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Johnny Speeds vs ECSTATIC - Pelaajat Nordic Masters Fall 2024 - A BLAST Fall Showdown Qualifier - Day 3
08-07-2024 · 5h 26m
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of the Nordic Masters Blast qualifier. Two days already entirely played out at this point. Vince,
we've seen who's made it through from Group A and Group B and now we've set the stage for our
BO3 portion of the event. The playoff bracket, Vince. All in all, mate. I think we've had some
really tasty games the past couple of days, but we're set up now for the meat and potatoes,
the big course at the end. You got your knife and fork ready for this one?
I'm ready man. I'm ready. I've been famished
As you said we've been treated to some bangers over the last couple of days
But this is really what it's about right like the blast premier qualifier a chance to play at that next level
The tier one level of CS and four teams that are super hungry themselves to get involved
I think it's well on paper like you look at those two games and they're pretty evenly matched like
Although we do have a little bit of news on Metisport, which I'm sure we'll get back to in the moment Jackie
But you know, you're looking at TSM in particular, they were very impressive and Johnny speeds.
Those were the two picks of the bunch.
Obviously, they ended up winning as well, going through in the top stage.
They're playing the runner up of the opposite groups as it were.
Yeah, I think overall, right?
Like there was some surprises, more so specifically back in group A,
like some of the upset games that came out.
Well, we expected Sashi who really we haven't even said their name now for two days time,
which is crazy because coming into it, we expected them to be one of the bigger teams
in the qualifier potentially our number one seed based off recent form but they were dismantled by
ecstatic in a rematch that will probably be remembered by those games for quite some time now
with how close you could have been to getting that last spot at the last showdown so yeah a bit
of a rough one but for ecstatic mate it is sunshine and roses right it's definitely a better
opportunity for them now you're in a position where you are locked into the b0 free gauntlet
But Vince, it is still a haunt look.
BO1s might be long gone, but there is no safety net here.
If you lose this opening BO3, Vince, that's it.
Your run is dead.
Yeah, I mean, at least you have the safety net of it not
being one and done in terms of maps.
You have your vetoes that come in.
So we may very well get the dust, too.
You've been waiting for Jackie this whole time.
There's been almost immediately banned
from every single team.
It might be up to slip through now.
But yeah, as you said, you nailed it really, dude.
Like this is this is it like if you want to be able to to move across if you're ecstatic like a team
That's very new together as a roster going under a lot of people's radars
A lot of people probably think it's still the gaming gladiators roster when when they went back in
Copenhagen that then switched orgs and like you're trying to do their own thing
It's not it's a brand new roster you have likes of nutnut there
Which you know we were kind of memeing on me. He's actually a sick play
He's actually a really good rifle that has been one of the picks of the bunch in terms of individual performances
So I'm really excited to see what this team can actually do today.
No, absolutely. As much as he's got like a funny name,
he is genuinely super talented at Counter-Strike,
which is why it's such a cool jug to position.
Because he's very fun to watch.
You can see how he's sort of been shaking around
all over the Danish scene as well,
trying to find like where his longevity is.
So I hope this will start across to me.
If it's a project that he believes in,
I mean, it seems like the team's gelling really nicely together.
We know Zip will, in the amount of support the organisation like
to put into these teams as well.
So it'll be cool to see where they go.
And this is a springboard for that.
But their opponents aren't going to make it easy for them.
Let me tell you that for a fact.
If you haven't seen Johnny Speed's, where have you been, guys?
They have been shooting up the valve rankings so much
so, Vince, that in terms of their placement,
if things are going the way it looks like they are,
I'm pretty sure they're getting that invite
to the at least the RMR close qualifiers
based off the current valve rankings
with the position they've been able to find for themselves.
And I'd say this team does deserve it.
With how they've been looking, it's pretty damn sick to watch, man.
No, 100%. Honestly, if you've just been watching the tier one bracket and only LAN events,
you probably don't know much about Johnny's speeds.
But if you go off the basis of an online counter strike, these guys are probably king right now.
Like they are tearing it up. They are beating everyone ahead of them
and making it look pretty convincing in the process.
Dragon has been an unbelievable player for this team.
If you guys liked him back in his nip days, obviously he's now 28 years old.
He's been around the block many times, a lot of Swedish incarnations.
He was always the nearly player as far as I'm concerned with a lot of people.
He was even mean daughters.
Like, oh, he's he's a dragon type all part.
The idea being that he lands the crazy flicks, but misses a lot of the consistent shots.
Well, I think that's changing now, Jackie.
Like we've seen him be consistently really solid over this last couple of days
and kind of securing himself for me is maybe the MVP of the tournament so far.
Yeah, I think based on like his actual individual performance, I've given that we got some stats
to back that up as well. So let's have a look at our players to watch ahead to head being
Nixon from ecstatic. And of course, Draxon, Draxon made that would be pretty good. Maybe
that's like when he powers up big Draxon, but of course, Draxon himself from Johnny
Space. And yeah, but like I mirror everything you said on that one, I genuinely think
like the way he was playing yesterday,
that's what the form we've seen from him.
He looks so confident in fights.
His mechanics was through the roof
in terms of his aim skill,
but it was his positioning as well.
He was on a consistent roll throughout that entire game
where it felt like Johnny Speeds could rely on Dragon.
And if he did have a little bit of a Peter off,
you've got so much talent on that team
that anyone can pick up the bar to support him.
For Ecstatic though,
Nixon in a similar vein was doing a lot of the odd jobs.
He was the man that was out there kind of,
you know, like plowing the ground, Vince.
Any time it looked like things were going a bit bumpy for them,
he'd try as hard as he could to grind them back into it
and had pretty damn good mentality
through the entirety of their games,
even when it was choppy waters.
100%.
As mentioned, choppy waters, of course, the first game they played,
they ended up losing to Sashi in the very first map
that we casted of this entire qualifier.
And that was 13-6 on Anubis.
And Nixon was the one player on that first half
where they got utterly destroyed.
was actually posing a bit of a threat. He was able to save weapons, he was getting a lot of exit
frags, but he was also doing a job in mid every time he was called upon. So that consistency,
like you said, even through choppy waters is a reason you look at him and you think, okay,
maybe he's one of those guys that's going to have his head screwed on right, and he's going to
be able to actually perform even when things are going wrong. And for me, that's normally the
sign of a really good player. Even if your team is struggling, you're still out there,
you're still actually delivering. Exactly. Because it's when the chips down, right? It's a bit
harder especially as well when it's online counter strike vince because you can't look at each other
you can't kind of build each other back up as quickly sort of get gas going in the team speak
is your best bet I suppose so to stay dialed in try and stay in flow state even when everyone's
crumbling around you proves just how much talent there is there yeah genuinely quite excited for
this one I think it will be a nice game to kick us off let's get under the hood a little bit
though and see what we can reveal in terms of the statistics for this one with how we think
overall it's going to be going down. Of course, this is based on the tournament so far, Vince,
so only a couple games played in terms of the benchmarks, but just to give you a little bit
of an inkling of where this is going, stats wise, Johnny ahead, Johnny speed slightly ahead,
God, Johnny everywhere at the day, they do it all. And they have been doing it all over the
duration of the tournament as well. It looking really good. Of course, they went through
flawlessly, didn't drop any games, whereas ecstatic, they lost to Sasha in that first game
We talked about before which is maybe a little bit why their average rings a little bit on the lower side
Not much though to took to really choose between these two teams and then they beat sashi as well in that last game
a super close one and give a thing as well to mention about Johnny speeds, you know
We were waxing lyrical about dracon and how good he is
He's also the IGL now and he's only really been that for the last month like they lost lecrow to BC gaming
He went off to green pastures
Lekro another Swedish player of course has been around forever and then dragons picked up the IGL spot as well
So it's not just the fact he's fragging. He's also calling and making sure they're on the same page
And sometimes if you're like the the hot hand as the open
We saw this back with fallen in his prime with SK gaming
You can really establish yourself and allow the team to play around you
The problem is if dragons having a bad game is he able to then start to push some of the other star elements forward instead?
I mean we see it even now right with like teams like Astralis
You think about the fact device is picking up the ball in mental
It's kind of in a position where it's even he's hitting six shots or calling a great game doing both at the same time
It's hard to bridge together. So it's always impressive
We'll get into the veto though and see what we're going with this one like you touched on Vince for the first time
It is a BO3
So there's a chance as a chance we could get a dust to and it's looking pretty good for me so far a
Nubus and vertigo taken out of the flow of things here with both of the first two bands coming in
That's going to be the Inferno opener for Johnny Speeds on the CT side.
Yeah, this is this is a map where they have an 80% win rate on, I want to say.
Mirage also coming on afterwards.
That's going to be picked from ecstatic.
So obviously, Johnny Speeds will be starting on that CT side.
And now we get to see what the third all important map is.
We've got a lot of ancients yesterday.
We've got a lot of Mirages.
Unfortunately, Jackie, it's heartbreak again.
Dusty was out tonight.
It's a nightmare. Are we going back to ancient then as a decider? Yes. Okay. I mean all in all probably make sense fair ground
It's upsetting for me personally. I would like to see a little bit of dust to Vince
You know, we've been saying Wednesday Wednesday's come
Don't let it go without a little bit of dust in the air, but ancient I will take that's quite nice
So inferno opener mirages the mid-portion and a bookend of ancient if we need it
Yeah, it's a pretty good veto
Yeah, I mean to be fair all in all there is a bit of overlap between these two teams map pool
So it kind of makes sense where we've gone here
Oh quick correction by the way. I said don't spend an 80% win rate. I got my maps mixed up
It's a 62% win rate for them after 13 maps played
Importantly though ecstatic have played in funnel three times and they have zero percent win rate, but
We don't really not to expect from these guys again. We were talking about this on day one
There's not much of a sample size out there for the six static team
They themselves have had some roster changes recently. And so they're definitely a work in progress
We kind of gave them no hope against actually in that return match in the grudge match
We thought they were gonna get battered again. It looked that way and they proved us wrong
So they can definitely come out the blocks here and prove us wrong again. Yeah, I mean look fair play to a man
We've had they played you know, they showed pedigree on the server
They went in played the conviction and were able to come back from what look like a really dangerous position in the overall bracket
You slug through the larbracate, you get the revenge win, you make it here.
Who's to say they can't go further? Johnny Speeds is a hard opponent though, and when we get into this one
I suppose it just goes down to who's feeling it at the start of the day, but sometimes that early morning.
But first game slot, at least it's BO3. You've got a bit of room to get the blood pumping,
but you've really got to come out swinging on these ones. You're so close now.
If you get a win here, legitimately you're in a position where that final spot at the showdown
could be yours in the space of just three more maps at a maximum following this game so for both teams a lot on the line
Yeah, it's also a bit scary as well when you're starting off inferno
And you're starting on the t-side like if Johnny speeds can establish their economy early on
Then we're gonna be in a very weird position where Johnny speeds can go off to like a three a five zero start
Have their economy locked in we're in a bit late here, but it is a three on three
So you're not gonna miss the outcome of how this game comes down crystal nut nut
But, Bob XD, who was really good alongside Spooky yesterday, are all down and it is a post-plant in Play-On-A.
It's a good suspense for this one then.
Let's see how the retake goes down as the CTs are barreling into the bombsite.
And it's over the top.
Rolf gonna be the headed back.
Ooh, not looking too good as it's Nixon.
The man that we highlighted for Ecstatic doing all of the fancy football,
DRAKEN goes down as he'll be slain by the night of Nixon, ecstatic, picking up the opening
pistol then.
Yeah, kind of cruising through there as you see, Nixon with the 3Ks you highlighted, really
impressive stuff from him.
I was thinking we were going to have more of the same from DRAKEN, he actually started
this round off with an exquisite one tap down middle, the P250 King himself yesterday
putting a lot of bodies to the deck.
Keep in mind as well, the reason we were discussing Dragon so much, he dropped 31 kills against Metisport over on Mirage,
and the pistol and AWP was his kind of 1-2 combo.
Forced by In from Johnny's Fiends, got Deagle's, got that scout played for Dragon, it's gonna be fast and heavy on B.
Eight rounds towards CT, dunking on him. Tons of damage done here to the B site players on the CT site.
Spooky puts the 5-7 to the enemy for a gambit of the round.
And a Lele can do a gammie attack as well, and the Mach 10 will sink.
And a Lele having a hell of a round here, farming up cash on the old Mach Daddy as well.
So he's making some good investments right now.
For a second there's a Talus.
Draken ever the threat with the Scout.
Little bit surprised they stuck around for too long.
I mean a lot of teams on the CT side of Inferno, it's kind of synonymous for saving.
But they're being cut away here. It's not looking good for Drac and he's probably gonna have to kill himself out of this position
If he wants to save the scout
They were the blood of his adversaries and he's not sure about this angle
Is it dead man for sure? Not nuts gonna shut him down and the 2-0 score comes in and like you said man
And I lately switching for the gillil getting three four kills moved that Mac 10 already up to five thousand dollars
He could even drop an AWP if he wants to
Now that's going to happen knowing that Johnny's speed will be performed equal now, no reason to don the snipe down.
A really good start for a static.
Yeah, it comes together nicely for the opening couple of rounds.
And this is what we were talking about especially if you can start off this best of three with good momentum,
cycle rounds together, build the individual confidence, it's going to fill the whole lot better for the longer the matchup goes on.
So keeping the pressure on Johnny's speeds is a great scenario for ecstatic, at least
in these early moments.
Rolf with a 5-7 inside of Boiler, giving up a bit of space towards Brackets, he's gonna
let them push round.
They go for the free player stack in general, with two of them back towards Quadside.
If you could swing together, potentially take one or two weapons out of there, that
would be worth a dink.
Bit of a dink, Anolele takes the brunt of the damage, but no commit on the kill yet
Yeah, you can kind of fall back into a secondary
push here with the low HP knowing his teammates have the bugs
Nixon alongside Christal going out first. Christal, of course, if you don't know what you're ecstatic is their AWPer
So expect him to be using that once things get into a more even keel between the two teams and then over on joining speeds
I don't think Draken needs any introduction on that front
The player to definitely watch out for by the way we haven't really touched on them too much so far
Spooky
1.26 rating coming into this tournament very solid player as we saw glimpses of yesterday Jackie and
Alongside Bob XD. He's another player
The thing that he does he's very aggressive in the server and able to put holes in any
opponents. But yeah, BobaxD was sick bro. Like watching him play, he had some great rounds
individually, it felt like he was so good with the spray control. Super, super exciting
to watch. Here we go then. This is where the real game's going to begin. You saved up
some cash, asked to open the piggy banks, spilled out all the pound coins and spent
them on a nice old buy for the fourth round. Open the hands of Drackem, single flash
supporting that. Utility to play with, only one kit. They're not thinking about the
lay-ground, they're not going to hit one off the back of their own skill.
Tracking fires off the warning. A lot of map control being taken in quite quickly
though Vince, they're going to pace it. I mean you've already got round up through arch and you have
salvaged yourself onto the A site. They're really rapid. Don't be often
being played as well, it's a good counter-action to a more static base
weapon like that. Issue rules, if we can't get onto the site, they're all gonna get repelled
on, but that's spin around the 180 frag and then back onto the site again! Ecstatic! It's
just perfectly navigating their way across to the site, and there's no way back into
Johnny's speeds. It's gonna have to be a save. This is effectively a bonus round
with a couple of glills coming into it as well. Ecstatic could not have started
betting or an inferno? It's really impressive actually. Again, you know, it feels like it
subverts our expectations from what we saw from the ecstatic initially where it felt
like it was all a bit sluggish, they were struggling, lacks in confidence in a few of the fights.
That's been anything but the way we would describe what we've seen from them throughout
the rest of the tournament barring that opening game. You can see there's a lot
of confidence individually, you've got talent there. Nup, nup, when he steps
up does so much for them. Analele has been proving his way in the team as well. And Nixon,
yet to go down. Nixon will be a mortal right here, ruling over them with Vice President
and going for it well, for ecstatic so far. And joining speeds wins, I mean that's the
buy, right? Like that's your intro. That's the round where you've got to get some momentum
going. Nothing to be found with it. They can reinvest what dribs and drives of money they
have left in the coffers but you're gonna have to make concessions I mean two MP9s
a little bit of limited utility to boot as well. Bracken does pull the ore back out
God defines a nice pickup of it this time though can't afford to have a whiffed
shot going into the pit. There's all those smokes that were planted down on the
approach to an arches. I think he had one small sniff that may be a bit of
success and that went away from him. Not taking the brunt of damage from the HG down to 51,
pop flashing, but actually lands on spooky. He was thinking of going into that lightswing
counterflash ball that Christo nails him and although Bob XD comes back with one of
his own it's a two-forn trade against the CTs. Now they're banking on the fact that
Chousy's also managed to make a move onto the site but you're expecting this if
you're ecstatic. You know there's a very real possibility in this kind of round
This is gonna be the case, Jowdy still gets to drop, able to remove the threat of Christo, but he's now stuck on the side and there's no backup for him, Molotov didn't position.
This may bait them into a false sense of security though, if they don't realise it hasn't extended, but they're still checking their angles.
Nixon knows this is a possibility, as Draken nails him with the AWP on top, they've smoked out, now they can focus their attention on Jowdy, and they've missed the shot from Draken.
He's taking a lot himself, he has to back off.
As he's backpedaling, he wildly spammed with the USP through the smoke, hoping to get a tag out.
And does actually bring Tulsen down so low. Gets the follow-up off as well.
Refrag with the USP.
All on Nixon.
Finally falls.
He's been alive for so long.
The first time he buckles, it gives a round over to Johnny Speets.
That's the answer, Vince. That's how they win rounds.
You've just got to find a way to shut down Nixon, it seems.
That's so scrappy though, it honestly looked like the Johnny Speeds, that 2-4 grade on
banana is not clean at all if you are thinking from Johnny Speeds perspective, but fortunately
they had this crossfire, Chosy getting a kill, falling back, really stalling and stagnating
this coach allowed the rotation, wrap around from Walth, and Johnny Speeds gets success.
It's at great cost though to 3 players in total so it's going to be an easy replenish
buy from ecstatic but it doesn't matter how you get there I suppose Jackie they
finally got themselves on the board they've got a little bit of momentum to
build off now make sure they don't let this one slip because if they do ecstatic
the right back to the races again beautiful shot from Dracke
it's a nice opener starting to get rid of the shaky legs find a bit more of
that old-school dragon.
Thorne looking for the head shot onto Anna Leileg over the top of the smoke, hits the
chest and takes the man down just the same.
Roll from the back of the pit is well about to be tested.
Now, he's seen the head, he's calling for the backup.
Dragon's doing all of the damage on his lonesome though.
Swings wide off of the info.
Shastain on the back, I mean it's only two of them left.
Nutnuts inside a bow with Christal just being baited out on bottom banana.
This round's really gone south quite quickly.
It's that kind of ability to make quick, rapid calls from an AWPers perspective of like, I'm
going to blow up in this smoke, I'm going to position my teammates around me so I have a
little bit of sanctuary, a little bit of a buffer, get that pick, fall back, it just
allows Dragon to pull the strings and be the puppet master here.
You saw that there twice, two huge kills from his perspective, shutting down the
mid-push.
Much better.
about the importance of getting consistency early on to get that economy built up and
they're done just that because I think we'll be able to save two weapons and considering
they've got 4300 on nut nut I wouldn't be surprised if they come back in with another
pretty decent buy Nixon also going to be over sort of three to four thousand dollars himself
so it's still four to two lead on the side of ecstatic but start to see glimpses of what
Johnny speedy capable and the instigator for that has really been
first couple rounds he wasn't able to announce anything more important than having
female shot but in the moment might not look too costly but had a lot of reverberations
throughout the round since then he gets the nice b hold off with the usp comes out swinging
following around with your once again and you're starting to feel that level of
damage he can serve up on a regular basis. A bit more aggressive is for the Moodle CTs.
Two player pushdowns give you deep space smoke off to try and block off the
information towards bottom mid and leave the ecstatic gessit if the CTs have
pushed down. Drakken's also rotated with a backup now being focused on
defending the B bomb site again so let's see if you can hold on this. A bit
aggro from ecstatic taking top one on a control yeah they're gonna need to smoke
and flash off track in these been really on points
I say that if I can make some shot, I'm flashing from bobex d, he's not going to have to stop the smoke push
but I lately can't finish it all fast enough let's get the frag though onto
spooky before he's traded out the site has fallen now three players spill
out onto the post plant two of them are on new box they don't want to
get in each other's way in here.
Three vs three on the post-partner.
They've got weapons to work with, let HP on Nutnut.
And to take Wendy's opening fight spin,
Black Mishok could be the entry way for Johnny's feeds.
Fine.
He's of the essence though.
Like their name, they have to go tough.
The Rolf will kick it off with a nice 2k,
continuing from the damage on the crystal,
flicks to Nutnut, and they kick it up.
A third round, confirmed,
confirmed after back of the retake keeping three players alive as well pretty
clean down there to Johnny's beat-up spots. So look there's gonna be a couple of
concerning signs if you are ecstatic that Kristal has the AWP on newbots and
missed two pretty straightforward shots I mean they're not easy by any stretch
the imagination would you consider what dracon is doing with the AWP right now
eight kills tons of impact not missing much at all that is the lineup the
match up that we're looking at is Christal versus Drackein and so far Drackein is getting
the line share of that success, puts ecstasy back onto a half bike, a couple of shots says
not going to do much confidence if you're on the side of ecstasy, blowing open the
smoke and neutralising an ally and shuts him down from the freeway, Drackein, he's
really found his form. Got confidence and arrogance to take fights down mid, even up against pistols
where they're going to be their most proficient if they get in your face. Only a triple threat
of Dane's remain. Criss down, nut-nut, and tolls him. You could all swing together here,
hope to collapse on mid, maybe steal away one or two more guns. And the flicks are
looking pretty clean. Even in a high pressure situation, it takes a while before he buckles,
his teammates should be able to trade it, and only one casualty is easily redeemable.
They've got so much money as well, you could see no one wants to drop the AKs, and if they're
playing too much, they can't buy it, they can't afford the money. So they wait for Bob XD to
rotate you and pick up your AWP instead, throw away the M4, but they've got a fair amount of
cash, and you can't even keep going into this like, nothing care on average on some of these boys.
So you're really building things back up to a dominant position quite quickly on that CT side.
100% I think the only thing that's maybe echoing the back of their minds though is the CT side economy is so cruel, it's so fickle at times that you can have 9k, 10k and suddenly a couple of rounds go against you and you're feeling worse for wear but you're absolutely spot on.
have $29,000, whereas you look at that on ecstatic side of things, you got $800 left
in the bank balance. Four rounds apiece, back and forth like a pendulum, ecstatic, making
the most of their pistol round win. Now Johnny's Beads have really like diced themselves in
here. Also, Dragon's been omnipresent, we've seen him on B-Site a couple of times, through
mid, now getting aggression from Johnny's Beads. Straight down middle, Rolf, and
There was nothing to like, telegraph that play, after he'd go for a lurk smoke on middle,
then he didn't even go for that, he just runs down and had the best spot and makes the most
of it.
He was kind of sick actually, they'd been throwing that like deep phase mid smoke to
try and make them think that they throw the smoke default and then don't push.
The one time they don't throw it is when he runs down like you said.
Good reactions as well but like you know what I mean, that flick round was awesome.
He was a really nice shot.
Look at the position here from Churzy though.
He's got them in the palm of his hand.
He's just waiting till he wants to make a fist and crush them under the weight of the
fingertips.
And a Lele giving away all the information in the world.
He knows about the timing on this.
If he waits for him to walk around the corner he's got no reason to clear it.
He can walk up behind him.
At this point they are sitting ducks.
You could set yourself up for a master class play against great commences.
