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Welcome to another night of the NA ESL Challenger League here. We are close to the end. We're close to the finish here. We are close to the goal, which is the ESL pro league and of course
championship title here in this challenger league itself.
I'm Garth Mike.
This is JITrt and tonight we
got a match up here the lower bracket final between party astronauts and nouns only one
of these teams will be able to continue their dream we're in the top four here John oh
yeah I was gonna say no surprises with my mic unmuted
up here at the top um party astronauts and nouns along with wild card and m80 i
mean those are some fantastic teams in the regular season and we're going to
get party astronauts announced tonight as you said and honestly it's going to be a very close
tightly contested affair because both these teams feel like they're doing quite well
as of late especially the party astronauts. They've really kind of embraced
Fang as a part of that
roster and he's contributed in such a
significant way. And it's surprising
honestly considering this is a team that every time
they seem to find stability, they get a player yoinked.
Perhaps best typified by what we saw with Rush getting poked from this roster
over two nouns.
Take a look at the bracket to see the journey these two teams have been on
because it's been very similar for them um but uh yeah i mean this is
a party astronaut scheme that's constantly dealing with players shifting in and out that made changes
as well not just bringing infinite to replace rush, but also bringing in Feng and cutting Chop.
Opting to make further moves.
And I mean at least so far it does seem like it's rewarded them.
I know that Feng in particular probably enjoyed that victory
over his old team
with NRG last night.
I think he tweeted
something to the
effect, so they're
on a bit of a tear
and this is a PA
squad that could
definitely upset
the Apple cart.
You wouldn't probably have had them pinned as a top four team maybe going into this.
They would have been one of the teams that'd be more likely to get knocked off early,
but they've done anything but.
No, I agree.
I had them out to be quite honest.
I didn't think that they were going to make it through especially the way they were playing. Since they picked up Fang
it was more of the same
in a lot of the BO3s they played until recently where
they started to do quite well for themselves. And against NRG, you're right
like the first thing I thought there was like wow Feng must be really good
They dropped him in favor of picking up automatic and he can go
and get that revenge.
Not once,
but twice.
They played them twice in two days and to owe them both times.
So,
I mean,
that's got to feel amazing for him as the party astronauts are the ones
moving on and watching NRG fall by
the wayside. On the Nouns
side, they kind of did the same thing, played
Elevate twice in two days
basically, and they defeated them
pretty handily under both canes. i would say maybe not as much in the
challenger league matchup it went to three maps but you know earlier today two to nothing on a
nuken agent so each team is kind of faring well for themselves. In the past,
I would say Nouns have probably
had a little more success than PA
leading up to this point. They were kind of a team
I did anticipate finishing in the Final
Four. So yeah. So, yeah.
Yeah I think that's fair
to build but this Nouns roster
I think we both are maybe a little disappointed
by some of their previous outings here
in the playoffs. Let's take a look at the matchup that we've got here.
I mean, they had a tough road, right?
They had tough opponents.
They had tough options but came in a little limp
in some of their games particularly against M80
and then struggling as well against NRG and Elevate going
three map series against both of those.
It hasn't exactly been the most
rosy for a non-roster that we do have
high expectations for.
I kind of agree with that it's just that they were getting
beaten on the maps that they
usually do get beaten on and Inferno
in particular in those NRG matchups
and you know NRG kept picking up but they couldn't beat them on any
other map, so they went for a reverse sweep
against NRG twice and then
against Elevate, surprisingly actually ancient
ended up being a loss.
The reverse sweep came through again. Nuke new and mirage both dominant wins on those
last two maps and that seems to be a trend that's building with nouns you know they lose
that first map maybe their opponents get a false sense of confidence and they come out
and just absolutely destroy them on the next two maps.
The first win actually in four BO3s that wasn't
a 2-1 for Nounz was against Elevate today,
um...a 2 to nothing victory So maybe they're on the path
to actually finding that stride earlier
in the series rather than requiring
three maps to get to the finish line.
But I mean, I agree with you Mike.
There obviously have been some struggles for them and adaptations being
made, I guess since Rush was added to the roster
There's a lot of rosters in fact that have
one new player that's coming in North
America and two of them are playing here tonight
Of course with Rush like we just talked about on Bounce and Fang as we mentioned earlier.
Yeah! Fang and Infinite as well right?
Yeah!
Definitely lots of changes in the air people getting a jump start on shuffle season here.
It is interesting, though, that we have this consistent issue for now of starting slow into BO3 series.
It doesn't really seem to matter what the map order is sometimes.
You just consistently have
these slower starts to spool
up into real form,
and you do wonder what's causing that, right? Today
they've been playing already today, so maybe that
won't be an issue. Maybe that won't be a concern,
maybe this is a team that likes a warm-up match for their BO3 but
it is an interesting trend that we've noted and one to certainly keep an eye
on depending on what we get in this veto, depending on who starts
out with the pick.
It'll be curious to see which
of these teams will actually be able to come out of the gate
and be strong. Party Astronauts? Okay, we're going to
get the veto. We'll talk about this first.
Ban Vertigo makes sense for PA.
Ban Anubis.
For Nouns, pick for Inferno.
This is absolutely what you need to do against Nouns.
Inferno is their weakest map.
They've seen it multiple times.
You know?
At least Party Astronauts have seen it multiple times you know um at least party astronaut's seen them multiple times where now has been beaten there
you got to go to it makes sense and then picking mirage for yeah
mirage pronounce it's their best map even though they've lost it two out of
the last three it hasn't't been that tour de force
that we've seen in the past for nouns,
but I still think it's a solid pick for them.
And then Ancient Decider.
This is more of a standard Veto Mike coming through
than we saw yesterday
where Wildcard tried to go crazy
up against M80.
Sometimes, we're going to get these standard vetoes
and it makes sense in this case.
Yeah, it does. It makes a lot of sense, certainly.
Mirage is going to be interesting.
Now I'm a team that loves Mirage.
They love to get confident on there
but didn't necessarily have the best
of showings in the upper bracket
so we're going to look to them
to get more comfortable
than they were against M80, right?
And a big part of that hinges on the mid-aggression
especially on their CT side. That's what
we're going to be looking at. That's kind of where
the barometer is of what Nantz is able to do.
And I think if PA have been
smart, they looked at that M80 game. They looked at some
of the ways that the M80 players neutralize them
and they're saying might have some
ideas for how to make this Mirage a little more successful
this time around.
Ancient as it decides is interesting, as well.
I think this is going to be a fun one.
This feels like the 30-map series.
This feels like we're going to go the distance
and get to figure this out on ancient.
No, it really does. And, I i mean it's hard to predict which of
these teams is going to have the advantage mike and i guess i'll jump into my pick right now
honestly because i think it's to go the way of nouns.
It was a very difficult decision for me to make because I was looking at both teams
and seeing their trajectories,
and I'm saying, man,
I like the way PA is playing
and I like the way nouns are playing as of late,
but aside from a few hiccups here and there
but definitely for me it's going to be nouns and on the pa side the reason
i didn't pick the party astronauts because i watched their exolos laser match the other day
and they looked rough against a team
that they should be beating pretty cleanly
pretty much every single time
they face off against them.
So maybe there was
a little bit of overconfidence there,
but I still think
there's that shakiness on the pa side
that nouns could potentially exploit here in this series mike
i'm going the other way i'm picking the party astronauts and uh
i think they've got the hot hand at the right time they've already beat nouns
once today over in another qualifier so i'm just
saying I think the trend's gonna continue here. I think they're riding the hot hand you know what
didn't even realize it this wasn't even planned but I'm wearing my prediction on my chest here.
I'm feeling the PA victory.
We see this often in the ECL playoffs that one team gets hot at exactly
the right moment and they're going to carry that momentum potentially
into a pro league spot, if not into the consolidation
final. So I'm
going PA. Okay.
It was a B01 mic earlier today. It was not a
BO3. So I understand the confidence though.
I get it, I get it.
You know PA's been looking good for me
It's like 55-45 in favor of nouns
It's very close and I hope we get
a series that delivers on what the stats and
everything else is telling us about these two
teams, because sometimes you just end up with one
that's going to be a blowout. And that is certainly
what I hope won't happen here tonight, because these
two teams should be evenly matched up.
Yeah, we'll find out if they are our Kadea player to watch for this one is
a guy who's got history with both rosters
that's going to be Mr. CXZI
himself he's been on a tear
lately the stats have been jumping up the board and it's cool to
see, right? Because of various iterations within this team he'd kind of almost taken
a step back in towards more supportive roles giving space that's just not the way you want
to see 60 play this dude can rip, we all know he can rip heads,
We all know the ability that he's got and it feels like
He is getting comfortable flexing that again
Getting a renewed sense of confidence
And up against his old teammates
Look I'm just saying they're picking in the mirage.
That's 60 turf.
It really is
and I mean look talking more about 60
in terms of stats
he's got second place in the team
over the last month with 324 frags
and first in damage
He's always a fantastic damage dealer at 85.7 ADR number one in three kill plus rounds at 25 4ks
The reason I bring up to be killed bus runs because he's a clutch player
He gets really streaky, and then he can start dominating matches so significantly that you wonder, oh my God, what's going to stop him?
And the last time we saw that was up against NRG on Nuke where where I went to triple or quadruple overtime
when they played them. It was
insane. He almost got 50 frags.
I think he ended up with 49 at the end
of it. Just couldn't get across that finish line.
They ended up losing the map, but still,
it was 60 that was keeping them in it round after round and
that's the type of effect he can have and that's why
he's the player to watch.
That's why he is indeed a lot to keep an eye
on him. We'll be keeping an eye on both teams when
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Nouns and party astronauts squaring off.
Whoa!
When a broken early rush has got 8 kills 6c down and out of play
that was uh mid peak coming through from old Rush Arena.
And Nouns
running the four stack in mid
is what they like to do on Inferno.
Pretty much every Inferno CT pistol.
So if you don't know what's coming...
Well, I dunno what you've been watching.
Fang gets one. He's been traded.
Ben and Wolfie able to bring this back,
And now it just falls to Carson who is here in the bedroom
Oh my goodness!
Okay, Wolfie
And he has now got the bomb
Can't let him do this to you
Carson eventually run down with this
It comes down to a clutch that it never should have been.
The chase on Ian was so unnecessary they had full site control
and PA have no one to blame but themselves for this being a 1-on-1 clutch.
Wow.
This kit...
George has retrieved
that, he's got the dualies,
he's got armor, and Ben had no idea of his timing so
he hasn't felt comfortable to move off the site
itself. But of course, George does not
know that. Oh! Now he
does. Now he does! There's the first
ink out and the second shot lands.
D-Fuse on and nouns
got the pistol in.
Yeah this is a type of messiness that can happen
with the party astronauts sometimes. Wolfie
didn't need to be jumping across
into window room, he literally like
you said just should have gone to the bomb site
it was already cleared out
go and plant that bomb
don't chase a frag that you don't need to. And instead Carson not
only gets that one but the follow up
as well. It's actually really good shot from Carson by the way
and then George has the information
so he quickly rotates around. He was all the way over
at the B site but he's able to close that ground very rapidly because of the call out from Carson. So one to nothing in favor of nouns. I mean they've been on Inferno a lot lately. Yes, they've been on the losing end
more often than not but
it could pull off something against
the party astronauts because they've got so
many reps on this map eventually
you find a way to victory george down
to about half health now molotov he spun up i think this should be an easy clear
for fang he steps his toes into the mall top to try and catch doors off guard
man it doesn't really pan out now a couple of shots rattled through the smoke but
Nouns are just going to hold their ground here.
George at the sandbags
I feel like they have to clear this.
Nouns always love to do this type of play
with having the player push up pretty aggressively and they have
the support coming from banana there it is hard cleared good on 60. nate comes out six should be
dead he is not wow we dodged that with 4hp left and he may be able to chase down and frag here on the Junior.
No, Junior hits the shot.
Now they can't do much more as Wolfie is able to get one on the Junior.
Carson trapped but he still manages to get one maybe even more.
Yeah!
They're low! Carson with the pistol connects on to wolfie
fang could be next here he's trying to outplay carson but the movement oh infinite's coming
in on the flank infinite gets! Gets it onto CJ.
2v2 and now a 2v1. This is
a frenetic pace. Fang with
two HP, the last standing.
Did I forget Fangs here?
Surely not.
No.
I mean,
not now.
No problem.
The adjustment from Carson almost looked like
he wasn't aware
the player was
in between the oranges.
Um... Wow. I think Party Ashenov's in between the oranges um
i think party astronauts got a little too excited in that one yeah
it feels like now like party astronauts are a bomb delivery service to try and
put the c4 across's feet as often as possible.
Again, just
a lot of jumping around
corners. I get it. You've got SMGs. Your low percentage
you can clear out the new box player but there's no need
to rush that much.
I think part ofauts maybe just need to
breathe a little
bit because they're doing great things in these rounds
and then maybe panicking before they close.
It's... hectic, I think would be the word.
Phrenetic pace was a good one as well.
Let's see. It just fizzles in this one
not expecting much.
Not getting much.
Nope.
Well... No. Well, bomb is dropped again
at the feet of Nones.
It's just...
You gotta be...
Little details that are being looked over for sure
by the party astronauts.
The bomb shouldn't be on the first player out, or even the second one.
Just keep it at the back line so that
if something happens in the front you can still
recover, maybe get something done but I mean
it is just pistol save rounds so not
that big of a deal for the party astronauts. But it has
been a big deal in the previous two rounds.
This one's probably over. We'll be doing
a little bit of damage on the tail end of this
round but the odds of him conceding anything more
than that are staggeringly
low. Yeah. I mean one
kill here would be nice.
Two would be really nice.
Three?
Three?
In this economy?
That's the one.
Okay.
Okay, okay. Hold on.
Hold on. What's the next? At this range? Good luck! Oh he's gonna get it.
Alright you know what? Well done.
That's money made that's going to be an op for sure
if he wants it.
That is two big kills coming through $ 600 from the smg kill as well quite nice and yeah
he's gonna put that straight in to the big green a lot more utility behind it hand armor
as well no limitations on it.
Alright, Wolfie.
See if he can get off the races in this one.
Yeah, no that was really well done from Wolfie who has been their highest
rated player. One of their highest rated players over the last
month or so which is you know telling because he typically
has had his struggles in terms of consistency but to be able to contribute on a consistent
basis is something that certainly the party astronauts need from him,
especially with the AWP.
Party astronauts going for the boost into window now.
135 on the clock.
60.
Looking to clear out boiler, and this is a good
approach from the party astronauts.
They have the guns back in their hands.
Going to be quite methodical. Nouns are
playing it very passively though. The only one
that's up close here at bracket is Junior with an
A1S, didn't have enough money or actually does have enough money but of course doesn't
have to buy off the op just yet. Incendiary thrown forward. Rush, flashbang out.
And the party astronauts look like they might be changing their minds? That would be surprising, though. I don't think so.
They have so much bracket control that
they're probably going to commit to this, Mike.
Especially with this deep utility on Banana, right?
Taking so long to go back and clear it. There's only 50
seconds left. You've you gotta make a move rush
the flashbang is perfect he gets two was actually junior from
the other side who peaked on in little awkward on this exchange the tag
up is jude an infinite able to punish but there's the trade
they still got a player to contend with
there's a molotov for it cj uh molly actually goes too deep
molly goes too deep kind of an awkward angle to throw now
6c knows he's in a lot of trouble. 30 seconds,
no health,
no util.
Really?
Perhaps a bomb down,
but
it's scoping up.
He doesn't anticipate the swing
and George will catch.
Spry he picked up
the AWP, but I guess
I understand it because
no one had shown face
yet so you can get
one with the AWP
and then pick up
the rifle afterwards
to try and go for
the 1v1.
I think that's
because he was low.
Maybe.
I think in his head he said bogdan bogden boggan
well this flash i mean cj is not necessarily known for his support utility but
that was a great flush it helped two frags come through,
then he's able to I think at least stay alive
long enough for George
to connect on one of the players
ends up going down
but his impact on that round
cannot be understated
as nouns pick up a fourth
and the party astronauts will be back to an eco round
It's gonna feature for tech nines and the Mac 10 likely could be a quick push after these smokes fade away
Do they have the flashes? They do, they have a couple of them.
