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I'm just trying to explain the matter and what the lobby is.
Do you remember?
The lobby is me talking to you about anything, anything at all.
Yeah.
Sounds good.
If you couldn't interview me, what would you ask me about?
How are you?
Are you good?
I'm good, right?
That's the basic question over.
No one's actually asked me how I am today.
So that is what I'm saying.
Thank you.
Thank you, man.
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm good.
I'm good.
Someone is taking care of you.
I have to be.
Someone's got a beautiful.
And that's it.
Homies.
But look, how was the flight in?
Did you get in today or yesterday?
I came yesterday.
It was a long day.
I went to airport at 7 AM, and then I arrived here at 7 PM.
So it was a 12 hour flight, even though it should be supposed to be short.
But where are you coming from in Europe?
I come from Montenegro.
And then I mean, if I had direct flight, it would be one hour flight.
But since I had to go to Istanbul and then be five hours there,
it's been a long day.
That's like a little crazy trip.
Now, are you feeling jet lagged at all because it was a 12 hour flight?
You know, it's coming a long way.
There's only like, what's the time difference between Montenegro and here?
Is it one hour?
Yeah, it's one hour.
So definitely not jet lagged, but the trial day was like going to Dallas or something.
It's a lot for what it is.
Now look, Falcons coming into this one.
You guys had, what did you do well at recently off the top of my head?
I can't remember, but I know you guys got the win at the blast.
We qualified for BLAST and also we played ReoQualifier, which we didn't qualify for Reo, obviously, and also we played BedBoom, so we played three tournaments at the same time.
It was a very tough schedule. We were not used to play like three best of threes in one day and things like this, but obviously we gained a lot of experience there.
We played tons of matches so we could gather the information and what we need to improve on and what is good for us.
So I think it was a good learning experience.
Is your physio here by the way?
Our physio is not here, no.
I met him in Cologne and he actually fixed my deadlift.
We were in the bar and he was showing me what was wrong with my deadlift,
so I need to shout out to him one time, that was great for him.
Is he fixed your deadlift?
Actually, I'm not going to gym lately.
I stopped like one and a half years ago and now I go for a week
and then I don't go for two months.
I'm very lazy when it comes to the gym,
But I think the physio was doing a very good job.
He's called David and he was helping us with like whenever we have back pain or neck pain
and that can help when we go into the game to feel more relaxed.
Does he ever give you any chair yoga to get nice and limbo on the gaming chairs?
Has he done that yet?
Not that, but we had some gym sessions with him and we had a good like how we
the massage or the things like to help us with the back and stuff.
A good physio massage actually just goes a long way, doesn't it?
Yeah, it's really good.
In terms of this tournament, what's the goals for the Falcons?
Because you're a pretty decent group.
I feel like you have a good shot at making playoffs here.
I mean, to be honest, we didn't set up an exact goal for this tournament,
but for me personally, I would like to make it to playoffs.
I want to get this feeling of playing playoffs like before.
So it would be really nice to go to the playoffs and then taking it game by game.
Obviously it's not easy, nowadays every team is playing really good and everyone understands the game.
So I think we should just focus on game to game and try to reach the playoffs,
which I think is a good goal for us at the moment.
Now in terms of today, you've got this, you've got SSD set up, what else do you have to do?
What's the main things?
I mean, usually yesterday was a travel day and today is like kind of we call it a media day where we
we go breakfast in the morning and then we go to the media where we have to do the photos and then
some hero shots some small videos and then obviously after it we have to do some interviews
like individual or group interviews and also we have to do some social media things. So it's a
lot of small things but it's not much but it's like small things and then after it we
Just gonna do an SSD setup which is gonna take like 30 minutes. It's a short one.
I mean depends how fast the players are but I think we're kind of used to it.
We played many tournaments long and it's just gonna be 20 minutes and after if you have free time
but we're gonna use it to practice a few maps so we're gonna be ready for Furia.
Do you want to tell him that he's facing the wrong direction?
Peter you're supposed to watch this way but he doesn't care. He's too focused.
Have you looked at your poses yet? Have you figured out what you want to do yet?
I didn't do it. You took over the thing over the media so I didn't have time.
It's alright. It's alright. Come, come, come. We'll get your picture sorted.
We'll figure out what pose we're doing today.
Alright, so what's Madden's archetype?
What's Madden's archetype?
There's no way I'm some kind of warrior or something.
No, you're a demolition man.
You're a demolition man, come here, come here.
It's one of these ones.
Oh, okay.
What are we going with today?
I'm trying to get people to do the Wolverine.
Yes, I would do that if I was going to dream.
But since my passives doesn't look so good in triceps,
what should I do?
I don't even know.
This one is the most easy one, so I will do this one.
Let's do this one?
No problem.
You can go better.
No, this one, it's the easiest.
I have to do this. Make my day easier, please.
You better be 11 this little bit of the way.
This one, on my heart.
This one?
Yes.
Yeah, you can do that.
Okay, I'll try that. I'll try that, yeah.
Let's see. Let's see how this one goes.
Let's do the basic first. Let's see. So the basics.
Let's see. Do you reckon we can improve on that?
Snappy, could you improve that?
as the improve improve these improve them he's lost what about like chest up
chest up shoulders back chin up what are you gonna do what are you gonna do if
you pose is just basic stuff for you just gonna be nothing no further no
hopefully just basic stuff how's our how's your trip in he was saying it was
like a 12 hour thing for him you had a whole ordeal yesterday was yours better
than that mean melts I don't have the best connections in general so always
connection so it was okay. The main thing was that you yourself forgot to pick
us up so we waited one and a half hour at the airport. Not at all, not at all. How's
your day been today? What was the schedule this morning? Breakfast? Did you
gym or what was the plan? Breakfast, then some gym and then me.
Me, just annoying you. Yeah so chill day and also tomorrow's. Do you have any
content skits for this one? Not that I know of, maybe. Could be spawned on you at any
moment, at any moment. That's the best thing about Pro League. Oh, he's doing a pose we
just picked out. Let's have a look. Is that good? Do you reckon he's nailing that? I
think it's fine. I think it's fine. I reckon you could do better? No, hopefully not.
As I said, hopefully it's going to be very... You've got to pick something, though. There
are some basic ones. There are some really cool ones. What's the go-to for the...
Dole is oh Julie's huh? Oh, he knows he knows what he's doing already
Let's see these let's see these Jules. Oh
Guns out. You can tell he's hitting the gym. Look at that. He's got the chest up
He's got the the posture the posture is just so confident
incredible
incredible
Straight down the barrel. All right. I've lost the others. I'm gonna go chase him find him and we're gonna go do some
ssd setup
Magisk, what is the strat here?
The strat is, I don't even know the rules.
Well, it's going alright, you haven't lost yet, yeah, nice, nice, nice little touch down.
What's the next block? Is this a two-player game or are we going on three-player?
We're playing here with three guys right now, but to be honest, I have never played it before.
So I think we're just kinda making our own rules here, to be honest.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
I think it's gonna drop now.
Oh my God, now I have to do it?
You're a pretty clutch player though, so I think you got this. There's like multiple options.
I feel like that's a bad choice, maybe.
Where to from here?
That is a very good question. I feel like it should be one of those down there.
Maybe this one? It's all about the finesse.
This one is going to drop it, Peter.
No, no, no, not that one.
Who kicked the table?
There's someone who dropped whites upstairs.
Bani, you are actually cheating me, right now.
See, see, see.
No, no, no.
Maybe on the opposite side of me.
I was just leaning towards the right.
Oh, he's on the right.
That's GG for you, man.
How do you get out of this one?
The one on top of the last one.
You remove Alpha.
You're not even in the game.
What are your thoughts on that disaster?
I mean, that's the life of a coach, you know, when things are at a hitting a disaster point
then you try and pitch in and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't and this was
one of the few times where it didn't work out.
And that is unfortunate, but look, we go again, you know, you win or you learn, right?
Yes, exactly.
Get up on the satellite again.
What are your thoughts on these guys?
Are they good?
Are they troublesome?
Are they annoying to deal with, or are they just like the best guys?
I mean, it depends. I think our team is everything. Sometimes it's very good, and sometimes it's not that good.
So I guess that's part of being part of a team, so it's all good.
And in terms of the Jenga stacking, do you think Magisk has the skill to get to the next level?
Because he said he hasn't done that much Jenga before.
Oh, he definitely has and this time we can't really fault him for the tower collection this one was on me so I guess
So far he's been doing a good job and he's as you can see he's he's right back at it setting it up again
So he's he's a grinder. He's hard working and also proves outside of the server as you can see
Love the the Jenga on the side now in terms of the CS, you know leading into this comp
What kind of extra prep did you get going on the backside? Did you have to do too much?
or are you just doing the same old thing and letting them do the counter-strike?
I think we are hitting in the right direction. Obviously, we would like it to go a little bit faster.
We can play sometimes really good. I think that also shows our last couple of games, you know, with one, four, five, six games in a row,
I think, while we were in Serbia and then we all of a sudden lost four games, so it's kind of how it is with Falcons right now.
and I think the average line is progressing
in the right direction.
And obviously this is a good test for us to see
where we are now, but the big goal is for later
to qualify for the Shanghai Major.
It's some place here.
I noticed I haven't seen him.
Is he not flown in yet?
Or what's going on?
He is here.
He arrived yesterday just like anyone else.
I think he's just doing a makeup right now.
Okay, I might have to catch him as well.
He's been a,
Coloni had a pretty good performance.
You know, he had the up and down performance,
on the highs, as you said, pretty bloody good, wasn't it?
Yeah, and I think that's you kind of characterise our team right now,
that whenever we are hitting our shots and the communications in a flow,
then we are playing some really decent CS, but unfortunately sometimes we just drop off,
and when we drop off, the bottom level of our team right now is where we have to put our focus
and that is where we have to improve because we need to be able to not have everyone hitting on
all cylinders in order for us to win games because that is simply impossible. So we need to create
that more consistency, I guess that's the word I'm looking for. In terms of the mental, who do you
think is in the server? Obviously, you have to chime in with a timeout to maybe pull them back
sometimes, but who do you think is the most mature that would be like, come on guys, let's
just bring it back and be able to bring the mood back up out of everyone?
I think it's tough to say someone specifically. I think it takes turn.
When you're having a good game, it's obviously easier for the players to get the rest going.
But you can definitely sometimes see that you have a few players who have tried a lot in Counter-Strike.
And they have a lot of experience, especially when it's tough. They still try to get the job done.
But overall, I think we have a very experienced team also showcased on our average age of the team.
But for me, that is definitely not where we are lacking the issues.
I think everyone is very mature, very hardworking, looking into where we can improve as a team.
And I think that's the most important thing.
Madden said that you guys hadn't discussed goals for Pro League,
But in terms of, you know, on the spot right now,
what would you say the goal is?
Like the main goal, is it playoffs?
Is it just, you know, take one game at a time?
What do you think it is?
I mean, I think it is to hit playoffs,
but again, for me, it's about the progress
to see that we are still improving.
But yeah, I will be satisfied with the playoffs
because you also have to have a realistic approach
to how we've been performing throughout the year
If we just say that, okay, now we want to hit semi-finals,
I think we can very easily be disappointed.
So it's a tough field now, there for tears
and it's more mental than ever.
And if you're not coming based off any success event
that we haven't had throughout the year, it's a grind.
And we have to also accept that things are not going
as fast as we wanted it to.
So to set two high expectations and two high goals for us is what, yeah, as I said, you will be disappointed.
And on that note, I think everyone's going downstairs. I'm going to let you get, thanks for the chat.
It's the lobby with the Falcons. Let's go. Yeah.
And as you can see in this moment, there's a good artistic value to this right here.
I think that's probably one of the more impressive paint jobs no pun intended I've ever seen. Thoughts?
Well, I asked him if he could draw a squirrel at his friend the snail and once again, he's
just blown us out of the water here.
The talent that he's showing is, we haven't seen stuff like this before.
It's honest to God impressive.
And I'll say the utilization of different brushes and different strengths of the
brush.
I don't ever want to bother the artist whether it worked though.
So that's like, oh yeah, okay, hey, the free, it's the free everybody.
It's the free.
Hey, the free man.
How long have you been working on your paint skills?
It's a common thing that I used to do whenever there was no internet back in the days.
It was super boring so I just went into paint.
You got really good at it, my God.
Yeah, just like casually working on it, right?
Do you have any masterpieces that perhaps one day you'll share with the world?
This one?
Yeah.
Okay, maybe like print this out and get it signed, put it in a placard.
Do my signature of yours.
Oh, that is pretty legit.
You know, and then we can send it somewhere.
Yeah, or I could sell it on eBay and make a little bit of money.
That's pretty good.
It's pretty good.
But as you can see, there's still counter strike going on.
We're not going to talk to this young man.
He's definitely in the zone.
So we can just watch him use his aiming skills.
See, some people go to paint.
Some people play BM.
Either way, it's still better than you at home.
I can assure you that.
Stampy, can we watch you set up?
Is that cool?
I'm being a lot of people that want to see that.
That's where you're wrong, bud.
Everyone wants to see Snappy's details.
There's a lot of people wanting snappy settings,
but you can see them.
You need all the tweets, all the form posts.
You don't see any of that?
Oh, no, I don't think.
Normally, it's his shit.
Look, I don't know.
I haven't seen anything even remotely close to that
with what you're saying.
Anyway, running through these video details these days.
Anything cool, anything breaking
that people need to know about?
I don't know 360 Hertz and then I don't know Nvidia reflex. I have enabled plus boost, but I have no clue if it's correct
So where was your your inspiration to turn it on then?
I just told it was good, but I think people have it both on disable enable and enable plus boost, so I don't even know what's correct
Okay, so texture filtering mode though, right like does it does it seem to make pixels stick out a little bit more
What is it about something like that that setting so I noticed that that one will change the clarity the whole game almost
Extra filter mode. I think it's more this multi-save and bling anti-alizing maybe I think if I put this to none
It's gonna look really weird
Yeah, so I have that on four four x
Yeah, but I'm not sure this changes too much to be honest, but I play on the same one to be honest
So sometimes on billionaire sometimes billionaire and sometimes on four x sometimes on six
sometimes on the 8x, sometimes on the 16x, yes, but I think this is what I have at
home, but it makes much of a difference. The very last setting in this
entire thing here in the advanced video options, Fidelity FX Super Resolution
Disabled, highest quality. Thoughts? I have no clue, this is what everyone else
have. So I'm just trying to give the fans what they're asking for and that's
snappy settings. Thank you very much for your time snappy. No problem.
Masi, back in Malta, Media Day, Stario No, it's your favourite. How does it feel to have Kate Moss as your teammate over there, flames you with five different positions for the photos?
How many loves it? I think he enjoys this more than playing. I think he'll definitely know what he's going to go into after playing CS professionally.
I think he's got his career path set out already. He's enjoying it.
I think he can pull it off. Someone else who's enjoying himself I think is all of
vitality after how Cologne went. That was a big one so you know you have a
couple of weeks. How did you guys spend that time? What was the focus?
Yeah I mean first off we had a little break right after Cologne because it
was a lot of time spent like just the preparation before and then also at the
time a lot of energy and then just been practicing from home trying to get
as much like reps in as well like of course when you spend a week break or a few days
off it's like getting a bit rusty and also after winning the tournament as well you don't
want to get complacent as a team and think okay we're the best now and I think we're
trying to stay grounded as a team and know that we need to keep looking at other tournaments
now make sure we come to here because we want to get revenge and with last last pro league
we we got close but this time we want to make sure we take it.
Is anyone still missing their nades or did everyone get the two key jump bind sorted?
For the first few days for me it was really tough.
There's so many practice games where I'm going to throw a smoke, it just hits a wall and
it was, I think our coach got so many clips of me just throwing nades at walls and just
landing and spawn and stuff but I think we got a bit used to it now.
It was tough at the start there.
Right so we'll see a little bit more brawly vitality in the first game maybe.
Do you guys share rooms or do you have single rooms here?
We usually share this event, I think we've got a single, a few of us have got a single anyway.
But usually we share it's good to the team chemistry, you know, it's a bit more old-school,
I think a lot of the teams are getting single rooms now, but yeah.
Who's your roommate when you do share?
Usually it's Flames. I can tell you for sure that there's never a quiet moment,
there's never a quiet moment. You're up until the early hours, he's always talking, so
that's a nice thing with Flames anyway.
So what's your goal to sort of make him wind down?
What are the tricks that you use?
Don't worry, he was not going to watch this anyway.
There isn't any tricks, so he'll just start hearing me snore
or something like, I'll start sleeping and like he's talking
and just slowly, I just go to sleep and there's no tricks
because if you stop one thing,
he's got a hundred different topics in his head.
So he's never going to stop, he's never going to stop.
The brain goes really fast for all right.
Thanks, Matthew. We'll go talk to your roommate now.
Vitality, really good at not being upset at some of these early games.
Probably what's the key?
It's all about the, what is it about with them?
Tell them.
I just talked to him and it's up to you now.
Yeah, but I want to hear it from my players.
Some of the main character of the skit.
What's it all about?
Yeah.
You heard Englishman.
It's all about winning energy.
No, it's just, to be honest, in those games, I feel like we
struggled a bit because we didn't come and we didn't like come to the opponent
so prepared because we felt like they were a bit off but some of those games
all you need to do is just play to your level and try to push the energy you
know treat it like a game against phase and then you you're gonna be very
dominant against them but again nowadays in CS2 every team tier 2, tier 3 they're so
competitive the skill is so high that even in those games you need to have
like a little fear and a little respect to the other team you cannot just
Run around and expect to win.
And some of those games you just start out really with structure and together as a team
and then you see that the players have the flow and then you just let them play the game and we crush those things sometimes.
But again, we do struggle with some of those games.
Who's missing the most Nades now?
Well, to be fair, Dan is missing a lot of Nades lately.
What?
Apex?
Yeah, I go out to meet on Mirage and no smoke connector, no smoke top menu, no smoke window.
Ah, my bird. Three smokes, mate.
Now, but, you know, Tim, if someone misses a lot of utility,
we just don't give them the utility.
He just has the responsibility to throw it away.
Do you think you have players then who do it on purpose
so they don't have to throw nades?
I think we have some players that just don't have it with utility.
They just, yeah, they just, not forget, but it's just,
you know, like, you were a player once.
You know, the feeling of some utility, like smoke,
you click SAB, you go back, and some of the people just, yeah,
They just like that and it's very annoying to go out somewhere and to meet the smoke.
It requires a delicate touch, you know, for some of that utility and some people simply don't have it.
Is it a good English thing?
Not delicate, some people don't have it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was brought on. I mean, West Coast, you got it.
Yeah.
Yeah. I think also, MEDIC has been getting some criticism unwarranted lately.
I think mostly unwarranted because they don't have the information that also I didn't have until recently.
that's when you share rooms, you're his roommate.
So the man probably can't get a good night's sleep
at a tournament.
Do you have any comments on that?
Well, to be honest, what happens in the room
stays in the room.
But I will just say that I think William
is very enjoying the room sessions.
Because we, you know, when was the last room we shared?
You got rolled back into this.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
When was it? Was it probably last? Yeah, it explains everything a long time a long
time together together is a
But we will it's two weeks with anyone is a lot but with me for this year right yeah
but we also went from like a Dallas or something when we were two events of
in a row together so like three or four weeks
Well to be honest the thing is when I'm in the room with someone I completely
enjoy the room I take it like I'm alone in the room so so the thing is I just
like to talk a lot as you know so in the night we just talk a lot but I don't
know like last Wally I was scared I was doing Pilates on the bed and stuff like
this midnight and this guy was like oh the fuck is happening so yeah some
tournaments are weirder than others and some tournaments you know it just depends
on the tournament. Every tournament I try to change my how I am in the room.
All right have you looked at all at who you're playing to begin with or leave
that for your captain and stuff what are your thoughts? Well I saw we play
against but I found out this is a from Hungary I thought the Australian for some
reason and well I know Kabal I played against him in some tournament and you
the Mongolian teams they're not, you should be ready against those guys because they play really good, they play together, they play the same cultures, they have the same culture and it's really nice nowadays because everybody's international, you see barriers inside of that but they play really together and I didn't really watch their matches but I'm aware that we're probably going to have a good fight against them and then I think the next game is Falcons of Australia, right?
And that one, well, I'm always, this sometimes feel easier than those underdog games because you know you need to come prepared
You know you need to invest energy in these games and to be fair Astralis are good and Falcons are good right now
It's Fnatic Astralis, but they're mine, you were close
Fnatic Astralis? Oh, then we bully Fnatic mate, then because it's Neziz X-team
Who is playing for Fnatic? Blamef? Matis?
Yes
Wait, don't tell me...
Ah, Clienz is it, like...
Blamef, Matisse, Krimz...
Blamef.
Ah, wait, so there is another guy.
Wait.
French.
Oh, buddy. Oh, yeah.
Oh, and the Afro.
And the coach is Jamie Hall Keita.
Yeah, but...
Every time we play the X team,
we always want to compete.
Like, even when we play...
Even when we play... So wait, it's Astralis Fnatic.
Yes.
Yeah, okay, perfect. So, yeah, we're ready.
Alright, so if Apex hits his smokes against Atox, you'll be fine.
To be honest, right now there is no flight for Apex.
Show them the video, he's in the middle of Rome.
And why are you telling him to buy Parmesan?
Well, it's a good thing you guys have an extra day, right?
Your first games on Wednesday, so...
Yeah, that helps a lot.
Alright, thanks so much, Flamzy.
That was Vitality in the lobby.
We'll let them...
I've located Electronic and we're going to be having a quick check-in on James's ping-pong
form because we haven't seen him play too much pong as of late but he's got a nice
lung here and there doesn't he?
I guess they're playing a lot recently, you know, but I don't know who is better.
We're going to find that out now so we've got James, who's this gentleman?
The manager of our team.
Is he known for his Pong skills?
Yes, I guess so.
He usually wins, as I heard.
But I'm not sure what's going to happen this time
because they're practicing a lot.
Do you guys have Ping Pong set up at the VP facilities?
I mean, they're usually playing these tournaments.
and you're good enough to always be at the tournament so just get a lot of practice it makes sense doesn't it
exactly how's your pong form no i'm not playing you're not playing no no i don't like i mean
i'm not enjoying while i'm playing usually i know like back in sydney you did the turning of the
snags of the sausages remember that the bunnies skit usually that translates well into the pingpong
world so it did it did it not for you no how do we how do we fix that probably I'll
fix in the future yeah well look now you're at VP you're getting to more
tournaments than maybe what you were before so that gives you a lot more
chance to practice your tournament for ping-pong you know from the e-sport
players we could set that up we could maybe have a player on this week although
the problem is it's when you get knocked out that you get to play in the
Pong tournament because otherwise your focus will be in the wrong spot.
So, if things go wrong for VP this week, we can organize a Pong tournament for you.
All right, I hope everything will go smooth for us in this tournament.
And we'll call it the Electronic Invitational, okay?
So just in case anything goes wrong, it's all on you.
You've got to remember that, all right?
How about the prac leading up to this in terms of Counter Strike?
How's that going?
I mean, can you repeat?
How's your practice going, leading into EPL?
It was good, as usually.
We did the, I mean, we changed our course, so we practice.
Will you say?
Are you happy with where it's at at the moment?
I noticed that there's much less passive gameplay coming
through from you guys since you joined the team.
Has that been something that the team has enjoyed or is
sort of struggling to get used to?
I don't know like we were struggling a lot recently you know so I don't know we'll
see I guess we'll see now in your group is there anyone in particular that you
guys are focusing on you know having to beat can you repeat because yeah too
much too much ping pong is absolutely crazy in terms of your opponents you
know is there anyone that you guys are focusing on knowing that you're
going to have to go up against any anybody from our group or from any other
group could get anyone you know that's how we've seen works now you know like
even if you're top one team it's could be tough game for you you know always so
there is no like favorites I will say beautiful now in terms of working with
him because obviously he's got one of those big brains you know huge huge
knowledge of CS2, how's that being you know transitioning under James
leadership as opposed to you know everything else that was going on before
at C9? I mean it's kind of hard because I used to play the different view of
CS right before you know. So I'm trying to find the way to play the better, you know?
You know how people are saying Maus is one of those teams that plays really good when
there's no crowd around. You know, like how they're a studio team, there's that
theory that mouse esports are a studio team and when it comes to the big
stages they seem to not get the results that they want. I mean, like, you know, I
wouldn't say like a mouse is a studio team. They can play good everywhere. But
they're learning a lot now, you know, they changed their playstyle as I
said before, right? The art playstyle was completely different if you compare it to
the fallen playstyle. So yeah, I guess the QCCR and Yuri, they have to like, they
have to play more in this playstyle, you know, so they will feel much more
confident in the future. And one last question from me, especially for ESL Pro
League. You know how there's the glass in the middle now and the glass
goes defrosted in the middle of like when the round ends so you can see your
opponents face to face what's your thoughts on that do you like it do you
get involved in the screaming and honestly I don't care honestly for 100% I
mean I sometimes I scream to the opponent but I'm not looking at them
you know when I'm screaming yeah so yeah I don't care beautiful and that was
electronic the best bunny and snag turn out that we've seen on this
thought of the equator. Como estas? Muy cansadito.
Ah, okay. Si.
Mucha viagem. The bad thing about learning any language I've learned is that we learn
bad words and so only things that I can reciprocate your to respond to you with are probably
I could be like, ah, callete, you know, like, that's just rude. That doesn't make any
sense, does it? Yeah, it doesn't.
You like it and make up? I think it's fine.
It's not so bad, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's not your first time, truly, right?
No, I don't even know how many times I did it already.
You get kind of used to it after a while.
Yeah, I'm actually trying to not cry here.
I don't know if something messed up by that.
Oh, it's like something touched me.
Well, if you do want to cry, we
could turn it into a little bit.
Yeah, I'd try my shoulder.
What do you want to cry about, man?
What's wrong?
Talk to me.
Are you OK?
I hope your pharmacy isn't pro league.
But you got a new pro league season ahead of you.
I mean, it's always the same dream, you know?
It's a weird dream.
It's one that we don't need.
Denny, enjoy whatever it is you're doing over here.
I don't think you're getting makeup anymore, but...
Yo, how do you guys go about picking out an archetype?
How do you go about picking one of these out?
Mm.
Is it for poses, or are you just like...
This is for poses.
It's my pose.
Yes.
You got a salute.
Yeah, it's like a soldier.
Okay.
It's not a soldier.
The leader, the veteran, the glue.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Okay, we have a mastermind.
This is for a try.
No?
The Modisha for Try, Mastermind for Vinic.
Beautiful pose.
I wasn't ready for that light, I'm not going to lie, it just kind of got me a little bit.
Um, yeah, I thought this was in the in for a second, but yeah.
It's just not, is it?
It's sex poses, right?
Yeah, it's like a GQ pose, almost.
Nice.
That's the guy from Jurassic Park.
Yeah, yeah, I know this guy, but I don't know what's his name.
Interesting.
Cool.
Well, uh, I'm glad we found your archetype today, my friend.
Now, here's the real process. Look at this.
They might have picked out their archetype, but they're going to go through the book
and they're going to find which poses they like the most.
You might get some.
Might get some of these.
You might get some of these.
Who knows?
Let's see what he's picked and how he does.
Oh, my bad.
It's just a photo, you know, it's like we're editing a live photo over here.
It's basically what's happened.
Sorry.
I mean, I shouldn't be in here. Come on, then. Let's go.
All right, here we are with Fnatic, the new player for the lineup.
Krims, Krims, your first LAN, how are you feeling?
A bit nervous, to be honest.
What is the thing that makes you nervous the most about all this?
I think it's just the environment, it's not very safe and people are watching you and stuff.
You don't have the privacy that you used to playing from your home?
No, I like it in my dork room at home.
Who is your least favorite teammate?
Afro.
Is that because he sits next to you and makes you uncomfortable?
He likes to touch my hands.
All right. Thank you so much, Freddie.
I hope things get better for you moving on.
Afro, do you have any comments on what Krim just said?
Yeah, I'm just trying to make him safe and take care of him.
He's quite a new boy in the scene.
So yeah. If I'm not mistaken, this is your guys' first land this season,
right, coming back from the break.
Does that feel a little bit weird?
I think it's been good for us, I think, because we had time to prepare, for sure.
It feels good to be back on track and being able to show what we are able to do.
You had to play a lot of online games, you know, some qualifiers and everything,
so did you feel like you got enough reps in official to just be able to play your game here?
I think we played quite a lot of official online games.
for sure it's not the same as in LAN so looking forward to see if we're able to show our true
selves here but yeah I think we are prepared enough here. Alright thank you I'll keep it moving
I don't want to bother anyone for too long. I just wanted to ask you a little bit as the captain
how prepared do you feel coming into this tournament? As I first said kind of really
prepared since we had a long time to like actually practice and get some reps
in official online and officials. So yeah I'm pretty excited to play this
tournament and it's like one of the first kind of bigger event with Blaymef.
So I'm looking forward to see how we can do here. Yeah because you know scrims
are all nice but then officials are better but you had to play all of them
online so do you think sometimes it helps to have these officials online
compared to just having a lot of times to practice with no officials
because you get things tested a bit better?
Yeah, exactly.
Like we suck in practice.
So anyway, it's very good for us to have online officials.
And yeah, we practice our maps.
We try new stuff.
And actually having to do them in practice,
like all you do do those reps against teams
that also practice stuff and don't try to come to you,
it's really bad to be in.
How big of a difference is it having a guy like Blame
on the team?
Real big, Azim.
Like real big.
He's talking a lot.
He wants to do a lot of things.
He takes a big space in the team that we actually needed.
So, yeah, it's really nice to have him in the team.
All right, thank you so much.
We'll go talk to the big guy himself.
Blame, we're gonna keep it short.
We're not bothering anyone here.
First game, are you excited for the opponent?
Yeah, it's gonna be a fun one.
It's gonna be a fun one for sure.
I'm pretty looking forward to it.
How have you been feeling coming back
to an international squad after a while,
after getting to be in a Danish team?
I don't think it's that different.
I think maybe in the beginning,
I had to get used to talking English obviously a little bit more,
but I think as soon as you do it every day,
getting used to it, and now I've been here for a lot of months,
I don't know exactly how long,
but I've been here a long enough
that it feels pretty natural now, I would say.
Did you miss the online Counter-Strike?
Yeah, I did actually.
I always enjoyed online Counter-Strike.
It's kind of like where I came from with
like epsilon and stuff back in the day.
So I'm used to playing a lot of online,
and I think it's pretty fun honestly.
Well, I think I speak for everyone when I say
we look forward to seeing you back here at Pro League
with Fanatic, we'll leave you to it.
As we finish off here with Mattis,
so it finally gave your mousepad, it's dead.
No, no, it's getting dried in the shower, sorry.
It was a little bit bad,
that's why you had to stay there for a while,
but no, there is no chance I'm giving it up so far.
This is going to be like,
soon it's going to get a life of its own but tell me a little bit how are you feeling coming into
pro league. I'm definitely happy after a while because we play many online tournaments obviously
and it's nice to hit final tier one LAN so I think the feeling is really nice to be honest.
I think compared to the last time maybe I'm very more prepared let's say especially when you've
joined kind of obviously the server a little bit behalf at some point after a few months we
managed to have a kind of, let's say, a good way of playing compared to what we played before,
so I think we are way more direct now. Yeah, because all the teams a lot of times say,
oh, we need some more time to work on this, work on that map, you guys have had plenty of time,
obviously there's always details to work on, but you feel like this is as ready as you can be
really at the moment? I think we managed to get our lineup of the maps together,
we managed to have struggles at certain maps, obviously after a while, but I think
I think we are really prepared, so let's see how it goes.
Obviously it's very different compared to online, right?
A lot of pressure, maybe.
We want to be everyone.
We want to show that we can be capable of beating anyone on this lane,
so I think we're going to try to do good games.
How do you feel about the first game going up against the Shrouds?
I think it's going to be fun, especially for Blimey Fries,
unlike his X-Team, so I think it's going to be really nice.
Hopefully the Vito goes right, and yeah, it's going to be fun for sure,
especially against these kind of players.
I think I have a lot of respect for all of them, so yeah.
All right, man.
good luck in the game and I'll leave you to it. That was fun. Happy birthday buddy.
Thank you so much. No problem. Anything you say to the other birthday boys and girls out there?
Enjoy and don't party too hard. Yeah okay that's right be like Salo, not like the other people in
the forums. Thanks man. Appreciate that. Hey just one quick question for I leave you guys
this booth here. Obviously thanks for having me. I know I wasn't invited but thanks for having me.
No problem. The question is gonna be who who really is running Germany out of mouths and big
Who runs Germany from one org to a versus another org who's running Germany out of mouths and big
Well, you woke up feeling funny today, huh? No, did you know you're smiling like you feeling funny
Who's running Germany? Of course in miles. Oh, yeah
Didn't you see cologne? Oh, no, we saw we've seen what we've seen. I ain't even going through the counter strike
I'm saying from organization versus organization, right?
So obviously, Miles has got to be up there
in that conversation, right?
That's nice, man.
That was real sweet.
Hey, thanks for that.
I'll see y'all around.
I did wake up feeling funny.
So I'm gonna walk over to big clan
and use the rest of that funniness.
What did you guys get into coming into Malta?
Tell me about some of the stuff you've been up to.
Not much.
I mean, we had with a little bit disappointed Cologne,
right when we went not to the main tournament.
I wasn't gonna bring it up.
You did.
So I'm just saying.
It's also good to know that, right?
But we're very motivated.
We want to show what we are capable of.
We had like one and a half week of online training.
And yeah, and now we're prepared
to show what we can in Marta.
Yeah, you know, the Berlin, or not Berlin, the clone one,
I see sometimes I get confused,
like big Berlin international gaming.
Then I've got colleagues that just want to make jokes
every time you guys have a match.
It's like, oh, you guys see that big game coming up?
It's like, all right.
Yeah, all right, you got me there.
Is big playing or you just saying it's a big game itself?
I think the biggest game I can think of in this moment
is who's running Germany?
Is it big or is it Maus?
I mean, obviously I would say
that we have a majority lineup, right?
So I feel like the weird, the German team,
like Maus is obviously an organization based in Germany,
but for me, they're international team.