Two of them confirmed.
first one gets away from him the dragon is there to clean up on Nixon and it's
only crystal 1v2 but 1v none as he's down and out to dragons all such a sick
call but also a great play from Chosy like not snatching at the opportunity
like you said waiting until he had that perfect knockout streak and he'll be a
bit disappointed he didn't get all three from this he's almost point for
choice it was such a target rich environment Nixon takes him but as soon
as he saw that bomb and he saw them going into apps it was all the information
allowed them to retreat over everybody from the B site they didn't have to worry
about that anymore really cool call from Johnny Speeds as he said like totally
catching it staffed off guard they thought they dealt with the one lap
pushing down middle little did they know there was a second one behind them the
giant that makes all the rules Vince
Oh, dragon. Not in this round. He's not going to be ruling over them.
This is the orc. They do play recovery on it though.
Rolf, don't get caught with your pants around your ankles, fumbling between both guns.
He's trying to get back over towards Corovia and Torsten.
He would be fuming. It felt like he had intent to right-spin, but no pick-up.
Rolf on the orc, far-faring off nose-gopes.
and a lele onto the site with a tech 9 and there's room for this one to get
awkward when lacy got so many shots off their jacket I thought he'd get one
maybe two just a lot of time after time unfortunately it wasn't drafting or a
primary opera on the web and otherwise things have gone very differently but
you do still have spooky and bob xd plenty of firepower between the two
of them spooky though has had a bit of a rough start to this game one and
six if he continues to push into apps you may get shot down the side
Yep, Deagle. Not gonna miss out on that chance and Bob XD stuck in the
out-of-the-box from the Molotov. Does explode out for one but trade back
immediately so one of the worst buys ecstatic have had with Deagle's and
Tech Nines. I mean so often the case, it gets success and it's all off the back
of that opening pick for Deagle.
It was a bit awkward as well, much in growth, cycle back to Western's back.
Like, you get he wants to try and get it as far away from either quad or
arch as possible so they can't pick it up easily and use it against them but
don't know man would it like to see them grab the M4 at that point switch back on
the game. He's so proficient on the rifles like you said. Orphe not really his strongest suit.
Dracarman. He's been mean with the sniper. Slick with the scope. Pushes out for the early midfights.
He charges down banana and again it's the one man that's making the
world of difference for ecstatic round-in round-out Anna Layla with the number 2k.
This idea is for this aggression to seek the side from Johnny Speed, but especially over on B,
it's just it's not clicking. I don't know if Spooky and Bob XD may be a bit of a laxing communication.
Bob XD has only joined the team last month, of course, when they made their change with
Lecrow and Dragon going across to the IGL role, but it just doesn't seem to be in tandem,
like that cohesion is not quite working out. We've seen these B pushes two or three times at least
and it's always seemed to be a trade that's gone against Johnny's speeds. It's been that an
individual prowess from either dracking or of course we had that round where Chosy
got his MP9 in play and kind of saved the day. Yeah, it's not working at all. A couple kills,
but their exit frags, his round is going the way of the T's, regardless of whether
dracking and the rest of his teammates can hold onto their guns or not. Importantly,
He will nail the shot so they will be afforded that luxury
All his teammates have died around him so it's not gonna be a fantastic buy considering you got
$2,000 for two and a half on three players
Johnny speeds not opting to tunnel vision and just keep beating the dead horse figure out what's going wrong and resolve it
off the back of taking the tactical pause now and
Ecstatic their play to them
They found an answer at least to the spree of rounds that went unchecked.
Where do we end this one though?
Final round of the first half.
Is this going to be a 7-5?
Giving static a little bit more oomph going into the second half.
Or can Johnny's Feets equalize?
Remember at one point it looked like they were a really dominant force.
force mid-portion in the game they let themselves soar through it. At the start it was a bit shaky
that's their end looking like. Back and on the awp being the sole defender of me all the way through
top and honor eats damage the utility rips through him burning 50% of his health clean off
meaning mids more susceptible it's just the rifles that are forced to defend
choosy up close with Rolf and they're inside the smoke vins this is going to be a bit of a
We're gassed on the site.
They didn't quite get the timing.
Of course, there's no way of them knowing, but they get the entry they were so desperately
looking for that's going to put only speeds on the back foot here.
Chosy tries to get aggressive, typically on that B side of the map.
Now they're going to be going across the A.
That's because Draken started off that rotation on D himself.
Smokes in, labored spray from Nixon.
But he finally gets his man.
Bob XD trying to drop into the smoke with Hit.
He's put out of his misery and I'm choresy with the weight of this pound
All the timing to switch that weapon and choresy is doing it right now two kills keeping this round
In somewhat of a winnable position finally goes down with his heroic last stand and racking missing out on his shot gets punished
ecstatic lead seven five in the second half, but
I'm really surprised at Slukey's performance here, Jack. He is typically one of the guys you looked at on Johnny Speeds
to be performing with the rifles, he's one and nine, he's really had no impact whatsoever.
Yeah, I just felt like he wasn't really giving him any opportunity outside of the aggressive
plays when he went for pushes down bottom banana, right? Like, he forced the issue
a few times, didn't really work. He got checked. Ace site was getting a lot of the love,
a lot of the attention from ecstatic with most of their plays ending up there. But
yeah, but it's a shame because it does feel like he's been really reliable over
course of this tournament. The frags that we've been seeing from him, the way he's been playing,
in terms of his positioning, his M4 usage, his AK play, hopefully here, second half,
new story, let's see if he can turn it around. Ooh, it's rock or jiggle though.
Tistle firmly going the way of ecstatic until Rolf kicks it into second gear.
Man's just absolutely spanked them. He's found himself free frags in the space of no time
at all even grabs the bomb Vince heads up maneuver barrels round to link up with
spook he's gonna be able to get the bomb down for free now Nixon scratching his
head wondering how on earth they've let this one slip just a blind blockwork from
Rolf but the entire dynamic of this map is just changed there okay it's static
when that pissed around they still can like Nixon is on form right now 12
kills he's got a kid he's got everything he needs this does go to
Johnny speeds that right back in this it's could have been looking like a 10-5 kind of score line
Can Nixon clutch out half the time the fuse has ticked off?
He needs to be quick here
He can't be checking every single angle at some stage you have to take a risk
You have to take a gamble and just get on to that site trying force the play into your hands
But they've heard all these footsteps and it's not gonna be happening Nixon has overthought it
Easy to go down with the bomb or shut down from Rolf who picks up a 4k and dies a hero's
death.
Well played to you Rolf, Johnny Speed, get themselves up to 6.
That's Savage.
Absolutely Savage.
Even found himself the defuse kit, so had a potential chance to make a play out of the
round but felt so uncomfortable was hoping to find a 1v1 before he commits to the
play and they give him absolutely nothing. Huge rounds of WOLF really stepping up when
his teammates need it most. That's a gigantic round from him. And like we said, having
these little different skins, if it's starting potentially pulling themselves into a game
winning position where you're only a couple rounds away from taking your map pick to
the cleanings, instead it's Johnny's Beads. All they gotta do is take this one round,
equalize it's 7-7 and Spook finds the entry on towards the B-bombside with the Mac 10 or
makes them caught in transition it's gonna be slowed down because of the tagging so
Rolf gets another important pick up and the Lele's so low potentially the best
bet you can go for is really just saving that right.
Loot trade it up from Luck Luck switches and it gets punished.
Racking midair. Sprays him down with the Mac 10. Money into the up.
I can't now, trying to hold on to this achy that would have been a nice
bonus to take out of it but he's gonna be denied that prospect and Christal
did spot the player crossing but the same can be said on the return he's
spammed out a 6 HP and you can make that a zero. Johnny Speeds have pretty
solidly navigated their way across from the force 5 ecstatic we're mustering up
and I've pushed them on the back foot.
Sometimes man, being real you know, all it takes is a couple of eco's finished
just to get you feeling like you're back in the game a little bit but
some easy frags, some nice kills on a Mach 10,
feel a bit more confident on the T side.
So let's see if you can turn his favour around in the game.
Three players set up on the B bomb site for Exlatic,
just USP supports, no real investment at all as they don't have the funds
to support it off the back of the lights by in the previous.
So the Mat10s do have room to make a bit of money here.
You've just got to clear the double stack.
And Chris out out towards CT, he's already taken a hefty hit from the Nades, so he's
quite low.
The only speeds aren't the kind of team that will just run headfirst into the unknown.
That's why they've got the scouting teams on the MP9.
Puts the smokes and flashes, blotting out any vision.
So static systematic shut down, I'll play it again from Johnny Speeds, got an eyes
close in their tees and hunching in the digits for the post-plats, you got a P250
for Taliesin, maybe he can try and take a player or two down with him, but this is
gonna be Johnny Speeds in the lead for the first time on this map I believe, I
think they may actually they were five foreign lead at one stage before things
went a bit pear shaped but they only had that lead luxury for a few moments.
One kill from Torcent, not too shabby and there's also a Zeus being set in play but I don't
think he's going to see any action because Johnny Speeds are all pushing to the CT side
for the retreat from the bomb blast.
He not wants to try and find himself and scavenge a weapon if he can't.
Lost.
Denied.
Nothing gained, nothing lost.
Hopefully maybe you find a rifle, but realising a little bit too late.
During the day.
The blast zone.
So, another round.
Wired over to the bank account of Johnny Speets.
The crime fighting super team.
Get it done.
Rapid velocity.
Ecstatic though Vince, they can try and fight back. Let's see if there can be a bit more villainous on this one.
Detonation towards top banana.
An LA late and spooky, exchanging blows with the HEs. They both take each other out with the perfect connections.
A nice way to open it. Dropping them both into a 4 vs 4 scenario, but Johnny Speeds lose another man as Draken's down.
so it's free rifles a free on two potentially if they can isolate the
flight background
but not in the pit is the dealt with easily crystal on the spray though Vince
that's the difference sick one HP left but status ground
this choice even slay but it's taking a ton of damage from Nick's in and it's
crystal out fittingly that will clean them up those two kills outside of
apps where everything as far as ecstatic concerned if he went down
for free I mean that's the bomb site that goes with him although the ordnance was early on impactful
around progressed on it was those a1s using the side of ecstatic the suppressed weapons
that suppressed down johnny speeds on their approach now they're going to be back in
with another bi-hackie but it's going to be a tech nanobob xd still yet to get an open plan
their t-side if they were to lose this it's basically eco territory so ecstatic himself a chance now
Bottle of Banana really is Anolele centric in terms of aggression and what is synonymous
with his playstyle though I suppose, he loves to try and get in their faces so don't think
this would be on his feet, he'll be content to find.
Utility wise, they've got a fair bit left to use as well, Nixon's got his smoke, his
monotov and flashbang. They've already called for the rotate back towards their
sides. Torsten goes for the migration, he's gonna play on support of Christal
towards Arch. And everyone else from Johnny Speeds is abandoning their post at B.
This is gonna be another A-play. Christal with the info though, Vince. He's
going into the B, finds the first duel and gets out. I was like I'm not sure
about that retweet, but he got away with it. Not holding his position,
trades back and forth but it's a 2 on 2 and Chris now goes above and beyond again
maybe having very little impact in this map when it comes to the orbs and when
it's the rifles he's feeling himself 13 kills spray from Nixon is good and
ecstatic will regain the lead yes it's a post plant and maybe some weapons will
be forthcoming but ecstatic turning this around from a very murky and
potentially grim future now they are actually in the lead
Where'd we go then?
X-Bat came into this game at a very quick pace.
First few rounds were looking good for them.
Back in the driving seat.
A round that was quite bumpy, just one in the opening moments.
It looked a bit risky from the setup they had,
but the A-Play from joining speeds,
that seems to be where the blockades are being brought down from X-Batic.
Another tactical ball is going to be used.
only one remains in the coffers.
I appreciate it though, again, you know,
it's another situation in Vince where you lose a gun round,
you go back in, you try your luck again,
it still doesn't work out.
Put the brakes on, figure it out,
and have a bit more of a read in what you wanna change
going into the next round most likely
when you've actually got money again.
In this one, it's nearly the full-on deco.
Four Deagles and one Tech 9 maturity,
I didn't take a hefty chunk and that's BobXD, more Bob unhappy face.
The sad face is definitely on right now, I have to get nuked into oblivion.
He can come back into that next round and he's going to have an AK by his side.
One of the whole four Johnny's speeds is if you don't get some success here,
you're going to maybe get some ecstatic confidence building again.
I was looking at sort of the general consensus of how people felt this game would come down on HLTV.
The odds were 17.3% for Ecstatic, 82.7% for Johnny Speeds and I think honestly when you
look at the previous results of Johnny Speeds, you can't bring argue back too much.
So Ecstatic really going above and beyond here, especially after losing that second
case where you thought okay here we go.
Johnny Speeds going to be sprinting to the finish line, it's pretty much going
to be difficult for Ecstatic to muster up much of a defense but full credit to
the man surprising us again showing that's an asset to be witnessed yesterday or on the
first day of the tournament pardon me and they just put it done completely clean against
the full on deagles pretty much so great news for their accountant they managed to build
up a bit of a bank balance no open play for crystal but I don't necessarily hate that
when you consider how good he's been with the AK-47.
No exactly at this point, I feel the hot air, you guys move the rifles, keep them low.
And next time you take the leap up, it's gonna be big space over 12,
keep missing 12, being the focus here in the game.
Chorsey and Bob XD, the difference is this time both of them hit their sequential frags
and are able to put X-Fat-Tic down.
So only three players remain.
And not enough, oh you're trapped in an uncomfortable position.
fires out the warning shot the nade goes in to finish the frag on the weakened
dragon so nut nut does slay the dragon that's gonna cause the rotation from the
rest of players you had three men on Johnny's speed stacked towards top banana
they're gonna go for the push-up into the bombsite bombs on the back of Ralph
Torson's quick on his heels to rotate round all three of them have been
arrived pretty much in the nick of time here actually just we hit the
minute mark, they break the smoke for the peek on the cross. 3-5 is good as well, 40
down and out, 3-3 for the retake. After the smoke, Ricky's gonna make himself known that
should force ecstatic onto the back foot. They got tons of cash of course but the
chances of you getting that clutch when two players are also weakened pretty
low and just ask Johnny Speeds about those finances that looked so good at
one stage $10,000 across the board and towards the end of the half they basically had nothing
to play with. So, ecstatic not taking any risks or gambles they're going to back away here.
Got any speeds? Taking their presence? No. They may be down but they're certainly not
out. You can't overlook these guys. But as you said it's those two opening picks
that they got, the trades that were so clean. They really did facilitate this fairly
straight forward round at the end. Will Nixon get spotted by spooky? Nope! Looks like he's
going to survive. Live to tell the tale. 1847 will transfer into town.
Unfortunate round really. The potential there for maybe to retake your things is slightly
better. If you find another pick, they might have gone for it. But obviously running the
risk of losing with their weaponry and not having at least two players surviving so they
they can't get a healthy buyout into the next.
It's probably the lower chance play.
So they throw that one away, give Johnny speeds a knife,
opt to get a better buyout here.
Chris down now is allowed to don the AWP as well.
They actually have enough in the funds for that.
Otherwise it's a super healthy buy as well.
You've got three kits, one AK still in play for Nixon.
No one can be turning their nose up at this.
The Johnny Speeds, the same can be said, 5 AKs across the board play with Tempo, as good
as an AWPer Dragon is, especially on the T side in Ferno, right now if you've not really
got a huge amount of money to work with, stick to the rifles, Tempo's Tempo plays,
a fan out early, exchange utilities towards top banana, but you can already see they're
gravitating somewhat round towards the top mid side, they're looking for potentially
a fight here on brackets, but they're expecting aggression, ecstatic of condition them
already bit like Johnny's leads are actually playing a little bit more passive based on how aggro it's that I could bend in these prior rounds
Exactly, it's cool to see the moving pieces on both teams
freestyle this time does have the orc
So playing a bit more passive aggro is all the fat one, but Towson pushes the smoke nearly gets two
Bob XT dropped to 23 and stuck behind that smoke wall now is not not going to have Molotovs and a ton of teas on top of him
him in just a few moments time, he needs Christo to help him out but he misses the shot, not
not able to withstand the pressure though and Stats ball delivers one frag, Bob XT is still
in the fight but he is the last man standing and there's Nades being tossed in his direction
down to 17, he knows where one of these players are in mini pit but he doesn't have control
of the bomb, it's looking like it's mission impossible for him right now considering the
context of the low HP, the bomb position and 30 seconds left.
Much like Tom Cruise in those movies, he's going to run away from his problems.
19 seconds left on the clock to save this one.
Best case scenario, he will be able to hold onto his weaponry.
And with how far stationed Ecstatic are, not wanting to rock the boat
and potentially losing of a weapon for their next buy,
it is going to be a formality of either teams having a bit of a save.
So Ecstatic actually getting really close to the mark here Vince. It's impressive as well
but if we look at it from what it is right in the overall view point I'd say Johnny's
needs to take more arch. Even based on what we've seen here that should be a bit of a given.
It's more of a map they can come out really confident onto especially looking for revenge
if they lose this one. Ancient as a decider though there's room if Ecstatic taking
Fernovitz there is actually room that maybe they could go on and take this series. It
would be a hell of an upset for them but it all starts here we won't get ahead of
ourselves they still have to close down inferno first round 21 is live 11 on the
board for ecstatic Johnny speeds with nine but look at the difference in weapon
ring and look at the difference in opening picks
crystal on the wall sleigh spooky just made as well it bounced off the wall
and ended up doing damage to crystal but he's unable to hit the second
shot. Now Dragon will stay alive on 58 just back off out of banana but yeah like you said
getting that opening pick is going to be the world of good. It's where ecstatic prospects
here onto their first map. I agree man like I came into this scene in the video I'm like
okay very likely a 2-0 because Johnny's speeds are exceptionally good on Mirage we
saw it yesterday that's where Dragon dropped his 31. The way in which this has been
played out right now. Drakken has slowed down, yes it's the T side, Opus typically are more
used in this role as a counter-op option to try and shut down the opposition Op. And Cristal
for the most part has been playing with rifles. Towson's going to bypass that deagle for the
time being, doesn't need to overextend, they have the advantage that Towson with a pop
flash in, he's now going to flash himself back into action, but he goes before the
flash has a chance to detonate and gets punished as a result. And a Laylee now coming
on to heavy duress. It's Bob XT who wants to try and shut him down. In San Diego he's
going to force Bob XT out into the open, but they weren't expecting that Nixon would be
on coffins. And although Draken may get the shut down from the back, Nixon's up to this
now. He has a good idea of the situation. Not sure if they actually spotted Draken or
not, but he's going to fall with the bomb. And in doing so, the round is going to
follow suit. 12, 9, 3 map points for ecstatic.
full position for the game then just got to close it out just got to close it out
one round in space don't know things get out of hands
journey seeds only timeline towards a potential victory here on the first map
then would have to come through a forced overtime and with the money being
entirely broken likelihood of that is slim
They try to piece together the best possible loadouts for round.
It consists of three tech nines, one Mac 10 on Rolf, and Dracon opting to go for the
D.Eagle over the P250.
The utility's there.
Jawsie, flaccid to his teammate, but Torson reads it like a book, lovely jiggle towards
the bottom of Boiler, so he gets a free headshot off.
And Johnny Speeds, now we're just four.
Just felt like this T side was a little bit flat. They had the opening gambit of getting the pistol one
Into a 3-0 lead on this half, but since then everything's kind of just fell apart
Second kill, no damage inflicted to the CTs and forcing it flashed and they very well fall down afterwards
But tons of damage in return and the HG behind it could finish off Bob XD
Only does one damage of health, but he's still down to seven
And considering the time and the rotations that are coming in here,
Christao has been picked off.
It could be in up-trading hands as well.
Maybe this round's not done just yet.
But a well-timed rotation from Annalely will shut out Ralph.
Annalely.
So good in some of the high-pressure moments of the course of this game.
Bob XD.
Really low.
AHP.
Oh, timing on it is awful, though.
Watch for Annalie finally breaks and it's all on nutnut.
He's gonna be able to crack them open like a pistachio on this one hits the head of dracon drops him
Bob XD he's got to hit the quick scope around the corner walks in with it and is able to deliver
Bob XD
Saving them for one more round
There was two seconds left in the timer. I think one pulled the trigger there
He was so patient. He knew Nutnut was in the corner
But my goodness he time up perfectly. We're gonna see here on the replay. This is two or three seconds left on the clock
He slow peeks him in the pits
This is a kill Nutnut picks up and now Bobbock Steve three seconds
Two seconds left when it nails that. Oh the guys got ice in his veins
That's insane, but that's actually crazy
Hit in the shots one thing but doing it with the time of being a factor and
basically in a game we need a club for nutnut being the potential you're up against.
It's a hell of a round.
Bob HD unfortunately not able to continue on with more path into this round.
It's a one-for-one trade.
Does kill Analele though and Analele has been a real fawn in their backside.
Spooky's been struggling in these banana encounters though Vince.
It feels like it's been the spin cycle for it, tries to take the fight towards the broken wall time and time again and just gets mauled by the off angle.
Never really much room for trades from his teammates there either.
So down to a 3 vs 4. They've given away the potential edge they did have in the Battle of Attrition.
What's the game plan now then for Johnny Speeds?
It kind of reminds me a bit of like watching Liquid review Kindar trying to take banana control all the time where the timing just feels like a little bit off.
I'm not sure what it is for Spooky but he's had a really rough map which again
is so surprising because he's a very very good and talented individual player.
He's sent up on the boxes, gonna be mutualised first, the house is gonna take that
opportunity in me, I just want this map single-handedly dials it in and
ecstatic take their choice 13-10. There it is then ecstatic taking the
map in the end. Bob XD might have given them a lifeline, but ecstatic caused them to flatline.
Johnny Speeds losing the first map here on Inferno. I mean Mirage is going to be a whole
different ballpark Vince. There is room for a comeback on this one, but I suppose the
big thing about this for ecstatic, their pathway to winning this series required them
to take their map choice of Inferno. It had to be done. Mirage is going to be
hard so the fact they've actually picked this one up if they could withstand the test of mirage
even just limp their way into ancient there's a timeline where they really could actually
pick this up they're playing some great c yesterday no doubt i think a lot of players have really
activated and come online here at the perfect time he saw chris thou have some rough stop shots with
the orcas kick things off but he ended the map incredibly strong like his ct performance is
very exceptionally good honestly with the AKs the M4s like he was doing at all and
Dragon had an amazing first half but it's so often the case on the T side with the
AWP things are so difficult to just brute force and make your own I do think
we're going three maps though with all that being said Johnny speeds are an
exceptionally good Marge team we saw it yesterday against Metis poor it was a
real back-and-forth engagement my one concern though is if spooky plays like
that again ecstatic can win this 2-0
Oh, yeah, I think you know they need to basically have those few moments
You've probably got about 10 minutes now before the next game is live for the players to kind of sit down
Refocused instantly slap some cold water on the face do something Vince whatever it takes jump back in the death match right now
Because it didn't feel like the same player
You know what I mean like the way he was taking fights the way he was a little bit more disjointed like you were saying from his
teammates with even providing space for accurate trades
with it there. Doesn't there like the speaking that we expect to see? And that's going to
cause issues because that Johnny Speeds roster is so good with the fact that they can pass
the baton and everyone's at a high skill level. Everyone can pick up rounds. Everyone can
find a 1v2 here or there. So yeah, you need to kind of get everyone back in a line.
Align those ducks, Vince. Right now, ecstatic ducks in a row. Johnny Speeds ducks all
over the place.
Yeah, you got dragging like out by himself like the mother duck and then all the duck
clings are just kind of like chilling. One stuck down a drain somewhere, another one's
in a tree. Like it's just, it's just like one of those situations where we, we expected
Johnny's speeds in all honesty, I thought coming into today, they look like the best team
out of Eva group that we witnessed TSM are good, but I thought Johnny's speeds look better.