They need to use one here immediately. In fact,
they used both of them to try and pincer
into bracket, and no one's home! So the flash
is going to waste, Junior hits an opening shot, only
takes a little bit of damage, and then Infinite as he's trying to get through
there... I'm not sure if that was team damage or not but
it doesn't matter. It was team damage in fact.
6E finding him
and Carson trying
to stay alive to finish off a second frag here.
And Cinderia throwing it at the feet of 6y,
and 6y doesn't care!
Charges right on through!
Could do even more damage here!
Bomb getting hit by him!
6y does!
How does he get his 2nd?!
I have no idea how he's won of that dual now this gets really interesting because
they actually know they can't rotate through ct right so they just gotta deal with this bombs
taking away this is not a viable round there'sta one thing thanks the player
over towards trey
and i end these really take smokes but even if they smoke off the cross
there's what they've done all right she's's gonna burn the molly early to try and stall them out.
There was a gap?
It was an incendiary as well so it's actually not going to last very long.
They slipped through! They don't have time!
They don't have time!
Part of astronauts may all go up in smoke with this bomb but you know what? They slipped through, they don't have time. They don't have time! They don't have time!
Party astronauts may all go up in smoke with this bomb
but you know what?
It's gonna be 100% worth it.
This is pistols!
This was pistols!
This was 6E with a Mach 10 and a Tech 9!
And somehow he has ended his round. How is that possible?! 6E with a Mach 10 and a Tech 9.
And somehow he has upended this round,
how is that the round that PA get on the board?
I don't know.
It's so weird just 6E flexing his muscles
I mean it felt like he was in a really tough spot. There is an incendiary
thrown right at his feet. He swings around
into it with the Tech-9, gets past
it because it's a lot smaller now of course
in terms of its radius than it used to be and
I mean you see the impact of that. He just goes right
past it, is already through, and then
gets the headshot immediately without taking much damage
And, I mean, the more impressive thing
is the second Frank. He's at mid-range
with a MAC-10 up against an M4 and he somehow pulls that off which takes all the presence
Off of that B site, leads to plant. And then the other three I mean they just couldn't find a path forward
The utility was there picked up off the ground by the party astronauts to stay off now.
So yeah, I'm as surprised as you are Mike that that's the first round to pick up
but there we have it.
Oh there's the incendiary coming through and they're flashing at the same time
So they stand up for too long
Wolfie waiting gets Carson
Trey comes through but it's better for PA
Not anymore! Rush gets three!
Oh no. PA.
Mental lapse there.
Not expecting the third.
Not ready for it at all.
Just swinging in trying to get ahead of themselves here.
You need to know,
especially early in the round,
so many teams bring that third over.
What a punish.
What a play from Rush.
Tremendous effort.
He has been the In inferno god for this team
really has been a consistent performer here 11-2 against his old comrades comrades.
And now... Smoke up as they sit on this
bomb.
I mean,
not really sure
what that's supposed
to accomplish
but we'll lead
infinite in towards
his death
four in the round
rush
stacking them high
if I had to wager a guess probably try this stacking them high.
I, if I had to wager a guess probably trying to smoke the bomb
to pick it up
I would imagine
hoping that no one
would be nearby
and there were
I think there was another
smoke still in the vicinity
so he was hoping that there would be a little bit of a wall
he could slip through.
Managed to make some tunnel all the way to site?
Yeah, well, that would be cool if you could,
but no, you can only have one smoke, so...
Anyway!
Party astronauts fall right after an impressive round victory and they'll be able to buy up here because of the fact...
At least I thought that would do a little more aggressive than that but they're actually going to get a couple of AKs. A MAC-10 and two Tech
9s. Could have invested more heavily
but are choosing to err on the
side of caution
which is fine I suppose if you're up
in a match, but they're down
Five to one anyway. We'll see it's good bear fruit
Did see them win with a lesser buy-up just one round ago rush
we'll only get one before being traded but cj's right there in pit to get
one maybe a second here does a ton of damage to fang we'll get closed line by 60 and then benley
gets junior the techs are at it again and the Mac 10 this is ridiculous this is ridiculous
actually just running around with momentum still I would not say these
exactly repeatable rounds you keep winning doesn't matter how
you're doing it don't be new tilt to try install this out George tagged up by
that need I don't know they're gonna fancy this there's not a lot of money
spare here for nouns.
They're out.
Activate Inferno Save Simulator.
Stamp on that button.
There you go.
Go away. Do that B site,
do nouns and they will be able
to bring an AK and an M4
into that next round. But honestly,
in all seriousness, impressive stuff from the
party astronauts continuing to push through. 60 again
is that key player
to find an opening frag and afterwards
Ben is the one with the tech 9
who gets the headshot. I think it was onto CJ so
that was very impressively done.
I thought CJ was going
to be able to at least
get one more for himself,
but doesn't come through
and PA are winning the rounds
they shouldn't
and losing the rounds convincingly
when they actually have the weaponry in their hands.
So hopefully, for their sake, they'll be able to change that trend here, Mike.
Okay. See if they can.
See if they can, the limitations in this one
could cost...
So it's pretty neat.
If they can get on the porch...
They're giving up, like no this is embarrassing now.
A little awkward, a little fumble-a-rooski.
Got vertigo.
Got the swirlies.
This is just one on one here on Banana.
The thing doesn't seem to fancy it.
It's enough from George for the moment to dissuade them.
So right now they're heading into the stack.
Yeah, there are some nades dropped on the ground for George as is pretty standard now
so he'll have another smoke to throw as soon as this one fades
They test his mid set up.
Wolfie's got the one spot of the second player swinging but no it's a tag! Not
a kill! That's gonna be massively disappointing for Wolfie still
It might be enough to expect a second pit player.
No! Not at all! Carson deleted though
leaves it just under George in the clutch. This is
messy to say the least but if they win I don't think
PA are going to care. They need rounds.
And George
has a lot of ground to cover
to give this a look.
To give it an attempt. He's sitting on an AWP as well.
Kuj is trying back away.
Incendiary picked up.
Now he's going to give this a look.
There's the incendiary!
They're already out.
Already anticipating this.
The balcony player, yeah it's got him
dead to rights. Nicely played from Fang.
Wow, yeah well done again
from PartyAstronauts and 6E
another 2K. He's at the top of the scoreboard for his team with
nine frags above him of course is on the other side nouns as rush with 13 but
Wolfie did a great job finding opener almost the second as well but it is a leg shot not HS shots so that means that Junior survives and is able to finish off Wolfie.
But at the end of the day its that push through Apartments again that Nouns appear to be having a lot of trouble
with towards this A site.
So if I'm the party astronauts,
I'm saying go away.
Go to those apartments.
Keep abusing them until nouns can stop us.
They are going to at least have a poke around
Banana to see what's up here, but
nouns are on an eco now.
Carson did go for a
Hero Mag 7. I think that might be the first
time I've ever said that.
But everyone else on to USPs and George is dead!
That's the B site open. here we go though junior 4k with the usb well heard you. There was a second.
But it didn't happen.
It was like a split second where no one
was looking at him.
And I thought...
but what if?
Infinite putting his smoke down
so that he can more effectively fight the egos right here
is kind of hilarious to me.
I'm not going to lie to you.
It really is.
He's like, this is where I could get caught but
I really do want to steal the USP
Now he knows Carson's here
and Carson just like give me the max 7 kill
man, gimme the money
so he'll shatter his own ankles to try and deny it they don't need to hunt this up
but if wolfie wolfy feels like come out with your hands up at this point
he's got the glock here he wants a to hunt this E- There's no reason!
There's no reason! It's gonna work!
But genuinely giving
him the $900 kill reward
just does not feel worth
it as a risk. No, it doesn't at all and they knew he had the shotgun because uh
you already damaged infinite with it that's so strange it's the second time we see wolfie get
really antsy to go he doesn't have to go for. It cost him in the pistol round
that time, it didn't and he gets it
but still I agree with you Mike
That's very strange
that they're chasing down a shotgun like that
I guess it's a low percentage risk from their perspective. Yeah, he dropped the
Octoplay. He can be a momentum player at times
so... but it's just hilarious
to me that he is chasing up with a Glock
like maybe buy a P250 if we're gonna do that
He knew they wouldn't
have armor, Mike. You know, he was anticipating that.
He was ready. He was ready!
But we are coming down the stretch.
Rody Assants have a chance to equalize
here. It was a rough start, so considering the fact they've just run three in
a row if I'm not mistaken that's pretty dang good for PA.
Oh yeah it's pretty solid honestly and again kind of expected on this map
now while they had a lot reps here it's again kind of expected on this map.
Now while they've had a lot of reps here,
it's because teams are trying to abuse them on it.
Maybe they've adjusted a little bit.
You see at the beginning of this half
it looked pretty strong
but the party astronauts
even though it's looking messy
and hectic at times are finding way to win rounds and at the end of the day that's all that matters
what a swing from fang and a follow-up as well hello Hello Fang, welcome to the map.
Oh goodness me he clears up B by his lonesome and no one is even nearby.
They're gonna join him now though.
Yeah no reason not to. This round's over and they know it.
Infinite's gonna stick around, probably just
try and hunt up some kills because he's already
on the hunt. He's here to
control the rotations to make sure they can't get in
but now it's of zero
intention of this.
Zero intention of mounting a retake here.
There's no percentage in it.
They've got a lot to save,
a lot of weaponry,
a lot of utility.
So we are going to see
an equalized scoreline.
We are going to see the run back coming through
from the party astronauts.
And now for nouns, they built such
a nice start to this map, be ashamed
to watch it all slip away.
Felt like they finally found some answers here
but the party astronauts are quickly
delivering blow after blow
to their confidence and now
with a tied scoreline we're all looking at
you know, a couple rounds left in this half it's not promising they
won't even be able to save one of those m4s look at the aggression here on the hunt from
the party astronauts you understand it they have tons of money nothing to lose here
cj gets one traded out.
Junior last one. He tries to hide behind
the pillar there on top of the box, but
eventually they spot him out.
Eye-to-the-seek is not the forte there
it seems for Junior as now we have the party astronauts tying things up
crippling the economy of nouns by finding all three
of those frags and forcing them onto an eco.
That's a tough road.
Tough spot to be in. Right? We're right at the tail end of
half and you just get deleted off rip into this gun round.
Gonna have to take the eco here. It's a little bit juicier
we certainly know Nanz is a the dangerous team with the pistols.
Don't count them out with the 5-7.
Oh that nade stack is gonna make life a lot easier!
Renly called both those in his teeth.
How's that for a party trade?
Yeah, I mean
I think now it's probably surprising
PA with the amount of utility that came out there.
And I think perhaps the intention
there is to convince party astronauts
that a four-spy came through, which
didn't. It's just an eco round, but
maybe they'll be a lot more wary going for their approaches here.
Yeah, I mean, I think if you're playing Nads,
you have to treat every eco with
a little bit of something weird's gonna happen
here.
There's an element
of that. There's certain teams where you almost fear the Deegs more than
you do the Rifles at times.
Fortunately for them, no Deegs brought up.
But taking this control...
If they do wind up going in towards a it is the stack
there's still time to bail out and fang's gonna be exploring his options here top banana
and he's encountering no resistance right george has a single smoke that smoke has been deployed I seems to have
dissuaded Fang entirely so this could be a problem
this is a heck of a crossfire. Even with the limitations...
I got something working here!
Flashbang on, first player in
he's dead! This is a problem they don't know about
the truck! Feng just put down Ben Lee!
Uh oh! Uh-oh!
Better make up for that one thing!
24 seconds.
There's still a player here tucked in the corner and he's gonna be cleared.
Good snap around for Infinite but they're both vulnerable.
George could absolutely do this.
Does he want to phase the smoke?
He's thinking about it, bombs down, he's phased!
There's still a player in Graveyard, they should be an easy trade and...
It is! That is far from comfortable.
But by hook or by crook,
they have won the round
and party assholes
don't have to think
about their money.
They can forget
that they almost lost
this to pistols because they're on the six.
Yeah, a little bit of TK coming
through there and I mean make it
immense for it I would say. Find the bomb plant
ensuring the trade comes through.
It's a tough situation because Ben was so low just like even august the wind could have taken
him down and he got in the wrong path right as fang was firing through anyway it got scary for
the party astronauts like you said and it can because nouns are so good
to those pistols sometimes but they do
carry out their 6th round
victory in a row
or at least 5th in a row. Not sure if it's 6th
and they're going to come through here and try to make it seven
overall in this half nate sails through and fang lucky to escape with his life goes down to 12 hp
and george has been doing a pretty solid job with the U-tool towards B.
Sure, they haven't won the last few rounds but I mean
They've been dissuaded from going in that direction quite a few times
Sixie thinking about being the tip of his spear here
Wilkes is gonna peek first and they both look in the same direction.
That is not what you want to do! And then Junior connects with the AWP onto Infinite
CJ gets traded out by Wolfie while Wolfie takes damage in that engagement
and it's still very tough for the party astronauts to find a way back into this one.
They're guessing right I would say Mike by going B.
Yeah they are, we just milked on from George but it's a little early...
...I don't think he has another one.
He's got a Molly. An incendiary rather. Keep forgetting
that matters now. Yeah, it does.
Here's the flashbang nearly added on the spray, but now they know where he's playing from.
Molly? Considerate rather just to slow this down,
but Ben Lee is going to find enough space to punch in the numbers
and somehow dodge the spam.
Oh! That would have been a massive kill
for Fang and Sennett Jr. to collect.
And now this retake is well and truly on as they look
to take an even scoreline into the second half.
Ben wants the initiative, he wants the swing,
he wants the fight, he knows George is here.
There's two players on the line though,
this is going to be tough and a swing back in.
It's all gone.
Dfuse on! we are knotted up as we head to the halftime break it so terrorist so. so so. so so so so so. so so so back into this second half we are neck and
neck it's quite the run from party astronauts winning i believe five rounds in a row
there john yes to pull into the lead but now he's at least able to steal away
just a bit of sweetness there on the tail end
yeah no i mean winning that last round gets them something going on to their T-side, which they can be very explosive on as well.
And I would say in a more coordinated manner than what the party astronauts showed us.
Not to say it was bad, but it was scrappy.
Look at this. Speaking of a coordinated
manner, they're down the middle.
Oh my goodness.
Carson's coming straight
into disaster. They realize there's a player logs, now they do!
Now they know!
Banks just trying to hold him at bay
Let his reloaded teammates come in
But George is still gonna get one
At least on the punish
There might be a path towards an A plant
But the cavalry is coming and it's
coming quick junior can't connect now they know
the g is up russia realizes i might just need to get this bomb planted sooner
rather than later he's low and oh they've got no desire
we'll allow it but now they put themselves in a bad spot
don't fall into the one that bomb is dropped junior he knows he's out in the open he knows
you can't really do anything about this pot he's got time yeah he's got plenty of time to cook.
Trying to fully rotate around here, I mean the footsteps are making a secret of it
but now that he has drawn their focus
they'll hit him with the double back
Oh ho ho focus. They'll hit him with the double back. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Kind of like this.
This is very smart from Junior.
All that noise made. They're looking
in that direction. They think he's still on the bottom floor
but he's in the apartments! He could
really do damage here if the timing is right
Oh, they're rapping on him
He's wondering where the heck they've
gone. They've read it. They've read it They're wise to his tricks and know that they just need to play together, he's gonna have to give an audio cue to drop down here now they got confirmation!
Wow...
He thought he had the maneuver. He thought he had the maneuver.
He thought he had the moment.
But is anything bought?
Now what does he choose to plant there?
Oh, he's actually gonna plant safe with a panic!
That's going to pull him off and that's going to be all the PA needs.
I mean, look, Nouns
gave it a good fight but
the party astronauts kind of read what
Nouns were doing. A nice push on their
side down mid like you said very coordinated they were just a
firing squad hunting down nouns players and george i thought maybe he could pop off for
a couple but there are just so many bullets coming in his direction. Three party
astronauts firing away at him,
and afterwards, you know, that little recovery
by now is at the end gives them a chance
to find a bomb plant, but the party astronauts
are quickly barreling down mid,
all the way towards that A site to try and recover it.
And they absolutely did. I love the idea from Junior
I think it was a clever attempt
But he took a little too long to activate
and then the party astronauts figured out what trick
he was trying to pull off.
60 going to throw that nade down,
and party astronauts have four MP9s
and an A1S after winning that first round.