So I would say big.
Yeah, you know, I was looking at organization
versus organization, you know, I think
that's a fair comparison, right?
Like a fair competition.
Yeah, kind of healthy in a way.
Yeah, I mean, we have nothing against the mouse guys.
I mean, we have JDC who played in mouse.
They're still good friends.
There was sessions like...
All that thought.
Yeah.
Are you guys still friends?
Yes, we are, I would say so.
All right.
Not on the server, but outside definitely.
We don't want the rumor mill.
Thanks, appreciate that.
Yeah, but other than that, I think
that the mood between the two teams are fine.
So nothing special there.
Cool.
So you guys get done with SSDs right here,
which it looks like everybody's almost on the same page.
Then what?
What are you going to do tonight?
I mean, we have another medium skits.
And then tonight, it's just preparing for the enemy,
going through to the game plan what we want to do,
getting Tapsen into the mood, what he wants to call,
and then individual routines.
And then we go to sleep.
We should run a segment on that at some point
where it's like getting Tapsen in the mood, like you've said.
What that takes, and how we do that.
I think that is a pretty big question.
What would you normally go to there for that?
Like normally how to get Tapsen in the mood
is I take my shirt off in the beginning.
That's the one he likes the most.
And then when he's in the mood, then the action starts.
Okay, well, a little bit more descriptive
than I had hoped for,
but we did get there at the end of the day,
Tapsin confirmed it and I.
All right, good.
He confirms, right?
HAT confirmed.
And on that note, I'll be seeing myself right here.
Thank you very much, big clan.
Thank you.
Yeah, Kee, what's the go-to poses, Bear?
What's the, let's turn this way
so that the camera can see.
Okay, this is the, it's called demolition.
Demolition?
Yeah.
Yeah, it was.
for badass people who run into the guy, or kill.
Oh yeah, entry man, entry man, show the camera, what's your favorite, spin it around.
Well I mean last time I did this one, I think it's pretty cool, like, you know,
showing your attitude and there's many other different ones.
Give us that one, the nit crack.
Oh yeah.
It's pretty cool, it's pretty cool.
Also the thing is like, in our team there's a second demolition guy, you know who
it is?
Everyone? At Cologne it was everyone?
Ultimately everyone. That guy is... people call me aggressive, I don't know, that guy is a little bit...
Is he got these same poses as well? Is that his folder?
Yeah, it's like mine and we can share it, you know?
Ultimate.
I just want you to show me some of these poses and what your go-to is. Of course, you destroyed at Cologne,
but what's the new pose? No one that you are. The absolute goat on the stick.
okay okay this looks fun yeah yeah good one good one we got a practice we
practice for your photos yeah ready oh yeah let's go beautiful I could be a
player okay maybe not this one you don't this we go there's there's so many
there's multiple pages give us the Hugh Jackman give us the
you know the Joker what is the the mutt fucking what's his name yeah it's not
What the... yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Who's the bad guy in Gladiator?
Martin Aurelius? No.
Is that one? I don't know. No one's around to Google but it's right.
You know the thing is also it's like
we're kind of ready because we went to the gym this morning
and uh...
I think Roland can do like a Hugh Jackman type.
Yeah?
Do you do arms or do you do legs?
Yeah. You're getting pumps getting...
She's pumped everywhere.
Beautiful.
53 for 8?
Yeah, that's a lot, no?
That's good, what's that body weight?
1.2 times?
We'll get it, we'll get it.
It's 1 for 1, he's 53 kilos.
You're 53 kilos?
Yeah, that's for sure.
Is that what you need to do to be like the best AWPer?
Is just like, you know, cut, like full, full lightweight?
I mean...
I'm the AWPer now, I have no idea.
Yeah, I'm the AWPer now.
Yeah, you're the AWPer now.
Yeah, we're playing faces sometimes and I'm like grown.
If you're not hoping, I'm gonna be hoping, you know?
Cause this guy is almost a rifle, I'm telling you.
Why would he not op though in FACET?
Is it just because FACET is like the wild lands,
you know, kind of like the wilderness?
You don't really wanna...
You know, he wants to be ready at all times, I think.
And a rifle is a little bit...
The level is too high on FACET.
Like on this tournament, it's kinda, you know,
but on FACET, it's kinda rough sometimes, you know?
I heard you've got a lot of confidence.
I have heard that, you know, since joining Liquid,
you will just like make calls.
You're like, yeah, I'm doing this.
matter what is do you like that? Do you like that? No, it's refreshing. I don't know, I'm not
like he was at some point he was like a little bit should I say should I not say I'm like Rome
just just say say everything what you think say do whatever you want to do you know we we're a
little bit older we can adapt and do what you want to do you know you know what I mean and he
he's providing. Yeah it seems good is it it's almost like a secondary caller say if like you
you know, Twist doesn't actually have anything solid that he wants to do that round.
If he's just like, yo, I've got this sport, I'm doing this.
Is it just everyone's like, okay, cool.
We'll just wait or like help you get that pick or whatever.
I think it's a little bit harder because he's every round he has an idea.
So for Twist, it's a little bit different.
It's not, it's not like, oh, you, oh, you have an idea.
Let's go.
It's more about like, okay, okay, I need to choose the, which, which ideas
are we doing and which ideas and like he wants to call himself, you know?
So, so far, so good.
So since Cologne, how's the, how the prac been?
Is everyone happy with everything's going?
Yeah, I mean, a little bit unfortunate that we have to go to NA to play the real qualifier
and I feel like we flew there so it's like minus 25 hours to fly there and we stayed there
for four days.
Two of them were, one of them was a free day because we just landed and whatever,
one of them was practicing two days of qualifier and then again 25 hours you're flying back
to Europe.
So it sucks a little bit in terms of missed opportunities in terms of like practice
and whatever but I think overall we're doing good. I think everybody's super confident. I think
everybody's enjoying and laughing their asses off in practice and during games as well even though
in Cologne we had a little bit of a rough one after like losing comeback to FaZe but I think it's
everything's going how it's supposed to be going and I don't know I think everybody's super happy
in the team. This guy's my main supporter you know. That's nice you know you gotta love the
of the homies is he supportive that guy over there no no no Australian Australians
they like don't talk to anybody they like no no no it's like you're like a
fake Australian what a fake Australian I keep going with it yeah I mean he's
from Melbourne right where he's from Brisbane yeah Brisbane it's the same
thing I'm smack bang in the middle Sydney Sydney yeah that's fake Australia
I'm like country, you know, super fake.
No, Justin, Justin is doing amazing as well.
Of course, I think he's, uh, uh, not gonna lie.
I knew he's a little bit quiet or like maybe like shy or whatever,
like from the talks with other players and whatever.
But the amount he's working and actually like,
like me and Russ could be having like a conversation after like some,
some search round in practice or during official and Justin would be always
like coming with his chair like closer to us.
to us and maybe not necessarily like trying to go into the conversation but
always listening, always listening, always trying to like bubble up the
information like sponge the information up and whatever and that's the thing
that I just love about him. What about this guy? What's his go-to pose like
other than we know he's a good counter-strike player we know what he
does but pose wise? Write this out of 10. If I would choose I would choose this one
But I think he has one more where he's
He has the op you
Remember when you have the op you're like usually
Yeah, I think I think that's your go-to. Do you want to work on the cross time? We'll go back into the cross-term chest up
Yep, shoulders back form look straight forward
Chin up a little bit. Oh, that's confident. Yeah, beautiful. There we go. That's what that's what we're working with
I should I should be here doing all the photos. Yeah
I didn't put the chest up chest up chin up and we got beautiful
Actually, what's what's jazzy's got to pose what's your pose?
Like this oh yeah the point
Not bad not bad
How's your how's the flight over here compared to coming from australia?
It was pretty pretty rough actually before the emolto
That was a full flat.
We were next to the boys though, we were next to Randams.
I was next to Torb, the coach, Mitha. It was just a long day.
It was a long way of a long day, not the best.
I got here at 10pm and I had to set my stuff up and go to bed.
How's working with Mitha? Has that been good?
He's really good. He's a really understanding coach.
to be around people and then give them feedback and yeah he's just a great guy.
He's pretty funny as well. Not every day you get a funny coach though.
I guess it's like because you and him both joined at the same time right?
You both got picked up roughly, roughly runs. Yeah that's cool.
So like you're kind of like home is in a way and kind of like with him.
What's your thoughts on Ultimate? You know you can say it really loud or really softly.
No he's pretty good. He's pretty good.
You think his voice, his like little early round calls ideas,
sort of tips away from your your quietness?
You know, everything around here is something to say about what he wants to do at the start of the round.
Obviously, it's a good thing.
So it's pretty good balance, I think, but you just got to kind of calm him down a bit sometimes
and not always actually doing something.
But you just got to figure out like who is the the head chef of the team?
You know, sometimes, right?
He's definitely out there.
He's definitely one of the chefs for sure.
Not the assistant cooks, you know, like I just kind of pass around some dishes
and then some things and they need some ingredients.
Yeah, that's about it.
Playing with NAF. How's that being?
Did you guys play on the same Renegades team?
So it's almost like re-notted, right?
Yeah, anyway. I don't know how many people, but we actually wanted to win China or something together.
It was a year, maybe less that we played, but it's a lot different now.
I think we've both grown up a lot, but we're both older, more mature.
He's still like the same old person, but yeah, just a little bit older.
Same old person, but just a little bit older.
I've located the actual head chef, not just the standing head chef over there.
How's things, you know, being in IGL life? Do you feel a bit older? Do you feel a bit more mature now?
Yeah, I mean, I was already feeling mature enough to take on the role beforehand, but I feel like I've definitely grown over the past.
I mean, my time in the team so far, I've definitely grown a lot, and yeah, I've enjoyed captain life very much.
What's the goal obviously Cologne for you guys went I'd say it went relatively well considering you've just gone for the roster swap
You've gone for the role swaps you brought ultimate in he had a crazy performance
You know what what is the the plan for liquid here?
Is it just take it all or just take each game at a time and just make sure you win?
I mean at the end of the day is each game at a time. I think the goal was always playoff. So I think
Top 8 in Cologne was a good result but knowing that you know, we should have been playing in the arena
it's a bit of a bummer. But yeah, I feel like our practice has been good. It's not something
that we've really grieved about or you know, like it's not on our mind still. So yeah,
I would say let's make playoffs here in round 12 or round of eights and we see where it goes
from there.
Yeah, I had Yekki wherever he's going. He's going. He told me that I'm a fake Australian
because all Australians are quite like him. What's your thoughts on that?
i don't think so i think justin is one of one
it's fine for the best yeah i don't know if that's true or not but
it's very calm lad
yeah yeah
what about uh... so people don't know much about ultimate
what's like a
a thing like a tick or like a quirk or something about him that people need to
know
quirk i don't know
what something does on the daily where you just like bro let's stop it
funny guy
funny guy? in what way? funny how huh?
here's good humor
Yeah, it's good humor, good banter, whatever you want to call it.
Yeah, he was just, I don't know, always good vibes.
It feels like you've really struck the great mix of personality and liquid.
You know, everyone seems to be getting along.
Everyone seems to be happy with each other.
You know, is that, is that the key to a successful team?
Or do you think teams can still work if there is some tension
behind everything that's going on?
I mean, at the end of the day, that should be a team's goal,
is to find people who truly mesh out of the game together.
I think the teams that are more likely to fail are the ones that do not have this this measure of people that actually get along and
Enjoy each other's presence
Enjoy this
Yeah, I mean, I don't know what he's doing. He usually doesn't do this. So
Maybe it's because he has makeup on now or something. He's been more he's used to holding W. So he's just
Okay, well
What's your go-to makeup like what's your skin tone?
Do you know your palette, you know what you what you aim for especially on these photo days?
Yeah, now like we've had a pretty strong summer. So actually these days I don't use too much like spending a lot of time in the sun
usually though like
Either you know like that's shiny lip gloss or like a pure red lipstick. It's like either one of them
I'd like to keep things simple. Yeah, yeah, I usually lean towards like a black lipstick myself
I think it's more bold
But here in Malta, I feel like it probably stand out a bit too much
So I lean towards maybe like a more of a like a lighter purple
Yeah, you like heavy metal as well.
I'd partake, yeah. Do you know the who?
No.
You don't know like the Mongolian heavy metal like with the throat singing?
Oh, I like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I've found a lot of people here don't know them.
Do you know the lyrics?
I don't know Mongolian.
But you can try, no?
We did some throat singing yesterday. I can get the clip for you and Shaya.
I don't want to try to speak Mongolian with absolutely zero knowledge of how to speak Mongolian
I learnt like two words when I went to Ulaanbaatar for the major qual for the Asia-Rama back in
last year last year start last year and
Yeah, learn a little bit then but it is all gone. It is it did not stay in my brain
Can you teach me you Norwegian?
half Norwegian half Danish but like there's not a lot of throat singing like I
would probably just meant words but you can teach me some I would talk to you
kinder if you would like to know about throat singing like he's he's pretty
good at karaoke so you'd say is the throat good he is the throat good yeah
okay I'll go get his take on that quickly thank you
Yeah, you've been dubbed the throat goat by him, but what is the throat goat?
You're the best at throat singing in the server. You know, like, you don't like that?
I mean, well, you wanted to be a different kind of throat goat, isn't it?
No, the thing is, like, I wanted to argue because I'm sure, like, Torb is the better
throat good but it's just I understood it first at the different like in a
different way but the singing one yeah the singing one yeah yeah okay okay what
was it what's the other kind throat but that one yeah yeah like is glissie goblin
I think they call it is the Gen Z name for that love the good hot dog yeah
like a good banana you know what I mean so no yeah Torb is kind of like mature
enough to like be a professional at it. It takes maturity to get to that stage.
Like ages of experience you know and you sometimes you are born with the talent and I'm not gonna lie
I think he was born and also experienced so. The two things you need.
Everywhere, everywhere. NCS and throat goating everywhere.
where? Glyzzy Gladiator? Glyzzy Gladiator. Getting in there. Anyway, I'll leave you
always to it. That's plenty. See you, bro.
Here with Intz still conducting the lobby. I've got Potti. That's a little bit of a
rhyme, perhaps? Yeah, maybe. Potti, tell me about you. Tell me about your whole
life. Visible. No, no, I'm joking. It's good, full
of sunshine, very happy. Yeah. Okay, where are you from, Potti?
Northern Finland, okay, so do you watch the hydraulic press channel or no? Of course not
Well, we're gonna get into some pressing issues here on the board really quickly if you don't mind
I'm gonna give you this it's a marker. It's a whiteboard marker
We're gonna start over here in group C and you're gonna circle the teams that you think you're gonna win in their opening matchups
One at a time. Maybe walk us through it. All right. First we have most against mouse against rooster
I mean, it's easy for my boy, Chimkats, he has birthday today, so...
Okay, yeah, it is his birthday.
Yes, my boy, he's gonna destroy them, I'm pretty sure.
Good luck to Rooster.
Quick question, how do you say his last name?
Chimkats.
Salo.
Salo, okay.
Cool, I've just been deathly curious about that.
Let's move on, we have an Imperial and we have a big clan.
Oh, it's actually a height matchup, I don't know, maybe let's go for a big,
not very confident about this one 50-50. Okay I understand that. What about complexity
Imedi what do you know about him? Complexity is pretty good they have a
leash he's destroying everyone. Imedi they lost Malops so yeah it's gonna be
complexity for sure. You don't believe that Racken company can pick up over
here on Imedi? They need Malops. If they had Malops maybe they can win
but now for sure, complexity. Malibu is in a greener pasture for now. Let's look at
Fnatic and Astralis. Now there's some heat in this one, right? What makes this match up interesting?
I mean, Blame is on Fnatic, so it's pretty nice. He's playing against his X-team, yeah?
Juicy. Yeah, pretty juicy. But I would still have to go for Astralis in this one.
They are pretty good, I would say. Yeah, and they're playing
train right now versus Falcons. That's pretty interesting. Yeah, it's right over there. They're
playing train versus the Falcons. Kind of crazy. Wow. That's crazy. Yeah. Take a look at after. Let's
move over to Group D. As it seems, this is where you find yourself. We'll get into that. Let's
start at the very tip top. We got ATOX versus Vitality. I don't know if that's a no-brainer for
you, but please. Yeah, it's no-brainer. I don't know what to comment about this one, but
you don't have to say much. We get it. Yeah, you'll get it. Yeah. What about the next
the next one of the Falcons in Imperial, a little bit of veteransy on both sides.
Falcons against, I like this matchup. I don't know, they are a lot of legendary players,
for sure, but I need to go with Falcons. Okay, now in a once-of-a-kind pick, I don't know
many people pick Falcons right out of the gate, tell me what you think about the project over
Falcons? I think people had too high expectations when Falcons were made. Everyone thought it
will be like a Super Team in a month or something. I think they are slowly improving. They have
seemed a bit better recently than at the start. I trust in Falcons. Okay, that's interesting.
I don't think you're wrong by any stretch. However, in this instance, it gets a little
awkward, doesn't it? Because, see, this is ants. You know ants? Yeah, I know ants. Okay.
And you know this other little horse over here, it's like a liquid or something, it's like a horse taking on like a octopus or squid or something.
What is an Enceladus?
I'm not sure actually, it looks like an octopus or something.
Something? Anyway, who you got here? How many tentacles you're all going to get in?
Brother, it's going to be a tight matchup I hope. But of course I need to support MC.
It would be very questionable if you didn't and it would be documented for all of the internet to see.
I agree.
Tell me what you're looking forward to when you play towards Liquid.
I'm looking forward to a good match.
They have good players and I overall enjoy watching them play.
So I think it will be fun.
What do you think about Ultimate?
Oh, he's been very good.
Like, I didn't know much about him before joining Liquid, but he's seemed like a really
good upper.
Very quick.
Very quick.
Red Canids.
Okay, so you've got a Coldzera versus...
Well, what's going on over here?
What do you think about this project in BP?
I don't know.
It's like all I know about them is that I don't like to play against.
Okay, yeah, fair enough.
So versus Coldzera and Reconidz, the last one, who do you select to win?
I guess I will go for BP.
Okay.
They, I know a bit more about them than Red Cannitch.
They probably play some Brazilian stuff more, yeah.
So I need to go for BP.
Okay.
So who wins this group?
Who wins this group?
Group C?
Mouse will win.
Mouse will win the group?
What about Group D?
Yeah, go for it.
Brother U!
Brother U!
What do you got?
I need to go for Vitality.
We will be second.
Oh my goodness, that's spicy.
Anything you want to say to the fanbase?
Thank you for supporting everything.
everything. Yes, perfect. Maybe we'll get a little final answer here too. Somewhere like right in
the middle. That's very good, that's very good. I appreciate your party. Appreciate it. You have a
good rest of your day. You too, you too. Cool. It's a lotty. Let's keep going.
And Bushina Stralis, still lobbying, still checking out makeup. So just walking in. I really
like this team meeting guys. How are we doing? Good. Yeah, good? Yeah, what about you? Yeah,
just doing some makeup. It's good. What's his uh, what's his lipstick color you reckon?
what should we be going for today for the photos?
Maybe purple. Purple could be nice.
It seems like a common choice, you know?
Why purple?
Does it complement the New Jersey nicely or?
Hmm, yeah, maybe. I don't know. Could be.
I personally, I don't use like that for the lips.
You're not going to smack some red on for this, no?
No, no.
It's like good pro-league vibe.
What about Barry? What's his color?
Black, maybe.
The black and the... Yeah?
I think you'd go, how about some black makeup there?
I don't know. I usually don't wear makeup sometimes when I'm home alone.
Hashtag no makeup.
But it's like, wait, you do wear it when you're home alone?
Maybe.
That's mysterious.
No.
Oh, yeah, well, yeah, actually, you actually kind of just told us.
Now, how's the prep going into this?
You know, you guys happy and you guys excited, ready for another 20th
season of Pro League?
Yeah, it's been a while since we played last time.
And we're looking forward to this tournament and see how it play.
What was the trip like?
You guys all Denmark?
Do you all live in Denmark?
Yes, as far as I know.
Some people just don't live in Denmark.
I don't live in Denmark.
Makes sense.
Now I know. So I won't ask that question again.
That's fine.
But what about Cologne?
That was a bit unfortunate of an exit for you guys.
Do you think that Pro League is going to be better?
Do you think you're happy with the group?
Obviously there's more teams.
you know start warming up really early.
I mean we are going into this turn event with confidence and willingness to perform and show
what we are capable of and I think we all feel that we didn't get to show it in Cologne but
we have a good opportunity to do it here so that's what we are planning to do and hoping
to do as well.
Have you ever answered the allegations that you could be somehow distantly related
to JKS? I mean I have family in Australia I do. What's that? I have family in Australia.
You do? That's okay. The mystery gets even more mysterious. Where in Australia do you
know? I'm not sure. It's my Macedonian family, which I don't know. There is a heavy Macedonian
population in Australia. I've got a couple of Macedonian friends. Yeah, that's cool.
I don't know your, how Macedonian are you?
50%.
My one.
12.
Half Macedonian, half Dane, that's a cool combination.
Yeah, it is an interesting one.
Is that why you're so like stern and quiet?
Maybe, but I have the attitudes of an Eastern European as well.
Okay.
If you get to know me maybe.
Yeah, well, you know, if I get to know you I might see the black lipstick, I might
see the Eastern European mentality, we'll see that come out maybe.
Sometime, sometime.
How long is it going to take before you start firing up?
Because you're generally, you know, similar, you're incredibly calm when it comes to playing
counter-strike, especially on the cameras.
When do you start screaming?
When's that going to start happening?
When I feel like it.
I've been working on doing it because when I come out of my shell, I'm different from
what you've maybe been used to.
So it's a balance I have to find.
Now are you the newest member of Astralis?
You are, right?
Yes.
How does that mean?
Obviously they had their little bromance going, but now you're a bro, so does that integrate
well in the bromances that were already there?
Yeah, I mean, I played on the talent team a few years ago, so it's not completely
foreign to me.
I'm quite familiar with some faces and also people from the office.
So feels like a Danish home, you could say.
That's pretty cool.
Now, have you got your archetype for the for the photos yet?
Yeah, I mean, I have to do it at some point, right?
Yeah, but do you know which archetype you are?
Or do you find that out in a moment?
I'll find out in a moment, I guess.
Well, let's go.
We'll go check in with him and see what he's picking.
Yeah
The vast mate what what's the what's the go-to here? What do we pick him today? This is a superhero poses
You can choose other
Who's choosing me or him me? Oh, okay. Okay. What works for you?
sin
Oh, I think that's the safe bet. Yeah, that's a safe bet and then
We'll give you the ooh, I think that's kind of you can get around that
you might have to kneel for it do you have to kneel for that one
yeah okay I can do the Elon Musk
yeah Elon Musk yeah
yeah we'll go for those two I think that
beautiful alright let's watch this happen
alright let's uh...
let's see how he does it
he's getting in there
oh yeah so there's the initial
phases
of the uh... of the post
and then he's gonna have a second one
which is similar
That's powerful. He's got the smolder going, he's got that full smolder with the eyes, you know, just like, mmm.
Oh, he's done this before. He's certainly done this before, got his hair done for the day too.
Straight down the barrel, full focus, locked the fucking.
He's a little smirk there too. Ooh. All confidence, all confidence.
Okay, and this is the posing regime getting ready
Look in the right way
Igor of course
instructing him to success and this is what it takes
To be photogenic straight down the barrel
Oh
That's beautiful. Yeah, I love it. Have you been working on that smolder for a while? It feels like fuzzy
I'm thinking more now, right? Maybe we're going on a low key.
Maybe it's just getting a bit tired with all the age.
Is it a similar thing?
No, I would say just more thinking as an in-game leader.
True, true, true.
How's your experience coming to Malta? You've been here many times.
You've been to Malta now. It's been almost every time, pretty much.
Yeah, it's the second home, right? We know the area and everything.
I like coming here. The only pain is the flight,
because we can't fight directly here so but otherwise it's a nice place it's hot
it's a good weather we can't complain what's the what's the weather difference
between here in Denmark is it like like 15 degrees and then humidity level
probably like 60% difference in the humidity yeah probably around that we
had some decent summer weather but but it's it's like the UV as well here is
way more than in Denmark we don't have that in Denmark you're looking tanned
all right you've been out in the sun a little bit lately no I've been told
I haven't been outside so
Grinding you've been grinding. Yeah. Yeah, the monsters are just
Putting out UV lights perhaps. I don't know
We'll see we'll see now. I was talking to bro. He's obviously been here for the when did he get picked up?
It was like January January February after the major in April
Okay, so around then
Okay, and he's been integrated really well. He's played some insane rounds for you guys
What's it like playing with Tim? Of course, he came from like a mixed European English speaking team
But coming into a Danish speaking team. Do you think that that's affected him in a positive way?
Yeah, I'd say so for sure. I think that's he has played a little bit different in
in mixed European teams what you usually see is way more individual decisions and
Yeah, I think that it always takes time to readjust to a new team and a new playstyle
But yeah, he's he fits well, I would say I think he's really good and like his aim also pales them out a lot of times when when he's in
Top positions. He's a really good aim around. Yeah, I've actually seen most of you guys in the gym
That most of the events I've been to lately
Is that is this something like do you have a personal trainer that gives you guys little?
workout plans and do you think that affects you guys in a positive way in Counter-Strike because
I've got this theory that people that are putting in the extra yards, especially in the gym or even just like cardio or whatever
End up playing better depending on you know what their
Daily schedule is going into the games. Do you think that's something that affects you personally? I mean, yeah, for sure
In regards to the personal trainer we have
programs and stuff
That's individualized of course from where you are in life and we like what do you say I guess start point this
But yeah, I would say as you say as well, as long as you don't fry your nervous system
and you go too hard, it's fine.
I would say you can do it on game days and stuff as well.
So me, I started running more and lifting a little bit less because I love running.
So yeah, that's what I do at least.
I believe in the cardio buff, like a nice 30 minutes of medium level cardio.
Don't roast yourself out.
Don't lift heavy weights.
Don't just take it too heavy before the game.
That's fine.
do whatever you want. But do you think that sounds good?
Of course. I think the most important thing after the game is just to realize that we
play CS. There's a lot of stress involved, but you don't really get in a way of getting
it out of the body. So you have to get that running it out some way. And I think it's
different for a lot of people what they want to do. Some people just want to relax
with the sauna stuff like that. Some people involve Jamie into the whole system too.
That's just one of those things, man. Yeah, and I can't comment on that.
What do you think about him?
Do you think he's a
Hectic jammer or do you think he's more of a jimmer?
Jammer or jimmer?
Uh, man, of course I'm gonna say jim but, uh, yeah.
Who knows, you know, believe that there's another mystery.
Thank you. Thanks to Voss.
Let's have a word with some of the M80 guys
just as they got briefed on the Texas rule.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, snappy, tappy, snap, tap.
Rack, did you ever use it to begin with?
Yeah, I started using it as soon as it came out, but we can't use it no more, right?
So are you heartbroken about it or do you not care?
No, yeah, I didn't really feel it.
So I feel like I'm fine.
Yeah, didn't really affect me.
How are things over in the MAT camp?
How has been did you get the post Malibu's depression out of the way?
You know, it was like a day or two after you left, you know, missed the boy.
But besides that, now we're good back to form.
How are things going?
Do you love the fact that you flew halfway across the world just to play
complexity again?
Yeah, I always love playing them, so it's a good rivalry.
You feel like you have the upper hand in the rivalry?
So far, yeah, we're 1-0, right?
So feeling confident against them, for sure.
Do you prefer it when you come to Malta week one
and then you have to wait a week if you make the playoffs,
or just now when you have like two weeks, potentially,
hopefully?
Yeah, I think the two weeks is nice.
Just kind of go into playing after,
so there's no break in between.
I think I like that, yeah.
All right, man, I'll leave you to it.
I'll leave you to the setup.
And now I'm going to go all the way to the other side.
Actually, all these guys are setting up.
So sure, it has to be you again.
How are you doing, man?
Good, how are you?
Take a seat.
Yeah, this is way more comfortable.
I'm doing fantastic.
How does it feel to be back in Malta?
Good.
I think this is my fourth or fifth time here,
so it's doing pretty good.
Last time, you guys had some really good performances,
really good games.
Obviously, the G2 games were some of the best we had
all season long.
So what's the goal this time around?
I mean, obviously, it came here to have fun.
There was, I think, even in the practice room,
we had a picture of the post-match of that game.
I'm like, those were the most fun games
that I've ever played in my life.
So obviously, we're going to come out here, have fun again,
hopefully give some good games, and hopefully make playoffs
this time.
How do you feel about going up against complexity
in the first game?
Pretty good.
It's funny that we're flying all the way out here to Europe
just to play them first round.
But that's just how the seating worked out.
I mean, the only time we played them,
We came out up front, so we're confident going into it, but you never know, things always go, the way they go.
You guys are still in that phase where you play these qualifiers back home, imagine to get into Atlanta, right?
Are you looking forward to that, another one on home soil?
Yeah, Glen is always fun. We went last year, it was a fun tournament, we didn't have our full five roster, so we always stuffed a little bit.
But yeah, Lenny is going to be fun this year around.
I think we have Thunderpick and then the RMR after that, so.
That's the big one.
All right, I'm going to keep it moving.
Sin.
All right, how are you doing?
I'm good, how are you?
I'm doing great, thank you.
Who is messing up the Nades most now on the team?
Oh, actually, I think the guy was most surprised with,
is that Mason, because he never used the jump floor before.
Then he said like, yo, Mason, you have to use the jump floor,
and then it got removed the next day.
So that wasn't fair for him.
Actually, I struggled a bit with the new jumper, but it's fine.
That's the true captain. That's the true leader. Admit it.
We have a spreadsheet now of who misses smokes.
Everyone, if you miss a smoke, it's a dollar towards a team meal.
And Elias is leading that charge right now.
You guys have been eating well on his account.
Soon to be eating well, yeah.
All right. How has it been now with Lake being around
for a little while, integrating him into the lineup, all that stuff?
Honestly, I think it's just pretty fun, again, like obviously playing a new guy, getting like,
how do you say it, like we need to teach him how we want to play, but we also have to keep him,
that he doesn't forget what he wants to do on his own. And I think that's what we started with a bit
in the beginning, but now especially after the Europe time, I would like six days in Europe
at the BLAST tournament and just we got some nice practice in, he got some a lot of confidence
in these games and yeah, we're just feeling better every day. You guys feel like LAN is
is where you do your best work?
For me personally, for sure.
And I think we as a team also, because our mood rises,
I think, online.
And sometimes in online games, I think it goes a bit down.
And this can go down.
But yeah, LAN is for sure.
We have the most fun here.
And I think that's what benefits us.
All right, man.
Thanks a lot.
I leave you to it.
OK, that's not going to work.
Lake, can I talk to you for a little bit, man?
How are you doing?
Well, I realize this doesn't work if I only keep the
mic at mine.
So how are you doing?
Good, how are you?
Doing great. You see, we got there. That's how we like it.
How are you feeling in the team now after a couple of months getting to play as your second lan, right?
Was EWC now this?
Yeah, the second. So, I mean, it's been going pretty well, honestly.
I'm getting integrated in the team, kind of developing how I want to play in their system
and learning how they want to play also in their system.
Do you feel like NA players are getting a bad rap because people are talking about,
Hello, there's a lack of talent and who could this team get and that team get and then here you come in hit the ground running
I mean and it does kind of get a bad rap
But I mean there are like truce in the criticisms like there's not a lot of young guys out there really anymore
There's only like a few so I mean and it's kind of coming back up getting on its feet from where it was from
What it was in Valorant and just trying to be better. Don't worry. We let it that's out. You'll be fine
Do you think the bigger problem is a lack of skill or a lack of professionalism with some of the younger players in NA?
Okay, I think it's both. I
think that even in like
Pugs you can just tell like people into you almost like one or more like that was kind of a difficulty that I had
Like going to Europe even like plugging
It's just like it feels like every game in Europe is almost like a mini match
But in and it just feels like just like a bunch of trolling and like nobody really cares
So I think it's definitely a bit of both.
What's been your main focus for yourself when it comes to, you know, playing a tournament like this
or tournament like EWC going up against some of these better teams that hail from Europe?
Honestly, it's just like keeping confidence in myself and the roles that I plan.
Obviously I play star rifle roles.
So it's just like a bit of trying to find out who I want to be as a player against these top teams.
And I mean, obviously you saw against like Vitality, I just didn't play very well.
I mean, that was my first land game and it was against Iowa.
So it's kind of, it's bound to happen eventually,
but I think I'm getting pretty confident now
as I go into my career.
All right, man.
That's awesome.
Great talking to you.
Best of luck.
That was MAT.
We'll keep it moving.
Mate, look, I'm new to Malta.
I know you guys got a facility here.
Yeah.
What are the good things?
What's like the good restaurants?
What's the good pastitti places?
Or even the bars?
Like what's good Randy?
I think the best region hearing in Malta
is like where you are, like here.
There are a lot of restaurants, like Italian restaurants, but we like Brazilian food.
There's one restaurant only, and we always order, so it's good.
You know what you know where that is?
There's a lot of Brazilian barbecue.
Yeah, it's thais, thaisalimpa, something like that, so you can find your own app.
So we always are there.
The best thing you hear in Malta, I think is the weather, like it's hot and so for
us in Brazilians, it's the best.
So there's a lot of place to go to swim, so it's good as well.
And I think that's it.
Where are you from in Brazil, São Paulo?
So is it super humid there as well?
I haven't been to Brazil yet.
Sorry?
Is it humid?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The best region there is Sao Paulo in Rio, Sioux as well, Brazil is a very nice place.
And this reminds you of it a little bit, is there more greenery in Brazil because in
Australia, West Southern Hemisphere as well, but we got a lot more grass.
Yeah, it's in Brazil it's more green, but what do we remember there?
It's like the weather and the sea, so there are lots as well in Rio Janeiro, so it's
similar.
That's cool. In terms of you know getting here, did you guys come straight from the prac facility?
Were you already in Malta for the last week or whatever doing a bootcamp or?
Yeah, yeah. Since our tournament we were here and we are here practicing. So we have facility here.
So and it's it's cool, right? Because we are we are in like home playing. So
Yeah, it's very nice.
