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BLAST Premier Bounty Malta 2026 - Semifinals - Vitality vs Team Falcons, FURIA vs PARIVISION
01-24-2026 · 6h 55m
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All the power is in your hand.
You make the decision everything else aligns.
Who is vitality picking?
We pick.
Final consequence.
Oh.
I am shocked.
Oh, oh.
You know, check out.
His way was waiting to get a safe paravision
and follow everyone's.
Yes.
Powerhouse.
OK.
Do I need to ask you why?
It's an obvious reason to stand in situation.
I mean, yes, and also with the map pool, we know it can be good.
It doesn't be standing in Dallas, or we know it's a 15-year-old race,
but at some point you have to make a choice, and I know first,
I'm concerned with the objectives.
Are you ready preparing to face vitality?
If you don't know how I work already, of course, we are ready,
and they have, we received actually a special gift yesterday.
Oh!
You're it!
Oh!
Oh!
You're going to get furious.
Give me your thoughts on just fury,
who have been struggling.
Does it feel like a team that the power of vision can play well against?
I don't think it's about the team that we're playing in the guest.
I mean, for as top one,
Top one theoretical as I know and we can't underestimate him anyway
Even if they played not the not their best on online stage you get into face power vision
You gotta take him quite seriously now, right? Yeah, we always do and always do how we have a big respect for for the guys and for Jane as well
We have one of his students in our team
So it's gonna be the match against the student tomorrow and I mean of course
is going to be a great match, like I said in the other draft, we only have great teams here
people are bringing their A game to the tournament and everyone's coming full power and we're
going to make sure we're well prepared and ready for it again.
Welcome to 7 Files Day of the Blast Boundary.
Welcome to semi finals day of the blast bounty.
We've narrowed it down to just four teams.
And these teams will now vibe.
And I trophy on stage.
I'm dark my joint here on the desk by Maui Snake and Pip.
How are we feeling today, guys?
Pretty good.
The weather was a little bit better.
It was super rural.
It's still be-road.
What a nice day.
It's a good day.
To these lovely news courtesy of gaming,
Malta, who make this event all possible here in the studio.
Well, that was good today.
I saw the sun, you know.
No, no rain. It was a enjoyable. My bedroom joke. I saw some boats out on the water, too.
Good. You're doing great, perhaps? Unfortunately, I don't quite have a ride yet, but if anyone
in home can figure that one out for me, I would love to get out on a sailboat here in Malta.
But we are going to dive into our vachas, really sailing our way through what happened yesterday.
I've made my plugless plug with happened yesterday. You're just joking.
Valkins be like with the stud things off. Furrier, heroic,
game-reliefing, vitality, very vision-spu- what was the most surprising thing to you guys yesterday?
Well, if you have to take a wild guess, a wild guess, Mike,
which one do you think that stands out
out of the results on your screen right now?
You can do this one.
Yeah.
Well, it might be that last one, but before we get into it,
let's talk about Falcon's versus Liquid, right?
Because it was an over time game on the first map,
felt like Liquid had a lot of opportunities to put that one away.
Falcon's still find a way, even with this stand
and even with nucleons coming in in place of Kiosk.
I have a cool way of summarizing this game,
and the way we can do this,
that yes Falcons won, good for them to move on, new clans did a decent job,
modestly popping off, all the things we know you guys spend roughly 10, 15 minutes
talking about OC in that game and that's kind of what you've got to summarize
when you're constantly playing. If you start speaking about OC, you know,
not only one segment Tuesday, but three segments in a row, this is clearly
something. There we go. One on the fourth, this clearly something wrong
when we're in Team Liquid and I think we've got that effort one more time.
Well, I don't know if you've been seeing Twitter a good apparently criminals coming in,
so I don't know what exactly is going on there, but I can't keep an eye on that one
through myself.
Look, my random Twitter accounts are never wrong.
No one would ever lie on the internet.
I mean, it'd be kind of interesting.
I mean, I love Crembo.
I think he's a really great up and coming prospect,
but the only common, I mean, he's an already,
yeah, he's still up and coming.
I feel like if you're not up and coming for like five years now,
if you never really were on a tier one team,
how could you have come up yet?
All right, fair enough, you know who has come up though,
monacy, absolutely slayed in that matchup,
looking phenomenal on the up.
It's exactly the form we want from a player
that we want to be talking about as if you can be in that conversation for number one in the
world.
Yesterday he certainly looked at two days ago.
Yeah, he was fantastic.
You know, Freigab monacy is the best way to describe it.
He's always been great.
You know, always been great in an environment where he can do whatever he wants and now given
there playing without Sonic, the coach is not here giving the playing with a stand and I
feel like he's having a little bit more freedom and maybe also a bit more responsibility
in order to turn up and make Falcons competitive.
So, where good early signs from monacy in 2026 today is going to be a different task
because you always gonna unfold himself.
It's certainly well diving into our second matchup
of those quarter finals as well.
Fury against some rumbles against some questions.
This time, heroic came out and smacked them on Marrage.
But they still get it done in series.
What did you see from the Panthers?
They really were pushed by Fury or by heroic on that first map.
I mean, honestly, heroic just kind of body them.
They really felt like they blindsided them with the way that they wanted to call.
We saw bright signs from prison in the hero jersey
who now looks like he's going to activate these players on heroic, Nilo had some nice flashy
moments.
I'm really excited to see what the heroic team is going to look like when they actually
have their main opera in Alkaren because if they're already able to take a map off of
one of the world's best, then imagine what they can do with their actual five-man lineup
because unfortunately when it came to map two and three, Fury had kind of wiped the floor
with them mostly because it was a defense that simply didn't have that commanding presence
that a sniper has.
The cool thing about Mollidoi playing so well and the cool thing about freer winning their
game is that we constantly talk about how all the teams are struggling to find a WP player
that is competitive.
Yet we find ourselves talking about monacy about Mollidoi about side rule playing some
of the best counts right we've ever seen them play.
There was three have distance themselves by quite a margin.
Now as you said, Mollidoi perhaps not too happy with what went down on Miras that was a bit
of a blind-sided game coming in for heroic.
Obviously, mistakes too trivial are helpful, but as I said, I feel like sometimes and
that goes for all teams out there.
We even see vitality from time to time.
You can have a map off in a series
where nothing is clicking, nothing is working out
and then bounce back.
And that's exactly what Molo did,
and that's exactly what we're gonna do.
And it's kind of nice as well
to get that teaching table all along,
where you get the rumbles, you get the reps,
you get something that you can look back at
as the coach said, can come in here and say,
guys, we messed up a bunch of stuff.
I know you won, but we gotta get to work,
we gotta get into the demo review,
and that certainly will go a long way into the future.
Why is it then Molo though, I'm monocyan
and cyber are so good compared to the rest?
I guess sure it can be entering that conversation as well, but those fall and then down to number
5, 6, 7, 8, and like it's impossible to find a good upward.
Well let's talk about time, game religion, they had played a...
What?
Some interesting rounds, they had some good moments, they pressed vitality a little bit, but ultimately
it was vitality show, you're just by that 13 or 11 on top too.
At the end of the day, I feel like everybody felt like vitality was going to pretty
cleanly win this one.
So for game religion to actually pick up 20 rounds across two maps as they did show that
This team has some wheels.
I mean, this team actually has a great IGL behind it now
in Saxue to me, has totally jump-started
game religion for just looking a little bit more fresh,
a little bit more creative.
With ZCR at the helm in the past season,
past couple seasons, I always felt like
game religion had a very clear ceiling,
but I feel like Saxue's completely broken that one open.
In the fact that he's punched through the glass ceiling,
now actually can break down teams like vitality,
light teams at like Aurora in the group stage of this.
That those kinds of moments make me feel like okay,
this game religion team is going to pick up more
upset in the season and could be a cheeky shoe in for
maybe that 9th or 10th best team in the world.
And if we're talking about individual form as right,
high-packs showing, we saw it from Raz as well here Jacob.
Yeah, we saw this play a phenomenal on on Dust 2,
great to see wrist back in his best shape.
I will say I agree with what everything you said
when it comes to game on eating really showcase themselves
to be playing at a higher level than I anticipated this early in the second
next era so to speak. And they applied pressure to a vitality without the
best player playing well. I think PR was a little bit disappointing compared to
what we know he can deliver yet you were still able to put up 20 rounds and
I could be sure to one does to at least win a winning position. So for
game or even to do so well without the best player not playing well, I think
that's a healthy sign. Now we can talk about that surprising result. The final
one of the day. Carry vision and triumphant over spirit. I honestly still can't
I believe it, I don't think don't can either.
Now, the thing for me is that obviously it's a big surprise,
but it's returning to some of the same things we've been speaking about
when it comes to spirit mentally, that you're seeing like they're lost.
And whenever there were a face with a bit of adversity,
whenever a parish and we're applying pressure,
which jamed it, you know, I'm pretty much all the maps in the essence.
It felt like spirit would just crumpling under the pressure, crumpling mentally.
Not really coming up with the solutions,
but spoke about yesterday as well.
Now we're winning like a ton of opening duels
but not able to convert, not able to outplay the aim, outplay
permission to me, permission did well,
but that was a very disappointing performance.
In the final two maps, the pair of vision one,
spirit one, over 60% of the opening duals too.
So win 30 something for set of opening duals,
but to win two maps against the spirit team
that has don't, that still has a great closer in Shiro.
It makes you scratch your head,
but I feel like we saw some of the deficiencies,
the magic's as an in-game leader.
Sure, if you look at him on the scoreboard right now,
You're going to think that he did a solid job, but if you actually look back at that game
in terms of the calling, a lot of times after getting the opening pick, they're just walking
to their deaths.
One by one by one, it didn't really look like a team to me.
It looked like five guys who maybe had a little bit of familiarity pugging with each other,
but one where I wasn't seeing any sort of finishers that resembled what Tier 1 teams were
supposed to look like.
You know who was looking phenomenal though, both in the calling and in the individuals,
Jane.
The time lord is back.
He's right back and that final map on ancient was ruthless coming through from
James, every time I felt like Spirit might cast their breath, he just came with that
off and just got punched him.
He's so annoying to play against his play style, you know, the calling as well, you're
gonna getting annoyed by it as well now, you're the constant B, B-round simulator,
no six rounds in a row, you go to the same bomb side, but it does feel like he's one of those
players that really install within his play as well.
We don't have to do extraordinary stuff as long as we do whatever we do with high quality.
All the naps are being placed in the right moments, all the body conversations, the way you run
into a bomb site. It's very much drilled into the team already. It's a very young squad as
well, where everyone is looking up towards him, so he gets to control it to his fullest.
So, it's maybe that the most best sexy kind of strike, but it's a hell-effective and
hell-on-one to play against.
Well, one thing is certainly true, which is that we will have a new bounty champion.
One way or another, a new team is going to be claiming this fantastic prize because the
back to back champions in spirit are no longer in the tournament.
Anyone's a game here, and what a beautiful prize in these.
Hopping into our matchups for today, one of these four teams will be the one to lift that trophy
tomorrow on this stage, but first, think about a battle through earlier opponents, Falcons,
versus Fikality, Fury of Perry Vision. Outside of that Perry Vision surprise, we have the top three
teams of Counter Strike ready to do battle, and we got a Joker in the mix of Perry.
It's a really cool mix-up, cool matchups that we have. I almost feel like it would be
to cut and dry if you had spirit for perivision. But I feel like that's just kind of exemplifying
the growing pains that spirit are going through and also kind of the plucky underdog qualities
that Jayme and his boys have on perivision. But for the other three teams, I'm so glad we have
the elite squads from the last season all duking it out in the final four because that's kind of
how I want to start my seasons with maybe one surprise but three certainties. It's good to see
it's good to see the good seems coming out you know a hot front from the beginning. Often we
We have a player break and some of the seams are coming out a little bit rusty, but I feel like we've seen good signs from both
Bytality for a and also Falcons considering the circumstances of the standard.
And we're seeing the Superstars fire early, which is always makes them some exciting counter strike.
We'll be diving into our first matchup of that exciting counter strike.
We can back for this break, but first we'll hear from the teams for a vitality versus Falcons.
What made you decide to make that decision to come back early and practice a bit more?
like what someone telling you to do is your own decision.
Definitely my own decision.
I think I got told otherwise to take a tilt pull
and stay away from the game as much as possible
and be fresh and so on.
But I've just noticed throughout my life,
I don't really get tired like that.
So my heart kind of told me that I need to push
even more and take a little shower breaks,
but that's what I did.
And we'll see if it pays off in the long run in this season.
But for now, I'm just staying focused.
Did you make some like training plan for yourself
or change them ago?
No, not really changing routines or anything like that.
That was just being a little bit more
and trying to be a little bit more focused
when I'm actually playing other stuff then practice.
And with the room is the camera around the office
and right up like potentially being replaced.
Obviously Falcons came out and said,
no, that's not happening, but how did that make you feel?
You know, to have that support with the organization.
And where you ever worried?
No, I was not really worried at all.
The fact inside was really good at telling me
the early on, that nothing would happen and for anything change they wouldn't let me know,
but they were very certain, from the get-go, that nothing would happen and that made my play a
break a lot easier to work with and kind of gave me confidence going into the next season
that there's the team and now we had time to develop like we should have.
Obviously the conversation between you and Donk, I'm not talking about numbers here, but is
that a mode of impact of you that you actually have someone that can challenge you, it's
not just you at the very top, there's this back and forth between who can be better
does that inspire you to play better to keep growing, to keep becoming the best?
Of course, I mean, it's always good to have a kind of fear like this where you can watch
him or you can follow him, even though you're one of the best, but having a player like
donk, you can talk about many similar ways. I'm popping up for run-on, just when you have
this kind of play, they push you to work harder or to push yourself in the end of the
game, so it's always good to have this pressure band, you can have that to have this kind of
I'm afraid of the new, so obviously it's always good.
And what would you say is the thing you value
most in team vitality right now?
Oh, what have value to most, I think.
I think our mentality.
I think we can talk about yesterday again.
Scamology and I think if we had bad mentality,
if we start to think about closing,
if we start about all this bad thing,
we might lose this game because it was really close.
And we didn't pay good as team
and has the ability to individual it, but our mindset will really good.
We really, really fast, and we were good for that, so obviously, we, our mindset is really good.
What a fantastic game for us to start things off with.
We'll need it or not. This is still a stacked roster.
We got a fan set of catches too, with a back in the side three kills and he got four, four,
five kills in to those semi-finals.
That's right, we got the big ol' game tonight, 20-25s TV here.
Back on land in a new season.
This was the one trophy that alluded to with the dawn of last year.
They're just getting started.
Danny Finals away, it's vitality.
Keep up that strong dust to performances.
A Falcons on Wounded Wing versus a bee that's ready to sting.
This has been the matchup that defined a huge chunk of 2025, right?
The Falcons always trying to pose a test of this vitality team in a way of so many of
those trophies on the street yet still.
Vitality has always found a way to overcome, at least when it's hardware on the line
here, Jacob.
tough when you have two teams who play each other so much to come up with a new angle or
new storyline and percent for you guys.
One of the ways I attack this game is to actually look at the recent matchups and put it
into context because they have played each other and awful lot in 2025 and it's been very
competitive every single time.
In the last four games, the two for two, the Falcons have beaten tries, the problem for
Falcons is they beat them when it doesn't matter that much.
The third place to Sada are the Esports World Cup, obviously didn't matter that much in the
They brought context, beating them into semi-final in Hong Kong.
That's nice, but they ended up losing the grandfinal in two areas.
Where's the other way around?
Whenever I tell the beatfelt guns, they go on to win the trophy as well.
And that's the difference between the two teams.
I think head to headwise, very similar, very competitive.
It's hard to say that Vitality is significantly better than Falcons,
just by everything we're seeing.
But there was solstereganing out of it, that's the different.
It's a really good point to bring up.
I mean, the fact that Vitality, what they do,
they snowball it into a full-on victory,
where as Falcons on the other hand, still trying to touch a trophy with this five-man line
up. Well, even with Kyosuke instead of their standing that is either way. I mean, I feel like
for vitality, yeah, when push comes to shove and it's a high pressure moment, they've come
out better. But the thing is that for the Falcons, what I love about this match up today is that
in many ways, you would say that they have everything to win and nothing to lose because
nobody really with nucleons in the fray is going to say that, oh, geez, this is such a bad
loss for the Falcons, but I always find that's when they're deadliest, when monacy
freeze himself up, when Nico freeze himself, and they also just carry a little bit more
of that burden.
I think it's a fair point to make.
Let's highlight some of those individuals as well, right?
Because there's a natural comparison so we can make between the rosters.
I mean, of course, we're looking at Nico over in the Falcons side, the legacy that he brings
and when we compare him to a player like Rob's two players who have been celebrated for their
work on the rifles, for the heights that they've achieved.
It's a comparison of trophy cabinets at some point, isn't it?
Yeah, I love Rups' 2025 for a lot of different reasons,
but if anything, he brought back to life
at least for my money, the conversation
that was the goal right off the game of Karnus Rack.
I think Nico has had that title for quite some time.
The way he's been able to produce consistent results,
then part of the XL TV top 10 ranking,
top 20 ranking 10 years in a row.
Both of them have had such a sick history,
as you can see right here as well,
in terms of trophies.
There's one big caveat,
and that's obviously the zero attached to Nico's name
when it comes to magis.
However, outside of that,
we're grubs coming into form in 2025
and now heading into 2025, Maui.
I think this conversation between the two is very interesting.
Yeah, I mean, Rob's also, I feel like,
I mean, the three majors to his name
versus also the couple grand slams that he has,
it's hard, if you care about team achievement,
Rob's just kind of body's Nico,
and even in terms of individual achievement,
I mean, Nico's got also nine MVP medals.
Some of those are great events, huge events,
whereas a lot of if you look at Rob's is five MVP medals,
some of them are actually online events.
So you would probably say that the individual hardware does still lie with Nico.
He has some better placements overall in terms of world's best in HLTV's ranking, but
I think Rob's just with how much he has improved practically every single roster.
That he joins, whereas on the other hand, it's almost like Nico's bringing a curse.
When he joins a team, then you just write them off, or not, not when in the major.
That's what I can take from it.
But they are going to be competitive, and hopefully he can eventually undo that curse.
Well, let's dive right into the frame of another player who constantly gets the conversation about team achievements versus individual peak.
We got Zygmur and Monacy on the other side of it as well.
Monacy a player who has been known for the absolute carry job performances when he needs to to secure his team of trophy.
And frankly, let's be real.
That's probably what's going to be required from again today.
100% you know what I'm honestly playing well today especially with the stand-in situation. There's no winning it
I think it's going to be super super interesting to see how they're going to fare to me
Monthly twenty twenty six. He's going to have a big year ahead of him because I think it's important that he
Staps himself now as a player that can contest versus cygrove and versus don't to be crowned the best player in the world
If he's just and I say just you know and quotation going to be the third best for best fifth best
Is he really living up to the full potential that all of us are thinking monocies having I'm sure
I think he could be the best friend of the world.
He could be, and it's a talk about him,
or to have a conversation of any sort that involves I.
We have to bring in a subject expert here.
We got care.
I'll join you guys on the desk.
How are you this morning?
I'm very good.
And you guys?
Good.
Good.
Good.
Thanks for asking.
And now you get to talk about your favorite guy.
One of your favorite guys, sir.
No, you.
Oh, well, I can't.
Bad news about that one.
We messed up the schedule.
You're going to have to talk about I will instead.
What do we think about this comparison?
I will honestly.
Well, I think Merizia have to do a lot better if you want to reach the level of Zygou of what he did last year.
But he's capable of, and I think as a kind of game, was a lot of pressure because we are playing with a player of the academy.
It's a good time to show that for him.
Carol, I just want to know, okay. What's your horse in the race of the world's best?
I don't think it really needs exploration from your words itself. Who's the best player in CS?
So the best player in CS, actually?
Yeah.
What are we speaking, mechanic, actually,
to view the world?
Whatever you're wondering, why not take me down?
Okay, what about mechanics first?
Mechanics first don't from funk, well,
I'm from unbiased and based, okay?
I like it.
But like, overall teamwork and everything.
Like, don't say that if you want to be the best player
in the two win-twofies and trust the ones that best
to do that, did I go?
Okay.
Kail, now that we're heavy here, I'm curious,
because obviously Cybro is riding his high right now.
You have apex, you know, maybe in the conversation
for being a golding game leader if you continue.
Is there any other prospects coming up
in French, Canterbury, Guana, that we should pay attention to?
Well, I think the best crack is a gravity.
It could be a very good game leader.
You have the mentality, the hard worker.
And I think it's a very good year, huh?
So we need to pay attention to him.
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
Nature, I think, but not to touch.
It's more of a thing.
Maybe he's a better team to show his true level,
but also the great mentality is a big factor.
I think he's a good soldier,
so he could bring some things to some,
to have to,
quickly, quickly.
Well, now that we have any leaks coming up,
you know, any rust moves that we should be paying attention to.
You got any, you always have something.
It was a market without, with that space here.
Yeah, so not really.
OK.
No.
Nothing, nothing straight from the source, but if we're talking about this match up right now.
Stake your flag, plant your flag, what's it going to be? What's the prediction? Who's wanting?
You know what? I love its cover for the front-hand today.
Because last time Vitality played against Nico and Melizzi, which was Tendin. It was YM Dallas.
We see we. I'm scared of the story, but I think to be honest, he's a playser game.
It would be too, uh, too zero for the 32.
Well, I'm glad you brought that up because if I did Jacob would yell at me,
thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you, guys.
And if anyone would like to watch him, he's right up above us.
It looks scaring down on us from the co-stream setup.
You can go on over the carols, stream, and check that out.
But we're going to dive into the vitality roster right now because we set this up very nicely indeed.
You know if we these guys are.
If you don't, what is you turn off your computer for all of 2025?
It's the finest team.
And Counter Strike, they want just about everything, both majors.
one of the greatest runs the greatest run. I'll just say it
of all time in counter strike in our first season. Unbelievable achievement after unbelievable achievement
for 5,000. You know what I like about my utility coming into 2026 is the fact that yes we
praised him for having perhaps you know the greatest season of all time being very dominant in
counter strike. To me, there's still seem punk with you. You're still looking at a team where
all the interviews, all the players are talking about we want to win another one and another one.
And another one, setting up new goals. We want to be the best team ever. We want to go far another
major. It's a very honk with team, and I think apex is a set of the couple of times.
One of the big challenges when you're winning a lot is to stay honk-win from the outside
of the very least. It seems like volatility haven't been eating too much yet.
No, in the way that they're doing it also. I mean, I would say even in that second season
where they win the two trophies. I mean, I still would have probably predicted them to be the
favorites in every single tournament that they attended. And I still consider them the favorites
in practically every other tournament, until a team makes me think otherwise.
Until a team shows a consistency at the S2 events, not some kind of, I wouldn't say,
what Furi did was flukey last season or anything like that.
But it wasn't always with all of the elite teams in attendance.
Vitality on the other hand, they have the best composition we've ever seen in the CS2 roster
from star player to IGL to support player.
Everybody exceeds in all of their roles.
They're always willing to pick up the slack.
And also, they can just turn on the dime.
Mezzin needs to get an entry.
He can run in first.
If Robs needs to, he'll do it as well.
If Vitality flames he needs to actually slow play around,
because he needs to activate later,
he knows exactly how to do that too.
So they're incredibly malleable and versatile.
And I think that's so simplified by this Mezzin quote
that we have, which is that at any point
they can turn it on.
We've seen anything come back.
You've seen it in the grand finals.
We've seen it in the BO5s in every possible map.
It just doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter the situation that you place them in.
Even if they're working with pistols,
if they're working with lesser weapons,
This is perhaps the most versatile roster that we've ever seen in Counter-Strike.
It's such a well-rounded roster.
I'm Augusta Roster.
As you said, every single one of the players can do the job to a high degree.
Maybe even follow this thought experiment.
If you were to say who is the quote unquote weakest place in his role right now,
I think a lot of people would maybe point to what's Flamsey saying he's not, you know,
necessarily dominating if that's the weakest link when he might sell it.
If we're playing that idea, then we have to pick someone.
Mike, I know where you want to go.
But just play the idea right. I'm not saying he is weak, but if you have to point in one player in his role that you would switch out for someone else
I think a lot of people would point towards flames. I think which means they have no weakness to quote the man himself
I believe he said in podcasts last year. Hey, I told the team if they can get dunked from my role. I'll do it anyone else. No. I mean I feel like it's kind of a
It's a tough question because
Everybody's so strong on the role, but if you actually want to say who's the worst? I would just say the most replaceable
because yes, he would make the joke about dog replacing him.
But yeah, if you got Zantara's Nico Kioskay,
I would technically say that they're all fine over flames.
But like, am I really trying to even make any sort of shift
on a team that has shown some of the best chemistry ever?
So it's kind of a ridiculous hypothetical.
I could really get into this argument, but I'm not going to,
because we do have another team that we need to talk to
and we need to give them their justice as well.
We'll flip over to Falcons.
If we get a tack plos later, I'm picking this one back up to Jacob,
because I've got a bone to pick.
I would crash it to understand it.
We're talking about the Falcons here.
We've got another superstar roster with one less superstar
than usual, nucleons coming in as a stand-in.
Just for a quick bit of recap if you're joining us.
Now he is a young 18-year-old player from their academy.
Before this event, he played 18 officials on HLTV all-time.
Ever spent a lot of face it.
We didn't know much about him.
He's been, I would say, fine.
He's not KSK.
We didn't expect him to be.
He has not been a glaring weakness, has he?
Now he passed the test, so to speak,
you know, coming in playing his what a six official game ever
on a big stage, on a ton of pressure,
even he's set it himself after the game that he felt the pressure,
but he passed the test.
He wasn't a liability, but he didn't make a difference either.
I think he had a nice clutch of new,
got one me two or something like that, outside of that,
very anonymous performance.
But that's what you want from him, right?
As long as he's not a liability, however,
their opposition as well was slightly weaker than my cellity.
So I think by telling you, I think Apex, I think that squad is going to do everything they can in order to expose them.
And that's when we get to see if he's to be able to do.
Sometimes though, I would even say that for a player like NewClean's just trying to get out of the way and stay out of the way.
Because at times, even though Kiosk A can just like the server up with 20 kills,
you're not necessarily going to find that sort of kill replacement in NewClean's.
But you almost get it in the aggregate of what Nico and Monacy do in his stead.
when they know that they have to step up a little bit more.
And nucleons can just play a little bit more passive.
Isn't trying to just be a hindrance to the team.
Then you have the superstar shining a little bit brighter
so that Kiosk can just kind of watch on and say,
you know what?
It's okay, I'm not there right now,
because then he gets to just enjoy the fireworks
from the other two guys who have just been built
some of the world's best.
I do kind of want to make a like comparison
to bring it back to something that'll enjoy Jacob,
which is Carail brought it up, the Dallas run.
If you compare the way that like Stewie was as a stand in there,
he was throwing his face in the blender
and the dying to create space to be traded.
New clearance is kind of the opposite side of it,
just hanging back, letting them do it,
and then figuring out what you need to do
to try and complete the picture.
I would rather have a steward type of stand-in
for somebody like Nico who instead then can just go in seconds.
I mean, Nico's just one of the best trade
for actors in the world,
monocies one of the best elite round players in the world.
Yes, they can find openings,
and that's sometimes what we remember the most about them,
because it is sick to see monocies just swing out
with an A-W-B.
But in reality, I'd want him behind new blocks
and Furno just playing a 1v3 from there that after nuclear
has made all the space.
I'm glad you brought it up, Mike, because I think it's an excellent point, you know,
it's vastly different having students who were aggressive,
who were a space-taker, opening up stuff for Niko,
and also helping with the calling, compared to Niko,
and so it's just trying, as you said, to stay out of the way
and not be a liability.
So in terms of the reference, is it
referenceable to the Dallas one, not at all,
because it's too vastly different.
I don't know, it's the next one, right?
So it's the next one, next one, and Hunter too, is a little different composition.
very different competition indeed, but let's see where this composition is going to go because it's time for the video.
Alright, if your Falcons you got a tough test, where do you take it? I mean, I would just say go for
Dust2 or Mirage. I feel like they've already shown some strengths on those two maps.
There are ones that obviously appear like nuclear on. It's going to be more comfortable with.
Nuclear ons was even playing Mirage face at games with a couple of the guys on Falcons leading
into this tournament. So I think those are the pretty obvious choices.
Vitality have been going in for in Fernot in this sort of matchup.
And so they go back to the well. I'm pretty sure they lost at the last time, though, in Hong Kong.
But other than that, they've been pretty strong on the map in general.
And like I said, I'd be surprised if Falcons go anywhere other than D2 or Mirage.
Yeah, I agree with that since a month and there we go.
Okay.
Should I surprise you? Are they getting a vote?
Oh, no.
Can we say it's okay? I get the idea, though.
Sure. I get the idea. It's a huge wild card you're throwing into the mix there for Falcons.
you're you know you're the underdogs. You know you have a standard. It is a map that you can kind of just deathball send it and it's not really gonna be too much of a detractor for
Planet you don't want to play tactical CS on a new business much. I've just gotten a birdie in my hearing said that this is the first a new bus for
Niko since November of 24. It's the I think it's also the first time that kicks in and tests has played a new bus for Falcons. It's been a long time
I mean, it's been seeing that play that man.
Yeah, that is an interesting kick.
He had very interesting pick.
No Nuke, no Dust 2, seemingly.
So we get a Mirage as a decided.
There was still other one.
That's pretty good for Falcons.
Yeah, in all fairness.
I think the infernal pick makes an awful lot of sense for Vitality.
I think there are nobis want to say something for a lot of different reasons.
You mentioned a couple of them, but even more so the fact that
they just want to try to ruin a span of to this one,
they know they're coming in with a stand and they're coming in as an underdog.
And we did see Vitality play a Noobis against eyeballs in a very
competitive and a very close game.
I felt day W probably should have won that game when I bought us.
So if that's the reference point, they have.
Mayors will go for it.
Well, we are going to be diving into the action here.
It's time to see what this bout will be.
Vitality versus Falcons, a classic with a bit of a twist to bring you through it.
Harry and Hugo.
Yeah, two very big names, squaring up to each other, ready to take each other on Hugo.
Falcons versus Vitality.
It is falcons with a stand-in, but that's far the kind of usual faces within this team
talking about your monocies mainly have looked really, really good.
Is that going to be enough though to rise up and take down big favourites in vitality?
Well, he had an incredible series against Liquid.
There was no doubt about that.
We're going to give more than just the monocies show to stop vitality on their road and on their
run to this trophy, right?
Surely the favourites, even though they're seed number three, they pick falcons in that drop show.
And for good reason, you mentioned this stand-in as Mike said on the desk he's been fine.
He's been okay.
Yeah, we have very, very serviceable.
That's how you really look at it.
You've seen him shine in any meaningful way.
And that's okay against a liquid begun to need.
You're going to be called upon in a match against whiteality.
So there's no hiding behind kneeca.
There's no hiding behind monacy.
We're going to see what this young player has to offer today truly in this semi-final against the world's best.
It's team vitality taking on Falcoons we start on Infernone.
No secret that this was a bit of a trouble
to map for the Falcoons to really come to grips with
the Kia Suke in the main squad.
How's Nucleon's gonna fare as the stand-in?
As time things off on the CT side and he's up.
He can this position out towards Top banana.
Well, this is his first official on in Furno as well, but that mainly comes from just a lack of HLTV games.
Falcons have definitely improved on this map, see if that could show through today.
Oh, kicks him, helping out his young player as they wrap all the way around long side.
I have no clue on his dead there, towards mid and there's only one man left in the
A-Sighted's Tessas who just concealed himself in the smoke.
He can see my colleague is still very suspicious.
Two players with eyes on and they're quick to deal with him.
You even got this late activation from Rob's ready to come through just to clean up their
remaining two for the falcons.
You're going to be hard pressed to find a way back in here, boys and drops closing in.
You're going to first shop finishes off the second player. He handles that wrap around perfectly.
That is ever a threat.
The classic drops position right.
You've seen that just a million times across all his teams, right?
Late A retake. He goes into the bedroom and he just hides out.
He always lets them go past.
Stabbing the back here.
And a 45.
No less fatigue vitality.
But it was that info.
one of another closer, just like a speed-up.
That says a secret to no one vitality to take the pistol.
Strongest off of vitality, they struggled on pistols yesterday, and on conversions as
while they were force-buying, game-elegium-rable to stop them every step of the way.
So it was a bit of a problem for vitality, but if we know one team has had their issues with
pistols, it would be Falcons.
but they're best.
All right, we're looking at rivals last year.
It was a very different result.
A lot of pistol wins for Falcons
and Furno wins beating vitality even on this map.
So what do we get today?
Tality looking to do with the bottom of the air
from 9-7, used by Kixen.
Yeah, it's come clattering in vitality wounded.
The
system
is a bit of a stack there at least three play a spot out of
vitality just to speed up.
Coming into the under-defended a site, it's only
Tessas and Odyssey getting into and lights out on the
Eagle.
Tessas has found one, but they're already in and
past the Odyssey over on short, so that's a big problem.
It means this won't get too much more exciting than that one
kill at a Tessas.
I'm playing secured by Talitwee 2 and
up and off to a good start here, you know, one of the things we kind of saw from there
opening game and these playoffs was slower starts with Vitali, he that then ended with
very, very strong finishes, you know, game religion able to give them a bit of a run
for their money at times, but here in good form from the get go, right, getting off to
a good start in the pistol round, finding the conversion, it's going to put some wind
in the sales of Vitali.
even at that quote before this game from Ezreal just talking about now.
This team, they always feel like if the hour calls for it, they're going to have a play, whether that's an idea, whether that's an individual
setting up and rising of the occasion, and that's why in the past as well, even when he's at back to the second half of 2025,
when Vitality World losing some games, and you heard those comms to rape, actually.
He sounded very frustrated.
He's asking the team to just give him more, right?
Try harder, hit harder.
There has to be more left in it.
I think in isolation, folks are kind of quick to judge that
as just an apex mold, but this is a team where you always think
you've got that extra 10, 20% to give out.
And that's already what we've seen in these playoffs.
The idea that they could come in starting strong
is potentially scary for the falcons.
It would have loved the slightly sleepy vitality
in these first few rounds.
they take the the risk of stopping it come back over being in that position themselves
kicks it back seven, comes out on a kill, takes a second pump,
the test is by his side and guns gifted Falcons well armed in this round
don't over commit to that, getting out with the guns and getting a chance to play this 5v3,
puts the pressure on vitality you've actually ended up with a fantastic position here
And to liberty by kicks in on that push with the mag sevens and support from Tassets who's been
here with the pistols in these first few rounds.
Now the bullets and vitalities call whether they want to do in this 3v5.
Anywhere they go there's reason to be nervous.
You know if they have info what's happening here at B.
Resmox just come down as well at the minute mark.
Haven't had eyes on the apartments since you lost two players there.
And so, will just be a decision a group over here at Banana, that means they're playing
into the stack.
Execute with 30 seconds.
Nothing to block this, the Molly's on the other side of the map, so it's going to come
out to Gunfighter, good new Rock's Molly hit the messy.
And if you come in, it's bloody lovely, three Molly's land on the site, there's no one
inside.
Jumping over the corner, there's a police plant.
The Rock gave a kicks and spout back.
inside the smoke somehow living inside Eagle, denied and kicks in, comes out behind banana
and I will in the clutch.
It's not giving him much.
So I will in the clock.
