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[B] Monte vs. magic - PGL Astana 2026 - Group Stage: Round 2 Low Match (0-1)
05-11-2026 · 10h 22m
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Jail scrapping and Torsheep looking down the barrel of the sword.
Oh, that's a lovely flick!
Torsheep, why stop there?
Pius is living on borrowed time and that time's expired and another 4k from Torsche.
Oh, so blind.
Very masterful.
Shout out.
So blind, everyone's been blind.
Oh, wow!
Oh, wow!
Swing!
And he's on for the ace.
Molly is good.
Smoke coming down.
He jumped up in a headshot.
and enough absolute destruction for kills in the blink of an eye.
The steps heard by G2, and you're not mistaking the sound of Nerts picked up without a kill,
and it's chased by JL, finds Hunter back in the spawn, Matt is playing through the smoke,
needs his hero moment, wrestles with the arrow, Matt is knocked up down!
to save this round but they're coming through that smoke behind the kitty picked
up as he can to near 1v1 and 9-10 prioritizes the bomb two kills to the
good is he gonna stop now out towards the window
HUNTING AUTOMERE!
The time is a big problem.
10 seconds left, one kill in the right place.
Oh, that's it!
And you can win this!
Blitz dead, that's the bomb spotted in spirit, looking to get here.
Flawlessly, in OT.
McHover needs a lot to go right when so much could go wrong.
Swing on, eww, nail shero, and we'll get this bomb plot, it's safe from the cave side, the spam gives away to these, ohhh, come for his, got him!
So, it'll have to be Yuri to try to clutch out 1v2, Xplow's hands busy, Yuri opts not to jump out through the window immediately.
But this is 52 health for Nylo, and he is sitting back by bench now, Yuri's gotta figure out where he's at.
Oh, oh he's tied up!
You're no!
Josuke catching him over through default,
monosies chance to clutch out 1v2.
Does he know?
He's gonna peek in front of this.
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Exciting hit!
5-1-3, almost he jumped!
No!
Hahaha!
And now you've got Luchok 30 health versus 3.
First frag's good, now Monos is off to try to tiptoe it's way
Oh, that was sweet
Oh!
Oh!
Loot job!
If they jump the gun here and try to chase down the pistol, the eco's got a chance!
A triple from inside jump!
Round one!
Whittling him even lower, oh, but now he reloads himself!
Oh, those quad kill finishes off the map!
the first the first triple
spraydown.
Stop it.
The contact towards me.
Otherwise doesn't look too bad.
That's all.
All times in.
Impossible round here at the
two birds four directly.
Davy Gino gets in at good time
surely.
Martin Asie gives his position
He's really got himself into a good spot and fame will drop in
Pressure let's you know, you know rotates to us
I'm gonna be the case. He keeps it afterwards long ready for the fight theater. Let's fight to
Double spray down nose about a birdie
a lot of bodies here, but Davi G doing well to deal with two. And he's now just trying
to get lost in the smoke. We already spoke about how low Alex is, but if he can find
Davi G, there's a chance he's on top of it. He's super fast. Quick, he's going to get
This one's punched up into the tunnels.
Wow.
They played it more patiently.
That allows the STITI to recover.
It's got a couple flashes that look really good
and shocks as well to boot.
Someone on the STITI side exposed Bartak.
I don't know that it's going to make too much of a difference.
Everybody else is falling down around him.
Fischer College going to be going for the good old A rush execute.
Not a pressure, the flash going all the way.
Oh, it's a counter flash as well.
You're right. It is a problem.
He's got 12 seconds on the clock.
You're on fighting now.
Let him give 4th to plant the bomb.
He goes in for it with the dualies.
Takes the head off the healer.
Now he's hunting for her power.
If you thought this was considered though, it's not that much going on for them, but
the leading player is very rapid, nice headshots from Jame.
Maybe he was flashed as well, this is chaotic and maybe a little bit ugly for me at the
moment.
He is me hiding in this smoke, oh they are getting bamboozled on the T side, he is me.
Okay, I think we're back here we go. There we go. Sorry about that. We can hear us.
Yeah. We can hear everyone else, but you guys can hear us. We are now, here we go live and
we can talk through a bit of a Swiss bracket as well. You got a bit of a muted intro from
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But hello. Welcome. We are
back. Day three of PGL Astana
and this is where I'm
the Swiss is essentially
what we were talking through.
We are now in towards kind of
the latter stages. I think of
this, you know, we're getting
some teams into two zeros teams
at some we would expect some
maybe not so much 90 in
particular. I think one of
those are really, really
impressed, especially that
win yesterday of a falcon. The
13 one map three was
tournament they're carrying
would have wanted as well with
his new squad. So pretty
wild times there. We've got
Fury team spirit as well. Both
of the sides. We should expect
to see them in towards playoffs,
but I think it would be really
cool for fury and for
Molledoy in particular to make
it into the playoffs flawlessly.
Get that nice run in front of
the course, the home crowd for
him. Eventually that's what you
want to see. Then we look on
the flip side as well in the O2.
There's not really that many
surprises there. You know, it's
a bit more these tier two tier
three teams, but the one ones
are really interesting. We've
got some really, really big
matchups here as well. Power
Vision Aurora. That's a huge
the game. It's just a
huge one heroic gentleman.
It's as well. Two sides and
actually relatively similar
spots is just that
gentleman. Just outside of
that major cutoff where
heroic art just inside of it.
Falcons Monty could be kind
of spicy there and Mongols
G2 has the potential to be a
really, really, really cool
game. So yeah, these with one
one bracket is amazing. Yeah,
we're a little lucky. I think
that we get to go on those and,
you know, really put in some
some good games. Hopefully if
they do indeed deliver. But
yeah, starting to shape up most
the team. They are the big
one that stand out, and we'll
see if they can continue that
run. There often, you know, is
a team. Unfortunately that
maybe has a couple of upset
gained some attention and then
struggles to actually qualify
through to those playoffs. This,
of course, is our schedule for
today as we have alluded to
here. Um, yeah, I mean, a
little bit of a difficult one
to predict pretty much all of
these matchups in all honesty.
I think the last one, you know,
you maybe lean the way of
team back and certainly see them going down to Fisher College. Those are our two teams that really
struggled in their opening series. But yeah, I think that all these games are going to be very,
very hard to split. And again, a pretty scary point in the bracket where you just want to be
leaning more towards playoffs. Only one game away would be a much better feeling going into,
you know, the last day of the Swiss. Yeah, it's kind of unfortunate. I think you pretty
say to make the argument they've had like K 27 versus one of the Huns or Fisher College and magic
versus one of the Huns official college. Both K 27 magic probably would win. I just put
by what we've seen from them so far.
They actually do have a little bit about them,
but unfortunately for the Hunts and for Fisher College,
we've not seen enough.
We've not seen enough to really justify this,
but these opening two games in the region are so sick.
And especially this first one for me,
heroic gentry, has the potential to be a real barn burner.
This, even before we see anything like the Vito,
how's the feeling that it could really be a long game?
Like these two sides have had some really long,
drawn-out series, and there's a hell of a lot of talent
in the server.
Here's your heroic lad up as well.
So at this point, they should be all pretty notable
to you. They still technically, very technically, got the standing coverage, of course, of Youngster.
But of course, at this point, standing to Luster, he's been standing in the whole year.
So it's a bit of an awkward one. I think it's pretty kind of safe to say, you know, where
Alcron's at, he's obviously had these issues with kind of his visa and whatnot, and these
sort of problems have made it difficult for him to travel and whatnot. But you also, as
well, now in an event where he probably potentially could play, you actually want to play with
a major, major line-up as well, right? And this is probably the issue that heroic
I think I've got hands while they're going for him flips. I don't gentleman. We've cost us like a hell of a lot recently and
You know at times that brilliant another times we see them grimace. Yeah, absolutely, right?
And I think a big thing I was looking at like scoreboards and stuff of their previous matchups loving consistency in terms of the firepower
Yeah, some series you'll have you know
It was like a mop was in the game against K 27 that's towards the top
But then the game against miles. He's right at the bottom. So, you know, it's really difficult
I think for them to look at a matchup, look at a game and go, okay, this is the way we approach it.
These are our fundamentals. They tend to play a bit more to the situation. They have, you know, great energy.
They have a lot of belief in the system and maybe in the calling.
Sometimes Alex is able to call from the front and he's also towards the top end of the scoreboard.
So it's kind of all over the place in that sense, which can make them difficult to deal with in a matchup like this.
It's all about, you know, breaking through that ceiling.
they sometimes struggle or a big stressful matchup. They will kind of crumble and that emotional style gets the better of them
We are into the veto here, of course
Relatively predictable here the inferno makes sense last time they played as well worth mentioning
Yeah, that ancient mirage nuke now granted though
This is a while ago. So this is the thing and it's kind of I think we're especially for heroic
They've been slightly changing their veto process. So it's for me. It feels like mainly I think, you know
So we always kind of get the same sort of thing from gentlemen's. They have a couple of pocket maps
They like to lean into nukes obviously one of them
But they're really really positive with that they like to go into hell of a lot
I'm surprised that it gets floated though rather than picked into but either way
Apparently veto coming through I think for me generally I said it even before the veto came through
I do feel like this one has the making to go all three maps
No, absolutely fair and I think all three maps that come out are expected in some kind of an order
Inferno Mirage nuke makes a lot of sense. So, you know, obviously trying to
you know, you're going to be
able to push the punish on
that mirage. We'll see if
that will be the case for
heroic. Um, but like you say,
maybe wanting to lean a bit
more into your own game and go
towards that new just to be
more confident. So it's always
this kind of conversation that
we have around trying to punish
trying to play your own game
can be a little bit of a risk.
Depends on the team depends on
the confidence. But again, this
whole thing that gets sprinkled
into the equation is that
I think to be a professional player in any kind of competitive realm. Um, and also it's probably worth mentioning that, you know, fundamentally like the way I look at these opening two maps, like I just couldn't care less about stats like they are the puggiest maps.
These guys probably combined like all 10 in the server. I'd say something in the region of probably like what 15,000 pugs at least on those two maps. So that's probably the ultimate way of looking at this. You got more or you've gone further.
anything new on these maps. They are very standard. So it's very, very rarely about like how good a team is in terms of at least for me, like the strap book. Honestly, it feels like, especially with these kind of early morning games, who wakes up the quickest? Like who do we get on the server, especially Mirage? That's the one where, you know, yes, it's a
punished pick on paper. But you know, for gentlemen, they get somebody like Davi G flying. His tea sides are excellent when he gets going. He's really, really excited to watch. He gets sourced on the server as well. And her oracle struggle. And that's the flip side as well, you know, for gentlemen. So they get
somebody like a youngster going really crazy early doors on the
orb, getting really flicky in towards the action to get
Nilo quite aggressive early doors as well. Same sort of story.
So that's the way I always look at Mirage. Like I feel like I
agree, you know, on paper, definitely a punish pick, but
it's one of the few maps where I feel like that's never really
matter for me. I just feel like who's actually going to wake
up in the server. And we've seen it a few times, you know, we
call this a Rory side when they've had their moments of being
absolutely dominant. You know, we caught them recently not too
long ago where they were flying through the early stages of
a tournament, but also we've seen them kind of go missing at
times and this is an issue that gentemates also have to deal with. So they're both kind
of prone to the same errors and I wonder who is going to be the ones kind of really wake
up in towards the server early. With Inferno Mirage, the two puggiest maps in the pool to
start, that for me really feels like who's going to be the most awake. It's new, that's
the interesting one because that kind of flips. It goes from being essentially the two puggiest
maps in the pool to arguably the most complicated map in the pool, the most detailed, the one
that requires the most kind of thought process behind it and every single little micro movement
you know, massive ramifications.
So I'll see, you know, if we do get to three,
and I'm expecting we will,
I wonder how the changeup feels there.
Yeah, I mean, you know, they're obviously
on this gentleman side just looking to keep their heads in the game.
And that's always the big thing for me,
a bit of like the head loss we saw them.
Against K27, both teams in that matchup,
to be fair, just had these moments of like going missing,
and, you know, four or five rounds,
or this is a totally different team.
And if that came at the wrong time,
it did indeed, you know, spell defeat.
we perhaps felt that it should have potentially been a bit more of a 2-0, in fact, for gentlemates on the K27 match-up,
and they probably would have felt the same way that they could have done it that way, but, yeah, not the case.
So they just kind of have to watch that, and I think that Heroic are going to be able to punish that a bit harder
and use those moments to their advantage more than a K27, for example, you know, similar to maybe Miles.
mouse, but we are into the inferno here. A lot to be said of this one. It could be very even.
It could indeed be the likes of heroic, just able to use a bit more of their team structure
to get this going quickly. Yeah, could be an alien here and quite a lot of heroic players
on the way to this bombsite as well. You can see chrysm backs off to give the space a loud
them in. So it will be retake with all these smokes coming down. It is going to be a difficult
kind of game-stake to deal with for heroic unless you've got pistol players on the other
side of that bombsite. They were incredibly ready there when they looked isolated. They
looked under threat, but between the two of them, they eliminate five.
And they read it really well. You know, they got four players though, so they saw it early.
You know, two on the site itself, two rotating in through a library and long. So really,
really nicely done by it's just you know playing in towards the new graveyard in a sense pretty
kills for his name and young string to his big pick because brilliantly great start and then getting
hyped up early is great we know this is a gentleman's side that are very vocal they like to get loud
as well in moments of success so if you can kind of do a clap to them we know it can have a pretty
big effect they go quicker they need our christen to trouble christen's dead and for all swinging
behind that flashback so I can't find anything. He drops a smoke. You have to press it though,
he's getting run down as Mop was on the drive-by. This will crack open the B site quite quickly.
Indeed it does. Youngster's in from behind though as he is looking to try and even up those numbers.
Could have had a pretty good spam there, but it's over a big time for Martin Azar on that
deagle. Nilo punished for getting cheeky as M4 will be recovered. Still definitely doable here.
the game. We're going to go
down to the low HP bars, but as
Youngster goes down another
one from Martin Aza suspect is
going to take the same instead.
We will make it out. Gentle
mate immediately back on the
board with the quick forced by
so letting you know. They are
also here to play this morning.
It's been some pretty action
packed rounds to kick us off.
I think by now you have to be
a climate similar to ourselves.
you don't have that excuse as
much in your games. And indeed,
that's what we're getting here.
They look like they've played a couple
of years already. Yeah, I will say
as well. We don't see very many
teams go for a T side force
bar for lost pistol. Get into
me to one of the few teams that
do it consistently, and they've
won quite a few of them. One
one yesterday as well doing the
exact same thing. Lost the pistol
on their T side. They forced by
Mitec nine and they made it stick.
We saw it happen on Nuke and
that basically gave them a huge
streak around. Ended up getting
They ended up getting six on the bounce off the back of a force by wind like that so
They're hoping for more the same heroic, of course
They don't really get a choice they have to force as they're in double eco territory sauce saves the m4
Alongside it an MP9 and a few grid of pistols. It's not exactly bountiful for heroic
They're gonna quad stack a once again. No commitment of the bomb just yet double-naked close corner. No one there
and now everybody's got to be careful with their decision making here, gentlemates pull
the bomb away, still slightly leaning towards B though.
Also as well, they know it was one save rifle, there's two schools of thought here, is it
the rifles alone a because he's the rifle and they quad stack in the b-sides pistols or are they stacking around the rifle to support it and therefore
We're trying to avoid it. Yeah, I'm gonna go into it that well. Yeah, but heroic is
We might stay now over rotate and they tried to compensate try to get ahead of the read as it were
Thinking that it's like oh, they've seen the rifle so they're gonna go towards be but no
So, just a moment. Oh, they know what's up.
I'm strong, that's CZ.
A rare pistol purchase, but it will work out for him as he finds a clean one.
And an M4. The curious thing here is that Suspa's got a kit.
True. They could certainly give this a look.
One more kill comes their way, and I think they're going to be quite confident for it.
Maybe halfway leaning towards the save, but they are indeed going to give this at least a go
to begin with. No, the utility to break in towards the site, though, is going to be very, very tough.
very, very tough. And with that kill coming in with nothing presenting itself,
they'll start up for some aggressive exits.
And now maybe start to think more heavily about a save actually.
If he's on the 5-7, has to fight his way out, and he will do just that.
He'll kill to help him out.
And maybe a gun blasts its way towards him, not quite short.
Can he get back to Larry? Yeah, he got the gun.
There we go.
I think he actually got an M4 swapped to the Mac or something, either way.
Yeah, MP7, yeah. Yeah, MP7 and then ran over an M4 and then was spamming it. It happens to the best of us
I will say though, not actually a terrible round from a right despite losing it like it's still so expensive
It's always gentle mates. I think that's a bit of a silver lining take away like two kills at the end there
One of which being a team kill, but Chris will claim it all the same
But generally speaking, that's not bad. I
Think you want a lot of return on yeah those types of force by it, you know one of the key things really is like
you can get kills with the
pistol, with the lack of utility.
I think it is going to build that
confidence. That's the way a lot of
players will see it. Like it's going
to build that confidence when you
have the full buy that you can do a
lot more. Um so it's quite it's quite
curious thing like the way the
psychology of a force by works out
for you and then keeping the econ
low feeling like you just in the
game. Yes, you've not won the round
four or five dying and no kills coming in, you know,
a bit of action on the hearing counter potentially.
On the half wall, they boost up to take him down.
So pretty well calculated by gentlemates
and what happens now, right?
Paid players can't do too much about this round now.
Yeah, nice kind of due diligence as well,
just to check below them.
And towards beat, no one's here.
Quads back in A once again.
And it's some of that, at least in the early portion,
first four rounds, Hororick had done a lot. The quads like the A side leaving one towards
B and it's become a bit more of a standard setup. She leaves that B play of a lot of
utility to work with. Bunch of smokes down towards CT, maybe a Molotov as well there
with him. A couple of flashes he's got in the back pocket and he can slow the roll to
buy time for rotations if needed. But for gentimates, if this thoughts realises that
this B side looks undermanned more often than not, they might be able to go for a bit more
of a pacey around there and many four four heroic would just say sospus kept
this m4 alive this whole time and a wheel that again ensures the next and if
you know for needle and young sir she's keeping all the armor really one last
thing they don't have to reinvest into so a simple one only the one kill
rope into the b-site bonkers down and that's the round flawless for gentle
mates as they find their third not a bad start on their map pick of Inferno thus
5 feels like they've got a pretty decent read into what our roes are trying to do but this is the
first proper round here though we've had a force by wars up until round number five this is the one
that we really get a little bit of a look into right this is as we would like to say the litmus
test of this early portion of the map if a roe can come in towards a pretty you know defiantly
win out this gun round then we're not going to feel as comfortable about our gentleman's lead
Yeah, it'd be interesting to see how long Susp is able to remain deathless, of course, and I'll mention that he's just going to die instantly in this round, but no, yeah, big rounds, a very big round on the cards.
Gentlemates, a home favourite for them at the moment here on Inferno, and I think, you know, we have seen them slowly build this map up.
I don't know that it's necessarily one that traditionally they would have loved leaning on I feel like nuke
In the past for like iberian teams and whatnot has been a bit more popular
The thing with this team is that nuke was always their permapic and then everyone figured them out on it
And then they were like we've got a change from something else. I do like the variation
I still think nuke is like they're mad that they're punishing a lot of teams on but yeah, they got figured out on it
Yeah, I mean they play a bit differently as well very contact heavy. Either way, we'll see if we get there
the back of that one force by
it might be over a bit quicker
than we were expecting here
this morning. They've broken
into be as you mentioned B is
kind of vulnerable for heroic
at the moment. In a lot of
these rounds seems to be
against the grain
strategically. Yeah, they
won. They hope to corral
gentlemen. It's into all day,
but it's just not happening. So
really, really easy for the T
easy for the T side to break
in there and another save.
Yeah.
Still not died.
He's still not died.
You haven't cursed them just yet,
but the more you mention it,
the stronger the curse gets really.
Poor guy is, you know, demons
looking down upon him to see
and to death in at least one of
these rounds.
But yeah, he'll stay alive for now.
He hasn't graded though as well.
He's gone from a,
Yeah, I know.
He's on AK.
Very low action rounds for this guy,
you know.
Yeah, exactly.
He's just throwing a nade.
around apartments and they're not coming his way, but we're all going to take another time
out. I think this is the right call. The thing is as well for heroic when they are leaving
one man towards the B site, generally speaking, is Crizzan, right? He likes kind of call around
himself. He can call rotations, you know, either to his site or away, but he's also,
I would say mechanically not also, you know, like, you know, they also sometimes have in
the past an X-Floud be your anchor on to the B site. X-Foud, I feel like he can back himself
to hold his own. For Crizzan, you're asking a little bit more. I think he has done a little
little bit dirty there. It's a
one tap through the smoke. What
can you really do? It's not
shot from Alex, but. We've got
to find a way to show things up.
I think for heroic, maybe trying
to take a little bit of early
banana control, because in that
round you play next time and
cruising in towards the B site.
They're not super active there.
You know the early Utah comes
through and they kind of after
you know, a bit of time, gentlemen
basically don't go very quick at
the start. They retake banana and
there's not really that much
fight for it. I probably want to
see her all the time. Take
banana control a little bit
earlier. You know, we've got
that stand and spoke you throw
from sport. You know, we've got
a little bit of a little bit
try and take banana control a little bit earlier.
You know, we've got that stand and sproke
you throw from spawn, which goes in towards front banana.
Try and do something a little bit different.
Oh my, maybe like this?
Yeah, moving fast.
I mean, again, it's towards A, but all the same,
they're looking good.
Just be able to find one nearly in for the second,
not quite a lot of damage done.
That will be his first death,
but not totally in vain.
They have created an awful lot.
Nilo's gone pushing in.
Surely a kill for him on the cards with the low mark.
He's around the corner, but no.
Plan A's against the drop on him.
He's able to keep that bomb as well.
So really, really big find.
In a lot of different ways for gentle mates.
We'll see now what the plan is for them.
Interesting spends here from that CT side as well.
A few players with a lot of cash in the back pocket.
Some quite heavily spending.
So maybe more saves on the cards and whatnot.
They've got a boost up quick here. It is an eyeballed smoke towards CT so it's only for prison to work with on that 5-7
Flash does get any managers to take one that will do for now X floured not the same kind of success
But still a lot of low HP or maybe the 5-7 can get a bit more done tries to spam away
Taking more and more and more HP off of his opponents
Unfortunately youngsters is late to the parties on this AWP as well not feeling confident for a retaking situation like this
It's nothing being handed to him, so it's going to be another round for the Spaniards
and it's kind of going from bad to worse here for Heroic.
I will say as well, I like the idea that Heroic doing towards this round, a little bit more
aggressive, you know, they try and take some early maps and towards a make life uncomfortable,
but it doesn't work.
Youngster, nice shot from him.
Prison may be one at the end, but not to be Davi G. All clear as corners, prison falls,
so the best they'll get is that saved AWP.
He's got a fifth on the court.
This he side is rocking and rolling right now.
Yeah, it's unfortunate.
I was off the back of the pause.
I actually really like the idea by heroic.
You know, they do something a bit different.
It's aggressive into wards, second mid, which starts well.
Sos gets the kill, then gets traded.
That's fine.
It's an information gather,
but Nilo's got to win that fight.
And it was Martinizer.
He's so low.
Like 15 points of HP has to kill him.
If he does, that then gives him second mid control,
allows him to wrap an honor as well
and puts you in a really decent spot.
But the issue is a couple of the 50-50s
don't go their way.
And before they know it,
Gentimates have such a stark numbers advantage.
It's a five to one.
Heroic back into a bite.
Gentimates are in a really nice spot.
And this is exactly the same as what we were saying
about that Nuke game just the other day.
It was a forced back of the back of a lost pistol,
tech hand rush, it went it out,
and then they streak really well off the back of this.
and there's exactly the same thing they've done here.
A match up they know.
A match up they feel they have to win.
One that we can certainly see them doing despite, you know, a disparity in the rankings.
Youngster flashed off, feeling like one of the main hopes here for Roic.
As he tries to get advanced, it does work for the first.
Smoking to go down as well, he's acutely aware of something coming in from behind.
There are threats everywhere at the moment.
Five seven out down goes youngster
Maybe his own smoke working against the CT side there giving a bit too much space across still not over just yet though
Made and a molly. No pause gonna be left incredibly low and is unable to get the bomb down
So buys more time on these smokes and the rotations, of course, my laser on the corner
Surely good for one. He is indeed as they walk into him. Can he get another I mean the spacing not quite good enough
He will keep them coming
Right around that corner X-File is waiting for him, but unfortunately also unable to
capitalise its tassel from the side as gentle mates
Will find yet another round. That is such a good round as well
Really kind of well recovered because things weren't looking great
You know you're into a position where as much when that made a Molly comes over. It's actually decent space
On the potential retake coming through
You can get a dink in towards the bulk player.
You put into a position where it actually feels like it's very doable, especially when
you know you can see that last guy rotating through the longies, just trying to dive in
towards the motor, so he gets caught.
You're back into a three versus three and it feels like there's legs behind it.
Jentimates do so well.
Martha Nayser, two big kills from him, especially that second one.
Little flick for a really important fight.
The early spam will go the way of Jentimates again.
Everything's going right for the Spaniards at the moment.
They are down in the dumps map controls be struggling opening doors. They've been struggling
It's a real stellar showing at the moment from gentlemates. Yep
Now they look fantastic
Inferno not to be messed with it would seem
Definitely convertible here Roic will rotate
I mean, I'm certainly a fan of
this as a concept. Oh, young
still trade out. It's that bomb
that actually seems to be softly
bailing on the ideas. It's a
halfway fake, but now it becomes
the main prong of the attack.
It's a lot of space over here.
Of course. I mean, if you get
away with stuff like that, I
don't know what heroic can do.
X cloud alone against the world
with only 36 HP to his name.
So not looking too good and they are kind of after him as well. Actually two players up an honor
I think they will eventually find him because it's just so much time to do this in but yeah seven one man
Gentle mates looking unstoppable. Yeah, they're flying
Exiled trying to pay a bit of an unorthodox angle as they are hunting to right is like a so much money
They basically didn't you know retake utility it seems they're setting up a moth one's already cleared through the site
No one heard as well. No one
ticking in that Molly. So where is he?
He's clearing the old taste. Got a tenor.
He'll fly for another second. And there it is.
Popo's gets the last. Nothing saved.
Nothing gained. Four heroics.
They are six rounds in the hole right now.
Gentlemates are flying. Next come round.
I probably wouldn't mind another pause from a hero.
They're already at a position where this first half's a right off.
But continuing, they probably can't fool by into us.
was this round, it should be 8-1.
At 8-1, best you can get four at the half.
That's not good enough for Inferno.
It's just statistically quite an even map
between the CT and the T side.
I wouldn't mind Turbis getting involved.
Alright, it's around number 10, getting underway.
Just try and recover whatever you can.
Had the failed end of the CT.
But this is what he said, you know,
I always feel like with these Pogia maps,
it's really by who just wakes up a little bit earlier.
That's the moment.
Herorica are just not looking on their game.
Gets away to feel considerably sharper in the server.
It's working.
Four towards A once again.
And loosely, the bomb is moving towards B.
It's on the back of Martin Azer,
but it's gonna let that rifling duo get the space first
and see if they can find Criszen.
But that's what I was saying.
When they leave Criszen alone,
it's obviously a quite difficult thing for him to do.
It's where it goes down.
I mean, it's gonna be behind the majority of the attack.
So Criszen's timing is just way off.
Down he goes.
I'm really as simple as that that it will be the rounds. I mean, there's a lot of armor and stuff to be safe here
But I think they just want a piece of the action, you know, they just want some closer moments
Right not getting anything
They look really quite unimpressive we talked about
Playing well first game of the day and whatnot and initially it looked good
They had an explosive pistol and they lost the force by side. Okay, here we go
back and forth right but they have just totally disappeared and where's like the timeout and
everything you know like I feel like you just really have to put all your chips into one of
these gun rounds yeah which I hope is here I really want to see them call for another pause
reset things hopefully mentally a little bit and see they can in some ways recover but
a flawless one to come through fantastic work no complaints at all eight to one
It's small things like that that's costing them so I can sort of see with the intervention by Tobias for the second time comes late
The first one the call they made off the back of Tobias's timeout was really good
They just lost aim drills that they shouldn't have especially that one on Nilo or Martin Aza
But I do think their idea has been good
It's just they're not winning fights and that's the hard thing for Tobias to get back into because then what does he say like guys aim better
You know what I mean? I think if anything he needs to let things roll a little bit for them to warm up into the game
Yes, it might come in at the cost of this map, but it's also their map big, so maybe you softly are conceding it in a way and expecting that reversely is the way for you.
Let's see what changes though, second time the Turbis has got involved.
The setup's relatively similar.
Chris on the next half, bang on towards B, bit of early utility, which...
Bit of damage towards Mop-Oz off in Crazy.
But they do take top run extra really quickly.
They fall off their spot.
don't know it yet and they've drawn over Nilo as a supporting player and now
they're retaking top-line control forever towards A.
Youngs has done a bit of a saving grace for me on the orb. Yeah, remains ever
consistent on the open angle so we'll get one instantly traded. That's three bullets
fired and two kills come in. That is tough. I'll make it away. Nilo is here in
good time but he will also get taken down. Two versus two and Muppo is going to be
very, very low in the situation, he's managed to get his hands on to an AWP.
Or he can't really get in there, but it's Martin Aza who does.
And they look so cool, even in a slightly more tense situation, the closest it's come
for a while, and Gentleman's still able to find it.
Yeah, they're just sharper.
It's really, really quite a statement here by this gentleman.
I feel for Junse, he does quite well.
Guess the first, his position for the second is decent.
He just can't escape.
He's so blind, just know what he's running into.
down he goes. I will say this Moppoz second swing so risky. He didn't need to swing there.
But it's fine. Martha Day's the bells them up. I love the life. They are really fired up. No jet
life for these guys. I mean they love it though. Like you know the power in the high five from Alex.
Yeah. You know it's like they're just so full of energy as a team and as a people I suppose.
And I think it's a blessing and a curse right. When things are going well they're so hard to
I think legacy another great example of this do my laptop those guys get very very loud
You know they get really fired up when they lose though they get in their own head quite a bit
They get quite tilted it's quite visible a visible as well to speed that they're quite dejected when they're losing when they're winning
They're so difficult to stop because there's momentum
That's a terrible way to start as are you really feel for Nilo double. Hey, dude. What can you do?
There's fans of that dear youngsters trying to escape but it gets run down by mopos and here's soft
the first. James the drop down
as well. We can't find the
second Christian does get one.
It's a lot of even if you get a
second at the teller than half,
there is no recovering this
one. Yeah, and just relentless,
right? It's a bit of a classic.
You win out in the clutch and
maybe you expect things to slow
down a bit and war. We need to
take a look, but no.
Gentlemen, we're going to take
a little bit of time. We're
going to take a little bit of
time. We're going to take a
little bit of time. We're going
to take a little bit of time.
We need to take a look, but no, gentlemen.
Yeah, straight in there.
Heroic probably still got their minds a little bit like,
okay, it's all right.
Next time we're in a clutch, we need to do X, Y.
And they're still considering the previous round
and what they can learn from it.
And then you get double dated at top banana.
Suddenly, every time he's crashing down.
Yeah, I know.
He's so tilted.
It's like, also it's all like the first time
Nilo started a banana, like all game.
He's only ever rotated over there late round.
He's never started there before that round, and then he gets double-naded.
Now he gets spammed as well. You've got to feel something.
Nothing's working. Nothing is working here. That's just the damn truth of it.
So, gentlemen, by all accounts, we'll be seeing this one over swiftly,
and then we have to find the fresh reset for Heroic on Mirage.
And it might be tough as well, right? This is...
Mirage is a pick. We always call it a risk.
Yeah. Especially because of how good gentlemen to look right now.
They are looking electric.
Am I so good?
Source pool gets a kill at the same time Alex will fall.
Davy Gears Source will combine for more.
This is it, right?
Does it?
I think the read is actually not bad.
They've got an idea of where things are heading.
They just can't win angles.
It is as simple as that.
Their plan is good.
The ideas are fine.
The numbers are there.
That's four players towards the A site.
And they only get one kill.
Like, that is it.
That's sums of how this map has been.
It's never about the game plan.
Their read is actually quite good.
It's just the fact they simply cannot hit their shots.
The only man who's really looked consistently decent
as youngster, you've brought them up a couple of times,
like that orbs actually been okay.
Soft numbers are maybe a little inflated
by that three-camp pistol, right?
That all kind of fluff it up a little bit,
but it is to be an absolutely dominant display here
by Gentleman's.
What a first half, 11 to 11,
decides if they're loving lies.
I was looking absolutely sick.
There's nothing I can do.
Yeah, which is just not what we expected at all.
I thought this was going to be a very close matchup,
some difficult splits, some big clutches,
the push and pull reads on Inferno.
We haven't seen much of that, to be honest.
A couple of rounds, maybe where general mates are like,
looks like they're going A or they're going B.
Like most of the time, it's pretty simple.
Hogan is a emotional support dog right now.
I mean, it's going to be needed.
Anything.
It's going to be needed.
What have you got for me?
And the dog, I've just gotten off the mat.
You're on your own. You're on your own in this one.
Love that, though.
Gonna have to get, you know, next next tournament, he's going to be turned up with like a different breed of dog.
Yeah, I mean, he's like, which is the real one. Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, desperate.
Anything distract them.
Yeah, it's well, it is very, very rough here.
We'll see. Harrow might be able to buy themselves some space, get a pistol, convert it, you know,
you just have to start with the baby steps really and show that you can do it into the
series. But it's one of those things, if you get absolutely bounced on the first map,
not your pick, you can just forget about it really quickly. Try to find some straws here
I don't know if I'm going to work with, but it is hard.
It's a lot of body spot about DaVeeG.
And they're not exactly going quiet here.
Roek aren't feigning any presence.
They have made it pretty clear they're taking mid control.
There's four players towards A. Now generally,
when a Roek have four players towards A,
the result always ended up being gentlemates.
Will it be the same here, though?
On the flip side, a Roek have not committed towards the A,
except they still feel like they're going
to head down that direction.
Alex is rotating away.
Someone's got to show up the long control.
That's where you can have Davi G keeping an eye training.
They're going quick and then they come.
Martin Heysel with the dualies gets clear.
The flash is fantastic.
And that is a statement of a pistol.
The pistol to open up things while Harorick was great.
And the one to start the second half is fantastic as well.
Yeah, not holding my breath just yet.
We'll see.
They've got to convert this.
Got to find quite a few rifle rounds as well before we really
start believing in the comeback.
you know just getting the pistol round off the ground is gonna be some work
gentle mates I don't know I think that's easy forced by a little less likely
for sure
okay if you found a kill I was about to I was about to go crazy because Alex had a
kit there you'd see what he was trying all right no I think the smoke was on
mop on. So yeah not quite on the smoke. I think if you found that kill rushed to the
bomb you never know it's still pretty far away from it. Anyway whatever it's a good
pistol for heroic in the end. Just a question of getting this over the line. There you go
trying to keep the vibes high I think for the next map. But like you say Tobias might
jump into it a bit like listen fellas. Let's just play this one out see how it goes. They
might stumble you never know but it's not looking good. Just try and keep it together
the next map, which heroic feel
like a really good team in terms
of the mental. They look like
they're always having fun. You
know, I think a lot of players
here who maybe didn't expect to
find themselves out of that tier
two scene, you know, into a
really stable like organization
and I'd like to say roster, but
you know, youngster is the
standing like a year or whatever.
Yeah, still call him a standing,
has just been a member of the team but nonetheless they always look to be in good spirits even in a matchup
like this we'll see how good the spirits remain
I love the idea. I wanted at least one
Moppa's in trouble here though. He's all alone
and potentially as well
If they just barrel in towards the B site Moppa's might actually just go and join the rest of the pack towards A and save
They've gone for a force
Doesn't work first time shut up and save and
Recents will say so. I think he's already kind of conceding this round. I don't really play
That's a fact but maybe goes for a little bit of a loose spot
I don't think he's gonna commit to fighting here. This round is a right off
Davie G's going down the deep smoke. He's just looking whether anybody pushes through it
But you can see on that many map the other three condensinates are not giving this one a look in so that'll be that
I'm gonna go down
will be a third locked in four heroic and a relatively long save on the flip side as
well for a right I don't think they need to go hunting if anything might work
against them yeah I think mop on store the dollar signs you know yeah unity to
maybe make some cash so nothing coming off as I say heroic looking at the baby
steps just getting bits and pieces over the line proving that they can do it
really are making sure that
they're going to get this one
over the line. Yeah, I think
part of this as well for this
time out is just for them like,
okay, we've got to buy an X
round. What do we want to cook
up here? Like what kind of
weird, slightly gimmicky round
do we want to throw in better
opportunities to maybe throw
some ideas around again?
Mopos doing a lot of the
talking. He's a vet saying
yesterday. No, it's true. It's
just just interesting like how
the dynamic really works, you
know, yeah. Just you know,
Just, you know, and I know that these guys have played together for years, right?
I mean, I'm sure they probably just share those duties, to be honest.
I think, you know, one of those were for Alex, like, he does more tactical stuff.
Mopos might be a little bit more of the kind of vibes guy, you know, like, yeah,
exactly, hyping up the troops and whatnot.
But they really need it.
No, exactly.
Come on, guys. What's going on? It's 11-3.
We should be winning.
So what are you talking about?
So I wonder what is actually the idea here?
We've got a pretty default susceptible.
They actually aren't going to dive into us, Banana.
I like that.
Of course, no prep proceedings.
Maybe that'll part of the conversation, right?
Back me, giving the flash to Alex.
I'm going to fly into all of the fights.
Not being in trouble is that Molly spreads.
Will it spread towards her?
I cannot believe it.
It hasn't cleared the corner.
And that might become an oversight
if a roic go looking into us, Banana.
They Molly that.
They didn't hear a tick,
but they're not going to have that duration.
They've lost that control.
They give it up.
So they go back to A,
and there is a naughty crossfire on Long.
Yeah, I'm in the head and straight into it as well. I was going to say, that's where they go.
5-7 to start, USB, not quite as useful, but Mataliza, he does take two.
He's revealed that bomb. He's given the man advantage across the gentlemates here, but it was indeed his low,
coming in from behind and loses the battle at range.
Sassel to go down, it's dicey for sure, but the stronger weaponry is just able to come out on top.
It's gonna be on the captain here of Alex. He hears all this happening. He's in on pretty good timing, honestly.
On Mach 10 though, again, weaker weaponry.
Nice little crossfire setup.
X-File is low. Potentially that first player that you meet, Alex, could play this perfectly.
Smoke out, creepy way in, but now they're gonna know about him. He is revealed. Flash goes round.
Take out the low HP player. Doesn't have a lot of time to get this next one.
And unfortunately, Nilo has played it to perfection around that smoke.
He's telling his teammate down the river that winning the round and Heroic will see it off.
But again, it's very close. You know, he wants a breathing room and Heroic are just not getting it.
And the other thing as well is that that was sort of ultimately a throwaway round.
Like if the phone is by, you've got kind of what's left off of your force by brought in towards this one.
You know that essentially you've got full buy in towards next round.
This one's a throw away, don't really care too much.
You've made it very expensive.
Four out of five kills on a round that you are ultimately already
consuming mentally coming into.
That's really not bad at all.
That's a nice thing to start things off.
The shot behind by Alex, a fine criss in the announcement call
from the grave.
And so it took some tag damage with him as they both try and take
that banana control and Youngster will creep on the edge of the smoke.
There's three players here to meet them early and they go,
oh, hell of a lot of utility as well.
Yeah, I mean look we might just be right back to it once the guns have come into play.
Gentlemates are looking to smash them here.
Martin Acer will take out Youngster, it's looking really quite good.
Five on three.
In very, very quick succession.
Nonetheless, trying to make a move towards the A-bombsite, keep the dream alive here if they can.
a lot of players. Yeah, really
in a good position here. The
beat is nice. Yeah, it is
fantastic. I want the second
one. Just getting chipped away.
That's the third H. E. That's
tagged X. Wild. It's also
sweet. Well, two bullets, two
kills and a third on the
spraydown. Fossil shuts down the
ace fight and keeps it on the
lock on key. How's that not one
one bullet on both of them, that was such a clean, they both like fallen right all the
opposite direction. Can't wait to see that again.
Yeah, fair play. Fair play indeed. And then the third as well just the insult to injury
and the thing is we come back into the buy and it's right back to the same thing, right?
This is the thing, you know heroic you've been, this score line has been kind of buffed
up a little bit by both pistols but again this is a story I'm allowed to bring up. They
both pistols and they're on track to lose 13-4. Yep, it is very, very true.
We will find out here.
If there is a little bit of an option available for the
rowing side, oh, pause, nearly in for the double.
We'll get traded out, but started off quite strong. Again, a forward-facing gentle makes
looking to close things out here and now. I think they might just be able to get away
with that Martinizer. The sandbag with the orb, he doesn't back to him, he has a contact
flash with his name on it, it's going to have to be good, it's going to have to be really
good. He's still not fast enough to get in just yet. Three versus three under way, Nilo
on the learn, Nilo on the learn, nobody gets the kill but it's going to cost him his life.
to say the least and now down to this two versus two.
X-Floud is low, so he's going to wheel the orb for now.
Fog is really quiet. 35 seconds on the clock.
They are still committed to this B site.
A contact player. It's Alex here to meet them.
No utility, no kiss.
He's all alone in this endeavour.
He's going to play all the way back into Ores Church.
Which could potentially work. You can see a bit of a temptation by Susps to start wrapping through CT
But they move forward they've made a step down as well bomb goes down Alex has got a little bit of a gap
X-Files shooting at him and he is it's all on Alex. He can't quite close it. It's Susps trying to trade
So one versus one Susp is tied
Stores will do all to do your voice the first fight, but he wins the second
Susps deleted and just like that. It is gentle mate 13 to 4
they might pick in map number
one. What a way to start off
this series. Never in doubt. I
think for this team, obviously
like they have a super clean run
of 11. Like just absolutely
insane stuff in that first half
after winning out the 45 heroic
just never really able to get
into it. Maybe driving the game
at tad bit better once they get
onto that T side, but I don't
that perhaps they take their eyes off the prize.
They just lose that pistol really, you know,
and we need to say a lot of the time, you know,
some teams can be very, very good at them,
but pistols have that random element, don't they?
You know, one unlooked angle,
and suddenly three players are dead,
and it's like, okay, you just can't recover that
with like no utility at all.
If anything, for that side of the argument,
the pistols are RNG, you know,
it's a bit of a debate, right?
You know, and you kind of have to pick,
pick which side you support.
This is the game that is kind of like really helping out
the pistols, RNG, Brigade, because every other round was one-side.
Yeah, no, absolutely, man.
Absolutely.
Gentlemates, pretty much perfect.
And I think, as we've said a few times,
that does come through as a surprise.
A welcome one, a happy one, for sure.
But heroic.
Now you just don't have a lot to work off of,
as we say, pistols and whatnot.
There's no, like, rifle rounds in there.
They weren't shooting back very well.
There was the odd round where it came close,
where you force gentlemates to clutch up
to be a good team. We're not
going to be able to get through
the game or even retake a bomb
site. But at the end of the day,
I think this next map really
could be tough for heroic if
they're just not able to bounce
back. We saw, I think quite an
obvious, uh, directive kind of
come in, maybe from the coach
maybe from the team in general
and the way they like to
approach things. So let's still
try and keep the spirits high
when they're winning rounds,
you know, against the Ecos or
against low force buys in that
second half still screaming the
two maps, get the swing back.
Maybe that's what they were expecting as well, because the
symphonos look pretty good from gentlemates.
If they were to win inferno, it was probably going to be tough.
Yeah.
And it's stuck so you go down in this fashion, you don't at
least bring it to like eight or nine or 10, that kind of
score line.
But in the end, they're really going to be relying on the
Mirage, which hopefully does come through as that punished
pick.
We look once again to the big man of Mopos.
It keeps stepping up, doesn't it?
Right, you know, Angstow got it.
And I think that's really, really good to see.
but it keeps having really really important maps.
It's something, and there's been a talking when we brought up yesterday,
we've kind of quite consistently talked to a lot of our gentlemen.
There isn't consistency in terms of who's the hero of this side.
So it'd be worth looking into the tail end of Mirage,
regardless of Win or Lose, who's actually the main guy to step up.
Davi G didn't offer up a lot towards Inferno,
but at the same time wasn't really needed.
And I wonder now, towards Mirage,
is this going to be kind of what we saw so often.
It was like, we saw this in yesterday's game,
it was like, saw some map number one, not there at all.
Map number two, like 22 kills,
absolutely flying. Map No. 3,
not there. Vice versa. WG. Map
No. 1 and noog was incredible.
Map No. 2, not there. Map No. 3
back into it. So, we get this
kind of like flip of the score
board so often with
Gentlemates and it might be the
same thing heading towards
Mirage, but the real question
is, is going to seem heroic
heading towards Mirage, right?
Because that was so often
again. We didn't really see
anything. There was nothing. We
could really grasp onto bar,
maybe the pistols, but it
doesn't really care. You know,
we don't really matter. We
don't really care about that.
Oh, it doesn't really matter
in the grand scheme of things.
So, we're going to go into
the grand scheme of things.
really matter in the grand scheme of things. It was bad. And I think the good news is because
it was so quick. I think you can just say, right, forget about it. It is what it is.
Like it happens. We've got our map pick now. It is a punish on towards them. We've got
a shoot sharper, though, right? And that's the big thing for us. We've got more on coming
up next, heroic looking for a completely different showing when I have to see whether that will
be the case for now. We're going to have to break when we are back.
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We're starting off a PGL Astana 2026 and I've got Hororix prison with me here and I'm
going to say this, it's been a grind for you guys, everything even from big events
to some of the smaller ones and the LAN events,
Heroic is taking part in.
So how has this journey been?
You did successfully qualify for the major as well.
You still been able to push your way back up,
but I can imagine it's been quite a tough period
for you and the team.
Yeah, I mean, I think everyone has felt like a bit stressful
throughout the last like two months or so.
A lot of traveling, a lot of grinding has been done.
I was very happy, of course, that we qualified. It was the main goal and we made it a bit harder along the way.
There were some stupid defeats on us, but it was really good.
I was very proud of everyone actually, how they managed to deal with it, because of course the pressure,
but also just the time management going from one place to another within like three days, you know, all the time, so.
Yeah. You have quite a young team, but you also as a young IGL and even just with Tobias, your coach,
had to deal with the uncertainty of orping, the player changes.
I just want to ask for you as an IGL, even though I would now consider,
you know, it basically is an orper.
He's officially doing it. It's not any more hobby or thing.
How hard was that whole process for you of understanding
what's happening next to that, not knowing what's going to be the case?
And like, even just calling when you don't have maybe
the dedicated orper who can have the same initiative as what other players were.
Yeah, I mean, it has been a bit tough. I think it's taken a long time since we got him, like, youngster.
And I can confidently say now that I feel like we're playing up to par with most teams now.
I think, of course, it's tough for him having to learn in all of this.
But as you mentioned, it's also tough because usually you know what you kind of get with an all-player from an ideal side.
So, it's been a lot of trying to make him an AWPer, but also at the same time, remember,
we should also compensate for some of the stuff, because of course, we can't expect
him to take on all the responsibility within such a short time, so...
No, I think now I'm very happy with what we're at, and yes, there's a bit more certainty
with also now the season coming to an end.
So, no, it's very nice.
Now, looking at this, what I find interesting about the results,
when I see what games you guys have played,
you can put up a fight against Furia,
and this was Furia when they were playing pretty well.
You can beat a team like PowerVision,
who's right up there at the moment,
but you can also lose to Astral.
There's a whole big diversity of what happens
in swinging around.
Now, I know you're playing many games,
but what difference do you notice?
What does it come down to between the best version
of Heroic and the floor you guys have?
I think a lot of it just is preparation, like I think for us it varies so much and you can feel it instantly.
Like we are very young, so I think at least for me it's very easy to tell when we're going to play really good
or when we're going to be a bit inconsistent.
And when we have these games and when we play a lot of games, of course these inconsistencies are going to show a bit more
than maybe a tier one team where you have a bit more prep time and you know when you're playing.
One game a day stuff like that.
Yes, exactly. But when you're hitting like the sixth game in two days, you know, and it's like you're still of course doing interest at none of this, but it's also hard to keep evolving yourself through a tournament like this.
I think sometimes you just get caught in these games. And I would say every time, and this is not to take anything away from all the people that have beat us, you know, in these events, but it has been on our own condition, you know, like it's our own fault.
we're losing and when you look back at it it's like we don't even understand how we're playing
sometimes like you know like that's how it is you just got to go through the motion yeah we're like
so no i think it's definitely going to be way different here i think we have the confidence
that we can go in and beat everyone it's just about showing it and i think we'll also do so
nice so lastly i want to ask you this is your first big event since collusion of poster so
You're back at Asana a couple of months later.
How much stronger is this heroic compared to what we saw in Clues the Poker?
With everything you've been through, man.
I would say we're a thousand times better than we were.
Okay, so that builds some excitement for the heroic fans.
Are you ready to show it?
Of course. I think we're...
I'm going to throw it out there already. We're beating a royal first game.
Ooh, okay!
I'm going to leave it with that. That's a great ending, man. That's perfect.
Thank you very much, Tristan, and good luck, man.
Thank you.
the first half. That was it.
And then it was kind of just
over from there, really. Yeah,
it was a very strange map. I
think for a row. It's everyone
to forget. Like they just offered
up nothing. And I think I said
it, you know, during the map
itself, but the ultimate kind
of story behind that in Furner
was the ideas were pretty good.
The execution was poor. They
just couldn't hit their shots
like the calls were decent.
They had stacks in the right
places. I felt like that reads
in the right places. They just
lost every angel. They have one
They have one guy who got double-digit kills being that a youngster who actually looked pretty solid and everybody else single-digit
We look at the flip side as well
It was so many pop-off moments Mopos look great
Martinizos nice moments and we seem to go missing a little bit right it's a bit inconsistent
That was great source to look great as well, which is really really good to see the only man who really went missing was Davi G
But at the same time he wasn't required he goes missing and you still win 13 to 4 so if anything that is a hell of a statement
the game. We're going to see
what's going to happen. We're
going to see what's going to
happen. We're going to see
what's going to happen. We've
got this mirage coming up next
though, really quite excited to
see how this one pans out. Now
when we look at this again, it's
on paper a punished pick over
towards gentlemen. It's not a
great kind of map for them.
Statistically, however, we've
just enough sharp. They look
mechanically, and that might be
the real difference maker. Yeah,
I mean, this is the obvious
veto. Isn't it when you come
into this matchup? It's one
they've played against each
other in the past. One that
you know, it's a little bit
different. You know, it's a
little bit different, but it
will be pretty ready for this
particular map. But it's just a
question of whether they are
still going to be able to match
often as we touched on a bit, and
I think as is obvious if you guys
are paying attention at home
heroic were clearly kind of
writing off map number one. Maybe
at a certain point, you like
you know, you know, it's a
really, really hard day. It's
really hard day to. Rare and
revered. And so I think they were
really, really ready for the
second map to just get started.