Now where to from here? Did you already get your photos done? Did everyone already get the photos?
Yeah, I did already. I did like demolition pictures, so they're nice, beautiful beautiful.
Now in terms of this tournament, what's the girls for Firae?
I think the goal, the main goal is playoffs for sure, the last time we didn't, so it was almost
like one match, but Jesus playoffs and winning against the top teams, like the top teams,
10 teams and we against those teams like top 20. I think the main goal is playoffs and
it's like getting better and better through the tournament. So I think that's it. Yeah, cool.
What what did you guys do in terms of like prep for this tournament? Did you have a full boot
camp like a full week or did you just sort of you know take it easy? We have like full week
of bootcamp like all days like practicing and we have like just Saturday off of the day off.
So we actually we just have like one day off day off so it's good for us and we need to put more
respect scene right now because it's a good moment to improve our game and since
schools joined the team has getting better and better so I think we need to
keep doing our stuff so and we can win you know. It feels like Sculls is
smiling. Every time I've seen him playing he's just got a huge smile on his
face since he's come back from Liquid. Do you think he's just like 100% enjoying the vibe
in the Furia team compared to what was going on in that Liquid experiment?
Yeah, yeah, he always says it like he it was the best thing that happened for him this
year because he loves Brazil like Brazil so he's very happy with us and I'm happy
true so yeah it's good I'll leave you to it though you know I'll let you go
set that SSD up brother yeah I got a question for you okay so these things
they're guns right what they're big guns big guns because helmets catch up
the best yeah yeah yeah the wait no not the not the sponsor the guns these guns
no not good is that Ricky bro oh okay well I was watching these perform over
there you got a buddy I'm on your man yeah I'm strong I'm a strong guy you know
but I can play very well ping-pong because I broke my knee yeah broke what
my knee your knee yeah play a football wait how long when did that happen what
when four months ago are you good now playing football here are you good now
though yeah I'm good now that's a speedy recovery I need to make a surgery
in December and I still good for playing. At least you can still play CS you know
that's and you're getting. I'm good. Are you ready to do some yelling and in
Cologne you were loud as hell doing that again? Yeah of course. Are you gonna
get him you're gonna teach him how to yell? Yeah he's my good boy. He's my
brother. He's learning, he's getting there you know he just came back from
that the English speaking team back to full Portuguese, so how's that going for you?
Are you enjoying it?
I've just said to Yuri before that I've only seen you smile since being back in Furia.
So are you having a great time here?
Yeah, of course.
It's always a good time.
Those guys, they're like funny as hell, so yeah, we're just practicing hard and having
a good time.
And you've been playing well as well, look.
So into this one, what do you think the goals are for the team?
Is it just like make it the playoffs?
Do you think it's just like individually picket things out or are you just here to play some ping pong and see what happens?
I mean we are woven very quickly as a team. So I think this tournament it's a long tournament
So we have the perfect opportunity to like grow even more. So yeah, let's see where it is
allows us to be
Who take playoff?
Beautiful and in terms of this who's the best on the on the sticks for the soccer
He's like insane, insane, look at that.
What's the secret?
He's playing 10 games per day.
Alright, so who's awesome?
Who's playing awesome?
You.
You?
I wasn't focused.
So that's why it's so new for him.
So who's winning this one? You got 27 minutes left, which is going by pretty quick.
What's the score in the end? You reckon it's going to be 4-0, 3-0, 5-0?
6-0, 7-0, that's it.
We'll see, we'll see in time.
You have to remember it's a pro against an amateur, so...
Yeah, I have to take that into consideration.
What's the general prize winning you've gotten so far with FIFA?
I mean, how much money have you made playing this game?
Just try hard do it do it for the love. He's negative two thousand dollars
Don't say that
I'll let you guys I'll leave you guys to it. We'll see what the score is in the end
Back to this though
So yeah, who you going for you don't don't let him here
100% there's no chance is this no chance is going to score probably like three more goals
He's like all brains, right, but he's like
Well, he actually plays good, but Leo is like so superior, so no chance at all.
That's just one of those things, you know, sometimes in life, you know, some people are just better than other people, right?
Yeah, I mean, he's good at Counter Strike, he's good at FIFA, you know, so sometimes it's evidence.
Good balance, good balance, yeah, okay.
What's the, so you're new in Furia, and is this your first bootcamp here in Malta, or is it like a second little bootcamp?
How long have you been around Malta?
We live here in Malta, actually.
Did you, when you were liquid, you obviously weren't here.
Oh yeah, I always love Malta a lot because it feels like home and the weather is like amazing.
It's always sunny so kind of.
That's what he said.
Yeah.
I mean we are Brazilians so we enjoy like sun and good like weather.
And like people here are like always very like warm as well so that's good.
It's hard not to be warm in Malta.
It's like 35 degrees, you know, 100% humidity, kind of crazy.
Yeah it is.
Is Jenga the secret to his game?
What's going on over there?
I think he's just cooking a little bit, you know, so he's a smart guy, he likes like this kind of games, we have a game at our apartment that we play like sticks, it's kind of similar, like you have to like put the sticks and you cannot move like the whole thing, but yeah, Jenga's fine.
He's picked a bad blocky, are they?
I don't think he's made the right option, the right like decision.
I believe it.
It's all about the finesse.
Oh, yeah, we're about to see something bad here.
Oh, yeah, we are about to see something like said.
I don't think patience is going to help you, buddy.
You made it.
GG, bro.
GG.
GG.
Yeah, it's over.
Just embrace it.
Just embrace it.
Yep.
Clutching in the server and the other server.
That's actually insane.
How do you, what?
Stop, stop.
Stop smart, stop smart.
Stop smart.
It ended up until it's over, right?
That's enough content, right?
That's good, thank you, thank you.
And that was Furia, see you later, boys.
All right, still a lobby here,
but I'm here with Fallen.
Now Fallen, see more Counter-Strike
than you could ever hope to in your life.
Isn't that right, Fallen?
That's actually true.
And so, under these circumstances,
this is what we've got to look forward to.
We've got group C, we've got group D.
If you don't mind, let's go through group C.
And what you think, who's coming out on top on either side?
Maybe give me an explanation on a few of them.
Miles and Rooster, hard to think.
Miles, we're gonna lose here.
Big favorites, one of the best teams there were right now.
It gotta be Miles.
Circle the winners, please.
Ooh, winners?
Yeah, winners circled.
Okay, that would make sense.
Check's out, Rooster.
Yeah, easy, easy, easy.
Guess, but you never know, right?
Sure.
There's a chance.
Imperial versus Big,
gotta go from Brazilian fellas here,
Because otherwise he's going to look bad.
Because otherwise Big has a good chance though.
It's going to be a good game.
Complex vs. Amadio, that's the NA class.
Amadio has been doing some good damage
against all the American teams.
I can see on some qualification tournaments and stuff.
But I still think Col is favorite here.
With Elysia over there running the show.
Can you talk about that a little bit?
Elysia, if he's hitting hard, he's hitting hard.
And now we have Astralis vs. Fanatic.
Breamer Fanatic.
Oh, this one is a feisty.
That's great.
I think Astralis is a little bit favorite.
But blame F, maybe he's going to come with the law of the X, you know, you know what I'm talking about, right?
I know exactly. So the law of the X.
Okay, fanatic over Charles, only got your own group over here now. So you've got obviously, you know, this one, we're not going to make you call right here on the spot.
But let's start. Let's see, these are the opening matches. So what do you got? Who do you got?
Well, same as miles, right? They're just bigger favorites here than this team. So vitality should be winning.
I like the way they have the instruction of the new team, and now has a new coach, new blood, never know how mastermind glaive is going to show up with his new fellas with the new coach, but I still think he's favorite.
Let me pause you right there. These guys, tell me about their story where they're at right now versus perhaps, you know, before.
I think now they have less cookers on the kitchen, so it's working better. I think Twist is managing the team pretty well.
Ultimate, I thought I put him in my pocket last tournament, but he put me in his pocket, so he was better.
He's definitely a good Alper.
Quick, real quick.
He's very good. He has some good plays and he's been playing well for them.
And yeah, I'm looking to see them play more.
And for VP and Red Canids...
Uh-oh.
You know, Code Zero. You gotta believe you're Code Zero. There is no other way.
But even these guys don't look like they're having the best of times, right?
They're not having a lot of fun over there right now. That's the word on the street.
At least that's what the forums tell us.
Yeah, I think VP is kind of in a position where I kind of was as well when I joined
through with ART, like they are trying to figure out the way they want to play the most.
I think they're trying to bring many different ideas compared to the James system and they're
kind of trying to feel how they make it work or not. And during this balance time,
sometimes it's not going to balance too well or sometimes it's going to be stressful.
And I think VP is kind of suffering a little bit from that. But it's VP in the end, you
You know, they got great players.
I trust in James.
James is a very strong captain.
He has good ideas.
Even though he might not be calling now, I don't even know for sure.
His ideas are very good.
He's a good offer.
And the other rifles are just as good.
And every time I hit a death match session, some VP players are there.
So don't count them out.
But anyway, regardless, we got Code Zero.
Best rifle in the world 2016 and 17.
One of the greatest of all time.
So I got to go with him.
Best rifle in 2016.
You heard it here first.
Thank you very much, Gabriel.
Let's continue with the lobby elsewhere.
Hey, man, Trace.
Nice to meet you.
Yeah, let's go for a walk. Come on. What you've been in there doing? Taking photos?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We were doing make-up and now we're going to do assist this.
So I was just playing ping pong with some of your teammates.
David, nuts.
Yeah, pretty good rap, right? He's pretty good there.
Like, just scary good.
You know, it's fun. You take a ping pong very seriously here.
What are you guys going to do to get ready for here?
And now we are just playing a little bit like yesterday we had some great time, right?
So the first day, great jet lag.
So we went for a walk, I went to the gym with the boys as well for we take a good rest.
And today we are already practicing and preparing for the match.
Okay, when all that checks out too.
So for you, Cold, you know, you've seen a lot of counter strike.
We've kind of looked back over the course of the season and history in the game itself.
Think about some of those earlier days, 2016's, the 17's versus where the game is now.
Do you think it's made progression?
Yeah, of course.
The game is way more hard now, right?
So you have more things to analyze the opponent.
In the past, for you to analyze the opponent, you need to download the demo and just literally
watch the demo.
Nowadays, you have a lot of tools, like Skybox, braq.com.
So you have a lot of tools to use to analyze the teams
and be ready for the match.
So the game nowadays is more competitive in that terms,
because you can analyze the opponents
and you can prepare well for the match.
Yeah, the tools are all there.
I think the support staffs are bigger.
Like there's generally a lot more going on
around a Counter-Strike team now.
Does that sound right?
Yeah, of course.
Like so many teams have like two analysts,
one like performance coach and the QCNist,
like they have a lot of things to be honest.
So I think like today, the game is more professional,
as I can say.
the past like you could like some teams had an analyst, but analyst was not the big deal.
So coach has more has more voice inside the team. Nowadays, I think the analyst has even
more voice now. If you could go back and do anything different
in your career, what would you do? We determine in Brazil. Yeah, that's the one. I think
like we had so many great times like in the past, but we never want to turn in
Brazil. I think that's something I regret a lot. We had a chance in the ESL Pro League
back then. But I think we, what we could do like is a little bit more the game. Like I
think when you're in the top level is way more hard to stay there. And like sometimes you
have like some bumps in the road. But I think we, I think we had a, had a good time together.
Like we played very, very well. I think we made the community very proud of us. And
nowadays we just expect the younger, the younger generation like just to progress
a lot as well.
That's very profound. Hey, I appreciate your big time call and you got to set up your SSD. That's the right canids and it's been the lobby
sorry for
coming in the middle of your little game here, but
It's a part of hey, how's it going? What I introduce yourself to the fans
I'm double from team attacks. Can you tell us a little bit because I think there's going to be a lot of viewers
Who are not familiar with you guys. Can you sort of introduce the team to everyone back home?
We're from Asia, Mongolia, and it's our first AISTEER tournament as a team.
Some of you guys already know the annihilation and copy.
How about the three of you guys? Where did you come from? How did this team sort of come together?
Kabal and me played together for a long time and after he left from AIC we started talking
and we became a new team and we bring some new Mongolian talents and that's how it started.
Okay, Kabal is the IGL?
Currently I'm the IGL.
Oh, so you've changed that recently?
Yep.
I wanted to ask you about, you guys were really close in the RMR qualities, right, losing out
at the last game, which is tough. But then as you said, this is your first S tier tournament. So
you sort of have to, you know, focus a lot on this one. How hard is that coming into pro league?
It's pretty tough loss. We were like practicing for RMR quite a long time and didn't make it,
It was pretty hard to swallow.
But at the end of the day, we have ESL probably coming,
so we just forgot that kind of thing and focusing on this one.
Obviously, you have a tough opening game versus Vitality,
who just won Cologne.
Where do you see your chances in that matchup?
Of course, it's going to be a tough one,
because they're a pretty good team,
But we don't have anything to lose.
We just come here to show our level and test our level where we are.
So we're going to try out against Vitality and see how it goes.
All right. Talking about expectations,
I wanted to ask you a little bit about what would be your dream scenario,
nightmare scenario, and then something that's more realistic that you're aiming for?
Dream scenario, of course, would be like winning Vitality and going to playoff like straight and
Nightmares and others of course like 0-3 like losing all the teams like 2-0 or something. Yeah, and
realistically
We're thinking like we have chance to like
Go through the playoff
so we are aiming for that and of course the first match is tough one but
It's going to be a warm-up for us and we will focus on the next games and we try to qualify.
Okay, now more on the human side of things. What's the vibe like in your team?
Are you a team that gets really loud while they're playing or are you more reserved, just focused on the game itself?
Yeah, we're not that loud, but if you compare to Mongols, we are quite loud.
Who's the joker on the team? Who's the guy that cracks jokes all the time?
It's the Michael.
Alright, thanks so much, man. Good luck in the tournament, and yeah, that was A-Talks.
I'm here with the Rooster. I found him. They turned up. How many minutes late, boys?
Yeah, plastic.
A ride of the best when you need it, you know.
Now, all right, we're going straight into this.
It's pose time, photos.
What's the go-to pose?
Sap, that's you.
No, I don't have good poses.
TJ has good poses.
Well, what's the poses for the boys that you aren't going to eat?
I don't know.
We're going to have to think of someone to fly here.
We've got a whole list of different poses for the homies.
Here we go.
There's plenty.
Do you have your archetype?
Archetype Eve have you got an archetype are you the demolition expert the Lebowski the mastermind the virtuoso or the soldier?
I'm a bit of a soldier man. I'm a bit of a dog. I'll get in
You don't do that. What do we got?
You just want to talk
You might have to hit that one. That actually looks good the captain. That's pretty good. Yeah, that actually looks good.
Give it a crack. Give it a crack. Give it a crack.
Head down. Head down.
Oh, that's good. That actually is good. I will be hitting that
What about you teach? Come on. Get your pose ready. You stand there and look good? I'll
believe that when I see it.
It doesn't need to be. It's good.
See how's the art? I heard you guys had a boot camp. How'd that go?
A bit of a shocker, mate. To be honest, bit of a shocker. We had Chelsea also had a
bit of a situation. Couldn't participate. So we were playing with JHD. That went
about as well.
He's the he's the guy in the suit all the time, right? The goat. I think they call him the goat. Yep. No, that's the goat over there
Is JD the goat? Yeah, he'll be coaching this one
JHD was the sub
They're not pretty. That's all I'll say. I've played enough plays of bugs with him. It's not very good
That's putting it. What about the goat? Is he alright? He is a very good coach
Remember because he was in he was the one that back home
Some oh no, I'm thinking of Akram
Me and back room, you know when he came over that time and then and then he just like had that crazy anubis game
Oh, yeah, that was that was our room
Yeah, he had his had a shocker of a boot camp to keep it real and then comes a pro league as a
As a fucking life game on a nervous mind unreal
So Malta hasn't seen JD yet. No, they haven't I don't think anyone's seen him actually so a bit of a surprise here
So I'll stop calling him JD the guy the guy that is his proper name. Actually. Yeah
Yeah, the face-to-face setup. He will be intimidating them
I think, yeah, he's quite a, quite a big guy.
Yeah, yeah.
Now, with, with Slimey, is he a sufficient, uh, substitute for Nettik?
Because of course, Nettik is here in Malta.
He's just not here with the boys.
Yep.
Um, I don't think it'd be fair to ask anyone to substitute Nettik.
Um, we'd probably have to think of it a different way.
Obviously, we're going to have to change how the team plays and stuff, you know.
We're trying to be a bit more team-based, you know, play together rather than wear
a bit of individual brilliance from Nettik.
Yeah, we just had to change it. We wouldn't put that pressure on us long, a bit unfair.
Is he doing all right for the shoes he's had to fill though?
I feel like every time we've seen him online, there's been a couple of rough games,
but most of them have been really, really good so far.
Yeah, I think most of the games he's played online have been pretty high pressure, you know,
and from no team to throwing straight into like qualifying games,
you can't really expect him to play perfectly,
but yeah, I don't think anyone could feel netted shoes to give him his credit.
To be fair he's going through his first photo session his first ever photo session right now. Is he is he all right like
Chest up slow me yeah, there we go. Yeah, that's right kitchen up a little bit to
I was giving it to liquid as well before I was getting enough looking a bit more jacked in the photos
You know what it's been all the gym. Who knows what about Shabash as he go
He's been in and out of the team over the years and he's been back in for a little while.
Do you think he needs make up?
Maybe a little bit, maybe a little bit.
I think we all do, you know, none of us are perfect.
Yeah, he's doing a tough boot camp without Chel.
I think he did a lot of heavy lifting with the comms and stuff.
So, you know, it was a bit of a wake up call playing as European players, which,
you know, if they see an advantage, they just step on it, you know, they take
everything I can which you know makes it a bit hard to play sometimes with
inexperienced players. All right new captain big man yeah I know but we can
still talk just don't move your mouth too much new captain you are you still
like are you the captain or are you just the idea? Is it the same thing?
It's the same thing. That's all the matters. Beautiful how's the flight was it all right?
We went to Poland?
Yeah, Poland. Yeah, it was good time. Really fun. How was the flight to Poland?
Shit yes.
Classic.
They sent us a long way into Singapore. 40 degree 8. That's just a classic.
You go outside or just stay in the airport?
No, no way. In the air condition.
So it was 40 degrees in the aircon? Yeah.
Stop fucking complaining.
Don't send me to Singapore.
On the captain, I shouldn't be going...
We took you to Malta, it's just a sweaty air. How's that going so far?
far you've been outside much? Oh I love it, it's awesome. Of course I've been outside.
You can go outside here and not in the same... How's the face it going? Because Sap had
something to say about that. Are the beans up or are the beans down? The beans haven't
been far because I've been for a month. For what? I'll just say I'm protecting
the scene from Stains.
From Stains?
This has gone dark direction.
Are you okay?
Do you need to talk to someone?
I think crags needs to be permanently banned from Australia.
Kicked out of the country probably.
But yeah, I'm great.
I'm awesome.
That's good.
That's good.
Now, what's your skin tone?
Do you know?
Out of those?
Are they the same or are they different?
Yeah, probably.
We're going to learn. What is this skin tone?
Which one is his skin tone?
Mixed three tones to get there.
Very nice.
Let's see what she can do with it.
I don't need much.
True. Most of the face is covered with the beard.
What color lipstick are we going for today?
Hopefully purple.
little bit of purple. It's not not like red to go with like the rooster colors or a bit of blue, maybe
whatever, whatever. Goat mate, you're submitted as the coach. How's how's the coach integration
being coming into rooster again? Because you've been gone for a little while now.
Yeah, no, it's been great. Introduced a new reward system at the boot camp.
Win five rounds in a row, we go strippers. So
So that worked out pretty well.
And it was effective?
It was effective.
We'd win five rounds, then we'd lose the six.
So they got to be excited.
At least they went strippers.
Chavez, how was that?
How was the reward system?
Are you invested in this reward system?
I may or may not have participated in the reward
system.
And you didn't, of course, because you're a taken man.
So you've done the right thing.
I am the adult of the crew.
I don't take into that stuff.
So I didn't go.
This is going in a direction that I definitely expected.
Shout out Rooster one time.
Now, first time in Malta.
Oh, is it the first time in Malta?
First time out of Australia?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah, yeah.
We've got to wait for the microphone.
We're learning together.
True.
So when I say, oh, hello.
Hi.
There we go.
There we go.
your photo session, that was really good. Are you ready to take on the big dogs?
You're feeling a bit of sensation with all the pros walking around? Do you think
it's like a little bit weird because your first event? Oh yeah it's definitely
weird. Like you watch all these pro players play like demos and on stream
and you just walk past them in a hall so obviously it's a bit like
overwhelming but yeah like confident as well you know. Think to our mouse
coming in so yeah. Have you walked around the area much since you've been here?
I have had a bit of a walk around. I've noticed a lot of strip clubs that are a lot of places
that a big man can visit over here as I coach. So I think the reward system is staying the
same over here. The sun.
It's definitely staying.
Yeah, we got confirmation on it. Thank you.
Definitely.
Thank you.
Go to beatmouse. Wow. Strippers on me.
I don't know how much of this interview we can use, but we're going to keep filming
it.
So, you went with the folded arms for your first ever couple of photos.
Did you go with any of the extra ones or do you have like a second session once you look
at all the other poses?
What's the strategy here?
So, initially I hit him with the chest and the fist ready to fucking destroy, sorry, language.
Yeah, or I mean, what can I say?
I mean, I'm ready.
I think you're definitely ready.
that mouse first, are you as confident as the goat in this matchup?
Well, I mean, I have to be. You can't go into a game like this being, you know, disheartened
that you're bursting a team like mouse. I mean, I can only really go into it saying
13-0, 13-0 to one of us, because even though the preparation wasn't great, there's still
so many good signs of like, just wing. So I feel good.
Do you think I prepared you in any way, shape or form with our 1,000
FPLC and FPL matches over the years?
I was definitely a track getting through those.
But yeah, I mean, everyone goes through it at some point in this, yes.
So getting through that early and now I'm here.
So I think I think it's prepared me well.
I've known you since you were 15 about that and then all the way through the HSC.
It's kind of crazy. And now you're here, huh?
That's nice.
Congratulations, Slimey.
Hopefully it goes well.
Of course.
No, I just wanted to see.
We wanted to see like the before and the after bro.
The after is looking good.
Ooh.
Ooh.
Sleigh Queen.
What was I looking like before then?
A bit more, a bit more moist.
But you know, we all look like that in Malta.
It's fucking odd.
What do you expect?
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, baby.
Alright, normal, normal questions now.
So, uh, IGL and, uh, do you enjoy it?
Do you prefer when Chal was doing it?
Uh, personal preference, not effectiveness.
Um, I started picking it up a little bit more towards the end.
And even with Corey, like I was kind of second calling a lot of the time anyway, it kind of
suits me like I get a lot more freedom myself.
You know, like, you know, you can't get in trouble with your own calling.
You know, I can just run in and there's no issues.
But I like it.
It's good.
I feel like we needed like, especially with the new like the meta is changing and stuff
we needed like a pace changes and that which hopefully I brought in a little bit more.
But yeah, no, I'm enjoying it.
It's good fun.
of the place. So, uh, map pool was, what's, what's your Instagram again?
I can't remember. It was an ancient. Yeah. So everyone here plays ancient.
Most played map here, actually, for the first two groups.
Do you think that is going to work in your favor or against you guys?
Because you got a bit of a different map pool to a lot of the teams here.
Yeah. I mean, not buying ancients, obviously an advantage because everyone
would be picking, everyone's been picking and everyone's been playing
it like everyone's well conditioned on it. But I mean, our map pool still,
Even though we play the six it's still lacking. I'd say a fair bit which will prove costly
I think a lot of teams, you know
You only have to look at how we've been playing like if they pick their picks like these specific maps
I think it'll be tough, but you know, I think we have it in us to you know, at least pull a victory off here and there
Maybe a series hopefully but it'd be interesting now in terms of the ping pong on the team
Do we have any any favorites any up hands up?
you are the goat he's actually pretty good what's what's the secret backhand
McGee so they call me but what's the secret just hit him with the backhand
they can't hit it back and then say McGee all that was the yeah they hit him
with like yeah that's why I'm the backhand McGee mate I checks out I
What's his ping pong name, Alias?
Big Boy.
Big Boy.
What's that supposed to mean?
That's a bit rude.
I've just been put in the middle of a war.
We can't have this in the team.
How do we fix this later on?
Or is it just sort of water under the bridge?
Is there any protocols that need to be put in place?
No more of that.
Well, hopefully, you know, we've got a bit of practice today.
if we hit the quarter for the reward system and you know we'll be going this was simple as that
a little bit of team bonding never heard anyone did it that's true that's true
Chell you want to have a chat how's uh how's his calling going if you had to rate it on like one
ten i'd give it a 8.5 for for coming out argument nine no context you know what listen a month
I'm sorry, I'm just yelling and saying something like that.
Pretty solid, but I taught him well.
You taught him well.
How many years was that you were calling with him under you?
Except there was like one month where you got rid of him, right?
A year or two, I guess.
Something like that, yeah.
That was pretty good.
No one's not bad, but room for improvement.
How has it been for you, orping and not having
to think about what everyone else is doing?
Oh, that's good.
It's way better.
Too hard to orp and CS2 without telling everyone
to do, what to do, you know what I mean?
Now, in terms of, you know, changes and stuff,
have you guys gotten on the round, you know,
getting rid of the boost bug?
Were you affected by that boost bug that was in the game?
Was there ever any points where you were getting boosted
to go and do something, but then the game
just sort of was a little bit buggy?
Yeah, it was annoying, but you could just check
before they warm up and then rejoin,
but I just always forgot.
So, just got a couple of minutes ago.
It would just be terrible.
Yeah, now what about him?
How's his prep coming into this?
Because sometimes he drops the ball.
Sometimes he's the goat, not that goat.
But the goat, is he doing well?
Is he going to be the star player here?
Good be, you know.
He's going to compete with me, so it's pretty hard, but he's
all right, he's all right.
It's a team effort, really.
Can't win half one fella, you know.
What about him?
What about Slimey, of course?
The newcomer of the team.
You had to replace Nettik.
What did he do to get in the team?
those friends with TJ?
No.
OK.
And he got cut from his team.
And we were like, oh, that's a steal.
There's not many people to pick up, you know,
but when there's a good one, you kiss it and I'm out.
Seem pretty good.
Can communicate.
What's your thoughts on the Australian scene in general,
the Oceanic?
Sorry, Mr. New Zealander.
And what's it like being the only New Zealander left
on the team?
Dangerous, technically.
His secret New Zealander.
Secret New Zealander?
Are you Shav?
Yes.
What do you mean secret?
How can it be a secret New Zealander?
Come here, come here, come here.
I mean, I have a New Zealand citizenship and a passport, so yeah.
Are you dual with Oz?
Yeah, dual with Oz.
Not bad, not bad.
So you used to do it technically like homies, though, brothers?
Yeah, of course. We're family, we're fine now.
Is that family in Maori?
Beautiful.
Yeah, give me some more Maori.
I see that.
Come on, come on.
Uwaaah! I don't know the rest of it, but...
Can we start? If we go back to a tri-New Zealand call in the team,
we just go to TJ, put someone else in there that's like Kiwi.
Can we get the Haka before the games?
Nah, not for me.
Don't fuck with that.
Yeah, what about you?
Depends on the third. Depends who we get.
We can make them do it. We can make them do it.
Who would be an appropriate New Zealander that would slot into the team allowing the Haka to commence?
Sonny Bill.
Is that the only option?
Yeah, there's no one else in the place here, is there?
The Sonny Bill place, yes.
Right, no. They could get us to do the Haka.
They can do the Haka though.
He can, he can. He's a scary individual.
I reckon TJ would pull off a pretty good Haka.
He would. Definitely better than me.
But then like cultural appropriation or something, right?
So he's not a lead that's all right nice. He's got a pass. He's got the pass. Check out TJ one time. Anyway
I'm gonna I'm gonna follow you guys down to like
What is it SSD setup and see how you all do that, but I'll meet you down there. All right, good stuff
Well, yeah, I'd love to see that as well
But here we go in the jumping jumping straight on it is a map nick from Lynn vision
It is gonna be dust to and it was going to be Navi starting here on a CD side a bit for slight stack towards
B and Emma starts it off with a nice little clean headshot.
Oh, follow up though from flying.
And we got the cast flying a lot over the years.
We've kind of seen him grow.
He hasn't necessarily been able to get
one of the best Chinese rosters.
And Emma getting involved in fights.
2v2 established off the back of it.
Now, flying, looking to make a name for himself
inside of this B bomb site.
Jay off the back of the site.
Nice shot, but clear by flying.
And a 1v1 stepping up is a likesy B.
He's got a kick, he's got a smoke,
and now flying, committing to the plant.
So at a minimum, even if he loses this 1v1,
They've got a good force by it into the next round.
So flying heading around the boxes to the back of the platform,
and Alexi B just waiting for a mistake.
And flying, not providing that just yet,
but he's got to worry about doors.
He's got to worry about window.
And as the longer the time goes on,
maybe he even considers tunnels.
Yep. And he goes back to have a look.
Here comes Alexi B through the window and through the wall.
It's flying with that headshot,
locking in the first round of play
for the side of Lin Visio.
the force by coming out from Navi and M4A1 in the very capable hands of Bit Illa
he's a man who plays for the Team Dinka. Yeah he is him.
And they're gonna stop saying that are we? Never. Wonderful. He's gonna have to look
for a better performance at this event, doesn't he? I mean he probably wouldn't
be happy with the end of Cologne maybe got a lot of criticism over that as well
so to return and have a massive step up in the performance in Pro League here in Malta
would be incredible for wonderful.
Good start of the round here for Bits, damage done, and a dink on to Zakhar.
That's fine, you could just toss the M4 direction to wonderful.
So kill, add a dink on to Zakhar, and they're getting so much respect to Navi this round.
They're just giving them all the space in the world to work with.
They have a flash, no they don't.
They're out of long, low vision.
They've gotten a minute left on this clock, and currently looking at Navi set up.
They're pretty passive.
You've got one player inside of the side that likes to be with a 5-7,
and he's just spotting along making sure it keeps that information going and
yeah sure they've seen him but dealing with it could be another problem is
Alexi B just hides around that corner here comes utility over the top Alexi
B's 5-7 primed and ready and he's also put his teammates coming over to help him out
Navi have plenty of forces ready to go and Amelia cat he's ready to go up this
corner. Alexi B though unable to get anything and Amelia gets a double and
eventually just follows up so they clean up those pistols. Navi had a good
start by the force by doesn't pay off blood now they're down to the ego that's
the great thing about you know these Chinese players you always talk about
them they always have some crazy mechanical skill don't they who was your
who's your favorite player over the years from coming out of China blood
China somebody somebody yeah it's gotta be because he just provides the most
amount of laughs I've cast an entire game of dusty ones where somebody's
He's playing CTB, and he pushed tunnels alone, 13 rounds out of 15.
Every single time.
It was lunacy.
It was actually inter-work.
Yes!
Which is even more insane, so somebody smile, well for the memes, my favorite.
Yeah, he's definitely the most meme worthy player in terms of just the mental plays
that he makes.
Yeah!
Oh, it was Deagle.
And so it's a loose cannon, and it's good for one.
Couldn't quite follow up and really should not let this one get out of hand if you're
vision but they've somewhat put themselves in a difficult spot. With the damage done to the
remaining Navi players with just a P250 left, you could imagine they don't like this one slide,
but Amelia, he starts to fight through those middle doors and AlexaBee's able to take him out
with a USP. Now it's not just USPs. Now they've got a Mach 10 and an AK-47 picked up into this
round, so they're going to go for this. There's nothing to lose, so Flash ready to go.
No kit though. No kit. And if they aren't going to go quickly, that could cost them. So
Flash getting sped up here for wonderful.
He's going to send in the Fielder squad to figure out the positions of the two remaining players.
And...
Ah, should be fine.
That's an opening throw on the WXP.
And things are looking good.
With that flash...
I guess, wonderful one of the...
It's a kill through the doors, but it didn't quite do anything.
It's some very good damage being dealt here.
It was in three players in what was just a...
Sure, USP.
So yeah, not going to be fine.
The gun's going to be coming out now.
Sacre with the AWP.
Emma, up on short side to see what Emma's going to be able to do here in Malta.
Alexi B down early on going through that CT smoke.
And 5v4 picked up off the back of it.
So 55 seconds remaining in the round.
Lim Vixen have got the opening kill, but they're fully committed long and Navi know
that.
They absolutely know that.
So they've got the player stacked over towards A. Wonderful's going to chime in with
a kill on Amelia.
And with 45 seconds left, the numbers even down, and Navi with 4 on the bomb site is looking rough here for Limvision.
Taking so long, and now they've spotted at least two more players as well, so Navi can just go for the stack.
Molly towards Gandalf, one of them doesn't feel uncomfortable with that smoke.
He's got to keep him alive.
It's not exactly the greatest retake set up here for Navi, if the bomb is to go down, so they want to fight.
They want to take the jewels, and they're winning every one of them.
Flying left alone, he couldn't get a second.
That's pretty camp, but Navi, as soon as the guns come out, they win the first round.
Despite being 3-1 up, how the tables turn, Denko?
How the tables turn quickly, and yeah, you brought up in the last round, you're Navi, they may not have won the previous round.
The flash, not being a jump throw, doesn't help with that.
But it's all about the damage that you did in the round, because look at the outcome now.
You win one gun round, and you force Lymvision down to a full eco immediately.
Oh, that's gonna hurt.
Wonderful just football back here, he's got teammates with the weaponry and MP9, should be shredding a few of his players, so this one's done.
A Fufu, that's a new player for LidVision, Fufu, that is one hell of a name, isn't it?
A Fufu, I don't know if I like it, casting that really fast is tough.
Oh my god it's a Fufu, what are we going to do with a big play if a Fufu makes a huge hero play?
You make the fumble. Oh, that's a foo foo.
A foo foo.
Everybody loves a foo foo fight.
You know, there's lots we can do, blah.
That's the reference I thought.