Neat is killed instantly and next won't be allowed to choose his to save TAK.
You can find all the kills he wants.
He can't win this round, Tessas.
Will not make that mistake.
Oh.
It's a nice driver's eyewood, but we're kicks in disappearing into banana.
The clock plays out for Falcons and they find that force by saved.
I have no idea how kickstand survives that spot on his smoke, but there's so glad he did, able to then re-kim it, once he loses the sight player, he comes back to the road to smoke, right?
It actually gets this trade and from that point on that's really where the round is unwindable for Zayu.
Just doesn't have the time, 10 seconds, you've got to play her up and aren't even at a player in CT, there's no world you can get that bomb plant, it's that's really well handled, you know it.
A fortunate kind of spray on the smoke keeps kicks out in the round and boy doesn't he like them forget it. It's a
lovely hold from the foul kids and it's gonna get them on the board early
Still some guns remain here at least for vitality the monosies got his AWP
Long side with Nico and look man, you'll see tea side in Ferno. You know the
Muddies in there for vitality even even in the odd world where they wanted to go for an open
I will just stay on a drive for all of these T-sides of inferno, you know, this is kind of where you really want to
Take a bit of ownership over the roll
Show that all-puff put it to work as monicies had some fantastic moment here at Blast Bounty
I see you you want him kind of feeling that confidence early on yeah, he's on the better half of the
AWP he's the first guy to get to Dom one in this game
This is where you want monicie to leave a bit of an impression well, he's gonna have to because vitality have made a lot of noise
And then walking back up mid, we've got this crossfire in the site, but Nico gambling with the triple B.
The 40 seconds start to make a bit of noise. Nico has a difficult decision to make on which side he wants to commit to.
It doesn't matter. I tell you, beating him to the punch.
Yeah, they're going to get out early. Just this two-man hold, honestly.
Some combat openings going to be required here. Molly burns in vain.
But the orb still gets on line in time. Two is all the managers.
The most falcons in a doable spot, spam even connects Vanico, now you're weighing up this
three on three. This is what you want to stake it all on. The re-smokes are a big problem.
One just came down and apex can replenish. The moto is out of commission.
I don't have a smoke here own either for the falcons, right? Not uncommon to see a smoke
come through this motosmoke. The try and allow you to play forward into the site, but that's
not available to the falcons. It leaves pressure on and it leaves them only with this short
That's exactly what my Talie here hoping for there.
Set up to deal with a short retake.
Is it dead?
It was a swing, baited in to the messy rocks crossfire and it was a very short retake shutting
down the falcons.
My Talie here quick to regain full control.
Yeah, we're really benefited from a player being able to come out of motor, right?
Even just pushing the smoke, but all together, we're going to a chokehold here.
From vitality in this post-grunt, as he was so good round to rev it.
And vitality, they never waste a flashman and they've got one they're going to use and they're going to repeat they're going to get an assist.
I will start to be credible flashbangs in these few games about it.
I'm always seeing his name in the kill feed.
With these assists.
I want to see.
Can you keep up the hair to head going back to be?
We'll be required by Tality 3 strong.
There it is.
Insta-Rotei Vitality, call his blood.
Although, going to, that smoke will change their tune.
Yeah, you hope right now is that Robski kind of thread the needle on this timing.
But, bro, I'm walking through that door.
Orps already got on ahead of him, and I'm just gonna look to link up with Rob's over here in Top Mid.
Once again, playing into this hero AWP.
After you flames.
It's very aware of what their win condition is, and just how important it will be to get Monacy,
feeling hot in this matchup.
I place for the offer again, he puts it to work, five, seven attacks,
goes on to lend a helping hand.
hand.
And the man at the rest of the vitality squad came around to join is now the sole remaining
player for vitality.
It's ropes on a long wrap.
The site is flooded with falcons players who have armed themselves now.
What's even supposed to do here?
Bommel A for 25 seconds and I just have to be this safe.
A very suffocating round there.
Monacy getting ahead of that rotate on the AWP feels paramount.
But as a shot over towards the B site, there was a stack over towards B throughout most of
this round for the Falcons, but the orb was not a part of it.
They wanted it to take first contact.
He gets the kill, insta rotates away.
Just remains one step ahead of Vitalix.
Yeah.
Good moves for monocene, man.
Show some monocene.
It wasn't just a one day, a one game over liquid.
He seems to be very strong form starting off this season.
A lot of imparts, good reads, pretty crouching to dodge the flash, and up and over for another double in this bombsite.
Honestly, monstrous round.
And by talking hit the wall.
And I mean, you know, the form component there is like, even if monacy misses that shot B, still probably goes for the rotate, just feels so much more valuable, because he gets him, right?
I, if they have a 5v5, they can just try and steam roll through likelyhooders.
It's a lot harder to get those shots off on the york because you're just going to be swarmed
essentially.
But not only do you get out with the kill and get ahead of them on the repositiony
play in that 5v4.
It's just a real comfortable round at that point.
Yeah, I mean, Monascist made his position known in this game right to multi kills in the
back of A site.
So vitality needs to be very ready for that position in future gun rounds.
Won't be now, they're gonna force up four tech-nines as I would on the AK, so far from an unwinnable round, but if
Monacy keeps finding open as it could be a problem, he takes a DP down middle. Oh dear, almost clicked as I
were lucky to be alive, steps into the scope. Tarty, getting battered by nature again.
Falcons, I don't need you that, but they own banana as well, so all the staging looking really
It's wrong here for Falcons.
And when you have the monacy on the orb, in any position, you can afford to play Triple B.
Oh, reliable Tessa is by his side.
Yeah, and you know, Tessa's has been reliable.
In these rounds that Falcons have been able to win,
he's always been a part of them just getting a kill,
chipping away on the 5-7.
Yeah, B is the scary part, right?
Because you have your weakest fracker,
kick somebody you also have, you know, a rookie, another one for kicks in to try and implement
into it in furrow, and so don't be surprised if I tell you, attempt to abuse this bombsite
they're coming in.
Just playing through the smoke, all this respect, shut down on the first man in, and we
all are beautiful round.
Plays of fall in the pressure was on, the stand in rises to the occasion.
and dies almost instantly as soon as that site take is initiated from Vitalii and then
income to nuclear on.
Well that's why usually some smoke break there so you have to have some vision.
Look at my tower becoming through grey screen walking into bullets.
Well it's stormy through the smoke nuclear just sprays them all down.
Four kills in defensive his bombsite.
That is a one way to start off.
You know the point you just made about how you expect to see Vitalii trying to abuse
take advantage of the fact that this is even even with the full Falcon thrust, that this
is the most abusable on the side they've gone. It's where a lot of teams look to go. Now,
it's meant to be even more susceptible to that with the stand in there. If you're able to
kind of set this tone, the B is not going to be as free as you're expecting, the B is not some
red carpet rolled out situation, that could cause big problems for vitality. Because what's
the other option. You'll look at a monacy over here on the A site,
him and Tess has playing off of each other, has been fantastic, a real high point
at this CT side thus far.
A ton of hate and monacy, that is just gorgeous.
Let's the first two cross only to line up a collateral, clean tap for the third.
Oh dear, I think by talent you're already getting a much bigger challenge
that they were anticipating.
And some frustrating rounds right here, having the right cause, avoiding the
stacks for the most part, and still running into Monacy back in the A site with two multi-kill
rounds, they even won one of them. That previous round would no need on the smoke by
Tarty's getting chewed up. These are definitely frustrating routes to lose, so they've got to keep
their heads screwed on. Balkans in the lead. He goes starting A. Maybe look down on the
and a system's a monocidal element to come into it all by talented pushing the smoke.
Oh, for a little bit with that.
He didn't know how his hurts flames gets out with two and tests that's so blind.
Very, very punishing round.
Hey, that's why you have flames on the roster right?
Fearless jumping through smokes and back tens, but still on the state from monocidal.
Here's him running through the smoke.
Neca gets an idea.
A monocidal unscopes.
Did not think he had it in him.
So if I tell you catch them off guard, it's a very falcons S ground, right?
They do love running the quick mid pops on the T side.
That's my tell to you get out all the better, get out with Monacee's AWP and the flawless
round to build this economy.
I'm just catching on to my stupidity thinking, but why about me rushy isn't running down the hallway?
Maybe covering flames and footsteps.
I mean, the same reason why that round is so frustrating for Falcons is also why it's
huge of a valley.
It just kind of leaves them now in the conversation.
It's still a bit good half.
It's so good.
You just couldn't start getting away from you.
But now you're broken through early chance to maybe even break Falcons money before
the half draws to a close that something you weren't going to have had the, you know,
remained competitive in that round.
but you take it so cleanly.
It's all right, slightly slower now for vitality.
I'm not looking around two Pacey rounds back to back.
It's no 50 damage need before players
getting puts up 80 makes his endforce hit like AKs,
so if Alkans have already done some important shift damage
in this round.
Even if you're just body shotting,
it reduces from five or four shots to three.
It's gonna make your life a lot easier.
Honestly, I might be needed to get back on his perch inside of the site, so we doesn't
I don't know, it's missed.
It's not Pana's share from Nico.
I wanna see, I wonder where he is.
That's what I'll detail here,
it was nuclear, it was just re-aggressed banana.
To confirm the suspicions of the Falcon's,
they've already rotated accordingly
to this being an E-play.
Three in the right place now,
and you know that this hit is coming.
You've got the info.
Good, I'm gonna for Monacy, makes it a double.
And that's Nico lending a helping hand.
But it's slower start to this game for Nico.
Maybe this is where he can find his impact. He's got to beat the two Frenchman for Vitality that bomb getting planted right now
He's got a one-man gun out in the site and Nico and new Cleans come together deal with them both in seconds
I tell you don't even have time to get posted and yeah, that brings a little right smile to Nico's face
I'm a frustrating round in the one prior to two lights out kills to really just seal the deal on that one instant lead
The way these shots look, the quick adjustment, it's the monocede we expect, but we don't know how he's got it.
And back to back playoff games popping off and this guy only deals in doubles.
He has had so many multi kills in this map, it's the same as against Liquid, remember that new map?
to be the one of the
games where you just have to show up and kind of be a 100% on the day and I think that's why it feels
relieving right even something like if you look at it and say yeah monocies playing pretty good right now
out in the pretty good is enough to beat by Tallah. He has to be tapped in he has to be locked in
and that's certainly the form you've had in these first few rounds. Countless multi kills it's been a bit of a
calling card for monacy at this event and again it's the weakest side right it's only
monacy and tessers inside of A and Falcon still trade out to the advantage.
All this getting off has finally got to Zowoo. He's a ball on out on the T side.
It's fair and I try to get the orb going. It's in him having one other time already but
I've never even got to fire a shot off.
Okay, that's the hush, yeah.
Double-nade, deny it.
You're not gonna lie or monacy.
Not anymore.
So is that your twice now?
And hasn't even really got to put it to work.
Double-nade in this round.
Last time he had it monacy found him scaling over the car over here at A.
And so the two times I always tried to get that orp on line,
it has been instantly denied.
You can't even get out as well, so just once again, look at the way it's safe enough
in this BOM site and a 5 vs 3, it's out of the car, even if you can't block me.
I've been smoked out.
Got plenty of utility to execute here.
Rob's is still lurking down, obviously won't hit the flick if I have been paying attention.
Okay, passive saves them instead.
the
execution will have to be the way to be three on this site
position for kicks out and they just
Oh, it sounds it kicks out. Not if we're giving
food right now. The jump shot down just chasing kill number two.
On that headshot flying at them. You know, I think something else
else it's kind of interesting here is someone like Nico's not been shy about the type of pressure that comes
of playing on the trotter hell you know just because of the the money that's been spent on it right the
idea that the results are always supposed to be there and I think that does add a lot of pressure
but uh when you're at the back of the stand if you know for the first time I think Falcons kind of
get to play with a little less pressure you know that's a time to move you wouldn't normally see
He kicks and goes for.
Definitely flexing right now, Falcons and her winning position, can they win this
half?
And to you go, we've made that so.
Well, let's back to this pop through the top mid-smote.
If learn their lesson, right last time, two flames have an arrow through, catches them
by surprise this time into more massive setup, sat back playing the extremities, and so
no contact out towards mid-ad that contacted player comes from bar later on the push into
a.
I don't know what Monasi did in the player break, because he is looking reinvigorated.
Just lights out shots on this orb, another double kill for Monasi.
And another flick to boot, he's even sad right before he's like trying to do flicks.
He's not trying to necessarily be flashy, right?
You'd rather just be stable and pre-aim exactly where they are.
It's the consistency that he hits these flicks.
I mean, I remember as well even with Monacy like first join this team and it was his first time working with
the kicks and the rest of the guys kicks and saying like, yeah, you know, Monacy is good dude, but like he's he's always
He's always like offering something, you know, he's offering a flash. He's trying to set up others trying to be a good team player
Something that stood out to me since you know coming back after the play break is Monacy is always the guy
Michigan, always the guy trying to set up fights.
I don't know if it was like that.
It was like that from game one.
Yes.
If you remember, he was,
uh, he's opening match.
I think it was a new game and he was just really, really keen to try and fight the art as much as possible trying to be hyper involved.
Take.
Tempts.
You kill them.
That's way right.
Oh my, the balls are not moving.
to 9 at least and trades evenly.
It's Nico Reggie.
Slut into the sight that might be a surprise.
You would expect them CT right now.
My Tality with a smoke in the way, slow it down.
I've got Rob's lurking.
They're hoping for a flank.
Nothing's coming in.
You must be playing committed.
You have full U-Teld.
And the nice thing about the slowdown as well,
that smoke is often why you...
Seating botcher.
Good, back sight, Molly.
Smoke's off the line-up soon.
Now you have some options.
Those put on the slowdown chance to see if you learn finds anything and when it doesn't
rops just rejoins.
Apex, actually, is a time new through.
Early.
Hatch is a good timing on the smoke push.
Test says now, okay.
And next, that's all the top we're talking about.
That's going to force Niko forward.
Into three.
Bam, connects on the way, Pax.
Bring it in down, low.
Look who's left in this one, B2.
Monastery, and he's got red hot hands right now.
This is certainly around.
interested in giving a look in, creep up through banana.
No surefire, sense of victory yet for vitality, set up over at the coffins.
Honestly closing in, but as he clears other angles, timings open up for a coffin swing.
Time ticking away and off this ball.
They comes out clear the back sight. Still suspicious of it, and he will get to just get
It hounded down vitality, course correct somewhat.
It's five rounds on them at pick on this T-side.
Will that be enough with monacy in stellar form?
Monacy, welcome to the blast interview, Vanessa,
where we ask spicy questions to get increasingly hot,
depending on if the green bowl, yellow bowl, or black bowl,
you get the pick.
Let's take Blackball first. Okay, let's start.
We're good enough. It's not that we're good enough.
Green we have no idea what you don't want to talk about.
How are you feeling today?
That's probably what's in green.
Yes.
Which team do you think is overrated right now?
Even if no one wants to say it.
Right, I need to.
I didn't know no problem.
No problem. Not the single team was overrated.
Is that hard of me for you?
No, it was good.
You want to do another one?
I think he wants to do another one.
Probably.
Okay.
Yes.
What is your weakest map?
Internal trainer and Ubis.
I like both.
Yeah.
But I would say I like trained the oldest version.
Not the one that insists from old old old.
Like the old one from C.S. Golyan.
Like with two heavens.
Not with one.
One, okay, not that old.
Medium.
Medium.
Okay.
Who is in their villain or going into next week?
Let's say put it in.
That vision.
What? I said it like you.
I don't know why.
You also said it?
That was very contagious.
Can you have Jane?
Yeah.
Yeah, and then like for he's like gamble, you know and like for a part of the sensitivity
Yeah, like for stars, yeah, you know, I think they have all the potential to be
Even in top five, maybe that's pretty good. You're gonna do it again. Like like
You like spicy food? No, I think spicy food. Okay, this tournament goes wrong
What do you think people will blame you for? I think people would blame it that I didn't learn from
from the last year, right?
What's the criticism people have of Marasi in 2025?
I think the consistency that I just being on the same level as always.
In 2026, who will be the best offer that starts with the letter M?
I think people know the answer.
I'll live in one.
I didn't ask Marasi.
I know.
Easy.
Oh, it's good, Charles.
Oh my god. Oh, keep us.
Okay, boss.
Who looks like a team to beat in the final week?
I don't know. I think right now it's very hard transfer.
It's not immediately vitality.
No.
If you just take the online matches, have the style of the thing,
quite a lot of the big JK teams and top 5,
they're not used to play this kind of matchups.
You know, I don't have to do much that on other teams.
But they're not black.
What weakness in your own game,
or are you trying to fix right now?
Discipline
More practice wake up earlier eat better
The game of the world you live in the game
One day, you'll be very famous. You want to
Thank you for the show. It was great. It's too easy. I'll be
Especially the first question. Still in my head. I
Well, Monacy made claim in Furno as his worst map, but he wouldn't know it based on that
first half.
CT side, a rip roll in 13 and 7, and a man that mostly deals in doubles, he's not going
to bring that to the T side, against a vitality who are, quote, shaky.
We'll see if that shows up in the semi-final or if they can get back to their winning
ways vitality never seemed to write off.
And yeah, if you can find this pistol around me,
it's suddenly your right back in the conversation.
It's a good first half from the Falcons,
but it's not immune to the turnaround from vitality yet.
I'm heading out into the water to the safe site, feels like my tala, he, you have an idea
that this might come through the apartments and up the short site double apps set up,
dropping down.
That's cool that they hope makes them overlook robs and it will dropping in, gets out
with his one.
It'll help as well for a messy at the back of the site, how much more does Leslie have
in him?
Apparently he's got the whole round, one guy left standing, a messy buys more than enough
time the cavalry arrives for vitality.
Nessie, just so reliable in anchor positions, he's in those positions, and he is supposed to be
consistently putting up triple kills, but I feel like his mechanics are getting better every month.
Beautiful third-head shot from Nessie.
Another detail is why, like as I was on balcony, fires off those jolies,
he's not really looking for a fight, he's a person, he drops, he fires again, and that
And that what I tell us about is that there's no one balcony.
They don't clear up, say jump right past him.
He even gets a free kill.
So it's a good sell from Tywood to setup
rocks for a single frag.
Even these little details,
even things of my time to talk about.
All part of the setup.
Falcons with no pistol rounds.
Yeah, it's not even the first time they've had this
happening to them at event, right?
It's certainly a area if you were going to pick one out
Falkins could look to improve a part just so weird because let me see your events like Hong Kong where they win almost all their piss
Yeah, but you know the EPL that are talking about they
One like two added 15 with one off 15, but lots they lost a lot right here that Owen six with one break
So I've unloaded here for falkins, but of course the
Stad him likely being a factor
right now you're not breaking with this you can't even have a gun
find to deal with our apps find to bullet in the head
test his turn
he would hate seeing him go and look for this deal
see what he can do test his actually looked pretty good on the pistols as far
But the deep fire hurts, hurts, no.
I do.
So my tality, converting both their pistols in this map as well.
Yeah, say that they did lose to round three in the first half, right?
They're running out of time on the beat, bombsite.
You mag seven and an abs from kicks in.
Files in.
Files, many got dead.
He's thought.
Lots of rockers.
You can see the pressure it's put on, Apex died, rotating away.
Signing against it now with this spot of an honor.
Nade could be big! Just gonna get away from it, is Niko.
Oh, not that one.
Backflip.
Send him to the circus.
Really nice, man. Apex died running over as soon as they heard footsteps on for the honor he kind of realized this was an attempt
an attempt at a missed direction and he gets there just in time to to capitalize on that
damage at Toplanon or that flames is able to do.
Just a good feeling that that kill doesn't get away from you.
You actually get the advantage and now sitting pretty in a 5-4 refresh it into Toplanon
and kicks out to also if enough.
So this is a bonus round that is in prime position to move Vitality into the lead.
I don't think that maybe could upset that his Tess is on a deep angle out here towards the
short side.
Over there's so little time left.
I'm still up at banana.
He needs results and he needs them now.
Get that one kill.
Bombs going to start moving over.
There's a he's not going for Tess as he knows the bomb has to join him.
So his goal is to cut it down with 20 seconds.
One kill on the one kill.
I'm on a sea with the bomb and this could be enough to win you the round.
Just pumbling it away from the repeats his moment.
Very deliberately.
There's messy.
And that is so well handled.
Doesn't even focus on Tessas.
Let's sum up the space because what use
is this A site if the bomb doesn't get there?
Yeah, even if he fights Tessas and wins it, right?
The bomb can go back to B.
It's in Limbo right now.
He makes it commit and then he finds it.
And Falkas don't really have the time to go all
mid through apartments, jump out balcony.
They just have to hope the Tessas has earned that space
and it's completely free.
Falkas get rumbleed.
And now the beautiful move from Ezzy to secure a round for vitality, first go find
the pocket.
I need evaporating.
The Simon's often play.
It's not in the side where you're showing.
I mean, in that first half, falcon's plated.
Relatively passive CT side right really trying to
Contest for top banana
What just happened there?
Okay, it was spamming you never maybe this makes the round interesting
I was like a year along
It's in a position where he's really got a deliver, but the flashes fall some backs smoke knocks him off the line
And even firing that off. They know the next point of contact gonna come over here a library
Nowing about it is only half the battle, though kicks in, shut down, pistols still breaking
through.
You're left looking at rocks and opening can clean up.
You will manage it with a quick double, and they hear Nico arriving over at short suddenly
you don't have to respect these long smokes.
You can play through.
Nico has got the full onslaught of vitality in front of him and can't find a way in.
Rob, just taking a sweet time man, love to see it, two inside of the site.
Balkans don't know where to look there,
feeling the threat from both sides I would just spam him.
On that library.
Crazy.
But man is not because my tells him they ever let go of it,
but I can control.
I can get pinched again.
As my tells he continue to take clean rounds.
This lead starts building.
4x4 by Falkens no orb monacy it might be a 1.5 game. We saw the difficulties of T-side
orbings, I will show this very well. Could not get his to go.
So round in the bag for vitality, 2 round lead now.
That's fellow, a team game.
No one plays standing above the rest.
Dude, these nades are super punishing.
Whatever you've tried to go for this banana control early,
and on slot of HEs. This is actually one of the lower damage rounds from Vitali.
But even then, you've seen them fight for top banana.
So even now, as you hear them go away, you hear the nades coming over.
You're still uncertain as to what that means.
Have to take some time to clear this properly, but you get the control.
You've got four players at a topi meme,
I'll still have a lurk into what's the apartment.
Right, Tess says just keeping a bit of pressure on while his team
While his team set up outside of this B site at this point
You feel a little tricky by telling you to know exactly the end of the round is it's about to become clear
But she in it through the smoke
Appanada planes holds on for the first but that's it ends at a three on three chance at a bomb plant
This is the best position falcons have been in in this half and so they really have to find this around huge span from monacy
He fired on desire we're before even saw him coming through that smoke
Expecting the Opus move
A backs with a full belt, gonna pick his pieces wisely on this retake as Tessas is just giving up an honour
But Robbs we know his patient is coming in very late Tessas checks it out he's gone
Monacy position revealed on a monitor he's down half as well
Time is ticking and not to the favor of Falcons as kicks and there's a lot to live
He needs to buy time back in the side pitty gone e-pixels and he can't finish the job and the need is not enough
But oh, so close. No kid. No chance. Falcon's will. Pick up a post-plan.
If Rob's had a kid, you might have had that round.
Yeah, yeah, I think he would have done.
Now, second take of the difference there. Four hundred dollars making the difference there.
It's just a really important one beat three, right?
This half could have so quickly gotten away from you.
It would have just been left feeling like it's all over.
Money would have been broken and I positioned.
Vitali is spreading away with a second half, but now that you've slowed their roll,
you've broken this streak of rounds.
Got to start building upon it, though.
I will be right in, out towards top banana.
And he is so wrecked by those flashes.
It's an easy kill for Nico.
How does Robster and that fight, Galil?
Let me down, Tessas.
I've been kind of an interesting head to head
between these two, right?
The two players that are responsible for the apartments.
Two guys that lurk there on their T-Sides,
not afraid to try and push the boat out a little on the CT half
and Robster's often had Tessas's number on these pushes.
Even in that redake, right, picking up the first kill up the Rubin' Honour.
Well, we just saw that stat, it was, after this round, 13 in 5, on opening kills, 4 falcons.
Yes, still, vitality hold around lead.
I mean, 8 and 1, between monacy and kicks and...
So they've had a damn good open of a can, they've finished the job, it's only flames.
At this beat on sight.
And I'm trying to leave this, maybe man, they don't need a plan.
And Spam will come through, fat. Good scuff for flames.
If we smoke them, he seems up for the task.
Played through, tiny bit of vision on the edge of this smoke.
They can't quite find him right now, and he's causing so much chaos.
Pulling attention away from CT. He goes to kill's deep, and he's just wrestled back at third.
It's got a monocyan here alongside him, but with the orb drop down, it's going to be the
Nico Ace Clutch, and there's so little time left.
Tap off the wall!
So he can take over!
And water around, from Nico!
Have you had to see him really get going in this series?
That might be the round that does it.
Ace Clutch, from Nico!
You could just see that happening.
You could see that lining up on the x-ray.
I was hoping only one would swing.
Just too easy for me, go.
Delivered, some damn good shots,
what he's got for taps in that round earlier.
Feeling it.
Oh, I got this.
Doesn't get better than that.
Ace Quartz 1v2 to tie up the game.
That's after Flames already.
Thought like you had two lives in that round.
Jump through the smoke, still disappeared only to get skewed.
Loved to see if from Nico, Monasi had a fantastic CT side, Nico tried to replicate in this T-half.
In fact, like that, Falcons are literally back in the game.
It's my towelty's economy, but could let them down here, later in the second half.
Double digits will break one team, who's gonna be?
Another opener here for Falcons, 14 and 5 in this map.
Good, chunky, naïd connects, back in response.
And I was going to level the playing field there with his WP.
Given they take, nuclear ons just playing through on the back of that first contact.
I'm able to keep the advantage.
Running behind the falcon, see it there already in the A-Sight.
Mezzzie up close.
Can't quite stop the spill over now.
We're going to see Zy-Wuz or only able to put up one in defense.
Flames, it's his time to try clutch now, running through the smoke catches the timing.
Bon plan denied, Monacee's gonna make up for this!
Ah!
Oh, my God!
His flames will find him digging deep for a clutch in his own.
That's back to back here around, from either side, by Tality,
pull on through, refusing to yield on this lead,
and it's flames that delivers them a super critical round
of backfraking one for the Falcon.
He'll just shot it on and off every step of that round,
Falcon's a main team in the trade,
a man evotted every single second,
and frames, you don't seem in a clock very often.
So he makes the most of it one missed shot from monacy not to be expected in the game we've had from him, but it's going to cost him daily, economy gone, no bomb plan, round lead for vitality, that is a high impact clutch at this point in the game, and Falcons might be forced to force.
Nico bought the MP5 someone tell him we're playing on pre-buff.
He's going to sell it back for a glill.
Still not safe, though.
Falcons are forcing knowing they can break vitality to MP9 and play.
Falcons, wingers round.
They have the economic advantage.
They stack, put apex on notice, freight is committed and dead.
The problems here for vitality.
Great to see Nico just kind of going back to what he always did best here on inferno, which is
be a bit of a missile up through banana, charging down for the entry.
Apex lives in way, but a flash is leave him a dead man.
Messi now has to go in a hero play of his own flash through the CT slope.
nearly gets out with way more than he bargained for.
He needs to make it interesting.
You could have gone slow.
Could that be it?
Oh, it's going to get away from it.
One HP's worth of damage,
nuclear on still survives.
These Excitel and Robbs.
It's the big duo for vitality,
the signing to help bot lock them in a down there flawless year.
Well, there's the Zywoonade to kick start this re-take.
Let's see what they're made of.
Playing it forward, it's Iwo on the wall.
suspicious about the hole in the good reason.
Now we see if Monacy's gonna clutch in him.
Spam will connect.
Robs tap on the ball, that's spam.
Well, let you know the deep fuse not being held
and at this point, Monacy is the favorite
in his half-time at Swallowide.
It is three clutches back to back to back.
Monacy's breaks the money of vitality.
Oh, my goodness. No one's been safe, right?
We've had three players survive in the last three rounds.
Four in the last four.
It's just been working by's bunch of rounds.
The laminates and clutches here, but maybe the buttons can seize the moment and finally win back to the background.
Nico, getting hyped, he's had high impact in his T-side.
And, by's out of danger of a choice, they nearly have to make this by.
How can you win it though? Smoke comes down, revealing fainted position, even that smoke
does not allow an exit. He is dead again, Nico another entry.
Even smoking at a surrender, in a three on four. It's a sign of the time to hit the
vitality. They have not got the advantage. They need these gunfighters to go that way.
Apex pushing the smoke offers up another and there is no world in which a one man hold is enough in either of these bomb size.
He spies musk group up if they want to win this round.
Yeah, and you know, while grouping may give you the best chance.
It still relies on Falcons playing into your hands at this point in a four on two up against a low Econ round.
for the Falcons, they've got time to explore if they want, right? Figure out if this is the stack, figure out if that second player is on the way over to help out this B site
and so that's just gonna find the gap essentially, and kick sounds opened up the B site, calls to the rest of the gang boys, it's clear, and they just might bring that bomb back over
not that they were gonna meet Zaywe on A anyway
roll a coaster of a game here down the end and you do just leave these last few rounds
thinking what if I tell it you can actually start with an advantage I would do
it yeah it's one of the beautiful things about C.S. Nico had that one ace clutch
which you know you're wrong is it's sick round but look what it did for his confidence
man like he looked a little frustrated at some of these rounds in the way they were
going suddenly from the moment he's got it what's been used go to call in these last
She wrapped it.
It's kind of the vintage Nico inferno look, which is barrel up banana, getting their
face played early entry, and he's been so good at getting it.
And listen to these opening kill stats right, Nico for and for on kicks and for on zero
and honestly five and one, and let me compare that with vitality, messy, oh and two,
zi woo, oh and for, rocks, oh and two, I mean it is just a different game being played.
round. Favourite for Falcons. Still vitality are here, but they're going to rely on over time
to win this one as Falcons get a freebie. The Flash reveals the play. And now guns to make
announcement on the pointality. Perfectly fine here for Falcons. Honestly think it was over.
Let's say, coming off, go one more round left. It's not going to get that easy.
So, Vitality, you have to do more with less and by that I mean no kit and no up.
It's a focus falcons on a 3 round streak.
Guys, played in front of it, Heather, had eight times over the last year.
This is only the third time that Alkins would have looked to win it.
Historically, this is always come up with vitality,
released more often than not.
And so how unlikely that with this stand-in,
without Sonic in attendance, right, they don't have their coach,
they don't have kids who can either, this might be one more notch on the belt
for them taking this head-to-head in the semi.
Yeah, and the point, Jake made earlier on the desk as well,
if that felt like when Falcons do win this series of vitality,
it's often, you know, not as important
as it's in the third place to side, or they don't go on to win the event.
They win the semi-delewsier event.
Right now, anything's possible.
You take down Falcons, or slowly take down vitality
in a semi-final here.
It's an open tournament right now.
A Falcons really up the majority.
And vantage, yet to be squandered,
but Flamesy is risking it.
Even here, you're feeling the burn at the score line.
You've had to be cautious with all this you tell.
And as a result, you've burnt through a lot of it.
You're down to just two pieces of blocking you tell.
You're going to entrust them to apex on this B site hole.
And so you will be able to stop the play at B.
It's brought so much time.
The sense of going the other way, if there is some success found out
and taught me that that could change the nature of everything.
Tessis has really been struggling far away from his early couple of rounds that kill
Grant and second the fall off his in their rotating back with the ball.
It's a lost second decision to kick sad.
Time might be low.
There's no one here to stop him.
All the kills deliver to the Falcons.
They're at home and they've fetched him.
My telek, here on in Fano, they get it done with standing in attendance.
No coach behind them.
That is a huge step in the right directions for the Falcon Squad and it all got started
with that Nico Ace Clutch.
What an opening map to this semi-final.
Lee, what you wanted to see for the Falcon's the stars lighting the way making it happen
standing not with standing.
We know the player called to be that this team has, we know the class, they're capable
of and they show it here on in front of Jacob.
semi-final Counter Strike, you know, I feel like they live in this game, you know, the
and crutching ability, some of the individual powers that came out, especially late game
from the likes of Nico from the likes of Monacy.
It was a beautiful and a very competitive game of Counter Strike, that there's a lot to
dive into, Mike, but first and foremost, you just want to congratulate and just want to
say that Falcon is beating by a tele...
Sorry, you know, Falcon is beating by a tele...
On their metric of infernal in this fashion, very, very impressive, especially when you consider
that you're playing with a stand-in in Nucleons, who had a rough time in the first half,
yet still stabilized, yet still came back, yet still had some of the
and a big touch moment and ended up winning the Mepic.
It's really impressive for the Falcons, obviously.
I mean, also give credit to Kickstarter.
I feel like the first half, a lot of that was dictated by his abilities,
especially towards the B-bomb side.
So, I mean, there's a lot of praise to keep around.
This was just so neck and neck.
I mean, last five rounds of this game were just,
I was on a knife-sadge the entire time.
I was so unsure who was going to be coming out on top
because we know Falcons can mess up a post plant,
but they could also win a couple too.
There was one moment in particular. We're gonna highlight this is round 18. This is the moment that just swung the map. It felt like
Yeah, because the round before this one was also a key moment in the game obviously you see Nico coming in with another entry for
Filthons. We're gonna talk about the interest later on in this one because I was with Dickies
Then a bit of a repush coming in for rocks. You stabilize the round you're going to this re-takes scenario again
Plain see if you could jump the nine to form high five here in particular about telling the industry to admit has tried to play a lot of
we take over on this bomb site and then you have the
Nico factor coming in.
He's well aware that there's players to watch CT's
born very crisp with the first kill.
He's being left in a 1v2 and then he just completely
outplace the money.
This point right here is where your heart just sinks.
I think you have them dead to rise, but they both go
for the double swing and they're both on low HP and so
Nico's able to collect with the spray.
It's exactly what you want to see.
I mean, the last year for Nico was one where he probably
he looks at it thinks that he can do a little bit better.
Can't even play these roles better than he did last time around.
Even when he's sort of becoming more of a supportive element
to this roster, making way for the up and coming rifle or that.
He puts on a very, very small list of guys
he would even give up his positions for.
The guy who's not near, of course.
So how do you to give up any positions?
No need to give him any space.
Take it all right, back, Nico.
Point made.
I mean, he's being incredibly aggressive towards B right there.
Don't, I mean, that kind of moment for him is one where
If you just get into the flow of the game,
if you're taking the point throughout the entirety of it,
you're not relying on a co-skeye or a neat and nuclear on
to try to do anything, you then you are just going to
feel yourself a little bit more.
I mean, it's like feeding the hot hand.
If you just stay cold in the corner for so long,
when that moment comes, when that clutch comes about it,
the opportunity arises, you might not be ready for it,
but it's nice to see Nico start to finish throughout this map,
just continue to exemplify class.
Now we've got another round we wanted to take a look at.
This one much earlier in the game.
This is Montesy and around five we're taking a peek at.
Yeah, obviously Montesy on the CT side as well for Falcons.
You know, big part of the reason that's to why they got into the game early on.
You see the buy, hear a scuff right here was able to save an AWP.
You're playing technically 45 with a save, Montesy fan to kill.
Instantly makes the rotation into what is his favorite position on the CT side.
