Clan don't realize it because they never find Jim,
but he's the guy who has the info to call out the fact
that the Rapsk Modes are totally fake.
They can stay doubled up on Ramp,
which is exactly what FaZe Clan didn't want.
And even though they got their utility out, man,
it's another case where, like, Broke,
he just needs a trade right there,
and then they actually have a nice position.
They got the op off the line.
They couldn't take out the Rifler one for one,
and then they had to go back to Upper,
which is obviously always going to lose.
We've got a scout out on Kerrigan, A.K. for twists,
pistols on the rest, and that scout will fire tags.
Damn, okay.
Kerrigan playing freed up, finds damage on head-trick.
After finishing Captain Kurt-Cut,
and twists A.K. now activating as Broke
he's got his hands on that Kerrigan scout.
So this is kind of one of those carefree moments.
Faze Clan just go flying outside, find their contact, find their fights, try to keep this one simple.
They're going to threaten this A site as we get this vent tuck from Onik.
We get to clear it, twist, he goes down, and that's two other players confirmed.
Off to peek into it, and that is Jacob's headshot collected.
So pressure now on Zero Fix for another clutch, he'll deny the bomb plant instantly and close out.
Zero Fix today is looking like a whole other beast.
Yeah, he's lapping it up and I love that he's having an incredibly impactful productive map here very nice rounds out of zero fix and other stuff for him
And they were just not ready for two coming up to heaven first I upstairs now this wouldn't have been the state
They took they were worried about this
It had the ability to cross if they wanted to so
So, just really running into Inner Circle's strongest position.
Really kicking them while they're down, huh?
I mean, hey, that's the brutality that is the situation.
Inner Circle absolutely fighting for this one.
If the Nuke Challenge was meant to be a walk in the park for FaZe Clan after what they
saw yesterday if they saw what inner circle actually they didn't see that game yesterday let's be real
they had uh they had something else on their plate yeah they had something big on it
eight one CT side all you got to do is put this 5v2 to bed a carrigan brings it back with one
yeah ideally you don't lose any more players and then you're just you're crushing this half so
So, let's see how that goes.
Onyx in a strong spot for one.
Caregank will he clear it?
No.
Rokey'll find the trade.
And an open route downstairs.
So he thinks vent player trying to scramble down
to the double doors to stop this plant,
to stop this clutch attempt.
They will open the door.
There's two players here.
They can even read it if they wanted to.
Ooh.
Good on Rokey.
Giving himself the challenge, giving himself a chance
the plant and as he tries to get off of the bomb site that is when he falls to
headtracks so that's the 8-1 inner circle CT side coming together
beautifully. ZeroFix just feels unkillable at the moment, a part of all of these
rounds, 12-2 and giving FaZe Clan problems here on their map pick. He's having one hell
of a map, they're having a lot of fun which is another thing that FaZe have
to go up against like the bar for fun for FaZe is kind of like there's no
bar anymore like they can't they just have to you know I feel like
They'd be able to crack a smile for even winning this event.
That's how much bitterness I'd assume is.
But at the same time, they haven't won a tournament
in so long that that should still be a goal for this team.
At the end of the day, they wouldn't
be in this situation if they weren't planning to fight
as hard as they could to just make this team work.
Because they would have just had roster moves or whatever.
So in the end, at least you know that they're here to prove something.
I think they just feel like they fail their most important test in the most important moment.
So, well, inner circle might have some issues with their new T side.
Maybe they're a little worried about it, but maybe they don't really have to deal with it
if they just have such a fantastic CT start.
Just keep stumbling for them in a way of prep, too.
They didn't have a night to prep, really.
They just had a night to travel to come and take photos.
And Inner Circle know that they're going up against phase plans.
So it's a distinct advantage there, too.
I think the reality is as well, just I'm not going to sugarcoat it.
I don't think phase want to be here.
I think phase, in certain ways, just wish that they could have kind of rolled over and stayed in bed today.
But that's not the reality of this industry.
and what FaZe Clan signed up for and again, also the brutality of this tailspin in the VRS situation
and you've got two forfeit bosses that are also going to start to chew away.
Are we going to see a situation where FaZe, who are probably going to maintain this core
in some way or another, could start facing a lack of invites in the second half of 2026?
I mean, that conversation is still a bit far off, but again, how brutal things can get so quickly?
you gotta have a recovery plan of action and right now I don't think one night a
half night after the travel is gonna be enough to pull you out of it. How much
fight do you have left in you honestly? This VRS gives you a great net when
you're in the invites because you're just like constantly getting invites even
if you're not playing that well but once you fall through that it's just a
It's a horrible looking grind.
I mean, it's the kind of grind that just makes you, you know,
cranky, jealous of pro players
and the lifestyle that they get to live,
but not when you're like Frank 100.
Bomb plant comes through for phase at least,
but with it, twist is dead.
So his one kill gets that bomb down.
So got players upstairs and that drop off of main
from Jacob should have been heard by Captain Kirk.
That's two players confirmed, not towards the bomb site.
What are we going to do about this inner circle?
Wait for the ramp retake to get into position.
That's going to activate head-trick to start moving forward.
Bomb planted behind the site silo.
The only person who can actually stop the see-views is Brokie.
If it's not Brokie, this bomb is not getting covered.
And now that he's dead to the single door smoke on top of it,
we're going to get inner circle sticking inside of the smoke.
Oh, he does get clear.
He's frozen out through double door.
And that's all they need.
One person to dive the bomb site.
It's crazy that with another CT towards double he was able to get out into the
bomb site like that but a fast scramble out of frozen is what gets a second
round to FaZe Clan's scoreboard. Yeah that's something but it does cost him
every single player they buy and spend all their money again. We're down to
three rifles on this buy so nice to get a win but that's just barely they're
even lucky to have again like that's not someone out of control to get that
kill so I mean on the other side metrics got it up but you're also suffering a
little bit
right you need sets up the promise for an easy out zero fix oh you know he's
gonna scream let's him know
and that is the nine to offer the maid sets himself up for the farmers and over
simplified B rush from faceplan gets totally stuffed by the FOMIS. The line-up.
You don't see anything else in the kill feed because it's his own HE that makes those kills easier.
Every single mate he threw through the molly they get a little bit of damage and nade into it.
I mean it's just a it's been a beautiful half out of zero fix. Gotta be over the moon.
16 and 3.
And they really all in, you know, just ramp rush. Let's see what happens.
It feels tired.
It's good that we could this be the first time a team has to do two eggs to interviews two days in a row.
Probably, yeah, I mean it's the first time I've ever seen a team in like almost 10 years of casting start in event zero two.
Yeah, it is an unfortunate first that we have on our hands today.
No exit out of the hot a total stompage of the T side here for phase clan. They go up against an inner circle
Yes, who yesterday couldn't even contend with legacy, but that struggle really began on the T side
So we'll see if inner circles T side. I mean again, you said they might not even really need to tap into it
A 10 to half. This is you know a twist so 1v3 is
50% of phase clans T side
Not gonna lie. This is kind of like I mean to be really, you know, maybe this might be really dark
but if you lose yesterday and it's just like the tournament that you lose yesterday, it's a moment where as a human
You need time to digest you need time apart. You need time to like, yeah
Mull over what happened and then you come in today
You subject yourself to sort more brutality and then you lose like this is where this is this is actually the game where it becomes
Really ugly, you know where you really could turn on each other because you normally wouldn't have subjected yourself to this
This is essentially like, you know, you've got like a,
a calf's ran and you're forced to run 10 more miles.
You're just like, this is horrible the whole way through.
You know, you're not supposed to be doing it
between like mentally so much damage to yourself, I think,
by just having to communicate with your teammates
who are all trying to win in a moment
where you just don't even have the energy.
You feel like you just don't have the,
you don't have the emotions I feel like to put into.
pulling out the wind and yeah I think this is where you can you know real damage could
be done.
So a lot of people are just like you know this needs to end in the first place.
Some people you know are arguing that this needed to end before, well and yeah pistol
kind of solves all the problems here for Inner Circle, so there's a first kill.
Trying to set up for the main split, Roky's gonna have his hands full with Dolly dropping down on him.
Jacob collects two, and wow, Roky actually puts a bullet to the back of the head.
Dolly flies over top.
And Hexrick activating Infra-Main, looking to tender off of 0-5.
It gets put down!
It's face-climbed CT side starting with the pistol at least.
And, well, the real romantics would say, Moe, that this is where the greatest comeback starts.
I mean, without it.
Did you see that, the Anubis map when they played against Big?
Yeah.
There was like that, the second pistol where Brockey's jumping away and he gets tagged.
And if he just had gone right behind that wall, it like literally would have had a pistol
and maybe would have seen some kind of fight out of him.
But without that, there was just no way to stop completely top.
So, absolutely good weekend.
No bomb plant. Let's still abide.
One place, Nade softens up four, and it's all in on Frozen.
Who's got two, at least to his name?
In for retrieve, challenge out of hell, and Brokey and Jacob quick to the scene to stop Inner Circle in their tracks.
That's FaZe Clan doubling the rounds off of the pistol, and the first conversion.
Now, a save comes out of Inner Circle,
and you're going to get FaZe Clan,
a little wiggle room within the CT side.
All the FaZe Clan fans that have tuned in
for just one more hit,
give me one more dose of that magic.
Enjoy it while you can.
It's going to be a tough battle today.
Like you said, I wanted to kind of talk into that.
Like you said yesterday is such a,
you just think of the absolute disappointment, right?
Karrigan's saying it's like a career low.
It's like the hangover you're describing
is one of emotions, you know?
and it's like an open wound and you just think that that this is just this is just
festering at this point like I'm sure if they were allowed to buy their way out of this tournament
they almost would have because all they want is a day to kind of process what's going on
it's such a tough place to be in don't do it with deagles this one's supposed to be easy
and still should be
And if it could get even darker, I mean, this would be the lowest ranked team that they've
lost to.
And I don't even know how long, because like, not this year, although they played a lot
of low ranked teams to, you know, grind through, um, track you land and, and, and Belgrade,
but they won all those matches.
They only lost to Fnatic at, um, Fnatic and big, essentially.
It's kind of even here to entertain the thought that they could lose this match but 10-4 for
now.
10-5 in a second.
You're looking to get out of this head trick.
A little more economic damage, softening up the CTs.
should never get grabbed sitting behind red box the moment and not going to lie
this might be uh but just in theory if they had lost if they lose this game
it's it might be years back since they've lost to a team that that was this
low ranked I would chalk some of that up just to the reality the situation
having been dropped out of the grand finals yesterday missing the major and
then having to play again today I mean they what bought on a flight after the
loss yesterday showed up in Bucharest had to hit the studio after
Everybody else was already back at the hotel to do their media obligations at the very least to take photos
Yeah, it's 2024 they lost to sangal at pro league
Not sure how low ranked they were at the time
See
First gun round comes in from inner circle
His T-side had struggles yesterday versus legacy. The struggle wasn't necessarily opening moments.
It was just kind of adapting to when what was very clearly some outer play to the A-site was started to get stuffed.
We saw them try to smash their way through the lobby in the main split time and time again. Didn't quite work out.
Captain Kirk was successful in creating space at least, and we've seen some decent rounds from him already.
Right now he occupies outside alone. It's gonna be ramp instead the inner circle want to take a swing at. Oh, that's awkward
Looks like zero fix kind of ate his own flash for a second. At least that trick gets the trade back
And a quick challenge from dolly into hell. We'll see nobody else is here
So now a bit of map control for inner circle
They would have heard frozen drop from heaven into the back of a site
And I wonder if that is gonna activate them to try to get into heaven themselves
So that was one thing I was missing from their game plan when they played against
Legacy is they never used Heaven on T side. They never tried to wrap outside
and now they've shoved everybody into the site. Obviously what will happen is Faze will go and
take over lobby control naturally just to make sure they don't have to worry about that.
But then they kind of get stuck in rotations. They have a good amount of map control,
but they can't really help each other out as easily. That's a sacrifice they have to make
and this one goes towards low eight lower. This one's going to be on Brokey.
He's trying to take over the site door opens and Hedrick takes a tag.
Broke is going to follow up three for three on the shots and he's also just got this
position to hang on to concern that maybe they'd come over the control panel.
We're going to get this, what, walk towards bomb.
It's always trying to find an angle to best Broke, but he is rock solid for the B
defense and FaZe Clan's CT side is starting to give them a bit of a lifeline here on Nuke.
Inner Circle struggling in the first gun round to get what they wanted. Ramp was costly,
they didn't scale towards heaven again and just trying to go down to that B bomb site
left Captain Kirk out of the engagement the entire time. And this will create a really nice
interesting moment to see what Inner Circle could go from here. This might be a moment where
you take a pause. Maybe you've got your pocket strats that you want to pull out. Again,
they struggled a bit on the defaults they were a bit more confident just to move into some of their
set strategies and because they only need three rounds and a half a game plan that involves that
threat if you really got some tricks could be enough to take it over the line but the investment
here is half five on the AK they'll probably save that idea for next round
But if he's knowing anything about his team right now, cutting off the outside cross.
That's how he is going to start it off.
AK changes hands to Dalwit.
A couple pieces of utility here for Inner Circle once they can threaten this B site.
Twist is just going to jump on the double door.
Confirm that they have indeed crossed beyond Captain Kurtco.
Sometimes he plays Outer on his own, as we saw last round.
Let's confirm that he was not solo and that B site could be under siege
Although these siege weapons more like sharpen sticks no trebuchets
No real way to explode into the B site broke he passed it on the line
Just waiting for that single challenge, but a skitter circle kind of pause here momentarily
That just allows an additional piece of the defense to get downstairs and face glance starting to show you that there are layers to this a
a CT side that has brought this game within three rounds.
Inner circle, suddenly not looking so loud in the server.
Everyone just looks so handsome on CT side.
That's definitely the nature of the game sometimes.
But yeah, here's where Inner Circle will have to show us
what they've got, what they've learned from yesterday,
why they wanted to bring Nuke into their pool in general
with the addition of Head Trick.
And with the buy that they have,
we're talking about no ops.
This is a situation where coaches getting involved.
And I want to see if they try to do their mini splits,
if they try to involve a bit more in outside wrap,
if they want to go for that, or if they're just
going to go lower again.
I would be tempted to go for a scrappier, faster rounds,
definitely.
But they also know that CTs have all the money,
so pre-nading is going to be a distant companion.
Early working around here for base.
It's gonna be a faster move by Zero-Fix, just gets the vent dive instantly.
They're gonna know about it with the Molotov popping down there, so there's no secrets
here for Inner Circle.
Phase Clan, pressed up against Red as Captain Kirk looks to do his thing alone, versus
Kerrigan and Twist.
Rest of the teams have escorted him here, but this reload is gonna get jumped on by
Kerrigan.
That's an opening kill here for FaZe Clan as we see Inner Circle sent back to the lobby where there is a push from Jacob.
That's a great way for Inner Circle to try to get this equalizing kill.
Sure, Zero Fix has been downstairs since the get-go, but nobody's been able to join up with him just yet.
Yeah, they're trying to scare him. I mean, it's a rotating down a little bit too quickly, but FaZe are not biting on that.
They still had some presence outside.
So I wonder what the calm was in the tack pause, but the plan isn't exactly clear at the moment
And now they're into getting creative part of a round at 40 seconds
They're gonna need to make something happen soon, and they don't really have information. Oh
There's the trade. Oh, Ergon takes out zero-fix now might be tempting to go upstairs just while he's down in the vent
The first remains tucked in. Heaven wrap. Decides to activate. As he does, he needs three inner circle players.
Here's the challenge from Kerrigan, trying to stop them from getting into heaven.
But he's still got an AWP, which misses, and the bombs now drop back site.
Onik's gonna get away with this plant, so must Frozen can dive it. As Hedrick, he goes down, and Kerrigan's starting to collect.
But we've got Onik, one headshot away from inner circles, 11th.
Huge health advantage here for Finn three kills in already and on it. Just trying to get the jump on him
Behind the closer and closer
On it tries to snap that shot over Keregan a quad kill and that is going to be face clan now two rounds away from tying up new
This is inside
Impenetrable at the moment. Yeah, unfortunately, you can see the difference now between the two teams when
and phase are feeling a bit more comfortable.
This is off the end of the track cross,
but the speed down event, it's a great idea
to pair it with something.
It can be good in a deep hole,
but that's where they struggle the most.
And behind that, there is no real set play.
It feels like in place,
Captain Kirk doesn't realize there's someone outside
that there could be pressure there.
When they lose their killback,
they're kind of hoping that phase
makes them kind of really take the spade
off the down event early or something else,
They're doing a better job than keeping them in the detour, if it happens, it'll happen.
We're still in the vent preemptively, not gonna get away with that twice.
Good reposition here from Twists, makes the first kill easy.
Still yet to see a single mistake of a phase on the CT side, but a bowie entry onto Brokey fast
He's gonna put this B site under threat and ultimately inner circle still so close to victory that they can just simplify things
This straight up rush down into the B site
We'll see if dark gets cleared for now
You've just allowed frozen to lock in it looks like Captain Kirk is worried about this and yeah
He's gonna find his man advantage secured in the post plant off of a broky death towards ramp
It's a fast move from inner circle
They're going to leave no chance for base plan to get their hands back on this you think
Twists blindsided by that second layer on the double doors and Jacob already down at half health in a 1v3 as
Inner circle after struggling to get their openings find a 4v5
simplified ramp rush and it could have been enough the layering there in the back of the sights
Going to secure it to survive for inner circle as the drought of rounds comes to an end
And they will be two away from victory. I'm gonna say it's still a dangerous position for inner circle because now face
They still have one more after this for sure, and they're going to give Inner Circle a lot of trouble, so they lose a player, they make the ramp rush happen, and with the vent drop that they were attempting, a quick ramp rush, I feel like was the strategy they were...
They care for probably more of the last rounds, that would have just been way more clear as to what their exact idea was going to be.
But they capitalized on a broken miss inside the ramp.
Make sure not to forget about the potential for broken as well.
Kerrigan's in a great spot.
The smoke is proofy enough to get through it.
Could still walk right into Kerrigan though.
See how ready he is for somebody in this big corner?
Not at all. Way more concerned about main, especially as Quist is kind of just popping up the smoke,
up the smoke, checking out utility. Another 4v5 attempt goes towards the ramp and frozen
traded out, at least able to get one this time around.
Dolly also down to the half HP. Now we've seen Heavenwraps underutilized by Inner Circle.
They have a chance to threaten it yet again, but they smoke off Hell for a moment and
Headtrick confirms two players challenging them outside. That should get the tease through
that smoke. They do silently activate on Hell, and they're going to find this
backstab moment onto Kerrigan but now where do they evolve towards? You've got two players
downstairs on phase at the moment, not the inner circle know this, but honestly A site looking prime
for the taking otherwise. You can keep one up in heaven but Dolly opts to go wide into the Rafters,
No trade as Jacob jumps back around and broke he's going to start clearing out the players for outer
We go 1v1 for onik again this time full HP for his clutch attempts
He dodges the flames as broke he cannot afford to miss this shot up the AK and
Onik just sits in the middle of that site for now
Pickies. Oh, you almost got the chance but onik didn't bite
This was out on it swings and that's good to stuff brokey into the gravy goes as inner circle
their inner circle take one more.
And it's not just the one mistake that they needed.
And man, the fact that they're using hell
just more than they did yesterday shows
that they are evolving a little bit more.
And you can see the options that it opens up.
It helps them stay flexible.
They're getting the trades and that's two in a row.
So,
12 to eight, they can close the map now.
Pays the silver lining as the money was deep, still a full buy back, MP7 limitation for
Kerrigan that's really it.
But as Inner Circle show us the smallest evolution in their T side it pays off in spades.
Four map points secured versus a struggling phase clan today.
The bigger the gap, the more confidence I think they have to actually close this game.
So, you know, they're probably a little bit tense about what's going to happen now, however.
Nice shot from Brokey.
They've locked down what was supposed to be a lower split.
Yeah, Kerrigan catching the secret play as well.
That's big.
5v3, all the more comfortable, another raw duel for Jacob.
He finds his, and this round just fizzles out for inner circle.
No real chance, no real explosiveness to it, just three separate engagements with
no real trade potential and each and every one of them get picked up by
face clan. Do not forget how good phase of looked on this recovery within the CT
side. Yes, a couple of consecutive rounds for inner circle.
It phase of had their hands on the defense and this round will be no different.
It puts the money back into question for inner circle as well. They will be
able to rebuild that over these four rounds they secured to try and close.
But this one really not as inspiring as the last two. This does remind
me of when, you know, Head Trick was on bait and when they're playing well, it would, it
would spread the map, take lots of fights and when they were on it, we would just kill everybody
and take both sides at once. But now it's not quite as strong of a team, but with that
same strategy, you see that around can just totally evaporate the nods if you,
you don't win those duels. And essentially I'd say one note for them is just, you
know, more commitment in one direction to at least get something back instead
of 250 50s or 40 60s. You're going in the CTs who are holding their favorite
angles. You're not really flashing Broke properly. You're you're just trying to
run at them. Hope something. Hope somebody misses and that the last time
they won the round was when Broke missed shot on ramp.