And so I thought they were booking their spot to the blast premier. If you asked me
at the start of the day, like, who do you think is going to win? I'm saying Johnny's
speeds off that performance. I have absolutely no idea anymore.
No, exactly, but it exactly like I completely agree. I thought they were going to be the number one seed in the competition now based off all of the matchups
We've seen in the benchmarks we had here in the Nordic qualifier Johnny's speech
Look like they were really sprinting towards that spot at the showdown and wanted to be able to
Continue their good form in online competition at a huge event that would give them, you know
A lot of grandiose stock and like we were saying before it's all of the optics that come with it as well
You've got a lot of viewers, a lot of sponsors, a lot of potential organizations that will be watching the show down eagerly.
You have a team like Johnny Speeds that do well. That's a chance maybe they finally get themselves an organization that fits what this team wants, right?
So making it there is a must. They've got to be able to actually come back now, reset mentally and find a way to get there.
But we'll step into it in a little bit.
We'll have a look how things are shaping up for Johnny's speeds when we return with our second map of Mirage after the break.
For now, we'll head over to a bit of a brief moment to chill.
Grab yourself a drink. Join us as it is going to be intense.
Will ecstatic 2-0 or can Johnny's speeds make the comeback? Join us in a few moments.
the map slipped through their
fingertips, Vince, and it means
that ecstatic are now potentially
one map away from our grand
final where they can play for a
spot at the blast showdown. But
that map, Vince, it's Mirage.
It is Mirage. Yeah, and this, this
is where Johnny speeds are a
level above, I'd say, Inferno
for the most part. This is where
they do their best work. This is
where Dragon was a complete
monster yesterday, but there's
shenanigans that ecstatic can exploit because it wasn't as if Johnny Speed smashed
Metasport yesterday on Mirage, it went to OT and in all honesty Metasport could and probably
should have won that game. So there are definitely some weaknesses that I'm sure ecstatic can try
and exploit. Additionally we had a couple plays not really showing up to that last map so we'll
see if that has woken them up if it's getting a slap across the face and a bit of a shock of
reality because you nailed it man like the narrative is for Johnny Speed's like if you want to
get picked up by an org, there's not going to be much better opportunities than making it across
the blastfall and really showing the world what you have to offer. So going out here,
if your Johnny Speeds is unacceptable, they've got to bounce back and take us to a third.
Absolutely. I mean, you know, you think about some of the bigger organizations that are going
to be taking part in the showdown, especially with some of the teams that were knocked into
that position because of what happened back at groups. Yeah, there's a lot of eyes that
are going to be on it from potential sponsors, organization owners and the general wide
a counter strike community as well and for Johnny Speeds as much as you know there's people like us
that are following it seeing a sort of growth for this team like you touched on if you only kind of
come around for the major tier one tournaments or for the major cycle itself you might not be as
aware of what level of lethality this team can pull up with but it's up to them to make it their
things the journey isn't over yet doesn't matter how good they looked in group stage it
matters how good they look over the course of today. We know Mirage is a great map for them,
like he touched on Dragon, the 30 frag anomaly, he was running around the map causing so many
problems the last time we saw him in the Nordic Masters on Mirage. Hopefully he gets a chance to
do that again but the issue really arises in the fact that it feels like Spooky isn't having
the same quality of gameplay that he's usually up to. Yeah we discussed this a couple of times
like he's up there near a 1.3 rate you know the last three months he is the best performing player
even eclipsing dracon who's on a 1.2 and so for him the drop is seven and 17 with a 0.6 rating
and 39 ADR inferno is really surprising and shocking but i also want to give ecstatic their flowers
jackie because it's easy for us to say like look and i think it's fair johnny spes didn't play
fantastically ecstatic were great they were really really on point and there was even a comeback
There was even a passage of play there where it looked like Johnny Spies was just gonna catapult their way to the finish line
They were in the second pistol they convert their rounds
It's looking good and then ecstatic stepped up their performance Torsten in particular really good
He's been in the team for less than a month
He's the new guy on the block for ecstatic and he was top-fragging
He was leading the charge for that comeback and leading the charge from to take their choice
So ecstatic really have impressed us, but we also know that Johnny Spies have another couple of years
Oh, they definitely do, you know, that team can start speeding up if they feel like they've got confidence behind them.
Overall as well, man, an LA lay fair play to him in terms of some of the quality rounds that he was able to find with very aggressive ingenuity of counter strike, keeping them guessing.
Yeah, I think, you know, if we see the same quality of CS from ecstatic, there is certainly a fighting chance.
worst case scenario for them, Ancient is the book end of the series. If they make
it to a third map there off the back of a loss here, still a chance, still a
pipeline for them to pick up a win. There is no safety net bow of course. If you go
down two maps here in this series you are out, it's cutthroat, you're gone
from the playoffs and you'll be waiting in the grand final for our next two
teams to duke it out and see who joins you later on today. As that's the
flow of the day here free VO freeze all tantalizing all getting us ever closer to the showdown itself
man I really hope for Johnny speeds overall as well though Vince you're able to kind of reset
mentally off the back of that previous game as there was a couple of unfortunate rounds for them
where it could have put them into a good position in the same vein though ecstatic they
We dealt a really big hand there and we're able to roll with the punches. So fair play.
Let's have a look. We'll step into Mirage, see how things are going to go down then on
our second map of the day and what the quality is looking like here, Vince, if they've been
able to buff out any of the issues or if there's still going to be some problems for
either team.
You would certainly hope so if you're on the side of joining speeds, right? Like,
you know that these guys are not playing at their full capacity and capabilities. Dragon
slowdown in the second half. He just didn't really get started either. Chosey had some
really good rounds which was good to see because yesterday he was a little bit off in parts,
couple of really valiant sort of last ditch efforts on the A site on the CT side. We got
two or three kills. He was doing well on B site as well. But what are the guys that
we actually highlighted coming into today that the main prospect for ecstatic against
Racken was Nixon and I think he also delivered. You know you're discussing Anna Laley.
We've already mentioned Torsen. Christau had a slow start but he picked up the
pace. I was very impressed with Nixon's work as well. He was getting a lot of clutch kills,
especially knows like 3v3s, 2v2s, he was just pushing them ahead. So we're in a very interesting
spot, Jack. I'm actually excited to see how both teams are going to be coming into this. Obviously,
it's the choice of jolly speeds. So they're going to be starting on the T side and allow
an ecstatic to try and build up their economy. Well, here we go then. We can get into the
action and see how it's gonna go down on Mirage if it will be a bit of a
different flavor on this one or a similar kind of vibe. It's ecstatic like
you said over on the CT side. Gonna be looking to control the game from the
defensive angle. Julie's in the hands of Nixon and Nixon he's read the round
right goes for the reply down on underpass and actually picks up two
for the price of none, Nut Nut pops the head of Spooky! Oh, Vince! That was a lightning round,
mate.
Oh, and everyone pretty much dipping in. I mean, Torsten didn't see anybody, but everybody
else has landed immediate instant one-tacks for the skulls. Like, that is a real collective
effort. Great for confidence. And just as we're talking about, like, can Johnny Speed
start strong? Can they get into this game as fast as possible? They didn't have
a chance to. Not a single kill posted up against Ecstatic. No post plan in play. They're still
going to force it in with some debils and tech nines.
Okay. Contact B. Fair enough. If it works, it works. Limited investment in utility is
growing out. It smokes the block off the angles, but Bob XD, oh he doesn't need to
play defensive, he prefers aggression. Blood in the water on the B bomb site and
The Rolf can sniff it, as he swings.
Look at the boss shot.
They're giving this one up already.
You're already backing up and resetting
because of how dangerous it's been.
You don't wanna throw away all of these weapons
on the CT side.
Winning the pistol and then losing the sequential round,
it completely ruins your money.
So after losing one player and the bomb plant coming through,
knowing Johnny Speets had post plans, they bail.
The only one confident enough to try and go
for something in reply is Chris Dowell.
That's just because he only has the due lose Vince,
but they've got to keep these weapons.
Wow, that's a swift response from Johnny Speeds.
He's chosen to survive, I don't know how to say it.
One HP.
He keeps the A1S alive.
That's why Chris, that also got aggressive.
We're just trying to analyze many weapons
going through into the next round as possible.
But yeah, that's a bit of a pill to swallow for ecstatic.
Like, I don't think they anticipated a force bite
to come out there from Johnny Speeds.
A lot of T-Sides would just basically bite the bullet.
They'd get in their glills and AKs in round three instead.
And you could almost see them get surprised in action, in real motion there.
They immediately pulled the plug, got out of marketplace, saved their weapons because
the alternative is to push into basically a bottleneck crossfire area and they didn't
even have HEs or incendiaries left.
So I think it is a good call.
It obviously really sucks to be in that spot, but it gives them a chance now to bounce
back again.
I think we'll see to the economy, you've got to do what you've got to do.
Keeping weapons alive can be far more lucrative than running risks of going for retakes.
Nixon.
Nice response with a fast blip through the smoke.
Loses his vision as the shroud goes up towards Jungleside, the crystal undetected towards Ticket Booth.
If Bob XT doesn't clear this, oh he's gone for the jump spot.
He knows. He knows all too well.
Finds that one.
Cleans up the loose ends.
should be another round for Johnny's speed off the back of the post plant as
well in reality ecstatic need a frag and they need one clean lead to give them
an inkling back from going in for this smoke's over the top MP9 is tossing fires
off warning shots hoping to bait someone in but no one's biting that
could be another safe position here especially now that Annaleles died I
think you've got to pull the plug a two pronged retake has now become a
a lot less fearsome and Johnny Speeds will dial in for a second time in a row breaking
ecstatic well and truly down to their core. Two save weapons will transition out of this round but
that's all they're realistic enough to play with. You don't want to be forcing in with the rest at
like 2300ish it's gonna wreck the economy early on so fortune favors the brave Jackie you know
you'd second round you force by with two deagles and three tech minds you make it work and
and then you go ahead and just push A fast and you get more rewards
and more spoils for your troubles so ecstatic now well and truly on the back foot
and Johnny Speeds starting strong on their choice of map.
At the very least, it gives you a little bit of time to
start out the potential gameplay here
from Johnny Speeds. Bid you time.
It's unfortunate for him to be given a potential headshot
Could have at least been a bit of damage, forced out of revive, re-investment from Johnny Speeds.
He gets the tag, but there's no room to convert it, and the Sanalele can pull off a magnificent
backstab.
Oh man, the timing.
Dragon flicks up over from the bench, finds the headshot, and punishes.
Nixon's got to go for the save.
Even the weapon alive though, it could be harder than it looks, potentially.
Nut, nut.
Playing up close.
Swings for the first, buys a bit of time, gives Nixon confidence to re-peek into it, but that's the M4 drop, that's going to be far more costly.
Oh, nice shot.
I know it's not going to survive, though, Bombs going to deal with him here.
He's just trying to take as many foes down with him as possible.
And they will have enough to buy him anyway.
even gonna be a little bit scarce in terms of finances to get Chris down or
couple players around the $5,000 mark so someone may have to drop down to a lack
of Kevlar if they do want to go for that one yeah makes a lot more sense play
with the m4a1s is get yourself more utility York is definitely a tantalizing
prospect here for Chris style but as you mentioned the previous map he's very
capable of the rifles you don't have to force that one in I think if
Drakken's in that spot, he's immediately going for the AWP, he's very up-centred.
You can see here from his perspective, he has one done for the round.
Molotov doubt, flash as well, but he's gonna bypass the aggression from Ana Leili, who tosses in the incendiary,
trying to force him back onto the mid boxes.
But Drakken single-handedly, not taking much damage and taking a lot of attention away from the sights.
And now they get punished for that one.
Jorsi, first kill in, and Johnny Spree is trying to just explode out onto the sight.
Tons of frags in their favor.
From a four versus two to a three versus two.
Bracken.
Looking for the pickup on the connector peak.
Unfortunately, his crosshair goes awry
and he's forced to rotate back around.
The tracing, not quite on target.
He'll make his move towards ramp.
Back over by Matrix.
That's where Bob XT is gonna be lurking.
Looking for the peak.
Finds the first headshot, torsion,
decimated because of it criss-out.
Weighing up his options now.
Wondering if the round itself is even a possibility.
Tries to take the fight versus Dragon, but is bested by Bob again.
Bob, who is building an opportunity for Johnny Speets here on the second map.
Four rounds on the spin.
Xtaik had a beautiful opening pistol, but since then it has been a landslide for the Speets.
Yeah, very true.
Very, very true.
The ecstatic started fantastically, but Johnny's speed was so quick to return the favour.
And since then, they've not given Ecstatic a look back in again.
This is more like the Johnny's speeds we're expecting to see over on Inferno.
Rufus, aggressive, in your face.
And no mercy being shot made out and alarmed by the feet of Crystal.
83 damage evaporates off his health bar.
You can't just maintain positional with the CZ where it is very powerful.
You can see the Johnny speeds are slowing it down just systematic control over the entire map and four of the five of ecstatic are
Situated on a the bombs nowhere to be found though. That's in the very capable hands of tracking or just beside him
We can pick that one back up again
And Chris down while his woes continue Jackie. You see nobody needs went from zero to a hundred in
Terms of burning with that Molotov and he's out already can't play any further part of the rounds
Chrisdow, more like Chrisdow.
Wrong, exactly.
Towson, more like Towson, oh no.
As he's gone as well, only three of them remain, Vince.
Ecstatic here. The MP9 bandits towards the A site.
I mean, at least there actually is a bit of a pipeline where potentially they could squeeze something out of round six.
6. If the teacher left himself in 30 seconds, they peaked together making this chance. Not
going to go too well though. The MP9 is going to deal enough damage, just one frag converted
into a second. So two rebies, but the round, the real commodity, that's given over to
Johnny's speed. So they now move up to 5. An ecstatic, the very least, they're now
able to buy back into the game. They'll have enough cash to reinvest, get the rifles
out of the orc and this is a team that we've seen today can go toe-to-toe can
definitely deal some killing blows. Chris Dowell on the orc when he's feeling it
he's able to unleash. Let's hope for ecstatic sake here on Mirage they're
able to get into that close state sooner rather than later.
Dragon the counter orb on the T side looking for the pick through the
smoke, Spooky's given so much man control towards Short Scythe, and Drakken strikes.
Ecstatic's AWPer is down and out, Annalay leg good for one, there's the backup from Nut Nut
and Nixon gets involved as well. Finally an advantage round for Ecstatic.
And nice teamwork in tandem, keeping the DPG making Short Crossfires in Drakken.
Uncharacteristically missing his mark, it was kind of moving though which obviously
messes with the accuracy of the AWP. He gets punished and our Rolf stuck on Ramp all alone.
If you can get a kill or two here though it is going to start to mount up a bit more pressure
on Ecstatic because obviously their money is in a bit of an awkward spot right now.
Rolf tries to pivot around and spin in but can't deal the fatal damage. The Nixon who moves up to
seven of his 2k into the round much better on Ecstatic. And I was going to say here coming
into the round, the amount of times that Ecstatic has just given up middle, haven't
really fought for it. I've seen a lot of fumes over the last couple of days pushing players
up, made getting into underpass, trying to be a real pain in the backside. Maybe that's
a play that Ecstatic can look for as the game goes on, because Johnny Speeds did get caught
by this quite a few times by Metisport yesterday. He weren't good at dealing with that mid-presence.
And Ecstatic are very passive in how they're utilizing this right now.
Here's a bit more aggression I'm talking about. Nixon just playing the periphery of the smoke,
but no one's home. Johnny Spee's not going to be looking for this for time being.
Chris Dow. Potentially about to be tested with a contact play into the B site.
The bomb's clearing underpass with track and prescoped on it.
If they do go contact, the first shot should land from Chris Dow, but then they'll look to
roam in and overwhelm. They're going to sell the idea of this being an A play off the back
of Chosy and Rolf's position. There's the utility. They're hoping the author on the B site will
bite, but he sticks to his guns. They walk up close, contact Pete there. Spooky goes down.
Nate runs across as well, but they've already slipped into the bomb site. That's Bob XD with
a nice par-thing. Tracken's got the cross, Analele should be a dead man. It's working
well for Johnny Speed here into the 8th Vince. Fucking good. They also shut out
multiple key choke points for any re-engagement, not not runs into his teammate's grenade, but it's gonna work out for them
Totally catch them off guard, but Chosy and Dragon in completely separate areas of the map. We're gonna lock it down
That puts Nixon in an awkward spot
They know the last player was spotted here and Dragon will not miss
Ecstatic they tasted success two rounds in a row, but that's gonna come to an abrupt end
Well, I should say actually it was on an island of T rounds
They were in the first round and they got one rifle, but it's even worse than the first one.
That's been shut down now, Jackie. Any potential momentum, a thing of a distant past.
Stopping you're trying to get the mower started, and it costs and splashes, goes a little bit, gets some grass in the blade, and then turns off again.
They just can't get this thing running. Need to smooth out the issues of the CT side soon.
Orc's position could be a bit of a power play.
It's good for one with the backup of Ana Lele.
So all in all, I mean, a 3 vs 3 here, it's an entirely possible retake.
You just gotta find these angles.
Oh, Krista's going for the jump-up.
I think Dracon saw a bit of skin.
He's gonna predict this on a reface.
But Dracon, his attention turned towards the apps,
heats into it.
Krista hits the first.
Trade back from Spooky on the bench,
his hillmate Micson sit down.
The Mac Turner bob.
There's damage again. There's the trade from Nutnut.
Can the big man himself get it done?
Nutnut, can you go nutty in the 1v1?
Flies through the air and cracks down on the spooky.
Ecstatic take a third.
Oh, it's gonna be close on this defuse.
He's gotta go just about with about a second or half a second to spare.
Yeah, really big trade.
I don't understand what Christo is doing, though.
I'm not sure if we're gonna see this again from his perspective,
but it's like he was switching to a Nade or a knife this year, like...
I guess he had a Nade out, he's got totally caught off guard.
Doesn't end up mattering though, as his Rifler is gonna save his bacon alongside Ecstatic.
It gives them something else to play with.
You're forcing down into a Mach 10 and chores you with a Tek 9 into this round.
You win this, it's eco territory, maybe a 6-6 scoreline,
and Dragon's spoilt for choice, shoots between the two of them
and hits the shit of Cristal, but no kill forthcoming.
Torsten.
Right back off.
Drops the smoke.
He's uniting his hands.
Vision barely comes back at the time
Bob XT unloads the split with the Mact 10.
That frag's gonna do a lot.
Look at the damage done as well.
Yeah, they're posturing off.
Another round they feel uncomfortable going in with.
You took so much damage.
Torsten in reality is harsh as it is.
You have to find one at a minimum,
two being the preferred here on the defense for the B player on a push like that and it's always a
risky spot it's why anchoring a B site can be such a fickle mistress but especially with Anolele
taking so much damage on the retake you just don't have the chops to go for it you'd lose
everything as well off the back of winning that previous round and removing one of your
lost bonus it's going to make it really hard so Johnny Speeds will go to seven ecstatic
If they can even squeeze just one more round out of these things and 8-4, it would be the worst thing in both.
Get a little bit more on your CT side, give yourself a slight buffer.
They've looked pretty good on pistol rounds. Hell, even here you took the opening pistol and then got absolutely ruined by the state of the CT economy with the comeback round from Johnny Speeds.
Still a fighting chance for them and they played for the long-con. They wanted the economy going into round 11 and they're going to have that on their side.
Rebuy back out. Fix the pieces of the fallen weaponry. Can they find four or
potentially five rounds? Or does Johnny Speed's warp half-continue? They found this
weakened me at the B-bomb site and they're gonna keep hitting it, you see.
Yeah, they've elected this is the chink in the armor. This is the gap that they
can exploit time after time, but it's Chris now that's gonna try and plug
that gap with the orb. This is the shot, and he at least falls back.
René tossed in, Cougoud with a damage here. Rolf taking the brunt off that,
he's able to pull the plug and get out and allow Annalely to activate in. Nice flick to the head of
Bob XD. Balian attempt at holding the site is allowing the rest of the CTs to quickly rotate
back in again. Suddenly five players on the site, but Spooky deals a fatal blow to Annalely.
They still get to get the bomb back down though, they're being delayed for so long
Long here Johnny Speaks, a lot of damage done, 34 HP between them, scratched out as it's
spooky, removed, choresy the only one standing but he's not got the chops for the 1v1 vs
Torsen who's unleashed, a hack trick in the round, finding his form, took a bit of
time here, get his impact going in the game that Torsen delivers and that fourth
round could be the Difference Maker, especially if they can squeeze one more out of this,
It goes from what was, you know, really a bit of a damp square of a half to actually
a far better position to project yourself back into this game.
You get a 7-5, take a pistol, your woes are behind you, then you're just thinking about
what's yet to come.
Chris down.
He wanted that opening pick towards me.
Not gonna be given it.
Dracking might be though.
Nutmeg's Torso and Vince look like he was on his legs but flicks all the way
up towards his head and takes that man down.
Classic dracon flick. Many of those have been witnessed over the years. Lovely shot.
It has been counteracted. Traded back from Chris Dahl's AWP and his victim is Bob XD.
So it keeps the manpower equalized. Completely agree with you, especially considering they won the pistol
then it immediately got broken back. They've kind of been chasing Johnny's speeds ever since.
You get a 5-7 scoreline here. You definitely fancy your chances to bring this one back underway.
back on the way. Nixon's stuck in the smoke, unsure as to whether there's an opponent around him.
So doing his due diligence and checking all of the angles is going to clear. They both do a
double take, but it's spooky. It's faster on the draw. Prestal with the spam shots through the smoke,
hoping one of them will connect. Thing is, Rolf can play back on short with the plant that
he's got or inside of the window and have a comfortable post plant to be able to close
this one on. There's no saving your weapons here, no second chance is you've got to go
for it. Analele losing his manpower though as the round continues. Time ticking as well.
That's going to be the additional presence on the server. Supporting Johnny Sins. As soon
as he taps, they'll peek. They both swing in unison and it will be an 8-4 half. Johnny
speeds on Mirage. We expected them to come out swinging binks. They pull no punches
on this map and again here it's looking pretty good for them. A static. Need a pistol
round. The top and bottom of this nice pistol you could build back into this. Actually course
correct bro, it's gonna be early. Lose the pistol. Johnny's feeds are gonna be dangerously
close to pushing us into that third map of Ancient quite quickly. Yeah this is such an
important pistol round right now. It's static, gotta get themselves back into this one.
Can they be as clean as we saw in that first pistol round or will Johnny's feeds
just catapult their way across two Ancients? I think we both agree though that Ancient
could be a super close map as well so ecstatic have plenty of lifelines left
drack and though beautiful immediately the capitating Anna Lainley and shows he
should be good for at least one kill Nixon deals with him straight afterwards
but it is still that man advantage falling itself on the CT side as a tease
funnel over onto a they got two of their three players over here one ramp one
palace and Nixon needs to join the rest of his compadres with that bomb
and in the amount of time it'll take him to get across there there could be a
rotation in but they're thinking second of this they're actually trading away
nut-nut for the time being and his next one really gonna come through under
pass he's basically gonna be all alone if he gets shut down around connector
that could be the round that goes with him this one's on a knifes edge
already nixon the backstab onto him should be a freebie realizes pressure
kicks in. Bob XD and Drackem peeking together. Bob, nice tap onto the back of the head, and
nut, nut. Goodbye, Nixon. And it's ecstatic for hoping to grab a pistol round and project
themselves towards a better cash ship. It's not looking good here. Johnny Speeds with
another one in the pocket. And that pistol's going to give them a good flight chance now.