Oh, he's exposed! He goes down! That's the rifle lost?
I don't know if they'll be able to recover that 60 also
Down to 13 HP
And the frags coming through now for nouns they get
the 4v3 advantage ben's exposed too this is just glocks
this is just glocks they're making it work
4 v 2 in favor of nouns the b site is clear they've got a Molotov to slow down
a rotation and 6 he's already been lit up over towards mid down to 13 Oh 60 an
infant get a couple here to try and settle things down.
But it's still very much at risk Mike.
Yeah, 6y has to wait for Infinite to get all the way around the world
And meanwhile he is getting pinched upon
And Infinite just missed this
It's a lack of armor
that might cost them.
The in-punch is brutal,
but 60's on one HP.
Oh!
Infinite's not looking
a whole lot better.
This is like first bullet wins.
Next bullet wins.
Who can connect? Who can make this happen? They need
to get on the stick, the Molotov will do it!
He's forced into the open... Oh my god
And Sixy settles
this down
This was unreasonable from
the party astronauts, irresponsible
from the party astronauts. They hear
the glocks and they just get blood
lust on to chase the egos
The problem is they didn't have the aim
to go with it.
I don't know what to tell you,
they lost three separate duels
against Glocks around the map.
That...
That was four HP left combined.
That is... Okay, they won the round and that's good
but the manner in which they almost lost that
is frankly embarrassing. Yeah, that was very
VERY concerning for
the party astronauts. And they have to heavily
reinvest here...
I- Yeah?
It doesn't mean this next wraparound is going to dang good, but Fank despite being blind he will connect.
George actually ate a little bit of his teammate's flash and I think that's gonna be a little unfortunate for them.
Timing just the tick off there for Nouns and it's gonna cost them the opener
i think nouns are going to look back on that round and watch it and say damn man we're so close
just one shot one shot six year. It would have been the round,
but it doesn't come through.
Of all the times for Carson, he was usually pretty solid
with his aims just with the shots.
I mean, it wasn't the easiest ones, let's be fair.
He was also on 10 HP, right?
So he's just trying to pre-fire and guess, basically.
They were both doing it because everyone knew
if I stay in this fight for two seconds,
I am dead.
Yeah, that was tough. But very
valiant effort from Downs.
I think Party Astronaut's getting lots of days
going on. I told you last time I watched them against
Xolos Laser, those types of plays they were making
they just weren't being careful,
weren't being methodical in their approach and it cost them more often than not.
A little too eager against the eeks...
NA Classic that's slightly too shallow smoke.
He is actually going to cause some problems here.
That's a miscommunication!
Ben swinging into his teammate's Molotov,
they're not on the same page
and now Fengs in a tough spot but he has got support.
6E might have just bailed him out sacrifices his life to do so
and it does mean the bomb is going to be planted but what do we got here should use mention slip
away rush is so low.
There's no more U-Till, Rush is gone now they know where Junior is and there's a lot across that's gonna be looking his way it's desperation
And he will not be able to hang on, so...
Look there have been awkward moments in a lot of these rounds
but at the end of the day if you're winning
You are happy
If your the party astronauts
Then out of the woods
These sustained buys means that
these rounds are going to get more and more dangerous
but they've now stacked a three-round lead.
Wow.
I mean look, they have 60 to thank.
I'm glad you brought him up in that round
because he is the one that carried them out
of that horrible situation with the Glocks
as well. Even low HP was generating
some momentum, getting frags
and helping them out of it there again
a lot of pressure on. He pulls off a 2k takes tons
of pressure away from that bomb site and yes they get the bomb plant but the
numbers become in favor of the party astronauts you see after that they're
able to close up pretty cleanly time looking to be called
on their side i feel like this should have come a lot sooner but better late than never call it calm
down stop going crazy for egos and just getting too aggressive in situations where it's not merited, then
settle yourselves down a little bit party astronauts.
I mean like I said they're playing good Counter-Strike as of late, but these types of rounds it's not sustainable.
Sure maybe on Inferno against Nouns that's going to work,
But on any other map they'll probably punish PA significantly.
Well,
this one's not over of course.
Yes you're right Mike they built up that three round lead but now let's have the guns again.
This is the smoke potentially set down at mid-peak
They don't go for it but they're putting the doubt in their minds.
Over on the downside.
Ah, they stack into the stairs! No one's there.
It's a bedroom approach instead.
Here comes Rush... bedroom approach instead
here comes rush i don't think he's gonna catch anybody in the timing but it does seem like nouns are eager to get into the fight
here Oh, yeah. They're gonna push into bracket.
Wow!
Opening frag goes Wolfie's way. That is a wicked peek and frag found.
CJ couldn't do anything at all, really.
No that was really ambitious.
A lot of faith in yourself. Uh oh!
Carson's gonna catch that spray back the other way
6U giving just a few too many tracers, and now
this A defense is in a lot of trouble.
Ben's trying to come in to support it,
but once that smoke fades, Carson's gonna be
through.
They're gonna feel the pinch.
Trades not favoring them, this is probably a save
and Ben just giving up his life here in the library
Feng will have to play for his own this ball is going
down and here's where we see the pain of all of those close rounds of all of
those bodies lost against glocks against lesser buys.
There's no money that's going to be to spare
for Friday astronauts. It's unreal. They won
three in a row to kick off this half
and this is the first round they lose
And you're right! I mean there's nothing there!
The bank is empty!
Well, now
let's get a 7th and probably an 8th
as a result. Fang presumably
saves the AK so maybe we shouldn't speak too soon about
the 8th being a sure thing but
still feels like that's
nouns abusing the A site.
Similarly to the way the party astronauts did
in that first half when they were struggling. They went
through those apartments and up lane, and we're managing to put enough pressure on
the CT side that they came out with some victories, and now let's just kind of replicate
that here on their T side to pick up
their first round.
Looking at PA, yeah this is
are they going to force into it?
Ben's kind of showing that they will.
Okay.
I don't mind it, I guess.
Yeah, they can get a pretty decent buy around this.
Wolf is going to save for the AWP.
This is something he tends to do
and makes feelings about it. But... This is something he tends to do. And, you know...
Mixed feelings about it.
But uh...
It IS a decision
that he's gonna make.
It IS a decision?
I just feel like if you're gonna force
put the faith in your teammates. Commit to the plan.
I...
Carson was going to get the opener on 6E here.
That was an ambitious peek.
Waiting for them to set up utilities.
Just trying to catch some of the needs in hands but kind of split
the difference on it.
Rush.
Ooh!
He's going to get caught.
Lots of damage done though.
Confirmation here... Oh, Wolfie.
Oh my goodness
Wolfie.
He slipped the gap.
They're headed towards Banana and I think you might have heard footsteps from the player getting in towards Sewers
Yeah, he's calling. He's calling right now. They're headed towards B
Wolfie has heard enough
He's communicating to his team that there's no apartments presence, that he's going to have this flank quickly.
And it may just be a P250, but
that P250 might be enough.
The execs coming in. Look at that Nate CJ
so low right now.
And in the back lines, there's two spotted!
Oh boy, Wolfie!
That's the bomb? That is the bomb!
But now he's
in a lot of trouble.
That one might have taken a little bit too much time with George slipping into CT.
Now the players are stuck on B!
They've got A! This has worked out beautifully for now, it was the flake of the century!
But he couldn't hang on he got stuck
and then we come back to your argument mike what if you would have forced up with his
team what if he would have gone for an m team? What if he would have gone for an MP9 instead?
Maybe we would have an entirely different
story here. As the party astronauts
are opting for the save, the AK
is too valuable and they don't have
the utility to really attempt a retake here.
I guess it's a good way to lead into my point,
I understand just going for a P250
and the body armour because you want to keep your economy healthy
to ensure the op comes up sooner rather than later,
especially on that CT side.
But I also get your point.
Like, you want to go and full-on commit
to the bid.
You know?
You're on a four spot.
Right?
Get it done! To me...
It's also just what it signals to your team.
Right? Yeah.
It's like yeah we might win this for us.
Might not.
And if you win it then you have money and you're fine
and you're just going to carry on and the other
team's going to be tough and have a tough time in terms of
economy instead. Well, no.
Not so much? Especially with the position
he gained. If he had an MP9 there,
that would have been way more effective.
I mean, to be fair, also if
he hit that chat it would have been fine. But
it is what it is. If
ands and buts do not matter in the game of counter-strike
couldn't quite hold on to the flank and it wound up
costing them i mean the real credit as well we should give praises to george being able
to slip into a ct there he completely neuters the ability for
party assets to do anything even if now has been able to bail out but george hadn't succeeded on
his mission it would have been in a tough spot instead well you saw the end result. And it's burning?
I was trying to buy as much time as possible for that smoke to come through but
That is uh...
I'm running out of utility.
PA gonna stack a site, can't really blame them.
Gonna maximize the impact of what little you do have.
I mean they're two AKs.
This is a cheeky boost.
Are they going to run-boost him? No. This is a cheeky boost. Yeah.
Are they gonna run-boost him? No.
I think he's just standing up so he gets more visibility over that smoke and it's much easier to see, right?
It would kinda be hilarious to see
a run-booster in that corner on a flash.
Someone make it happen!
Flower pots are on boost...
Just wicked high, I wonder if you could get onto oranges?
Top oranges.
Probably, if you have good movement.
Yeah with an MP9? Just spray the whole way and then you're on first oranges?
Mmm... Metacrafting here.
First thing to do that I'll buy them a soda on land.
This is actually still a really good setup for BA.
This is why!
This what he's boosted over, this new meta smoke.
Firebots shouldn't be a problem but oh there it is!
They realize the second player here well they don't really need to worry about it.
Well there is a flint developing this
time it is just an unarmored infinite with a 5-7
so rush could not exactly be quaking in his boots did
get dinked up but but Fang just wants to save
and Junior does not want
to let him.
He will not.
That's a good swing
from Junior.
Gets aggressive.
Fang probably would have
had his number
if he didn't doubt himself
for a moment
and just held that
angle but in the end, he falls. No AKs saved over the party astronauts I mean they care they wanted
the AKs into this next round but regardless that was it worked out well for ben i'm surprised
they didn't just stick to it and keep him up there and boost up until he went down instead falling
off and kind of leaving the site a little more vulnerable than it needed to be.
Anyway, party astronauts give up the round now let's tie it up at nine and they decide looking
very nice indeed but let's see if party astronauts can get the stop here wolfie's thinking about peeking
nade is going to come through excuse me bend
okay and then it still comes out doesn't do any damage at all
to now so they're just going to keep pushing
through. Why not? The Molotov
burning away. Carson
is afforded the space to charge up
the top banana, but Fang does
get the headshot he needs to find.
Great flashbang throw, George finds a trade,
not the second onto Fang,
he's doing a lot of work here,
eventually will be overloaded,
you'd imagine...
No! He hits the headshot on the peak on CJ!
That is a third for Fang and they still can't find him.
Enough time for Wolfie to come through with the AWP
And drop Junior to dirt. Rush's thinking,
What? How?
How did this all go down like this?
We had the space.
Superlative effort there from Fang.
That last one, smoke down peeking into a spray
and finding the headshot?
That's a little bit of magic coming through from the fangster.
Let's see where Rush can cook...
Shouldn't be possible, and yeah that smoke makes his decision for him.
He backs away and saves. They've actually probably got a decent buy into the next.
Might be the temptation to try and do some further economic damage here.
The round itself feels very
low percentage.
They shouldn't hunt.
There should be no motivation to hunt for party astronauts.
Alright, we're gonna give this a go?
10 seconds! Okay there's the haircut but that's going to be it.
It'll be a costly haircut
for sure with Rush
able to keep what he's got.
That's a good find.
Don't chase, don't chase,
fight your demons.
He's really tempting them
too! I love that play! Throw
the smoke make it feel like you faded away
into T spawn and just wait?
Man well they did fight the demons
Mike and they did not give in to the chase.
I'm always proud when an NA player resists
the demon call,
the whisper in their ear.
I really do appreciate that
for either side, really.
Yeah,
I mean the moment
was so huge for PA right now
they've actually got
a little bit of cash
they're keeping themselves
in the lead
defending off nouns
at the critical junctures
but this next round
becomes so dangerous there's plenty of cash to spare on nouns
limitations on cj's kit that's really it if they can crack pa now they know what
this opportunity presents this could be the map win
yeah, definitely I agree with you a hundred percent there Mike as
Nouns could find their path to victory right in
This round junior running the off-key side, 4 AKs around him
on the other side. PA
I mean like we talked about their money
is going to be low because they have to reinvest
into all of that
utility and they didn't do themselves any favors earlier on in this half
in terms of how they managed everything the anti-ecos and
all of the bodies continued to fall and it still pretty chaotic, even when they've had the
guns out. So
can now strike
find a win here
and then push it across the finish line
for PA denied in this phase on the defensive line. PA denied into space on
the defensive end.
Find out soon Molotov's
gonna get tossed up
forward, Nade thrown as
well and George does
get down to 70 but now
he wants to fight this
defense. He's just
peeking around getting ready to throw the smoke eventually you think he's going toss it
It's just um incendiary instead
I will come top banana that does leave George very isolated, but do they know George has gotten this far?
Do they know Jordan is here? They don't know
George is here! Oh a free 2k
and look at Wolfie as well
taking damage in an engagement
against Rush. B site is open
This round might already be over.
It's over.
It's long since over.
It is absolutely over.
Sound the alarm, ring the bell.
Last call is in on round number 20.
That is a lethal maneuver from George, they had no clue
completely bamboozled by his timing big overstate from the party astronauts and well now they got some decisions to make.
This one's getting real scrappy, John. It really is.
I mean the good news for
the party astronauts
they say that
wait
I was going to say
that they can save the guns
but nouns
never like to shy away
from a chase, right?
Even when they're low on money
they're coming out here
Carson
could find Wolfie he's already
low will be missing the shot carson is going to swing it uh oh
the guns can be dropped as well this could be even worse for the party
astronauts as nouns are hunting full-on at this
point mike nouns are hunting full on at this point, Mike. Oh no, infinite, infinite! He jumps, all the
time gets tossed he should be okay, he is! Two guns saved over.
That's a little Nexa impression there standing in the Molean pit.
Now is that... I mean this could be the moment.
This play from George, this could win the map
legitimately that feels like the swing on the map you got a decision to make and it's
you know pick your voice in here for party astronauts they'll take the eco
they've got two rifles to play around there is definite danger that they could invoke but it's
gonna be a stack it's gonna be a risk it's gonna be a gamble and it's gonna
be both rifles over towards b initially I don't know. Party astronauts getting
aggressive might be a mistake with all the
infinite charges out and that's
a good flashbang! Through the MOLLE?!
Through the MOLLE?! Yeah?
With one of two rifles, no support from his teammates?
And no bailout utility?
What's it...
All right, he's stuck!
He's gonna get the kill!
It's gonna work out through them all top and deep!
But now he's done!
Now he's gone!
Fang got the gun ferried on out of there,
But still...
It was a one-for-one worth it with one of your two sets of armor.
Wow.
That's a question that will need to be answered, the question is do they expect
a second AK to be there as well? They didn't see it in the new map
and might expect 6E here, Wolfie actually connects with the USP.
Time's getting to be an issue.
You can't keep rotating, and
6E collects! Where do you want to go?
You don't have any information. You don't have any
space. So back into A, they will go.
They'll make this maneuver but now Wolfie's got a gun!
Now there is crossfire established.
60 slides in the corner and that could be enough to transfer on
and Wolfie will take it all!
I mean yes, Wolfie will take it all. I mean, yes
Wolfie gets a 3K but
60 is the one with the critical
frag to really make that
a possibility into the apartments
Oh my goodness, that is
an 11th round that is
grasped right away
from nouns. Unreal
stuff in the party astronauts play. Placing
those AKs perfectly, splitting them up between the bomb
sites. I mean yes you do lose one
on Infinity's charging down Banana
but I mean he got the frag before
he fell and Fang keeps the
AK in his hands.
So PA, despite losing
the previous one, get the 11th.
Now still have enough to buy up pretty much fully.
It's just a Galil instead of an AK for CJ
but outside of that they got the full util
and the guns ready to
go at it here.
Up against the P...
Against the party astronauts.
Up against
the P indeed!
Big P we call him.
I was gonna say PA, but...