Check pause, so no talking as we see the cash here for inner circle, uncomfortable on Onnick
and Xerofix.
Good chance to still review the notes.
I think inner circles hope still bank on the fact that we've seen a better T side
out of them even though this has still been struggling.
If you weren't here for their legacy game yesterday, you'd know that they just got stuffed far harder.
Yeah, just due to repetition, more than anything, kind of obvious repetition in their plays.
They've kept this attack varied, and yes, okay, that last round, not as inspiring.
Yeah, but it is nice to see when they distill into late rounds that they actually have a chance,
which that's something they just didn't have versus legacy at all.
Everyone ready to go again in this buy? We'll come through.
So a three-round gap. It's not a guaranteed close,
But phase are still making mistakes. They make a slight comeback off of the back of a pistol as well
So it's not been a perfect CT side
Trying to go back into that ramp later
All it's all frozen. It's awkward now and there's a lot of bodies come at this jump over top the health support on the scene
but already on it just guns him down.
And what we've seen in her circle breakthrough with was that faster beat play so for them to tap back into it now
could be the end of phase clan on nuke.
Dolly collects on twists the only player to drop a body so far for the base plan.
Jacob and Broke in a two versus four the upper misses and
Jacob given no chance an electric close out of inner circle as they decide to simplify and just rush down that B site.
The Rock solid 10 round CT half sets up inner circle to succeed and even the smallest improvement in their T side today is enough this time to push it over the line.
So face clan will start this series down zero one on top of starting this event zero two in the Swiss groups.
I mean it's beyond what you expect from a team like inner circle who they're low ranks they're trying to expand their map pool.
They're playing against great teams when they normally are playing online versus much weaker competition
Even if this game becomes marginally close, this is just such a big improvement for what we saw versus legacy already
They're they're actually showing us they can play new this is going to be their biggest win so far and
I mean, I was even looking back at like that sangail match that pays lost Sango ranked around 20 at the time
So that was like a peak for them. This is still going to be their I haven't even found
What was a week? What would be a weaker loss in theory?
So a great great start here for inner circle and because you watch their previous match
We know that they can play and they did scare legacy and now there's two maps. They've taken versus much stronger
competition obviously this one going to mirage this is faces map pick that they lose and
It's not like they were missing pistols, but they were missing some shots
Yeah, yeah, they were and a couple of missed opportunities as well, right?
There's six 1vx moments going down in this map. They split them between the teams 50-50.
But you know, that's always where the face plan magic tends to thrive is in those close nail-biter moments.
And we saw Kerrigan post his. We also saw zero fix clutch a couple of rounds early on that not momentum for inner circle on the T side.
Excuse me, CT side. It just had their confidence high.
And I think confidence is going to be key for an inner circle that are looking to just kind of get their game going in
Book arrest. It's not easy for anybody to recover from a 0-2 pool, let alone a team that has not had as much experience at these kinds of lands.
And that really is the reality for inner circle, right?
You know, Headtrick and his pregame interviews with Paula has said, you know, expectations aren't out of this world.
We're just trying to figure out where things land. This is a new roster. It's a young team, etc.
And I think today a chance to beat up a phase clan that's obviously walking wounded is
Is just one that they have seized with this clothes on nuke
And yeah, I'm sure even just building their confidence off of what could have been a victory versus legacy yesterday
But they let that one slip on the T side their confident that their T side was able to break through right?
We get these six rounds in a row at a phases CT half
Something to stand on a little more respectable
but at no point in that first 12 rounds did FaZe Clan really feel in it to win it.
So a tough go of it and things will move on to Mirage,
but Inner Circle setting themselves up for an excellent day here in the 0-2 group.
They started off every series so far with a map win and then lost their first two series,
but versus legacy and foot, there's no shame in that,
but I think when you look at the legacy match, it's winning,
legacies, map pick and losing their own.
Maybe things changed today.
This is technically the team that's in the worst form
of the three teams that they're going to be playing.
And I also want to just give credit to Dowey
for having a great tournament so far.
He's at a 1.10, he's put up another 180 yard map.
He's playing against very, very tough competition too.
This is not an easy run so far.
And he's had a lot of impact.
Obviously, zero fix was the star of the show right there,
but his consistency across all these maps,
I think is pretty remarkable.
So yeah, I mean, Faze, like if you let them win
this map, then maybe they would get their spirits
a little bit higher, but because inner circle, I've already closed this out and they go on to their map pick and we're talking about Marash.
They're going to be happy to play it. It's not like they, I mean, they played a little bit closer against legacy on Marash still lost.
How do you describe this? They should be able to win the series, but now that the hard parts out of the way, I think for inner circle, they got to be, they got to be the favorites right now.
Yeah, it just feels like that. Capitalizing on a rough day for a phase clan that probably don't want to play counter strike, but are here and are still trying to fight commendable, respectable, but not enough on nuke.
So this one begins with an inner circle kickoff. Shout out zero fix one more time after that map because I think I was pretty harsh on him yesterday.
Maybe fairly in those clutches, but this game, he found his game. He found his confidence. He got to ride that high versus phase shouting the entire time throughout the CT half.
But we'll be back for Mirage as FaZe Clan's Struggles in 2026 continue to find new lows
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What is going on everybody, it's time to chat to some of our players here at PGL, Bucharest
and pick their brains on the recent changes to ammo and how magazines work.
With Zwei of Parivision, Fozy of Astralis, Junior of Voka, Insani of M-I-B-R, do you
You still spam smokes now as much as you did before the change.
Yeah, I think so.
I think you just gotta be a bit more careful.
I think you can still spam smokes, you just can't overly do it and you have to make make
sure you're mag at zero, or else you're just, it's just completely over.
Let's say when I'm going window and rush or something, I shoot a vent, I reload once,
then okay, someone like Jaby on short saying, okay shoot the ladder vent for me, shoot
it once and then reload again.
You know, that's kind of the situations when you're getting kicked a bit, but like if I have M-Core, then yeah, I think I'll play the same with the spams.
The worlds I didn't really spend a lot of my bullets before to the smokes, and now it's like even lower ammo and I don't have to do it at all.
as an offer. I don't really spam a smoke if you don't want to give your position away.
I don't spam smokes, but it helps that riflers can't spam me anymore.
Nah, actually don't do it. I play in some positions that require me to spam a lot of the smokes,
but I'm kind of getting concerned about it right now and kind of that's not serving my ammo.
So it made a very different, very different note.
How's it been having to build that awareness? Did it happen quickly or has it been a struggle?
No, I think it's fine for me. I think especially with the off, it's not really affecting me.
I think five or like a little bit more than five bullets maybe is often plenty.
You have to reload it. And you can't like rotate around and reload or else.
Yeah, you need a fresh mag with an off like most of the time. Especially with the five bullet in there.
It's rarely that you even see five people and get a shoot at five people anyway, right?
Exactly. And you just hit them anyway, right?
Exactly, exactly.
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It's difficult day in the office for a face clan that now finds itself mapped down versus
inner circle.
And an inner circle that's looking to bank on an evolution day to day here in Bucharest.
easy for any team to be in the 0-2 pool, inner circle 1 makes 3, I'll go out of this event
without a win.
And they secured that nuke game with a close on a T side that we had questions about, so
it's nice to see that inner circle on a day-to-day basis are showing evolution worthy of a win.
Over on Mirage Mohan, we'll see if they can resolve their own comeback in a 2-0 fashion
over phase.
Yeah, I mean, so far, like phase of when they're first, the last four mirage games, like pretty
one-sided, but it's not versus great competition.
Again, it was at the locals and outside of that, when they played anyone decent, it lost
against Tyler Payne, Nostralis, Mal's eyeballers and randomly picked up a 13-2 win over
ParaVision at Clujabee in the year, you know, there's hope for them, but it just
feels like this one goes beyond the stats a little bit.
We're obviously looking at a team that should be like,
they should simply have two of this,
but we knew that that wasn't going to be that easy.
We already casted inner circle and know that they are playing
much better than their ranking shows.
And with the circumstances, obviously,
this is the time to beat phase.
This is the time to play up like we saw from zero fix.
This is the time to play the CS that got them a map
in their last two series versus foot and legacy.
And definitely, you know, here's the time to strike.
You have a map pick, you have a map you can play,
and phase, you want to keep that mood low if possible.
So let's see if they can pull it off.
They start here on T side, Mirage.
Carrying into the apartments,
about to face off a whole lot of inner circle players.
He's got support and frozen,
car dedicated to the corner on the site.
Dolly to the charge block flies downwards,
also here for the crossfire so they do bite on Kerrigan's bait and then the CTs activate
pain headshots coming through for Russell and it's a close out of Frozen so pieces in
position here for FaZe CT side Bodewell for them back on Nuke if only they had a
little more wiggle room to lose more rounds and well it's gonna be a tough
go of it for Inter circle without the pistol FaZe that's exactly what you're
looking for again just a chance to kind of shake it off shake off the
start of this series shake off yesterday shake off the disappointment of the major miss out
there's a lot to shake off the shoulders of the phase clan and a mirage ct side could be one
where you're just allowed to frag out totally but you know what interstitial they come in with a
a full mid default of my they have just check nines they don't need a plan
i'm looking to spend some cash no plant but a plan
tech nines into connector? No. They won this unique window challenge. And they find Frozen's head
spamming away with the tech nines. Desert Eagle from Xerofix, whoo! Luckily you're here for
face clan. That Brokey lineup's got two players and the third on Captain Kirkland who just
tries to jump across the site. Kerrigan's M4 rollers towards Xerofix. And so yes,
you've done some damage. You've got a bomb plant and you've got a headtrick and still a 1v2.
But Brokey's gonna get the four kills this round to make sure phase don't end up with egg on their face
It is the two zero start for the CTs. I will may invest like that. This is this kind of a minimum
They get a bomb plan to get three kills
The plant money to go off of so they make it marginally scary here for face clan
By is not gonna be the best and for inner circle actually be pretty decent
Now, Brokie does go up into the op, though.
Let's see what we get with this inner circle T side.
and
they're ready to walk this one out
now
flash is good
this pad it looks like and he's dead
he's dead as a solo anchor
Wists half-out, inside gager is good for a couple.
Broke even catching the headshot back on him.
You get Onik moving over top of the stairs,
Kerrigan cuts that one down, plus there's zero fix.
There's no bomb control.
Yeah, and they can see it.
So it's just about Onik coming back into their view
and he's gotta make noise.
Little HP to make this happen.
They're just going to sit on top of the bomb. Brokey zoomed in on the angle.
Zero-fix showed us an improved clutch ability from yesterday to today, but this one very dire.
We'll see if waiting this amount of time is eventually going to get the CTs to check their flanks.
No, I mean they have it already. So this Kerrigan's just caught this cover for Brokey.
They're willing to sit in these spots.
Force to eventually move.
Nice.
Stop shot.
Zero fix in for the bomb plant.
Still gotta be dead, right?
Span him down.
No.
Let the bomb go down.
That's money made by zero fix.
And yes, he'll die.
But at least able to recover that bomb and get away with something.
Somehow.
Yeah, just the off-shot mist means the bomb plant.
Couple of misses from Broke, but overall a good start.
Five and zero for him.
counter-terrorists win and definitely not the situation I could have got out of control
for phases.
Kerrigan comes out of that smoke inside of the window to take out the stairs player
and make that a done spot.
They're getting a lot out of their investments, for what it's worth.
It's a nervous moment for Jacob.
Once again they have no thinking player.
of
the
Oh I think you were late.
He has the bomb though.
Ooh, they're building a connection toward CT.
They took some risks here, but now they have a very strong spot to hold.
Oh, however, Zero-Pix goes too deep.
to
stop the best moment here for Inner Circle. Like, look at what happens if they had planted
this bomb sooner. How easily that could have resulted in this going off with no time for
phase. And if they had, instead of pushed one player into CG to take a raw duel versus
have the ball planted for them.
Then they could have their third
player in the site simply watch
the flank or play selfishly.
There's no way for an A ramp
flank to, you know, get them if
they're doubled up in CT spawn.
So there was actually a number
of ways inner circle could
close that position.
And instead it just becomes
another round where they get
three kills. They get a bomb
plan. You know, they get
another by they bought every
single round this game.
But they don't get rounds.
So the third player in the
third player in the third
player in the third
player in the third player
in the third player in the
third player in the third
player in the third
that's pretty huge Jacob I think in his mind has had a lot of it in case
They can learn a lot from these demos.
They just break down so hard individually.
They start just lingering into easy kills for FaZe Clan.
They're not flashing into retaking utility.
I think they need to, into retaking spots.
and retaking spots. They need to really organize it a bit more in the micro, and
again, some of the choices they can make are really easy to just guarantee kills or
hold it in delay.
Gonna try to bomb a site. Fast moves and
frozen. Not yet called on.
Karrigan and Brokie make quick work of the exit. There is no exit. In fact, stuck inside of the windowsill, all five players dead.
this is the phase we all sign up to watch Mohan, watch all the stuff in the
face of an inner circle challenge that can't even catch a kill. Maybe they'll
find a way to make the major somehow still, who knows, it like you never know
when they're gonna start playing well, but this is just such as like a low
rung on the list of tests that they sort of need to pass to and they
can press anybody. The fact that they're already down a map is very
phase obviously but yeah it's an interesting ground so far here on the road.
Inner circle to hit this A site from a completely new direction hoping palace will be the solution
to their problems. Jacob to face it. Frozen over towards taking it again. Plenty of grenades
still on Frozen as well. That was a bit early. That kind of reveals
their engineer at the end of Palace. And this is the most players that they've had
to name, just not the split so far-fading, man.
Trying to throw bodies at the throttle.
Entries found.
Little awkward on the drop there from Dolly,
so frozen, free kill in that regard.
But the trade frag's efficient.
Inner circle this time.
Challenging to CT with a couple.
No, separate 1v1s for Kerrigan.
He's not able to get the player in the backdrop
as the flash makes it hard for him.
And all we've got now for FaZe Clan
So seven rounds into this T side and inner circle able to muster together the all in a hit emphasizing palace trickling down into the player towards ticket, you know frozen second awkward flash.
Kind of gets him off of his angle can't fully commit to the mow down and within that inner circle are able to seize the bomb site and I think this could be a symptom phase clan we've seen it now not necessarily playing bodies inside site inner circle identify it.
circle, identify it, exploit it, no moves on it, but hey, it's two players alive and finally
inner circles first round.
It's almost as if they're better off when there's more targets early, because a thing
they come into A again, normally it's when they get a kill, it's a phase retake where
they're breaking open the jungle smokes and everything, but while the exact is coming
in, that's when they're getting that first kill entry, that's when they're opening
up the site and creating an ability to plant the bomb. But Faze have been able to take advantage
of being behind smokes, breaking them open, flashing for retake, getting spam kills. And
instead of inner circle, you know, they don't have to think too much potentially, but to
keep up with the smarts that Faze have, then that's where they can shine.
Faze feeling frisky towards ramp. Take a look at it. Off that smoke, go can see
see nothing's home. And we'll see Broke calling for reinforcements as Kerrigan comes sprinting
over with utilities. Thought we'd find an opening on the Jacob though. You play inside
that A site? Yeah, you get punished by it. That was his own native. There was not actually
anybody fighting that smoke. Small mistakes, big openings in the circle. Could be trying
push through into twists to one and done from the Canadian. And while we do still have this forward
ramp control for phase client, spend their six to get go, it's going to be Karrigan up next and
traded effectively by Dawi. Now we know about Frozen's position on the inner circle side and Onyx
going to catch up through that smoke. A late activation through the ramp catches Frozen
off guard. The smoke fades ahead of the bomb carrier. You try to cross that and Broke
is going to cut you down to size. They know where he is. And this is an interesting spot
for dowey because if he wants to go through the murder hole, he knows brokey was just there and
brokey doesn't hear a plan. He might turn around and i don't know if this opportunity is really
real but brokey is full committing to this is crazy that dowey gets away with this. He knows
exactly where brokey was. Brokey is going to hear this plant and he's like i can't even believe
he tried that. What's dowey even watching right now? I think he rotated around through cat.
Just go ahead and plant man. You've already done the job and now you can get off to
Figuring it out
Life is a work in process
probably going to take this dual wrong
No questions only answers yes, so
So he could have jumped up in the market, window gone for the second window, played that slowly.
He could have planted for Cap, gone, pushed Cap, but he thought that Broke maybe would
have gone there, but he also planted for it so Broke turned around, he could have died.
So a few ways where that could have gone wrong, but I think the last thing that
Broke is expecting with him having that much space was to just be standing out there.
And it banks on a headshot, but he delivers it.
Yeah.
So, Brokie, who's been lights out so far here on Mirage, 11-2, and opening up yet again.
Op Impact is connecting here for FaZe Clan, and it's fueling a CT side challenge that Inner Circle
have been able to find solutions for. When they go heavy and through the palace,
they find those players hard committed to the site to work out well for them.
They've got majority here. This is a strong rightful core for FaZe Clan.
Inside A site, they walk up quietly. Jacob activates, he gets traded.
and Zero Fix comes through the Palace Smoke,
and that was going to be vision on twists confirmed.
They know he's somewhere here in jungle.
They'll keep that one covered,
and they're going to plant for Connector's side,
having just all but exposed Broke's there to punish,
and he's in another clutch.
Two kills into the round.
Him and Dawi, both a part of this one again,
but Dawi's brought reinforcements in Captain Kirka.
They're still concerned about ticket,
and Broke goes for the quick move into jungle instead.
you give some space they're gonna start pushing and uh... that's exactly what
they should be doing
so kind of worried about everything
brookie might have a chance for a mistake they get a little antsy sometimes
uh...
uh...
well
decision here from in a circle to close out their third successful tea
round win and one
that comes with a reward face clan for the first time in this half
sent back to the pistols
Back to the pistols, no ops saved.
Broke, you can't afford that.
You set a lot of shots this game,
but even despite that,
these last three rounds have been very solid for inner circle.
And it's another example of there's more targets
than normal inside A and they win.
Cause they just get those kills so fast.
They can, they don't have to worry
about locking down a post plan with perfect positions.
They don't give a chance to a team like face
to use their experience to come through
with a retake that can confuse you,
get players blinded, pull up big flanks,
which worked for them in the first six rounds.
Inner Circle have tossed a few of these rounds away
in both of their previous matches
where they were playing up against pistols.
They sometimes want to get them done
as quickly as possible, which is fine,
but they don't throw in all the utility they need to,
you know, respect the other team,
have great pestle-in players.
Here they get some damage off for free.
of the
the lack of guns for FaZe.
They're not putting anything out.
Incredibly tradable spots, but this is an A-split,
so I mean, Brown should be over already.
There might be a moment where Inner Circle,
think a little bit too hard about this,
and FaZe make a move, but for the time being,
they're just clasping their hands
hoping that inner circle dealt themselves and go be something care again is going to be able to
dissuade them just with a scout. Not going to stop it. Fast scramble from phase maybe a little
more damage with pistols but feels like inner circle have found an open door to try to recover
what could damn well be a tired half they have their way with it.
Yeah, totally, I think it's a challenge. That's all that's gonna be left here for FaZe. Just group up
See what they can get done inside of an ace site
That's eventually gonna be evacuated for now
They'll stick around and Captain Kirk a chance to pad the stats as they hear this now encroaching
Just kidding everybody starts trying to leave but number of those being watched as well
So you're not getting out of here Captain Kirk has got you in the kill feed all five up for inner circle making the absolute most
of this round versus the single scout.
So full comeback, excellent here for inner circle.
And then they bought for the first five rounds in a row.
They got lots of kills.
They got bomb plants off of it.
So they definitely made those rounds competitive too.
Well, we want to see Brokey getting back on the up.
I don't think anything but an eight four
after a six bureau start is going to feel like a failure.
The palace pop can catch you open in the site.
The twist's good on him.
Yeah, gets the kill and connector, turns it back over to the palace play and finds a
5v3.
A more comfortable look for Baze once they're back out of the rifles.
Tetris challenge from Frozen goes well.
Second player has slipped a net.
Doesn't actually wind up getting the trade frag.
So frozen thriving at the moment.
Two kills into this one.
And head trick, what can you do in a 1v5, brother?
No bomb possession, CT swarming you,
Molotov's in front of you.
Faceclans still with some life left in this defensive half.
I guess it's round 11 now.
Ain't got enough money to buy again.
Maybe doesn't feel like he can escape,
so we'll switch forward into the fight.
I don't know.
Every second that takes away, I don't know.
Patrick's getting out of this one alive.