So hopefully clean state for
them. And looking a lot better
onto this one, but it's just very
hard to say because as you
touched on an awful lot. They
weren't really shooting back.
It's not like, Oh, damn. Why
have they rotated there? That's
the wrong read or whatever. It
was just they were in the right
to use like, you know, the brain power of some of these guys.
And yeah, gentlemates just walked all over them.
So you may be just banking on the fact
that that's not going to happen again.
How rare is it that we go down to zero to a team like this
or zero to, I should say.
And yeah, I think they're just trying to hopefully bounce back
and indeed to have the confidence on Mirage
to take this to a third.
Yeah, I think you're actually spot on as well.
We'll have to see when this one gets underway,
but it needs to be a completely different heroic
to the server I think is ultimately the picture that we're painting here. And I will say for
Gentlemate all it requires from them is another like kind of slightly strong start like you get
you know the first two gun rounds for example maybe a four spine there and Heroic already on
such a back foot where you can sort of assume that maybe mentally they're in a bit of a problematic
spot and that's the real worry. The one thing they've got going for them is pistols. We've given
that both pistols in towards Inferno were absolutely fantastic from Heroic. It's everything else right
to be clean. I think that's
the way that they mentally are
going to be able to find
themselves into a position of
success. Is actually the first
kind of one or two rifle rounds.
Can we make these stick for us?
Indeed. Heard some ticks in the
chat thought we were live. I
was scared, but it seems like
we are. I say I'll go and for
it. Little bit of ramp
information for the gentle
mates. We've got a lot of
Julie's out here. That's all
and Hazer up close is the one to watch.
Three round this corner.
Could be devastating, could go down fast.
It's really, oh, what happens?
They're ready for him to push in.
They're on top of each other.
It's dangerous with some team damage in there.
He's only able to find one.
However, to have EG with a nice little move,
but the smoke comes out to slow them down
and make them reconsider.
They've dumped their utility,
so not the best look here, unfortunately,
as heroic have to reconsider their options.
Also, Davi G, he heard that rotation.
He heard them run away through pallets.
He actually looked like he was tempted to go through the smoke.
He does it in the end, but they should know
that it's rotating towards B.
Yeah.
He heard all this, and they're definitely now,
this can be heard.
They are not going quiet as they're moving forward.
Alex, how's his fighting towards Bess at close?
It might not matter.
Sorsal, I'm close with the lead of his own.
No kind of crazy here.
He'll round the corner.
He's got the support of Mopos.
He won 80s as he gets two for Mopos, one for Sorsal.
Nilo the lurking presence all alone now one versus four 25 seconds and now a
stroke in his face surely no chance in hell to make matters worse.
Aroic at the one thing going for them of the pistols and now they've lost this.
A lot of talking here and he's dead to right knife in hand what a start for the Spaniards
and things go from bad to worse for Aroic. Yeah just not what you wanted man obviously
you've lost the pistol so there's the score line factor but also they had an A play they had an
They bailed on it, they were heard, they were read, you know, so all these, like, indecisive
moves that also work against them, they're just immediately on the back foot, immediately
feeling like we're not in control, we didn't make the right call there, why did we do that,
you know, depending on how things unfold, but this is where it could get very difficult,
you know, you try and be positive, you try and move into your own map pick with good
you. You know, it's a good
vibe. It's a good vibe. It's
a good vibe. It's a good vibe.
But when things start working
against you, it can be tough.
You know, everyone's got a plan
So they get punched in the
face as the classic goes. What's
your plan when you get punched
in the face? I'm well, I don't
know. I like to fancy myself in
the boxing ring. But actually,
I think I probably run wood
room. If it were in public, I
mean, that's what happened there.
Right? A bit of a punch in the
Well, it's a full eco here, I'm not really expecting anything from Heroic, it'd be nice
to get a bomb plant, the Rambu, the meadily caught by Martinizers, he gets a few behind
it as well, nice work, MP9's gonna collect some cash, money to be made here for Alex,
he wants a little bit more of it, speed off at the end, an easy shut down and towards
that mid-take, it was an eco though so you don't really read too much into it, it'd
be nice to get a concentration kill, it'd be lovely to get a bomb plant there but very
unlikely for Heroic.
this round however, very important. First gone round after a lacklustre map one and
a lacklustre start to your own pick, you've got to get out the gates fast here. With these
gun rounds, we've got four AK's crossed the board by one Galil to shore up the utility
for a christen. This one has to stick though. It doesn't. I think heroic. It might be early
but I think there's a lot of troubles. Yeah, for sure. So we're going to find out this
is indeed a really barometer. I've angled towards B here, a lot of noise in towards mid as you would
expect there. I'm trying to create something. Three players in the underpass. Feels like maybe
one too many, not all that common to have such an aggressive move in this area so early on in the round.
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There's been a boost, but he moves into the angle.
Heroic with the anti-read, as it were.
Mopos there to trade one, but not ready for that second.
Tackle now finds himself under threat.
Neither that.
And he will go down.
That should be the round.
That's a four versus two unfolds.
They do have pretty quick presence up short,
but I don't think really fancying themselves here.
Stick around for a moment.
Nothing presents, and they will move to save.
So heroic. It's kind of gimmicky is what I will say. You know what I mean? It's kind of based on the information that seems obvious.
And then it's like, aha, it was a trick. There's actually two of us here. You know, here's my assistant. But I definitely don't think it's a replicable round.
I think it's the real issue. Like it's it's a good round to get, but it's it's a little bit of a pocket stride.
It's still not kind of like, you know, a default in towards a nicely worked kind of mid round.
But maybe that's still something that we're going to see going a little bit further forward for a rowing at the very least first gone round
Good star. That's all we can really ask
The only counter argument really to it is that it's technically a bonus by for Jeff's MP9s in play
They don't have kind of a full belt to utils
This is actually again where we get to see a bit more of a truer test
I still think potentially for source. Oh, he might want to show up the utility here
So maybe he even goes it's like a famas just to have a little bit more in terms that you tool all I can MP9 himself
just get dropped to them four. Okay, he's lucky. So we get the full belt for the most part.
Yes, dropped over, but this is, again, now a bit more of a true attest. That's a bonus by,
if a heroic can go back to back though, they actually put themselves in a really good spot to
start off his barrage. A lot in towards middle here. A little bit of a different approach from
heroic as they will try and send the fight. But nobody from Gentlemates is going to be holding. There is
arm short, slightly open angle, but not necessarily anything in towards window. Alex,
on a dangerous timing here at TopCon. Really does need to be careful. They're going to smoke him off
though. Then he smokes them off, but then they're going to get inside the smoke. So still got the
control that they were after I think. It's gonna push the body. Nice. And a break on that smoke,
that's actually really nicely played. I think they might have heard X-Bars running in. And a
lovely re-aggress. That's the bomb. That's huge. Alex didn't so well here. Tyron said there's two
players who are fighting this top-conk control from Heroic and two technically from Gentsmates.
One of Alex was inside and then out-range with Martin Azer. They get the support of Mothos.
He swings over with them for he'll drop youngster looks for to as knee level also fall
And one response from gentle mates is fast left with it all to do a one versus four
30 seconds on the clock
There's the first showing presence of another player in the palace as well should be dead to right
I'm heart-taker does give him a freebie
Yeah, 20 seconds. I mean just not gonna happen here with the bomb recovery and whatnot that is needed
Very fluid from both sides
to the right. Um, yeah. In
towards that connector area.
Honestly, you see that top
cons smoke coming up into a lot
players that would just sit
there and be like, I'll save
my smoke. Doesn't really matter,
but the city's really confused
it with the utility. Just kind
of expensive at the end here.
Like those two deaths are actually
going to have an effect. It was
all gentlemated. I don't have
lost those to fall back on. Yeah,
four thing alive. You're fine.
Tuesday alive. Just change
things. They can get drops over,
but at least going to keep that
players stay alive for gentlemen, they're thriving financially, but we've got some going down.
There's bits of reinvestment, but it's heroic, I think for me, in that mid-round they just run
out of ideas, like they panic, they get a little flustered there, so it's got to be,
you can see what I mean, right, you look over towards it, Martha, Naza, Mop,
Apostol, all that really have anything left in the back pocket.
Grant, though, that's the same for everybody on heroic. So generally, I would say it's a pretty
big swing round, heroic, you lose this, especially about a bomb plant, you're broke, you can't buy
by next. Gensmeys found a fourth and probably a fifth behind it.
Flip's not as... I really can find this constantly.
Get all of them.
He's gonna put you in a great spot, but Martinizer opens up proceedings.
He pushes the smoke and catches criticism.
Good to see the orb getting active.
He's really looking good in the early stages in terms of the kills.
I've necessarily seen him have that impact all on the orb, of course, but yeah, it could
be dangerous to see Martinizer towards the top end.
I mean, when you look at this team on paper, you would look to him as being the firepower man, you know, the danger player, but it's not always the case.
Oh, what a time it's this guy, but my pause will go down in this round.
A lot of open fights here. Suspender keeping.
time. It's not going to happen.
It's close in a lot of places,
but gentlemen. Unable to
capitalize. Maybe on a number of
kills. You might even say, Yeah,
so heroic and again. Yeah,
really just feel like a round
lost by aim doors more than
anything. Nice done by her own
like a round lost by aim doors more than anything. Nice done by Haro though good space taken and then
they just continue putting the pressure onto it and like I said it is going to have a pretty big
effect there I mean Davi G and Alex can buy sure so they potentially might force buy into Zed's
way to love a force buy but there's pretty big inherent risks behind that too. I couldn't even
see a world in which Alex buys and drops and then he uses maybe just like an upgrade of pistol
They don't really have, you know, obviously, any loss, but it's really the fall back on.
And then again, opposite kind of double eco, source was pretty close.
That might even sort of tempt them into buying here.
Not the left.
That's heroic, and a poor one.
This is a big fight as well for me.
I feel like if I access one, that's a start.
Might change things quite drastically, but I'm not leaving this Davi G fight, too.
that. Good work. From her
already a lot sharper than we
saw in towards inferno in
in front of they were lost
that just by virtue of the
50 50s. No, it's true. I think
it's still going to be work,
though. I really do think it's
still going to be tough for
them. Gentlemates are looking
like the better team overall.
Just got to keep this up. The
clean yeah those few rounds ago but we'll see here this looks like a decent
enough buy that they can definitely do something with it's my potions can't move
heavy or that's seen that's just definitely they know he's dropping you
the the hope spotted it
granted though smoke is done you're playing silent
getting me it's gonna work there is a recoverable gun they doesn't want to take
risk of going in and he feigns the jump down as well to solve that risk but nobody's close enough
that they're really going to care about this. I think if that smoke fades, if they give out
a little look in and spot nothing, I'd be going for that, that AK. Opposite is the only one
without a gun to speak of. Bar, pistol, that would be a nice addition to have.
And just got to make like no moves here on the CT side. Con smoke coming in, could get up short
is of course the info that he will give Neil is left incredibly low, Mopos wants that AK but
just needs a bit of assistance meanwhile Sassel's in so very ready for the short movement, lovely
correction and Youngster finds himself alone, all of a sudden he's also only on 16 HP, 20 seconds,
not happening huge win here for the general mates and only one player going down so it's a massive
boon that they could work from here heroic will be kicking themselves and
immense amount of credit has to be given to my boss either so well yeah on the
five seven yeah exactly his gun of the rat but also the greatest gun in
character right well so they say I feel like I've been saying it for a while
that like you know bang for bark yeah why because at one point in the game yeah
we had the P250 some time ago my age slightly we had the P250 that was in a
similar spot where it's like it was one tapping up close dropping fully bought
up players yeah and they they nerfed that relatively quick you know once it
became a problem especially in the comp scene for the 5-7 spin like this for
the entirety of CS2 yeah I don't know maybe we need one pistol that makes the
force buys happen because force buys are exciting or whatever but I feel maybe
maybe drop that headshot range way, way down, you know, so that it's like, if he's a meter
or two meters in front of you, fair enough, but it needs to feel a bit like the Glock
maybe where it's like, damn, I feel like that should have been a headshot or whatever, which
you just don't often get on the 5-7.
Really hurts, of course, for heroic people.
Forced by Ian, but they break the table, it's pretty tough.
Listen, low and now dead, the spam from Martin Asia eventually gets there,
has found a few bullets and he's placed perfectly.
As X-File takes the brunt of the damage, Nilo's here in support,
but also taking attack himself.
Boat flash over, mouse wand held, Alex will find one.
WGM will push, good fine.
it's only a couple of
consolation kills as
gentlemates extend the lead to
three rounds once again. And
as pretty similarly we saw
on towards Inferno when it comes
to the gun rounds, gentlemates
have kind of got the control here.
Yeah, I mean, it's not
egregious as it was on that first
map, but certainly looking
better. And it's the way that it
felt from the pistol, you know,
heroic make the wrong decision
and they are red and whatnot.
So it feels like gentlemates
really in a spot of just
just pure control might even
argue the rounds they lose
their own fault. If it feels
that way, you're in a really,
really good spot from a
competitive standpoint. You
know, if you lose a round,
it's like, damn, what a read
or nobody got a kill or
whatever the case may be. If
it's down to you making the
wrong move, or I should have
had that kill. And certainly
one of the rifle rounds that
just makes lost it look like
is nine times out 10. I'd give
you about fight and they just had two of those occur and then the round sort of
got out of hand so you know the next time that happens you're not gonna lose
that gunfight. Missed a bit of the timing here. WG looking to try and pick up the
pieces, doesn't have to be careful. Spotter at top mid, he goes down, will take
Sasshole. Just really gotta watch things here. There's some trades coming back in
there's a lot of damage done off the back of the Nade.
courtesy of Alex.
So not worried too much at this stage.
The Nade placed nicely here by Davi G.
Kind of in the screen, speaking of missing timing.
Martin Azo misses his.
Ding.
Second time I'm asking, Alex, Davi G, nice work.
Martin Azo shots on him, he takes another ding.
Thankfully, it's a clockout range.
So in the end, not a problem.
damage he survives on one point of HP.
That's just the one consolation kill on to a source.
Six to two worst case scenario to tie game
for Jensen Mace.
That's a nice bit of comfort to have here.
Narrowing buy back in.
And one that's really important, you lose this
and especially if you don't get a bomb block,
we're in a similar spot where it's like, well,
there's the seventh coming forward for them
and potentially the eighth behind it
if the buy back in's brutal.
So you can sort of see it just how quickly
this first half and continue running away from the road.
Yeah, I mean, really surprising, you know, again, expecting a
competition from this series, but certainly from this map, and
we just not get it. So right, need to try something a bit
different here, the aggression in multiple spots. It has gone
south. It will force the sandwich player out into the open, he
will fall, but maybe a fair trade of information. A lot of
still bring it to a seven five pistol the difference. Yeah, it goes any deeper than this, which it actually probably will because of the money.
Yeah, that's it right. It becomes very, very tough to get back into the game. It's sort of like it's not what I foretold with it where it's like just because you don't get it on.
You just don't have that extra little bit of cash back and facilitate an investment. Also, it's not getting the kills either. It's a similar thing. And you know, point that maybe it wasn't as prevalent
on towards Inferno, but it's definitely prevalent now, is that we're really just seeing the
difference in terms of like synergy, you know, this gentleman, they play off each other so
well, the spacing is absolutely excellent in nearly every single engagement. And that's
not the same for heroic. They're so easily isolated that there's no ability to trade.
And that's what's making life so good for gentlemen. They're positively trading every
engagement going two for one and basically every fight. That's where you want to be.
heroic cannot seem to replicate. They need to stick a little bit closer, they need to
have the right ideas, like I'm flashing for you to fight this and I'll be there for the
trade. These small things, the 3-2-1 swing, the things that Gentamates are throwing in
that heroic, it very much looks like they aren't. Small but fundamentally incredibly
important part of professional counter-strike that Gentamates have just got a real out of
Five round lead should realistically be a six round buffer as well. There should be eight four gentle mates
upgrade a pistol
Bit of half armor. It's a half fight
Again, couple kills one point. You're relatively happy winning the round doesn't likely but we'll see
Again, it's gonna be a difficult one to deal with though the pace change up Molotov is good, but the kill is better
a
M4 retrieved so a pretty explosive way to start off the round and now a revisit of what they do
with not only the kill but the
Control they gained while they didn't do loads as well right like sauce this still above off HP and
Exile took one tiger net. Yeah, I mean, I feel like just keep the rifle out there, right?
So if you're like, is yeah, it's obviously just a panic is yeah, really
I don't know how fast they can really be on those pistols and it's like differences with
rifles they might have been slow enough to eat that Molotov but because they're on the
pistols they are just that margin faster.
Yep.
They've really put a reset on this one they were angling more towards B actually but because
of the kill and the window control options have come towards this A side of things instead
Well, all mostly through the pallet, all lovely little bait out unfortunately, he's being nicely covered here, Alex has played well, he will go down, surely enough has been done, 25 seconds and X-Flight is out of the round as it were at the moment, nothing for him really presenting,
That's all handed to him.
Nice little fake on the bomb, but he can't find the kill.
And that just sums it up.
It's the right sort of idea.
Try and isolate a fight, but the shots are just not landing today.
Eighth round for gentlemates.
Slightly stressful, but they will be looking to hit double digits in the first half once again.
Yeah, pretty work.
See those odds as well.
They're getting ever further apart and, you know, rightfully so.
Densamates are in such a good spot, heroic.
We've just not seen them wake up in towards this series.
And it comes back to the point I brought up in the pre-show.
This is the issue when you look at a map like Mirage,
and it's like, oh, it's a punished pick.
These guys have got tens of thousands of maps played on this,
whether it's officials, whether it's Pogs, whether it's, you know, your FPLs,
whatever you want to say, there's nothing new on this.
Uri is actually sharper. Who's playing better?
And right now, it's all one direction. It's all Densamates.
See, look, he'll open things up, Marvin Aza for one.
Make that two through the fire and the flames.
He finds a second and he falls away alive.
Unstoppable at the moment.
And this just sums up the difference,
gentlemen, it's everything that can go right is.
Yeah, I mean, it annoys me watching it.
How does he ever get away with that?
Youngster traded.
All over just, yeah, I'd like to back heroic here.
That's the big find.
And Mopos might just be aware of this next man.
Hopefully but enough. Let's go down slide over face with Martin's are being low the all-put range
And indeed a ninth coming in they are feeling good. I mean, this is the thing with gentlemates right as a team
It's like they play
Off of feeling off of instinct when those instincts are doing well
And then they're proven to do well on the scoreline like the first map
They could probably play like any map right now and yeah still
I just think that they're really quite confident. Really unbelievably strong.
Honestly give us a game on the permaband dust too.
Just see what my gentleman's got for us.
It would be a nice experiment.
Oh they just that much sharper.
An exhibition after they won the series. It's like can we just keep playing heroic actually?
Yes.
But I mean we brought it up as well in another way that heroic tried to angle this as a punish
But it's maybe not towards the top end of their map. Yeah, I'm sure
And sometimes especially when maybe the tournament's been a bit shaky for you
Could certainly be an idea to just lean into something that you're absolutely confident in your own game
Ignore the game of your opponent
Also against gentle mates. I don't think they're a team that are like readable. Yeah necessarily
You just kind of there's certain moments where they've been like, okay, let's just freeze someone's gonna push us here
Yeah, and they do find a kill off the back of that
But I guess the issue is we're heroic the only other map that they really could go to is nuke
Yeah, and nuke is used to be the pick of your gentle. Yeah, yeah
So it's a tough one that it feels like unfortunately you just lose the Vita by virtue of lose the Vita before it's done
This series follows through full blind Mopos gets one, but he will get traded out by sauce
So let's see what's the three act fathers here like spotted and housing win that fight
It's no right to get away with that but I saw for Davi G creeping around the edge of this smoke
He might find a gap here
Which he doesn't it's close, but no cigar
Martin Aza one versus three
Is that one versus two all the walls Bob Khan right idea as well as he looks to try my say a fight
But if you see enough by X-File so a nine three half at the very least something at the tail end for heroic
But my god the road to recovery is long and it's treacherous
and let's be frank if you don't want to pistol I think it's all but done.
Yeah just barely breathing you know they've been knocked down to the canvas
they've just about managed to stand back up but looking a little bit shaky a
little bit woozy here for heroic. Yeah survived the 10 count but the knees
are buckling you know what I mean. Yeah exactly. Tyson Fury. Yeah yeah yeah they
do the whole thing with the gloves like with the ref you know it's like
the commentators are like well I don't know if he's going to be able to last
any longer. So there is potentially the knockout punch on the way.
It's like Daniel Dubois the other night
That one I mean anything. I kind of yeah
He got not he got knocked down first round. Yeah, I went on to win well good good little fight for him
Hey, let's see if I wrote you know what spurred it on. You know for this is only really going to be
Relevance boxing fans, but he get gets knocked down first round
He got a good fashion the first time things are looking good
He goes to his corner and his coach just flaps him just says what are you doing wake up?
And he goes on to win the rest of the fight enough
So, uh, Tobias.
It's a technique.
It's a technique.
No more fist bumps.
It's like straight, just slap in the face.
I'll wake you up, though.
Yeah, it will. It will.
Yeah.
Sometimes, uh, a tough love is necessary.
93 and a necessity of a pistol here for a Reich.
This needs to start well.
We've got two sets of Doolies out.
And already going to try and play a little aggro
towards Balkie.
I can get behind this as long as they can win their fights.
Well, that's it.
First takes the air contact, seconds round the corner.
He will be dealt with immediately.
It's not too bad.
But at least they've got the info to work with.
One more out here.
The next part is core reloading.
And he is shot from all sides.
But the rotations are coming quite fast, quite thick, quite effective.
So close for Alex.
Just didn't have info on that last man.
Heroic lucky to get it done in the end.
but they will indeed take that pistol and, as you said, the long road to recovery, well, it begins here.
Yes, sigh of relief that one. My God.
By getting it, now we can start trying to build on this CT side.
9-3 is not an unrecoverable scoreline.
10-2, more or less than it is.
9-3 is doable. You get a pistol, you get a force-pies first round round,
and before you know it, that gap is absolutely within arm's reach.
See what I mean to them, though?
I'm trying to fire them up,
youngster, which is good to see that they still have that,
you know, at least a little bit of a time with this heroic team.
Always. Yeah, they're kind of in the same boat,
been a bit of a weird situation for a lot of these players.
You know, Delo is one of them, to be fair.
Youngster is another,
and the rest of the team kind of not quite knowing
what project they're getting involved in, I suppose.
It's so hard. You can never really predict
what the future of this roster is.
Yeah, but I think it's a bit of an interesting. It's right. You have a few players in here who, yes, might be able to make the high heights
But it's one of those teams
Fixes the middle of the pack in world counter strike and I think unfortunately
Maybe they're not going to be part of that vitality type team. Yeah, you know, they they have to be realistic about their careers at this point
So it feels good to make a major to play well
And to play with some friends in a good environment. Nice clean round there
Alex with the martyrdom. Yeah, of course HG after after his death
That was a force by though. That's me, you know, I've come pretty accustomed to a gentle mate's force buying on the T side
After losing the pistol, however, that one's never gets off the ground
So there's actually a really nice runway for a roic up to a fifth now the sixth is basically a guarantee
There's no money to work with you in that gun round. Like I said, it's you know, it's pistol force by first-gone
They're the three ticks you've got to get this pistol. There's force by this one's a throwaway
So round on a 16 that first ground on. So Rory, you find that, that's arms reach and this is still a recoverable mark.
But, Sosul's got other ideas and that is a insane shot to get.
Oh.
How about a second?
Oh, yes, yes, sir. Yes, sir. More of those, please.
A second for Sosul and a bob on top of you.
Yeah, this is really not a good looking round because Alex found that kill in towards middle, so the last thing they wanted was Sosul with the
to be winning double digits for general mates but yeah just the super super unlikely should not
be happening and yet it is and just goes to show how much confidence and calm nature the general
mates have got there you go I love it I love it oh vibes are good man vibes are seriously good
That is sick to see. It really is.
Nobody expects the Spanish to come in.
That's it. What I'm saying.
Those first two shots on store-sourced are so nice as well.
And then Martha Nase is to close it.
Pretty beautiful.
There's such a punch in the gut as well for a Roic.
You feel like finally something's going right.
Pistol, four-spy, both super clean.
You know, we had the fifth. The sixth felt like a guarantee.
and then it's like okay actually we're within reach and distance and I just all
unfortunately falls apart and heroic now on that back foot and now it actually kind of a
dual dive rather than say here run on 16 you lose this gentlemates 11 and then 12 that point
map and series points and before you know heroic you're dead to rights and you're in the one two
two brackets. Yeah. Alexi
to needs. However, it's
unbelievable. Youngster gonna
get traded out. So I think
that's kind of your main
threat. Yeah. What can you do?
You actually got a feel for
them like talking straight on
his steam profile. If that
happened to me, I'm straight
on. Stop rip. I am straight
in there. And if he's not or
3k on our face. I'm saying he's bought as a count. Yeah. Yeah, you can't win guy
You cannot win if you're fighting a kill like that. I don't believe it, okay?
Jumping once out to me, I'm instant boy.
You stood, you know.
It's X's that's really all horror I can go for here.
At least Nilo, he scrups up an AK, feels like a silver lining. It's
really probably not though, doesn't really matter what's going on. Gensimator absolutely flying.
I'm giving it a look in, they decide to change up the exit plan, they exit in through CT and that might actually
you know, slight hunt on towards Suspire. Even if they get traded out, I don't think that's really gonna care.
They're swinging, I don't even know what even dies, maybe if there's a bomb down they'll go down, but it won't be a kill.
For him, and nice call to hunt, so in AK save, that's it.
And now, Entomates are getting closer and closer
to see it off this map and
series. And again, we talk
about trading is what
spacing is something that just
so excellent for gentlemen.
Every engagement. You can see
what it does to you. It's so
tilting your swinging towards
to and yeah, top spot to be in.
Chris looks super rejected.
Nothing he's calling is going
to play. I mean, it's true.
There's little moments though.
Youngster, maybe indeed bringing
the vibes, but he sort of
over swings in towards calm.
I think certainly kind of
of his trade. There's
definitely little individual
moments are just not being
tightened up here. And I think
heroic still, you know, try to
have a good time, but also
recognizing that maybe the
series is just not for them.
Yeah, not like that. It's a
fine line of how do you figure
it out? You know, you don't
want things to spiral into the
rest of the tournament. Also
these guys, you know, we're all
a part of that VRS major run.
So you've got bigger things to
and still a pretty good season for them all things considered yeah another
tournament without Alcorin yeah we ask the same thing of Neela we did see him
eventually you know the whole momentum that he might have had kind of fizzled
out we're gonna need to see him here 50 seconds or two versus four just five
even that's just a little bit one foot in the grave but he is alive for that
Now, they move forward into what they sight.
It's all on the shoulders of SOS, really.
I think Nilo might even be stop saving, to be honest.
But SOS is sort of locked into fighting here,
and neither is feet, and I'll pull it through the cradle,
and that'll do it.
Nilo, I think potentially, they spot him.
Well, now they know about it.
Nothing's any escaping the Astana, he goes.
Nilo gets his Constellation kill,
well, that'll be it, 12 to five.
Nothing saved, nothing gained.
this is surely all she wrote in
this series. What a dominant
display. 13 for Matt number
one on track for the 13 five in
Matt number two. Gentlemates
have made a mockery of heroic
in this series. Yeah, I mean,
it's like eco as well. There's
just absolutely killed them to
be honest. Like the general
mates, the Diggle round. It's
too much heroic. Just cannot
handle it. And I think the.
Spirit has given up. It's both
The force by T side on in the first map that gave them a mass
screen to 11 1 half and then you're right there that deco completely flips the script.
Yeah I mean maybe it's a conversation maybe it was happening yesterday around like
we just need to not lose the force by guys that's really focused on the force by the low
by round yeah and then they've just lost key ones yeah two massive ones yeah just really puts a
crimp in their plans. Window control coming in really quickly here for the general mates.
Nilo is up above, holding, ready for some action. You might just get it. Break of that
smoke does come in but they're not able to spot any things. That's all. Finding both
is crazy. Wild stuff to get away with. Five on three very quickly turning into just three
just wait for Gensmeys to walk into them so the numbers didn't favor them but they bring it back very quickly.
Yet another on the board, still a long, long way to go. However, you find round number 19 it's going to help
but that's exactly the start you'd want. Half the names will open up proceedings.
How about a second are you kidding me? How does he find X-Floud? He should be dead to rights every day of the week
quick flick and a find keeps it on this favorable for the Spanish and they're
looking for more damage he makes his move as he lurks through the apartment
and they dive out be this is surely curtains in this series Sospa Nilo
are so far away yeah gentlemen to maybe having to dig in and find a nice clean
round in order to get this one over the line but so much room so much ability to
get our done my boss watching the backside here if you played it with
he would have ended the game there and then, but will be traded out, still gathered a lot of information
to work from. Suspense picked up this AWP here. He does have the bench player in his sights
but whether he's able to find it or not is of course another question.
Plans to tag Nathan to finish it off, but the game's over, so it doesn't matter in the end.
And it will indeed be the gentlemates to take it two to zero. No real swath there. Brow here now.
and incredibly clean find as
heroic. It was a great start to
the tournament with the win
against Aurora, but unfortunately
they have spiraled in game two
and game three, unable to put
double digits in the last two
series in place. Yeah, and now
in that one two bracket as well
and they're kind of looking like
they're going to bow out a bit
of a whimper here. It's not
exactly the tournament for them
that they wanted that the
recovery required as well to get
to playoffs really feels quite
unlikely with the level of
series was quite a statement by
Jenta Major. I slide it, of course,
one of the very few that haven't made
it to the Major, but are looking
absolutely brilliant in doing so.
And, you know, a good run here for
Jenta Major, you get yourself into
those play-offs, it starts that
second kind of season of the
VRS maxing and all the rest really
good. And of course, we've got
PGL Singapore, tail end of the year
as well, and they would love to be
there. Maybe, kind of, PGL is a
little bit of their blessing in a
way, because they're looking
really good. That was a fantastic
series, 34 in that first map
felt super dominant, but that one
really clean as well.
That deco is what absolutely kills them.
It's this round here.
If it wasn't for that,
I think Heroic can actually make this
a really doable recovery.
But you can just see the second they find that deco,
all the light in their eyes go over
and then they know it's too hard to get across onto.
So fantastic work.
Gems of eight, really, really nice series.
13-4, 13-6.
Brilliant work.
And man, you love to see.
Marte's a fantastic map from 20 and eight.
Just shy of under ADR.
Same for Alex as well, went 16 and 12.
you know, you know, he's
really, really good. He's
really, really good. He's
really, really good. He's
really, really good. Brilliant
work. Yeah I mean, I'm pretty
sure as well. Martin A's. We
might have been a little bit
more towards the top end for
miles. But like when we saw
against K 27. He didn't really
deliver all that much. To be
honest with you. We had the
sassel map. We had the Mop
Paws map. But you know, is
Martin A's that you generally
speaking would look towards
on this team. You want him to
be punching. You want him to be
in the carry position, and
that. You know, it's a great
match. We do have a really,
really great map there, and
hopefully going to be able to
continue that for gentlemates.
They are going to need it. We
do still see some of those
individual inconsistencies in
places, but ultimately a
pretty one sided affair, so you
can't complain too much. It
will indeed be Martin. As that
standout player looking absolutely
fantastic on Mirage, taking full
control with that open. Like I
say, something that they are
to the top end as well for the
series in general. Yeah, very,
very impressive stuff all
round. Yeah 1.6 rating for him
for the entire series, which is
really, really sick. Of course,
the bulk of it really coming
from that mirage where he walks
away with 1.63. It's ever so
slight, but you know, a really,
really decent consistency across
there, you know, but it really
has to be more positive. Kind of
walks away as the overall MVP
just basically because I am
for now. He's so damn good.
Really, really looked
unbelievably solid. I would
have actually loved to have
seen that nuke. I think that
I think that that for me,
it was like a little handshake between these two sides.
It feels like a really good map to kind of maybe actually discuss
who actually is the better side,
little more tactically deep.
But when it comes to was just raw mechanics,
it was all gentlemates.
I think that's the big talk point for me off the back of that series.
Heroic never really turned up to play.
They never looked like they were like awake or in the server
or really actually able to go toe-to-toe a lot of those aim duels.
And that's what lost in that game.
I'll say it again, as much as it may look on paper,
really one-sided,
I thought the game plan for heroic,
against you. You know, you
they just couldn't hit their
shots, and it felt very similar
towards Mariah, so it's a
bruise, what is tough on to
learn from as well? Because how
do you demo of you? You know
when you can't hit shots
essentially, right? There's not
really really you can change
there. So I feel for them
either way, though. That's only
our first stage of the day. We
got playing more countertrack.
Our next one is an absolute
behind it as well. It's the
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I think it's your favourite players, favourite team. That's how I would describe these guys.
I've got Blitz with me here, the IGL of the team going through it all. Blitz, you had
bit of time off since Bucharest, last tournament you guys played, you got third place there.
I want to just start by asking you, how do you feel so far with Mongolia's performance
this year in 2026 overall? In this year maybe we did not make it good because we just reached
on the playoffs and no trophies and maybe it's not good but not that we just made it to so many
playoffs it's not not bad. Do you feel like say Krakow I know you guys did not practice before that
tournament so much, it was like a harder one to go through.
Kluzina Poker, there was some very good teams there.
But Bucharest, PGL Bucharest, that was an event where it looked like you could be a
team that could win the whole event. What was missing?
Why was this not a possible for Mongols to go further?
We lost to PUT, maybe I just don't think
them. But yeah, it was my mistake. I just played the fourth contest today, but they're not. Maybe
it's maybe my guilty. Okay, so you're taking it on yourself about not reading the game?
Yeah, yeah. I just played bad and I just read bad. I called bad.
What do you think right now inside the Mongols you guys have the biggest
problem with that is stopping you from being able to lift the trophy or make
grand finals again? We made some changes it's about the chef and our doctor it's
It's a new member of team and they also come here with us and they are helping our food.
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We're going to be a short break
before we get underway of our
second series of the day. We're
really looking forward to this
one. This is all the ramifications
to be a banger. We've got
Mongols taking on G2. This one
could be really, really, really
scary. But we're going to be
looking forward to this one.
We're going to be looking forward
to this one. Welcome back. We said
it would only be a short break
before we get underway of our
the first game of the day.
Who actually steps up to play?
No, it's very true. Both these
teams having some, you know, close
runs and some over times in
there. Mongols. We caught them
in like a triple overtime
against magic, which I think
really confused a lot of people
probably including themselves
ever so slightly. But some of
their other matchups that they've
been playing, you know, against
the likes of spirit and miles
have come very, very quickly.
you know, against the likes of
spirit and miles have come very,
very close and been a little bit
difficult to stomach. So yeah,
both of these teams are capable
of making deep runs are capable
of maybe buying flag a top four
spot, but there may be not in the
best of their form at the moment.
It's the big thing. So we'll see
therefore as they meet what kind
of game we get and how things
sort of pan out. I think that
veto gets quite interesting as
you can get. You can get
some very, very scary teams to
contend off against now. You
find yourself somewhere in the
middle. We got that mongols
side, though. On your screens,
bunch of legends. Great guys,
of course, uh, as personalities
a lot of the time that in the
skips, but how are they going
to get into the game? And
then you're going to have to
get into the game. You're going
to have to get into the game.
in the skips, but how are they going to do on the server here today?
Yeah, and we're still really trying to figure out like really what is the ceiling and maybe
the floor of this new look side with without sensor with Cobra's era in play, right? Cobra
obviously offers a lot in terms of his mechanical quite sharp, but it's generally quite a big loss.
Like you know sensor of course was so important to what made the side really tick. I think now
with him not in the server, they lean a lot more on the likes of 910. He's been really trying to
pull them through. Flip side as well. We've got G2 on the other side. And this is a team who also
recently made a change, bringing in that man there, Nertz. But what an injection of firepower.
Malus, they looked like individually, wasn't really doing too well. He was struggling in terms of his
roles, his positions. It wasn't really clicking with G2. And it feels like Nertz can be a real nice
addition towards the side. There's a lot to like about this team too. The real look for me is how
active do we get that rifling core? Because that's the big test when you play against the Mongols.
They've got some really sharp aim is right Cobra. We know it can hit hard but technos is about Zeno has his moments as well
Right, you know, we look towards these guys. You can be really mechanically crisp
But that's the same story of a towards G2 heavy. God is a beast
I recently the absolutely flying for this had hunters looked really solid as well
We've seen him really really sharp and Matty's to that core have looked really really solid
So we'll see we're ready for the veto
We kind of spoke about is the power bands that come through new to the new bus pretty simple stuff
I think G2 are probably pretty happy that Anubis step out of the band because they are bad on it
Let's go to quite a part. It's not a good map for G2
So they I think by virtue of that kind of win the veto initially
We get that inferno pick coming through as well as the dust
To dusty of course to kickstart things picked by G2 of Furno pick by the likes of Mongols
But it's too relatively even that but both sides aren't too upset to see that come through you go past and Mirage
that would be sort of their
version of dust two, you know,
the one that they play the most
and like to pick into the most.
So they've tried to angle
slightly differently with the
inferno, perhaps some recency
bias there on this particular
map. I think the nuke being
banned away certainly messes them
up slightly that you might argue
has been one of their better maps
recently. Yes, you know, there's
some decisions that could have gone
the other way. How do you want to
play it? What have you been working
on behind the scenes? I suppose
is the big question coming into
this tournament. We just sort of
of a lot of people who have
been in the game. They've
been in the game. They've
been in the game. They've
sort of have a bit more of a
flat showing in that sense.
They're obviously going to
know a bit more of where
their heads are at. But the
D2 as well. I think G2 got it
out recently. Might have been
the map that they won against
miles or certainly one that
came very close. So, you know.
A lot of recency bias in for
these particular choices here.
Yeah, no, exactly. I'm looking
forward to seeing how this one
pans out, but I think in a
the early portion of this game early, you know, got quite
puggy maps to start things off. It's the same sort of narrative
here as well. So we'll see really how things are kind of
pan out. But I'm looking forward to this. I think it has to
be really, really exciting with that CT side. I think, you
know, we need to see kind of like, for example, the likes of
the Mongols when they're in the season, I want to see them
get proactive. I think what you see with G2 is when they play
against teams are a little bit more passive, a little bit
more standoffish. I think they struggle to really, you know,
You know, if you're a CT side, you allow G2 all of this control.
They find it so easy just to maneuver around and find openings, find space.
For the Mongols, the best way that they're going to be able to counter that
is actually trying to get up in their face, try and get aggressive.
Not overextend, but just don't allow them comfort and rotations.
That's where G2 really thrive, I think, a little bit.
Their default's quite heavy.
It's quite strong in terms of early aggression, and then they freeze up a little bit.
So Mongols have got to find a way to change that tempo a bit themselves.
But I'm looking forward to this. Dust2 has the makings to be really, really exciting.
I'm really good look towards on this map. I think he has a lot of efficacy to be really really strong
And I would actually in the argument especially in terms of current form
I'd favor him over some pious at the moment in that in that all-pads ahead some pious doesn't exactly been
Thriving you got a couple of maps and series here and there, but I don't the argument that 910 is stronger overall and
It should be very important here because I said maybe the rifling core towards G2 is stronger
Okay, you want to you want to lay down a prediction? I'm gonna go G2
Okay, alright, that's certainly putting your money where your mouth is. Mongols have got other ideas in the early stage here, so they've certainly heard you.
Techno at the back end of the site, looking to take another few down if you can, but they're getting crunched from all sides at the moment.
Nertz will be the only one that's chimed in, he's gonna keep it coming, he's left incredibly low, surely dead to right here.
and I have on plant but he will take three heads some kill bonus for him
I'll help out with the early rifle maybe but you never know he might pick up a deagle here or indeed
Yeah, he might be like let's let's buy I will force that buyout
It's just a level control that's what kills them two sets of Duly, Nazenia and Cobra do so well
Cobra's a really good map as a really good around there say to start off this map as a whole like for him to get him
I think it's really important we've seen times where it's maybe being you know just the TVing issues of integrating a new player in towards this system but
In a couple of times we hasn't looked super super sharp. You know, not so much kind of passing the eye test at this tail on level.
That's a really nice way for him to just relax his shoulders a little bit.
You got that force as you mentioned.
Nurtz, a little for him, scout for some pious,
which has already dealt a tag towards Cobra on the cross.
A few grid of pistols and some of the thing,
you take that mid to short control and they freeze up.
G2, like to see what the reaction is.
BOOM!
Look, smoke a B.
Just keep some attention drawn over there,
but it is mostly going to be a short hit here for G2.
the game. That's them trying
to sell the fate of the
dropping down from shore. Yeah,
might have been heard by that
CT guy. Not necessarily over
the thing. And it is a you know,
mid to be. Smoke as well. So
they definitely have a game
plan here. Yeah, this is good.
They've sold the fake of the
drop down which did get her
now. Mid to be smoke. There's
with only a few seconds on the cock as well.
So they panickedly try and get back towards it.
Not going to work.
The Mongols just about able to stop them,
but it's millimeters of play.
Could have been pretty dicey.
And even if have you got to hit that Diego shot as well,
I don't even think you can recover the bomb properly anyway.
There's just too many bodies just outside of the B doors.
So all that for the Mongols,
it was a really kind of wild late round call there by Hunter.
because the initial setup was as a fake mid-to-be split with actual short
presence but then because of a smoke in a flash and a nade behind it from the
Mongols they cancel with 28 seconds on the clock pull away and it nearly works
they do gain towards the side they do get a couple of nice shots nerds in
particular but not to be in the end on a lower bind it should be pretty simple to
you know, it's just about as
long as you make this round,
inexpensive. I don't think the
Mongols will care all too much
how they win it. I still want
too many casualties so far. So
there you go. No casualties.
Yes, no complaints. Make sure
around that really doesn't do
anything unlike the gentleman
heroic one. Sure. Sure. Big
money to be made for that
it's like, I don't know if
you're going to win with that.
Yeah, so. We'll find out here.
Long also started quickly start
effectively. G two have to make
themselves known. They have a
decoy down to hopefully draw
presence. Some players don't
not getting those peaks. We'll
get some of those peaks. We'll
get some of those peaks. We'll
get some of those peaks. We'll
get some of those peaks. We'll
We'll get some tunnels control trying to put their way through lower here looks to be a end-on-short kind of default
At least you start off the round
Yeah
Really cheap you want to go here
Not only for corner that I give them a bit of coverage or on responded by the Mongols
Just keep her bay blitz and a behind could be pretty nice here
We'll bounce
Doesn't do as much damage onto those nerds as probably hope I think by virtue of the fact that the Molly keeps them a little bit further away from that corner
Boost up 910
Samitabee's but smoke not as strong
You haven't seen a proper a here either then this is probably what I'm looking for for G2
Give me a solid a here
Kind of prove to yourselves also to the Mongols that you've got on the locker and that's where you then you have
You know the luxury of choice basically so far it's been be hits that haven't really worked
Yeah, I gotta stop bits of conditioning here. Don't they?
They goes in tiny damage
But it could certainly help
Everywhere yeah
Moussineo holding the line
What is that? I mean, that's where the need comes in because those headshots are instantaneous
capitalization is crazy absolutely monstrous stuff from baby face killer
he will indeed write them off G2 never get that round off the ground but yeah
you can see man all those kills come in with just the one bullet yeah and also
that's important flash from 910 it's so good yeah blinds four people as the first
three running in which makes me see us fight all the more easier no one's
clearing his corner. Ongo's looking really good right now. There is very very little
to complain about. Techno takes a tag on the cross. Oh and heavy god. Wins out. The scout
versus Orp. Bloody an ace to be picked up. That's a really nice shot there from heavy
god. He'll keep hold of the scout for now. Some pious just wheels the upgraded pistol.
could be able to do something with this. They've got some short control coming in.
So, how far it's going to be. Heavy contact, which is indeed against the grain. It's going
to give you a false sense of security as a CT. So, after Mosinio's insane round in
the previous, unfortunately, not quite delivered in the same way.
Little, yeah, nade lineup, but it's on the wrong side of the box.
Yeah, that's for the safe one, not for the front side. Oh, sure.
Oh
Gonna need another one here. I think if they want to go to this place is holding a line able to do some damage
Maybe create some space. It's gonna be a tough retake
But Cobra's era the one who's often under the microscope on this team as the new blood in a team that did not change for a while
There's an awful lot Matties
What can he really do? I mean if you went for the jumpy kid? I would fancy his chances, but
He plays it slow hoping they were fake in doesn't work out and
I had to kick in the teeth. G2 actually had a very, very nice round on the cards there.
Just could not convert.
Yeah, just looked like as well. So much called attack. I think that's just the right call.
I need a breather. G2, this is not the start that they wanted here to this dust to Mongols
have got a great read and a great understanding of what they're trying to throw.
I don't think that Mara needs to change up anything to be perfectly honest.
Like it seems at the moment they've got the right ideas like it's decent little bits of tactical aggression
But I think the rule thing that it's given Mongols are wrong
So they utility using it at the moment is excellent
They've got such a good
Kind of read on when's the perfect time to get these smokes down was the perfect time to drop these nades
Can we spoke about that made damage earlier, but they utilize in those smokes and flashes so well to draw G2 into fight
They don't want to be taking and for them to be spaced out so they can't trade properly
It's actually done. I'm kind of hoping that Matty's did go for the jump, you know, the jump shot kind of Coot-Klee shot. Yeah, but
How low they were it did actually feel like it might have had some legs behind even just one bullet
Would have been enough for one up to be five on the bounce for Mongols on G2's map pick is a perfect way to start off this series
The Mongols for G2 anything but and that's what the tactical timeout was all about what changes now
I was going to say you can tell it's a serious game here.
You've got both coaches fully track suited up, fully zipped up all the way.
Tight neck, kind of turtle neck type thing going on as the track suits can have sometimes.
So very serious, very serious.
Indeed, they are correct.
Feels like a big game here, you know, a team that you would potentially expect to meet
or two teams that you would expect to meet in the playoffs.
off yeah and yet here they are maybe with a chance of actually knocking this
team down into a scary place way before you would have expected 910 on the crack
angle as his suppliers who moves first some players could be very careful he
is carrying that bomb. So, Edie will move away. They looked to push up short here.
More big need onto Nertz. Really big need, in fact. I think that's max damage. I think
quite catches HP before if he had, you know, taken a little bit, but make sure 60 is about as high as
the number goes. Four guys. And Nertz has not had a round here as he gets to the ball. It's just
More damage onto the rest of the cards as well.
9th 10, we'll miss his shot.
There's so many players around the same onsite
that surely Mongols are able to hold.
Blitz has done so well.
How?
Blitz has done so well.
We've got another case of maybe a few cold players here.
Heavy God from long does what he can,
but it's not enough.
Mongols looking really, really good.
Somebody's got to be careful.
Need to survive this, sir.
What is this?
He does.
He does.
He just, you know, he knew.
He knew he would survive.
Calculated.
Oh my god, that is so risky. I think you're spot on though. This really feels like G2 needs to you know hit the DM like this is not
Good in terms of the mechanics like we're seeing a couple of times here
How in god's name blitz gets away with a reloading towards goose and then the second kill onto Hunter like that shouldn't happen
Hunters should trade that every day the week and not by you know
I'm not even gonna critique like the spacing or the trading. It's actually just purely he just misses and
Blitz is able to be a little bit crisper than M4
like, I'm not going to be
able to do this. I'm going to
be able to do this. You know,
you understand why you get
another time coming through
like I feel like if I'm G2 here
and you know, you can kind of
see for sore like I'm this one
I'm burning all my time. I was
in the sea. So you actually
have to get foundations here on
dust to see side of anything.
We still are team struggle on
the CT side because they're not
proactive enough and they sit
back a little bit too much and
the shell up and they get sort
like actually make life uncomfortable for G2 and that's what they're doing. They're getting up in
their face and not allowing them to play this map at their tempo so far and G2 are having to do a
lot of late round or kind of mid-round adjustments that are making life super difficult. It's fun
to watch because Mongols tactically are destroying them at the moment. Yeah for sure and this is
the G2 pick as well. You've got a that that comes into the conversation around the two timeouts and
you know things just not looking good. I've said it a few times I'm not really a big fan of stacking
things together you know it feels quite desperate but then you are desperate nothing's working so
so catch 22. Look at this triple stack B early round no mid presence though that's quite interesting
normally you have two towards B two towards A one mid if you're going to go for like a spread set up
having no mid presence completely given them they actually kind of if anything baits them in towards
that they're like okay I don't see anyone in towards mid maybe they're playing you know two
short one long back on the
area. Because of that, it
means that we can actually move
forward, but they fall away. They
don't fall for the ruse of beer.
They're double it back towards
the lesser man's sight of the
area.
There's a few things in play,
right? Like, A, you just had a
timeout quite common, especially
when you're a bit desperate,
nothing's working. It's just
out on B. Then you also have, if
it's not that, it's going to be
kind of calculated. So therefore,
if they go mid, they're going to
make noise, you know, you lay
down a smoke, some flash, you
You make your presence known that you are looking towards middle. So of course, we've seen
The move towards a is smart that's bomb
The 910 is here. He looks dangerous or the trigger discipline
We're going to count it a little late. It was a 360 goodness me Mongols are
Absolutely ruining G2 here because while all that's going on kind of looks funny. Are you bailed him out?
Mazzini also gets a two-piece.
Oh, I love it. Look at the spin.
We're going to count it.
We're counting it all day.
All day.
Wow.
Mazzini looks really sharp, though.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He has just held beautifully there.
Save this teammate who then gets a kill
and he just ends around himself.
So I would attribute most of that round to him.
Yeah, Mazzini doesn't super, super well, but, you know,
it's hard not to give your favor to the pirouette there by 9-10.
I know, I know.
It's really it's really quite elegant if anything we might go for a bit more of a standard be here potentially
We've got your credit pistols, but I need smoking money behind it now it needs just to try and ship them away
Techno's up close. It's a bit of a nice because by not paying the close corner off angle
Techno's got over look here
He's behind them all but he only gets one before he traded cobra for a double nine tens quickly
the game is going to be over
there to support a pop shot
through the box doesn't quite
confer heavy God Eagle only
gets one. So the B Park is
shut down pretty simply all
things considered. They barely
get out of the tunnel itself.
Eight and Oh, the Mongols are
fly. Everything's working. You
know, like that round, they're
able to defend against the B
rush. Yes, it's on pistols. But
I think it's a good idea to
get a bomb point out of it.
Yeah, exactly. You know, it
ends up being a bit stressful.
You have to cast your mind back
as well on this point to that
previous rifle round. They had
the majority of their resources
over on B and yet they're still
able to hold a pretty well. So
you know, everything is falling
into place for the Mongols. Um
and I really do now start to get
worried for G2 going to have to
the first half of the season.