In the Challenger League?
Big P and a big A
Here they make the moves
Offs on the angle.
Wolfie's here, he's been playing a lot towards ace.
They might not expect him in his contact if they just try checking... Oh no, there's a flashbang for it, but Fang was set up beautifully to play the anti-flash
flank back in and he just tries to follow this up!
It's pure momentum there, Junior Burning!
Man advantage...
for the astronauts.
Ohhhh, the jiggle from Rush!
Nice! He's got a kill! Wow. Cheeky spot. If he didn't already have the confirmation,
He's got the confirmation off of footsteps now his teammates are trying to rally
To his aid. Get this kill on Rosh! There is a chance
There is indeed but only the one
Molotov and smoke for this retake though john two nades on nouns where are these
he's gonna go what you're laying here oh junior gets caught up but the trade is there Mike, CJ finds it.
Wolfie exposed!
83 HP has the option he's at a bit of disadvantage in this duel realizes it picks up the AK gonna
reswing around the corner
CJ's still got a beat on him but Wolfie
Does get the headshot. Runs for the kit
Party astronauts get 8-12
But it is scary!
Where's the bomb? Where's the bomb? Oh the bomb? He has got it.
Oh, scary indeed.
But you know what?
It's not going to matter.
Look at what nouns have
for train fight for overtime it's now stuff i mean that
could be enough they can make these buys work but they'd rather not i'm sure this play from thing
getting the one playing the anti-flash position and then following
it up, and I mean, the one
kill from Infinite knowing that he was in a tough
spot and he just needed to squeeze
whatever value he could out of it.
Very savvy positional play.
I'm surprised Junior went for that peek, though,
Mike. I think you kind of were too.
Seeing him out there going into
the lane... It was a little bold!
Especially when you have the double A cheese.
I'm just saying if you can confirm as a player short off of
a jiggle for the pit player,
you could really punish that but
I think what he realized
What was going through his mind is
If they're coming moto
I'm screwed.
I need to take some control. I need to get off this
site and find a position I can play for this AWP.
But golly!
A dry peek there really did cost
them.
Oh indeed it
did. Still two rounds
left here in regulation.
We know what nouns can do with the techs
and the
SMGs. They even have a rifle in the mix here on Rush.
We're gonna wait for the utility to be tossed out, which is quite wise because
Party Astronauts are dedicating quite a bit of it to this fight. There go two more
nades. All they to do is burn off the
utility off the belts of the party astronauts as
they look at it toss another smoke here which
is not plastic yeah there's a big gap and Bang will abuse it!
Two added to his tally, Carson with the jumping tech nine
to try and recover here picks up the rifle as well
And Ben will back off here. Luckily for PA, they've
played two players here.
He's just trying to be the surprise factor.
He is mullied out, but there's a transfer. A nice little
sequence for Ben, and that's going to put
this map to rest.
Nice time for the IGL to step up,
and it is Party Arsenal through Triumph on Inferno.
Look, maybe this was our expectation
looking at the Vito in the beginning
but damn did this map get dangerous. Oh it really did
It absolutely did, I think the party astronauts
just made a lot of mistakes
they're actually lucky they didn't lose this map
because of the amount of mistakes that were
kind of piling up against them nouns fell a little bit flat on their t
side at critical junctures and i think some you know obviously some mistakes happened
their way too i would argue a little less um than the party astronauts but still i mean it was pa just hanging on by
the skin of their teeth and thanks to 60s heroic plays more often than not at critical moments
let's pull him up he's our player to watch let's check in on his stats, our Kadia
player to watch here
and he is stacking up some nice numbers
the 1.38 KDR 18-13
well done from MrCXE
I had some serious moments
from a lot of players
Fang in particular came
alive in that second
half uh that's a nice
one to highlight
definitely had everybody
with the chance to shine
and they're going to get
some more chances to
shine as well, John
Because we're heading into the break
But when we come back
It's on to Mirage
And there's going to be fireworks galore
Fireworks galore so so so counter time Thank you. so so so so so Thank you. so so. so so so so so so so so Thank you. so I'm not sure if that's the right word, but it does seem to be.
We'll have to find out in a bit! so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so. so so so.. so so so so Thank you. so so so so so so so. so We're back for map number two here of this series. And my goodness, it did get a little touch and go there at times over on Inferno
but it was Party Asylums who managed to close.
We head to Mirage, though.
This is Noun's home turf.
This is a map where they've given so many teams fits and starts.
But I don't know, man.
I think that if Party Astronauts are able to clean up some of those mistakes,
this could be dangerous for the Nouns.
What do you think, John? I agree.
Honestly, Nouns have had their struggles
on Mirage as of late.
Elevate did take it
against them in a BL1 match recently.
And then we saw M80 just kind of trounce
them here a few days
ago. So I don't know.
Yes, it's home turf.
Yes, they're dominant on this map more often than not you look at their records 17 times
they played over the last three months 14 and 3. we only talked about two of those losses with a
plus 57 round differential and on the party astronauts it hasn't been great they don't go to this map a lot for a reason
It's not one that they thrive on 3-3 with a minus 7 round differential
And we haven't really gotten that I would say 60 effect on mirage yet for pa
but maybe this is when it comes through maybe he'll get into that comfort zone
that groove and help his team
find victory.
He already looked
pretty solid
on map number one.
He did indeed.
He did indeed
and I think also
critically Wolfie
looked good.
I think there were
even some moments
where maybe Wolfie overhunted.
I know we were critical of the Glock play against the MAG-7,
but a couple of moments like this,
but those are good, right?
Because Wolfie can be a bit of a streaky player
and if he's feeling hot,
if he's feeling good
in his AWPing matchup
up against Junior,
that's going to be
very encouraging
for Mirage
because Mirage
is definitely a map
where Junior tends
to hold court
where there's...
It can be tough
to AWP against this team, frankly, just based on
how in your face they like to get.
That would be a big feather in the cap of the party
astronauts if Wolfie could bring consistency
into this second. That's something we'll
be looking at early on, I think.
Absolutely. Certainly the match between Wolfie and Junior will
be critical, I find that
when we get onto the more hopping maps
I wouldn't say Inferno is one of those maps but
Mirage definitely is, that junior tends to have
that edge over wolfie so if pa are going to find
a win here certainly wolfy's gonna have to be
involved in some way shape or form yeah i think the thing that always gives me a little bit of
pause with nouns is they have a tendency at times to get
a little predictable
um, I think you see it in pistols as a great
example where they tend to run
a lot of very similar pistol rounds.
But I'm curious to see what kind of a look we're going to get out from now on.
They're gonna go for the A-take!
They do like the A-take.
There's gonna be no
subtlety about this one.
But actually, the stack's elsewhere
for PA.
So
the piece of issue is a nice shot follow-up as well but Fang's now in So, could be some issues. Nice shot!
A follow-up as well, but Fang's now in trouble.
He's painted into the corner and he knows it.
Can't really get away from this.
The palace light's coming through.
If he can get anything else, that'd be great,
but he's out of bullets
and he's had a chance his first fire to take him out of bullets, and he's out of chances. First fire! Yeah.
To take him outta play...
Still, aggressive pushing towards the ramp
did get them to 3 on 30 AND
it gave NAMS just enough pause
that the CTs are actually here before this date goes
it's actually a little surprising wolf he's gonna get this flank up george feels
uncomfortable he's worried there could be a calm player. Yeah, I mean
as he should be. They don't know
where these players are. George is spinning around
gets the bomb planted but Sixy flies up with
the Dueling Wolves getting an easy one on Junior
no idea there and the last one standing is Carson
Oh! Nice little swing
And he also does damage up against Ben Lee
making them feel very wary indeed
Carson trying to clutch this out
Had 19 frags on Inferno, so it wasn't exactly
quiet, but he needs a big
1v2 here to
clutch the win out and he won't get it. He defused the bomb
under his nose and he probably gets another frag
at least. That's $300 more, trying to chase
the last as well and won't get it
but Party Astronauts get an important one
to open things up here. Yeah I don't think they anticipated
a kit. No he was hoping that there wasn't
a kit. Obviously he's just in a tough spot there
in the 1v2.
Difficult situation to make happen.
But nicely done from PA!
Could have been very touchy.
They went for the early stack on towards B
but they kept calm. Fang and Infinite
played well to secure a couple kills
here in the ramp push, get the early information
and now just that little bit of hesitance
allowed PA to get into position
So it's good start, but as I would be here to get into position.
Soldier start, but... As we well know with these bombs down, okay! We've
missed a little bit of the meat
in this early round.
They went so fast! They went so fast!
Gotta watch those first 15 seconds with nouns.
Yeah, absolutely. Nouns punishing immediately
Sixie and Fang to the floor.
Infinite Wolfie and Ben are still alive,
but I mean looking at the guns that are left
in A4...
Excuse me, an A1S
and two MP9s
not great
and Ben is alone, isolated
on this blue side. I think they should gamble
if they need to gamble, but they're not,
and this side's going to be taken pretty convincingly.
I don't even know if there's a path in!
No, it's just going to be a safe call.
You would imagine... You think?
I don't know. Ben seems like he wants to try for
it at least.
Wolfie does as well.
Time's starting to become an issue. Ben has the kit, but he is isolated in the market.
Yeah they're backing away.
They are backing off of this.
They have slipped off.
They just weren't in position to cover this retake.
I think if the three players are around the site immediately, yes all good but as it is
3M4 is able to take out of the round that's going to be a nice find and now let me just push this one a little bit further hit the reset button
so dang quick at that although to be fair this was party assholes getting aggressive
and it not working for them this This was not nouns. This is normal
pace, actually, for nouns. It was PA trying to push
up towards top mid, trying to catch
nouns off guard, and far from it.
Well, at least PA is going to save three A1S's.
They recovered the two rifles so that's actually really good for them.
That resets them into this round with a very good chance of becoming our victory but yeah 61 out didn't get anything it was actually
fang who finished the frag and george and carson traded immediately and they hightailed it in
the direction of the b site and that was the right call but like we said three rifles saved over party
astronauts are going to force up around it as they absolutely should i'm surprised 6 he's not gonna
get one of those rifles instead he just charged in a bit mid again with Fang. Fang eats an
aid 6, he takes damage and
once more the result is kind of
the same. Wolfie at least
gets a trade for his squad. A little bit
of damage taken in this direction i think six he's already
hightailed it out here he has he is towards the ramp instead but now it's up mid control This pushing towards ramp is going to be interesting, right?
They've got this information.
But what is Ben going to do with this?
Oh!
Little aid on that U-Tilt.
Just trying to stall them out. They're gonna run him down. He's learning he knows it anything would have been a miracle
And it's gonna be not zip zilch zero
This might have to be another safe call I don't know how they get back into
this site and yeah Wolfie is backing away not all to save this time!
Junior collects, as well worth his life in the trade.
Yeah... I mean look uh yeah
I mean look
uh
I talked about it
in the pregame
Mike
nouns are a team
that uh
often times
can pull off
reverse sweeps
and they're no stranger to kind of losing
that first map and coming out
having dominant performances in the following two
so, losing the pistol was
a bit of hurdle for them to overcome
they already did by winning the follow-up, and right here
well George loses his life a little bit too
close to that bomb, but I mean that won't matter
too much as they have the money
to buy up, and the party astronauts
can't even convert off of the pistol round.
At least they're saving the guns,
so they're keeping it viable
round after round,
but eventually you're going to have
to connect with something.
Eventually, yeah. But at this point these guys are getting weaker right? They're forced around now they've got to take their medicine.
We'll go for a gamble?
Sixie gets erased early, it's just the pistol loss.
You can see Sixie trying to find his rhythm, going
for those early fights but I think he's forcing
it a little too much.
Hard to say until we get a full buyout
Yeah
That should be coming in the next round
The one question is,
Is anyone on PA going to get enough money to get the AWP?
Preferably Wolfie.
Won't be Wolfie.
Wow! That was beautifully lined up from George.
Yeah, they kind of walked into it.
I think they did.
Still had to knock him down. they are coming into the stacked site but
they've dealt with the stack first before even getting close
And gone. Infinite...
Got a lot of magic for us. One, one
Only one! And an AWP that will not buy
And Rush getting stabbed by Carson, I think?
I don't know what happened there.
Blood for the blood gods!
Just a little friendly pat on the back.
He's like, good job, now you have to buy armor again.
Nah, nah... I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
Yeah he was fine.
3-1 in favor of nouns
but, y'know... You said it Mike
the gun round is gonna show us a lot here.
See what the party astronauts can do.
If nouns come out and get a strong victory here again then
I mean it will mirror what happened- Oh Junior!
What a shot to open things up onto Fang.
That's not going to help the Party Astronauts
case at all. Infinite's alone.
He's isolated. We'll just get one on the perimeter
but Infinite has given up this
A site. They need to try and recover it quickly, but just no one's in a good spot
they have the CT player Wolfie who can pop out here
But he's actually gonna throw smoke for himself to try and push out and gain some space
This is so problematic and they may call for a save
once more. It depends on how this
flank pans out for 60.
Yeah, if he can catch his kill
on the junior. Game's
back on! The game is afoot! They never left,
but it's good post-plant positions
for nouns. They're gonna slip a player in towards
CT. That means there's a real timer on this.
They gotta deal with Palace first off. It's George.
Smoke to block that. Ah, just gonna get it on the
bomb and... Alright, here's gonna be a stick.
It's a full 10 seconds. Good luck.
First one down. Do they realize the player's in the
bomb? They don't know. Nope. They don't know.
Someone's gotta spam. Someone's gotta spam. There's a smoke pop though and Rush lines it know. Someone's got to spam!
Someone's gotta spam!
There's a smoke pop though and Rush lines it up, he's not one to miss the details,
and Mounds this time have wiped the board clean.
Wow that is a nice play from Rush I mean it felt like for a moment that the diffusal was going to come
through and they would slip it through but it doesn't happen rush just too good for that
announce pick up the fourth indeed so i I mean, I was alluded to it earlier
But you know we saw nouns very dominant at the beginning of inferno and then let it slip away
but that is a map that they're not comfortable on this is a map that they very much are
Comfortable on so if they get that momentum going early i don't
see it favoring the party astronauts at all they need to stop soon
i don't know if it's gonna come here, it could. They've got some pistol upgrades...
The MP9... Fang...
Spams away with the Deagle for a couple of shots
Nade sailing through from Rush
Doesn't really pop the smoke, maybe enough for a peek
Fang gets one! Only one!
Two come back the other way.
I mean,
the space has been gained here
to the A site.
Probably a plant already
and that ain't gonna make
60's life difficult.
Yeah.
Oh man, hold on. Hold on. Oh! Oh! Oh!
This is getting weird! It's all under Junior!
And he's brought it down to the clutch.
Sixie here.
Sixie swinging.
Sixie... dinged up!
Junior gets the fresh
bag and through the box
6 house all that remains
for round win nonetheless
and that's all nouns need wow
that was close i mean 60 almost made it happen there as well as ben
ben was crazy he got three there in a situation where it felt like you didn't
have any business getting even one but uh you know nouns got a little bit sloppy on
their clear of ct cost them but it did not cost him the round as they pick up that fifth and
it felt like those types of rounds were going the party astronauts way on
inferno and now it's on uh the other side that's getting the advantage now finding that edge
looking at the buy-up though party astronauts weren't on a full buy in that previous
round, now they will be
4 M4's and
the AWP are now going to rush
down to base, nouns are, they're throwing the changeup pitch
now, 6E ready for it though, gets one!
He was lined up to the smoke didn't know it of course
Ben Lee trying to support
here on the site, gets a follow-up
not another and then Infinite
and Ben fall simultaneously.
Look at 60 go!
I mean, he's done so much damage to Carson
this could be his awakening that we're seeing in this round.
Could be, might still be waiting though.
There's a Carson's the threat somewhere in mid
and Wolfie has gone looking for it
They'll have to regroup, they have to go for this retake
This is the best situation they've had in a long time
at 6-0 trying to make a move ahead of his teammates. It's going to cost him and now
Carson is on the flank. Wolfie hears it
but this has slowed them down so much
it might still have been enough.
Player van player E-box
Fang you got gotta have this clear
half-hearted on it. Smoke still up and
Fang down. Pays the penalty
Wolfie's out of there just trying to save his AWP
finally got the big green
he doesn't want to give it up
but this run continues six unanswered for nouns and
even when pa are keeping them even i just can't get back into these post plants.