I'll get rid of that right away, but eventually does don't think you are interested in the second off this round anyways
No be cool you could say if you could you know you pick up that off and then you get to sell it back
Yeah, you want to shop in T spawn yeah, you sell it from you know you get better guns you sell them and then you buy your
Your cheaper weapons afterwards make some cash
maybe some ultimates too while we're here you know UAVs and stuff like that yeah
yeah kill streaks dude dogs, shotgunners, tactical nukes, turn x-ray on
temporary wall hacks dude yeah signing up I could use it
Brokey did not not know that someone had pushed
This far up, I don't think
That's what we're talking about 3k for Karrigan and an easy close towards this B site Brokey
Gonna put zero fix down
And ultimately face plan walk away from the CT side of Mirage with a respectable score
It's just obviously everything's so tainted with faith at the moment that even when they find success like this
We're all just kind of holding our breath to see you know
Old man still got it, but yeah, we want to make sure it doesn't fall over on the dance floor
You know, we can't let them get too excited
Yeah, it's been a sketchy month for phase clan, but hey 840 side versus a team like inner circles months
I mean, you know what is crazy when you look back, it's like, we're all gonna remember
about Budapest so fondly, but they start Budapest in the first stage.
They start Budapest with no victories in previous events.
It's like that Budapest run now in hindsight is gonna be just put on an even higher pedestal
in terms of like spectacularly unexpected runs.
And maybe it really is one of the cases of like, you don't know how good you have it until
it's gone.
Could have been the greatest major run ever, but since it didn't happen, Cloud9 are that
team.
Right.
They'll hold on to it.
Yeah.
But hey.
Man, they could have won a lot of majors.
Come on, they're winning now.
Yes, they're winning today. What about today?
Well, they're winning this half.
Yeah, sure. They're winning.
Okay, there are four rounds up on this map today.
It really just boils down to like how much more of this phase do you want to see?
And some people want to see less of it now. Some people want it to just end, Mohan,
but there are still the hard-dedicated fans.
They got out of bed today to watch FaZe Clan.
What could be for the very last time? Let's be real they lose this best of three you have no idea if this roster
What occurs? I mean phase clan is such an unknown anomaly if you go and just look at Kerrigan's tweet from yesterday
Very cryptic, you know uses the words. I hope I survived this
And I think that very strong language
But obviously his world does probably feel like it's crashing down around him
And in that way there is a part of him that probably died yesterday
Not all of them, but a part of them, sure.
Might die right here too if he's not careful.
But that bomb gets planted now, full test.
Look at the lurks in place here from base planting.
Their special move fast is actually going to be a problem.
Uh-oh. Now those C's are going to be watched for sure.
Keeps it clean.
Carrigan's just trying to buy time for this flank to still come through.
Nobody's really checking the batch.
Now they are.
They finally turn. Dolly whips around, kills Brokey, bombs already defused, and it's gonna be a CT sidekick off here for Inner Circle.
Remember, this is their map pick. They're up a map.
FaZe Clan have given us reasons to doubt as of late.
And this would be a great chance for Inner Circle to just tie this game up and ride the momentum that they started to earn as that first half went on, right?
They finished with four terrorist round wins. That's four of the last six rounds of play, though.
So don't let this 6-0 phase clan start go up in smoke.
Yeah, you'd hope not.
Hey, you know, we are watching this first half and going.
Got four rounds on the inner circle's B side.
Maybe not too bad.
Trying to keep it single here to catch Captain Kurt to off guard.
He will get back into the cover, but that just cues up the twists wall bang.
It's a lot of bodies confirmed outside of the ramp, but inner circle still thinking about middle first.
Nobody home not yet. It's a slow burn flank from Kerrigan through underpass while everybody else on phase stalls out towards ramp
Man, you still have Onik over and B
Don't play this carefully. Like Kerrigan will totally get spotted right now and how the A players have to move this also will pull Onik
I mean they gotta get this bomb planted but no smoke and they don't have CT control
Good cover at least. Yeah
Twist trying to keep the round alive. First with the wall bang now with the bomb
plant coverage, they're playing the open floor, signing up for these duels. Great
double out of frozen, but he gets mowed down in the 1v1. Onik making the most of
the lesser weapon. Inner circle converts, despite FaZe Clan's best efforts.
It's a costly one for Inner Circle with only a single player left. We saw
them survive similar spots back on map one as well. And we're capped by Onik.
into the next one. Captain Kirk good on him because I feel like he could have very easily just died there but he's able to find his one and every kill matters as it gets whittled down before.
Yeah it's going to be kind of a low buy. I mean they're going to get what they can here with the one gun that they saved but facecliner not in a super strong position to buy themselves.
They got a D.G. on Jacob. They have a little bit of utility. I feel like a lot of this match rests on this round.
I'll face down, lose this round, it's quickly instantly tied and then I'd rather be inner
circle, you know, on CT side with a tide score line.
Getting the pause button phase climb.
They really are. I mean, I can understand wanting to try to make inner circle nervous or overthink for sure.
Cross is a little high here for DOWE as we can see.
They's really trying to puff their chest here with a low amount of utility they have.
Using it late to walk in.
Bomb's coming up fast.
Oh my god.
Goodness, excellent shot.
Gonna get the utility instantly out of on it captain Kirk attaching a bit of smoke spam on the crossover
Evacuate they've got this jungle to tell how the jungle to
Gets another one we're talking about 3d1 now twist with 60 HP
Genuinely a clutch they might need
Stomping over is that MP9 so twist knows down low if somebody close they're gonna jump into him and just
This would be flying and P9 a shout-out captain Kirk three kills this round
And yeah, I think really catching that kill inside of jungles huge also cutting off a player inside a connector versus twist
It felt like that was never gonna be the one that happened
But look how spread out the deaths are here for face plan on the radar
Just couldn't get anywhere around the map without losing the body as they all tried to flood back to the A site
Step-by-step numbers whittled down and step-by-step inner circle closer to this tie
Yeah, Captain Kirk is just a total hero right there because that B-split is huge with that first Eagle shot from Jacob and a one-player cow.
At Ben's with an MP9 and head-trick on this apartment line. Once they lost that split, I think it helped.
That was dead, but Captain Kirk still had a little bit more on the tank and he took the numbers out the whole way through.
bomb carrier. Brokey tucked into the apartment's corner for now. We'll see what phase can make
of this connector move. Twists trying to catch somebody off. Oh, that's nasty though. Finding
that head shot onto Jacob through the edge of the smoke. It's a bit of a gift given.
As he doesn't even see the player, still pops his head covered in twists. Now we
get the 8-8 score off of that one. Inner circle making quick work of the double
Galil triple Mac tech nine instead now guns back for phases there lead has been lost
They managed to do a lot with the money. I mean they they they got a decent buy last round
It just didn't win but they were prepared for round 17 to be that by coming in so it does end up being a tag game
At tricks only got eight kills with his off. I feel like most of them happened in the last few rounds though
CT streak for inner circle.
Three of them feature a bomb plant for FaZe.
Excuse me, four round streak.
It's been moments of success,
but just nothing on the scoreboard yet for the attack.
And they tried to turn this into a casual last time,
but they're just trying to dress it up
like it's similar, but it's coming towards A
this time around.
That we won't be watching this they have one zero fix excuse me one player here inside of jungle
Oh and a late connector spoke that is pretty brutal they wanted to move off of this
That challenge confirms that I'm just on the other side of that and zero fix is just gonna stay tucked in flank though from jungle
Good move by carrying to split this jungle hit and then you've got captain Kirk activating damage over towards connector headtricks
He's still focused on that player, but it's inside sight that he collects one.
Seven seconds, Broke is going to need to go for this bomb plant, it's forced.
And now Hedtrick can just cut him down, no plant, no wind, phase plant, fizzle out within
that bomb site.
That connector smoke at 35 seconds spells disaster for FaZe in terms of the scaling,
the comfort to get up.
You needed Kerrigan to come around through jungle, everything got slowed down by Captain
Kurtkos kill.
on top of that head trick, just the ace up their sleeve
sitting on the site and that pressure is enough
to get a lead secured by inner circle.
That's one thing that Faiz are normally good at.
It's like spacing their utility out throughout the round.
So it feels like they've got more than they have
and then they force you to use your counter-util
inner circle where very, very wise
to hold onto a little bit of it.
And it's that same pause in the middle of the round
that we've seen from Faiz when they were on the low-by
to come forward with their idea,
but not after just holding.
Let's see if maybe inner circle is making a mistake, but he just didn't.
And the fragging is just being released all late and Hedrick, again, his op is just getting better and better by the round.
It is a round-less T-side so far for face-climbing.
Hard edges and a harsh reality.
Tech nines be enough to break through we've got tidbits of utility here for phase
They're just gonna go into the a execute. This is gonna be captain Kirk under challenge
Chuck's out is incendiary, but they're already well ahead of it and Jacobs just looking at done something down with the tech nine
We'll see what kind of a retake comes together for the CTs
Zero fix finds one through smoke. It is a dolly to catch another. Oh
I need denies the bomb even felt like phase clan
We're gonna have something to stand on like a retake was going to be needed
But now it's a act of desperation as they plant on this side of triple
Good head shot from frozen as he grabs that M4
Onyx, kind of welcoming a challenge there a little too ambitious
Maybe a bit too excited tries to line up a fight and instead offers an opening back over to the face plan
2v4 feeling real as the guns now empty
Dawi is dead and a head trick has afforded them a little more space that they get back into CT
It's all new to get famed
What head trick is unstop
No
No
That is the best pop-off so far the sub 1.0 rating bandit throws up the double
base clan. That was such a good clutch though. He actually drew him out knew the
jump-up would come hit two great shots used his smoked ball the 1v2 he's had
immense impact in these last five rounds no that's not real oh that's
That's brutal. I don't think I've ever seen someone do that versus you.
Nobody.
It's been done in what could be their last game.
Oh my God. That was, that was dark. That was savage.
Out of head trick, man.
No rest for the Wicked. Phase Clan. Back into the gun round.
Gonna try to flush out zero-fixed towards middle.
He actually dodges this nicely, getting up in through the smoke.
Yeah, and with the Molly, they know no one's crossed.
It's kind of awkward for FaZe.
And he found a way to get out of there, too, so...
So, there's a reset, I'd say, in favor of Inner Circle.
Double-Ops will go stronger by the second.
Frozen so a raw dual versus Captain Kurt inside it. They would love to come barreling up through this connector smoke thing is that's their own smoke
Cause for concern momentarily
Hedrick on the jungle angles gonna gun down Jacob no cross afforded bomb
You know is still low and now frozen dead towards man. This is face clan running up the trap
They were looking to scale into an A site, but that box got something to say Hedrick
Dominating in his last couple of rounds.
Kerrigan surrounded, gets dinked and dealt with.
Inner circles, flawless CT run continues.
Wow, this is mental.
I mean, Etrick is just playing so, so...
I mean, he has recovered his score in a way that's like remarkable.
I mean, the impact that he's had is not...
And it's with the clutch, with the upshots
and the positioning and everything.
Like, he's playing his best CS right now,
just to absolutely destroy FaZe Clan.
This round started 6-0 up in favor of FaZe.
Double off the can, right in our circle.
They flew here today.
Yeah
And I'd love to know how low ranked is this win of inner circle closes out because I've scrolled
Years and I haven't found a loss. That's tactically this low for phase
Online online nothing
The Intercircle Valk ranking 72.
No challenge for the mid control.
Intercircle's given that space up, but it leads them into Onik.
Frozen just trying to jump through smokes.
Unprepared for the player up in apps.
Onik good head shot.
No second, as Kerrigan at least clears out Scytes.
You can have a jungle threat here from Quests over towards A.
That could make the rotation over for inner circle a bit awkward, zero fixed dead real quick and twist getting the hell out of there.
So it opens up the market challenge, but this is also an occupied spot by face clan.
Yeah, the job protect all the choke points, but yeah, they need to protect Jacob for the foremost.
And this bill helps out a lot.
It's been a dire dry spell for face clans.
T side could have just come to an end eighth round on this T side and face clan finally break through.
It's just heavy numbers up middle which was uncontested from the side of inner circle
They allowed that allow that space to go down. They had even a 5v3 for a moment, but it's carrigan. Who's the guy to bring us back?
I would be I would actually be attempting this if I was inner circle and definitely trying to punish exits because
Yeah, like jakem's gonna go pick up the soft. They keep three alive, which is nice for their money
Oh, okay. Well, maybe get one of two
One of three
It's a 3 versus 5 that's going to keep FaZe Clan in this.
Money's behind for the side of Inner Circle, two rounds from eliminating FaZe Clan out
of PGL Bucharest in dead last place.
If you haven't been keeping up with this week
of Counter-Strike, phase clan zero two at this event
because of those two forfeited matches,
playing in Belgrade for their hopes of a major,
that went up in smoke.
Now trying to play to save face.
And the nature of this second half
could just be more and more embarrassment piled onto a team that would probably be rather
doing anything else today. But professionals every step of the way.
After that A emphasis, Kerrigan's dead in underpass. It's an aggressive move from Hedtrick
who has been lights out on this CT side and that is what is delivered round after
around. Wobang head shot onto Jacob. Captain Kirk could keep himself alive.
They stall towards Tetris, eating these flashbangs one after another.
Zero fix. Going to be freed up. So he thought twists is able to creep in through connector,
still untrated by Dolly. But Captain Kirk from inside A site collects yet again twists.
Falling into the crosshair of Dolly is going to offer over a clutch attempt to Broke.
But not one he really wants to have to try.
It's got a bomb picked up at 56 HP versus three remaining inner circle members.
Man, it looks like I'm going to start writing up this obituary inner circle.
Just another fantastic round. Head trick. Another fantastic round.
I'm brokey.
Yeah, it's got to be magical.
But if you guys watching this, they've got this covered.
It is serious for inner circle.
They are about to actually do the job.
The long list of teams that could have stood in front of FaZe today with the hopes of eliminating
them and crushing them even further inner circle, the ones to step up to that task.
We saw limitations in their T side yesterday versus legacy despite picking up maps in each
of their series so far this event.
This is a team that sits outside of the top 50.
This is a team that would be one of the lowest ranked opposition to ever defeat
face clan in a match. And they
don't even get to say at least we've
made the major the absolute bottomless
pit gets deeper here for face clan.
This is a roller coaster, not one Counter-Strike player in the world,
Envy Space Clan for having to ride.
It's a sad reality that's been quite some time in the making.
The Budapest run is what saved it for some time, kept things afloat,
but there are no successful real VRS runs before or after said major,
and that really puts the future of this Space Clan in a dire strait.
Uncertainty is the only way you can describe it and today. We had hoped that maybe they'd give us one last through raw one wild
Uca S run
Jacob and Kerrigan cut down to size inside of the A site bomb plant here in the two versus two as inner circles B players will
Be tasked to try to close this and as Brokey plants open
He will fall back into ramp a strong post plant position here for phase to at least try to survive the first of three match points
that smoke was a little bit fresh it's possible that they pushed toward CT so
they've got to slow down when they approach it they're not going to see
anybody in here these two guys left I think are going to be the scariest threats
and frozen can't win his duel it comes down to Broke he again at least the bomb
is planted on the front side of site always low HP as well head trick though
this smoke he's gonna cover up the diffuser
have to spray down 13 health on Dolly.
That's all it is, 13 HP, but that's the way it ends.
Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
The most entertaining team in Counter-Strike history,
no longer fun to watch.
Inner Circle, victorious in the 0-2 group
will not go out of Bucharest empty-handed.
Face Clan's death spiral continues.
They get here today to play this match.
They take one of their lowest ranked losses ever.
They didn't make the major yesterday.
It's all been said already,
but the team that has as much attention on it,
as much criticism,
I can't even imagine what this feels like right now.
But that is the end of their Bucharest run
after starting down zero and two,
a single landmatch picked up here.
From a local to playing against another team
that would be at a local
and still not being able to win.
I mean, what more can you say?
This is the absolute bottom for Faze.
It's a scary place to be,
and one that I don't think any other Counter-Strike player
would envy, but it's just their reality at the moment.
And I think if you were Faze Clan,
a quick and swift exit,
it's almost like a mercy killing, I think at this point.
They don't want to be,
they don't want to be on the stage any longer.
They don't want to be in the spotlight.
I think they'd rather just be,
from a human perspective, doing anything else
been trying to beat in Counter-Strike today.
And even if they want to,
someone needs to tell them they can't.
You know what I mean?
Coach needs to throw in the towel.
They need to take a break
because then they can do irreparable damage.
I mean, the conversations after this matchup
and this week that they've had, obviously,
I feel like they're not gonna be productive.
They're not gonna be good.
It's not gonna make anything better.
Again, they're trying to exercise with open open wound.
They're literally putting in the motions
to play Counter-Strike,
But mentally, are they even close to there?
Absolutely not.
There's no way anybody thinks that.
So yeah, I think they've just played this game.
They should not have played this game.
On the positive side, it's an inner circle
that absolutely seizes the moment.
It's an inner circle that shows us improvements
from 0 fix from yesterday to today.
It's a head trick that lights out on Mirage
and just totally dismantled throughout that second half.
I mean, his recovery within this second map, very impressive.
If Inner Circle have anything else to say at Bucharest,
because we are talking about two teams that were 0-2
at the start of today, Inner Circle
will be thrust into a collection of teams now
in the 1-2 pool.
Now maybe they can take another swing at, right?
This is a team that has at least won a map
in both their series.
They get sent down to the 0-2 pool,
a clean 2-0 versus a phase clan in freefall.
And at least you can see the wind conditions for inner circle
put forward today, right?
Some rock solid stuff, some sphero fix back on that nuke.
And then Hedtrick's ability to find a big op impact
is I think what they were really looking for as a roster.
His departure from bait, that was a sub par performance
for an offer.
There's a lot of pressure for you to get that impact,
get your ratings high.
And Hedtrick, even within the first,
it's been 30 maps with this roster,
is kind of still par for the course
where he was over on bait.
I think this half was standout and that's maybe what he needs in terms of
getting that runway going for and moving forward.
That's highly efficacious half.
And there are lots of great things to say about inner circle and you look
back at this run, if they make it any deeper, they've taken out face clan.
They took a map off of legacy, their map pick.
They took a map off of foot.
Obviously foot can be anybody right now.
So like they're playing way above what their ranking shows and, and
hopefully like they'll actually benefit from that.
Now if they pick up the swim, maybe they, any competition they
face from here on out are gonna be pretty scared about playing a little bit
sloppy. There are tons of things that you can improve about inner circle, but
I'd say that second half of Mirage showed the best of everything that they
had to offer from the individuals, the rotations they had to pull off
retakes, even close that game out. And that was those are some of the
criteria they were struggling against to make the win happen versus legacy
and versus foot. So I'm not we're not surprised to see a team come to an
event like Bucharest, it's
studio. You're playing in
to see them improve with t
playing against teams that
never get to face and give
a confidence. It's exacti
a team to break into a h
and you know, when are we
get used to saying that
here's a new challenger be
like every week there's
is is punching above their
And that's another reason that this has been such a difficult road for Faze Clan,
it's because like no one's easy to beat.
Yeah. And you know, up next Mohan, we've got more plucky underdogs.
You may have heard of them, BC game featuring simple electronic and our
Portuguese core versus the Volca North American roster also suffering at the
moment from a stand-in situation. And both these teams also 0-2.
So we've got elimination on the line in our next matchup as well.
We actually get all four games today here on the B-Stream
because FaZe Clan at least graced us with their presence,
not for a long, it's here for a good time,
not for a long time type deal with them.
But BC game, obviously another roster
that this is an organization that bought out a core
in the hopes of maintaining invites to a major.
It's a core that they add electronic and simple to
that then doesn't end up working out.
They don't qualify for the major
and instead they'll also just be looking for respect.
So there's parallels to draw between our next game
in the game that just ended, but we'll save that for when we get into it after this break.
BC game versus Voka, the last match of the B stream today.
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With Baywee of Inner Server, Moutares of BC Game, Alec666 of Vape, BobXD of Eyeballer.
Do you still spam smokes now as much as you did before the change?
I mean, I think now less, because at the first days you kind of were in the old way.
But after some time, and sometimes I'm even forgetting about that.
I know, like I'm usually playing the case, so like in the case three clips,
so I'm usually like playing one clip, and that's all, like I have two more clips, so it goes for me.
I haven't changed my game at all actually, so I haven't noticed any big differences.
Let's say that I'm playing Nuke, I'm breaking the vent, and I'm instantly loading and I'm like, oh, I did something that, yeah, I think we don't spend so much through the smokes, or we are more careful, I would say.
I think I was playing yesterday, official match on Ancient, and I had USP, and I was farming smoke, I forgot that there is like a new update, and I realized I have like three bullets left.
And it was special, it was like 4v4, and it was a pistol, so I think I just need to get used to it, yeah.
For me, I felt a lot of difference when I'm with pistols,
because sometimes you forget and you just reload and it was really hard.
With M4, it didn't happen so many times, so more with pistols, to be honest.
Almost every single one of you that we brought in here, professional players,
has highlighted pistols, that that's the main place where it's going to be felt,
and the change in ammo.
Because sometimes you shoot two, three bullets, you are used to reload and it's all good,
But now, sometimes I'm forgetting and I'm like, oh my god, I only have 12 bullets on my wrist.
I
match for day two here at the B Stream of PGL,
Bucharest, we have got a BC game versus Voka match
up next for you guys.
And the story of this one, Mohan,
is really just BC game trying to find some shreds
of success.