This could be much better.
Techno looks caught off.
Taking down the B hold in an
instant, and I think it's an
instant save. In fact, as those
eight players are nowhere near
so G two. Lovely. Send the
feelers out there in that
previous round. Figure out how
they're playing their default.
And then they put it into action
here to find their first. That's
it's a lot of things. It's
got to go right for a 903 to
be recovered, and it does
really have to be a complete
crumble by the Mongols as
well. Realistically speaking,
but eight four is doable. Eight
four of a pistol forced by
first gun run before you know
it's a one round game, right?
And then that's where it
actually feels like it has
some legs behind it. That's
asking a lot for all we know.
It could be a complete flash
in the pan, but that is at
least a decent hit. I also
will say for Hunter, it's a
bold call. You've just been
It's a bold call. You've just been massacred towards being you go back there with the rifles. It's a really bold call to make, but it works. So I can get behind this.
Timeout taken. This is a Mongols timeout potentially. Yeah, it is. Mora wants to shut it down immediately. He wants to cut the bleeding
Instantaneously, which is respect being shown towards G2. I think he knows that this is a side that can scale quite quickly themselves.
The thing is though, I feel like we frame it as respect. I think they might frame it as a little bit of disrespect that it's like, they're just immediately, yeah, you know, yeah, you got around well.
that's all you're going to get and it is sort of the mind games because G2 are like, okay,
we got one on the board. Let's go. Let's go. You know, they want to keep moving into the
next round. They've got some ideas. They've maybe got information on a that can now work
with. They're a bit more confident. Let's try that a round that didn't quite work last
time now that we've managed to get one. So I feel like they might frame it in a way of
you know, you lose a few. It's
like 83 or something. Then you
be like, Yeah, it's a
respect thing. Maybe it's a
mixture. It's hard to tell. Maybe
it depends on the team. That's
it. So. We'll never know. This
is quite important. They're
right. The G two, you go back
to back. You give yourself a
bit of springboard to see if
they're telling this off. We
don't. However, you get an
instant response from the
Mongols. You're in a troublesome
spot. And of course, the G
two, this recovery is going to
recovery is going to have to come essentially the hard way there's money to work with for Mongols basically the rest of this half
They're never going to get into a position really of being eco'd basically everybody is sitting so comfortably bark
Obra, who's gone for that secondary or and
Looks really really good
This feels predictable this feels really really predictable
I think that the Mongols
So ready for this after taking the time out of this is gonna be the approach
9-10 in a great spot, lit table towards the drop in towards CT, plays off for him,
down to some players, some Hunters now, 4G2 and they are just being kicked apart.
Pop shot on the smoke.
Yeah, single chance.
It's just so predictable.
I don't know if we can actually catch that. I swear 9-10 gets both of those kills,
he just pops the shot on the smoke.
I don't think you can see anything.
Yeah, I would have thought so.
He's just standing on the box and just shooting at the open.
Yeah, it might have been above it, so to say.
It's safe.
Either way, I think you're spot on though, like, really predictable.
This first one is fine.
They're dropped to smoke, and I just feel like he's just taking random shots, but he does
get that one just on the edge, okay?
What?
How is that through a smoke?
Yeah, that's just not through a smoke, then.
I was gonna say, I thought he was, like, on the box.
Unless there was one that was fully broken.
Yeah.
With the timing of that replay, but...
Alright, what is it?
9-1.
Still clean.
G2, right now calling 9-1-1.
are not looking good. Instant response from the Mongols and a flash in the pan round from
G2 is just not enough to recover this T side which is off it up so little. They take long
control early and the Mongols can't give them that control, they don't fight for it. Information
gain and they are going to throw that CT lurksmunk that just keeps them there. Once this one
on faith. It's going to replenish it. There we go. Let's land it up. Flash over. It's
going to come a little bit late though. They want the fight. I think they want the fight.
There you go. Like I said, it's late. Yeah, they're going to get ahead of it. Half the
team is ahead of that. Maybe that's part of the base though. They were kind of expecting
it on the dry swing from Mazzigio. Nice flash on the back. We're breaking the smoke here.
As well as trying to work from 9-10 of course, but not from the fantastic, and he keeps that trend up
Absolutely, and drops back to Gandalf here, will be beaten eventually
Blitz can't quite trade the direct kill, but he's still able to keep bits of control here
A quick attempt at the bomb plan will be successful, Matties, he wants it out of his hand so he can just take the fight here and remove some of that pressure
They are all over the place right now, it's so hard to work around, so hard to predict, it is going to be the stick
The off misses the shot and Techno goes down.
Oh!
Cannot save the day.
Cobra misses the easy one, lands the hard one,
and gets the double digits, making himself a name on this mongol side.
Yeah.
New boy on the block makes his presence known.
It's a huge two-piece from here.
It's also a huge star this round from 9-10.
This shot here is so, so valuable.
Two master ones.
I think Blitz pushing the smoke as well.
It just really throws that kind of seeds of worry over towards G2. They're panicking. They're so fostered
They don't know how many's gone through the smoke, but Cobriss does so well
We should secondary or looks great and there it is again. Yeah, do you reckon it's all part of like why they might have picked him up?
Because then to love to secondary or
Well, you know what I mean that it's like
On the Mongols I like you thinking however from knowing the Mongolian scene
He's just the only one that was good enough right
You know unfortunately there really isn't any other player that could have gone in towards this team
My controllers when he obviously stood in he was the only free agent. Yeah, it was qualified with the Huns
So he obviously was lost a lot
Yeah, he's like the only one who was really like
He's already had his time really
I think he has his own issues.
Let's just say, I don't know the ins and outs of it,
but I think a lot of people at one point were like,
why has this guy not been picked up?
Yeah, mechanically good enough,
but I think you're right.
But now Cobra feels like,
I think he was just at the time, the only one.
Also, he's young enough that he can't be molded.
So I don't remember him that much on the Huns
picking up all the nine,
because nine picks up basically all the time, right?
Yeah.
I feel like every time we would cast that side,
they were always slightly struggling.
So we never seem to have the money available to be double hoping. Let's say that's where they're putting it
So then see how often they was double hoping on the Hunts, but
It whether it's something that he always had in the locker or they've molded them into it
I think you're right. You know, it's something that sends you like to do and it's nice to always have that ability
We don't see many teams double or these days anyway. So it's nice having a team that
Exactly it's so risky
this is a great map for it right after like yeah it's like for me there's two
maps that you can wheel the double or like really affect the on actually three
I would say technically the ancient potentially is there as well one towards
B ramp one towards mid right but also it's kind of loose because you're
retakes your mid control can come through from donor anyway but then the
other one I would say is nuke I think nuke is real deep I thought you're gonna say
Mirage on a side no I actually think Mirage is too puggy for two orbs it's too
quick yeah yeah well I think nuke's long enough range that I think you can
double up. I've seen it play
in terms of an all tours ramp
and all tours outside and that
feels decent to me or all
tours heaven all tours around
that kind of thing. Also,
news, one of those maps that
maybe kind of similar to
inferno like, you know, let's
say it's a man disadvantage
retake. You're just safe.
Yeah, I'm not giving this
retake ago. So
well. Good chat for short. So
G2 find the last round of that
first half. But of course, I
think there's a sign to think
Yeah, it might just be over here crazy comebacks are indeed possible. I believe we've already had one out from 90 so true
You know, we'll see
If they are able to get things done here on that G2 side starts with the pistol has to go
Well it does indeed flash
Over the top nothing created just yet bits of damage, but yeah, no kills just yet
to keep an eye on this and
Blitz will come and join him.
This is an A split to in
towards short. The others
coming through long as Cobra
finds the first. They sort of
draw off Matty's from that long
long angle and this gives them
a free run of things and a flash
over now as well. Matties can
avoid it first time. Swings in
for the first and needs a second
which he does get so it keeps
G2 ever so slightly in this
round but numbers don't favor
them so somebody's got to be a hero
here. Bumble go down, tough post
spot and a non-message
advantage retake. Julie's not
landing. He had an opportunity
to maybe take one down. Well
He loses his head heavy God coming in from a different angle clean on the first probably gonna make them
Put some respect on his name
Maybe not what he wants. He wants some nice open fights the way to be honest
Okay, gonna get another
Playing the bomb now gotta be careful. I mean fight being taken. There's not a lot of time left on this one
It's planted quite nicely for 910 as well. Okay, heavy God can't do it might be able to take the kill for good measure
Yeah, that just kind of feels worse though
to get the pistol. It's
probably fine. Time gets away
from him and Mongols to get
the pistol probably starts to
hammer this one home. Sooner
rather than later. Definitely an
over fight, though. And they
make it a little bit too easy
for them to go. They just don't
need to face him. Like yeah, it's
10 to confidence. Yeah 100% You
could easily just sit there as
well with like one player was
going off the guidance was
because the bombs planted for
him for 9 10 and just the third
guy is maybe a bit of float
around to see what they can do
and then not sticking until it's gonna fighting from shore is a little bit wild.
It does give Heavy God a never-so-slight chance and not to be nade comes through
as Mongols wait it out.
Oh stop. Xenia continues to impress. Yeah not right at the top. Exactly. It's had those.
It's the kills he gets are like really impactful yeah.
Just so clinical yeah as well for sure
Take all head shot. I love to see his head shot. So do the end of this. I feel like this case
You could be like at least 80% it is true
Lot of utility to get them through the mid to be here to be a cap above
But nine-ten finds the only kill that you need
Let's go get the bomb. Yeah, you gotta be careful
Not learning their lessons the regular smoke doesn't fully cover it guy
You got a you know land on the box, but whatever it's all good in the end soft safe here from G2 as that bomb goes down
Will be
For all the same
All about saving now, which even that might come into question. Oh my god
Now gonna be heavy gone there vaguely aware of him definitely aware of him now he's low on ammunition
Surely has to go down
and I don't think G2 is really going to be able to do anything about this, that just two is all but over here folks.
My goodness, I mean we were expecting two absolute bomb burners here on Astana today but it has not been the case so G2 going to have to turn things around on their opponent's map pick.
One that are capable on themselves but still not looking good.
Yeah, really? Where are G2 at the moment?
Not seeing them shop to play at all.
10 map points for the Mongols on the opponent's map pick.
Brilliant spot to be in.
And of course, not the force fight in the previous round.
Of course, we've got a force fight here again.
It's not great, but Nerds are opening up proceedings at the very least.
Mazzinho, first and fourth.
Well, that didn't make it out, guy.
He doesn't care. Yeah, I meant to do that
It's all part of the plan actually I wanted to hear that
It's 12 to yeah, you know give him a little you know, I mean like it's fine. You know, he tries to
Be cool about it
You know a guy
fall it over or whatever trying to play it off nice and cool
will be a return frag as Nert goes down in towards mid. That really threatens the B side
of things, honestly. So, yeah, these players are going to be a little panicky, a little
on edge for Shaw. The contact out through Shaw has worked pretty well here. Hunter may
well have been heard. That was some wood steps. Just taking them a second to react. All the
same shots are just landing, man. The Mongols doing what they do. This is certainly into
last year, maybe even the year
before really, really what they
came up on was that sharpness
and they've got it in spades here
this morning. Beautiful find from
them. On G2's pick of dust 2, they
went for the rep heavy map, maybe
could have picked into the
ancient we said, but they're
wishing they did now.
Yeah, absolutely in hindsight,
right? That was an absolute
non-starter coming through and a
real rough one to kind of
mentally recover from. You wanted
to kickstart this theory as well.
map here can happen which allows you individuals to shine and none of them do
and that's the issue when you go into all these buggy maps who is going to be
the one to step on mechanically and it was the Mongols by a landslide as well
so it's who a real kind of wake-up call for them this 10 to 15 minute break you
know generally teams normally like to go outside and have a little talk and a
little brainstorm I think he's hit the DM like that's the big thing for me they
offered us so little it is wild it is really really wild honestly with
you know, it's just how one
side of it was. You know, I
could certainly have seen the
Mongols taking it and. Matt
that they have a history on, but
in that fashion feels kind of
crazy just goes to show sometimes
what the gap could be between
top 10 playoff buying top four
relatively consistently. Maybe
not this year, but in the past,
of course, you know, major
finalist things like this. And
the top 10. They have the odd
win. If a playoff bracket goes
their way. Um, but yeah, the
Mongols obviously so much history
behind them and just. Man, some
crazy shots. It's Cobra zero
towards the top there, which is
really nice to see. I knew he
three separate players on 100.
They are, you know, 19 just
misses out. I mean, that's
mental again. Three different
guys have stepped up in
situation. I thought 19 look
good all the way from from the
get go. But Cobra new boy
looking brilliant. Only five
and Blitz having his moments too, so really, really sick to see, but Cobra starts to find his form,
start to find his, you know, efficacy as a rifle in this team. I think at the start,
he was really uncomfortable. He didn't know really, like, how we should play, what aggression,
how should I look, how should I entry, how should I kind of be supporting the pack. And he's now
starting to find that comfort. And you can see, again, and this is kind of the story with Cobra
when he came in towards his team, it's like, mechanically, he's got it. It's just whether
he can take that step up. Like, from the Hunts to the Mongols, it's a pretty large step. Those two
sides are in completely different scenes of Incarna Shraig. One's a tier two and one's obviously
was at that top end of tier one. So really interesting to see. We've got the Inferno
coming up next though and this is potentially really, really, you know, worrying signs for G2.
All our bells are ringing off. I think it's kind of a statement we're saying. Inferno could be
more of the same. Another putty map, another map which feels like it relies on the individuals
and another map which we look at and say, G2, if you are not there in the server, you are in a hell
of a lot of trouble so we're feeling quite concerned and surprisingly somehow this is looking exactly
at the first areas of the day we didn't think that one would be you know one sided if somehow was
we could get the same here we thought both of these would be bar burners three mappers but
we might be wrong we're gonna have to find out though it's early doors only map one
Well I'll find out coming up next, hit type, I'll see you soon.
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G2 are coming into Astana as one of our elite and top teams.
I got Hunter with me leading this way through all of this.
I just want to ask you right because I haven't got to speak to you for a little while.
It's obviously, you had your foot thing, you went in one event, out one event, you came back to it.
How are you, like, how is life, how is it all going, being the IGL and going through all this?
I mean, it's been a bit tough period, especially when I fucked up my leg, let's say that way.
It was really painful at the beginning and I felt bad skipping this year in bed
because I felt we were in a good shape, in a good mood overall, to just play more, especially with Nertz.
And yeah, I mean, this is how it is. I'm recovering still, it's not the best, but it's getting better.
I'm able to play, that's the most important, and I'm just looking forward to play more.
In Dallas we didn't do what we wanted to do, I think we had some better chances to go until the end.
But yeah, I hope this event will be better, and that's what you'll try to do.
Talk to me right now just about where you feel the team is at, where some of the peaks I see in G2, it looks good.
But in some of the games you almost have in your hands, falls away.
What discussion is G2 having around what it could be?
Like what are you noticing in the game that maybe we don't see on the canvas?
Because people will just say, oh, they threw the round.
But what is it from your perspective?
Like that.
You just thought it.
Just like that.
Like I think overall we are playing good.
When people watch us, I think they are happy with the way we are playing and we are happy most of the time.
You know some small details, one or two kills, one or two rounds overall, especially when you play against top teams.
I mean, MR12, if you lose one or two crucial rounds by making a mistake or they are getting lucky because against us people are getting so much luck.
I don't know why, what's wrong with us, but I hope it will stop soon.
But yeah, overall, if you play against top teams, you need to be focused at every moment, every kilometre, and that's what we need to work on.
because I think individually and as a team, we can play anyone and we can be showed it already.
There are some small details that we need to fix and I hope that will be even that we'll fix and then for the major to be full ready.
Now someone who is not missing at all at the moment is Sampias.
This is, he seems to be in better form right now.
What have you guys been doing to enable that? What has changed?
Nothing really special has changed overall in like how we deal with the game together as a team
a team and how we are playing, it's just about him deciding to do some adjustments for himself
that will make me more comfortable and that will make the team more comfortable.
Of course we talk as a team how to make everybody comfortable in the team and confident.
And of course if you want to be a top team, if you want to be a consistent team, you need
Opera who is consistent and that's what we are getting lately and I'm really happy because
of that because he's the guy who really deserves it.
That stats I would say that he has lately because since he joined G2 he had tough time
but he was working really hard, he was helping everyone in the team,
he's always trying to lift up the mood overall and
we are all happy to have him in the team, I just hope that he will continue this way
and if he continues that way it will be easier for me and for all of us.
When you say it will be easier for you, does it also give you some more options?
As an IGR, how you want to play out around the cool around knowing that you can rely on him some more?
Definitely, especially because he improved a lot playing clutches overall
and it doesn't matter what is happening, that you know that your opera can clutch.
For example, that's why Monez is one of the best and he can win some unwinnable situations, not some, but a lot of them.
So yeah, that's Zayu as well. That's what makes the difference because you need to support some rounds and if you stay at the end of the round,
obviously 1v2 or 2v3, 2v4, that you are able to clutch those rounds because those rounds are making big difference mentally for us and for opponent.
Do you see yourselves as
title contenders as a team that can tell us that could this be where we see the
Good performance from G2 the one that you can be happy and proud of
I mean we didn't discuss too much about the goal of this event like where we want to go
Of course if we get a chance to go until the end we will take the chance definitely
But our goal is just try to improve now with nerds. This is like for second tier one event for for me and earth together
New team I didn't play Rio. So yeah
Our goal is just to be better every day to try to improve and then to be 100% ready and real G2 for the major
Real G2 for the major. Okay, you've got the plan. You've got the vision
You know what it's gonna be. Yeah, let's see if you beat your expectations and go further than what's ever possible when it comes to this
Astana hopefully
Hunter, thank you very much and good luck going into the tournament man. Thank you. Yes
you know, it's going to be a
difficult thing. I think. Yeah
very, very tough run on their
own map pick. Similar to our
first series is once again all
about this. What can you really
derive from that? Like can you
be happy about certain not
really because it just didn't
happen. So you have to kind of
ignore it. Move into inferno a
map they're capable on then
ancient. They're also capable
on so you know the veto is not
an awful thing here, but
really a vintage performance
from them. I think the belly
broke a sweat. I think it's
ultimately kind of the talking
point off the back of that. And
I think now as we look in
towards that number two, it kind
of has potential to be the same
sort of feeling. You know,
obviously we speak about this
map as what was generally in
this Vita process. We kind of
thought, right GT take their
dust too nice and easy infer
then take my mom goals and then
ancient gets interesting because
it favors you to but we're
right now. Jesus map pickers
falling apart completely mainly
They lead you to see the visuals, Cobra looking so unbelievably good.
And then on top of that, it's a G-Trader not awake, not on the server.
And now you go to the Mongols map pick, like all signs are pointing really, really poor
at the moment here.
So I don't know what you can really say in that like 10 to 15 minute break in between
maps.
Like it's, we always talk about this, like what sort of conversations can you have?
But realistically, it's quite difficult to just sort of, you know, your hunter of your
sword, just sort of say, like, forget about it, it's happened, it's done, start from fresh.
We can say that some football all the time is still 0-0.
That's obviously the kind of the standard saying, still 0-0.
But it's actually really difficult to do that.
So we'll see.
These are their past encounters, of course.
They've been each other a couple of times.
Last time out, though, ancient Dust 2, 2-0 towards the Mongols.
And then, of course, in Krakow, 2-0 towards G2,
ancient Dust 2 as well.
So it's changing the veto.
Of course, we get the Inferno.
There's a bit of a curveball in here.
But then again, while statistically ancient
I mean, it's one of these things, man. It's like, maybe they think the dust is not going to go so well for them on the Mongol side,
it's been some pretty one sided affairs there against them. I could have seen the Mirage being picked up here.
That feels like a more direct punish, but then we have kind of been criticizing a few teams in this tournament for looking for those punishes
rather than just being confident in their own games.
Also, how many times have we said, all right, a team's facing towards Mirage?
that's a great team. We're
going to have to go to the
tournament. We're going to
have to go to the tournament
source, Mirage and then last
time we're saying like every
series. Now it's actually
ridiculous. Big and it's all
Mirage are losing it. Mirage
like towards the end of go. We
had like just two is this great
equalizer. It can go either way
and all levels of the game, and
sometimes you would see, you
know, a low ranked team
qualifies for a tournament such
as Astana. And then they
punch up and they take a dust
two off of, you know, one of
the great teams at the
to be a sentiment that is a bit
shared. I'd love to pick the
brains of some of the slightly
higher up players, but we've
had a couple interviews with
some mid-level guys on things
we've been working on and
they've said, yeah, well, you
know, Mirage, sometimes you just
win it. Sometimes it just
happens because unless it is
your perma-ban as a team, a lot
of these players are built from
spamming Mirage for like your
first 2,000 hours of trying to
be a pro player. It's like,
right, how am I going to get to
face it 10? How am I going to
push to hire Relo on face it to
to really get noticed these days.
It's on Mirage, you know,
until you start to broaden your horizons.
No, exactly that.
And they're going to echo the sentiments that we say
it's not really about the stats,
it's about the individuals and who really shows up.
And that's exactly what we saw in the previous series.
And in Furlough, can be the same as well, right?
We looked towards that previous series
and gentlemen, it looks so good on this
because they found consistent gaps.
That T-Sat was excellent from them when we got to see it,
even on the CT as well, similar thing
where they weren't really given any control over to a row.
that's what makes life really
really difficult. They're very
least as well. The G two to get
that CT side start. It's not
always a blessing, though. I
would say while a lot of teams
prefer that CT side. The
Mongols dictating the pace, the
tempo on T side, and that's the
big thing for me. And that's
kind of the rule. The real
why I'm so worried about the
fact that I'm not going to be
able to get that CT side
start. It's not always a
blessing, though, I would say
while a lot of teams prefer
that CT side. The Mongols
dictating the pace, the tempo
on T side, and that's the big
the game. I mean, I think
I'm not really sure what he
wants. Just don't want to be
waiting and waiting and.
Brewing stewing getting into
this second map, of course, I
think, particularly if you are
G2 just getting started and
let's. Fresh slate. New team.
I've been kind of want to try
in years recently like for
gaming like I want to see how
much you know I use them for
casting at one point. Was it
really not suited to like in is even with all the different rubber types and
they were like memory foam ones. So maybe I got to pay like 10 grand to get those
old yeah rock stars using stuff but I had the same issue like kind of money
I had myself I think what they called like a certain type of airports like
the airports like not mark split pros or whatever rubber tips right exactly
right to get the other airports that don't have the rubber tips that still
I think I've maybe got like small ear canals, which is strange because my ears are massive so
Flappin' about that dumb boi, but either way
They don't do any hearing for you, you know, that's the that's the catch wind unfortunately
We are live though into was the game Mongols do get that he's I start them up pick
So this is the worry right if G2 cannot start. Well, I wonder how their mental state is going to be
I wonder how their mental state is going to be.
This Pisteron could be very, very telling.
Indeed.
P250 in Banana by itself.
Just also have a flash over there.
So really trying to keep attention, throw them off.
Flash on towards Blitz, he will go down.
Nice thought.
Heavy God though, unable to spot them.
Oh, in the apartment, 910 over Zealust
as he's got knife in hand.
Wow, a dominant pistol here
by the looks of things, Cobra Zero, the only one left.
Fade away, autumn of the three.
Gorgeous, absolutely beautiful from heavy God.
Yeah, that's a really good pistol round.
What a way to start.
They absolutely not only needed the pistol round,
but honestly, getting a pistol round like that
adds even more to the table, right?
It's kind of that talking point of like right now
we can really start ramping up, right?
Map number one, we weren't there, we weren't warm.
But in Farno, here's where we can start bringing a little bit of something to the table.
That's great to see. Have you gone like so good.
This final kill as well. A butte.
Three to his name.
And you get your superstar shining nice and early, which is great.
Never really got to see that, unfortunately.
Towards that map number one.
Triple eight. How has Nerd survived that?
Somehow, some way, with a sliver of HP, he's still alive.
I mean, that is crazy. I mean, it's the absolute perfect place for them.
Perfect for them as well.
Yeah, those nades man.
Not as bad in this version of the game, they have had a bad reputation for being inconsistent.
What? Damn it, somebody's got, you know, Hunter comes round though, to bail them out.
And we see another eco-eight for Hunter.
And see how he's been absolutely farming. Last time we caught G2, he also was able to take a round very similar to that.
So, he's good on the stats, good at collecting those Ecos.
Yeah, against Fisher College was on an issue wasn't it?
On that A-state.
It's run at him nice and easy, it's kind of stubbly here.
There's a bloodhound for it, it would seem.
You can smell the lack of armor.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, I guess so.
It's a very in-tune kind of sense.
Yeah.
Very specific usage.
Anyway, we've got the big key round here, of course.
The Mongols straight in with the fire as soon as possible.
The good test to see what is on the horizon here for G2.
G2 its head shots galore they find two kills like it's nothing and they will be able to reset for this five on three
Yeah, they cut through that initial B defense like a hot knife through butter
And now they've got a lot of space to work with but G2 have replenished the defenses always be quite quickly
They've rotated to over there
It's only some pious left towards a and he's got a lot to do to hold down the floor
Oh my god. No that won't kill by some pious. They're gonna cancel. They're gonna go back towards B. And this is the wrong call
Matty's up close with an MP7. This could all crumble right in front of our eyes.
Heavy God's on the corner with an MP9. The second contacts taken. Heavy God off switch. Here's the first.
He then moves. He only gets one. So B site now opened up again for a second time.
And again it's 9-10. They get the pivotal kill. But they might also cancel again as they fall back.
50 seconds. They've got time to play with it. It's 1 vs 3. All they have to do is stick together.
they want to keep it, uh,
successful economically. I
think also it's getting in the
heads of your opponent. You
know what I mean? Like. Throwing
unpredictability into a moment
like this into just all round.
I think it's going to keep G2
there for a bit nervous and now
you can play fakes in future
that are not really fakes and
things like this, you know, going
to be very, very difficult for
you know, it's going to be
very, very difficult for G2 to
seemingly get the read on you.
But also just goes to show
discipline at every turn for
the Mongols as well.
Never
overstep. Never consider
around done until it truly is
done. Yeah, agreed.
So I like it. I like it. It
might seem a little silly.
I just sort of rotating and
rotating and note now we're
We're going a oh you can't catch us, but actually there's a lot of logic here. I think yeah, no, exactly
Awesome bias all gets serenaded by the hymns here in the chapel, but
Yeah, where are those speakers or is it just it's divine intervention mate, it's just yeah
It's a nice touch to the map it is
this than there was in Go. Yes, there is to be fair. So I bet there's a lot of scope.
I might have to start teaching myself some other songs. Yeah, yeah, right. Baby Shark was quite
intuitive. It's quite a simple tune. I didn't even learn it. I just figured it out. Why is one
of the greatest songs ever written, you know? It's true. So musical masterpiece.
The second of the dance as well. You can't get out of your head. Exactly. And now everybody at home,
I'm going to be stuck in your
head for the rest of the day.
Yeah, that's cool. Important
round here for G2 to get a
response course. You get that
Sumpire save. He'll drop it
over and he'll reinvest into
was an orb. But. Quite
important one. You lose this
G2. Mongrelside the game and
probably take a lead by
virtue of your and no money to
kind of push and pull that previous round and, you know, they're kind of foiling with them a little bit.
How do things change here? Nice little double from Sekiro and Kogura, but Nerds will find one
just before that to give a little bit of life towards G2, even still, the numbers favour the Mongols.
Yeah, it gets a bit weird. We have all that going down along, then they're like pushing banana,
but there was a guy on the other side of the smoke, now they're wrapping in towards CT, which, you know,
can be very, very difficult, but they are looking sharp here, Hunter.
still around and not expecting him he needs trading oh man brings it down to the
two versus two blitz as well distracted away as heavy God's coming in at the
bottom banana he does well to keep his cool hunter however still has a chance
they're very very very low time he looks to try and maybe drop that bomb once
again on the spam not quite gonna be able to get away with it but he's
canceling the plant, Baraton comes in, forces him forwards and it's blitz to get it done
He knows he's not peeking Hunter. So therefore I feel like Hunter should be saying be careful. He could be looking bananas
No, he's not facing me in all that quickness. Yeah, I think Hunter is just trying to stay alive
One bit like one banana. Yeah, sure, but they think that
They're after Hunter that they're gonna be zoned in on him
So, you know heavy gods trying to help his teammate out of it and that's right smart from blitz to dip back and not get
that. Yeah, it was a one. To
four B to a split respectively,
but the three from that a stack
of rotating over off the back
of the very small amount of
contact. From the Mongols
bomb is heading towards A. So it's just heavy god here.
Feels like at most you can really do as a consolation kill that long smoke that was thrown by the Mongols now phase and you can start moving their way forward.
I wrap through if they overcook it and start wrapping into wars that CT spawn that's what I'm going to get worried.
And I feel like they might. Yeah. And part of the reason is because Technus heard nothing.
I'm not quite dedicated. Yeah,
we're going to have to 20 seconds
remain. Could get very bloody
over here. One well placed shot
could actually change things
massively. My goodness, it is
close, but they do manage to
clear out the site and indeed
ready for heavy God. It's about
eight seconds get up on down. So
you know, if they don't molly
it's just a little bit of a
little bit of a molly new box
or something like that. And
one of those players goes
overlooked. It would have been
the other way. Really, really,
really dangerous stuff. But
all the same. The Mongols get
it. They get the lead here now.
And it's a slower going beast,
but they are starting to get
that ball rolling G two are
going to have to put a stop to
it. With a big buy. Yeah, it's
definitely a little dicey.
Oh, with that being said, Mongols, leave taking and...
They can snowball this through a few more to kickstart this.
These guys are such a fantastic spot.
Early maid's over. No, it's going to run through the flames to get out of there.
Triple stack, B early.
Again, it's not a commit tool, but they're getting good map control early.
They do it early enough in the round for the Mongols
and they have time to rotate away.
We've seen them do this the last few.
Blitz is now stuck, though. He needs help.
I'm trying to force their way to help. It's re on B though. I'm very scary to deal with,
but I'm going to be able to find multiple really force the issue there over to B, haven't
they? I think, you know, he's mollied in the corner, get the smoke down, let's play around
that. Zeno for a moment gets my hopes up, but not able to get it done. It's going to
to the right of you. You're
going to be in line 10. With
the or just have the drop on
one. Has to take the kill,
though, and the bomb is just
so far away from the action. So
you don't really fancy his
chances. It's not impossible.
Pretty improbable here. 9 10
picking up the past as he's
trying to just fall. Hills
will keep them coming. He's
left very low there. It's
I think you're too upset. I'm
upset losing the round. Yeah,
exactly. I think that round
unfortunate is completely lost.
The second that Blitz gets
stuck like that's it. Like
there's nothing really else you
can do at that point because
they have to spend so much time,
resources and essentially lives
to save him. Two other players
go down before them Blitz and
by that point, the rounds are
lost cause I think you have to
leave him alone. That's the
only thing you can really do.
We can only really say that
when you're in the game.
you can really do and we can only really say that with the benefit of hindsight
but essentially you have to just say yeah you're dead mate like that's it like
we're gonna go do something else like he probably has to make the call a little
bit of say leave me here I'm just gonna just start changing my utility and keep
attention drawn and maybe you guys can go on here hey but I think by the time
you figure that out it's too little too late that's response of G2
indeed it is so already looking to make things a bit more competitive here
although I would argue that's not that hard.
Have to keep it.
Well, they've already done it, haven't they?
Yeah, I suppose.
But yeah, they definitely have to keep it looking good here.
And it's rounds like these are going to be key, you know,
forced into a tough economic situation here for the Mongols.
They decide to go for it rather than playing it super safe.
And therefore, G2 have got to capitalize on the fact
But there's two tech nines on the other side of all this.
Dangerous games in and around that fire.
Quick trade comes in.
It will take that.
That's one of those tech players that goes down for a rifle on the other side.
So my bad result on the four on four.
Flash ineffective.
Heavy God despite being out of the open is completely unblinded.
910 finds himself all alone again here.
He is looking good.
They're not only more than this being left on low HP,
Slam comes in, and G2 will get it.
I mean, if I'm that trade in banana,
they opt to go for a waterfall play through a smoke.
Yeah. Mongols are playing confidently.
I think it's safe to say, you know,
that first map might have done a bit more damage
to their mental than you might actually expect.
Yeah, loose and fast, I think,
is obviously kind of that Mongol style
where it's very much like on the fly,
but the rule that kind of kills the Mongols there
Unfortunately is the wall to the light is nice until just as they're about to pop a smoke plume
Yeah, I guess like infrapenny infrapenny also misses. Yeah, exactly
And then the second flash takes too long to come and at that point, you know too little too late
And then that kind of is the story at the moment for the Mongols
What more for like 910 though matter what's happening. He continues to be a real difference maker
Not another deco. We had one in our previous series a beautiful one from gentlemates
It's coming back.
On that beast type of mirage, and yeah, you might get more here.
And I like the way a lot of teams doing it.
This is actually exactly the same as what
Gents mates are doing.
You're only two players invested towards the Eagles,
everyone else low buys.
If you've got the money, why not?
You know, they were probably the guys that found the most
kills in the previous round.
It doesn't affect their buy too much.
Trying to stack up here.
It's a clean crossfire.
Take one.
Got to find the second nicely.
And they do.
They do.
one on three. You give this a go if you're Matty's. I think there's an army to make no.
You have to try and save this though to be honest. Yeah, they don't have the money.
Hunters, some players, heavy guns, they're all low in terms of the count.
Yeah, no, I'm supposed to save as the wrong, you know, rescue.
Yeah, rescue the wrong. I actually don't think you can give it a look in.
I think financially it's the wrong call. I think you have to save this.
Nothing comes his way early, so he will indeed. Move away.
That is rough. That is very, very rough. Yeah, absolutely.
They'll still be able to create a bit of a buy in the next round, but even then it's just one drop
Probably needed two if not three. Yeah, so we'll see what they actually do with it
I'd be a little missed if they don't
Try and put together a buy if it does end up just being M4 and
Some upgraded pistols
You could drop one is the thing right?
Unlike one point in the moon. Yeah, not
Why the worst?
Oh yeah, sound!
Sound!
Yeah!
Alright, cool.
That's insane.
That's a watch the clock and then take the shot kind of.
Even that one from Cobra.
Yeah.
That's an insane round.
He's feeling good.
He's feeling good.
He's feeling good.
It's just great to see because he was so sick on that first map.
He bit a little quiet this odd off here but we'll be interested to see what we get.
They don't buy a round this though.
you know, you might get away
with it. They're unarmored and
you've got a kid. They are
moving to the stack here,
though. This could be a little
funky. Keep a little eye on
this be here.
Chain of utility made onto
water.
You know, I'm not going to
get away with it. I'm not
going to get away with it.
I'm not going to get away with
it. I'm not going to get away
with it. I'm not going to get
See, made on towards CT, only going to affect some pious.
And with the lack of response, Mongols
are going to go searching elsewhere.
I think this is the right course.
Just have a little poke and prod.
See what else we can uncover.
And potentially if Mizzino keeps looking,
he'll realize there's no one here towards A.
I'm worried they're going towards this stack there.
That bomb's coming to join them.
Yeah.
Could be really dangerous.
Good smoke.
I think what you do here is Mazzinio scales, advances, gathers info, but he's not.
He's on the side of them.
Yeah.
It's gonna be a blop on.
It's too little time to cancel.
I think you have to throw Mazzinio in towards that A-bomb side before you fully go for it here.
Player spotted up on the boost for sure.
First one comes in, two USPs darting about, but they've dropped that M4 importantly really, really quickly and easily, actually.
So it's going to be nerds low HP down. He goes they will see it off heavy and four actually not able to get anything done
Yeah, up on that boost you would expect it to
Thread through all those usp's get lost in the source as it were
Somebody won't happen and indeed not able to get anything done. So mongol's starting to streak ahead a little yes
It's 5-4, but it feels a bit more mongol sided to be honest just the nature of
of the rounds, the fact they've got a few more gun rounds on the notches, so G2 going to take a timeout ahead of this one.
I'll say also a bit of a style of relief, just to only take a couple of casualties there, like it really could have been a lot more expensive.
Well done that they make sure it's clean enough in the trades.
We've seen rounds of that, not only kind of either fall apart, yes, but even if there's still one, it's only like one staying alive,
and that's where it did maybe have a bit of a knock on effect. It's not exactly like the Mongols are flushed for cash
Either way lead taken
G2 that you could that previous the buyback in but I must win one to keep this first half competitive
There's still a chance that Mongols can streak at the tail end for an 8-4 half and that would put you in a really uncomfortable spot
So for me this round number 10 probably the most important round
We've had so far in the series the Jesus will really keep this competitor. I think if they lose this they're
In trouble for things dwindling quite quickly
Does certainly feel that way
10th round there for that's angle senior gonna go down
Be honest with you so nice from heavy guard, but the brackets move far more successful
and I'm not sure if both players would have been spotted out heard out in the apartments
all the same some pirates in their advanced position here trying to maybe get another
kill for his squad a minute left on the clock plenty of options for the Mongols
clearing this angle is so difficult 910 sort of hoping that some pirates
Flash, ow, it's Cobra getting away with us, I'll get a shot off.
As you reposition Smolly on towards the corner, swing behind this, everyone's blind as Tecno
will deliver one, but have you got still alive, still cooking, still finding kills, but Tecno
will see him off.
Double versus two to Matty, Tecno's one foot in the grave, Blitz gets in behind, the flank
is beautiful, it's bountiful as Mongols find six, and a really important gun round does
not go the way of G2, so the Mongols not only now, worst case scenario, they should be taking
a lead of the half.
So frustrating I think to be honest, they're really, really quite close to getting it done.
Matties narrowly misses out on the kill, would have advanced forward, probably you know, doesn't
get sideswiped so it's pretty unlucky in a lot of senses of the word we're gonna
get that low buy into this round for G2 have we gone with a slightly heavier
investment into the MP9 yeah should be seven like you say and eight more
likely than not so a bit more work required here I think that's to be
expected right because just do so ridiculously one-sided you can't really
bank on both maps going that way but Mongols obviously have a lot of knowledge of this
map. We've got another stack coming in from G2. Hunter, I'm close. It's one smoke left
for GTS to work with. Double
slack on short and long. So we'll see
if these, sort of, two-pronged attacks
can actually find anything. But the
Mongols are walking into it. However,
they've walked into a few stacks already
and come out on top. So, let's count the
contact here, the fight all fall in place
for the Mongols. And it's just really
the benefit of the fire power. Matty's
nice kind of doubles from him, but I
can't really see too much more coming
behind this. The Molly in the smoke is a
a bit of a miscom. It doesn't allow him to repeat because there's a gap there. And they
are also being flanked. Nerds makes his move. He then drops a smoke. The Mongols are getting
suffocated in here. They have to go to A.
Yeah, not a lot of time. It does look a little scary for a moment, but just that stronger
weaponry is what allows them to stay on top. Nerds can be the only one left here. I was
going to say, you might think about a cheaper head armor, but then Techno finds him. So,
Yeah, techno really the eco warrior in the past couple of rounds at times
It is going to be that seventh. They managed to take the lead
G2 looking a little stressed out in places, but heavy God with a smile on his face could be a good sign
Yeah, so not so much
I love on top
Stone words for him. It's like he was speaking to nerds as well. So
You see what nerds cook up with this, he's got a famas in the round.
We're having this whole final of this half.
Longdolls get the 8th, I don't really see that chance of recovery and that's what they were cooking, a re-aggressive course top and honour.
And if I like that that was ready for it, he just doesn't win out the aim-doll. The flash doesn't actually affect him.
Big pick up and maybe part of what Hunter was talking about with him trying to get some space in the early round.
Kong also, they move fast, they look to exploit gaps as quickly as possible.
Lits will go down so things not looking too fast.
It's a big five from 910 on the crack angle material who appears out of nowhere silently dropping like Batman to find that frag.
I think we're going to have
to get to the bottom side of
this. We're going to have to
get to the bottom side of this
bottom side of this. And G2. It
would be a save, but of course
it's that final round. Got to
try and go for this. Check
angle. Matties will fall nuts.
Surely not long for this world
either. Those managed to find
the first ball of smokes to move
through here. Cobra Sierra is
low, but this becomes Yeah,
really weird kind of way to get
into what's that bombsite so we
will go down eight to four. I
the Mongols looking really really good. Yeah. Cannot complain about what I'm seeing so far
from this Mongol side and they just look quite dejected now unfortunately. G2 it's safe to
say I better tilt coming through. You can kind of see it on Hunter's face and the way in
which they talk in this half time break. But everything that Kangaro is and I think for
the Mongols the bulk of these gun rounds going their way is what's shoring up the success
of this side and we look towards the second half now. Moving on to the CT, the Mongol
Star of a pistol, for me that's it. That's this map, this series done in a pretty quick
fashion as well. It's kind of one of those like we were heading in towards our fourth
map of the day before the second series started on the A-Street. So we've had some really,
really quick maps to counter strike, especially when we both thought about the same camp thinking
like these could actually both be three mappers.
Like they had the potential to be really quite even games
and there'd been anything but.
Straight to four.
This pistol is massively important for G2.
That's an understatement to be completely honest.
You lose this.
I think you lose it up in the series.
And then they go to the one two, which is crazy.
Yeah.
It's a scary place to be.
It is a very scary place to be.
might end up facing off against some difficult teams in the 2-2 bracket, you know. Maybe
a spirit ends up there, you know, or something like this. It's going to be, yeah, well,
yeah, Falcons, yeah, you know, it's going to be a pretty worrying spot. The long run
back for whoever loses this one. And both teams, I think, want to be making it to playoffs
with a matchup like this. And both might not be in the case, you know.
in from CT so looking good five versus three straight out of the gate there is no kit available but
they should be able to overwhelm and that's exactly what they're doing any kills at all
for G2 now because the question is tapping a hold onto that bomb they look to fight their way
through here G2 they can't drop the diffusing player though and it will be Mongols to take the
pistol in very dominant fashion. Yeah for all of us as well I mean if that isn't a statement I don't
I don't know what it is. G2 non-existent here in this series, only two rounds in that entirety
of them I pick a dust 2 and 4 so far as, I mean it's a horrible spot to be in. Bomb
plant does always mean 4-spy or generally means 4-spy if that retake is so well done.
The first couple shots I come through, but I also love the way that Blitz approaches
this. You know, he's a solo Bianca and smoke comes down towards Coffins. He realizes I
I shouldn't really fight for this. I'm just gonna pull back and he plays all the way back deep CT
And he's hoping fights them into his territory rather than fighting on their terms. I respect it. It works
Quick note on the page spot. I also love cover there on the angle. Has he got two of them? Yes, he does
Big fines for the A bomb site self has fallen. Unfortunately
Little bit of a it's the spam for the heart. Yeah barrel
looks weird either way still looking to give this a go here there's no kit
immediately available loads of useful maybe could soften them up maybe could
take one down in fact yeah lovely off the barrel here
it's gonna be really weak and actually goes down to the second
or at all however heavy
just more down goes over looks absolutely fantastic stuff delivers when
called upon as the Mongols will lose out against the force by so cool and me
intrigued now now and you know I think part of that probably comes from the
fact that they thought nerds the only one there they thought the Molly was
It's spread to Heavy God's angle and it doesn't.
Molly is all around him.
You can see the scorch marks on the floor,
but it just doesn't spread to his position.
Really, really well done from Heavy God.
Keeps them afloat.
Such an important aftertake.
The Mongols in a weird spot,
but they have to force my back in themselves
so they can bring even less to the table.
Pistol's out for the Mongols here.
that's what we're going to do.
We're going to have a lot of
smoke. They say we'll have
plenty of utility to go out.
They may well be able to find
some damage. Hunter left very,
very low. In fact, and a lot of
smokes over on B would expect.
So cover off the choke point
cover off the choke point.
Looking to get. Really good
timing on these. Yeah, all the
smokes over there, but it's
going to get another one in
towards C T Cobra got one of
A S C T maybe follow that up. The timing of all these smokes has to be perfect. And there
it is. Maybe G2 have actually released their main attack. They are just not moving through.
They break the smoke open. They weren't even close to hit. The flash is pretty good on
the first. Blitz is close, but not close enough. They will still try and give us a go. The
remaining two players. Hunter
very, very low from the earlier
need. Lucky to be alive. I'm
tense. The eagle kind of out.
Well, we've seen the shot.
They're off. I was one of those
like, is it really even worth
saving the half armor and a
couple of good things like
maybe you've got like a couple
of rifles here or like even
like SMGs. I could sort of
understand it trying to reuse
them in towards the next
but the eagle in the five seven
five seven I don't think it's gonna really bring that much to the table and who knows we've seen
two decos already this this game uh this uh this game and I say so one of the previous game one of
this game so I guess I shouldn't talk too serious but either way safe call means it gets made for G2
it was looking a little dicey I thought the U2 was really good I dived through the CT smoke
with a nice idea as well gets a little close gets a little expensive but in the end all that really
G2 care about is another round on the board and chipping away that deficit slowly but surely
one more kill from one of the pistols there i think could have turned the tides for sure
but not the case so G2 hanging on maybe starting to close the gap make mongols worry
perhaps a timeout to come through for the mongols headed into their first rifle it's going to be
the eco here. 910 goes down
early. He was one of those
pistols that we spoke of.
Not looking so good this time
around.
Techno finds himself alone.
Late smoke comes in.
Confirmed the location of
another player.
Meanwhile, out towards me.
They will see him off.
So G2 looking good here.
No funny business this time
around.
Yeah, that's the easy
technical last round.
They know his thoughts be as
well.
They've just seen a pop shot
on that smoke.
Simple stuff.
going hunt to see him off they may as well. They know there's going to be a buy-in towards
next hunt anyway but they've got enough residual cash to make an afford to lose a rifle. Maybe
not two but they can trade something out of the rail. These techno's still hovering around
coffins and church. Now they actually have quite a lot of respect here. They think he's going to
re-aggress and towards banana. For me, still happen late in towards the round. He's clearing every
angle and maybe the patients might pay off. Hang on. He's going exactly to where they are.
Not to see it off. Simple stuff flawless for G2 as well, which is really good to see.
And now they're reaching distances. It's a two round game and a reinvestment for the Mongols,
which is massively important. You lose this. G2 will have tied this game up basically.
They get the eighth and you've got no money heading into the wars. The ninth should follow up
pretty simply
Kind of interesting on the BRS
Nothing changes
They will go down to us because they have more to lose yeah in in a way
Gets very very tight in towards that top 10 of course
We're also getting into the top 10 itself can be a bit tough
It's a bit of a
It's a bit of a
It's a bit of a
It's a bit of a big round on the cards here. Among goals in with something that looks a little shaky, you know, we got the famas, famas I not quite sure.
But there's a couple of them.
I think you should get a family. Yeah.
I think you should get a family. Yeah.
It's always tough
It's always tough
to make them work
not that often that you see them bought up so readily you know what I mean like
they've really wanted to lean into the utility for this round and so far done
nothing with it really you know I mean like it's not really getting a lot of
any damage and they still you know for the remainder of this round it's a couple
of smokes one Molly in a few flashbangs I wouldn't even say it's like perfect
when you take the utility either let's say what can one of that said fam I do
on the corner.
We're within the crash stage.
We're really struggling here.
And he's the spot for TDO.
We're struggling to hit him.
He's shot the floor.
But back in our basket,
we'll deliver 180.
Can't fight it.
He needed that so desperately.
There's so many fights
and so many fronts.
That gives T2 the site.
Great game, though.
Oh, Blitz going to go down.
However, I think he tried to make
a move through that smoke.
Before his teammate was
necessarily in position to help.
It's all so very low.
It really is close.
on those losing sight of this map quickly as well.
I think they have very, very firmly taken their eyes off of it,
thinking that they'd done enough.
Decent first half pistol in the second.
The G2 have turned things around here.
There's still work to be done, but looking very, very
comfortable at the moment.
Yeah.
They hit eight fours, a half, and they're obviously
nine to follow up and you're feeling like at this point we're so close to the finish line and
they're further away from Austin we are seeing off the series and it's all slipped away
taking their foot off the gas they've started to kind of cruise a little bit and it's been
too simple for g2 to catch up now one round game which should be very easily tied up by g2
it's one save from us and a couple of upgraded pistols a little bit of utility to work with
But by all metrics, this one should be pretty simple to find.
I'm about 18.
I have all this techno do of that save Famous as well.
How do they try and facilitate him?
No, it is true. I mean, just kind of leaving him to his own devices at the moment.
Over and towards along.
Anchor him.
The boss goes in. It is good.
Very good.
Matty sees them off.
So again, one would presume no funny business here.
Techno opens.
Oh, my gosh.
It's close.
It's very close.
He's got some bullets off on him,
but not able to fully transfer.
So G2 going to even things up.
Angles.
Where the hell has the game gone?
How has this happened?
They will be asking, but G2 are now starting
to threaten map number three.
Does Blitz save this?
I feel like you may as well.
I mean, obviously, you're buying it towards the next round,
but there are issues that we've seen over the last kind of few rounds of play.
I've really been about finances.
So sure enough, in any way, I have some long term help.
I've hit for him on 39.2 HP.
Yes, got the full belt of utility,
but there's no way that he can comfortably give a one versus three looking.
So with that being said, game tied up nine all and G2,
who have looked lackluster for essentially what was three out of the four halves played here and
they looked so poor all the way throughout. DC is now finally with their awake and kicking and
all it took was a little bit of a streak. A few rounds in succession allowed them to snowball.
They're a good spot.
The mongols I'm worried. 9-10 to get us off out.
out. Save them for the buy
out. Yeah. Feel like. I don't
know. Whatever. I'm always
critiquing when they come out,
but sometimes you've got three
left. I'll join you here and
saying this is way too late. I
think. The last gun round we
should have had one. Yeah. Maybe
want to be really pedantic is
something that we've spoken
about. Actually the second they
lost that first round in this
you know, they did that on map one. Why not do it here? And you've got so many to play with if
you're not needing to use timeouts until your second half. You can be very liberal. It's a privilege.
It's a benefit of playing well in that first half, not having to really worry about things.
No, I think it's bottom. Lord of Chatter on the G2 side. See what they are going to go for here.
some pious they're getting very vocal but having another rough map is awkward to say.
Snape's coming in. Uh oh, uh oh, Techno. You can't see. He goes down, does blitz.
Despite Hunter being pretty blind, there's a lot of nades into WCT here.
What are they going to get you?
Is it another question? Cobra with a crazy find does get traded back.
Has he bottomed up for his teammates?
Maybe we're going to find out, of course, a break to the smoke here, comes in a nice advanced position however it's over.
It's over. It is absolutely over.
Mazzini-O is going to pick up the AWP and try and get out of here.
He goes there on him.
We'll take one.
Fakes it out a bit.
It's definitely not locked in that he's not going to try and go for this, but...
He doesn't even get flanked as well.
The game has gotten away from them.
Yeah, he's trying to hide and play inside. He knows the flanks are possibility.
They also basically know where he is by virtue of the position of heavy god and now for Matiz.