He loves to play behind the bomb side on the box right here.
He's moving in slowly but surely and by telling the they walked into it.
Obviously backed up by Tzeses who's also getting a kill with the 57.
from my way. When you have a modesty, he was all over the back like this, who's
hitting shots like that as well. Second round in a row, by the way, from this very
position, that was the key moment I feel like under CT site, what Falcons made the
game come at you. It was one of the win conditions for him. To be as active as he is,
this is just textbook the way that you need to hop on inferno, where you show your
hand on one side of the map to inflict that opening pick, and then to move it back
around to try to disguise where it's going to be popping up next because reminder,
I mean, this was a round where falcons were able to rattle off.
I'm pretty sure four or five in a row after it.
And so for him to just kind of jump start them in this fashion.
It's just, I mean, it's everything that they needed.
And so for him to just kind of outplay apex outplay his calling to be one step of a head of the idea.
It's almost kind of what you expect from someone like Zaiwu, where his monocity can be more of a brute force kind of player in nature.
But you see him at accept show that sort of second decision in the round and how
in Tune was without if that's what I recall.
It's exactly what we needed, right?
You put a very nice of your Maui.
And if we're talking about the comparison,
we were making it a free game of monacy design.
Ooh, I gotta say all the wild factor.
I felt like it was going away.
One way on this, it felt like it was all in the camp of monacy.
Well, it's just a wild game overall.
You know, yeah, we're focusing on the likes of monacy,
and Nico, the trucks movements in the game as well.
But just to present you a few facts,
where it's like, it's mind-boggling.
By telling you, when both pistols take convert,
those pistols, yes, they end up losing their map.
take that in itself doesn't really happen that often if you're by
telling you the opening killed department I know Harry and Hugo
spoke a bit about it 18 to five for Falcons my tell you only
had five opening kills in this game and a couple of them were in
the pistol round so you're constantly playing for me five so of course
you're gonna end up losing a lot of the round so I don't know what was
going on I don't know why they weren't successful with finding any
openings whatsoever but gotta give that to kicks and gotta give that to
monacy and Nico who stood for a lot of the openings on the Falcons
Yes, speaking about kicks and let's just take some more time to be precise right fantastic in the calls fantastic as an individual as well
I huge difference maker for focus
kicks and was the X factor in this one in a game that usually you're gonna talk so much about Nico and monocies
We already have
It was in fact kicks and who at the end of the map came out with the highest ADR most kills
That is a ridiculous task for him to undergo and I feel like as a fracking in game leader still
I feel like I'm beating the drum for quite some time, but for some reason I feel like he's not quite
talked about enough regardless of that fact. He's so explosive when he's on these sort of positions.
He's incredibly in tune with how he needs to use utility in order to slow players down.
I mean, one of the reasons that they're opening picks for so effective is because he was just
pelting them with utility. I mean, the combination of what Nico and him were doing on the T side to
throw Nates up towards Flames. He and Apex always lit them up on the CT side. He's throwing all the
the nates down, stopping them in their tracks.
I mean, everything he did was just such a luxury for him.
And you get it a lot on the CT side.
And then it kind of just gave monocene Nico even
nucleons and testes enough room on that T site to really work.
I mean, this is crazy.
Five and oh, and opening tools.
Five, three kill rounds.
What can't this guy do?
I won me three as well.
Very crucial moment.
We saw it here when this call line was nine to seven for kicks in.
It was a beautiful game from him.
Beautiful game coming in for the faculty as well.
And other note, you said it, you know, monocesei
high rated player on the server was kicks and lowest rated player on the server
cyborg. No way. Found didn't really get much done with the AWP or the rifle for that
matter as well. So I'm just standing right here left post-led. I'll let it
require the kicks and one week week. Recruiter, monacy, you know, pop off from the CT side.
Recruiter, a nickel one week week. There wasn't really supposed to happen.
By telling you, one both pistols, they lost the opening kills 18 to five and still
it was a 13 to 11 game on top of that cyborg being the bottom fracker. You know, the lowest
ready to play out. Everything that could go right for Falcons in order to steal away the
map almost happened that path from the piston round. So I don't know why that leaves us
with my telly. There was a weird game per se.
I'll tell you one thing, because I was definitely not satisfied. I'd already back in warming
up. It's been there for a minute. Trying to get those mechanics back on point from out
number two. We'll talk more in new bits on the other side of this break.
I'm now limits of all you with the veto with new plans and just him being ready on
different maps.
How have you done this?
We are not committed.
We can try everything.
We are not committed at all.
We are here to play every map, we are ready, of course it's not an easy task to replace
But I think that we still have enough room to do good things with the players we have.
And we are not limited at all. We can play any of this. We are going to play any of this now.
We picked it.
Okay, what I say, is that you picked it now, was that did you maybe see what happened?
I guess for a chance he playing eyeballs and thought, that could be so you could win?
I don't know if I can say that we picked it. It's okay.
Okay, okay, good yeah, we picked it. We of course so I bowler's a bet we were ready. We practiced it. So it's a it's a good thing for us
I am so very curious to see what this a new bus is going to look like a bit of a wild card pick coming through from the Falcons playing with the stand-in
Making it happen here. It's a new bus. What do we think? It's the Amen scene effect
Amen scene effect. This guy's all vibes. I mean this guy is just he's got a vision
and he's executing it, it's carrying it out.
I mean, they're in front already,
worked out fantastically.
I'm just gonna trust this guy.
He's got a big smile and I,
it's contagious.
Traveling with a fancier in the draft show.
Tell the best helmet on bailing at you.
Apex shirt on him.
What can't this guy do?
He's a shellman.
He's a coach.
He's got the smile.
Well, what do you want, Jacob?
I want to win on the movie.
So I would love to see Falcon's actually play a new
visit a high level as well.
They are in the session, the team,
the call, have never played the map.
They're reintroducing it into the map pool.
A little bit early in the season to do so.
probably been practicing with Q sukes? Well, you know, makes you think what's going to happen for a crackup?
If that's going to be a new staple for them, willing to pick it against five-cell of you,
we obviously know that money, so you can play them up individually, speaking back into G2 days,
some of the greatest highlights that came out of money, see one on this very map,
Nicholas will the same, but in Falcons, they never played.
It's going to be incredibly interesting because obviously, neither of these two teams
had any practice for it. I mean, you can't scream on this map right now. No, no team is going to
actually take time out of their day to play an old version of a new biz when the new version
is in play. So this is kind of a cool back pocket pick coming out from the Falcons where
if they theory crafted anything, if they wins the demos of how Bob XD was doing a decent job
against vitality in the past, then all of this is data that they're going to be working
with that vitality or probably blindsided by. One more deep poll, this one courtesy of B
Trams, nucleons, the stand-in also has a lot of a new biz played on facet, something like
500 maps of a new bus who picks a new bus on face it other than me
That's really the question for the comment pretty common
For the fourth most popular. It's they but yeah, well, I tried to do something here. I tried to do something here
It's a photo when we surprise have been dashed and we'll see who can bring that dreams to fruition
Will it be the Falcons or if I tell it to get the bounce back time for you casters to take it away area here. Go
Who knew what Falcons needed after all this time?
We've done the Matari, they needed one less superstar, nuclear ons in the roster, Kia
Sukai out for this event and right now they're just a map away from taking down team
vitality in this semi-final.
It wouldn't be the first time for Falcons, right?
We saw them in rivals, have a great run, take down vitality that they're two an
Odom, in fact they beat them on in Furno for crying out loud.
They're still one onto loser-ground final, right?
So I still think there's more to do for Falcons even inside of this series as they still
have to go on to all the newbies against the Invitality.
A map we haven't seen from the Falcons in some time we saw, Vitality played at least
online, but it was a shaky game against the Eyeballers.
Yeah, it's one more for it.
And I'll be nearly had that number.
I can't W after open the legend, but I'm out of here.
I'm really curious.
One falcons have up their sleeve here.
Arms.
Been a...
My wild since we've seen Nico on this map.
And so let's see how he fares in the pistol.
I'm going to be a little more impressive.
And this is where the poor track record impistles is really, really rough for the falcons.
Right?
The idea that they haven't won any in the tournament thus far.
Sure, it makes the winds, I guess, by comparison, a little more impressive, because you're
to do it from the back foot, you're having to do it without those freebies from pistol rounds.
But CT side, especially, it can feel really punishing.
This is where you actually look to get a good chunk of your CT rounds.
It's in some form of success in the pistol and they don't find anything, just one kill.
That's my Tally each sweep the board to open up a new this.
Yes, definitely get a bit difficult, okay?
here right even though so let's map we haven't seen my tality on a lot so we've only
seen one official from them and they were really struggling back when it was in the
pool and the first half of 25 and prior to that, Falcons in this core had never played it.
Wow. So for a whole six months while it was in the pool, honestly he only got a
the toucher speaks volumes here about the experience difference here between these two teams
so have to be something light up of falcons it's just the fact that they pick their right is
is that coming off the back of going hey with the underdog we have a stand in this is vitality
let's just try and get crazy and catch them off guard or have they actually been working on it
behind the scenes because I was just at least expecting you know the dust tube
he called something something loose so I know if I told you if I said this track
record on it but a map the falcons don't have to prep too hard when it comes to
their own play it's pretty standard map easier to slow the rookie it's still
requires a great level of composure a communication on the given take of a
new bits especially on the CT side.
This force by either reports going nowhere should be a save,
vitality running into an empty B side.
to be a unicorn round is this flank through the spawn, and it strikes and plays from the
tally at least.
I can rifle's away, but a lot of jumping kills in this game, flames in kicks and being
the chiefs to check in, so fast.
Oh, and let's have a shot. I really sure did. I didn't even know it could.
Can we run that back? Oh, he got taken right?
Is that really your think? Was it through the wall as well?
You know, even thinking back to
Kixam when he was in the heroic squad alongside Tessas, this was one of their more played maps.
They're most played in that line up, but they're lowest win-ray.
Still, back when it was in the pool, had a pretty sizable amount of reps on it.
And so, seeing if kicks out, you got to tap back into that now.
Yeah, a bit of a wall ago.
They'll remember all your strats and needs from years ago.
I want to also if you've been tracking you a new bus or this is all the new
bus, I think the map is going to drastically change.
Just a couple of little holes in the wall.
I shut up with a Molly as perfect and it's hard to get high behind the corners
Flames is just farming right now, the Macten bomb going B in the meantime kicks in here
Will they respect that too late they're going through they're going to swim behind the site
And they can put that bomb down
Playing for his one is kicks and you're seeing if they offer anything up spot there for monacy
So this is where your meant to have kind of the most fun. This is where you're meant to get the most rounds
You really don't want to give anything away early. That's this first rifle. That's a
Or rather I guess will be kind of the tone set up for this game
Falken's lose it could be a real hole getting dark here
On their back
I tell you, it's outside with these sights.
All right, Bakes.
It's ready to throw nades in the middle.
It's hooked out on me, they take their time.
All map is quiet, and I can sit with three players on this site.
Nico has his classic flash ready at the back.
It's been a gap now, only two of me.
See Nico just reconstructed makes his way back over, will he get here in time?
I'm going to play through this smoke down at CT Nico to kill's deep, but getting
and we'll down support their arrives.
I want to see Gets there on the orb,
Gets out with one more, but one stop the flood over
from vitality.
Tess is around the small port on the jump hop
that's smart from rocks.
The only way you're gonna peek around the edge
is jumping up onto the platform and the rocks get
handed a free kill essentially.
Yeah, that's a really nice hit from vitality.
You can see exactly what they want to pick up
the perfect position with his flash,
But by Tality throw a bunch of you to the middle making it look like a mid splat.
I think I rotate out the site.
Sure, he gets back in, he's still got to double.
But if position would have been a lot stronger.
I think not like that.
That'll have by Tality got exactly what they wanted.
For Glide and Sinker.
4-0.
Reality setting in perhaps now in this series.
As this was always going to be an uphill battle for the Falcons.
Oh, they tried to put you ahead of her off, so they actually got him past him, put her around for monacy, and Digo keeps on playing it forwards, I was up there.
At least keeps this even, doesn't let it get too out of control on the main push.
But at 3B3 players already found out here for Vitali in the bomb drop dropped back, out towards the spawn.
We've got to take the pace out this round now. You're a little bit nervous as well as this guy's going to take that out in mid.
And if a lot of map control either, the only thing you've been able to hold on to,
what would happen to go back to get this bomb is apex out here in middle, so expect to see
them link up with the captain.
Alright guys, so I was able to steal the AK from main.
Tico can't get upgrade.
It's intact, but the only sort of one, in fact, is the whole team trooping their way through camera.
Into this double setup, but only diggles.
I'm deeply on smallly makes life really hard for him.
Can't go to the safe position.
You're hoping they overlooked Nico and they will now buy 90 lines.
So, you can't do it.
No one else has no idea. He knows that we know it.
No one does it quite like Nico and those positions.
It's cursed.
How does he end up behind the redeem so much?
We've some of over the night killed the other day over digging some of the back of the head
It's such a hard shot like any point anyone can beat you
Yeah, that's so relatable. Oh, I feel for him
What can you do there?
Any other gun in your mind
Just I've never seen Zyru behind a guy with a deal. Never in my life.
I think it's the most frustrating thing because it speaks to the fact that you've had good positioning in the round.
Yeah, I like to end up there and the thing that actually lets you down is just the aim.
That's not normally something you're a tribute to Nico,
apart from when he is wielding the deal.
It's the only curse.
Flames 4 and 0, no no no no, it's a very different game now with the T side of a nuber's.
For more comfortable here for vitality.
Or do you look at it like it's going to be a mainstay?
Isn't that map cool?
As it was back in the day, those quiet head of the Molly nuclear on's jumping are also, and their B hit is beautiful again, nobody home.
Pack it in fellas.
To save.
I mean this is where, you know, this is where like the older dude is always used to feel so punishing this idea that if your anchor's
on able to really bare minimum and even then it's often not enough like trade their way on these
eggs eggs and kind of leave you in a three on three it can feel so punishing and that's why
you're seeing a lot of frustration right now for the Falcons this behold has been like
a suit right like yeah my palate you've just been able to pass through whenever they want
and nuclear on's has been looking very frustrated beside anchoring it's a really hard spot to
to be in super punishing.
We just had a partner with the Osteignan.
And a new, because I don't feel similar,
and you know, just losing two players to a site here,
it's enough for the round to be over your fully out of position.
But if anything, it's even more punishing than in Furno.
What with so many ways to access this B site?
At least on in Furno, you've got one choke point to worry about.
You're able to replenish some smokes.
You're able to kind of lock them out.
And at least slow the roll of an early T side charge.
It's way harder on this B site here on a nubis because you've got to worry about dark.
You've got to worry about main and smoke it off main isn't actually much of a benefit for the CTs if they're doing it off the rib.
Sorry, this is just pop through as well.
See my Tality 6 and oh.
Trying to take some space falcons up for some fights, but the aim is just a different story.
This is a vitality not missing a shot.
I would ten of one on the rifle. He was looking human in that last map. That's not a good thing.
Right now rifling up a storm. No need for this all.
And you know CT side on the new. This is always a test of your resilience. Like you have to tell yourself
the better half is still ahead of you. Right? The kind of brom of what's successful on these CT sides
is super low. You know, even if you can scrape by with three rounds, it's it's a super winnable game.
Hell, we'd had a number of 111 comebacks here on this map when it was originally in the pool.
Probably sort of 141.
If I tell you a part of that, hmmm.
That old spotted, they speed up elsewhere.
You know, we talked about the difficulty of the B-site on inferno,
or at least the exploits ability factor with kicks and a nuclear on spaying that site together.
They did a very good job of holding it down.
Biko was obviously super involved being an active rotator, but we're going to talk about the same thing on this map because it's
a similar set of kicks in a nuclear on on BNECO de mid-rotation. And so, both of them last round we just got pounded.
Kicks and shot through a wall nuclear on jumping. We saw the frustration on the camera as well.
So it's definitely some of that brewing here for the Falcon 7 and 0.
And the whole kind of mission right now for Vitali is just don't let up, right?
Don't get complacent.
Don't let the fact that you're seven and oh, I mean things get a little bit looser.
You take it all risks and he's round open as you know at this point you're in full control of the game.
Like don't get kind of let your your confidence give away back in for the Falcon.
They are fully locked out.
You could keep them here for the remaining couple of rounds.
and if you do, you have all but secured a third map.
It's got to be time for Monacy to start to make moves where he's been pretty passive and middle
vitality haven't been going for mid takes really and Monacy hasn't been getting involved.
He's still coming off the back of a very strong individual map on in Furno.
So CT side orb, love to see him force an opening kill hit for Falcons is what they were doing all over in Furno.
There's many options. That's a one good thing about CT and Mubis. Many opening moves for an AWP.
Set up or not.
So let's see what Falcons want to do off the back of this pause.
As vitality, don't even buy the orb. They continue on the five rifles.
Going very well indeed.
I will be the best spawn.
Take you towards water.
Well, you said you wanted to see them all from him.
That's a really, really sick way for this round of open up.
Head to head versus Zaiwu.
And he seals it with a flick.
Falkers have not had manages here in this map, so finally a chance to play out one of these 5B4's.
You really want this to be away it, because we said already, you know, it's only a couple around CT side and it can make a world of difference.
Oh, this is weird.
I'm afraid of the smoke, but they're just bad.
Two players in here.
They're lying up right now!
Flip back across the nuclearons!
Finally has his moment. He's been really struggling over here towards me.
That is a massive double kill, making sure the efforts for a monacy that opening advantage aren't in vain.
Or could smoke as it falls onto the monotone?
He goes here, and it's not getting through this position.
It's the rest wrong on the bomb site.
He goes to this on the lock.
All right, Bezzy, swing out, oh God, this is building.
See Mezzy get away with some fantastic moments out towards being his career.
Looking now to pick up a 1B4 clutch, it's the rock brown from Tess as you'd like to think
Seals is spain keeps him in a box but make no mistake all the falcons were nervous there
Yeah, you feel the second guy you feel like a real silly guy when you swing out there from pillar and suddenly a team who's the round
So the week will on the rear shirt that his team do have
This one in the bag of this nice opening kill from monacy and you call it's doubling up and gone
It's a cool, risky setup for Falcons, but risks must be taken at this point in the game
7-1, first round in this map.
Why would be fine, but no signs of that coming in.
Again looking from on a C2, be the difference maker.
They aren't anticipating a B-plane right now, right?
Starting with three players there,
Monacy on the Orping at a part of it and all.
So thinking that this is gonna be the focal point,
the attempt to get back in for vitality.
And early on, it felt like they were right in that assumption,
but now they tell it you've started to explore
some other avenues.
One of the hard things, it's always been the case playing
against rocks here on a new bus,
is you know he's gonna be floating around outside of A.
And that can make the aggression feel a little tougher to commit to.
Look at how little ropses actually move with so much time having elapsed.
Only just now starting to take a main space in really any way.
It's made sure there's no aggression from the Falcons and he's seen there.
You tell put down to try and stop the aggression.
So he knows they're in a passive setup over a day.
That's info. It's all stuff by Taletta work with.
But Nico on the Asa as well, but with mid-conceded triple-wheat falcons is fine.
They're just so paranoid.
Look at them watching Temple watching CT checking over their shoulder.
That leaves monacy with minimal support right now.
And falcons, they don't know if I tell you about the pop out through this main smoke.
Oh, that's a rough width for monacy.
Just gonna miss Robster sliding in through lower kickstand.
That's a line-up and some support for nucleons goes a long way.
He was back down in the same of his bombs and got to get planted, plugging in the numbers.
Now it's I will get that bomb down, but I don't know further, nuclear ons, lights out
hold.
Bor kills from the guy, and he was having such a hard time in these opening streak of rounds
of ITALITY in the last two, his multi-cills of kept in safe for the Balkans.
Absolutely, double incarnate to 4K defense, damage, falling like fries and nuclear ons.
He was a put-up of money, big round, out of the rookie, making the most of his opportunity
here, right?
Whatever happens in this series, whether Falcons, or to be eliminated, or to go onto that
grand final, he's gaining much needed experience.
Yeah, and to even then, you know, coming into the series, we were saying, new plans have
just been like serviceable, right?
He's rarely been a problem, hasn't necessarily stood out, but has never felt like the issue,
Here, most important game of the tournament so far, most important kind of string of rounds,
and his daily smoke he kills have bailed the falcons out.
Yeah, absolutely.
Been the difference maker, been the fire starter on this CT side, yet to be a comeback,
but it is building trading he can again, nuclearons with an impact kill.
Here we go.
It's very awkward for Monticever, he found a 5-4 earlier on the main smoke.
Honestly just keeps it smoked with a bit of a gap to look over apex kind of scape if you try is it will cost him
Honestly knows this easy shop for him
He's locked in it's getting a face just how reload gives a gap the nucleons
Close by
Flames in a clutch once more. We soon win one on in further
I'm first kill picked up, nuclear ons though,
proven to be a real real safe pair of hands.
Another multi kill round from the standing four falcons.
Dude, I'm really impressed.
You know, this is semi-final.
We were saying coming into this event,
either this is a guide, any played on land,
something like four or five times in his career.
and so the kind of, oh, sorry, official,
it's rather, yeah, yeah, official.
First land.
And so it's like, you know, the kind of expectation
in this game, especially with how bad it started
and I can't stress that, he had no purchase on B.
In that first streak around, the expectation is,
he's gonna get in his head.
He's gonna fall off.
He's gonna be trying to, you know,
overcompensate essentially.
You saw some of those aggressive moves early on
or he's just feeding opening kills to vitality.
But he's successfully gone out of that hole.
And without him, Falcons wouldn't have this streak of three rounds.
Yeah, I'm, you know, what's really cool as well is
kicks and set coming into this tournament like he's a very aggressive player.
He's a space day kid. He's going to be in aggressive roles.
He looks super passive in the liquid game, right?
Maybe not want to take risks or not being allowed to take risks.
Try to just be a stock gap.
Right now he's making plays.
He's making his own moves playing off his team very well.
So, I told you slowing down a little bit,
three rounds in a row you can see that they've still done
a great job of this T-side.
Are they gonna let Falcons find some confidence
by the end of the half?
Or can they stamp it out now?
Yeah, it was by.
The difference, even between three and four rounds,
CT side is massive.
If you're able to get to five,
you actually end up feeling really, really good
about this CT half.
That should power started.
You're clearly on, again, we'll have to deliver if this is going to be a falcons round.
Flash ready.
Yeah, they painted a bit of a target on him.
They're trying to exploit the stand in the flash.
We'll rank him down in dark.
But what for Montecido?
Only the one kill looking on now, it kicks out.
He's got me, going to go over trying to help.
Kick stands going to fly so low, it just too much to worry about there for the captain.
They'll get wrapped upon.
Don't wanna say it, but can you win this?
Flames triple entry.
It's a beautiful flash and equally on to get stuck on the wall.
Flames is trading every step of the way, even modestly on a gank out with one, it's
impressive.
Flames has had some really nice entries coming out of female in this T-side, and so that
8 round, worst case, is a great feeling for team vitality.
This is just trying to get weird with it.
I was let him.
Four kills out of flames, the eight rounds full vitality.
He always got out.
Oh, I see how to one point.
Oh, lovely stuff.
Simply done.
My authority would know interest in these A-hits.
Until now.
They likely fill out your condition, Valkins, enough to be worried about these B-side-hits.
and you've likely scared nuclear on to away from going for you know the info peak
in through dark
and what the hell that's what they're gonna head that says is you tell
ruffway to lose the hope of a lose the a hold
you go try to bridge the gap to make up for it we'll do so with a double
teammate gets cut down that's what it's he dead and when nuclear on spound on this
rotate through middle, you're lap looking at kicks and fight around of the half, he's
in a 1B3.
It's pretty cool, so his name is already no kid right now.
They are littered among the bombsite, the kicks and needs the kills, and he needs them quick.
Smoke is a middle finger, he was vitality a lot of room, and so it may have been a tricky
start on in front of a vitality land, back on land here in the semi-final with a 9 round
on a new bus, Falcons risky pick, not paid off so far.
All right, by chance, you are down in the first map, but Coco over here is hoping they're going
to be able to fight back in it.
You said to me, you were not surprised that they lost the first map.
Tell me why.
It's very tiny, too.
They're always like a diesel, when it was led them to the first map, and actually felt
can play better than I expected to be honest, even nucleons,
first-ending, playing pretty good, so I expected it.
I think the second map would be different,
but a lot better, give them the time.
For me, it would be to one title, it's cheese,
so that's what that's what my peak anyways,
but a wake-up call from our back, during the break,
and it will be okay.
One of the famous talks, right,
is brother T, more on make sure they're confident for it.
But you also took a huge travel all the way from France
to here, right?
So have you been to many other counter strike events before?
No, that's my first one.
That's my first one.
So what made you attend?
Because you seem like a big bite out.
If you don't understand all of this.
Yeah, well, a lot of circumstances that free time for this weekend
and the flights were cheap.
So I'm not going to lie.
So I wanted to do one.
And so I talked to Cariel on the stream for stream.
And he told me that in studio, it was a very first good step.
It's different from what we saw, we see, sorry, on the, on the arena's on live and so on, but it's as good.
It's we're closer to the players. We have the same ambiance and everything. So that's very cool.
And I'm really happy for now. I really enjoyed it. And I hope I'll be able to do much more in the future.
That's what I hope was here more. That's what I thought was true.
I totally hoping to set the record straight. 9 at 3 up at the end of that first half.
But it wasn't for the Falcons standing in New Clions.
This could have been an even more one-sided game.
The CT woes really did feel real for the Falcons.
They haven't won a single pistol around here at Bounty thus far.
And if that track record keeps up, this map could well be over.
You're on the better side.
You're on the better half.
The entire series now.
If you want to end it into hinges on this pistol.
For the stats away at this point, 2014 on Tessus and Kixen in these pistol rounds and yes, falcons, 0 and 7.
Well, that'd be 0 and 8, only time will tell.
A bit of an execute into this bomb site apex jiggling, but this flash not gonna come out in time.
They're running out.
Gonna get ahead of the utility, you've got to check ropes into the cost fire, you go and they get shoot up, spat out.
real rough stuff it's those two aforementioned players left in this pistol round
3 and 4 and 40 now
on pick back up maybe they can get we with a kicks and doesn't believe and stays in position
vitality let's hear if they make a mistake they're rotating away
flames are still in middle the bomb is the one not committed
What kicks and call them back, this test is fake split steps.
It all falls apart of kicks and gets spotted, or if this bomb dies, trying to leave.
Now that there's a man in the midwind, you've kind of introduced a lot of variables
into this round with the goal of pulling vitality away, testing.
Oh, just get away from flames.
The seconds difference and as a result, flames flank speed.
Sure, as I will have any playing retake, you can't take too much space, so kicks and
could get punished for being ambitious.
So he's here every time.
He couldn't go better here, unbelievable, 2v5 brewing out of the Falcons, the two worst
pistol performance is still meant with zero pistol wins to their name, 99 damage.
It's not done yet.
Yeah, it's really not that comfortable, but amazing that you've been able to pull yourself
back to this position, think you'll be full
and she even in spot the H.P.
The hard core right them off, kicks and one health.
And now it's over, this is the result.
It's finished the job.
Okay.
He'll be five from kicks and it says to find their first
pistol round, old tournament.
And it's the one they really needed.
Gotta respect the hustle and the right.
Just a horrible stack coming into that round.
A horrible round for the Falcons going into the stack.
And then they slow it down, they mid round.
And they rob it right back.
Clean a car here from the Falcons.
Okay, maybe they're still home.
It's a new bis after all.
We just saw on these T-sides can do.
It just gives you so much to hold on to now, right?
Like, you're only five rounds away.
Forever to find this can do.
It's fine, you're right. Absolutely horrible. We're going to need another 2D5.
Alright, winning 1-2v5 impressive enough. Do you have any idea to do it in
back-to-back rounds? I would just triple kill the smoke. What's even a full
There's like 10 bullets, 3 kills.
Wipe.
Molly, take.
Did they check mezzzy?
It's not revealed this yet.
It's monocity.
Quisitive?
Quisitive?
Don't worry, not again, not back to back.
They've got the space, they've got the room, Rob's commits to a flank.
I mean the black might need your deals with kicks out before it becomes a problem
Yeah, you realized oh there's this fall
Heat from tempo a little down low kicks and caught out in no man's line monocity just a shot away from
And he can't do it
Rocks will arrive laying that one arrest
So close on back to back to the vibes
But this one will get away from the mix and wishing he just committed to one side or the other
the ragged stuck between both fights,
robs shooting behind him.
He didn't go back to clear it.
Look at this frame, so I will replay his.
And that's what set up this round, don't forget it.
Still comes close, but close is not enough.
As this squall, that's a ground for my talent.
To break the money.
Big picture, you know, the cool there, I think,
for Falcons feels, I always want to say a little too
desperate considering the pretty good position they've gotten themselves
to on the back of the pistol.
You know, Vitality, you're lurking with less, leaving it to a smoke break
and a beehive just felt like introducing it.
A lot of danger into that round.
No way, he gets out right.
How the comes in?
So I will still alive in middle.
He was in the door with three players there, and so I would.
As his life to show for it.
18 and 6 it's a very different map to inferno and any prospect or hope of the Falcons come back
evaporating before very eyes.
I'll just there lovely double kill for Mezzzy, you know, under pressure, under some stress,
here's them getting out through dog, not an ideal position by any means for the B site anchoring
Mezzzy makes that double kill look way easier than it actually is.
and he co-intest says, now it's their time to try and combine for around here.
You can hide it out at the back of the site, for now is what I've noticed.
Gonna get a creepy swings out looking for a second, but can't get a bearing on rocks nor flames.
And this is it by Tally ramping up on the CT half money starting at the window for the falcons.
They're on a fast track to a win here on map 2.
we talk about mirage too, and that's the third map that decided in this series, it's a semi-final
vitality, I'm looking to reverse the sweep.
What a shot look at that!
We're in a situation as well, or I think if you're the Falcons, if you'd like
given them the choice to pick their map off the map one, I don't think we end up on a
news right?
It feels like it's a video where you've tried to catch vitality off balance, almost
in the expectation that you're going to struggle to fully test them on the head to head map
one.
I agree.
And now you've ended up on a map that you might not have the best foundations on,
like we've kind of alluded to as well, with the update coming out, not even a version
of the map that you will have looked to a hell of a lot, and you're integrating a stand
in here.
There's kind of a lot going against the falcons on a new bus, feels like they were hoping
to replicate the challenge that eyeballers bought to vitality.
And that definitely might have it you know inspired you considering they really did give them a run for their money
It was also first game on yeah exactly a lot of the different circumstances
There's a different vitality right now even to the last map
Now it's done early and around a player did slip through the smoke in
Con but can they punish on this beat-offs like one that's stacked up in the nines three players committed
I'll get to stop Raypake's new glion's trying to get sligh trying to get cheeky and play around that smoke.
I need to give away the advantage.
They're ready for more coming out dark side, because you've seen the man you expect.
They've told me to be able to get gone on in time, yes you will!
Final bullet connects on an eco.
I'm honestly finished off.
It's all square here for my talent either.
They are cleanly putting this one to rest,
walking it over the lion's thing.
A lot of just aim, be main gunfight here for Falcons
and all of them falling short at the moment.
That pretty 255 of the pistol,
long forgotten in a 12-4 game where
our flames haven't had a fantastic map,
but he's not even alone this time.
We've got Zaywoo popping off as well.
Mesa with a couple of impactful multi-kills and just not even a competition here in this second map.
Yeah, I just think my teleiver pretty, you know, I found the eyeball is low kind of shocking when it happened.
It's the odd. Because you think that some of the individuals here on the newbies do like the B site and the Ubis from Mesa used to just be a stomping around for this guy.
right there home there and he is a real back bone player on this vitality.
I always give you the crazy moments boy that comes to just holding his spot and crank position.
He's so hard to get past.
He goes scout and he did. Even think they pecks with that.
So I will get in cheeky behind the smoke again in the middle.
It's a surprise you just see rifles trying to end to be main, but Vitality block it.
A stacked on A. There's no way Falcons would risk it again.
CLEARS it, but it doesn't matter who kicks in a position, quick trade available.
Vitality just stones throw away from the roach.
A Falcons that surprised on in Furno, but fell flat on a new bus.
The question for the Falcons is, you know, can they brush this game off?
If it ends up ending right now, you've got to compose yourself and ready yourselves
for that third month of garage.
And I'll kind of cooking here.
Conning Nori, cloning back at 3v4 with two entries to get them in.
The Rife's apex with the backstab, and still floating around, ready to play into this, and there is the shutdown to on three re-take and Vitality stick the landing.
A whole different beast by the time we roll onto a dubious.
Now you find the frittering this one, as that surprise pig, all the enubious map goes horrifically against them. It is a big push out of Vitality to take us to Mirage.
fans in attendance are on their feet and ready for a map number three at Numuska's away
of Vitality showing maybe you shouldn't believe your eyes off of the first to New
with David Play. The tales of Zaiwu's downfall were greatly exaggerated. It sounded
back from him as an individual was fantastic. I mean he was everywhere that Vitality needed him
to be and for Falcons and what I saw as a risky pick in their first stage of the video
and then to the backfiring, I mean this is not really anything to be too proud of getting what three rounds in the first half and not too much that you can say you did all too well.
No, that was a tough showing for Falcons, you clearly see sorry that they had a couple of visions for the CT side will dive into it later with certain rounds as well.
They're trying to be corrected, they're trying to be aggressive, but they got shut down very early by Vitality who seemed to be in control both in the first half, but even more so in the second.
And let's just keep some praise on Vitality as well. We'll mention him early. Zai Wu, right?
A lot of criticism after that first map, a rare bottom of the board performance.
Spends a lot of extra time in the map break. Just doing some individual warm-up,
making sure that he's feeling it. You know he's frustrated after that first game.
Comes out of the gates ring and looks like the flawless prodigy we know he can't be.
I mean, yeah, both, both, Simon. Obviously, he had a great game right here,
but in combination with FlameC, I think that's where it can really heat it up. Both of them were delivering
some sick rounds in the first half. Really establishing a certain amount of dominance.
on the server and obviously Flamesy continued what he did on infernal.
Yeah, a great showing for Cybersh, who said Maui, that was a fastback after having one of his
lowest rated maps in a very long time, he's coming in and he's showing that obviously he's
yet to play.
That was a good showing by both of them, but also big part of the reason S2Y by telling
was so dominant.
It's probably about the opening kills as well, 13-2-3, I believe, in the favor of by
Telegian in this game, so completely reversed on what was on the first map.
I feel like over the last couple years, every time I see a player stayer in their chair
between maps they always just come back super hot they start dominating everybody
Why does that everybody do it? Yeah, why does that everybody just do that breaks overrated bathroom overrated hold it in guys
It's unnecessary just get back in the server just just shut up and shoot, you know
That's
And shoot
Maui snake special coming on through here. I'll let's talk about it for falcons, right?
Some of these proactive rounds you were talking about here Jacob where you know that there's an idea where you know
there's a plan. These guys were shutting it down. Zywoo flames. He's looking so
dang good on it. Here are 108 yards from both of them. 2.8 KDR for Zywoo.