You know, in West Case scenario, if there's ever a reset, some shenanigans, there
maybe maybe we'll debate how this is gonna go but for now you can have a way
better by coming into it so getting closer and closer towards pushing
yourself to a tenth round it's all happening mate it's all coming together
for Johnny four clocks as well isn't it it's like the downpour that ecstatic
will be feeling right now from elation in the first map getting
across the finish line with a really hard fought battle for being straight up
pulverized in this one it looks like looking at 10 for bare minimum could
even just straight up escalate out of control from this point where you're
looking at a 13-4 kind of scoreline here they're all together though they've at
least got the one-for-one trade especially with what for the bad outcome
but this is where the massacre is really put into place choresy and spooky
get themselves involved and it will just be the one casualty for Johnny
speeds as a 10-4 score comes in. Could afford the AWP again but I'm expecting to see Chris
spell pick up the AK alongside the rest of his team.
Going for the Lightning McQueen play on map 2 as they are speed right now. Running through
this one with quick pace. The only potential block in the road could be ecstatic to
AK's pulled out. Top mid, gonna be 4-4.
Smokes up. CT's playing a little bit more passively in the opening down bit of this one.
He's already in towards top mid, looking for the swing.
That's the connection on Annolele.
The first default being a main piece of the puzzle floor.
Ecstatic tracking continues on the warpath.
Mixed them with the trade back.
Free versus free.
And a minute and 15 on the clock so a lot of combat in a short space of time and Rolf
He saw the barrel vins around the corner and picks that one up
Tag it bag it this one looks like it's over. Make static just can't get into this game whatsoever
It's been such a
What clinical performance from Johnny speed across the board spooky's getting involved Bob XT's playing well again
again, dracking as ever, and chose the up to 12 real team effort. It just don't really
have the protocols it seems, it doesn't really have the set plays that you could be looking
for on a map like Mirage. And Tawson's gone from being the top frag of the previous map,
to just being a little bit off on this one. He kicked things off with a bang in the
first couple of rounds, but since then it's been pretty quiet from his point of
view. They have all invested here Jackie, this could be the last swing, the last
roll of the dice, Tec-9's a Galil, and very little money in their bat pocket. And they're
gonna be rooping up for potential massive grenades as well tossed into apps. Not that
takes the brunt of that one as they spill out. This easy picking for Bob XD again. Big
bomb. Building this one again towards a victory plinth for Johnny's Beats. We're actually
And he lifts him in with Johnny's feet off the back of the first map in, and they were asking Bob if he could fix it.
And he said yes, and collectively the team also said yes he can.
So the builder there, making it work.
They've got the hard hats on, they've got the sledgehammers out.
Lofty and Skipper, made an appearance.
Spooky though, stuck in the cement towards top mid there.
Analele winning out on the open field this time.
Draken up to his old tricks though.
Oh, fast flip from Draken, that one's a beauty.
Is domed in the end by Torsum.
Free V2, is there a chance at a fifth here for the Danes?
It certainly hopes so.
Confidence building into that third map,
looking more and more likely with her in passing seconds.
Gotta make sure you get a hold of this one.
Played a bit of pride.
The Mavix D with a spray on the first one, it's good,
but can't transition into a second.
However, he does spot the two remaining players, so Chosy now knows what's up against him, and where they're currently residing.
With every passing second, that second tee can make him move around into Palace, and he knows it.
So he's gonna try and force his will, get that smoke down, tickle the bomb, drop the tees into the open, first braze good.
He's got enough time with that kit, but he's gonna have to get on it soon.
That smoke's gonna clear as well.
Down comes Nixon, knife out, Shaxton, just in the nick of time to save the day for ecstatic.
12 to 5 but he will not survive the round.
Oh, pressure on in that one.
What a dangerously close, all things considered.
One round to elongate the lives of Ecstatic here in Mat 2.
As Nixon's blade will finally find its target, Butcher Pete makes an appearance and that
meat gets chopped up back into the action though.
Chausy picking up the scope himself and playing aggressive inside of the B apartments with Draken
mirroring that from ticket booth watching down towards connector side.
A bit of a different setup in terms of the way they're playing it. They've been very aggro towards
mid. Here they're playing more choke point centric around the actual areas they can control and
block off. Pop XD looks for the fight towards mid on short side. Nade exchange from either
deep. What do you thought about it there? Sided better of the choice of wide swings and a playback
on the site instead. He knows it's cozy with that secondary orb in play on the B-Absi. Now
been activated. Springs in, neutralizing Torson and backs off to the site. Molotov has a
parting gift, allows him to relocate into crossfires. Looking shaky for ecstatic. This may
be the beginning of the end. A curtain coming down on Mirage perhaps or XD. Repositioned onto
And the fan that does get caught by Chris style flash boss being dragon now alongside Chorsey
It's both or puss ringing out
and this should be it
Game over for Mirage barring a crazy Nixon clutch. He's got himself two so far and
The shot misses from the or 20 seconds to potentially punch it
Hang on. Is he got plot armor? He's got plot armor Vince. He's died past two bullets
and hits the headshot onto Draken. They're giving him the round. 10 seconds, he's got to find a final frag.
But Rolf withstands the might, closes the chapter on Mirage. Johnny speeds. They make it through
and close down the game overall picking up the victory here. Oh, didn't ever come back
potentially there from ecstatic, but with such a small buffer to play with, it was an awkward
round for them to even attempt to really start to get the ball rolling from. It's kind of what we
expected though, Vince. Mirage, this should have been the playground for Johnny Speeds. We
expected them to come out swinging here. They've done just that. It's all about ancient now.
Both of these teams level pegged. We're basically back in a situation we've been in yesterday.
BO1s, one map to decide who goes to the final. Very true and a very different sort of outcomes
as well in those two maps. You know, this is way better from Johnny Speeds.
This is what we expected to see from the first round of Inferno.
Didn't really come into play. Spooky had a rough first map, much better in this one.
That's great news and Dragon doing what Dragon does best. Flicking heads off with that AWP.
I think it poses us in a very interesting position here now for that third map, Jackie, where
it's anyone's game. Like we've seen two different sides to both teams.
Yes, momentum will be favouring Johnny Speeds, of course, because of that victory,
but we know that ecstatic are capable of coming out and shocking us and surprising us,
So I don't want to write them off just yet.
No, definitely man.
I think there is still room for ecstatic
to be able to build back into this one.
We've seen a lot of resilience, a lot of talent.
Johnny's speed though, looking pretty good.
Up to their old tricks.
I do wonder what we're going to be getting out of this one.
We'll be back in with it following the break.
Keep it locked here for the Nordic Masters qualifier
as we'll finally have our first finalist after the break.
the ever-wonderful Vince as we'll be stepping into our third and final map
at the first semi-final of the day.
Vince, Johnny Speed struggling in map one on Inferno.
Ekstatic took it away from them,
we've then flipped the scripts going into Mirage with the exact opposite occurring
and now arrived on ancient Ferdinand final map territory.
Basically a BO1 between these two,
Sweden versus Denmark here in our third and final map.
I suppose really the fireworks are,
where's this gonna go?
What are our thoughts on this one?
Yeah, it's tough to say really
because we've had so very different performances
over the duration of these two maps you just highlighted.
I will say though, for the ecstatic hopefuls out there,
this is their most played map.
In the last three months, they have a 40% win rate.
And of course we've seen them play it twice already
on the first day, they played against triple seven
where they got the 13-9 win, and then they played against TSM where they lost 13-9, but
that was a game where they could have won it, in all honesty, like TSM kind of brute forced
their way across with some of their heavy hitting players. So, they are very competent
on this map, but so are Johnny Speeds, and so that puts this into a bit of a coin flip.
I will say I'm still going to edge Johnny Speeds because I think they are the better
team on paper. We've seen so much from these guys over the last months, winning
tons of online events. It feels like maybe Inferno was just a blip on the radar potentially.
So, uh, if you're right, you were Johnny Johnny speeds, and you know, maybe they'll be in store
for a big finish. Vince is that's what they're known for. Let's have a look at the MP stats
at MVP stats though, from that previous game, as there was one man that was head and shoulders
above the rest and it was dragon. Again, he was lights out in terms of his warping
reactions. Very nimble, very quick. I don't know how his wrist has withstand everything
he's put it through over the years, Vince, because he's so damn quick on hitting those
90 degree flicks. The Herty Verty is time and time again.
The Herty Verty love that. Yeah, we saw a couple of those, especially in the B apps.
We saw this crazy flick up to Chris, though 1.7 KD with 121 ADR. This guy is just
mirage fiends like we saw on the first day we've seen it again here mirage is his playground like
you don't want to be playing at johnny speeds on this one certainly not no not at all man he will
just run away with those games it's it's really quite terrifying how damn good he can be you can
mirror some of that on ancient as well and this entire team i'd say if anything was their biggest
boon and drawback it's the level of aggression that johnny speeds play with ancient is a map
the really excels on the CT side if you're arrogant, if you're confident, if you're able
to go for tempo plays, push the extremities, take deep control of mid, fight for K, fight for Lane.
I think if anything, you know, it should suit their playstyle and ecstatic, you're going to have
to come into this play a little bit snappier, a little bit quicker. We have to see the A
game from ecstatic here, or there's a chance I think you might just get rolled over by a very
aggressive Johnny Spades. Yeah I agree with that. I think also Ancient lends itself very nicely to
allowing you to facilitate that kind of play style you know whether you're on the CT side
and we saw this over the duration of this tournament a lot of very aggressive CT sides
most notably Cy for getting the upper hand when it was bleed like really dictating the pace
against their opposition. You can't definitely do it on either side of the equation but
the problem is that mid control really comes under control and my concern for ecstatic is
what we've seen on each of their performances when it came to Ancient is they're not the most
sort of mid-centred CT side. I think Johnny Speeds will certainly exploit that and potentially get
a lot of success off the back of that because if you control mid you can easily wrap around obviously
through donor over on the A side of the map or you have catwalk control which is cave is always
the centred part of this map so that's my only concern for Ecstatic. That being said maybe
they've gone back to drawing board they've had a day in between to like you know figure things
out so we may see a new look at static team they can't they constantly surprise me
potentially so potentially so man it feels like this team is able to kind of
go back to the drawing board whip up something new and come in fresh every
game even into that previous matchup there was moments where it felt like
they really could go above and beyond raise up to the occasion and
potentially push themselves a bit forward just some unlucky timing and
lucky flow of rounds as well you think about the start right you take
that CT pistol instantly get reset. It's just the hellscape of being able to
jangle your way around the economy, figure out how you're gonna get back in
with the CT side, money punishing you so much and it made it very harsh for them
in terms of a comeback with the scoreline they were able to muster up.
Here, freshed up, third and final map, come out swinging, see what you can do
on ancient. There is always a pathway for ecstatic and if they do pick this
up that's you go into that grand final. That'll be one final BO3 up against
whoever makes it out of the other side of the bracket, of course, where TSM is waiting in the
wings to take on Metzipour. Yeah, that should also be a very interesting game that of course,
you just mentioned is up next. One player though, we highlighted at the start of the day for this
game who I think is going to be very instrumental in ancient is Nixon. We've seen him be consistent
over this, this sort of tournament, especially today. Towson had a great game on Inferno,
trailed off on Raj unfortunately but I think this is where Nixon really will show his hand.
Very aggressive player, multi-fragger type of player as well where ancient really lends itself to those
kind of talents. You're thinking of players like Nurtz for example reminds me a little bit there's
Nixon of a player like Nurtz with his capabilities and his mechanical lane. So yeah this is where
I want to see Nixon really come alive and I think if he has a bit of a rough start to this
that could be a determining factor. Not to say it'll be his fault by any stretch but like
like he's just that good. He's that important for a team like ecstatic.
No, absolutely, but it feels like there is a lot of room here for him to really show
the lethality that he can bring to the occasion.
He's been super good in a lot of these important rounds over the course of the
series yesterday as well. So we'll see.
We can get into it. Kickoff, ancient.
At the end of this next B03, at the end of this map,
everything will be ancient history between these two teams.
And we'll have our first grand finalist confirmed.
knowing who's going to be waiting in the wings for the upcoming semi-final to finish.
So let's step into the action then. Johnny Speeds will be your CTs for this pistol.
Draken looking for the push-up on mid, but the T side of X-tactic is Nixon looking for opening entries.
And Vince, he's limiting up to your expectations.
Yeah, he's just such a good player, man. Like, his aim is so on point.
I'm impressed to buy him the Stookey one of those players that's maybe not had the series he was hoping for.
It's in a neutralized torso and post plant in regardless and there is a flanking contingent in from that man Nixon
Who was so quickly involved in the frags now making a move around the back of catwalk
And he could be the ace up the sleeve but Chris Dowell doesn't need him alongside nutnut. They're gonna be shutting this one down and
spooky
Is encircled by teas in a post plant?
He's being whittled away is how far is running dry gets knifed in the back is
Now this Knicks wants him and gets him with the knife kill
insult to injury but ecstatic plain first blood
Let's take that one to the bank
cash it a liquid round
so they can trade in
As you'll be happy with that opener there for ecstatic
especially on the T side get a bit of momentum going early
for Johnny's speeds
it'll be 3d equals 2mp9s and a single flashbang to play with
Now, but Molly off the wall.
Draken beats the timing on it.
No audio cue from that.
Outside of the footsteps.
He's trying to pull off the play-vents,
but the paranoia kicks in.
One bullet in the back, the tagging slows him down.
Draken panics, tries to switch into the knife,
and gets scammed because of it.
Still, a amount of arsenal of weaponry
available to Johnny Speeds, but the fact
that Spooky is low, they have no incendiaries,
or HEs or anything to really soften up some of these targets on the approach.
It does feel like Ecstatic have this round in the palm of their hands.
And the Laylee's gonna come up close and personal with Spooky any second now with that M10.
Gisto, aim on point with the AK.
And yeah, this round now falling into place.
Only speeds in that force five has not really yielded too much in return.
Roth lucky to survive on the 1HP.
Bob XT puts that eagle to use for one kill.
But that is all that Johnny Speeds will get out of this round and put Fire 2-0 on the side of the Danes.
Danish Supremacy coming through the minivan. Masterclass for Ecstatic.
But can the speedy Swedes get their shoes and socks on?
They're running shoes in so that they can speed back into the gameplay here.
Probably won't be happening in this round.
is that everybody have much to work with. Less running shoes, more flip flops on this one as
it will be mostly USPs with a 5-7 and Deagle supporting it. Bob XV though, I mean no matter
what's in this man's hands it feels like he's pretty powerful with it. We'll see if they
give him an opportunity to play. No one fighting him towards Midgish yet, utility
pass back. Walk up from Torsten, sniffs out the first, is dinked, but they're shut down
dracking. Giving that map control towards Red Room. The 4 CTs now group up in the smoke.
Hope to burst on Annalay Lake. There's Big Bob. Shut down though. 3 separate angles,
they walked into the lines then and they were devouring kind. Of course Torsten was
the expendable player with that max 10, went in first to find out the information
And although there was this one kill, you see three pincid AK-47s and galils showed their strength.
Johnny's speeds though will be in for a buy, dragging with the AWP.
Rest of the play is coming through with their rifles, so ecstatic, a really solid purchase of their own with an open play for Chris Thou.
This is the full proper test of what ecstatic's T side is gonna be looking like.
Molotov drops out of the cave, swing from Spooker, still able to swipe from the lip, predicting
the shots but no tags.
That actually connects onto the bonfonte as he gets it down.
Wouldn't have given him much of a big swing back into the round but might have been something,
oh that's why he'd actually dc'd there, look like he tabbed out.
That seems like we're all good to go though in the rest of this round but it's gonna
pretty much just be a case of Johnny Speeds holding on to what they already have in their possession
and that's an AKM4 and the AWP. So ecstatic. If we had any concerns about them rolling over and
kind of giving up in this game I think they're proving us wrong once again.
Rapid start in the pistol round they've unrelented since. Money building up nicely,
$10,000 or not. Many players have $8,000 to $7,000 as well.
Johnny Speeds being able to hold on to those weapons, it does give them a little bit of an
incentive to push in aggressively. We haven't really seen them fully attempt this mid-control.
It was kind of half-hearted in that last round. It's one of the reasons they got punished so hard.
What we do know about Johnny Speeds though, is they're happy to push through
on the A main play as well and try and wrap around the T's. So I'm curious if that's
That's going to be coming in sooner rather than later, but maybe somewhat telegraphed
after this tactical time-up's been called.
I have to wait and see how these moving pieces start to come into play.
Nutt-Nutt, with the most money on the team, call that cashew.
Not bad actually, not bad at all.
There you go.
Told you I was work shopping.
Alright.
They started back into the flow of things then, they're playing the woodpea bonsai
I toss him in the jar of candy apple mac 10s, but he'll be red with rage as he goes down. It's nut-nut that punishes
He takes a p-calf
And hits it. Nice swing on to speaking
Jesus blitzed into it again
Having the mac 10 in play with that run and gun, he really got tons of cash
Surplus has worked out a dream. I think it's just another save like Johnny speeds don't really have many other opportunities or
decisions to make. This is off the back of a tactical timeout. Draken still yet to
get off the mark as we move into a fifth round. Conclusion here. Very surprising
because he's normally one of those guys that's involved right off the bat.
Pistols? Good. Soon as he's got an AWP you're expecting them to have impact but
they've just bypassed it with this crazy aggression. Bob XT has now been spotted.
And a Lely though, still gets splattered maybe anticipating the peek on the
right hand side, double nades in but will not yield any kills. However ecstatic, they're
going to be just fine with the fact that they sit atop the mountain at a 5-0. Those two previous
maps as Jackie said, don't matter. Zero interest in that, they just got a focus on the prize
and that is a grand final position in our qualifiers.
Did you know by the way that peanuts, although commonly referred to as enough, because
of their simularity. They are actually a lagoon. I did, yeah I did know that. I heard that at
quiz one time. It was quite interesting because I feel like when people talk about nuts, immediately
their mind goes to a bean up like, he's like the standard. That's the number one nut they
like to make people. But it's not, it's a lagoon. It's in the bean family. There
keep that one in the back of your mind if you ever a pub quiz other forms of
quiz are also available
let's just focus on getting the right answer to every round and so far they've
got five out of five points Johnny Speed struggling on the opener here again
and he's been squeaky that's been having a bit of a rough day of it
hasn't looked like his usual self and the Lele with the timing through cave
could pull off the backstab to give the barbarians of the gate on ramp a clear
line of sight to push in. You know that baits the shot chores he goes down as a
sacrificial lamb smoke off do they know about Rolf though don't forget about Rolf
his angle could be impactful good for two swings back looking for a third he's
called for the rotate bobex D on the scene and he's done from the utility
Clean up from Cresta. Beagle now in his hands. The Blaze, setting the place on fire, but he might go down.
Can't clean up. Falls to Bob. And Johnny Speeds finally get around.
How did Rolf get two out of that position? I'm sure he's going to get pumped out of there.
Really impactful kills. And we obviously started things off as well as the double war.
It's kind of baited out by the potopsies.
First one here, skins around, just insta-headshot onto Anilely, fair enough.
Well played, Rolf.
Single-handedly gives his team their first round on Ancient Betlake than ever.
But there's still plenty of finances afforded to ecstatic,
so you're gonna need another round or two at least to break them down.
The job is only really begun for Johnny Speeds.
Peachy's tossed out, Drakken gonna take a couple of those, down to 57 already, they cleared a smog though and the flick is on point.
As he continues from where they left off in the prior round, sees the initiative and push with aggression.
It's been a pretty flat CT half for the first six rounds.
But maybe there's a chance for something new.
Good peek from Spooky.
Cave control goes his way this time.
There's Ana Lele. He's left down on the Ana ground.
Free players remain for ecstatic then.
Close quarters combat here. Rolls, he's good in these kind of instances.
But loses. Nixon hits the quick swing.
Spooky in the follow-up double.
Good to see from a neutral's perspective that he's getting involved.
But very rough start to this third map.
Nut, nut, tickles the bomb.
tries to draw them out into the open, but Kraken is not a man to be messed with.
As he puts down his second kill off the round and second kill off the map,
so two on the bounce to Johnny Speeds.
Is enough money for another buy after we've stunned that storm, but
getting back into this, Jackie, slowly but surely we're seeing
little glimpses of what Johnny Speeds are capable of.
Seems like Johnny Speeds had a nut allergy in the past two rounds.
Before that, it was nut nut running rampant.
Let's see if he can find his opportunity to get back into his winning ways once again now in the eighth.
Spooky coming alive as well. Like you said, it's nice to see. He needed a bit of an energy buff.
It was slow on Inferno. He was peter-ing on Mirage.
If he can have a big return to form on Ancient, especially with some of his teammates struggling right now,
Dracker not hitting the same level of lethality we've seen from him.
Chosy, he has to get back. It might be enough to bail him out.
Rolfe's been going above and beyond in some key rounds today.
And again here hits the head, Annalelay slain.
As he'll deliver the M4.
Chris down.
Catches that one on the rotate.
But Bob XD, he's Mr. Reliable.
Not here though, nut-nut strikes again, the pecan punisher delivers once more, and it's all down to dragon.
That's a really grim page from Bob XD, like it just seemed a bit indecisive, I'm not sure what happened from his perspective there, if like a bit of lack of comms or something was called in that put him into a different line, like a push in, for all intents and purposes, like it was gonna go the way Johnny speeds, it was a 2v4.
They end up losing at the end here.
A lovely shot from Nutnut, but from Bob XT's perspective,
he did seem for a good second or so
and didn't really fire off many shots at all.
So it's a two and done for Johnny Speeds.
Economy in rough shape.
They can squeak out a bye, but it will be far from ideal.
I'm totally on board for the tactical timeout.
This is looking very good from Ecstatic and in Crystal.
Nutnut, both of them showing up and performing when it's really desperately required.
He's a big game player. We've seen that historically.
Always been someone to keep your eyes peeled on, it's why I was so excited to see Nutnut join this roster.
And especially in this series now.
He's been coming alive massively and giving them that firepower they need on Ancient.
Damage done.
Annalelay half HP, the entire team blown to bits but Nutnut is still standing.
With a backup of Annalayla and Crisdow, there could still be something to be said about this round.
The flank from Spooky is problematic. He's making his move round on the rear.
They have found a pathway into the A site.
Rolf sniffed out the location of Crisdow with a warning shot being fired from the orc.
The dragon delivers a deathly blow on Annalayla.
No, no. Fire's out the warning. No attack. Flank arriving quickly and it'll be the Famous
Spooky that dispatches him and Cristal. Now realizes how rough of a round he's been left
to contend with. He may just be thinking about saving already, to be honest, Jack. You've
got an AWP, you've got $100 left. Considering that a few of his teammates can buy in for
a rifle into this next round, I wouldn't be surprised if the call is what's kind
reverberating around the back of his mind right now.
Can be speculative, try and take a couple plays down, they know the CT's economy in no
great shape itself, but yeah, ecstatic will be conceding for a third time.
Finally, we're seeing Johnny Speed with a little bit more emphasis on mid control,
realizing the importance of this area of the map.
Fast rotations as you highlighted from Spooky, who did get his reward with the one.
MP9 traded up to the AK from Rolls-Hands, which is always a blessing.
Yeah, 6-3, the score line, incredibly close.
And Johnny Speeds willing, what is that, three of the last four rounds?
Just starting to get their way back into this.
They're finding a bit of a better streak.
CT economy can always be a pain in the backside though if things go wrong for them.