I didn't get to hear this early in the day, but...
Yeah, cleanup from Navi.
That being said, didn't lose a couple of plays.
Okay, okay.
Alright.
He's had some shots so far, hasn't he?
You know, we talk about...
It's also like a lot of the players in the wings up team that when they when it disbanded right couple of them went to rare Adam
Where they're actually right now. I think a top three team in
In China at the moment, so they have to pretty good players overall in that team. It's just a hell
Lexi B. All right completed blinded no vision made shit find the third as well
And as a 3k by a Lexi B and what was the buy from Lynn vision getting absolutely
Dumpstered in long doors
I would love to make a Mongols movie.
I think it would be pretty sick.
You just tell the story of how they all get picked up in the van, you know, they get brought
up to the land cafe, you got Coach Mara putting together the God Squad of Mongolian youngsters,
and they tell their parents, we're going to go and compete.
Around the world, Encounterstarch Tournament.
So that's going to be sick.
That would be a sick movie.
Yeah.
They actually have some great personalities.
So, we did see, I think it was, oh he did, he messed up, he messed up, he said, actually
all of them speak great English.
We just don't want to do interviews, they've been lying to all of us, so now, you're going
to hear it, you're going to hear a lot from those, the Mongols players.
They've got Amelia, he's out long, and he's starting to drift over towards top
mid, but in a minute, 10 seconds left, players, here comes an attack him through the Molotov,
through the utility, good flash buying, oh not so good on the spray, and JL this time
doubles up. Bit completely wrecked by the flash, so they're into the B bomb site, Amelia
cutting rotations, doing this, good of a job if you can't handle how, he's been able to
turn on Emma, that is huge, Emma should have locked that kill in every single time, but
a 2v2, that's a bomb. You have to retake this B bomb site. I thought you fumbled
for Emma, that was a free kill for him, would have been a 3v2, but now you have
2v2 bomb down. Here comes the flashes, they're coming in on it, through the window
They already go it's gonna be a spray down from flying and now just wonderful
You can't retake with AWP this round can't happen. So Lynn vision is going for it's actually going for it
This is wild for wonderful. It's so unlikely and yeah, he just goes down. So thank you very much
That's an AWP for Lynn vision scroll and tied up
And once again they go three pistols with tunnels. They're really favorite is be bombsite. Yeah, I like contact
I love this I like direct hits from Lynn vision
but the spacing was all flying when I had it, and his teammates weren't there to follow up through the smoke.
So JL has given a free opening kill for Navi to play with.
I don't know, Lv. Vision playing with a player deficit is going to be very difficult here,
especially with WC cutting off middle, Fufu goes down,
and Lv. Vision have a 3v5 to try and recover it. At least they've got time left,
but it just feels so unlikely at this point of the round.
Yeah, I mean, the idea wasn't bad at all, right, like you pointed out, but just the spacing was off.
Amelia...
But buddy, together he's so far away, he's so late.
Zacker does find a trade, onto what's wonderful.
I mean, you gotta have a lot more.
He's gonna isolate his deal onto his JL, there's a chance.
He need a lot more than that.
And Zacker, pushed out into the cubby beyond those doors and gets caught by JL, great work.
Flashbang blinds him just at the last second, Amelia's getting flanked at long all the way through top middle.
So he's going nowhere with this and all of you about to head into the lead again Emilio the great head shot considers top middle
But bit is so sharp so quick and locks in that head shot. I like the aggressive stance for bit
He's decided that he doesn't want to wheel the secondary AWP then go at I for one
The big sound of that. Well wonderful. Certainly not a fan of that. Zachary just not gonna want his ass
That's gonna hurt
Here goes bit though head shot not coming in in fact he gets blasted away by the West Mellon
Best melon. Yeah, the best melon in all of China. And jail pushing towards the upper tunnels, flying, waiting for him.
Here comes a chance for flying. Oh, really gotta win those. They're gonna speed it up now. They know.
There's gotta be an A-Play. Ima gonna rotate it and speed it up.
Great chance for X-ray. Yeah, fantastic chance for Lymvision to make something happen here, but Alexey flying from the car does well, but it gets traded.
Now Ima, this could be a little risky. This could certainly be risky. Go for it.
If you jump up, your head's revealed, and they have a chance to not leave the fire.
Beautiful.
Forces him up into the open, and Ima goes down.
So just J.L. and a 1v3 Blah.
He...
And he's going to get P.T.R. by Zacker.
So five rounds for LimbVision.
They're going to make a half out of this.
That was a very well played round.
It's a final round of the half.
Now I'll have to go for this, and it's not a great round.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
LimbVision messed their money up right at the end, so it's a great chance for
LimbVision to get six rounds out of this T side.
worked out they've got the opening kill generally when they get this opening
they're a lot more comfortable they don't make as many mistakes and here
comes a push from Nafi trying to gain that kill back a little bit of a dink but
the flow kills aggression to the tunnels again from JL it are too long
punished by LinVision so they've got two players up and you're left with
just the Lexi B bit and Ima two rifles 157 this is gonna be a 6th
round player I'm really impressed with this half now from LinVision towards
I think the second buy round on him was looking way more solid.
They tried to abuse B, they eventually got stopped there, but they found another solution, they found another way.
Oh, they're falling for it. It's a double fake play coming in here.
I think it's going to be an A hit.
Well, one kill has come back. B has been able to get rid of Emilia.
Now coming back over to try and deal with his B problem is bit.
Now if there is one player to step up in this moment, he'll take it.
absolutely removed tries to get out of the window gets chopped down by West
Mellon and Lynn vision into the site to try and close the half in six to six that
is a perfect play from a fufu all the way to a short route of a couple of
bullets doesn't go for the full deal and that forces bit out of position and
that's gonna be six for Lynn vision game in the title that's that's great
so you they come in against one of the best squads in the world and this
Chinese roster tied up the half six to six great performance on the T side
They're going to switch to the defense and see how they show up there.
LimbVision, I really feel like they need another good start to the half though, right?
It feels like they need a pistol win and a follow-up conversion to be able to take Navi down on Dust2 if there's any shot at that.
This pistol would mean so much to LimbVision's campaign.
But the bomb has dropped, it's going into mid to B, a little bit of pressure thrown in towards the A bomb site via short.
And it's a deep smoke at CT, but it's allowing one player to fight.
And Bitt is not going to allow that fight to continue for long, but Sacker headshots coming in.
Oh my god, Flying got one and likes he'd be. JL left his in-chem leader to die because he was just whipping shots.
Fake plant climbs to the window. It's a smart play for JL, but Sacker has one hell of a pistol round.
He is having one hell of a map. He's 13 and 8 at the moment, and that pistol round picked up by Limvision.
I can't believe Flying actually spun around and got the kill with the Julees.
I can't believe he survives that long.
We gotta give it our hands, dude.
We actually really do.
I won't lie, I came into this, I'm like alright, you know, this one's gonna be a corp stop coming in from Na'Vi, just waiting for the heroic nip game
But the young ninjas, they actually beat them, Jason
Hey, wait, I'd never call it Jason
I've been stuck for Moses in a little basement
Casting for them all
Alright, Henry
A few weeks
Henry
Creamy Henry
You have casted virtually half of the CS town
Yeah, I've got a round
I've had my fun
Yeah, man
Look, while you're up there, man
Thanks, man
Appreciate it, dude
Bit and a Zacker going to blow for Blon a little bit of speed behind this attack from the side of Navi.
They're coming out of the tunnels with a bomb on their back in the ring of the site.
And that means it is very likely that Navi collects this round, especially with the Lexi B.
And wonderful in a crossfire crunching down on this retake attempt from LinnVision.
I think with that utility it's going to force the squad to fall back. Go for the save call.
And Navi trying to do some damage at the end.
But West Melon staying alive despite only being on 19 health.
So, Navi, get the guns out, up to seven rounds.
And there's cash in the bind here for limb visions, and the buy will continue into the next.
So at least that's something.
Yeah, especially the human is two A1s alive as well, although that's been said wonderful.
I like how they're sending in Zakra with the MP9, just to be the first one to contact.
That's an AK picked up as well.
Yeah, if I'm Navi, I'm not really going for this hunt, I'm not really worth it now.
They have an attempt.
Zakra, baby.
No.
What was that about?
I have no idea.
At some point they have to feel the way, right? They can just stick around towards short.
Looks like they're doing that now.
Yeah, flashbangs. Gonna be to tell.
Focus. Well, this could be a faster run from Navi.
They've pushed into the tunnels here as well, in vision.
So they've actually got full tunnels to control at the moment.
So they gotta know what's up. They've gotta know.
This could be a long play from Navi.
Can they get the resources?
And the players in position A in time.
Amidst climbing up the ramp at the moment.
So Hacker's got a Molly.
And they're climbing up.
Ooh, he's loose as most of his health in that first fight.
JL cracks open the first scope, it's sacrificing back.
Imma on the follow-up, and Navi looking good.
They got all of the essential kills, but a Fufu.
He's got to be the wizard here.
He's got to step up with some magic.
So lucky.
The smoke saves him.
OK, that's a shot from flying.
Now to the chest.
He's just going to back into this blood.
That head shot from flying gets him right back into this,
but a little bit of a Fufu right there.
Wonderful getting rid of him.
And now flying left and around, he can't win.
So there was an opportunity, but if Fufu needed to get back, or he could just wait a second.
I guess we're starting to get the bomb planter as soon as he planted the bomb, but
he must be so lucky to be alive with one HP, and
yeah, it was a bit of a messy back and forth, but Navi will come out on top. They tie things up as well.
Let's see what he's able to accomplish in this round.
Once again, Navi is getting some space, along with a smoke fades away,
and it reveals that Fufu, who nearly gets a double, but the trade is in from Amelia.
The trade.
It would work to take out wonderful AWPer for Navi's down, and look at this point.
Westmellon has pushed through the tunnels and he could get in behind.
He could get in behind JL and unravel this round completely for Navi.
And it's not just Westmellon. The timing though.
Oh, instantly taking the fight. Headshot locked in on Ima.
And will they spot JL? They've seen multiple players and oh JL!
He gets the headshot but he's not going to be expecting that second player surely.
And he's very lucky to get beyond that grenade.
JL's still in this fight. Navi's still in this round.
But LinVision certainly ahead with advantages and JL goes down through CT now Alexi B 1v3
40 seconds left and if he climbs up on that Xbox he's being spotted and now those steps being heard as he crosses over towards CT spawn
Alexi B gets flanked in by Amelia and it's a 9 to 9 score line
This game is not going to fall out of control for LinVision. They are gonna stay in this fight
What was it was the team we had last time there was really was it LinVision with was sorry at last pro league
it was pulling some upsets yeah it's uh they had some very close games yeah
right wonderful he's a little quiet he has been put on not massively quiet
still still uh outputting his numbers am I in the lower tunnels oh that's not
clean another opening kill this time for link vision and jl burning in the
lower tunnels pushing forward and limfishing they set up early to get
the opening pick and then they just fall back and make it impossible for
and Navi to get the trade kill.
Hit and run.
That's what they're known for.
I see a lot of that back home, I'll tell you that.
Damn.
And Navi think about a B play.
So smoke goes out for the cross.
That's going to be CT spawn smoked out for a mid to B hit.
Navi have four players, or rather three players
going through the tunnels.
One just cutting off rotations in middle.
But this is still a strong setup
to deal with this threat inside of the B ball
site for L'Invision.
Westmellon takes initial attention,
flying peeks out from the copy,
And it's absolutely perfect from the CT side.
But JL, wonderful, still will trade out those two B players.
And Bits in mid, getting caught from Zacker.
And it's only wonderful in a 1v3.
He talked about him being quiet.
This would be one hell of a time to get loud.
Hags up, let's go.
In the site, hiding behind the box.
He's got a worry about the tunnels.
He's got a worry about window.
And the threat of three players running him down
with an AWP, first shot missed.
Wonderful, they know exactly where he is.
jump over his head and that's one way to do it blood just climb on top and knock him down with a usp
that's why i'm not the best thing though that's i'm here casting with you because i was wrong
yeah you're in the basement with me yeah i love me at base hanging out
fufu and long is going to be put under a lot of pressure flash goes out and he is wrecked
absolutely destroyed by bits along control safely in the hands of navi they're going to clear
out the car and molotov just burning anybody that would be standing there but there's not
and LimbVision, they haven't necessarily enjoyed being in 4v5s.
They're going back to what worked for them, this long place from Navi.
Straight up, no time being wasted, no BS.
They're herd us go.
Smoke in the middle of this site.
Emilia's gonna use this as cover to get around the back side.
Ima moving into that smoke.
He stands on default, position not detected yet.
He's just gonna hide there.
Emilia under so much pressure and Ima.
He actually just charged through, hoping to be able to surprise and allowing that kill.
in that kill JL's patience pays off holding long. Oh nice head shot from Amelia. It's still
in vision fighting in this round despite losing the opening kill but that trade comes back from
the likes he beat. JL now arriving from long, wonderful get to pick on Zacher and it's just
flying left to do as they know where he is. They're putting pressure on his position and he's
starting to run out of bullets and JL comes in to save the day. He gets that kill back long
and then closes it on the site. I've got a little worrying for Navi there but yeah JL
Attaching the rotate as well.
And Navi just going back to both states with the long hit.
I feel like I'm lucky for Iba.
I guess he wasn't expecting anyone to be there.
So, Brazen, aggressive from LinVision.
If I didn't expect this, this could actually work out.
Good shot, wonderful. Taking a foo-foo down.
Advancing, siding with Navi again.
And wonderful nose. There's a possibility of a second player being aggressive at top middle.
the top middle so wonderful is looking for it. Now he knows. Now he sees it but the bullet
it just goes into a different dimension. It just went to his pockets. Yeah. Straight through
the clothing. Yeah but he's locked in now. He's trapped. Ima just gonna take his time.
Gonna play with his food. In the meantime though I'll kill back from Zacker that's
a bit going down. Ima's gonna get this opportunity and he will sink the kill just
What's it about?
It likes to be, you know, fighting over towards a zacker going down and it feels like LimbVision
are starting to crumble right at the end here.
West Mellon hiding at Elevator and has no money left, so they're going to try and save, but
the problem is there is not really a safe pathway unless they get to beat quickly and
there is still someone over here, J.L.s, in the tunnels.
He can make this very difficult for them to actually get away with these weapons
and now it's only just the FAMAS in mid.
Oh, dude if they break if they if they lose everything with and even with one rifle doesn't feel like it's gonna be too much
Yeah, this feels like Navi you're gonna grab control of the game right at the end
And this is gonna be a heartbreaking finish to test to a film vision the money's so right they have to eco
When it well handles the Navi though the good protocols wonderful despite the flash
I thought it was blinded somehow manages the line get the kill
Okay, the medical advice and blood is injurious your health
Good opening kill from Zachar as they want to try and force this game into overtime and it's a good start.
Zachar knocking out big. Dink onto JL as well.
So, Navi, this is a very poor start to the round. It's going to be difficult to close it right now for Navi.
We're speeding it up. Just going to go for the mid to B right now.
There are just two defenders and Westmellon's being aggressive.
Look at Zachar and Westmellon up front.
Westmellon close by. He's got Zachar coming in and this is overtime written all over it.
Navi are losing health, losing players, and losing chances to close this in regulation.
His opening map absolutely looking destined for OT, destined for the bonus rounds.
Emma, patient.
Zach, you're watching for the smoke.
Instant trade from Emilia.
And now just JL, wonderful left on low health.
JL, good head shot.
Now they know.
Emilia is closing these doors.
Navi keeping it in a 2v2, but a kill back.
Wonderful falls.
left alone and a spam down to the doors JL gets it into a 1v1 fight and the AWP
nearly closes it but LinVision tried this battle to overtime versus Navi one
of the lowest rated teams we've got in the event going against one of the best
squads on the planet and they've got them in overtime who wants us to that came
down to just a watch I thought he was probably gonna hit it it was so low as
well and then vision yeah they're not quite done yet wanna kill my jail is well low on HP
finds two but unfortunately not able to yeah to OT I thought you give him a little golf
class for yeah other boys here we go no time being a wasted fast way coming out to
what's long and wonderful will find a western mother to foo foo he has to back away here
yeah it looks like now you want to try and put their boot to the throat the live vision
right getting aggressive getting in their faces and getting the opening out long
wonderful sustained damage goes down to 11 health smoke blow it open kill for
zacker and dude what a game he's having 24 kills 15 deaths this might be a
highlight performance for zacker's career and Vufu getting aggressive wonderful
going down that's the low HP player they picked up early finished off
there's a good flying he's pushing to its tunnels yeah he's gonna have a bit of
of a jewel if he continues to go down lower but the timing, oh it works out for Navi to
get past C4, the bomb.
The bomb is left severed from the pack, flying with a fight against J.L. and he hits the
headshot, he absolutely nails it.
No idea though.
Big coming close, headshot collected, 1v3 total for B. He recollects that bomb and
Bid has a lot of time boy, he has a lot of time to work with.
Yep.
And the CTs are somewhat split up, you've got Emilia playing outside of those mid-doors
and Zachary down at CT spawn, because I can say, though, I thought he was going to potentially
take the deal by himself. There's a climb up behind. Yeah. The flank is coming in from
Amelia. He's going to start walking up short and behind BIT, which means there's a timer
on this plane, and BIT, oh, he's going to plant exposed. Exposed to short, he comes
in, BIT. Goes down. Put that guy down. A little bit of a way for Amelia. That
was a bit scary there, didn't care what he actually got in the end. All the people
that don't want to whiff like that, it's against BIT. Yeah, true, he was about
It's a nil headshot wasn't it? He was going to snap that one right back.
Pivot back towards B. Wonderful with the spawn and the AWP.
Lying should be cognizant of this. He should not be really going in for...
Swing, but a fast hit towards B.
Trades are good for Navi and this could be it.
Emma is very low on health, Dinko, but...
A 3v4 retake on a B bomb side and Dust 2.
Doesn't seem too likely, does it?
They do have money, and it is going to be the final round of the game.
It's OT, baby, so they're going to go for it, but it doesn't seem favourable at least.
Not me getting himself sunk deep into the site, that grenade, that draw,
there's numbers back to Molly, B3.
Molly forcing wonderful in the open, but no one peeking with it.
No one really capitalizing on that opportunity.
The flash gets blinded, that flash is so perfect!
From Zachar yet again, bit left alone, 1, B3 that he can't win.
And LuneVision forced themselves up to 14 rounds on the board.
This is looking so good from this Chinese squad!
It's like every single thing went right at that, with a U-Till, where they dumped it.
And now they're gonna be killing themselves, take care of.
That looked like a round, that was done, it was sealed.
Alright.
Aggression for Emilia with a secondary AWP.
West Melanie needs to get the kill, it's not a fine one, but a trade should be good.
So again, player advantage for Na'Vi early on.
And A bomb site.
A little bit of utility being dumped in, they're not committing yet, they don't need to.
It's 4v3, you can just pump the brakes, slow things down a bit.
And for the vision, they're just committed to this aggressive stance with mid and short.
Whereas we have a foofoo.
Improving.
There's made foot steps, they know where it is.
And this should be around.
No, it will be.
It will be.
It's around for Navi, especially with the likes of B coming up short here.
He's got the fine move.
He's got the finisher and that's going to work out for Alexi B on the first.
Couldn't quite get the second but at least the Fufu spotted.
Three players up still for Navi.
Bomb now just crossing into the bomb site.
Fufu not in a position to make that uncomfortable and they've already got one outside of those
doors.
Bit was confident to stand and fight.
And the double upset of it.
This is aggressive from Bit.
Super advanced angle of flying comes from a peek.
If he even thinks about this against Bit he's going to go down.
So that's a great move to pull out this late in the game.
At this point of overtime to gain you an advantage, you put bit in the tunnels of the AWP, and
he catches flying with no trade potential for limb vision.
Flash at the ready here for West Mellon.
Just waiting for the Utah Dump early on.
He's got it cocked and ready to go.
Wonderful force off the angle.
Flash super effective.
Fifty seconds left in the round.
I'm going to peel back.
And for Navi, you know it's 5v4, no need to over-aggress, wonderful catching Amelia
as well.
Looks like it's got to be super uncomfortable here.
Tied up game at this point, 3v5, there is a window, mid to B, but mid with the AWP.
Holding the line from window.
They got to clear him out, Zakir needs to kill and he can't do it, BIT is wielding this
double up setup to absolute perfection and now they creep up through that B-Ramp smoke
as soon as they might get confirmation they're both looking at them, well, okay,
that's it.
That works too I guess.
Look at the play with the top of that smoke and all ports for wonderful second kill from Ima
Truly this sort of mental shatter as well as just the fact that this series gets more difficult as you go into Navi's map pick
I'm at two of ancients so big cracking things open
That's a foo foo going down early swinging into top middle. I'm not sure what I was thinking there
Little rough loses his life and now bit going back for a second fight. Oh, I could have flicked out great shot from West Mellon
pops the head of bit
And gives this round back
Well, great chance again for Lynn vision. They might think it's only one defender to be bombsite though
Yes, but she because bit is often been there right so you may think there's a bit of a weakness here
You can exploit the West mill and getting peppered down through the smoke and finished off by jail
Here comes that final thrust into the B bomb site. Emma's never going to be checked
It's a sick setup of Navi very effective close there at map point and for Lynn vision
They've got to do it again. They have to fight back again to force another overtime
Yeah, you're right. I mean there there's always a chance. Let vision just get this one extra round and we go again
Terrible start win vision suffering losses
It's a like CPE with two going down at long Amelia and why why smelling both gone and it's gonna be a sad day
It's gonna be a sad day for whom I don't know we talked about maybe for the vision nice peak from pick rather from
Zacher finding Bid.
I got a chance still in the fight with that kill.
It's still a 3v4.
I let his reply to Bid immediately lobbing the smoke and showing the Bid to be played
as it happened.
So boosting up, getting information that they're not playing with it, that they're
not getting too aggressive off the back of it.
LimbVision players committing in short.
They're the last three that can do this.
If overtime 2 is going to be established, if it's going to be achieved, it must
be a Fufu, Zacher, and Flying.
Two of which. Oh no! A foo foo! The Molotov just lands on his head and he goes into the fight, wonderful!
Picks him off! Zacker and flying left. And it's been a wonderful effort from LinVision.
But a heartbreaking close here on Dust2. Na'Vi take them down 16 to 14.
But you've got to say, but that was one hell of an effort.
That's a hell of an NT if I've ever seen one. I'm lucky to have Molly in his face.
Lynn vision versus Navi T side start for Navi and C T side beginnings here for Lynn vision
What a utility here for Emilia and
Sacker he's how made he's got flying beside him and don't have they're gonna look to fight into the elbow early
Nice clean shot from flying to kick off the pistol affair. They'll be flashed into the elbow peek and oh my god
Okay flying you even mean that one. All right, but that's that's a bit unlucky, isn't it?
What do you do that?
Literally don't even mean to hit that shot.
Okay, flying's a pistol, God.
That just wrap it up.
Worship the God of the Pistols.
It looks like he could do something here.
Well, it looks like he can offensive himself a bit of a demigod.
He's gonna come around the back side and then already...
Oh God, definitely not near that level of flying.
And that's a pretty clean pistol for the side of LymVision.
They only lose one player in middle, but flying just...
bursting heads.
Alright, here we go.
Yeah, I mean, I think on Dust 2,
the key to LymVision's competitive nature in the first half
was getting a good start.
We're in the pistol being able to convert it and I'd also just like these up this mid-round proactive place
Right now just being static and that's something that really and Zach are man. He was influential. He was so good
He's got his off out incredibly fully, but he's dead instantly a flash
He couldn't get away either and now Fufu must step up in his stead in a fufu goes down to the hands of ima
You know
He is in bomb plant going down bit locking it in on a
And the round is absolutely finito. I saw a new
Sorry watching your anime recently. What's the anime you're watching boy?
Wait hold up. Give me a sec. It's called. Oh, it's called. It's called. Hold up. I'm gonna read this out
Emilia dead to JL inside of the red room and the round is absolutely dead now
So at least you're gonna save two weapons. You couldn't save the third a
Navi going on the board with their first gun round. They
Maybe they will have a buy though.
Yeah they'll have money on a majority of...
I don't even... I won't even say majority actually.
Free rifles...
Look, if we could buy for himself,
so I could drop a weapon for Zachar.
Uh...
Will be one MP9.
I would actually like to see them, and it's also like...
Lost one was pretty rough.
Yeah, Emma's happy with that.
Alright, so, name of the anime.
It's called Life with an Ordinary Guy
who reincarnated into a Total Fantasy knockout.
He's a matter of taste.
Yeah, he likes to get animated, that's for sure.
Yep, very much indeed.
We'll talk to Rushly.
He's over in Moltele.
I miss Rush.
He's pushing the buttons following the action.
Yeah, I miss Rush, dude.
Chad willies him all the time, but I love it.
Chad doesn't necessarily, but Yankees certainly does.
It's rough love.
Oh, he likes to be a good opener.
Melee up, following up with a second, and it's back and forth.
Hit for Tat in mid.
Zachary applying pressure, another kill on Ima.
And the 3v3 established off the back of this,
and this is the buy we were talking about for LimbVision.
weaknesses. They had to go to SMGs, but this, this would be such a risky play and the flash
catches Zacker. It doesn't affect bit in any way, shape, or form. And yeah, I like the
idea to an extent of trying to take a risk through elbow, but Navi are so good, they
consider it. And wonderful missing the shot out towards CT. We'll see if that comes
back to bite Navi in this round. The answer to that is no, because Wonderful gets it
on the second time of asking. And now Westmellon, cleared out by Wonderful finds both
that makes up for it Denko. He's come back though, has a lot of comebacks to him, but you know a lot
of people returning. Yeah, I love my comebacks. Yeah, especially you, especially me. Here we go.
Fufu into the fight, down to Emma, and this is what Emma's just so good at man. When he gets out
elbow, he gets in these fights, and wonderful, just rapidly creating a look at West Mellon.
It's absolute chaos inside the middle and Sackers chimed in with the AWP. Pandemonium.
There's a winner for JL here.
Two players out of the cave.
A lot of dicks on JL's gun.
We're gonna sling it as he goes into the fight.
Cease one out towards cave.
It's flying that goes down nice and early.
He'll cross off cave with a smoke.
Westmellon hopping out in JL.
He loves to get into these smokes.
He loves to be a real nuisance and this play is cool.
He's in the cave.
They should know now.
This information gained.
He knows where both the players are.
JL's played this perfectly.
They can send Bit off to A.
He can send Bit to plant for CT spawn.
So let's see how this goes
Rotation for limb vision one down B ramp all the way down ramp. That's West Mellon. It smokes too deep though
Zack is ahead of it. Oh, this could this could end up a little
Unfortunate for bait jail. Yeah, but how long is that going to take find a plan for him?
It's plan for jail, right? So he's in a strong post plan doesn't really necessarily need to fight. It's a fight that play. Oh my god, okay
Jail got that kill locked in head shot round done. That's it
He's won the round. West Mellon can't do anything about this. Time's too far gone.
He's not in a position to win it. And JL wins the round over on B and then closes it.
He won that. He played that one magnificently. Four digs, Stinker. That's all he needed.
Yeah, that A.J. He's got the jump done in the end.
But FlyQuest Eternal 5, that game is still ongoing.
And that's over on the A-Streme. We've also got FaZe,
Sound God a little bit later on, and Heroic NIP on the next games coming up.
So an action-packed first day of counter-strike here at ESL Pro League season 20
You guys can keep keep track of it all Amelia to remove wonderful
Who's gonna be too happy about the start of this round and jailed? What dude? Uh, what's half? What is happening?
All right, Amelia
Just was gunning couldn't get it back. He's all good. No, it's got the all
I like to be with a headshot. It's gonna be West milling going down jail
They're actually using the AWP to devastating effect on Amelia.
I'm not sure why they're going for that.
That's a CT smoke thrown out by the way.
It's a 5v3 as well, the smoke was terrible at mid.
Yep, they threw their own smoke down there and it was used against them.
And now a lexie B inside of red, flying, coming to have a little bit of a look.
They've lost every piece of Mako.
Oh, but okay, Zakhar found a JL.
Bit.
Heshaw ready to go, locked in.
You know, it's going to be Zakhar crumbling and rotation coming back through red.
They're gonna try and clear out Alexi B, but they can't stop him.
And Alexi B gets back to red, and that puts a Fufu in a real uncomfortable spot.
He's gonna go and fight Alexi.
Ooh, he actually hits the headshot, blah.
It takes half damage, and now he's up against Bit.
And Bit's going aggressive.
He's gonna fight him.
He's gonna commit to the fight, but a tiny on the flash, Bit started rattling bullets off just before that flash affected him.
That could have been a massive 1v2 for a Fufu.
Yeah, it's not looking good, thinker.
Damn, we really, we've got all kinds of...
Italy! Italy! Italy!
Dude, why aren't there any Italian pro players?
We found the only Italian that watches Counter-Strike.
Incredible.
Or plays Counter-Strike.
I've never met an Italian who plays or knows Counter-Strike in my life.
Someone once met you, Bluh.
They've met me once?
Yeah.
I once met Bluh in a match made with beef, beef lead.
Well, here we go.
Camerons back, action returns, and a foofoo.
Only game one, but does well to deal damage on Alexi B.
Drops him down to 11 health.
Backer.
I want to smell him.
Look at that.
It likes to be not quite ready for the West Mellon, a sneaky player on the back side and now Bitten Wonderful left into two versus three.
Nice shot, Bitten Locks in the kill on Zachar.
Get it where West Mellon is.
He's in the donut.
Wonderful creeping around the back, West Mellon cannot deal with it.
It puts it all on flying and he's one of the sharpest players that Lin Vision have got
and he couldn't get the second on Wonderful despite running it close.
Well, we got Blood here, he's from the Indian Nation.
Indian nation. Yeah, I remember India
Meanwhile fast
They hit towards B. They might need a little switch of coming in here from Navi
A to two they started throwing a bit of caution to the winds free kill for bid rounds done packet
I'm going back to countries and nationalities
dinko
Yeah, another uh, another quick victory for Navi. It's uh, it's one two punches just great entries to breaking
I'm taking LinVision's defense almost instantly, and it's a tough, tough game here for LinVision,
not quite the same shade of Dust2, unfortunately, and I think that's expected.
If there was any shot at staying competitive in this series, they had to win the first
map.
Honestly, if it went to Inferno, I could potentially see a bit of a fight between Cuddevae and
LinVision as well, but Ancient, unfortunately, isn't exactly a...
Isn't a great map for them.
Alright, what's happening in chat now?
to say Microsoft tech support. Hell yeah. How does that make you feel, Bla? I actually
worked in connection companies once. Oh nice. Experience manual, Bla. Yeah dude, like who
do you think fixes all this shit that goes down in production? You should call it Yanko.
Not you. No, he's called Yanko once upon a time and then he got too big for a good price
on shoes and now. Yeah that's cool to, yeah the Yanko origin story is pretty cool.
Yanko origin story. Yeah, from a little observer. To an analyst. And coach. Pretty
A coach! A coach!
You ever think about someday, Blythe, that you want to coach Tyloo?
Absolutely not.
Why?
You know how much hair loss I have right now?
I don't want to lose whatever I have remaining.
You have beautiful hair loss.
I don't want to lose all of it.
Coaching a Chinese team would be the end of me.
And I've survived a lot of things in my life.
Yeah, that's fair.
Good question, Westmelling. Down the ramp, it's going to work out.
Wonderful coming down. I'd like to be able to trade in.
I like the idea from Amelia.
I love the idea from Amelia and it's worked out so well double kill. It likes to be jail could handle it
Emma had to trade so all they had to do thinking we'll just push and push all the smokes by themselves all alone and
Hope and pray you catch a timing this could actually work out everyone's here and be third ruffled in vision a
last bit
Little back and forth in our loan. They're both on the ramp Emma not spotted
And now they consider this and they smoke off the ramp Emma
Confirming how close he is with the utility being used up, blinds it himself.
And without the bomb, life gets a little tough here for Emma, but he does have a smoke.
So if you go down it...
Into the smokes, he's taking damage.
Oh my god, if Emma's able to get it, finally picks up that bomb, and he's actually made it away!
Ow!
He's got out of there blood!
Oh my god, oh no!
Okay, that's one way to close the first half.
9-3 score line, Noffy leads the way, and they are on track to 2-0 LinVision.
On ancient and it looks like it is about to be closed out if Navi can win a pistol round
It just feels like there's too far to go for the innovation to get back and what's worrying is despite the fact that won the final round
That first half right it just felt like desperation plays coming up in the individual so
Okay, let's say he wanted to frag out. They go and he is fragging out indeed. He loves to frag mr. Alexi
pit also two headshots straight away and if you had any questions about the pistol they're now answered
It's 10 to 3, not even close to doing anything in that round, Limvision.
Uh, the face-sit miner, never says to be right.
Yep, it was that in London.
2018, what a legend.
All the time ago, Limvision!
This is it! The last hurrah!
They're gonna be sprinting towards the A-bomb, so wonderful here to try and deal with it.
And he hasn't been able to find himself in a comfortable spot whatsoever, so this A-bomb has worked-
OHHHHHH!
Okay, a Fufu!
Alright!
That is what we like to see!
Yeah, Fufu with the double has your jail and picked both falling down and we've got a three versus four
No one's seen anyone yet so far this is around every killed into the smokes and the flashes whoo
Lexi was very scary to get these are three players
And here comes a retake
Lot of damage done on towards Amelia for health left grenade is going to search him and it's knocked him out
Okay, awkward fight wonderful loses it imitating back and down it now it's all alone
We've got his chance here to quite sink the opportunity though and flying off the tall box will keep it going for limb vision
Allio, that's what I like from my Italian food Italian food. Oh, yeah, I get it
I'll you they had a little bit of you know all the four little chillies right there. Yes, there's a cold
Yeah, I like that some shrimp in there. It's usually good. It's great. Yeah
Well, here comes a little bit of a shrinking defense as JL has gone first, a lot of kill
from Ima.
We're heading a little back and forth, he gave us tennis when he was playing, and now
Alexi B around the bottom, off the ramp, he's only got one as Zacker turns on a sort
of swivel.