Yeah, no,
I mean like,
I think the scoreline might be a little deceptive,
right?
In terms of the way these rounds have been played out.
They've been very,
very close towards the tail end, but I mean i mean now just keep squeaking them forward right
here i mean i thought that was great 5v3 for the party astronauts ben gets that one into
the apartments but i think off uh off screen there was a Friday that came
through and of course we saw that one
onto Ben on the site.
That wasn't in favor of now. So even though the numbers
and then the retake just couldn't really activate
We talked about it. Wolfie was so distracted with his flank that
he really couldn't focus on getting into the bombsite until he dealt
with that player on the back lines and by that point enough time had been burned off.
Okay charging through oh what a flashbang! Well done! I think that was Rush that threw it.
Now he's gonna charge on forward and look for the follow-up frag...
...and you will get it eventually here! There we go!
5v3 in favor of down still an op and
m4 up here for the party astronauts
There is but there's probably going to be an op on a M4 that would like to live
if I had to guess guess up against five players here on the a site
i just don't see a world where they're gonna get stuck in 60 is giving this
a little bit of a look, but nothing to do.
That's like
a fadeaway look, right? Because he knows
that he's just going to fall back towards that B site.
Thing is, I mean, Ben
is hanging around here probably just because he has the Mag7.
And that's $900 if you get a frag.
So don't blame him.
Maybe he'll be dragging some people back too.
That's a tough range for the shotgun.
A little bit.
That's a tough one. Just a touch?
Just, just a touch.
Just a wee smidge.
Uh, this is, uh, i think a frustrating map at this point for party astronauts i mean
the scoreline tells that story right but it's just the fact that it doesn't feel
like they can get stuck in their most successful round
was a round of pistols.
Oh boy. I still consider Nouns to be one of the scariest teams to go up against when their backs are
up against a wall after losing map 1.
And they really become ferocious afterwards and very difficult to
manage. Party astronauts are finding that out the hard way on Mirage. Biop will come through again here. Hmm. What is the answer for PA? What adjustment do they need to make? Honestly, maybe some more aggression towards
middle. They've already tried it.
Gotta isolate something. There we go!
Three players committed to that ramp fight.
Junior gets deleted immediately.
Infinite throws the smoke. Flashbang comes through but they can't really do anything. immediately, Infinite throws the smoke,
Flashbang comes through but they can't really do anything.
Oh, Infinite wants the gun!
He gets it, but it costs him 53 HP.
I think that's a worthy trade.
I would say so!
I would say so indeed, and we'll see if he can bring that trade offer through.
Man of Ender certainly... nice, as far as PA are concerned.
These have been few and far between utility doing a good job of keeping nouns at bay they want to get stuck into this ramp taking
oh fee you're getting caught in the open awkward fight here infinite down but
they might not expect fang to play the same position i feel like i'm clear with this
oh I feel like I can clear this. Oh, nice flash throw! But the flashbang is oh
so good! And Faggots
brought this through. Bot's the last,
can't quite find it. Bot to connect the players. Gone
and Rush now under assault bomb along out of his reach and finally
the party astronauts are back on the board yeah it was a little bit of adjustment there as i mentioned
you know three players committed towards that ramp fight and they just
didn't want that peak to come through from Junior
as it has been for a few rounds
and they denied him everything
then an upgrade picked up
off the ground by Infinite
and after that, it's just a party out Then an upgrade picked up off the ground by Infinite.
And after that, it's just party astronauts all the way!
Second round picked up, still a very tall hill to climb
and Nouns could bounce back and pick up this
round because they got a full on buy. 4 AKs
and the AWP once more. They're going to say
sayonara to the A site hit.
They want to go for that mid control that they're so good at getting
And in fact, PA is not even going to contest it.
They are gonna stick with the play that worked in the previous round by having those three
players committed towards the A site and impact. In fact quite far up on
site. Not many players being passive here. Ben pops
up, sees that there's a player up in the apartments but it's only one. It's only
George. Oh I think they're gonna go for the pincer onto B
. think they're gonna go for the pincer on to be
there's contact carson that's a ripper of a headshot now you're absolutely
right the pencil it seems to be coming in
i'm moving just yet waiting for this smoke perhaps to fade in the apartments
before they make their motion but even with this deep control in towards ramp it's going to be a difficult
for party astronauts to actually adjust into this and actually things pulled off
at least on an island they are misreading this.
Those nads still seem to be positioned for the B-take.
And look at how far away Fang is now.
It has to be a hero play from Ben.
That's about the only option.
30 seconds on the clock, he has
the flashbang around, now it goes!
They're not even moving just yet.
Ben's communicating to the team at this point.
Now he's been revealed. Oh, finds
one kill but Wolfie already caught on
the rotation and his bomb gets planted.
This should be over.
I'm going to give it a look. Now he's the only this bomb gets planted, this should be over.
I'm gonna give it a look now he's the only one alive first one found. Bomb can't be denied
he's got three to eliminate
and Carson takes the initiative off of
the plant and into the frag.
And that is the problem
with playing up against nouns.
You have to work so hard
to counter one prong,
one bombsite
and then they just flip over
to the other one
and dominate you there instead.
Well, Party Astronauts round win isolated again,
but they still have enough in the tank
to afford three A1S's, the AWP and the MP9 so it's still going
to be a decent buy up. They'll make the adjustment again you see them? Three players towards
the B site this time only one on the A site. Fang is close by, he's playing
towards Connector
but now Nouns are going to go for aggressive mid control
This is going to be quite a fight on our hands here because two
party astronaut players are pinching in as well
Sixy being one of them and neither of them get anything! Fang and 60 fight for naught because they fall immediately. Ben's going to get the trade here through the broken wall that's an upgrade to an AK but still a man advantage in favor of nouns they can go
wherever they want
janity the chan indeed
they seem like they have their sights set on the, well stacked is maybe a stretch but
the sight with reinforcements and Ben Leach taking the initiative that's a massive play
from Ben.
Catching George with his back turned long before these players get towards the ramp.
It's not spot George was playing...
Ah, they're a little suspicious of the window maneuver but Infinite is going to come back around.
The problem is that the AWP isn't here.
What are they suss this out?
There's still utility.
If they could get the smoke down, that would be massive.
It's late enough.
Might just be time to check it but i don't want to give anything away
now they make their move oh there's the spot there's the confirmation infinite's able to collect smoke to give himself a
little bit of cover pressure on the bench can he stay alive he can and you could do better than
that it's all under junior now two targets to find 24 seconds to do it.
Sticking the first spot for next out in the open
There's the shot can't quite land it
16 seconds Vajuria has done it
1v3 isolates every single fight and they'll give it to him. Adds a little salt to the wound at the end with the BM on every single body he can find,
I mean look that was so well played from it, from him. He earned
that little BM at the end really I mean patience waiting for a player to peek
from jungle is an obvious spot that someone could go in. They don't! They absolutely don't!
But they do, and Junior's gonna
capitalize on it. They could've literally
just waited until the bomb
was planted or something. Junior made
a play. Instead, they got got over Eager and this is
the problem we saw on Inferno as well
And I mentioned it, he'll get away with it
on inferno but not on another map
against Niles especially not Mirage
There's 20 seconds seconds he's in palace there's no world where you can rotate away
you don't need to kill it's not going to make a difference
there's no reason to give him the fights.
That's one that party astronauts are going to be kicking themselves for when this map is set and done!
And it's gonna cost them the ability to build anything like a compelling half.
I mean, maybe psychologically keeping them off double digits is important here,
but I mean 9-3, 10-2 in the grand scheme of things.
Not a massive difference.
It's still a failed half for the party astronauts.
Fang should be able to get one here maybe?
No?
No?
Not at all!on wins both fights 5v3 completely
empty from the party astronauts infinite waiting in palace could be a little bit of a problem but
look at this nouns are already saying we think
someone's there and they're right carson gets a 3k and a 4k he is on for the ace infinite will
get one back but it's george to get the last mic as we go
to the halftime break
... uh so so so. so so so so so so so so.. so so so back in for what could be a very brief half party astronauts have got to start well here
and as we know even if they can win this pistol that far from guarantees them a smooth
entry into the half yeah no i mean nouns have just looked way too good on the map
that they're very familiar with looking good on and feeling good on.
And the party astronauts, well,
they are just going to group up at top mid.
No aggression from nouns towards mid this time,
which is surprising.
And 60 collects a scalp immediately onto CJ junior gonna
get out playing to know jr. realizes that he gets one immediate trade comes
through it is a 4v3 advantage we'll see if Niles can pull them back George
almost does but misses his shots onto Ben,
the ones that count anyway.
Drew's got to have some funny sense for that one, but they need
some more superpowers and Wolfie and
Ben Lee not going to be delivering
anything but lead. All falls to Carson now three targets defined
It's a 3v1 PA don't peek him one by one
Whatever you do
Alright, three together.
That's one thing.
Oh, that's the 1x1.
Time should not allow it
and Ben Leet indeed
will find a temple.
Ooh, ooh! they're committed to stressing
me out in these
3v1s.
Seriously. They just can't sit
still! It feels like they have to peek
or else... I don't know. Something something's gonna happen that's how they feel
anyway some bad will happen uh nouns are going and i don't mind the three man peek right triple
peak is fine like go for three players at the same time and that's
fine because you can easily take down the player in that situation just that
one of the times stuff get rid of that guys don't do that again um or at all when
you have 20 seconds left in a round.
Won't harp on that too much. Party astronauts did win the pistol in
that first half and then lost the follow
up. I don't think that's a risk here though
with four USPs
and the Deagle. Now it's not going to force up.
Oh Junior looking at the edge of the smoke will he spot out Ben?
It's not a bad spot for him to be holding here now Now the smoke will fade and when he peeks before it pops...
Hmm.
Well, nothing happening just yet. I rush burns a little bit.
Okay, second towards the stack. little bit.
Okay, sucked in towards the stack!
He's had some trouble against the pistols.
They are winning the numbers at the end of
the day.
What are you going to do, CJ?
What are you going to do, CJ? Are you the king?
Well, the king sure lived with his crown.
The king of one crowd.
Pick up a rifle. There we the glial, there we go,
thank you,
it was an AK.
Need to maximize
every advantage they can
for the party astronauts
because it is still
a very long road
and now the guns
are out for nouns.
Yeah,
he can tell
they're a little rattled after that first
half you gotta compose yourselves make sure that all the little details are taken care of too time
out gonna be called here oh maybe just a brief tech timeout that came through.
We're okay now. Everything's been
very rapidly resolved
and the party astronauts
at least convert off of their
pistol round victory but nouns were saving for exactly this.
They wanted to get the rifles up as soon as possible.
They know that's where they have the advantage
against the party astronauts on this map.
Four A1Ss,
the AWP coming through utility a little bit light.
I mean, I imagine Junior is going to go for a mid-fight here? No!
In fact he deviating himself towards
that B side. He wants to play Van
instead. Wolfie
gets chipped down to 51 HP here, trying to deliver that right on back to Nouns
but can't really connect with much of anything and in the end Fang just
gets lost at top mid 60! And one more are coming up from underpass
here but they're also in a really tough
spot, they try to boost into window
They are successful CJ is waiting for it
CJ delivers another frag
And its 5v3 for Nats
This is the first major
task, rather.
60 of those
making some noise.
Wolfie swinging around.
They've still got
some action here
and towards mid.
Wolfie's going to have us fight in his hands, he knows it.
Oh, and he comes out worse for the wear
for that one. Sixy trying to walk this!
Carson meets him in the middle
and now it is just a very
wounded Wolfie
with three headshots to find if he somehow,
somehow gonna scrape this round.
Won't even find the first!
George has got him dead to rights. 11-4 nouns
a map win here, a third map
an ancient decider
feels like inevitability.
Oh yeah, I mean
Ancient is, I would say 90% chance of coming through at this point with the scoreline we're at here.
Party astronauts will have two Galils, the AK and two techs. So they're forcing into this. I mean
they kind of have to if downs get
to 12 here your toast you're done
and they realize that
so they're trying to gamble here
take the risk go for this quick fight towards mid,
Carson. Already spamming through the smoke
does a lot of damage in fact. Infinite
down to 48. I'm not sure if that was towards
mid or not. No it was not.
That was actually ramp.
But either way,
party astronauts are going to gain the space.
Rush spotted out by Sixie.
He's gonna back off and bring
some utility to cover his escape.
I mean, I thinknod's trying to bait
a rotation towards that B site with
60 falling back. Wolfie! How are you alive?
How is Wolfie still standing here? 1 HP
great flashbang throw, and Siege just takes
a good amount of damage to get that frag.
And now Fang's trying to come in and trade it but it doesn't happen!
Ben Lead is going to do that but it's still the man advantage
in favor of nouns as they try to get an important 12th.
Yeah, it's bad for PA.
No one's above half.
No one's above half.
This is looking like a hospital ward right now.
Let's see though if they can trundle this one through to a victory.
Not looking auspicious in all these calm players have been caught the
RAM player is gone I just left a 6c was back into a corner position not quite
known not quite known but cj will be prepared for it nonetheless so many chances to close here
eight in a row and that might be all they need.
Look at Carson, man. We said
he was the Mirage Demon, and he is
delivering 28.
This dude just loves this
math. He really does, and he loves going for early fights
which he continues to do
especially in towards mid but yeah
I mean look Carson has been
an impressive player. I'd say Mirage
and Ancient are the two maps maps I've noticed him the most
because both those maps have important mid control that needs to be gained,
usually he's the one to try and find it.
Already astronauts need...and not. And I don't know if they're gonna get it with this type
of bio nades gonna sail through there just trying to charge into the same
site its desperation station
and well they're getting absolutely nothing only fang left standing and this one
is done dusted over nalum's win it commandingly 13 to 4 in their favor as we head to engine.
That felt
like a four-gun conclusion from about round
4, I would say.
There were no doubts in that one. As scrappy
as Inferno was,
this was utter domination.
A pistol round for Party Astronauts and then from then on out,
now it's show all the way.
No momentum, no comfort
even in rounds
that Party Astronauts should have been winning when they had
the advantages.
Now it's found a way to wrench it away.
And now we head to ancient neutral territory.
We built it up in the pregame saying,
we felt like this is where
we're going to go.
This is where it was going to end.
Apparently,
we know something,
John,
because we have indeed gotten to this point a little bit.
We know a little bit.
We've seen a lot of counter-strike Mike and yeah,
I mean look at 60E. He still gets
81 ADR honestly which is pretty
impressive considering the circumstances
but outside of that doesn't get much else
done and I mean look the party astronauts
need a lot on ancient they are better
on that map a lot better than mirage but it's going to be a tough road because
nouns are so good at pulling off these reverse sweeps
they are indeed and momentum is now in their favor
they're coming off of a real high we
know how nouns can take that straight to the bank one of these teams will be taking it straight
into the consolidation final we'll find out who he'll be when we come back.... so Counter-terrorists win.
Counter-terrorists win. so so so. so so so so um Thank you. so so so so so. so so. so so so so so so so so ¶¶ so so so so.
.. so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so I'm going to go you can see this, but the game is a bit more complex than it looks.
The first thing we do is get rid of all these things and then go back to the main story. so so so so We've gone the distance. It felt like it had to be
the case, this is the path we painted in the pre-show and now
we have come to the conclusion one way or, one of these teams will make it
to that consolidation final. We'll book a date
with Wildcard with the ESL
Pro League on the line.
But first, it comes to
Ancient and we're going to have to send one of these teams out
of the tournament here, John.
Who's it going to be?
Well, look, I mean,
I have to lean nouns to be quite honest.
They have more experience playing on this map. it's one of their top two maps eleven and
six um over the last i should say top three months eleven and six over the last three
months plus 42 round differential and I mean, the other map
that's kind of making a resurgence
I would say. Maybe not a resurgence but just surging
upwards is Nuke where they're 9-2 on it
I think they've won 4 in a row there but
we're not talking about that. We're talking about Ancient and they are very good
there. One player, and I said this last time
that we saw Nouns play, that sets
the tone is Carson on this
map. And honestly when he pushes up
through mid, the same way he does a mirage if he finds that success
early then party astronauts are going to be in a lot of trouble again and i mean look pa
much better at ancient let's be fair to them, 9-5 in a plus 25
round differential is just about
bouncing back against a team like
Nouns that when they get to Map 3
they can smell blood in the water and they get even
more ferocious. That they definitely can.