Oh no, he was stuck with the pistol.
Double digits, the first five to crack into it. Off the 8-4 half in favour of the mongols.
You see two, nine.
Technic just couldn't get his throat down and five.
I feel like you have one out. Yeah
You're dying tough
Hunter gets his second full blind as well like a little bit of fortune goes the way to you to there
But nonetheless, it's a really nice execute towards be pacey punchy get up in the face of the Mongols and they panic
They get flustered
Mental that the Mongols are able to put together a buy here that yeah, that's crazy
Don't think it's gonna make a difference due to our really just in the groove at the moment
Sight's firmly set on that third map and really looking comfortable as this T side's
gotten going opening kill for them of course and Mongols are right back to square one
I think that might just be another save to be honest I think you're right
I think he wants to get away.
Senior is not far away. He's
trying to upgrade his gun if
he can't. I think he wants to
get me all. I believe it might
already have been joined. You
know, you might just have missed
the timing on that. Yeah.
Lovely clever. Maybe a needs done
that to be fair, but all the
same. No all for you.
Yikes. I'm ready to. More save.
I do think the G2. You know
you've got money to burn and you're already
making your side stuff the gate your mayors all try and get the last two
coverage into those new box technos on the cross as well
black trying to stay alive but it won't be the case heavy got a nerd to combine
things go from bad to worse two rounds ahead two rounds away from G2 pushing
They will opt to buy in as they can just about make it look
Okay, rough around the edges, but
Have a flip of the pillow and nobody be able to tell I do think it's the right call though
Especially just specifically for the Mongols. They love a force by you know the name
But also I feel like
With things falling so quickly out of their control like I think you need around out of nowhere to break the dead lock
I want that is sort of unexpected. Let's say
have any sort of chance.
The double bollies set up as well.
Again, it's really successful at the moment for G2.
Big fine from Blitz though is 910 managed to get one up through apartments.
Techno looking to just upgrade his weaponry.
There's a lot of this going on.
You have to be careful not to get caught scrambling for guns.
It has happened a couple of times.
Meanwhile, it's out 9, 10, eyes.
Maybe not quite on the prize there.
Let's just rotate it quite fast, however.
Oh, he could have gone.
They really were not considering him.
Nazinio hitting the way in the mini pit.
Dangerous game to be playing here.
They've advanced as well to take him down,
but he still manages to find one.
It's going to be into the two versus one now
for heavy guard.
Bomb drop.
Feels like this might be for all the marbles.
gets that bomb back, it's been heard of course.
Bounce coming in, there's a gap on the smoke,
oh bro, and Techno will abuse it.
The Mongols, knick of time stuff,
skin of their teeth, stuff,
but they do manage to finally answer back.
Yeah, and that's really, I think,
gonna open up a little bit of a door here.
Couple of guns to be upgraded,
but they've finally broken the deadlock
of this runner form from G2,
and the timeout to be called as well.
I still see G2 getting at least kind of the opt out 12. So
Yeah, for me, the Mongols over time really feels like the first step. I can't see them going flawless from here and out
Just because you just so much money to fall back on
Yeah, I mean it just has to be a totally different team from the Mongols really
You get a lot to ask for
You for me
For me, I think you have to get a 1-12 first as well.
Yeah.
Mongols changing things up a little bit.
More preptice time for the top of honor.
Play, but Blitz.
What?
I mean, Mongols just really forcing the issue of top of honor.
I think you have to concede that you're not going to be able to hold it without a miracle.
Maybe take no insta miracle.
He'll close them down and play it up close here for a bit more and he's gonna be able
to get it.
They're both fighting fire with fire.
Break open seems to catch Techno off guard even though I'm sure it would have been communicated.
So into the two versus two.
But yeah, really messy from both sides.
G2 despite a gift of a frag to kick things off.
Still trying to send it deep.
Mr. Zia's making a move here.
If he's smart by this, he can actually wrap.
He does it, he goes back into the apartments.
It could still be, it's just gonna take so long to get here.
Yeah.
I think for 910, he really has to shell up.
He does have a smoke.
That would be a great time to get it down.
But he doesn't, maybe he just wanna let them know
that he's here.
I would have got that smoke down though.
Now he's playing it safe.
I mean, he has managed to creep in towards Newbox.
It might be unexpected.
Really, my, some piles, half-nigh on it,
will go down.
Oh, and it's perfection from 9-10 in terms of timing, and in terms of the shots, incredible stuff.
9-10 is so good today. That first map was all him and CobraZero, who both combined so well,
and that's another really good showing of what 9-10 can do.
Checked so unbelievably crisp.
Tecno, though, he's the hero of this round.
9-10 wins that clutch at the end, but it's these three kills from Tecno.
Without Bar, that round has no legs behind him.
Sure, this one piece you're on the site itself is immaculate.
Oh my god, with our Tecmo, they're in serious, serious trouble.
He's gone huge.
Game time. 11 apiece.
We've got something growing here.
Blitz gonna go for something.
A bit bold, but maybe too bold.
Cobra and Blitz both fall, and they get him opener,
but it gets immediately thrown back in their face,
and 9-10 is basically all but dead with 5 points of HP.
This is Dicey.
These players are crazy, man.
These players are so crazy, but the craziness, the methods in the madness might just be what they need.
Unpredictable and yet still able to take over the round.
It is absolute carnage over here on A. I do not believe it, man.
The push down mid, that's a two for one, that just leaves you scratching your head.
Low HP on 9-10 and yet somehow they're able to come away with it.
I just I think they like putting pressure on themselves. They like creating chaos
They like bringing the aging guns right like 11 11 and the call is push push me
Yeah, I come on then so I then have you know your five HP or puppy. You're so I'm right the site
I mean just ridiculous. You love to see it though. You really guys. Yeah, really good. Yeah, it goes to plan exactly how we thought
It really is possible.
He takes the repeat on the corner.
Despite the name, despite being a man down.
Smokes over towards A. They are faking it.
No way we both rotate here.
Oh my God.
But the bomb is indeed thinking about A.
God, this is such a big call from Brett.
I think you contact someone up in Hanna, surely, but I mean,
it doesn't look like that's what they're gonna do.
This is such a big call from Blitz.
9-10 goes back.
He's not quite as good, and maybe
Techno joins him, thinking about it.
Another smoke comes in, that keeps his attention for now,
and they will perhaps start to confirm that it's going to be that A here.
Push towards short, slows them down.
Mazzinho has a little look, but doesn't spot anything to get, so...
Timing is in favour of, due to at the moment, Mazzinho blinds himself up.
Techno on the site, unexpected player and keeps him coming, Blitz in the mini-pierce.
Well, to try and hold the line, it's not quite enough for the bombers
building an awkward spot. Six seconds. Oh, they managed to get it in.
Right. A good clean plant to work with. It's still not over just yet.
He needs a gun. There we go. He wanted to get rid of the orbs, moves on to the AK.
Flash over, not spotted. He just managed to creep in.
The best performer can't land that flick. Surely surely has to be dead to right there clearing out the angles. The all plays it patient and we go again in the overtime.
Okay, this map is finally delivering. This is what we wanted to see back and forth. I did say if the Mongols gonna win this, I think they have to do it in OT.
I think it's a great reset now
and a chance of a bit of a
cyber-relief that I will say
again that second push of
mid got going again for another
push. That feels like a road
call. I kind of just throwing
in as a bit of a curveball, right
in the previous round that feels
kind of cool and ends up
working out sort of in the
branch. It doesn't work in the
exact play, but the round as a
whole works. We're going for
again there for me feels
I feel like they lost control of the game. How do we take it back by just, you know,
standing a wave of attacks?
Yeah.
And it is, it is up and down. I mean, you could even feel it in that round. They were
very, very close to blitzing the mini pit, the world looked, uh, overlooked player.
He only gets one because it has multiple, so, you know, it's all over the place at times.
9-10.
That's an aggressive going for a little bit more here as well.
I
Want to say it probably didn't help that you know nine ten if for me is obviously like he has been the difference maker
I think a lot of these rounds he was the only guy who's not present at the execute. He had to rotate in if he was there
You know who knows?
Like to hypothesize about what potentially could have
Come under fire then moving up. This is a really really heavy like hot mid play here by the Mongols
They've essentially got four different players keeping eyes trained on this if you to try and pop through this could be really dicey
Unless the kills come to you
The whole thing breaks apart and a player rotate into CT as well as that B smoke comes in
So just one kill to even things back 30 seconds remain on this clock
It's not loads of time, but still feels like plenty they get out brackets. They're looking
just work their way around here for a crunch. We got blitz in the library needs to be careful
not to over face 15 seconds out. Oh, they line up for him. He's going to find two. Meanwhile,
player on the cold zero box is a great crossfire here. They do smoke off library. So maybe
they can clear things out, but no, not the case. And he's dropped that bomb. I think
even if he went down, they wouldn't have had time to play. It would have been close. Maybe
would have been far too close,
but Techno delivers, cleans up the round,
and the Mongols hit 13 in that OT.
Yeah, like a second to Speras,
or I guess that last kill,
just as like an insult to injury.
Round to all the all but one,
but he wants the numbers on the scoreboard,
13 to 12, advantage taken,
and for Mongols that is huge.
You know, you've lost control of this map.
Things are looking so out of order.
They were in such disarray this Mongol side and tail end of the half they finally you kindle the flame a little bit
And that's not I see the look is good, but we are going with paste it. G2 are not slowing down
They don't care that they're around down. They still want to keep the pressure on it's working Hunter again another entry for him
He is really keeping G2
The amount of times he has got entries towards that B site is huge and heavy god of fine another's cobra goes poking for info
I think. I feel like they need
to force the issue. It's a lot
of low HP bars here. But both
of these cities are split. It's
going to be techno. He's been a
pretty good bailout player in a
lot of these lots of rounds.
He's got a rifle. Rifle is good
against the low HP. It was 910
heavy. A bit more worries.
I think he does get traded quickly after you till he's seen him obey.
Ah, there's fire where he wants to go.
He's turning away from flashes that never come.
He will indeed go down.
They're good well to lead the charge with Nerts.
Good clean fight.
And it's been a point.
9-10.
You don't really save in the overtime, but it's Inferno.
It's a 1v4.
There's no way that he gets this done.
He's got an AK.
I feel like it's really easy.
It's like, you take that.
He technically could go back onto his orb if he really wants to like 10k you still can't run out of money
Yeah, it's true. We've seen it a couple times actually the 10k over times
Interesting
Experimenting that's a post with the money in OT because you know 16k way too much. Yeah
12.5 as well was also the way to go. Yeah
Also, it's why I feel like we're talking five feels like potentially also
perhaps you should be punished for weak performances.
Yeah.
If you're dying and buying an auth every round,
you shouldn't have one of the third.
Save our eyes, if anything.
Yeah, I guess so.
That's great.
A 30 to piece.
And the final round, getting that advantage,
heading into the second half is huge.
The big thing is really, though, if the Mongols find this,
this detail is obviously the weaker side of the two.
That's really where they struggled, same for G2.
So if the Mongols can take an advantage,
then heading in towards their T side.
If things follow the same suit
that they did in towards regulation,
you'd assume Mongols would be on track
to closing out the map.
If G2 find it, who knows?
What?
What?
What?
What?
It's unlucky, I mean, a lot of the kills come their way,
but a lot of damage done in these exchanges.
So I think the Mongols are perhaps
be a bit frustrated that, uh, they didn't just get one or two of the key fights swinging
their way.
On the left.
Imporn round, like you say.
Timeout coming in as well.
So the Mongols really hope to convert this one to be a bit of a sting, as, you know,
they've filed pretty hard to get it into the OT, then they find the first round, then they've
taken the timeout here.
So if they don't find that round advantage, I think they will be a little worried about
there half to life cycle yeah you're right
9 10 just threads the needle spots through there but
that's in that corner swinging out he's nice even walk straight in towards
misalio he can't get the third but information gained as 9 10 which will
relinquish a little bit of this space as he goes back to lost control that however
is a wild move by techno and this recess the round back into a three versus
three. That's all necessary.
Just drop back, play the site, let your teammates play three on A.
Yeah. Or even just go for like a two-two stack towards A and B and just hope that you can trade each other.
Crazy.
And now Nertz really has the owners. This is some of the versatility that he's been able to bring.
It's kind of a Swiss Army knife player, comfortable on the lurk, comfortable on the entry at times.
It is a fake out towards me. Yeah, it's good smoke. We're showing out a lot of utile
From a from blitz which obviously could be very valuable in a potential reading
They'll even this later 15 seconds as they're moving towards a yeah
Just plays it safe
And it works out well the Mongols to find it and they will get that advantage it is again dicey and
I don't know. Technoman got to
check that kind of aggression in
the OT. But this is of course
where Mongols looked a little
better. I think for our money,
much more in control on that T
side. Thankfully, it doesn't
come back to fight them. It's
really just very well. The two
he gets here super important
close on the third as well.
And they're also both so low.
Yeah.
Lead taken by the Mongols.
Eight rounds they got on the T side, some of the G2,
to where they did their best work and
we'll see if they can rekindle their play before
it's been a while since they've seen the Mongols on the T side.
Was it more a case of their T side was so good
or were G2s still not awake?
Been a long old series for G2 and some very difficult
situations to contend with. How quick's your flick. Oh, leg spotted. Might not be needed
off the flick. Some players gonna get it. They boost up quickly to try and find him though
and they will indeed take him down mini-picture. Cobra's here is like, I've seen this before.
Are you all not getting away with it this time? What a great angle as well. Yeah, that's so
funny. Just like the Co-la there. The foe thing. Yeah, yeah, we're just scared all
Yeah, so there you go social media manager if you're listening. That's a freebie
nonetheless still gonna go for this
retake of course
It's confirmed damage on cobra at least right so they know if one players loads the others there not too sure off
But why don't I give LA look?
Yeah, this doesn't look good though. It's very late
smoke goes down towards the pit
Slow moving the need comes in finishes on cobra flash over the top
Maybe if you got a player on that bomb, but it's just not quite gonna happen
too many numbers that would have been a save usually yes that's a good example as to why you
don't really retake a lack so much information and the crossfires the you know hidden angles hide
behind a wall as long as possible that kind of thing really really really effective for a coach
black i can understand why you give it a look if this is a G2 right there's like that mindset right
if we just save they're on map point and series point anyway right if we give it a look in the
same result there anyway but it's still map and series points so we lose it, we lose the map.
If we win it though and get up to a 14th we're going to have money so then not saving does
end up coming back to bite us. That's sort of our thought process, it's do or die but they needed
to take the gamble there. Unfortunately there's a couple of kills in there sure but enough from
the end. Mongols will slow down this round, early bits of utility but they smoked out from top
from banana so not really by their choice but they've just got to pump the brakes they've just got away
nice find from some players
really came alive into that second half yeah it's been warming up
so good to see them entering here slight little cinch will give away the information on cobra zero
the next round. You just.
Confirm the kill right? There's
not really any risk of letting
that bomb go down and we got to
stop them buying in the next
route. You just. Confirm the
kill. You know, let him have one
of those highlight moments that
often crop up in overtime when
it's been a long series and a
long game. Are you going? That's
not a tad there. Yeah kind of
interesting. Yeah, it's a
are you going? I thought I had to head there. Yeah, kind of
multi kills, but opening duels, uh, going the way of some
pious. Yeah, direct duels. Five of these. Yeah, I still had to
head. So they're pretty evenly matched right now. I mean, today
was quite an important kind of head to head. And it was
missing as well. It was. Exactly. Six and thirteen
something like this. Yeah. He's kind of turned his KD around
with brassy cups. We sort of said as well, like at the start
of this game, like I would say like the rifling core, maybe
of like a slightly higher ceiling towards G2, but the
I'm taking 9-10 every day of the week and it's kind of how things have panned out a little bit in this map
It looks like the rifling Corbin doing a lot of heavy lifting, but 9-10 has been bailing them out hell on the lot
That's great useful onto 9-10, it's Nurtz to open up the support of Matty, he's holding that mouse one
Desperately looking for more kills, they can't quite find it and Hunter comes over and loses life and they lose control of the B site
They've overfought, they've over swung and they've given opportunities to Mongols who now can get into us as well
fight but some players have something to say. Second time on the Nade, I thought it might
even find a kill. It doesn't, but it's so valuable for him to bring it down to the two
versus two. Yeah, the combined HP, 42, feels like not enough really. 9-10 on the AWP of
his own is, I think, gonna have to find heavy God quick or it could get scary from halfway
way ticked. This is where it looks pretty worrisome. Flash comes in. Oh my goodness.
Some players just moving through that smoke very, very cheekily. Will drop the first!
No!
This is, it's close on the defuse as well man. A few more seconds in there. The Mongols
cannot get it done. G2 have been saved and they will take us again into another overtime.
Absolutely crazy. I thought surely as Hunter goes down, kill list. That was it. But not
the case.
retake. What a retake from G2. How does that shot miss though on Heavy God? It looks like the
crosshair is dead on, but not to be in the lack of HP is what ends up costing them. I'm not even too
sure what happens to Techno as well because sometimes jumps up onto his coffins, but it looks
like he's holding that, so I don't really know how he ends up losing that fight unless he's
done four, she turned at the worst possible time. But a tied game, 15 of these, you go again, double
and suddenly become a deadly swarm.
Made it towards CC.
Good damage.
Some high skills sticking around
and they will prove into his cross-out
and it's incredibly quick trade.
And sliding away, Matty's gonna be caught on the corner
and burned down quite low actually.
Wow.
How?
Crazy.
The fact that it hits him, I think,
so that bounces away from it.
Yeah, it's a little war, I think.
gone like, you know, behind him, missed him by an inch.
Yeah, we've actually killed him.
All the same, four versus three, low HP Matty's.
Lord, a good look here.
This retake looks a hell of a lot better than the previous one,
9-10, just before the smoke goes.
We'll find a kill.
So one of those where it just feels like it isn't happening here.
Slow backs away.
Hold on.
Yeah, it tempts you back in.
It does.
But then it just really starts at the end of the day.
We knew that Mongols had that one in the bag.
So they will start off strong once again
into the early stage of the second bout of overtime.
Yeah, nice work.
I was still favoring Mongols.
And I'd have to agree.
And do you see what I'm going to take?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Which is kind of surprising.
But yeah, do you just take their time out?
You get an extra time out for every overtime.
The Mongols are pretty lax, we're calling theirs.
You know, we kind of spoke about it
things were really crumbling it took a long time for them to actually get more on the mic.
So on the other hand is more than happy to enter into his conversations a lot earlier and I think
for him wants to cut the beating as soon as possible. Maybe also potentially spotted something
in a way that they approach their T side. I guess we'll see what changes having him towards the
second round. Off the second OT. Yeah, I've been a long one here, of course. The fatigue
really starts to set in and be very, very troublesome. G2 have got to try and keep it
together and I think a good way to do that is of course to win rounds, convince yourself
that you are still in the game, so an immediate answer back would be so beneficial for them.
Nice move by heavy god
Catches cobra nobody until second mid to keep an eye on that bedroom position
So it's a freebie for him. He has so much control there
I'm only addressing which could cost him to get caught on the jump on the senior is timing is excellent
So pies on the angle misses his opportunity in a techno drive by will crash up in the b-side
No one's here. They gambled a
I'm one goes back for another be here and it's looking like around should go back to back
Yeah, that's difficult. That is difficult G2 try and make a call try and get ahead of things
What else can you do when you're in that I'm down situation?
Not easy
Not easy at all. I'm 10 gonna find hunter as the CT smoke has been left open
game. Another look at soft
saving here for G two. Yesh. This
is a rough sign to second bar
of overtime. You know, two
situations where they have
really had to save more than
anything. Mongols kind of
annoyed. They didn't get it
done in the first bout. Yeah,
but also. Just taking the
pressure off. You know, we're
already a map up guys. Let's
to get the reads and whatnot
and it's just working a lot
better. You know, remove the
mind games. And just click
some heads like, you know,
techno, despite we're in the
double overtime still feeling
good. Got a smile on his face.
Not too stressed. Here's a bit
of the vibes guy to be fair.
Yeah, going two for two as well
sort of this second OT is
really, really important. It's
going to put G2 in a bit of an
uncomfortable sparring
mentally where they can quite
rapidly see this.
I'm not sure why everyone seems to be there for the Mongols. I wasn't sure, you know, we kind of get this late into a series, especially when we do things that are online where it's, you know, just like a toilet break, something of the sorts, but.
spot. The fist ones did come through. So I assume we're good to go and there we are.
Nice and sharpish as we get things back on the way.
Long goes up to 7-2. Yeah, first to 19 though. They're getting pretty close. You've got 3-3
on C-side and G2 might be... AC all but Den and Barry.
Yep. Yep, definitely in agreement.
It's raining on down, banana.
No kills, a lot of damage done to Techno Oblix, but no early kills, still plenty of time to
recover.
15 to work with, no real map control.
You're having it here so far. You've got to smoke towards Long.
Send some hunters, rotate back over to show up these B defenders, so looks like he's got
the right reeder to situation. So molly down as well.
I mean, if A broke the fix, then Mongols going for their third attempt back towards B. The
first two have worked in this half, so why not go again, but this time there's more players
here to meet them. I'm scared.
They can't cancel really at this point either.
I'm selling a full contact in. Yeah. I mean, this could be a
tease up top. Get score. Gotta be ready to take twice at all
angles. So they do a team check around. No, man. Wow. Yeah.
The contact works. G2 have run out of gas. Caught a bit
sleeping just mechanically. Obviously they were ready on paper but I think in terms of
hitting a shot, reacting fast. It's just not happening for them. To be someone from
some pious, it happens quite quickly into the retake here. The smoke does get in the
way. It's going to dissipate quickly. He's made a step though. He has been hurt. Double
swing to come through. One from Banana, one from the orb there of course. It's all on
heavy God now. Barely any time. Orb to get through is the difficult thing. He will find
in the D. It is. I don't know
that. But it's costing so
much time to just wait for
that pizza. There's no way he
gets this done. Mongols will
find the flawless first half,
so surely you would say able
to hit 19 here. Stranger things
have happened in the world of
Counter strike. However true,
they need to be careful. As
they have maybe a couple times
already on this map not to get
ahead of themselves. Yeah, it
really just doesn't feel like
it's going to be possible,
really feel like has legs behind it.
Now or never for this side, back and towards.
They're more preferred T side, I will say.
They've done a lot better work here
than they have on the CT, evidently,
as we've just seen from that half,
but to go flawless three for three is awesome a lot.
Mongols obviously had their woes as well,
but when things did click,
it felt like there was something about them.
And that previous OT,
if I let it all finally start to figure out
what you two are throwing at them.
It's very chaotic, but in the chaos of sort of where the Mongols thrive and it's been catching cheese to a little bit off guard
towards that late stage of regulation in Toyota.
Well, let's see if they have what it takes.
Nice save.
Start some pires.
The hell of a performance, man.
He's been looking really good in that second half of regulation into the overtime.
I'm really bounced back, but I mean we'll be left low here, unfortunately.
As will Blitz, Flash comes in, you know what, I think we're trying to steal a leaf from
that mongrel for a good nade.
Great timing on that smoke as well, actually.
Contact doesn't work out, and they are forced away.
Another make, they've got, you know, 40 seconds to make a really kind of horrible decision
of like, do we commit towards this B here, or do we completely go back, but we've got
so little time to clear all these angles to all day and there's three people here. This is not
going to be easy. Otosmo could come through 9-10, still on that long angle as he flashes in Cobra
for the fight but Cobra loses like 9-10 wins his and that's when this EDO could stop the pound.
The babyface killer is going to shut it down and 9-10 will close off the series. What a statement
to steal the deal by Mongols 2-0 in this one and G2 as much as they fought back. It was not enough.
the first half. Monstrous in
that second part of overtime.
Of course, I think they're a
little bit frustrated. They
couldn't finish it out with
that clutch in the first bout.
You know, just the view of
looking this shot in the two
versus two. It wasn't three
versus two. Even if you cast
your mind back, but ultimately
Mongols, I think looking like
the better side, there was a
slip of in that second half of
regulation, right? They let the
game get away from them. It
ends up being a really, really
tough run and G2 very
to also keep their heads in it and take it to another overtime, but yeah a really difficult
finish I think unfortunately for them to not take a map here against the Mongols a bit
of a rivalry with this team, sometimes they win, sometimes Mongols win, sometimes it's
one sided, sometimes it's really close so you know there has been this back and forth
for the past six months or so and unfortunately here today it's a bit more Mongols sided but
even then I guess they do put down the the 00 team maybe you can be happy with that.
in the near future. But in the immediate moment, it's going to be tough and G2 find themselves
in that one to bracket close against Maus yesterday as well. So, you know, they're going to be
disappointed that they in fact do not get a chance at qualification this early on. And it is that
run back that's going to be required, which I feel like the one to spot is kind of the worst
of being, you know, if you're zero to you're just looking for a win. Maybe you are a team that
doesn't necessarily expect to get that deep. Just kind of happy to be here. It's a matchup
as they come. But one, two for a team like G2, you're capable of qualifying, but you
might not get there because you've had Maus, you've had Mongols. And now, yes, you might
win your next game because it's going to be against K27 or whatever, but you're going
to have a 2-2 game in your head against any bot. So it really could be the Mongols again,
it really could be a spirit that sort of drops down, right? It's very, very scary now.
Yeah, exactly. There's teams that are definitely still capable of maybe squandering chances to look towards.
Obviously, even teams like 2-0, like the Furious of the World, maybe you could struggle a little bit,
and the Mausers and whatnot, but then, yeah, like Falcons with that 1-1,
like it's still going to be really scary, Power of Vision kicking about, which always kind of awkward to play against.
Like, this could really be a dicey spot to be in for G2, and I do worry for them to be perfectly honest.
This could be really, really interesting to see whether the side can recover.
the first map was terrible. And
that's not what you want to see.
You look at the scoreboard credit
to Blitz leading by example 910
another fantastic map from him
as well. Techno and Cobra as you
know, all having their moments.
I think the one guy that we
really probably want to highlight
is actually the recovery from
some pious. I think honestly
without him playing as well as
he did, but it's not a nice
the game. I mean, it's a
really good game. I mean,
honestly, without him playing
as well as he did in that
second half into OT. I don't
even get to OT to be perfectly
honest. He kept them alive for
a while. It's like what? 6 and
13 or something. Um it was not
looking good and then was able
to bounce back. But yeah, you
just see the run around and
just a chaos that you do in
this series. That's just the
way Mongols like to play their
counter strike, right? It's
really, really exciting. It's
to it. So it's three CT rounds
that were just like mental for
Mongols. Honestly, they'd lost
control. They're a map of I
think they took a time out and
perhaps Mara gets in and he's
like. Just send it like just
just go for some crazy calls.
They won a low by as well in
round 21 there. Um so you know,
really, really questionable
stuff in terms of the calls, but
it worked for them. It nearly
got away from them, but it did
work for them and they were
able to recover things back
some hero moments required.
that. I think that was the
last time I was on the B bomb
site. They were playing three
over there. Things like this. I
think 9 10 might have had one
on the old way was like low on
the site. If you remember, that
was that period as well. So you
know, they really did me to lean
on the gods of Counter Strike
kind of praying down on them,
but it managed to result in the
two zero. I think that they
perhaps took a step back and
they were like, We've got a
that they're able to get out
of the cage, but they just need
permission to do so. And you see
what happens in the end. It does
indeed result in a hard fought,
but a victory, nonetheless. Yeah
exactly that. But again, a wild
morning. A carnage. I think it's
kind of the safe way of putting
it, but there's still two or
best of threes to be brought. I
still think this case when it's
a little bit of a little bit of
a little bit of a little bit of
I still think this K-20s of a magic game could be kind of interesting. You know, it's two sides who are in kind of similar positions in the top end of tier two at the moment. That could be kind of spicy, but we'll have to see. And obviously these are O2 games now. So elimination is on the line, which is really, really damning, but also exciting in its own regard.
I think everyone's kind of like quietly hoping that Fisher College and get a map. I want to see this side do something
You know what I mean? I feel like you know the only collegiate team we've ever had at a tier one event potentially probably the only team
Only collegiate will ever have I want to see them do something before it feels like maybe they might inevitably
Bow out, but that is also done for today myself and script will be back tomorrow bright and early
You know the drill here. It's like a 5 a.m. Stop for us something along those lines, but we love it all for the great game
We're going to be throwing over towards Vince and Anders to round out the day here on the
B-Street but for now farewell, see you tomorrow.
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Next up we have an exciting young team in K27 and for everyone who doesn't understand
what x5g7v actually means, he just told me to say x5 that's the easiest way to do it.
But we should start with that. Just give me the quick version of the story of your nickname
because you told me you used to be called Stitch, which I kind of like Stitch. That's cute, that's cute.
Okay, when I was 14, I got a nickname Stitch from Carlton Lillian Stitch and I thought that I
need to change it to something strong or how to call it. And I was looking at my keyboard and was
thinking what new theme should I put in. I just typed X5G7V looking at the monitor. I like it,
let's play with it and I kept it until until today. Looking at this event, this is a huge
opportunity for you guys and also you come in looking at like your replacement team so you
were not even supposed to be here. What's the feeling that you guys have like, how excited are
you about this? Okay, to be honest before the final in our closed qualifier we knew that we are
qualified like 95% because we're replacing food so we were already like happy because we understand
that even if you lose final it's like 95% that we're qualified we only one result could change
this thing is 9Z losing to Audic in South America qualifier, but if 9Z is winning, where is the next
team who is going to qualify? So if Audic would win, 9Z is going to be a replacement team. So yeah,
that's the point. So you had a good understanding and a good way to prepare for it all. Yeah. What
are you seeing in your players now? I know Fane, he's used to these events, but in the rest of the
players, what feeling do you get from them right now? Is there a level of excitement?
Okay, first of all my team is very young, every guy is like, it's the first year of
really tryharding on HLTV, they're not playing a lot this game, some guys from my team started
playing only in CS2, actually they didn't even play CSGO, like they played for a while but
They were playing cards against like Fortnite something like that and when CS2 came out they started playing for example
I have a Queen key
He's 18 years old and he was 17 until
Like two or three weeks so three weeks ago. He started to be 18
Now we have to talk about fame because he's a major champion
He has so much experience at the top levels of Counter-Strike, but he's playing with you guys for a young team
I can imagine this is very helpful and you told me as well you have a bit of history with him. Yeah
For me, it's like a nostalgia, you know, yeah, and he came because when I was 18 I was playing with him like four years past
Now we're already 22 23 years old were a bit older. Yeah, but we're still young of course
Yeah, and for my guys, I think that's really good to
to have a young guy for God's experience and sometimes he is giving advice for them when
something has happened or someone making a mistake, he says like you know you can do
like this this or this this way telling me how he sees this game what he likes to do in
his part of the map and bringing good vibes.
You guys have been competing very well at LANs.
I'm looking at this and you've had six LAN tournament wins for the team overall and you
now have fame as well.
How important has the LAN wins been for your team and also for like now coming into an
event like this on LAN with bigger teams?
It's the most strange thing, you know, we're a young team but somehow we're playing better
on LANs.
And you're winning tournaments, you're lifting trophies already.
Because when we're playing online, everything is going much better than online, I don't know why actually, maybe normally the other way around.
Yeah, maybe because other teams have more pressure online, I don't know why, but I'm really surprised that my teammates are young, but they don't have this struggle so long.
I don't know how to say it in one word, but they're showing that their potential is really higher than I think.
What makes you guys special? What do you see that can surprise some other teams and get you a good placement here, playoff, win?
I got it. So, how we can surprise is we have a really strong playbook, we've got good synergy, we're playing a lot together, like year and half maybe, like four guys, and when you change one guy, especially when you take fame, it's just an upgrade for us.
So I think we're going to surprise someone. I hope that we will get play-offs, but maybe we'll get higher.
Let's see.
Let's see. That's what I'm looking forward to see.
And from your excitement, from your words and how you helped me learn some more about your team, it's got me very excited as well.
So let's see what happens, man. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Good luck in the tournament.
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Welcome once again, it is PGL Astana. We're on day three here on the B Stream and we've
got some games coming up. Elevations and all, I'm Anders. With me is Vince. I say that for
the audience. You know who you are. How are you doing this day? I'm Anders Twin. That's
That's who I am. Twin casting. We're bringing it finally. It's been a while. I think last
time we casted actively, I would have actually been with PGL at Bucharest like 10 years ago.
But I'm good. We've had a lot of one-sided maps to hand us. I'm going to be honest, I'm
hoping today we're going to have some closer affairs, some closer games. It is the 0-2
bracket games to be fair, so I suppose like equally I've been poor throughout the tournament.
But maybe this is where things start to turn around. I'm going to keep optimistic.
Yeah, I don't it's been an interesting kind of schedule on the B stream in general
I feel like you know for all the days there's been like a lot of I think on the A stream
They've had some some very very interesting games obviously
9c beating Falcons yesterday was amazing. I was watching that and laughing away through that game. It was really funny
But but yeah, I don't know we that that's just how it plays out sometimes, you know, nobody can control it
It's a wonderful format as well with the Swiss bracket here and and you know now we're in the crunch time now
We're in the O2s, which means
There's no more losing, I mean there is, but you're just going to have to go home unfortunately, it's true for both these games, so yeah, it's crunch time.
Now is where it gets really serious, we can't make any excuses anymore and say, oh well, you know, just a little bit more and maybe they're warming up and maybe they can find more momentum in the tournament.
There's none of that here for K27 Magic, Huns and Fisher College. It's kind of now or never.
I think that's a good thing.
Exactly. And then pretty much the
four lowest seeds as well coming
into this event. So obviously
whenever that happens, they can
be playing against one of the
heavy hitters to kick things off
in K-27's case. That was the
Falcons in Magic's case. It was
the Mongols. So it's kind of I
remember saying this about
Fisher College. Obviously we'll
be casting those guys later on
today against the Huns, but it's
in terms of global ratings, rankings, experience,
whatever you want to call it,
that they're going to have to play each other.
So there is no more excuses.
You lose now, you deserve to be knocked out of the event.
That is true, that's the beauty of the format, right?
You get your chances, I would say,
for someone like Fisher College,
they did face some very tough teams at the beginning.
So you can kind of choose that a little bit,
but yeah, they're going to have the chance finally
to play a team that's maybe a little bit more
on their level here.
The first game of the day, though,
or I guess the third technically on the stream here,
it's K27 and Magic.
And honestly, Magic looked pretty good yesterday against Monty.
Again, they could have won, but then they kind of spiraled out of control.
Maybe the mentality got away from them individually.
They have some very high performing players.
Tensi at moment.
Moon when he's good, looks really interesting.
But then again, he'd also disappear.
Masaval, I think he had a number of good rounds and same for Svade.
So in general, very, very interesting.
And the K27 side, I quite like Cashlid.
And I think fame is still maybe potentially sort of an underrated figure.
He definitely could be.
And they've got, you know, one of the most confusing name players of all time
for a cast this point of view in X5G7V.
I just call him X5.
I can't be it. I'm too old for this stuff, Vince.
I can't be, you know, dealing with it.
Yeah, we've actually casted K27 quite a bit, and we're both fans of that.
So we both actually like how they how they occupy the server.
We think it's actually in particular is a very exciting young orping prospect from Russia.
But yeah, X5 is a mental name
Apologies if it's actually pronounced something completely different probably are we are you know boomer scrubs from EU
So it is what it is
But I'm quite interested that more a mirage was picked first and dust who was banned from magic
Because typically dust who was a good map for them
But I wonder if it factors in yesterday to the performance that they had where they ended up getting like straight up
Slaughtered on dust 2 against Monty where if you remember and his moon dropped like five kills on the entirety of dust 2
I wonder if that fact is in there, just feeling like, okay, this isn't a map that we can feel confident on right now, so maybe let's give that one a skip.
Yeah, I'm kind of interested by that as well.
Um, I thought maybe that was going to be up at the place where we would end up, but instead the maps are going to be Raj, Overpass and Ancient.
Big fan, we've got Overpass in there.
I know you love the map, Vincent. I don't think we get to see it enough.
Um, it's one of those things that, you know, just unfortunately get spanned out way too much.
We're very interested in what happens when cash kind of introduced to what what happens there eventually, but
Yeah, Noraj and all the parts to begin with you. I know you love that. I
Do love overpass. Yeah, it's my favorite map of the pool right now
I will say it's not necessarily a great map for K 27 statistically
But you also have to factor in on top of everything else that they actually went through a roster change pretty recently
Just a couple of weeks ago fame came in on loan from VP and he replaced relaxi
So even though we're looking at some of these statistics and we're thinking like oh, maybe it's not great
You have to factor in that that was without fame being a part of this team and he is a fantastic talent
I think he was kind of wasted to be honest at VP for quite a while from Jim in particular
I always felt like this guy was capable of being like legitimately a top 10 top 15
Rifler on the planet and so it's great to see him getting another chance here and a chance to reinvent himself
Yeah, and you know with I guess maybe a little bit less stress hopefully a team that seems to be working quite well together
We're gonna find out right now as we get into the action K27 will start on the CT side magic on the T side
So once again big welcome everyone here. It's elimination on the line
So you've got you know two or three maps paying out how it goes to prove yourself here
Or you're gonna get knocked out of the tournament and early on we're gonna see smoke headed up towards
It's sort of what looks like a standard A execute here, great camera angle, appreciate that from the O-Servas,
but it's really the connector where the push is going to be happening from, so the opposite of what you might expect from the CT side,
although they do seem to be aware of what's coming here, and that's great work.
See those picking up early kills, casually, with a headshot on moon, and now they figured it all out,
and I think X5 is listening for the footsteps of, oh, maybe he's not, he just wasn't paying attention.
Tenzi was stomping his way around that guy's right-hand side, and he just didn't even turn around.
That's pretty confusing and that could actually lose him the round
Yeah, that's really bought a lot of opportunities now on the side of magic without post plan coming in sure
It's unlikely to tens he clutches. I think that is he rips another head away already picked up two in this round and
It's less if he's low either he has the benefit of the time now working on his faith or all the pressure is on fame
And he gets put down in this 2v4
But as you say like what is x5 doing if he just stays alive he can deny the bomb plant and the round should be done
Yeah, like either he could have fallen back or at a minimum
You would have assumed that he would have reacted a little bit trickier to the footsteps. It could be one of those things where
You know, you're on land. It's right at the beginning. There's some other thing going on
Maybe somebody's talking right at the same time
Like it's hard to know exactly what kind of information is going into his ears at that moment
But it just suddenly from our point of view felt like there was an opportunity there to react in a bigger way
But that is as a wild way to get started because they had such a great read of the situation
The fake on the A bomb site, the potential push-in to connector there, that I think, even if they get a killer connector, they just keep going for the B bomb site.
I think that was the plan all along for Magic, but K27 looked like they were ready to shut that one down.
They are going to force into this round on the CT side, so definitely scary around here.
Scout and even the FAMAS, because they got a fair few kills in that pistol round.
They did. A bit of a silver lining, perhaps. Just shooting that flashbang across to his
teammate and assuming the top middle controlled the moment. AWO will be the Mach 10 in this
spot though. It's not necessarily ideal having SMG at that longer range, but he's not going
to be tried into just yet four player stack over on the A side, keeping Quinkie looking
into the window, which has now been smoked off. And although X5 is looking for intel,
The timing is slightly against him, goes for the jump peeks.
The T's now moving up close, this could completely catch him off guard,
but all that utility's gonna give the game away.
The issue for X5 is he's just about to get swarmed on from so many T's.
Nice shot with the D, but it's not gonna stop Magic from planting the bomb.
It's a really smooth D-goo shot, I agree.
But AW also kind of showing that they make the power of the jumping Mk10 entry.
It's just all out of the deal really.
Even if you somehow get it, your crosshair's gonna be really far away.
Quinky with another one.
Hold the phone just a minute here.
If you can get this, then he will.
Runs down 10Z and moves real far away here.
Can he stop the bomb?
Like Quinky keeps it going.
A quad kill.
And they even have time for the devues, I think.
In spite of no kit, they just did their retake.
So incredibly fast.
What a round out of Quinky.
That's just mad to get started with.
It's incredible, isn't it?
like if you just goes to show again the K 27 a team that I'd imagine quite a lot of people coming into this tournament
Wouldn't know a great deal about
But the two of us have had the luxury and the pleasure of watching these guys multiple times and we know it's such a young team as
Well, I think the average age of this team is like 20 something like that x5 is one of the older players fame now joining as well
Of course, it's gonna bump that up just a tad but I just incredible amounts of talent
Quinkie kicks it off with that one dig and you think right? Well, it's nice effort guys
You're probably just gonna concede the bomb plant and go save and come back for the next round
Well, it was even but that I love the aggression to go back into that even without the kit is you I liked it
Well, I was just about to say that when they were going there
We had a smoke offing in the market after you'd already got the first headshot
I said, you know, they could just say the rest of the guns here and they would be they would be dangerous in the next round
That seemed like a more logical outcome, but sometimes it's worth it to go for it
And I guess especially in an elimination game like this one. Yeah, you're kind of running out of runway here
So so definitely
Come in and swing with the deal pretty cool
third around us here and unfortunately Zedo sacrificing himself a bit there
Miss Val is close teammates spotted him I think Miss Val just took the shot
straight for the smoke and they get the opening kill
sure do a good shot from Asvaal he was one of the shining lights yesterday we
talked about repping the Belarus region he's actually a fellow countryman in
Zedo also from Belarus as X5 goes in with his MP9 is doing a good job of
holding this one down and fame with the A4.
Make short work of the rest of the T's.
Spray's good, Fade.
We'll at least get one,
and there is a way forward for another plant here.
So, a bit of a weird scrappy round across the board
from both teams,
but it's gonna yield the bomb plant bare minimum.
Yeah, I agree.
Very scrappy and fame making a lot of footsteps
which allows for the communication.
And I was AW hearing it,
and it was Fade coming in with the reaction.
Oh, good shot from Cashly.
We both said this guy is something that's really an interesting or put a watch in my opinion and
I think he's done to make a little bit of a name for himself a w though
He's got the advantage of being hidden behind that pillow back there with the MP9
So you any miss shots right now for cash it it's gonna be all over but he doesn't the kit
So in theory, there's gonna be a force here. Yes, we're in straight in for it
Oh scope on a double you but he's still coming around
Still pretty pretty flashy stuff from cash, which is kind of what I think of him
We talked I think yesterday about Afro being more defensive over. I would say casually
There's a very very flashy opera when it comes down to it
But he won't be able to afford that AWP again for a while here. So magic in spite of losing the second round they bounce straight back. I
Think I said this a while back when we were casting them for like a tier two tournament
I said that cashlet reminds me a lot of Henny, you know when Henny first burst on the scene
He's like this incredibly like flamboyant
in true air-driven AWPer, obviously over in Brazil.
And I thought, actually it has a lot
of those same kind of properties,
but he's maybe a little bit more on the consistent side.
So I think this guy has an incredibly bright future
ahead of him.
I actually think he'd be tailor-made
for a team-like para-vision,
if it weren't for the fact that obviously,
James I. J. L. Ang and AWPing over on their team,
but he kind of fits the bill, you know,
young, incredible talent Russian.
So definitely a player to watch out for.
Be curious if K-27 can keep him
in the inevitable roster mania that happens,
post-colon, but we'll see.
Yeah, that is definitely an open question.
They've got a couple of them out there.
I still got my eyes on Fine Shine 52,
which maybe some people won't know who that is,
and that's acceptable if you don't recognize the name,
but he's another one of these alphas that sort of,
in my opinion, is a bit of an open coming.
I haven't seen him for a minute,
so I don't know what his career's looking like
for the minute, but I remember a couple of times
I saw him play, might've been some of those CGT games,
and I was, um, I was impressed, so.
This is gonna be a tough one to defend.
Nice grenade on top of the boost that was happening there.
And now you can see X5 very open, surprised he leaves through that as he runs back into the flashbang.
Winky goes down, AWP back with the Mach 10 on that opening kill duty,
and they know exactly where he is.
Shouldn't get more than one kill.
The fact that he almost got a double-dead X5 is, I think, kind of a potentially mistake there for magic.
But I think it's fine at the end of it.
So one versus three for Cido, even if some of them are low,
it's hard to make this comeback.
And imagine he's posting up for some exit frags.
See if he can maybe upgrade that from ass
into a glil or an AK, but I mean,
every step he takes forward is gonna play into AW's hands,
he's having HP, but he's gonna have a drop
every day of the week.
And so Cido will find nothing of use,
nothing of value in their economy continues
to be in just this really awkward kind of horrible state
affairs. And keep in mind as well for those who maybe weren't, you know, catching magic
trajectory to this point, the first map they played in the tournament was against the Mongols
on Mirage and really for all intents and purposes they should have won it. They had multiple map
points. They ended up losing 25, 23 and overtime. So it's a map that they've actually taken some
of the juggernauts of this tournament to their very limits on. So it shouldn't be too much of a
surprise they've started off well here. Yeah, I think that's a good thing to remind people
off definitely came in looking very very interesting and even at times when we
customer here in the B stream I would say they've had moments where they look well
drilled that the problem is when they kind of when they lose the mentality a bit when
they start to fall behind is when things kind of seem to get off the rails but
they start kind of been any better right you win the pistol then you do lose the second round
to Quinky and that quad kill but he hasn't got any kills since and now you've bounced back
you've shut down the CT side economy this is probably the best possible position you could
being on the T side early on here so they are going to be in a very strong spot and unless they
lose the usb's and maybe a deagle and a five seven they're gonna be uh they're gonna be quite far
ahead going into the early stages of this map so yeah we love this i really can't explain that
is he just does he have like that bat hearing is he just listening for the echoes and getting him
oh my god he dies please vince please save me from this i don't think i can i think we just
have to fully embrace it at this point you know just jump straight into the black hole of counter
strike it was a jumping usp shot as well by the way through the smoke from queen key so he goes to
show that he's uh he's not just a deagle demon but he can get it done with other weapons too magic
30 seconds left in the clock heavily outnumbered and although the weaponry on k27 is pretty garbage
because the time is so low there's really no room for error here i mean there's going to be
anglers you're not going to go ahead and check they're doing a decent job though of
sitting out the hurt at this stage 15 seconds now left in the clock.
Tenzy low, Masphal also low. A lot of this is going to come down to this rotation that's coming
through in the market right now which is noon. They need to start laying down some
frags finally get sick done and it will be magic just about surviving by this
flimist of margins just seconds left on the clock.
Oh what a absurd round. Even if you win that you've got to walk away with a feeling that
that is not meant to happen. I want to I want to believe that Quinkie's has been
he's been practicing Counter Strike with his eyes closed just honing that
echolocation somehow to be able to just able to play without seeing anybody
that's pretty cool. You could argue that K27 maybe shouldn't have been so
aggressive at the B bomb side once there was the time was low like that but it's
always hard to know when to like if you take that fight and you're hoping that
they're already like jumping in the air or they're like flying off the out of
window or something like it's hard to find those timing so regardless very close round but magic wins
it and k27 they are back but not with the awp on cash which is a result of losing some of these
early rounds and the economy so disjointed on the CT side magic coming to this one with a slow
approach that's another painful thing here for k27 a slow round they don't have a lot of utility
already there's no kit in play so slowing it down like this is going to waste even more utility
Could be another really tough defensive for the CT side.
Yeah, that is a very real concern. Magic of...
I wouldn't even say that I'm playing super slowly.
It's just that K27 has maybe been a bit overzealous.
I mean, it's a team that hasn't got a ton of experience themselves online,
especially not at this kind of caliber of event.
So maybe kind of like wearing on them just a tad.
Polatov up an overflame.
Famous, I should say. He's not going to be affected by that one.
He at least knows where one of these T's are.
Right, a little bit off, but Intel has been gathered, it's fabed, put down from Zedo.
And so they're one of the first times K27 actually in a pretty dominant position,
that they cannot afford to let this bombsite fall.
As you highlight, no kits and a lack of grenades could be a real problem.
Wait, there's gonna be a flank coming in.
Moon actually gets the kill, but AW was gonna get it either way, so...
Kind of almost robbed a bit there.
Quinky goes down, there's three people on the bombsite.
This is a round you should never give up.
AW hits a headshot, I'm starting to get worried already.
Moon with the jump over, takes down Fame,
And with 10 seconds on the clock here, all you need is to kill-
No, it's AW holding the line!
And the bomb is gonna be planted.
How have they given this one up? Moon with a shot!
To drop CEDO and an absolute collapse of the BDF from K27.
That is an unforgivable lapse.
They had everybody there, there was no time for magic.
They should have never lost this round.
I mean, it's unforgivable.
It really is.
Like, you're looking at 43, 17 seconds left on the clock.
Every one of these CTs has M4s or a rifle.
I mean, I can't fathom how you've lost this round.
Yes, it's some great shots from me.
Take nothing away from magic, but K27 have just shot themselves
in the foot with a double-barreled shotgun there.
And it's so grim as well, because they're economy.
They were finally starting to pick themselves back up off the floor,
and they've just thrown themselves back into oncoming traffic,
and I just can't understand it.
Okay, that's a nice way to begin, casually it will pick off spade, but I mean, ultimately
that is a head scratching round, okay, Tenzi's going down next, now they've picked up two
AKs, and they're going to keep on going, over at the middle part of the map, we've got
the bomb, still at top mid attack, so AW wants to see if he can find a way to even out the
scoreline just a little bit here. The kill counts. But again this is where we want to see K-27 kind of fall further back. It's another
thing this time, I tell you, down to 5 health. Again, this one should be in the back, but now I'm trying to get nervous. Now I don't want to say that
anymore because we've had multiple rounds now with K-27. They've had this kind of a position and they end up giving it away. So in theory, this is
around that you win almost every time. In theory, absolutely. In practice, it's not
worked out that way so far. And so we'll see if magic even go for this because, I mean,
realistically, their money's not great. A couple of scrap rounds in a row. Holding
on to this AWP and a couple of potential rifles really wouldn't be too bad, all things considered.
I think Moon has just tossed his AWP away though. He's now rocking with the 5-7 instead.
No, he's got it again. I thought maybe you'd thrown that away just to save it, but that's
It's not going to be the case.
Maybe you're looking to push him with 15 seconds.
It's hard to see how you get anything done,
but see though, not even getting a kill from that position.
Surely not again.
I actually think it's got it on lock down here.
That kill will seal the deal.
The bomb's on the ground, there's no time left for it to be.
I'm sharing the nervousness there
that I get here in your voice.