And Ima waiting, he's going to have a difficult fight because that fire is not allowing
him to move forward.
So Zacker comes to him instead, it puts it all on flying, and Navi about to go
into the territory of 12-4, which will be a serious point for Nautis Vincere.
The bomb as well has to be retrieved.
It smokes in a buy.
Quite a bit of time for him up.
You can see a bit as well retaining all the way from T spawn, holding, smashing a doubly
button.
I've seen some OT in the chat.
Did they believe in it?
Probably not.
Yeah, I'm not seeing an OT here, Dinka.
Okay, so it's going to be LNV winning in regulation, because it still wants all
of Ronson obvious.
Sure, buddy.
flying up in this 1v2 and you know exactly where he is he gets that fight
versus him up but it's 12 to 4 now for Navi bit is having a great series he's
17 kills 5 deaths at the moment I think I 21 kills a map 1 as well yeah so he's
just in general very good at counter strike who would have guessed it yeah
it's good at counter striking are you good at counter striking okay
counter striking but I can't name it like these guys do you definitely it
is it is really funny how you did a few people like I don't know on Twitter
and read it or whatever and like yeah you know what he's putting in a team I
could play them I have played a few pros we have faced up in some few pros I'm
not even talking about tier one pros get absolutely annihilated tier two pros the
support player absolutely crap on you fast play coming up to its mid Dinko
it's another two for bit it's a force by as well and it's so I mean it's a
final round there's no hope it's all over the dreams dead well the real
competition now is to see if bit can get 20 kills before this game ends is
two available left on the table will he get his 20th frag here comes flying
Straight into it's jike. Alexi B not going to win that fight. He's low HP. He's not gonna get it's too far away
Denko, so it's not allowed to happen
JL spotting out the bomb carrier at those double doors. He'll do his best to eliminate him
He has to worry about the time is getting pushed by cave player and JL actually has gone down
So no an opportunity back on for Biddy has to be big if they want to close right now
He has to get this kill on flying and knock out his 20th kill and that's exactly what big will gather
For Na'Vi, we'll take down LinVision in a 2-0 fashion.
Dust2 was competitive.
LinVision give us a show.
But for Na'Vi, on their opening day of EPL, it's a victory.
Jason Brogane podcast, check it out.
Thank you, Jason.
Rocking experience.
Counter-strike by day.
Jason Brogane podcast by night.
All right, welcome into the studio.
I'm actually, I'm so excited for this.
I've wanted to have you on as a guest for forever.
And finally, we're able to work it out
between my people and your people.
So welcome to the studio, Donald T. Ramp.
Or is it Donald Trump?
Wrong.
Okay, T. Ramp.
It's Donald T. Ramp.
Okay, perfect.
I guess we can move right into the important things.
For instance, like, you've known,
and you've been talking about for a while,
this massive flood of illegal keybinds
working its way into Counter-Strike,
and like just no one's putting a stop to it.
Like, what exactly is your idea
what to do about this all these all these illegal keybonds just ruining our game and
making things a little bit crazy.
Jason, this is where they went wrong.
The left, they try to take my ear, okay, but I have my ear to the streets.
That's my right ear.
And with that ear, I can tell you right now, no binds, they're staying around.
Tremendous.
Especially if we can bypass the bipartisan parties.
So we're keeping, we're keeping the keybonds.
If I get elected, yes.
We'll bring them right back.
We will bring them right back.
Okay.
on everything in this moment, minus my hair.
I've gotten great reviews on everything when it comes to the big picture of noobines spinning,
cheating, whatever.
I notice that means that although rich players are going to love you, they're going to absolutely
love you, Donald.
Yeah, and that's kind of the plan.
Okay.
Well, what about all these articles that are being written all the time about the
silvers, about the illegal noobines?
I mean, this seems like a huge problem.
How does one man even deal with it?
Well, that's the thing, Jason.
It can't just be one man.
It's got to be a team.
It's got to be a big team, a big effort.
And you've got to get that effort moving in the right way.
And that's what we're going to do.
We're going to come back into office,
and we're going to make this stick out in a way
that it should have stuck out all the time.
If we're up to me, cheaters, you're
going back across the wall.
That's it.
That's the end of the story for the cheaters.
You're spinning.
You got hacks.
You're gone.
That's a three-strike system.
That's what we're implementing here today.
You did bring something in today.
Is that a gift for me?
Yeah, we've got hundreds of millions of these made,
just in case.
I have to run again in like 10 more years.
Sure.
We're going to make CS great again.
ZPL20, read the people.
And I brought this here for you, Jason.
It's very important.
It's very important.
Here's what I'm going to say about it.
This is symbolic.
Everybody in matchmaking wants this.
This piece right here.
But they're not going to get this.
You know why, Jason?
Because you've got it.
And now, when the left sees you with this hat,
you're gonna be plastered back to
and you'll see what I mean
okay well once again I just appreciate your time I appreciate everything
everything you've offered up here and I wish you the best of luck uh... moving
forward with with whatever you got going on
we're gonna make
counter strike great again
oh yeah can you hear me last
I know 5-6 smoke, I know inner smoke, I also know the molly for backpub in there and I am ready
Hello, good morning by Annabelle, looking very good, very nice
English, nice
English, English, that's good
Hello, do we have a friend by knife?
Let's find a knife, I want to start CT then
Calm down
Double A
Going on H2, blue train
No one, nine
Just steps
Yeah, no, it's not going!
Good one, Nick, you're completely in that one, right?
Yeah, he's in that one, bro.
Yeah, you're voting it, bro, right?
Yeah, you're voting it, so fucking bitch.
Bop, bada bop, we have to speak English right now.
Bop, bop, bop.
Do we have to speak English right now?
Yeah, I think so, bro.
Are you sure about that?
Yeah, I think so.
About that, sure, maybe.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In the air, but here's his left-hand foresets.
Go three areas, guys.
Find me something, three areas.
Three areas.
No, no, I mean it's going mid, bro!
I mean it's going mid instead of you.
One peeking green thing. I don't see pop.
One up early and one down pop.
Everyone is up.
I think I have the good one.
I think I have the good one.
They're pushing inner by the way.
I'm backline.
One train.
Two guys train.
He's coming.
I'll fight with you.
English, English. I forgot.
Hanglea hurt, hanglea hurt
Maybe he's going all the way to she's bottom, I heard him above
I'm under here one, okay?
Yeah
One course
Ring, ring, ring
If you wait I have fade sound
I'm spam, I'm spam
You walk, you walk
I'm dropped through soon
Yeah, one side in it
Unlucky boys, on local
Maybe next year
We're buying for sure, I need scout
I need scout as well
Okay
I got conan hole to scout
I'll go for fame while run
I'll greenate it.
Watch out because he's calling an inner threat right now.
Yeah, I have smoke banger.
I'm blinded blind.
They smoked sandwich.
Yeah, I don't hear anything.
I actually out.
Oh no, no, back up, back less.
Thanks, yep.
One more, one more, one more.
I'm blinded, careful behind, okay?
I smoke site.
One behind.
We have no way behind, boys.
Too low, too low.
Under one, under one.
Up the talk.
Up the talk.
What? I hit an 82 with a shali.
Go two guys, go two guys.
You do the flash?
Yes, you want a side smoke?
No, no, no. Go run out for this.
I'm alone.
I'm going to main now.
Practice flash, this is practice flash.
Flash them.
Ivy, Ivy clear, one holding, one holding
Top blue and up top
Flashing
One sandwich
I'm flashing
I'm flashing one
One behind six
I'm blind
I'm flashed
Careful behind top
One in hell
Hell, one in hell
Ivy one, I think
Yeah, Ivy bot
Have it speed, have it speed
Is that your smoke, JB?
No
Alright, it ended
What I've been here playing on top blue.
Nice.
Keep cooking.
Wow.
Some piles was outside and Maiden also killed one.
He's going for it.
Hello.
I am.
One shot.
I have a pick.
No bug launch.
Water green.
Maybe Carl.
Damn.
Yeah, good one.
And you...
Oh, it's pretty damn cold, right?
Yeah, that's good.
Unlucky, unlucky.
Natural world.
Natural world.
Damn, bro.
I hit some piles for 91.
Guys, where should I go? I just go main and hold top green, okay?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude.
Who's supporting?
Who's lashing?
I'm lashing after this.
I'm just moping.
I'm trying to flash.
I flashed one early. I go towards pop then.
Flash.
I'll go lashing later.
Flashing.
I'm blind.
One Ivy.
Ivy's behind the fucking...
You are not holding it at all.
I was.
No, you were not.
Heh heh.
I'm not.
One more in pop.
Okay.
In pop.
Can you hide?
One on main.
Op was made
Yo, every killer don't you worry guys
I got that look I have you of course I have you I have you
Yeah, I'll
Yeah, I'll get over peaking open
No, no, no, what do you want to be?
Wait, wait, wait, wait last shot. I get the all bright now. I'm good man. Wow
At rock rock right now. I'm playing until you play. I'll be
I'll tell you what I did.
I'll go with this.
Sorry, I forgot that was the...
One more time, I wanna do something.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I can hold flash for you.
You want me to hold flash, Palle?
Wait a bit, wait a bit.
I'm flashing.
What are we?
I'm blind.
Where are we?
Come on, push me.
Maybe all of us.
Boom!
Wait a bit, wait a bit.
I'm missing.
I'm missing.
I'm down low.
I'm behind you.
I gave you one. Wait, wait.
Maybe Olaf.
One out B.
Yeah.
I believe...
He's behind 6th train.
Nice, last was me.
Last was hiding up in the bathrooms.
Oh no, he just killed you, Jacob.
Yeah, he was out in the bathrooms.
Nice!
Emilia.
Emilia.
I will smoke 5 and 6.
Yeah, can you two have free flash as well?
Can you throw Illa, can I give you another?
Yes.
Let's play together. Wait a bit.
I didn't. Go.
Flash. Flashing.
Flashing. Don't see out. Two main. Two main.
One last bomb.
Nego has the bombs.
Two out main. I think all three.
Yeah, they can't do anything if you wait.
We'll wait.
Bomb is this bomb, boys.
Maybe one push.
I think so. I think so.
Careful Ivy.
push divey
push divey
he's pushing c-main
and divey
and the box
i don't see him
why
i don't like it
i like it
i like it guys
i try play good round here
lets win a round
lets win a round
lets push
Now
I like I'm blind as fuck man. Yeah, you good. It's safe. They're in pop
And Peter has pop
They can pop yeah, but to be to be no, let's be sad watch
There were two above how it is
We cannot go down here mate
We can go to the other side.
Wait, wait, wait!
City con?
Malik, deep con.
Malik, deep con.
Yeah, he was in con one with ego.
I don't have him.
That's right boys.
You can save this one.
No, no, you need to die.
Oh wait, sorry.
I have a CT.
I keep CT.
Yes.
I'll hold to the other side.
You see, this is my speciality, I walk out all of them.
Me come with me to pop and we do some of them.
I have an ID to smoke, I'll come.
I'm coming with you Peter, you can come.
They will made me.
Yeah, it's pretty damn cold right now.
Yeah, I don't like being here.
I'm blind as fuck.
In I think, yeah.
Inside?
One one guy at least.
Dude, then Poppy, what are they doing?
I'm inside.
I don't know brother.
I'm flashing right there, I'm flashing the red line bruh, I'm pushing inside
I'm out of this fucking shit man, let's get out
One top is still
I'm back lands
I'm out
I killed one, I don't know what's going on
You killed the top guy?
No, no, I killed the...
I'm behind teammate
I'm behind teammate
I'm planning A
green train I don't remember call for this
two guys two guys no no no cool too close to me
one more
oh no
bro I'm telling you I must know this
Jacob you want flash Ivy and rush out?
nah bro I'll pick a green train
I have a nice peak here I made in back in the days
they smoke team it though you need to break this
Let's go, I will leave you behind.
Flash, I will leave you behind.
I have...
One out main.
One out main, one out...
Yeah...
I'm top of the train.
Wait, wait, wait, I'm not...
One out low, low.
What the heck?
I'm sorry, let... let it was alright.
I'm pushing.
I'm pushing.
I'm pushing.
You're playing uh...
Playing hide and seek?
Nice, they go.
I did the crazy stuff, the round.
This will go and look for sure, but don't go to the round.
Right now, bro. You're playing good right now.
Drop one, JP.
Yeah, of course, bro.
Okay, let's go to heaven, JP.
Nice, yeah.
Use... use... use...
Ice rave?
Bro, boost me like the bro, boost me like the...
I can... I can strafe, bud, bro.
You gave me an aid so you can strafe, right?
Bro, bro, bro. Just look.
I mean... I mean...
Let's smoke
Okay, I got him
Oh, three guys speed
What the fuck, man?
We're rushing here in the woods
Ah!
Wait, can we go back?
Can we go back?
Can we go back?
Can we go back?
Ah, wall in the right now
Job's done
Job's done
Job's done
Yeah, yeah, yeah, in it
I'm not out of heaven
Figo's holding right now
Push, push
No, no, no
One backside tonight
I'm only behind the wall
Pop on
Pop on
There right there
Go, go, go
We're only CT-Con
This guy bro, we can't keep
He's so good at this map
He's fooling us, Brody
I don't want to, we don't want to, I have a weapon here
POP! POP! POP! I'm looting!
Careful, careful, he's not out, you can plant safe, you can plant safe
POP! He's out!
Get out, plant
He's out!
Let's double pitch, I'm picking killings
He's around here, he's here something
Here, look, POP still
Let's go left, let's go left, go one, two, go
Where are you holding this angle right now?
Yeah, angle holder
Plant!
Plant behind maybe
I'm baking timing Zoltane when you make pressure on B
We can't lurk if we don't play space, make space
Yeah, we take space
I play here but don't play about it boys
Just look at this, out all of maybe
It's Madden, he's out
Pushing me bro, you're falling
He's got 5'6
Call right
He's half HP, middle
Yeah, yeah
Maybe lurking Ivy
Yeah, I killed one sandwich.
I have Pompolak, Mark.
I will last. I will last.
I have triple armor.
Left, left, left.
Where is he?
Left hand, left hand, left hand.
Can you do 5-6 ceiling?
Fast, do some a lot of pressure.
If you can do 5-6, then I do...
Anything else you want me to buy?
Tea, coffee.
I will go up for check.
I'll be here. You'll always forget the name.
I'm dropping downpour you can come with me. I like that play right near
Pop one pop one
Look up
I'm working. I be
six
Then I'm here in a heaven one and maybe one of you like
Where's snap he going? Oh, he's snap here. Come in
one is close pink one is close B
yeah nice try some players nice try bro
can you talk blue oh you were that blue
good information i ping so
i'll pop i'll pop i'll pop
guardian train
oh he's out
that's him that's him
i'll pop one
nice mate
one on one one on one
He's in Polly!
Polly, you're sorry!
Ryan! You don't know!
Oh my god!
If I fall down on my Molly, I would not kill him!
I had so many timing plays!
I'm just gonna say...
If Peter doesn't see anyone, you push lower slowly!
Yes, Peter Perl!
Nice, bro, you just keep cooking, sir!
Pop, pop, pop!
Pop, pop!
There's two of them, pop!
One more, one more, one more, one more!
Ivy as well!
Pushing Ivy! Pushing Ivy!
I'm coming out by Ivy!
He has bomb!
Unfortunately so it looks like
Nice!
That'd be!
One in!
He has bomb under us!
He's on the left side
He's close to heaven
Oh, he's not
Close on this side
Pushing me
FUUUUUUCK!
I don't know what it's called man!
I am a poor animal doctor!
WAH!
I am going cable-having all of Digglemane.
Fucking...
Now my pistols are all...
What the hell man!
You're a full truck after the man!
From the beginning you need to make the...
Fissio!
We don't play with that!
I'll play with Sason, I'll play with Sason!
I need some help, Timmy!
But Peter is coming. I'll come as well.
I'll come in late
Fire at bomb half
BOOM
Can they be popped out?
No
They triple nade me
I wanna be
RET RET RET RET
One teammate
He's burning
One ladder
One ladder
Pop
One pop
Okay
Are we
One on one
He's in fucking head
One more
One more
One more service
Hold it
Hold it
That's it
That's it
Bop lost
No one on
No no no no
Are we B?
Are we B?
Oh
That was close
That was very
You hear them?
Oh
You want the flash
But it was there Peter, but it's not him
I'll connect them maybe
He's once a caught
It's hill I think
Maybe in this hill
Yeah I'll hold it
Did you do it?
You hear him, stir
Stir is searching him
Stir will get you from the line back
He's afraid of stir
Nice bro
You're so close to stir
You want to open the door?
No no no
Hey guys, who is playing in there?
Marco
I'm not even sure what you're playing with us this mob
Stop bro!
Maybe I was pushing
Nice beater, then it's...
All of one is big, he's stuck there, dead
Pop out
Ivy one pushing, pushing, I'm hiding
Two guys, two guys Ivy
And one Pop or what?
Yeah
Take Pop, take Pop
Ivy dead
I don't miss
You know I don't miss
That's true
I think he's like face and stuff is nothing.
Why am I here?
I can give him 4 but I need a smoke from the guy.
Every while I'm starting with 38 steam, mate.
It's also good if I can get him all the way from someone.
Titer give me molly 2 and 8 steam.
Go ahead bro, go ahead.
A lot of steam is a lot.
You need to place steam in it, mate.
I will hold, bro.
No, I'm holding.
They will jump above.
Out, out there, low.
Only one.
Hello! Kill him!
Yes, I'm peeking.
I'm flashing pop, I'm just walking point.
In there.
In there?
Yes.
Down low maybe.
He made that.
He's behind six.
Yeah.
Frigga, you're doing well.
Yeah, I think so.
Wow.
Yeah, he's too good.
I got this.
You don't miss, so what?
Oh, do you win something?
Do you need something for winning this game, Oat?
No, no, I'm fine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, you win dignity.
Man, that's so fun.
That's why I want to play every time.
So much.
I want to do this every day of my life.
I will do a loud or binner, you know this?
Yeah, maybe, maybe.
I'm ready to flash you.
Flashing now.
Flashing.
No, no.
Team in two guys.
I don't see anyone, Ivy.
I made also with you, Peter.
Two in, two in, two in.
They're not out.
I'm pushing Ivy fast.
out in it out in it out in it lower over nice what do you think
how can i summon something before
hey that's yoga
they might have a smoke
i might have a knife kill
don't kill, don't kill, don't kill
yeah knife
OH!
it's okay guys you got this
oh no two gun two gun one one
yes a nice one man
winnable winnable
do you have smoke?
I know, let's go
Behind me, see this bomb
Behind you!
No, it's him
Go Molly mid, I need it
Go inside guy
Guys, calm down
Why are we starting 2B every round?
Out mid bro, you don't even know Molly for teammate
I don't see all of them
You smoked 7?
I did, smoked
You haven't fucked up so much today
Okay, this happens to me
Not to be clear
Let's pop guy, let's pop guy
Oh no
NOOOO
What?
He might be anywhere
I'm healing everyone
Nice try, nice try
We feel clear
Love it, love it
Do it bro. OI!
He'll push you, take this.
Is he so smart?
He won't push you bro. He needs that for the next round.
Are you serious right now?
Yeah bro, you should have just seen what he did.
You saw him when he rotated. He waited mid-side.
I can see the backlands with AWP if they're going out fast.
Yeah, but he's just peeking.
you remember the old crack you can see from backline
i can't spot it
don't block
one peek in
two two two out out out
out out out
no no
oh my god two backlines
two must
wow
hey hey hey backline
take off take off
I don't care. I go up. I go up.
If we run the media dates, we need to stop trolling.
This is the last thing. Let's go boys.
Okay, let's go boys. Focus, okay?
Don't go on this side.
Guys, this is more comfortable.
Left shot.
Left shot.
Up, up, up, up, up. We get loose.
One behind, five, train behind five.
Explode to you guys behind the bar.
I'm exploding here.
From the head, which right now.
Fucks sake, I saw it.
I thought it was a survival.
Oh, shit, shit, shit.
You killed him.
No.
I killed him.
I killed him.
Last guy is really good right now.
Pop behind him.
Pop right near.
How's it going?
Well, he has AVP soon right now.
No, it's working, it's working, it's working.
Guys, do wall outside, okay?
I'm wall.
I'm do bang, bang, with flashbangbang, flash at the bang, bang, flashbang.
Boom.
I'm blind as fuck, bro.
Yes, I don't care.
One in path down.
One dead one pop dog. Nice little
Baiting what's it a snap hey snap here with the push
Well, it's a no boys
Just use for me. I pushed I'll go behind okay. I might have a timing from best down
And what he took from, yeah, what's coming?
They're boosted. Oh, he's shit. He's absolutely shit.
That's right! That's right!
And I'd be interested to have a conversation with him now and see how he does with the updated meta.
I mean, from being so well respected for his brain.
He's just like me, to be honest, in that sense.
Well, Big Brain on the spanyard of Alex is going to be put to the test here
as his troops sent into the dangerous waters of ancient up against a major winning roster.
Why is it gone immediately?
And Bid starts things off how we would hope.
I mean, this is so good, man.
Like, yeah, I don't know.
I kind of hate watching him.
Why? Because like, I don't know.
You couldn't do this even if you tried.
And while I go, Bid couldn't even do this.
And now, like, now look at him go.
He's just, he's so good at looking.
Oh, well done, Harry.
You killed him.
Yeah, I can do that.
I know how to do that move that Ben just made.
Ben there, done it.
Max the Donning, the lime green t-shirt.
Harry, limes lemons or cucumbers?
Wait.
What is that question?
In your drink.
Oh, cucumber.
Oh, cucumber.
Of course.
Couple of sophisticated people who don't like flavor and maybe a couple pepper coins, you know
Yeah, just a good measure. I like jalapenos in my gin and tonic into the b-site for Nick
Oh the b-site for Nip JL crispy shots is so good man. I'm like JL
I did almost hate watching him if I'm honest like he's just
Look at this he job immerse well throwing his name in the hat that's in the ring
can I call you on that yeah you can okay I don't think you want to be bringing
the shed load of ssg's and it's nice to have the ability to play ranges I see
the logic all the popping and that's a really good flash but they might not
clear it they might just run right by turning round last second maxed her head
on a swivel both the maxed his kills so far in this game of it all in 180s in
middle that's that's a Famous peak yeah that's a Famous damage that's a lot of
damaged
just clip behind the wall and resin can't believe he's still alive it's a
oh he's not don't worry that's good thing you can't believe it
jails just give them a living a hate-watching man so good well those
kills can get mopped up relatively easy at least that next one on max sir but
that all depends on actually getting into the fight mallets are not gonna
spread fast oh you don't go for this right tiny Molly effect incendiary true
actually it's not tiny it's a it's just a perfect size
need to take a sip and a sip back in CT spawn as they find their first I want
to throw a question your way I'm terrified how are the boys front five
Best of words best best at campus right? Yeah
Number one it's yeah fair number two JL. All right
number three
Ema
Just seems a lot more confident and comfortable especially on some of the lurks. He goes on
Felt like he didn't even believe back in
Even the major winning RV. Yeah, I've huge games out of jail and bits and that's why they're Tiffany top Jason
JL for blind only good for one Alexi not cleared on the 50-50 and nipper in the site
But he doesn't want to wait. He doesn't want to relent. He runs them down and doesn't dirty
That's so annoying for net they just get in and then Navi don't stop
Creeping and crawling but the main smokes up
It's gonna have to be a split here and look at the tone-up setup for Navi wonderful can get a shot
He has to hit the first it will set up him a perfectly
He's right now assisting bit wonderful might be on his own mate that maybe that doesn't even matter
Smoke comes down swinging the AWP, Brinkle turns at the worst possible timing, and now it's just obvious.
You know Nipper and aim, aim, all the info. Even with a team flash, a double flash, they aren't moving off of this control.
They are just going into the meat grinder.
Yeah, and you think too, or you don't know, because you saw both of them, you don't realize Bitt is still there.
It's taken down, but man, Navi.
Wow. Just crushing them.
What a slaughter.
Yeah.
You know how like FaZe, when they came into the year, they were in every final for a long old period there?
I think now if you're gonna go on that exact same street now
Are they gonna win? I think their fundamentals are very very good
And I think you fairly consistently get good knockers out of this team
I think it's too hard to go on that kind of a street now. It's way too hard
I see we'll see then Jason. We'll see
How many finals you talking here? Was it phase of like
Was it phase of like 10 straight or something like that 9?
Starts CS2. Yeah, I'd you know
Whether or not they go on like a huge run in a road
I think if you're looking at a team that's gonna consistently make finals let's say over like 90 percent. Yeah, I think it's gonna be no
Okay, I think I think I mean kind of tied into that point. I think I think that actually is a hot take first of all
That's not a stone cold. Okay. That is a little bit of a hot take in my mind
easy to be overshadowed with some of the players he has on his team, but
Very capable individual will get hard-cleared nice shot for res
too quick for JL to swing for the trade, tucks himself against the wall open, Rez won't look
left.
Wonderful, aggressing back from middle there, is it gap, but the bomb has to go back to
door, his mid control is firmly in the hand of Navi and they climb up as well, Ema in
the mid round, clears middle with no smoke elbow and just fights Heaven and Nip can't
do anything about it.
That's what I mean about confidence, like another team that's probably like crazy
idea, Navi here is just like we don't care, we'll just go for it.
Yeah, I mean, I also think Bitten even actually have like glimmers of each other and how they approach, you know, like you kind of see them even in that round there, they're like pincering up onto the lane, they make these really nice moves.
They complement each other well, but it's still kind of falling apart here down the stretch.
Yeah, I found a couple of kills right back in and so now wonderful.
Ten and zero.
It's either gonna be eights.
first death. Oh, he's gonna go 20-0 up in this nothingy banger. So as that bomb plot comes in,
wonderful, ran in the corner, yet to die. Literally, he doesn't know what death feels like. He only
stays winning. That's wonderful. And he even got the info that they've exited into Ward's donor.
So now he's got bit moving into Lender Helping Hand. Full bell Eutalon, wonderful.
Two molotovs can come down over to Ward's donor to either try and force these fights or
or deny the peeks, tap on the bomb, then you give the kill to WONDERFUL!
And now it's just Alex that's going this alone!
PICKEN!
This shot for WONDERFUL!
First death on the board!
The JL was on Apex, and his stats weren't outstanding.
Sure they may playoffs, but who didn't?
He felt like a very good role-player.
And now he's just a god.
Yeah.
There you go from playing in Apex to playing Apex in Grand Finals.
Oh, that's a peek from Wrinkle. That's crazy. Just stepping into this cave smoke.
Same as Emo. Just walks through the mid smoke lurk and shoots Maxed it in the back.
They've got a pop B.
Micea retakes that up here for Navi. They don't actually have anyone in the site or the cave for once
and they've lost another player.
Wonderful. Try to catch the exit. They won't take long. Bit denies it.
Get a bomb on. They're in with a chance.
Oh.
This is switched on.
Oh, he gets out with one more!
Now it's all eyes on Ima.
I might do it, the HL default.
I ain't gonna do it to Alex.
He didn't even throw it right into the awp, wrinkle, holds the line.
Yeah.
That was a strong high five. That was a great high five.
Nice firm sound.
Give me a firm high five.
Alright, fight around to the first half. Here we go.
NIP clawing back into things. You love to see it. Ima.
Whoa, lucky smoke.
That's got a kill.
Presumably, on Donut.
And they got him at trap, so he's got a fight for his life.
He will take one with him.
A man up a nip.
Oh, this is weird, though.
Look at Alex, how he slipped the nip out here.
You have two players defending that B bomb site,
and both of them have missed this plague
as both of them are pushed up.
Alex is just going to get a clean kill on Biddy.
He's going to be telling the team everyone starts shifting towards...
Yeah, I was going to say the A bomb site,
to say the A bomb say but it looks like he wants to cut off rotations I think the
thing that's weird is he also didn't see anyone right so he said that he's like
holding deep hoping that he's got two players potentially coming his way to
catch him rotation and that's not true you know missed the timing lane was
taken cave was taken he knows that cave is a possibility it all comes down if
bit goes further forward because you're kind of running out of time if you
wanted to run that bomb away this player likes okay he's done but they don't
They don't know about jail should he's the anchor he's the guy who's always here and they'll find out the hard way
And they'll get rid of a nice trade work for nip. I like that Alex
He comes back after realizing no one's rotating just yet
Rinkle shuts down the round and that's for nip do and the bare minimum here on their map pick to see if they can compete
With one of the best one of the world's best. It's Nabi on it
So now they're gonna do a comeback. Okay, that's the that's the the order of the day right now
Hi, sorry to interrupt. I love what you guys have been doing Harry
You've been requested to go to the makeup room to get your head measured
Could you please go do that now and once you're done you can come back here and get back in the castle?
Is this a real thing?
Make sure you bring back the stats as well. I want to know how big it is. I'll be back. All right. Thanks, Harry
Got a big skull. I'll probably take his spot. So could you hold my this one? Yeah, thanks
Alright, well, nice little pistol round. Isaac's got that opening kill here you go.
Yes indeed.
And Navi are coming back into him. They don't clear it properly.
Isaac gets at least two and some change.
He's moving in for more. He's got Imma trapped in the cubby.
He did hear them push though, so Imma just trying to play to stop that re-aggress.
It's a very scary map right now for Navi to come in from all sides.
Imma activates, traded, but he doesn't know about this A main push either.
So, oh, Max, it's going back to buy him this time, but he still wins the fight and win the round.
Chad, since you've just joined us, can you do a power ranking of the Navi players? 1 through 5.
Oh, they're going for it. They're going straight into it. Oh, that's almost a perfect timing.
But it's very nice to get into the bomb site even if you don't get that first kill.
Two players trapped in a cave, and that's a nice opening frag from Eva.
Oh, the flank is far, so the player smoked off of the door, so he's just going to come through fearlessly.
They find out the hard way and that's going to have to be the save what a double for wonderful considering how blind he got on that push
Day number 36 and IP believe I am one of them
Lost in a while
That's how long it felt like he was out the doors for Hugo
Have you guys found your energy?
Found our energy. No, how do you how do you do that? Well, not like the counter strike team
Get it because they're not very good. Yeah nailed it bit. However
Once the smoke short will Alexi smoke long. He did Wow. That's teamwork. I can't believe it
Jail's gonna lead the way
Alex stuck behind the smoke for the moment Jail can't get it done with a trade from wonderful
Gonna blow that long smoke, one is out in the open, they want that fight and they've got it.
And that's how you get into the B bombsite, ladies and gentlemen.
And you will bang? No.
I think that NIP should save. It's about coming.
They will now. I was gonna say assist resin getting out.
Maybe not.
That might dangle a little bit of bait in the water. They're giving this one a look.
Big flank better to go than to back up into a certain depth.
And so, Isaac takes one more tray, but he's gotta be quick on this stick.
He's gotta find out that Ema is coming on the big flank.
Tap, lead, Iza gets another but he has no idea where he was coming from position, give it away, but he can't stig
He knows he's gonna get run down and either goes for the fight and wins ten rounds for Navi
Now I would like to deviate the conversation for a moment
Absolutely, he will be operating with an economical Hugo
We were having a discussion before of what changed between last season and this season that season what Jason?
This is essentially the last round of the game
Well, we'll see. If Nip win it, we go on. We play for more, and this is a big fake right now.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Let's go, let's go.
They're believing, but they're also buying snake oil.
Well, I mean, this is like kind of a sick fake. One person executed, only bits out all the way at Temple, all that utility in place.
They have no information, so NIP have no clue how to rotate back across the map.
And I love how Bitt's tucked in here. He's not even playing right now.
Nip of realized it's a little bit too quiet, but they don't actually know how deep it's got.
He can play late flank, but he needs to play soon.
Trying to get that kill on Donut, I mean, while Bomb getting stuck on the B site,
and Alex has heard this, so Bitt is out of position for the meantime.
Yeah, he's gonna hustle somewhere. Where does he push forward to CT spawn?
Or do you rotate all the... He's just out of his fight.
Yeah, he is a bit screwed right now. They're gonna block with Naze.
They could buy a few more seconds, but the smoke is on Bitt.
That Molotov needs to be beautiful for JL. Down the ramp.
Do they go through? They cannot afford to.
They're running out of time. Chad, you said it's the last round of the game. Your mind will be wrong.
Oh, they got Lord into sticking around and everything taken away. Oh, that's brutal.
Res not getting out either. 12-6 and crap money for Nip.
There's still one big question that remains, Chad. How big is Harry's skull?
Oh, that is true. I thought he would have returned by now.
It's a big head. Should we make estimates? I don't know what an average skull is.
That's gonna be my next question!
I'm gonna go with, um, I guess we go with girth?
How big is your head? Let us know! Use the email, eplmalbaggityfg.gg
Send us pictures if you have an interestingly shaped skull.
We would love to see.
Average human head circumference is 55 centimetres. I did that in European measurements.
I think Harry's in yellow is 62.
Oh man, that's filthy.
Brutal from bits lock it in Navi stealing nips map pick here to make it to the playoffs
Just one little gasp from an IP right right at the end of the first half three in a row win the pistol in the second
How did it sound?
Like a little yours was yours was surprised Jason yours was someone's breath. Yeah, so I'm getting choked
Well, I like that you both have a something different
That's the thing with improv. Yes, and
Yes, Andy, Chad.
Is it our easy for Rez, the 1972 IEM Oakland MVP, up against the Marauders of Na'Vi, the
bomb planted, the time on the clock, and right now Rez has to make the play of his life,
rolling back the years.
And of course it was that 1972 Ugly MVP, where Rez really stood up on the big stage,
And hearing this one message five, it's going to be Navi taking the map, ladies and gentlemen,
we'll be right back after these short messages.
Get ya Dustu! Dustu coming up next! Get ya Dustu here!
Cool.
Go coach, obviously.
Go coach, yeah.
Coach, go.
If I ever get a goat, I'm gonna name it for the dice.
Isaac's gonna drop off with the doolies, backing over, tucking himself into the cubby.
Oh, there goes Rekor, there go the doolies, there go the B-bomb side,
And that's pissed around JL's just tapping window and he like peeks into it just gets double gooshed
Dude, I am actually so scared of getting in a long-range tapping fights against Glocks on pistol
No surprise
There is no hope
It feels very unreasonable
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
As soon as he starts running they're like, no, not during this.