They know that their major run is also out of contention.
So that's an unfortunate reality for them to face.
If you're here playing for respect,
playing for the big prize pool,
there's still a lot to go for.
And especially for an org that's invested so much
in this roster, it's a very expensive transfer
buy a core within the VRS, you know, the top of it when they were there, they have fallen
out of it.
But this should be an easy game for them.
You'd think, considering that Volca coming over from North America with no real European
success and beyond that even, playing with a stand-in who hasn't played officials for
over five years.
So Retchie's addition to the side of Volca certainly won't make their runs any easier
here at Bucharest.
You'd think the likes of Electronic and Simple, even without the capable hands of
this port and Portuguese trio should be enough. Should be. Yeah.
Voka obviously took a map off of three max, but three max for another team
that are an incredible low right now. Not a lot of confidence.
Maybe a little bit regretful.
They made moving out body.
BC game are a team that just aren't winning.
And it makes sense that these are kind of the stories today being in the
O2 games. BC game finally picked up a map after a six week drought of
being able to find a single map in a series,
but still ended up losing to M.I.B.R.
And that's also a game that definitely could have ended 2-0.
The one bright spot, and it wasn't simple actually,
it was electronic.
I think we saw great plays out of him pretty much all day.
And Horsky's core, not super strong yesterday,
that's for sure.
This should be their first series win.
This should be the first Seer Carries win since the Parkin Challenge on February 23rd.
It should be.
I'm going to say it one more time with confidence.
This should be BC Games first match win since February.
Does that just feel a little better?
I think so.
I think so.
It is April.
It's been some tough months, man.
I'll say Counter-Strike.
It's a lot of legends suffering recently.
Yeah.
That is, but I'd say what is nice is it's nice to see teams that didn't make the VRS
cutoff also continue to struggle at an event that goes beyond the major cutoff, right?
If they had gotten here and then all of a sudden BC game goes 3-0, you'd think like
damn, they didn't materialize this potential, et cetera, et cetera, but losers keep losing
and at least that gives us some consistency in the Counter-Strike space.
No matter how badly you want to see these legends win, you want to see simple electronic
Karrigan and all phase ride that high. It's just not the reality that they're living in right now and
Well, obviously they still want it or else they wouldn't be here and on the other side of things
We got a voca that's just looking to get into Europe and try to actually make some waves as the team obviously coached
by the big dog in Sempest
Canadian legend and
Well is the team that's kind of floats around the any space cleaning up at the fragadelphia circuits and whatnot
But now they're looking to do so with an even bigger opportunity. It is just such a shame that obviously we have to
Kind of plague Voka's reputation coming into this game with a stand-in situation
Yeah, no, it's not not the
Not the best reputation over on Voka. That's for sure, but they do have junior and
Junior up until they played here has has kind of been lights out
He's putting up those insane numbers that he has been doing in different years
I think we you know not enough gets talked about with his run on EG black and actually how good they were for a second with the
Walco IGL and
Him offing. I think he was he developed so much after fear. I think he learned a ton
I think he did put himself in a nice spot where and it needs offers that he could be one of them
But the team to kind of make a wave over in Europe, like he hasn't found that roster.
Not sure if it'll be this, if this focus lineup, but definitely this will be another test.
It'll be junior versus simple.
Sign me up, baby.
Sign me up. And let's see what we can make happen.
Obviously we talk about the Grimm replacement for George as well over on NRG, that kind of, you know, the implosion that was for Passion UA,
UA that roster shuffle kind of cost George his spot. That's one of those moments where I think if
you're George you kind of look at it like yeah it's great after all one of the best that America
still has to do it or has doing it. So he finds himself here instead trying to elevate a roster
that can definitely tap into George's wealth experience. Simple taking some shots down
long A has afforded space over to Voka it's a five player strong push over to this A site
and Electronics Beretta's replaced by Aragorn's.
Two sets of pistols within that defense.
Muterus catching Snav is gonna push this to the man advantage of the BC game.
Junior with the headshot from downtown, though, as the CTs continue to peek into this,
they kinda just offered up that killback.
So then they hit the pause button for a second.
They're toying with the idea of going for another duel.
But this is a good old-fashioned gunfight,
and Muterus catches the long-range USP headshot.
Carson has gone unnoticed they know he was here, so they're gonna hunt him down before he reposition or make anything happen
There's no bomb plant here for Volca BC game
For the first round win are on the run to break this losing streak mohan
We don't often talk about losing streaks, but this is a tough one, you know currently down six matches in a row
Silver lining as they won their first map in six weeks, and that is just I just don't think I've ever said that about any team
team, let alone a team that has simple on it.
Yeah, that might be Simple's longest losing streak, maybe
overall, for a guy with a really strong, really long trophy
fighting bar.
Yeah, that's kind of weird to say.
Yeah, the story of career lows here in the 0-2 bracket.
And this could be quite a lot of money made for an MP9
if he can avoid a flash.
Carson's got one.
But they're about to run full swing into this.
Eric Gorn about to have his hands full
when that flash comes out.
If that flash comes out.
No, no.
Goes over instead and by the time it pops
they're already murdered.
juniors just shot George in the back of the head. And simple.
He's got to clean up on Carson.
So that leaves a little to be desired in terms of the exit and it's a quick blood
bath for BC games conversion of the pistol.
Just changed up and thought, oh, it's actually just someone holding on the
corner, but nope.
He was there the whole time just being patient, not peeking too early.
So that worked out really well here for BC game.
And we know that the kind of guy simple is when he's playing against
team he thinks much lower like he really gets extremely aggressive. Yeah historically it was
always Brazilian teams and big just absolutely farmed the hell out of them. Uh when he felt like
they were only was on Navi and just felt like there was there was no reason they should even
come close. We know that's the attitude he's going to bring to that too.
Freezes got bodies coming out from the tunnels guns don't make a difference so far here for
They get mowed down in the v-site
And that'll be junior leftover very swiftly BC game chopped down the rifles here of Oka
This is the bomb carrier at least in junior floating around top mid. We'll see what a scout has to say today
I'm just hoping that for the viewers sake when you guys tune into the a stream and we see the success stories that are going down
You press things can be a little more positive. You know, it's our responsibility to talk you guys through the zero two games today
I just feel more like we've you know, I feel like I'm at a funeral, bro
I know, I know, I know, I know, it just feels like we have to just be such downers if that's not a fun job
I'm a positive guy by default, so it's like this is tough man. Is this one?
I mean, I'm honored to have been a part of Hedrick drop in two-phase
Yes, absolutely. I'm here for the history.
1v2 and you know, officially making it rock bottom, obviously phase not making the major was rock bottom
But this is you know, ego bottom
Yeah
Denoted by a head trick thrown up these times after a one that was you know, that's an all-time. I'm gonna remember that probably forever
So there are upsides
First flash misses Aragorn so he gets vision of them exiting out to that smoke
Tech nine challenge into the double layered long hold
Still more utility to come over top to try to find this space, but the Tec-9s will have a tough go of closing this distance.
Banking on the flashbangs, at least those are finding their marks, but then electronics just freed up to mow you down.
I think there's going to be a lot of pent-up aggression in the likes of both Simple and Electronic.
You just tapped into it, kind of how Simple likes to play versus this lesser opposition with sheer aggression, with no respect.
And if BC game haven't won a match in as long as they have and hadn't won a map in six weeks after you know until yesterday
I do think what Boca might just be the punching bags for a lot of frustration
Yeah, I mean they went 0-3 at the Roman Imperial Cup for the Indians. I'm no shame in that right now Nexus and O.G
I need to know how that's gonna feel and then they come into Bucharest and the teams are harder
They play against the Mongols and MIVR, but now it's time to get revenge for, you know, the O3 losses versus that quality of competition back in the moment period.
That helps.
Oh, they come for it.
The gun gets taken out.
Bullet to the back of the brain.
It's Carson tucked into Xbox.
And juniors found a pick off as well into the B site. That's that only defender dealt with
That's after they have given up the mid control. They have on the side of the doors
It feels like Volka's gonna take a second look at that now that we've got this open B site
They do have to take a second just go get the bomb, but you know juniors made inroads. They have vision
Don't really see BC game even attempting this they're still over at long
That's quite a big sign for junior
I mean, talking about legends though, I also I just wanted to shout out even though we
didn't get to cast that game J W. Ah, yes, sir, because you know there are players that
have had to drop it down and even, you know, Taz is coaching BC game and and services
over. There's a lot of players and coaches and everything that to go down to get
up and really build themselves up in their new roles and everything like that.
And J.W. has done it longer than most, but he is here for the fight.
Like he really has already impressed us with eyeballers when he played at Blast earlier
this year.
Now, he's coming into PGA, super excited to play a land.
Their team has been putting in tons of wrap.
They have up in the balance, and he's the one old bop, but still justifying his
roles.
And he's shown he was willing to go down a Swedish line-up, play in everything,
the ego away and compete again, you know, three times major winner with a major MVP compete
against everybody in the dear to improve themselves versus that. And they are winning most of
their matches. And even being a team like NRG is very impressive.
I mean, JW was not that far away from getting stickers again in 2026, right? Eyeballers did
not make the mid. I mean, the cutoff was right there. There's a reason to believe
in that again. I think one of the coolest things about him as well is like during
some of the lower parts when he wasn't in the server, he wasn't finding his impact.
I remember watching vlogs for eyeballers where J.W. is literally just packaging merch on the
off time.
You know, like so willing to do whatever it is for the organization, writing his reputation,
you still see photos of like young Swedish children, literally children taking pictures
with him.
He's a legend in his own right.
Now there's few people who have like hard fought their way back in and I think everybody's
cheering for them at this event to kind of continue forward because we know that
just takes one deep run to secure a bunch of more invites in the future and try to benefit from that.
Look at ParaVision after Budapest. I've made the absolute most of 2026. Stage three invite at the
next major, by the way. Okay. Well, they're fainting in B-split and they're going to pull the
rotation from Muteris down into mid B, but there's still the op here from Simple and Muteris
This isn't totally falling for this.
They're keeping visioning in the door
to make sure there's no split coming in.
Other set of smokes come out at 40 seconds.
They're still moving in an appropriate tempo,
but they're not exactly getting mutters to full commit out.
Now it's gotta be flashes on simple.
That's the most important part.
Simple misses.
Gives a bit of space over to Voka,
but the recovery's good from simple on the second shot.
I'll find three players still just here
the brink of the bomb plant nobody else challenges BC game know that this 5v3 with the utility to
soften up the planter is going to put them in a prime position to still just come through with
a smooth retake. The protocols in place for BC game should be too much for Voka to handle.
We'll see if we get an x-factor moment out of the half health junior op or george down on 60.
CT starts to make this activation. Through their nades earlier found some damage for it.
Now it's just going to be dry jewels. Carson's dead. Junior's the one to collect in the
middle of this 3D fighting. He's going to have to do it all. There's his third. Fourth for
Junior. Pistols out. Time is on his side and in this post plant, Junior has done everything
to win this round alone.
Insane round out of Junior. That is quite a highlight. Four frags, post plant secured.
I wish he just pulled up the op and nailed that fifth one. But still, the pavement's
made around this one.
And that is the number one objective here.
Excellently done.
I mean, obviously, this is because you
came into this three-time.
They've come all the way to Florida already.
They don't have a single flash, but I
just want to actually elicit the peak.
And you can really rely on Junior
to put a highlight like that together.
That's excellent for VOCA.
I think that's why some people
may have thought you were kind of tongue-in-cheek
when you said, like, Junior versus Simple today.
But I do think that is one of the most exciting.
If we can break down and find one exciting angle for this head to head.
It's actually in that department.
And I'm glad Junior six rounds into this game gives us a highlight to like prove the hype.
Some people still disrespect Junior Mohan.
We got to let him know.
Yeah.
I mean, they must not be watching because it's just that, you know,
if you just watch him come over to Europe so far, it's actually,
it's not been great.
So that that's fair enough.
But he's got that pizzazz, you know, see?
That's Pizzazz.
Oh my goodness.
Hit him with the Pizzazz.
Right off the full buy.
Hit shot on the cross.
There's the bull gone.
That's fun.
That's awesome.
Fun for Foka.
5v4 advantage off of Junior's shenanigans.
Swing into the CTs that were flashed.
Oh, there we go. George with a double kill.
Electronic's going to end his attempts to take over Catwalk single-handedly,
but this is an Electronic still operating on his own versus what's about to be four players
pushing up long with utility on the cross.
So a dire place for Electronic to be from here on out.
Crazy wants to... Ooh, Electronic just abandoning this ship entirely.
doesn't think that they can hold and I think wisely is thinking about the money
first so he'll get out of here and off the back of that junior pickoff that was
just perfect because first of all it's a clutch into a full buy immediately from
BC game like that's not worried about that clutch and he instantly kills
simple cross.
Vokar raising hell a little bit now.
You get three rounds, Snaven Wretchy, you have yet to get a kill.
Yeah, I think it just highlights the exciting elements of this team for me and the two exciting things about Vokar are Junior and George.
Yeah.
If you're
And any org those are two names that you know you're tapping into just more European experience than elsewhere
Juniors had quite a career playing for here. We go once upon a time
That's something that some forget but
Quick wall bank to the doors here on simple
Junior he brings to the table with his off. It's gonna be George to try to do with the rifle and we see it here
George. He's got recovery in his most and in that case we see it. It's not the most kills
at the moment from George, but two critical ones that keep this win streak rolling forward
for Volko. We'll see if Junior can do damage on the doors yet again. Simple in with an
AWP. Are we going to get the simple Junior head to head we hope for?
I've done well to have this much money to get the AWP in play and to give it
another shot, but I don't know mentally they'll be able to afford another kill on
this door cross from junior. I'm kind of spawned as he's working with right now.
Yeah he's probably going to go for it.
Oh.
He's not gonna attempt this.
Save that one for later.
Simply going to open it up.
Sees a lot on the other side.
Takes half his health down through the shots through on Volka.
And that's going to just get Volka moving.
You see that off inside of middle? They know it's not on the CT cross.
So they think they can just gun down this A site with speed.
And Wretches on the scoreboard with his first.
George right behind him to try to trade out.
But this is nice by Volka.
Realizing and opening and seizing the opportunity to take it.
to take it. It's just a matter of hanging on to it from here on out.
Urius, grain underneath that ledge, doesn't actually stop the bomb plant. His teammates
now coming out through that CT smoke alongside him, wild spray towards the barrel's top of ramp.
Snav comes through with the triple kill, so now his first, second, and third all within the same
ramp. He'll find a quad kill close to put Volka one step closer to taking control of this game.
man as soon as simple blew that smoke open and took the fight through the doors
that was the moment where they just jumped on cab they said as soon as he
reveals himself I mean we don't need that we know we're not gonna have much
friction and snap put together the highlight that's yeah that's job well
done contrast to each he terraces straight-out snath very snappy with
it had the advantage of the barrel player next to him could cover there
at the top of ramp. We go guns once more for BC game, tied game at 4 rounds apiece.
And no challenger stepping forward, simple from the mid-duals to now on to back cross.
Could have played a key part in cutting down bodies in the last round, but wasn't home for
the challenge.
BC game will decide to forego any kind of a mid-challenge through the doorways.
That's freed up Boca to take over Catwalk.
It's freed up George to do his own thing over towards the tunnels and just keep this majority of BC game allocated to what looks to be the wrong bomb site.
So pressure back on simple soon enough it seems.
They drop down into the spawn in towards the B split off of this one.
Quick transition out of Volka. Now that they got Karson committed into the CT spawn, but this triple stack has been here since the get-go.
25 seconds. There's hesitation now. Bomb starts to double back. Junior kills player off of B.
They've lost their long control. There's a bit of uncertainty here for Voka, but lacking for them.
Banking on individual plays in a AK headshot from Carson onto Simple.
That should open up the site. That's going to guarantee their bomb plant.
You get Aragorn tagged down to 30 health. Junior's got the advantage at this range.
Gotta land the headshot though.
And so getting whittled down ever so slightly by this long range, M4 Junior's going to collect the head.
And that'll be BC game for going this fifth one.
There was a bit of uncertainty there for Voco,
but at least they had so many different positions
that they're able to transition back and forth, back and forth
until they find that committed opening.
There's not a lot of stuff to say here about BC game.
Like, they kind of picked their spots, right,
when this round kicked off, went for the 3B lane.
They saw the exec coming in.
We're pretty excited about it.
And then Junior got his pick off in the window.
And maybe that was the clue to the setup,
because they ended up going towards the three players
remaining
But it kind of felt like at that point they could have won on either side with a split and
Yeah, I mean simple he's kind of getting pieced up right now
He gets a pull up between the ice from Carson and CT spawn just rifling
I don't know if I'm ready to cast another career low Connor
I don't know if I can't play Shantaz because we have one guy in the library and I can't play Ivy.
Exactly, look at this.
Yeah, Symbol just doesn't even get a shot off, and he's in a spot where it's probably pretty incredible that he doesn't have to retake with the Octi.
The exact is coming in his direction. They have long support, so you can get the kill on long.
Simple back into an action no a longer passive on the cross instead goes one deeper and I think with how much vocal have been getting away with the cat control it's a very
He's in a very, very tangible weak position.
Miss second shot though.
Carson swings wide through, simple.
And that is going to be pressure on the B site
instantly within Tunnel's lockout.
Kumi afforded electronics going to mow down to.
There's the individual hero we're looking for.
Junior kills him, and Carson
still able to catch one with the flames
that spread from beyond the grave.
Carson gets that kill.
Still two players walking out mid because
they did stop the ball.
them down. Oh, wow. Oh, that's his second and third kill on that two man spray down from
Red key and Volka steal another.
Yes, he scoops up.
Oh, my goodness.
That's a great question.
Richie's last appearance on HLTV ahead of this event was in 2021.
He was signed on in the words of Semfus for this event as a
Vibes slash manager guy.
And now he's posted one to two clutches,
his PC game get mowed down,
he's got an entry up his ramp as well,
and a headshot.
Reggie is taking over in these last couple of rounds,
finding momentum here for Volca,
and they are not stopping.
This is gonna be a seven round streak
out of Volca's T side.
Well then.
So they got a height about that.
I mean the junior 4K with a snap 4K,
You got that highlight.
I mean, it's all the ingredients.
And like simple, like simple, he doesn't,
he's not hitting two shots in a row.
I'm sorry.
Nope.
He just doesn't.
He's just not hitting two shots in a row.
And if they want to win, simple has to hit two shots in a row.
And that's not a, that's not a lot to ask for someone like him.
He's held long a few times.
He went into that to hold against that mid.
He can put himself in a confined spot,
but with the way that he plays,
he doesn't tuck into perfect cover and then go for a shot.
He holds like hard angles, hit there early,
and then he hits a hard shot.
That's how simple to play this whole career.
He can't be missing two shots in a row versus VOCA.
That's just not acceptable, period.
Yeah, it's going to hold them on each other.
Press that question every minute.
Thank you.
I want to go along.
Thanks a big amount.
Thanks a big amount.
When BC Game invested in the SAWCORE,
they bought a core that was ranked 22nd in the world
for VRS rankings.
That would have put them quite sawgly
within the Cologne Major run.
It's kind of one of the biggest arguments
for how to be purchased this team.
With an addition to the salaries that you probably
have electronic and simple on.
I mean, just to put it bluntly,
this could be one of the most expensive failed projects
in counter strike history.
mm-hmm
Just
Yeah, I don't know how much vocal cost, but it's probably not as much
But they've got a price I know that
Climb up Xbox into the cap play grouping up for
said Nierry behind them. They're gonna charge this down, man. They're feeling these rounds. They gotta
hit the end and deny that. The momentum rolling forward for Vokas. They try to just find these
rules. You can just feel a busy game trying to kind of shell up the mid-site. Find that perfect
moment to pop up. Simple amount of good chance to shine. That's better. There we go. Into the
M4 to hell with the AWP. 30 bullets better. Single HP on Junior. Wretchi with the full
Bar walking up long bomb possession, hopefully open a catwalk, Reci makes contact versus Simple,
he's going to go running into Electronic and this is the duo that BC game are banking on,
to deliver you round wins. This time it does come together, Simple has enough distraction,
surrounding him inside of that A site for him to have found his impact, but can Junior really
do this with one HP? This would be his greatest feat so far. Not too much. That won't happen.
3k for simple and that's a whole lot better. Unfortunately. It's not with the op but it does make you wonder should he just should he just rifle
Yeah, right. Sure. I mean that was
At least you have more chances. He can abuse his positioning better
He can he doesn't have to hit his first bullet if the ops not on point right now. I mean
I'm not gonna lie like oh
Ash just made a video on zaiwu and how he's gotten so much better and even better in this year and everything
But in the matches we've seen, even Zaibu, there'll be a mapper to randomly where his
off is just not hitting everything.
Like he's not super comfortable with it, but then he just can rifle and make up for everything.
It's just more punishing.
If you are going to have an off day, if you're coming into some of the spots as simple
losses off, or took a shot at missed, he instantly died.
He wouldn't have with his M4.