As soon as you go down, you think,
oh man, all it takes is one mistake here
and at a minimum, the bomb is going to be planted.
timeout called here as you see K27 finally taking a second round and it's just a very
confusing start across the board here. Magic shouldn't be losing these individuals to
the 5-7. There are ways to deal with that. You can flash away around the corner, you
could have a double setup there so you can at least trade the kills. Magic is definitely
also making mistakes to get into these loseable positions and as a result of the economy,
They have a ton of money either so just a very scrappy game, but it's been you you can't say it's not been entertaining
I guess that's the upside, you know, it's been fun to watch
That's true that is very true
I mean sometimes you have like really clinical what you consider to be you know dotting all the eyes crossing all the t's count
Strike something that VP, you know
We're under Jane had at certain moments a special maps like inferno doesn't always make for a great watch
I'm gonna be honest sometimes it's a little bit dull
And then sometimes in the flip side you have two teams that are incredibly scrappy, but constantly at any given moment
You have no idea what the hell's gonna happen. It's super unpredictable and that makes for a lot of fun
So I think we've had very much that so far in this the opening seven eight rounds
But then one AK for AW has been spotted in the apps
It's hard to see I was gonna get anything done in the X5 just drills them in the side of the head
so that feels like probably
The chance if any that magic had is gone with him
They think that should be the case once again here.
Trying to stay real slow in this round on the C side.
That 1 AK X5 takes a little bit of a risk in doing that, but I appreciate it while I
give it back over to the C side so they can continue the fights.
And unfortunately, yeah, they just won't have enough on anybody else.
So best you could probably do them around like this one if you're on a magic side is
waste some of the needs.
be slow enough that K27 keep throwing in the smokes and the incendiaries.
And that's probably the best case scenario, unfortunately, so kind of a finally more of
a boring round, I guess.
Maybe that's even a good thing.
Yeah, settles down the pace a little bit, allows both teams to bat themselves in.
And the end of the day, this is an elimination match, a 0-2 game.
You lose this, you're done.
So it's understandable if there is a little bit of tension, it's a team, a couple of teams
other than maybe fame you'd say that don't have really much experience at this level of counter strike whatsoever
so you can definitely forgive them a few hiccups here and there.
Quinking meanwhile though, he is going to put down spade and with 50 seconds left,
Mastfal is going to get a kill so it's not too bad all things considered. He is going to weaken
the economy just a little bit and dies before time so that's kind of the best case scenario for him.
Ticks his economy forward they can buy again into the next round and did weaken the economy just a
to tab on the CT side at three to five,
and it seems like K27 is starting to recover a little bit.
But I mean, you could also throw,
like to play doubles advocate here, Anders,
this could easily be like a six to score line for K27,
if they finished off their opportunities early on in the half.
Yes, and it's hard to know how that impacts the team
because that could be a source of great frustration.
It could also be a source of motivation to say, you know,
yeah, like it's not the best now,
but all it took was like a little bit like a super competitive,
just stop making a couple of mistakes
and we're going to bounce back and take over this whole game.
So depending on the sort of combined mentality of the team,
that kind of experience can either be, yeah,
like the thing that will keep the engine going,
or it could absolutely be the thing that crushes them.
And I think we've seen from Magic already,
they're the kind of, they seem like, at least,
I don't want to label them too hard,
but they seem like kind of a team
that get more frustrated than inspired
by these kinds of moments.
K27, I mean, they're still fighting pretty hard.
And individually, everyone is here,
like they're getting the kills on the CT side.
And in fact, if you look at the scoreboard,
you might even think that K27 should be leading, with Lowest Dragon being 5 kills on C.D.O.
Fame very nearly dies, that's so dangerous, but he gets to throw down the smoke that he wanted and kind of back on out
and actually that's enough to push Magic even further back, very interesting.
His last few rounds have definitely been a slow pace.
The next 5 I'm trying to make the most of that one, gets flashed in.
It does kind of give to play away, just a tad though.
I mean typically if you're gonna be throwing utility into apps it's gonna be
Molotov, a HE, maybe a smoke flash that really does kind of telegraph what the
idea is behind it. It does nothing of that kind of depth. Meanwhile Magic now is gonna be
switching up the pace trying to get through a shot. It's a wild spray from X5.
That's such a long time but a Quinky's showing up. They've been slowed down by
the Molotov that was in the apartments as well. Oh wait a minute, AW!
Look like we're practically a running headshot coming in from that short position
Three versus three now with 18 seconds of the fuck again. It's low here, but 10s DNA W
We'll secure the round with a couple of kills casually. You can't afford to get let go of this AWP
Again around where K27 they've got two people at the bomb site
There's very little time left backup is showing up and they just can't stay alive for long enough to add to you know
Like I think if they leave three more seconds in that bomb site
Then the backup is going to be there and there's nothing magic to do to probably win the round
But you got to give magic credit
I suppose the fact that they're leaving the timing so low and they still continues to find the bomb sites and find the
Bryan openings I would say it's a scary way to play Kalashrak, but if it's working, I'm not going to criticize it
They're up to six rounds
Yeah, it doesn't fill you with a master mark of confidence click
I think K27 have been their own worst enemies and quite a few of these rounds and quite a few of how the
executions and their protocols have been coming down against the better team. I think magic
just get punished really hard here. But listen, at the end of the day, it is all about survival
today. It doesn't have to be pretty. It doesn't have to be clean. You just got to keep your
torn going forward another day, take each day at a time. And so far, they're doing a
pretty good job. Six rounds on T side already. And again, it's a bit of a rough buy MP nine
for mass and not much money in the back burner for K 27. So if they were to lose this, I
I mean, you could easily see eight or nine rounds coming up for magic,
and that feels like it could be an insurmountable task on K27.
Yeah.
This is where the time of crunch time for them all is both flashed,
but they had just the outline of fame, but it might not matter at all here.
Quinkie's shown up double kill on the MP9,
and clearly a triple there kind of outlining the head of AW trying to get through CEDO now
with the FAMAS in the back and AW so low that the pistols were better than the AWP at this
point. All the M4 on X5 will get the job done here. I don't think with 8 health you're
going to be able to get this one. Very clean headshots required. He's in an interesting
position and I don't think they quite realized that he's walked through. So you might actually
have the element of surprise for the first kill, especially if they were to move forward,
but they're not doing that. Okay, now there's at least a thought in the head of Cachley
they're thinking you know what he'd be there and he's exactly right so nicely
done double kill for Quinky on that mp9 shut it down and unfortunately for for
K27 I suppose they don't live with too many people so they can't save the AKs
or anything else like that but they get around
they do yeah and all of those rounds that looked like it was gonna be fairly
straightforward it'll be opening three kills and then there was a an attempt to
come back into that one magic's economy now though is the one that's
struggling because there's been so many back and forth like 2v2 3v3's so they're
scraping together with two tech nines. If K27 could bring this into like a 6x
scoreline I think they'll be delighted with that outcome all things considered.
That's a big if they still need to traverse through quite a few obstacles
before we get to that mark. Molotov does just start to dissipate and with
Tenzy in there with his tech nine he started so incredibly powerfully but he
has dropped off just a tad. Impressively it's AW that's top of the charts. A guy
it's had him, I think you're talking about this the other day and it's like yesterday,
he's had his problems, you know, individually speaking, so it's good to see him fragging
out.
Well, especially because he's been doing a lot of the entering on some of these rounds,
so that's insanely hard to do if you're going to be also top fragging in the server.
Yeah, cool to see.
More of that.
I feel like I've seen good games from AWP and I've seen games where he really disappears
And that's always confusing or it's very hard to deal with, I think, as a team.
But if he's going to have the game right now, when Illumination's on the line,
then we're not going to be critical of that at all.
Smokes are coming in now, towards that jungle and top connected position.
They do have some utility in the back to find that.
Oh, but it's going to be a wrap with the fight.
It's really going to be happening.
Speedo takes down the Svaldo at the beginning.
Fame will follow up, and that's a great double.
Yeah, really. Really well done from Fame.
I think he brings so much to this team.
Moon and Svade completely isolated from one another and just slow walking into the crosshair
of Kastled, who's not going to miss those.
And now Moon, the other all-pronged server, had an amazing amount of impact over on B
early on.
Now he's going to try and get something done with his tech 9.
And considering this was a full investment into the round, if he could somehow squeak
a bomb plant, it would be huge, but this pretty much is mission impossible.
He agrees, he was trying to take one of those rifles out, Quinkie will reject that premise.
And so K27 going into the last round of the half, looking good for a 6-6.
And that would be, for me, that's a bit of an escape considering what it could have been.
Like at one stage they were down 5-1.
Yes, and you know, again, like it's hard to figure out. I feel like
they could have been, this could have been an 8-4 half in favor of K27 at the stage.
like they could have had such a huge lead going into it, but I suppose given all the trials and tribulations that they've been through so far
Maybe you will be okay saying okay
We'll get a tie up the game or we get a six six and then if we win the pistol on the second half
It's all just fine. There are tech nines out on the field
So you have to be careful and again both teams have managed to throw a rounds that that they shouldn't have so we're not gonna
Say anything for granted here
They are congregating towards the middle of the map.
Quinkie is trying to make a little bit of an attempt into here.
They blow up in the smoke and they try to run straight through into fame and Selo waiting on the other side.
So a mean crossfire that's been set up. Now Quinkie's coming through on the other side.
They'll add another headshot, make it a quick double. He's up for 12 kills now.
And that attempt just falls very flat. They didn't get any of the battles they wanted.
Quinkie with the final headshot. It's very good work here.
he is the triple for him and it will tie the game at six to six. I would say big opportunities
in this one for K 27 to get more, but they still seem like they're in pretty good spirits.
Yeah, I think that you're focusing on how things ended rather than how they started there. If they
were focusing on the beginning, I think some tilt would definitely be creeping in. And speaking
of tilt, I think, you know, magic have definitely been guilty of that multiple times in the tournament
from what we've even seen ourselves and it has been a bit of a recurring theme like in both of
their matches they had a very close first map against Mongols again they went into OT against
Monty it was a 13-11 loss that they should have won as well I think that was an ancient and then
the second map they completely collapsed they totally capitulated and you could see they
was tilt you could see the players were unhappy they're hitting the desk they're sighing you're
looking completely like absent minded while they're going through the game so I do hope that the fact
that they have such a good half and it ends up being just kind of mediocre is not weighing on
their minds and they realize okay let's just go we've got six rounds that's a good t-half
let's make sure we pick up the pace here on the second side because i think they are susceptible
to pressing yourself to stroke button for sure that's been that's been our worry hasn't it so
far in the tournament that's something that that we've raised the question a couple of times and
i feel like it's for good reason when they play well it's definitely impressive and with with
aw getting that many entries on the first half as well you've got to say that's a it's a great
template or a great foundation to build on but let's see what happens we're in
the second half ladies and gentlemen and shout out to you guys for hanging out
with us in the chat we appreciate it there's an a stream as well if you guys
don't know keep both the tabs open at the same time Quinky will start us off
first kill of the second half he's really come alive it's great to see and
it's a four versus five to begin with the bomb is coming out of palace oh and
they picked up the pace as well unclaimed the head of spade a huge opener
But Tensi's gonna make sure that they don't overrun the site just yet. They're not able to ransack it.
Mimokashlet is making moose around B. The bomb is now escaping outside Palace.
They're going to the B site.
It's gonna take a while before this bomb's planted, but they are gonna have B completely under wraps.
I love everything about this. It's gonna be such a... This is the benefit, I think, of having so much time in the round.
Is that you can actually do this. Oh, wait. They bring it back again.
They've changed their mind for a second time.
And now the question is, actually it's going to find me as well, oh if I'm on the magic side right now, I'm confused beyond belief. What are they doing? Why are they not committing to anything?
The bomb is going to be planted, but even then you might actually still not know if it's A or B, it's going to take you a second to figure out.
There we go, AW's confirmed it, he knows walking into the Glock of X5 though is not the way to do it, but I don't even play magic for being confused in this round. I don't know how you would calm your way out of this one.
Yeah, there was a couple of really cool moments there from X5.
I'll just see what 10sie can do from this because he is such a good player.
I don't want to assume anything on this.
He could pick it up.
He's seen multiple times in 27.
I've let these rounds slip, but not this time.
Xedo nails him.
So, X5 made the most of his position and got into sandwich and he actually heard three
players rotating through connector and window and as soon as he heard them, they rotated
the bomb back through T spawn, so they were playing purely off Intel from X5 towards positioning
And then because of Cashlit already being in the marketplace, he gets the free pick, and everything just falls nicely into place.
But yeah, I'm sure Magic's head was spinning with all the rotations and having no idea what the hell was going on.
Which is understandable. I mean, sometimes there are easy rounds to come right on the CT side.
You're like, hey, we got these flashbangs, these smokes, we got a pattern, I can name the pattern.
I can say, oh, they're doing a heavy connector split or something, but in a round like that one,
You probably don't have words for what's going on. All you can say is they could be anywhere on the map or Indian
That's never ideal
There is a force up and there was a big stack towards the middle
Leaning a side of the map and that's the wrong spot. It turns out this was a bit of a split coming in from shorts as well
X5 will go down and
Fade I want to see water me. So I was only got four kills so far on the map and normally he's more reliable than that
We'll pick up the MP7 and get the kill on the cashlet.
So it's a 3 versus 4, but the bomb is planted,
and there's not going to be a kit in this round.
So even if they have the man lead here,
this is a very tough retake.
The only good news is that the bomb has only really
just been planted, but it's already towards half of its fuse.
And someone needs to take points.
Someone needs to go first here.
It's a great shot from AW, and that's
going to open the floodgates.
Quinky last match stand, but he's on 30 HP,
and they will successfully retake.
It was looking dicey.
But that shot on window was huge to cracking this back open.
Magic bounced back with an authority,
taking multiple rifles from the T's in the process.
That's just so wild.
But I don't know why I keep sounding surprised,
but it's because, you know, you watch enough Counter-Strike,
you can get the outcome of a lot of these rounds
just based on, you know, the no-kit.
Even if you're a man up,
you're inside of the big bomb site waiting.
All they have to do, you can even hear it,
on the defuse at the end, if they just leave like a second and a half each more, that's
it, there's no time for a defuse, like a combined like, you know, that's like four and a half
seconds more combined with three people alive. And that's it, they just can't defuse the
bomb any longer. So the fact that they die so quickly, they end up losing the run anyway.
Oh, that is confusing. Here we go, though. It's been an entertaining game, I've got to
say round number 15 and magic bounce back, moon with double spray down, just smoke, they
We can't even make it out! Oh no! A third kill. That smoke just ended them.
Yeah, you were speaking before about like, Quinky maybe playing blind.
I mean, essentially we're in this round. They couldn't see anything.
They used three players just through smokes.
Xedo shut down in the back, trying their best daredevil cosplay,
but it turns out more often than not, you're just gonna get squashed by Kingpin in the end.
And Magic, they're about to take the 8-7, and they're doing it flawlessly.
This is so good for their economy, man.
Yeah, that is... that's the dream. Again, for a shaky kind of first half where both teams are looking, maybe not pulling like themselves.
Imagine you come back in here and pick it up so soon, losing the pistol, but then winning right afterwards.
It's great work. AWP to 16 kills. By the way, I don't know if this is true for you as well, Vince.
And he's playing so well right now, but I'm fighting for my life every time I see Quinkie play, because I keep wanting to turn him into some sort of tele-topic, like...
It's like, Quinkie-Winkie is right there for this, like, right there.
Um, like, it's the rare crossover. We don't really have, like, crossover branding and Counter-Strike, but whatever there was one, like, the Counter-Strike tele-topic thing would go hard, you know?
There's gonna be a day in the future where he's casting a major and you're casting him and you're gonna workshop some kind of telecopies reference
I can feel already. It's gonna happen. You heard it first
Yeah, there's there's lots of ways to go with it. I've already got material ready. Oh spade
You will end up getting out done
But you know what getting just the one kill in that moment still makes a pretty big difference
Sometimes that's all you can do and it's a lot better than dying straight up
up. But yeah, there's a lot like, you know, oh, he got smashed as if he was looking straight
into the baby's son. There's stuff like that. We can make it. I don't understand why the
son was a baby to begin with, but I can't. It's very confusing. There's a ton of very
deep conspiracy theories around how Teletubbies is all, you know, like it's all supposed to
to be like Marxist or like Masonic propaganda
and stuff like that, like if you spend,
if you go to the deep parts of YouTube,
there's there are people who think it's all programming
to, you know, to, to mess up the kids.
But not me, I'm saying like that, you know.
I feel so lucky now that I never watched it when I was a kid.
I was more of a Power Rangers,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers type kid,
you know, I don't think I have good stuff.
Do you guys have biker mice from Mars?
I don't think so, I don't recognise that.
That sure went so hard anyway.
You can probably tell them inside from a different generation of maps.
But nonetheless, we don't have to talk about it.
I had to get it out because it's in my head all the time.
He's been playing so well right now, so you've got to give him a lot of credit.
They need more like that though.
And I still think Cashly is playing well.
He hasn't dominated the server with the AWP.
AWP and that's that's one of the things I really want to see because I do love watching him play
So maybe get that out on the T side and start to crack open a couple of bombsides when they have the money for it
So two round difference
Magic have come up to a nice start right? They've won three out of four rounds so far on the T side and
They've got a better economy as well. Looks like it's gonna be palace once again. They're trying to get out
Another smoke which is recommitted. So do they wait or did you just go for it? It's the question now
They've lost like five and lower yet. They have to go they run straight through the smoking palace
They couldn't wait any longer nice click from moon. Oh my god
Cashlet gets blown up as well and moon is fully arrived here
That is some stunning shutdowns to get out of the palace and now quicky and Cito two versus four
This is exactly the kind of moon that we wanted to see yesterday man on dust two like if he showed up on dust
Two yesterday, they wouldn't be in this match in the first place
Now here we go, Quinkie has been boosted up onto the staircase, could get the drop, but
Moon is watching, and I think did let Quinkie, he's down to 36.
Killing the effects, 40 seconds left, look off that wide swing, 10s he takes his teammate,
and Moon will seal up his 3k for the round, and Magic just building in confidence, building
ahead of steam.
K27 have never really felt like they've got a stranglehold in this game economically speaking,
Like I think it factors back to something you were highlighting just before with cash lid not really getting much to say with the
Orp, I think he only had the orp for like two or three rounds in the entire game so far because their money is always just being such a treacherous position
What a wild round from from moon there
He set up the flash in the underpass to get the opening kill and then he just you know spun around and then got every kill from there on out pretty much
Very impressive stuff, but yeah, you're right. I think cashed it. Unfortunately
just ironically without the cash to to pick up any kind of you know it's his
favorite weapon here it's a bit of an issue to a case on the CT side and the
money is absurd they've got tons of cash 10s you can see a 9,000 so they're
gonna be they're gonna be filthy rich for a lot of this half tech nines on the
other side x5 could get jumped on again he's jiggle peeking at kind of slowly
And the timing doesn't work out for him at all.
Fade will take him down and I was criticizing Mirlin.
I said he four kills a couple of rounds ago and now he's at the 10.
It's looking a lot better.
It's about taking down Quinkie and any dreams of you getting a bomb plant here are pretty much gone.
There's so many people at this long time right now that you can't get through.
Yep, on the other side though, you have pistols, you have a bike wing, you've got to try something.
Sitting back at this kind of range with pistols, I think they're playing purely off the basis of the Tec-9 for fame and connector.
Now that's gone down, Xedo, there's no reason to play shy or coy, just get out there, get yourself killed quick, so that K27 can get their rifle round up.
Because realistically, as you said, objective-wise, I mean, the opportunities were absolutely zero.
But now, AK's come in, again, cash lids, he's got 58, so he can't go for the AWP. I'll be curious to see if he goes for it or not here.
It's not necessarily completely necessary, but he has gone for it. Okay, good, let's see what he's got up his sleeve.
Scary pick up I was going to say if he couldn't afford the armor but he just is able to.
I feel like playing glass cannon AWP on the T side can just be a bit of a struggle.
I suppose a cannon on the CT side too but regardless, he will have the armor.
Just no head armor so that could be a factor.
It's worth pointing out there are two M4s on the map so watch out for that if it comes up.
I think the reason why is because he knows that they have multiple AKs so it's less of a risk
as you say, like 10Z.
True, yeah.
And Massfile both have an A4, so we'll see.
I mean, that could be a huge difference, you know?
Like, let's see, for those of you that maybe aren't
as knowledgeable about Counter Strike,
the head armor would allow you two bullets
from an M4 A4, but without the head armor,
you are an insta-kill to the head,
whereas the AK is an insta-kill to the head regardless.
So these are like little bits and pieces
that players have to think about as they go into the game.
What's like an A execute on the horizon though?
So you think your defenders want magic?
They're so close to taking up this early map,
Remember, this is elimination, so we're laughing away through some of this game, but it's real serious for the players.
Never forget that. So much of their careers could be on this.
This is a tier one tournament that they're getting a chance to play in, and look at the defense!
The smoke again!
Tensi and Spade start off with a couple of kills, both of them dying pretty much on top of each other.
And that's kind of dreadful. What's the point of throwing the smokes if you can't get on there and get the bomb planted?
Magic can even fall on back. You actually had a free runway to at least get the bomb planted, which I think is only half the job, really, when you're at the A bomb site.
You're only halfway through the round, but you get the bomb planted here, but they couldn't move in that.
They're trying once again by the air, so lost cause, another kill.
A third one through the smoke.
Svay this time, and C.D.O.
Yeah, they're not gonna respect it.
Push him, just don't hurt here.
You know you're gonna be able to do it.
Miss Vowel takes him down at the end.
Wall bang through the box.
It's 12 rounds for Magic, as they're very close to winning this opening map here.
And for K27, I was impressed at the beginning because they lost some very winnable rounds
and they didn't look like they were collapsing as a team, but I feel like now you're starting to see,
it's a little bit more desperate, it looks a little bit more sloppy, maybe the energy
has kind of left the room a little bit for them. Yeah, they do just feel flat at this point,
and it's 12 rounds to Magic, it's only one round on this T side to K27 and it was the
next round. And since then, out of six rounds on the CT side, they've only been required to defuse
one. The last five rounds haven't even yielded a bomb plan. That's how dominant on one side of this
They're gonna run it back onto the A-Slide, but Mast Battle does get flashed and does get checked, so Xero, he's opened up business onto the slide.
He's still going to deal with Tenzy though, good polytops, gonna force him out to the open, the best chance to stay 5 so far.
Yeah, just don't give this one up, surely. A-W, he's running straight to the smoke and somehow finds a double kill.
Well, he's a bad possessed right now. That should work.
They're not gonna win the round, I think, still. Moon has faded. They're just, you know, they're a little bit too far away.
They will give it a shot based off that AWD kill. If they win it, it's gonna be because of that.
But what an outrageous move. Let's see if anyone's gonna make a mistake and peek here. Moon trying to get the first spray.
Does realize what the second player is, but he can't find the follow-up.
the follow-up. Gwinky will take him down and now it fades trying to pick up
potentially another rifle if he can. I think the AWP is a rough weapon to
retake with here and he's running out of time regardless. There is a kit in front
of him but I don't think he can do it any longer. Still trying to make it
expensive. Cito takes him down. Nice triple for him in this one and K27 now
fighting for overtime but I swear AWP almost wrecked them there. Just a quick
check in with the chat as well Vince. We did have someone asking
How do you pronounce it?
Francis goes asking how do you pronounce the X5, G7, whatever name you took the practice you don't
For this people are pointing out. We just call them X5. We don't we don't know what's the real answer
We haven't checked we've tried to check what we we never found out
Yeah, I think everyone just agrees that have a mutual handshake on just X5
Music reasons. Oh nice shot from Zedo though. Can K27?
have that second win, that third that we see so often in the tier 2 bracket.
We'll have to get white swung on with the A4, and Tenzi finally finishes off the kill onto Zedo.
Meanwhile though, there's a bit of a backstab in the smoke and X5 catches red kids with the unaware.
Man, this has returned to this game. It's been such a wild game in general with the mistakes on all sides,
which sometimes can just make it very entertaining.
It's a tiny bomb that's been planted. This time people are not getting shot through the smoking that's been blown open there
Mr.
I was hoping he was gonna be the one that's gonna be able to capitalize on that smoke being blown open
But instead it goes the other way so they'll have to back on out
Nothing they could do this time unfortunately, so up to nine and I said they had a lot of money
That's still true on the magic side like look at the fact that they've lost
It's gonna be a second round here and still everyone is six thousand or above on the
In terms of the cash so so they can still buy quite a bit here magic, but eventually they will run out if this keeps going
They'll be able to get away with it by the looks of things as well. I don't think that k27 and their position to
Deny moon or tensi of their weaponry
But yes, you are absolutely on point and they can't keep this going for too much longer
Mimodo K27, they're making a real chase for themselves to get back into an OT kind of
scoreline and this would mirror the match that Magic had with the Mongols.
They had a pretty significant lead, they threw away a couple of match points, they went into
OT, they ended up losing in like quadruple overtime.
So at some point they're going to be thinking, oh god, not again.
This is... actually sometimes I think it's kind of counter-strategic and really funny.
Like there's no question there's tons of stuff to criticize.
If we add an analyst desk ready on the B-Stream then you know there'd be a lot of things to
go through us around.
We've talked about it a ton of them already but in terms of just watching it as an entertainment
thing it is there's nothing lacking here I think.
This is the kind of stuff that you know you can never know what's going to happen and
that is kind of interesting.
five jiggling again at the corner. He's done this a couple of times and I think he's been
punished a couple of times for it. This time he's quick to fall back. They are so aggressive
in the middle here, Magic, which they could do for a while, but eventually they will have to
they'll have to leave this four man set up at mid and kind of go back to defending the bombsites a
bit. Moon, he's playing on the lip of this truck. You can just sort of stand on the on the on the
rear end bumper. I think it is and it can be a very, very hard position to clear out actually
are coming in from the T side. I think the issue is that K27 were aggressive, but they
were kind of statically aggressive at the end. They were holding positions that were
pretty obvious. Flick not quite there for Moon. They're gonna close the gap now, knowing
that he could be vulnerable, susceptible to a straight up push. X5 for the first time
is gonna find the perfect timing, but it's gonna be Moon in the mortal, and then it lands
to No Scope on the castle lid. That's an outrageous shot, and it could be enough to
seal Magic the map. Oh, I think you just might be... I think you're onto something here.
a way to do it as well. No scope and there's no time here. 20 seconds, fame. He's stomping
all over the place. He might as well. Okay, he's found AW, but that's only a third of
the problem. 10 seconds shot in the back by Tenzin Magic. They finally put an end to
the madness here. They pick up the map in what has to be one of the most confusing maps
we've seen in a while here in Astana, but well done for them. It is elimination on the
line so you better believe they're going to be excited about this one and hopefully we can
figure out some of the mistakes. This map as well was pick fire magic so we're going into the
second map of Overpass which is where K27 will try and do some of the work so yeah I mean again
this is maybe not the most high-profile game but we I think we were entertained for sure. Shout out
to you guys as well in the chat keeping us company the whole the whole way. Karl Pottery was asking
if there are any furries in the chat not standard game related but you know we
like to keep a bit of chat interaction going I think those are all in that
lantern if I'm not wrong I saw pictures on the internet with the other
tournament but anyway Vince any thoughts about the game? I thought you were going to ask me any thoughts about furries
thoughts about the game yeah I think I actually nailed it at the end it was so
unpredictable, it was super entertaining, not always for the best possible reasons.
I'm just glad we saw Moon have a big performance here because I felt like Dust2 was such a
bit of a disaster for him personally and I'm sure he was really gutted and devastated after that.
We got five kills as opposed to Afro who dropped like 20 plus and had tons of impact. When you
landing shots like this, I mean you can't fault the guy, he was instrumental in getting magic this
map so I'm really happy for him on an individual level. You can see he's also up there on the
ADR charts, which isn't always the case for AWPers.
It can often be a case you get like 20 kills,
but your ADR is actually quite low.
It's just kind of the way it goes.
And then AW, you highlighted him,
play that's been struggling,
but he's had a really good map here.
So I think if you are on the magic team right now,
you're feeling really good about your chances
going through into overpass.
To be honest, as well on the T side,
like AW were getting so many of those entry kills,
huge, huge props to him for doing as well as he did there.
That's very, very hard to do.
top fragging on the T side while playing the entry on so many of the rounds.
You've got to appreciate that. Definitely the standout player for this one and
you've overpassed very different affair. Hopefully we could see more moon
all being the same because it was really fun. You know no scopes and all but
but on the other side of it too right. You've got the Cachlid who
now that's about that they picked on overpass you hope that they're gonna be
able to shop
in a big fashion. So yeah final map is gonna be ancient
if we can get there. But if it keeps going like this, I mean, in spite of the fact that
there are mistakes across the board, this could go down as one of the more entertaining
games that we've had here on the B-Stream to be quite honest. So I'm not going to complain
about it. It's a messy Counter-Strike, but it is really, really fun. So God, I appreciate
that. We are going into a bit of a break before we get to Overpass, so get something to drink
and we'll be right back. Stay tuned.
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We've got Esfade going through the big tournament.
He's playing for Magic.
You're the IGL of the team.
It's your first big event as well.
We were just talking off-camera, right?
You're trying to enjoy the moment.
You're trying to feel it all, right?
What is it like when you come to this event,
you see these players, the elite teams, and stuff like that?
I just met with many players before
because, like, Monizzi, it's very good.
It's very good, my friend, and the AV as well.
So we are connecting with many TRS or tier one players before.
So it's not like in first time for us.
It feels more normal.
Yeah, it feels more normal.
And looking what's interesting here, right?
I'm looking at just magic as a team, the grind and the growth.
It's not been like you guys had a quick skyrocket.
You know, you've been slowly grinding through events, working hard.
What does that progress look like?
Like, how have you guys done it from bootcamps to tournaments to having the right players?
How did we get to this point today?
Yes, we have many online experience before.
Like in other teams.
When we come to the Asuna before, we like many works about the structure.
But many times work about the structure, not about individual plays or something like that,
just on the structure and talk about the game like everything in this game.
And getting that qualification, going to have now this position in Astana,
do you feel like you have a point to prove that the gap is not so big between you guys?
And if we look at rankings, you don't play at this level, you can play at a higher level.
Yes, yes, yes. I think when we started to play it's not was difficult for us. We have many problems with map pool and disqualification because it was not good so like I want to be.
So it was more on the individual and trying to make our system like we play in the system.
But more individual moves like my boys can take the opportunities from their eyes.
What they see, what they want to do.
to help each other, to make a play.
Let that communication flow decide what to do.
So how confident do you feel on the LAN environment with the LAN experience?
Because obviously you've had a bit of that LAN play now,
but obviously this is a way different level.
It's a way different level, but we as well are growing up after this LAN in Belgrade.
We don't wait anything, we just want to play
and show and show yourself and prove yourself in this match so it's like I
think it's a good goal for us to don't be so nervous or not yeah so and take our
experience of this high tier one so learn from the event take the experience
as well and like you said at the beginning of the interview enjoy the
moment. So what would you say is a good position for you guys in this event?
What is going to be good in your eyes? In my eyes, I think, and in my opinion,
like, to my good opposite to tier one teams, because I think we know how to do
it or we need to make like good game plan, like think everything about like
2-0, 3-0, score, lose 2-0, win 2-0, make a good game plan or something like that.
And after this, if you make like 2-3 or 3-2 to bounce playoff, it's very good for us.
So I think something like that.
Well good luck with it all, thank you very much for a lot of details, a lot of insight
in it and enjoy it.
I think that this is the greatest thing you can do because it's an experience and you can take that like you said you leveled up from HLC
You can level up again here. So let's see what you can do man. Yes. Thank you very much. Thank you
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Welcome back everyone, beautiful Astana is where the tournament is happening, we're
on the B-Streme here, it's day three and we've got some teams that are facing elimination.
Magic in K27 and unfortunately K27 they're a step closer, but that was on the opponent's map pick of Mirage
They ended up losing that one now we got a K27 in its own map, which is overpass Vince
So what do you think can they can they make a comeback here? Can they bounce back into the game? I?
Think there is a possibility, but I will say that their overpass stats actually are pretty bad on K27
23% win rate and
36% win rate on their T side so
So, it's been grim, but as a caveat to that, they did beat Gentlemates on Overpass earlier
at Astana, and Gentlemates have actually had a really good run, they've been looking really
solid, and a lot of those stats I just highlighted, including a Lost of Magic, by the way, which
was back at the Astana qualifiers, a lot of these games didn't have fame, so you can
maybe throw in a caveat and say, yeah, the statistics look pretty bad, but recently they've
been looking much better and now they have fame, and maybe he can really bolster up their
overall performances when it comes to this map?
Yeah, you gotta hope so, that that's the case.
I agree, like it's hard to find a lot of data
with, you know, with fame playing here, obviously,
so it's gonna be somewhat limited.
And he could, I think, have an outsized impact
on how they're gonna be playing it.
I'm quite curious how this will play out.
We are gonna head into the game in a couple of seconds here
with, again, one map still to go for K27.
See if they can make this one.
We'll be on ancient to decide the whole thing with,
But it's been a scrappy game so far, been very hard to break the outcome of really almost any round.
And for that reason alone, it's been quite entertaining.
We do have another game coming up even after this one.
Obviously we've got the Huns playing up against Fisher College.
So that's going to be potentially again, hopefully a more even game for both teams.
A chance to kind of show what they could do here on LAN.
I think it's been an exciting experience, maybe especially for Fisher College so far.
We'll see what that happens, but that's that's going to be a little bit later in the day
And that's the a streamers will have to get the same time
So yeah, if you've got the extra ram for it, you can you can keep both tabs open kind of keep you know check out
What's going on there?
Yeah, I believe on the a stream right now is 9z versus mouse and 9z actually took the first map
So potentially going through I think that would mean if 9z win that game to go through 3 and 0
Which would be kind of crazy. I don't think many people would have had that on their radar
So, uh, yeah, plenty, plenty of CS going on right now and a lot of exciting stuff happening.
But in here and now we have to say goodbye to one of these two teams.
And as you said, like magical one step closer to having a stay of execution for the time being living another day.
It's not going to get any easier.
Of course, there's a lot of very good teams going to be down in that one and two bracket themselves.
But they've at least managed to do something they were unable to do so far on this event.
And that's take a lead and actually convert into a wing.
a wing. They hadn't won any maps going into that first map of Mirage year. They'd had a lot of very
close 1311 and OT losses, but they probably should have won. So if nothing else, that's at least one
huge W as far as they're concerned, and I'm sure it's going to do the world of good to their confidence on top of it.
Yeah, you want to see them build some of the momentum around that.
Looking at the magic side of Overpass as well, like it's pretty much split 50-50B or I guess
56, 56% for wearing CT and T side here. So that's kind of interesting, right? It's supposed to be
a more one of the more CT sided maps. So not sure about, you know, how how that plays out, but
but AW seems to have some good stats on a 10Z as well. So they got a couple of rifleers there.
Moon with the AWP maybe not too highly rated like a 103 rating on overpass for what I can tell. But
again, we're talking about four maps in the last three months with this lineup. So it's it's
The data is minimal, like the sample size is not going to be amazing for us.
So it could actually be a bit of a learning experience, both for us and the teams really, to figure out how is this going to be playing out.
But I am stunned by what you said. You bring up the sort of the win rate for K27.
That's an interesting pick then to end up on Overpass, I suppose.
you know, I think that's a
really good thing. Yeah, but I
suppose from their perspective,
they don't care about the
overall win rate. All they care
is that they're one on one on
overpass at Astana with a 13
nine win over gentle mates. So
I guess like if you look at the
very close, you know, past
they've actually got 100% win
rate on it, and they've been a
very good team in general
mates who have been very
impressive to me. Actually I
had pretty high hopes for them
coming into this event. We
haven't had a chance to cast
them ourselves, but I've been
very impressed with them as of
late. Obviously they've got
very much familiar and a big fan of who was previously at 9Z who are now doing great things.
But into the here and now, Anders, we have our self-overpass kicking off K27 on the T side
and all five of them pushing towards playground.
Yeah, I don't hate this. It's always interesting because I'll have such a big map that
when you do this kind of a grouped up thing, you don't know if the CTs are pushing and you know
You know what they kind of are. A.W. is in the sewer tunnel looking in, so you could end up losing a lot of map control without knowing it.
I like the fact that they're speeding this up, because I think, again, you have no idea if the CT's already figured it out, and they've got three people stacked here, I think they're gonna have a really good read.
You don't have much choice, you have to go for it. They do have a Molotov and some smokes as well on the T side, so it'll be sort of an execute, but a counter smoke is coming up, they're bumping into each other.
And listen, the smoke moon, is he going to be able to find anything?
He's joined the T side somehow, but now he's dead instead.
Tensi with three kills.
Oh, and a headshot straight through.
How has he done that?
That's so sick, man.
And the thing is, you might think to yourself, look,
doesn't he realize they're bumping into a player?
It's because they're all running through a smoke together.
As far as they're aware, one of their teammates
was like, you know, kind of dribbled and stopped pushing forward.
There's no way of knowing that.
In the heat of the moment, you're listening to the call
of where the potential players on the CP side are,
and they just run head first into Tenzi,
and he does exactly what he did over on Mirage,
and that is lay them out.
Just unbelievable again, that 4K is so beautiful.
And if we're talking as well about like Magic Beam,
kind of a momentum-based team
that sometimes get in their own heads,
what a phenomenal way to kick things off.
The vibes are looking real good.
Yeah, amazing stoppage.
That kind of smoke that goes out,
Even if it doesn't directly kill anyone on the T side, it just makes it so confusing, like a lot of their own utility is now not necessarily nullified, but it's a lot less effective.
Hunting down Tenzi there is going to be Tito, who dies to Twinkie trying to plant the bomb, and he actually will be successful.
So another very passed round here for K27, making the way onto the A bomb site. There is a flank coming in from Cashlid, and he does it on a creative pistol.
It's winnable here, and he's got the Molotov.
If he somehow stays alive, he can try and interrupt any kind of a defuse.
They don't have any more smokes left either.
So, that Molotov is actually worth quite a bit.
Cashlet here. Oh, the timing is so good.
X5 on the other side.
And there is so much trouble here. Magic.
I don't think he is. Why is he has the Molotov?
Actually, two of them, they should not be able to defuse this one.
But Maceval is trying to get a bit closer.
Oh, he's still gonna jiggle it out there, and Maceval's solo already.
No Molotovs are needed.
Cashlet gets it.
K27, they get some justified revenge for all of the rounds that they lost similarly on Mirage.
This time it's their turn to take one back. I'd fully understand if Tenzi is mega-talted right
now of his teammates because he needed help so badly from Mastfal. He was kind of on the right
side of the smoke behind the back of the truck. He's got the MP7. He needs to be going in there.
He needs to be getting aggressive because Tenzi, he actually was about to face the guy from
battering that as you can see Quinkie shocks him down in the back with a tech 9 he'll be like guys
Like where's the help here? I can't watch 360 degrees by myself
So a bit of a lapsed in communication or judgment perhaps from asphalt and it's cost them dearly
They go back in with a force by if there weren't as you'd expect but it's only going to be one m4 and one
9 so spade weather slow start on mirage is out there first, but he is basically bait for tensi to just capitalize with his m4
That is really really good work
Two people down on the K27 side
He's been playing so well in some of the games that we've seen so far from magic
If you can keep it up like this and if they can have AWP performing once again, then
Could be that they could steal away even their opponent's map pick here
Three people left and once again, they're all out long like this
if it keeps turning out this way and magic kind of figure out how much they're
leaning to the side of the map early on again there are legitimate strategies on
the CT side where you end up pushing up through the monster tunnel and you if you
find no T's there you have such an interesting position already so third
round is looking still a bit shaky here for the T side even if they have the
weapons for it AW close listening in with the MP9 it's moon with the head
shots and how X5 is gone and it's fallen apart here. W gets us way down 25 seconds and
monotone on top. Okay it's thrown from that position. I was worried for a second but
yeah 1 versus 3 he's kind of locked in. The plant though at very least there's going to be no
opportunities from afterwards but a plant doesn't at least tick forward the economy a little bit
and it's disappointing you know you know you've got magic on the ropes you know that they are
maybe not KO'd just yet, but they're wobbling.
And then you immediately just get wrecked by Tension Long,
who's up to nine and one already.
And even with this plant,
your money's not gonna be great into the next round.
You're gonna have a couple of pieces that I'm missing.
So magic, you're gonna be ecstatic with this start
or things put into place.
And that's a bit of a daylight robbery round
as far as they're concerned.
I do agree with you, though.
Like if K27 continued to hit this B site,
or A site, pardon me, it is gonna get predictable.
We're going to keep seeing these little passages of play,
maybe starting to take connector control early on from magic.
It's always a very good way of splitting the map up.
It's essentially like the main portion
to rotate between one site and the other.
And this gets a little bit claustrophobic
all of a sudden for K27.
And as I said before,
their T-Rounds typically are very weak on this map.
So I'm very curious to see what they're going to do
to try and adapt things.
Well, the normal kind of setup for this map,
or a lot of the time will be what we just call the 4-1,
you have four people that are working the restrooms and a side of the map and then you got one player
that's lurking around outside of the B bomb side on the T side and that player really just has the
job of of pretending like someone is there so that the CTs can't just rotate too much over the outside
look at this now he's in the smoking tunnel, Tensi on landing the shots here, Tecline by is not working out on any level that's worth discussing but Tensi is up to a 12-1 scoreline behind this
Sticking around he will go down. I almost wish that he would have stayed alive
But you know what he wanted to what are the fight for one more kill here and it's time they have pushed out
So that's Val and I think this is even if he's not gonna find and kill anyone here
The fact that magic have started a piece of some of the puzzle together and realized there's no movement on the side of the map
They're not even there to begin with that's such valuable if you need to see the side and pay 27
If they keep doing this similar thing, I think they're just gonna get punished more and more for it
They could change their minds obviously and go back and hit the B bomb site which normally is a great spot
Like even in full buy rounds
It could be very hard to hold the B bomb site on this map
Even if you've got three people there at the start on the CT side, it's just not easy with the flashes coming over
So it's a bit that's another reason maybe why it's surprising that K27 haven't tried to push that more
Sad elephants to set the mood maybe for K27. I don't know what's happening
It's been a sad half so far. Yeah, maybe to the last map too
Another furry chap out there, it's all the rage these days.
It's the same kind of setup again though, isn't it?
I mean, it's still very early guys in the half.
And it is essentially an eco round star,
not looking to look too much into this,
but this is almost the round where I would prefer
that K27 went for some kind of aggressive B hit,
to at least try to distinguish something,
but for magic to feel a little bit less comfortable,
feign with two lovely precise shots with a eagle,
is going to bring Moon and Tensi to their knees, only Tensi's third death, as opposed
to 12 kills, 200 ADR, it's going to drop a little bit after this round, but what a start
he's had, been staggeringly strong, and spate for a bit of an awkward spot here, where he's
going to end up getting caught between two separate angles, that's why he's closed the
angle off by going back onto long side, essentially allowing him to line up for his M4, and now
he will spray them down. I was concerned for him for a second there, but he's all good.
for one in the lead. Yeah, 200 ADR. I think the highest we've seen in the tournament yet
has got to be Luchov in that first game that we were watching. It's outrageous. I don't
remember what he was. I think he said something like 250 or 30 or something. It was crazy.
Yeah, good times. He was at 1.250 ADR after like seven rounds and he finished the first
half on 208 ADR, which is like, I mean, you look at what 10s he's done so far, I'm taking
nothing away from me, it's been fantastic. So a lot of these have been in the pistol
round, and then they've been in anti-eco round. So the fact that you will finish an entire
map, or an entire half, I should say, on 208 ADR, that is kind of unheard of, like I can't
remember the last time I saw that kind of a stat line.
Yeah, usually those high ADR numbers happen very early in a half, and then the more rounds
you play that logically. You've got the word average in there. You end up going differently.
We've got a boost. This is beautiful. It's going to be a four man boost looking over
with the AWP. Welcome back to the CSGO days. Where is Olafmeister? I hope he's co-streaming
and watching this right now. It's not obviously the same position, but you've got to appreciate
how crazy this is. It could be worth it. Very often these kind of boost backfire in
pressure level games, but can you spot anyone over the wall as the pressure
intensifies? You've got to stay alive here. Gun out! Oh, C.D.O. takes him down and
unfortunately that puts a timer on the boost here. Wait a minute, he's going to see?
Shut down, it's Quinky! They're confused. They've no idea what's happening. Why are we getting shot?
Oh, I love this. Oh, what a throwback. I feel like it's kind of a gift. I remember this back at
dream hack we had to actually redo the round ultimately and it was it was it was madness the
the admins were coming in it was crazy all around but they've made the way to the bomb site so
the bomb is gonna be planted let's go oh fang he's got two though he's gonna make sure they get
punished for this boost and there's x5 as well so i mean you get the pick there's a second kill
that comes through from aw and it still comes apart they don't even win the round off that
Some people would say that's karmic justice. Slapping them across the face. Magic you're
going to conceive for a second time. That is so funny. It's one of the reasons why I love
Overpass so much. There are so many weird tricks like that. I would argue some that have never
even been attempted still, but yeah. It doesn't work out. I'll tell this little anecdote as well
just while we're here for the for the people watching. That game when I was
in the center and I was done casting it and I looked at my phone I've never been
so horrified in my life because the center and I were laughing away through that
game because it was so outrageous it was happening but the whole community was
so angry at Fnatic for doing that boost that you know they were kind of taking
have an anger out on us as a cast of the games.
How dare you, why are you blocking, you know,
why you're just cheating while they're cheating their way
through the tournament, you fat idiot, like, it was wild, man.
It was a wild experience.
So yeah, good times, good times all around.
Here we go.
How's your ANCS class out there?
You know, yeah, but there's part of me
that I now I kind of a laugh like it is funny though so people have passion
no pain you're a passion about the teams that he care about so I appreciate
that we're in the 7th round and the boost just doesn't work out now there's
another boost going on at this time at the playground
Crinky gets a kill not with a boost though 10 C quick one to return and that's
super important otherwise I think they would have been all slaughtered at that
side of the map and I think the round would have been over pretty quickly but
it's still a four versus four now we're gonna minute in 10 seconds left and this
they do have that 4-1 split that I was talking about earlier on the T side. They got fame lurking outside of the B bomb side.
So more of a normal round I would say for K27.
Yeah, the only wrench in the works is they don't have con control. Typically in that 4-1, you want someone at least
that's cleared out con and that's the exact reason why. It cuts off your rotation
so abruptly, it takes way longer to transition from one side of the map to the other and it allows the CTs to stack more over on the B site.
where you know, Tenzi, if the call comes through, they're pushing once, he can quickly appear up on short side.
So this is a real concern now for Magic, they have smoked off Heaven, trying to get into the mixer, awkward position for mass battles,
he gets caught out, you open the flashbang, but fortunately for him, AW is there to lend him a helping hand.
And now Tenzi can make inroads through on the con side.
Xito gets one, but that's where he will fall prey to the A1S of Sphade.
So Magic, I love the little adaptation they've done with the connector player
They haven't played that spot just yet and the eels a huge amount in return
Yeah, that you're right
It's a very old position for with with a W being on the sandbags
I think it's a hard decision here when you're coming in towards the the pillar there
Good shutdown good defense and you know being on the CT side here for Magic
They do survive with three people alive. I think at the end of it, too
So, yeah, that's really important, like keeping the economy going and, yeah,
Porosha in the background, they are starting to really feel intense.
He's still up to 14, Maceval now.
So, Porosha has a couple of people who have no armor and just glocks on the other side.
He'll take it. AWP's up for the hunt as well.
We're gonna make this a quick six rounds for Magic.
They do not want to leave the tournament just yet, but for K27, I think that's...
Oh, okay.
He's way too relaxed for this moment.
almost he's too flirty for this moment. What's happening?
Well, they are getting screwed pretty hard right now, K27. So
understandable, I suppose. Make the most of every opportunity you've got, 6-2 down.
And I mean, one of their rounds, one of their two rounds was off the back of that quad stack on
short. And to be credit to K27, the second they realized that stack was in play, they initially
just pushed B knowing it was completely bereft of CTs. Other than that, it's been incredibly
one-sided. Like you're looking at some of those players that you'd like to tee off
cash lids, we've both kind of singled him out as being a player to watch out for
here. Two and six. He's had barely any impact whatsoever. Yep, I think that's
another important thing and this is a map where you know with the AWP even on the
C side, you can find so many fights there are so many different ways,
especially if you're going to be playing it slower anyway, to walk across the map.
But there's not been the case. Six to two and round number nine. If they wanted to
turn this around. I mean if they can get up to six rounds here, I think K27 will walk
away with a good feeling, but it has to start very, very soon. And once again, they've left
one side of the map open to the CTs. Now again, magic haven't necessarily realized that, but
they are going to slowly, I think, figure it out. Rotating back towards the back of the
A site, molotovs are raining in early on. There should be a rotation, maybe more than one.
They're going to have four people at the spawn site very soon here, magic, but the incendiaries
are pretty or the mod is also pretty damaging so they pretty much force out
everyone on the bomb site. They haven't forced Tensy out of bathrooms though, how they
dealt with him finally but he did cordon off the rotation and the cavalry comes
in. So you don't even want to get swamped before he's traded out but it ends up being a 2v1 against
Vayne. He's been in this position before, he gets nailed through the boxes, down to 20,
make it 0. Massfile breaks the hearts of K27 again but I do agree with you, the
utility there was so on point but what they didn't realize is that Tensy was
that in bathrooms and so as soon as he struck in for the first kill it really
screwed with them fully all committing to the site they were kind of like
isolated little pieces were moving but not together as a unit.
Seven rounds they were so back and forth on the opening map but it really looked
like it could have gone any which way at certain points in the game but now it
just looks like Magic have found another level and K27 again for this
being their map pick you've you've really have to criticize it a little bit
it's fine that they wanted against General Mason and that is pretty cool but
at the same time surely you expect more out of it you expect more confidence
coming into this to a map like this one and we're seeing none of that so
ridiculous shot from moon to be fair maybe if you can add that into it but
individually they're not showing up and they are dropping one of my favorite
combinations the nice Blyat. So a cultural cross over there that you've got to appreciate.
Round number 10 is here and again the money's looking weird for K27 who just they are falling
apart right in front of our eyes. Yeah money again is in a pretty grim state of affairs.
As far as hiding in the smoke this is a very unorthodox position. He's maybe anticipating
that someone's going to push behind him, but at the same time, he would have heard that jump.
Oh, he's got such a nuts position right now that they have no idea about. They're going to
replenish the smoke as well. He's basically like an early warning system, like a tripwire for his
team. The issue is though that he's been so passive that he may have missed out his opportunity,
because K27 have all pushed up con. No one's around B at this point.
Yeah, but they just smoked off bathrooms as well on the A side, so that that was probably slowed down
K27 a bit and when that smoke fades down by the monster tunnel the question is how quickly can
they rotate you back to defend. I think they're going to make that call right about now. Flash is
coming over okay. You might have been right. It might have been a little bit too passive for
Mastaval so there's a chance at least to get the bomb planted early on here. A moon with a defensive
shot takes down CEDO. 35 seconds the bomb is going to be planted but with the limited weapons
and no utility at all on the T side it's very hard to hold on to this one. Long flank is welcoming
from us in Mass Val. I don't think he's gonna be here by the time this is over. Surely they will be
fighting a little bit sooner than that. Trying to get out straight, jumping with the M4. It's
actually a W to get the head shot there and a running drive by from Twinkie. Still no sign of
Mass Val. He's coming in from long. He's taking the longest possible detour to try and get to the
bomb site. He's even gonna get here with a little time to defuse. Cashier goes down. Mass Val just
barely gets it and they're gonna be on top of it. That is wild that he decided to take such a
I mean, it's a beautiful mountain. There's like a sign for ice cream out there somewhere. But still you want to you want to actually be where the action is?