Wrinkle or Res is your number one.
You go.
Oh, right now.
I'm going to go right now.
I'm going to get wrinkle.
You are like, you know, if this was the 1970s, be a very different answer.
Res at number two.
Number three's got to be Isaac.
And then I guess for Max.
I don't.
I would almost say Alex has had some really good, like.
Impactful rounds I've seen
Yeah, I'm less familiar with Max's game that's a great shot
I'm gonna go with Alex their maxed it, but let's see
Looking to jump up he gets to put him in yeah
No, he's at the bottom of the list sadly only for this round
They come in on long the key and clean Alex out as well. No one gets away
Only wrinkle my goats. Okay
Jason, I'll pose you a question. I'm kind of acting like the host. Yeah
Who on NIP would be good at deadlock
Jason not play deadlock probably
I've never played it. I do have I do have access. Yeah, I just haven't played it flex, but yeah, sure
I'm enjoying count. I'm in a counter strike. Oh, yeah, I'm loving counter strike. You gonna love deadlock
I played, it's like Dota, I played one game, and then I played one game, and I uninstalled this.
Every game I ever played, you can count the strike, or Daisy, you go to download it and play it.
Some games I play like two or three games.
Yeah, I just don't think this is the game for me.
My game really is not for me.
They can find it here, they peel off the middle, as Harvey Flashmade should give a bit of a warning to me that there's players out and about.
Double cat set up they can aggress when they believe this to be the commitment and it's about to be
Molly buys a few more seconds for me
But then Molly offer cat walk at the same time so no reaction you may just yet backplat Molly jail
Sending it now. We've got to see some flanks coming in that working them into be nice break on the smoke the Maxter
But it's not playing at the car res gets one eyes and cleared out res on top of the site good angle on the head shot
It's wonderful Loic he hunted down and Nick they do it. They win. What do they do? Do they yeah seconds?
Oh, that's a nice flash bit. It's gonna be delayed. Oh, he's going. Oh, he missed it now. He's not got the timing there holding it
They're gonna buy a few more seconds. I think he's done when he missed the timing. It's like, yeah, you know, okay
I'm screwed. Yep
All right back away save the AK 47 decent enough damage though saves the office well
That'll be passed over to wonderful time machine round right there for res
Going back to the glory days. It's res
Three kills deep on the game. Yeah, he was sick of that Oakland there. Are you so nice to me that event?
What changed?
Well, you weren't horrible
Not not from you either like just in general
They saw him! Nice!
They see me too!
Slow and steady for Wrinkle, doesn't jump the gun.
Oh, how did Jail not get that intel?
Dang!
He must have at Rez, pleased him out.
Huh? Is that Oakland Rez?
And...
Gotland!
Go, go, go!
Gotland?
Gotland?
It's like across the property of Bison, Sweden.
Gotland?
Gotland!
And...
Gotland.
That of the goat's bit is here.
Meh!
Is that a goat?
It's like the half-assed impression I've ever heard of you.
How do you go to sleep?
You don't even give up on doing it?
That's a sheep.
They're pretty similar.
They scream.
They have like a scream.
Give me a scream.
Yeah, you see me screaming like a goat.
Yeah, I can't do it.
Scream like a goat?
That's amazing.
That was a crazy goat scream, all right.
No V.
Three on three.
Someone take us back in.
Oh, Flash.
They're wonderful though.
He's just quick-killing them.
Oh, Harry, this is a disaster. It was a 5-on-3 for the Ninjas.
They've lost control of the bomb site. Rez!
How much more can he do with 6 HP?
I mean, why are those questions? They got him the MVP back in Oakland.
It was just a belief that he could do anything. Isaac now, alongside him,
opens up on a wonderful to give them a route back into this retake.
Good look for Nip to open up this round, but it's quickly turned sour, and so now we look on.
Can Rez, can Isaac pick up the pieces?
Lexi dead, it's Rez to find him, bit back, all the way over in pit, misses his chance on the open, and they swing him together, Rez.
This would have to be the moment, this would have to be the time, but Rez is tapped out, bit, swinging wide on the planter, but he can't finish the job.
He's got it on the back of Isaac, and there is going to be time for this.
Lock it in.
Dang, I think, I think Big got worried that he couldn't see him clearly out of the viewers, and he stuck to that fight when he didn't really want to.
The Costco guy's a unit, by the way.
I've never seen any of his, I can't help you out there.
They're Henry and he's the expert, fully brain rotted.
Oh, that's a dirty path he came in at, getting as wide as he can, they hunt him down.
That's a nice bully though from Navi, I think you're going to assume after the last two rounds, one player alive and the last one two alive previously that their money is busted so you basically just brute force bully your way outside.
Long and Ema goes down.
The mid push on Dust2 is something we don't recover because that's been in there for a while now.
It's coming back.
But it's crazy how aggressive teams enjoy being pushed mid.
We're just knowing there's not a guarantee every round that you've got an AWP.
They're lowing down, middle.
You get some control early.
I think it was pushed back and with no kit, I think this one's done for.
That's gotta be a save.
These are the only two weapons you'll be able to bring in.
Maxter will be able to get an SMG if they want to force by a rounder.
They probably will.
Lunatic.
There you go.
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It's financially invested as well.
Glock 2.
Oh, it's so good.
Navi 5-2 up.
Glock 2.
Say that's going to be at every single piss around for the rest of the season, I want
everyone to know.
It's really good.
It's strong.
It's exploded out long and Navi just pieced it together in that very position.
Nip, meant to be kind of stand on business here but they're not.
Oh my god.
Ugh.
Gonna mug you, Harry.
Yeah, I mean, well right now Nip is getting mugged by, by Navi.
Navi you've been mewing kind of a skibbity toilet riz.
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
And you just don't have the answers to it.
Rez, he might.
Navi's opened this map this round up horribly.
I think Blade's making notes right now.
He's like, we're talking about this.
Wonderful. Risky play moving down middle, waiting for the peek in double doors, there's
a push on Catwalk. Wonderful from the double doors, a slight gap and now it's just the
lower players, they're dinked up, Ema's broke, low doesn't matter, good win from NIP.
Love that crunch there as soon as he hit the info, they just start swinging, 5-7 finding
faces.
What are you guys doing?
Oh my god it's Matt, okay.
I'm taking over the observing on board.
I was wondering what you who that was.
How long have you been doing it all series?
Uh, 30 seconds.
Alright, don't fuck it up Mac, I believe in you.
It's okay.
Okay, you missed one but that's okay.
I thought it was going to be on through first.
What was that old chat notification?
It would be like...
Yoho!
Mac on the keys!
Oh, they've already crossed.
Switch Mac, that's perfect.
You missed the OP kill, it's okay.
Quick switch.
Alright, Maxter left up in this alone and it's Max 1v3.
You stay on the clutcher, he opens up with the first on a wonderful.
Maxter, stars in his eyes right now as he can't quite believe what he's seeing.
He's trying to realize those dreams.
He brings back to the Oakland Heights, but boxed in and shut down on Broadway for all to see.
It's Navi up on a six.
First up again, have you seen them make the play down into lower?
They're actually trying to face him over in middle
Res pushed a risky move. I'd see if it pays off forum res holds the line. Oh, double up. Oh
There's the support from wrinkle
bold
Nice nice play for Nick, but it's not done yet because this bomb has made it into the B site
If he didn't put it's got away, maybe there was a hope in hell instead. It's hella nice cell
You know just trying to fight through the bars
It's actually huge. Even if Navi's in his bombsite, two people hold the phone, Ema, tapping away, give him one more shot at it.
Good kill from Alex. Two-round lead.
Not verbatim, but...
No, not word for word, but the sentiment was there.
Yeah, the vibe.
NIP's really proven me wrong here.
Oh, heavy long. Four long. You said you want to nip win long. Well, this is it.
Bit going late on the lurk, got a player in pit, we got an AWP resetting after throwing some UTEL.
Rinkle's got to fill middle. The bit's not going for it. He's been blocked. So
he'll have to take you elsewhere and that's Rinkle finding a 5v4 huge kill in
the last round of the half. Yeah massive way to open it up. Looking for one more.
He's got it open. Oh smoke blowed open. Good wide angle from Rinkle. Fights
through the flashbang does bit. So now it's just in there and JL that
bombs lost over in mid and so he's gonna try and make a play here but
He's going into two.
Oh, damn, he's giving too much for free now.
And there he is.
You can chalk that one up to an info peak.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
No, no more.
Stopped off to the first.
It's just left on JL and Wrinkle.
Over in mid is ready to seal the deal on a split half for NIP.
Talking about you, Jason.
Why is he whispering?
Did it sound like whispering?
I've been trying to catch on more and more.
okay so the players are on the gap now is whispering
this is your map
into the second half
and i p
alexie what are we doing
i've been able to tie up this game after all
and so now everyone looks on
i mean
i'm wondering
i don't know what
short play in towards the east side you can see
you know
i'm dropping off
as the support for alexie
oh lord
alexie be
oh
all up in the kill feed
yeah
Any more for the next round?
No, no, no, no!
Oh, no, no, no!
The wrinkler!
The wrinkler lives!
N.I.P. win the pistol!
Aw, we love that. We absolutely love that.
Pissed around to the Ninjas and, uh, nice 7-6 lead.
N.I.P. just glocked good!
Not me!
Thank you, there's the link in the world of Iran,
and now all that kind of talk he can be forgotten about,
We're right into this game because NIP are up in the lead now V4 spying up. This one is now a game. Oh
I cannot believe bit one that I can't see one that bit still alive close up
They're backing away from long. Oh smoke's surely gonna force them back new plan for NIP. They got a plan B
Scouting they could be lethal
On flash he doesn't commit
Sure keeps a man advantage, but gives it a lot of space. They're gonna crunch in middle instead wonderful
can still find the impact from this position.
They baited in, Ema's gonna play off of that scout.
Screw it, he's gonna swing through on the flashback.
They're blind, but he takes too long
and Rinkle faded, already comes back with a kill.
Two on two, bit weight in top mid, they have to go B.
That was the first time
I think we've seen in this series, Ema.
Second guess himself.
JL's T-Gull, we know it's Tablo,
you know those are some easy kills.
Not prepared for the push,
and we're all tied up at seven.
You're kind of riding the high,
successful pistol round,
thinking you're going to explode onto the T side and then Navi up through it all.
Emma, bit of aggression to open this one up, well even close with the pistols,
but he's able to deal with them swiftly and there's the support from Wandaful over in mid.
Wandaful giving in the epitase to their own medicine there.
That wrinkle orb was very oppressive out through middle.
He even kept it up in the early stages of the game,
so Wandaful's keen to get involved on that M4.
And Emma's still hanging around looking for fights there.
Didn't necessarily need to.
Hopefully not a decision they come to regret Isaac left up in this one all alone
One on three
Now if you've got him boxed in two players watching from the B hill you got a Lexi holding on to the cat side
The only route that could get opened up is if Isaac finds this kill right here, and he does Isaac 28 HP
1v2 and an empty a bomb site to work with. Oh the plant is massive
Molotov just misses its mark bounces a little bit too far
Let's give Isaac a chance in this clutch 1v2 17 bullets in the mag
Both players for coming from CT spawn a k47 into a double swing and doesn't really get a clean chance at it
8 to 7 Navi withstand the danger maybe even a teammate's eagle if you're really feeling like
kind of chaotic on the day true if you sometimes I even buy
Lock armor and I let someone die and I grab a long take here. Oh, they were fighting balls
Really not panned out. This flash is just streaming over from wonderful
He's now watching with that orb holding for a cross
Down in the pit and they're trying very very hard to get JL here because he has more flashbangs to lock in to help out
For this kind of long retake for Navi
They actually want to fight for this control and this is a powerful position to be and it's gonna be hard to
Upright in the pit they smoke the long side to get the orb off the line
And that was the best way they had to deal with that. I actually don't even care that they get that kill
I think you're not be still one that exchange
I know they're like a man down right now and the run is still gonna be difficult
But like the amount of resources and the amount of time that IP had to spend on that is is massive
That was what like two
Molotovs into the pit like 3-8 she grenades probably
Smoking smokes in the corner
You've got to smoke them all in a flash left for the rest of the round and look at the position a bit
Yeah, he can't he can't Frank it he needs to know that this is a possibility that they reset through B
And that's exactly what they're doing
So I mean, he's in a really good position.
Like, if anything, I would say this is better than if he was in the upper tunnels.
Because it's like, sure, they can walk right by him.
Oh, he never, yeah, the timing didn't check.
Not a fan of that.
But I think, you know, if he's in the upper tunnels there,
and like he goes one for one, the rounds over anyway,
at least this way they save on three.
Well, this is an effect of being manned down.
Not only feel like they need to gamble and so they have to make the play.
And now he's realized now they have to save.
And I think too, like the other side of the coin, too,
is like the place the game is at.
If you have to reinvest all your money, that's a kind of a nightmare scenario for Navi.
In the chaos, Ema maybe misplayed that attack.
He got pushed forward by the second Molly.
Yeah, but I mean, you know, if he, I feel like because that smoke lands over a long,
that's what like triggered him to fish at all for anything.
It's like the idea that Wonderfully, even for a moment, has lost vision.
I'm paying him that respect, I think, you know.
High expectations, we need.
But if you're willing to kind of settle for mediocrity, that's fine.
Here we are, little V-Rush, JL.
Oh, man, he shines them up.
Now, Bits here as well, you're going into two of them?
Ooh.
Ooh.
Maxter, battles past.
Still a lot more left to do in the round for all me, Maxter.
Alexi's very far removed, so for the time being, it's closer to a 1v2 for Maxter.
If you're an RV, you're not feeling that pressure to force the fight on him just yet.
yet you can wait for Alexi to set up back in the tunnels. Yeah, especially now that you've
bought this time. Oh, I can't believe he's gone in. Oh, this is massive. Maxster around
the corner, off some position. Miss shot from wonderful. He's got a back away. Alexi coming
into the B bomb site behind him and Maxster's aware. Oh, if he puts this 1B3 together,
but through the smoke. How do you see him? That's one way as hell. Coming in
with the all in by. I'm not gonna say the greatest long spawns ever, but long
Long spawns nonetheless. They have four players pretty damn close, corner smoke in, flashes
over the top. They get to try and fast play out long, being here, full blind. Oh, Alexi's
run right by them! Hicks the battle behind him and can't turn on a wrinkle, but the Molly
finishes the job. So in that long skirmish, Navi have won it out.
That's exactly the same long rush that we just saw a couple rounds ago when Ema got
trapped in pit. This time it goes in the favor of Navi. Same Molotov, same flight's
being taken inside the Molotov by NIP. They just can't beat Alexi quick enough.
I love it when people run through that corner smoke and get to blue bin, it's so obnoxiously good, yeah.
Just catches Nip with Nades in hand, three on two, and Navi have every position with eyes on.
No one can be short, and Ema's got that long spot as well from a safe position.
Wonderful, needs to hit it, he does, and Maxi's got full Nades, but that would require giving away his position.
He wants his drive fight and Wandaful will happily meet him there.
Not happily anymore.
You tried.
This could still get weird.
Maxter trying to make a move right now and this is the play he's hoping they're not
suspecting but it puts him right in the prying eyes of Emma and so that that very
important round for an IP where they're all in right at the end of this game.
Subscriber to ESL CS right now.
Well, no.
Slippery right now is Navi.
I'm running up top mid, Rinkle falls off the boost.
Talking of fish and barrels, Navi a playing card.
They've run it all the way up through mid, straight in.
NIP, a man down.
Fine work.
And Navi, one round away from doing it in two.
Yeah, step forward as well behind that smoke.
And NIP, they want to press the issue out along.
Oh, Flashbang, Galaxy recolor.
One for one.
That's not bad.
Wonderful steps up next.
He's got another.
They know there's one more still.
Wonderful, gonna hold the line, this is the bomb. If this goes down here, it's basically all over.
No, is it, though? Is it?
I said if.
Because Max, Isaac, in the response...
Two quick kills between JL and Bit, having to play catch up here, but it's a lengthy rotate all the way around the long side, doubled up on this flank.
Are you gonna be ready to face two here? Well, Isaac should have heard this, and he should have heard four feet, to be exact.
The fifth.
JL Tweet, big hit on the cross and just JLF standing.
He's got this though.
Oh, little jiggle for the short fight, but Max is going to delete him.
Well set up there to trade out JL.
I wasn't familiar with Max's game.
He's going above Alex in the NIP rating.
He's had some fantastic rounds in this map.
Is this the rise from the ashes moment?
Flash over towards the catwalk.
Wonderful.
Line 2 that has to drop on down.
Seems like they want to try and take this cat control away.
And they've at least got a lot of Util out of Na'Vi who as we touched upon were kind of cash-strapped coming into this round.
They're down now to just one century, one smoke in terms of Util that can take the pace out of the round.
This is actually a massive round for an IPF. They can win this one and break the economy of Na'Vi.
They were basically playing for overtime, all hit force into the open.
Those are both awkward flights for the SMG.
out towards Long, Alexi swings big kill! Huge kill!
And this allows Wonderful to fall back and focus towards Catwalk.
Need to be with no smoke, just a corridor and they have to go running through it.
Ema has to play now, he's in the open, exposed to the door jail, covering him fantastically!
Two kills and they don't know about Ema, hiding in the corner, just wrinkled left.
He's got a shot, he's got a Molotov and a 1v2 on his plate.
Bomb gets stuck, they've got to play together, can he isolate these fights?
I love that play for you, Hima. The fallback after-
It's going through!
Madman!
And that will be it.
Navi, find their way to play off, swinging through the molotov.
Jason, would you say Hima's feeling pretty confident right now?
Hima's feeling real confident. Hima's feeling real good.
That's actually a great series from him.
Both maps very impactful. Hima 22 and 13 here on Dust2.
Who's the best shit talker from Brazil?
Michelangelo.
No, no, no. I'm Sub-Zero.
I play whoever's in front of me.
Mason's my little puppy, you know?
playoffs media day these are exciting times we have people filming people
filming people but this is the only one they absolutely have to do so to player
slash co-caster slash commentator all around guy JDC how are you feeling this
lovely Monday morning I'm feeling Monday morning I'm feeling good man how are
you I'm feeling amazing I'm excited it's been two weeks of groups now we're
into the playoffs you're going up against the Mongols first you guys
haven't played them. Does that make you excited? Not really. I think we're playing very good
at the moment and the pace we are playing, the way we are playing, it doesn't matter
who we are facing. It's just a matter of that we keep our what we're doing.
What's different compared to the last couple of tournaments? Did you guys just have more
time with Regone? Was that key or you identified what to focus on?
That's a very good question. I think we're just grooving in more and overall we're getting more confidence
I think if you're beginning in the lineup and they have a couple of losses maybe a bit down
But right now we are on an upward strength, so we're just gathering confidence. I saw there was some
Pink ponging going on around some really loud sounds were coming from that part of the venue. So
What's the biggest rivalry in big clan in pitpong?
I mean, Krimbo is the best player in ping pong, but the rivalry is between me and him.
We are always playing and he likes to scream and I beat him, so it's very nice dynamic, you know.
Well, I'm certainly hoping for everyone else that Searsons luck picks up in the ping pong games.
I'll let you go. I'll keep it moving here with Tapsen. Tapsen, how are you doing?
It's okay. It's just the morning.
I like it, you know, honesty. It's really important.
As an in-game leader, when you go up against a team like Mongols that you haven't really faced, is it...
Do you like playing teams more that you faced a lot recently, or teams that you haven't played?
Because both can be annoying.
I don't really mind. For me, I'm really excited to play against Mongols, haven't played them,
and I'm just excited how the future is on the server.
Alright, another question.
If Big wins Pro League, why is that going to happen?
Hard work pays off.
Alright, well, thank you for all this gold.
Let's see who else we can talk to.
Whenever I'm going to buy a Crimbo while he's getting make-up,
where you going?
Your team threw you under the bus, sorry man.
It's been a while now in Big Clan.
How has it been for you?
The first month has been tough, but now it's okay.
Why has it been tough the first month?
I didn't play that good.
Now I'm getting confidence and I'm feeling good.
They just weren't used to your style, man.
Yeah, I think so.
No, they're used to.
Now they have no choice, right?
They just have to run as well.
Exactly, yeah.
Or it's the first playoffs for you guys already,
very early on with the team.
That definitely helps the vibes, no?
It definitely helps.
Did you play the Mongols when you were in B&E?
Oh, never.
I never played against them.
I feel like they will be able to match your speed on the server.
I think they're crazy as well, but I think Tavson is more crazy.
So, when I play fast, he just follows my style and I like it.
You see, now he made me think because he's so laid back.
Look at him. Look at Tavson, right?
It doesn't seem like a crazy person, but those are the craziest ones.
We all know. Thanks for that, Rigo.
And I think it gives everyone back home something to think about.
That was big clan. We're going to keep the lobby moving.
One minute with Finn Anderson. How was the bootcamp?
It was good. We didn't have any windows so we felt like lab rats.
So that's maybe what we need to perform better.
So I think it was good. It was the first bootcamp, the season for us.
And we wanted something before but we also wanted to take care of the schedule but now we didn't care.
We need some results.
I imagine now as you look down the stretch we've got Leblast, we've got Rio.
Rio is pretty stacked. Then we head into essentially the RMRs, right?
So we're already in the home stretch of 2024, will there be another bootcamp available this year?
Depends, I think if we are top eight for the major, like after the qualifier, I think if you're a group
B at the Amal, you have four days until the opening stage of the major, then you probably
stay in China, right? So if you're a group A and we're doing good the next few events,
then probably go back home and do a bootcamp in Europe. But for now, if it goes according
it's a plan we have four weeks on the road and that's been a while since we've been like that.
Were there any team bonding activities?
Not really I think most of all we just needed to play. I think we tried to focus on the chemistry
before Pro League and stuff like that but we also just need to play we had to change some stuff
and my pool is up in the air but it's starting to turn our belief without my pool so it's
pretty interesting play of us and also the upcoming tournaments I believe we have a good
good foundation and we just need to perform now.
All right, thank you for your time.
Thank you very much.
Raina, are you running away or would you like to talk to me?
But I just wanted to ask a few questions.
Mr. Finn Anderson, he wasn't feeling too well.
How are you feeling?
I'm feeling good, I'm feeling good, pretty good, yeah.
How do you feel about bootcamp with no windows?
I heard there was no window situation.
Yeah, I was living in a basement for seven days,
so it must be weird.
You've been in sunny Malta,
you've been going outside, you've been swimming?
It's really, you know.
really just comes right just comes right
surely some pubgeos i think in there
the blood that locked here in there
even by deadlock
all right what do you think of it
things great
you don't have
no big
all
all really
the league
okay i would like to have a deadlock obviously it's very mobile s but with
a bit of shooting
yeah i like uh... the fact that it's
the perspective of it the third person and uh... how it plays it runs so
smoothly
Okay. In terms of your bracket, I was just talking to ultimate.
Is it you guys' best complexity?
It was last night. I might have forgotten already.
And then into Liquid and then into G2.
So that's a pretty crazy gauntlet of teams.
How do you feel about the way it's been drawn?
Got to be there for the win anyway, so it doesn't matter.
I knew you were going to give me that answer.
I should have thought of a more creative question.
Fuck. Okay.
How easy do you think it is for Vitality to make the grand final?
I see the bracket. It looks a little bit easy, but it is what it is, so it is.
Okay, well, I suppose obviously you and Spirit coming third in your group kind of contributed a little bit to how the bracket shapes up.
But yeah, looking at our top side, do you think any of the teams can really challenge Vitality?
On their side of the bracket? Yeah, I'm sure they'll get a couple of hard games, but they have Zywoo in the end.
They have Zywoo in the end, all right, all right, what else have I got for you, mate?
I don't know, you've been hanging out in Malta for an extra bit of time, you've been bootcamping,
you're in a long stretch of events now, is it hard, you missing the family?
Yeah, for sure, I'm sure to bring them out to Denmark when we go there afterwards, so
I'll get to see them again, but it's a long time on the road, so it's a tough
road for the both of us.
I'll let you get back to your team, thanks for your time.
Cheerios.
Well, what's going on here?
Let's see, Team Spirit, Trace, well he's in the middle of something, Magisk, just enjoying
themselves.
Hey buddy, how's it going?
Hi there, wow this is going to be very exciting, yes, thank you so much for this, you love
media days don't you, yes.
What's worse, media day or losing to MIBR?
AM Cologne.
AM Cologne.
All right.
You're going to go up against Furia in your first game,
play them at bad boom.
It was pretty easy.
Any reason for us to believe it's
going to be any different here?
We're not in Cologne.
OK.
So Spirit's Revenge Tour.
Is that what we can expect?
Maybe Revenge Arc.
revenge are okay
so
basically as long as you guys are not in cologne you're fine
all yet
all right
and when you use that
in the broadcast
uh...
if you guys end up winning
probably why is that going to be
that's not going
cologne
thanks
hi don't get silly for one minute
are you uh...
excited about whatever's going on here
Yes.
Are you more excited about that or playing Furia?
Playing Furia.
Last time it wasn't very exciting.
It was very exciting.
I guess for you it was very exciting, right?
Yes.
For you, every game seems to be exciting this tournament.
Yes.
What's the reason for that?
I love CS.
Love CS.
Well, that makes two of us.
I'm going to ask you the same thing as Magus.
if you win this tournament why is that going to be I don't know okay what's
your favorite Ninja Turtle nice all right that's what's don't gonna be a lot
more Michelangelo fans out there we leave them to whatever is going on here
and keep going sorry with Imperial we're gonna walk at some point we're
gonna talk but here's something for the people at home to know about Imperial
Imperial maybe everybody's favorite team because they're on time and not only are
they on time they are early so Vinnie I think a lot of people respect a man
that's early did you grow up in a household where you know it's better to
be you know ten minutes earlier than one minute late yeah exactly I think my
house was really like a prison sometimes whoa really yeah my mom better was like
really strict. So what other rules did you have when you were grown up?
Is it at nine? Is it at nine? Yeah, when I was a kid. Don't play too much, need to study. I'll
describe. So you get the homework done before you play Counter Strike? Yeah, yeah. And I think
sometime when I was 14, 15, I was like working and studying and playing. So it was fun, no?
So you had a very rigid upbringing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, if I was able to play, I need to have good grades.
I don't know how the metric system here, yeah.
But if I wasn't bad in school, no place, yes, no.
So I'd be both.
So you were good in school?
I think so.
I mean, not expert, but above average.
What was your favorite subject?
Did I not get out of the way so you make up and get done?
I don't think.
I mean, average with numbers.
So, mathematics, physics, stuff like that.
Yeah, but they're like 10 years ago, you know.
No, just yes.
I'll let you make it, we'll return to this.
Who should I bother instead?
Do you want to talk to me, try?
You're the only one.
Yeah, okay.
Well, how has it been in a team of Brazilians, Mo?
It's been good.
I already had the experience with the 00 guys, so I didn't chill.
Just the same again?
Yeah, same language overall.
I think it's a different style, but whenever I got
So to a team, I always try to implement some things like my way, like a mini system.
And the moves that you can make and stuff like that?
Yeah, for example, when I joined the team, it was a bit chaotic and then I told me like I wanted to be the second caller.
So yeah, we started talking and implementing these things.
Okay, who's your favorite one of these new boys?
No way or decent, you know, these guys in the server,
they're pretty sharp, aren't they?
Yeah, both are great.
I mean, they're pretty really good.
And I like him, I like them a lot.
So I think, you know, we speak English,
but this team doesn't.
So if you want to speak to him.
Go with no way, you're saying?
Yeah.
All right, well, he's in the make-up chair now, mate.
So I might lose him for a second.
Now, taking a look at some of the other teams
from the region, there's quite a few teams
from South America that are showing good results at the moment.
Is there any, like, how would you,
do you think that there's a South American style
of Counter-Strike and if there is,
what would you define that style as?
I don't know really, I don't think there's a style
from South American CS, but yeah, the teams,
the thing is, like, whenever we play in Brazil,
like we don't show our A level so you can play against like these teams from the
region and lose but you can come here like us and maybe win against big and
mouse but it is because in Brazil it's hard to win because you face the same
teams all the times and you know each other very well so yeah I don't know
if there is a really a style because for me, like, Fuhrer has style,
Payne has another one. I think we have another one. But, yeah, the
thing is we face each other a lot. So it's hard to win or to be
consistent, consistent at least.
Yeah, not far enough that makes sense. The familiar, I can't
even say the word, how familiar you are with your
opponent, right? And there's lots of things you know what
they're going to do. Well, they know what you're going
to do, making it tough to play those matchups. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
All right, cool. Thanks for your time.
I'll go bother Noe now.
You told me he speaks English, so let's have a chat.
Hello, Noe.
He said you speak English.
Is this true?
No, no, he's lying.
I don't know. You just replied to me.
So I think I think we're getting there.
I think we're getting there.
Now look, I was just talking to Vinny about school
and about rules in his house.
He said he had a pretty strict upbringing.
How was your upbringing?
You know, did you have strict parents?
No.
How do I pull this thing?
Like what do you do?
What do you do, man?
More free.
He's from the farm.
Yeah, he's from the farm.
We know Tract or Carl, stuff like that.
So he was just a rural kid.
You're a farm boy.
How did you get a computer on the farm?
Ah, it's much, much of work in the farm, man.
All right, well, look.
All right, well, look, let's do this.
This way you can speak Portuguese.
Is there anything you want to say
to the fans back at home?
Well, thank you guys for always watching us.
Let's go for another playoff now, right?
One more, as usual, we play 500,
but let's go for a playoff now.
We're going to play with Torz for the people,
and we're together, guys.
Thank you.
Nice. Thank you guys.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
You see these jerseys?
these jerseys are gonna be worth hundreds of thousands
of euros, why?
Because this guy has signed it,
the one and only Dan Apex.
So, played liquid last night, media this morning,
work never stops for you, does it?
No, it doesn't.
And it's gonna be like that for a month straight.
It's, we paid for that, we well paid for that.
So, don't have time to complain.
All right, so this is second time in a row
that you guys win these seeding games, you know?
I was a Colombian.
Yes, and Colombian, you know.
Yeah, I mean, this was yesterday on the desk,
I mean on the couch, because on the desk, it's a fake desk.
It's the fourth time in a row,
we first in our group stage in EPL.
So I asked the ESL to give us medals
or maybe a Intergron Slam cash prize
or something like that, because it's impressive.
At least like 20% or something.
What did you feel about that liquid game? Because they've been looking good, you know, it's exciting, people are talking about them, how was it on the server?
Well, yeah, that was a good game. We lost Nubis, the first map. Unfortunately, I think we had good chances to close the map, but we lost too many crucial runs, like 4v2, 5v3, you know, those things that if you lose them, it's going to be a tough one.
Most likely they must have.
And then I think we bounced back on the other two and yeah, we're not so scared in some points.
We always had the control of the game, but yeah, they played good.
They have like really good individuals.
I think Twizz also impressed me in the way he calls right now because he's a really new ideal,
even though he played with Karrigan for a long time.
It's never easy to just understand everything that's going on, etc.
But yeah, he's doing well for such a short amount of time.
of time. What was the impressive part about it? No, the reads he had sometimes and also
going some for mobosicals, etc. I really like that personally. So I think it's just part
of the game. Sometimes you just have to gamble and like, okay, I don't think the DLP is
there, so just work or whatever. And they did that a few times. Also, yeah, I think
some individual tab up. And that's anywhere you need that to win some games. Tell
Tell me a little bit about, so you had a couple of days before the liquid game, now you have
three more days before you play again, so how do you organize all that time in between?
Well, the first week of group was really chill for us, that's the first time our staff
gave us that much free time because we have a month out of home now and we knew that
even though we're not at our 100% in EPR groups we should go through normally,
And that's what happened.
So I'm really proud of the guys because we managed that time well.
And now, yeah, it's going to be full practice.
We want to, we want only one trophy this year.
And even though we did well, we want to get more.
So it's going to be all about focusing on the playoff
and trying to get the trophy.
So a few practice for the next three days, as much as possible.
I mean, not too much, not too, I mean, a great amount.
And yeah, I think that's what has happened.
All right, and if Vitality wins EPL,
what's going to be the reason for it?
Well, they won VP, the classic one.
I think also we can also play really good as a team.
We have like this, we are one of the best
in terms of trading when we're on a T side, et cetera.
So it's also gonna be about that.
So and also in later on,
we need also to win those later runs.
So these guys have to step up and miss some time,
I'm not too often in the nation.
All right, thank you so much, Dan.
Always a pleasure.
Good luck.
We'll grab at least one more guy.
Sorry, guys, Masi, you're clear.
I got you the first time around.
Zywoo, you weren't around.
Yeah, it's fine.
It's not going to be when you have Apex on your team,
he covers most of the stuff.
So this is just to show the people what they want to see.
How was the game against Liquid for you last night,
going up against, well, you know, Ultimate on the other side,
new kid on the block, hold that, going to prove himself.
You showing who's boss?
Actually, I didn't think about that.
Just, I think before starting the game,
it was fun to play a new team plus,
because we kind of always played the same team,
like from NDPL or other like Blast or anything.
So it was good challenge for us to play a new team too.
We didn't really know what they're going to do.
So it was new challenge for us
and it was really exciting to play against them.
All right, usually at NDPL, you guys do pretty good.
I mean, last season was great,
up until the last game, you know, but do you feel like because of the
Cologne win as well, you're a bit of a different team this time around?
Could be. I don't feel any difference to be honest, but obviously when maybe
people have faced us and we are like the remaining champion of
Colombia business, I want to be there more so we need to be even more on
the table to be better. So obviously we need to be focused even more and
we need to be even more like every day.
All right, you have a couple of games before you have to play a couple
days before you have to play your first game. So are we going to see any more squash matchups
against Pinks? Yeah, I think so, but I will beat these small ass every day. So it's fine.
It's fine. All good. All good. Is it more intense in the squash matchups or the ping pong
matchups? I think more training in the squash game, because look at this face,
is like this all the game against me is so focused so obviously we need to be one
hundred percent in the squash game. Do you fear that all the rivalry in the
squash game might have negative influence on the team on the server? No
because like you don't say it is the midget so you will not do anything.