They stack on their last legs in terms of the weaponry,
maybe changing up the pace, going for a raw A hit off the back of this
of this, I mean, crystal with the AWP, if you can find a pick towards Temple site, hell,
even deep CT. With the utility they've got, they can block off the all-important angles,
remove the vision from Temple, remove the vision from CT, block Donut, and go for the
swoop in. Bob XD suspect about the fact there's been no aggression displayed towards
lane, cave or mid. If they don't go for something soon here, the penny is going
to drop. You're going to call for that rotate towards the A site. They haven't
haven't gone yet due to the D-Pay mains make. Here's the call. There goes the Nade over.
Block off CT, block off donor and hope for the best. Shorzie trying to put the pressure
on. Bracken with a swing hits one, but they bleed into the side.
I can't solve it. Good opportunity to expose my fouls just making sure I don't fully
invest behind that one. Let Shorzie deplete his magazine first. I have lost two players
though in the process and a weak in Nixon. It's not an easy sight to retake over on the
8th of Ancient, especially with three players still alive but one of them has the tech 9.
But I know he's playing up close. Orchok connects, Draken switches to a sidearm, does land a headshot
that's missed the USB, forced down to the open of Chris Dow and Annalely and they
cannot withstand the pressure that was mounting up. I think you actually hit the nail on
the headjacket it took so long before they executed that ecstatic were found out
they were sussed out before they even started to push towards the site so
the rotations were already in play you see two in from donut right now and so
quick to neutralize the threat before it really started to mount up too much
yeah it's fair enough like the smoke did kind of you know ruin their lifeline
in terms of getting into the site you would have shrunk in blind but the
entire time you're left waiting they're just clearing all the angles
and getting every single bit of information they need. They knew exactly where you were
coming from. Swing some roundabouts. Unfortunate round. I should have had some extra behind
it going for this one. It should basically just be the Abbotour outside of B. And that's
what it's going to be. The Butcher knife pulled out for both Spooky and Bob XD. They go
in a Kimbo, chop them up, and make a good comeback out of this one, Vince. Yeah, you
consider the flow of the first five rounds of the game. It looked dominant from the
the T side.
Extatic would've been over the moon if Albus game was going.
Now Johnny Speeds, only a single round away from equalising it, and having a 6-6 half,
it's pretty impressive of a comeback, and they've got a double loop set up to support
it once again as well, Chorsey still being able to maintain one of them, he'll take
that back over towards A main, Bracken can take the peek inside a donut, blasted
Johnny Speeds in terms of the CC setup, and Extatic once again go back to B, even
And by the utility, though, war, criss-out with a depth-defying connection. Slays Bob, but goes down to the nade.
Like, 150 damage, just purely off the ground.
And still, they come out ahead with torsion and nut-nut. Doubling.
And putting them into a 4-on-2, Nixon's already bypassed. The site is getting up close on the CT side of B.
A two-player is a lockdown behind a smoke.
Chosy and Draken have to go for it, of course, last round of the half.
Flashbang off and over, does nail Nixon.
It's still tossing this there to lend a helping hand, strength in numbers.
Draken.
This is the flick, gets punished.
An ecstatic.
They'll have a 7-5 lead come that second half.
Valet attempt at Johnny Speed's getting back into this.
getting hammered for the first five or so rounds, ecstatic still in the ascendancy,
some of them drive the seat as they move across the CT side.
7-5 is a whole lot better, especially if they get a pistol bug like it's entirely possible
now we could actually see them stretch their legs a little bit and start to pull ahead
of Johnny's speeds. The Marathon series has not been a sprint, it's been about
endurance. The Johnny Speeds is their potential for a comeback pistol. Get the
groove of the game once again in your favor and a Lele gets contact towards
mid. That's Draken fighting with the P250. He's got the extra range. Meanwhile up
close quarters you've got the push into cave here. A triple threat. Spooky,
choresy and the rest starting to put pressure on the B bomb site.
Draken gets flanked from A main but he's been able to cut this rotate
right down the middle and they've not committed to anything here Vince.
Bob XT pushes up towards Red Ring.
Dracon does fall.
They might just want to go for the A-Play in through Donut
or see if they can group up, fly together and red.
This is going to get messy.
Oh, lovely shot from Bob though.
The verticality thrown in still flicks across to his left side and dispatches
and that is the opening they were looking for.
And now they're going to exploit it as they all rush in,
Christo down to 10 HP is hearing the footsteps as they charge on to the site
but Bob checks for an angle a 50-50 all that second shot from Christo disgusting
splatters Rolf and goes in again with Nixon it was looking possible for Johnny
speeds but now it's all those spooky he's had a good map so far but the
Glock is gonna let him down an ecstatic will have the successful
retake that second kill from Christo though man was sublime I was gross
That was absolutely ridiculous.
When you hit that second one then it's not even thinking there's a world where maybe he
does just hit them all just spamming into the smoke.
He looks so crisp.
Can't wait to see that on the replay.
Huge, huge frags.
And a big pistol round as well.
That's going to have reverberations you'll be feeling throughout the rest of the game
now.
8-5, they get the buy into it.
The only thing that's a terrifying prospect is we've seen ecstatic win CT pistols before
and then get reset. Can't afford that to happen here. That'll be the way back into the game
for John Speets. They want to slam the door in their face. They need to take a win on
this one to do so cleanly. Weaponry wise, you've got a Hero AK on Spooky. Chausy with
a Galil. Double Deagle and a Mach 10. Nut-Nut with the MP9. Up top. Let's see if this
big nut can do some damage. Ooh, takes a hefty hit Vince. He's got a back pedal.
Top the molotov and you'll be okay for time being. Flash comes out. Double kill
for Christo. Doubles up. Smoke down as well. Seven bullets left in the magazine.
They've given it damage on the retreat. Down to 73. The BoB XD's made moves. Up close with
an eagle. They can hear the bullets in the smoke, but they've actually nailed Nixon finally.
They get the advantage they've been desperate for. But Thorsten's making moves through Donut.
This could be the moment that gets locked down again. Count Johnny. Hold on. Warning
shots fired out. You'd hear a pin drop on the battlefield right now of how silent
This round's gone off the back of the opening carnage.
The Johnny Speeds, they know that they've got to play their cards right.
You can't afford a single mistake.
Christal looking to cut the rotate out through main.
Damage done on to Dragon.
He drops to 33.
Christal debating whether or not they've actually snuck the bomb over towards the V3 site.
This leaves Torsten isolated in the 1v3.
He gets the info, Vince, but is it enough?
Can they win the clutch?
because they took that little bit longer.
That's what baited Christo to force into security.
Wanted to check all of his angles.
That left his teammate all alone.
Although there were weakened players and two of them,
it's fancy to be enough to deal with it.
A hell of a shot from dragging on that eagle.
Johnny speeds.
Get it done.
After a Christo double onto main,
it looked like it was going to be more of the same.
It bounced back with authority,
and that's going to play hell with the finances
of ecstatic. Donny speeds right back into this matchup.
It's the curse really isn't it? It's that worst case scenario that we prefaced into
that round. It happened before and it's happened again ecstatic. They win those CT pistols
but following conversion, if it gets ripped away from you, it's so punishing. CT economy
hates those rounds. And now you've got to fight back with a lesser buy.
Mix and Steagall maybe deliver deftly blows but Analele strikes back hitting one onto
Rolf bringing the hurt locker down on him. Tags out as well they're actually getting
them relatively low here. You could probably clean up off the back of this
especially with a spam onto Chorsey as he attempts to go to the bomb plant.
Oh, Draken covers the smoke shot though. The timing could go against them they're
watching the angles now. They had an opportunity Vince but it feels like it
might be slipping. Uncharacteristic offspray from him. He's been so on point over duration
of this map. Yeah, Torsen pretty much just has to hold on to this MP9 now. The season
can weaken them and let the bomb do most of the work for him, but he realises his chances
of clutching are zero. So out he will dip. Ecstatic. They went in for a four set. A
couple of players down at $1400 so they went to double eco territory anyway and
getting a few MP9 kills in that round is gonna bolster up their money a little bit
can see 3,000 now in Torsen so he'll be good to go in the next one and Johnny
Speeds can breathe a collective sigh of relief after that dealie came undone with
some really nice Deagle work I mean you were on post with that Jackie the
amount of Deagle shots they were landing on the approach there were so many
weakened health bars and as soon as Nut Nut died that was the round that
basically went with him.
Unfortunately man, could have been a bit of a game changer.
I'm going to speed this time, Dragon.
Blow on health, blind days confused,
they're now down and out.
Off the back of Taliesin's MP9.
Johnny's speed slide their way in towards the B-bomb site,
smokes over the top, restricting vision.
It's gonna deal a ton of damage
and they absolutely unload.
So Johnny's speed bringing up the power level.
They had to bully him that round to get through cleanly, they took damage sure, but the fact
that they stay alive is the important piece, and from trailing for so long, they've now
equalised.
They potentially could put themselves in the lead very easily here.
Their biggest test comes now though, an actual full buy to play with for what feels
like the first time in this half outside of the second round, before it's dying.
Johnny Speaks. Can you pull ahead tonight?
Dragon's on the AWP as well Vince. He's had a bit of a slower game on the CT side. Couldn't find as much impact.
T side AWP. Let's see if he can stretch his legs, take some picks.
He's playing more passively outside of the AMane lurk for now.
And they're expecting ecstatic to get aggressive on the extremities, but they've not gone deep on this one. They're playing really calm.
I haven't kind of flashbacks to that Inferno game like the general ebb and flow of how this
match has gone so far on Ancient reminds me very much of the first map we saw between these two
where his fast leads being picked up and Johnny's speeds came back and then
ecstatic were able to shift into that next sort of like second wind and take it home
I'll see if history repeats itself, not not in the position definitely saw the shin
around the corner and fully commits to it lands the headshot and dracking but dracking
does nail the up shot so an even trade health also lost and torsion in the
process 55 seconds now the bombers transferring back over on the B side of
the map spooky looking for the cleave around the corner of the torso
you see the barrel of in Seattle the truck on him he saw the barrel but he's
fumbled the bag on the drop could not deliver and this is gonna be
problematic now free versus free but this favours Johnny's speed to every
damn day. They've got the flank round through red as well. Chris doubt he's not going to
expect the phase through the smoke. Flashbang might give it away off target. The M4 out of
ammunition and out of luck. All on Analele. Low health and the round itself is gone. They
didn't commit to the plant. Four seconds on a clock as it ticks over. Oh, they can
seed it off of a formality. Hey, what am I watching? That round was just an absolute
disaster. You've got Torsen whiffing hard, Kristal forgetting to reload, and Johnny Speeds
forgetting there is a time limit on the round. Oh my goodness. And the Laila just sits in
behind the box and just kills, wins the round, MVP of the round, purely on the basis of
not getting involved. 9-8. And I guess that goes to show the stress that's being applied.
You said it was a marathon of the game. It's a mental fatigue, and they just started
to slide in as well. A toss and making amends for that previous round as he dips into the
first year. And it is spooky. The top guy for Johnny Speeds. Coming alive on Ancient,
but he's going to have to sit on the sidelines and watch his team try and stop Ecstatic
from hitting 10 first. No foliage in this household. It's Johnny
speeds have got no plant. An ecstatic pull their heads off the back of that mistake.
No head for Annelale though, choresy. Takes it clean off. Frustrated at their previous
mistakes they go in and play with aggression. That might be the round. Then and there.
There's three players alive for ecstatic sure, but you look at what they've got to
work with and how much damage this is going to do to their economy with only one player
surviving the previous round. You need to save it. So Johnny's speeds do equalize.
9 to 9. Tents super close game. Hanging my thread for either team to just grab
this with both hands and make it theirs. Nixon's gonna be under heavy duress,
whether he survives or not. Maybe unlikely. Or if he can take this AWP from
and that would be a chef's kiss moment as far as he's concerned, but rather worry about keeping his own MP9 fair enough.
Some lovely entry-works of course there as well.
But we are tied even here and the question now for Kristau and Annalely is
can you get any weapons? You just sit with literally
default pistols with P2000 and USP that seems to be what's gonna happen. Last time they had an MP9
They got really aggressive through middle with a pop flash and they kill track and we'll see if they go for something similar again
Austin's gonna decide to get on Catwalk, but at Molotov actually chases him up the wall and does quite a bit of damage
And also gives his position away as crystal gets caught with a Molly out
No dear oh dear
You can see it's moment stage creeping up
Like you said back in the team potentially kicking in along to your free between these two
and the pressure on their heads is causing mistakes to be made. A retake, their hands in the balance,
and it's starting to take 10 and recover their territory. Bob XD goes towards wrap,
here's the footsteps, good peek, nice damage on the second as well, softens them up enough,
the HE could trade it, it's gonna deal a ton of damage on the Nixon,
spooky with a flick towards the head, holding the angle, good defense and the round's gone.
Even if Nutnut survives the round itself, it is going to be wired over to the T's.
Bonblast will soften them up on exit, and they go down.
Trying to trade up to the AK, gets it, and with his drop weapon, they will be able to
fly again, but it means that Johnny's speeds will be hitting that all-important double digits
in first position. The way that this game is starting to slip away from ecstasy does
just have this air of inevitability about it perhaps for Johnny Speese to get this win.
They were the expected winners. Over 80% on yards.
And a good entry as well from Bob's XD.
This now saw nothing and the same can be said for Annalely.
Constant flashes cost him for good measure and a third kill on top of it.
Ecstatic are just getting exploded.
Nixson walking through the smoke should be able to slip his way past the
setup here from spooky he's actually gonna play an E flash wait for it to fade
see if he can find him
angle doesn't work though spooky gets that one Johnny speeds again that started
very uncomfortable but in the past
4 rounds away from closing this down series point drawing ever closer.
That's grand final point if they can close this third map against Ecstatic.
And considering that there's only pistols against them, you've certainly favoured them to get to that 12 pretty quickly.
Spooky's had a real turnaround considering 7 and 17. He finished Inferno, but no one finds what he can claim.
The Dragon's not gonna add any to his collective tally. He's had a bit of an off-performance by his own very high standards
Can't expect though that the IGL of the Orp is always gonna have that kind of consistent level
This is where you expect the rest of the teams really pick up the slack. Bob's XD gonna be getting through on the run
On reds and does spray down onto a weak and Nixon from Rolf
Stay in position here. Try and get a second and a lately shown his hand that stands and delivers for one
3v3
Torson's position has gone unchecked if he can get in amongst the frags here. There is a way back for ecstatic
Maybe they're not done just yet
5-7s can be absolutely deadly in the right hands
And these devilish games
Might be able to make something out of it. Tolson
Spooky's gonna spot him
Playing close to was the box looking for the peak on the tight angle didn't expect the swing
It's so uncomfortable. I mean your best case scenario if they go into this
You're gonna lose the AK lose the 5-7 if the round isn't yours
Bombs already halfway tick probably better to just save both of these weapons have a very healthy buy and play for the OT
Going forward not nuts okay to fight it with a 5-7 on exit see if he can deny one or two weapons
maybe grab himself an AK.
Chris Tao's gotta save it though.
He backs off towards CT.
Johnny Speeds will make it to match point.
Three of them.
And again, this would be elimination for Ecstatic.
There is no lower back.
There is no safety net.
You lose and you are done.
TSM, Metasport up next in another best of three in the semi-finals.
But what we know from ecstatic is these guys, they will not go down without a fight.
That has been a consistent factor over the duration of this tournament.
They've now got weapons in their hands and a really solid assortment at that.
4M4s, one or tons of nades.
And there is definitely a way in which they could bring this back to OT and then who knows?
Shadow is going to betray the uncoming.
Chosy, but he still nails the kill to nut nut, and although the flash is good, the follow-up damage is dead.
Chris now gets picked off in the back, but so does Ana Lele.
Back and forth, five splits faved from Johnny's feats.
Oh, mate, that was a six break transfer from your main man, Big Bob XD.
Putting himself on 21 kills, making you feel ill with the plays, but Nixon replies back, slays on the AK.
Headshot connection, drack and domed.
Torsen walks out through the smoke, paranoid about clearing CT, bomb ticking down, halfway
gone on the fuse, smoke off on A main, wall-buy a bit of time, flashbang through as well,
trying to stick it!
Nixon!
He's got to hit both of the pickups, Torsen comes off, swings round, hits the head of
Rolf, an ecstatic, moved to nine.
It's a big step towards redemption.
What do I admit though? I wasn't a believer there Jackie.
They're not not got picked off by Chausy and they just spilled out into the site. I thought that was going to be it.
That man again, Nixon showing his worth. Yes, he's had a very rough game.
Just the seven kills, but that is a very important frag he just picked up for his teammates.
And he speeds gonna be back into another by the way to afford as the last round as well to be fair
$7,000 and Chosy before he picks up his rifle
5,000 on spooky
Turn the only dracon that's gonna be feeling worse for wear
So we go again here Jackie 12 to 10
ecstatic
It is kind of the crystal show right now
He has been by far their best player not just in terms of statistics
But a lot of those opening picks in really awkward positions
you saw there he was fully flashed but still pulled out the kill just to fully
stop the rot. Pressure from Bob XD though he wants to get through middle but the
molotov is gonna stop him in place.
Causton forced off from the molotov. Johnny Speed they found a lot of success
with their beef embodments. Cris down though. Wing out versus Bob XD, it's a nice
opening. Bob has been going above and beyond. A lot of these rounds are
Dragon limping away from that fight to HP a strong breeze could buckle him
Off angle set up in cave towards some plays on top of the box
He's got support underneath him as well
So deciding which target to shoot I should mean it's a guaranteed trade
They don't damage the both though soften them up on the peak
So spooky just trying to waste time. Rolf's already pushed up on the tight angle towards Ramp as well.
Nixon flashes over. Here comes the short and long smokes. Christelle's vision's about to be blocked.
Yeah throws the deemptive Molotov down just to try and keep them at bay for a little bit longer.
Of course the Molly's gonna run out before the smoke does. That window of opportunity opens
back up again. Nixon hiding in the corner, has no help from his teammates and all of the
flash comes through. Johnny Speeds now have a chance for Torsen, taking that away beautiful
second shot from Torsen at the third as well. And Draken can do little on that one HP apart
from safe. I mentioned previously they had funds on the rest of the players. He was the
one guy that was worse for wear on finances. And there's no chance he's clutching at
this point. So he will hold on and we will go the distance, the full 24 rounds at
at least, plus maybe some extra rounds if Johnny speeds can't get it done again.
The raging bull of Corsair. He saw red on that round. Such a simple play.
Beautiful flick onto the second, the third is absolutely perfect as well,
denied any chance of the response back.
Ecstatic. Zippel's band of merry men can ever fight long woods, showing confidence, showing resilience.
Are they able to find one more round? Keep the dream alive, potentially push us into an overtime and reset their opportunity to win this one.
They still have a chance to go forward and make it to the final with the Nordic Masters.
Fighting with the power of the Norse God the lightning Bob cast out from crystal will shock Bob back down into the dirt
And give them a first pick to play with and a laylays got the backstab
He's gonna be tested but they line up for him. It's a tk that comes out and it's all on spooking
24 kills if there's one played one in this position on the T side right now. It's him. He's got a bit of time
He's got the bomb
Or at least something's working in his favor, just lighting up that dark cloud looming overhead.
He has no idea where these CTs are.
He has, maybe a chance to get across, but he's got no smoke to cordon off Donut either.
Just a decoy by his side.
First frags a 3B, and Alaylee doesn't punish him fully.
And Spooky's gonna try and draw up the remaining CTs around the corner.
Spray is good, but he's taking a lot of damage now.
He has half the amount of adversaries, he's gonna get caught from Thorsten on the approach,
who's really come alive in these last few rounds.
And Johnny's speeds get dragged into overtime.
12, 12 will not give up.
The energy's still there.
This best of three been delivering on all fronts.
Inferno was a 13-10 victory for the Ex-Statid crew.
Johnny's speed sprint back into action on Mirage and now here on the decider of ancient
we end up in overtime 12 rounds a piece of complete reset weapon we deployed with for Iverside
Bob XD when he's able to stay alive he can be a real pain in the bottom
he's looking for that opening pick on mid but he's taking out Anna Lele with whom
Anna Lele the annihilate events punishing them again impressive
The players have a bit of a slow start to this one.
Torsen bakes himself out so that Annaly can land his triple and you can see Drac and he's shaking his head.
He's frustrated.
He's not happy about how this is going. He is the IGL of the team now.
It's a rough game individually, but also the pressure of losing multiple match points.
A 12-9 to a 12-12. When you know you have enough of a best of three coming up later if you win this game,
We're basically putting so much more mileage on your day.
We mentioned about how that marathon has been going on.
We've effectively just extended it into another half marathon at this point, if you Johnny
Speeds.
And Dragon is going to get shut down, whether it's to the hands of Nutnut or afterwards
there was two players rotating around the back.
And that's never a good sign, Jackie.
Seeing frustration like that from your IGL in a situation like this, that can be
a death sentence. Could be a worrying copal sign of what's yet to come. As ecstatic,
have a lead once again. 13 to 12. A few more rounds of ground fighting.
The firmly placed in the lap of ecstatic and the Danish demolition squad can throw away
Johnny's feet, take the wind out of their wings and right now they clip them once
Once again, Nixon unloads the mag down towards bottom wrap, rips his way through to...
Draken, forced to put the game on his back once again, expects the peek from Pristau.
Molly's gonna go wide, he's still able to hold it.
Battle of the Orpas, depends on the timing.
His teammate hasn't rotated just yet, nut-nut, gambling on the idea of a late play towards
the A site finally starts to make his move, but Draken gets his window to slip out,
The bomb moves, Bob XD subverts expectations from the back up towards B, oh Vince, Johnny
Speeds have played them like a fiddle.
Yeah they have.
They're gonna know this is immediately an A-Side of play though because they've already
made moves out on B-Side.
They heard the bomb, nowhere near this area.
But it's a loud dracking to set up shop and change the dynamic of this round that
he will not miss.
This is a fantastic call.
A really heads up decision.
Not enough tickles to bomb, no idea what that first player is, and misses his spray.
Well played, Johnny Speeds.
Draken with the call.
Bob XT with the kills.
That's more like it.
They looked dead and buried in that round, but they somehow managed to make it work out.
Fair play to them.
And for Draken, I think the reality of the situation is hitting him now.
That sinking feeling in his stomach, he was underperforming compared to the level of,
Hey, he's been able to distribute in the previous two maps, and earlier yesterday back in group 8.
Now we're seeing him step up a bit. Big 3k in the round. He takes himself up to 11.
What more is in store for us here in the 27th season? Same angle he's been playing a few times.
He's good for one, then he's done. Cristow trades back on the Rolf as well.
Spooky with a reply, takes down Torsten, and the longer this one goes on, it's looking worse for where, for the side of Ecstatic.
Group up on the response, all three players towards CT, nades over the top.
Smoke's gonna block off Crestow's peek, all the time it! That is rough!
So close, yeah, you can see even the spray from Lucknot through the smoke was close as well.
He's gonna take tons of damage from those HGs, both landing in his pockets.
his pockets. Christao threw the smoke dispatches of Chosy.
Christao on low HP on 57.
When I push through one of these smokes, he's actually traded to the M4 instead.
He's in that run, mobility doesn't work though, dragon nails him.
Annaleli knows where one of the two players are, I'm not sure of the second
who's bypassing the smoke and wrapping around the back.
And Johnny speeds pulling a rabbit out of the hat.
Somehow, magically lead come that second half.
They were looking behind the entire time, catching up the advantage.
That's insanity.
Again, man, some snapshots, crazy reactions, and a big comeback for, again, like you touched on.
A half that looked like it should have been all chalked up to ecstatic, being able to pull massively further ahead.
Johnny's speed, lead by one.
They go for their standard buy as well. Chorzine's a V4A hold. You've got Draken on the secondary or inside a donut.
So that means that they can have more manpower to make sure it's towards cave and ramp.
Spooky falls though. Opening pick. Given to ecstatic.
And a Lele the ever aggressive.
He'll find that first frag.