Another kind of fascinating element of that is that they like K27 have no idea about Mass Falls position so they could run it back.
They could just do it again. They have no idea he was there. As far as their way, he just can, he went for the connector, wrap around to the Orthodox sort of like short B play away.
so if they could go for it again I'm really curious if they will go for it
because it nearly was an unbelievably powerful position and now there it's
gonna be rifles for K27 they're moving most of their troops over onto the
B site but I don't think massfault is close enough to make use of this this
time around
so they're all grouped up outside of the B bomb site so it's gonna be pure timing here
they're pushing through smoke from everything right into the monster tunnel
and as we mentioned earlier some of these pushes that's why we're so confusing
they didn't do them earlier because this is exactly what happens a lot of the time.
With the flashes going over, even though there were three people stacked at the B bombsite,
they actually get nothing in return.
If I'm K27, it almost feels a bit empty to get around like this one because you must
be thinking, wow, why didn't we try this at least once or twice in some of the early rounds
just to get like a bit of a sense of how the B defense was going to be playing out.
playing exceptionally low but magic it's unconfirmed damage and I think mass
battle you know as good as this half has been for magic they'll still be very
disappointed they weren't able to get at least a kill or two on the approach
there because it was two free like very clean kills on monster and then on the
back of the site and you feel like they should have done better out of that one
meanwhile moon and tensi are gonna be tested here as multiple T's are coming
around the corner. Moon snatches the life out of one and second kill goes down
alongside him and magic half tons of cash so actually this kind of hurts in
some ways k27 more so than magic it is obviously the last round of the half so
no real big deal all things considered but they weren't able to deal all the
the fatal damage to those those CTs at least the leaving the odds at least a
little bit in terms of how many AKs transition through into this next round
but I mean we talked before as well and there's about the very rough T half that
K27 statistically have had 36% win rate. I just don't think that three rounds is enough.
I don't care how good your CT side is, you've left yourself no room for error you've got to get for.
I think that's a fair statement. I'm gonna join you on that one,
three way on the low side especially just haven't really got cashed in up and running.
The rest of them are all at six kills individually. They don't seem to really be there.
This is always a cool move. Surprisingly on this map, if you're as fast as X5 is,
you can just get ahead of the CT side expectations by such a wide margin that sometimes you'll catch
CTs running back this position with a knife in hand, or in this case just straight to orping
the wrong way. It's such a nice idea, but Tensi's still tearing their heads off.
Sido and Quinky both going down. He's just had a really sick game so far on this second map.
he's 19 and 7 for the first half. You've got to appreciate that. The bomb is going to be planted
here and somehow we still ended up in a 3v3. So Utility is still on the CT side, but well placed
Molotov is going to keep them at bay and bank for time being. Molotov is also being lined up
both for the truck, so X-Y's going to have to move positions. Well he will burn alive.
Synged out will hear the footsteps as the flashes come through and now the retake is in full effect.
Don't check their angles though. They will punish with the AK. Two kills should be good enough to seal that fourth round.
Good flashbang as well. Stayed probably a dead man to the hands of fame. So, K27 somewhat bounced back in the dying embers of the first half.
But is four rounds going to be enough?
That is the big question right now. Is their map pick, is their chance to make a bit of a comeback, but it was a very ugly beginning to this map.
No question about it and that's in spite of the fact that you know
They had the potential to have a bit of a lead start
There was a moment there at the beginning where they they could have upset the situation
But then they went on a big lost streak and I think that T side is looked very uninspired
Like there are a lot of things that were never tested
They left a lot of the information I think over to the CT side
They gave making it easier for magic to stack especially a bomb site
So a lot to criticize this time around but I guess four rounds is still you know
You're still in the competition.
There's still a chance here, especially if you could pick up a pistol here going into the second half.
But just a reminder, again, it's elimination on the line.
K27 lose this half and leaves the map, and they get knocked out of the tournament.
Yes, sir.
That is the state of play.
And so K27 know that they are measly five rounds away from their torment life being cut short
and being the first team at the event to be eliminated.
not something that anyone wants to be wearing a tight love so magic how's
their T side gonna be looking terms of utility a little bit for this fade but
that's about it really just to smoke in a flash not giving their hand away early
on two players down in con from K27 no julees interestingly I think a lot of
team would be opting for a julees pair or two especially in the con that's not
case here though for these boys. Oh moon this is very very risky. Pseudo and I think moon saw that
either but he has missed a couple of shots so I was gonna say he's got a second lease on life but
but for long Pseudo did find him eventually now the bomb is making his way straight to the B bomb
site plenty of time of the clock here hiding in the smoke as well as Quinky and if you have a
kit on the CC side so stop with the bomb plant would be huge Quinky with the headshots x5 as
As AWP was trying to dive away, they do not get the bomb planted and 10 Z's out here and although he's been playing incredibly well on this map, this might be a bridge too far.
One versus four, as they are all going to peek him at the same time. They identify exactly where he is and in a way, they're kind of giving him an opportunity because they're fighting him like this, but surely they won't keep doing it one at a time.
Just, you've got the bomb on that side, it's not worth it, even if it's low on health.
completely agree I don't know why you're lining up in a bottleneck area like
monster where the USP can absolutely destroy you and keep in mind 10s he
picked up three kills in the first pistol with the USP he's a very good
pistol player so I feel like they were playing with their food just a tad they
had the bomb I don't understand it way more if 10s he was carrying the bomb and
they were like right let's make sure he doesn't rotate and get some sneaky plant
off but either way they ended up getting away with it regardless but I
definitely agree there was a couple of very nerve-wracking moments there when
It's like to wrap lost some shots down the monster side
Yeah, just it these are the small moments with like even if you peek and fight
It's probably a 95% chance you win, but those 5% you know that that'll ruin your whole month
If you if you end up losing it somehow and it's not worth it. It really isn't
Not gonna be a bomb plant either so on the T side they're gonna invest into a single scout actually he's gonna go back and sell it
He just made the cutoff. That's great. You can only use it yet, so you can just exchange it. It's brand new.
Good policy.
I agree with the decision as well. There are certain maps where picking a scout up makes a ton of sense, like Dust 2, especially Mirage is another one.
Overpass less so. There's very few areas that you're expecting K27 to be out in the open on where you can make the most of it.
So I think the correct decision in the end, I would almost prefer if you're going to go for a buy like get an Eagle.
Something like that, that makes way more sense, but either way, their chances of winning this round are practically zero.
His fame goes out, let's not have his fats, but more importantly, he puts the money in his bank and he's got three.
Yeah, totally respectable.
For Moon to have picked it up though, it is actually kind of significant if you can find even, you know, one SMG kill here.
It's unlikely because of the lack of armor.
But I think that's what the round is about now. Just try and find one of those SMG kills if possible
You can see Tensi is gonna be the one to try and sort of peek the angle, maybe set up his teammate
Unfortunately, they just die way too quickly and now
They shouldn't be peeking him here, even though it's a bit boring from the CT point of view here
Just come on at the round end, but they shouldn't be giving him any easy opportunities and they won't. Lot of discipline here for K27
These are small little things
But if you lose your patience and around like this one and you say come on
He's just got an MP MP 9 and no armor. Let's hunt him down
You give a one or two kills you make the next buy so much more powerful
And you know that he's gonna want that AWP as soon as possible and if you can get some extra, you know
Extra utility around it then all the better for it, but K-27 they're off to a decent start here in the second half
Finally, it's a little bit of smooth sailing for them. Let's see how this plays out. We got cash it on the AWP
Is that enough to just turn this game around now that he's on the CT side?
He'd certainly hope so.
For him, if nothing else, because he's been such a non-factor in that first half,
just didn't really have a chance to show us what he's got.
He can maybe make an argument the same on Mirage as well, so...
I'm hoping from K27's point of view that he can light up the scoreboard and show the world what he's capable of doing.
We've seen it many times at the T2 bracket.
bracket. That his mate get into an awkward spot here. The Matov draws him out into the
open, does nail the shot. That's going to buy him up a little bit more time. He decides
to stand his ground. He does have long presence as well. A flashbang came through from Xedo.
But it's fade. He's on the hunt. He knows Kashlet is still here. He's been watching
the entire time, but Xedo, bodyguards is super. Keeps him alive with the backstab.
Oh yeah, he was here in the scoping that whole time. Kashlet able to pick up Moon as well.
This is why we talked about him in the beginning,
it's being such a wild orper.
There's definitely a very risky call
to be sticking around.
He will finally go down,
and now Tensi's taking out Cito.
So some of the work being erased here
by the magic side of things,
but it is entertaining to see Cashley kind of stick around
for those kind of fights.
I guess that's the overarching narrative.
Look at this position from fame.
It's almost impossible to clear out coming in
on the T side.
Tensi will see if he even thinks about it,
right now the gun is actually blocking the view so alright he's gonna spot one
pretty confidently get both the kills and he is exactly right so gonna make
really quick work it is no problems at all good position for fame and K-27
importantly I think surviving with three people they need so much momentum so
just got to keep it going here in the early stages I think what that round also
really showcases is that K-27 naturally have a bunch of very aggressive very
confident players. Because so many of the ropers, once they land that first shot, there's a Molotov down,
things are looking so bad, they're going to try and pull the plug and get out of there,
and then they're going to get picked off from like a con push or something like that.
And it also shows the amount of confidence that Casualid has in Xedo, that he is going to have his
back, that he is going to be able to hold on. That is a whiffed smoke. Thanks for picking that up,
Observer. That should be bouncing off and covering monster. They've landed on top of the train track.
Well, it might have been a Molotov thrown in from the T side. Can we find that out?
because there is a Molotov that the T's can throw to stop the smoke on the tracks like that,
which by the way, I invented. I'm just, I'm not even making that up. I have video evidence,
it was way back in CSGO, but nobody wanted to do what I did. It was only years later, Vince,
because they're all dickheads like that. They wait until it's too late. I'm still bitter about
that. I don't know if you can tell. I try to keep it, you know, try to keep it hidden. So people
won't notice that I'm petty like that but um into round number 16. I want to
believe that was the molotov that blocked it and not a not a failed smoke.
It would make a lot more sense because it's a very easy smoke and you think
pro players at this level should not be making those mistakes so maybe you could
very well be onto something there. The reason I'm thinking it wasn't a molly
is because it isn't that much in terms of utility they picked up but maybe true.
Maybe this is one of the pieces that they did decide to toss in 40 seconds
flashbang proceeding the push and other tech nines you're running guns on
themselves down. Good smoke put into play though from the CTs. It keeps them at bay and the
superior weaponry and firepower at range, reigning out supreme. It's actually a clean
sweet brown for K-27. A massive W as far as they're concerned.
Yeah, that's absolutely huge. There's a chance that you end up at least giving up two or
three deaths in a round like this one, but coming out with so many people alive, that
is huge. We tied up the game. This was an 8-4 first half in favor of Magic and it was
looking grim beyond belief from the side of K27, just their own map pick, putting really
not that much on the board for the first half, but now it's looking a little bit more interesting.
So let's see how this one plays out. They've got the money on the CT side, quite a lot
of it as well. Magic do have moonback on the AWP as well, but yeah, Tensi is still doing
majority of the work at 23 kills. What was he, 19 and 7? I think we said at the end of the half.
So he's been getting some kills in the second half even, but surely he wants some help.
Yep, you are right. He came into the second half with 20 kills. Got a couple in the pistol round.
So he has slowed down just a tad. Moon does have the ult though, so I'm looking to see if he's also
going to have some impact. Castled so far has certainly been able to dial up the heat just a
little bit. Flashbangs want to con, clearing out the Wrangles. Molly also tossed in simultaneously.
So con control is theirs early on in the round. That's going to be a nice little boon
in terms of a bit of control here.
Oh, but fame, fame's position is so powerful right now. They have no idea.
can be very, very hard to clear out. As long as he's ducked down, Tensy hasn't spotted him yet,
and he's gonna have to potentially give up his head if he goes out. Yeah, you could see as soon
as Fame stands up, he blows up Tensy right away. Once he disengages, he really wants to get out of
there before anyone else shows up, but oh, he's gonna stick around and get the kill onto AW.
He was trying to lock him in. Now, they know that he's there, so Fade's gonna be able to take him down,
but still, Queen Key with a quick return, X5 is hiding by the barrels, but they can't really get rid of him.
It's a casual pick up the kill on his Vow, Tan Moon is hunted down, so another great defense here as Magic are looking similarly flat early on on the T side here,
and suddenly K27 are back in the lead. Oh, it looked like it was going to be the end of the tournament for them here,
but now we could be seeing a third map on Ancient, which I kind of hope so. It's been a wild ride so far.
7 rounds in a row, carrying over from those last two of the first half for K27.
Said that 4 rounds was an absolute must, a requirement, and they have built off that promise.
There we go, smoke has landed.
I did go back and watch the stream handers, and it wasn't a Molotov, unfortunately, they
did with the smoke.
They just sailed it.
That's so much less exciting, but I'm glad you did that.
It's good to be working in this, where we found the truth out.
Because it would have been really cool if it was the Molotov, because then it's something
could look out for in the future as well you know like are they going to do it again are they going
to get to like you know mess with the monster control but unfortunately it wasn't. You know
what's really interesting as well in CSGO that was only possible for I think three or four months
after I put out that video and then Valve actually patched it so that the Molotovs interacted
differently with vertical surfaces but now in CS2 it's possible again so like it is really it's
It's a weird kind of situation, how that's been kind of over the years.
Again, it's very, very low usage from all teams really, but it's a fun idea nonetheless.
Cachlid is going to get flashed and killed and Ceto, the same thing.
You have that kind of a setup, you want more than that.
Other than that, you need a Friday AWP all day, a RX-5, not really connecting with the spray,
but eventually gets a kill on AWP, and now he's back for more, standing in the flames.
Moon will take him down.
some very sloppy defensive in K27.
I appreciate that the flashbang worked well against the AWP,
but you'd want Zedo to be super ready to spin around
and do something in that moment,
and that just wasn't the case.
Yeah, I think honestly, you've nailed it there.
I mean, I can't fault Cashlid
because he was watching the angle
and it was a beautifully placed pop flash.
There's no way he could have reacted to that.
But AW was the player that ran in and then just nailed Zedo.
And it's like, if you're setting up
for that idea of double stacking bathrooms,
If Cachlid dies, you have to at least get a one-for-one trade.
Like, it's unacceptable for you to both die without barely doing anything in the process.
So, yeah, that's really a little bit of a sad state of affairs.
Chicken on the screen.
Or roost though.
Oh, okay.
What's that?
January 24th?
What's happening on January 24th?
I don't know.
Maybe there are clues around the map.
little things that we haven't discovered yet. If I was a map maker, I would have to put
in Easter eggs like that around the map to figure out, you know, for people to find.
I wouldn't be able to help myself. I hardly spend way too much time on that, to be honest.
But that means the game is tied up. It's 9-9. And thankfully, I guess for K27, they had
such a big bank that it's not immediately kind of an issue, but it's also the first
that magic win in the second half so it took a minute to get here yeah they have
stalled the rock just a little bit have at least made K27 respect once again
we got a boost coming in right but if you were the train first nobody's there
but yeah you can do this remember they had the boost it's a real nice attempt
Surely x5 is gonna have to stop jumping if you don't know where that was connected from you can't keep it doing so
That is possible to get a kill like that. You can I think spot people over towards the barrel. So
Really interesting idea
Didn't work out but for my entertainment point of view. I love it. I
Do appreciate as well that oh
Racked by the train. That's that's a rough one
I do appreciate the fact that they also took a player in the form of Tenzi to watch Connector
to make sure that they didn't fall into the same trap they did on the CT side
where they went for that kind of gamble boost and then they ended up getting punished for it
with a side swipe.
But now they've gone back up, so now X5 is boosting itself, I mean, it's boosts on boosts once again, counteracting each other.
40 seconds though, and the clock match, you've got to get a move on, they need to start pressing on the site.
Yeah, and they did get wrecked by the train if only there was some indication that it was coming like bells and sirens going off
They still didn't realize
26 seconds
Crouching their way through
Quinky had the right, oh no I got the headshot
Oh he's just testing the smoke so Steven can actually spot anyone through the bullets there but
Somehow he gets the headshot
15 seconds, they're running the clock down as low as you could possibly do
do and they need the bomb front more than anything here.
You're afraid you're going to get the kill on the cash lead, but it's all down to him
and he's just on two health with no time for the plot.
He can't do it any longer, so Cito just has to wait and he's going to win the round automatically.
That's pretty painful, unfortunately, for Magic.
They got close and you almost want to Cito try to hit this B bomb, so again a little
bit more because there was a big stack of players on B and they almost made it.
Yeah, these even trades back and forth like you'll wait for one of the players to properly
like have impact and pick up two players in quick succession and never really happen for
them.
Just taking a little bit too much time.
You know, I'm able to muster together to the bar because they did save the AWP on the retreat
out there, very low.
Final tee.
It doesn't mean the K27.
rounds away from taking us to a third map which would be a welcome third map
honestly like it finally we've got some close games that they get our teeth into
sure it's pretty one-sided on both sides of the coin but it's anyone's game
right now yeah I mean we it's close in part because both teams are making
mistakes and I said if we wanted to we could probably turn it into a bit of a
sour broadcast where all we're talking about is mistakes about mistakes but
Again, it does mean that it's funny and you don't know what the outcome is.
So if you put on those glasses instead, you're going to be entertained throughout this.
There's no question about it here.
10-9.
And you know what, Magic?
Even if they lost that last round, they did put a big dent in the economy of the K27 team.
So even losing it, I think you could spin a story up on the T side of saying, yes, but
if we win two rounds on a roll here, they're out of money and we're right back and could
win the map.
Like two rounds in a row they're up to 11-10 and then it's gonna be equal for K-27 and they bounce all the way up to 12
So that's that's got to be the mentality here. Unfortunately, they're gonna lose the opening fight as I am yapping on
AWP down
Well, my spell is up close outside monster, but we're running into familiar territory with
Giving yourself such a little time, there's always gonna be elements that go unchecked because of this
X5 got it just with two. They can deny this bomb plant forever now with his position and it's another save.
Like magic are taking way too long on these engagements.
Well, that was the thing they were doing as well on Mirage if you remember.
They had so many rounds where they were very low on the clock on the T side and somehow they kept making it work there.
So I guess we just kind of accepted it.
He said, all right, there, go on time.
Fame, he is dancing on the ladder and everywhere else.
I think Moon was not happy about that.
And all of the talk about, you know,
oh, damage to the economy or whatever,
now they come out of this round losing nobody.
So K27 themselves two rounds away
from keeping their tournament dreams alive
and pushing us onto a third map.
Somehow it's looking doable again.
But yeah, I mean, Moon was devastated,
not just because he lost the AWP,
but because he died after time, he had $1,200 coming into this round.
He's down at literally a Glock.
So if he saves the Orcs, he gets the kill, they haven't opened this round,
so it's like, it's multi-faceted devastation.
No open play, down to a Glock, you're 11-9-down,
you know the importance of having that extra weapon,
and you know you're on the brink on the precipice of going to Ancient
to save your own tournament life now.
All that pressure was on K27,
but you're nearly in a spot where elimination is also looming overhead
for you. Can anyone pick up that slap? Become a hero. They're gonna pick up the pace. Finally
getting a bit more aggressive. Mass foul leading to charge, but no one's on the barrels. They're
gonna find that out with Molotov. It's a good thing to test. It's also really cool for the
CTs. If they've already molotoved the barrels, somebody should probably go and play that
position on the CT side, because it's so unlikely that they're gonna molotov it again to check
it. Fame can't make it back. You wanna jump away from there, and we'll see if anyone does
go to play the barrels instead they're going to be pushing down towards the monster tunnel. I do
actually kind of like this double push in might be hard to clear out for the magic side. Another
smoke is recommitted and you said okay they're going to be earlier on this round that was true
but now they've recommitted to the slower approach they're boosting on over we could see another
round here where the clock is going to be run down almost as far as possible. That smoke in the
monster tunnel is going to go away in about five more seconds but we'll see if they can make their
way through after that. Queen keys up against the wall they got x5 in a position that normally
you want a molotov out but I don't know if they have the molotov for it this time.
It's round, it gets the opening! That's the job done!
Double to get trackability bombsite and cashlid, unless you can find the kill of the guy with a bomb here,
I don't think it's going to be a doable round.
Yeah, I think they'll probably dip their toe in the pool, see if they can deny this,
and then maybe go save. I saved up, but Xeno's fully committing to this.
They do have money in the bank.
Oh, surely he's not going to hide around and then try and ninja this.
No, he actually goes for the peek. They're taking the fights. That's really surprising.
I mean, we saw K-27 go for these kind of retakes on Mirage while we're both thinking and assuming it's going to be a straight up save.
But at least Cachlid does get the memo and decide, okay, yeah, I've had enough of this one.
We'll, we'll can see the 10th round, but we'll make sure we keep the op.
Ooh, that's...
They win that round in kind of an unexpected way. Like, I thought that was gonna be more of a defense.
I guess if we had to say credit to Ms. Vow for getting that first kill so quickly to quad kill for him in totally actually stays
Close enough to die for the bomb. Not that it really matters that much
But the fact that he gets the kill so early on the first defender there means that they can't even coordinate the defense well enough
So that's cool. That's well done
That's a second round on the T side here for magic if this pattern keeps up where they they win one round
then go on to lose another four. They're in a lot of trouble already. They're not going to have
enough rounds left to play with, but yeah, a really, really great round out of myself.
Smoke's going down, and we will see if K27 can keep their dreams alive. When you point it out,
they have plenty of money on the CT side, but they've got to keep Magic away just a little
while longer. And even that last round, as you highlighted, like Mazval gets a 4K,
those two open as he picks up a worth so much. I'm not confident that they can
rinse and repeat off that basis though because for the most part their T rounds
have been very lackluster, extremely slow, unconvincing to say the least. You
can't assume that Mastfile is gonna come out with those kind of entries and that
kind of impact again. They are mixing it up a little bit though. They're hitting
MoroVorn to the A side, going for more of a split up approach. The bomb is
dropped outside of Monster towards the barrel so it's gonna need to be saved
depicts that one of them. Asphalt does get the entry. And with a minute left on the clock,
that is going to play hell with the rotation of K27. Do they want to stick to a two-tall
formation, or do they send a third player over there for me?
Yeah, right now, I think they're trying to figure out the same thing. This is where
lacking the information on the CT side could be so painful. You probably do want to take
a bit of a risk here, and I think they've made up their minds now. They're leaving
Kinkie down to the B bombsite and putting three people on this side of the map
Even if this turns out to be a mistake, which is looking like it
I don't hate the choice here for K27 because you feel like you've got to do something being a man down
Kinkie unfortunately, he's got the weight of the world on his shoulders. He does gonna get a little AWP
But that's on the other side of the map here. Oh, and he just switched to the knife as well
So he can just send no chance to fight back
But they should I think in theory save this on the CT side they get a kill early on moon
Maybe that will change their minds. I think the logic of doing the 3-1 split there is that if you if you're not at the right site
You just save it
They're hanging around though
And whereas that money was really strong before it's less so now
They're actually going for this
They are going for this. This is insane. They're not gonna check you out. Wait. He just looks great. I think
He did it bro!
Absolutely right!
Oh!
His brain just did not register it.
Call it adrenaline or cortisol or some other chemical in his brain
that just didn't really register.
That's wild!
He does even look straight down disastrous trend of events.
Tensy!
Get him into, you know, a steel team or something.
you know, a steel team or something,
he was well camouflaged in that corner somehow.
I can't believe it.
I can only assume it was one of those classic,
like muscle memory peaks,
but you're not really registering it.
Like you kind of want autopilot at that point,
anticipating that no one's there.
I would be super interested to see that from his perspective
or like hear his thoughts on that,
but whichever way you want to spin it,
I mean, that is a critical mistake.
I'm even amazed they went for the retake in the first place.
All things considered, like I thought they were saving for sure.
Okay, well if you guys are just joining us from the A stream,
this has been a lot of what's been happening on this.
It's been some ugly counter-track, but it's been hella entertaining.
As we go into round number 23, it's Crate 27 that are looking to find a way
to extend their life in this tournament.
If they can't win it now, they're going to get knocked out by magic.
Both teams have made significant errors,
and we just did see a big one coming in there on the retake, which I agree with you. I thought
they were going to leave it alone. Now the fact that they went for it and don't end up winning it,
it puts the economy at a massive risk. If Magic win this round, then they're completely bankrupt
on the CT side and they could end up getting knocked out just because of that one economic
decision. Instead of having another round to fight with, they're just going to get swiped out here.
Magic again, very slow to begin with, which is fine for now, but we've seen a couple of rounds
where they simply run out of time and this time K27 want more information
so they're gonna go looking I do like that
yeah I mean there's a couple moments in that round even before Xedo pulling his knife out
when they were about to execute if he gets a kill I think the entire round
change is there as well so it's a catalog of errors
there's magic not for the first time pushing with sub 35 seconds left in the clock
The shadow is betraying spade and cashlid will not miss that. It's a sitter and there's such a high amount
Volume of CTs here magic have played themselves so slowly in this round once again
Even if a w is up on a side the bombs on the other side of the map
There's no way they're getting into this one, but they beat it out and they forced a rotation
Keeping everyone here. No that the bomb that they've already made an escape
I feel like if the other two had stuck around at the lip of that monster tunnel, they could have actually run in there
He had the entire attention of the CT defense
It's such great luck that the moon and Marshal there had kind of lost confidence in the round
And they just walked away if they push at least they get a bomb plant I think
I thought that's what they were going for like AW is going to go out and be the interference player
He's just going to cause chaos on A. They anticipate rotations
they try and plant the bomb with like, you know, five seconds left on the clock, but
they already backed away with like 10 seconds. It's like, surely you want to just hang around
in case AW does have the impact you're looking for first.
I mean see oh yeah that's that's what we need that's what we need are we back into it everything
is fine 12 to 11 AW checking out this part of the map I it's hard to keep track of how
many things have been going wrong we can make a compilation I think at the end of it looking
at the mistakes both on Mirage and on this map. But for now, we just need Magi to get
one more round and we're going to be in overtime. They do at least have the weapons for it,
so that's the good news.
You can give them a bit of leeway as well, like this is one of the most important games
of most of these players' careers, I'd have to say. Like a lan of an ST lan like this,
a chance to play against some of the best teams in the world. To understand if there
are some dodgy moments shall we say and some poor decision-making. The pressure
is certainly dialed up to 11 for both these teams but again Anders I feel
like a broke record man like magic on the post. Oh they are and they've been
slowed down even more. Flash is great in the middle of the reload. AWP will get...
They are opening and bought KitKillers. That's what they need but the molotov is
down and fame will end up getting the kill on AWP. 27 seconds and a 2 versus 3
smoke up on the high ground have they found enough momentum to actually get
this one into overtime that's the only way that this game could possibly get
any crazier at this stage and a boost up from CEDO try to look on top of the wall
we've seen many boosts here including a four five man boost that obviously turns
into a quad boost up at the A-bomb site but this is gonna be tough the boost
won't solve the problems they're checking every corner spade is here just
try and buy some time stay alive as long as you can dancing around a pillar goes
back for the headshot and now cashlet's gonna be on his own magic take it and
we'll go the distance over time is in effect and this mad game just it can't
find an end just yet I feel like we're old ancient it's been scrappy it's been
chaotic but it's also been entertaining yeah we've had a bit of
everything haven't we've had some incredible individual moments we've had
boosts we've had some some very odd moments to say the least some insane pistol rounds clutches quad
kills like you name it we've had it all and so it's just fitting that we go into ot I have to give
a shout out to fame though we had a pretty lackluster first half a pretty lackluster first map to
be fair but he's been fantastic on the ct side for k-27 definitely an instrumental reason as to why
we're in this place in the first place and they're gonna go for this boost again we saw it before
I need to wait for the train to bypass and again, it's X5 making those jumps.
I feel like we've seen this round play out before.
Oh, we hit him.
You bit him.
But he's looking for the kill in that moment.
I think actually the last time he did hit him on the jump as well, but it was just for
way less damage.
I guess the train tracks there, they are made of some stick steel, so kind of hard to shoot
through. But following the classic approach here, normal overtime format, first to 16 rounds.
And if there were, you said it already, like this is a nerve wracking game, you're facing
elimination, it's on land, lots of mistakes already been made, there's lots of frustration in the
server as well. And now you go into overtime, which in some ways could be a mental reset,
but it's also where you start to make a lot more unforced errors, because suddenly it's become,
you know kind of a long game and we'll see if that becomes a factor in this one. Setting up for
the double HE's that's another way to clear out some of these close positions. They didn't even
need the double. X5 is dead. They absolutely got him playing battleships on the B bomb site. It's
now a four on four as they do lose Miss Vow. I'm trying to think, did we see Magic hit A with
It's not all time and regulation and it's gonna get so predictable at this point. Yes
They got some kills, but 10 seconds to go no room for area down a player
Low HP on 10s. He's not been finished off the moon goes the same way
Yeah, it's great. You got the double you got the double maids down for the kill
But you've left yourself no time again like at what point I feel like we were saying this earlier with when it came to
Paravision on inferno the first time we casted those like there is another bombsite guys like you can hear a it is possible
Yeah, even the people who are doing the audience participation are basically spamming in the chat, you know, to be side simulator.
So I appreciate that. They're absolutely right. You're right as well. It's been very lean towards this side of the map.
And I guess they do get close a lot. So maybe that's the feeling is on. We're almost there.
But the predictability of it at this stage is an issue that we're going to have to bring up.
First round of overtime goes to K27 and this time they've massively stacked to be bombsite at the start
They're really sure something's gonna be happening, but this looks like another slow default for magic
We say that because the bomb has dropped and they are spread out in this 2-3 pattern
So, um, yeah, we'll have to wait a little while longer
Also, like where's the where's the timeouts?
You've run into so many issues on the T side like why are you not calling a timeout to figure out get the coach involved?
like just get on the same page throw some fakes just something different
he finished to them they could be taking a page out of you know some of the some
of the tier one teams that are at the tournament I believe Sonic they lost
like 13-1 yesterday with no timeouts so maybe they're thinking you know what if
Sonic isn't gonna take a timeout why should we
just throwing from shade
well that was such a funny game I was laughing my way through that one
Um, anyway, anyway, it is gonna be a 13 to 12 year.
And again, we're down to the, oh, that's a smoke at 33 seconds.
You can't really wait.
There's gonna be 13 seconds left when it disappears, so you have to go through.
You can't wait.
Um, or shoot your way through.
That is definitely a way to do it, Pinky.
You better be careful of flash throwing on over, but he's laying waste to them here.
Headshot on us, Val.
You gotta know the more people coming through.
If you pick up the AK, what a risk!
But he gets the reward, a jackpot on the other side,
a double headshot cutting him out, and, like I said,
there's no time to wait.
There again, Madge is just unable to read the clock.
You think it is possible to do that?
It's conveniently located right at the center of the screen,
but they keep on falling short.
Moon hitting some absolutely bangin' kills
towards the end of the round, but it doesn't matter.
They've lost the round.
I don't want to watch it anymore. Stop hitting B with 20 seconds left speed. Stop hitting.
You know, there's no, you can't get off this ride Vince. We knew what we signed up for,
you know, doing the remote kind of the broadcast here on the B stream. We knew that it was
going to get real interesting, but I wasn't anticipating anything like this, but if you
leave in stand i have to i have to do this on my own and that's that's too much for one person
you know that's that's got to be a violation of something that people break. That's how Anders,
I genuinely have not opened my eyes yet in this round but they on B again. It's David,
I you know what it's looking like leave in, I won't say commit finally to it but it does seem
like the outcry of thinking towards that fight again with the refrag coming in there is a counter
incendiary coming out but actually there's many to crack over the bombs that little bit this time
because for some reason K27 haven't noticed the pattern either, so they weren't fully ready.
Three people on the site, none of them really fighting together,
which I think happens a lot at this B defense on the CT side. It's very frustrating to watch,
because three people are there and there is no chance for easy refrags. It's not like some sort
of a sick crossfire setup, they just die one by one by one. K27 will have to do whatever they
can to go over this retake, it being the last round of the first half of overtime, so they're
They're not going to save anything here, just straight forward into it.
Grenade comes out, let's see if we can find anything at all.
It's not going to be possible.
They only lose two players trying to get the site.
And finally, they're rewarded.
Vince, does that justify them going to be like they prove they work, you know?
Nah. Nah. Nah, not really.
It's like what you said when we watched Paravision on Inferno and you were like,
if you play the game of, you know, why am I blanking on this?
Rock-paper-scissors, rock-paper-scissors, yeah, and it's the one that does the same thing over and over again, like eventually you'd think, hmmm, maybe I'll stop doing that and do some- but there might just be some 9 billion, like, mega-mind IQ, uh, reverse psychology, it's like, well, I think we're going A this time, boys, don't we? Hit B, and I just need all these, like, notepads around the tables, and I just imagine it's just a big B, like, on the entire A4 sheet, you know.
Like in The Shining, it's like all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, whatever it
is, but it's just be over and over, go be, go be, go be, go be.
They've lost their minds.
Not to an evil hotel, but to the map of Overpass.
I don't know how we managed to put a great performance from Jack Nichols, and a great
book if you haven't read it, it's worth reading.
I don't know.
I'm losing my mind a little bit, I'll be honest.
Understandable well didn't have a lot of mine I begin with so
That's yeah, I mean we've we've seen some we've seen some pretty some pretty wacky counter strike. I mean
I'm not trying to you know meme on either of these things. It's such an important game as we discussed before
It's definitely been nervous. It's gonna definitely be a lot of anxiety coming into this one
Again like timeouts
Not using a single one is it's wild to me flashbang is good
very well placed into the ice of fame. He had a great second half. His first half though on the
T side was a little bit lackluster. So we'll see if he can pick up the pace. 30 seconds left,
K27 saying, by the way there is an A side boy, so we're about to push on him. Look at this,
the casket gets caught by space and the round comes undone. So do you know what? Maybe magic
are right. Maybe don't hit A. Yeah, just leave it alone. It's not going to be worth it.
it. But that's also how we know that magic. They do in fact know that the A-bombside exists
because they are playing the other side of the half and obviously they literally spawn
in the A-bombside. So it's not like they, you know, in terms of like, you know, mapping
things out, sending out their adventurers to draw what the world looks like. They definitely
understand that the A-bombside is there. Maybe it's some kind of advanced amnesia when they
switch halves on the T-side. They just all lose their memory and they're like, we don't
know where it is anymore. So maybe if we get to the WOT we can see them explore that themselves
on the T-Sign. But for now it's a rough position once again really for K27. I guess the stakes
are a bit higher for them having lost the opening map. It feels like an age ago now
but on Mirage as you can tell they lost 13-9. A game that was very very scrappy like unbelievably
scrappy at the start of it, but Magic pulled away with that one. So for K27, this is it.
If they want to stay here in PGL Astana, and you know, even though we're laughing at some of the
mistakes and some of the madness in this one, you've got to remember as well, there's so much
on the line, like elimination here, you just stole it, you said you don't want to be the first team
to get knocked out of the tournament, and that could well happen, and that will happen for one of
these teams. Yeah, I mean, there's tons of money, but I think even more than that for both of these
these squads to the VRS, you know, it's the potential to build towards the next major
cycle. It is a hugely important game for both teams. And K27, like to be honest, probably
should have won Mirage. They have plenty of opportunities. But here we are, 14 apiece.
Magic now after picking up the last round on the CT side have applied the pressure directly
to K27. How are they going to retaliate clearing out connector early on, but no one's home
for the CTs regardless they're playing a little bit more deep and passive on A.
Looks like there's going to be a boost looking over. I don't think they'll find
anyone with that boost immediately. In fact it's going to get cancelled by them and they're
going to throw it out there. Oh, crinky. So ready. I do like the timing. You throw out the incendiary
and then you try and peek as they were potentially running away from the incendiary. So the coordination
between those two events on the CT side actually make a lot of sense. And they're
recommitted to the boost here but they've lost AW on the CT side and it looks like this
speed defense could be tested. There's going to be a counter boost as well. Oh my god with
the flashbang on top. It's fade rocking them. As VAL gets another kill and he also set up
the flashbang there. That is such a hard counter to whatever they were trying to do there on
the T side. But the round is still alive somehow Vince. CEDO has just walked up and found a
free kill and now if Kastler can get out with the bomb he's going to be okay just bouncing
into the wall and Tensi spotted it. My god he almost got stuck on the corner there.
Tensi 32 kills. If there's a player for magic you want in this position it's him. He's had an amazing
map. Kind of hard to justify how magic can run a 1v2 though after that beautiful boost.
So clinical. As you say like a direct counter. Tensi comes up. If timing just feels like it's
going to go against him here at one moment he's going to get peaked in from the side and there's
It's going to be a truck player zero that lays him out.
So K27, another opportunity to take us to a third map,
and a timeout has been called from the CTs.
And that has to hurt as well,
because that boost into the monster kill,
that felt like the round just ended right there abruptly.
And yet they still somehow concede.
It's like the counter boost that was coming out,
it's like that one moment in like all the poker movies
or whenever there's a poker game in any movie,
where some guys like I've got four races, but then the other guys got like the straight flush, but then the counter to that straight flush, which is the counter boost that is really tortured analogy was, was the T side just wiping all the cards off the table and just like flipping the table over a 27.
They should have lost right here.
Like this is this should have been a round losing event, especially with myself getting this one. So two on four.
Like I said, that's the worst would be the straight flush, but then, you know, you can't, you can't, you can't win at poker if there are no concept on the table, I guess.
No one's ever thought about that.
That's true.
Might be waiting for that.
That is referring, referring German straight headers.
That's wild.
Last chance.
Well, I say last chance, actually. Obviously, I can go to another OT.
Last chance to get it tied up right here right now for K27.
double nade stack but no one's standing. W takes a bit of damage. Yeah, that's the
Astralis double nade stack. Shout out back when Sonic was coaching that team. They came up with
this idea. Really, really cool still to do it. Sometimes you'll see triples there.
But yeah, you're right. WOT could be a feature of this one. I wonder how long we can
stay sane if it actually gets there. If K27 wins this one though, he's gonna go with the map, which
I think it's going to be very exciting. It's going to be ancient as well. I'd love to see that.
I'm still going to get there first. The magic will be looking to hold on. The dear life should
have won the last round. We'll be feeling like probably should have won this OT. The best case
scenario is they run it back for a second. Matov is good. I say that actually. It's fully extended
behind the box. It kind of just gets stuck in there like in a black hole. Right in the middle.
That's horrendous! It's really rough because it means the moon doesn't have to move position
and he has punished two of them. I can't imagine I've seen that too many times.
Never seen that. The spawn box ate the molotov. I don't know what's even happening.
Oh, I can't explain that. Normally the way that the molotovs interact like that is that it would,
I would have assumed that it would have spilled over and still kind of burned at least around the box, but you are right.
It fell into the gravitational well there and you couldn't escape it.
Well, that's a first for me, I've got to be honest.
Great camera work, well done production.
We're at a double OT situation. The madness continues.
Welcome to PGL Astana, day three here on the VStream. It's been fantastic so far.
And you guys have been great in the chat. We love it. Magic.
They are on the CT side once again, of course, we're curious when they switch to the CT side if we could see anything other than the B-Bomb sites.
If that's even allowed at this stage or if they're just so stubborn that they want to keep going.
But for now, it's K27 trying to attack and actually flashing their way through. They force out some color utilities on the CT side.
That's pretty good. That's a nice way to start off. There's only a minute and 15 seconds.
Oh, if you can force the CTs to throw in some early incendiaries, that's pretty good.
They have backed off as well with time so having collector control doesn't afford them
the luxury of still hitting A and they have been A centred I would say in the OT at least
so that's going to be the back of Magic's mind.
I do feel really sad like in Sorry honestly for K27 like all memes and jokes aside that's
a horrendous moment for Molotov to just go horribly wrong.
They had a forced moon out into the open and everything could have changed in like the
space of a second.
Here we are, and you're going to put that into the back of their minds.
A bit of a boost up from Massfile over the smoke from Sandbags.
Oh, it's clear, the catch we had never stood a chance, however, there is the noose being
tightened from Monster.
They're going to hold their ground for the time being as X5 is on a fact-finding mission
and he will find AW, lays him out 20 seconds left to get the bomb planted.
It's a really killer win of a round, but they have to get past the AWP of Moon, and that
was the big challenge there.
X5, they had no flashbangs to get across, so he just had to try and make a run for
and that doesn't work out here. Same with 10 seconds, can't make it past spade, and even if he had you have to assume that the
rest would have jumped in right away.
So the first round of OT, or second OT, goes to magic. Just a quick check in at the scoreboard. Tensis got 36 kills and
on the other side it's 30 on fame, but yeah between those two that they're kind of rocking the top of the charts right now.
Very very interesting work and
And, um, yeah, I thought for a minute, even in the 2v4,
I thought it was winnable until they ran into the AWP there.
Yeah, got awkward as well.
The two short players and CT starts shooting each other,
as they're desperately trying to scramble back into safety.
It's kind of like a rat jumping off the ship moment.
Massfile in the meanwhile, though, we saw him hide outside of the monster smoke one time.
What feels like forever ago, this time though,
he's only able to get the one kill, and he'll be getting nothing.
He had to follow up with a bit of damage of his own.
Stade is trying to keep the Dream alive on the site,
but he's also doused down from fame.
And then a three on two,
and Molotov's being put on graffiti.
Tensy decides to bypass it and push straight in.
He takes a ton of damage for it, though.
He's gonna be well, he's so in the open.
I don't like that position.
I feel like with the damage he already taken,
he was gonna be very exposed.
It's all up to Moon.
A one versus three, and they're taking their time right now.
He's trying to plant the form on the other side here,
Sendiri going out. It's not going to kill anyone. We'll try a little bit of damage
But once that bomb is down the chances that it would have been it already very low like a 5% chance that you win that 1v3
With the bomb going down, I feel like it drops even lower than that. So looks like moon is going to try to
I think he might have been hoping that someone's going to chase him down
I don't think there's any chance that he can cheat them and sort of recommit to this one even though he does have the kit
There's there's too close by for any kind of real shenanigans here. Maybe get like a parting kill. Yeah, I like the idea
It's a really cool
potential idea, but again, they're right on top of it here and I think at the end he just didn't have no time regardless
So still he's stuck around and I appreciate that. I want more people to do that. So I'm not gonna criticize it
Yeah, there's no reason for him to save they're gonna have more than enough money to get him an open to the next round anyway
So I love the effort. I also love how he jumped up on the box while diffusing
Hope you'd be staying from the smoke
Is a little cool idea to go for a diffuse like that if someone sprays at you from where they
are just usually diffusing from it can kind of mess with them a little bit but
Yeah, the desperation play realistically at the end wasn't it was never really gonna work out for them
I think where that round kind of came undone was that double peek from monster is aw and mass foul
And they got a 2-4 trade against them that had to go back for magic
Okay, well, let's see how this will face the Fowl.
That's Fowl in the smoke!
Oh, great double!
They didn't realize he was there, and he actually had a fact turn to the beginning of the defense.
AW, furious spray coming through.
It's just chaos.
I don't think we could even see half those kills, because they were just all fighting in the smoke,
or through the smoke, or around the smoke.
Magic to pick up a bit of a lead here and 38 kills on Tenzi now as magic swap back to the T side
And we're gonna try but now everyone is at the edge of this
You know
Yeah, we're excited as we could be to find out
Are we gonna get a chance to actually get any action or is it gonna be all the
Not sure what he said but it's with passion so
I hope he said, let's go B boys!
Let's go B!
Clearing up for another B hit. Let's go.
Maybe they will at least fake the A bomb site. You know, that could be a start.
Just try it, try to...
You know, they're setting up some utilities towards the restrooms.
I won't call that an A fake necessarily, but I'll say at least they are pretending like they know that the A bomb site is there.
And that's better than previous.
I am actually just fascinated at this point if magic at any point will actually hit A.
It's a big way.
He made his teammates.
Brilliant.
He did it out.
Big fan.
Oh, hit the headshot.
That would be even funnier if he goes from needing his teammates.
They're just tearing out that jump.
Not going to be happening.
55 seconds, and the forward position for Cito all the way over at the playground means
K27, no, they're going to have four people defending this, it's such a strong position
because you can even catch them coming out of the connector, so yeah, there's not a lot
they could do. Moon is, he's going to go back and pretend to go A, this is, I don't think
it's going to sell anything, I don't believe in this at all.
It's like that Tom Hardy meme from Mad Max, he goes, that's a bait.
How they're feeling about this, they're not buying this for a second.
Xedo takes them out, keeps them interested, and now they start to hit B with 20 seconds.
We've been here before, but what will the outcome be?
Has Mastbow already lost?
And he's gone.
They did pull back a couple of people, but is it going to be quite enough?
The problem is the time that's left, fame down below, and up on the high ground, the AWP
can't feel.
He can't get the job done!
Oh, there's no time for the plant!
They actually have the kills to make it open, but it won't make a difference.
Magic to try and return to the P bomb site. Is that a jumping shot? He actually was airborne getting down an x5
What the fuck is going on in this game?
I'm tired boss. I'm tired
Why so many questions so few answers nothing makes sense
I can't believe what we're seeing.
This is some of the maddest counter-tracks I've been able to cast in a really long time.
Oh my god, how is he going to wait with that?
No, here we go.
Alright, it's time to lock in.
I say that to myself more than anything else.
Let's try and see if we can stay sane.
It's 17-17, and this could go the distance once again as well.
He goes down early. At least they're spread out. Magic have actually decided we're not going to hit straight for the B-bomb side this time, but we'll spread out a bit more.
So this is finally a change for the first time on Overpass.
I just imagine the other teams watching this match and just like so confused like how do
we prevent for playing either K27 or Magic and Overpass?
What is going on?
Tenzin' and Emile though did have a chance, but it seems like he's missed his window
of opportunity because Edo's already backed off and although he gets the one kill, there
is a second player there up close and he's low, there's no way he survives this.
What?
Surely not.
Okay there we go.
I think if you're one of the opposing teams and you're trying to sort of learn from this game and like prepare yourself
The other the best possible prep work might just be to find a random assortment of mushrooms from the forest and just eat
Just try you go forward and crush your fingers best of luck
And you might get some insight into into what's happening in this particular game
Don't recommend you guys do that at home, but I'm just saying that that's that's the level that we're on to try and and
and even find any kind of logical reason or any reason at all really for what's happening here.
Svade's going to be out of time, not much they could have done here, so K-27, first to 19,
if you're keeping an eye on that at all.
So they've almost won it, they're almost at that third map.
Or it's going to be triple O-T.
Yep, it's a hard one to call, isn't it?
I mean, we've had so many moments where both of us probably assumed the game was about to come to its conclusion,
and then there was a few more twists and turns and all kinds of shenanigans that came into play.
I would say, though, that K27 having that point here on their CT side,
surely this is where they can put this one at the bed.
And we can get through to the third map.
Magic's T sides have looked so incredibly blackluster,
like really just point flipping on whether Mass Val can get himself a couple of entry frags.
frags, if he can over a monster they win the round, if not they lose. And it just seems like such a weird
very one-dimensional tactic to have on a map that has so many possibilities, so many fake protocols
that we just haven't seen from magic whatsoever. Like even just throwing, you can throw smokes
from short to fake on A from dumpster and things like that. You can draw away rotations,
we've just not seen any of these things happen at any point.
I think that's a good glad that you bring all of this upright and even the fact the connector where tens is playing right now
If you're if you have control of that on the t-side
We saw them need each other before now with a flash in each other, I mean
Why are they doing it when I'm trying to lay out cool strategies?
Why they interrupted me like that?
Man if this if they knew what they were doing they couldn't you see a flash bang
Just go not even close to over the wall just straight into the wall
Forget what I was saying. I I don't even I don't even want to remember anymore. Tensi
We get the kill on C. Doe like you said he's got 40 kills
Alright, let's go triple OTs on the line if they get four more kills in this one
It's casually to try and stop them and get us to a third map as foul quick return very nice trades
Tensi's back at it again and the bomb is weird as we then
It's normal and infinite amount of time here for magic. We're talking 17 seconds
That's way more than they normally do here fame on the high ground. There's no reason anyone from magic should be facing
This is where you want to fall back and just you know play it safe make sure you can trade the kills
Don't take the individual battle. He's not gonna be worth it fame is very hungry to close this one out
But now he's also low on health intensity lands another cracking headshot. He's taken down three in this round
He said 42 kills with 21 deaths. That's a 2.0 KK ratio. That's crazy and fame goes down last. We go into triple overtime. Let's go
It's not a place that magic are unfamiliar with their first map of the tournament went to I think quadruple over time against the Mongols
So they've been here before they did lose that time should be mentioned that was over on Mirage
of the
you just say the word perfect yes I apologize to everyone watch that's that's
really appreciate your optimism maybe eventually when we get to the 20th
overtime it will be you know we will grind out all the mistakes or throw
flashes over the walls all of that stuff fame goes down early that is a bit of a
loss here now with the first 22 rounds and losing fame this early on that's
that's a bit of a shame. I'd still love to see Cashlit do more. Given the fact that we're now in the
third overtime, the fact that he's got 17 kills is a bit depressing. Like bottom of the scoreboard
for that team, this is supposed to be an obvious paradise.
Okay, we do have Cashlit picking up that shot against AW, so so far so good. Three versus four,
Maybe we just have to call him out a bit more, and he can find a way to get the job done.
Counterflash is coming out, nice smoke to slow them down.
They are running back down through Connector, but they're not quite controlling it.
X5 had pushed on the other side of the smoke, and he's there to take down 10z.
40 seconds, and time is running a bit lower than you'd like here for magic.
They do want to return to the B bomb site, and we'll see if they can do it this time.
They were honestly trying to go through the A bomb site this time, but they got shut down
a little bit.
back at their favorite position, Spade's gonna be picking up Quinky, 23 seconds and a 3 versus 3 with
X5, haven't already got one kill here, oh the smoke is coming, can't really see that, I can't believe he hasn't
hit it, USP has come up but now the bomb's planted. Bomb planted in, Mastal's gonna try and hide back,
shimmy through the smoke, Moon has his cross, cash lit up in heaven but it's gonna have to try and
and join alongside X5 and start to get more aggressive now to retake the site.
The lack of utility is a real problem though.
It's going to be hard for them to break back onto this and deal with either of the players.
Moon doesn't need to budge an inch.
Lance Deschardt has been waiting for, and this round should be a gimme now.
Easy kill from Maspel, and Magic pick up some success to kick off another OT.
I can't believe that this is a winnable round for Magic.