That's pretty nice. That is pretty nice, but even also for flimsy as well. Like in
single handedly one of the few players who actually kept his
level up on in Feroenor, really tried his absolute best to shut down what
the Falcons came with. He continued to play well here on a new business. Well,
so that's kind of cool to see. And now diving into those rounds. We're around seven here,
particularly cute out to make your pull in Jacob. Yes, spoke about it, right? For
Falcons, yes, it wasn't a great start, but they were trying. It's not like they were
just falling flat and not doing anything on the CT side. You can see there again,
it's an important bar round, you're down six, so you're pushing out a player into this
very old mirror. You're trying to have an off cover for you, but by telling you,
we're so composed in this round. Put down a smoke, make sure that they're all
player. There was honestly couldn't help the guy pushing on middle and you didn't
just ban a five to 10 seconds. You're losing all the advancement you have made on the
the map. For my money, it's a great idea. The execution not so well, but even more so,
my telly just staying so close connected. Very good in the refractive part and very
composed, very compact. It felt like Falcons couldn't go nowhere on that CT side and
that's part of the reason why I think the maverick got an update because it is like
playing Fiss in a barrel and they got to experience that in an official game.
We're witnessing a moment. This is the insect trapped in amber of the fish in the barrel of the
last version of a new bus. So we shouldn't treasure these moments. We're not going to have too many
more of them. That being said, what did you take to away from this one? What did you
treasure, Malay? Well, just the fact that I feel like when your entry player in
flames is honestly doing as well as it is, I mean, it means that the initial game plan for
vitality was more often than not working. We saw the ways that vitality were able to
punish as well, they liking around such as that where they're just able to just kind of
cover and smother whatever Falcons want to do. I feel like the option coverage was so strong
that even though Falcons did take a couple of risks mostly prodding, especially towards that
a main side. Every single time it felt like it was either robbs or apex that were just kind
of combining to cover whatever it is that Falcons did. Now we've got another round here
we're going to take a look at round 14 coming on in. Yeah, interesting round for many reasons.
Falcons, they win a pistol round which ended up being a 2v4 close. You can see messy.
You know, trying to bathe away here with the USB selling the idea that it's obviously a week
by that they haven't forced and guess what Falcons they fall for it. Cygoo will
a nice spread out on getting a triple kill right here.
We get it from his point of view as well.
But I bet you had messy not been shooted
with the USP and self-defected base thought that,
oh, this is a classic round, your bias, rogue, your USP's.
Let's just go through it because they can't really kill us.
It would jump in through the smoke.
On the other side, Cybro would an M4 A4 was raiding
and that was death to this game.
Now had Falcons converted.
Maybe, maybe they could have picked up a bit of steam
on the seaside, but losing this round in a very close clutch.
That was it, Gamework.
good bait all all in through from from
as he there. I love a. I feel like you
should win when they get the James
bomb treatment usually sort of
starting 0 0 and 7, but I
have this positive JV. This was
another good moment for me. I mean
again, I mean 12 and 11 may not pop off
the page, but the 80 are actually
does to me. And in fact, again, the
impact just how he's able to cover
what it is Falcons are doing. How
he's able to sell that sort of
stack fake with the USB just
always slightly overperforming and
one of the big reasons why I
vitality were able to take this
so convincingly. Now we have the
luxury of hindsight. So with that being said, let's look at this pick from Falcons, right?
Because we were kind of wondering in the veto, it was definitely a gamble. Definitely a risk.
They're a team with a stand in their team with very little to lose.
What do we think of the call coming through in retrospect?
I'm still going to say that I feel like it's not that bad.
Even though they got blown out that way, I personally thought they were going to go for a
Dussur Marage because I also thought that they could force vitality to veto out a
newbies in the second phase.
Vitals, you probably weren't looking to play this kind of a map.
And so maybe they missed an opportunity to get a dust to end a
morage both in this map pool.
But I'd say swing for the fences when you have opportunities like this.
It's not frequently you're going to get a map at the end of its life span where
teams aren't going to be practicing it where you probably came up with a couple
different plans for how to upset them, but they just didn't go the way that they wanted.
It wouldn't have happened that they had the full roster.
I think I think it's worth the gamblers.
given your playing with a stand and given that you're trying to
surprise your opponent, you are the mess of underdog against
fatality. So I agree with you, it's worth the gamble and if anything
that performance on the Fernor is now giving them mirage as a
third deciding net. So in reality, there's no consequence to
taking the gamble right here because they did so well on the first
map. Now as we start to transition this conversation, we've got
a few words from Flamesies. Let's give those a whirl.
Now, can you also explain what it feels like and how you know
when vitality is like in form of what's happening in the
the server where you guys are connecting it your best because you guys
talk about this so much but I just want you to kind of quantify it.
I think the communication is really explosive.
People are really decisive when they talk the really precise.
The way that the same thing is the way everybody is like talking to each other.
To some extent even when we lose like shitchounds, the way that people can
clash back the ideas, okay it's all good like we're going to try to focus on the next
just one instead of being grew up
about around that's lost already.
But it's always in the communication.
You can hear from the get-you, even the communication
is really precise from, even like, two, three, three mates.
It could be a really, really good day.
And you always feel like, you know, the communication
that is in charge of it.
And obviously, there is some days that we were just insane
and everybody has like a live game to some extent.
So you can see it on the server, everybody has confidence.
Everybody is mashing ideas, bringing things.
And sometimes on the prep, like, even in the money,
You can see that people are energetic and they're able to offer.
And sometimes the opposite and you know that's unique too.
Kind of bring more energy during the game.
So, both ways it goes.
Well, why don't we check in on those columns
and what weather better way to do so
than to dive into the team's peak?
Let's see close.
Let's see close.
Let's see if you can play too much in the team's game.
Let's see if you can play.
Can you go ahead?
I don't have no money.
Can you go ahead?
I got to hear it.
I got to hear it.
I got to hear it.
Fishing me. Fishing.
There's all many soy.
Yeah, right said move.
I mean, I'm about to take off cause.
One more dead.
Hey dead, one more, right said mean.
I'm holding.
I got to take off.
Last year.
Holding him, holding him.
I'm holding him.
I'm holding him.
I'm holding him.
I'm holding him.
Finally.
I think those counters are pretty,
sound pretty dang good.
What do you guys think?
This is a great king ponging of action
between all of the members of Vitality.
I mean, Apex sounds the most scrambled.
scrambled, but he is the one that's closest to the action. I mean, his right ear is actually
just ascertaining all of the information possible for where all of the remaining falcons players
are. And I feel like him and Mezzy were just so together on everything that they needed to do
there. The synchronization between the peaks, just locking it in at the very end.
Yeah, I would describe it as being very locked in in that scenario. The right amount of intensity
is well, people at home maybe thinking, why are you yelling that much apex? But that's how
it is when you're playing in these very, you know, hectic moment.
You really even see him after the round, you know, a sign of release where he's like,
oh, we won the game right here.
You know, that was the round that he just get over the finish line and that didn't
style.
I think you see the effect of just how long this roster is now had, right?
The chemistry is on point.
They played a million wraps at every stage of its ornament and every point of the trophy.
Communications on point.
We see the form that led them to so many victories.
We'll see if they can lead them to a victory here.
You got one more thought, Jacob.
Well, just like we're talking about, potentially the best team to ever play a counter strike.
This conversation we're having surrounding vitality that would not be the case if the
when not impeccable.
Impeccable as you like, we've got one more map to play, but we come back.
...
of the
rally into a garage that might be more the speed of this vitality team out in the hot all in between maps
nose and back on the set up just yet so we'll see if that changes anything here now
well they're all in a huddle they are in a we should get a cam on the huddle right now
outside of the world getting ready we're getting five huddles and a consumption in fine for
I feel like this is a game where you're going to really see just falcons let loose I mean I feel like
Unfortunately, almost in a way, they're at a one-one state.
I feel like with the map in their backpockets.
Oh, they feel free there on a new bus, but I didn't really see that.
They're trying to follow in the game plan.
It was to know a veil.
But I'd say the obvious answer for who to watch out for for Falcons has to be monocity.
This guy acts like there's no smokes on the map.
When vitality you're going to be taking control.
As they are throughout that T-site, this guy's always got a native in his backpocket.
Always ready to break something and open it.
It feels like his success, actually, B-Trams, get this.
How often when monacy breaks open a smoke on Mirage does he get a kill because I feel like it
happens once per half. That's not a reasonable request to put out there, but go for it. Go for it.
I think we're back to to the Starlander. We're kind of portraying coming into the game as well.
And nobody's was the gamble pick. Didn't really work out. Now we're looking at our monacy.
We're looking at Nico. We're looking at the individuals. On a map that allows the individuals to take
shots of the game to something. So yeah, it sounds a bit boring. A bit basic, basically anyone could say this.
you know, you could hire anyone in our role,
my way to be completely honest,
which is many people are trying to do.
Many people are trying to do that.
But I think it comes down to the individuals.
If your Falcons, you've got to put your money
on Nico, on monacy, we saw that's well
undust you early on this tournament.
It has to come from the individuals.
So I hope they're beginning, let loose,
and then let's see if they can do that magic.
I mean, we certainly did see them bring that magic
into in front of, right?
Not so much in the enubis, but moments, flashes,
perhaps even nucleons getting involved
in some of the multi-chills and those lone bright spots
for Falcons.
Wherever it's going to come from, you're going to need that firepower, you need that magic
because we know what this vitality team can do and need I remind you, the one trophy that
aludes them, the blast, bounty trophy, one empty spot, the trophy cabinet here, fellas.
And it's going to be really sweet if they do that by taking down a foul conceding.
It regardless of the fact that they have a standard because this foul conceding has proven
formidable. They didn't drop a single map at the bounty leading into this series.
it was vitality to draw first blood on them, but Falcons at the same time
will restate it, they're playing with absolutely nothing to lose, but everything to
win in a situation like this.
Well, it's time for one more magic moment between vitality and Falcons and one more
magic moment with our castes, Ari and Hugo.
Such a flood, Mike.
Yeah, Maui, with a very unreasonable request, but I'd love to see a come-trip.
I'd love to see if we can get those numbers, because Montesy has been the standout player
for the Falcons in this series.
He's now going to have to go above and beyond.
If they're ever to take down vitality,
I'll give you one little good luck, Charm,
if you're a Falcons fan out there,
because this is a common series, Harry,
but it's not a common map to see Mirage
has come through three times in this head to head
and not since rivals season one back in May last year.
Falcons won it there.
They also won it in that Melbourne final as well,
and they lost it in the Melbourne group stage.
So, going all the way back, but a good track record.
Two win streaks, six of vitality, fourth of Falcons.
One will get broken here and now, and one team will go into that grand final of Blast Bounty.
Big thing, big thing for Falcons, obviously they come off the back,
it's just kind of getting steamrolled run over.
So, Vitalik, you likely feeling good heading into map three.
The question is, are they able to brush off?
Niel's they took on a new bis Nico make it a convincing case with two kills in the pistol already
They prepared for players to have already slipped out ahead of this you tell you missed the timing on palace
You never spotted ramp their deep within the site already
Check out towards the spawn. That's a keen shot for mezzy
Nico three kills deep in this pistol round. I stopped there
See how far he's able to take this will down on these peaks out from deep
Spamiko, that's his second in the series.
That's what it is.
Dude, I think so.
Unbelievable shot out of Niko,
prefire on that peak.
And the double down Undo as well,
every shot of that was spectacular for Niko.
Well, everyone would just say when Niko switched online,
if they wanted when they're here on Mirage,
you can't ask for more than that.
My tell us, it just gets exiled in this pistol,
Because I will start with this, but Nico, safe to say, response.
Some flicks, some pre-fires boom.
Ah!
That's what it is, fucking so!
The fuse definitely a little bit paranoid.
It never fully goes away.
Not shouting, actually, focus.
Focus, got a second round.
Falcons are finally looking to get birds on a pistol.
Surely this is doable.
No, no, these...
Can't just be a sudden level up from Nico on the Dorn and Matt 3.
Well, it can be, and it might be.
Oops.
He's the only person who have got a kill for the Falcons thus far.
Seven and a-o.
They want their first pistol all events, last map, and then they lost the second round.
He can't not letting that happen.
You clearly honest follows up, this one more player with the bomb.
I'm not just the first round of the second, never seen before, this is.
I'm not sure if I can do that.
That's been a big talking point, right?
I mean, sure it did take Nico killing everyone
and then even carrying that throw into the anti-Eco,
but it's still a good result for the Balkans.
Just the position they haven't got to find themselves in yet.
Classic, neat stack here.
Behind the top mid-smoke, Nico.
Good luck.
Oh, one in window, two in con.
What could have been?
He cursed his feeling right now, getting audacious.
reiterates that fatality of not be falcons on marauds since the Melbourne group stage is both times since that match falcons have won this map
at times close
We can't, yes, we can.
He feels like Nika's kind of had that reminder that without KSUK here.
It's on him.
It's on him to try and be the rightful star.
We really saw that out of the dirty side, right?
If you draw an attention to the amount of rounds up and on,
if I need super clean entries.
Yeah, like the old school Nika,
offing and just get their boss as you can,
sprint out behind the awful look for opening.
And he's kind of channeling that here again on Mirage.
Even just a nice detail like when he got the ace,
trying to use it to actually hype up Tessets,
because you're certainly feeling he's had a,
I'll say map one, I actually think Tessets started off fine,
and it may be even better than fine.
He was really important in helping Monacy,
like the first 6-7 rounds of the game, but then just hit this wall and he's not really moved
past it since that point.
Well, I maybe that's been a bit of a realization for the Falcons 2, but Nico tried to kind of
hype him up on the arrival of map 3 on the back of the Nico Ace.
He's on a big flank, but will that leave him out of the play to have to go cat?
With Versey, back in a par with his nuclear arms, he lines them up and looks them down.
With a bat in his ass!
And there's still a player left alive, nuclear onto hunting the A's.
So I'm go get it.
Mecos have one already, and Versey is a hard fifth kill to get.
He's not going to make it easy for you.
not the type of guy to just give it a
so where you've got to go and earn it.
New Cleans will get shut down.
One shy of all five.
For Mezzy he's living on borrowed time
and Nico there to seal the deal.
New Cleans had a couple of very pretty
looking multi kills.
Now one's high flying as he ends
the round the first gun round
per vitality in seconds.
You see the sparks, right?
You see the signs of life from this player, right?
Young in experience.
5 officials on HLTV coming into this tournament, no lands on record, and thrust into the
defense, a Tier 1 playoff event playing top teams.
And he's not doing it every round, but how many of you can say you can show up like this
and 4K vitality?
It's definitely earning his place here.
It's a stand-in.
Especially with the kind of cryptic message that was delivered you know around the whole KSUK
absence of the idea that there were lots of shangan events this year and he's not going to be all of them.
That was kind of the wording that was used.
It's like if you are going to be needed to call up a sub, we say coming into the event like this is one hell of an audition for
to be that guy on speed dial, they ever do need to stand in,
if ever they find themselves lacking one of their stars.
You know, having someone that's pliable,
that knows the team that's slaughtered in well,
and I think in his average or even worst games,
it was just non-problematic.
That's how I was framing.
I think there's other players on the fountains
who in those games maybe even caused more problems.
And in his best moments,
Luckily, on to Kganang with, even spots like Vitalik is we're seeing here.
Oh, what's he up for an A-play?
How did Halkens do when they've lost the advantage?
Monacy and Kixam both get mopped up, and with these smokes down,
he can't play through.
Faked it though.
Tate packs who's taking it at space.
Back to spawn, give some control in his post-plant.
Mega Manida, some tagged-up players already need to launch his walks in.
They don't expect it.
He has swung into CT-Spork.
Oh my god, I'm not a fash, Nico and Nikolans, who knew this was the duo.
They are carrying this game right now.
Five kills between them, two deaths between them, 21 kills from these top two.
It is just a race within the Falcons to see who is the best player whose name starts with end.
Nico and Nikolans are making every round feel wonderful.
That was so audacious, so just walk through that smoke like Apex did to them.
Shift his way to CT spawn at Niko, teed him up with the perfect flash, full blind
back behind Ticket.
You're a guy standing in, don't even play it on land, and you're in the semi-final
play in the number one ranked team in the world, and you're doing things like this.
the environment inside of Falcons must be incredible.
Right, every round feels winnable.
No position feels like it's gone too far.
More often than not, actually, you've been fully in the driver's seat.
So you mentioned this coming into even in Furner, right?
A team that has their issues with pressure,
not just praying in it, but experiencing a lot of it.
All right, now the pressure really is off.
There were no expectations, certainly not this.
And so when it's third map, five or one, full control.
All this is making moves, too.
Luckily, I'll put as I will unnotice a nadal finish off the upper.
Honestly, still has more to do from lower, and vitality,
put into another predicament to start this round.
Explore from Robsy.
Open that smoke for an entry, and certainly play if he follows up.
So a brief moment of madness,
but vitality now control the round.
I mean, look, this game also thus far, and then we're all getting impressive.
This has been a 3v5.
It's been monoceneco and nucleoncyony players with kills.
And you've dealt with two of the three.
Nico, 12 and one, still in the picture.
But this is also going to be a test of the floor of the Falcons.
How are kicks out and Tess is going to respond in this spot?
What a position of you ever seen this.
Who's clearing this?
Tell me.
If he stays tucked, they'll never know.
Oh, maybe around a bit, but yeah, going on.
I don't know. That's it.
Oh, the kill sounds.
That's not why not take them all.
Mazeys just played his card.
He's on the other end of the map.
There's no winning this.
Mazeys goes into the crossfire.
The alarm bells should certainly be ringing.
As these rounds are convincing out of the Falcons,
the individuals are there.
That's a 3v5 turn around.
Well, 3v4 are there, but still.
It's just such a smart move for kicks.
And he was looking like he wanted to fall flank.
and then just deposit himself up top,
tuck in, and you can't blame by telling you
for not being ready for that.
I think you just want to be an easy
in this position when you're deep ramp
to try and do too much.
Right, like to try and take the space,
to try and keep going, piece together
where the rounds coming.
But no, yeah, kick sounded back to his aim.
Place for the position, not for the information.
Six o.
When does this end?
Vitality went 7 and 0 on a new bus, and then Falcons found their first round, racing for the finish line.
Honestly, mobile, back in spawn, bomb-top mid-10 ramp, I tell the earlier Medi-Fault.
Props will not be moving from this position for some time, waiting for his team to take
space in middle, Nico 12 and 1. Trying to fight his urge to pee. Maybe shoot it because
that's an easy pick-up with Monacee's flash.
It is off limits, so I will take the bomb background, apex, looking for timings again.
Oh, pretty on the smoke, and Ecosysim.
Oh, apex, that is the ludicrous fight to him.
The reaction.
That's Ecosysim, 13 of what he gets about fight, shut down by Ecosysim, nailed by her of a shop
But there's still more to deal with. There's still more to break through. I want to see out here back at ticket
Looking to play it forward news about a play out inside it's apex pop of the stage
Shut down no contact
7-0 even if you get past the big man two more of them show up
My second entrance the peak peak is advanced each moment for Niko getting clear there. He knows he has full info
And he still just gets flat but it doesn't matter
When you go monacy, the back you are, check this.
I used to the back of the skull.
And you know, when you're watching a dominant CT side, you're looking at it,
it's going to be your prime or ashes.
Carrying you through it.
It's not even been that's been a two-rightful.
Monacy's had a couple of multi kills.
There's nothing required is my point.
So there is still more
the vitality may have to worry about in this CT side. How is it how would I have you
done that?
Well, these terms is kind of a ghost. How's he doing? He's a big old. How did
get in that stat ready? I don't even have the process you have to go through to
bigger that out. Now we send him a fruit basket and working on map on that one.
As I would, with a smoke shot or two, we'd do no vitality like to break smokes for him,
that's for sure on this map, but he's just not had the money for the AWP.
For Execupier, kicks him in the sight, honestly not far behind.
And Nico also ready to rotate over.
Good opponent, kick sack.
Shut down after once, the pistols are going to get to close the distance here.
No need on Nico to break these smokes open, got to just show them some respect.
Wait for the fade. That leaves him on a sea out here towards the spawn. On the fall back now
He's actually just gonna play it forward. Why didn't he know the open and they weren't expecting that?
No one was in a position to trade. No one's going to stop. Or be two. This one's looking locked out
There's just some fights. You really don't envision. Monacy looking and take there
Right, they've kind of given up the idea. He was gonna reswing from CT
Valorant is a really tapping in as something special right now
Now, this is what nothing's going wrong.
They've hit that flow state vitality
of getting really caught up.
God, the thing we've credited by
talent for throughout this tournament is
even with shaky starts.
They're always able to kind of lock back in
to start to play some perfect looking CS.
They often have good trades, great synergy.
That's how you become number one in the world, right?
All these fundamentals.
But that's starting to break down now.
The unexpected nature of how hard
falcons are hitting the the audacious swings
that they're down to take.
This isn't the style by Tally you were expecting.
And so we hurt from Muzzy heading into this series, you know,
when the hour calls for it,
when the pressures on, they always have an idea,
they always have a play, that's what he feels makes this team so special.
And that's what we often feel when we watch them.
It's hard to diagnose even watching just from the Falcon's POV,
because you're just seeing the perfect piece, the history action,
to brain mechanics, but, you know, by Tally's you're on,
heading any headshots and not getting into any 3v3's,
you can run your execution to burn. They're just not getting any kills in these rounds. They're
not making them interesting so that we can dissect the late round. These have all been dominant.
There was only one round with Vitality found three kills.
And God isn't it a treat to see Nico fully off the leash?
Yeah.
You know, getting a pick and choose his spots is fights when and where he takes the contact.
They're eating two on Nico.
And nuclear ons right behind.
or besides, perhaps, 22 was down to take it back seat at the addition of Kia Suke down to
try and give him a bit more of the spotlight. And I think you might have forgotten Eko was
capable of games like this. Right now he's driving the bus. And the rest of the team have
Thank you to him.
That's his, he's in the boot on this B-bond-Sighter load.
By Tarty trying push, the smoke blooms in palace denied again.
Flames need this entry.
And you'll find it.
Surely Nico is a limit, right? Smoke flash is flying, but he's no way!
I can't! By where flames is failing, but he's normally so good to get in these entries.
down in the connected, but he's got to do it alone.
It would have to be his third ace of the series,
his second ace clutch, and he's only got the A-W-P by his side.
In this round, it feels like he's at Plot Armor,
but time is the real enemy spotted on the jump.
Notice about a player back at sport and can't take it any further.
Finally, nine rounds in the game,
Vitali get their first on the ball.
Nothing feels safe.
Nothing feels certain here for Vitali,
even in that one B2 Nico's just feeling it, but my Talitya able to shut it down and take
around a little later than Falcons on that previous map.
Too late, that's undecided.
We've seen many come back from vitality even in this head to head.
But this is getting past our Rainhorn Falcons.
minimal pressure but maximum presence taking over this server right now.
It's just every round, something different, every round, something new from Nico always trying
to push the boat out on what's possible. I'm wondering where he gets these opening kills and in
this round it's spamming the top mid to find flames after a con push. Now he fades away.
This appears into obscurity behind this con smoke but still sitting pretty and anticipating
a chase at shards at the trade.
Fire's off a little too soon, so apex at least gets the message that Karn is not the place to be.
The wheels feel off though, eight warning, you're just kind of pushing through smokes and just hoping at this point.
And Nico has been on the other side of every smoke, the vitality of gone through in connector and jungle.
Just not the fight you want right now. Can they make it up short, Nico?
No flash to set this play up. He won't overplay.
Let's test and have a chance. One and two and test says after 10 rounds.
Bro thinks he's on the team.
Gonna go back to that con smoke. High risk.
You clean on nearby. Niko's gambling on beat.
This is gonna play. Niko will still be right behind.
We're peeking off the shore side. They're not ready for that. Double shore.
Denied. 20 seconds. You can't win this.
You just can't.
Oh, this is Nikka was all the freedom to get worried once you never know where you're gonna face him next and there he is double swing set up with Tessas over on short for yet another back breaking multi kill round
Just been unstoppable or map
Four multi kills for monacy four multi-customs new kill on five for Nico including an ace
And yes, like Tess is plainly isn't having a great series, but he's still doing what he
has to for the team there, right?
He's swinging out from short to sat and he co up.
Nico gets that triple kill.
Thanks to Tess is just kind of playing the card early, having a discount short.
I want to see this time, going to start things off out towards Catwalk.
The problem with now the Falcons feeling like they can do anything is they are doing everything.
like every round is something new, every round is something different for one.
And there's not a player afraid to back their aim right now,
maybe with the exception of Tessers, but even then he's just jump-spotting the
be apartments.
Now, by tell it, you haven't even explored this be sight yet.
They've been so tunnel-visioned on trying to get past mid,
trying to win out some of these A-fights.
They might never go B in this half.
Oh, and it's saved them, no one has offered up.
Anyway, Robbs, let's all down, just whiffs it in the palace and they come running through
a con-smoke, how's that gonna go?
Seeing this one before, you clear on the other side this time, 13 and 3, revealing position
with AIDS.
It takes a guess when you smoke, as well like this whole game right now, the vitality and
of course it's covered, kicks and's got it, you clear on Stun's port and he goes in the
site and wherever he goes, it's a big problem for vitality, that bomb is that his feet,
kicks and is drawing a mirror.
Nico doesn't even need to knock him down,
Captain puts on four kills in this round
and Nico closes out, 20 and 3 on Nico
against the world's best in vitality.
Unbelievable game out of Falcons where this come from.
I mean, for my telly, you so early you're on the way, the wheels have fallen off, they have been hardcore outgunned in this third map.
They haven't explored a whole bomb site, they've been so determined that eventually they're going to get past,
honestly, they're going to get past nucleons, they're going to beat Nico in the connector.
That would send this hole, you know, house the car's crumbling down for the falcons, but that hasn't happened in the half.
You're gonna try and go be now in round 12.
That's an appeal a little obvious.
You've just gone mid and eight for 11 rounds in a row.
They've faked it out.
They're through the needs,
being monocerosate to him,
but they actually come out mid or late.
So, fightality are kind of banking on Falcons
for over-rotating, but they stay active.
We really said it.
They're doing everything.
They're not sitting still.
Fatality, they're in mid with tech nine.
These are not good fights.
So I was two and 11.
They haven't even given him in the AK.
It's on flames to try and crack open this bombsite as they do recommit to be still three strong.
That says one and four doesn't even matter.
And now he gets a chance.
Yeah, I mean, shoot some men.
He has seen maybe five, maybe six people in this entire game must fall.
Well, over chance here to stop the B here, get himself moved up the scoreboard a little bit.
Try moving with the rest of his team, who just been so done hard.
Falcons, it doesn't get better than this.
Nico is a lights out right now,
and everyone is following in his stead.
They are just around a way
for making the grand final at the first event of the year.
Okay, Flamesy, welcome to the blast interview, Bananza.
We asked both questions here at the blast bounty because we're here to have fun.
Yep.
Alright, we've got three spice levels to the questions, green yellow and black, black being the most
spicy.
You can pick the first question.
Yes.
Hello.
Okay.
I'll see you if we enjoy.
Which team do you think is the most overrated right now?
Oh.
If no one wants to say it.
Generally, don't know or should my bullets at the basic game roster.
He's a game roster, actually, that's a good one.
It's a little hype, but I don't see them getting the invites to big tournaments or winning some games that are out of season.
Is that too hot for you?
Huh?
You want more?
Yeah, one more.
One more, okay.
Well, it's all that.
Really?
Yeah, thanks a lot.
What weakness in your own game?
Are you fixing right now?
Sometimes I'm too aggressive, instead of taking my time and picking slowly and giving
my club for chance to kill. I just try and check her first and fifth and then
there doesn't make sense. He packed said,
recently, Mezi was his best teammate of all time. Who's your best teammate of all time?
I've had a little bit. Mezi, how'd say Mezi?
Oh yeah, yeah. What is it about this guy?
He's just a person who doesn't care taking like a lot of shit.
He just cares about winning. He's so nice out there of the game.
So, I think he's a key part of the success we had last year.
Like such a good human being that something I've been in.
What matchup? Are you actually hoping to dodge in playoffs?
Maybe I would have said like Falcons because they have nothing to lose to some extent.
Every game you guys come into. Everybody's cheering for the underdog.
Exactly, but on the other hand, you know, it's like, last year I was hoping a lot of games were going to get something
weird and what we got and you've been looking at this one.
It's twice 24-7. Which team do you think is one bad loss away from a full collapse?
First thing that popped in my mind could have been liquid liquid yeah, oh right
I think they've been struggling all the although they got a legion
I think it's a good addition to them if they keep having like one two more
lessons that are really like, you know, they should have won those games and they chew them
I think it might get a bit tough maybe we go on with the other one
Yeah, no, okay, all right, let's say yeah
If this tournament goes wrong, what do you think people will blame you for?
And she's bad at something, probably that's the equivalent, but if this one one goes wrong,
it probably would be worse to change this.
That's it.
Who's first to go?
For sure, for sure, for sure, Leo.
Last question.
You want to try a green one?
Okay, let's just try a mild salsa here.
Who do you think has been the most underrated team at the bounty?
I think they genuinely played good and they should have won a noobie against us.
That's why I felt when we were watching that they actually did play well.
Well, yeah, they didn't even fucking you know, but also these guys like JW
That's what I said when we were passing I was like they probably can do this because JW is giving them a constant
You can just go play it such a legend. I think JW was put them back in the game even though it's a state
But I don't know how much they would adopt compared to the online claims eat all that to be forever
He went not ready for this. Falcons 11 won up. They are just rounds away from the grand final.
Coming into this event, we learned that they wouldn't have exotic behind them. They didn't have
kids who care and attendance for the land portion. The deck was stacked against the
Falcons and they've been thriving Nico right now back to his old self. He has had a
death grip on that first half. Twenty and three vitality. This might be a very,
very short third map and a complete disaster for a squad. We hold in such high regard.
Well, it took six months last year for them to get 11 won and now it's happened in just the first week of play.
is there any hope?
40 vitality is pistol.
It's the first step that in which direction
I will up top tool and 12.
These finds is first.
Trying to buy time vitality.
No, there's bomb is committed.
Our ramps.
I will come hunting in kicks and back to the pistol woes.
Off the back of the dominant first half.
But you know he's going to milk it for everything he can at this point in the game.
Now wait a go really but forward for Kickstarter he's hoping he can kind of beck in the
arrival of this flank baiting in mezzly for the push but that's not happening and so
They're not swinging together.
There's the finish of vitality.
And the airfout could save always struggled
at pistol rounds.
This one's no exception, but there,
there are a long way from worrying, yeah.
Yeah, it took a Nico ace to get that CT pistol
keep in mind.
So, safe to say, this is back to the regularly
schedule programming.
At least vitality don't have their screens off.
Just a deco because you've earned it.
Goodbye, I saw something nice.
You go and deep thoughts.
I like that they're using this time early to have the chat, you know, like, just plan out that first round, make sure it's all right.
Because you know, the sooner you enact that that map point, the sooner you get there, the less of a worry it is, you won't have vitality super entrenched.
You know, if you're waiting to have this conversation till off the off first gun round, when you're taking your next eco,
And that point by Tallye already of money even winning the one round doesn't guarantee you that you've won the game
And so it's like, you know get this out the way ahead of time
Have the chat now focus up for the next rifle round and
Just kind of finish the job essentially don't give Vitaly E a reason to believe
Even the difference you're gonna feel having to
it turns around for the third. It's really nice as well because that wasn't a default
part. It was the part we've seen a little bit more recently used. Just wide off default.
Still. Games has the line up. Yeah, yeah. It's like even just the difference
between having to win one line for round of the breaking your opponent's
money at this score line versus having to grind through two rifle rounds.
Can make a world of difference in a game like this? I know Vitalik you haven't
look like they're normal self-zermap 3, but you're worried that it won't take much for them to get there.
It's about 12 left. I'm not going to sit here and tell you what to do.
It's about to get out of it.
He's gone round, go quickly, especially when you try swing out mid.
This will be some damage out of this one.
That's as in the Palace, barely warmed into this third map.
barely played this series...
he finds something impactful here in the side, and sure he's spotted, right?
his jump spotting play.
he looks aware...
his new clearance comes hunting, so...
are you?
Oh dear!
I will not locked in!
thinks it's his teammate!
Oh no, no, not nuclei on's again!
it's all nuclei on say no robbers here!
It's an important cut question.
He'll be third man.
So sharp.
15 points to help Don Robbs is shot away from death, and he wins a must-wing fight.
Monticee, that's really nice.
But what more does he have for us?
Rotates have now arrived for vitality.
The fact that we're even getting excited about this,
this was a 2v5 that Falcons have tried to claw back, swing over the stairs.
Monticee gets it down in the 1v1.
Messi's meant to be a safe pair of hands, and he will rise to the occasion.
narrowly dodging the disaster that was that brewing 2v5 for the falcons.
Oh, you can't celebrate your new vitality. There's no point where you can let your
foot off the gas and cruise in this series. It has to be a flawless game.
You can't let a clutch through a 2v5 that grows legs.
There's a chopster right off, 4 round two for vitality, one at a time, that's all I can tell
themselves.
That's the only cope left.
You just can't take any liberties if you're a vitality, you never get to feel comfortable.
That's what these rounds have been like.
all pull times across the series, five B2s haven't felt safe.
And again, when everything was going right, the Falcons, the lost thing you want, is to end up giving one of those type around's away.
This is just a B-pop here, but let's kill picked up the vitality.
As he good for his, and his the support from Rob's, the rest of the vitality now arrive.
Very quickly.
I don't get to work on cleaning it up.
We have still arrived at that point that Falcons were looking to avoid, right?
With that team talk and the second round in their eco, this idea that you gave up that
first rifle round and sure you did a lot of damage.
You nearly won that 2v5.
But that round there was clean for Vitalitee 4 players survived.
So now they're making money.
They're going to get that much harder to bunch out of position.
You're not going to get to win this game to economy.
You're going to have rifles to go up against.
Now you have to win two rifle rounds.
It's not a lot, but it is a far harder challenge
than what you could have had for yourself.
Had you hit hard in the first rifle?
Going to get harder as the rounds get closer,
vitality more than acquainted with a close game,
with a comeback.
So this level not often, in fact, not ever.
I mean, even versus this team.
Oh, we saw, a 5-11, back in Melbourne, some time ago now, it's not going to be a mini-map
screenshot, it's going to be a scoreline screenshot, without getting to burn.
With Nico, Nucleon's and Monacy, hitting his hardest they have.
You have every expectation, more or more, multiple players can just drag you through around
with a moment of brilliance.
Cleans out, Lola.
I want to see him off the leash.
I want to see him getting up to his tricks here
on this T side.
Freeed up on Counter Strike's most popular map.
Yeah, I mean, if you want to see him off the leash,
this is the game for you.
He's roaming around like a untrained pitball right now.
You can be trolling the spawn.
No audacious pushing from vitality, looking to just hold down their sights.
So I will 3 and 13.
He does have the orb.
Can deploy a late round.
He's red it.
Or take coming in towards his B-bombsite kicks and trying to fake.
Oh, so I will move over to CT.
So right now, Falcons, the fake is working.
It is messy.
Set it times users the backbone of vitality always difficult to entrench, always hard to get past.
It's all over the world to be a been solid.
He also delivered that one B1 versus Monastery just to keep them in the game.
I'm stopping that by B2 from getting out of hand for vitality.
There, it's another clean finish over at B.
is now a kind of unignorable streak of rounds from the vitality camp.
I've been a row, and two of them flawless, two of them with four live.
It's been very good rounds out of vitality, just that one, two,
V5, they've got scary.
So, it's not going to take much to make vitality believe.
Falcons know that.
It's right on the precipice of a win.