Keep yourselves focused.
This down nice flick again takes the damage. I think he got head shot it by a Rolf there with the m4
27 kills me kick 28 slow peeking into crystal
Not the best of decision-making the way the guy's playing right now, and he's gonna put this into a two on five
Static looking to bounce right back with some of their own success
There's not a great deal at chores. He can do about this one. He's kind of stuck on an island maroon with an AWP
as company
14-14 will be the score, of course both teams now trying to charge down that all-elusive 16-round mark.
If neither team get that, we head to 2nd OT, we had multiple overtimes yesterday.
On including Johnny Speeds, of course, he gets Metasport over on Mirage.
Nice flick.
Trying to wield that orb like a shotgun.
Rename that bad boy to Big Puppa Pump.
Then we'll get some warping in the round for him.
14-14 though, he tied up.
Next attack with the comeback.
Getting some big moves.
So where's this go?
Split the rounds.
We rack up a double OT.
One team takes both on the spin.
They can still win it.
Here in the first overtime.
Deeply probably in 4-4 again.
The NA damage is vicious.
vicious. Landing on both Chris Dowell and Ameliele, absolutely chunking them.
Dawson will win out on the deep brown fight. That mage is good as well.
Rolf on exit is lucky that he actually gets away. The tagging slowed him down so
much they tried to pounce on him and looked to finish the back player. He
gets back towards the cubby. It is a four on five but the HP is massively
bruised for ecstatic. That's a good point. Having four of the five players
weakens and limping their way to the site. Even though you could say the same of Johnny
Speeds, they've both been in a real, tossler, real war of attrition this route. It's up to
the T's to bridge the gap and to make moves into crossfires. And so even though Johnny
Speeds do find themselves behind, all it takes is a brief moment of magic and if
you quickly go pear shaped and ecstatic, there's Drackham with the peek, takes
damage himself, but he's got the pick he was looking for. Nixon gonna try and
bypass the smoke. And there's Bob's XD as well. They're actually putting this back into
a position where Johnny Speeds will be the favourites to take this round. 30 seconds left.
Ecstatic needs to pick up the pace. 24 seconds, you've got to go fast. Niggs and Dive Drunken
don't have the bombs to miles away. You're just playing deathmatch at this point. You've
got to go for the frags. You don't have time to get the bomb back. It's going to
be so incredibly close. And I think the pennies only just dropped. They've realised
their mistakes. Even with a knife out you're not going to make it to the bombsite in enough time.
They're going to catch them on rotate. Dying after time is the worst-case scenario as well.
Nixon falls. Nutnut. The realization seeps in. Both of these teams having a blunder round now,
where they could have had opportunity to get themselves another on the board.
Instead the timer takes away that chance. Oh dear, oh dear.
You would not be ecstatic about that one.
Johnny Speeds.
You only need one round to close now.
That is the kind of round that you want to forget as fast as possible.
They had the advantage.
Almost like paralysis by analysis.
You could see them thinking about, should we go back to B?
And then they're doing nothing.
And now they're being carved into pieces by Dragon and Bob XD.
Oh, that could be Till also starting to funnel its way onto the server for ecstatic.
You had every chance, Nutnut's gonna keep this round just about alive.
Torsen has a smoke to get tossed out, there's a small gap, but Dragon's skill gets nailed.
Into a 3 on 3 now, with a smoke down they can try and execute onto the site.
Looks like a bit of a gap on the left hand smoke, blocking towards CT, short side.
They try to break the smoke open and take the fight back.
Nixon hits the headshot into Bob XD.
Petynade, Rolf walks straight into the dead center of the splash zone.
26 HP on him.
Molotov goes out just as the smoke dissipates,
and his life is going to evaporate with it all on spooky.
This looked like it was Johnny Speed's guaranteed 16th round,
but the longer it's gone on, ecstatic of sat them down one by one.
unless Spooky can complete the unthinkable comeback and win the clutch, it will be a double O.T.
And that's where we're going.
This game continues, this marathon stretches further and further.
This time it's Johnny Speeds.
They have the advantage with another match point and they let it slip once again.
Unbelievable 3v5 they ended up losing there
And if tracking was tilted before I can't imagine what's being said right now
It's gonna be really frustrating
At the very least though, but for ecstatic
Considering you lost the round prior off the back of the 2 vs 2 with the bomb getting lost and things is going wrong
You would have been so tilted, you know the
level of upset that would have been going through the team speak off the back of
losing that following round would have been awful at least now being able to
reset you pick up that win you can gas each other up a bit you take it as
basically that first OT didn't exist this is over time all over again now it's an
exactly level playing fields you're on the T side keep your head held high
gas each other up in the team speak go back into it hope for some big plays
individually the longer the game's gone on the more they've been
stepping up 15 15 Vince the never ending story between these two teams it
started going to show that they can upset Johnny's speeds and make their move
to the final. The players are gonna try and compose themselves now focus back in
all five of Johnny's speeds yet to pick any weapons up so I guess they're all
taking a bit of a break right now just resetting if they can. I mean I've
lost what is that four or five match points so understandable if maybe you
need a bit of a breather. Of course we do have TSM and Methods is poor after this
best of three in the second semi-finals that was actually scheduled to start
around now so obviously we'll be straight into the next best of three
after this one. Plenty of Counter-Strike coming up for you for the rest
of the day we are now starting to see that its Swedes are picking up their
weapons so we should be good to jump back into the saddle in our second overtime
round 31 we'll be kicking off I have no idea which team I think's gonna win this
one if I'm being honest with you Jackie it's been an absolute mind-melter of a
game Kristal's been phenomenal 28 kills the same could be said for spooky as
well and bobex D's not too far behind them ecstatic start second OT on the
T half taking the mid-control themselves which is the common
from smoke, take cheese and molotovs and two CTs just behind it. And this is spooky with nearly
doubled its frags from both the first two maps of Inferno and Mirage combined in the space of the
30 rounds plate. But we're live again and the action unfolds, Bob XD. No chance for him to find
impact in the opening gambit here at the 31st. There's plenty of chip damage across the board
Jawszy has to compose himself.
We'll find the head shot back onto Nixon.
Donut is wide open.
Ecstatic barreling their way in.
The Danes on parade.
They move into the bombsite.
Two players grouped up inside a temple.
Rolf trying to draw their attention round on CT.
Nice tactic to smoke.
That's Nutnut softened up.
His hard exterior shell cracked open.
Jawsie looks to take a bite.
As the trade back, Draken's AWP will deliver and it's down to a 2v3.
Bombs taking away Nutnut and Crystal both coming with frags but Spooky gets one of them
in return.
And he knows where Crystal is now.
Bombs not planted for this specific angle, has to run in.
Here's the footsteps that Crystal's not gonna miss.
Up to 30 kills.
Ecstatic, up to 16.
I was going to say, these are the kind of moments that create heroes.
Who from these teams is going to be able to step up and be the difference maker?
Or perhaps it's just a case of Christoph continuing from where he left off.
Huge impact in this round once again with his AWP.
Big round.
Potentially a monumental one for X-Tac if it leads them.
So a very dominant T side heart there.
Christoph continues where he left off,
He re-cocks the AWP and strikes onto Spooky to open up this round with Annalayley,
ratioing Bob out on middle.
Draken, the depth-defying AWP.
Patient, bides his time, pulls the trigger, strikes down on one.
Rolfe's traded by Chris Dow.
His second frag of the round.
Oh, Draken wants to go for the bait peek.
He's trying to force the jiggle out!
Oh, Draken's outmaneuvered him!
That's so strange that Christal would decide to peek on that side rather than the other
more his teammates were watching him.
He just kind of left himself out there in the open, he's played so well.
Maybe confidence getting the better of him, Huberus being his downfall.
And I lately now, as a huge task ahead of him, he's got a little bit of time to play
with and the bomb but the timing on that flank from Chosy could not be better and
He won't miss out on that chance.
Ecstatic had two picks early on in the round,
but Johnny Speeds able to weather it
and move through into some success.
Pretty mad that you've been able to allow
Dragon to image freedom in these 1v1s.
Heads up for the Cammy's from him though,
baiting him to the top.
He's out of play.
This round's not gonna go so well for him,
as Annaliele he's been feasting on nitro for breakfast and gets explosive towards
middle detonates Johnny speeds drops us down to a free versus free with a bomb
on the back makes his move on the wrap to walk the site Ralph up close hits one
sets up for the peak from spooky and Annaliele started the round but now he's
He's got to finish it. Outnumbered. Minute and 13 on the clock. One versus three.
And even harder task in that previous round. And I don't think it's gonna fair any differently.
I think the result likely will be the same. He's tried to waste a bit of time here and
make Johnny Speed second guess. This idea is going to end with the D side but now he's given his position away.
Smoke down and a flashbang could afford him the luxury of crossing.
Tries to get the timing on that but Rolf shuts him down.
and Johnny's speed not for the first time with another leap between me and him and the times before.
So Johnny's speed with a slight edge, let me say man, not the first time we've seen this.
It's a possession that we've been in and that ecstatic we've had to fight from a few times already today.
Half swap, first round goes live, second OT commences,
Bombs sprinting, over to join the wolf pack of the trio. Johnny Speeds crew, outside a
B.
Dragon wins on the opening duel towards mid. Annalie has been so punishing on the T side
but unable to find his footing in the first round of CT.
If I find that shot though it drops Dragon down to 1 HP.
She kind of gives way to position but it forces Cristal's hand to snatch the opportunity.
Considering he is a lone defender right now and smoked off from reinforcements,
He's only feeling that pressure, needs to be alleviated with the time of the smoke drying out.
The Johnny Speaks have to pick their looking for, they've got time as well and they're starting to make a move through the middle.
This is going to be into the hands of Nutnut from Donut, can actually live up to the call but he goes down without any kills and that will not be good enough.
Nixon swings into the crosshair of Grolff and he'll be able to take the top clean off.
Torsen replies, wallbang through the smoke, predictive fire.
Hoping to hit that one but it goes awry.
Double made in!
So much damage done!
And Johnny Speaks with an explosive clean up, they take themselves 18.
One round required to close this now.
deny the comeback, finally lock the head, clean off all of the dames and move themselves into
the grand final. Two more chances, two more match points. They squandered many of them.
Is this their moment where they grasp it and secure their spot in the grand finals?
The SMM meta spot will be laid in wait but the early pick from Annalaly. Typically the
CTSide he's been performing on his behind lighted the best time he's got it done on the CTSide
Spooky though will even the odds and it is the Talisman the main man himself crystal that goes down 32 kills alongside him
They're already spilling out onto the side, but Nixon still here and they have K control
Tossing in with a flashback takes down one falls back into the incendiary, but the damage may have been done
Ralf is down at 5 HP and now Chosy's all that stands in a one versus three and he gets sideswiped
The double hit from Ecstatic, they save yet another match point!
It looks scary.
It's Saturday shaking.
Ecstatic, very least with stand, one more test.
The buffer between them and Johnny Speige draws ever close up.
17-18.
Last round of the double OT.
See if they can pick this up, close the distance, take it 18-18.
We can run it back for a third overtime.
The Ecstatic will still have a chance to move through to the Grand Final.
Lose this following round.
Everything they fought for over the past three hours will amount to nothing.
It'll be done and dusted.
With Johnny's speeds going to the Grand Final,
the Ecstatic eliminated.
The Minordic Masters are only out of the competition.
Third to fourth.
Dragon. Warning shot on middle.
There's only a warning though.
Utility missed.
Looks good to delay the push, but it's NutNutsAK prowess that will actually give them the edge they wanted.
They take down Chausy, so a first pick vince, an edge in the round.
More side step towards potentially another overtime.
A Johnny Speeds have brute-forced their way onto the site, and it will be a post-plant coming in,
and a 3 on 5, but they have Dragon, who's been unseen.
Playing incognito on the double doors with the AWP.
They are still checking this angle, though. Flashbang and Dragon should die.
And now it's on to Rolf and Bob's XD, as they have to try and take the fight to the CTs.
Bob XD is all alone and he falls down, and it's yet another overtime.
This game does not end. Ecstatic.
They've saved like eight times now.
Their skins in this game. It's incredible how resilient these guys are.
Those are the watching Glee all over again.
We're never ending over times here on ancient and the Nordic Masters.
Ridiculous scenes.
But a sigh of relief for the Danish team, I mean ecstatic, there's been quite a few times
where they were about to be defeated and they've had to fight back, they've never
been in pool position to close the game.
Maybe this is where they can change that thing.
CT side-star.
What have you got in store for it, can you rack up a couple of rounds, give yourself
potential buffer to work with, aggression on display, torsion, scrape down, smoke blocks off the doors,
Rolf, the pre-fire on that is marlin, nixon goes down to 41, just off the back of the lucky spam.
Correct me if i'm wrong here Jackie, but i don't think ecstatic have had a matchpoint so far,
right, like they've constantly been trying to- Always been trailing, yeah always been trailing.
So wouldn't it just be karma and fate if ecstatic get one matchpoint and they convert it?
Just to show Johnny Speeds that if you lack that killer instinct, you do get punished.
We'll have to wait to see if that happens.
As you said, they've constantly been trailing this entire game.
If you just joined us, by the way, it was 12-9 at one point.
Johnny Speeds nearly had it done in regulation.
After they lost the very first map of Infernal, they went in Blitz Mirage.
Nixon takes the flashbang, stops his push,
deadnits tracks, and is forced away with 13 HP.
The link's in down.
X'd out by this one.
Still got a duo on either bombsite too.
He's out of crystal towards the cubby but he doesn't expect the walkup.
Torsten could protect him with a cave smoke shrouding the walk for Bob.
He's calling for the backup.
Free fire goes out but the bullets are not on target.
No utility either.
Try and deal damage.
only one flashbang to give them a pathway back in. It's gonna air burst, but no one
blind from it and no push off the timing. Isolated fights, nut-nut hits the head of one,
causing with a pre-fire looking to trade all down to nut-nut now. He needs to find a 4k in
the round to win it and it's a task too tall. He'll go down and Johnny speeds with 19.
Hensley picks up his 30th, 3 behind Spooky, 4 behind Christal.
From here though, it's starting to see it constantly next.
That's it, having to win from these difficult positions, draw away multiple match points.
And it's down to the fact that Christal for the most part is head and shoulders about the rest of his teammates.
Yes, you're having a little bit of support in cast members coming with Nutnut and Thorsten in some of these rounds,
but it's typically being Christal with that orb.
So what happens if he slows down? What happens if he goes off the boil?
Do they have a plan B? Do they have another player that can pick up the slack?
We'll need to figure out something.
Someone else to try to find out.
The client doesn't help.
It's been the broken record over time between both of these teams.
They always have to bring it back,
grind out to give themselves another chance.
Johnny's speed's always lead, but then struggle at the final hurdle.
Crissed out.
H.E. damage should be good, better than I expected right on target with the way Bob lowered his head hit box, he'll take that one straight to the chin.
42 HP remains.
Krista, looking for the aggressive P.
Low on health should be an easy tag and it will be.
It takes a lick of damage, drops to 40, but he's still alive and that's the important piece.
Chosy has to cause issues. He needs to find at least a couple of frags here to buy time for them to push into the B bomb site.
Falling that early means that they're gonna stay around and the ecstatic should be ready for the defense
We'll have bypassed those smokes as well because
Good crossfire
Executed in the entire show is how it is too little too late
Ecstatic will snatch that hand and snap the clean off and get there 19th round into round 39
We go
dead even once again
19, 19. Whenever you think it's over, it just starts up again.
These teams seem to be evenly matched at this point.
Draken with a fast peak, good connection. Torsim.
Was hoping to fight the control of K-Van Lane, but he walks straight into his maker as Draken puts him in the AWP blender.
Pulps him.
And the rest of the squad situated heavily towards the B site with the bomb just lurking
on the back of Chausy ready for an AMA in flank.
If no one comes knocking, if they don't start pushing the extremities he'll begin his rotation
background and they will focus on this B play.
Spooky even adds insult to injury, oh Tuxin as well Vince, has to bait out the fight,
Dragon, quick switch, kills Ana Lele, but they lose one.
We're gonna start trying to bring this one back into the contested area, still favoring
the T's, just slightly edging, but now, very much so.
We've not yet in another clutch position.
There's Molotov Doth, no post plan to contend with for the time being, but that is gonna
change in a couple of moments time.
H.E.
Tostov are doing absolutely nothing towards the bomb plan to whatsoever, and as soon
If he pushes this smoke, he's gonna get shut down, chores, he nails him in the side, and
Johnny Speeds once again will lead in the second half of overtime.
Both teams jockeying for position, trying to land, 30 second round.
Again and again it seems like it's been a similar outcome where Johnny Speeds find one round,
make static, climb her back, find one of their own, somehow equalize.
tech issue it ecstatic have called in the reinforcements zipples fans have
connected to the server vince thousand strong they've all got their inventories
dripped out we've had to remove them we've sent in the bodyguards back to a
5v5 fair match up them ecstatic I mean how many times have we seen them trail
on this one and somehow been able to respond keep the game going force it
into another overtime can they do it again it is Johnny speeds finally gonna
a buckle. A length for the game surely affecting some of these players with how many rounds
you've had to play. You can't run the same defaults, you can't run the same strats this
deep into OT. It becomes a little bit more puggy, it relies more heavily on those individual
hero plays. Will the game finally be decided? Will the series close in these next three
rounds? We'll run it back and find out. We're ready to get back into it. Third
OT, second half, going live again with Johnny Speeds leading by one. I think this
This is really where you're getting into that kind of territory of straight up mental fortitude,
like how strong are you mentally, how capable are you of continuing to keep your focus, play
at your sort of like 90% or above standing.
Some players, they're going to be tapped out at this stage, mentally fatigued, they're
going to go need to get themselves a cup of coffee or something and kind of like restocked
but you're not allowed that luxury.
We're now in the deep waters of ancient Counter-Strike with tons on the line as we said, a potential
place for a blast-premiere fall at the end of this month.
One more spot allocated to one of these four teams that we're going to cast today.
And so this is really where you are made or broken.
I think we're going to have another bit of a tech issue here as the pause has come
in unfortunately.
It's just about that mental fortitude right now, Jackie, like you've got multiple
players that are I wouldn't say exceeding the expectations that we have I think
the players that we've seen perform spooky Bob, Christo these are all players
that we'd expect to see up there so all about that consistency now is someone
able to really up their level and elevate to that next sort of plane that
can be the difference maker we are gonna go live now round 40 yes you
heard that right if you just joined us this effectively is two full maps of
counter strike they've played and of course this is the third map in the
series as well. The play is going to be absolutely knackered. Alright then, round 40 underway.
Strap in, keep your seatbelt on, clear bumping. We might hit about 7 miles an hour on this one.
And then fight out towards mid.
Molotov going to be thrown over into Donut, Chorsey finds the flick and Annalay lays slain.
That could be the start of the undoing for the Danes.
What's their machination from here?
What's the plan?
Just toss and get contact on the Orper towards the B site.
Red Room gets set ablaze with the Molotov and the bomb begins to take a fight round
towards Donut.
They're going to be peeking into the hands of Chorsey.
That's the Orper.
still biding time, listening for the audio cues. If they slow-peak him, you could be throwing
away your life. Instead, Nut-Nuts just toyed with the timing and given him fake info. When
the rest of the squad sets up for the play on the B site, Chris's out. He's playing
a passive angle on the AWP vents. They don't spot him. Bob XD wraps back to A.
Yeah, problem is, look, Chris tells me he needs to get out of here, he's on the spot.
I think he wasn't trying to rotate in.
Once that plant hopefully goes down from their perspective, he can wiggle around the back
and put that up to use.
But he's been found by Draken 30 seconds as they start to funnel their way back in.
Chosy misses the shot, but that's fine, he can fall back with an incendiary.
And Draken finishes off the rest.
20 seconds smoke behind it.
Oh, it's devastating for Torsen.
Such an awkward spot.
He has to press W, has to get in the face of his opposition.
He doesn't have time to mess about with here.
Sticking the landing will be choresy.
He starts the round off and comes full circle to end it.
And Johnny's speeds have two more match points.
It's happened all over again.
Heads up play, Static tried the best they could to change.
Go back, pedal, go towards the A-play.
Unfortunate really, you think about
if Cristal was able to get that pickup onto Dragon
when he fights back CT from Red Room,
could have salvaged the whole round
before it got out of hand.
The Dragon, his influence felt through and through,
denies them on the push as they were slowed
by the incendiary thrown out by Chorsey.
Closes that one.
Dragon again, switching up his position.
Good chuck on the default molotov,
burns out the lip of cave.
H is gonna go in as well.
That will give you a bit of information.
Nixon knows about the angle,
But taking the fight is a whole different ball game.
He has to be so quick and hope that Drakken can't reply fast enough.
Chris, now!
Oh, that's a bad miss.
The walk-up through Red Room gives Bob XT a free frag.
Only four dames remain.
Johnny Speeds.
Is this where they close it?
Oh, Drakken must think this is thrown off by that flashback.
lands the leg shot but it's not enough for the outright kill. Mixon will keep
himself alive and that presence in cave will force Wolf's hands. Nice flash in
for the follow-up damage. And I'm not an all-alien Torsen habit all to do but
they're being thinned out from Rolf and Spooky and that will be the end to
this marathon. There's Johnny Speeds closed through the finish line. It may
have taken them about 10 times but they get it done finally. A lengthy
series. A lengthy map, a double bill, an omnibus of ancient give one go there but in the end
Johnny's speeds do pick it up. We have our guaranteed first finalist and it is the Swedes
with speed. They make it through and we'll be waiting in the wings to see who is joining
them from the other side of the bracket. The other semi-final that we have going on
today Vince that like you said during that one about 20 minutes ago was scheduled to
start for around 3pm so we'll have a pretty quick turnaround on these non-stop CS here on the Nordic
Masters. It's all to play for Johnny Speeds waiting to see who their opposition will be.
Find out who's going to be facing them after our next match up when we get stuck into our
second best of three after the break. So much non-stop action going down in the scene today
and we get one step closer to the coverage of the Nordic Masters coming to a close. We know
our first grand finalists already but we've got one more to confirm and that's why we've
saved our second semi-final till now. Are you excited for this one, bud?
I am, yeah, because there's a few different moving variables in this that make it super
exciting. One is TSM, looked great in the opening group. We had a lot of fun watching
Valder, Seif and Acor kind of fit into this new roster that we've seen this core
of three that came a month ago as you can see on your screen now. They looked
really sharp. I was impressed with how these guys were performing a core showing us that
it wasn't just a one trick pony over on game of Legion, but he is a legit orper. And then
you can have this interesting metasport team up against them as well, Jackie, where they
have jacquino as their orp slash IGL. But today he's not actually playing. Instead,
they have a player called Loomi. So I have no idea what to expect from that. That's
such a huge change. Yeah, I mean, I hope he's okay. You know, he's a bit of
an unexpected swap out, with Jaquimio not being on the active roster today. I can only
imagine it's probably potentially an issue of a clash or something happened to him in
real life, so you'd really hope the best for him there, as he was such a dominant piece
of this team. He looked great on the AWP, he had some huge impact round, so it's a
shame Vince. It's definitely going to hold them back in terms of the calling and
potentially the entire structure of the way this team is going to work. In terms
of who Lumi is as well, he played on Lil Mix for a brief period. Previous to
that he was on lemon dogs and then he's just been in various mixes as well so in
terms of his tier one experience or tier two sort of tier three experience and
time in the spotlight there isn't that much of a benchmark to go on clearly
just someone that gels with the other players on this team and has been brought
in as a piece to fill in the whole of Jack Inio for today's play but like you
said buddy it's not going to be the easiest transition losing Europe is
one thing but losing the brains of the operation as well in one foul
Swoop Vince it could be a nightmare for them. No absolutely and you know I was
looking through some of his previous games as well out of curiosity of like
has he played with these guys before he actually did he stepped in again for
jikinos this seems like a reoccurring theme about a week ago when they played
alternate attacks at the yellow compass summer contenders and he top-fragged he
dropped a 1.25 rating with 58 kills over the duration of three maps so he
has played with these guys in the recent past. It's obviously someone they like to go to. So in
that regard, it's not some just like random, like we're, we're scarpering, we need to find a player
right now. They actually have like a relationship with him built up. And when he's played with them
before he's done well. So at least if we're concerned about those elements coming into this
game, maybe that's going to alleviate just a little bit of those fears. You'd hope so. You'd
hope so. You know, it's not as if like you said, they've had to just run outside and go,
does anybody want to play and just see if someone would jump in. There's clearly that pre-built
relationship with Looney, so hopefully he's able to come out swinging today and sort of,
you know, play his A game, be that super sub. Let's have a look at the overall team stats
between both of these rosters, though, and see how they're shaping up in the head to head.