Alright thank you so much man good luck that was vitality in the lobby
We'll go to our next team. Stay tuned.
We've got Spirit taking on Vitality on Cash, I believe.
I don't know if we can get up here and take a look. Maybe we can.
Maybe we can sneak in behind.
I don't want to disturb anybody right now.
You taking the coaching role today, man?
Yeah, exactly. I'm the coach of guys.
I wanted to know how we do that.
I don't fucking know. I don't fucking know this map.
Just know the LDAC smoke. That's it.
Yeah, okay, a bit of French history.
Now, the importance of this game today against Spirit on Cash, it's a huge match.
I know you guys have been practicing for this for weeks on end.
How are the boys feeling this morning?
Yeah, feeling good. Like you saw them on the Mediare, they were fully dressed for that.
And actually, yeah, it's quite a good tactic.
We practiced Cash for a few months already, because we're already preparing after China.
I'm excited to see it come back into the map.
Well, I wish you guys some luck and I'll take a look at what's going on here.
Yes, you guys.
Thank you.
Thank you.
All right.
Well, T side for Vitality.
We can do some live one-sided commentary here.
They're out middle.
I wonder if they know the crisscross smoke still.
Dan definitely knows what's going on.
I'll wait till someone dies and I'll see if we can.
They're actually full-fragging right now.
This is nice to see.
This is the old version of Cache.
This isn't the new version by any means.
Zai we just got a knife kill. It looks like they're having fun. So we won't disturb them, we won't get in the way, but you can look out for this content. It's going to be coming your way on the socials.
Alright, we're going to insert ourselves in the middle of two Titans. We'll see who we can find to talk to. We'll just hover around. We'll just walk around.
Nice and quietly. I'm going to come all the way back here and talk to Roland from Poland.
Roland, which part of Poland are you from?
Close to Germany border in Poznan, it's a big city.
Is nowhere near is from?
Yeah, yeah, it is.
Damn, I have a good memory somehow.
How are you enjoying your time with all these native English speakers, Matt?
It's nice, very nice as well, as a people.
And I think I'm learning English pretty quickly with them, so it's good.
And now look you're pretty flurry on the AWP you like to get aggressive you don't know these fun moves
You get the best role in the team so things are going pretty well
Do you have any complaints? Do you have anything that we need to say to the boys?
They need to flash you more drop more orbs. Yeah, Justin stealing my because of the
That's the problem. Well, look you
Everybody needs he goes right you don't want to share you don't have like a quota this game
You know someone else gets them or you want them all I don't like it
Fair enough. I understand I understand everybody likes the easy kills
And who's your favorite teammate?
They're not listening right now.
No, everyone is.
I know it's a polite answer, but everyone is great.
And you guys have a pretty tough bracket coming up ahead.
I think there's phase complexity.
I think you're obviously going into G2 potentially.
What do you think of your bracket?
Pretty easy.
Not a challenge, just playing, just playing.
All right, I'll let you go with your team.
You got to do some photos and stuff, mate.
Have a good day.
It's all fun and games on media day before the playoffs.
Mr. Yukinda, can I borrow you?
I know you're deep in conversation about strats
with your team, but we have more important
to stuff to talk about right now, mate.
Now you're obviously a massive Daisy player,
one of the biggest Daisy influencers that's gone around.
Why do you like the Running Man Z?
I think it's just interesting, you know?
Like you compare CS to Daisy
and Daisy just feels a lot more realistic
and a lot more hardcore in a way.
And I think running Manzi, he kind of makes this hardcoreness.
He kind of mixes it up with his calm voice
and calm commentating that it just makes,
like it's just a pleasure to watch, you know?
Now, Rush, he puts a lot of slander out there
towards running Manzi.
He calls him the walking Manzi.
He thinks he's a bit boring.
Do you have anything to say to Rush about that?
Well, how he said to me, not to me on broadcast,
but he said, eyes were so multi,
and he's gonna understand that.
Okay, well, then we'll get some translations
going for that one right there.
Now, look, what's your favorite Dizzy map?
I only play one, Cheren Rose.
Oh, you just play Cheren Rose?
Yeah, but I have like 20 hours.
I don't have many.
Like, I'm not a professional.
I just, for fun, play with my girlfriend sometimes,
and we play like for two days,
we're like in the middle of the map,
then we suddenly get sniped without the chance.
Then we're just mad and we don't play for a week or two.
Fair enough, we're gonna get you onto some N'Mausk.
You know, I will try getting Justin in there for a while.
It's Daisy's not really his game.
I think it's a bit slow for him,
but we'll get you on some N'Mausk.
We'll get you in with the boy.
It's slow for Justin.
Okay.
He's surprised that Daisy's too slow for you.
He's gonna reload.
He's like, when you're reloading,
you're gonna get him again.
Okay.
But you need to clean it up, you know?
Yeah, it's not his type of a game.
All right, well, we'll get you on the Mausica one point
and we'll see if we can get you on some fun.
Now, let's do some serious conversation for a second.
Yesterday, you played against Vitality first time
with this roster.
What's the diagnosis post-match?
Well, I'm not gonna lie.
For me individually, I play like shit
at the last map for sure.
On you, I felt like we were not necessarily
moving around on CP said the right way.
Like what usually happens when somebody closes up
gaps we were not necessarily moving and that's why it was hard to play they got a lot of gaps
and there was a force round of like force wars and that's the worst thing you can you can like have
on a cd side nuke right and on this too i think we just fell a little bit sleepy uh some missed
clumps there some mistakes some missed smokes did you see my miss smoke on this too i tweeted about
Yeah, yeah, yeah, pistol round.
I was, I'm not gonna lie,
that was a fake smoke for door,
so the thing is short,
and then we ran out to B and we won the round.
Yeah, but the people think it's a missed smoke,
I don't know why.
But the amount of people I see
who line up on the wrong thing,
it's pretty common though.
Like, you know, people go to the pallet,
they line up on the wrong line.
No, but that's the thing,
it's like such a common smoke,
you don't really practice it.
And then like the first time you come up to server,
and you're like, if you look at the wrong thing,
you're thinking like, okay, wait, where am I?
You know, but yeah, I just fucked up, I don't know.
Just a bad map.
But I feel like we have a good chance against the next game.
Well, that's the thing.
To play against them next time,
you have a pretty crazy bracket potentially, right?
This phase versus complexity,
winner of that plays into you,
winner of that game plays into G2,
and then winner of that plays into either like a Navi
or a Spirit most likely.
And that's before you even get to the grand final
where Vitality will probably be.
That sounds pretty fucking crazy.
I mean, we're here for experience
and the more experience we can get, the better.
Okay, well, that's the thing.
I forget that I'm asking competitors,
I just thought it's rain the same question.
He's like, well, if we want to win,
we've got to beat everybody.
Yeah, but like, if Vitality's not in the grand final,
they got the easiest side of the bracket
in the history of the fucking world.
Yeah, well, but I mean,
it's not T.O.'s who are responsible for this.
It's the teams who fucked up
and like Miles Astralis who lost in groups
and that's where the bracket got all like this.
So it just happens, you know, it happens and there's,
there's been already tournaments with the,
where easier brackets are on one side of the map
and the harder brackets are on the other side of the map.
And you just have to deal with it.
Yeah, we, yeah, we possibly play phase or complexity.
We play possibly phase, phase G2.
We possibly phase Navier spirit.
I mean, that's life.
That is how this fair enough.
I don't think of you, Tom.
Thank you.
All right, what's going on here, Russ?
um, costume party.
Is this your doing?
You decided to put this on today?
I don't know.
So they looked at me and he just said sub zero and uh, yeah.
We're not now.
Do you feel you a bit of a sub zero?
Uh, I guess so.
I mean, if you saw the movie, he was kind of a badass, but also fuck up.
Uh, I was just asking about what went down yesterday.
We're just talking a bit about the bracket.
What was your most memorable match in the group stage?
You reckon?
Most memorable match.
Out of all the teams.
For you? For Liquid?
Yeah, yeah. Oh, for Liquid.
I mean, of course, the Vitality match is probably the most concentrated match.
And when I listen to the cast, I mean, the cast is probably the most exciting, so...
Okay, alright, fine. Who are you looking forward to playing the most in the Plough Bracket potentially?
I would like to get revenge on Faze and Vitality.
Faze? Oh, that's right. I forgot about that little match.
Okay, so if complexity loses to FaZe, then you play against FaZe, right?
So you get that chance.
And then, have you guys played against G2 yet?
No, only in terms.
Well, that means Justin can play against G2.
I'm going to revenge.
Justin, do you want revenge against G2?
No, I don't care.
Oh, why don't you care?
I play whoever's in front of me.
Shut up, you fucking bitch!
Get angry!
I thought it would be a spicy game, but that's fatted.
But they have a completely different roster.
Will you shit talk?
No.
I give you some lessons if we do play them you have to either be complex to your
face one game at a time I'm leaving I'm done I'm done I'm getting these
fucking humble bitch responses thank you for your time we've got my BR here safe
How are you doing, buddy?
I'm good, good.
You're going to be a lot worse once you see what I'm going to have you do soon enough.
Tell me, MIBR, in the playoffs or pro league, what was different this tournament compared to some of the other ones?
I don't know, maybe the vibes?
I don't know. I think we liked Malta. It was good to be in the playoffs of such a big tournament.
What do you like about Malta?
I mean everything I guess so it's more like Brazil for us. So yeah, it's nice to be here
You guys changed in game leaders a little while back. What would you say is the biggest difference between exit and drop?
It's hard to say because I think this structure is almost the same
but I think exit is more comfortable on lurker rows and drops really active and having him
and giving him the responsibility of always having to give some call and things like this
is important for us. So yeah, I think that's the biggest difference.
Three Brazilian teams in the playoffs, are you a little bit surprised by that? Not really,
I think CS2 with the MR12 and things like this are giving those kind of results like
the underdogs beating the top tier teams.
So I'm not surprised by this and it's really good for our region to have these things in
the playoffs.
Do you guys have a day or two off before you have to play your games?
You're also bringing first two groups.
So what have you been up to in between your games and playoffs now?
We've been practicing a lot.
Yesterday we had a day off, no just to chill and try to have the energy back.
And today we're going to practice and tomorrow too, so to be ready for the next match.
Yeah, going up against the winner of Virtus.pro and Heroic, any thoughts on that particular matchup?
Have you played those teams a lot recently?
I don't think we played VP, but we played Heroic in Cologne.
I think both teams are having some ups and downs, but both of them are really good teams.
VPs are really good teams, they have really good individuals
and it's going to be a cool match to watch.
Alright, thank you so much, man.
We'll grab someone else from your team.
Everyone is so excited from here.
Good morning, how are you?
How do you say, tired?
I'm a little tired.
Yeah, how are you loving the in-game leader life?
Yeah, it's easy. I just read a paper and call it Strats, that's all.
Yeah, you seem like you're enjoying it a lot. You don't seem tired at all,
or like you have to think about a million things.
No, it's fine. I'm just rushing and then I die and I watch for good screens.
Oh, so Art's your favorite player growing up?
Yeah, Art's style. He's my mentor.
Well, good luck with that. You guys are going up,
We were in a couple of days against VP, Heroic.
When was the last time you played VP?
I think it was last year on Junkoping.
It was a best of one.
Maybe Bedwom.
We played them?
I don't play Bedwom.
Yeah, we didn't play Bedwom.
In Junkoping it was a best of one and we won it.
Because it's a unique team, right?
A lot of teams hate playing them.
Where do you stand on all that?
Yeah, it's like you have to have a lot of patience to play against them, because they are always like playing slow and saving when they have no chance.
So it kind of makes you tired when you're playing, but I think I can run more than they can save.
I mean, Brazilian CS is a lot about patience as well. Do you think maybe then it's like easier for you guys to go up against them than some of the other teams?
I wouldn't say that. Maybe there's some matchups that we can go like better, maybe on map pool or something like that.
But against VP is always a high game, so if we play against them, I know it's not going to be an easy battle for us.
Alright, if MIBR ends up winning ESL Pro League, what will be the reason for that?
Lucky.
Alright, fair enough. Thank you MIBR, we're going to keep going.
Trouble in Paradise, Trace, anything you'd like to talk about regarding issues cropping up with your ideas?
is, see cropping will be the biggest issue, Chad,
especially when it comes to green on a green screen.
Today is designed for not only mandatory fun,
but also new content.
And part of the problem right now is that one of the teams
seemingly has somewhat of a green jersey.
Didn't forecast, I did not see this one coming.
Now, if you could just cover the mole in fabric
that's not green, would that be the solution?
In theory, yes, but as it turns out,
well, you see all the costumes
working with Mr. Birchell. I do have a spaceman in there. We can get we can go
into our costume box as well if required. I think we're running dangerously low
over there as well. All right well I wish you luck with your solutions. I'm gonna
go talk to Rushly Ranger. Good luck with that. I don't think he works me more
does he? Just place Ping Pong all the time. Yeah well that's what we're about to go find out.
Now we're here with lead Ping Pong specialist from ESL that's Rushly
Rushly Roadblock Ranger. They call you now why do they call you Roadblock?
It's because I like to stop things from happening.
That is my main quest in life.
I thought it was to do with,
they can never get a ball past you.
Well, that's also true.
Jay, you wanna see a serve?
Hey Jay, give me that ball.
Watch this.
Watch the serve.
Watch this, all right?
Keep that mic away from me.
You see that?
I put spin on it, right?
I do a little spin and maneuver
and it just goes off to the side.
I mean, what are they supposed to do?
Rush, you've been enjoying yourself here
at ESL Pro League Season 20?
Yeah, I think it's been pretty good.
Like, I've been really enjoying it.
You're supposed to follow me here, right?
Anyway, I've been really enjoying it.
It's been a good time.
It's been nice.
I've only been here for a week, one more week to go.
And I'm having a great time.
How are you doing, Chad?
We've been Rio.
Yes, well, I don't know.
I don't know if I can confirm or deny this,
but I should be in Rio, yes.
OK, now, Rush, this will obviously
be the last DSL Pro League season ever.
We made it to 20.
Do you have any words do you want to say to everybody
who's been tuning into DSL Pro League
these last couple of years and enjoying the entertainment
that you've been providing?
I mean that would be a shame honestly, I mean on a serious note I've been doing this since
season three, you know, so I've been here a long time, I really enjoyed my time, probably
it's one of my favourite events to work on, so if that is true Chad, I haven't heard this,
you know, nothing can turn lately, so if that is true I'm quite sad about that.
I know you're not allowed to officially comment, but you know it's true.
I haven't heard anything from the top, I often have meetings with the top echelon
of the company, you know, and I've heard nothing, so I don't know.
I'll say goodbye this is the last time anyone ever sees you in an episode of the
lobby.
I enjoyed it. You want to watch me serve again? Jake, give me the ball.
And now we watch Rush for the last time. Play table tennis.
Thanks, Rush.
We have a German going to space. Oh, hold up. We're in the way. Come on in.
The problem is they're going to have to change shirt. So we're going to need a cut and then come back after they change shirt.
And with the magic of television, we're back. Everything is sorted. Trace is dressing people. This is great.
He's showing them how to use a vest.
Now, oh, look at that.
Slacks is a natural.
All right.
I wanted to talk to Slacks anyway.
Slacks, look, a couple of questions.
Obviously, you're an American team.
Have you relocated to the US of A?
Not really.
So I'm officially still living in Germany,
but I'm never home, so.
OK, fair enough.
So when you are in the US, where are you based from?
So we have a house in Austin right now.
So we are always in Austin, different Airbnbs.
But yeah.
Okay, what's it like?
Do you like it?
Yeah, it's everything is bigger in Texas.
You have some good fast food chains and yeah.
The weather is really hot and humid,
but I kind of like it right now.
Okay, is it all of you there or like,
is it just like you and Sid there
or is everybody based from there?
So everybody still lives at home basically,
but most of the time we are together
because of the pink.
We have two guys from Cali.
it's not so good to play from there.
But we also had times if we only practiced
and me and Sina there and the others at home.
So it's kind of every day is different.
You don't think it'd be more beneficial
to get them over to Europe?
So you guys could be in Europe,
more often playing European Counter-Strike
or you feel you're at enough events?
No, so we want to be more in Europe
than we are right now.
It always depends like if we can be more in Europe,
we will be, but we have to play the ECL right now
and the scheduling is kind of rough sometimes.
and we have to beat it because we need the pro league spot.
But we will have some more time with Thunderpick
where we can also then stay more in Europe
and actually practice, because that's our ultimate goal.
So yes, it would for sure be a lot better.
Well, that's in Germany, right?
That Thunderpick event.
Is it in like, so is it Berlin or Düsseldorf?
Yeah, but we are not.
The thing with Thunderpick is we qualified for it.
But the thing we qualified for is our online tournament.
And there you can qualify for the event in Berlin.
Ah, OK.
So another step first.
But you guys have got Atlanta, you got Thunder Peak,
then you've got the RMR.
So there's still a bit of stuff going on for the rest of the year.
So what's the plan after Pro League ends?
How far away is Atlanta?
Atlanta, I think, is in two weeks already.
So we will go from Malta to Austin.
We stay there for 10 days.
Then we go to Atlanta.
Then from Atlanta, we go back to Austin.
And then from Austin we go to Berlin, then we stay for Thunder Peak and Bootcamp in Berlin,
and then we go from Berlin to Shanghai.
Okay, well you've been paying attention to your calendar.
That's very good of you, making sure you know when you're going to be home.
All right, all right, all right.
Now which one is your favorite teammate?
They're not listening, they can't hear you.
That's a hard one.
So Mason is my little puppy, you know?
Your little puppy.
Because we are in the same room, you know, I'm taking him under the shoulder, help him out.
So we have a very good bond.
But I love them all, of course.
All right, all right.
Thank you for your time.
I'm going to go bug your teammates right now.
A little puppy.
Hello.
Do you like the thing named Little Puppy?
No, I'm not a fan.
Is he correct?
Are you under his wing?
Yeah, a little bit.
I'm under these two pretty much.
I learned from him the most, more than likely.
But these two teach me about life.
And if I need to get yelled at, they do it.
He doesn't do it.
About life.
What life lessons are you learning?
I mean, I'm a young kid.
I'm only 19.
So like, kind of like first time really out of the house
like a way.
So they kind of like just teaching me what I need to know if I need to know something but most of the time
If it's about in-game he says it, but he's not really the the
The one to yell at me if he's not the enforcer. Nah, it'd be those two
But he's been the one messing up lately
It's been his fault. I've been having to yell at him. What's he been doing wrong? I'm just
He's doing some funny things. He's right-clicking smokes randomly 20 seconds on a b-split. I was like, are you trolling me?
But it's okay. Oh, wow. Okay. Well, that's to get that in a minute
I want to hear more about this. You're 19. So the first time out of the house,
obviously that's a bit of a hyperbole. I would hope you've been out of the house before, right?
Nah, I just never touched grass. I played FPL. Never, never left.
Fair enough. Now, look, what's the biggest culture shock you've had since, you know,
your travels ever since?
Honestly, there really hasn't been any. I mean, I don't really know. I mean, we
definitely like the talking, like just like more Americans are loud talkers,
But like everybody else kind of like hush hush quiet like speaking wise, but it's kind of what I've noticed
But that's really about it. Nothing really too crazy. Are you looking forward to the spray of events?
You guys get coming out. We're just talking about that with slacks and like you guys have quite the round ahead of you now
Yeah, of course. We haven't spent a lot of time in Europe this season. We spent a lot more last season with knobs
So we're coming we're planning. I think to be in Europe ever from October 21st onwards till the arm are in the major
So it's good to be able to get some practice there.
Now, I'm actually quite interesting for you guys,
because a lot of the America's teams, at least at this event,
whether they're in attendance at the RMR or not,
have shown some good performance,
like seven out of the 16 teams are not European teams
who are in the playoffs here.
So do you think this is a sign of the event,
or do you think this is a sign of a change in the times?
What are your things going on?
I'm not really sure.
I think teams, I think with MR13,
and the way CS is right now,
it's kind of a little bit more underdog,
Like helpful, there's underdogs with the economy and such.
But I think NA is just playing a decent CS right now.
And with the economy, the meta,
it's just kind of working then.
The America's here.
Okay, all right.
And you're sort of the bracket.
If I, I don't want to be saying anything too,
too untoward to some of the other teams,
but compared to the lower half of the bracket,
your half is looking pretty chill.
For the most part, yeah, I mean the drawing I'd say went probably the best it could have
gone.
But we earned that I would say for sure, exactly.
It's the other team's fault, not like for fucking up and losing like if FaZe and Spirit
didn't come third in that group, the whole bracket could look completely different.
Exactly.
I think I even saw someone say that like if Liquid beat Vitality last night, it
would have been even more of a shitfest on that lower portion.
So I mean, I'm happy with it.
You're happy with it.
Who do you think from your little spree of teams that you're going to be playing against?
I think it's like VP, Heroic, MIBR into you guys, I think?
Yeah, I think it'll probably be, I think VP will beat Heroic,
then VP versus MIBR, probably VP beating them,
even though probably close to three maps, and then we'll probably play VP.
How do you feel about having to play that play style?
I think it's fine. I think we play better against slower point of styles,
and like teams that are super hyper aggressive can be more tricky for us.
Okay, cool. Thanks for your time.
Of course, thank you.
That's great.
Thanks guys.
Thank you.
Do you want to talk to me?
Do you have something to say?
I don't know.
Do you have something to say?
No, I'm not really happy to be here.
I'm looking at him and I'm laughing a bit.
This dress is funny.
Same with Fritz.
He's got the AI moves.
The AI moves?
Yeah, like the default skin, you know, when you default character.
Yeah, okay.
I see what you're doing there.
I see what you're doing there.
Do you like Austin as much as Slack seems to?
Honestly, I love it, yeah.
American food, fast food, especially.
It's really good.
Oh, so you're not seeing through a healthy diet?
Panda Express
Yeah, I love Panda. Panda is really good.
What's your go-to order at Panda Express?
It's the orange chicken. They had the hot orange chicken.
This was the absolute best, but it's out for some reason.
You like spicy food?
Yeah, I love it. And the fried rice and the vegetables.
The super greens or something.
Are you teaching the boys any German?
No, not really. Honestly, I also talk to fruits like English.
Even when we're two alone in the room,
we talk English just out of habit, I guess.
Varon.
I guess, yeah, you try to speak English all the time.
It's not my first language, so I just try to improve.
But also, just in general, keep everyone involved, you know?
We've had some past teams where we had one Polish guy.
Not that we tried to do it, but then it was fast.
No, it's more like natural, I really like it that way.
Do you find you ever get caught when you're in game leading and you don't have the
words?
Or do you think it's really quite easy?
No, at the beginning a bit, yes, but honestly, right now I feel super comfortable in English.
No, like not finding the words, but it's like fixed because we have some keywords, you know,
keywords to some like the idea in general up.
And yeah, this just helps.
Okay, awesome.
And, well, I was just talking to switch about your potential opponent.
He thinks it'd be VP.
Do you agree?
Yeah, I think VP is the strongest.
They have been in the slump, but I still think they're the strongest team out of them.
But yeah, so I think it's VP.
So because you don't know your opponent, but you know it could be one of three teams,
how does preparation begin?
Obviously, we look at maps of everything we could play.
We value some teams more than us, for example VP.
Look at the maps and just focus on our maps, because we're going to pick our map, we're
going to get the regardless, I'm pretty sure.
So yeah, just practice our maps, see what we want to do at first, and then, do they
play tomorrow?
Yeah, right?
Yeah, games start tomorrow.
Yeah, okay, okay.
Then we can maybe see after the game, the evening, focus on AOK, it's more like
you this and that, you know?
Yeah, focus on all steps.
All right, focus on yourselves.
I like it, I'm gonna talk to Rec as well.
We're talking to everybody.
We will see the whole team, shall we?
Now look, the Counter-Strike world and Rec, right?
How much do you think the people know about you?
Not too much.
I don't go on interviews too much.
I mean, whatever I put out there.
Well, let's learn a little bit right now.
I guess, I think he said there's two California boys.
Yeah, so I guess you're one of them?
Yeah, so Kyle.
So I was, I'm from Orange County area.
You know where that's at?
So Cal, it's like 50 minutes from L.A.
What's your early counter-track influences?
When did you get involved in CS?
I had to say for my cousin, I was really young.
He was playing 1.6, it's usually how people start.
And then I don't know, I think when age 12,
I bought Go on their computer for the first time.
It was like my first ever PC game
and I kind of got hooked from there
and then I just kept playing.
Okay, so what was like your first team?
My first team, oh wow.
The first like recognizable team I guess
was Gorilla Tactics.
I went to like a land with them.
Fragedolfio. I don't know which one. I think like 17 or 16. Yeah, that was my first like real team. I guess you can say damn
Okay. All right, all right. So that's what we're talking within the last six years or so is when things have been really picking up
Yeah, yeah for sure. Okay, and at what point we like I'm going all in on this counter strike
So we do and like work on the on the side or we just all in CS. Yeah, no, I was been playing since the kids
So I was just doing high school. So right out of high school. I was kind of on an MDL team
So I was kind of always going all in since high school. I guess you can say just because I picked up from there
And yeah, I haven't quit since awesome awesome awesome alright, and is anubis your favorite map?
That an ancient I say probably between those two yeah for now
I just watched you some of your performances on anubis and I have that overtime game that you were playing in saying match
You know you I guess everybody starts in that game
You've played more than if you look at it you guys play 70 something rounds in that game like 71
Yeah, that's what it is. So you just play multiple games of anubis in one lifetime crazy. Yeah, it was a long-ass game
Yeah, it makes other games feel short, so yeah, not fair enough fair enough. Alright, well anything you want to say to the people at home before we let M80 go
I'm not really just thank you guys for support and proud to be here. Awesome. Thanks, man. Thanks, man. I
Just want to say thank you to Mzinho for allowing me to talk to the team. I heard that
He's the boss here. Everyone is so excited
It's media day. Let's you seem like the
The the most excited guy don't worry. I'll bother your teammates as well
How are you feeling on this lovely Monday morning?
Not good.
Not good? Why? What's the problem? Can I help somehow?
Yeah, it's too early.
I feel you, man. I feel you, but, you know, it's the job. What can you do?
Mongols, back in the playoffs, it's been a little while. What was different for you guys this tournament?
Yeah, nothing different. Just like all the tournaments.
Yeah, it's a big clan your opponent you guys haven't played them at all
Does that make it a little bit more weird for you or we actually like playing teams you haven't played before
No, I think we have played before and I'm so exciting because
They are so many times
lost I mean they bailed so much time and now they are in play-up and and I'm I
have good conversation with Karimbo and Tapsa friends I mean we are friends and yeah all right
tell me if Mongols win ESL Pro League why is that going to happen yeah I think
I think if we play our style, yeah, and we have a good day, if we have a good day, then we can beat everyone, yeah.
Alright, thank you man, that was it. I'll leave you to it. We'll go to the other teams, other players man, this Monday morning thing.
Okay, Nazinho, are you ready for another skit?
What did he say?
Another skit, you know, like the Lord of the Rings thing?
No.
No?
You didn't enjoy that?
Yeah, I did, but not for a second.
It's enough for one tournament, right?
Tell me, do you feel any extra pressure
that you're on a team with someone as famous as Senzu?
No.
No?
As you know, he's like, in songs now,
There's thousands of people saying his name, can you tell us a little bit about what we
saw?
It was a concert that's Mongolian rapper Rocketbase and it was at this two some Mongolian rappers
and in it, Singe's name, in that song.
It's pretty popular, right?
I mean, it seemed like there was a lot of people there.
Yeah, that rapper is very popular and he's famous.
Do you think this is gonna make him a better player now?
you know there's more eyes on him hey i think he don't care okay let's ask the man himself senzu
do you care or not care do you care to confirm do you care or not care yeah i'm not care
you take care yeah cool don't know yeah not as cool as you know beating big in the playoffs
All right. Yeah
Thank you
Tell me I
Don't know what you can tell me I think
Thank you so much Mongols. That's was it for the lobby. We're gonna keep it moving. Thanks guys. Have a good one
Leisure's coming. I heard Graham just said
We're signing shirts
Do you know why we're signing shirts JT? No
Why are we signing?
Someone told me to sign it, so I'm signing.
You're doing a good job.
Yeah, I'm just doing my job.
Fair enough.
Look, JT, I got a question for you, ma'am.
You don't live at home.
You live on the other side of the world.
How bad did you miss South Africa?
I mean, I don't really think about it.
It's been like six years that I've been traveling
and stuff like that.
Yeah, of course I missed it,
but it's not really like something that feels bad
because I'm just kind of used to it.
you ever think and you end up back there one day
you're gonna be in a permanent American transplant now?
No, I mean, not, probably won't be able to live in South Africa
if I wanna keep playing esports
or play something in the esports industry.
So I think I started just permanently living in the US
or moving to Europe
as probably like the most likely situation for me.
Okay.
And let's look way down the road.
You know, not recent future
but we'll think about the future
and let's say like 10 years from now.
Have you thought, you know,
as if you're not playing anymore,
Have you thought about what you'd want to do after not playing anymore?
I don't know.
Maybe, I mean, hopefully I don't have to do anything, but I have maybe coaching
or something in the industry doing these four.
So I just don't think I have anything else to do really besides these four stuff.
So, and I just want to stay in gaming.
Fair enough.
Yeah.
I think a lot of us feel like that stay with Counter-Strike has treated us pretty well.
All right, mate.
Now throughout the group stage, you had to play the same teams quite consistently.
Was there one match that was more memorable than the others,
you know, one that stands out for you personally?
Yeah, I think they're made a game for us,
it was for standout, just for the wrong reasons, of course.
I think we played pretty bad
and we started off the tournament on the wrong foot.
So, you know, that one's pretty memorable for me.
I think in the games that we won,
we showed our real face and how good we can play,
but we need to make sure that we played that well
every match and their made a game
and the big game wasn't really a good showing from us.
Yeah.
Let me get over here with Halzer.
Let me get with the Norwegian.
Now you guys got pretty lucky.
You drew a really easy side of the bracket.
It should be a straight run for you guys
to the grand final, I imagine.
Yeah, I mean, this seems like the easiest bracket
of all time, I think.
Yeah, I think you look at phase.
That should be a quick 2-0 for you guys.
Liquid, a 2-0 as well.
G2, I think that one, if we look at the Vito,
it's probably 3-0, but what do you reckon?
I think a 2-0 for us, but maybe some over times.
But, yeah, you know.
Yeah, how does it feel to be the best
Orper on that side of the bracket?
Oh, you know, just like the usual, you know, yeah, I'm used to it by now.
Now, fair enough.
I was just asking JT right about living away from home and all that kind of
good stuff, you know, do you miss Norway a lot?
Do you go back often?
Yeah, I go back like once every few weeks, I guess.
I mean, it's not that bad, but it could be worse.
It could be like JT, but I mean, not into, I can't complain.
This is what I do.
I live by playing C.
So it's, it's nice.
Yeah.
Okay. Do you feel that you want to live in Norway at the end of the day?
I was asking him if he wants to live in America full time.
He said he wants to do video games, going to have to be Europe or America.
What about you?
I love Norway. Best country in the world, so I want to stay.
Even though everything's really, really, really expensive?
Yeah, I mean, that's fine.
I mean, I'd rather have a good quality of life than being expensive.
He doesn't want to move to Oslo?
Where do you live? Lili Hammer?
No, Buddha, but I mean, it's still expensive, it's still Norway, but I live in the best
city in the world.
Like Oslo is starting to become dog shit, so I don't want to move there.
Why is your city the best city?
It's nice, nice air when I come home, I smell the air, oh, it's the best.
Do you wrestle bears?
Sometimes.
Like, only a few times a month, when I'm there.
Are you a snowboarder or a skier?
A snowboard, for sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What tricks can you do?
I mean I can do like some double backflips and stuff, but I mean I can really do extreme sports when I'm playing you know
So I haven't done a few years. It's in the complexity contract. You have to put out the wrists, right exactly fair enough fair enough
All right, I want to ask floppy some questions mate. So thank you for your time floppy
now there's a bit of a
Feeling going around that you can only win when you're the underdog. How do you feel about that sentiment?
I mean, I'm from my name. We've been underdogs like pretty much my whole life
So I mean just used to it to be honest and this bracket works out pretty nicely for you then I'd imagine
Oh, no, I don't think so
We're underdogs. Oh
Okay, well you're going up against phase first then if you beat them you go into liquid then if you beat them you go into G2
Yeah, I mean, it's one of the brackets of all time. So, uh, I mean is what it is. I think like you could have been we're bigger
Yeah, I mean anything can happen CS2
Okay, are we still are we still?
How about watching? How do we, how do we feel about CS2 these days?
I mean, I think there's been some good quality of life improvements.
I mean, something like the smalls, like the radar being able to see sound,
like what subs you make. Cause I think it's cool, like a little stuff like that.
It's like cool and all I think graphically it looks cool. Um, smoke's
your cool, but I mean past that's like the FPS is really bad. Um,
shows what it used to be. And, uh, I think, uh, sub tick is kind of
not the best, at least right now. I think, uh, some things have to
change in that regard just feels doesn't feel as crisp as he
used to feel. So in whatever valve want to do is whatever valve
wants to do. So it's out of my control. I can't really do
anything about it.
They picked some of the bugs there, right? We've finally
fixed the head boosting bugs. So that's sorted, right? Right.
Took a year. But we did it.
We're on valve time.
Yeah, I mean, if it was if it was an issue involving ragdolls,
I feel like that's something that valve probably should have
thought about a long time ago.
It's three clicks. So I think that right?
three, three clicks. I think cause he made a video where he stacked all the ragdolls
really high and then they changed the setting after I could be this guy remaking it up.
I don't know. I know ragdolls used to be a server sided like back in the limit test,
but I think now they're clients. So maybe something changed in that regard and then
like people can boost. So yeah, I don't know. Maybe he should work involved.