You think about how they get stopped as they're trying to run back down through connector from x5 and already there
You're in so much trouble
You've actually shown the CT side that you're rotating back to the B bomb site
They know that you're trying to park the bomb on a guy that has no health as say that he was
You know he was a yeah one USB bullet from death, but you can't find him before the bomb is down
So once the bomb is planted it turns back in your favor and you come up with a victory such a hard round to win and
And again, just it follows the same mad trend that we've been seeing so far, okay
They go back to this they've tried this three times and I think both times they've actually connected with a shot
They get a knock down
They take a sledgehammer and just knock the foundation off the tower
We see a couple of boosts like that get wrecked. We saw a flank
I think it was on a new base like yesterday or the day before also kind of go the same way
But yeah, that's that's a really cool little change of pace. I haven't seen too many of those spams through the smoke
And yeah, faceplant pretty much sums it up
That's like
It's like a interpretive dance version of this match
We just saw like that's that's what it is if you had to find and just make that into human form
AW goes down. I
Don't even know what he's doing jumping that far around the corner with no rifle in hand
CEDO backing off in turn of the shot, so it's a 3 vs 3, and this round is back on once again.
We got 40 seconds, they are throwing grenades to the A-bomb site, but I know it's hard to believe in that they are going to go back to B, that's the plan.
Excuse me, I nearly just choked thinking about them going to A, but they are going to be hit and beat.
This makes a lot more sense to me though, Anders, because they did sell the A-bakes, finally they've realized
misdirection does work
He's actually worked really well moon
How should you saw him you can fire the gun right then and there?
You don't actually have to wait for him to peek on up there, but it's gonna be magic reading the round
They're even in just this one round. There was so many weird mistakes that were happening and
I think the coach he had his hand on his forehead there. He looks very stressed
I can't blame him magic have found a two-round lead
And they just need two or more rounds and they get a dodge the third map and put an end to the craziness and knockout K27
I have to apologize to everyone how loud that cough probably was I genuinely took a drink and nearly choked on it
I'm just taking time as I saw them rotating back down on connector again. So yeah, perfect timing on that one
But I don't think we've seen magic in this position right like a two-round lead on the T side
They've always been trailing at this point, so maybe this is the beginning of the end
for K27.
Remember, they lost the first map, they lose this low T, they're eliminated, they're done.
They got 0-3 Astana.
That is, yeah, for all the laughing and all the craziness here.
For K27, it's as real as you can get right now.
You don't want to be losing early on.
They do blow up in the door and that's an immediate hint to the T side that, you know
there could be a boost happening so they try and spam it down early to to avoid that and the cities
don't want to stick around there have been a lot of counter boost and a lot of you know double
nades and stuff like that for the magic side they've come well prepared with interesting tricks I
would say so I wouldn't begrudge k27 for dismounting that boost and saying we're not interested they
only have two people at the B bomb side they're pretty much going all in right now k27 earlier
that they can't possibly hit B again it's impossible they've done it 50 times in a row but you know
You know what, 51 is coming up.
They're ready to go one more time towards the B bomb site,
shocking as it is for K27, who must be just confused
and lost at why they are just hitting his bomb site
over and over again.
Grenades, two of them landing on Quinkie.
He's dead and the bomb is gonna be fancy.
It's like that really famous martial arts quote.
It's like, I fear the man that's practiced the same kick
5,000 times and this is just magic.
They've practiced this B 5,000 times.
It's a good kill for X5 though,
keeping themselves in with a chance,
but I honestly think if they get clean swept here
on this first half, it is pretty much a done deal.
The CT side for magic has looked far, far better
than their T half has.
They could still retake.
They've got the weapons they need.
The time though is running dry.
X5, big kill.
Cashlid closing the gap with his MP9,
but he's lost all of his teammates
and he's lost his head.
Well, both for HP, the clean sweep has come into effect.
Magic now have every chance of saving themselves and executing K-27 in the process.
Well here we go, three rounds in the third overtime that go to Magic that's set up so nicely.
This is the best position they've been in to win all map long. So if they can't close it out now,
if somehow K-27 can put this into double OT, or if I guess quad OT now, then I think I feel like
like magic in the fall apart. This is this is position. They've got the momentum. They finally
cracked open the B bomb site. It just took running it. You know, I said 50 probably not quite two,
but something like 20 rounds thrown in towards the B bomb site. And now it's kind of working for
them. And they throw in some fakes as well. So they have diversified a little bit from the original.
But it's been it's been one hell of a game. You've got to say that. Elimination online,
just to remind everyone of anyone's just joining us here. It is the third series of the day.
We still do have the Huns and Fisher College, which I'm not going to lie, I hate to say this, Vince, we could be more the same, or this kind of counter strike happening in that game, which now that we're locked in for it, I'm kind of actually looking forward to it.
I think it's going to be tons of fun. But here we go. It's first to 22, and elimination on the line here on the B-stream. Molotov goes in early. Let's see if C-27 can find three in a row of their own.
I see Anders, you've succumbed to the Stockholm Syndrome version of CS.
I see, I see. It makes sense. I'm alongside with you in the rollercoaster.
There's been twists, there's been turns, there's been all kinds of shenanigans. The flashbang though, he runs into his own teammate's flash.
I think there was also a counter flash cost in from Magic as well to be fair.
But whichever way, the fame has been stalled and he's also lost a bit of health for it too.
it too. Well, it's not the first time that we've seen a utility not exactly perfect from all sides.
So let's see, can they actually make it through? Smoke is recommitted, there's another smoke,
but this one is pretty deep. I don't know if these even care about that. They look to be
reconnecting over towards this other side. Might be a boost in it for them.
EW throwing out a counter-incendiary, we're down to 45 seconds now, and I think they're
going to go for it.
This time it's going to be the L-Ben that's going to be attacked.
There's only one player coming through the tunnel, it actually could be very efficient
here.
EW, great spike, takes down two, must malibu make sure no one's coming through the tunnel
either.
30 seconds left, it's looking very unlikely they could do this here.
Magic, they just need two more kills and they can put this behind them, they dodge
a third map and they knock out K27 and there's only Kashlin X5 left here. The
bomb is gonna be planted if nothing else but they're locked into the bomb site.
There's no escaping, they can't find a position in the after plant to smoke.
That might help him out. That's so cool. He managed to throw that down and maybe
that buys an opening here. There is still utility though. He takes the first point
of call. He's gonna trade it out though but there's Kashlin. Survives. Could very
will thrive as well in this chaos. You're going to try and take the initiative and play
aggressively. The full defuse comes in, but Caslid nails him and keeps K-27 alive. Keeps
their tournament hanging by a thread." Oh, he jumped back like he was going to go
back around the corner and if the CT player heard that, it makes perfect sense that he
goes straight for the defuse, but then he walks back with his scope up near the box.
That's insanely dangerous. If he isn't going for the full defuse and he peeks you instead,
There's such a good chance that the M4 is going to come out of top, especially because
you're going to peek on either side of the box there.
But they win the two on three.
Crazy stuff.
19 to 20.
What?
Because the chat's delayed.
I'm seeing people say, oh, finally it's over in the chat, but you know what?
It's not over.
You guys are wrong in the past.
Unfortunately, they still keep it going here.
And fortunately for K27, obviously, because they just want to keep their tournament lines
going.
46 kills on Tensy, 35 on Fame, cash let's start of the wake of a little bit more.
It is going to be a 19 to 21 scoreline.
They still have their backs to the wall here K27.
I think the booster's been spotted.
They know that this booster's happening.
Fame is also trying to push them onto the tunnel, but now that it's gone, yeah, the
fact that they stuck around on that booster so long, I think is not exactly advisable.
That was like 4th, actually, just about tossing from the CTs onto Monster as well.
They're really making sure that this B site does not get pushed on any time soon.
Moon in the meanwhile though has to relocate, we must realise at this stage no one's hit B.
It's going to be A, they can hear all the footsteps charging towards the site and they've given it up.
So bare minimum, it's going to be a post plant coming in, but the damage has been done.
Important kill from Tenzi, 48 kills and showing no signs of slowing down.
Can he hit the 50 before this game comes to its conclusion?
He won't care about that.
then in the meanwhile Zito out in the open gets nailed by Tenzi.
That's a mad shot. He does take him down.
Cashlit and Quinky again left here, but the bomb is already taking so far.
We need to move right now.
A missed opportunity leaves it all onto Quinky.
He was amazing on the opening map.
He's had a great game, but it's too much to handle.
Moon takes him down. They've got the kit.
Oh, I was gonna say, why are they not diffusing with the kit?
If they end up screwing it up, they won't.
Oh my god, it took absolutely everything for both these teams.
So it'll be magic making their way through to a later stage of the tournament and K-27,
they get knocked out in two maps that felt like maybe four at the end of it here.
But what are they on the breeze stream and it's not even over yet.
Could you imagine, Anders, if they'd lost that round because they came off the
bottom while the diffuser faked instead.
it would have been that you imagine it couldn't have been a more thematic like
for thematically accurate ending it would have been the perfect inline with what we've been seeing
so i almost feel robbed that that didn't happen uh but this time they did get the job done all right
then again i you know what we've had some some pretty one sided games here on the b-stream
um and again we've been saying over i decided this was the perfect counter strike but it was
really entertaining. So I do appreciate that. There's the kind of stuff that I can wake up for
every day and still have a really fun time. So yeah, shout out to the teams. A lot of,
we could have probably a five hour podcast on all the mistakes that needed to be fixed here for
both teams. We're not going to do that. We're just going to be happy that Magic kind of get to live
on and fight for another day. And we're not even done with the B stream. And we do have more coming
up. The Huns and Fisher College, two teams that, you know, in different ways have got here and
and maybe with different expectations,
but both look like they could be some of the weakest teams
in the tournament, but they're going to have what hopefully
will be a more even game here.
Yeah, I think it probably is going
to be more of the same if they're very scrappy, not clean,
but you can understand why.
Like, these teams have not played at this caliber of CS
tournament before.
Fame is probably the one exception that you look towards.
And it's going to be the same for the Huns to a lesser degree,
but very much the same with Fisher College
when we get round to it.
So at the same time is like it's been fun.
We can poke fun at some of the mistakes that were happening.
These guys are playing for their torment lives.
Like they are throwing everything they have into this.
And K27, like I do want to give some respect across to them.
They're going to be devastated to lose in that fashion.
They were leading in regulation,
going in towards the last three or four rounds.
They had so many opportunities on Mirage,
in that first half especially,
that in multiple rounds they shouldn't be winning.
On another day, this is a two zero to K27.
So spare a thought for them,
But ultimately magic, they just had that little bit of grit.
Tenzi in particular though, on Overpass deserves a huge amount of credit and respect.
50 kills with 111 ADR with well over 35.
In fact, it went over 40 rounds in the end, 41 rounds it took.
That is a masterclass from him.
Yeah, I think that's a good shout out right towards the end here.
Very well done for him individually, but there's just, this is another problem, right?
When you get this much overtime in such a long game,
that's almost like too much to highlight at the end of it.
So I can feel a little bit of Rob
that we don't get to see ancient
just because I think we're so deep in it now.
You almost want to see people on going.
If nothing else, at least on a third map,
but we're not going to get that.
And I think I kind of agree like K27,
this is another feature of it.
When you are this close and there are this many mistakes,
it also means there's an infinite amount of rounds
to look over.
So when you get back to the boot camp or back to the lab,
there are so many rounds to pick up and highlight
say why did we do it like this why didn't we you know find a better timing so a lot a lot of
pre sort of a post-game work out coming in here I think for for k27 but they'd have to digest
digest the lost egg I suppose before anything else so yeah credit to magic for sticking through
this one and not faltering at the end we will see you guys in not that long the Huns and Fisher
college are coming up next for our final best of three of the day so stay tuned and we'll be right back.
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But I love you!
I won't play window anymore.
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Alright, this is going to be a very special interview for me personally because I've got
Alex with me, who comes from Fisher College right now,
but I knew this guy back when we were doing
a gaming reality TV show of Counter-Strike eight years ago
that did land yourself on a position
to join Fernandic Academy back then.
It's been a wild journey for you.
So now you're still trying to make it.
You've still got a passion and motivation for the game,
but just explains maybe to viewers
who haven't seen you before,
haven't known you from those times,
like a brief overview of the journey you've taken as a player because it's
it's not a normal one that most players go through. Yeah I mean the easiest way I
can explain it is as you said it's started out in Camers and when we
performed the show my team we got an offer to play for Fnatic Academy now
it's in 2018 I think and then since then I've been trying to push to tier 2 EU
at the best I was good to tier 3 and then I had some years off and then I had
the personal issues that came up where I didn't have the motivation anymore and
then now I found the way how I can keep competing with a scholarship in
college which really helped me get back in the game and I found out that I
really liked the game and I'm really dedicated now compared to back then
because I was so young and I had no clue what was happening basically. You've
played CS for a long time but this is also your first real big event this is
first real elite event for you guys. How long have you dreamed of this moment?
Yeah, that's been ever since K-Mercy, I'm going to be honest. Before K-Mercy wasn't even in my scope
of vision, but then when you get to an org like Fnatic, I realized like, wow, now I might be able
to go all the way. But then in recent years, it's not really been on my mind because I thought like,
oh, I've already been through the pinger, people have seen me already and I wasn't good enough. So
I thought, maybe I won't make it, but yeah, it's been a dream for so long and now we're finally here and it feels amazing and I'm so happy that I'm here in a spot where we don't need to prove ourselves.
We can lose every map and people will be like, oh yeah, that's expected, but of course, we know as a team we want to do our best, but we also understand that there's zero pressure on us.
No one's expecting anything. No one's expecting something, it's us on the team. We know that we can do something, even though we're not the best at the game.
We live with each other on campus and we've built that team connection for so long to the point where if we get the right energy in the game, we focus on the game itself, I think we're going to do really good.
And how would you describe right now as a player your way of leadership, your way of being an IGL for this team?
obviously you've got all this European background but then you're playing out
in America's where I know to be hard with practice and like maybe not the best
competition how do you guys manage all of that? For my sake as a leader I've
been an ideal for a long time I've also been a team captain for even longer and
I've understood that it's not about doing the best thing always it's about
understanding what you need to do now what's the thing you need to fix and
that's kind of where where we that's how we operate like if we if we have an
That's the issue we're going to tackle. We don't need to fix everything instantly.
We don't need to be the smartest team member or the most perfect team.
Before the qualifier, we hadn't played a single practice in one year.
And before this event was when we started practicing.
I saw a tweet from you right that the team was going to be dead.
I still have an LFT pinned.
Oh, okay.
And it's so funny because I made the tweet after we qualified.
And right above it, you see, I'm still LFT. I'm still LFT now as well.
So there's no contract with you guys, right?
No, only for the college games, which you have to play, but they're also very understanding.
If you land a big contract within eSports, they're not going to force you to play if
you're still at school.
But yeah, there's no contracts, there's no payouts, we're all free agents in that sense.
And lastly with this, what do you and Fisher have as a team that might surprise some of
the other teams?
special quality that people should look out for in how you're going to come into these games.
I would say we never give up. We've been with each other for two years. We're with each other
in classes. I even stay in the same apartment as my teammate. We have that synergy and we're all
there together and we love being with each other. Some of these teams, I don't know them, but I can,
as you also know, some people here, they do it for the career path or they're looking for their own
best and we're already thinking about the next move. All of us, we're all in the moment, no one's
going to play for themselves. We've done this journey now for so long and we all want to finish
this as a team. No matter if we place a far down in the rankings or not, we're all here to
gather as a family, which I don't think every team here has. Lovely man, well it's great to see you
again after all these years. Good luck going to the tournament and let's see how this can work
out for you guys. This from our conversation makes you very excited.
Yeah, me too. As we didn't see. Yeah, thank you.
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I don't think you ever will I think part of that will stay with you for eternity. I you know overpass used to be my favorite map
And is I'm not so sure anymore. I think I'm gonna see be bombsite of my nightmares
But yes, hopefully hopefully we have some interesting CS to jump into here and and to kind of satiate ourselves because sure
It's another elimination game. We've said goodbye to K-27
Obviously magic live to fight another day
But we have to say goodbye to the Huns or Fisher College
And this is a totally different kind of narrative almost I want to say because the Huns have had quite a few
Opportunities at tournaments of this stature. They've been to majors in the past
They've actually done a lot at this level whereas Fisher College
Literally the first college team to ever qualify making history at a tournament like this
So we've seen Fisher College a couple of times they played against two very good teams
I'm really interested to see if they can take the Huns and make this a close game.
I really hope so. I want to see really both teams prove something. I do kind of, I think
in kind of what you're saying here is a difference of expectations. You think the Huns would
be more well-drilled, would be more comfortable at this level of Counter-Strike, but they
haven't really proven that I think at the tournament so far.
Fisher College, we probably have a little bit more leeway with them, like we can excuse
them a bit more. So I think it's very interesting. I hope this is going to be a fun game if nothing
else. So yeah, on the Huns side of things, definitely some very familiar names that we
expect to be playing well. Who's your current favourite player on this? If you have to sort
of pick one player to highlight for the Huns?
I think for the Huns, I'd probably be looking at score. I think he's a very explosive type
player. Obviously we've seen him have a couple of, let's say dodgy moments on ancient. He
He just walked back into the fire and died, which was kind of funny to watch, but I think
normally he is actually one of the linchpins of this team and a guy that can do a lot of
damage.
So, I'll probably say it's cool for myself, but then on the other side, I mean, I'm a
big kind of con, but that's mainly because of his hair, to be honest, I am definitely
jealous.
Well, for good reason.
He's representing NA there, but we do have a wild assortment of players.
We've got Nieland from Kazakhstan as well,
we've got Icelandic Thor,
probably named Alex from Sweden,
and then Krapau from Belgium.
So we've got like whole assortment of players
who I believe are, you know, at least in part,
paying their way through college,
playing Counter-Strike for their universities.
That's really interesting.
I think it's a very, yeah,
it's the first kind of venture into some of this stuff.
Although, to be fair, like, you know,
college, esports in America is the thing
that people have been trying to build for a very long time.
I know in the UK, there are like,
I think two different university leagues,
for some reason, I don't know why there are two,
but they actually have a tremendous amount of teams.
Like, I think teams numbering in the hundreds
to that are participating.
So there is an interest there for players to play
and represent, you know, the different places of education.
So I think it's gonna be quite interesting.
I hope that we get to see both teams show up
and do a little bit of work here.
The veto is gonna be coming up
and we see Dust2 being banned out first
The next is Anubis to go, so got rid of those maps right away.
As expected, Shesha College just do not play Dust 2,
they have zero maps played,
10 can be set for 100 when it comes to Anubis.
And then there's gonna be a lot of handshakes elsewhere,
I think, you're looking at map like Nuke,
I would imagine Kudry will get played,
both teams love playing it,
have a very high win rate on it too,
so it is gonna be first picked.
And then, was that Inferno?
Yeah, this makes a ton of sense, honestly.
Like, this is pretty much what I expected.
Kudry will be like a Mirage third map,
wouldn't be surprised and it will be.
So this is kind of gone the way I think both of us
would have anticipated.
And there's no real surprises, no real shocks.
Yeah, like you said, they do have a lot of overlapping maps.
So it might have been down to sort of the day
or some of the recent performances,
which one you actually go for at the end of it on the veto.
But yeah, I don't hate this.
Nuke, Inferno, and Mirage to be played in this one.
And again, to remind you, it's elimination on the line,
which I think for both sides here,
Like for the Huns, I feel like it would just be devastating if they go out really early
in the tournament without really doing almost anything.
And I think for Fissure Colleges, but maybe the opposite, like if they can take one win
or one team here, that's such a great story for them to walk away with.
So again, the expectations perhaps a little bit different.
We'll say this for both sides, right?
The Huns, they played Aurora and Spirit, and Fissure Colleges played Paris Vision and
G2.
just four really rough teams to be up against in the opening matchups. Yeah, exactly. And that's
one of the reasons why we were both saying, like, we're really interested to see how
Fisher College in particular are going to perform against a team that isn't like a top flight squad.
Now, of course, ParaVision haven't looked great this event. I'm going to be honest, G2 also sustained
like a pretty heavy loss themselves. So maybe you could put that caveat in that the Huns have
play technically stronger teams at Astana itself. But we also haven't seen Fisher College play
Nuke so far in this event. The maps they played Mirage, Ancient and Inferno in their previous
games that you just highlighted. They did get batted on Ancient 13-1 against G2 and then lost
it 13-2 against ParaVision as well. So maybe for the better that we're not going to see that today
from Fisher College's perspective at least. That is a good point. Well no more talk. We're now
Now I'm gonna get into the actual Counter-Strike.
It's Huns starting on the CT side,
Fisher College gonna be on the T side
and they are walking their way through.
It's very interesting.
We'll see what kind of a setup they have here.
Dooley's on the other side.
So you kinda need to get the first kill onto nine
very quickly or there's a chance everything will be shot down.
He closed the door right in their face.
Oh, the grenade, it bounced into the door
because it closed another headshot's coming through.
Ah yes, more madness like this.
The fact that he blocked the grenade with the door
is that's some peak kind of strike.
I mean, that's like some Hodor level stuff.
Just hoping there's no knives or shanks
or any undead people running around.
But the meme are bar-tacking in such an awkward spot.
Gets punished for this one nice shot from Controlez
onto Corn as he tries to push down
with the rest of his teammates.
But at the very least,
this should be a bomb plant coming through.
They're all just gonna have a one-to-one
up against Krapow,
those Jullies are going to be pretty terrifying, send the shiver down his spine and Scor's going to
shop with his own. So real chaos already kicking off the first round. Scor, yeah, you mentioned
to be highlighted him and for good reason. A couple of kills now making this retake way more
doable. I'm shocked that the fishing squad has even got into a bomb here. I feel like they were
going to get locked down on the ramp, but like you pointed out some awkward positioning for the CT
side and Control's going to get the last one there taking down Alex and even that the kit,
They're going to be fine for the defuse so yeah crazy round it looked like the first blocking there and then the kill for the smoke was enough to
To sort of cement the round very early on but bomb plant is there which means the T side can buy a little bit earlier
Yeah, it's really interesting as well to just kind of dissect some of the conversation that Alex had with Bant and me
Where he was saying like this is a real familial like we all feel like a family playing together
we're all playing for each other. We don't have any aspirations to, you know, like, piece out or join a different team of a contract.
We're kind of bound to each other, and we really want to win this for one another. I think that's a really cool way of phrasing this.
He also said there's no pressure on them. They don't have any pressure on their own shoulders. They're here.
It's already an amazing accomplishment, what they've achieved to get into this position.
So I really want to see them have a good time.
Take a fight, so to have a hug. Make you sweat this one out, even if you do lose.
lose and so far looking good on the site. They actually have a two player advantage. Bartak in a
one on three. That was a little like in the past. Dangerous to do when this kind of follow-up round
and it's surprising that the Huns didn't have more counter utility to try and shut this down but
too late for that now. Bartak's going to be going down and a straight response here. It's
Krippal coming in with three kills in this one just unbelievably quick and that's the power of
of getting those bomb plants. Now it's the Huns kind of put on the back foot very early
on. We often like to repeat this idea that it's actually better than winning the pistol
round on the T side if you can win the follow like this. The Huns are buying into this with
a lot of smokes. So yeah, I actually always think it's fun to watch these stories on
the CT side because there is a world if Fisher College plays slow enough that one or two
of those smokes can destroy a round for you. But it does require the other team playing
really slow yeah and I don't think we really saw Fisher College playing
particularly slow than their previous games they really were like standing
tall and they were having confidence in their own abilities even when they were
losing pretty hard pretty heavy they didn't wane in their belief so I don't
expect that's gonna end up being a problem the wall of smokes outside is
good Alex waiting on the other side of that ready to receive if Cyril wants to
get aggressive with that eagle Maltov also tossed in but now that smoke is
going to clear Kripao, Eagle-eyed, staring into main. Couple players should be mentioned.
Have been tagged though, and that's going to put them into these range of the pistols.
So Fisher College need to tread lightly.
Oh, but an important opening. You alright though? Even a little bit of damage would go a long way.
Dory's going to be set up, he can molotov out the pot, he can throw some good flashes in for the ceiling windows to set them up for it, but they actually do get another kill.
50 seconds of the clock and Alex has gone down.
Patrols wants to revisit this one.
That's another headshot, Dink.
They're a little bit careless there, Fisher College.
It's fine to be relocating towards a ramp push instead,
but you can't just be kind of running back like that.
Somebody has to be holding it or you need something more.
Patrols managed to dive back down.
He gets another Dink.
There's so low on health right now.
The patrols is almost on for the triple in that round.
If you had anything other than the pistol there,
that's gonna be a very easy clean up for him.
But now it's 9 against 3 and I think they've heard the dinks, they know that at least some
of them are very low here.
Yeah, normally in this kind of scenario you'd be like unconfirmed damage but I think you're
spot on, like there was no real flashes or smokes flying around.
So they would have heard and seen the dink animation and that's why 9 is on the prowl
in the first place.
This Mac 10 could be devastating but it just takes a ton of damage from Thor.
Typically the Orpahs that certainly a player to watch out for by the way, he's very good
with the Orpah.
Even in some of those maps that they were struggling on, especially Ancient who's landing some really
no shots. So certainly an impressive player when he does get his hands on that, but they
do lead against the Huns aggression towards the end looking a little bit shaky for a few
moments. And I guess this is a good time while the matches pause to kind of touch on the
Huns a little bit as well, Anders, because a lot of the narratives we've been speaking
about so far have been Fisher College understandably. So it's just such a cool story. They really
should be very proud of themselves. Whereas the Huns, I think it's kind of a completely
different aspect altogether. Like you're a team that has achieved quite a bit in the past. You are
also in a region where like you have the Mongols, you have a few other region teams doing kind of
really well, especially going through into like majors and ST tournaments. And these guys have
just looked incredibly flat. And I don't know if you heard the interview that Nine had with Banks,
and I got a credit banks a lot for this because he actually drew out some information from Nine,
who was kind of putting on a like a brave face. And Banks is like, I'm not buying this dude,
like you're normally super confident and energetic, something seems different.
And Nynne kind of did say like, he doesn't have really much expectations of this Huns team.
Ever since they lost Cobra, obviously across to the Mongols, it's apparently he was like a really
magnetic force, not just on the server, but also behind the scenes like a really likable guy.
And it's difficult to replace someone like that, right? So it seems like the Huns are in just a
really bad place at the moment, at least from what I've seen.
Yeah, I think Converse here is, I think, a really valuable
player. So I suppose it does make sense. Maybe if he if he
matches the personality as well, that could be a big loss. So
that is interesting inside. You know, those, those interviews
sometimes you get you get a lot out of them. So I appreciate
that. You're way more professional than I am in
because I wasn't gonna I was gonna use this break to check in
with the two of the chats as I as I like to do. I don't know if
We are ready for this Vince, but we do have Francisco who is asking if there are any cuties
in the chat.
That's disturbing on its own.
And then we've got Outlier confessing his deep love for anime.
So that's kind of the state of things at the moment.
I hate to report that, but you know, I try to keep an eye on it.
I mean, I've been called many things in my timeline.
There's cutes not one of them.
So I'm going to say no.
I can still have a glow up in his element.
He's learning. He's learning. That's right.
Round number four, and of course because they did buy all the smokes and the pistols in the last round,
they're not going to have much to fight with here. And it almost worked for them in fairness to the Huns, right?
It was very close to being a good kind of a catch up there, but it should be Fischer College walking away with a 3-1 lead.
And even in the round after this, it's going to be a little bit awkward for the Huns, right?
You're not coming into the fifth round with a ton of money and you know orbs all around and all the rest of it
So it will be bar-tacked with one headshot taking on Krippow
But they should be getting their way to the bomb site somewhat swiftly here
I feel like Fisher College are probably they're more nervous than they need to be especially when they had a Mac 10
Just this should be around that you just open it up
Yeah understandable if they're a little bit
concern of heads in their actions and make sure they don't make any mistakes.
Having full confidence in their own ability but also not disrespecting their opposition.
It was also interesting in the little timeout that we had, the corn closed his eyes.
He was almost meditating, fully focused, doesn't want to lose that kind of being in the zone stature.
You can respect that a lot. Just taking a couple of moments for a few deep breaths.
It's a huge opportunity for these guys.
Yeah, and I don't, again, mean any disrespect to the Huns, but this is definitely the team
where you think Fisher College could get something out of this, considering the opposition as
you highlighted in the pre-game they've played up until this point. This is a winnable game
for Fisher College, and they know it.
Well, especially with the kind of stuff they have here, like, Neelan's got the experience,
Capow has been playing well at the beginning. Last time we saw them poor, I think had a
fairly big impact with the AWP all the way from Iceland as well where I think
still to this day they teach Danish in the schools or maybe that's the
thing in the past but they used to at least we have some kind of
overlap that's never really been clear to me apart from you know some biking
age thing but yeah shout out shout out to Iceland I've never been there I still
really want to go sometime yeah by all accounts Reykjavik is beautiful the whole country is yeah
I mean the only anime I've ever seen and this was a sub goal is Vinland Saga which actually
kind of touches on that the whole Viking Icelandane thing and some UK stuff in there so it's actually
quite good there's a lot I mean it dies inside to admit that actually was pretty good well supposedly
there are some some good ones out there so yeah you know don't have to hate all
of it it's just got you know reputation from the fans I suppose but three to one
is the scoreline I'm sure we're gonna have lots of recommendations in the chat
now people are gonna be saying watch this watch this this one's the best one
yeah you've done it they've recommitted the smokes outside it seems like a lot
of smokes to waste if you're not gonna be committing that many people but it's
really not I do like this one Fisher College they're selling the idea
that there could be a huge amount of T's pushing down. Alex has mentioned to get down below so he can reconnect with the rest of the team that are walking towards the ramp position.
Tactically, what they're doing right now makes a lot of sense and I think Thor is actually going to be faking the A bombsite so it's a very elaborate setup.
Let's see if it works out. Can't just smoke this out and right next to the head, Bar-Tac, he won't get the headshot.
Now they need that guy from below, Alex to come in and help out and unfortunately the plan may be too elaborate.
It has so many steps in it that if any one of them disappear from the round, it just doesn't work anymore
Yeah, the only thing that maybe Fisher College have going in their favor is that Alex has managed to scrape his way downstairs and
I'm thinking more from the prospects of saving rather than winning the round of course. It's unlikely he's gonna get hunted in Deacon
So with the orp not quite having the impact that you'd be hoping for but if you can hold on to this
they can run it back into the next round. And it is interesting that this match has started.
Doesn't mean to be fair, Nukes does play out very differently to a Mirage or an Overpass,
of course, but this is way more tentative. This is way more nervy than the absolute blood bath
that was K27 versus Magic. It was a lot of aggression except for an Overpass, but we don't
talk about that. So let's see if Fisher College will pick up the pace. Yeah, I think I understand
why they want to try and do it. They had the whole setup for it, so you know, trying to stick
some of these fans, you could tell it's something that they've been rehearsing before the game is
live, but it's always, I think it's always dangerous when you make a plan that has a lot of steps in
it where every step is vital. Sometimes that's why it could be a little bit more simple to just try
and you know, do some simple smokes, flash away through, try and get the opening kill,
I can't go for it, um, especially if there are some nerves in the server.
Prep house is supposed to go down, and nobody was checking this position, so 9's gonna get
what looked like a free kill on the Thor. They're still in the round, though. It's a 4 versus 3 here,
but Huns are putting some pressure, and I just credited them as well on the CT side here,
trying to make sure the Fisher College can't take some of these early positions without paying a little bit for it.
I smoked off into squeaky and corner size not to push his luck.
Already a player down.
I'm going to try and keep as many of these pieces alive as possible.
Nieland, oh, I thought he honestly had, is there all debts or rights there with the AK,
but just gets double tapped in the end.
He of course is the player with by far the most experience on this Fisher College team
previously.
back in CSGO times was in a bunch of teams. Kazakhstan player Moon has survived for now.
We'll see if one of the Kazakhstan players falls here today.
Yeah, it could be. Even in spite of the good lead here, it's starting to feel slightly like the
Huns are growing in confidence on the CT side. I do like some of those forward positions and even
in the rounds where they had the 5-7s, you saw controls was, you know, pushing into hut,
taking the fight towards lobby. I think if you can keep the T's nervous like that,
it's gonna be a big advantage. 10 seconds of the clock, they're making a last,
uh, almost a Hail Mary play to try and get onto the site here, but, yeah, the bomb planted,
they have an inside of this to move, in theory, it could have worked out, but now,
uh, he's died to the right before the time ran out. That was really close. You don't want to be,
uh, dead after time there, cornering, you're not gonna get the lost bonus, but that has been avoided,
and the game has been tied up so we're looking at a three to three score line here and
Again, I think for the hunt side of things. This is this is looking like a lot more comfortable game all of a sudden
They got three AKs picked up. They got the AWP out. It's it's starting to
Slow down a bit on their side and I think that's good, you know for the for the game
That's not just straight rushes and they seem to be winning the fights
Yeah, they do I think
Fisher college though and I'm glad they've called a timeout this early on because these last couple of rifle rounds have been very flat
very slow I almost want to see them pick up the pace like we've seen them go for
those wall executes outside with the smokes but not really push aggressively
past red room down into secret like they've been just kind of hanging out
out there anticipating that the Huns gonna push or try and crack open the wall
or something else but these slow rounds are just they're not really working in
their favor I think the problem here for Fisher Colleges when you are playing
much lesser sort of levels in terms of competition and this isn't being just
respectful, it's just being factual. You're not going to be running up against a lot of answers to
the executes you're going for. At this level, you will, and you need to have a plan B, a plan C,
a plan D, and to make very quick mid-round calls. Otherwise, you're going to be very static and
stagnant, and they've ran into that a couple times now here in a row. So I'm hoping that they have
a couple more maybe levels of aggression they can go back to and just take huns out their comfort zone.
Yeah, I do agree. There is, there is a risk that the answers are going to be better on
the CT side than maybe what we used to. Fairlight's taking down one and through the smoke it's
nine to find Alex, so they do trade one kill back, but again it kind of suggests that there
is going to be more of a presence here. So the score is going to be ready, oh and especially
with the jump pass there, dangerous work coming out from the T side. I think it killed very
quickly and Squall realized they were wrapping around so yeah look at how well he's handling
this super good movement ready to take all the fights he's going to pick up the power as well
there's a real highlight round for Squall I think just the fact that he got the information and he
reacted so well to it there could have been a chance that he could have been wrapped on from
the other side of the bomb site and not realized but he definitely had the awareness so good stuff
and and the Huns just again kind of getting the information early and locking down the site
Prisma asks, wasn't Nielsen in game a legion? He was, absolutely. He's also been in a number
of other teams. He was at Simon as well, K23, played for one win at one point. He's been
in a lot of teams. I think he's like 25 and he's been in CSGO since he was about 16, 17.
He is certainly a player if you've been following CS for a while, especially in the Kazakhstan
sort of CIS region, you'd have recognised his name by far and away the most experienced
than tenured out of Fisher College.
Yeah, and kind of a bit of a, you know,
last minute replacement for them as well, right?
I think some of the other games,
if you look at the HLTV,
they've been playing with a guy called Refuser, I think.
So, we'll see if that experience comes to that benefit.
Again, more aggression from the CT side.
I feel like this may be a summon at Fisher College,
if they do take a time out,
Or if they do have a chance to kind of, you know, think this over,
there is a chance that they're going to want to be a lot more careful about those early positions.
This round it matters less, they only have pistols on the T side,
and it's going to be a bit of a clean up here with the Huns getting to five rounds.
But yeah, I think it's worth the conversation right now on the T side to just say,
okay, there's going to be a lot of, um, a lot of PC aggression, and we have to adjust to that.
The issue as well is that a player like Score, who is, I think, criminally underrated
what he brings to the table is growing in confidence and growing in stature and you can understand after
the first two kind of obliterations I was trying to think of a nice way to put it but I don't think
there is and how they played up until the 0-2 point that he was maybe one of those players that
his confidence had dipped a little bit and keep in mind as well when Senzu left the Mongols there
was a few players that were in the conversation of like who's going to replace him and Skor was up
there a lot of people wanted to see Skor go across the Mongols and fill in Senzu's shoes
So he is a seriously talented player.
Let's see him kind of continue this way.
He's taking three right now.
Controls find four at the beginning.
Capow gets one to return.
They're trying to be a little bit faster this time towards the site.
But Controls is once again being a very hard defender to get past.
He's got the double kill already here.
Neland and Alex, can they even get the bomb planted?
It's not even picked up yet.
yet is the problem is that trying to get through controls is holding it dead towards that lobby position a third kill for him
And even shot in the back of the head so
Initially, you know getting the trade on score is is if you can get a bomb plant to at least you're doing something there
But unfortunately not going to be possible this time so six to three and we did just get confirmation the chat
Refusor couldn't make it because of his girlfriend's graduation. Okay. Well, that's that seems like a fair reason to
That should not be a connection, so...
Oh my.
That's pretty sweet, actually.
Yeah, it's super sweet.
He prioritized that over coming to...
I mean, this would have been an amazing opportunity for him, right?
So, I'm assuming it wasn't an easy decision, but that's really awesome.
Good for him.
Yeah, we don't get too many of those, so...
Gotta make the most of it.
Well, we're in round number 10 here.
And again, if you're just joining us, it was the Huns winning the pistol,
and then Fischer College coming back and winning this round and that put them on a really nice path and maybe it even shook the Huns a little bit
But it feels like they've kind of shaken off all of that now and they're fully back in defending the seats each
Seats out very well. They've been aggressive now. They're a little bit more passive not that much weapons on the other side either
But they need their way out hot. This is so dangerous to the a defense
You can see score and no idea that they were gonna be wrapping around in that way a big lapsing judge
I don't know why they gave up that much control and they might actually lose the round as a result of it
This is there's no reason this has to happen
You had everybody in position to hold all of those for all of those openings. They could have held the hot
They could have squeaked or at the same time. That's a big mistake. I
Just I'm so confused why you'd go for a double
Take like that in the exact same position. You don't get double duration of flashes. We get hit by two at the same time
Like truly one player flashes, the other one is pushing, it's so strange, they're still
making a go at this one though, as they're all up on heaven, is about to get flanked
in on, smoked down to the site, drops on it as well, but he doesn't know that heaven
is about to deal with him, he hates you there, either way, he's a part in gift, and Fisher
College get back into winning ways.
Definitely a little bit scary, and I agree with the flashes, could you imagine if the
flashes stacked on top of each other. Don't give Gabe any more ideas. You've had horseback riding,
you've had a Kimball rifle, stop. Yeah, we don't need that. That would be too much to deal with.
So yeah, we'll forget about that really quickly. Scary round, but at the end of it, you know,
six to four. If we just kind of zoom out a little bit, it's not really that bad. Physio College,
at least in a place where they can continue to be competitive, still haven't really seen
thaw activated, haven't seen too much out of corn either, would love to see both those players get
into the mix here, so we go into round at number 11 and yeah, nice opening again,
gap left in defense here for the Huns more than anything.
I think four Huns already is like really controlling pressure college honestly,
especially as once the economy established for the Huns. I'm probably not alone in kind of doing
the worst for Fischer, thinking they're probably just gonna get that in, you know?
So the fact they're able to keep fighting, impressive stuff, Cropow up to 10,
reading the charge for his team as the smoke gets blown open, but there's another one there, so
no information was forthcoming. Control has those, getting bless it up in secret.
There's a Molotov down, that's gonna shield his approach just a little bit. Now he tries to
pivot in and Alex down to five, big grenade damage is gonna be incoming. Look at that,
just nails corn and thaw three players limping their way outside but none of them are dead just yet
yes but that is a brutal way to start the round isn't it on the t-side three people just littered
with shrapnel and unfortunately we're playing counter strike they can't get the arc reactor to
stop the shrapnel from getting to the heart of whatever it was that was going on in Iron Man so
So, you know, they're very likely going to die before it's over.
Ooh, the smoke fails.
It's supposed to drop off, which is one of those new interesting mechanics in CS2.
People forget that it wasn't the thing in CSGO the same way.
We had...
People totally have just memory hold this part, but in CSGO we had the one-way smokes
that, you know, was such a big factor in the game.
I'm telling you that's not the case anymore.
Headshot is overkill on 40.
he has very low on health.
Krippau fighting his way through.
One of the few people in the health left here,
and the fact that he got a double entry there is wild.
That actually gives them a chance
to win the round all of a sudden.
Three versus three, and they're down below.
Let's see if Krippau can keep on finding the opening.
He's up to 12 kills in total.
They got 10 seconds at the bomb,
it's up at the bomb side though.
So Krippau is actually just holding this,
and they're gonna plant the bomb here.
Tactically, this is so cool.
He gets a kill on to score, and now he's in the vent.
If he could escape, he should.
If he can make it up the ladder right now,
I think the round is won.
I don't think Zerol has too much of an idea
but they are gonna pincer in.
Yeah, they're gonna deal with Krippau.
But now at least one of those players
is known flashbang over, but you peek before it,
you both just run straight into the Elan's arms.
And he is gonna oblige with the double kill,
fish for college, up to five rounds on the T side.
But another huge nod towards Krippau,
13 frag, tons of entries and impact in this round.
And the man hailing from Belgium,
They're still in his country proud at this point.
Huge impact, there's just no question about it.
But also, from a leadership point of view,
tactically the fact that they get all those entries
on the ramp and then they continue to make,
they turn it into a fake, basically,
with her power moving forward and it totally worked.
Because your college up to five could be sixth
if they could get this one over the line as well.
The money is great for the Huns,
so that's kind of the upside here.
Decent Molotov landing score again back at it finds Krapow through the smoke.
It's a big scout to take as well.
Krapow has been instrumental in so many of these rounds,
cracking the spikes open and crossing the map
and I don't know if Neil unrealized that his head was just peeking over.
So Nine will dispatch of him.
It leaves all three Fisher College players together downstairs, moving towards the B site.
There's not too much here to fend off with the CTs, but even if this bomb does get planted in a 3v5 retake,
you would still fancy the Huns to prevail.
You would have to assume so.
They probably need a very clean entry on somebody down here, Bartak's the most likely candidate.
Although he's got 9 hidden behind him as well with the AWP, so yeah, they're gonna know for sure.
And for confirmation that they're all the way close to the B bomb site, 40 seconds and still gonna be taking down
round four and just for one by one.
So no casualties in the final round here for the Huns.
It's seven to five in their favor,
which is still a very open game.
Nothing's really been decided yet,
but you do also get, I think, a taste that
winning that second round for Fisher College
turned out to be very, very important.
Without that, I think this is a much more one-sided half
because the Huns did look like once the rifles were out
that they were a little bit more in control of the game.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah, getting some form of establishment early on
of Fisher College was just huge and so many different facets.
But I've got to say, man, like for the storyline of this
and how cool it is that we have a team like Fisher College
at this tournament in the first place,
I'm so happy to see them having a much closer game than what
we've seen in their previous outings,
to go down into that zero to bracket.
They're making a real go of this, had some cool moments,
some mid-round calls that have worked out.
And one aspect that I'm really interested to see
how it's going to work out for now
that they're going to be switching on to the other side,
side is how Thor is going to perform with the AWP. We haven't really seen him use the AWP too much
as of yet, so I'm curious if we're going to get him activated. If they do, there's no reason
Fisher College couldn't potentially take this first map. That could be one of the big extractors,
I kind of agree. I want to see Thor start to pick that up again. He did look very comfortable with
it in the last game that we saw, so I have to wait a little bit. We've got a pistol round coming in
first and let's see how this one plays out once again big welcome here at the
B-Stream final game of the day here Fisher College playing the Huns for
elimination there is an incendiary Molotov here in fact on nine and we're
gonna see Bartak here by the squeak door see if they can actually get through
or if Krupao is gonna close it right in their face smoke is up flash this in he's
just hiding there oh they've already made their way through Bartak and no idea score
answers back two headshots with the Glock makes it much more doable finding a
third now hasn't reloaded yet now he's finally gonna do his four bullets left
but he's pretty much open up the entire site for his team.
Serylt's gonna be taking down Nealyn and Alex on versus three here.
Bomb is not planted yet but this is such a great entry from score.
That just shows incredible talented he is as a player just single-handedly
cracking open through on Squeaky imposing his will and living to tell the tale on top of it Alex didn't really have much of a chance
He did point out a very key fact the bomb hadn't been planted and crossed yet
So he was hoping he could find a pixel to exploit on the approach, but it didn't quite work out that way
But yes score. I mean his aim is just one point
And that's gonna take some of the wind out of the sales of Fisher College if they were hoping to get themselves
established early in the second half. They're going to have to fight a little bit more. They
do go for the four-spy. It's going to include a scout in the hands of Floor. So we'll see
what you can do with that. And there is also a timeout for the Huns. They realize the importance
of making the most of every single opportunity afforded to them. They do not want to take
Fisher College for granted. They want to show them respect. They want to make sure they're
all on the same page. Yes, I do. I mean, it's getting to an important time it gave me. So
I can respect that. Sometimes you end up seeing teams just kind of crashing up with no time
that's been taken whatsoever. Forced by here, again it's kind of standard so I'm not hating on it,
but it does delay the potential for the AWP, which we just had a conversation about Thor and
picking that up, so maybe that's the other downside of it. Eight to five, the score line, and
on the hunt side of things, there's quite a few players that are playing well.
Well, Gerald controls and score three of them there.
Nice trio.
You kind of pick it up.
It feels like on the other side, Kropow's been doing so much of the work, but there's
Thor!
Back-to-back body shots, takes down controls.
That's not how controls are expecting that to go.
Very good stuff.
You have to question the idea of facing outside at long range when you notice a scout.
Once that first shot goes off, you want to get the hell out of there as fast as possible.
You're playing into the advantages of the opposition.
Although it's going to even it up as I think Alex got aggressive trying to get onto the rooftop got punished
Yeah, indeed. There's his corpse and the observer showed us before as well
There is a flashback at the spawn of the Huns, which I'm not sure if it got picked up
Maybe they can go back and get that again
It could be pretty key because they're lacking a little bit on the utility front at this point. Yeah, there it is
It's not the end of the world, but it is also decoy. Oh, okay. Wow. We've got
incredible technology to find that out. That's pretty cool.
Seryl is going to be taking that crap out. I do agree though, double-facing the
scout is probably not going to be worth it. Maybe they'll be just fine, even if
controls goes down early. I'm actually heading their way through the lower part
of the map. I mean it does give away the game plan, but there's nobody that
brought it down. Physicology are really hoping that this is going to be a bit of
a fake and that they would end up at the A-bomb side, in which case they would have been
totally ready that's not how this is playing out for the bomb is going to be
planted here and I think sadly the best thing you could do here for the CT side
is to try and save especially you can find the a key on score that would be
massive he's back here in T spawn I don't know if you're easily going to be
reading that situation though he's so ready for it very good mechanics
as we've been highlighting all throughout so the scout is the best they
can get out with. It's a brutal start to the second half here. I've got to be honest with
Fisher College. They might only have like a couple of chances to get back into this game.
Pretty sure 9 was just running with a pistol anti-round as well. He had a USP and I think he
just traded up to a 5-7. Now he's got a Galil. So some interesting moments to say the least,
but the Huns still down the digits and get the bomb detonation they were looking for. And this
This is the other side of the coin, right?
Like you've gone for the forced buy, yes, it's a standard pretty default thing to do,
especially on the CT side of maps like Nuke.
But if it doesn't work out for you, you are stalling any kind of control over the map
for a significant portion of time.
Like you've saved the scout, but that's it, a 5-7 in play, few nades as well.
For all intents and purposes, this should be a 10-5, and that is just mounting the pressure
so much on Fishman College that there could be nades backing our side.
a lot of damage done but no casualty I think it's always fun to try that but
more often than not you're not gonna get the kind of you know multi grenade
kills that you're looking for but still worth the attempt yeah still got a USP
on the T side just having a grand old time and with the MP7 in play on Bartak
they can use that and the pistol to find if there's any kind of stack going on
it's really going according to plan and I guess in that sense as well like we
said the expectations are different for these two teams and the Huns you know
having more experience at a high level of Counter-Strike they should be using
that experience to to come out on top and that's I think that's the script for
the game right now. Kerr-Pauw has individually been trying to change it.
Nielsen as well who's who's got some experience on land between the two of
them that they're doing the very best they can to make this one happen but yeah
The economy is suffering on the CT side and the Huns still look very happy to just take these fights
There's systematic shutdown
The one can really do about this with just the USP doesn't bit of damage, but that's about all
Runs into the fray of his USP so pin five so far no success in the CT side for Fisher College
I think it's also important to put into context as well and is especially with the whole cobras era move, but this is not the same hounds as we saw six to nine months ago, even in domestic matchups, they have been struggling against teams like Tyloo and a bunch of other, honestly, even Mongolian teams, they've been having some pretty notable losses against, so this, this isn't the hounds that maybe you've come to expect from from prior like majors or even
even Mongolian teams, they've been having some pretty notable losses against.
So, this isn't the hunds that maybe you've come to expect from prior, like mages or even
SP events that they've taken place on.
Yes, that's probably a good reminder.
Because they're not a team that we see all the time, so maybe if you missed out on a
little bit of that, they do look weaker than we would, than maybe some of us remember.
to rediscover the identity of the team now without the nut copers here or there.
Controls, he's going to go down over here, Neelan, way in the back, Thor, finally.
With the AWP on the CT side, we were requesting that all throughout, Neelan, realized he's
going to go back here, he's going to go for a bit of a fight, we'll get Molotovs out and
killed, still a pretty good trade, right?
Two for four here and just this way you want to see Fisher College have some kind of conversation
about how to lock this down and make sure it doesn't get out of control.
Thor landing another kill, Vartax on his own, trying to put as much pressure as he can on him, but he's trying to escape.
They do need that ult, I think, to go into the next round.
So even though this is on lockdown, just make sure there's no way to throw away the AWP, surely?
I actually don't.
Yep.
Well played by Kropow to help his AWP out, but two very nice shots from Thor.
And this is more kind of like what we were hoping to see from him.
This may seem like a bit of a strange comparison, but it kind of reminds me a little bit of Halzer can how he operates with the AWP on the CT side of Nail.
play very similar positions, very similar style of play as well. Saw it with the scout earlier on.
So yeah, I think so. I feel like he looks more comfortable with it, you know, maybe, yeah,
maybe that's just his level of expertise. It can be risky sometimes having, you know,
don't, if you don't have the follow-up to go back and play with pistols or rifles,
but now that he's got it, maybe that could push them over the edge. I mean,
before it was just Capow and Neland doing the work now Thor is gonna join them
there is more of a chance for sure 10 to 6 and round number 17 remember there is
elimination on the line here so slow up the gate here you've got to find early
on as as hard as you possibly can so best three of course but yeah the
pressure is gonna be bouncing from here on out and they picked the map as well
Well, he's all back at it again, the edge of the smoke, he's going to find nine.
Very cool kill to start with.
I doubt there's much out there that the Huns could realistically have looked into, especially
when it comes to Nuke for Fisher College, but they're going to have to start respecting
Thor outside of this orb because he is turning the screws.
You can't slow peek into him, he is too good, like he's not going to miss these shots.
Need to respect the man and try and play accordingly.