He'd have a much better chance.
I mean, it's kind of a weird ask, I guess, where who's going to be your secondary in
this game? Or, you know, who are you going to switch that over to? But I genuinely feel
like you'd have just more impact based on what we've seen so far.
Also, not the first, you know, great CS go-offer to potentially find discomfort with the CS
2-off. It is a different beast. It's taken many operas that stayed constant in their
competition, time to kind of find their groove with it. And some have never really
even reach back to their previous peaks. So, I'm there with you. There's an argument
for it, whether it's, you know, day to day, round to round, but we see him switch over
to the M4 in that last one and post a fifth for BC Games CT side. This is gonna be BC
Game running back the same pistol. Volka did five players strong out long. Smoke cross
already. And George, unable to scam anybody away. It's kinda got BC Game distracted
with this smoke halfway towards elbow. They're worried that somebody's inside of
It's not the case. It's man advantage for the retake Voka.
This is Voka working with no kit, so they'll go for the boost while they remain smoked off,
and Junior finding that one puts the odds ever closer into Voka's favor.
That leaves a little to be desired from Eregorn.
Here's the electronics chance to catch him in the open.
His glock gets away from this.
Oh!
Snav is clinical.
Another 4k to Snav.
Okay, that's...
He's got one other kill this game.
the two high impact rounds that he's had been forked out and this one's even more than the last
you could argue that in that last 4k his team maybe could have still cleaned it up if he only
got three of them in time uh this one is uh it's just your impact
just pull the pen to the tree to get that right from jr up to the high
right
ends it
okra really making this real now
that's a lot of work.
Instant force buy for BC game features two Galils this round on crazy and electronic.
Electronics try way higher ranked in BC game.
Yeah.
Ain't that some shit.
Ain't that some crazy.
I mean, Boca clean up when it comes to like the local circuit, right?
We know the value now.
It's an NA win as well, help me.
Oh yeah, 100%.
Ooh, Gretchen's going to get slammed by that galil, but it's all good.
He's got teammates to pick up all the pieces.
George activates off of the car with a double kill.
It's a pistol out for George and a tech nine here for simple.
Come on, simple.
Run it back.
Yeah, bombs.
It's by that tunnel's entrance, so let's go run and scoop that.
But if this bomb even gets tapped and they push two choke points
at the same time, they're going to come in early.
That might be the best move overall.
Switching back into the off.
Yeah, Jay's going to hit it too.
Just swings out wide and drops simple before he
can get anything else in that clutch attempt going.
Ninth round for Voka secured, staving off the four-spy.
That's going to be pistols back for BC game,
as Voka can now start to see the finish line here on Dust2.
They won all the right rounds.
There was a moment where it was Snaven and Retchi were 0
and they had still won three rounds. And then Snaps has got two 4ks which were two rounds entirely.
Wretchy had that 1v2. That's a round for himself as well. That really explains the lead.
This one looks like it's going to be in five in a couple of seconds.
That's wild that for the pieces on Boca that don't have a lot of kills, it's not about the
quantity but just the timing of those. Like extra tip of the hat to Snaps, it's a 4k in the
pistol secures you this advantage in the last round secures you this round here
now that they're able to convert that so we're still feeling the implications of
snabs second pop-off moment and Voka just putting in the work it's really been
junior to kind of have that X factor will it be enough to push this over the
line easily well you'll find damage on simple that Deagle now working 20 HP
still takes the challenge into the offer hits him twice junior wounded
Carson's there to clean up, but in that move from the CTs is when BCGames think they can flex their advantage up to Catwalk.
They mistime it, not in fast enough, and very swiftly back into covering that cat push was Voka.
So one step ahead with a huge gun advantage, five rounds, Voka lead.
We didn't see anything on the BCGames CT side. That was like incredibly innovative.
They didn't really pull out anything that was special.
They just tried to lean towards B or lean towards A or try to get the funnel into the AWP.
but the op failed a lot, and that's why Voka, you know,
were able to pick up so many rounds in that first map.
Voka are even the tiniest base dynamic here on CT side,
and they come up with some new stuff.
They're just bumping the stage, I just see right now.
BC game with the players they've got.
I think there'd be a little bit more ingenuity.
that's quite a call out
have these nades are optional
what was that?
Bades all fugazi
where is that supposed to go?
it didn't hit the uh...
the pane
the window pane went above it
weird because it was pane
it was pane
it was a bit like a
a v-sign
it was a bit like a v-sign
Oh weird because it was painful to watch
Preplant pre-written one okay three three P set up for the CT's George is low said go get some info
And he will
And then they he sees everybody in puddles yep
No, they're tripping out. What do they want to do?
They keep too hard committed inside of B. They throw George down towards middle as a
precaution, but reality is this is going to be a tough round for Carson. Him versus four
players of BC Gluck game all climbing up to the catwalk challenge.
Boca really did not bite down on the block.
He's a Molly.
Yeah.
to the ocean. Doesn't bring
anybody down with him. So just
outmaneuvered here, Arvoka, a
little too hesitant inside of
the B site. Mind you, they
should have covered up the
rotation. I don't know the
utility though, but they needed
at least you know, flash made
Molly, whatever the door,
uh, smoked. I mean, uh, made
flash smoke the door or something
to just make it seem like they
could be going to see T right
after that vision was spotted
to realize like there's that minimum to be maybe a situation where they've they've got two waiting
and one guy looking for information so nice call to avoid that danger five up on this round
minimal friction
Silver lining is the comfortable safe for junior and for retchie so it'll move something forward into the next
and hindsight I almost wonder I feel like if George does get killed instead of falling back through tunnels there's a world where maybe BC game get overconfident and run into the other two but
That would have also been a bit wild for them to commit to.
It just felt like they were in control, they didn't panic, they didn't rush in any way.
They put the slow squeeze on Voko in that last round, cut the lead down to four,
but we do still have Voko with tools for the job.
Double MP7, plenty of utility here for this one as well.
Let's see if they get a little more fluid on the defense.
Eragon goes for the corner spam, no damage off of that one.
And so back to middle, we'll go for BC game.
and
The map control that comes with it and the long smoke soon to fade
And he's hard committed position. Okay snap. Yeah, that's a rare spot getting used. I love that things. They're just so far removed
Double block spotted. There we go. George sees bodies bottom middle
It's just so much distance between focus pieces very comparable to the last round
The match of Bar-Lichon taking the duel through the doorway, catches Rechi down to 14-1,
but Junior's got the cover.
Simple turns around to deal with Nim.
Second CT push in three is going to go unnoticed.
Slipping under Simple's scope, the MP7 of George is enough inside of the B-play,
and Volka, clean house with majority alive on this one as well.
I thought they missed position, thought they'd be too far away to help out on mid,
but they still make it in time.
Yeah, they did that because they actually got that kill,
and they were pretty far away from Longhouse, but they pushed it right away.
So they made good progress.
They made up for the fact that they were super far away from rotating back around through CT.
Junior got into a spot to get a nop shot in.
It looks like they used the wrong mid-v smoke.
And didn't cover that.
And then, yeah, that's where the smokes actually matter.
So two players in the site, rotations are there.
They get the kill on Long.
It's kind of what you need to do, man.
It's not like they're...
If you get a kill, you buy yourself a few extra seconds to make that rotate over.
If they lost that duel versus long, then it gets really ugly.
Maybe they get the trade back, but now they just don't have the players to come over.
But this time around, they did.
And even pushing out of that mid-beast smoke very wisely around the left side
to stay out of the simple scope.
And now Volka are just firmly in the lead, just firmly ready to close this game.
I'm gonna sit by here.
I'm gonna sit by here.
10 versus junior.
Ooh, air lay.
I'm gonna take over a bit of cap positioning here with terrorist pushing forward but
And by more utility here from Voka who refused to let this go for free
Carson kind of posturing for the duel, but he wants more utility
And I could burn off critical time as it is going to be again BC games sinking themselves into the mid-play
Threatening the mid to be once more with this smoke
Here's where he might smoke it, but if he's gonna be even more careful with it
Molly first
It's going to all be about his timings right now.
Snav is joining him on the ramp.
They can kind of sense that BC game one cat.
Smoke now at 40 seconds would be key, but we'll see if he's respected because the execute's
in already.
Yeah.
Karsten.
Awkward duality gets back into the cover, keeps his head tucked down just to stay
alive.
Pop flash here for Snav.
That's going to pass the blind, and Junior makes the most of it, goes back to long
control holds off Aragorn, but won't see that player cross into the side.
Electronic has done a good job of keeping his head tucked down, catching the
AWPer with that aggression. It's still a 2v2 for Volka, a doable situation in this
post-plant, but who is up for BC game? It's simple and electronic. They're a
little crowded up on the site. They wish they could go and get long
control, but right now there's a chance for Retri to get a free frag if
they're not walking up. It is. Sideline's electronic with the instant
Headshot simple back on the off finds Reggie first up close and personal here from George fire just beyond simple
He's looking for the contact and instinct with the headshot is George 12th around secured by Voka
That's a labor hold inside of the a-bomb site
It's the snap pop flash that really gets something out of Carson who is kind of caught awkwardly with the execute timing
They get a little bit of impact and then big moment from junior catching the guy on site
But also turning around to deal with Aragorn and he's just been he's been the better offer today
he's been so solid across his impact and
That you know love that little flash play
I mean they Carson kind of treated himself like the free man because they were gonna throw a lot of nades at him if he
Goes out and dies and gets a kill on the ramp
At least he might have regard down and then staff to get more out of it
But when he pulls back, I think coming for the three-poop flashback, it looks great
trade on long, but will they forget about Carson? Yes they will. He's going to extract
the lawn out of it. Double kill's good. Two more for the trade. And back to the 2v2. Another
2v2 is CT's already inside of this A site. Junior's on the hunt. Yeah, he lands it.
He tear us out into the yoking. Miss shots here for Junior. Wants to try to end it
now, but Russia little awkward every spot missing. Now forced to reload. He knows that this was
a with opportunity and he's going to go live with a headshot. Let's all forget about that
one, shall we?
If you're just tuning in to see that PC game could lose, don't let it be on this round.
That was not a good example of how much junior has been doing this map so far, but
I think you just look more shocked in that sequence than you have in the early all-game.
After this first one's clean.
This event reminds me of like 2013, there's like a dream set from Dust2, where you get the op in the B site.
I think it's a French caster, so I'm losing it's mind.
Oh, don't win on pistols.
P250 crushed into the tunnels, Carson's collected a second. There's three now off of the P250s.
They're not gonna lose on pistols.
They saved.
They have no armor.
No armor. No
They saved
Voka
They had p250s and a 5-7
Meters is gonna have to come back in with another one wrench
He's gonna fast rush this and now this uterus playing into perfection knowing that he was gonna try to flank fast
So another clutch coming through critically to keep BC game in this that is two rounds of the six they need for over time
Both thanks to their in-game leader. You have both. Yeah, but thanks to
We didn't give him enough credit for being Neo in that situation, weaving through all those
junior offshoots that normally are unavoidable.
So massive respect for that.
They all lost.
To P250s.
They did it, okay.
North American unarmored P250s.
It's down here from Carson, but Snap is there to play off it.
Crazy thinking that you maybe get a jump.
That's half of damage onto Mutaris done as well.
Now you got to do stakeout Mutaris and you can close this game.
He has been the only player to post clutches for BC game, and it is back to back in the last two rounds.
The deep CT smoke is going to have Junior forced to reposition.
You got to go for it.
You saw so many guys up on the site and you have long, but oh wait a second, that's all
changed.
That is all changed.
That was a little bit quick from Snap.
I think maybe he didn't realize that they were very scared about how little space they
had and they were going to have to peek something.
But if he stayed alive a little longer, that comes a pat on me and look at these
teams.
They are so low.
damage to be done by jr. He'll snip one off and dip himself to keep majority alive for voka.
All's good for bc game as they string three rounds together here facing a loss on dust 2.
Halfway there mohan. 50% of the way it's overtime.
I think it's possible but I mean I honestly feel even less likely than watching face because you
because, you know, FaZe all of a sudden could become really good.
I'm not really sure, you know, how good BC game are entirely.
They, Volka, have had enough good rounds on this map to show us,
like they can play Dust2.
They're hitting Junior's office,
apart from that one round, really, really good.
Scary to think, though, that those four missed off shots
in a one versus one could damn well have been the difference
between a win and overtime.
Now that BC game have found this groove three rounds in a row,
of the money's under pressure here for VOCA, although we saw what they can do in the 50s.
Yeah, I'm just thinking, you know, again, Mutera saves them twice in a row, and, uh,
possibly get nervous. I think that's kind of what PCGamer relying on at this point.
They really want more control, man. They think they can know that.
Change up in the plan, USP for contact. Carson gonna really be able to offer it here,
not much good flash at least that stuns them a lot of bodies here here though
George has to deal with the Molly this is interesting they're literally still
here wall-to-wall ready to swing but is there gonna be a flash oh my god who I
mean this who picks this up I don't know actually because they can push if the
CTs jump right now they're all dead they try to swing in Aragorn's got it
covered simple there with it I said they specify who yeah they were all
like Heather needs it seemed like they forgot like thought there's no chance
yeah they wait a long enough like surely if there were CTs right there they
would have pushed and luckily two players still for BC game keep their guard up
and they do deny it also off of the flash not everybody's blind so just
enough for BC game good thing they had such strong numbers on long but that
That is now four of the six rounds to overtime and Volka starting to lose chances to close
but at least this round will feature a full buy.
Yeah, they're just kind of missing a flash and I think if, and I kind of jokingly said
you lied, but actually when you said it, which was like a second before that, I was
close.
I'm not sure how that was in a headshot actually.
Wow.
What's up the auto sniper here versus Oka?
Not saving anything for the major.
Because they're not going.
It's the Bucharest major.
No, that was last year.
This is their major in many ways, PC game and Voka.
Yeah.
Pull out all the stops.
So Goose getting played I think for the first time.
Here from Voka, I mean they were right in terms of getting set up more with a lean
towards it.
It's what PC game have wanted to try to take.
been so focused on Kat. And Eric Gorn.
I've got out.
Bounced off. Now Jesus being held. One shot from junior.
Whose player activates? Carson's got his one.
Snav recovers from the flashbang.
And Nuderus again a part of what's going to be a much needed clutch,
but denied by Carson this time. Triple kill for Carson makes a world of difference.
And that Molotov that banks into the bomb site would have been much better placed on Goose could have denied that multi-frag moment a 1v4
Demanded of Aragorn
Bomb to be scooped up and he has 15 seconds to piece this one together that looming threat of a cap flank is real
But it's not in position. He's worried about it, but they're not there
They're gonna come at him from all directions close this one out Voka using one of their six rounds to close out in regulation
And that is another dust 2 victory for Voka versus a European team
We saw the same sort of an opening versus 3D Max yesterday
We know that series still slipped through their fingers by the time they got to overtime map 3
But it bodes well for Voka's hopes to try to deny BC game and send another team out in an embarrassing
O3 fashion
Not gonna lie man
We watched like inner circle play and they while they made some mistakes and like fundamentally speaking aren't a sound
They at least had some interesting things going for them.
PC game didn't really do anything interesting in this match.
And mechanically, they didn't just dominate like they could have with the clean simple electronic.
There just wasn't any of that. In fact, all the big clutch highlights and regular 4K highlights were all VOCA.
That was SNAPs, 4Ks, that was Juniors 4K, that was 1v2 from Reshy.
I was like, and then they even had chances to make that comeback happen and still couldn't close out.
So, Boko were just a better team, they had better individual plays, none of the things
that you would maybe anticipate being able to say in this match versus PC game, but I'm
watching this comeback unfold, but I'm not seeing incredibly impressed stuff.
We're seeing uterus pick up two flushes, then nearly lose to P250s, firmly playing from
behind each and every step of the way.
Yep, and each and every step of the way today, and in a lot of matches it may play
just eight or eight times, right?
I don't know how much we want to sugarcoat it, but it kind of feels brutal to say it at the same time.
Maybe BC game just sort of feel like another dead roster walking.
It just doesn't feel like things quite gel.
I don't know what it is. We're not inside of the server with them, but the sad reality is this is a team that just cannot find victory.
Whether that's often in maps, let alone matches.
So this is going to be another one where they're going to have to come back into the series.
They've got their overpass pick up next at least for BC game. That's the silver lining.
And if there's any value in knowing that Volca have also opened series with Dust 2 victories still to just lose those best of threes
But 3d max a team that still has more than BC game to be proud of in their game yesterday
So we'll see if Volca can actually end it this time around
But respect considering again just how lopsided this start was right?
This was a good start game out of the gate. It took what was originally juniors impact to kind of get that ball rolling for the
Volca side
George offers some as well and then we talked about those sprinkled in but still very impressive moments out of like the likes of
Snap his second pistol round with the 4k set them up to really start snowballing that game gave them earn them so many more chances to
Close in a world where maybe those muterus clutches could have just pushed overtime
Instead because of snabs second pistol and the three zero start there. It's a victory on the side of voca
At least for the first map
We'll be heading into overpass up next to see if voca can actually get a series victory
one of these teams goes home 0-3 from Bucharest and you'd hope it's not the
legendary simple electronic duo but their life now firmly on the line.
What
What is going on everybody, it's time to speak to some of our players and ask them about
the recent changes to ammo and magazines.
With Mazzinio of the Mongols, Fozy of Australis, Insani of MIBR, with Dewi of Inesilver, Damal
of Legacy, has the new magazine change ever messed you up?
really to be honest I mean you think about it a little bit more like in the
back of your head but I don't think it really has an impact yes I'm still
figuring it out and from now on I hope it never happens again but yeah sometimes
it passes me up not really yeah doing good and thinking it's more realistic
but still sucks it was the first day when I was playing after this update it
It was the first round, I was playing in the city side and I was playing with one team in the U.S.P.
And I was a little bit surprised when I saw that it was only one round.
No, no.
So you really have adjusted very well.
Yes, I think only the Spacerons is playing and things like that.
When I saw the ammo change, I put a picture thousand and then it starts because there are two magazines.
So you're playing PT-1000 now?
Yeah.
So that's a change?
Yeah, that's a change.
Before you were playing with USD?
Yeah, that's a change.
That's a change.
That's a change.
because we were playing on I think it was a lot of them and on official match we
were playing with like good bullets, no magazines and at that time we were playing
crazy like we were having just magazines and they were different so not that
easy to like adapt. It doesn't really matter that much but I'm all for it
like adding like another layer kind of on top of everything else and I mean I
still think people spam smokes like kind of like people used to do before but it
I think you know you got to think about it a little bit more now and maybe it
removes a little bit of randomness to the rounds like especially on maps like
like nuke who are on outside
Welcome back folks to the Battle for the Bottom of the Barrel here on the B-Stream, the BC
game versus Volca map 2 queued up and well Moe we can say it as it is it's a
struggle of a start for both these rosters of Bucharest but somebody's
gonna win today and that's why they're still fighting hard for their hopes of
continuing on in these tournaments. Ultimately much more positive things to
say about Volca after their map 1 win we saw the X factor come through from
them we saw some good adjustments we saw them identify the BC game threats
and I think deal with that and so props to them for a victory on Dust 2.
I just hope for Voka's sake that unlike yesterday, a Dust 2 victory doesn't lead them to another
nail-biter loss on a decider map. They've got a chance to actually close out versus BC Game to send
this core into a spiral alongside face. Will the other underdog win this series with a stand-in
on top of it? Voka's day has not been made easy, and yet they fight on.
I mean, they, uh, and they even the comms during that last match. What the hell is going on is what they said after retchie got that 1v2. And I mean, they play this map. They play it. They win it. Um, they won their games recently. They haven't played against, uh, they haven't won any versus any Europe. I'm going to see.
I'm going to go back to the
last couple of days.
Plus three.
Uh, the cough button at home.
I they are they are going to be
able to be confident on this
map and. For what it's worth.
One impressive set always look
for an overpasses houses are
T side and they have an above
50% win rate on their T side,
which means they're going to
have strategies. Hopefully
they can implement with
everybody here and. Make this
one competitive and give BC
more from they they struggle heavily actually on t-sides on on overpass and I just feel like that
it can be as good as you want on ct side but even winning three rounds can be too difficult
sometimes that's what might be our future play. Prentice gets shredded by Aragorn fasted to the
entry it's going to be a simple pistol round here from bc game all in b rush supported with
with those flashbangs.
Met by a Molotov on a rival is George.
We've got this late play out of simple,
still kind of keeping an eye towards T spawn just in case.
They're adding layers to it as well
with the head and boost up.
And George finally given a chance
to take a look towards site,
but boosts go both directions.
Wretchie wants up.
No threat to pull on, crazy.
Yeah.
Boost is worth it just to punish
the immediate attempt at the retake.
It's a bit of a dire one here as Junior finds himself 1v5 for BC game tiptoe into him.
So you gotta get that individual form flowing.
He was pretty rock solid back on Dust2 and he was making something of this as well.
If only he had a kit to truly threaten the Dthues, but that's not a part of the equation.
So he's gonna have to forego this round.