Bear in mind, of course, this will be based on the games played purely, they're purely
over the course of the groups of it. So just a couple games going into these statistics.
it was a bit of a cleaner run,
wasn't it? They had a far easier
time getting through groups,
whereas Mrs. Port they had to
struggle and grind and grind
and grind, barely making it
through in the end off the back
of what felt very similar to our
previous game vids at lengthy
OTFL and ancient versus bleed.
Exactly. Yeah, they had a lot of
OTs yesterday. Meta support. They
also played up against Johnny
Speeds on Mirage that went
back and forth game so TSM by far and away looked a cleaner of these two squads if we go off the
basis of what we've seen over the last couple of days but again it comes down to consistency with
TSM because I don't think anybody is necessarily doubting these guys capabilities when it comes
to on-server ability levels it's just that we haven't seen them online especially deliver
over a consistent basis yes three of their players have been in for less than a month
they're still in a transitional phase this is a great opportunity I think for TSM to get
themselves some cemented top tier counter strike moving across to the Premier if they can manage
to qualify for it. And considering that Johnny speeds, if we're being completely honest, they
didn't look fantastic in the game against ecstatic. It was a real scrappy game, especially on
ancient. I think TSM now have with Joaquinio not in play here, albeit Lumi is a decent player
himself. This is as good a chance as they can probably ask for to make it across there. Now,
it feels like the stars of the line, Jackie, you've been given a bit of a lifeline really
a kind of safety net that's been thrown towards you in terms of you like you say, a weakened team
as your first hurdle and then a Johnny Speeds that have already used a lot of energy. Yes,
they'll have a couple hours to mentally reset, chill out a little bit, potentially watch the game,
DM, fix whatever the issues are, have a shower, have some food, come back in fresh, but they
still didn't look exactly like themselves today. TSM, we were super impressed with everything
we saw from this roster and I would hope that continues. You'd like to see them being
being able to play the same quality of Counter-Strike,
getting into the server today.
No, no doubt, I completely agree with that.
I think that on the one hand,
they've expended a lot of energy,
but like you said, they have a bit of recovery time now.
Now it's up to TSM.
I guess it's like a two-pronged element to it,
though, a double-edged sword.
Like if TSM get this done fast,
less recovery time for journey speeds,
if they get dragged into the murky waters of over times
and a three-mapper and all of these kinds of things,
then I think all bets are off.
At that point, it's a very even playing field.
I'm even assuming that TSM win this, that may not be the case like Metisport have proven themselves many times over the last six months to be a very legit team that can go far in online tournaments as well.
So I don't obviously we don't know what the veto is just yet, but I would imagine TSM will be the favourites, especially with Jacini, you're being out, but I wouldn't be surprised if Metisport give them a real run for their money.
Yeah, it's possible. But it's certainly possible. We can check out the heads ahead though and see what our predicted players to watch
Are going into this be free. You got Nico the Danish demon on the side of TSM
A man that is synonymous with nice rifling and big beagle rounds
He's always been showing up in the past and then Nilo as well Nilo was pretty impressive yesterday
But you know we were singing his praises in quite a few of the rounds wins
No, he is and coming into the tournament as well. We were kind of discussing that on paper at least he is their top sort of
Fraga when it comes to
Performances when it comes to stats and I think he showed that a lot over the duration Nico was a bit more of a surprise to me
I have to say like obviously we've seen him in the past that teams like double o nation and other Danish teams kind of floating around the
periphery
He almost felt like kind of a secondary or tertiary rifle
But he's kind of coming into his own with this team
He's actually eclipsing the other players you expect to be performing at a higher level like a core like xyphon in particular
And then obviously have Valder who who we know in in bygone eras has been an unbelievable Danish rifle
But he's now the agile of the team
So it's been good to see Nico kind of stepping up to the plate delivering in some of these games where maybe some of his
teammates are slacking off a little bit
Yeah, potentially so but potentially so if he could keep that sort of you know
confidence, go in, come out, swing in, do the same sort of big plays that we'd
hope to see from it, might be able to help them out a little bit. Vito for this
one then going to be an interesting prospect really in the grand scheme of
things. We'll see how it shapes up to the best of three, of course our second
semi-final of the day here. It was a lengthy affair for Johnny Speets but
at the very least they've got themselves that guaranteed battle in the
final. Who's gonna meet them there? Let's find out what the Vito is
looking like and see if that gives us any more info on how this one might
go down. Nuke out of the way. That'd be Metasport's ban, following that Nubis taken out from TSM.
Well, we typically don't met his port, don't play Dust 2 or Nuke. Those are the two maps that they
typically don't touch at all, whereas TSM kind of play everything. So I wouldn't be surprised
if we see sort of middle of the road picks like Mirage, Inferno is another map that they both
like to play. And then I would expect to see like Dust 2 just ban, to be honest, Jackie. I
I know it's a nightmare situation, but I think it's going to happen. Yeah, it's no surprise
they've literally played the map one time in the last three months and
They've only played nuke a grand total of zero times. So it was pretty straightforward
Can it go on all right then so Mirage inferno and ancient same apple as we had with semi final one
Just in a slightly different order Mirage to start inferno to follow and then bookmark at the end there being ancient
Yeah, all right, bud. I mean it kind of makes sense
There's a lot of overlap between the teams that we've got here in the Nordic Masters in terms of the Vo and the pool
That they're actually confident in playing in say as soon as you've gotten into the best of frees
We're getting kind of similar maps to what we had throughout the course the BO ones in a more isolated fashion
Yeah, I mean again like it mess support the only sort of you know potential worry is for them
How are they looking without Jack in here outside of that veto wise again if you have a good start on Mirage
There could be a timeline here where you could try and take it into their competent on ancient
We've seen or have some good ancient games in the past. It's what dragged them through to even make it to this matchup
There could be a case of they're playing more sort of like pug centered without Chikini on which case
I think maps like inferno
You can get away with it a little bit more perhaps and like a new call one of these other
Sort of more straight heavy maps like a new bis for example
But I do feel like first off TSM their best map in the pool other than maybe Vertigo which they actually ban themselves
If you look at they got a hundred percent win rate is infernal
They have an 82 percent win rate after 11 maps played and there's some notable wins in that as well
So I think like realistically if Metasport want to take us to an ancient it's gonna need to be a
Mirage win. They're gonna have to start with a W here. I think if they lose Mirage, I fear the worst for them
Oh, exactly, mate. You're going to be in a bit of a risky position if that one slips
through your hands. Hopefully, you come out swinging in Tate Mirage. That's the best timeline
for him to have a potential fight with it. How's TSM looking as well? We were super
impressed at least with the individuals, the overall team play. Again, I suppose it
is just a matter of are they as quick to the draw today? Both teams have had a little
bit more rest time, rest spike going in with the second, best of three of the day
rather than the first.
So yeah, man, I think strap in for this one all in all.
It could be a relatively fair fight between both teams,
but there is always that chance that TSM
proved that maybe they're looking
to take that number one seed and walk away
as the champions here all in all.
Their next hardest test, of course,
being potentially Johnny Speed, if they make it through.
Yeah, I think it'll be an interesting barometer as well.
Whoever ends up winning this,
the fact as you highlighted it is the same map pool
as the the first me finals and therefore it may be the same that pool in the grand finals
to is to get a flavor for how these teams are going to aggress or defend on these particular
games like a mirage kicking things off. What we did see from Johnny speeds and in their
matchup was that mid control wasn't really prevalent on the CT side of things. So I'll
be curious to see here how TSM and their adversaries here will be looking to kind
and it bounce into this one from MetaSports perspective.
Also, I'm not sure if Lumie is an AWPer.
I would assume it's maybe a one for one kind of mix in.
We don't know much about this guy obviously
because it's a last second replacement,
but does he fit in with the AWPer role?
Do they just play with rifles?
It's possible because you see a lot of teams
now actually just donning the full AKs,
especially on that T side of every single map
because it allows them a little bit more of a luxury
to be more mobile and versatile in a lot of situations.
Absolutely, mate. It's going to be one of those, but we'll get our first taste really of how the team looks with the sub-in-factor and what they've got to change in terms of their setups.
We saw yesterday for today, but yeah, that could be a problem if it's a bit of a different sort of mentality, different kind of stylistic choice for how Loomi approaches the game compared to Giacchino.
I do wonder what the potential fix is there.
Proof will be in the pudding though when we get into the server. We're ready to kick things off
So let's step into the action and start off our second semi-final of the day
TSM on the CT side
We are teased. We have met his port
The herd of angry bees has broken back into the studio once more apologies for that guys
We'll get that fixed at the start of the next round. So deal with the bees for now. If you're allergic
So I did just check the stats there out curiosity Jackie it does seem like Lumie is an author
is most kills on any weapon of the last three months in competitive play is with Dior so
I assume it is a one for one straight up fit which is good to know from that sports perspective
but Altex is letting them get up closer they're playing in for that retake but no one's checking
the CT boxes and Altex is going to splat them in the back as I can also come in
denying the bomb plant in the process and although Lumia and Nilo are going to counteract with two,
it's far too little too late. TSM secure the first round and completely shut down the T's.
Nicely done. Huge first round. One that you'll be taking to the bank and TSM will cash in early
to give themselves the best start. Overall, two SMGs on Xyphen and Valdex,
M4 for Altex, A-Corp and Niko with Thanos. Valdai made off the wall going to bounce that
one in expecting the fast potential burst out through the apartments but they
don't fully commit to the play they were building. Instead setting their focus back
on mid-side as they're going to backpedal and reply out move. Maybe a
little bit of a late run out. CFA Core is ready to do some skeet shooting. I
I think that was Niko that would have heard the footsteps and he called that to his IGL
like listen they're rushing it which he wasn't wrong about but they can basically force them
off.
They out fought a headshot onto Acor and 2 HP he survives Iphone cannot say the same as
his fate was secured from the Glock of Sopec.
If he did miss him yesterday he had a couple of incredible attempts at 1v4 clutches on
this furry map. Very capable player, the newest player in two metasports, Core Oster.
So definitely a player to watch out for, but yeah pretty straightforward 2-0 lead for TSM.
Here come the rifles though. Adam B burning towards top mid brought down to 85. Little bit of map control
expunged towards top mid with Nilo lurking back outside of palace for now. TSM no this is an
important rounds to secure and don't want to give away anything to that T side
early slow default from the T's though looking for any info a push a peek no
one biting down to the 55 second mark you're gonna have to make a decision
here see if you can instigate a fight a cause waiting for the swing nice
molotov spreads onto both levels of elevation she causes him back but on
the repeat he'll hit that shot and having seen no retaliation whatsoever from
B-Apps or Catwalk it stands the reason for TSM this is gonna be an ace
out-sided hit especially as window and connector were both smoked off. Now let
the sport make the moods maybe a lot of sound because how slow they've been
though there's not much room for error. Only 15 seconds on the clock coming up
Xyphing gets traded out really clean entries
TSM dropping the ball on this one and doesn't afford a call the luxury of saving
But that is port in their first buy. You're gonna get success and victory
Nicely done a slow round, but it pays off
It's a bit bumpy with the opening shot being connected by a core and the pressure towards B
The response towards the A site was nice and clean the TSM don't even make it to the third round
Finally conceived one across
That's a bit of a strange one isn't it Jackie when you watch that from the team's perspective is having two CTs
In this round in shadow and nobody on CT box. No on triple box. No on jungle seems like a massive oversight
I'm not sure if they bought into that potential be hit
Too much and decided to stack on the top heavy forward-facing defense
That's why typically teams are gonna have multiple layers to that defensive A site making sure that the teams can't all focus in
same direction but have to be cognizant of kind of a 360 degree take. Maybe something for TSM to go
back to on the drawing board. In terms of this round I'm expecting to see a buy come in obviously
with a saved orb, A core can drop one. Not much money and a couple of players, Iphone's down at $100
already after finishing off his nade so I'm expecting to see a buy come in here. MP9s,
M4s also being tossed into the mix. So TSM want to bounce back as fast as possible but this
This is looking like it's gonna be a straight up A hit.
That Molotov may keep the bombs reach for a little bit,
but all five players here from Metisport,
the T's are waiting to push the bottom and get involved.
The Swedes dangling their foot over the go pedal.
They try to push it down.
They can slide into the bombsite,
Adam B. Blind firing above the head hitbox
to the close CT on the back.
Nilo, we'll be able to course correct them,
find out what's actually being tested on the cross.
only good for one before Adam B bites back. Valdez is looking to make a play here, out
towards CT side, near around the corner, limited splash damage, doesn't do anywhere near enough
as he hoped for, and with Niko unable to find the connection on the planter, with two weapons
all they have to their name, saving this is far better than running the risk of going
for the round. Valdez doesn't want to peek from connector on them. Move back. He wants
the AWP down in jungle. They're going to give him that. He gets the luxury, so they'll
get away with both weapons. A good take out of all things considered, I mean the alternative
would have been just nothing to play with into the next round, so you can drop that
AWP across the ACOR. That's his port, I mean we were discussing before, they've
We've got no Jokina on their team, again, those of you just joining us.
Jokina couldn't make it, we're not sure of the reason on that one, but Loomi is stepping
in, a player that has played with him just a week ago in a different tournament, so they
are very familiar with him, and they actually won that game as well, it should be mentioned,
and he played well in that matchup.
So although it may be a little bit of a concern so far, not too much of a problem, and
I mean, let's be honest, all of these players have played Mirage a million times.
They all know the smokes, they all know the executes.
It's just the small margins, the extra couple of percent that may be missing here.
And A-Core's going to get aggressive into Palace, trying to take the fight to the T's.
If he can get this freebie pick in Philadelphia, it would have been huge,
but he gets caught in steady.
He was anticipating a full pipe swing.
That didn't come through, but Altex is able to retrieve the AWP
and keep it in play for a few more moments.
I don't think I'll text the all-knowing or putt unable to do more damage there
rather they fire off the warning shots he's got the hot rod in his hands
but he might have to back up Niko looks for the swing around the rim Lumi was
trying to cover the ramp but he is ratioed Sapec with the headshot takes the
face off of Niko and from a scoreline of two to two this should be a third
round in the bag for the T's and that's how they can do something vicious. Makes it a one for two.
Weaving the first tag across onto Plopski. Wow. How he wishes that was an AK or an M4 instead of
the MP9 that could have been a completely different outcome. Nice try. Didn't fully invest into
the round though, which is somewhat good news for TSM. Yes they've lost but they can come
back in with weapons. There may not be the finer trimmings of an AWP and all the grenades
they want. Curious to see what they have to go in for here. Oh I do, they've got a glass
cannon up on a core, but that's at the cost of a lot of utility on multiple players. Nothing
for a core. No kits and no Kevlar. It's a firepower to make it work. Niko should
tap through the smoke to keep himself a little bit of information and Siphon capitalizes
on that one. It's a hit and run, a free kill.
On the top of the forced a core out of position consistently jumping and bouncing
off the roofs to try and make it awkward for the bullets to hit. The nade is a different
matter though. Small space, he goes down because of it, shrapnel. We'll find him. War vs 3 is
now what remains. Plopski gonna back off through the underpass. 50 seconds on the time-up.
Bit of a fragment, it's set up from TSM 2 per bomb site with Niko having to make
heads up rotate if Valde calls for backup. It's a contact walk-in, two flashbanks.
Nilo's got those, he's in the rear, he could flash over and allow them safe
passage, Plopski and Sapex sticking to their guns. There's the first. The off
angle's good for Valde to get the tag repositions even better. Gotta get the
reload in and they give him time. Oh Valde, so much damage done. Should have
set up Niko for the trades. I just didn't have the bomb plant, yeah that's Valda.
Even though he only gets the one kill and the statistics, he did a lot of damage to
the previous two players as well. I thought it was an easy clean up in the
end. Very scrappy though, like Acors missed a couple of jiggle peak shots
now that's cost him dearly, but he wasted so much time. The players pushing
down middle got shot down in the back from Niko, and additionally I think it
with Zyphan did damage from connector as well so not finishing off things cleanly
here at his port they do get punished but now we get a chance to have a look at
Lumie's orping prowess Jackie never seen him play before never seen him up before
let's see what he's got up his sleeve all tied up a neat little package then
three rounds of pop pop ski with a mat 10 Adam B on the eagle a proficient
team on Mirage is T-Sci going to be full of success here though.
Potentially a bit of a change of pace with more of an early aggressive focus on the B
bombsite.
You leave one man towards top mid, that's Adam B with a smoke in his pocket and the deagle
in his hands.
Paranoid about an underpass walk up, Lumi's going to watch that with your, and the
rest of the unit goes contact in towards apartments.
to clear the close angle you've kind of got to respond off the back of that I mean
you've given the info they expected someone to play up close in the kitchen
or at least inside of apps but it's now they're playing defensive on the site nice
shot from Niko as well they've given him a lot of free reads into this round
Vince if there was a push on the A site that have complete understanding of
where the Ts are right now they're just starting to make moves now on the
con side and the window a portion of the cost of quite a bit HP though
Fortunately for him there's no H.E.E.s following it up.
Popski starts to make moves.
He usually enters right on MetaSport.
Eco.
Finalizing another couple of frags.
He picks up a 3k into the round and the
round falls into position nicely.
They bypass a 4 spy from MetaSport.
And pretty comfortably so.
Into the Eco rounds.
And now he starts to hit SEM.
Just shift it up a little bit.
And a bit more aggressive going for those peeks.
This is also where
This is also where, if you don't have your IGL and you also have no idea who's leading this right now on the side of Metasport, it may just be a collective effort.
But when things start to go awry a little bit and you're not quite getting the success, that's where you lean on an IGL to try and find out the sort of solution, the winning formula.
If Chiquinho's not here, who is it that steps up and has the right ideas?
Do they have the ability to be versatile and adaptive in these kinds of positions?
That's a good question, but we'll have to see man, like in the space of free maps, especially
in quite an intense game as well with what's on the line for it, you do wonder if they're
going to be able to adapt themselves and make the right decisions.
What's the backup plan looking like?
What's the A, B and C in the playbook?
Slow round here.
Most likely using this is a bit of an opportunity to air out any frustration and talk as well.
As you can use it as an extended artificial timeout. Slow walk with the glocks, basically
an existence round where everyone can have a bit of a chat, chip in what their ideas
are for the next buy, and then just go for the walkthrough.
Throw across those blocks, you can get bombed down, farm up some cash.
Sapec does at least force out a singular rebuy, but they grab the egg, so it's
not the end of the world. One M4, that's sustainable. They can rebuy that.
Metasport will at least have cash once again though and they'll pump the money back in.
I also start to become a bit of a concern though is that some of these rounds beginning to become pretty straightforward on TSM.
Not be pushing the panic button just yet of course, still plenty of time left.
Foundation of three rounds already, not too shabby.
But if TSM continue to turn the knife and they win the next two rounds clean, that's where Metasport will start to get a bit concerned.
because again the next map is inferno and this is a fortress for TSM, very good on the map.
Anambido is going to crack open the deadlock here as the flash comes out,
nearly doubling up his Xyphoon but he gets shut down by Plopski.
So the advantage does fall under the way of the suites.
Leia flank again, seems to be what's on the docket.
Spreadfin is the CT side setup here, out-hexing Khan, Niko up top on short and the elevated boost.
and Valde. He stole B Defender, this time stationed towards the back ticket booth playing
on the A site. They've got a few nades to play with, most of those are on eco though and he's
far out of position. His best bet is if they go for the plant towards connector side and
peek into his eyeline. You've also got to hope he can win this duel versus Plopsky,
that could be problematic. He will do so. 2v2. As Valde battles them out with the
The first frag onto Lumi and buys time, 18 seconds on the clock, bomb's gonna go down, double
nade in, Nilo low, oh Nilo hits the head though, almost closes it in the 1v2, but Niko
snatches it away.
Our production smashed it with the Niko as well, haven't they, like putting him into
the head to head, cause he has been the standout player.
Not just of TSM, but on the board, so many impactful kills, it's having tons of success
over on Catwalk where he's been playing almost every single round. Coming out clutch when
it was so desperately needed as well here in this 1v1. Nice try from Nilo. Not quite
good enough. 6-3 another buy coming through but it's going to include 3 Mac 10s. And
that feels like a declaration of intent here Jackie. I reckon we're about to get a fast
rapid in your face round.
Go for a foresee now.
Go for aggression.
A-Corp.
He wants to take the fight down on Ram's side.
Three targets spotted, one confirmed.
Shot tags out on the second as well as Adam B. dives into the bullet.
Oh, this isn't looking good.
The T side getting terrorized by TSM.
A-Corp, a beautiful double.
I'm able to stop the bomb plant though.
in some ways mission accomplished for MetaSport because they have MaxRanos bonus around the
corner. They also have still plays alive and kicking with Mac10s up close. Looney's gonna
have an open to the next round regardless but Niko shreds through the tall booth and
makes Loomi pay for it. Sapex stuck in no man's land with a Mac10 against 2M4s and
Nilo can't trade out. TSM with the kits have more than enough time for the defuse
And I'll be punching in a 7-3 scoreline.
And his port will be good for another buy.
But this is starting to slip away after a pretty solid start to the half.
Longer it goes on, the more worrying things start to look really.
Seven rounds.
That's five on the spin for TSM now.
Met his port.
Using a tactical pause.
Put ice on the game.
See what they can adjust.
You know, bear in mind as well, man, this is their map pick.
This is where they're supposed to be able to excel, pull ahead,
get themselves into a bit of a groove.
TSM, they definitely look like they'd be a formidable opponent
based on all of the matches that were played yesterday
with how strong this roster looked,
how impressive overall it feels like the five is here.
And again, today, they're delivering more of that.
Niko especially, he's always been the bridesmaid
his entire career. It feels like he's always getting out shorn by his same name counterparts
in the CS scene, but he's been so talented for so long. It's only a matter of time until
we see him really popping off to the level that we know he can play up to after all these
years of competing in Counter-Strike. But in a minute, it seems like he wants to
give his team a fair chance of making it to the showdown and giving more eyes to
Back, back, lots of damage initially going out onto Plopski, brings him down to 67 HP, mid control being scrapped for, but TSM are opting to play for the choke points now.
They're just changing their style just a little bit here, trying to put more pressure on MetaSport to break through those bottleneck areas.
You'll talk about Deco as well, as Luni actually gets his first kill with the AWP in the game, good to see him, he's opposite the number of ACOR.
But this is a guy that has been around for super long, he's 26, he played at OG, Heroic, Optic Gaming, Rogue, and Tricked Esports, and there's a few things that I've been on his list, very much a veteran player.
But he's looking at the slow meta support, may have had a bit of a lull in the action, may have lost a number of rounds in a row, but they're not done trying, they're gonna try and dig their heels in and pick up a fourth here.
Niko though, speak of the man, in ramp.