That's when the pressure could really hit.
We've talked about how Falcons have had minimal if almost no pressure at this event.
This is what you have to close on what has been one of the most incredible halves we've seen in some time.
But it chaos here injected into the round running through the midsmoak.
Nico has got an aka watch out.
Yeah armed dangerous, no you're wanted.
instead of that is not being at all about ziwoo instead we've looked towards the the
rafeling talent on vitality and ziwoo seemingly has checked out a map early in this
semi final
slow down here in the 4v4 they're letting vitality get nervous
I will with gaps and timings open.
Apex takes up window.
So watch his beaver.
Right now Messi is a little bit alone.
This is brewing into an A split that could get a window boost in.
Apex.
And we saw Nico in this position so many times.
Deliver.
In packed for kills.
Can Apex rival that?
He will need to test his open up.
A is open.
Apex is the last row.
drive by my monocity.
Zaiwu, it's now or it's never.
Yeah, not not being a fiction, not being any type of a problem
towards the Balkans in this game.
It's not going to start now.
Tessas are really unlikely Canada is pulled through
for the Balkans to keen shots on the D.
Go.
Mezi, he's been the guy giving you some degree of faith here,
but expecting to find anything in this one B3,
surely it's asking too much.
They've had so much time to get comfortable.
They've got two players playing around the bomb,
ready to swing the moment he taps and closing in at head of time.
Falcons come in swinging.
It's an eco round to move them all in it.
To match and series point.
Oh, well, it's a very stable player,
a very stable mental on Tessa's, right?
He's able to come in and deliver brutal dehead shots.
It's not had a great series, not had a great map,
not seen tomato.
And he's gonna remember that one showing up with the double kill that gives match and grandfinal point away to the falcons off of an eco no less
Six rounds
Six chances to find one
To say and there's a chance
If you're my teller, you've got to believe you can still do this by I can tell you one thing if
If Simon does it, oh, here's Sean, you can't do it.
Just never seen this from Zaywoon.
You know, Tess has been struggling in this game,
but he's not the de facto star power of the roster.
Zaywoon is.
And he's bottom of the entire server right now.
And I can't even say he hasn't had his weapon
a choice. He's got the dawn, the orb.
That's some really rough misses in there.
Well, we always say this.
I was so solid, just hitting these easy shots
and just coming to a game of the right
place, nailing the shots, repositioning, two rounds at a row, he's with his openers and
rops his even up with the try and make up for it. It's a leg, not even that much damage. They
come up connect it into the window. Well, control taken. That's this is the attempt at the killing
blow from the balcony. Instant trade from nuclear ons who's really tapped into a top level
when the pressure reaches fever pitch. So, who doesn't miss that one, it would have been
I'm forgivable out here towards the jungle.
They know about it now and they've got him in a box.
It's pames or it's nothing.
Grand final!
Ah!
Kills and hang on!
No, I'm not there!
What a series!
Me, Koen, a stellar star of knock.
Back in form, back in his element.
A nuclear on his hands, standing,
really rising to be a cage.
In the games to get to this point,
we set this unproblematic,
find it's hard, all-round,
Now, the greatest guy was a big problem, but for his opponent, he bought their E.
I think you should be nothing short of proud of that performance to get Balkans to a final
to start off 2020.
Who could have expected this?
There was a pain for vitality.
They wanted the weakened Balkans, but right now they saw through the semis into the final
two A's.
Borneco in this match.
And just the disadvantage done.
The challenge is a happy no scene in the head to head since Melbourne and they're going to keep that one away
It's got very one-vis-eye wound for the end of the day a vitality go home to a stand-in in Falco
Yeah, about e-remains that the one tournament that they just can't leave a mark on it's another early exit
Ball by Tality shy of a chance to compete for the trophy and not the start the team of
2025 wanted to this new year.
Well, at least last year started the same.
That's all you can hold on to if you're a vitality.
They missed out on that bounty finish as well.
Still went on to the best season of Counter Strike.
We've ever seen you, but for right now,
Falcons starting 2026 on a high in the most unexpected journey
all the way to the finals.
Let's see how far they can fly.
Let's see how far they can fly, because it's looking damn good right now.
And this audience, you love a bit of Falcons, right?
Oh, wow!
Nico, let me ask you this.
Are we getting some Dallas vibes right now?
It's looking like it. I don't want to jinx it, so let's see.
You don't want to jinx it, but you were very pumped up.
You were very loud throughout this whole game as well, dropping two aces, an ace clump,
or pistol aces as well.
Did they feel like you needed to do some more to turn the situation around?
Did you want to just give it your all?
I mean, I want to give you my all every time I play of course.
I just have a good feeling for this event.
I think even though we have, you know, Matt, I don't know, the vibes are going to the team.
We play good on practice.
So I had to believe from the very beginning and it all started from believing.
So yeah, I'm really proud of how we're handling everything as a team, especially after
getting beaten and it'll be pretty hard.
We were, you know, maybe you want to close it pretty fast.
We're getting frustrated about all the rounds that we have lost, so I think that affects
that's a little bit on our novice and then on Mirage we finally
go start with the pistol and everything so it helped a little bit but yeah I'm
feeling very good I don't feel like I have to do something more I'm just
feeling overall good with this with this team starting the year as well so
hopefully I can give it up for tomorrow as well.
Looking at New Cleans obviously he's standing in for you guys but he was a monster
on Mirage alongside you. What did you notice maybe different in here and maybe
we're getting more comfortable, what can you say about him for out all of this?
I think you know, everyone that is young is playing me for us,
but for seven, I think that helps a little bit.
And yeah, I mean, we know that he has a great potential.
There's a reason why we decided to go for a cutting-edge player like him
and not like someone more experienced player.
So we obviously have a huge belief in him.
And yeah, I think he did a great job in kind of resetting after a new business.
I was surprised to see him handling it so well, you know, and super proud of him and a team and yeah
Do you feel like as well? There's a bit more space in the team right now Kioski is going out
But for you guys to be able to maneuver around and do some things is out of change up that you have specifically because he's not there
Of course, Maxim, you know
It's a player that needs space in order to shine.
Of course, we are missing his presence on the server.
But I haven't really taught in a way that I know I have to go back to who I was.
And stuff like this.
I just kind of, I really want to just get good in the Rosetta right now.
And that's my only goal for this year.
And that particular for this season.
So, yeah.
I'm positive to stop for the season.
And Falcons are in the ground final.
Guys, keep it up for him.
It's time for the bouncy
But Nanzo, one hell of a bounty of rounds on the server, and not test his joint feet on the wheel for another win on
Intenses, are you feeling the banana energy?
I don't know what it means, but yeah, yeah, something. Are we feeling the banana energy?
We absolutely are so test is I'm gonna spin this wild wheel and wherever the number stops
You're going to win a prize. Are you ready? I'm ready. I'm ready. He's ready. Let's see
What we're going to get? We're giving away all the world away. It goes where it stops.
I just don't know. It's gonna be number.
Just pass the giveaway.
And number six.
Tessies. You have won.
And number six in behind numbers.
Since we have.
You have won this team.
Twilight paper. It's soft, triple plight.
Perfect for those hard to reach places.
made a mess of that last map.
Why don't wipe it up with this?
The face of your leg.
You already wiped this server with them,
but now if you want to wipe yours,
something else with vitality's logo, you can.
courtesy of this custom-made toilet paper.
Now keep in mind that it is a pelican's logo
in there somewhere, so you might need to be tearing out
every like H.E.C.I'll take us at the worst.
We're going to keep it pristine,
adjust-like tests,
and we'll be keeping something else pristine,
with that toilet paper.
This has been the Bounty Banana, you can go back and join the Falcon's Flying Eye!
A fitting prize from the Bounty Banana for that absolute masterclass of Mirage,
wiping up vitality and throwing them in the bowl. It was a stinker, so it's fitting
obviously that it gets a little bit of toilet paper. I feel like it's just going to be one of those games, where you're left scratching your head
at where some of the stars were for vitality. But for Falcons on the other side, how can you not be elated for them? I mean, I'm just
dubbing it right now, the neatly on-game. This was the neatly on-smoman for them. I also just enjoy the fact that
a test is already handed it out to the fans. We've got four more roles going to the team, so you know,
You know, that one can go to a fan here, just playing it all, look at that.
Look at those teams.
We've got to have everybody here at the bounty.
And everybody from all the heads of the game.
Oh, there we go.
Oh, oh, damn.
Oh, man.
We just did that.
All right, Texas didn't want to lean to the trash talk.
Well, we got an avatar for him.
Holy hell, so, no, all right.
That's a gift that will live for a while, I think.
Yeah, that's only fan.
That was a thing.
That was a thing.
I tell you to be completely honest.
think of a side who is well, I mean we have to, we have to draw about a side who, you know,
the best player of the year 2025 to a lot of discussion not off to his best at hand,
2026 together with my utility. That is a massive loss all the greater than the world to
Falcons all the greater than the world to Nico, nuclear on as well for that manner,
but for my utility to fall short in this fashion, without even giving a fight on my rush,
that's not how they would have hoped 2026 would have come.
Leaning into it as well, right? Seeing what we've seen from the Falcons side, I want to stick
on them just a little bit longer, this does feel like a magic moment.
This does feel like the echoes of Dallas coming on through.
We've been referencing it all this time.
Nico referencing it on stage.
This is just a roster that can seem to make something out of nothing.
When they have these issues, when they have these pitfalls that come in, they thrive.
It really does feel like when you unshackle people like Nico and Monacy,
you just get the best version out of them.
I mean, I feel like going even back to when they first form the roster
and Melbourne, they had one of the best tournament runs that they had for the entirety of
that kind of duo being linked back up in the Falcons jersey.
I mean, that was a reminder, even with the gist, but as you introduce structure, as you
introduce more protocols, layers to the way that everybody plays.
Sometimes it just kind of clouds the heads of superstar players who, when they rely on intuition
and instinct, maybe they aren't playing the perfect team, see, yes, at every single moment.
And that's why the results that they have could be more variable, but you also get these
highs that otherwise aren't necessarily there when everybody's trying to think about,
what do I need to do next? What did we go over in practice?
Now obviously it's too early to make any conclusions for Falcons. They still have a grand final
to play tomorrow. Well, that's going to be very a pair ofish and will remain to be seen.
But all I'm thinking here right now is the prospect of Nico playing so well now when Hugh
Succe is not here. Obviously he's going to come back, you know, no offensive against Newtons,
but he's not going to be part of this line up for the future as soon as Hugh Succe is back.
That's that good food for thought.
What infalcances is it's worth
maybe putting a bit more focus on an
E.C. still was it too much of him
getting up space, you know, giving up
responsibility to cue a suprit all.
Do they have to revert something in
it begs the question at the very least
and to me that's it.
In many ways, I feel like this is one of
the best things that could happen to
Falcons that they get a victory like
this in a situation where they are working
with a separate coach, a stand in there
that now you're just getting these
fresh ideas coming in.
I'm not necessarily saying that
new clearance is not a better player than Kiosk. I'm not going to even get close to that claim.
But I'm sure that Amenstein is bringing some of the ideas for her that he's kind of been
bottling up as an assisting coach for G2 as a assisting coach for Falcon. So if some of those
are coming to the foray, then maybe they can consider those when moving forward into
all their tournaments throughout the year. That is a reminder. Yeah, this is a building block that's
not going to change. Amenstein's going to be there consistently with the team he might not be
standing behind them, but his energy, his presence, his voice, is going to be a huge part of
thousands going forward.
It is, and I hope that that's him and Sonic obviously can have that corporation between
the two when Sonic obviously also will return as the main coach for Falcons.
I agree with you, in some sense, Molly, it's just, for me, it's fun to think we're craft
on them, right?
Because what happens if they didn't go into cracker, and they don't deliver when Q's
so you can expect them when one's sounding his back.
I think in himself that, oh, we can only perform when there's no pressure, et cetera, et cetera.
That's almost the regulations, but this result, and then doing so well right here, at
But the very least, it scratches the surface that we already know that Falcons, obviously,
is a world-class kind of screen, the Conestrian team, they have world-class players as well.
But this whole notion around pressure can handle it, etc.
That's only getting amplified when they're getting a good result when there's no pressure.
Well, it just really unhearts the question that who do you actually want in the star positions
for Falcons on the rifle spots?
Is it Kyosuke or is it Niko?
Because right now we're seeing a prime example that Niko absolutely unequivocally still has it.
I mean, to take down vitality in this fashion,
there's no real question that he can still be a super elite player
in the world, one of the best riflers,
and maybe the ranking last year didn't necessarily show that,
but to have this sort of example before us
that he can take down the easy favorite
in this tournament, the easy favorite
for team of the year last year.
I mean, there's a reason
that maybe shift some of the resources
and some of the priority to the old head on the team.
the old head who's still in that conversation for the absolute peak of his position.
Let's talk about that presumptive, easy favorite number one team of last season.
This is not a great result coming into this season and a shocking one in many ways.
That was Zayu's third and fourth worst rated maps in CS2, I think, in the first and
third of that series.
This was a really troubling result for vitality.
Obviously, it's not a great start to the season for vitality, but then again, we saw what
have lost season as well at the very same tournament in Copenhagen when we had the studio down there.
Also, Vitality losing in the quarterfinal, not getting off to a good start and then it bounced back.
So, I'm not going to ring any alarm bills just yet.
I don't think they played necessarily too poorly right here.
Obviously, Mirast, that's one to throw out the window.
That was not a great performance.
But overall, am I worried on behalf of Vitality after this performance?
Not really, is it a bad start?
Yes, it's a bad facade who is well and does that add more push-ups towards him and crack up?
Sure.
Well, I'm curious to hear how worried they are in the vitality camp, so we've got some words from apex.
What'sality once again, the bounty won't be having a chance of lifting that trophy start of the year,
then just give me your initial feelings of facing Falcons with no pressure and having a stand in how disappointing is this in the grand scheme of things for you?
Well, it's not about first. The sunan was not about whoever opened the new play, he was more about the way we play and to be able to to improve.
because it's the beginning of the season.
And yeah, the showing today was not great.
I don't care that you'd be standing on not to say,
we'll have been a much different
with Kifzuki, I would say.
So for me, it just focusing on us.
And yeah, bad individuals, the team play was off,
like, calls as well.
Everything was about today.
So yeah, not helpful.
When you say not the team play was bad as well.
We were noticing in the clutch,
you guys weren't coming out under the same way
you were struggling to get the openings.
Did you just notice the lack of everything
from the team in that regard, especially on in front of?
Yeah, mirrored as well, like the artists,
I think I checked the stats in the name three
happening kills for Farkons,
or happening that we couldn't refrag.
Like playing 45s all the time is not easy.
Morschik is a team like Farkons that are good.
And yeah, we can convert advantage tuition or exeux.
So yeah, stuff like we had a three, three piece store,
we can win them.
In front of us the same, like we have some decent situation
where we just won't win the clutches.
And the exeux are the most important in CS nowadays.
and we were not good enough to do.
When you're looking at like what I normally say
is the vitality DNA where you guys can come back
into these games and stuff.
Then it kind of have that feeling for you
maybe going to even a second half.
That was missing despite the good start
on the beginning of it.
Not really, I think the Moodle's fine.
It's just like, yeah, one hour players are just not showing up.
It's tough for them to play good just on the last side.
And that's the RCS works.
It's the same in sport or whatever.
He will start 80 minutes later, the last 10 are usually bad as well.
So now I think they were better today.
We liked it a lot of stuff, and that's
no way you win against it.
It's like, if I can't, even though they have a sending that paid actually, we will.
Today's man.
And just looking at the fact that you,
I didn't have much practice before this event.
You probably not going to have to meet days at home as well to get ready for crack out.
How do you try and make that work,
where do you focus on in just terms of getting the best situation possible to put yourself
for me what's going to be important for the next few days
weeks is to play individually, yet there was a bit of a disaster.
I heard a lot of I wave, I wave, I wave, I wave, I miss my shot, I miss my shot.
So it's not easy, when of course I like CS, CS is a firepower game.
And you can see even though they have a standing that's really on and they've
played if you click on this game.
It's the way it is and that's how it's used to work and yet today we didn't
show up as everything, so he's at an end of this. So yeah, it's something grind on and after that.
Thank you very much, Tom.
Thank you very much, Tom.
CS 2 of firepower game, but some misfires for vitality see them start what do we think of his answers there pretty much as expected.
You know, I don't think there's any reason to panic. What in the vitality came to Ben through so much together.
He said again, the communication thing. I feel like that's a default answer for vitality whenever they're not winning a tournament.
And yes, comms can always be better,
but I think the few sneak peeks
we got into the communication.
It sounded pretty good.
So I think I'm also want to put them to something
what he said here in the latest stages of the interview,
the lack of firepower.
The fact that he had certain players feeling
he wasn't hitting shots.
And in counter strike,
now you know, as well, you know,
one player whiffing a shot that he normally would hit
can completely change the tide of the round.
And if that kept happening over, I know what?
Then I understand why they're first heard about that aspect.
Really, I mean, looking at this series,
it was kind of just flamesy that showed up for them.
I think there were a little spurts
were certain individuals kind of popped off.
But on the other hand, it was just too much to match for Falcons.
And that's why Falcons are just such a crazy adversary
for vitality.
They're so stiff in terms of you take him toe to toe
and so many different duels and got even tests
as banged people out.
So there's never really a moment that you can relax
when you're playing against Falcons
and Vitalio learn that the hard way.
What do you mean by even metatisses?
Like, it's my favorite Falcons personally.
So I have nothing against them,
but it's just that even the most supportive elements,
the guys that you think you could take your foot off
pedal for those are guys that you still have to watch out for. They're all dangerous, okay?
Just wanted to clarify.
Yeah, I think that's important, like, clarify. Even you could have said even nuclear
ones, you know, the guy that I've officially before this event. Even if there's a lot of
examples there for you. Even kickstand. Even kickstand has his message.
Actually, kickstand, over on a chair for sure. Throw back all the way to that one. I mean,
crazy results here. I do want to ask you a question though. We did hear from vitality at various
points talking about taking a longer break, right? After you did, they had they wanted to
emphasize the rest. They were coming maybe a little later into this than a lot of
of other teams. Meanwhile, Falcons have been talking about the preparation.
If I go about tests is coming back, your favorite Falcons early for some individual prep.
Do we think that maybe vitality just need a little time to be back to that team we know?
Vitality earned the luxury to take a longer break.
When you have the best year in CS2 history, even if it's short-lived, arguably the best
year of Counter-Share, we've seen in a calendar year ever, then I think it's completely
merited that you just take a maybe another week off and some other teams. You're going to be able to play yourself back into shape.
A lot of people see the bounty more as a little bit of a warm-up. We're seeing a map pull change as well.
So there's a lot of things that are happening right now where I would even give passes to vitality.
Individuals like apex when maybe was lightly calling out there. Maybe they should probably
look at themselves a little bit closer though because we didn't get all the heroics from some of those guys.
like, like, XI was pretty much absent from that final map there.
I feel like Rob's two kind of gave it up a couple times when he had chances to pull
rounds back for them.
So I'm more worried about them just leveling up their form as a team or just as individuals
really.
And then I think everything else will come into following the place.
It's going to be a long season.
You know, I'm just a long season when it's kind of swag and you heard a fix in some
of the place last season as well as saying they were exhausted after the Austin major.
So if they want to be primed both for cracker, but also for Kulone, the next major coming
I think it's fun after you plan out your season and you're not at a hundred percent at all times and we're doing it again
We're standing here in a situation where I've had a lot of lost in a semi final by the way
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All right, we got fury and we got pair of vision.
It looks pretty skewed these odds.
Okay, and pair of vision with a point six.
Do we think they can do it guys?
I think they can win a map chat, what do you guys think?
I'm not reading chat right now.
Not reading chat now.
We're going to go pretty into it.
The thing is that I want to pick Furia because we'll get some more points when they
if they be Perry Vision.
So it's a big win.
I'm going to be going, I want to do 25 on them.
Okay.
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This is all on you.
I'm going to the rest in the Falcons.
I think they're going to win the whole game.
I think they're winning the whole group.
Okay, don't be making magic now.
I'm giving it all.
Yeah.
And what the invest is is that this is going to be the first trophy
lift for them.
I mean, I'm going to, I'm already cursed in Bounties.
And what are, this is in the major.
So Falcons are fine.
There you go.
I'm not sure off.
Stand in buff.
I can't, okay.
We'll hang out.
We'll get them, we'll get them placed.
We'll get them placed.
The spirit of stewing is alive in Falcons and alive in Maui, right now.
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Yeah, it had to do it to him.
Indeed, we've got another crazy game coming up, though, folks.
This is not done.
We've got another matchup here to determine who our grand finalist
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with a standing right here, yes, maybe not pretty as well in the fashion, but they're getting
to jump done.
And I think that's something that I really respect, you know, for a team like Furia, because
a lot of the other teams haven't been able to get to jump done.
Furia right now, or in a position where they can absolutely capitalize off of the loss of
vitality in this tournament.
They now almost kind of jump up if they win this game to be the favorites.
I think that they probably would be the bookmakers' favorites in a grand final versus
a Falcons team with a stand-in.
So there's a huge opportunity for them to seize and what better way to get it kicked
off than to take down a pair of vision that, yes, they're great, plucky underdogs.
They had an awesome run at the Budapest major where they were able to win out through
stage one, through stage two, but my eyes by stage three sort of got figured out, sort
of lost gas ran out of steam.
People started seeing the style that they like to play, that explosive poppy, bomb
side hit style, but then it kind of just fell flat.
And I feel like if you're furious coming into this, and you've prepped adequately, which
feels like they should be doing, would sit and fall in at the helm, then now is an opportunity
to just kind of put these guys away and let the plucky underdogs have their run, but
let it be and let it die.
And if those feel like theory had been getting some advantageous matchups, shall we see
through the draft format?
I think a lot of teams have been picking into Falcons, continually falling for that trap that
the stand in is going to handle them.
And so we do have Furia.
I mean, in the last night they were the second pick, right?
get this match up with Perry vision, and it does just feel like maybe that's a blessing.
Yeah, a little bit, you know, to be completely honest, because playing here, Rorg is one thing
now getting parrishing in a semi-final is another one, and you even make the case that
getting Falcons in a grand final, without Sonic, where to stand in as well, that's another
little gift, you know. So there will always be people who would add an asterisk to
Furrier if they were to win this tournament, but I'm also a firm believer and you can only
beat who's in front of you. It's not Furrier's fault that no one else is picking them
or the bracket didn't turn out that way.
And as long as they beat whoever is in front of them
and they do it in a fashion where I'm like,
okay, you're playing good counter strike,
then I don't think it's fair to hold that up against them,
which we kind of have a tendency to do sometimes
saying that a certain team has an easy one, et cetera.
At another day, I think Parasian deserves to be in the semi-final
and let's see whether or not they are good enough
to apply a bit of pressure to career
who can claim to be the best team in the world if they want to.
Now to start this conversation about curious,
we get deeper into it.
We've got some words from Fallen.
I'm looking at PowerVision, preparing for them, getting ready for them.
What do you notice that makes them different to other teams you might face?
I've been playing in watching James and his teams play for quite some time now, and I think what makes James seem very special is that they play very conservative and very specific contract like the another team was going to win games by taking huge risks.
They're just going to play as a pack of others as a team make good moves and pay close to perfectionists, you know, and
If you don't think some stuff playing raw against them, your lives are going to be even harder
So managing the two to two well
have an understanding of how they approach the game and making choices very important for you to be able to beat them
And there's a reason why they have been doing well in the last tournaments and I think it's the James system
I really appreciate it. It's just a big fan of his system
Is it hard to get a read of that system even when you review it or do you feel like you've got a good understanding and you can do this for good mid-rounding?
I mean, I think it's easy to understand that the game is meticulous and the game has a lower base than some of the other opponents who can face other matchups.
But at the same time, it's not so easy to understand that everything that's going to happen.
And of course, there is some individual problems that can come and change stuff.
I guess, for example, James was showing his album.
Me and Mirage, for the team to be playing one day,
like nobody does stuff like that.
So they would come up to them,
tricks under their sleeves that you've never seen before.
And if I'm pretty sure I prepared some,
I guess, those are also Indiana,
just gotta figure out, on the game.
A lot of praise for James coming from the words of Fallen.
Big fan of the James system here.
What do you see, Maui?
I feel like Fallen is slightly rehashing
some old narratives that are regarding James.
I mean, we know it was idiosyncratic style that he had with outsiders in VP back in the day
and how slow and grueling it was.
I'm sure nobody better than Yekendar on his team could probably tell him about that.
But Jam is really changed up how he plays with Paravision, even the way that they took
down spirit was a lot different.
I mean, it was more so just going for bomb side hits repeatedly.
I mean, it was almost just, it was almost very little math control even being taken.
There wasn't that slow, constricting effect that the old Jam would have called.
He knows he's been working with younger players and he knows that he needs to just get
into the action a lot faster. That's why they're grouping up so much quicker. That's
why it's five manning into a bomb site, which is the most basic split possible. He's not
over-thinking it and trying to play all the margins and run it down to the clock every time.
It's extremely frequent that you're going to see a bomb site hit with 50 seconds still on
the clock when James calling ParaVision. Yeah, and I think it's fair enough, you know,
for phones or different, some of those old, you know, game-esque style of playing because
he's playing so many different teams throughout the season that you cannot be an expert against
anyone you go up against and that's why they have a support cast behind them. That's why
the city is there to help them to prepare.
That's why coaching staff of Feria will have a very important role.
Because I agree with you Maui and kind of one of the narratives that you've been putting out is that
they do a lot of the same stuff over and over and over and maybe early tournament or in the beginning of
tournament it works out but it's fairly easy to read and it's fairly easy to counter if you know what's coming
and obviously when you find yourself in a semi final if you're afraid you're going to be
well prepared for jam and you're going to be well prepared for Parisians.
So I'm a little bit afraid that what's been working for Paris
and so find this tournament is not going to be as potent
when you go up against for you.
And that's why I want to see if they have another gear.
If they have a different way of approaching a game instead
of just running a PC, be a PC at some point.
Yeah, I mean, could we just bring up that stat one more time?
I mean, those are from the Skybox Edge numbers,
where it's just the way that they took down spirit.
Yesterday, it was just constantly the same place.
It was no secret throughout this matchup
where James wanted to take the fights to bomb sites.
and it was a lack of adaptation from spirit that obviously cost them the game.
And that's why I think that even if fallen isn't completely up to date entirely on the
Paravish and Playbook, he'll make live rates in a game.
He's going to understand that James hammering this side over and over again and he'll just
call it out.
You see something happen once twice.
He's going to shift the defense over and weirdly that was just something that
magic's in spirit couldn't do.
I guess it's not that weird because he's a rookie IGL but I feel like all of those tendencies
are going to be caught so much faster by a fury team that is showing that yeah they understand
how to provide counters if they are just thrown the same exact over and over again.
Now speaking about that fury team diving in a little bit deeper as well we have also seen
some slow starts from them right that rough first map against heroic various bumps and bruises
through the online play against foot. We've seen some signs of concern maybe just a little bit of
rust getting into the season here. I think that's it to me it's been signs of rust. I think
some of the maps where, you know, they want to guess your rig, where you do nothing,
whatsoever on the rest, that's one you can just ride off again. Some seem some players
will just have a game when nothing really works out. The only thing that worries me a little
bit was the one against FUT. I feel like that game was very, very close and that's a game.
They could have lost, that's a game where they were applied a lot of pressure on three different
maps. But then again, it's the second game of the season. It's online and I'm not going to hold
that accountable to watch for it. I feel way more comfortable and way more confident with the
that's taking on a stage, especially when you had the likes of fallen
during case of rotos, but doing it so many times and for so many years,
little only kid enough of that now.
And the bright spot that's really lit the way right to get through some
of those rougher patches has been this man, Mollidoi.
I believe the top rated player of this event so far.
A very playoff of the inside of 2026 so far.
Small Samus. Huge Samus size.
Small Samus size.
I love it. I love it.
They fall it out right now, the best player of the year.
But that's far.
Fun out.
That's far.
in the month of January the best player of the year of all the day. I mean, look, we're being
honest here. He's looking like the kind of player who could be contending for that title down
this. That's the thing, right. He's also looking to obviously win more trophies with Fura that's
something that he was quoted for saying in an interview, but also taking the next step as a player.
I know that the first year he had a first six month he had as a pro player was absolutely fantastic.
Now he gets a full season and then he's off to a good start. I am curious whether or
and more of though I have the ability to take another step up the rank and contest
consistently against the likes of Saivoo, Donk and Monacy.
And I have a feeling that we've seen this early signs up and we've seen Gimsus,
he's consistently playing at a high level.
I can't see why one of those shouldn't be in that conversation as of right now.
I mean, when you're to just comparing pure mechanics between
Mollidoi, Monacy, Saivoo, Mollidoi, he's not third.
He's not third in my book, okay?
I mean, I'm not saying he's the best at positioning himself.
I'm not saying that he's always going to have the best rotations,
call out what the opponents are doing so that he can put himself in the right spot to succeed.
But if I just want a guy to hit a 10 out of 10 difficulty shot, he's not the third best
offer in the world. That's an interesting conversation to have. I also do want to highlight
some things he's been saying, right? Because we've got a few motorway interviews here on the
broadcast, also over on HLTV. And he's had a few interesting points. One thing in your
conversation about how much higher he can climb, how much he can improve. He watched every round
that he played in 2025, watched it back over the break,
focused on it, wanted to see every mistake he ever made,
and improve on them.
And that's not somebody who's ready to get come to you.
Do you watch every desk segment back?
Mike, not every.
No, not every desk segment back.
And I think that's a lot easier than watching every single roundback.
I mean, that is a serious level of dedication
that you do not get very frequently from young up
in coming players who's so frequently just rely
on that raw ability.
So if he's gonna improve, reassess his decisions,
improve on of those, just build on him,
make sure that he doesn't repeat the same mistakes
that he did from last year.
This guy already, I'd say, a star,
soon to be just world class household name superstar.
That, oh, he's just, you know, watching himself
and glacing himself, because he had such a good idea.
Not that, I mean, that's not that.
He's got to watch the bad rounds back too, surely.
He didn't just watch back the highlights.
What the was it?
Almost that we highlighted.
Jacob and you were a player?
No, but I was like,
I don't have other great games like that.
But he should have watched back every round.
Maybe that was every single one.
Maybe that was my issue.
Maybe.
I mean, it is just astonishing where it's going through from a guy who's so young.
Again, for context, it's been repeated many times, but it does bear repeating, especially if you're maybe newer to this.
This guy this time last year, nobody knew who he was.
It wasn't just that he was a prospect on the rise.
I don't think any of us had heard of Molode in January of 2025.
They plucked him out of obscurity, coming out of Kazakhstan,
Kazakhstan because he owned them in a scrim and they thought this guy's got something special.
Bring him into Furia. He doesn't speak English. He's never calmed in an international team.
He's learning the language while he's learning the game while he's learning his teammates.
And he still shows up again and again and drops highlight after highlight and makes our
jaws drop at bat. It is truly an astonishing story and we're not one year into his top to your career.
That's the thing where I'd give him another six months and then become reevaluate. Then we can
see how far far he's progressed because I think there's more to him. You're right
and saying that we live in a day and age, I guess, where Cybro came in and in his
rookie year best player in the world, ridiculous. Then you have don't coming out
in the world as well, you know, being absolutely astonishing, maybe the most
mechanical gift to Counter-Strike player we've had. And now we get Molledoy in
sort of like the same generation of players coming in. If anything, we should be
lucky, right? We should be thankful that we're getting such an amount of players
who are so skilled at in Manusy to the conversation right there as well. You have
four of generational tenants players all
duking out at the same time I could be in their
peaks. It's not bad. I think it should just
start lowering the age limit. The children
yearn for the server. Yeah. Look, my
otherwise an absolute superstar, but it's
up to Perry vision to figure out how to counter him
with some ideas. We have Dosta. Dosta, you had a huge
victory over spirit yesterday. The biggest
win for this team. What can you say about the
teams performance across the three maps from what
you saw? We don't cover in your pressure when
I don't think about winning, just play with confidence and whatever result is but I think it helped us because no one believes that we can win.
And it helped us. I think pressure was on the team spirit side.
For understandably so as well. I've got to ask it seemed the times in rounds.
The James Toronto Revolution was not fighting towards it. Was that part of the game plan?
Of course, when you play against Donk, it's not secret. I will tell to us if you kill him
They need to say that you feel him little bit easier. It's like, like, monacy, like
Zaybu, if you kill the superstar and the situation is a bit different. And of course, you don't need to give him
more like 50 future chances early. And that's really to be close to keep you, he will kill you.
He was there, he was there.
One name he didn't mention in that list, maybe he should have very visioned after prepare
from Molledoy in this one now. And that's going to be fairly difficult. I mean even though
you obviously want to shut down him, I don't think we can underrate the other weapons that are
on Fury. I mean, Fury was one of the most overqualified anchor players of last year.
here.
Yekendar is also a guy that is a star in his own right, which I'm sure Dostown and Jamer
not unfamiliar with, given their history on past rosters and how can you even overlook
Cacerano.
So, the thing about Furia is that they aren't as one note themselves as a team like
spirit.
So, making a game plan where you're going for bombsite hits away from the superstar name,
you could name a couple of people that are stars on Furia.
So, try your luck as you will, but even if they do find some sort of gap in the defense,
adaptations are what a furious specialties.
I think that's what we have to be careful not underestimating this out of
Parisian as well because I feel like we obviously would talk a lot about Jane,
we talked about Schwey coming into it as well.
He's been a little bit different performance, you know, online versus land.
That's a conversation in itself.
But we don't really talk too much about note at Bell Tunak or
a shell of that matter as well.
Notice the highest rate of play were in the team.
Note at the defense, Hestic job yesterday versus team spirit was playing really, really well.
And I think that's also, you know, kind of the tendency, I see more and more in the world performing teams that there is no weak link within this land
And there's not a single player where you're like, are you more often than not underperforming or you're sometimes a liability or you have the tendency to be targeted by some of our opponents
I don't see that weakness would impair her vision. So as much as I agree, further the same could be said over there. There is no clear and obvious weakness
You could argue that maybe fallen in terms of the fracking output sometimes can be but then he asked so much value as an in-game leader
the same could be set on parvition. I don't see a weakness within this squad.
Now there is one player that maybe we want to see a little bit more of here on land. It's a new addition.
Zwei coming in right had a phenomenal online play. Really was a huge part of the match
making it here to the land and then sort of fell flat and that match up with spirit.
Well the way that Jane called it did not work around Zwei. Whereas in the online portion you
could see the numbers here. I mean 1.6, well I mean 180 R speaks for itself. I mean it was absolutely
flying everybody that he played against and when it came to the land portion or the game
against spirit in particular he was quite pedestrian and the problem is that really when he was
online he was given a lot of freedom the way that they played was a little bit more
longer stretched out defaults where he got to work the map whereas against spirit there were
very targeted game plans and frequently his way was the first in entry on bomb site hit so
his numbers were naturally going to come down and yeah he failed to impress in the in the
the Paravision jersey, even though he was able to find that sweet revenge, it was more
just him being a cog in the system instead of being the star that he probably wishes he
was.
Probably a bit of extra nerve coming in for him as well, knowing that he was playing against
team spirit going up against the dog going up against his X teammate.
So I don't want to evaluate him just yet.
I think this game is going to be very telling for Sway as well.