BC game will start their usually tough T side with a pistol round win.
I wonder if the buy is gonna come back in, obviously.
going to be tempting for Voka and they know that BC game a little bit weaker on T side.
Now Junior's got a couple of kills so I just be thinking about a strong third round.
BC game preemptively going to go right for those AKs and Galils just ensure they can get
because the early part of this first half is where they can just guarantee some T rounds
and take the edge off when they move over because again that's just going to be that's
going to be the difference if there is going to be an upset today. This first half.
Nothing to hold it back we saw P250s in a 5-7 threatened to us to USP's I don't
think so simple meant to be the victim of that but he'll survive a couple of
dinks that hit him electronic gonna mow down the short tube push and BC game to
the 2-0 start and the MIBR when they played against BC game did have some
uh, formidable rounds, but they also lost to like pistols and things like that.
So they both exposed weaknesses, but showed weaknesses of the round.
There's no overpass superstars in the server right now.
I'll go a little bit with the wind here.
I really didn't expect that.
If you just think about BC game, the guy who signed off on this transfer, you bought a
core that was ranked 22nd in the world at the time, and here we are, April 6th, we're
going to get VRS points off Voka.
I think it's safe to say that's not guaranteed.
That's fair.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think it's safe to say the plan has not gone the way they expected.
No.
And you know what like athlete I really I respect I mean, you know
It's simple thinking any point is very clean with a Portuguese or like obviously not and this team is like
It's brought together as a Frankenstein lineup because of the RS. It's there's no other reason
This would never have happened otherwise
So I respect trying to make something work from that perspective like bringing players together would never play together
but
Brett, she's going to get killed by this short push from Aragorn that max end very
valuable and just charging down the B defense gets beyond their angles.
George will be on the rise and Aragorn good on just keeping his head sucked.
Fortunately, George would have loved to have just left but he's locked into it and that
fragger hand is going to find a utility here.
Big triple kill moment for Aragorn and that is going to win a third consecutive
BC game round.
I like that they were just ready to strike.
It was just no frills on that whatsoever.
They got short control and instantly turned key solution
into a B attack.
Nothing required except for that little bit of map control
that's so easy to find on T side.
But yeah, it's such an unlikely team.
And in theory, if everybody's on forest,
we have a very strong lineup.
But, uh, simple just to have the quote about chemistry and he just said like, well, he said quote, I mean, it's always the case when you have a new team, we feel like you go through a lot of stuff for better synergy and chemistry.
I think it's a problem with every team in the beginning, especially when a core comes to us and not us coming to the core. Everything is new.
It was much easier for me when I played with phase for phases to stand in when you do go to team with four players in the system.
Everyone knows what to do. You fill in and play much easier.
Just referencing that it's, you know, two-thirds of the team is brand new.
The core is pre-existing, but it's not just, uh, it's not just simple, just, you know,
being like, all right, I'm gonna pull you here, let's integrate you.
You really do have to become a new team.
Yep.
And then there's cultural differences, chemistry differences.
Language barriers.
Yeah.
And overall form, I mean, like, people do, but he's not, he's not clearly like
a couple years ago.
I'm gonna push outside of Monster in a second, and Carson gets stuck by Electronic, so unsuccessful
attempt down to B site to push off and get an opening, but over here towards Long, it
will work.
The linear offense, you know you've got a player stuck behind the rock, but he's really
stuck in with who.
George, double five seven, make it another Furechi over towards the B play.
The rest of BC game leave a lot to be desired.
moment where simple finds something to be proud of in a round looks up at the kill feed and realizes oh
i'm alone yeah i think that's very comparable to the the really tough round they lost on ancient
last week when you saw people kind of like in disbelief as to how they lost that to the mongols
i believe it was a 2v5 that went up in like a split second sure and so simple finds himself
again in a common spot but but i do like about you brought up two things that i think kind of
of go together nicely and that's you know this team only exists because of VRS which is a new system
for 2026 and um on top of that we then talk about this thing where a core comes to a team for BC
game that's not like a type of transfer or a formula that you ever really get to see right I'd say
it's like the first time a core joined star players that was purchased for its VRS ranking
and so this this really is like the first of its kind type project BC game and I think that
that they represented problems that we wouldn't know otherwise whether that
would happen. We could maybe expect it to happen, but maybe the, you know, struggle wasn't anticipated to be this bad.
Definitely. And there's a couple ways you can go with it, right? Like you have Messi Oso, who's just, he really understands
VRS to a high level, which is, it's definitely, it's saying a lot because there's not a few, there's not very many people.
I rely on the guys on Twitter, who are so good at breaking it down, because Alish said
it feels like you need a PhD to be able to figure out the math on it.
And 100 beads go the route of not picking up a BRS car, which I just thought was going
to be a huge mistake.
But they went in favor of, I feel like a team that culturally had an identity and then
had a nice mix of old and new and actually did a really good job of climbing sort of
against all odds to win a lot of their matches.
You don't necessarily really need to coordinate the napkin.
You know the core is the right dump car.
Get you in the big napkin.
Gun round here for Voko.
Oh.
Snaps make a lot of noise.
Not?
Yeah, it seems like Simples heard this.
We got that first kill as he crossed over, so I think Snaps just made a hope in a fight with George.
But George dies down.
Connector, Snaps is looking to activate thinking about this push.
this push and he will pull it off just a straight up dual versus simple that he
wins. And so man advantage re secured by Voka junior falling off of the party.
This is going to get BC game thinking about committing into a B site,
but this is a B site held strong on the monster side of things.
I've really tempted if I was snap to just make that full flank happen.
Now that we cross the minute in BC game,
I think just 10 more seconds and then it'll be a guaranteed push for him.
This is not a real chance.
going to be going back towards A at this timing.
And that kills a lot of clock, opens up some options.
Now, slow playing.
It'll be safe, but Retchie's got a great angle here.
We're going almost guys just to the nade.
And bomb has to cross.
Retchie's going to let him, it looks like.
Bomb gets in.
That's money to be made for BC game.
And Teres trying to push forward.
Teres, his teammate's still alive, but not for very long.
So this deep committed position versus four players of Voka all on the retake eventually with the monster control
Person misses the jump and he's down down and
Peter is over to the block is done for junior actually ends up finding that kill from above
So Voka's second round secured on the CT side kicks off with snag. Just doing the drive by fountain peek
Sheer aggression out of the defense to get that first kill and then he wins a straight up 1v1 on simple
who we know for sure expected him, but loses out in the pool.
And you can see he was a little bit farther away from the wall, saw simple hurt.
Oh, nice call.
Got a wall here from Ratchie.
All around overall from Voka.
I don't know, George. I don't know, George said it like that.
That's off.
Heatdown monster, aggressive opening.
Wrenching and set-cropping, but he's bolstered.
And his incendiary absolutely misses,
but he decides to just arc amic and get into that one.
And, uh, well, it's gonna keep the numbers low on this game.
Continuous challenge is through this monster.
Just keep coming.
And electronics gonna feast.
That's a quad kill for electronic folks.
one man army outside of the monster. What carnage for Volca on their terms that could wind up costing them around?
And Junior goes unspotted, but with the amount of action over here, you think he's going to be leaning towards B.
He's going to have to use every, every bit of genius he's got to figure the situation out,
but he's really putting himself in a good spot. I want to just compare this to timing and
they're going to get a better of that. So Junior goes down, that's not picked up,
up a massive round out of
just waiting for them to
That's a little that's m
attempt here from Voka. W
this match. And I mean,
you think, um, you think
one making more mistakes,
too scrappy. I mean, ther
2k that just tips the a
right there. They really
round down because they h
and money was important.
Responsible for their own actions in that one.
It's gonna cost them hard MP7 for Retchie now.
What's Carson's bag gonna look like?
Surely limited, yeah, MP9 employed.
Tons of grenades still.
We'll see if the utility's gonna slow things down.
us back into a more default type of round, but that means I like this. So I was gonna say we'll call it overpass sure. Yeah, I was
like this on overpass though. It's like I barely see it as this event. There's so many good use in the 59. Like in blue, inside
of bathrooms, close wall on monster like it doesn't even if you have one off it really makes up for the lack of
rifle. Don't mess with me, there'll be a free victory here for BC Game.
Ooh, eats the team flash, not ideal.
Yeah, that would have been quite a help, I'm sorry, Ergon didn't get touched by it either.
Alright, SNAP's not gonna get out of there. Tries to escape the top of connector, gets clipped by Simple,
Simple man advantage secured by BC games that don't rush the issue, but now off that kill start to take over connector control
If you know that the connector fallback has just been frag you absolutely take the control of this with it
So makes sense to see Aragorn speed up for a moment, but then he's gonna silently creep back
And some of those right into the comms there
not going to play any games here. They know that B site has been the place to hit. They've
been really strong on these execs overall. George and Carson are going to start to make
their way back into the site. And here it comes.
George catches one with a flash in hand, it's a bit of damage, still no depth for DCM to
have.
The stomach, there's the first two.
George slicing them off the side of the pillar.
The terrorist just giving himself a smoke to pass around and Carson gives up his position
with this MP9 spam.
Starts to move it forward, straight up dies to Krazy, no instant trade out of Wrenchy
either.
He's just going to get onto this corner.
MP7 gets there on Muterus.
He knows he's still stuck, but that third layer in simple activates.
But Junior knows damn well that both players are down beneath him.
The question is how the hell do you get him out of here?
That helps.
Crazy still down beneath, not a USP kill, really.
He's trying to jump down, he's lost track of it, backs her into him,
and a quick little slide from Crazy into the deepest of the corners.
Under Heaven pays off, EC game continue to rack up these terrorist round wins.
My goodness, I think that flash actually worked. If you had cleared that properly, it could have been the 1v2.
But it's the opening kill from Symbol.
And again, you get no peace, no hope, peace 5, and you love going B, why is it so complicated?
Monsters are going to be really strong for you, Voko. We're not...
They were kind of pulling back towards the B in the first place.
So now I'm entirely ready to fight that.
Oh, the talking journey.
Ernest, 1v2.
Backseat gamers.
Yeah.
Is there anything worse?
No.
Well...
Well...
Hehehe.
I
No one's ever been banned for backseat gaming
Break it home
Get this long activation by junior, what are you gonna do with the USP?
Yeah, that works
I like the visualization though, like the three guys swinging on him.
Sure, yeah.
That wood wall, yeah.
Yeah.
No, if they did triple swing, I feel like it's all headshots.
He's gonna catch this all, snab, trying to make it happen, but confident peaks by
BC game, another happy edge.
But they, do they really?
It's still the 2v2. The junior USP that's gone unnoticed
It's gonna be tough to pull this off without a kit, but George's got a... George had a smoke. Simple nails the shots
Junior's gonna inch ever closer, but really nothing for him to do here other than a bit of more damage. EC game
I don't think 2% of the damage at the 6-2
And so secured by a simple who's off to an 8-5 start to the T side and has fueled
Some of these great opening kills. I haven't seen the op miss so far on second map for simple that I think well for their future in this
best of three
I mean that yeah, the CT side it does to that was like a now it's simple it was kind of
It was lacking a lot and it was definitely resulting in rounds and well
T side up on overpass definitely making up for it
So it's a touch of sloppiness again that Boca kind of let BT game back into this
They were about to tie it up kept fighting towards monster in that previous round. It wasn't a lot of CS. It was more just
just trying to get the trades
scrimpeak in and
that you know, you
Don't want to let a lead go or any kind of any kind of T side round go on this map
best case they get four rounds and tie this up and still have a very difficult second half
I mean, it kind of got things in order.
The game here in round nine, Junior waits it out.
New was coming with that flashbang pop, so 5v4 secured at least by Voka.
Like you said, four rounds in a row, best case just to tie.
Activation of BC game in short side, simple looking for his pick.
It's like a great time to boost.
Yeah, he saw that trajectory from the gate.
He knows for sure there's one down here in the pit, so there's a high likelihood
George could overstep this accident.
Oh, it shot my Simba.
There it is, worst whiff.
That's what we're talking about.
Nice place, Nade, that literally bounced off Carson's head.
Where's the frag like a hat?
But man, advance was still taken back this time
off of Wretches' contact.
Simba's still waiting for a second chance
to strike somebody down off B.
Has not come his way, though.
His opportunity really was that shot on George.
They've reached most monster now they have to go through this
Still some utility for BC game
The monster push comes through beautiful
Out of George would have loved to have dropped him sooner if you're simple forced bomb plant now by Aragorn Jr.
He's gonna walk this up USP in hand
Okay gets there. Oh sketchy stuff a little wild that Aragorn gets off the plant
But you never get the chance to regain vision nor shoot back
So, Vocus 3rd secured and it all could have been stopped, had simple killed George.
That would have prevented the critical 2k that kept the defense alive.
It was a crazy spray transfer out of George and a necessary second kill as well.
Yeah, I'm looking at it. I feel like that didn't need to be as flick out of simple, but
maybe he was worried that he was getting cleared at the same time.
Either way, I think it was a good time to assemble the boost and an opportunity for sure.
Behind this op we've got four Galales for BC game.
It's a tough try. At least you get Aragorn into connector control with
confidence off of that, so it's not all in vain.
5v4 would have been a lovely start.
Simple thing to try to go for another boost. Really trying to weaponize this strong start from simple.
We could have a battle of the operas though, if Junior goes any more active.
Simple's getting closer.
And Junior's kind of in a great spot and he's trying to make it seem like they're playing passive on the site
So this could lure them forward. It might be a genius smoke here from Junior
Oh
Here's goes ahead and snap fully blind
Simple's gonna know about him snap wants out falling back in the way
Snag decides to commit into the back
Wait until the smoke fades, jumps out, things get wild, Snav finds his moment.
Goddamn, that was sketchy for a second.
And yet, within the chaos, seems to be that is exactly where Snav thrives.
Another quad kill moment out of Snav when Volka absolutely needed.
Yeah, I don't know if that's... if there's more than three, but all three 4ks that we've seen so far, fully around in his hands.
That is uh, excellent, and it's a fairly tricky for a second inside of the bathroom, because he could have fallen back, then he didn't go as far as he could have gone away with, then he tried to get out again, they let him escape.
The junior goes down after holding a little bit too low, and he also somehow found a way to escape.
But it was his smoke that drew in that hurricane.
and
the
excellent opportunity here, Oka.
And all about just tying this first half.
Signing up for a difficult job on the T side.
But one that we know that domestically they don't necessarily struggle on.
And a BC game that can test and collapse at a moment's notice.
Pistols do get dangerously close to the A site.
So we need to be desired with that second shot.
You're getting gunned down by Glocks.
The Glocks through the bathrooms have found a bomb plant.
They are scrambling to go and grab guns.
Ops been secured by Simple.
X Factor moment here from the superstar.
And Carson's Nade finds its home.
You give that jiggle over to Simple.
He'll find it.
The death, offered over.
Stuck though inside of the bank, flushed back towards
Carson and Simple hits another.
Crazy's got his hands on an AK.
Simples down to 20 health. They pull this off with nothing but glocks
They didn't they'd have one detail. I think no armor on this round. Is that what we just watched that is what we just watched
For better or for worse
Crazy
the
Junior just back running for the hills
Crosshair up, right? Yeah
Things go from bad from bad to worse for Voka has now pressure right back out through the monster electronic
He can feel the moment here, tries to seize it in its entirety and the damage he done is worth it, and as Aragorn finishes that one off.
Still it's a little bit chaotic in the middle of all of this commitment, but looks like the bomb has been able to secure a plant,
and Junior just missed timing on this graffiti crossover for the 12th health that Electronic has left.
Yeah, it would be too hard for him to come and clear this. Electronic can kind of play it however he wants,
but it is the last round of the half, they're gonna go for it.
Gina's going to get blindsided the moment electronic feels like he can peek out.
Yep, there she goes.
Final round of the half is going to be an 8th one secured by BC game.
So a T side that rips through Voka's hopes of a 2-0.
They will still have a T side ahead of themselves,
but that is more than enough offered up by BC game.
And one that's kind of, you know, fueled at times by a simple's op.
Couple of missed shots, sure.
But yeah, I feel like the consistency was definitely better
than what we were getting back on dust, too.
Yeah, especially to win that round where crazy gets the 2k entry.
He doesn't have armor, but he uses that off in spite of the aim punch
and still gets a second kill and there's a couple of moments here of Oka like on that round.
It could have just had guns out and had a better chance of winning.
Obviously a second off shot from Junior would have also probably secured it.
But in the end, it's the Oka trying to fight too hard versus
monster on that one round, that Glock round.
And that kind of kills their chances of coming out ahead
on CT side. Could have been 6-6 or better. But at least we see BC game playing up to the
level of expectation we have for them.
I felt like every time it was a cool thing to kind of post around the pocket bag that
took over map control, it was also, there was this like other side of it where Electronic
just had an explosive moment down towards that B site as well. Think of that quad kill
that Volka kind of overstep. Like the confidence that comes through in that round just doesn't
really pay off, sets BC game up to really thrive, secure this four round streak going
into the CT side, or four round lead rather, not a streak. Volka aren't going to waste
anybody's time, fast in through the top of connector, trying to pressure Simple who
just goes right back into the duel, rather than any damage for a headshot. They are
He's already knocking on the door of the bomb site.
Simple will fade back into the bank,
but Mutur's die is the moment he gets to the site.
Oh, Wretchy.
First fire.
Wretchy nails Simple, and Crazy's got the trade.
At least one back for the Berettas.
There's two sets of Kevlar Berettas in this round.
One of them goes down with zero impact
in electronics hands,
and the second set still stuck here in bank.
Bolstered by Crazy right behind him at least.
Retakes on.
Kit is on Aragorn as well,
so more than just the Berettas to work with,
but Voka with the numbers.
Losing control of the site.
CT's getting closer.
Crazy finds another one.
He's on for the pistol round of ace.
Has now the smoke.
Remember the kit from the get-go too.
But the guns nearly empty.
Has to take his shots with a bit more timidness
and in that moment,
George will thrive.
Voka secure a pistol.
So that's a nice pistol from Voka.
It's not a spot where I think
PC game have to be terrified.
They're gonna be probably a little bit upset
that this isn't going to be as easy
as you'd think it'd be from an 8.5.
They will buy up,
we've got the muterus scout coming into play.
Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
I think that's a good one.
Overly aggressive opening move
from the CT is just a sudden
George walk out into the beast.
I feels like that was very
unannounced.
Yes, seriously, they decided
to go for the scout attack
there, which I really
appreciate, especially if you
get that killed towards me.
There is no questioning it.
It was over towards a you
might take your time and
still.
Assess how bathrooms is there
back that we can't find, but
that kill just wins the round.
These gank and take these into the neck.
Make it a two round game.
Silver lining.
We save.
maybe not so free electronic has to pay the piper it is a it is really important
to get as many kills as possible it's like you're here east side you can just
you can kind of have whatever it doesn't really matter you want to have this
in cindy areas and ops as possible and that's for death so that is a
considerable rebuy here which I don't even think basic game will participate
actually. They're looking to recycle those guns.
Drops are odd significantly of being able to pull off the other eco win.
and here it comes all in here charging down why not meant to be no resistance
Devo's got the one very soon he's given a second chance and he will collect it
oh crazy almost gets the fresh mag in junior says enough's enough the fact
that he recovers because the second kill was just so blind spam right while blind
after line starts finally off rapidly simple's Desert Eagle not quite looking
to pack as much a punch but the damage has been done on George already junior
goes flying back around to graffiti simple's gonna come down clear out water
George is now dead and as junior has gone for the heaven rotate to try to lock
this in simple is gonna threaten the deep use doesn't have a kit to pull
this off. Junior just gives it the jump squad. And now Simple doesn't have the
time to pull it off. So dangerous round here made possible by Crazy. The fact he
recovers from the spam for that third instant headshot is beautiful.
Probably pulled up wrong versus MIBR in that last overpass game and Simple
gets away with one HP and that galile.
So here's where Voka take a breath. I think they probably feel re-invigorated having won that pistol in the second half and
You'll see if they can get a BC games heads
Charge
It's going to cost Carson.
Aragorn with the USP, collecting another one.
And there's Snap, holding off on a fast flying from Crazy,
who doesn't wait at all.
Rush is the fact.
Goes straight through to it.
Peter is fighting a duel to short side.
Snap confirming him.
And that's going to be a utility pressure
to just try to get this bomb down.
Bomb had to be picked back up, but luckily
haven't remained smoke.
Simple Christ, you can test the edge of it.
And that'll be enough to convince him to leave, man.
these doors down on the B site again it's like that at that moment we were
watching in a circle and I'm like that that's the kind of round that you probably
want to call it just you go fast and aggressive and you really lean on your
aim which we know that the avoka have and the hold was looking good because
we're watching it from Aragorn the POV but he was the only one to get two
kills yep no one to get any place yeah they have the flank being held and this
is a tied-up game and this would be impressive for Voka but just so important
for BC game to keep any guns moving forward just make sure the economy is
like enough for when you buy you just never want to have five deaths coming in using your
loss bonus spending every single dollar missing a couple of incendiaries if you keep one or
two guns especially the op and you make sure that everyone can have every little bit and
the kids because that's when that's when it really feels like your CT advantages come
in like there is the map bias that gives you some natural advantages but it really
has a lot to do with the economy.