And I mean, they had no answer for Carson on
Mirage, right? I think he wound up 20-8
or something very similar. Dude
was a nightmare, and that's the first
test. Can you handle Carsonon on mirage if not
you're gonna get run over and true to form they did it's going to be much the
same question on ancient right it's in towards the elbow it's in
towards the window fight it's in towards that peak
if you can't slow him down, buckle
up. It's going to be a very
bumpy ride and that kind
of CT aggression is where
nouns thrive
and you painted the picture much like Mirage Ancient is a map that rewards it.
That rewards exactly the way that nouns like to play and...
I don't know man, I think the thing that has me very concerned
Is that the manner in which party astronauts are losing
rounds feels like, look there are good moments for now.
Don't get me wrong but there's a lot of self-inflicted wounds from PA.
There's a lot of not playing together. there's a lot of panic, and there's
a lot of getting ahead of themselves, trying to race
in too fast, getting one kill and trying to
get three.
It's something that's
cost them quite a bit across this series
that made Inferno a lot closer than maybe
it needed to be and certainly
took away any possibility of Mirage.
Can't be having it here
on Ancient, they need to settle down.
Absolutely. Needs to be more disciplined
and I mean it looks like Nouns won the
knife round and they get to start
on CT side
Party Astronauts T-side and well
let's see if N if nouns start off by
immediately pushing up mid. Not this
time! A little more passive. 3 on
A, 2 on B and Party Astronauts are gonna execute
some utility towards the B site.
This is gonna be a bomb plant.
This is a retake setup. This is gonna be a bomb plant. This is a retake setup, this is almost certainly going to be a bomb plant unless they get the
luckiest taps through smoke possible.
Georgia's just trying to time this...
She does connect her shot!
Might have been two there on the 60,
but the bomb is going to be down
and that's what's most important. So we full
man retake and nouns also aren't making
any secret of where they're coming from. Everybody
is coming CT. They're just going to try and
bulldoze their way back into this. They don't have a kit.
They do have a smoke.
Smoke will block off Cave,
and on they
go! First player found.
Through the smoke And on they go. First player found.
Through the smoke, here we go! Here's the taps!
They gotta get a move since he's down and out.
The Maldi is gonna slow them down here on the burn. Is there another Molotov for Ben?
Where's the kit?
Not quite, they never had one.
They never had one.
Dangerous move on a retake setup and now time has gone away from them all this work
but it's all for naught.
The round goes the way of PA.
That is a mistake from Nouns. I mean, if you're
going to play retake, you've got to invest
in the kit. You have to have one
because, I think, the whole plan
is to give up the site and try to get back in.
Oh, my goodness.
All right.
Well, look, Party Astronaut's going to capitalize on that.
But they've been winning pistol rounds.
That's not the problem for PA.
We can't forget,
They won both of them on Mirage
And still lost by a significant margin.
I mean when you're winning pistols
And lose 3rd and 4th
That is exceptionally troubling. Anyway,
Nounce
going to just full-on eco here
aside from Carson who buys
up the dualies and the body armor
rush fully blinded no no chance at all.
Sixie completely blindsides him
and the B-Side's gonna be taken.
Bomb will be planted in this round
and we'll be over.
You know there's a phrase around these parts
it's GG go next
because he knew anything about this round
So yeah, there's not a lot to save the USP is probably gonna try for some exits
But there's a couple sets armor. Maybe you drop a gun
That's best case scenario right here
carson no carson you can't hold him back can you no not a man who knows her stuff.
Well, the lesson will be illustrated to him. Receive a Mach 10 from Infinite.
So that's one set of armor out.
Again it's minimal possibility on what they could save here.
Honestly in the grand scheme of things not that big
of deal going for a little bit of hunt on that type of investment
and PA will get
the conversion this time
Round number two comes from T side
I shouldn't say that because they did get a conversion
on their t-side of Mirage as well.
It's just the CT side went...
Now it's immediately bounced back with a four spy.
So let's see here.
Now I'm certainly going to have an investment here,
and it's up to the party astronauts
to illustrate something more than we saw on that previous map Where's Junior gonna put the AWP first round?
A. Use the answer.
And PA looks like they want to beat this B-Drum until convinced otherwise.
Some interesting early utility here, they were anticipating the cave push.
This is useful to set up a cave push,
but he won't be ramped.
Eventually nets them
a trade kill.
Rushes under pressure.
Carson's trying
to come into support
but in the meantime
he might get overwhelmed.
Somehow he's still alive.
Somehow he's kept on.
I'm part of the astronauts, they're gonna regret this one. Yeah,
they're forced back now.
Great job from Nouns to
kind of regain that space that was almost lost.
It felt like there were two minds.
Yeah. Why one player
is moving out, committing into the fight and the other three
are hanging back, sectioned off by smoke?
Feels like they're on two pages i'm trying to make the same reading
this is far from over
but pa's gonna slow things down. Fangs reveal this presence be ramp, could just be the lurk? They don't know.
Infinite is actually the lurk, problem is he's got a Mackie to work with.
He's gonna try and pull the rotations.
He's gonna try to make some noise, he could get in towards me
The problem is this fight against Junior
should be
an impossibility.
Well, let's dodge the first rush! Went and got Darius that smoke they were wary there might be more in towards mid
Suddenly this could be open
CJ is gonna come into the fight.
Never one to be afraid.
Swing it on in but he's got nothing for it
and now they're locked
on the wrong side of the map here, John!
How does this even happen?
Party astronauts are going to win
this round, you'd think.
Unless Carson's here.
There's still plenty of time.
There's still
plenty of time but if he doesn't clear back Donut...
Well! He's not gonna give it a look.
Yeah.
Unpunished!
Very close to Fangs gun.
But he can be able to back away.
That is really nice for our victory for the party astronauts, this is a bonus round and now it's at everything they could possibly want
It just looked good towards B but Rush gets caught.
Infinite basically won that without firing a shot.
Yeah.
The position, hearing it from Donut,
a bit of a misread.
The shot missing from Junior.
Rosh goes looking.
Oh, falls apart from there.
Spanker gets the kills!
But that one's all about Infinite
and his reward will be a bullet
through the wood panel.
Well, Infinite does fall but at least he helped his team find that third round and I mean now you'd think they would force up here around those saved guns, but they're not going to. At least
not yet. It's a lighter body. I respect it. A little bit of discipline being shown by Nouns here
as party astronauts are off
to a very nice start of Ancient,
which they absolutely needed
to stymie the momentum that Noun's built on Mirage.
But Garson won't stymie him.
He's going to keep coming into these fights. Rush
gets the trade after Carson does fall
and we have a 4v3 advantage in favor
of Nouns. They don't have
the rifles picked up off the ground just yet.
They should be able to grab them.
There's Rush right next to one, and they got both.
So two AKs upgrades from the MP9 and the pistol that will help them immensely. Plenty of time for PA to maneuver here. CJ, will he be
overlooked? If he gets one this is
a success. I think he might
He might do. No Bentley's got
the rights. Junior still here on the angle
The first shot does land!
Almost looked like he'd gone too far past them. The bomb's gonna be planted,
and I can't be denied it, and they've not got
great util for this. The Molotov's
on the other side of the map.
Oh, Wolfie! Huge, huge kill to find taking the initiative before they can get active into this retake.
Now Wolfie takes the AWP off the board as well. He's cooking in his post plant and the wolf is howling
Just on a rush now. No kit
All top though is a problem
Without the tap there's no reason for them to peek.
He knows. Just gotta back away and try and survive here
trying to keep this gun up. And he's PA off to races with four in a row!
Wow! I mean, a lot of resilience
being shown by PA as well.
I mean, losing
their early fights
and trades coming through
for now
but they're still able
to succeed
in finding the round
They just make
the right call
They win the fights, that fight against CJ
very critical into Donut because it opens up
all that space to the bomb site.
They get the plant post-plant
I don't want to say they were disciplined because
they kind of weren't. They were chasing fights because
they felt like they had to with that man disadvantage say they were disciplined because they kind of weren't they were chasing fights because
they felt like they had to i guess with that man disadvantage and it really does work out well
thanks to wolfie honestly wolfy doing a phenomenal job in isolating fights.
So,
in that case the antsiness that Wolfie has to go for frags
ends up being the reason the party
astronauts are able to get a fourth
ounce buying right back up into this round of course
I shouldn't say buying right back up they didn't buy them in that previous
round they went for the lighter by success fango oh my goodness
deleting CJ and Wolfie does the same to carson
this is when problems emerge for nouns when that mid fight doesn't work out at
all it is deleted immediately they're in a ton of trouble george is
trying to get things back under their control here, but that's only one and
he takes a ton of damage!
He's still lucky to get away with his life there.
Sixy looked like he'd caught him on the timing and actually speaking of timing
junior appears to have been completely circumvented
i'd imagine he missed the window onto fang
youtube kind of tips them off though if they'd gone silent he would have been real dead to rights. He still misses this! Confused somehow, expecting the peek through from Donut
looking the wrong way at the wrong time.
And that AWP is going to be down on the floor with Nouns just trying to survive
with Egon's one more.
I mean, Junior's hearing ghosts there.
He thought something was happening behind him.
I don't know if Fang gave him an audio cue.
There was something that snapped him away.
Maybe he was just trying to walk away and hope that they wouldn't peek into him.
Either way, you know, even if he gets one there,
he's probably still dead in the rounds, probably still done.
So it's probably not the difference maker here.
It really is about that midfight as you so nicely illustrated.
Yes indeed.
Five to nothing for the party
astronauts rush.
He won't. It won't mean much rush. Might get one.
He will.
It won't mean much.
That's pretty much that frag that Junior didn't get that they find there,
but again, Party Astronauts, three players
alive at T-side to keep that economy flowing and this time the five in a row they found as opposed to I think it was on Inferno when they had a lot of rounds in a row.
It was more impressive...it's more impressive here because they're being
more disciplined, at least in terms
of the fights they are choosing
to take. Let's hope
it continues if you're a party astronauts
fan but nouns they're hard to hold down
certainly and that's because Carson
doesn't stop. He doesn't lose confidence
he's going to keep taking these fights
Is man He is a man of his intentions, shall we say.
Stubborn!
Even if it's not working...
But sometimes that stubbornness is what keeps them in matches.
Yeah, sometimes it eventually cracks through. Look I say this as one stubborn person to another...
There are ups and downs to it.
Indeed! it.
Indeed.
That was a molly clear.
Taking some cave presence.
I mean, this just started out better for now.
They've drawn a lot of the utility out from Party Asnots and Party Asnots do not have much to show
for it. They have jag control.
That's about it.
Well, hold on.
A skirmish here in the cave.
See a lot of presence here on B.
Is there gonna be peek off this?
It's an HE not a flash so I'd imagine they're getting a little bit further forward oh
this is gonna get really weird their flashlight for this no they're just going and dry they're
just going in dry and that's some beautiful blunder there were flashes on carson i don't
quite know what the idea was there because that would have been lethal
Carson though still could make it so
Rotations coming in now, the utility starting to drop but that smoke is missed
Speak it a missus Oh, Junior speaking of misses. Speaking of misses that one could be costly!
Couldn't pluck the player from the air and Fang punishes him for his mistake.
Speaking of punishing...
Alright we're just keeping it going here one after another
down to the last man and CJ funnels into death.
Phenomenally played by Fang honestly
I mean he gets that one onto Junior, capitalizes on the mistake.
Doesn't give Junior a second opportunity at it and then waits realizing hey they're probably going to rotate full-on to try and get this one
And Carson's not even looking behind that box let's talk about
that ramp fight yes you have three players on b
you double set up on-ramp with the two rifles
the guy behind has a flash and a smoke you You're telling me that flash isn't destined
for the clear? This is
a lethal fight! There's three players looking
at it!
If there's
a flashbang that comes over there,
that could have been a round-winning moment
for now.
It's weird
because Carson typically
does set up his teammates
for flash.
He's second on the team
with 0.69 flashes
thrown per round
only behind Junior
at 0.73
but I just
don't understand why he
doesn't go for that and he had it too. And then they throw
it afterwards for Carson to peak, but it should
have happened way before that for the previous two players
Yeah, I think this is maybe them getting into
their heads a little bit. we talk about now it's a
momentum team they're not feeling it maybe you just you know not even thinking about the fact
that the flash is available in that moment little things though that are costing them
definitely cost them We've seen
a little bit of sketchy utility
from both sides, I would say.
This round, we're going to see if they take it back.
They've realized that players
are more often playing in donut than on the site itself, and now that bomb is down.
Holding onto this is never an easy feat...
...but when your opponent doesn't have much to shoot with...
Well, they also have nothing to lose right?? Because they are going to charge through.
Carson gets one but yeah well even though they have nothing to lose they still die.
That'll do it! 6E patting his stats a little bit
with the 2K there.
7-0 for the party astronauts, and
really, it hasn't been 6E, it's been Fang
who's come up with these impact frags.
10 on the board!
I mean, they were three in that round
but he was in defense of the site.
He's strutting his stuff.
He's spreading his wings nicely here
and that's what PA were hoping for
when they brought him over from boss.
He's an ascending young talent.
He's still very young.
What, 21, 22?
Yeah, 22 at this point.
22, really?
Okay.
Yeah, he just had his birthday.
It was recently, I believe.
Yeah, it was.
Happy birthday, Fang, whenever that was.
But a young player still with a lot to
give as a talent. Molotov on! Oh, that's Still with a lot to give.
There's the talent, Molotov on...
Oh that smoke pop would have been lethal!
It was, it was! Easy D!
Here we go! Now they're putting this together!
Rosh has done some serious work. It's looking
like finally nouns might just be able to get around
on the board. The question
becomes what can Fang and Wolfie cook? Because even
if they can do damage here, that could be massive.
They're so isolated!
Fang on the other side of the map...
There's time,
but Fang right now is trying to pull a fake.
I don't know if they've seen the bomb- actually, they crossed the AWP once more,
this-this could be a problem!
FANG! That headshot would have totally sold it! Actually, they crossed the AWP once more. This could be a problem thing!
Oh!
That headshot would have totally sold it.
As it is, Wolfie has gained space.
Might even be able to get a bomb plant off of this.
But he wants the kills.
He wants to give himself a chance.
Yeah, George is here. He's going over his comrades they know and i stack up too many crosshairs on
the other side there we go finally a stop coming
through from uh the now inside Party Astronauts.
I need...
But they have plenty of money.
So they're going to buy right back into this one.
I like the defense they set up towards that B-set.
I also like the effort from the Party Astronaut astronauts in that round to try
and get the bomb planted. Fang,
like you said, if he hits that headshot
and he gets that frag then it pulls
at least one player off of B
leaning into a 1v1
situation at most. Maybe even a free plant
can come through and then it could be
a different round but it just doesn't happen.
Credit to Fang though. It was a great attempt
at faking the execute towards that site and of course uh maybe
anyway we run into this round it's round number nine infinite
i'm gonna throw that nade on forward. Party astronauts slowing it down just a touch because they don't want a repeat of the previous one.
They're moving in, good flashbang thrown for Donut. CJ is completely blinded, so he has to fall off here.
Lots of time left for PA
to work with, but look who has slipped through
potentially into the back lines.
It is Fang again.
... fang again. This could be a problem. Look at what the Dota players are watching.
Parson seems to be aware of this.
Alright, they've got an eyesore.
Look how much focus there is just on Fang.
Just on clearing this back out oh no
carson snaps around in time but do they realize that this means that it's light on me now trying
to rotate to adjust to this but but smokes are gonna be down.
Might actually be locked out of this!
It's a little spicy... 6 he can't collect.
Had the spam button.
George slipped outta position just in the nick of time.
Oh! He got through! He's gone through! Infinite
wanted to take matters into his own hands!
It works for one nearly...
For two...
Sixy if they can solve this out Look at Sixie
He's gonna walk about
He's trying to find the flank
They're not gonna expect us
Because Fang was in this position
But I don't think he's gonna get here in time
The op force widened
Yeah
Sixie's being watched
It all falls to Ben.
He's not got the health.
He's not got the chance.
Two rounds chained back-to-back
and Nouns keeping four alive here.