If he's going to have another game where he's absent, where he's not going to deliver,
then we can start to have the conversation of whether or not what we saw online was maybe
a bit of a smoke screen, but I think he's going to come out today, would maybe a little
less pressure and a bit of chance of doing well as we're selling doing on that as well.
And it is always that nice situation when you can win multiple ways.
You put a nice a Jacob, not very many weak links here for Perry Vision.
We'll see if that's enough to withstand the fury of fury.
It's time to find out what maps we're going to be playing.
It's time for the Vida.
Anything you've got your eyes out for, gentlemen?
Well, I feel like new can the ancient are going to be taken out of the pool
cool and then I'm mostly just concerned about pair of vision spick. They've shown an interest
in Mirage. I feel like that could go their way. I'm not really sure. I mean, I think for the
furious side, I'm curious if they want to go to overpass, which was one of their strengths
at last time or last season that is and we do get the Mirage out of pair of vision here.
Or they want to save it because both of these teams like overpass a lot and so picking into a pair
of vision overpass where they've already shown strength on it might be playing into their hand.
I was just about to say they share the same met pool
whether that's overpass does to the both mic to play it
It's definitely gonna be one of the two methods
It's the first deciding whether to throw a feel like inferno froming it for a makes sense
I feel like that's the one met where pervish and have a track record that is not that impressive
So no big surprise right here and no bruise out of the way and as I said
It's gonna be either overpass or the handshake on dust to amend the need of the two teams have lost in more than four months show
Dust to coming into the mix as a potential third. I hope that's coming in the case
I'm just a little bit curious of the theory. I despite the fact that they had what it was at a 12 map win streak on overpass last season
Don't want to go for it for the Decider there, but I guess it's a showing respect to James. Yeah, I think I think it is a little scared of the James system
You don't also it's hard. It is sometimes hard to play against a team that hits B over 80% of the time
You just feel like you're losing your mind sometimes if there was going to be one team that would show respect to Jamie would be this right because it's not just the
Brazilian memories of what James dawned down at that real major, but it's also you can do it
is his paddle on in many ways coming back to challenge the master now said set it up nicely
in the draft show. This is who you can learn to play counter strike from.
It's a long time ago though, you know, I get the reference and I get the point and there's
definitely certain tendencies or certain ways of acting that the akin that can share with the team
would inferior, but I very much cite what I was said earlier. I feel like James gone through a
process where he's not the same player. He's not the same in game leader as he worked
back in the BPD. So I feel it's limited how much you can that can contribute to
to the preparation outside of what set is doing already and outside of what
fullness preparing as well. Final thoughts with Tracer. It's going to go gentlemen.
I'll take theory in three. Yeah, for the entry. Sounds like theory in three.
I'm taking it into. We'll see what they can do time for scrawny and
ladders to take this one away.
Darf by straight to the business open for the 20 and all of our
desk, Mohan going for Furia in this game. But I think it's just the fact that
the experts. Experts are saying three maps,
fury that just means Paravision have already earned enough respects so far
at bounty that means that fury have to come into this on notice.
I mean also, if you've been watching the fury of games,
they start slowly so often. I mean,
they almost cost them versus food. It almost cost her again when they got to land.
I mean, the Paravision are going to be the strongest team throughout the series.
I think fury on paper should definitely win this match.
But in terms of consistent form,
pair of visions winging yesterday like they they look good and more parts of the game
more consistently and from the beginning of the game so a little bit worried for
fury uh that something's not clicking yet but we are one more day into land right
now it's on online now it's land first line of the year maybe they get that
fast start feels like they may need one whether that's just as a team
yelling together or whether that's just another individual who can try to
step it up to Mollidoy Mollidoy I mean coming to the land portions event
highest rated player moving into this semi-final and it is still leaps and bounds above the
likes of even monacy and Nico who just had some star-studded performances themselves.
So we'll Mollidoi be another hard carry, compare vision, shut him down with their systems.
There's going to be a lot of play in this and that's because Jane is in the server.
What a treat it is to watch this anomaly of Counter Strike back at the Berrytop.
Yuri, and a teammate.
Although Peretta is here inside of the ramp,
no-touch is gonna tap this, but he's still perfect.
Thank you.
They do still get two kills back and forth.
Fall in, tries to die.
Alice players coming out, and now the edge over to Pervison momentarily.
You've got Kcerado, Spoon Dog,
you can't do ours gonna fight in the mean time.
Oh!
How does he tap that back to Palace?
Pressure back on Shello.
You'll cut it down.
We go one V1, and now the round can breathe.
And Zele is looking for the frag.
Balls back on the ramp.
Oh head shop position case row now in a very awkward spot because he doesn't really want to move
But he was just spotted
Bunky get planted default yellow knows he's got the head shot
Now it's up to Zello he can go for a wide swing as you want to let this go to stairs
That was my own state really silly
You think the jumper class you think he's not gonna hit that an impressive shot, but like
Obviously unnecessary jump
Ooh, Newman was in connector.
He was like, those are the kinds of ones you get away with.
Forces lesser opposition.
Also, what are you getting out of the door?
Short and short.
Cover behind.
Right?
Yeah.
You're on a flying headshot of the guy who was 15 health.
Yep.
Coward in the stairs.
There's a lot of shot.
Oh, that shot of a year for me.
That is shot of a year for me.
That is a laser pointer.
That's what I was catching him on the job.
This is like kind of yellow.
This is kind of a green off.
Like, oh, this is what I would do in the situation if I didn't know where they were.
I'm dry across.
Don't eat the jump. Doesn't mean you fast here.
So round one.
All of these mistake.
Zello knows it's not going to let that hit his confidence.
Hopefully for his and pair of missions to stake.
It's not every day that you see a fallen pop-off like that pistol went though.
Yeah, not only a celebration, but staring at the monitor, but looking for eye contact across the room.
I think they also want the, they want the fast start.
That's what we've been missing last three series for Furia.
We know it's a lot of great finals.
You can not spray it through that smoke and it's a good case of auto ends up lining up the two.
We're going to assist across the board for case of auto's frags just looking on down
chain. Now it doesn't go zempty and there is a second death on the side of Furia.
Jame will try to make it a little bit more painful if you can.
I don't think it's either set on figuring out how to win this round.
with the bomber it is no armor
Blue is with your sit down with monacy where he was asked you know who's kind of on their villain arc coming into this week and he said
It's gonna be pair of visions at dog. Oh, he was at dog play
somebody answered
Jame. He said, Jame, because he's kind of like, he's kind of like Gandalf with four Hobbits
referring to the rifleers on this team.
And that's kind of how I like to think of Jame now more often, like a wizard that disappears
into the woods and bridges back out of nowhere and somehow saves the day. This clutch is not going
to be a dunk. It was a dunk. It was a dunk.
about because of last year.
Yeah, so I think it was honestly,
it was during map one half time earlier today.
Right.
Yeah, he called, said pair of vision very underrated.
He's been a definitely shout out for them.
And you kind of reverse his pair of vision
isn't really cool storyline.
And honestly, I don't think people realize
like you might have seen the media,
but like, yeah, kind of references,
shame all the time.
Like even when he played on, when he played on liquid,
it was like constant.
and then there was stuff that the callouts that they had.
You can't have brought that to liquid.
He's always credited James, sort of teaching him everything
for foundation of the game.
And I think that will play a factor.
You know, I think there's gonna be a part
of not just wants to impress him.
Sure, yeah, yeah.
Look at what I've become, genuinely.
I don't think there's anybody who's played with James
at any point and found success
that would then go on to say that like,
he hasn't shaped him in their early years.
It's what we, this will be praised,
James Ford constantly.
I'm not sure what electronic would think of James,
but, uh, I don't really care.
It doesn't feel like fury.
It care much about hanging on to middle,
not proactively anyway.
It's they'll just lean back between this crossfire,
rumbling of utility.
You can't hear our wants to go for a peek,
Maybe after K-Rotta gets buffed that fast.
The odds not to flash-push on that one.
Oh, no, no, no.
It comes through with all of three kills inside of middle.
Uh, that's all three headshots as well.
You get a 4v2.
Okay, that's that, where I was like,
12 first kills, all headshots for no to.
12 of his first kills.
They slip up into connector,
bombing, clued in,
and fallen, it's just going to try to chase this movement,
while you're eating keeps his head down.
Oh, that plants open actually.
So the natural they open, that's a little messy.
He gets there.
Bombs flow out down in the meantime.
Palace player caught out in the open text.
You're already down at 25.
We've got a health advantage here for both of the
Paravision players.
Gun advantage, not so much.
That's how technology goes swinging.
It can actually grab an upgrade.
But he's so worried that Fallen still playing around mid-per-hattas.
John McControl and Fallen.
I mean, two players that they can just isolate.
They don't really have to show themselves.
So all should be good. You hear belch and not running around on the house. Okay. All in
It's got a kid here. Oh my god. No way. Oh my god. No way to wait for him in this.
All I'm gonna just say right.
Oh my god.
Belch and all just came up as if there wasn't any time. Don't fall in around the world.
Joseph once more that this guy's internal clock is so well-tuned.
It's the major play.
He just did it again.
He walked into the sight of fused.
Kind of say, though, even though his teammate dies,
don't you know what's the value and not going to check
if he could get the diffused off?
You obviously have no choice but to say,
I think that's 1776 HP.
0.04.
Well, another hero.
Sub-tank to that.
Use.
We're going to play out from the A-Ramp territory, which is going to try to
bounce, looking to keep it simple, Syria, gunning for the 4-0, and gunning down the challenge
that just attempted to cross out through the stairs.
Jane, spies the second, loses a teammate, and as he finally recovers a first kill here
for pair of vision, Syria are looking for Oshis.
That's the pistol, the full conversions, a late clutch out of fallen, and another pop-off
from him. It just feels like he's just more emotionally invested than we get in some of these games and I think emotionally
That's what they need. They just need to be fired up because we saw in the last half of the last series full strength area pretty
Unbolly. They got everything was great. It's one of that right away
It's now we're getting it
I'm not planted
either you'll cover the cross over James gonna try to get his flight going and he will
strike through the off of this still though upon playing for the other end they get their
trade frags you can do it's gonna jump on it another close one but it's good
you're gonna come through with another calculate and retake and times on their side
which isn't always the case when James you're opponent as very true
uh Fury I've been doing some amazing stuff so far and great crazy on this
Even though it's close, it's more like paravisions to play around play to get into the back of connector to make this scary for a second
But it's all very well handled
I'm sure they feel like they're through the thick of it now
They got what we wanted out of the gate the first thing you brought up was the need for a hot start
Yeah, to come in with energy electricity
Definitely and clearly a good show of form
All the time, you can't do it.
You're a fun.
Everybody here three or four frags to their name.
In previous games for Furia,
we were looking at a team that had no multi kills except for
Mollidoi, like two thirds of the way through the first half.
It just didn't cut it.
Today, everybody has stepped into the server.
We've only played four rounds, but I'm sure you at home can
feel the same thing.
I do.
It just feels like Furia have come to win this game.
and didn't add up because there was no point in the last season that Furia had a problem
where Maldives, the only player playing there was like lots of Maldives, potential.
I mean, this is a little bit of a game.
We have already seen two of the most lopsided Furia losses in this roster's history.
This week alone.
If that doesn't tell you something was just about coming off the player break, I don't
know what does.
So let's see how they contend with a man disadvantaged out the gate.
All of the way knows his counterparts up here towards top middle.
And is that smoke fades?
So does his chance of getting a rebuttal for case or auto's death.
But he sticks around inside connector and we get this period double up on the palace steps.
All while pair of visions set themselves up for the execute into the aceipe that's coming
but Furio wanted to rub this, Bellch now, because he also pushed two players coming at him
and he doesn't do any damage in response.
He shot.
He'll be back in.
committed and if you had shot with a proper swing, then they could have been in business, but
I'll just off-chain him. Right. So that. James gets his chance to creep out middle.
It's pretty crowded here, uh, over by connector, but at the same time it's connector, there's lots of
angles to play in with three players.
angle he once held,
obstacle to get scooped up here by falling.
He takes a look at it in this bench position
from shallow is good enough to get paravisions
of comfortable spot for once.
Bomb down 3v1 and even your is fall back
through the murder hole has been cut off.
So he'll grab the off to go for the save,
paravisions stack up inside of that A ramp.
And I like the way Jane didn't give Mollidoi
the dual Mollidoi wanted,
until they threw the right flers at it
and then Jane slipped right on ready
for the unlawful three week.
It'll be another fire and ice match up in that regard.
And Mola Doi is, no, his style is re-peeking.
And he said he's actually, you know,
he feels like he's actually been re-peeking too much.
And, you know, I think to a certain degree
he's got to keep that in his personality
because he knows how to do it.
He's got a lot of confidence.
But there's a moment where James specifically phrase on it.
He took a shot from top stairs,
James posted up there after it.
He played his rifle dive first, which is fine,
because he has the best post-plan position
and the most important gun.
and then they're out's done.
It does feel like Nota hasn't missed the brain.
The Loki and new screen man, he's been on a real, on his good games.
Kind of fame-esque. If I had to draw comparison back to James Old,
outside his roster, the Rio Major Chaps.
She feels like James has an eye for that skill.
you know what I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with flit oh yeah sure I mean it's
not necessarily like the the aim style maybe that's more like fame or something
like that but it it feels like zealot has been set up to be some kind of
star a bit more aggressive bit more free okay I would as close more to the
pack few more nays everything like that but he's still like a very high on utility
very good it's still focused on his crosshair lots of versatility
and
you're a MP9 and amy at this period stack in front of the commitment out of the
television this is a wobbly economy in the hands of fury of but again
sometimes it is just changed all the same thing over and over and so
putting players in position with the souls you know what's coming and you
stop it dead on arrival they want the killer right now I mean 30 seconds
actually can't even win they've got to go a and if they run back to the
to go side of the map, they'd have to start now.
Yesterday with the pair of vision versus spirit game,
there's a lot of talk of battle, the in-game leaders
and in terms of magic's taking up a new role
and having a lack of experience
of shame trying to exploit that.
And at times I felt like we did get to see it.
Tonight, whole of their conversation,
you know, again, a battle of the minds,
but two of the greatest ever do it.
In terms of leaving a mark, you know,
he feels James, you could say maybe he doesn't have the most accolades as a career
or whatever not.
But everybody remembers James teams because of what he does with that.
This comes down if you're a ball, no, or not, essentially.
You don't have to find that as great.
I don't know what is.
The impact he's had on now.
And then, finally, enough, like James was, you know, he won Rio,
on the FKR back in 2018.
But he's really known for shaping the style of the game in 2020,
and after that, slowing everything down.
A lot of that could be attributed to him.
That's when the- that's when people started min-maxing money started prioritizing saving
started using off as much as they could.
That's where Shiro comes out of.
It feels like what Astralis did for utility, Jane did for the economy.
Whether that's your company or not, I think you got it respected.
I mean, no disrespect to the guy, but they've basically used Sanji as just a money
meal.
Yeah.
I had one of those in Diablo, right?
What's what teams about a player that's just used as a economy carrying items for me?
Five banks off connector to interrupt this mid-walkup, pair of vision of gotten away with
that a few times.
You can't try to get that connector peek, and now they're just going to mow down falling
on the edge of that smoke.
But get on ball and get the first one to begin with.
Case of roto into the corner.
Regains vision from the flash.
As the footwork.
Here from Belgium, Aquas, clean.
Slips down into it, wins its duel.
It's traded, yes.
But Mollidois there to make the difference back sight.
Sway empty handed.
And we've got a Jane clutch.
40 seconds.
No ball possession.
Frutox.
CLEAN.
Goal.
Second.
Just as nice.
And you know where Mollidois at.
Tagged up, even health.
Swap out to the AK.
Jane.
1v3.
Look there for the tanking!
Lola do it finds the headshot in theory of Ghost 6-1!
Try to feed him into the jump-out.
They didn't get into the window.
Mola do it went wide on him and gave himself a chance.
But that's Mola do it playing it aggressive.
James trying to play it crafty as he normally would.
Mola do it winning out this time.
It's gonna look much better around if the game was closer.
That's sure. Yeah.
I brought up that comparison that's I believe I can again I believe it's monicy calling and
Gandalf with four hobbits, but that kind of a moment sometimes he also just looks like saron's eye. You know, his vision for the battle field. He knows where the next peak comes in from
He could expect your setups
and
one of those moments he is the highest rate of player for
parvison at the land portion of bounty and he probably whispers in a
demonic town quite yeah he speaks a language that only like four other
people do to
Tim Dawson
Dawson G you are you know
That's okay, okay, I forgot what the first thing was, you know.
It was honestly implied to be able to pair a big part of the stakes, just never address
them.
Funny thing is that it's, I would have assumed that they wouldn't have been on the lower end
because they have been playing on an average bit faster than when, you know, they were
pro jerseys or back in CSGO.
You definitely get some of both minute executes
from pair vision, right?
And to be honest, at like Budapest, there was lots of them.
I would even have to describe their playstyle
as pretty aggressive, like they were calling double rushes.
So, well, right now they're down to a flash
and a frag grenade mohan, air vision,
gunning for only a second round of the T-side,
despite some close looks.
Falling, you're gonna make the most of that flashbang
goes in, confirms the presence,
gets a kill for his efforts.
And now obviously you two here for Furio is a rotate ahead of it.
This is just going to cool off-parivision as we hit the minute mark.
And they kind of know this is a B play.
They have free, they have an overfill player here and a flash push going one for one.
And then being able to know that if they rush B you're still good you have to.
Just shows that.
They're very confident that they were going to find something.
Oh, that's a step.
I'm not crazy, right?
When he's swung I think so, but
You rehandles the heat. We go 4v3, cat challenge.
A second to late to find your kinder. He reacts to the head and confirms they're now walking up. That's three bodies.
Oh, but not it ready for belchinox, row through the front of that bomb site.
We can't even doubt for a second.
Case to rod, it was got to give up his angle. That creates a question mark as to whether a pair of vision of gotten off of the bomb sites and lost it as these kinds of spots.
Case to go with a flash here. They know, note as e-box and this the most important part of this retake.
to the corner, Belchinock ready to respond.
There's that flash.
They'll just come through.
Get it easy.
Belchinock, no trade on that one.
Confirms the catwalk.
Play is a part of this retake.
And that off still waiting backside for a peek.
This Belchinock, give it all.
He dies.
He gives it and then some.
Molodoys head ripped clean off caseer autos.
Time limited and 14 health on sway makes the difference for this one.
Hard squeeze off a man disadvantaged.
But it's two rounds pair of vision secured.
That was accidentally done a couple of good kills from him lately.
It's named Baby Squirrel, and he won the...
Oh, was it? It was a baby chicken.
That's why she ate it.
Yeah, and I'm done with that together.
Mike Binanza.
Is that a one-one squirrel token?
Yeah.
You can be food if you're hungry.
Yeah, we've seen them pull off around with pistols for the majority, but there's still a couple of big threats on this one for Furia
Saved off and then adding an M4 to this
You'd said like this game would have felt better if the score was closer
We're on the brink of that right now
Furia have survived a couple of these rounds where they had less economy
They've got a but two point five second diffus rounds on the board
Man, this round ends a. There's no one from Furia.
Oh, sorry. Just fallen from Furia over MP with the 5-7.
Just smoked a block. And then kick off.
A pick off from Connector side of the bomb and palace.
Do you sure you want to try this?
Cello's just gonna walk out.
Miss opportunity mark the 5-7 on the ladder.
It's gonna scramble Cello.
And now Beltshoonok trying to get Furia out of here.
But even a frag grenade will place. It's not gonna do enough.
There's nobody to really flush out the frag with that movement
with that movement from your eye goodness. Look at this space. He's so close to that wood wall.
That low HP off in Molledoy, sitting on the bottom of the stairs, pistol tucked into
connector as well. You've given James space. What does he do with this?
He wants the team to tear the off of him, but good on fall and knowing to take something in
the meantime goes you like her into apartments. You know, he can offer up a way to hit
the, but he needs his teammates and be up to get the first frack. He can turn this corner
earlier.
Fallen ready.
Five cents.
Span's could.
Zway can't get it.
And so 75 health for Belchanoch and Jame of Catwalk.
Four versus two advantage furious.
Still limitations here for you can dart if he dies to Jame.
Then all of a sudden, Jame's got a little more to work with.
Bomb would be planted for him.
But Jame seems to want to just hang on to the arches instead.
You're going to cut off that one player from Catwalk for the time being.
Let's Jane focus towards back market in the meantime, or you'd think, but he also considers
the fight bellch now gets both towards market and a missed auction at a moment going
once the cat players hope that it is perfection at the end of this with a damn near bellch
knock eight.
Yeah, maybe it even comes to him actually.
There's a kid who with the five seven is the running away from this.
They're worried about the round win.
That is expertly done.
Mac confirms it, don't you know I can't have a fantastic half.
Feels like this is when we have to start tapping back into what was the tail last night,
winning rounds despite 45.
And then building momentum after that.
That is where Perif is your finding selves.
And this momentum would have been built sooner.
If not for two, half second teeth uses.
Every time they get given a gift, like they don't take it for granted.
They have build momentum off of it. That's how they won versus spirit yesterday and
How there may be building some
Frustration for fury and now
Just like that they're back into this half fourth round would seem easy to call on
Armored majority of
Jury up, but still a deagle headshot out of the gate to keep it interesting. Mollidoi one and done 11 and six half so far
are keeping up his end of the bargain and so are his teammates again across the board.
Jerry looking better than their previous games in Malta.
Oh, it's gone unnoticed.
You already know.
Nobody knows.
Nobody knows.
All right, so this is going to be a situation where you're just turned into a pink flank.
And a timing might be so awkward, it doesn't even matter.
Everybody might be gone by the time this is looked here.
They've got to leave off of this information, right?
I'm starting to hear those shots inside of A, they may realize now, oh no, I don't just
come back to watch the flank.
You're just going to turn it into a power supply.
And that timing could still be ahead of it, right?
Belchinox thinking I need to watch because they could be teaspoon now.
Outs of power is still, I think, four, five seconds ahead of expectations for pair
vision.
Problem here for Yurie, P250, and nobody really close enough to get blindsided by a side
arm.
Oh, there it is.
But that was his chance.
Done and dust it.
Just the opportunity to kill the opera, which could have saved the player ticket, which could've
been found in the pressure back on the long-sighted, stead-paravision, dodge a bullet that
you already walk under Belchinoch goes unnoticed, and pervision capitalized for a fourth-round
secured.
At least it's one of those situations you don't have to know about until the game's over.
ship's in the night now when technically starts 45s Moldo hits the first shot but they instantly
trade it and I don't get scared.
Stocking to the stun yesterday and he said like it's been since like Dallas and
2024 or even longer that they beat spirit. And that's a game known
remembers because it didn't result in anything. Um, but he said he was so
emotional after they once was such a big victory. And he said for
pair of vision now, this is their best win. We're taking it down
spirit. Oh yeah. And James referencing, well, we've got to play
another legendary team tomorrow. They understand that they're
the underdogs always. Um, they Simon simultaneously understand
that and they also hold the view that they can beat anybody. And
and that's what allows for these upsets.
Yeah, I felt like they had to fight for the opportunity
to get the second opportunity.
And that is what they earned of the major.
They didn't get those S tier teams in Budapest.
James said that last night is the first S tier team
we've ever beat.
Well, you are now beating up another
with a triple headshot entry into the V-bombsite.
This around here you go.
This has done in 20 seconds.
This is what guns.
A minute 25 bombs about to get planted.
They don't just play slow.
And that's the cool thing about Jamer.
To say this is the same Jamer that we knew in the past with CSGO is just not accurate.
No.
Not the same formula.
You know, it's the same in the sense that it boggles your mind sometimes, the rounds
he pulls off and how the calls can be good or just his, like, his undying element that
he can always find a way back to the top of Counter Strike.
That is the Jamer you know and love.
round by round and just the pace of some of these,
totally different formula with the 2026 pair of vision.
Yeah, if you don't think he's got,
like he has a personality who's calling,
but it's always tailored to the players.
I mean, right, remember when you kind of was on this team,
like he was on a fishing line,
he would be so far out from where James was.
That's sometimes some of the rounds look terrible
because of that, but then conversely,
he gave you kind of toned the space.
If you think he has these guys on a whip like maybe they listen to him, but he also
So you make sure the team is in a malagamation of the player's personalities and it's always slightly different
He doesn't try to build everything into the system. I think in an in a structured way that you might look at some other IGLs
How they're known like
I mean, say like a snappy system
Think that's something that persists and you replace players into those spots
And yeah, that's it. It's a bathroom. Just that's it
That's how quickly it is over.
You know, actually, now that you bring up that you kind of are on a fishing line thing,
I do think there's this funny parallel between,
you kind of are sometimes giving so many 4v5s over.
Yep, we know that team also was able to win.
Low and behold, here we are again.
Guess some things don't change.
It's what's going underneath this scope.
We won't see it.
Ah, it's a little bit of vision.
It's waiting to take the same path and so all of a sudden, Yuri was that much more on notice.
Farm is headshot for his way to have to handle as well.
Oh, but James got the cover from chair, so we go 3v2 off that one case, Toronto trying to get this
FOMENCID to the play, his teammate nowhere to be found, two bottles pop in front of him, and he tried to stick on that angle for an extra second.
That's half his health gone. This is a total recovery.
Scary as well, because again, the first two players that the perfect path is ways slightly higher angle, gave wind of what was up.
could have also have been as hit in, but it doesn't seem like it's cost them falling.
All those catching james as he pushes dangerously through that jungle smoke case, the
rodo could have dambles still been on the other side. Instead now james going to have your
back as you try to come through with a deep use scramble. This goes planned from the ramp
with the tap on the bomb, everybody starts the mag dump, except for jame. He plays it cool.
What's the cost from connector with the cover to stay fantastic?
The spray is off the mark!
Down to three seconds!
This time, the res note time!
Fallen can't manage to steal it a second one!
Six round half for Paravision, another instance
where they claw back into a slow start of a half.
Moldoie, welcome to the blast banana.
Hello, hello.
Hello, how are you?
Spicy questions here goes from order of green to black green being a least spicy
You get to pick the first question. I want to begin with spice. Oh my gosh, right away
Are you ready for this man?
Which team do you think is the most overrated right now? You bet no one wants to say it? I think now
Great answer everyone else got scared
Yeah, I would have time when you put it against time. You have to look because I like to play against
It's just because of David.
Right.
Okay.
Let's go.
What matchup are you actually hoping to dodge in playoffs?
I don't want to play, but it isn't.
Really?
Because I play against Kazachkoch.
Yeah.
And I don't want to play.
Oh, really?
Yeah, and I don't want to play.
Okay.
What's the secret?
Green, okay.
What do you think has been the most underrated team so far?
I think food they were actually good or yeah, they're almost loose again
Yeah, also you guys didn't play that well though. Maybe as if they played a vote. Yeah, let's say I want to
Okay, let's get hot again. Molladoy. Are you the best opera that starts with the letter in? I'm saying no
26 and 26 maybe
Yeah, but for all time I think sample. No has to start with the letter in
I can't say me.
I can't say me.
Okay, but we have only one set me.
Yeah.
And I'd ask how many are you playing?
But of course I'll say me.
Okay. What weakness in your own game?
Are you trying to fix right now?
Sometimes a game I have a problem with mental problems.
I don't have a good game.
After the first bad game, you think what do they do now?
I'll try to fix now.
Hey, good.
Good.
Now that all the teams are here,
what's the team that looks the scariest?
That's not very good.
Did it die, didn't you?
Still, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, let's go, boy.
Oh, that's good.
All right.
What's a bad habit in your game?
Uh-huh.
Other teams are going to try to abuse.
They're a big, creepy, isn't it?
Yeah.
Who taught you that?
Repeeking's okay.
Again, you made it cool again to repeat.
Yeah, but uh...
I need balance, it's true.
And sometimes I'm repeating so much and sometimes in practice we have problem with this.
Oh yeah, yeah, because sometimes I'm repeating when I do need.
When you play one year, it's hard to understand where I need to pick, where I don't need to pick.
After some mistakes, you know, and you try to fix this.
All the do I want final question? Who is the best dress that the HLTV award show?
Come on, man. It was you.
Yeah.
It was you. Thank you for the interview.
Another late half answer coming out from the pair of vision camp.
That was once upon a time a six one fury a lead.
We end six rounds on the half per team.
And it's mostly fueled by multi frags out of Belchinock and James.
So nice to see Belchinock bring it to the table tonight.
In what is a collection of strong rifles.
he sets himself apart this evening.
Big time.
Now we see, we see a pop-off moment from basically everyone on the roster.
We know sometimes, Bellfnox spinning the most plates.
Fury off of the utility execute into the beat site.
Feels like number is strong here for Perivision.
Easy, tap, for it's way, and the rest of Fury are a little late to the party there.
They run a tiff-to-out and then just get absolutely shredded.
Nothing for MoloDoy to do in this one 1v5, a lead in this game?
Huh?
Well, earned!
A 6 round streak!
Five off of the last half, pistol, a bet to be secured,
guaranteed, as MoloDoy hits the ground, and I mean...
That just felt so well prepared.
Super well prepared.
Like, exactly what was coming.
Oh, definitely.
This will be deflating.
And a little scary, if you're furious.
I think one of the things the desk had to say about Furia as a criticism so far coming into this event was that maybe they just didn't look as prepared for their opponents as you would have wanted
I think particularly you know
Going up versus I
Excuse me. It's foot not fuck. That's I thought it was foot. There was a game where
Pain under the
Ah, damn it. I was just in quote-mouse
But I don't want to miss Quillos. Nakes all bite my tongue. I'll just I'll be the fool. Come on everyone does. No, no, no, it's fine
I'm not going to be a part of the problem, longners.
Basically he said like, damn, man, if you're a not prepared yet.
Something like that.
That sounds word for word. That's Maui's name.
I mean, yeah, I'd even sound like his accent.
So...
Maui's word's not mine.
And getting out prepared by Paravision in that last pistol was my point.
We got there.
I can't believe Fury had found such a free bombsite in contrast at the last round where
the you couldn't even take step out of the palace.
Now all of a sudden, Jain ready to just fly over top of the MP9 meets the Mollidoi's
Desert Eagle.
You've got a smoke still for the retake, you've got to kid on sway.
This round is as lost yet, but you have let Fury get dangerously deep onto jungle,
fallen, it's going to pull off the kill to pelchonauts, and now that retake starts
to get going.
playing down to the very end, your Q-darts test 9, third later on with a triangle angle.
They straight up to Night Paravision.
Oh, fight back in the next round.
That's going to send Paravision's heads spinning.
Yeah, and a fall, and that's just a little ready to receive around like this.
Just to give energy back to his team, because again, the way they started this game,
we saw it as way more infantic from fall in from the jump.
We haven't seen that at all, whether it was the online games of the start of this land.
And obviously way more fun for an IGL when you get to call right into right. Well, when you get to call right into right after
Hey, one rep you never know when last year is gonna retire counter don't stop bringing that up don't stop bringing us out saying it
The more you feel realer feels and I just not ready for that. Yeah, I'm just repeating him. He's you know
He's put the thought of mine mine
Fallen can retire when I say it's all right
I really don't think you have the money it you make that decision for him
That's true
But maybe I've got really compelling words it was in like the top 100 Brazilian to valtine like some less that included
Every athlete
He was like 27 or something crazy.
Yeah, if anything, I think he could retire whenever the hell he wants, he could also probably
get me to retire.
I don't know if I'm gonna say Silver was ahead of him.
Hmm.
The spider.
I'm gonna put it in the lost-for-word, seeing pair of vision get completely avoided these last
two rounds.
They gave up that A-bombsite for free when they had the advantage.
They don't get the stack that they're looking for here in the follow-up.
So it's a very short-lived holding of the torch
for a moment, Paravision were in the lead.
And now, sometimes on the CIT side,
we haven't seen that much with Paravision
in the last couple months, I'll say.
But they will, and we've seen it
in throughout their history, stack constantly.
Now, it's just like a CIS way of playing as well.
We'll not be dead at a lot.
And it worked so well for them
because it's all centered around the day and day mob.
If you lose around because they avoid your stack,
you keep your guns and the off.
You keep the op as much as possible, it feeds into this sort of economy focused playstyle.
Sometimes you look like a genius when you make five reads in a row, or an early rotation
in stack of sight, and I think it's just their way of looking at the game in terms of
probabilities.
I think some teams look at how we win every single round, pair of vision abandoned that
or a concept.
I think they look at that as sort of an illusion of, you know, an option, wow, okay.
A note of opening kick with the op and window, why not kick off this rifle?
You got the spawn, you got the spawn
You'll pass that right back over to Jame and pair of vision sit on a 5v4
If you don't want the smoke that's towards that B bomb site though, they're gonna just head back into the T spawn collect themselves and presumably hit an ace site
That they've already found understaffed so far this half
We are early days, but it is the right way to head if you're looking for the path of least resistance.
It's actually an interesting round of play already.
At least CT opened like this. You're not going to earn. You could run at the time easily.
We get a right side exact here from Vyria.
CT wide open and no one peeking it.
This definitely gets for us a situation he was at five before.
I don't need to know notes of falling to the smoke span of fallen. It's then just gonna go back to the bomb plant
You've got damage significantly on half of Furious post-plat players
Fred goes deep and Molotoy I think you could get caught off by the drop in any of the garbage players sway is up close and personal
Shello looking to pounce off that distraction perfectly time fallen remember low HD from that duel earlier
You already said I'm gonna get popped in it's all about falling finding timing goes wide gets another kill
No kit on that retake so they really had to get it going as you said kind of gapped towards CT could have cost them in the timing department
But no all's good and we go tie game again
To be fair to a pair of vision even though they weren't in CT to start think out there quickly and it was while the exact was coming in
But that's the only way they could have lost this round. Okay, playing retake on a going forward like not a staff
But a lean in a spot where they already got some material advantage
and if you're gonna give him a couple of times if they had just full watch the flank if they had really thought that someone had
could have crept up in a CT and gave that some thought.
Certainly made that worse so.
It's a-a.
Bruce assembled top mid.
James not taking a look at connector.
and
sometimes it's hard to get a free dog heritage because they'll just so quickly stack things differently, right?
They'll come out with so many different CT setups.
Oh, hello to a lot of playcups of off-angles, yeah.
That'll happen. It's in our finds ahead, shot from bottom middle.
No, it's not allowed to be a part of this one.
As falling off quite heavily since the first half had a solid round to begin with.
Again they'll pull the goalie, they'll go for the lean and that's scary part for you
I know they're willing to.
I'm sorry, getting lodged into A.
Foms in middle, so they, you know,
in theory could be flexible,
but they have a ramp lurker and a palace lurker.
Ooh, flash got him off it.
Mollidoy, now sitting on the angle instead.
James not really taking a look at him,
it's gonna be long to go.
Yeah, no.
Yeah, they noticed exactly.
James will weaponize one of his teammates instead.
Oh, he goes for the defense connector clear.
There we go.
Triple kill.
Cello coming out with impact after having a more
solemn start to this game.
We get bomb possession at his feet as well.
So just James seeing wind of what was going on through connector
was enough to activate your ladder player,
risk the other side of that set up,
and it pays off in spades.
And they also, again, they're mentally
they're thinking, we're hoping with every bone in our body.
This is gonna end on a site because otherwise,
We're not retaking it. It's a full be exact everyone's walking be apps. There's not much elegant do for a matter room
but
You get to pull them out play perfectly here
It's like one of the fast moments when you're playing in cat. There's an all coming together in that area
If that's ghost, if you don't know, it's looking at you. They're definitely totally unprepared
Yeah, then you can milk it. I'd say made even better by that teammates mall at all at the top of connector because what are the rifles doing when you know they want a
I'm sitting in the corner waiting for the fire to burn itself out as far as
cello sees it. It is just sitting ducks.