You know that's not the last time they're going to rush B.
No sir.
Takes confidence to try to charge that down.
Also takes like this bit of an overstep I think through connector.
Yeah, they swing coming through the door kind of offering up with game. I think we'll give him more confidence
It's been active hookup or comforting while they're going through this or like all out a fraction of the B site
Apes together strong
And now back to a bit more of a controlled
Still taking over map control, but Junior is going to pay the price for that wall-back damage nicely lined up from inside site by N'Jerous.
Utility trickles out of BC Games' defense.
It's a low utility situation for BC Games, what's left of this round, but Voka at the minute mark at least have taken over connector.
Sure, it's damage for Junior to have to deal with, but hey, at least it's your offer. We'll see what he can do from the back line in terms of just trying to support,
as Voka will look to sink their teeth into A this time.
It's a moment where Voka if they want to go super quiet fine, but he actually has you say have a huge utility advantage
It's gonna burst now though, it's gonna confirm their inside of the bathroom simple yet an idea
Call muter is over because that ball a
Long duel for crazy picked up as Carson awkwardly just kind of jump it up around
simple of course and
And Volka meet their maker on the approach to that A site. It's one thing to lose your solo long player
It's another for your front runners in bathrooms to get that kind of stuffed
So George and junior off to the save two players held by Volka BC game back to the lead after forfeiting it to this
Volka T side
They didn't really want to make it a full exact, but this would have been actually an excellent round to MP
They had seen that there was literally no utility over on that side of the map and the
only bit of utility was on simple.
He was the only one to hold onto it and use it to get information, call for a rotation
and set himself up for a good off shot.
And now you wonder if simple starts being on this round just in case or how the one will approach it.
A lot of preemptive utility coming out of BC game towards that B site.
Makes sense if they're anticipating another all-in rush.
Short's going to be a point of contention here. Electronic has flashes setting him up.
Junior forced to give up the angle, but as he walks around this,
what a drive, it's a gradient.
There's been this constant looting threat of boosts and wallbang,
so it makes sense that Junior's looking for that instead,
but nice tethering off of the BC game pieces to get that trade.
It's a flash through monster that gets denied by Furechi.
Aragorn too ready.
And the snab Carson 2v4 at the B-bomb side.
They catch the player walking up short side,
Crazy ready to respond to that one and Carson will answer without taking damage. That's how you start a 1v4
Reload from Aragorn knows just a bait uterus is here to cover it
So BC game playing with their food a bit in this one 10 8 secured majority alive and that be defense looking much better in this round
It's a very nice move from crazy. There's this exchange of utility that happens inside of blue and
crazy just as soon as
He goes and just peeps it, clears a quarter out and then ends up being the second swing to make sure they kill both players inside of that part tunnel.
A great call out for BC game.
I took nine trade to connector but again pieces ready to trade out BC game kind of feels like
filling themselves out in terms of map control not gonna get caught off by a
couple of guys in connector this would be a bathroom walk-up afforded to voka we
saw this get cut down to size by a cyclist lateral last time he eats a flash and
George finds the headshot on Ergorn without taking much damage from George the
only gun that voka have to work with and it blows the door down on the
A site what a couple of shots out of George
Damn well, well, well, there's no Kevlar on his teammates, but junior still grabs an op in the middle of all that
My god, they don't have a kid. I mean time's coming down. Yeah, they don't have a kid to work with
So much ground
There's one behind the bars.
Oh, okay.
You don't have to wrap that.
Gonna have to wrap around.
He doesn't actually grab it.
He doesn't get the kit.
That's a 10-second defuse.
He's gonna have to stick this entire time down,
cover off from here by electronic,
and all three kills, but is there still time?
Oh!
Oh my goodness, they pulled it off.
Why?
They did not have the lineup inside of the smoke,
and if any of those bullets hit, man,
Muterus could have been dead.
dead there is no way to get pulled that out
huge coverage by electronic tech nine is
frantic to get him off that deep use good
thing they had the smoke yeah
oh
vibes at an all-time high over on bokeh I
think that's the wavelength that they
operate at though yeah your reflection
of the company you keep. It's a stressful environment over on Boca. It's them against
the world waters and sometimes them against themselves.
You know, us players from NA, we just got to get it out. You know what I mean? We're
not like these Europeans that just, that makes night remarks and our passive aggressive.
No, we're just aggressive.
We say how it is exactly and right when we feel it. Yes, yes, itself. It's a release.
That's the benefit of all speaking the same language?
Yeah.
Just being straightforward.
Simple.
The eyes of the wretchy goose can play around.
that that could have been their ninth dangerously close BC game to offering up
that George kill George doing George is doing George things George finds two
towards monster and also Carson and Wretchy to combine for another so
Volka just play the extremities of the map we don't get to see how that monster
push went down but clearly CT is trying to make a move and George is one without
getting into a site kind of has better ideas holds him back a couple of what
Could have been moments here for Volka means this game is still very much possible the money bottomed out on the side of BC games
They come back in with this pie. I love how they just still look pissed. That's awesome. Of course
And they're just like clearly thinking about the fact that they could just be high now, but
They are countering simple in these last couple.
Simple misses a chance at an opening kill.
It's Junior holding for his jump cross, yeah, well, Simple's over towards Long now.
I think it was coming his way, but now that simple's on it. Can you really afford to just drive you back in? You think not?
This is where they kind of want to fall back on their utility. They have most of bathrooms and crazy on the outside of it. It's a fine setup here for BC.
PC.
They're chain smoking monsters, so I think they feel decently secure over on B, but
at the same time they want a bit more space back, and I think they hear someone jump away.
Crazy vision support, loses vision as well, but still spams down at snap.
Meter is calling frantically for this rotation to come up, because at 20 seconds you know it's the commitment.
Can vaguely really get in again, oh come on!
The last hit out of this one, Meter is activated, can't manage a multi-frag, it's electronic to step it up a notch.
10 to the clock, he's trying to close the gap, electronics low, dead, point back in hand, just enough time.
Aragorn could rush down this bomb plant, and he will do exactly that, stopping it after it's gone down,
but never a chance for Junior to grab his gun back out, and so down to the lyre, BC game secure their 12th.
Crazy couple of kills there from Carson. He hasn't had a great game overall, but taking a simple with that first bullet on Mayday as well,
actually gave him a chance to win, but it's crazy. He eats the flash, full blind, gets his first kill,
That's supposed to be down the top.
Whew! Saiya Relief for the Saiya BC game.
Can't even really fault simple amount one, but he got blasted.
Yeah, there was no chance there.
We've seen Junior die unsuccessfully in this short pipe, and while it's snapped to pay the cost in the opening death,
Junior not able to trade it, tries to get closer to the site, looking to pull on some kind of a line to open this up.
Erdogan offering utility up and over, he'll touch his head down, Peter is getting a second
in this, George down to half HP and this could be all she wrote, a 43 advantage, health
advantage, even further, putting this in the favor of BC game, the Barrels player keeping
his head tucked still, Erdogan yet to activate, finally tries, no not even, there's still
just going to say two players, let it on this, so just having this close proximity
to the bomb site is going to be enough, electronic finding yet another, Volka had
their chances even winning some of the rounds they had no business pulling off
but this time around smoked out of it bomb is over towards barrels and BC
game find the solution to this B site defense that started off with Volca
just charging down this half of the map catching those opening kills not this
time around simple to put this one to rest and that will be BC game
extending play in the 0-2 pool as each team picks up their map pic it's
solid. It looks a lot better than Dust 2. It's great to see the simple getting his impact on both sides of the map. And I mean, the only way that Boca got back into that game was by countering simple in a few different rounds in that second half. So it was it was good from them when we saw the entries. And
George had a great game when it came to those double kills. There were highlights that went both ways this time around, but BC game overall just a much better performance and fewer mistakes that brown that electronic on the whole outside of
monster and again he's having a strong tournament overall this clutch definitely
could have gone away junior if he cleared him out and it's the CT side I mean how
are you how are you supposed to win get four rounds on CT side so the fact that
Loka even made that someone close is pretty pretty impressive and having
up his still in the second half helped for sure but it's just like dust to but
the opposite PC game they let Roka back in a few rounds but the entire way
through are still kind of like in control of what happens.
You said they would have taken that 10 second stick.
I think that you would have denied that to really have a chance here.
Yeah, yeah.
Honestly, commendable attempt by Volka.
I think at least bringing back the second half as they did kind of keeps a bit of the momentum
that they had secured over on Dust 2 for their hopes of winning out on Nuke.
But again, I think the self-doubt start to creep in knowing that again,
you had the kind of comparable opening versus 3D Max yesterday.
You win dust you
Second map goes back the oppositions way that did boil down to a map three overtime affair
So I think you know if you're vocal you're just kind of thinking all right. Let's do the exact same thing
We did yesterday. Let's recover on the decider
You'll be more confident there with their nuke play around the corner
And I think also just knowing that like there was moments here where BC game kind of let Voka back in and if
Voka can secure those moments if they can tidy up their own close calls
map three still anybody's game. I don't think BC game is coming into this
decider any more confident than Voka should be. I think we're just gonna find
out where the dust settles once we get to that decider. But you can see it
second pistol definitely gave a Voka chance to make a run for the money.
BC game however just far too good in the first half that Voka really had no
chance. So a 13-10-2, a 13-9 on overpass and soon we'll get into that
Decider of nuke to see where this one ends again zero two game for day three of pjl
Bucharest we'll see you guys for that decider after a brief break
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What is going on everybody? You're all in for a very special treat because I'm down on
the floor with an absolute legend. We've got simple of BC gang. What's the vibe in the
team right now, you know, talk to us about how everything is.
I mean, we're trying to fix mistakes. Sometimes it's a lot of mistakes,
sometimes less. I think hard work and work because we didn't show
our best game yet.
Over the last five months, you've been reunited with Electronic.
Can you talk to us about that, that partnership?
Yeah, I like it right now is he's getting his confidence and form
back, not focusing on an agile role. I think you just need to always speak English. Same
for all of our team because I feel like sometimes we can miss some moments in the game because
of communication. That's part of our failure as well, I would say. I mean, in games.
And yeah, it's just nice to play with him because you see how he understands the game,
he rotate over the map, how he make decisions, how he's helping his teammates as well.
It's been a bit of a criticism online that maybe chemistry is lacking. Do you think that's the case?
I mean, it's always the case when you have a new team. I feel like you need to go through a lot of stuff to get better synergy and chemistry.
And I think in every team it's a problem at the beginning, especially like...
Core comes to us, you know, not us coming to Core, two players who play with each other.
They come to us and everything is new.
It was much easier for me when I played for face as a standing, when you go to the team with four players and with a system.
Everyone knows what to do, you're just feeling and it's much easier to play.
to play. This is a really cool detail. People online that will criticise simple BC game but
then save positive things about simple phase, these two things are very different. How
is it for you to see that criticism and see that praise for two things that are very
hard to compare? I mean, it's okay for me. I'm still trying, I understand that I can
be better in this version on Counter-Strike and good creature season I take, you know.
And of course, people will say a lot of stuff.
It's not bad that I'm playing, you know, that I decided to step back and play because
I need to play.
I don't want to sit another six months like it was with Shalkons and they took me on
low and he just sits six months and when you do have like face it or much, no much
in no one place. But even face it, it's like, it's not pracks, for example. It's not official
sort of pracks because people doing different stupid stuff and when you play in a team you
need to play your role all the time and you need to focus with your teammates on some
details around your spots, you know. And to practice this, you need to play the
team.
be most important here at PGL Bucharest. How do you guys storm ahead and get a big result?
I think the most important for us to play as many games as possible. Like of course to
qualify from group stage is the first step, but if you qualify like from 3-0 I think maybe
it's not good. I think...
Why is that? Because this is something that other pros have said over all the years
as well. Do you want to have more games? Do you want that 3-1 or maybe not 3-2. Do you want that 3-1
maybe as opposed to just a 3-0 if you were to go through 3-3? For me, I just want to play as much
as possible. I just want to play every game and just see what I'm capable of. But if you're
talking about like in major for example, you play in 3-0 and you directly like in quarterfinal
you have more extra days, from some perspective it's good because you have more time to prepare
And you can see this, you can try to calculate what's your next opponent.
And you have more time to prepare while they're playing 3-1 or 3-2 games.
And from other perspective it's like, it's bad because other teams, they play much more counter-strike.
They fix much more mistakes because you have more maps with 3-2 score.
And it can help you as well.
Because with 3-0 you destroy everyone, maybe you won't see Gap in your game, you know?
Is there still a part of you that feels like you need to prove yourself again?
Of course, of course. It's like a million percent.
Because my understanding of game never disappeared, you know?
Like, it's so easy to understand this game.
But we need to become a strong team, we cannot win games right now,
we have less rounds, less opportunity to shine, you know.
And of course, teams are playing better and better from each year,
like in any sport or e-sport.
Evolution, you know, from each year.
I should be always in shape.
I should always...
It's not me but my team as well,
We should always be in the middle of what's happening.
And do you think you and your team have a good chance of doing that here in Bucharest?
I think we can surprise many teams.
But as I said, we need to find momentum or we can lose easy games as well.
Well, Sasha, genuinely wishing you the best of luck.
Is there anything that you'd like to say to everybody watching at home before I let you go?
Yes, hello everyone and I wish you a good Counter-Strike event.
cheer for your favorite team and enjoy Bucharest.
Hey, hey, hey!
Oh
This
This is where it ends for either Voka or BC game final map of the event.
Whether you like it or not, you've started this one zero two.
You got a stand in situation on one side of the coin mode.
You've got a struggling BC game on the other that should be able to pull out of this.
You'd assume again that you're playing in the stronger region.
They've got the superstar duo of electronic and simple and yet still the success
is few and far between for the side of BC game.
They won their first map in six weeks yesterday.
Can they win their first match in QTSA?
We're about to find out here on Nuke.
It's a bit of a Christmas tree when you look at their wins
and losses on Nuke.
Their last eight games have just gone back and forth.
But their last one was a loss corner,
so that's a good sign if you're superstitious
that this game will be able to take out a series today.
But on the other hand, who's more excited about Nuke
than Voca?
They beat everybody at home on this map,
and they even beat Masonic at the Park and Challenge 13 to 4.
It is their most comfortable map by far.
They're good on both CT and T side.
I took one loss at Fragedelfia on the map recently,
but they're probably the most studied team
in North America on Nuke.
So it's no surprise eventually someone
was gonna take them out, but they've got the primer
to actually feel like they can win this map.
They have the protocols of depth,
the experience, definitely.
So this would be a win to really cap off a lot of their new success and and show exactly that, you know, they're they were, you know, farming in an easier region, but at the same time, winning all their games vary one sided because they're so good at it.
And versus a shaky BC game and this would be a real slap in the face with a stand in to take out a win in this series and actually survive oh too.
We've had some tragic stories already, obviously, this week.
This would just be one more, but it wouldn't be tragic for Voka.
They would be over the moon.
I think on the BC side of things, you are just looking for a victory here to extend play to get some BRS points off Voka.
Farm them for our region's value. Go ahead and get it.
But this battle on Nuke will decide who can be the most toxic between BC game and Voka.
We get a group up inside of the lobby for Voka a stacked a bomb site in terms of the defense simple tucked in to the
CT vents. It's gonna try to use Muterus as a distraction. No, just taps at one.
Hut swing comes through and it is a good recovery out of Voka. Junior in with a double kill as Snav burns one out.
And that'll be crazy tasked to the 1v3 clutch. So the numbers were there for BC game. It just it's the kills that go Voka's way instead.
the ball. He's got the ball
in his head. Crazy buys an
extra second Junior coming
through with the triple in the
pistol. Damn I mean, they hit
that side hard and the Mali's
landed in the perfect spots as
well. So it's a quick and
mechanically brilliant first
kill at a simple one bullet
one headshot just like that.
But for bear on Alvoca, just
full control of that attack.
And I think they're happy
again to not deal with a
retake and just come through
with all those entries. So
to them. Let's get the flavor we're gonna have a vocop. It's gonna be quick upper pops or slow
outside defaults. Oh, Carson's gone. Oh, just like that. Oh, that was nasty. Oh, oh, oh,
Muterus with a couple. Oh, Muterus, what is this? Who is this? The name tags must be wrong.
You're kidding me. What's he doing with the scout?
You got simple on your team, I don't know if I've ever seen that box get wall banged. I
Don't know if I've ever seen that
Misses a chance to quad kill retches right there for the taking get the mudder is hunt them down
Can't swing fast enough Aragorn will finish what was started by simple that damage on retchie too much to ask
And if that's not going to tilt, Voka, I don't know what will.
Muterus just slammed you outside.
That's ridiculous.
I think the first shot is like before a swing even takes plays.
Yeah, I mean, it was also a wall bang.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I really don't know.
You just said, check in PC without saying it.
Wow, Muterus.
Unk still got it.
Junior over here pretending like he can actually win this round when there's really no chance.
No chance in hell, brother.
He's dead, really.
John is white.
Counter-terrorist.
The labor that we get there.
Wowza!
Yeah, he wasn't even done peeking, man.
Nah, nah.
Brother got steamrolled here by Muterus.
I mean...
That was a smoke. I think the smoke landed like their default.
Damn. Oh, yeah.
Even better than that.
And then this one's sick.
And this one's nasty.
Well, this one, you know, give me the third, give me the third,
give me the third.
Oh, you're kidding.
You know it.
Yeah, that's good stuff.
That's good stuff.
Oh
All day long, please crazy
Yeah
All that matters is it happened and it upended the momentum crazy has gone unnoticed inside of the B site
It's going to be problematic.
He goes to back, double door swings.
He cleans up, and BC game have robbed the momentum
that Voka were meant to have out of the gates.
See ya in the next buy, which will take them some time,
because we are here for another T-Side Save.
This really just changes the course of history,
that Muterus 3K.
History?
You never know what's the butterfly effect.
The Muterus flapped the swings,
and Voka, you want to say, wins this map.
Little off-treak for BC game goes on forever.
Like that history could maybe have been avoided
just with that 1-3k.
Micron is going to burn George to a crisp.
Junior just wants this bomb plant.
He's printing down for it.
Looks like he's going to secure it.
And the less crazy gets an angle, but no serve.
That's a little bit of money made here.
BC game up 3-1.
If Muterus doesn't get that 3k and Volko win this map, do you think we would ever see this roster again?
The BC game?
Yeah, maybe they would just, like, them in FaZe would kinda like try to...
Cause I mean, it's like now that you've made one team, like, BC game have this Portuguese core because of its VRS ranking, right?
That was the whole, that's the reason, it was the implication that we started nature.
But it's like the whole story now, you know, like I'm not that...
Now you don't have that anymore. You're not playing with the toys no more, you know?
Woody's in a box, actually.
There is actually no point. I mean, I guess they wouldn't have stayed.
There's no point in staying together, because like, this is never going to be the final round.
Yeah, there's no point.
It was a team made in a matter of circumstance, and the circumstances have surpassed you.
So...
So I think it doesn't matter. I think it means...
It doesn't matter. Okay. Alright, that's fine.
They will have IEM Atlanta and the CS Asia Championship in the next two events the BC game are confirmed to be playing online.
The question will just be what version of BC game rolls in.
Electronic swing and wide because of the fire to speed the gun, seer have secured some positioning downwards, blower simple just waiting for a chance to strike him down.
down, missed off shot on the shoulder that appeared, and a good wealth of utility
extended there to just get the space. You flush Mutaris down into the site, he
opts to go for the dual, crazy picks up a 2k off of the timing, opened up by that
aggression, man advantage, smokes fade, the frags keep sailing in, and more
utility here for Voka to just try to secure this bomb plant. It's a half health
snap, and a full bar George, and simple catches George in the backdrop.
Snaps going to find back's turn.
Crazy's considering it.
Simples the victim.
He doesn't know the crazies in this smoke.
And so that will still be what captures him off.
And two players survive for BC game
as this 4-1 CT lead secured.
I like how fast Boke are moving.
Like they're scaling into the space again.
I'm fine.
I'm fine.
But this one was here.
So it's protecting around me.
So I just got to admit about it.
That's, you know, probably wouldn't happen twice.
But the fact that they did is just
test their mental resilience.
I'm getting a lot of kills and winning off a lot, but Kate crazy's been the star of the shows had a great last maps having a great one year to
I'm just gonna try to charge it down, keep it simple, George with a fast angle through
hut, but it gets spotted, and we're stuck down there in defensive utility, and we'll
keep an eye on SNAV to see what that AK can get done. Like a snake in the grass. SNAV is
coiled ready to try to strike into that A site but doesn't like what he sees and
tries to reposition. Just them running elicited some utility usage but like the
adjustment here from BC game if this comes ramp which is very likely to.
You know this by simple?
No AWK kill here from SNAV, that's the gun still on the ground.
His junior doubles back to nine in hand.