Sean, they've given themselves a chance
to build.
Yeah, nice little cushion built up.
I think that's three alive in the previous round,
four alive left here.
The Browns have that economic foundation.
They've got a little bit of that momentum.
We just mentioned they're a streaky team, and
it feels like they are going to go
on a little bit of a run here. Party
astronauts still have enough money
in the bank. 4 AKs
the opful util. They've got all they could possibly need but it just feels like
they're doubting themselves a little bit, the confidence slipping away and now taking advantage
of a little bit of a cautious attempt at a take
onto that site, and even 60.
And we'll get back to that discussion.
Maybe we won't because CJ is going to get the
opener onto Fang.
He gets two but two on back from now. So we're sitting
at a 3v2 in their favor.
Carson's got all this space gained
up towards the double doors at B
and we talked about it. He is
a man of his convictions. He will continue putting the
pressure on, getting on those front lines
and either sacrificing himself to
get one or staying alive and
keeping the pressure on.
If they do stick around, they've got a very isolated fight up with Carson
They have to wait for these smokes
and eventually now they're going to shift
things up
Playing so far back elsewhere on the map
and Carson's now going to match his teammate's tempo.
This feels important
just so that they're not
going to get a run down.
Ooh, here comes the wrap.
CJ's adjusted to play closer
to his teammate.
50 seconds.
They clean back out.
What's the routing?
They've still got plenty of time.
The clearing of the Jagdus feels like they've made their choice.
Trying to isolate out a player that got smokes for the chokes. This could be a bomb plant.
I want to get
Elemental Surprise and Infinite.
If he slips up forward,
CJ might not be ready for this.
Wolfie's on the line... does he turn around? No!
Didn't realize it.
Could have Carson dead to rights, he does indeed!
The snap around the all at all.
Oh, just gorgeous.
CJ's past it though and now they
know the bomb is ticking away.
Oh man.
A smoke in his face a Molotov
behind it he can't go through
the way is trapped it's locked there's booby traps and there's names
junior what do you got what do you got junior
up on the line of peeking into Wolfie first up here!
Position revealed!
And with time not in his side...
No more util.
Junior's got no appetite for this one.
He just wants to be allowed to get away.
Wow, what
a stop for the party astronauts
to that two round
win streak coming out
taking B with authority. Fantastic movement onto this one and Infinite who feels like he's starting to wake up in a big way hasn't necessarily had the biggest impact so far in this series but man...
Dude it's all positioning and game sense
with Infinite. That is something
he's always been impressive as a talent.
He was one of those guys... Yeah, mechanical
talent, sure, but
it's always been about the positioning. It's always been about exploiting these gaps in that one.
Ooh, it almost felt like he'd missed a trick when he didn't realize where CJ was playing.
By carrying it through, it actually becomes much, much, much more impactful. Oh yeah.
So I mean look...
Yeah.
However this one ends,
8 rants already found on this T side feels massive.
Exactly what I was going to say Mike and Wolfie is down 28, 60 at 32. This utility barrage is
pretty painful on the party astronaut
side but they're not giving up this space
They don't want to! Molotov gets rushed
down to 22 but he does manage to
spam Infinite down through the smoke and And 6 is on 1 HP!
He has to be careful with how closely
he steps forward to rush in.
You'll probably hear that they're retreating, so
he's gonna take the space they've given up...
Is there utility? There's plenty of it. He's not using it, he's walking to his death!
George, a freebie 5v3
for an ounce
CJ gets another one and it's not looking good
for the party astronauts at all.
But there's the first step.
Problem is this bomb being downed.
CJ!
Oh, okay, Wolfie.
Not going to quite hit him on that flick.
I know at this point this should be impossible for Feng.
There should be no way.
No world.
No how.
There's only one round left in the half.
He's probably just going to save this.
It is worth keeping his AK up on the next i don't know what their loss bonus is right now but
it's not substantial i think 1900 right maximum so you're gonna want to save this if
your fang no it's it's reset back to 1900 i
believe or maybe even 1400 but anyway look
it's not great you're right going to the last round you want as much firepower
as you can get and Fang will absolutely be saving just a really good defensive effort put up by
nouns there. Great utility usage on ramp really softened up the
party astronauts and made it a little bit easier,
and then even in Cave,
excuse me, it was Rush getting that
frag, bringing 60 down to 1 HP
and 60 just wandered out into the open clear at the wrong side. And that was,
at that point I feel the end of the round because party astronauts are sorry,
now it's could never find a way back in.
Or, I was right
probably on shots. Mike, I'm losing a little bit.
One of these teams.
Look, it's the last round. It's the last
purchase. It's the last buy.
For this half, a great half as far as the party astronauts are concerned,
but it always feels a little better when you win the last.
Not a lot of weaponry to show for this one. So they'll take this towards A.
Junior is going to be under pressure, he has had
um...a tough
I would say.
We've seen a lot of misses
and when he's uncomfortable,
it's not always a great omen on for now.
So if he could start to get a little bit of those
juices flowing here and there,
that'd be nice for sure. Flashbang to push him off.
He's running. They hear him.
Molotov, pressure on.
CJ biffed that molly so they're burning and CJ's out of there.
Junior to follow.
I think that was a CT incendiary if it just caught the wrong lip.
Oh, Wolfie! On the edge of this smoke! Rosh trying
to slow this down, but he has
to back away. Georgetown with a lot
of ground to cover. The bomb's being planted.
And now with that ticking away, they want to isolate this fight on the junior.
They know he's here and he missed the shot!
No, he did connect!
What? George lines him up!
A collateral for the AK!
They were both so low!
So it's Feng who has got to be the hero.
Feng, who's gotta deliver now for his team.
Rush and George on the other side but we know Feng can cook in these situations.
If Rush isolates...oh he's got the read. He's got the idea.
He's got a swing!
We will have four rounds for nouns as they try and claw back Ancient but for now, the
half. Terrorists win! back ancient but for now the half so so so so so so so so so so so so so. so And we're back in
to the second half,
to the final half
of play here
between Party Astronauts
and Nouns.
It's commanding lead
for PA
and if they can just
close here
they'll move on for a date with Destiny.
Destiny being wildcard in the consolidation final.
But nouns finally found a bit of life there
at the tail end of the half.
Finally putting some rounds together
and giving themselves something.
Four of the last five
at least to build on.
Yeah, I would argue that lead is a little less commanding
honestly Mike than it appears because of how much nouns we're able to put together
at the tail end of that first half.
Winning three of the last four rounds?
Four of the last five even.
Oh yeah, that's right.
Yeah, I didn't realize it took them so long to get into it.
It was 7-0.
Anyway, nouns are going to be charging out here towards an A site
that is very, very vacant.
They haven't been able to pull together many
pistols. Party astronauts have been winning
most of them but now
they absolutely would love to get it
cut the lead to three and maybe even more than that
with conversions off of it.
Bomb plant is all but guaranteed here for Wolfie.
It's about not getting run down by this stack
funneling in towards the donut.
Want to put the pressure on him.
They want to turn the screws
and 60, the first one through is smoke.
He's going to be punished punished this is getting weird in
the donut wolfie can't finish his food and ben lee now with all to do and nothing to find
well find. Well,
that's certainly one way
to kick off this second half.
Commanding take of
that A site and then
just domination in the post plant.
All righty now, they've got three Mac-10s
an AK and a Galil, do you party astronauts force?
It doesn't look like it I think they want nothing to do with an investment in this
round only a flash bang purchased up by ben leet we'll see if they go for a heavy stack towards
one of the sites you imagine they. It looks like it'll be mostly
towards A. Three players are into mid,
and they're hoping
that nouns walk into
this web of USPs. They do!
Infinite gets one! Oh my goodness, oh my goodness
Carson's gone! They've got guns up here! I mean the B site is going to be taken
but this could be problematic. Still surely not
It's two Molotovs that give me pause here.
Two Mollies and the Mags, they can make this site very strange.
Very uncomfortable. There goes the first!
Pushed the player off
of the long angle, and RussianJr
now going to be chiming in. CK's found a gap
between them planes as well.
That's a nice one, and indeed
in the post-plan it just becomes very tough to actually do
anything with these unarmored
pistols.
At the very least they do damage to the economy a little
bit of nouns.
A couple of frags come through and Nounz lose, I think?
An AK?
I believe it was just two MAC-10s.
Yeah, you're right. Just two MAC-10s lost
so it's not a big deal.
But sixth round picked up by Nounounce and now they have a chance to make it only one
round deficit but the party astronauts will be coming to play.
They've got the full buy-up coming through, won't have the AWP
but will be able to afford
a couple of FAMASAs and three
A1Ss along with a very
decent chunk of util. On
the other side, sort of a bonus round for Nouns
I mean they did lose a couple of Mackens in
previous one but still
pretty healthy in terms of economy
as we run into round number 15
Ben Leet sacrifices his head armour to get a kit just keep an eye on
that in case he comes into a duel with the Mac-10
oh and it's gonna be fast if Ben Lee is going to have his hands full there's some
Act 10 on their way Ben though cuts down. Can't quite find a second.
But here's
Fang and Fang won't
find a whole lot more decent damage done.
Wolfie tried to slip through the CT smoke.
PA rushing things a little bit
into these retakes, trying to deny the bomb plant
an infinite. Can he find a spacey? Oh, he's got
the lineup! So that bomb
is in fact denied but he's getting length of spawn and
he's not ready for this. Junior cuts him down to size,
And it all falls to 60.
Up ahead of the smoke...
A second one dropped right in his face!
And Junior follows the chases through.
Wow, nicely done from Nounz again going into that site it felt like Party Astronauts had
a chance to punish Fang in particular. There was a
line-up for him, he wants that back.
There's no question in my mind because it felt
like he could have easily flicked
for a couple of frags. I say that, it's a tough
situation no matter which way you slice it, but
crosshair place a little bit higher and maybe hits the heads instead of
the bodies for damage. Alright, moving on.
Party astronauts are going to go for a half-buy here. A little bit of armor on three players. Three make that two 5.7s and a couple other pistols along with an MP9. Rush and CJ are lined up at the double doors to B. Infinite could be threatening perhaps with this MP9. If now let's play it right, it should be able to get isolated. Nade sails through. Rush Very wary of a potential push to come through.
Sixy on the other side he's jiggle peeking. He's gonna throw
the smoke as soon as he spots someone but he could be dead before it
actually blooms okay now he decides to throw it early just hearing that molotov got him a little
bit rattle oh fang with this easy you don see yous much and well it didn't connect for anything in that...
Anyway, George gonna get
the opener.
That's a nice one to have.
Just a little weighty numbers in the lesser by.
Peel them away before you might get into this stack.
Still with his mid control, oof, Wolfie.
Wolfies trying to slip in behind him promise this has left don't a very vacant
George calls them over I could matter and not at all they've heard the liquor
flames a couple times on 260 but they still seem to have their sights set on this beast's sight.
The swinging on it... Infinite Stacks 2! That's the bomb!
He wants to get close, but he's not prepared for all that presence outside of the cave.
Wolfie might be unexpected, but
the bomb drops a little too far forward
for him to do much of anything about this.
Okay hold on...
No armor.
The bomb ticking away,
this shouldn't be possible, but he'll catch.
He'll get a little bit of a punish.
The bomb
isn't planted for anybody.
Goes back to check the flank
but now Carson is maneuvering around.
He does love this slip out towards the ramp.
He's gonna stick it.
No?
Pulls off.
Proceeding this round looking for more damage,
looking for the kills. Can't find those either.
It's decent damage. It's something.
But at the round win it will not be.
Alright well I mean
good effort there for Wolfie.
Might have been better just to save the AK and bring it into this round but it's alright
I suppose?
Maybe not because Party Astronauts had a 7-0 lead.
Now let's have won 8
of the last 9.
The Party Astronauts
have seen that big lead
just completely and totally disappear
Now, nouns on their T side, it's a
side that they do tend to perform better on
pretty much every single map given their style
of play, and they are going to charge out here
towards this B site, feels like they already want
to peek around with the AWP.
Oh, that nade is so chunky! Junior down to 39
Rush at 77, Infinite waving here
to finish the job and he won't get anything though
Now the reinforcements are turn to arrive from 60 but
the flashback is fantastic from Carson that's what we needed to see for him in
that previous half and they are going to indeed pull the plug look at his leg in the way of this team right now it's rush they added him because
they wanted experience but they wanted a calming voice because they wanted that presence in the
roster they snatched them away from Party Arsenal,
so maybe that's something the PA are missing right now
because look,
this isn't why Nant signed him
but going 21-9
leading the charge in towards sites and
ripping heads? It's
sure making a difference. I mean
if you look in terms of disciplined play
nouns have been way more disciplined since
Russia has joined and the party astronauts were heading in that
direction with him as a part
of that squad. And I was really
worried when they lost because
party astronauts were on a wicked trajectory, and you
can't help but, like we said before, feel for PA
with all the roster changes that come through
one by their own choice, but
this one losing rush
is not.
So well
announce benefiting from it.
Party Astronauts not so much.
And Nouns will have their first lead of Ancient
which didn't even feel like a possibility
with the way that first half was playing out.
And I think the even more impressive part of it is that they're doing without one
of their, I would say best players in terms of at least creating space
on this map and that's Carson.
Sometimes you know if you're making the space
and someone else is getting the kills
that's a-okay.
Wolfie Doe finally gonna get an opening answer
here for the party astronauts let's see if that can change their fortune flashbang is
lethal and he's just staring into the void avoid it'll be filled by rush.
Oh, 60 is so low on health and those bullets were kind of
being spammed right near him one step in the wrong direction he's dead
I feel like a heavy lean for the party astronauts
towards that B site. Now
they're going to realize, okay we've given up way
too much space on A. They have the reinforcements
arrived. That's Temple for 60
with the AWP picked up off the ground and a player
donut, Ben Leite.
They spot him. They know he's here.
That's problematic. Now he's trapped.
Oh no, Ben! It's done. Yeah.
Carson finds it. 60 misses the shot with the off.
Now he's going to get mollied out of position
and rotations will come through to A.
It might be too late. No, Sixie does connect
but it's the trade and then a follow-up from CJ.
That'll likely mean the round is over
infinite! Will he try to clutch it?
I mean, he looks like
he wants to at least try here.
Connects on Carson down to 18 but
not finishing that frag means that he falls back.
No way.
No chance.
They'll just have to bail on out.
Has been the case so often
here for the party astronauts really since the half switch.
They have not been able to get into the atmosphere
of these round wins.
Dead on entry.
Unfortunate.
But now I'm loving this
they are loving this considering they didn't have a kill
or sorry not a kill
around waiting until 17
This is quite the turn
of fortunes.
When we consider that now, Party Astronauts have won
one of the last 11
rounds.
That'd be last 11 rounds. Did we say that
was a streaky team?
Yeah, they're
a streaky team.
They're a streaky
team.
They are the
definition of
a streaky team
and so you can't
let them heat up.
I've been looking
at their half scoreline going well it's an 8-4
That's great for PA
But you let them build
You let them get heat
You let them
Get some mojo back
And now the Nouns are punishing you for it because they've taken that mojo
all the way to
the bank.
Paws comes in. Party astronauts,
maybe that's a little late, be quite frank considering you've had
a 10-2 one slide but they'll start to use their timeouts here hop is on the ground for Wolfie to pick up.
Just probably talking about the adjustment they need
to make their defense.
Where does the op go? I think that's an important piece here. Wolfie, he's been present! He's had some interesting plays but since they've gone on this really poor losing streak.
Everyone's fallen silent, not just him.
60 waiting at the top of B ramp
and nouns are going to push in. They're going fast! Rush! The tip of the ramp and now they're gonna push in. They're going fast! Rush, tip of the spear
eliminated immediately. Trade comes through for CJ but look at that damage! Oh my goodness! Infinite
finishes off CJ. They're trying to return some damage on the other side.
Oh, George!
George could punish.
He's going to slip in on the flank.
He could do absolutely everything if he is not spotted.
Fang is so distracted with what's happening up front
that he doesn't realize George has slipped in here. George could get
a freebie. Oh, the trigger
discipline! I thought he was going to wait longer. He gets
one. That means the A site is really
clear and he's probably going to call for his teammates
to rotate around. This one is certainly on.
It absolutely is.
If they get through A main,
this is just about bang on.
Wolf will be stuck in Donut.