Play faster perhaps.
Like we were talking about Fisher College being a little bit slow at times on the Etsy side.
Well, I mean, this is Snail's pace and Fisher College are making the most of it.
Full credit too, Nielsen just goes for that peek on the lobby crunch, gets the 3D kill and spacks away.
Yeah, that could be there on doing it if they don't kind of recognize that aspect of the game.
Alex getting a chance to answer back, he's up to five kills, so nice room to pick up the double here,
but it does feel like that's the pattern that they're walking into a little bit here
on the hunt side of things perhaps a bit too slow giving too many opportunities
and the fact that the Orp is out there I mean you you can if you go fast enough you can
crash your way out of it you can just hit the A bomb site very quickly and maybe four can't
reposition in time. Up to nine I think coming into the second half he had three kills now up to nine
so he's definitely activating Cropow has been consistently solid I've kind of a rough go over
in his previous two matches, but he's certainly arrived now,
better late than never.
And the Huns now have the pressure on their shoulders.
And again, it's a very different kind of vibe,
a very different expectation.
People coming into this game, even if you don't think
the Huns are a particularly great team,
you expect them to win.
They're a professional Counter-Strike team.
They do this for a living.
They travel the world playing CS.
So to be in a position where you're eyeing up
a potential 10-8 score with Fischer College
stringing together a bunch of rounds getting their money kind of in place as
well. This is already getting a little bit too close for comfort. You're already
starting to feel this if you're on the hunt. Yeah, there's no question about it.
And actually, because that is an interesting thing to point out when you
feel like you should be the better team and you've kind of almost proven that
in the first half of the game. But when it starts to slip away, I mean,
definitely the pressure is going to be asymmetric way more on the side of the
Huns, there's no question. They have made their way down. They've got the one Hero
E.K. on nine and some upgraded pistols for the rest of it, but Krapow always a
strong position. This one very hard to easily clear out. They are going to be
walking in at the same time nearly there, but Krapow gets the first headshot.
One more will set the round nicely, but a good return. Nine gets this one and with
25 seconds as they're starting the circle, the B bomb site down below.
Nielsen in a good position here. Thor trying to play a bit of a distraction on
the other side he smoked off on the one side though or the bomb attempted to be
planted here but Neela nobody's checked it. The Huns felt like they had never
resources to check every part of the bomb side and maybe they didn't but that
will get them killed at the end. Good double for Neela and even Thor adding to
the scoreboard there for himself and alright he's calling over the coach.
It's like a come here the kind of thing. Yeah it's like ringing in the
butler's bell or something. Come here. Let me fist bump you.
The one's enjoying himself. Good to see.
Got to keep themselves locked in, but there's no doubt that they
they are earning the Huns respect in real time right now.
Since Thor has got that orb, the entire dynamic, the entire vibe
of this game just shifted.
And now the Huns calling a timeout just to make sure they don't
let this one slip away.
That is again scary position to be in with your the Huns. What kind of a
conversation are you gonna be having right now on the T side? I think wait a
minute it was it was early on we just had to worry about Crip Howe and and that
was that was enough you know we can we can shut him down even if he's gonna be
trading some kills and getting some doubles we're able to do that but now
more and more of the team is starting to wake up that could definitely be a bit
an issue so the gravity of the situation setting in perhaps for the
Huns is they realized we're not really through the map yet we're close we just
need three more rounds the Fisher College they've got the money they've got the
AK's on the CT side they got Thor now a crest of you pushing outside and he gets
the flicks just down controls oh you love to see it and Alex to the smoke
stories out of it. Two of their best players just gone.
What a turnaround, man. Again, after a timeout, where you'd think that the Huns would have
some kind of an answer, and although they have splattered Alex through the smoke and
got a kill on Krapau, the second kill is so much more valuable. It evens the odds. One
of the heavy hitters is also down momentarily. And look how passive of a position they have.
they have. Mieland's all the way back in Spawn. He's had to just vacate the area.
Anything but ideal. What do you do here? How do you find any kind of creation between these three players?
I guess it's interesting because in theory there could just be a timing question here where a couple of the
hunt players just find somebody with their back turned because they're everywhere on the map.
But at the end of the day on the T side, you do kind of want to group up and go to a bomb site together.
and for a minute here they were really far apart. I think at the moment we're
seeing Bartek and nine kind of joining forces and then Seryl's gonna be the one
who will be walking towards the ramp. 27 seconds. They're running the cut down
quite low but you know what? It's not impossible that they can sandwich in
Thor and the ramp and maybe that will be enough to just get the bomb planted.
17 seconds. This is running it's so low I'm starting to get very nervous for the
idea that they might not be able to throw in this position and that could be
the end of them. Nine seconds, they bust open the door, try to run it. They've actually
eventually run under the AWP scope there. Neelan goes down and now with four seconds
on the clock, Thor picks up a deagle to try and stop Sjölf from shooting him in the back,
but they've got the plonk plant and they're a man up.
One on two.
Game so far and two fags with sprays going to let him down. Nine will survive alongside
the Huns for an 11th time on Nuke. But I mean, you called it there. It's a coin flip, isn't
it? Like you go on the left side, you hug the left side and you pray, you hope that
no one just double swings out of the double doors or looks through control room window.
You are bang, you're basically gambling your entire round and potentially map that no one
is there with that much time left. And this time they got lucky.
Yeah, that could have been much, much worse for them. It even wouldn't have taken a lot
there, but unfortunately they couldn't quite make it work there. So Fischer College, otherwise
looked like they had the upper hand at least for a minute in this round, but now they've
opened it back up again. 11-8. And like I said, they're just a couple of rounds away
now. The Huns, they can start to feel it. The pressure is on as well, I think 4 maybe
feeling some of the stress too in that spree. Even though it was going to be a hard 1v2,
getting the first kill towards the control room would have been kind of nice for him but that wasn't
available either this great fight here against nine you want to see him just at least win this one
but a deep breath sigh of relief I think for the side of the Hunts as they are they are being put
to the test right now but um there's still money on the CT side at least for another round that's
true they're not completely broken just yet we still have a fight left they called the time out
I'll try and muster a bit of energy, a bit of strength to make a real go of this, because
they know the Huns, although they're in a three-round lead, they haven't looked infallible.
They haven't looked to mortal on this half whatsoever.
There is a way that you can still turn this back in your favor, as the gap in the smoke
is exploited and Thor will not miss.
Yeah, that's worked out very well.
Couldn't have been a bit of a position for him.
little flick to pick him up. Jiggling at the corner, the smoke goes very deep and
controls just takes the opportunity and shuts down Thor. So in spite of the
opening, they're still in the 4 vs 4 now. 55 seconds in the clock and they're
making their way down. Capow! Just run down. It's so fast with controls, I've got
to be honest. And this is probably at the point where Fisher College, you could
make a real hit. They should try and save the rest and fight for overtime. It's
There's a pointing choice to have to make, but they just have so little money on the CT side that there is a chance that they're going to go into the next round with very limited funds and that's not a way to victory either.
And I think if they've realized this, so great entry for controls, a couple of them there cementing the round.
Yeah, the downside is they can't get their hands on the orcs. They would desperately want thought to have that.
And I don't, they're not going to be, oh, they did.
Okay, never mind. I was about to say they're not going to be able to purchase that with their own funds into the next round.
So the fact that Elans found the Orp is, I think, massive for Fisher College overall.
Alex should be getting a kill, but it's not going to be good enough.
Ideally, you want to try and save more than one weapon.
A bit of a romantic end there for score.
And the LIS teammate, but hell, they're 12-8 in the lead.
They'll be happy with this outcome.
I think Elans, yeah, he did. He dropped the Orp to Thor. There we go.
They do have the AWP at least something to play with
Yeah, I have a tool that you're right
They wouldn't have been able to cast a little to to pick up otherwise. So yeah, this is this is now all of a sudden
They're back to the wall. There was a real moment there for Fisher College
When the momentum was started to turn it looked like they had a bit of runway, but
individually some of these hunts players they're very confident in taking the fight
it's been score a lot now it's been controls started to pick it up and speaking of score
a sick opening murdering Alex up in the rafters and this straight on the bomb site
they want to close this out lightning fast the four and five the ball is going to be
planted with epic speed and for Fisher College you throw over a smoke corn saying
okay I've got a couple of kills let me throw me in flash me into this bomb
Let's see what we can do.
Yeah, tag me in, Chief.
Four's lining it up.
Five-seven.
Let's see what corn's got up his locker.
He's stuck in a smoke drop.
Down, oh, dear.
Yeah, it was always going to be a rough ask, wasn't it?
You're going to have multiple players looking at heaven
with five alive.
And the Huns do dial in a 13-8 win in the end.
There were moments, glimpses, of maybe a Fisher College
upset on Nuke, but it ended up just being
a little bit too far gone.
Huns will move one lap closer to eliminating Fisher College in this series.
Yeah, good recovery I think on the side of the Huns. We do expect that they should be again the more qualified team,
but there was definitely a moment where it could have gone off the rails and I guess for Fisher College as well,
it's a big learning experience right now in terms of, you know, you make a couple of mistakes,
there are you know if the communication is a little bit off you're gonna get
punished a lot more so that's just the way that it goes here opening map and it
was picked by Fisher College as well the second one is he's gonna be an inferno
where the Huns are gonna be on the on their home field probably gonna be
pretty comfortable although Fisher College also takes a map quite a bit from what I
can tell so it's not like they're gonna completely wrecked here either but this
was probably the better chance maybe for Fisher College to pick up a map we'll
see how that one goes but yeah it's a shame that we had to wait that long for
Thor to pick up the AWP because it seemed like they had an impact on the game.
100% dead. He finished the first half with like three or four kills and I think he ended the game with 13 or 14 so he was,
Krapow was definitely leading the mantle on the first half. He had a bunch of kills,
a bunch of entries. I think he finished 12 or 13 and then it was really Thor on
that CT side. You can see it Krapow still ended with 95 ADR. The top ADR on the
server, by the way. That's very respectable indeed. And I think like, look, we can all
point the fleet finger and we can all judge harshly, you know, from our armchairs, to
be honest, practically any player. In fact, I know any player on the Fisher College team
would would smash most people in Twitch chat, by the way. If you think that their bots,
whatever, trust me, there, there's levels to this and they're much high level than
you are. Unless you're a pro player that's hiding in Cognito, I guess. But I think 13
is actually like a respectable score to be honest with you and this like it's a
team that has achieved a dream it had a goal it qualified for an STA tournament
rubbing shoulders with the likes of Donk with Nico they're at the same event as
Municy all these like legends of the game and future legends of the game and
they took eight rounds off the Huns the Huns should be winning this game let's
be honest it should be one-sided it ended up being pretty one-sided but I think
Fisher College they can hold their heads high so it's also one of those things
again where you go from transitioning to little playing, you go local teams and so like online
in a very different where the stakes are very different when it comes to Fisher College. And
then playing on land like this, like the experience of it itself can be quite overwhelming. Like we
said, there's a lot more to just sitting down to play. There's a structured time we have to show up.
There's going to be interviews that you're going to be doing. There's a lot of different media work
and the pressure is just super different. So all these things kind of combine to make it a
different landscape from what they're used to, which is also I think part of the experience
that they can hopefully bring back to the colony itself and kind of go on to learn more about.
But regardless, the Huns look better right now. And I think that's a point in the script. We
appreciate that. Their map is going to be coming up on Inferno next, so don't go anywhere. We'll
be right back after the break.
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I remember back when we were getting towards the Budapest Major, a lot of teams were hyped
about the Huns, how they were playing in practice, what they were able to show against some teams.
We did an interview back then, 9, when you were still the leader of the team as well,
And it was a very heartbreaking loss for you guys because the expectations were higher.
So and especially because you've had good practice in Europe as well.
So after that, then coming into 2026, what has it been like within the team, the changes,
where you guys are at right now?
Explain it to me and everyone in the world.
After the disappointing major results, obviously, we had to change, change a bit because one
So we were going through changes and obviously they had the big cupra so we had to replace
him and I mean replacing cupra I knew it was going to be hard.
Not only inside the sorority, he's like this very bright kid who's like laughing all the
time so that helps.
He laughs really funny as well.
When he laughs, I laugh.
And that helps a lot with the atmosphere and stuff, so I think replacing Kogorov, we picked
the right guy, but inside the server I think we're still starting with how we should play
or how things are supposed to go out, and I think we're still starting with the formatia
Yeah, and at the moment we're trying to change something, but we don't know how it will turn out.
Yes, a lot of testing and trying, I can imagine.
Do you feel like you are still trying to find your identity as this version of The Huns?
Like to know what you want to do?
Because when I looked at some of your games, you still can be explosive, you can still be exciting,
it seems to me the ending part is where you can get confused at times. Would you
say I'm right or wrong? We have the generous idea but almost like executing
that idea to perfection or at least somewhat acceptable sales. We're
making a lot of mistakes on that part I think. Now not making the major is
obviously very sad and hurts the team. It'll give you some more time to prepare.
How important now does this event become for you guys to obviously get some more
VRS points to grow and try and develop?
At the moment this is the biggest chance we've got.
Yeah.
We're treating it as such.
What do you feel like you guys are aiming for here?
What do you want to achieve?
Playoffs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you have the confidence for that though?
like when you're talking to me I'm not seeing the same confidence. Remember when we spoke
Budapest before you got eliminated? I was telling you other teams told me Hunter practicing
really well, a really strong team to go against but now when you're talking to me I'm a little
worried.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, personally, like the goal for the team is,
okay, let's try to get through it and go through the play-offs,
but I mean, personally for me, because it's been a struggle,
so I don't have much expectations,
but at the same time, I think that with that feeling,
I'm playing a bit less stress.
Okay, that can be good.
So, calm, I think? Yeah, this is late.
It's a new type of vision, and I'm excited to try and play off of this vision.
Nice.
Nain, thank you very much. It's good to see you again, man.
And hopefully, you can get that playoff spot.
Good luck, and just enjoy it.
Enjoy the moment of it.
Use the ability of not having that pressure on you.
Yeah, thank you.
Welcome back everybody. We are here with the second map of the final series of the day
elimination on the line. It's the Huns versus Fischer College, RPGL Astana. And yeah, it's
turned into a really rough game for Fischer College who are a bit of an underdog in the
tournament as a whole. In fact, we're quite happy that they made their way through. We're
We're talking about the storyline.
It'd be the first college team to make a tier one tournament, but as expected, it is pretty
tough against the team like the Huns.
They lost Nuke early on here, Fisher College, and now we're on to Inferno.
Yes, and Nuke, as you highlighted, just before we went to the break, is their choice of map,
Fisher College, that is.
So they do play Inferno.
It's a bit of a handshake map, but again, you're looking at the Huns and you're thinking
this is probably going to be more of the same on paper at least.
I really hope that if this is going to be it for Fisher College, if this is the end to their fairytale, so to speak,
that we get just a banger map from them.
Even if they lose, don't leave anything on the server, just give it your all.
Really, really just give everything that you have to this map, because there's no shame in losing going out 0-3.
Alex said it himself, they're massive underdogs, there is no expectations.
They are here to just have a good time, have fun and soak the experience in.
So make sure that you don't have any regrets. You leave all on the server
Yeah, that's got to be the template for what they're doing
Let's see if they can if they can actually follow through on that and
And just maybe play a little bit more loose potentially get the all about earlier on the floor
That seemed to be a pretty good a pretty good way to get started
But inferno is another one of these maps where you know
It's it could be quite technical a little bit like nuke and also a map where it doesn't necessarily always lean itself to great
awping. So maybe Thor is going to be in some trouble just for that alone. Krippow was responsible
for a lot of the early impact for Fisher College. So they have to either lean on him or somebody has
to take over that duty as well. And I suppose individually we want to see Korn come in with
some more kills. He was really struggling on Nuke too to have a big impact on the game unfortunately.
Yeah, he had a rough one. And Nuke can sometimes lend itself to that kind of game. You know,
You know, you're playing on the periphery of the map, you're not seeing too much action when you do, it's typically bunches of two or three players pushing you.
And you're also against some like incredibly talented players in the form of score in particular, who topped the charts with a 1.5 rating, 20 kills over 90 ADR.
So he had a fantastic game with control as well.
So, I mean, it's a different ballgame. You just got to reset.
You're also starting the CT side as this is the choice now of the Huns.
So if you can get yourself established early on, then who's to say that you can't make this sweaty and to be fair for the first like half to
Maybe 60% of the way through that map was actually really close. It ended 7-5 like Fisher College were in the game
So it's not as if they got completely barreled over and just destroyed the entire time. They had moments
They definitely did
Yeah, let's see how this one plays out. I'm up for for seeing a return for Fisher College as well
But they're gonna have to prove it. They start on the CT side the Huns are on the T side
There's one single smoke and a flash there on the side of the Huns, so it's not going to be too technical here
They're investigating the top of an honor. They're also holding mid and apartments at the same time corn with a good shot
We'll take down score at the beginning. That's very nice
And that puts the Huns on a bit of a back foot here
Secret power and Bartek are close to each other. They will lose kneeling in return and now they're flashing everywhere on the corner
Over at top banana to get corn as well. It's falling apart here
There's a good start to the round but the Huns are just fighting every single follow-up fight at the moment
Yeah, checking all their angles it seemed very disjointed they see to set up as he said they just getting picked off one by one
Simultaneously across the map at every given turn and it just goes to show that there's not that much in terms of crossfires
Not that much in terms of you know body up system does Alex you make a court
trying to back away towards the A site that's where the bomb was being planted.
So yeah they get the first kill and it's good to see Korn getting off the mark
early as he said Nuke was a bit of a rough one for him but then everything
just capsizes immediately afterwards the Huns just stand tall and we're talking
about starting on the CT side and establishing yourself early on I mean
that's a real flat start that's gonna feel terrible. Yeah you would want to
convert that into something more some of these kills I think are more
excusable but I think they probably could have disengaged slightly from that top
banana fight and they would have been in a better position. So here we go, a lot of
utility dropped outside of banana. You can keep coming back to that over and
over again, which is always fun. It's actually pretty reasonable here, so we'll get
tanked up from that one. There is another one but I think they're going to be a
little bit further away this time. No one's connecting with that one. It's a nice
Technology though bouncing it off the arch there. It's good to see them try that
But still good beginning for the Huns
People love to complain and bitch and whine about Counter-Strike
But I gotta say I must be not in the game for quite some time now
But that change where you could drop grenades. I think was a fantastic one
It has definitely added a lot of layers to the game
A lot of local players have the opportunity to use them options.
Oh yeah, a drought may be a bit of an engagement there from the Huns,
but they're not falling for this, they're just going to wait for these smokes.
Even though another one's just been planted down, there's still 50 seconds,
and at any given moment they can pop flash their way in,
throw in a bunch of molotovs and fully execute onto the site.
A third player now moving over though in the form of corn,
and he does have an MP9, so that could be maybe a difference maker.
I mean, it at least makes it a bit of an interesting round as you try to blow it open, but I'm
not going to see anyone on either side.
One more grenade to blow it open for a second time, and Neelon up top!
This is a good kill to begin with, I wish there were more players on the side, but it's
down to corners here, 20 seconds, or if he could find the angle through.
Bomb is being planted, oh he's got it perfectly, that shuts down the bomb plant.
They're recommitting to it, just do the same thing again, but this time the angle is slightly
bomb is planted. Bartek gets the last one. They do make it a very close round here.
Seralton, Bartek both with the double kill, but there was a world in which
Korn would have been able to find the second bomb plant as well and that
could have got very interesting. I also just loved like the stubbornness that
Korn shows. He's like, I've done it before. I'm doing it again. I'm full-sending it.
They did make the adjustment required to deal with him and we do see a whole
bunch of HE's being picked up as well. Five in total. We're gonna have a carpet
bomb across the grenade thrown somewhere and it looks like the bulk of them are going to be throwing it down middle
okay let's see here comes the first barrage it blows up from those
it's so rare but i do like it in spite of that you can see the answer is very quickly in return
but yeah it's really cool to see i mean don't get to see it often enough
a lot of the time that the T's will get tagged up but it won't be you know more than like 20
damage across because they just land kind of in the middle of nowhere. But this time
it was dead on perfect. Alex and Neelan unfortunately very hard for them to do
anything. This boost up actually might be one of the few ways they could have an
impact, especially if you can block the smoke and they do, but it's not like the
Huns have really committed to anything yet. So there's plenty of time for the T side
to make up their minds. Yeah exactly and you can send out the expendable Mach 10
for Zeralt if anything kind of wants to upgrade anyway gets some money in the
bank he's up to four and zero respectively I think yeah I did shoot a
couple of bullets there gave his position away prematurely but as long as
if it would have made a great deal of difference anyway as the Huns stomp to a
three zero there is gonna be some weapons in play though but not an orp they
were just shy of the amount they needed to go for the class cannon and even if
If they did have the AWP, I'm not sure a 4 goes for it because of the reasons you highlighted
before.
It is a map that sometimes can feel just a little bit weird when it comes to awping,
holding angles, especially with the Huns being such an aggressive team on this inferno
in particular.
Control S is a guy that performs very well individually, so yeah, don't understand why
you decide to go for the M4 of Ardors if you can afford it or not.
Yeah I think it's a reasonable choice here.
see if we can get some action from Fisher College early on. I feel like if they start
to fall behind rapidly here on the CT side, especially when you factor in what the money
is going to be like, there is a chance that Huns can kind of keep running away with it.
It still looks like individually there's less stress on the side of the Huns when it comes
to taking some of these fights. Bartank this time and Cerrolt have been doing it, but on
The first map here is scoring controls that were really out there fighting.
Big pick. Krippal hasn't had that surge of energy that we saw on Nuke 1 and 4 currently for him.
And again, it's just losing someone so early in the round without really any retaliation or at all or any kind of control.
We've not seen Fisher College have the ability to take banana control.
It's an element of the map that we're always looking at.
We're always discussing the importance of.
And the fact that we're able to just walk into top banana at any given moment
so early in the round.
I mean, I know there's 35 seconds left here,
but that was more of the hands didn't really want to pressure it beforehand.
That's that's damning for Fisher College.
And it's something that's going to need to change.
Even if you start three plays over on BG,
HG, take control, it's not too multi.
I like to see something different come up.
Good kill from score.
Only 20 seconds though, and they're going to decide to back the way to the inside.
They're giving themselves no room for error, and they've lost their player of controllers. What are they doing?
I don't know. This is a very, very sloppy engagement.
Eight seconds, and now it just needs the one kill.
Four of them left. They could just get the bomb planted, I think.
That is so crazy.
The fact that they decided to try and run it back with that little time left,
and nearly up to one player as well on the A bomb side to basically clear out all of A,
That was always likely to end in disaster and it nearly does, but they might have still
held onto the round here.
It's up to 4-1 in the 1 vs 2 and it can't quite get the job done.
Score with a triple, but man, very, very risky stuff coming in from the T side and they do
make it out, but that's one of those moments where you think for the Huns, you know, if
you do that against a stronger team later on in the tournament, again, you're going
to get punished every single time for it, right?
Yeah, that's a very good amount of thought for it to raise and I mean, it's kind of
what the proof is in the previous games that got them into the 0-2 bracket, that they were
making mistakes like that and they did get punished and they got punished hard.
Like their previous two games, not particularly close, kind of got blown out of the servers.
So I do agree, Thor takes a hefty amount of damage from that HG, I think it was a double
stack HG to be fair, he's down to 10.
And they have gone for a bit more of a control over banana.
I can respect it.
Sure, the weaponry is far from ideal.
You've got a Mach 7.
But look at Karpow.
He's making inroads somehow, bypassing any kind of
confrontation with Bartak.
He's able to sneak his way around all the way to spawn.
He hears the footsteps of nine.
And that's the bomb that goes down with him.
Well, fortunately, the situation that he actually heard
the footsteps there, because otherwise, that could have
walked out and got shot in the back instead.
Score still finds him.
But that's such a deep mission that he was on.
Would have been cool if he could have either managed to hide back there or, you know, get out alive somehow.
But they're gonna slow this down once again.
They still got 55 seconds.
The bomb is headed this way into the A apartments.
And I think at least Fisher College have found the right way to stack.
Unfortunately, they lost one of those players in the stack already.
One's the one to go down.
And now, even with the double setup here, cause always low on health, surely gonna get jumped on.
Yeah.
You can see he got the first couple of bullets off, but it's just not quiet enough.
MP9, they don't quite check the corner and honestly with the time that was left, there's still a world where that kind of gets awkward, but it's all fine, the Huns keep it going, it's a 5-0 lead for them, looking to make really quick work of this first half.
I think, unfortunately, we're starting to see some of the cracks develop and be exploited
from the Huns.
Tamar has been called.
I'm assuming that's Fisher College.
Indeed, it is.
Thor has the option for the AWP 6600.
What's he fancying right now?
Is he going to go for the sniper and try and impose his will, or is he going for it?
He does.
Yeah.
You mentioned banana, right?
I mean, that's one way to try and deal with it is to say, well, we didn't try and
snipe early on.
Obviously there are a lot of grenades that these can throw in to make your life kind of miserable or peanut position
But still it could be worth it
You might be able to find something and it might allow you to get more of a defense over to the A side if you feel like you really need that
But yeah, they're in there definitely in trouble and I guess it's the other side of it
You know you play I'm have like newt that at one point look like it was kind of winnable
One point look like Fisher College could have could have had more of an impact when that doesn't happen
You got the sort of the emotional dump that half happens afterwards. He's oh man
and that was our big chance now, maybe it's too late.
Like all of these things factor in
over the course of a game like this one.
Well, this is where I'd hope that they do play
and so what Alex said to us,
that there's no pressure for them
and they're just gonna enjoy themselves.
It's at moments like this where you kind of
gotta brush off any potential sort of negativity
or any emo sort of tendencies that may be creeping in
and just try and enjoy the situation you're in.
Obviously win as many rounds as you can,
like really play for pride, play for each other.
But this time, they've decided to change it up
and instead of taking banana control,
they just hit the top of middle.
This monocled is gonna play hell with the position
for Nieland, he has to fall away.
And in doing so, it takes nearly half of his health
and damage.
Good fundamental protocol, see over the hounds.
Kind of what we want to see.
Clearing up banana, clearing up top mid.
The second part of that mission is a goal right now.
would score more than solving this one.
They have got the AWP over on this side of the map for B,
so almost nothing, normally you'd leave only the AWP here
and everyone else pushed through.
That's great, they actually blow up on the smoke
with that grenade, that's normally meant to do damage,
and then they kill score on the follow up.
That's a really exciting way to get an opening
kill to the ground.
The question does become, can they hold on to it here?
30 seconds left, and I think the Huns
can't really make the choice to go back,
even if they did it in their previous round here.
Corn will take down a couple of kills.
Cheryl, the next to get dropped,
and Krapow is on top of the car,
and he'll spray down even more.
Not a single casualty on the CT side.
It's a little bit late to start to win rounds on the CT side,
but it's not necessarily too late.
And with a round like this one,
where they win it flawlessly,
that might inspire them a bit more.
Now, well played.
Really well played.
Blown up and smoked like he said,
thought had the perfect cross-air placement,
and then just locking it down with Corn.
Two up on the balcony.
propel, picking up that pace that we saw him on Nuke with some solid aim.
There we go, they're getting fired up. Finally something to get hype about over on the Fischer
College side of things and I was quite surprised to see Thor playing with the AWP on the B side
as he's fairly an awful box typically when using the AWP in arch middle. So he's switching
it up now using it into me, anticipating there may be a push wait for that smoke to clear.
well that's how successful this is gonna be
oh they're failing to boost a bit
yeah I was gonna say give up on that
you don't know how much they're hearing on the other side sticking around for
too long to be deadly so
I didn't actually got a kill with that boost if they had made it work it looked like
the Hunts work is kind of walking around the corner but they're gonna back out
slowly away from this position
No kills yet, and an early setup here, so Nelan's gonna be on top, see if the Huns are aware.
I think sometimes when the T's throw that elevated smoke and it gets blocked, you can
see it on the T side that it was blocked, so there is a bit of a giveaway on that front
too, you kinda know that the CT's are gonna be there.
now connects and so does the HE, 40 seconds. The Hunts taking a long time again but the fact
that both the CTs are playing on the CT boost side and now joined by a third means no one's on the
site itself. So if they can shimmy past this with a well-placed smoke and flash, the site is theirs.
Maybe hard to hold on to replenishing the smoke of Fisher College as well,
got a good read of the situation and now the Hunts have to dial it up, they need to get into the
this fight right now.
Neelan's trying to make sure that doesn't happen.
A huge double spray down.
Ten seconds on the clock at the moment,
where the bomb is coming.
Instead of showing them down,
Neelan's coming through with another headshot.
Triple and the Cripple double kill at the end.
They were trying to jump back to pick up
that bomb and plant there,
but it was never going to happen here.
Another good lockdown and minimal casualties
on the Fisher College side.
And that, without the bomb plant,
I mean, maybe even with it,
not enough money to really make this interesting
interesting for the Huns, so, Fisher College, what is the prize?
And again, for the Huns here, do you think they at least get a bomb fan in this one,
even if they have to play for the alpha fan, but they don't?
It does look kind of foolish for the Huns there, but I gotta say, Fisher College,
they were really on point with their utility, like, just constantly staggering and
staining the push with the consistent barrage of smokes onto the main side,
and I also love that with low time they actually went for a double stack over on the boost,
on the boost as opposed to the site itself where he's susceptible to being molotov'd
and flashed out of positions. You can't get affected by that when you're on the other
side of the site. However, hold the phones for a second because
Fisher College of Cody hemorrhaged Krapow from SCORE, but there's Corn and Nieland to
try and even the odds. Corn now puts up in the balcony and forced there to help him with
the AWP. Okay, these are the kind of rounds as well.
You just gotta make it a little bit easier on yourself.
You have to hold on.
Keep your weapons alive.
Keep them went and going.
Oh, nice shot.
Oh, just at the edge.
He very nearly goes down and score is able to eventually
shoot him through the side of the box here.
But the backup's gonna be coming,
and PinkScore realizes he has to go right then and there.
It's corn to pick up a double.
And that means Fisher College,
they keep on climbing back into the game, three to five.
The Huns, they're gonna have enough to buy in this round,
but the easy momentum that they had at the beginning,
I don't want to say it's completely nullified here,
but suddenly the game feels like there's a bit of tension
and Fisher College are finally answering back.
They do have two AKs as well.
And I'm at like inferno,
I feel like having an AK to shoot through some of the smoke,
it could be absolutely huge.
Yeah, I have to commend Fisher College
for getting these last three rounds in a row
and doing it fairly straightforward in the end,
but I will just say that I think five rounds
already enough for the Huns. They'll be relatively happy with this. Of course, maybe not the
Wayne which has gone down, but keep in mind they've got a 64% win rate on their CT side.
And that's against teams like LinVision, Rare Atom, you know, teams that have done some pretty
big stuff internationally. I think that's a good context and I think it's a fair kind of analysis
of the game at the moment is even at this stage going forward, there's a chance that the Huns
could kind of, you know, shrug it off and be okay with it, at least in theory.
You'll see that actually works out that way, so you can't see it being Alex's right in front of him with the map as well, banana.
Again, he's so blind, otherwise he would have had that kill every single time, but somehow Fisher College had come out on top.
It's a crazy battle that was going on, and on the other side of the map too, there was a bit of an engagement here,
because he controls this, you know, right on top of his dead teammate, so a 4 versus 3 after the dust settles,
And Banana still in control of Fisher College.
That's what we've been waiting for, man.
Like, Banana aggression from Fisher College.
Take the fight. Take three players and impose your will.
Don't be meek. I said before, don't leave anything on the server here.
I love that they've taken that fight and they've got the success.
And the flashes were really effective.
As you said, like, I think score was flashed for a total of 10 or 15 seconds in Banana.
He was desperately trying to snatch her life away, but couldn't see a thing.
And you can see the consequences of that. The Hunters stuck back in their T spawn stairs
and haven't really breached any part of the map so far. They've been spotted by Nieland.
So he can fall back, calls for reinforcements, Alex is on the way.
Yeah, the timing is good here for the defence to be struffling around. There's even the
incendiary, like you pointed out. Oh, he's picked up another one, so he throws that down.
he's gonna wrap back around to the church,
surely just throw down another incendiary
as soon as you can here, try and buy even more time.
17 seconds on the clock,
8-chef, he's gonna go down, controls burning,
he wanted to just step close enough,
but he steps into the fire,
and now it's all on nine,
with seven seconds, there is nothing he can do,
the flank is coming in as well,
the future college about to win,
fall in a row to start this comeback with,
it's gotta be a strange feeling here for the Huns as well,
because the first five rounds looked fairly one-sided
and now all of a sudden they can't really punch through.
And I mean, Corn finished the third,
and I'm not saying this to throw shade on him, right?
I'm putting it in perspective of what a massive step up
to the plate that he's had.
In a map that could be their last at Astana,
he finished Nuke on two kills and 17 ADR.
He's ordered at seven.
He has had a massive improvement
in his own individual performance
And it's a huge integral part of why they are so close in this map right now.
And no question about that.
Speaking of which, he got the assist there, and then he picks up controls all the follow-up.
Admittedly, there's tech nines on the hunt side of things, but the fact that they are fighting their way through these rounds,
this is the sort of stuff where I think Fisher College could easily make a mistake on a map like this one,
and sort of take a fight to a tech nine, end up losing it, give a rifle, and then the round spiles.
We see that from teams, I would say, that are, you know, worse ranked than Fisher College all the time.
This is a classic way to give away a potential comeback.
And the fact that they're holding onto it here is very nice to see.
So, Bartak in 9.
Don't know if there's much you can do.
Even the damage is not going to make a big difference here.
I suppose if you get enough kills in a round of hits, you can start to steal AKs, but that's talking, you know, three kills.
That doesn't feel very likely at the moment here.
Nice setup as well.
corn with his back turned and he does peek into it which he probably didn't need to
kind of keep something set up a little bit so that's one AK he's stolen back
I'm gonna respect this fish of college don't take anything for granted
what happened man can punish you they've got the AK they have a deagle in play
time is running thin for power is gonna go for that wide swing a lot of damage done
and will be Fisher College from five zero down to winning the last five on the bounce
to tie us up. And as you can see on the graphic, they're on fire now, making the Huns sweat
this one.
Yeah, it's getting super uncomfortable. No doubt that the Huns must have been feeling
at some point throughout this that, okay, we've bits in the back, we've got it. If you
suddenly had to to think about, okay, well, what if what if it goes the other way now?
what happens if we end up playing a third map after such an otherwise great performance.
That's probably not something that they want to be considering at all, but they're getting
pushed towards at least having a conversation.
Game is tied at 5-5, and we've got two rounds left in the half here.
What an entry from Score.
On top of the half wall, he just takes down Nieland, and then the flashes come in.
Score, again, having a hard time seeing through the array of flashbangs on the other side.
He sees one guy jumping and they actually spot him out. So this is a bit dangerous now
Bottle straight to the face controls on the other side to catch him
Grappau outdulled in a number of different ways for realizes he's up here and a lot of trouble
But he flashes his way through gets the kill with the AWP and he can't follow it up
The bomb is maybe at the bottom of the ramp so
In theory the Huns could could throw some very interesting fakes here, but I'm glad they're committing to the a bombsite
I think it's the better choice
I think it's also a wise decision not to push up middle with this but go second mid
For this very reason corn was on the frowl and he would have caught you for sure
But yeah, a valid attempt from Thor there honestly, I thought for a second he landed the footshot into the apps
Sprayed through the smoke as it is about to fade flashbang behind it
Just making sure there's no pesky CTs coming in because they've taken all this time for the reason you highlighted the bomb
It was way back on the side of the map.
Corn was able to get into the abs,
but Xerot was watching, anticipating, and takes him out.
And it looks like that five rounds free
is about to come to an abrupt end.
Yeah, which could be very nice, couldn't it,
for the Huns side of things,
just to make it a little bit sweeter
going into the second half.
Not feeling like you suddenly lost your grip on the game.
Alex here, they can easily revive the AWP.
That's not really that important, in fact.
I could argue the AK is a more important save, because that's one you can't.
Still sticking around, but I think even running in here, it's a really cool idea.
I think unfortunately he needed another two seconds maybe to get the job done.
It's a nice try, you know?
You're on land, he would have been a heroic effort if he could have made the job.
But the Huns will be up to six, and we're going to the last round of the half here.
Yeah, maybe in the case as well, that he was trying to bait one of the Huns to come back and check
just to make sure they would have gone down the wall as well, the puns were contrasted.
It is a nice try through the all the way as well to make sure that 9 will be able to play
with that going forward. I'm not even sure if 9 cares that much about all the normal
T side, I think he does prefer the rifle. But that is 6-5 now. Fisher College have
themselves purchased, so what is getting arrested down the middle? Smoke there, this is a lurk
smoke. This does give the idea of maybe they're going to peek into 2nd mid. Maybe they'll
Maybe they're going to be pushing up middle and this stalls the Huns.
They can't be sure about a banana push at this stage.
As far as they're aware, the CT is pushing them.
Yeah, something to watch out for a little bit.
See they're throwing some grenades towards that top mid position.
This could be more of an all-in towards the B bomb site.
Yeah, timing is there, smoking stuff as well.
Neela, he's had success in the past, but Alex is dead so quickly.
Controls the one to pick him up, but while it's going to be planted here, Neela need love
a kill for the smoke, but it's going to go the other way. And it does look like the Huns are
going to finish this with a couple of rounds just to add to the mix. And we said five might
already be enough, but if it's a 7-5 lead here, again, it does put the Huns in a very favorable
position. Low health once per tower and on store as well. They're going to kill it,
admittedly, but I feel like they're still bleeding too many players trying to get to the side
I'd be fascinated to know if that call to it's a hit be fast was as a result of not knowing if there was
Steve's pushing separate
As they are gonna lock this one down because that that is one of the issues that you face if you if you kind of look and
Just stick around on banana for too long
Then you're allowing those activated players from that look smoke I was talking about before to creep up behind you at any given moment
they actually sent one of their players into underpass just to make sure no one had moved in there.
So it makes a lot of sense that if you think you might be getting flanked on,
you pick up the pace, you take the site and then essentially like you know you're defending
their attacking mentality. So I think if that's the case that's a really good call and it was
super clean as well in the execution. Yeah I think you might be on to something. It definitely did
play out that way. So nicely done and you know again we've seen the Huns make a lot of late
round decisions that sometimes look a bit questionable. So committing to something early on and following
through definitely a nice feeling. Seven to five ladies and gentlemen as we go into the second half
is now going to be Fisher College on the T side and the Hunts on the CT side.
So very curious to see Fisher College have some kind of you know late energy still left in this
if there's a way to call themselves back into this. It's not going to be easy I think. They definitely
had a good chance on Nuke to do some more damage but this infernal game has been pretty
Interesting and a little bit of rough for them perhaps individually though. They're all here like I do like seeing that
nobody's lacking on the scoreboard for the Fisher College side, so
Yeah, they can all walk away proud for that reason, but it would be even better if they could pick up a map
And if they can kick things off the pistol here and keep the pressure applied to the Huns
There's no reason they can't honestly, I don't think the Huns have an amazing account of themselves
Bartak it's dinked
Almost immediately dropped to 8 HP, so he has to start to fall away.
This is a bait and switch position. They're trying to bait all of the E of T's into those
Joules that Score is hiding with round the corner.
Controlez falls back. The idea is like, come get me, guys.
And then Score can spring in close range, but Fisher College not falling for it just yet.
Flash bang over, but Krapowal fully flashed, covering his eyes, still nails the shot.
That's pretty important, especially because Control's going to get 1-9 for the middle.
And I think he saw two people coming back, so he's going to be able to call it out.
He might think it's only one player here, but there is going to be Bartak, even if he's
low on health.
He's actually at the site, and a third and fourth player rotating in.
So the Huns have the right read, and midair, 9 catching, 4 as he was jumping on top of
the hay cart there.
It's now all up to Alex trying to run away and pick up the bombers.
Not going to be happening.
Huns will end up with a pistol round victory and that sets them up nicely. That's going to give them a lot of momentum
to push to finish this and ultimately knock out Fisher College of the tournament.
Yeah, they were during K-27 in today's eliminated teams.
This is the truck from Krapau. His crosshair was so good, but there was an element of fortune to that.
One of the score walked straight into it.
But a good hole from nine and the rest of the troops there at the end.
control is picked up his second very good inferno player showing us that new
performance wasn't a fluke it wasn't a one-off I did just but I think a player
in second mid so that's gonna be information board
they're all in the apartments they do have board with a smoke flash so if he
was gonna flash them out though I think yeah being in second mid or somewhere
near that. I mean, there's some different actually you could do. I do like these aggressive
pops coming out of that. So yeah, he's going to go into second mid or middle now. The
door flashbang just has to go deep over. Not easy to flash everyone. There's always going
to be some corner that you're not getting, but Seryl is in a perfect position to eat
this grenade. Let's see how this is going to go. Yeah, he can't see a thing. Great
camera work on the observing. It's got controls. Gets four though, and Seryl gets his vision
back enough time. They do manage to put a pressure on that. The idea was definitely
there, but it will be shut down.
Huns going to be fine.
They don't lose a single player, in fact.
And yeah, this first buy around,
which is not going to be right now,
but when it comes up for for Fisher College,
that might be the only chance in the second half.
Already I can see the five Nave stack resource
on the CT side as well.
Maybe not quite as easy to go for this.
I'm curious whether they're going to be lobbing these in
and whether it be top and honor,
maybe up top of the middle to kick things off.
Let's have a look. They did get success last time.
So, I think it's gonna be Banana.
Here it comes. All the Nades.
It's done damage.
Oh, but it's even better in Returns.
Ball with a 2 for 1.
At least it's gonna keep on fighting air controls,
limiting the exposure to any kind of a bomb plant.
10 to 5.
I love the grenades, but, um, yeah.
Like you said, it's very hard on the seaside as well to make it work,
and they kind of, they got more than they received in that round.
Yeah I mean it did yield a couple of kills but like you say the Huns gave as well as
they received their score got two HE frags and picked up an MP9 as well after that.
However Fisher College in two the AKs it does feel like this is getting towards due or die
territory now.
They're not going to have many more opportunities.
The Huns have a very good CT side that is insane aggression from Xerald.
The threeest of kills for Alex.
You'll definitely take that.
If it's being offered like that, you want to win that fight.
Good work.
And it runs.
Let's keep their patience here.
Yes, they have a big lead.
Yes, they've won the first map, but...
Don't get too careless, either.
Score.
Oh, it's not going to be him.
It's Bartek on the other side.
They win that fight, but there's really nobody here.
Now, Nines just showing up.
Has the final wrapped their way through.
Good headshot.
Alex couldn't finish the kill there and the incendiary won't slow them down that much so the bombs should be planted by right
Controls here with a very fast flanking mission. I think he missed the chance to see Neelon
So he's straight dead
But there is a second fight coming in too and they might realize that because Bartek did get the kill on the side as well
So nicely done Neelon sprays him down through the wooden boards and it's just nine
unfortunately his teammates couldn't really help him out and actually through the smoke
thaw they were able to find him. Fisher College. A lot of aggression and banana, it works out
for them. They were refusing to go down with the fight. I said it was do or die and they
very much did what was asked of them. They went above and beyond. Money for Huns, more
than good enough for a buy but they have gone through the bulk of their finances. Nine picks
up his orp. But there is nothing more than $2,000 on any of these players of Fisher College
on the brink of maybe breaking the Huns down into bite-sized chunks and making a real go
of this. Smoke up and over, it's a deep smoke though, top in from the Huns. They want to
try and take mid control as well at the same time. They find themselves a freebie and it's
It's a hit and run!
Huge isn't it?
Up to 10, they can feel that victory.
Coming right around the corner.
Score continuing.
Seems they've been their strongest player in the series here.
If Huns want any chance to beat any of the other teams in the tournament right now,
it's got to be Score coming up with a lot more like this,
Maybe control is the second in command, but it's hard not to have a feeling that, in spite
of all of this, who is Huns going to be?
If they face off against Magic, I suppose there's a world in which that could be a close
command.
I'm not even sure.
I feel like Magic are on a higher level even than this, so it looks like a team that's far
away from finding their true identity in the rebuild phase of this.
Yeah, I would tend to agree.
I'm not sure how the system will work out, obviously, depends on the results I'll swear as well, but I think magic have looked quite considerably better than the Hunts.
Yes, there were some questionable things in that game against them and K27, but I would be inclined to agree on that assessment.
Timeout for Fisher College, their money's not great, 6100 on four.
I guess we'll get the bit of an answer if he is going to yield the AWP.
I mean, he might just drop an extra rifle to be fair.
He can drop a Galil if they want to play for sort of like the team dynamic
as opposed to going for an AWP in play on the T side.
T side opening as well.
I mean, there are so many ways that even if you're feeling confident
and you feel like the AWP is connecting and so on and so forth,
there's so many ways for you to just get knaded out of a round
and you feel like you've had minimal impact.
So it's a tough tough weapon to pick up early and and expect to have a big impact
But we'll see if it is going to be in his wheelhouse
Little bit of a time out here. Okay, you did pick it up Thor. There we go. Okay
Don't hate it. Let's see if we can make the breakthrough
They've got that and they've got an AK and then ten times on the rest
Might be one of the last chances if Fisher fellas have an impact on the tournament
Oh, they're going to be trying to boost up on top, but there was a counter boost again.
And this time it's 9, dropping 4 before you could even really get some solid ground beneath
him.
Man, I think that's one of those cases where if you're a fish of collage, you just tip
your arty and say, fair enough, well played.
Like you're in our brain, so we want for a boost, like you say, counter boost it and
just gets nailed immediately.
And it's going to sting twice as hard because they prioritized the AWP over dropping extra
assault rifles so that they would have a more sort of well-rounded by coming into this to facilitate Thor to do his thing
And it's just completely destroyed in the first few seconds
Nealon tries he made there's no reason for nine to peak this they have really good angles three players on the CT side on a
Leaving score alone with an AK and an incendiary by a side, but nine is gonna go peek in and Nealon gets the kill
Okay then. Is that enough to open something back up for them? 40 seconds. They still don't
have a lot of map control on the T side, but if they fight here, I think scores can be
too far away to help out. So it probably will be an isolated 2v3 fight, which sometimes
could be a bit of an advantage. Alex setting up in the absolute well so he could come jumping
out with the Ted 9 at any moment. Bartzhak though. He's already found the kill on the
corner now. Counter-incendiary is coming out but Alex up in the window there. What are
the comments? Can he do something with it? Bartzhak keeps it going. Great double kill
for the defensive side. They've actually tripled in total for Bartzhak. You do like to see
that and it's 12 to 6 here. The Huns, they just need another round. They will send Fisher
College packing and it'll be, you know, at least another day in the tournament for them
as well.
To put it in perspective as well by the way, the winner of this game which is looking more and more likely to beat the Huns with every passing second
is going to go into the same bracket as Paravision, Heroic, G2, Monty and Magic. They're all in the 1 and 2 column.
There is a lot of very scary teams there.
Yeah, that is true. It's going to be a much, much harder turn than it's going to be right now. There's no question about it.
Oh, they want to finish it fast and in style, controls with a triple, running down the middle,
putting a bit of a statement on it here saying, that's it, we are the better team, we want
to prove that right now, Krapow and Thor left in 2-on-4 and kind of shell shot here, scores
even pick up the AWP, we'll take down Krapow.
Well Thor, it's all up to you, you've had a lot of big moments in this event, planning
to be proud about across the board for Fisher College, but their journey is coming to an end.
And score tries he made. Beautiful headshot with the Tech 9. Gives us a glimpse of brilliance,
but it is going to be Fisher College getting knocked out of the tournament. Zero and three
alongside K-27, their Cinderella story, it has come to its conclusion.
Yeah, great effort again for a team that, you know, normally we don't expect to qualify for a
tournament like this one and for the first time also having you know a college team get this far but
they were outclassing that duel in this game funds they will move on to play another day it's been a
tough old tournament with them they've so far played spirit aurora and now here basically in
the nation it was a great feature college but they buy another day and we'll see how that plays out
for them um yeah i don't know i mean again we've talked about the storylines i think it's been it
must have been obvious in the broadcast so if you guys are listening um that our expectations are
very differently for a team like Fisher College as opposed to like the you know K27 Magic game where
you know we get to talk a lot more about the mistakes. It's not like Fisher College didn't make
some but yeah it's I think much more of a learning experience on their side and I can appreciate that.
I hope they take all of this experience back and keep building the e-sports program over there
and maybe it'll spread to other colleges and there will be more of a future for it. That'll be really cool.
you know, the way that we
expect to get into the
tournament. You know, we're
going to be able to get into
the tournament. Yeah, the
expectations official college
from themselves. What wasn't to
you know, win the tournament or
you know, make playoffs or
anything like that. Of course,
out of an amazing
accomplishment. If they even
got close to it, but it ended
up kind of playing out the way
that we expected short the
Huns. Are we necessarily
impressed with them today? I
wouldn't say so. I was
impressed with score in
particular, but overall, there
Yeah, I've already said the teams like you have G2 and one and two is insane by the way like G2 is a legit really good team
So I don't think that their tournament is necessarily going to go on for too much longer if we see them perform like that again
But maybe this was the wake-up call they needed maybe maybe the Huns can deliver a couple more twists and turns I
Would love to see them start to put this together because they are sort of a shadow of their former selves and
And we've seen that a bit in interviews, and just in general, the vibes have been less than immaculate for the hunt side of things.
They don't have a lot of time to turn things around. It's very hard to do from one day to the next one in a tournament.
But yeah, more out of score and bat-tag like that controls the squad. I feel like those three reliably are doing some work for the team.
It's only going to get more difficult from here. So yeah, 2-0 in their favor. We say goodbye to Fisher College, at least for now.
probably a story that we'll be following in a little bit.
I think I made a commitment to try and talk to some of the people who are running the program there,
or at least have been part of the program in the past.
I kind of want to know what they're up to. I just think it's an interesting story.
All things considered, again, over in Massachusetts, I believe.
So, yeah, good to see that we're blending some of the borders there on that front.
Could be an interesting future, but we don't really have anything more.
I mean, to be honest as well, we've had some very one-sided games on the B-Stream,
but that second map on Overpass was, it was funny.
It was worth it again.
If you missed that, then I don't want to say
go back and watch it,
because it was some mixed Counter-Strike,
but still quite fun.
Any last thoughts, Vince, what do you think?
Where's your mind at these days?
I just, I feel really happy for Fisher College.
It's like bittersweet.
You know, I was hoping that we'd see them get at least a map.
So that's a bit sad,
but I still think they can hold their heads high
team. I think we're going to
see a lot of players that are
going to be able to come back
and be very proud of what
they've accomplished here.
Magic in the meanwhile,
obviously the other team that
won. I think back to drawing
board on the T sides more
conviction and they could be a
real threat of real nuisance
because they do definitely
have some solid plays, but
we'll have to wait and see
tomorrow and is because we do
have another day on the B
stream. It's a good point.
Shout out to you guys
following us the whole day.
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