Carson thinking maybe he's created space and that kill he has indeed.
Only momentarily, however,
and his junior will look to slip the net downstairs once again.
God!
Actually kind of sticks around, gets exposed
and it's going to be a majority of life here for PC Game
who are absolutely speed running the first six rounds of the CT half.
And it's kind of because Voka are running at them pretty quickly.
They've been on their lower hits like it's again, it's impressive how quickly they're getting into readying a site hit and making new clip like people over think it sometimes but at the same time they're not converting the rounds.
Even if they're very close to one or two trades that does seal the deal.
PC game, very happy to see this faster pace.
case.
Set up adequately to defend against it.
Full corp press outside here from BC game.
There's no one out here right now.
You see the smoke catapulted from spawn if you're simple.
So that's util from a distance.
Carson posher top silo with a bunch of utility junior gonna hang on to his grenades as well
Starting to make his move Carson just avoids
He recovers vision they didn't see him on the edge of that vent junior and retchie recovering the front of sight
But they are still pressured by heaven we get this crawl outside of hell from another piece of voca
That is Carson trying to get into the engagement.
Electronic ultimately loses the duel.
That's man advantage, re-secured by Voka.
Crazy's caught off, and Carson's close proximity.
And simple, 1v3, tech nine in hand, has no value, really,
to add to this.
They have already secured the round.
Voka almost missing that because of the position
by Muterus behind that vent.
That damn near cost them everything.
It's unreal that Electronic finds nothing
when he's flanking right there,
because everybody runs inside.
One guy runs over top and one side low,
He's like, well, I've got a flank timing.
By the time he walks up, he's just
a guy who could have pushed ramp.
He's not even a guy who's seen an eyes and a blink of an eye.
So perfect timing.
He's doing comfort from Boko when they're coming in
for these execs.
And they're very good at these upper entries,
especially junior.
Yeah, it feels like that's kind of the zone
that they want to operate within.
It's just a matter of whether they
get there to pull it off.
On a flank that could have been,
but missed it by milliseconds, Carson
just keeping his head under and Carson who from the top of silo almost dies to
electronic ends up evolving his play into that heaven wraparound that really
cost easy game any chance at the retail so he kind of gets away with it
go into the utility clash and simple opens up on retchie that's a kill
through squeaky instantly smoked off as well and we're gonna get a fast move
by voka to just go towards secret they're not trying to mask this at all
stomping all the while but two players hard committed to garage with snabs still
sticking around outside this is responsibility for crazy to head downstairs
but then there's a pause by Vilka so things cool off. Looking for one more
clue before they make the decision actually yeah they're all down here
full control side
Let's see if this works out a bit better than last time.
Nice guys in.
Flushes him out.
Ah, unprepared.
Snapped in the background, killed with a nade out.
Karsten can't recover it, climbing over the control.
Juniors soon to be dead, surely.
Tried to find Sanctuary in the back of sight,
and that's when Crazy finally activates out from dark.
It's money made by Voka, but nothing but death and decay.
As AC Game come through, five alive.
And all of that long or secret control just gets them the bomb plant nothing more
That looks like uterus isn't just a good scout player. He's having a great half now ten and three
Walk the rifle impact
I mean the lower hits are coming into formation they're getting the maids out when they want to but I don't think they're ready for
BC game to make that one small aggressive move just as they're about to exit through control exit through deacon
That denial of space is enough to set up some very good Maltese.
It's crazy in a previous round, it's motorist this time.
And Simple is getting so many openings.
Which is more what I expected when we watched this game out of map 1.
I wonder what BC game would say about that first map, kind of like why they would identify
as the root cause of the loss.
Do you feel like some individual moments were just whiffs?
Yeah, they're...
Sometimes it boiled down to that simplicity, you know?
Yeah, whiffs, I mean, they didn't really bring much creativity to their dust to.
Again, they kind of set up and waited.
They didn't weren't...
You can tell on the communications law when people aren't flash retaking things, when they're
not double pushing, they didn't do any tunnels, pushes, they kind of just played back the
entire time.
Maybe they thought this game would be easier.
It's not an ideal situation for Volka losing infinite before this event happened on a
gays notice too so that is why their vibes guy is standing in not their coach because
The SEMPHIS is blind in one eye.
That's his reason not to pick up the mouse.
Sounds like a good reason.
I heard you.
So what's your excuse, SEMPHIS?
Car is going to swing that door open.
You're going to survive the challenge.
Won't be able to best junior.
He's able to get that bomb on the site in a moment.
It's a double control push, though, so that means no cover for Junior if Krazy decides to push this.
Oh, he just kinda ran at this, do you want? He's not going?
What?
Let's the plant out. We can hear the noise over here.
It's wild, it's weird, and it's still crazy to come up with kills.
Now nobody's on top of the bomb, and the last place left is Wrecky, one health, off to save the AWP.
BC game, 70 lead.
He's very kind of them to give them plant, but Krazy kind of knew how he was gonna win and give them plant all the same.
by Godlaunders it looks like BC game are they look they're they're having fun
they're having fun they might actually win a series and you got to celebrate the
wins again they're here to pull the upset off and farm some VRS points off
the focus the sweet sweet North American VRS they had to earn it nice and
I'm like a drive-thru this third map feeling quick
electronic
looks like George ate a flash
Think about it, it's even his own.
That makes him an un-
...tradable position.
Snap's gonna get mowed down by Aeroborne once that smoke pops.
And Junior has been completely denied any success in this one.
Okay, just can't quite find their footing.
His two sides starting to hit freefall territory as BC game just smothered.
I think they didn't throw their HE from far back enough that just gave electronic a little
bit of time to reposition and take those fights on his own terms.
He also continues to have another good map.
Back into the- oooookay!
Error's one shot first, you asked for that. You asked for it.
Order up.
It's wild.
I can't believe you used even spamming from that opposite vent.
But, uh, I mean, I think juniors are earned the respect you could take the op and leave.
time
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Like shout out the murderous man imagine what this half could have looked like without him. Yeah
To be honest
going to be the leader change implications of ERS, no longer valued.
I really don't know what BC game has in store for us in the future, but obviously they
have invested heavily in getting their organization to a major or at least becoming a mainstay in
tier one. The major always everybody's goal. It came up short this season.
There's still momentum to be made off of this event. And again,
We kind of had this conversation yesterday. You'd start to catch the teams that no longer have the pressure of qualifying for the Major off guard.
You hope to catch them slipping up now.
They'll lull in the action between this and Cologne.
Simple's got the trade on Junior at least, but looks like this A-Site was flying through the take-in airport. It makes us stand.
Heaven sets a blaze.
And, simple, into the ramp room with a teammate.
I'm gonna try to posture for a lobby flank.
This is two players off of the plant into Hutt.
They will be met by this flank from electronic and simple in just a moment.
Yeah, good shot from simple. Quick to the reaction.
Carson's gonna look to sign up for the challenge.
That's demonstrated by electronic who then gets confirmation on SNAV.
One step too far within the Hutt.
Perfect retake comes through from BC game.
Not a lot of meat on these bones, Moe.
No, he's there. He went through them every every people. It's just like we know exactly how far someone else is going to be out. They have control of the timings off to the races, man round 12. And it's been it's been a speed run.
Voka have not given up on trying to approach each site quickly, but the trades aren't there.
Besides some of their upper entries in the two rounds that they won.
I'm gonna figure out the uterus he loves that position to be honest mm-hmm so
sprayed down and a 5v4 secured by voca but that's three players tied up prime
to be popped. AKs and an AWP for all of BC game.
Symbol's been passing every test every time he makes contact so far.
It'd be nice to see him just get through an entire map without us having to say like,
ooh, the simple miss. You know, he's provided one map two then map one, but he's flawless
for the third. Aragorn did kill Wretchy Jr. a bit too deep on that corner and they
They don't know that electronic's on their rooftop.
Outer control looking tested, activation here from crazy.
Oh, that leaves a little to be desired.
That could have cost VOCA a couple of bodies,
but now electronics just gonna take the ladder,
wrap back down, force this flank.
Saw the bomb just exit out through squeaky.
And while they're gonna be anticipating somebody up in
heaven, it's actually gonna be the double lobby retake.
Electronic already tucked into hot,
waiting for simple to arrive.
They're in perfect spots to trade this, I mean, it should be no way they can get out safely.
No one's out of it.
Nobody acts as Electronik gets his one, and Junior's going to secure the second for the close here.
So, Volka at least one round for the road, but still a lights out CT side coming through from BC game.
That is a 9-3 CT half, three separate one off rounds.
The first, the last, and a simple round in the middle is all Volka established on the T side.
the T side. Maybe it's maybe it's not enough based on how well
BC game are playing, but Boca will be happy to switch over. I
think the pistol really changes the conversation. As we're
used to saying, obviously, in in maps like this, but BC game
getting better by the map and think less afraid of Boca
Simples come into his own he's meeting the impact of electronic and crazy and
of Muteurus has a pop-off map too this is going to be about the best that we can
get at a BC game.
I thought battle on the face of the step up for BC Games pieces.
Junior coming through is a consistent force for Volka, still probably the most exciting
individual element of this roster.
We saw it from the get go back on Dust2, he was the reason that game got competitive.
BC Games started it off on the correct foot. Opened the door for the others to
find their moments. But here on Nuke, it's very much just the junior show in the
low hopes of Voka. Like you said, pistol could change things around. A CT side
to try to bank on.
P250 challenges heaven. They're looking for more contact outside but it
really was just that.
This chance for snap that would have been a great opportunity to blindside George's
Barrettas inside of main.
Sees the shadow of Aragorn but won't be able to stop him and snap finally recovers one.
He's now down low, forced to reload, will not be afforded an escape.
It's Carson with the multi-kill up from heaven.
Junior starting to flank main.
He strikes them down with the Barrettas but still this 1v3 turned 1v2 is doable.
Carson swings deep site.
50 seconds for this clutch to still materialize for muterus I mean he's been the most clutch so far lots of time and HP
There's a route to get downstairs I
Don't mind the move from Voka, but I was thinking maybe they double up by the bend and cover both options instead
They're they're looking for the wraparound to get up to heaven. I mean really convinced that this is going to be an upstairs hit
Muterus can get this plant off. You can really tell he's thinking about how do I win this round and not just get this bomb down
It's good
Where does he want to go though control side?
He's not even
Carson's got it nicely done by Carson triple kill here in the pistol four kills in the entirety of the first half
walks away with the triple in this round.
That'll give Volka a lifeline something to work with on the defense.
Yeah, no kidding. They could make this a real game now off the back of that.
So not the T side they were looking for, but they got it out of the way quick.
I feel like they've preserved a lot of energy to make something happen now.
And with junior getting his op
That's a key to victory for sure on their most comfortable map
This Carson turned back into the site for the clean execute on electronic.
That one really took momentum from BC game.
And he's there to end the round as well.
So force by situation off of the bomb plant for BC game features a Galil 2-MAC-10s, double
tech 9, and a looked good side off of the instant wall of smokes.
Utility as well within the A site to just kind of keep the defense pretty occupied.
Junior has lost the teammate.
It's George that dies to the Mac 10 first.
Flood down into secrets,
going to catch Carson off guard.
That's now in M4 upgrade afforded over to BC game.
And this B defense is nowhere to be found.
Yeah, they've really turned the water into wine with it.
They've closed the gap with their smaller and worse guns.
And I mean, it's just an instant for a safe situation.
Surely no rotations downstairs.
Reggie's here, but it's kind of just risking his life
if you get too close and three guns it would be pretty massive for a world that
they can actually win this round I wonder
get out of here buddy should have left when you had the chance simple goes
roaring through the bottom of the ramp and well it's one thing to lose the
pistol and win the force it's another to dominate that force by those Mac 10
absolutely overwhelmed Voka not sure how George ends up dying first but it
was a short-lived round for George.
And unfortunately for George, too,
he's kind of tried to be the supportive piece to Junior
at times, but he is having a rough go of it now on Duke.
Left it all on the table back on Overpass, I assume.
They could really count on him for massive entries.
And CT side can be friendly, but it's
going to be one of his few chances if this game gets
out of hand too quickly and is that to happen?
This is weird.
Yeah, this buy is not great.
They want to take advantage of the fact that they've saved this op.
And it's a relatively full investment.
Yeah, down to the bottom dollar here for Voka.
Just a very front-facing A site setup, we'll see if junior can deliver. He's been the beacon of hope for Boca all series long
He will strike down Aragorn electronic wounded with that as well
Could have been two kills for one junior tries to keep them pinned in the corner
It's gonna force them back to this a floor where those MP9s had pressed in against BC game at a minute
They could still try to work options, but they're probably feeling quite limited to just inside
So what a lurk here for electronic beautiful. He's low in HP and juniors just known the wiser no nades means junior isn't gonna turn around
I mean, maybe if they start making noise behind him, he can actually lure junior forward
Still no right so far back now
Well my goodness
This is behind enemy lines
So now they're at risk of just losing a lot of players to if they're not gonna come into their electronic
Junior sells a move. This guy lying out of the server? What's going on?
Electronic makes it up into the A site. Junior now reacts. They never thought that was a possibility that they'd happen to do that.
Yeah, we have silence. Now, Junior, he's getting away with it. A second kill is collected by him.
The bomb is going to jump into the back of the A site. Frantic to get this down with mere seconds left.
And that is why Voka have gone downstairs at the end of this.
It was feeling like the B-squeeze once Electronic activates.
In reality now it's gonna have to be the double CT Heaven retake.
Wild round on our hands that Junior for a second looked like he was gonna get
nothing. Walks away with three kills this round. We've got a player tucked in
back-site.
Carson and Wretche into the retake, stalking forward. Crazy pops up.
It's a Carson trade and now a Mac 10 moment demanded of simple tap on the bomb
Carson back turned worried about that heaven flank this round is crazy and as Carson will be flushed off of the bomb site
Simple grabs it that round had everything
It's incredible that that comes remotely close. I mean I guess once electronics up in heaven
He's thinking we can take the A site for sure, which makes sense. It's just that he didn't clear
here. He didn't clear an angle that he had to clear for free. Like I guess it's a weird
part. Junior was watching outside as he do with an off left ramp and I just didn't want
to watch something. We get to show, I was trying to show like, wait, where is he shooting
from? And luckily they have two players with that on the trade.
I
This round with just pistols for vocals already got simple down to 40 health still that should be
Yeah, exactly
They almost pulled it off
But they made this bed and now they must lie in it for round 16
I think that's a perfect move here for BC game.
USP up and have it look for a swing.
It'll go through the flames.
It's a wild spray.
Carson matches the head shot.
There's a flurry of frags going down on the A site.
Guns picked up here by Voka who do not have Kevlar to play with
and Simples' Heaven Flank is going to be perfectly timed.
Spots both players.
Maw, sketchy for a second, recovers the moment,
and that's going to be BC Games sitting on plenty of mapping.
Yeah, I mean, maybe, I mean, obviously,
if Oka had won that round behind the off, then they just,
you know, they kind of just save their chances
of being able to buy more and everything.
But when they invested and lost,
they just put themselves into a buying spiral.
They have to force down every round.
This round, they're not going to have much to work with either.
No, I'm just going to be on here first.
First they won't have the option to go on saving.
Yeah. Oh, they actually do. Junior.
Come on. They've just been up.
Not too bad. They don't have kits.
but the way BC game are moving like they know where the callouts are the new new one to move fast into angles they've been able to walk into the upper side and lower.
Junior solo ramp responsibility yet again.
You still flash the union.
Pass to give up the angle, pokes back in for his frag.
Then it's the Erickron trade back.
And they don't overdo it.
They don't flood out with that in anticipation of some kind of an A-press BC game look to
take a look back.
Damnit.
Carson slipped off the hut.
God, then he makes a bunch of sound trying to get back into this boost.
That's awkward.
Yep, very oh god. Oh Jesus
That Molly didn't do any of the charm
There we go for it though. Let's see if we get some a kill
Squeaky walk out happens in the middle of all that and suddenly BC game pounce. Yeah, that's not the way you want to go out
Volka
Offward in this one. They've got all the excuses in the world coming in with a stand-in with no notice
Unfortunately for them
It is back-to-back days where they will have an opening victory on dust to only for the game to go up and smoke around it
This is a much needed victory for a BC game that has failed to make the major, much like
FaZe, but in today's matchup at least will extend their tournament life here at PGL Bucharest.
And when you think about all the VRS points there are to be earned, it's a bit of a feast
here for BC game on Voka's stature.
It's a great meal.
It's a match with all the fixings.
And so they will be content that they can continue to play here in Bucharest.
the first map. I mean, you'd
wonder what was going to
happen here with focus, and I
think they showed off some
impressive stuff. I think to
the tune of. You know, punching
above their weight a little
bit like we saw from inner
circle and there were
definitely some good take
homes, I think overall. Um
they shot pretty hard. They
had so they had probably an
equal amount of highlights.
But conversely, it was good
to see simple final
performance, but I think
they showed off some
impressive stuff. I think
they showed off some
The symbol finally get in the form of a meter is a highlight of the night with this Scout 3k. That's for sure
In terms of outplay crazy and electronic think we're consistently beast throughout the series and
Although I think you know who the hero was sort of change hands
In any given round in the continuity map. We didn't get the same George. We saw a map to
Junior had an amazing dust too, but it wasn't taking over the entire
series overall so the outcome you could have expected BC game is winning and
broke up really threatening to shame that obviously look after their regional
runs and success here in North America kind of get to Europe with such an
asterisk and it's just one that's also kind of unforeseen sometimes you know
these issues well turns out based on what Sampas is in for you said you
know infinite kind of filter the country so you had one day's notice
Like they had one day's notice to catch anybody.
They didn't have a stand-in in place that was willing to be the backup for a 10-day trip to Europe,
so they just brought in Reggie as a placeholder.
And you know, it's just this kind of like this sequence of unfortunate situations
that end up kind of souring Volka's run to Europe yet again.
And we know that every NA team aspires for their big breakout moment
and a chance to kind of turn heads on an international stage.
And unfortunately for Volka that's not going to be this event.
You know, you look to Astana, where we have the very first collegiate
Counter-Strike team to qualify for an S tier event.
That'll be the next hope, I think, for one of these plucky North American underdogs
and a team that you can kind of root for, as their story is really one of like a Cinderella-esque run.
When, on the other side of things, in today's matchup, it's just a fizzle out moment here for Voka.
And hopefully this just serves as a springboard for BC Game,
because we're talking about a team that hasn't won a match in almost two months,
I hadn't want to map in that same amount of time until yesterday.
And so BC game putting in place the building blocks, although again, you know,
I think critics will take away from today's victory just in the kind of level of
opposition they went up against, but you can only beat the players that are put
in front of you. BC game achieved that today.
They close out our B stream with a 2-1 victory.
And then we have our schedule for tomorrow.
Tomorrow will be two streams of three best of threes,
which means Mohan and I will only be here for the last one.
You got MIBR versus eyeballers.
I feel like, again, the big dream.
Everybody's rooting for JW this event.
Him and the eyeballers crew to kind of have their breakout moment.
If you're going to miss the major,
this is the next best event to kind of start securing
your run in the second half of 2026.
Nobody knows what's going to happen by the time
Argentina rolls around.
And so here we sit kind of cheering for the eyeballers
squad not to take anything away from MIBR,
but they have their major secured.
They're looking for some form.
Long goes in wild card.
you think heavily favorites the Asians, the Asian team in this one.
And then a pair of vision, 3D max stomp that I think should just be
paravision also solidifying their place at the very top mode.
They're not stage three for no reason, but it looks like you and I will cover
BC game yet again tomorrow versus focus.
Oh, fun.
Let's get it.
Yeah.
Uh, I think tomorrow's games, obvious.
I mean, one of the interesting results, the fact that I've always
took out NRG, but I don't think that means NRG aren't a threat.
like they could absolutely put it to the legacy tomorrow, which is something we have to watch
for an inner circle versus bait. It's headtricks old roster, them going head to head if there's
tons of similarities between the two. And with the way that Hedrick played the last map today,
I think he's going to be pretty excited to try to, try to phase up versus bait. So yeah,
easy game versus focus always, always fun to be able to cast BC game, even though
they're not a high rank team. They've got simple and electronic. They're just such a
unique story and a story that's born of VRS. So not one that was possible just a few years ago.
Yeah, looking forward to that back to back BC game days. Yes, sir. I'm actually stoked as well.
We're not going to get to cast it, but the NRG Legacy game is an interesting one at a one, two
stage in this event where again, both teams making it to the major, they're looking for big
runs. And on top of that now facing in a one, two matchup, like I think we would have
expected more from legacy and NRG they kind of need this groove right here right now and it's a battle
of the americas to kick off the b-stream tomorrow uh but that one will be with sponge and machine mohan
and i signing off on day three we'll catch you guys one more time on the b-stream tomorrow for that
bc game matchup seeing whether simple and electronic can keep on going whether muturuses scout wall
bangs are never ending there's reasons to believe in this bc game day by day improving uh we'll
We'll catch you guys tomorrow.
Have a good evening and thanks for tuning in.
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