He's trying to pick up on that
so he doesn't get flanked out by George here. Here's
them rotating through a main, and he's calling for it! He's calling for his
teammates... Oh but he pulls off the angle just as a player would have crossed with the bomb.
Wolfie now burning.
Gets the main advantage at least for his team,
but that timing did not work in his favor.
Bomb going to be down.
Wolfie crosses.
They're trying to work Infinite back in towards Spawn
and look at the hell he's doing on players.
They cannot sustain a fight
going before Infinite can activate
Askacostum.
Infinite, speaking of which, just got caught!
Don't spot that out.
A lot of work to do into this clutch.
The main player
is on the junior.
He's not gotta his trusty AWP
There's the first tap
Here with the check there's the headshot on! The kid is here! Infinite has just saved their bacon
He's just pulled them out from the flames.
He's kept the party astronauts fighting.
Oh, luckily for Infinite he was full HP in all of those duels
and only took a little bit of damage from Junior.
Carson very bold on his part
to hold in a donut with one HP
I mean he gets both frags
on the other low-HP players so nicely
done there but Infinite goes for the clutch this
time in the 1v2 and he
pulls it off so he keeps the party astronauts
fighting on this map
with a 9th round picked up
but the money is still pretty good actually
great for now so they're gonna have a full buy coming through once more
they're gonna call it time out on their side there's second to talk things over
and see where might've gone wrong there. It was very, very close.
Infinite just a little bit better. So if we go to the races here... This round has so much focus on it now.
All right, for Party astronauts they have to do this the hard way there's going to be buys on buys on buys on buys on buys as long as Nauts keep planting
They're pretty much going the distance.
PA, Infinite specifically...
it created the opportunity.
A little slower from now, it's not beating down the door initially they're holding onto this B main control
rocking with it
The adjustment is Ben Leet
is deep in towards A.
Seen a lot of these B
stacks. I haven't seen much of this adjustment.
With no mid
presence from either side, this is definitely a different look to what we're used to.
It's a full on D-take. Nobody's ahead of these choke point smokes.
This could be a very tough retake and Infinite is fortunate not to get caught there.
And Nade chases,
he's down to 17!
Spam going both ways, look at the health bomb!
They put the bomb down on the dirt, now somebody
has to plant this thing!
I feel like everyone wants to fight, right? I mean, they're Now somebody has to plant this thing. It's an opportunity for the party astronauts to flash themselves back into the fight.
Junior misses a critical shot, George is up close, they might overlook him, he peeks out, gets one, goes back into cover,
goes out again and in the meantime there are frags coming out everywhere!
3v3, Junior finds Wolfie, flicks around and gets fagged as well! And Carson wraps it up with a pretty bow! 11-9 in favor of nouns, what
a battle there.
Talk about a guy where it's been
a story of two halves. Junior
four and five, I think the time
of the halftime break? Yeah. Very uncomfortable.
Couldn't settle in at all
on the CT side.
Now, I mean that round is lights out but we've had multiple of these
where he's closing, where he's finishing,
where he's making it happen for nouns.
A flick around the pillar and that
might have just seen them traverse
into the realms of the
consolidation final because look
at what PA have. Oh boy
This is just their second time out now being used as they try and figure
out what they can risk what they can wager how much they want to put into
this round. They have the full loss bonus to fall back on Mike so I think
they can invest a little more heavily into this one give themselves
the best chance possible and then they'll have of course a pretty strong buy afterwards you would
imagine as long as they manage their economy well on the other side yeah junior i mean it's weird because usually he performs very
well in the ct side of this map because that's usually where you expect the opera to do
to do well uh just now he's on the t-side and he's popping off with big plays that last round it
cannot be overstated how much those two frags mattered in securing things now party astronauts
want to get aggressive they're trying to get into the face of
nouns and oh they've read wrong it's towards the a site and only one player is here at spolfy he
gets won the second as well oh my, that's so much work done.
CJ manages to bring things back under control with a couple of frags but it's
3v3 and I mean Party Astronaut is now on the path in potentially
It's not impossible, but it is improbable. CJ caught thin, potentially. on play but it's rush who is so far isolated from this they don't know that of course there's a
smoke up in his face they could get on the stat he's hearing enough noise that he's trusting
them not on this bomb and now that they make the move...
He's not revealing himself.
Oh! The patient came from the savvy veteran!
This is working beautifully
Now to get on the stick!
He found the fight! He found the first. Does he check? He does
indeed! And so Matt Point
will be put on the board
so calm,
cool and collected from Rush.
Look that is the discipline
that was lacking from the party astronauts on mirage
on inferno as well and you see it if they had rushed
i still think it would be a different story for the way they play the game.
And look, how beautiful
is that? Just waiting and waiting
and waiting. They try to fake it
twice. It doesn't work. Eventually
they have to stick it. They know that there's nothing
to do except try and get the diffusal
at the end, and I mean once Fresh finds
that first, its an easy conversion
on the second. Beautifully
done by The Vet 12 to 9 three rounds for announce to close out the map
in the series and head into that lower bracket final for a chance at a spot in the ESL Pro League.
24-12 for Roshi.
Yeah, he's a man on mission.
He is a man on a mission in this map.
It was the same thing on Inferno.
Couldn't close it there
but he has been
at the engine.
Propelling nouns forward in so many of these rounds.
That's a nice find, Carson I think just trying to see if he could get cheeky and walk out A.
It's three man stack on A, so this is going to be an adjustment for him I think just trying to see if he could get cheeky and walk out.
Hey, it's a three-man stack on A, so this has been the adjustment for PA.
Now shifting into this midspace thing is just completely telegraphing where he's going.
He's put a lot of faith that they're not in the red room,
and it's faith that's not gonna be rewarded.
Fortunately, turns into time so they got the information
what can you do here? Ben gets one!
Might just be enough.
Maybe,
but look at the A site. I mean you got
players coming from both angles. That's exactly...
What can he do? He was trapped right?
There's two players coming in at him.
And George hits the insta-headshot on Infinite!
Oh man, it just looked like Party Astronauts were going to extend this a little bit further but Fang could still do it.
He could.
Trying to keep their faith, trying to keep
their fortunes afloat
here. It's all on Feng
shoulders. He's got the kit
he's got some time
sneaking around in this smoke he's just gonna this smoke, he's just gonna stick it!
He's just gonna stick it!
Do they believe? Do they believe?! Here comes the check
with the AWP shots off and Feng has
saved them! It's
JUST by the slimmest of margins!
Milliseconds at that, but Feng puts his nuts out on the table and keeps Party Astronauts in this game.
What a huge rank- round to find too in a big way i mean that's
like high fives all around type of moment when you get that diffusal in the situation where it seems
so unlikely and i mean now has played it so very well taking that site.
The shots were wondrous especially George
that headshot into Donut
but Vang just slipped on through
decided that sticking to the fusel was the best course of action
and he was absolutely right.
Now he's going to get aggressive towards mid.
He wants to open this up with a frag,
pulls it at Utah in a bit of an inopportune time,
but he doesn't get punished for it.
So now he's going to jump up into lane where Rush is.
He has been the piece that has been so good for Nouns.
But if they lose him early in the round,
that could be problematic.
And Fang is in a very good spot
to punish this smoke bait.
Sees the barrel first there it is
nice instant spamming towards the elbow smoke as well the react where you can get punished from
oh push a push that's a bomb. 60 just gets antsy and it works
beautifully. Now nouns are on
the back foot. We're watching what felt
like a sure thing maybe start to come
apart at the seams.
George is stuck.orgia's so stopped
george is the most stop but he will unstuck himself
wants to chase this in won't be coming to it just because oh
george by george Oh, George! By George, he's done it!
How on Earth?
Well but hold on a second.
He was painted into a corner?!
Yeah.
He never should have escaped!
Instead, he turns it around for three.
There's still more work to do. Yeah.
There's still more work to do.
It's infinite who is on this side of the map, 6C.
A long ways away.
I think it hears this.
That's gonna be the confirmation, now they know where the bomb is
Now Sixie can get active but this bomb
is going to be planted
six he's got a need but i don't know that he'll ever get a chance to pull
that pin george has just slipped him he's got the flank in the first georgia
able to bring that through it would take the ace
it would take the ace here but infinite doesn't have a kit
so it's all about playing with time toying with expectations he realizes he's off the ball
but there's the top there's the swing infinite one more bullet.
And it's the Pro League!
But George cannot find that final blow... Oh my god.
...that final kill.
The ace denied.
And Infinite once more pulls this team out.
Wow, Infinite the replacement for Rush
on this party astronaut squad
is a big reason
why they've gotten to 11.
Fang as well, of course, you know, added
recently also got that diffusal
in the smoke the previous round but Infinite's
been the one to clutch out those 1v1s and really help them get
some rounds here on this cp side that's been an immense struggle now nouns they still have enough
money for a buyout because that's how dominant this half has been for them.
But they're at their last chance of three
to close this series out in regulation
and send themselves to that lower bracket final.
Party astronauts are hanging in there, it's a valiant
effort to get them to this point
they just need one more round and we're even
again and things are reset
you think about the clutches we've had
crazy moments
the stick on the defuse, so many improbable seconds of clutches coming through just to
give Party Aston this chance to get them to the precipice of overtime,
and even here there will be limitations,
there'll be struggles,
they're certainly not going to be in AWP.
Far from perfect.
And nouns, whether you win by an inch or a mile...
It doesn't matter.
The win is all that counts.
Series point on for nouns do or not quite die we get pretty dang close
Carson's got a techie they just, so there are limitations here for nouns.
But let's go! The last minute 55 potentially of this map
unless the party astronauts can make some magic happen
party astronauts oh the utility's coming out in a very big way they They're getting aggressive here outside of B
It doesn't really connect for much
damage though, and now they'll say okay
you guys didn't do much damage let's try to hunt some fights
Infinite gets one, traded out immediately
There's still two more players clear
out here they don't realize wolfie's over at long people will be west the
shot 60s blindsided by carson and wilfies traded up by george who
gets two or more this could be it ben leete the last
player that stands in the way of nouns and that lower
bracket final up against
Wildcard. And he has to go through a smoke
to get this, Mike.
He has to indeed.
He's got some util, but getting past this first
choke point is just going to require aim.
Junior on the other side of things
on this fade. Oh, he's really smoking it.
He's got another smoke. There's never gonna be a chance, but the pop
The popper actually works beautifully for his advantage
oh it's been a blunder here they might have just let ben leave back in this we'll make sure
that's not going to be the case is 25th kill sees nouns go through they are in the consolidation final they are one step
away from the esl pro league wow that was an intense finish to a series
that was very tightly contested on two maps,
the second one not as much
but it delivered exactly what we hoped for
from these two teams
who are both kind of competing
at the same level right now
and Ancient really was one moment away from going to
overtime and giving pa a chance to get back into it but it doesn't happen nouns are the ones who
be victorious george at the end i mean just was on another level he powered them
forward and said no this isn't happening we're not doing overtime we got this right here right now
let's check out those brackets to see how this is all going to play out.
Remind your folks, if you're just tuning in at two spots on the ESL Pro League,
we've already sent M80 through one more team
will join them as North American representatives
in the ESL Pro League.
Wildcard or Nouns,
one of these two teams
will mark their path into the Pro League.
Wow, what a possibility. What an effort Nouns have done down from 8-4
Down from 7-0! That was such a heroic comeback coming through from Nouns to get to this excuse me now just one more step
one more step yeah no i mean look for me i had already pegged nouns as the team that we're going to come through and get
to that grand final and face off against M80. And honestly, I feel like they have
the best chance of upsetting them. I say that but we saw wild card with a very nice veto up against m80 and then
almost getting that map of anubis so i think that given what uh what mad sorry what Wildcard were able to do.
Both teams have a good chance
of coming out with victory
in that grand final
but it's not even about
that tomorrow.
Tomorrow,
it's about who will get
into Pro League.
Yeah,
yeah,
absolutely is.
The first and most massive prize here,
the potential to strut your stuff on the world stage.
It's going to be an appetizing prospect for either of these organizations for either of these teams.
And they've put themselves in prime opportunity to do so.
I do want to heap more praise over onto the Noun side.
I think that after that map one, we had some concerns,
but they deliveredant on Mirage
as we expect to be quite frank.
But able to recover from
a slow start on Ancient.
Something that has at times eluded them
They're able to dial back in, to make it
happen. Players who started out cold
looking at Junior coming very much alive
in the second half when it's more difficult
frankly on the tee side
obviously Rush and George just lighting the way with heroic individual performances i
think 25 and 24 kills on those two um so some monstrous maps some monstrous rounds
huge clutches coming through um and it really did uh
turn into some magical play coming here from nouns no absolutely
and honestly like you think about that recovery it is really crazy but credit to the party astronauts who are under a lot of pressure as well for them to get back into it even after surrendering that huge lead and infinite was was phenomenal in a couple of
1v1 situations. And then you had
Fang almost... not
almost. He got that smoke defusal
almost propelling them to that overtime.
It was impressive from both sides, and
that's really what's promising to see.
Oh, we've got someone
to join us here from Nouns. I think
we've got George coming on in here
to talk about their win.
George, congratulations man!
Thank you.
Let's talk about those last few rounds on ancient
You were like a man possessed. The almost ace
rocketing up the board
multi-kill after multi-kill.
I guess you didn't want to play
overtime.
Yeah, I don't know. I just started
absolutely annihilated them
definitely I mean you guys kinda had
a few struggles on inferno You've had teams punish you multiple times by picking into that map but you always seem good for that reverse sweep.
It's impressive what you were able to do. I'm just wondering, like Do you feel like you have an answer on Inferno
eventually after all these reps on it?
Uh we haven't had much time to practice
but actually felt like today we played pretty well
We're just there so many rounds, it was incredible.
We should have been up like 8-0
every round of Sokos and CT side
we just didn't get some trades
but yeah,
I don't recall what happened to Eastside but
I felt like we should have had that one. But then obviously
closed it out so
You did indeed. Talking about
that halftime on Ancient, right?
Third map decider you guys are down 8-4 it was 7-0 I think to start
to bring it back a little bit.
What's the speech?
What's the conversation going into
the half time of
we can make this happen, we can claw this back.
We didn't really say anything
everyone knows that you get pistol in CS2
and you can always come back even from 10-2
so we knew
we could do it. We knew our inch was good
and we
played them not too long ago on it.
I think our T side is really good, so I could be wrong.
But yeah, we always knew that our T side was going to be good. Just had some shortness in C2.
How does it feel having
a veteran like Rush join your roster
and be able to stabilize you?
Does he offer that veteran experience?
Does he speak a lot to you guys on the server
and kind of calm you down when things are getting a little stressful?
Yeah, he's definitely really helpful with comms and stress.
He definitely has a lot in mid-round and making sure everyone is on the same page and setting
up endings and stuff.
And then obviously his experience you saw that 1v2 I think they were on the fourth spot
which was a big round.
Patience, man.
Alright, you guys have one
more match. We'll let you go after this question.
One more match between you and the ESL Pro League,
two more between you and the ESL Challenger title.
How are you feeling about that day with Wildcard?
I feel pretty good.
I think we beat them last year. It was 1-1 maybe in their regular season. I don like we beat them last
or it was 1-1 maybe
in the regular season
I don't know
we haven't played
that much honestly
in matches
but we definitely
feel good coming
into this.
Looking forward
to seeing it man
congratulations on
the win today
we'll see what you
guys can do tomorrow thanks for joining us
yep thank you
absolutely annihilated though in those last few rounds. I like it!
Should be a caster sometime, that's
nice succinct way of putting
there for George
Yeah, mad a few words very efficient
and just like yep I annih's it that's all she wrote
pretty much but yeah no and I think like he said and brush is adding that element of stability
and he's also doing it in his gameplay, like you added him for
that veteran leadership but he's been
fragging out and he was doing that on the party
astronauts as well. We were actually impressed
with how he was kind of bringing his skill
up a notch significantly from what we saw on
EG. So he's doing everything
that they could possibly hope for
having added him to the team.
He is indeed, he is indeed.
This team's looking good, this team's looking like maybe they're ready to take that
next step and tomorrow would certainly be taking
that next step into the ESL Pro
League. We'll have to find out if they're going
to do it tomorrow because tonight's broadcast
is over. Thank you so much for tuning in tomorrow one
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