It seems like his two teammates aren't too interested in this, and they need to be weary
of Sapec who is lurking, waiting for a push to come through from the B side.
Looks like it may just be a save though from TSM.
Quite a lot of money to play with across the board.
The same cannot be said for the T side's economy, but I guess they don't fancy their
chances.
They would rather keep the weapons here and be able to sustain healthier bides throughout
the remainder of this half, rather than going for the risk of losing things here, with how
far ticked the bomb was next week.
Interesting decision, they would have been able to get a very healthy buyout no matter
what, so you could have gone for it and actually punished the economy of the teas
far more swings and roundabouts they they don't like the look of that one so
they don't engage and they will be able to reinvest now yeah you can see I mean
like it's still gonna be a lot of money left over all right well seven four and
they're gonna be able to get an eighth out of this double warp step up okay now
it all starts to make a bit more sense they did want to have the second
re-orps, so the free players save just off the basis of wanting to buy the second big green gun.
Let's see if it's worth it for it then. Normally a bit more of a bandaid fix when you see that
second orp pulled out on CT side. Seems like decision-wise they've opted to station Valde peaking
on the van towards B, but A-Cours actually rotated in as well. So two orps on the B-Bomb side.
And it's quite an odd decision, isn't it? When you think about how often you see double
and they're on opposite sides of the spectrum in the map.
Plain together as United Force,
it does allow a bit more versatility
over on the A side of the map.
I guess you have your rifles in play over there.
One of which is Zython on the off angle.
He's had a decent game so far.
Two players now in con.
Adam B joining Plopsky.
50 seconds left on the clock
and a forward position from Altec.
We look to try and push out.
Zython can only muster up for one kill.
that there is Altec's on his own off angle.
Crisp execution from TSM,
and that's gonna funnel out Lumi and Nilo
into an awkward position surrounded by CTs.
And it doesn't look like they're gonna get any success here.
Nilo try as he may,
as he picks up the first,
has three more kills to try and find and frag down
in just 20 seconds left on the clock.
Oh, that's a good start.
But that's the end.
Unfortunately for Nilo, no more nasty nurse with the AK.
There's TSM.
Pull ahead for one last round in the half
and take a lead of four.
Eight being their total at the end of the first 12 rounds.
So, for the Swedish side, finding an answer early
now becomes a lot more problematic.
You've really got to pick yourself up a pistol round here
and get back into the game.
It's their map pigvins, but it doesn't feel that way.
Is the CT side gonna be the start of something new?
Heavy investment into situating themselves
towards the BOMB site, expecting a fast B play.
It's only Adam B on the A site,
and he's about to be tested.
And Molly down on the shadow as well,
and he just gets nailed by A course P250.
It's really interesting for me to see how many of T's now
are actually occupying that P250 in the pistol round.
We saw Draken do this a lot as well.
What a success, he gives you that long range ability to go toe-to-toe with the USPs.
Typically that's a weakness of the Glock.
Speaking of the USPs and Glock's dose of PEC, he's going to neutralise two of them
as they get aggressive and push down on the CT boxes, getting punished for their overextension.
Nice tap from A-Core.
Big frags.
And Vicious Valde takes the final frag as the Glock will pop back against Captain Plopsky himself.
nine on the board TSM that second half pistol will be worth its weight in gold
and if they can maintain this since they're now getting dangerously close
towards finally being able to put a pin on this one that'd be an upset map win
as well giving them a really good chance of potentially taking a 2-0 in the
series if this quality of play keeps up Mrs. Port you just don't have the
firepower going into the following here. It's just USPs and 1P250. Niko with a
Mat 10 could farm a lot of the cash alone and all they've got to do is sniff out
the exposed bombsite as they went for the 50-50 gamble on B. That third kill
that Acor got, the second tap through the smoke. That was gross. Let this pork
gonna be reeling after that one. I hope that Sopet can return the favor but
But as you diligently highlighted here, TSM will take their sweet time.
They're going to make sure all these angles are covered out.
Of course, it's a completely known and tried and tested strapped to just stack a site for
your full USBs and hope and pray that you guess correctly.
So TSM, they're doing their due diligence.
They're making sure they're not walking into a trap and now the post-bank will
be coming in.
10-4 will be the score line.
It's now just a question of who gets the kills on to Matt this Port.
Is it one of the Mac 10s? Do they manage to stack up the cash?
I mean, Xyphon's in a good spot here that they could very well push into it.
Meanwhile, Nico on the periphery going into the apps is going to be trying to wrap around
the back. Here comes the Mac 10. It's kind of arranged though.
Pretty rough, pretty dicey. P250 could nail the kill, but Sopec's been neutralized.
That's Phil, fair enough.
Typhon gets his wings as he spreads them and flies around the corner with the MAP 10 and
Valdez made.
That one certainly is quite holy.
Let's put a lot of damage out onto the CTs.
10 rounds, Vince.
back potential for Metis Port hanging in the balance. It's got to start here and
never end. TSM duty them a little bit of an opportunity at least running the
bonus bringing these weapons back into play once again whereas Metis Port have
the buy up. Small gaps though I mean no ability to afford themselves kits or a
lot of offensive utility it's only smokes and flashbangs alongside the
They're good for the first frag, Adam B gets the opener, but the site's already been taken.
Yeah, they can play for the retake, especially being on numbers.
Oh, it does go a little bit better for them as well, with Lumie finding that frag back
onto Niko.
Yeah, that looks a bit odd, but I think Niko was checking for the backside of Tallbooth
assuming that someone was already in that area, and the timing backfires.
So it would appear that this round is going to go the way of Metasport, as this bonus.
I mean it kind of got half of the mission complete, they wanted a post plant and then obviously they're on the top of it but...
Ha ha ha
I'll be trying to trigger the uh, the hacking accusations here, those exactly where the players are purely off game sense of course
He's looking over the walls!
Yeah
You see it's past that!
Look at him!
I'll be hacking!
Nobody's doing it!
We did get the bomb plant though Jackie which is huge, they're gonna be able to buy it again
Yeah bro, at least that you know at least that you get the additional cash and again
that kind of whizzier bonus right you went into that with weapons from the prior
round hoping for a bit of luck, stroke of genius. So worst case scenario you'll
take the additional funds to the bank and you'll be able to reinvest it into
some nice shiny weapon really here in the 16. Alright, Momski. He's an
aggressive man he's taking damage from his own teammates now it's walks into the
track nor that one as they wanted to clear the close angle no one to be greeted
though this is a ton of information actually for the CT side pushing this
far out early gives them a big read in terms of map control they're gonna
understand what TSM are up to yeah honestly a big component of this one
Oh, okay, got it done.
Oop, unnecessary damage if you got that kill cleanly.
But when you are sort of up against it, against a team that is like, let's be honest, on paper, just better.
And you're also without your IGL and a lot of other caveats.
You have to kind of throw caution to the wind a little bit and be a little bit unpredictable.
Plopski, big headshot there. They're doing a great job of shutting down this play at least.
Acre comes back in with one, but there's such a fast rotation round the back of Zbeck.
The acor seems privy to this information, but may not be sure on the area always just spotted the weapons
But it's too little too late as medicine put him down and pick up a sixth
But these are the kind of plays I think they've got a go for Jackie like you have to try in and catch them off guard
Catch them and where's because if you're playing 5v5, you know set plays into retakes
You're probably coming out worse for where against the team like TSM. Yeah, I think
Being able to play a very different flavor of cancer strike
when effectively you are down to a gel nor putt is something that's a must it's
hard to get into though forcing yourself to take more risks in these kind of
games especially when you know what's on the line
Zeifan strikes hard there they try to draw the crosshair of Plopsky off target
by peeking like that with the widespread but he's pretty damn good with
the spray control and even backed up by Nilo to make sure they farm all
three of those frags, so they've quarterised the bleeding quite quickly, they're not homeraging
any more players here in the 17th, if they close this down with all four staying alive
which they have, they're going to be pretty contempt with that, they can actually build
money for what feels like the first time in this game on their CT side and get things
going their way.
Three rounds, back to back vints, starting to close the gap at one point was pretty
horrific between these two.
They're making it competitive aren't they, they're giving themselves every opportunity
that if they can continue to turn the screws and tighten the noose a little bit on TSM,
we could be seeing a position where it gets kind of drawn into an overtime or maybe that
sport can just snatch this away. The dying embers of regulation. Loomi continues to have
a bit of a struggle here. Three kills. Double peek out. Siphon gets caught between the
The two of them on Plobsky once again on that aggressive.
He does get his man.
Timing is so brutal for Adam B.
As Altex emerges out of the smoke and claims his life.
These trades have gone back and forth so quickly.
There's still a minute 20 on the clock.
The bomb is in a bit of an awkward spot though.
It's actually stuck at the top of middle.
They're not sure if the CTs have pushed behind this or not.
Off angle set upon short side for the CTs.
Window gets smoked short, so Loomi cannot assist,
but he's more worried about the late picture on A.
Whilst mid control is firmly taken by the CTs,
they're gonna look to make a late play back towards B.
Smoke's over the top, flashbang in as well.
Plopsky, he's got the off angle for it.
Should be able to catch them on the way in.
What's the jump over?
There's the spray, Plopsky gets it, out text trades.
Down to a 2v2.
25 seconds bomb should go down here
At this point it's just about the retake Sapec looks to make the move in
He's got those pliers on him
So time isn't as much of an issue, but they still need to find the frags double up on the bench. It could be risky
The very one might just win them the round though if it goes undetected they find the first surely you won't expect a core in the same angle
He just can't peak he's just got to buy this time. They haven't seen him on the face up time ticks away
But it's too late and they've already got it. They found the frag. They're gonna be able to diffuse
He needed to waste more time on it. You could see the idea behind the play vins, but it just doesn't pan out
Boski is
Islander up man. This guy is on a bit of a boiling point right now the amount of kills he's gotten the last few rounds
Is being astronomical. He's so aggressive. He's known as being like an entry fragger of the outfit on mexico
So on the CT side he's like screw it. I'm gonna take all the fights
I possibly can on middle tons of success in the process and even though TSM have
more kills collectively by quite a while as you'd expect as they are still in the
lead everyone's on double digits or higher right now everyone is fragging out
it still doesn't matter even though Lumi's still on three kills and
Twapski's having this kind of impact there's not much you can do about it
except play coming in though Jackie it looks like they're gonna be able to
to at least force their way onto the site.
No one's in the CG boxes, so it should be a post plant.
Or maybe not.
I guess not indeed.
They've held back the waves
and been able to check the push from CSM thus far.
Lippin' out, look at her.
Licked here from Blobsky.
Wow, all right, back's up by Milo.
Nice brave transfer, good response on the bomb site.
Ah, that's pretty clean, right?
The fact that they're being able to pick these up
with very limited casualties, you know, barring basically one player and Adam B there.
You're making money, you're saving cash and you're winning out this half.
They give themselves, you know, an average here that's probably like 7k across the whole board
when you look at the way the cash flow pans out.
So they've got money. This is also the fifth round, back to back.
TSM are gonna have weapons once again, but who's to say Metis Port can't actually take them the distance on this one now?
It's looking like it, man. I mean, also the only two rounds at TSM picked up on this half were off the back of the pistol as soon as rifles came into play. It was basically one-sided.
Two diffuses, three rounds where it's not even been required. Sure, you've got AKs coming back in again, but they're gonna do something about this middle control right now because Plopsky is having his way with them.
Nilo having impact as well, and so Peck's starting to show up in the shadows and be a real pain in the backside.
So do TSM just try and like hit a site quick and catch them off guard or do they just stay
with this three default approach on Mirage that hasn't really been working out for the
last five to ten minutes.
I guess we'll find out.
So Petropping is HE so you can go pick up another one instead.
Keep that presence down on B-Apps but no one's home.
It's not affecting anybody from the T side.
Hanabido is getting up close on the ramp at a different angle trying to catch TSM
off.
Played the extremities holding the choke points now more passively
Adam B deep inside of ramp
I'll text size to jiggle into it
Adam B with the tagging slows him down
He's forced to recoil because of it smoke goes out
It's gonna buy a little bit of time as well me 50 seconds on the clock as they wrap that round towards palace side
They want to go for a waterfall and ramp push
With Valde being the backstab
The third prong of attack, round through jungle. 47 HP, Altecs goes in as the entry machine.
Adam B looks to defend but he's beheaded, buckles. The sandwich player will withstand as Nilo goes one for one.
Looming, flash over the top, canny lord over them with a scope.
Knees 1, you have to feel in that palace play.
He's been flashed out multiple times and said, Yeri up and over.
Just deny the vault plant a little bit, that's to stop the short plant.
8 seconds left on the clock. They just need to kill the bomb carrier but they can't.
Oh, Plops can now go to 1 on 4. We can play as sure but
first kill is good. He's been snappy with that aim but there's only so much one man can do alone
and TSM have put an end to the rot of 4 in a row and they finally take success again.
Again, unfortunate rounds, certainly some struggles, Looney as well.
We said the last time he subbed in for this team he was able to have some huge impact.
Unfortunately here you can see the jacquini-sized hole left in the roster as much as they get
a bit of steam.
With how large of a lead TSM had initially racked up there are only a couple of rounds
away a couple mistakes away. I'm shutting down the first map here taking the upset
win on Metsupport's home turf of Mirage and forcing us through to a second in the
series. A-core's got the op, Lumion response has one of his own and it's A-core down and
out Adam B playing with confidence round towards the A-Ramp gets that first
pig not really recoverable I but nice name towards top mid will soften up
I'm siphon only five HP though. I still have a little opening trade going in their favor
They can try and bridge the gap just a little bit not over rotating though
It's always important. You don't have a knee jerk reaction just a bit of early success or failure is the case maybe
Bobsky's got smoked out. He's okay to sit in ladder room for a little while longer Molly's being traded as well Valder just being
Careful and checking underpass for any pesky CTs in there and boosting up his teammate into the window area as well
using that smoke is a bit of a sanctuary but this time Adam does get his man
Altec's on the opposite end of the M4 traded into the AK-47. 50 seconds still
three players strong and healthy for TSM moving through onto the site that he
could shut down in the back and they line up for Nilo and he will oblige with
the double. A clean sweep round, let the sport move to 10.
Never ending game there as hard as TSM tried to put a final nail in the coffin
Message ports are able to bring it back one round away from equalizing this
Doble task a
Busted by TSM as well, whatever they could find down the back of the sofa, but Niko wields it to give measure against the opening pick
Oh, Plobsky could have been in position for a dream spray on short
forced to reposition, Adam B does the fancy footwork to strike against Zyphon,
and Zappette with the A-star play, doubles up on two, leaves himself susceptible to
Altecs who dives out through the window looking for the fight on Popski,
sees the player back in the shot, but big plot, finish it, it's the round off,
it'll take a 2k in that one, 11-11, the game being tied now,
Monument will come back for them Vince on their home turf.
What was his 10-4 at one point? I think 10-4, 10-5 and TSM looking in cruise control, having
no problems and suddenly they've ran head first into a blockade that has met this port
and realistically that is Plopsky.
Boomi's still on three kills and they are managing to go toe-to-toe with TSM.
He talks about the importance of maracas and map, Infuno likely will go across to their
opponents.
And they are fighting tooth and nail to make sure that they don't just get blasted at
2-0.
Not much to play with here either Jack, you've got an AP, you've got pistols, that's
basically all they have to play with.
Money in the bank for next round sure, but then you're eyeing up a potential Metis
Port map point.
Or it could be devastating if they make it there first, but you can never count TSM out
using them win important rounds with just tech nines and deagles before and it seems to be
going in a similar manner here.
55 seconds.
A 4 vs 3.
Manpower and Vantage favoring the T side.
Sapec catches the jiggle peek of Niko and denies the late flank onto the B site.
he can no longer buy time for the rest of TSM.
They're forced to make their play out on A.
Adam B.
He's been a linchpin again and again for this team.
Lumi with the baited flicks.
He's forced to fall back for Adam B.
Does what he does best.
Punishes, buys time for his teammates as they clean up.
And they starve off the investment.
They starve off the upgraded pistols
and claim match point first.
credit to MetaSport man. A lot of credit across to these guys is standing, it's your AWP, your
IGL that's not playing in this matchup and yet you have taken TSM to the limits. Tons of experience,
tons of top tier teams these guys have played in over the years. MetaSport are on the brink of
of winning their choice of Mirage.
It's either that or OT as Niko gets
plastered and pummeled by Sopec,
not for the first time in the B-Apps
and there's a smoke to keep him in position,
forcing the T's away.
Down a man.
TSM.
Losing Niko early.
This could be where their storyline ends on Mirage,
even with a hard fought battle.
Valdez. He's got the drop on Nilo.
He's been able to make his play in through the window.
Smoke blocking vision.
Valdez looking for the swing.
Oh, even with the information going the way of Nilo,
Valdez still hits the head and takes him down.
So back to a 4v4.
35 seconds left on the clock.
The push towards the A site.
Pressure beginning to mount Lumi.
Forced off the angle.
Adam B. Underneath dark spot,
looking to make a maneuver,
but he can't this time, Vince.
Maybe this is where they finally have their backs broken, TSM!
Can they take it to OT?
It's looking good, they've forced away the CTs for the post-plant.
Lumi gets flashed in the face multiple times and Plobsky
has been nailed, headshot delivered first class by A-Core.
Lumi's timing unfortunate here.
He's being played with in the triple box.
A-Core does connect the shot through the boxes but it's not going to be enough.
And now it all falls upon Sopec.
It do well not to peek him one by one. He's feeling informed right now. His aim is on point. It is true
But yeah, this just feels like he's gonna gradually be bullied out of this round and Altec secures OT a
Second consecutive day that met his port find themselves in this position
unable to get the job done
all the maps
Approaching it seems
12 to 12. TSM with a nice comeback on that one at least.
It felt like it could have been over. Their chance of the upset win was stricken down.
But now with the game reset going into it over time, there is a chance they actually could
get themselves a win here still and take the upset they've been looking for.
Heavy utility invested towards mid from the CT side, whereas TSM, they set their focus
on the barrage of the A site. Smoke wall going over, even a block off towards jungle, stairs,
CT, and then Unleash onto the bomb site. Adam B looking for a gap in the smoke. He's found an
opportunity. Gap closes though. No chance for the tag, D. Toid with Valde. Nice frag, but the
repeat comes in and Klopsky trades. Oh, Grenade's landing. Plenty of them around the feet of
Klopsky but still standing. I don't know 43. Tom ticks away in the distance. Steady metronome
of death but it's a peck that's gonna turn up the heat and vaporizes to want his approach
back in. Smoke out but the frag is forthcoming for Altex but he now needs to do it all alone
and he gets caught in between multiple players. Enough time for the defuse and Metisport
will claim first blood in the overtime. That was looking good for TSM. Add the post plant
down, we're doing a lot of damage and Loomi has a quick dance. He's like, yeah, I'm the
cheerleader of this team. Fine, we've got this in the back. Can they dance their way
to victory? The question that only time will tell. 13 to 12. This is fought with
the opening round win. A nice stance to take to pull themselves slightly further
over a head here at the BO3, there's TSM pressure back on you.
Sapec on shot, AK sprays, Valdez connects and he trips to pieces but Niko and A-Corp
come back alive in unison. Stereo frags at mid to at least punish back for a brief moment
of respite against the CTs. They're pushing top mid. A-Corp plays a defensive angle,
to hit a deadly shot on this one but he doesn't realize Sapec has all been able to cross behind
the box. In the meantime, Altec goes down the loomie combat
orping with the scope. A-core now realizing the location of Sapec but a one versus three
trapped in an awkward position on the map with the bomb being covered.
Likely had him getting much done here is slim to none.
to reposition, tries to take a new angle on things Vince, I don't like to look at how
this is going to go for him. Yeah we're 12 and a half thousand, it should be good to buy
anyway, it's slain inevitable if nothing else but that's his port. Another successful round,
another big round from Plopski and the rest of the crew. Yes, him on the back of the
foot, find themselves two pounds behind and this middle control, there were moments
where it looked like it could work out for me.
Sapec is really coming into a different kind of form.
21 kills.
It feels like a couple rounds ago, it was on like 12.
Unbelievable turnaround from him and the rest of the meta spot.
Cast out top mid.
We're going to deal some damage towards the oncoming assailants.
So far so good for the CT side, especially if they can squeeze the flawless half out
of it.
They should be in a pretty good position to just close things down. They don't require one round out of the
Hardy aim but the case hardened hits the opening pick
Xyphon
Watching for the push-ups
To one another's positions and don't want to overreact the pudding on this one
He's back
Thought he was covered but not far enough up
So there's the trade. Good response. Free players remain. TSM down to just the trio.
Calf log of errors watching this TSMT side right now. A lot of assumptions about being
covered or not, but kind of dipping their tone to the pool and not fully committing to anything.
You can see how isolated the players are from one another as well. Valder can wrap
by himself with the bomb. Niko in connector. And Xyphon was around Catwalk. Not playing
off one another don't have these angles covered valda may go for the check he decides against him
that's probably the round that goes with him they should be able to deny this bomb plant as he is
spotted from his teammate niko before he gets killed in the back and metasport will have a clean sweep
over three zero half in ot the best that tsm can hope for a second ot tsm starved off defeat to
It drags to OT only to break under the pressure, it seems.
Now moving on to their CT side, it has to be flawless.
It's the only possibility, and they drag it over.
Met his poor one round away, looking pretty
down dominant the longer the game's gone on.
It's been a big effort from Plopski and Sapec
that have been pulling ahead of the pack.
Adam B's had a couple of nice clutch rounds as well.
The super sub of Lumi struggling
find his form overall. But if they win the map, you can put this entire game behind you.
You know that you've at least got two more games ahead.
In the sense that all you need is one map, two wins here in the BO3 and they're free to the
grand final. To fight Johnny Speeds, it all starts here on Mirage. One round needed.
Nilo for the monotone. Burn underneath, look for the fight for Wolf-Dark. Flashbang over,
blinds him, out-takes, can peek in. Good crosshair placement, good cleanup crew maneuvers as well.
They're taking him down. TSM buckling.
Bulldozer. Offensive shattered into a million pieces right now. Metis port on the fast
track to 1-0 this series. Bloomy. Through the wall, the spatching of the IGL, the brains
behind the operation of TSM and Niko who started so sharp has been dulled down over the rounds
and beaten into submission with the rest of his team. A really solid effort from Metis Port,
well played to the Swedes as they move 1-0 ahead in the semifinals. There you go, big victory for
them then, stabbing off the potential upset in the OT. They were dragged into it kicking
and screaming by TSM, but they took complete control of the situation and made it look
simple, finding answer, answer, answer, to close that one down in the end there in the
overtime. So, Metispoor, can they take one more? Inferno will be next on the docket,
proceeding that if we need it. It's an ancient decider, really just goes down to the fact
if they can maintain the same level of pace. And you imagine, for Valdez Angels on TSM,
probably a bit frustrated with how that one's finished.
I think it's a very fair assessment.
I mean, at one point, this was like 10-4 in favor of TSM.
Like, they were miles ahead of Metasport,
and we thought, right, well, maybe the series is going
to be done pretty quick.
We were discussing before about how Inferno is one
of TSM's best maps in the pool.
They have a very strong fortress defense on that map.
They have a lot of wins.
Their win percent is very high.
Metasport just took them into the very deep waters there,
and I'll aim them like straight up like Plopsky was insane.
Sapek was stellar through that last five or six rounds.
Like they made TSM look like an ordinary bunch of players.
So very impressive to have met this port,
but TSM have got to go back to the drawing board
and figure out where to go next.
Absolutely, bud.
Need to reset mentally and figure out what the solution is.
Map two will be on your screens though.
When we return after the break, grab yourself a drink
and join us for that as semi-final number two carries
on in a few moments time.