This is his chance to now pull a head. Join Belchenok at the top of the scoreboard
scoreboard for pair vision and again,
pair vision with a lead last time they held it for one round.
We'll see if they can hold on to it any longer you'd think with the buy here that
Furia bring to the table.
They haven't better chance.
No way.
I actually, whoa.
I got both those right.
Fallen is elected 27th greatest Brazilian of all time.
Did I say 27th and 9th?
I thought you just said a top 100.
Yeah, yeah.
But uh, it's like, is he better than Anderson Silva? He was.
That part's crazy.
I think I said I think he got 27.
I mean, I need to be damn 20 seconds.
You can't confirm what I said.
You said no 27.
That'd be crazy.
Be translate, I say.
Go back to the history.
I can't believe it.
I'm not the Anderson Silva part.
Yeah.
Well, we'll see what kind of drawn kick.
Fury, I have to offer us for the B-head.
because it's a sudden burst into the defense and chain finds one.
Oh, Yuri, at least able to recover something, but he's the only one.
In the middle of this land, to get anything whatsoever,
pair of vision off to the double digits instantly on that attack.
Poor Furia slam their head against the brick wall that is pair of
visions B defense.
Yeah, real scary moment.
They got tested so hard.
And it's just in between timing right around a minute here
for Furious, full B, James off-cat with the op, they're like, what the heck?
We're expecting to be, maybe back in spawn, maybe popping passively from the window.
And, because I have this in their hand right now, I'm per vision.
They know that Furious money's low, from the SIR building, a massive bank.
From the other players on the bondside, it felt like a little bit more pressure on that
and from James perspective, nobody's looking back at him, everybody's jumping around.
He just had a shooting gallery set up in front of him.
That's not, James 13 and 7.
Hey, take here for you, Kinder.
The only one with a gun, and it is the first fight taken by Furia in this round,
while everybody else just groups up inside of the ramp.
You know, this is a losing fight.
Mollidoi is going to just take one out with a deagle.
You know, it's the kind of play they need back in CT.
It's going to have to be an absolute heater.
Something like, but it always is with this kid.
All the way have to go superhuman to get Fury through their last game.
Not quite seeing that level up against the system of Paravision.
He's been muzzled.
James been flashed off the stairs and just dies to glock and a finishing shot from the
that AK remains on the field.
Singular AK-47 comes out for Furio.
It's looking to be toppled that sits on to HP,
clean up duty underway for the rest of Paravisions,
and a late way out from the ramp,
the Kindars got a third, finally goes down,
swaying into the cleanup.
He's got a bomb in front of him.
That's going to fras the fall of the toy,
whose desert equals down to 57 new recipes enough.
He'll jump right back on top and finish this round.
Fury off causing panic in pair of visions camp if only for a moment.
Good to ask for a better round out of your kinder.
Three frags in that moment, and I was thinking about Moldoy up front with the vehicle.
He was there with the AK.
Righty to trade everything.
They did a good job of finding out in front of him giving you an options for fights.
But even this one right here, it's just all him.
So it's a close call, and you know, this was around where
that's a very minimum pair of his red alarm off in the economy,
because they crushed that last rush into B.
So it slows things down a little bit, but...
the lead is still growing.
Curious, I could write those right back to a fight.
I don't know if you're gonna forward that right now.
Shello has found his groove when it comes to playing Catwalk,
so far this CT side, switching to the sides,
is both so well for his score, his confidence,
and his impact in this game, a shoulder spotted on Mollidoi
Trucks in down to 40 knee with his name on it as yellows here in
in instant, so ready to just dog pile, whatever fury you have to offer
pair of vision that that bomb has been cut off of the pack at a
52 looks like a very comfortable way to secure that much coveted
much needed 12th round, never thought a 16 damage off wall bang
would actually matter and there's the nay that lands in the
perfect spot to capitalize to make this impossible.
Makes maybe it was monocyanico in last and we'll ask him to go in a row like this, but
that would be rare for me or for case roto in your area.
You need some pretty unforgettable mistakes here from Paravision.
I'm just going to min max the chances that Fury get away with anything whatsoever.
So hell with winning the round if you even just want to scoop up that off, it's been denied.
This is 12 rounds, Paravision, strong economy, tons of cash in case they do happen to lose
one.
They're not just going to fall back on pistols and let Fury back into this game.
And remember, this was a 6-1 start for Furia.
This is another map where we can add it to the pile
of strong starts for their opponents
and recoveries out of Paravision.
In that first half, they had less opening kills.
Another stat line that has been played against them
and yet they find success within those.
This is a team that is undying.
With four opportunities to close their map pick this evening.
No luck involved.
The little stay alive.
No off to go against Jane.
Just a rapidly moving, always active pervigen ready to make something happen.
You think you're allowed to slot in top middle, you've got fire at your feet.
You think you can approach underpass?
already to take that challenge to you and sure not.
Just let Jane sniff your e-off the play.
More pressure off of Catwalk.
She'll have his own disproportion of the map.
And perivision have owned this CT side.
The force by in the second major thing,
theory I had a fight in the second set of rounds.
And while you can, our may have found
footing here inside of the east side,
you've got bomb towards top middle.
They're all hiding from this.
Oh, barely missing these moments.
It can't be once a little more than just one kill.
So he's going to walk this forward, but the smoke's soon going to fade.
Maybe K-S-R-R-R has to take the fight instead.
No, you can't do it.
Close the trigger.
Press your back on towards jungle, but you're going to have to get that bomb.
And you can't do it.
It's going to have to do all of this on his own.
Paravision, we're hunting down S, here.
Bomb attention.
Well, now you've got it.
Sitting in front of you with four rounds to put them away.
But you can do our last man up his halfway through this clutch.
She wishes he had a few more seconds.
Then he can make some crazy rotation.
But getting this bomb back, what's he going to be able to do with it?
spending an extra few missing it here.
Taking his moment to run this up towards the middle
and they have given him this gap right now,
Jane goes to over towards the rampance
that two separated 1v1s, a potential peak
from inside of this bomb site.
How does Bellchinock want to swing?
He's gonna go ahead, talk this in and win.
Parasition with another slow storm,
but excellence in the recovery.
Jane cannot be stopped.
Bell chin-ock with a bit of patience to close what a map of Morage reminder.
That one started with a six-one run coming through from theory and that was the beginning
of the map.
Here's the fall and sleep thinking, okay, this one's going to be a sure thing.
Paravision thought otherwise.
Game on, game on.
There was a very strong performance coming in for Paravision as you said, Mike, six-to-one
for Ferrey, you think there's a, all right, that's too big of a leap, that's too big
of a deficit to fight back from when you're the heavy underdog.
the first half by winning five in a row and we think oh maybe we have a game on
I have then there win the second pistol but lose the follow-up round don't
convert on that and I think ah that was probably the opportunity
Paravishness going to lose now but no, no, no, no, no winning 13 to 8 despite losing
first pistol being down 6 to 1 not converting on your second round pistol as well
Paravish and predominating for an every single by-round scenario throughout this
entire game. Exactly that's where the way I would picture this I mean it's just the gun
rounds. The gun rounds for a pair of vision as soon as they got them on the CT side, just a
darn strong defense, especially towards middle. Chillowe is a name that I feel like everybody
now needs to remember after what he did to Furia. Just kind of liberties that he took in
terms of fighting off the short side, finding those little incisions in order to just burst
apart. What Furia are trying to accomplish across the map. This guy was really just in the zone
for understanding and reading the playbook of the Brazilian majority side.
So aggressive in the way he was playing as well, you know,
considered being set up with grenades by teammates.
I get that, but the dominating the mid portion of the map pushing out from catwalk
from the right timings as well, not a foot to be involved.
Early on, not a foot to be sitting back and then being in more later on.
I think that was a very well-rounded performance.
He's got to conjure, I believe, on his hands.
And I got a rough translation. I think it's catch these.
That's good, not bad, not bad, I thought I would just say tiger or something, but that's just what it was.
Probably.
Yeah, honestly.
No, honestly though, everything he did in that game was fantastic.
I feel like we could talk about him, but also I think there were some other great pieces from
Paravision that really kept this one moving.
I mean, Belgium, I'll call so.
Belgium, I'm absolutely.
I mean, this guy was also just put it on a masterclass.
I don't think he was involved in really ultimately openers, but my God, in the second
portion of around when Paravage needed somebody else to activate, to try to bring them back
into a round or to just kind of, from the, from the jaws of defeat, he was snatching a
constantly. I mean, this guy, especially around the B-bombs, I put together a really nice
string of rounds to give Paravage any semblance of a T-side half. I don't think he had as much
to say on the CT side, but that T-side, I mean, he was the difference maker, and if he wasn't
his clutch as he was, then they would have had no business even being in this game.
I think that's a perfect way to summarize what was a wonderful performance coming out from
Paravish and online was spoken about sway, and now we spoke about Jane yesterday, I know
to having a fantastic game today, it's built, you know, it's shellow, said it coming into
this game, there's no weak link within this lineup, any given player can step up and be the
difference maker for Paravish. I thought so that would be possible against, you know,
loyalty opposition against teams on their own level per se, but to do that now yesterday,
but also, you know, versus team spirit is one thing doing it against
for a who potentially can claim their rights to be the best team if not the second best team
in the world right now. That is a breakthrough on a half-for-perivision. They are punching
upwatch right now and if they don't get to stop right here, there's a world where they
qualify for the Grand Fund. Really nice with that narrative you said before the game comes true
in the first map, AJ. Kind of lucky, huh? Sometimes it works out. Might be real smart. Might
know something about what he's talking about. Talking about Fury, though. We saw slow starts
for them, right? They got absolutely smacked by heroic in a similarly situation and they're
They're clearly frustrated.
That's a live feed right now.
Molotoy has not taken a break.
He has not left.
His setup is getting warmed up.
He's trying to stay red hot.
Because that was a, by his standards, pedestrian affair.
It didn't get involved as much as he would have wanted.
I feel like that's been something that even actually caught Shiro yesterday, the way
that Pervisions able to burst in the bomb sites, use the utility so effectively that
they don't really give up offers that many opportunities.
Whereas in much of last season, much of last year, Molotoy was sort of
I connect for the the
the re-peaks. You're not getting
re-peaks against the
pair of energy and that's
dropping a smoke at your
choke point. Pretty much as
soon as you even want to
start the fight, there's
flashes the good spacing.
All of that were were
trademarks of what made
jame and pair of visions
run so special that even
if there are opportunities,
it's just that there's a
second rifle right behind
that first. So you're getting
traded if you're speaking
a foot too wide. I'm
curious to one of this though
because we saw it against
your work as well. You know
for for you. I'm not
getting started. I'm
Ross not really getting anything going as well.
Two maps in a row now, you lose a map to heroic playing with a standing.
You now get owned by a pair of vision as well.
I know this goal line was 13 to right right here, but in reality, without the pistol,
what other conversion for you, when nowhere to be found right here.
So I feel like we now seem twice the furthest,
struggling on my Ross.
So that's something to keep an eye out for whether or not they make the grand final,
but if anything, then heading into practice.
And you can't just write this one out as that slow start in the map itself.
Right coming in quote because you had this six one lead.
You had the hot start.
You had the round.
you have fallen pulling off a clutch,
you have fallen chirping at the opposition.
What does that happen?
He wasn't very fired up, you know,
reading his body language and paying attention
to what he was saying throughout that game.
Normally, I feel like fallen is a very composed,
very controlling him leader.
And I'm sure he is, but he was yelling a lot of this guy.
I was actually curious to hear what he was yelling,
so why not?
Let's give it a listen.
Hello.
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We'll see.
We'll see.
We can turn on a dime.
We know that.
He was yelling at them in other rounds, too.
I was watching the cams every time they were winning rounds that I would say for most of
that first half.
He was trying to yell at them every single time he got the opportunity.
That's just also shows even though he's saying something like that.
He doesn't take James lightly.
I mean, we heard the praise that he heaped upon James prior to the series starting.
He knows that he is also a phyllo major winner as an in game leader as even an MVP
in James.
He's not even though he gets so fired up.
I think that's why it's almost sometimes even more
impressive that James rallied the troops back.
So even though they were in the whole down sixth one
that they were able to make the adjustment in the first
half to start changing up the game plan.
Because honestly, I think,
Paravish and we're getting red in this game a lot.
There were a lot of A stacks at the very beginning.
And then they finally realized,
okay, we need to switch up this plan.
They started hitting B.
And that's when Fury lost complete control of this game.
Yeah, I heard that sentiment.
No, oh, all.
Some of I said pervasion would have fantastic
starts at his best of three,
but that's the thing, it's best of three.
It's just that one.
And we've seen him before.
We've seen him from fury.
I will see if they can do it again
as we head into a break in Furno on the other side.
I think for a different team, because we didn't play it even pro accidents, I'm
We don't I think we no spirit better than for it, but it's because we're always every time when I go to bed
I see don't post everyone watching don't post highlights and we know more that how the
that you speed it work inside the belt of Russian vlogs from from speed it
It's less information, but we also watched the games and how they think that you can
be helping to follow Molodo, he's super star, and today is also pressure on Furia.
Pressure on Furia.
I know it's Molodo, also from Kazakhstan, it'd be a rivalry, but I know him very well.
It's like friendly, friendly, yes, and food if ever it's and hope we can win today.
There is no real pressure that we should win and I hope we will continue this year at least.
Hope's right now being very well rewarded.
Watch out teams.
Dastan is in your vlogs and he is scraping whatever information he can to weaponize against you.
See, there's a big difference between walking into a game feeling there's no pressure and we're not supposed to win and whatever happens happens
Now they feel they're very dangerous because winning so instead of playing not to to win I guess you're starting to play not to lose and and I feel like I've seen that so many sounds
What a number of team who do a good map one we sold very heroic as well all of a sudden
It's a feeling it's a notion when the team that's hey, hey, why we're not supposed to win now
We have two maps we can win it either now on the next map
And that's what Perivision will now have to show up one more time.
Did it be a spirit yesterday?
That was very impressive.
Now, having to do that against Furrier,
I feel that's another little up-consuming
where Furrier is at right now compared to
Spirit with new and game-d-sets.
I feel like even going past the mentality,
just getting to the hard facts.
I mean, this is a punishment.
This is a where Furrier hopefully evens up the series.
They were incredibly strong on in Furerno in the last year.
And for Perivision, on the other hand,
they didn't even find a single in Furerno
when during their major run.
On top of that, Zwade didn't play in Furno with spirit.
So he's not really informed when it comes to this particular map.
So I think there's a lot of wind conditions here for Furia.
And so I feel like Paravit, Paravision, yes,
I mean, the mentality will probably affect them moving forward.
But even if you take that away from the equation,
I'd say they're pretty hard outdone here on the second map of Furno.
I think it's all completely fair.
We also have seen the Furia bounce back before, right?
We've seen that result.
since talking about an interview,
my little boy is talking about an interview,
now having this conversation of,
okay, now it's time to focus up.
Allimentations on the line,
do we die no more mistake can be made?
And whenever that call's gone out,
they have rallied.
Yeah, I think that's the notion
wouldn't, if it came that often,
they need to be on the pressure
before they play the best brain of count strike,
given it's inferno, given everything we know,
I'm also not worried.
I think we're hitting to a third map
and whatever happens there, I'm more, I'm towards it.
Well, Jacob's not worried.
Are you fellas worried?
The screen in London is taken away.
Yes.
I mean, give me a worry depending on who you thought would win.
Maybe.
But we watch the Caribbean games.
So that was just kind of more of the same.
Like you brought it up.
This time it was at least a fast start for Furia, but even more press of that pair vision with
another step up a competition.
A team that hasn't made any roster moves.
Call that one back from a really bad start.
I think you know, Mike brings it up that we have seen Furia kind of dance with the devil
until they face an elimination type vibe.
And then yeah, okay, they'll pull it out
and they'll kick it up a notch.
But if you play on the train tracks,
too many days in a row, suddenly get hit by the train.
And this hype train that is pair of vision at the moment
shows no signs of slowing down.
In fact, it is just getting faster and faster
as we near the grand finals of the first event of the year.
They put so much work into Budapest.
They will approve that they deserve to belong there.
They earned a shot versus S tier teams here in Bounty
by getting it through the online portion and now they have defeated spirit.
You can put all the asterisks on that with the roster moves you want.
They have now also opened up versus spirit in this semi finals.
It's crazy also because the way hasn't even really been good on the land portion.
Online, he was great.
But in terms of like what they're missing from a W, I don't think that's fully covered
yet.
We haven't seen the full potential of this team.
We'll have to kick this off with a T-side themselves.
Double Molotov, double smoke, three in fact.
So we can get a fake commitment or just looking to lock down a post plant.
Time will tell.
We go no-kip on the furious squad that fragged ornate was perfection.
Lovely.
That's the way.
And she'll up down to Subpar HP.
Still going to be hard to hold versus five.
a certain number is a strong but a smoke-ernatal help that'll slow things down momentarily.
So, there's a hook to go through it though.
They have so many grenades for this execute.
You cannot play in the fountain.
It has blinded players in front of it.
Five, the three established plus further damage from that early made.
Fallen trying to hang onto the new boxes.
His teammates come running over from CT spawn.
They'll try spamming shots.
He tries buying time.
And it doesn't get them enough.
And they've got to plant that.
Mike, go down in that vision, no cover.
It's actually just enough.
Good of an awkward duel.
Look at the HP here that's left of Paravision.
Certainly not comfortable.
They'll double up in behind new box.
Yellow's gonna make it.
That's happening.
They're all looking.
He strikes.
Down goes one.
A clutch queueed up for Jane.
Mollidoi waiting for the peak.
And Jane hears him stepping inside of the water.
Remember?
Oh, hey, what?
A burst of energy out of Jane.
a sudden swipe at a dried buy for the pistol on the T side. Was that 250 movement speed?
How did he move that battle?
I've watched James Lake countershot from nearly a decade.
This guy has never moved that fast.
That was unbelievable.
You know, the worst thing he could do right there is Jiggle.
I'll do it on the HP he had.
I need to see that from James Field.
He's just never ever stopped because he had that clock.
Wow.
That's a thing. You think you're playing up against one beast, but you really can't hold back, Jane.
Although they did win the force by after losing pistol in the second half of Mirage.
Let's see if Buria can up and pair a vision start a second time.
Kacerado floating inside of middle will be caught on the full back.
It's 5-3 prepare a vision made easy.
Does investment out mid is going to get run down by flying SMGs.
That's that drop kill. Shella wanted over on Mirage.
Oh, yeah, and this one's a clean sweep. Tell me perivision don't feel this opportunity is theirs for the taking
Close with this game. Yeah, I mean they know that and I'm sure in the conversation is that period of life
They've made it some point the play and a fantastic cast
They will make this very difficult. We see how long it is to open up
It's like almost as if they just don't have a warm up each day
And it's just and it's you know first game of the year first whatever first line of the year first week of the year
There are a number of excuses you could use. We see these upsets. We always get the cast like the first games of the season.
Sure, and that's where we've just seen the most ridiculous stuff.
But as you mentioned, play on the train track too many times. Like, you will get it.
Again, when you are one of the best teams that we have, you will also recover some of those situations.
You'll get away with it. And they have.
They have.
They'll Chinak just go in wild with that galil mag.
Spitting like a top.
That was pretty incredible.
They stave off the Furia aggression.
But it's tonight the night that you played the dangerous game one too many times.
That's gonna be nice.
Take it, my friend.
All five.
Okay.
I mean.
That's the goys of the year.
Come on.
That's pretty tracer.
It's gotta be that one.
Ah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess so.
Yeah.
the third ace of the day?
Yeah, and he almost got another one earlier.
This is good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, what, which of those bullets did not end shot?
19.
Oh, number 19 of course.
Lucky number 19, you win!
That was the spadanza thing.
It's been amazing with like, it's...
He was born for this.
It's born for this.
It had just higher dark life.
They made him his own segment.
The Shadow Ryan one time for bringing the prizes on stage.
Yeah.
First gun round.
Out of Furio, let's see what it looks like.
Get a bit of a test into banana with the utility down.
Deep onto Nota.
That's going to drop him to 14 health.
Not ideal.
Smoking front of him.
They'll fall back out of this and you can't aren't.
Yep.
See, that is an invite to spam.
to the sound of Nota and the bullets gobbled up by his way.
Oh, well, get noted to hit him with a fade away and that's something we got a,
we'll definitely see more of with the Kinder.
It's going to go for this spambary consistently.
He's got the timing slot down.
I mean, it's good start, but the scheme won't be fear free if you're like one of the
the best playing banana.
It's going to come down to utility.
You will see pair of vision slip up because of their player quality
because of the wraps that they're going up against the team like Fury on.
And, you know, if you're not warmed up, maybe you think it's for
and I was like, not one of the easiest maps and per se, but like it has so
much to do with utility, I think it is, you know, I think a lot of kills
you get on the burner actually quite easy.
If you're not having to hop and even then like your job is pretty simple.
All this fallback distance is the same basically every single offer.
Playing banana is one before you even see anybody really.
It's about getting bottomed control about timing your HE's with your teammates from safety.
They just playing battleship the whole time and going for spams like this.
So...
and
just like that sits in
to dust on time out
I think are fairly kind of know what to do
like just a you know very deep playbook that they can call from it's really just about
another one question on their mind is for who's gonna save us how many good starts
we're gonna get on banana how many strats are pervers gonna pull up that we didn't know
they had it's fair vision I think who really have to think a lot
I'm trying to get more of that damage in early again.
We'll see how better vision just wanted to dodge it.
Again, I think you know.
don't count pervasion out of this banana control just let Furia kind of waste their gas out of the first 20 seconds
That's kind of what we got here with the utile this fam and he sign of it and pervasion just talk right back into the rat
Make sure to play it as safe as possible
losing two players who never even had a chance to fight back last round. That's pretty easy to avoid
It's just making sure you still do enough with what's left of the round once that banana pressure fizzles out
That remains to be seen right now pervasion. They're going for the brackets play instead
and we get furious, pulling a third player over towards B temporarily, this double up inside of the CT spawn, bringing a Kindar back.
Mollidois in the bombsite eats the flashbang, misses his chance to strike one down,
Yorin's gonna pounce into the apartments.
That's gonna give them control the other side of the site.
Oh man, Yorin's the only one of the three that actually caught with a kill,
Kacerado strikes before they're ready, and it's bombed down by his way in the middle of all this carnage.
I think it's down quite quick, but couldn't get off the site yet again.
Looks like Lane's open.
There's a moment here where his way can really take this round to do his hand, but
all and we'll cut him off to the pass.
Yeah, tries to make his move.
Jane hands on the audience, shot the back of the head.
You already knows he can now test the waters on mouth.
Great shot.
And there's fallen right back on top of it to get both of the kills in the
retake.
Sway missing an opportunity to strike anybody down.
Secure that short control, short control, which would have then inevitably
cut off.
You're a really, I feel like the post plant in Zways' hands ends up being a retake successful for Furious second win.
Obviously, we love the moment here from your area because you know, you can have a flash retake of balls, but actually,
like that's not recommended. You throw a flash sometimes.
One guy's playing anti-use swing in and you see the good blind guy the other guy kills you.
In this spot, Yuri just plays off his own audible.
If you push it into a guy holding the aids, that's a guaranteed kill.
And the risk obviously for Paravision was that that guy was solo. So once you're up there
the exact definitely doesn't have as much umph to it. So
Paravision one round lead
The deer are feeling a lot better already
I'm doing any round that pair of vision start off, let's say they cross 50 seconds and
they get car control and no damage to them.
Then the odds are going to go back to their favor, so we're seeing if you're in play with
later round timings for their HEs to get some damage in the soften the blows.
These are the harder ones to hit, right?
This is where they're going to show us why they're a top team, because they can go for
their car retake names, they can't fuck time the half all names.
You got to be very crafty about it because pair ofers are going to try to avoid it.
I'm going to send you Kindar in and they are clumped up.
I can firm splash-bound it's target.
See that.
Uh oh.
It's going to try to go back in and now they're ready for the moan.
Double-meat you swell.
Oh man, he just didn't.
He didn't clear it hard enough.
And then we're most certainly flashed.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was a free kill in car and that was the player who scaled close and freaked him out
when he beat.
They all scrambled back into their cupboard.
You know that the first and second flashes found their marks.
I'm having trouble with his phone at it.
Right, the steak or what?
Because he tries to go wide enough that he just see like,
maybe something sticking out from car.
But it's clearly just not wide enough.
So they were in this on the angle, isn't there?
And with that, just that small gap and information goes the whole route.
Right.
They put a second player then behind him,
he thinks he has to say for Lyme that he does.
and it's also, it can be defender gets caught off guard
because of all of this.
Zero-util damage, no pickoffs from car rights.
They try to put it all in on this free take.
Set up.
That'll always be the enduring difficulty
of a good CT side of bananas.
That like, teas are gonna still,
are gonna go to some times in the half.
This is the values of men
so I'm getting part control with no damage,
or getting a kill early.
We're in Furno can feel fairly long
if you don't get the early banana kill.
But then conversely on CT side, even though you've got plenty of great ideas, we've got to keep coming up with new ones.
Even 8 second fly-ups, stay outside.
Just what really kind of played around with the timing, yeah.
And it's yellow in the background that even get that first kill.
And Zella only pushes through, because there's a teammate in front of the smoke. That wouldn't have done that otherwise.
So if you're here to have one round at this B site with the convincing double span down the smoke,
Right, there was no World of Parvish and gone back into that one because we're early damage
But this is a different look. Fallen wants really in on this
Because Parvish and will just tuck into their corners give away a bit of control and and sitting those corners guess what get predicted by the fragranade
See, hello, maybe six and three
It's down to 52 health on this one in balladoy
It's added to the B.D. fans. Fallen's gonna drop utility out. They should know about his close proximity now, right?
Why?
Ah, I had the grenade.
I thought he threw you?
Just bouncing off the wall like that would have had to come from this corner.
Nope.
Get out of there.
Hopefully.
You will.
Scapes.
And in that timing, because of all the present show deliops.
Rotating.
Yeah.
Paravisioner down to just get into his A site.
But Mollidois given an angle, this crossing note of move before the smoke falls.
Splash find their part.
It's the perfection yet again.
again. Go one round prior. You can do it's not able to jump on those kills. You
kind of let it slip this time once again, Paravision full blind. And that just brings
it all to a grinding halt. They both sort of rush it, but also take it too slow at
the same time. Like they know that they've heard mall doys off shot on B. So they
said, maybe this is a 3B setup. Let's just go up a if we smoke out arch, it might
look like you're running into mall doys, but if they smoke everything off, it's actually
find because you know, he's not going to be able to get to library and time.
They just had to wait one more second for their CT smoke and then maybe that would have
been different.
But the flash tactic is beautiful.
If case rotos 2k is excellent.
Or sorry, your kenders 2k on arch.
I thought it was case roto too.
It's usually him right there playing off the flashes.
But to get in the in on the action.
I'm just blind as
that's
no chance. Great catch in the POV.
So if you're going to find a bit more footing on the CT side, they still trail, right?
They're mapped down by around. I mean, a pair of vision have things to be proud of
And we know pair of vision will fight to the bitter end of every half so keep an eye of rapid
What a blinder
Now falling it's like you want to obviously try to press yourself up against this banana presence
But at the same time you're already down 4v5 if you're dead this round's done
Unut�olizing Molodo is crazy
and
all the way getting blasted out of this round was not on my bingo card and you've got you've really got full permission
like hang out
but it's the cth rotation that are so punishing they're the ones who are gonna have to stack and
they're not playing from a position of power right now
and James using that against them
can i mean having a second on i like it just going to be you know i mean like
Even if you're wrong, you get the save.
The site hit is coming this way.
Again, that car control.
It's so tight.
It's so alluring for the T-size to think about.
I get into it and they're just gonna have to get through the numbers then.
They've still got the 5v3 advantage as Yuri sits on A.
Smoke to block your Kindar's vision in a second.
In case of Rodo, I'll be to give him a headshot.
Yes, sorry, your Kindar comes through.
Still two defenders within this bomb site.
and Belgium, with the bomb possession,
and this coffin player smoked off for the time being,
they're worried about the push,
but you shouldn't be worried about Kaceroto
and this accuracy hunt, not there.
From the back of the bomb site,
finally goes down, but Manavantage regained,
and so, Jame is into the clutch.
Confidence, smoke fading, fallen,
always right there, and Jame hit his time.
Just enough!
Right down to it, challenge out from Banana,
Yuri Presence is blocked for Presence's the issue,
and gets the round win for it.
Very close, obviously falling realises teammates close by,
but still a very close call.
It's the third player that comes over,
that lean from your kinder,
when they lose all the way off the shot,
that does make the difference in the end.
4v5 recovery out of Furious Camp,
powered by Kcerado,
and you can barely see the most that he could, right?
Flying blind through that smoke is a sense.
All of it, the whole sequence,
The first headshot over orange is just instant headshots coming out of K-Sarado.
They asked Paramahevision, they went a lot of 4-5s.
They don't win every 5-4.
Confucius say.
and
0.04 rating on CT side and free for no in the fury of
sure sea.
There's a lot of worst games.
So far this week for our top players.
Yep.
Great stats all me take man by liking.
After watching Zello come through with that headshot last round.
I can see why he's raiding so low.
Poor guy getting blasted off the mid-peak.
I only like it because of the contenders.
You know, it's crazy for, you know, these losses.
For an event where if Mollidoy didn't exist,
Furio would have been eliminated five days ago.
Yeah.
It's wild that we go into this game.
We're picking Furnown.
It's a second worst half in all of the maps that they play.
So everybody else better be picking it up.
And at the moment, Kacerado does that in the last round.
You can do our saddest moments.
Which you put yourself in a tough spot.
So it's up?
Yeah, gonna get blasted away by the aggressions.
Swatys stop here to try to keep you locked in.
And remember that one, A.K.
It goes down with nothing.
Bell Chinak, nothing to show for it.
As he's trying to tap back into the potential,
we saw over on Mirage.
Eight and four is his half thus far,
but Fury pulls into the lead off of this one.
Hard fought with all of the effort.
But at 30 starts, the pair vision once had.
It's been quite some time since, mm-hmm.
They have like three camera angles on that.
Bottom B defense attack. Oh, look a real really aggressive, I think set this cover for every minute.
Excuse me?
My shot.
able to prevent it, all the more respect to them.
Can our lives in wait, given a duel, no top picks to this up?
He's only three kills into this game as well, but still trying to be weaponized on the
attack, now fallen off the flash, up to why he'll go down with nothing's effect.
It is a swayed pick that up that fried fine to all buy players.
In case we're out of that, he's got a hell of you himself here.
He's been so good.
Nobody's coming to stop anybody else.
It is okay, so I don't all play triple kill and so much damage done.
His fried grenade's softened up all five.
I love him taking a hard angle on his own line.
Taking trusting that, Nate.
Realizing if he doesn't make a hero play, it's over that.
We'll need G just for it.
They're too far.
It's for the plants, not the pit.
The plan this one together.
There's no smoke here for CT.
Two more flashes to get themselves into it, but they have such a huge,
melted vantage.
How's he gonna make quad?
Is that what they're gonna do or email?
Yeah.
Emo deep sight.
Perhaps gonna find nobody home.
It's this double up inside of banana.
The pair of vision, want to weaponize.
Just play time.
Mm-hmm.
They can.
Jane flashbang.
Shello flashbang.
You can just let them go out there, but Jane's playing this open angle.
He's past the line already.
Right?
This is beautiful fog inside.
He's gonna be watching the wrong side.
That's gonna flush the diffus off of it.
You can jump back on if you want it. James got this clutch in the bag.
I'm at two two playing off CT was the perfect call. There was no big wraparound retake there from banana.
They read it right maximized their low HP case roto. That's really tried to save the day, but when you lose two on banana.
First, that should have been already done. This was great. Yeah, and the fact is he
He killed some of the higher HP players in.
Do you guys left over?
I'd almost nothing left.
But, Jain Brothers, the timing, getting past that off angle already.
He had set in, like so many other passive, low health, scared players would.
That off finds him.
And maybe Jello doesn't have it, it takes to come out from that corner with the close.
But, it's Jain. He is different.
Played the perfection.
Time to tie up.
Two rounds left to play, and Mollidoi strikes at first the blood here in the
11th round of play, totally ignores that flashbang.
Yes, sir.
That off-wants a little bit more.
Zwaist still stuck into this corner as all of his teammates have left him, and they're
already trying to seize control of Archside.
Met by fire and what will be this three-player stack inside of the bomb site.
You're already scrambling Mollidoi back over.
Remember, Swain Never Left Banana.
Yeah, we've never left.
Okay, that's a push from Fallen.
Unprepared with Jam and you don't say that every day.
Yeah.
The bomb is just decides to get off of the bomb site.
Belchinoch is also in apartments, but a little bit later.
The weird part is that's why he's looking into top and Anna.
Ziele's in a spot where he doesn't need teammates to hide.
And the bomb is coming back this way.
Okay.
And like, yeah, yeah.
I think Ziele just stays alive.
You hope the kills come.
If Swesmokes off CT, that'd be one thing.
Oh, he goes wide and Yickindar is going to find him.
I mean, bomb goes back.
Yeah.
No way.
going in on his own if you know there's still obviously worried about this smoke so I feel
like now they're not going to get scrambled because of be success from pair of vision
fallen versus belchinox bottom middle that's the bomb spot it's almost been found out and
again they never let their guards down without that threat and it feels like belchinox
realizes there's nothing left in this one for him fury will have six rounds of the
CT side at the very least credit for them credit to fury up for just keeping everything
covered, you know, just keeping all options open in their mind making sure to bring
one back to Pananda, even though they left that gap early on, and all the noise from
the opening is a welcome site obviously, not the pet star here on Inferno.
Quite a kick there for Jake to fall it.
Not quite.
Zwei makes it over.
Working with less, but you brought up the stat.
How many of these sorts of buys were successful versus spirit.
Fury had done a good job of dodging that for the most part.
Is this the time it breaks through?
When they've come toward this A site, it's been a lot of arch play.
It's been sprayed down from your kid's yard.
It's been falling holding off the apartments.
You're either gonna drop Belts your knock first and then four members try to slam their way up short
Flash is for the pit smoke to just not have to deal with the bomb site
All the doy
No scope of collateral to take all of the
We know that sales and finish this we got the pistol tap so with last they get little if not for that strong start with the pistols and such
It would have been a tough goal of it. Paravision still five rounds
Welcome, gentlemen, to the blast carnival.
The magic we got done, I can see it in your eyes already.
You guys are so stoked to play some carnival games in us today.
We've got competition and rewards.
I just have one.
You'll see.
Magic's gonna be done?
It's not getting me.
Any of the three?
I don't know.
Confidence a whole time?
No, I'm not sure now.
Oh, no, I think this appeared so quickly.
Listen, Jens.
Our three games are maybe shooting.
Darts and axe throwing.
We'll start off with a target,
so let you guys get some rounds down range.
So, gentlemen, here we are at the target shooting.
Magic, you're going to be going first.
Magic's on the left, dog on the right.
That's zero.
Nice.
That is.
I couldn't see a shit.
Well, you think you can eat this?
No.
No checks.
Never checks.
Stop.
I think you hit it.
I think you hit it.
That's more than zero.
Don't clearly leading after game one.
We're going to dodge six darts per person.
Gold balloons are three points.
Blue balloons, one point.
Action.
Four.
One point.
Four point.
Five points.
Six points.
Six total, have you done?
Don't we see?
We'll see.
Oh, six points.
There's the lead.
One, set it.
Two.
Five!
Oh, three.
Oh, three points.
You got it?
Boris wins.
So the pressure is on.
Final game, tied one each.
When it comes to axe throwing, it whoever has the closest axe to the center.
Magic started off.
And now dawn.
Ooh.
Okay.
That's it.
I don't know.
Still nothing.
More so.
No reflock.
Whoa!
Yeah.
It's a...
Yes.
Beautiful stuff.
We have a champion.
Magis.
I present to you your trophy, sir.
Boris, satisfied with his own event.
Yeah.
And don't get your headphones.
Yeah.
That's all we wanted.
Gentlemen, thank you for playing.
You'll best of luck be in it.
the
jury of regaining a bit of confidence as they stay off pair of visions challenge here mohon do the underdogs have to take
here on in for no to win a ct son
they do they do absolutely
uh...
that's kind of a fury of that them i'll put it that way i think theory of it they
again the shonis is full start the always closed drawn
map to however i don't know if that's a
guaranteed
yellow dies peaking out of halls had flashbangs to support that but it doesn't get the jump on it
five before
Furia
He's stupid reddit's just hidden behind the sandbags want somebody to come and challenge this
We want her to see if like notes as willing to show for the threat and if he worked to die
Yeah, exactly it's gonna kind of elicit the play it's gonna bring them to him and even if he dies
Now the elements of surprise has gone and notes us still able to get a second kill and you can chase this down actually
Yeah, you know they're invested
You know they've pushed deep
All the noise sticks around for exactly this reason, but he's got a couple of chills and you'll at least get that one
Jam 30 health 1v2 should be no problem 30 health and
He's get spots they want they can hold back crossfire
This this one might be beyond even his IQ.
Nobody's holding the short walk up.
You can't just talk to him behind that wall.
So James will be giving a bit of time to come for the spike,
but remember no kid on this one.
It's going to take massive headshots out of him
and as he clears out little pit still no contact.
He's going to find a backstab short.
You know ten second deep use.
Oh it's right there!
My goodness, wait does he have it?
I don't think he's got the time.
That's too far gone.
I got it.
Is it by a second or so?
Yeah, one point.
Off it.
Ah, but they don't give him a fight.
They find that.
So he actually, so the way they routed, he was holding from pit for the side of default, right
when you're walking to the site, then the crossfire.
James reads it from the beginning.
Walks it around.
Hide around the barrel.
Make sure not to get in that line of site.
It doesn't ever threaten the site at all.
And no, the site guy won't be first.
If the etiquette he wins.
Actually, off of his IQ.
I thought they were doing a very good job of selling that kind of tantalizing push into banana for Furia.
I felt like they had almost got what they wanted, which is everybody to run into the burrettas, even with the malletalk down that kind of unraveled that set up.
Paravision we're fighting off the 4v5 the entire time and made that pistol competitive, but this is the last time out for Paravision on this map.
Lots of deliberation here between the J.M. and D.D.
I'm sorry Jim gets the last word animated.
You know it's a slog dude in the major and like all the wins they got really impressive but the opportunity to play here at the bounty and just play like two times.
You
You
You
You
You
I'm just gonna die.
I'm just gonna die.
I'm just gonna die.
I'm just gonna die.
Bye.
you
you're going to take a look at the balcony but you've got plenty of bodies here for
pair of the ship all the cover comes out from sway at the perfect moments
and look like his player in psych was about to get blindsided but James will alive
he didn't put for any pressure on mid maybe thought that's going to be a
It's not like I feel like they already got to a really scary spot and the CT's aren't in a position to light-re claim banana and they have taken it already
It's not they give a kill back they go walk back to banana
I think it's a bit of a gift here for pair of vision who you know, they've got enough, but it's just not a
Extremely opulent by in James on the perfect line
They've got a smoke if they can just do moto
Well, surely they do arch as well and J will have to rotate around.
But yeah, but you see, Paravis and I already pushed down, but Anna, like they didn't even
re-smoke it or anything.
Right?
Not to set off any alarm bells, rotations are here, man.
Paravis and I've done everything they should to win this round.
We know it's A and they're right.
Just have to keep Fury off the bomb site itself.
We'll see if any heroic shots come out from the Fury and Fury squad.
Break it free position.
You'll hold his own and the short side gets absolutely
a
time it's going to expire
before there was ever any
trying to break down the
walls, but those walls built
too high. Absolutely
some other in this round.
First gun round for par
vision, dare I say it couldn't
have gone any better.
That was beautiful. I really
think it's Furia who just
I mean, it could have been
fine. A super confidence
called take almost take
both sites. You know, really
embarrassed par
here to take off a first
rifle. But instead
when they were, they had inroads on car.
They were really close to thinking about an exact there.
They even walked the bomb back in the 45.
But when time ticked down,
there wasn't enough pressure on anywhere on the map
to really push pair of vision back.
We saw pair of vision switch over,
you know, with in front of the Mirage,
we saw a kick up in some of the individual levels.
See how they've really brought it to the table.
If the clock's gonna expire,
now you're keeping around versus majority pistols,
This is a chance for somebody on parivision to kind of find their slot.
Get the groove on.
Coming forward.
It's a pop out balcony.
Scooby-Fill Hell by Swake.
Don't you know it's easy.
Shooting gallery as they try to go to a similar approach.
And yet again, it's not convincing that gap gets cut down to only two rounds the difference
we've got a save coming in for fury and now.
And so parivision, it feels like they're about to make a break on the CT side.
It definitely feels that way.
And it feels that way on, and he goes because they made so much money.
Like you don't see the effects of that right away, it's not a rifle and proof in that sense,
but the fact is they've got like it, like so much padding now.
And the fact that Fury had lost the time that stat there, you know, I don't know how long
that included.
But at this event, when Fury had been playing badly, that's the first sign, too slow.
Too indecisive.
to test the waters, but the water is fire, so forced to stay back for a second and then it gets
replaced by its smoke. Not going to be able to jump on that timing, and this is around with
one desert eagle for Mollidoy.
Oh, almost time that up perfect. I'll know that it was alone.
He's not playing this scared.
Not scared at all.
Nah.
Why should they be?
You know this fear could give something back over to Fury up.
Just keep that pressure on instead, Jame with a deep angle should never die to a pistol
in this kind of spot.
That shot on Paul and it is still space given over a theory at the very least and they're gonna try to rack up costs
That's an opera ball and now. Oh, that's good guy. I get knocked things get a little more interesting
They've got numbers to swarm this bomb site and the bead players are a little bit late to this party
Worried that maybe they could get caught in side CT spawn. Oh, opera goes down
You've got this player tucked in the back of sight sweet taking damage
But belchinox here to help out and all should be and will be good
strong communication in the setup and just knowledge of who was going to cover what
popping up from the box there. It's nice to them from falling. He had his eyes dead set on me.
Just slightly missed exactly where the pop-up would come out of.
And even though if you're to make that scary, I almost feel like they're going to need around
like that to win this map now. It's the nature of that last one running low on time.
There's probably a million conversations coming into today about how we're not going to
to let that happen again, so when it does, you wonder, is this our day?
Especially when it felt like time was on their side at the start of the series over on
Mirage.
Game of Way with those diffuses.
And it's the, you know, the other team people expected to make it at the finals, and
they've seen everybody else get taken down by the contenders.
Do they just feel like they're another notch on the belt?
The spirit can have their out with the changing of the in-game leadership.
Alkins could have had an out and all the excuse in having a stand-in and not their coach
Fury are not a part of this conversation in terms of being held back by some kind of exterior
factor. This is the same fury of the Impress of all of us last year and now it's the same
Fury up that's getting melted by his way
Whether he's inside of that bitch or clearly pressing up all these different looks
He's gone from balcony to the side of the apps to inside of the site and now to press down into the bracket side of it all
fall and this would have to be the one be five.
He's been surrounded already.
No bomb possession.
And this is where that one ends.
Now it's a tide game.
Now pair of vision can see this finish line
and the thought of a grand finals for rounds away.
Breaking new ground already taking there.
Let's call their biggest win so far.
Even with the major behind them and that much success,
taking down spirit.
They found that one to be the most special.
And the chance to take down another top five team
back to back days and a playoff.
No one else is watching anything right now, pair of vision, no.
This is the time they can earn some respect in the scene.
Looking for the banana duel, it'll come their way.
Followed away through snets him a fright.
Speaking of frags, that made you perfection.
James willing to go back on this.
3v5 bounce back.
He barely survived that and there's a player here on logs.
You could die any second.
He doesn't know about it either.
Oh, now it does.
Case of Autumn's also shot.
So yeah, it's going to be right there for the taking player jumps over.
That Molly's going to spread to Jane's feet.
He has to get back the angle.
But he's going to try to cheat it.
Just stick around for a second.
What's to make this painful, fourth-duria, despite their 5v3 kickoff
The James is coming back in.
Does he react to that?
Doesn't see it hyper focused.
You can go with the headshot and one for Furia that should be their double digit secured.
Yeah, Eltonok is going to make his way over.
They're going to hear the fast footsteps.
Eltonok's got a full kit of utility.
I wonder if it's Molly's first or...
I'm just blowing this open to play.
It's a look passive.
But, the Molly does cut him off.
Rotation's not coming in.
It's the climb up and over or engine.
It's early it is over, but...
You find safety.
They've got that second wave of Nades.
They'll smoke it all off.
Make sure he can't get into this.
Such a wealth of money built up by
Paravision so far because of how
Convincing this was for certain.
They are going to try to rack up the
Costs here for Furia.
You can afford to lose around at a
9-9 game and still smash
Your phone is economically.
They can risk it all here.
Followers get to get popped.
That's a second death added to the
Tally.
I wouldn't be surprised if you
Straight up challenges the bomb
They're still exiting the Nana. We're gonna pay attention to Furious money here. That's what I'm saying because Belchinoff
I'm gonna pay the president's over toward CT spawn
But they're gonna go test that instead and that's where they'll find their safety
So majority of life for Furia two players for pair vision to make the cost ever so slight
Bit of a missap here on people
Moldoy, K's in life to be given that chance. He's standing in their Mollotogs. It's a position where
pervison you think you could trust fire obviously. It's there taking away any dust came almost
over half of his HP, but it was a worth of worth the price every day of the week.
That inferior in opening kill winning banana that easily.
I'm not going to get out of the car.
I'm going to get out of the car.
I'm going to get out of the car.
This is the first time I've ever seen a
Bies for Dane. Seriously.
Luckily, he's side of her fury. I mean, they're not that neat enough.
It's a pull around, they might use it if Jame gives it up whenever that happens.
Yeah, that's not the perfect Molly, so it's not an apple.
I bought the angled shame now willing to go back into that. You watch that all go down
And he didn't pull the trigger on a shot that he could have
I mean we can't say this is a game where you can just give up five before his misnades
They also didn't pair that with a flash today. Nope
Thinking that mallet's off would have done enough to get him off his angle, but right now
the
is the lesser of the way that
bombsite for don't get
bombs made out. We've got
the tradeback from CELO.
He's got more from it is
wait. All he keeps it
clean. A double kill. And
a bit more damage for
urine after stomach. It's
man advantage for paravision.
It's a bomb down for
urea. It's Molodeo and
Ure versus three. It's
call it a musk win. Post
plan. Yeah, they have a
lead. But we see the
rounds they lost. We know
that their money is not
unlimited. Frigernate
had it actually gotten into the deep corners of dark.
Jane is going to take his time.
The net is going to clear the doubling up on the right spot.
Mollado is going to have an open fight.
He's got to take one out, please.
And it loads.
And now you're already going to have to go massive.
As an anchor from the back side, try to track it.
And he can't get both those rifles.
Sways out of the retake with the kit.
Paravision tied game.
And it's the economy that's going to pressure
period more than anything else.
Yes, sir.
That's what I mean.
Must win.
It's like just to get through the buys.
This would have just been step one.
And then you win with what one player alive and still have galleels in the following round.
Now what, Feria?
It'll be all right.
In case for the majority, your name's still, but it's this round, do or die.
Snacks like all from Zella.
Got to say.
Even she'll win himself in the first target.
We'll take in the second fight and quick pick off right before the flash came in.
That was not easy to do.
I don't know what's going to get clipped on timing.
Another player to die is one of the opponents peak over top of flames.
Bell Genox is going to try to scramble over the smoke in the front of the site.
Cash of grenades to try to stop this.
He's yelling, what can you do again?
What the f**k!
From inside of that smoke he popped it open for his own duel.
back. It catches them off guard. Making
minks meet the approach of fury upon
to be plated behind the fountain, but
it's managed for the re-take all
the pair of vision with their kids and
plenty of utility to make this happen.
So, he's coming in. Case to
Rado eats the flashbang. That's a CT
to announce themselves in case
Rado wins the duel. 70 health
still for him. Belgium, Oxford
is smoke off banana. Smoke's bad.
There's a Friday late at night.
Keys chuck one back themselves. That
the other side, bomb at the halfway point, case of auto to test the edge of the smoke, goes back in the cover and then drop a little bit, kick it out, strikes, and case of auto's back, stab gets period to 11.
Is that early kill at the top of banana that gives them something that peek into CT, the shoulder spot is way too wide,
he's showing his entire body with a net out, early kill being no they've got it locked up, and this time they actually pilot it to a victory.
Tell us, try again with actually another fantastic hole between him and Belsie Nod.
And to be fair to Furia, even in the end of the 2-B3 post-plan, but one missed smoke on banana, and the badnades go both ways.
The tension's building.
Thought so.
The bank account was already built here, so Furia and No. They're gonna have two full buys to get through.
off
off let's itself fain a bit of presence still
Mollidoi keeps rattling off shots towards B
has already milked this same angle for 5v4s in the past.
We get this clump up from Furia in middle.
James got Bell Chinak to his archside sway inside of the pit.
Swag who has been great on this defense is actually up above.
Well, they separate them all away from your kids.
They're here.
Oh, dangerous, but James, able to just confirm that
he can't ours willing to test these waters.
That's a bad CT made.
They're trying to be overtly aggressive.
They're off the timings.
It's actually worked for a couple of rounds.
get Belchinock added to the bomb site.
Arches suddenly, that much more open for the taking.
T smoke down in front as Nota comes over to just hold
through that arch angle.
James is looking for this close range of
obshot that's gonna let Sways still remain covered
and James Miss Chance, Sways doesn't bounce.
Belchinock's here to help instead
and then there comes the Swing.
Everybody barring, Lola, Dois dead.
Stuffed on the approach again.
their division tie entirely has belching up with another great map here on inferno
I've totally shot this down the early parts of the round look great again for period even though it wasn't necessarily a kill it that made it look good
That that's after was it after time?
Molotoy just got rents us looking at that 26 seconds here
There's one for the next one, we set the money on the pressure now. It's very real.
Economy was in the back of Furious mind. Now it's in the forefront. This is what you get to stay off 12.
To save your tournament. They're playing for over time here in a position where they could have
have. They could have had a saved rifle or an off. I think from all the do it.
Off their own crazy up in hand denied after time. They hunted down because they had so many players
They're still because being of that such strong economy this whole CT side.
They'd be challenged for Jayne, but again, this is just pistols.
What's the worst that could happen?
Got him down to four.
Gotta keep your guns out here, guys.
This is five rounds back and forth, no consecutive round winds.
Paravision finally gonna break that streak as they just quickly.
Sweep these pistols under the rug and give themselves one match points.
Here in regulation, over time secured, no early celebrations locked in.
This has already been so special from pair of vision.
The fact that they even have a chance to end this in too is absolutely insane.
No fury, you have not pulled out some of the most impressive rounds when it's matter
of the most.
But the late starts as we precipitated are finally starting to catch up.
There vision of just been too solid.
And the rubber starting to meet the road here was way stats here in this map.
Starting to match his online performances to get them here.
The last thing fear I need is for him to get comfortable this early.
You've seen this bracket test a couple of rounds, but we've also seen the stakes within it.
That time falling gets plucked by Jane board and already a facility.
Any of these times, we're paraphrasing to just get this free kill, skin one off the top.
Jane wants to keep this wider angle on short side, but these flashbangs, the rumblings
of arch presence, draws his attention back slightly, it's the same three-player core,
inside of the bomb site, and notes us just come out wide enough to guarantee nobody's
correct through this smoke just yet.
You already find refuge, but that's taken away
his health still shaved down to 60.
It just zoned him a bit.
It's a pure, pure way.
And all top of that Belgian Occupy's usually
inside of this ace site is gone.
They invested heavily until elite, but they did it blind.
They didn't have car control.
No thing about him with bananas.
So they have to respect the fact that the timing
is there they could go back.
Now, Furia, we see a game plan coming in.
They're bringing this bomb into halls.
But they know how to finish this round.
Going in slowly, he's taking a bit of damage.
That's falling.
desert eagle just trying to sell this fake fully pelchonauts
going to get back over and there's still no immediate
pounds out of fury because of this smoke timing now that the
smoke is gone pelchonaut will be looking to add himself to
this valley sway from down and underneath three players
dive out no to get his you can not so far only the solution
James clip one off of the belt for the two
furious struggles here and also will be put to an end and less
They come through with a chicken or a full-case cerrado off of the boxes
Seven seconds as hands busy bomb plant call box coverage tonight
The seal was clutch right there for the taking and he's got it
They love all it at the major for a chance at these games back to back S tier 10 slays
What a moment for a pair of vision they were over the moon with their victory yesterday
This could have been icing to the cake.
Now they have a chance to actually win the event.
Unthinkable with the teams here competing.
But after seeing the floor from Furia, you didn't want to believe it, but day after day, they show us the similar thing.
But this time, it ends in two.
This time, pair of vision show us that yesterday wasn't a one-off.
The online stage wasn't a fluke.
They are good, and they are here to compete.
and other teams have to be way more consistent to keep up.
Going into that player break, knowing they hit secure themselves a runway and opportunity.
That is what the major delivers to hopefully young counter strike players, and that opportunity was seized.
Not only back in Budapest, but here in Malta as well.
Well, 2026 begins with a shock, as it is spirit and now fury a tossed aside in the face of
and another pack of 20 underdogs.
Paravision, I set it yesterday, and I will say it again,
going nowhere anytime soon.
This young team, led by James, finds themselves in their first
S-T-R-R-F-N-Gran Final.
audience, go and make some noise to power vision for us here.
Well, to know, yesterday it was spirit today, it's Furia.
And now, tomorrow you're playing in your first Grand Final.
What does that mean to you?
What is it the feelings that you're going for in this emotions
and the moment you're having right now?
Of course, it's been a lot.
It's first chance to get a dear one trophy.
and how you can see it's how great it is that's on a gym so we are so young and we are already in Grand Final.
One year ago we was 213rd in Top 100 and now we are playing Grand Final on day one events so I'm so happy and proud of my guys.
And now it would be proud to you guys have performed incredibly well.
I want to come back to Mirage to start off with.
You guys were down 6-1, fallen pulled off,
and injured at fews.
It looked at sometimes like you guys
didn't have the right idea or a bit lost.
What was going on at the beginning part of Mirage?
And how did you guys manage to turn it around?
It was very tough start for us.
It was my mistake when we fallen in need of the shoes.
We know he can be behind us, like from Rampor Palace.
I was falling in palace, but I ran so far.
So he can diffuse, so it's my bed.
It's a really tough start for us, like, 6-1.
But I'm proud to be step up, and it was felt like 6-6.
And then you came back, he went on to win the map,
and then we come onto this inferno.
It's getting really close.
There was so much back and forth in it as well.
Tell me what the communication was like
in some of these very stressful and tense moments.
It was a full city site.
It was a very good communication.
like super intense guys they're thinking they're thinking it'll tell you it'll be
so a lot of rotations and decisions it's also really good
citizen and who was calling for you guys and just like where to go how to
rotate who was making the decisions because you always seem to be like
making the right moves here everyone everyone was so intense and calling
everyone for citizen full team work and it got yourself into the grand
I'm fine, we can congratulations, man, we'll see you tomorrow.
It's time for the bouncy banana and who else.
this thing the wheel, then jame himself, jame.
You just cured his body, grandfather, grandfather,
but that's not the only thing you're winning today.
What do you think about the Nanzo wheel?
Incredible.
Incredible indeed.
What do you think about james?
Pretty incredible, huh?
Oh!
Oh!
Are you ready for this, Dan?
You ready for this moment?
Yes, bro, yes, let's go.
Here we go!
The Nanzo wheel's been in enthusiasm.
I'm in the old time right here, what's it going to be?
We're coming to a close.
No, we don't will stop.
Is it going to be the bananza?
Is it going to be?
It's the bananza!
Number one!
Number one!
Number one!
That means it's not one.
It's not two.
It's three prizes coming through.
James, you've won a stake dinner for your team
and some fancy t-shirts.
And for everybody here, we've got to give away,
Come and arm him, let's see what we want!
It's the bounty bunanzo, which includes a set of these
Foccu apex t-shirts are beautiful restaurant trip
for you and the squad here in Malta and this.
The Nikos Mashedable from 4 final 2020
or our piece of counter strike history.
Take this home in your hand luggage, use it to venue your anger
on the table and not on me.
That's right, folks.
That is the sell same, Nico table, the desk that Nico smashed at the fall final.
A desk famous, notorious, the world over it.
That's a giveaway for a fan at home.
Tight exclamation mark giveaway in chat right now.
Everybody in this room getting chat right now.
So I'm going to give away someone's going to be walking away with the Nico table.
And James, you've won dinner for you and all your teammates.
It's not only you bring it home the wins, you bring it home dinner as well.
Thank you, thank you, yes, of course.
Well, now you can go back and celebrate with those teammates.
Thank you so much for joining me.
Yeah, I'll take that.
We'll do the fist bump.
We'll move on through the Nico table.
It's finding it now.
Let's hear it for James.
The legendary desk finds it.
The band finally gets it. We've been waiting all weekend to see that one come through and James
been waiting a long time to see his way back into a grand final in Counter Strike.
That's a massive result obviously for James, massive to win the Bonances well, but what a
night. What a journey it's been and what a period it's been for Paravision. Right?
A month and a half ago, I think everyone looked at Paravision as one of the few teams
heading into to make you thinking, how did you even get in here? Right? How did you even
to be a system now a month and a half later they find themselves into grandfile and a tier
one tournament having beaten spirit having beaten burrier they do it in a two-o fashion as
well Maui what a beautiful star that is I mean it's such a ridiculous redemption arc when we look
at the fact that Jane was outed by his own team on VP main say guy where he more or less deliver
them a major trophy and then also even for his way who it now has a chance to be a back to
back bounty champion after him, also being outed by spirit. I mean, the what
Paravision did today to Furia is so surprising because they made them sweat.
They made them it's so extremely nervous and you could see all of their faces in
the tough rounds and in the mishots begin to just bite their nails, scratch their faces.
Like they weren't sure how they were going to get this one over the line. Turns out
they just didn't. I think if we took the name plates off and swapped them between the two
sides, you'd be like, yeah, of course, this is how it played out. You have one team.
That's one three trophies that's been on these stages that's been in these finals.
This is practically a studio.
The other side, nervous, sweating.
But it's the underdogs.
It's the inexperienced squad.
It's the team that Jane described as kids off the street last year.
Now in a grand final here at the blast bounty.
It's also the fashion they do then, right?
Map number one, if we just go back there,
down six to one and then they dominate the Ferrer and every single buy-around we're like,
okay, you were by far the better team on Mirash.
Coming to inferno as well, you're training throughout the entire day of the game.
can't really get it going.
I feel like, you know, what, 18, 19 rounds into the game, I think we all
pretty calm that, oh, this is heading towards a third mat.
Sure, you're putting up a fight, but you're not going to win, then they
make another comeback, we're in the game.
And as you said, and I get it almost felt like if you were
removing the name plates, it felt like Paramish and whether
one's playing with experience, playing with composure.
We saw a fallen and Fourier walk into a couple of stacks,
walking into a couple of uncomfortable scenarios where they
couldn't get it done.
I'm a little bit disappointed in the Fourier, but even
I'm also impressed by Pervolution.
The rotations, actually, we got the desk.
We got the one delivered by my lovely assistant Ryan here.
Desk on the desk.
Can't even see me anymore, but that's okay
because this is what you want to see.
This is the punch signed by Nico
where he put his fist through this table
and marked this desk,
is entry into the annals of Counter Strike Law.
One fan is going to be taking this away.
One viewer in the chat right now
going to be walking away with this piece of counter strike history. I don't know what
it's valued at. I'm going to throw out some numbers. Offers were made to blast to purchase
this table. They weren't south of 20,000.
Wow. Wow. That's ridiculous. I mean, that the moment that that punch came after, the
almost 1v5 clutch that Nico had on the Raj, I mean, it was, it was fitting in a way. Because
if he had had that, it would have just changed everything. And I'm glad that this
can effectively change somebody's life. I mean, if they actually, let's just say, I mean,
maybe they do just sell it.
Yeah, that's a ridiculous sell. That's a ridiculous sell. This is the one for one. This
is the unique item. You'll never get another one. There will never be another one.
Hey, I'm not going to show you what they do. I'm keeping it real, man.
All I'm hearing right now is not a lot of art. Hey, a lot of the Twitch viewers are extremely
unemployed. Well, how do I segue out of this?
He's not all right for fear that anyone's going to be extremely unemployed after this because I mean this was this was disastrous, right?
Yes, yes. I don't know if we have the final round of the game where we do they okay, they simply capitulate it here
I mean they didn't put themselves in a great situation to buy but the one thing that I had to show on this is if we can anyway zoom in or show it at all
They they double smoke library when they had two smoke. They had two smokes from Cacerado and Yuri where they double smoke the same position early on and on top of that
I mean, Paravision were so on top of the practically all of the plays that Furia wanted
to run.
When they wanted to go A, there was three guys minimum defending that bomb site.
And I was surprised that Furia called in this fashion because this one gets so close.
And the Chelo Clutch right here is fantastic.
Don't get me wrong.
Like this is a great one V2, a whole Disney, or a guest of first goes on top and then he's
able to take down Yekendar, who wasn't ready for the off-angle completely.
But even just kind of going back in the beginning of that round, they used two of the
smokes for the exact same position and in a critical round like that, I'm just kind of
shot that Furia and two guys, Yuri in case of where the ones that threw them, that they're
not able to coordinate who's supposed to throw what and when.
It's affected Furia as being pressured into a scenario with what 25 seconds left of the
round, they have to do a horse pup with no flesh.
Like that's how much pressure they're on the desk.
They had no solution.
They had no answer.
They had nothing, nothing going for them, nowhere to go.
The last four or five rounds in that T-Site, you clearly feel they didn't have a clear idea
of what they wanted to achieve and how they would get into positions because they walked
out of apps two times in those rounds with no flesh, no utility, nothing whatsoever.
And it was relatively easy, I feel like, for Paragation, to get it over the finish line.
And when Mercedes mistakes, I mean, the echo of the things that we saw earlier in the
tournament, right, in the online game against foot, in the first round match up here against
heroic, except this time they didn't have the Molotoy carry job to sort of bail them
out of it. All the way, had a pretty mediocre game, but you shouldn't be entirely dependent
on a player when you have championship aspirations.
I think that's a fair point to race, but also do one of the roaded back to say, and it's
Parisian applying that pressure. Yes, you can make the case that Furrier has been on a lot
of pressure. You know, when they were winning its return, especially in Hong Kong versus Falcons,
there was one hell of a game, but it's more so Parisian playing the game of Counter Strike that
made them sweat, as you said, as well. They were, you know, making them feel uncomfortable
on the server. And yes, you'd argue that a Furia and
chop shape probably would have found a solution if anything
gone into over time and then maybe the experience would
have played in. But this time around, they applied enough
pressure to make them break and to me, that's the biggest
surprise. And it also felt like just pair of vision coming
into this game had so many good reads. If there was no
pressure applied towards banana, they instantly had four
people towards B. So even though James working with
essentially three rookies as well as way, you, you are just
making their lives so much easier when you have such good
with macro understanding of your opponents,
even if you're a, are so experienced,
have so much in their playbook,
if you're just gonna call out their plays
and have four guys on the bomb site,
it really doesn't matter.
One guy's choking on that bomb site,
if three more guys can hit their shots
and get it over the line.
And just a quick note to that as well.
It's a funny context,
because right back in the day would VP
when VP rate were dominating,
whether we're winning the mages as well,
I remember Katie and her work constantly,
the ones they complained,
but they hated playing against them
because they would always gamble stack on inferno.
Yeah.
He would just call out of the blue,
call in the dark and not really you know,
able to explain why he would do it. I feel like he's also a change here in Furnock.
I agree with you. It was also the reeds coming out of the rotations mid-round that
made a pair ofish in place so so well and being so generous positions was beforehand.
Back in the day, the VP had success with game as a corner. It was more so gamblestick.
He would out of spawning, you know, a corner for a man's deck on the small bomb side,
for whatever reason. We don't see that playstyle item off from game,
which also goes to speak how he's becoming a much better in your meal.
This is one thing that I will say. Regardless of what happens to Mario,
result agnostic of this actual trophy lift. Perry vision have planted a flag in the Tier 1 counter strike and said we are here to stay
They have victories over spirit. They have a victory over fury and now. Yeah, this is a team that everyone should be scared of in 2020
I'll tell you what to just on her. I read a there's a guy on on Twitter. I can't remember his handle, but he's a VIS expert
You know when he made the the whole case that if Paravish didn't well here and if they did well or just one one or two games in crackup
there would be guaranteed for the major.
I'm also pretty sure that I've read that if the wind and to the final, and if the wind
is determined, there would be guaranteed for the major, and we're talking maybe even states
of states three.
So not only did it just secure spot in the grand final, most likely perivision has also
qualified for the major in general, which for them is a massive result.
That's why they're promoting the vlogs on their YouTube channel all the time.
Be sure to check them out, perivision.
You got to fund this team, man.
You got to fund this team, man.
You got to fund this team, man.
There's one thing James knows, it's good business decisions, it's good economy, management.
We do have the winner of our Nico table giveaway, signator underscore, one the giveaway.
You are the new proud owner.
If you're here in chat this unique, one of one and crafted artisanal, Nico smashed and
signed desk will be coming your way.
Keep an eye out for the giveaway details.
This will be presumably being sent to you.
Maybe you're here in Malthough.
I want to drive by the studio and grab it.
But this will be your signature congratulations on this when a truly incredible moment
in Counter Strike now can be immortalized on your wall or hey, maybe you're crazy.
Maybe you want to play on this.
What do I know all of you say?
Put it on a wall.
Put it on the wall.
Your wall is just a desk.
I guess.
It's hard.
It's hard.
It's hard.
It is.
I mean, it's a relic.
But it's also just it's the best possible souvenir you could have if you're a
I don't know what else you would possibly want
of even a smashed table that his own fist went through.
It drew Niko's blood.
He bled on this table in a thousand years
when replicating technologies could up.
You could create another Niko with that hand.
Niko?
There is a little bit more to get into here.
And unfortunately, we need to hear from Furia
because they have been eliminated from this tournament.
So let's hear what they have to say.
The favorites are fooling here at the Blask Browns
superior than excellence to me, power of vision in this crazy game and catch what I'm
going to just saw on looking at this mirage first of all because it started off so
well for you guys even putting a fendanger to fuse. I saw the energy, I saw the hype
from the team, it looked like you would have been in your control. We're going into the
second half and even just the first part of the first half, the second part of the first
half, it started to get messy. Why do you think that was? I think the T-sites,
being met as a weekman. I think they played really well fighting, and also holding S-A in
front of. So it was a... I like it.
In terms of that, there was a lot of rounds on in front of the G-Mentioned it where you guys
were grouping up a lot more, right? Was there a part of the game plan to try and count
a half-power vision play?
Yeah, we had the plan, but it did work because they played really good in the V-D-E, so it was
It's a great effort to eight of the sites, especially in the OEFernal, as a T on your
age as well.
It was kind of hard because you got a lot of first skills, and so it's hard to believe that.
But yes.
Looking at just your run, you've had here at the Blast Bounty, even from some of the
online games, the very close right against foot, same against the Rory, and now here
the loss.
What does it tell you about where Fiery is at so far coming into the year?
I think this time I didn't say anything, I just say that you had to put more work on the RT side and also on the CT side as well.
I think we still need to get more armily a bit because it's the first time to the CISO.
And I'll have a crackle next week and that's a work to do better there.
Can you explain maybe or help me understand a bit of maybe what feels off within the team during some of these games that you need to work on like specifically?
Yeah, I don't know how thick it's marked off this, not the 100% complex right now, so it's
hard to play the bass, I was in some fights that it's not loose.
And I think this stuff, if we did it have the team as I want to, but it is what it is,
that's keeping working.
And is some of this also down to, obviously, the pressure of being the favourites now,
does that continuing to change things, the same as what we saw the end of last year?
We don't feel their favourites. We feel that we're just playing our game and we're trying to do our best
the work this time
I think it happens and that's what's on the next one.
For the next one, I like that. Thank you very much, Chris.
Honestly surprising to hear them speak about confidence, but you saw it in the server, right?
Especially towards the end on inferno, there were multiple moments where they almost seemed
timid to get into the fights, to get into the tank, to get into the timing. And that's just not all we expect from a fury a team that won trophies last year.
It is, but when you're getting red that hard, it's really hard to maintain confidence with
some of the calls.
I also even felt the calling itself was sometimes a little bit lacking from the way that
they wanted to finish rounds.
One would be hallmark aspects of what made Furious run so exciting and really I feel like compelling
tactically, last time was the variety, the diversity.
But how many times in the last six rounds did we just see them go out of halls with practically
nothing or also just send it up porch?
I didn't really see the kind of bar traps that I would suspect from a team like Furia.
That was a reason that I really liked their tactics last time because they used every
single part of the map.
But this time around, it felt like they were just caged and honestly, they could not fight
out of that cage.
That was a disappointing show.
Obviously, for Furia, especially when you consider that route as well, if beating your rogue
into quarterfinal, getting pervasion into semi-final, you'd argue that they should have been
in the grand final.
Falcons waiting, you know, what a stand in the grand final.
You'd argue that with the failed to win.
So they're going to look at this as a misobitually.
For me, even more so, it also kind of summarized
for it to be a T-Ride.
Now, I'm like, okay, what happened at the major?
Maybe that was just to live on the radar.
Maybe that was not supposed to have.
Maybe that Navigain is,
is one they're going to regret for a long, long time,
but they'll bounce back there when the first term
and right here.
They'll go into Crackery and do well.
Now, with this episode,
losing to Parisian by struggling against Fulclusic
and Rapture heroic, if they don't do well at Crackery,
we're talking about a Fyr that is in a complete new position
to do anything.
just added a ton of pressure for them to deliver and crack up.
Otherwise, I think the alarming is ongoing to bring a little bit of the game.
So maybe not reading just yet, but tingling.
Tingling at a distance, we're starting to get our hand on the buzzer to ring them.
Concerting signs for Furia, but we'll look to see them bounce back in the future.
But such an exciting moment for Perry Vision.
And that does mean that we've come the whole way to the end here.
There's just one more game to play a grand final match between a Falcons coming in
with out their coach and with a stand-in in the server and a perivision team that nobody
expected to make it this far.
Teams that have been counted out teams that are totally unexpected and one of these teams
will be the champions of the Blast Bounty.