Three clicks. Yeah. Maybe he shouldn't. I should work
involved. That's what I just want to see what people want to do after they finish
their counter strike. Chris, so we're not talking like in a couple of years, we're
talking, you know, and way down the track. What do you want to do? You want to go like
be in a forest somewhere with with Houser in Norway or you want to go to South
Africa and hunt lions with JT? What are you thinking? I'm probably gonna work a
target. Okay, like check out or more managerial? Well, I don't know. I have like
no discernible skills besides being able to click a mouse. So probably just be
like, I don't know, like stock shells or something. I feel that if you're on
your resume though, if we take some of the things, so like let's, we can look
at Graham when we do this. So he's going to be your reference on your resume, right?
You're going to hand it out to Target or wherever you want a job. And they call up and they get
Graham on the phone and they say, was this man on time?
On time. Yeah, 15 minutes early. That's on time to me.
Yeah, I like that. All right. And then in terms of remembering grenades and strategies
and stuff, you know, how would your memory be? Right? That's a big part of any job,
right? Having a good memory, making sure you remember to do all your tasks and
jobs, get tasks, it sounds kind of sus like among us like you see on the card.
I don't know.
I don't play those games, man.
Oh, well, I mean, my memory, I'm getting older, man.
So I'm feeling it.
I'm feeling some, uh, some old age going.
So I might forget some stuff.
Okay.
Well, look, I don't know.
I think we can get you a job at Target.
Is that the one that you really want?
Or we maybe go up in the world?
Maybe Walmart.
Are you a Costco guy?
I am a Costco guy.
I like Costco.
Buy everything on bulk like Americans typically do.
So it's nice.
Yeah, you up to that with the brain rot
Yeah, you don't want to scroll through my Instagram rules or tiktok
It's so it's actually just like not even funny anymore. How stupid it is. It's actually just stupid. I
Can't really relate. I try not to use social media. It's it's killing me man
You know when you get older taught to read it's hot to say it's hot to do all of those things now
Social media it's like my social media is probably a little bit different than yours in terms of like when we lose games
you just get like death threats and stuff. So that's pretty cool. You got to close all the DMs in
that regard. So yeah, it's cool. It used to be much worse in CSCO lounge days. I think Aleige can
probably attest to that. But it's great to see the community still keeping up with the death threats,
right? Like, that's great. Like, at least they're consistent over almost a decade. What's your
favorite death threat you've ever gotten? I don't think I should say it on camera, to be
honest. So I'm just going to leave it at that. All right. Thank you for your time. I bugged
Everybody well, I don't bug the leash now have a bug grim, but I always bug a leash
Should I should I bug him or should I bug Graham? I think you should bug around
all right
Now do you have any other shoes or only Crocs?
I actually have one pair of crocs one pair running shoes on my cycling shoes with me
How many times you've been cycling since you've been here Malta?
Five times on the streets. It's fucking scary. Why are you doing that? It's scary
Yeah, I'm
Why would you do on a bike on a road here?
What, you can just go to the gym or something mate?
I thought it'd be nice, because the weather's nice.
And it is nice, it's just a bit scary
because the cars don't really, I live in Denmark, right?
Denmark is like the most nicest place ever
in the world, it's like a utopia for cyclists.
Dave, you could be like this much.
Malta's the opposite, Malta's the exact opposite.
And that's just the cars, the roads are horrific.
Like just potholes and ugh.
Now look, we're gonna get in trouble
because I can see a plan management standing by,
which means that the team is ready to go.
So the team, you go that way.
Do you know why?
We're doing something with the green screen
and based on what I saw from what Apex posted,
we're doing some sort of costume.
Are you gonna get wear a costume?
I don't think so.
Just to the fun of it?
If they want me to?
I would love you to.
If they want me to, I'll do it, but otherwise.
I mean, I think I've got a certain example
because I posted the picture
and these guys are like, oh hell no way.
So I might have to set an example.
Let's go, let's see if they wear a costume.
Let's go.
All right, looks like a party in here.
nerds
yo
you look amazing bro are you like uh...
what are you
i'm uh... there is a
like someone in tecum that call something zero
you know something with zero i don't remember his name
that's more to combat than it's called sub zero
ah sub zero never mind mortal combat yeah
to be honest you look like uh...
pharaoh jedi
with that lightsaber
no no no i'm sub zero
i wanna be sub zero
sub zero is cool man as my favorite character
Well, him as a corporate, that's another thing.
How does it feel to win the breakup?
You win the breakup?
Yeah, you know, the ants, and you see the falcons,
you know, they're doing better than they are.
I mean, I'm there, my friends, everyone.
Of course, like you have like probably on everyone,
like you have like, it's not a good feeling,
but you're happy that you are making programs
than the other.
But for me, we are always texting each other after the rough games and even if we win,
like good job and this kind of stuff, we are still talking.
And I'm not happy that they lost, but I'm happy that I made it.
We saw some good stuff from you guys, not just this tournament, but some of the previous ones.
But it's been a little bit up and down, you know.
So what was the focus on to try to get some of that consistency that everyone's looking for?
Like you said yourself that consistency is the most important thing and I think we are
in a point that we should already be consistent and I hope that we will show it and I think
like all the things with the flights with the external stuff affecting us but I feel
like at the moment we are kind of consistent.
We found our place.
You guys accomplished the most important part which is actually have your full team
here for the playoffs as well. It's been a while you know you played the first
group so what was the focus on in the previous week? In the previous week for
us it was just to get to the playoffs first of all and show good CS. I felt like
we were showing good CS and unfortunately this guy used it and snapped up.
Ah yes! I think it was a we would win this game but I think it was after
if we won NIP and one SunGull, and I think we played really good CS.
Going up against VP, you know, people either love it or hate it, where are you on that?
I hate them so much. I cannot play this kind of CS, but I feel like Electronic
K brought good things with him and I really want to break the chaos against them because
every game that I played against them I just lost and it's just annoying. I really like before,
I waited for Vitality and Liquid to freeze the game just to see and I really wanted to play against VP
and I got it and I think our bracket is kind of...
Let's say it's just easier to get to the semis and I really hope that if we get this win against VP
against MABR it's also not an easy game but decent after it I made it.
So I feel like it's a good way to go to the semis.
Go on, face it, watch it, keep an eye out for nerds in that game against VP, you're motivated.
I'm motivated as fuck, yes.
Alright, great, we'll go, boner someone else from your team as well, they all left you, man.
They all left you, man.
Dexter, there he is.
You're the best teammate, right? You're the only one waiting for nerds while he's pretending to be a pharaoh or something.
I mean, I just like him so much, how can I leave him alone?
What do you like about him the most?
I mean, it's hard to explain, it's like a guy thinks, that's how I can name it.
Energy.
Energy.
As an aura, that's what the kids use these days, aura?
Yeah, yeah.
How excited are you just to be here, that you made it?
I mean, I'm super excited to play here, not just to be there, and I'm excited to see how we're gonna play.
How difficult was this last couple of months for you, right?
Were you weren't able to attend some of the tournaments?
Obviously you put a lot of work in the team individually.
You've been away from competitive CS for a while.
So I think, you know, we're obviously hungry to play the game again.
Yeah, I mean, I was hungry and I'm still hungry, even though like I'm playing right now.
The thing is, I mean, I already said about that, even though I had the
problems, I was still working to be honest.
I wouldn't be illusional.
The work that I did and I'm still doing
is a long-term process.
And I expect that process that I'm like,
all the things that I'm doing,
I expect them to work in long terms.
And I want to see myself to improve each day to each day,
each game to each game
and be the best version of myself or my team.
And basically that's what I was doing
when I was not able to play.
I took that as a challenge for me
and I'm still doing that and hope here in the playoffs it's going to show up even better.
All right, you guys are going up against VP. I think probably you and Jame are the two opposite
styles when it comes to op-ing, so a bit of a stylistic clash in that matchup.
Do you like going up against a team like that? Is it annoying? You know,
people are usually very set when they play VP.
I mean, previously I was also set until I realized how they play,
but it was in CSGO to be honest. In CS2 I think we didn't play against them
in official matches list. And the thing is about style of opening, it's never was the
main important thing for me. They're playing different difficult than it was in CSGO
and to be honest I am interested to see how we're gonna play against them now
and it's gonna be good experience anyway because like what they're changing with electronic
It's interesting and I think they had some problems, now they're getting better results
and it's going to be good to see how can we play against them and how can we play.
I don't want to say it in a bad way but win against them.
Okay, and tell me if Heroic wins ESL Pro League, what's going to be the main reason for that?
I mean, the main reason why we can win. I mean, we are doing a lot of job and our job
It was like incredible in last weeks.
That's the reason how we can win in my eyes.
Alright, thanks so much Dexter and good luck in the game.
That was heroic.
Alright, final team of the day.
Katsuragi, you want to talk to me?
You can sign now.
Hi.
Look, you played against Spirit less than a month ago.
You got to play against them in round 16.
How do you feel about that matchup?
Do you think it's going to be different this time?
Yeah, of course.
We are feeling very confident.
I'm confident and you're going to see the class at us.
Okay, easy as that. Easy as that. All right, all right, all right.
Well, look, yesterday you'll match up against Red Canids. It was completely different from the
first time around. You got it done in two maps, some big adjustments made on Anubis.
But there's a lot of teams in the top 16 who are from South America or not Europe.
It's surprising to see a few to see so many names like we got M80 complexity,
I guess liquid are a bit from everywhere, Imperial, right? There's a lot of names that
that aren't just European teams?
Yeah, it's nice to see the Brazilian teams
come so far in the tournaments.
I think when we got the opportunity,
that's all the Brazilians, we do everything for this.
I was talking to Tri before,
and he said one of the problems that he feels is,
back home, they play against the same teams all the time.
So when they come over here
and they play against different names,
he didn't say easier,
but the matchups aren't just like,
They know exactly what we do. They like the way they know how we approach everything.
There's a bit, I guess it's like playing new teams is kind of means you can do your play style.
But for you guys, you're in Europe all the time, so you probably don't have that same feeling.
Yeah, I think we feel that in NA when we used to play there.
But I think for them, this way, it's difficult to play with Brazilians because there's a lot
of mind games games going on but I think for now in Europe it's so that kiss so
I think this is similar to the football in european similar to brazil I think this
that's because a lot and who made less mistakes once again is there one brazilian team that you
like beating more than others actually allowed to be down then you just like to be the best
in Brazil. Yeah, not all in Brazil. So I want to face Liquid again to regain the
innate. Okay, fair enough. Thank you for your time. I'm gonna jump over. Where's
cello? Where did cello go? He went, I wanted to ask him about the shit talk,
but he's not here. So I don't know. Let's talk to Sculls. He's good at it
too. Yeah, but Sculls is the loudest member in your team for sure. Sculls,
We spoke yesterday, but yesterday the group draw, I mean the playoff draw wasn't done
And then that happens and you saw that and you looked at your half of the bracket. What are you thinking? I mean, I
Don't really care about like who we face. We just like if you want to be champion you need to like win against everybody
So that's a mentality. What are the other half of the bracket? It's pretty easy, right? Of course
I mean for brazilians is always harder
But like Vitality at the top it seems like they're the most likely team to go to the Grand Final
Do you think any teams can upset them on that half of the bracket?
I think Vitality are playing some solids here, so I would say no.
Okay, you think they're in the fine form, alright, alright, alright.
Now, you play in this team with cello, I wanted to ask him some questions,
but before I do, oh, you're bringing it, hello.
Hey, how are you?
Good, I wanted to ask, who's the best shit talker from Brazil?
In Brazil?
Ken, maybe, but Kenji.
Yeah, Kenji.
Okay, so like when you're playing against some of these teams at pro league
Who's been the team that you've enjoyed going back and forth with with the yelling matches?
Good zero, maybe maybe yeah good zero or a pecs. Yeah
Yeah, yeah, okay, and the thing is we can't understand what you're saying half the time
Do you have any like really funny lines or is it mainly just like yelling just as loud as you can
Just a little flyer. Yeah, I like it sometimes like because we can tell when the English stuff like yelling about saving
or like they're just eco kills and all that type of stuff like is there any
is there anything that you particularly when you're playing against like want to
talk shit about to the opponent like or is it they played around badly or if they're just
getting exit kills when the guy goes saving I say you want a KG you know you know yeah yeah
it starts playing around but I know the other guy hear me but it's all I talk shit so do you
Do you like this type of environment that we have here where you're so close to the opponent, it's like old school lands, right?
Yeah, I play CS 12, no, 19 years, so I take the 1.6, family 1.6, talk shit every day, so I'm a good guy.
What do you think about this new kid, Snow, he gets really loud, but he's got like a baby face, what do you think?
I don't know what to say. It's a kid.
He's going to learn.
Can't trash talk the kid or the kid shouldn't trash talk?
Okay, trash talk the kid.
Fair enough, bad for the image.
Now gentlemen, do you know what you're doing today?
You're going to be in front of a green screen putting on costumes.
I saw on Twitter that Vitality was in costumes,
so I am assuming that we are going to do the same.
Yeah, do you like you know getting dressed up? I mean, we can find something funny for sure
Yeah, we get to work with Stana. So you see what he has? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I can't wait. All right
Well, I think I'm holding you up from doing exactly that. So I guess thank you for your time. Thank you. I was a pleasure
And like every episode of the lobby we need an ending and
There's a man walking down the hall who can give us that ending Jason
And the lobbies come to a close for another day.
If you would like to give us your full breakdown
of the playoff bracket, everyone at home
would really appreciate that.
Yeah, in the first round, it's going to be teams like,
I don't know, some of the teams from Group A, B, and C
and D are all going to be there.
They're going to look good.
G2 is skipping a couple of things.
So is Vitality.
Very good group stage from those guys.
I'm just really excited.
I don't want to spoil anything.
OK, the best team's going to win?
Yeah, I think the really good teams are going to do better.
15 teams you're gonna lose. Yeah, 15 sounds about right. All right. Thank you. It's on. Yeah. Have a good day. Goodbye everybody
Gonna have Alexi teeing up some flashes to try and get his teammates out through middle with a tunnel fire stacking heavy over the wards B
This a split should have very little in its way
Just walk sick to get passed over on that side of the map
Don't be disrespecting box it like that. He's done it before he can do it again or
or maybe not. Not this time. He has been very classic with that P2K though. This tournament
in particular, some crazy, crazy holds, but not this round. The other eternal fire members
going to be having to do that shooting, good flash, but it's going to be able to deal
with two and things getting quite difficult. Maja, one of the double layer on the retake
and pushing in from a main. It will be walking into a bit of an odd crossfire.
Ima, lovely shot there from the cake and it's Kalex in a 1v3 but time against him
as well as some sharp individuals from Navi. Goes that kit and will just be
sending it back to the safety of T spawn. That's going to be one on the board
from Navi. Solid way to kick off the festivities. It feels like it's been a
couple of days since both teams have played. That too does us.
I think the reason why Navi is maybe in the best T side team in the role right now
is their default is so good. Like you see the information play come in, Ema is
giving that information to Alexi, right? Okay they're just cleared outside B
but he didn't get punished. You can see slowly the reactions, putting more
pressure towards A, right? They can't be strong anywhere at the same time.
Ooh, okay.
Good vector damage coming through there, Alexi.
Falls with some chunk damage onto Wakadia, who makes his way back.
And we'll dodge that HE, but in the 4v2, because the Eternal Fire very much has to play for the retake.
Good damage.
Calyx denying that aggression from J.L.
And WandaFly has way too many to get past.
Successful retake, and Eternal Fire will be able to take the first gun red.
The pace of the game, right?
Sprinkle it in so that keeps you on your toes and you can't just save nades against them because they're not playing slow all the time
And can't just play to counter the default. Let's say by double off right because then an execute comes in and that's oppers
worst nightmare
Trying get involved over on a usually pretty reliable piece for now be taking this control
But he gets snuffed out straight away trying to play through their smoke here
Moxix been entrusted with the AK
We win this round, it's GG, you know?
We win this round, it's GG.
We win this round, it's GG.
Oh, that's more like it from Alexei.
Last time we saw him on that mid, Legre fell short in a key fight.
This time it's a crazy opener from the Mach 10.
Make control, take him.
That bomb on Wonderful's back is heading over towards A main alone.
It gets another kill and a player rotating over from B,
But it's match-a-haul in the backstop that really could look to complicate matters here
It comes down to how fast wonderful goes nevermind Santar is has ruined the entire round for Navi a quick double-up
Through the smoke. Yeah, and then why Katie of Edder clothes run at the very end eternal fire turn the heat up here
And the meanwhile Navi starting to throw some progression utility to draw attention towards a man
40 seconds and I need to regroup that bomb needs to be picked up which will be a bit and it's gonna be that be
You can see how it's bled the defense says with that lack of mid control and the smokes being thrown by Navi
Look where Vox it is with the AWP. He's in CT spawn, right?
That's a lot of damage from him on the open is an SJL to capitalize on it
It's left down of the wire here for Nabi is that late rotate comes in the bomb on the back of bit
The gift today a golden opportunity there is the dark players line up and not be the easy
equalizer.
A lot of legwork done across the round to as you were kind of highlighted there, Yanke
really restrict eternal fires, defense and your office having to sit all the way in
the backlight and just hold an angle.
You don't love it.
Woxig didn't really get to choose whether or not he was involved in this round.
Yanko, what's your favorite karaoke song?
Total Eclipse of My Heart.
Okay, throw it in the set list.
We can cue that one for later.
Yeah, maybe like the Grand Final or something.
Yeah, I think that's it for the...
The finale.
Yeah.
Why are we giving an early fight here?
What you're seeing from the mid-players as well for Eternal Fire is they're holding onto utility for a long time.
They're realizing Navi's playing slow.
That was the adaptation you saw them make a little earlier and that mate baits them onto the swing, walks it, takes the first pick and let's see if a tonal fire can convert here with a man of damage.
And this double creep over towards dark is coming through with wonderful holding, all the way from the backline, Bits gonna walk up close so they have the chance to double swing this.
Wonderful against the spot, he doesn't want to get caught out there. He needs them to go a little bit wider so the bit actually has the chance to fight for this.
this. Eternal Fire even bring Wotsick over on that AWP. Opening kill of the round came
from it. Doesn't look destined to get any more here. There's a backstab out of Wacadia
all the way through the A push. So he's down there trying to get them away through.
Opens up on the first man. Now it's Alexi. Attempting to follow up here. Him a wonderful.
Kills in tandem and opened up a route to the plant.
Bringing it back. Eternal Fire yet to convert even though they started with
advantage and they realize exactly where both the CTs are coming from.
Wonderful. Such to the B main smoke.
We'll reposition before it fades. Just so he's not out on an island.
Now able to pivot off of each other's information. Wonderful trying to spot the
cross out of the dark and swings to keep up on fighting with his team mate but things
don't go right initially. 50 HP to play with.
Time. I backed up but Riccati is gonna have plenty of time to get that
defuse off four to four you guys have nobby's nuts yeah yeah that's not just
an Australian thing while in Europe in Europe we say novice nuts okay that
checks out yeah oh they try to fight wonderful he would have loved his
chance to strike with the AWP but take it out now Navi starts tip-toe over
towards his dark control JL's gonna look for the opener here Molly goes in that's
gonna stop anyone trying to trade meanwhile Alexi springs the trap over
in middle that's a very forward play from Alexi B runs across and now
Zantares is gonna watch a hundred different angles he's just one man see
if he's up for the job they've been boxed in here deals with Alexi sure
but just too many left to deal with past that point and so Navi are on
to a winner. That's beautiful patience from Lexi. This time Voxie was towards A that's
where they wanted to get some information at rest but then it's I mean so hard for major
towards B right to keep track of everything and even the split comes in and another pretty
straightforward round for Navi. I think that's true. G2 can hold the head's eye knowing the day.
The world's number one!
Oh, dear!
This could get out of hand!
This could get out of control!
They've walked right into the nest of pistols!
The bounce gets out with another and now suddenly bomb dropped over the wards main.
That one killer camera at least gives them the safety to go and retrieve this bomb.
Jail with the plant.
Immer holding on.
Double orbs for the retake here.
Scavaged that second one.
The body, a wonderful.
Calyx moves in first.
One HP.
even this flash if it hits him
then he walks right into the fire
so it's all good, he kind of wrapped himself up here
Zantares and Woxic
they're the two that have got to make the play back in
for eternal fire around where
they only come into it with those saved guns
and they get so close
to upsetting Narvi
but it is a locked in
if you were scared
you'd be hiding in that little corner over to the right
and you'd be saying guys they can push B
but that wouldn't be helpful
helpful that wouldn't be useful and that's not how this guy rolls. He's gonna go
retake that space now with a bit of support from a bit. Zantara's, ooh that
could be something. I like that. Heads up to expect that second man over on the
dark side, wonderful. Maybe he'll find Zantara's eventually. Down low also has
the helping hand from Lexi B to trade that one through. Wacadia on the flank
One's two and brings this one back in Eternal Fire's favor.
Woxic awkward moment for there.
Imma back and away realizing there's two CTs coming from that position
and now they need to find exactly where Calyx is as well.
Went to check for it.
And so that leaves it all on B.
He at least has the info about this orb that's coming in through main
but an awkward clutch nonetheless.
Gonna have to swing out.
play early, Delwyn Woksik in the back line, but couldn't quite finish the job.
And so eternal fire salvage a fifth round on the CT side of Anubis before all is said and done.
There we go.
Geese play.
Glyphsmo coming in should allow them to go for the plant.
Well, actually that's going all the way to CT.
It's actually, yeah, it was starting to like peak ahead of the Utah there,
but you also don't want to lose him.
You were very much set up to play a retake over here towards B.
So I like that he fell back a little bit wait for everyone else to rotate over you've got a smoke to flashes
You're gonna use that smoke for the bomb smoke off one of the angles smoke off dark
There's some options here for now be based on how these early fights go but the flashes don't blind calyx
And you really wish they did three kills from the man
And now the rest of eternal fire look to get involved as calyx chases down that last remaining player
It's just JL for Calyx left. Oh God, don't lose this! JL out of ammo!
An eternal fire! Grab the pistol round with Calyx offering up a big old hat-trick.
This is concerning. That extra money made allowed an M4 to be purchased up here.
And so this is not gone swimmingly for eternal fire. They're attempt to get out mid thwarted
And now they're down to
Not only less manpower but almost less firepower as well two Mac 10s and a galil left up in this one one smoke one flash
That's not that's a little bit unfair towards Calyx major and Woxic
Harry, but if you say so
I think their firepower is still good despite Vickadia and Xantara's being dead, but that's just me
Now in a 3v4, they're in the right place, but will they go at the right time?
Oh, Bits just moved back over that molly.
You know, at least...
Eh, that molly's not gonna do anything actually.
They're just gonna walk right around it.
Through the fires!
They're burn eternal.
3v2, JL moves in, but only had that USP to work with.
Didn't go for the AK dropped over in middle.
And now looks to join.
Bit went looking for the planner, but couldn't find him.
2v2 here, Bits calling for that support and Ima finally arrives.
Oh, chance on a Calyx as he's caught out in no-man's land.
Matcha's gonna do this alone.
Maktem by his side, but Ima's on the AK.
Gonna try play around this bomb.
Backs out into main.
Knows that Akira won't have been purchased up here.
And so Matcha is very much calling their bluff, taking a very deep angle.
He knows that Ima's gonna come hunting, gonna go looking for this kill.
And there's just not enough time left for him to win this.
Matcha plays the 1v2.
Two perfection as safe as he possibly can to tie this game up.
Outplayed.
Okay, double mollies at mid.
We're going to show you some really early aggression, eternal fire going fast.
JL, a cracker onto Akadia.
It's like the craziest opening you've kind of looked for, right?
Like he's already gone, he's already out of mid.
You never even had a chance to even realize what was happening there.
happening there and he's very very quickly ended up back over towards this
A site wonderfuls Deagle now gets the strike there's some team damage in there
this is a disaster they claps upon camera the highlight reels in and Calyx
now left up all alone to try leave his mark on the round but he can't do a thing
well the Deagle's the difference maker but a tonal fire have some themselves
and upgraded pistols but he you took and centaurs on the hero Galil let's
If it's gonna be enough, big, won't drop the bag, gonna be able to mop them up over towards a main, Molly's still in the wake, and Mercadia gonna be chipped down to half HP, but big.
Happy just to flash her herself and keep on looking for damage, nade.
You should be able to do a good chunk damage, Woxic down to 52, and Eternal Fire.
Uh, getting outplayed on A-Rot.
I can't believe he was able to get out of there.
Yeah, kinda crazy.
It's one of the worst feelings, like
when you have to go for a buy like this and you have to because of the loss bonus and
sure you have a call but you're like this is gonna be hard
and then the first two guys die like this is just gonna be harder
and now it's over
Yeah, yeah
You know it's like on Inferno when it happens and you don't have utility to fight for banana
You don't actually have any resources to do anything
Any any call you can make
You know a mr. Cameron not David James James Cameron. Yep, not jay not David James Cameron. I felt like I really
Take your medicine today
But often for a while
You run out. Oh
Oh, okay, right. There was a bit of a skirmish to open up this time bit of a skirmish
Internal fire come out looking slightly better off. Wonderful's hurting, but things might get worse based on this mid fight
Jail has the shadow advantage there as matches coming around the corner. Oh
So now just gonna be left with this a-pop wonderful up close with a loved one more before he goes down
Still even on here and a double setup between
The camera in the side player, JL knowing to play out to the cameras but Woxic gets rid of him.
So now that leaves it on Alexi versus Woxic. Backstab in and Woxic is none the wiser.
Alexi flashed.
He doesn't know that though. He doesn't know where it came from.
He was blind.
Yeah, he doesn't know where it came from.
Oh, buddy.
Oh my God. Why did that feel so in time? Why?
Why?
I thought I'd be till it's over.
I guess they don't want to concede the 12th round, but their bias was pretty poor from the get-go, and Abbey is not in decent territory, so...
Oh, but...
They knew this was gonna happen.
Yeah, if the stars align for you!
Acadia giving the double openness.
Yeah, alright.
To the stars.
If the winds are born for you,
they'll take him.
Kind of like...
Okay, brumple still skin type by it there.
Don't know what that is.
Sounds made up.
I mean, I guess it is.
It's not a parable, more of a fairy tale.
I like the three piggies.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, that's a fable.
Is that a fable?
Yeah.
Surely that's it.
It's like an educational story with animals.
Wouldn't that be like more of a stable?
Yeah, you can do it!
You can do it!
You can do it!
Slow day, Harry, isn't it?
We're warming up. It's early days.
No, it's not. It's the last game, but...
You know, you can always get a couple of zingers in there right down the close,
and that's what eternal fire are trying to do right now.
They finally break through the Nabi Rags.
One of the veteran players still looking really good.
But also then you look at like who's in the team. It's like come on come on some tires. Let's give you up there, too
Are we talking about matches so much?
Give me some of them Zantara's runs. Give me a couple of Woxic flicks. Hmm. Oh
Great channel utility
The time of the flash perfect there for a ton of fire
progression util
for that e-box control
they'd crack the smoke and just draw attention away from the A site which is
where we're gonna see eternal fire group up and hit Alexi in a solid position to
potentially peek in from bridge but the timing favours eternal fire no one
there no one seen and Alexi can go looking or drops in someone's close
enough to hear that but they're not turning around no one's reacting to it
oh Calyx tries to take up the angle they heard someone else throwing the
You tell so Alexi should be cognizant that there's a second man here, but it's up walk stick AWP
Holding the line walks it. This is all him this round. Let's go. That's what's been missing. Oh, yes
Walk stick come on get the ace. Let's go. No wonderful. Come back come back come back come back
All right, well, you know four out of five ain't bad I'll say that much
I you'll pretty that's pretty sick from walks. I could take that for sure Navi keeping the Opal live looking at the money
me everyone gonna have a full blind the next and then maybe even one after
depending on how the next round goes but eternal fire trying to close that round
gap as best they can get some momentum going for themselves after the force buy
after a round win with three alive they can do it I'm a believer just what the
doctor ordered for Woxic if only Harry had his prescription filled before
today we would all be so much better off sometimes I feel like in this matchup
he couldn't say the same thing because the turn of fire like some of them are so
sharp if you give them that kind of opportunity yeah when it's eternal fire
those guys are really good sometimes look I'm temporary fire yeah well that's
It's not the best start to this one.
They tried to go Tango a bit over the wards' A main
and this time he's very involved,
playing up close with the smoke drop in.
You see the problem also with not defaulting.
Like, look at the nades on the B players.
There's two smokes still.
Ema just used one.
There's one more on LXC.
Yeah.
Wonderful is there as well with the AWP.
And in San Diary too.
So, they'll be feeling good about this.
Oh, they're feeling good about that.
Zantara's peek is in, in a bold blind!
Major flash!
Micadia, and now with the plant, Alexi, just trying to spam, hoping that something connects here around the was looking good for Navi, now left hanging in the balance.
Thanks to the quick entry work, Micadia and Zantara's three on three in the post plant.
Devoxxic scoped in, holds the line, and it's all Zantara!
right now, walks to Kim with the close.
Wonderful, not biting off more than he can chew.
Happy just to hold that line.
Although we will keep on going forward.
That's the timing.
It is damn good for him.
Big shot on the Rokadia.
And with the man down, eternal fire.
I've won a couple of rounds,
but let's see if this is going to be another one in the bag.
This time, I'm just there to try and blend a helping hand
and play the trade game so that even if Wonderful falls short,
Ooh, they've got a way out.
Those molly tags will be heard and with only 20 seconds after it breaks down the illusion
of where this round was hoping to end up.
This time wonderful.
Here's the mark.
This time he hits it thrice over.
Alexi smokes spam at the close, but my last round it was from desperation.
This time it's trying to rob even more from a total fire.
There's Navi lock-in map point here on the opener with a flawless round and a
3k from wonderful.
Yeah, no dice from a turtle fire
They just held onto their cards a little bit too long beautiful timing on that incendiary to get the info then big shots from wonderful
To lock in the round last tactical gonna be used here from a turtle fire and need two more to take us to OT
Navi two chances to close map one here and kick off the series with a dub
We'll see if they go for more of a mid-round approach back towards the B site here
But again, you can see Navi turtled up with three with heavy presence on that dark control
Havoc has been playing this setup for a lot of rounds, I mean just the 3-2 really, okay,
they've been switching where the off goes, wow, Major fights great timing on TwinMath.
That's so awkward as well, Alexi just handed him a smoke to go and re-smoke the arc,
and in that move, that extra second of changing the UTL over leads to him as death.
This could get awkward now as this B defense comes down a 2.
Alexi tries to make a move, it's out of fire, really putting the pressure on and
and blow that smoke open, Alexi's dead.
Rotate's coming in over from that A site,
but they're gonna arrive late here.
And in the three on five,
I think you're already thinking about saving here
if you're a Navi.
You can't really justify giving this one a look in.
You wanna make sure everything's just peachy
in this upcoming round.
Bombs got a cross though,
and there's no smoke for it.
It does get thrown.
Great toss.
And that window opportunity for Navi to get back in,
gets closed,
and now it should just be saved on
the wild inner woe inner inner workings of broke eventually
i certainly hope not
what are you terrifying
oh naffy
no hints
get a funny feeling
about this a side of the map
and for a mid flash to set up santares on the swing jail plays close with
some support
Oh, Alexi.
From Alexi, tucked back in a leash, but that Molly forces the reposition.
However, now they discount JL.
He springs the traps, and Tarek is dead.
Bit tucked in, needs to withstand this hit.
Confined a thing as Padio runs him down.
Alexi, fully blind.
These flashes help I get him massively on this journey in,
but JL is that bastion of hope for Navi.
Three kills deep.
Him and our moves in a lend of helping hand.
Walks it tagged up.
JL, up in the heaven, smoke fades, he's given open sightlines here, but Kalex gets rid of him.
Now tries to creep up to shut down these players up in heaven, bomb drop, 20 seconds left.
Someone's got to make a move to grab that, you've got to go for the kills.
No one's moving a muscle right now, Wax is dead.
Kalex, they had to win it in the gunfight, and Kalex delivers.
Overtime locked in between Eternal Fire and Navi.
Let's go now, boss.
Hit this bucket up.
That's my captain.
I like that.
Keep the spirits up. Keep rolling.
Game isn't over.
Ooh.
They go wonderful, Galen.
At least he hit another shot to maybe have a chance
in the rounds that Antares starting to terrify Navi.
Ooh, lovely little shot here.
Dance around the glizzy, but won't be able to get any more.
There's Antares' pick.
He's just...
It's like washing a silver player with a wall hack.
It's like, no, you can't see it there.
Oh, the Torrens!
On for the ace!
Go on, get it!
We've had so many!
No!
JL!
JL stops him!
But the round should still be safe for eternal fire.
No counter-util used just yet, Alexi.
Here's the bang-out timing.
Faber's Xantares.
Woxix flashed that a little bit better than Alexi's.
No mid-controller.
Eternal fire and an advantage.
Looking to regroup and hit something 40 seconds.
No one's going back for the bomb just yet.
Looks like Calyx might do that.
After feigning some main pressure,
Flask cross the top, baits out an incendiary,
and B-Site in the crosshairs.
If you want success on the Anubis Oasis, you need the Wonderwall.
Line held, first shot connects.
Not enough to keep them out of the Saïr, but enough to slow their roll, certainly.
Oh my God, that's a lot of nades!
Himmer is so dead!
Barely even time to realize what was happening, it was already over.
And even though there's been this kill from the AWP,
Hasn't bought an RV back into the fold here, weighing up some awkward decisions.
Bit run down over a dark in Alexei.
And he calls sleeping at the wheel there, flash wrecks him.
He's now trapped in the site fighting here with wonderful dead.
It's all eyes on Alexei.
And Magia puts a stop to it.
Eternal fire.
Two in a row on the T side and overtime.
You can see how compared to the regulation now,
Eternal fire is using mid a lot.
This is where they make the adjustment.
Yeah.
Okay. Oh, grim it in. Once more, it's good to tango JL gets involved in a quick turn around from bit you walk into the triple stack here in the final round of your T side for eternal fire.
A bit of a sad way for it to go. Woxig left up in this clutch.
Well, you wanted him to ace before he's got another shot.
True. Objectively true, I guess, but not going to get it.
get it it's a flawless round to close there for Navi so this fact she bombside
oh that would have been better like this faction oh well a little push in the
meantime out towards be still now be teed up to win that one out they had the
trade game locked in they needed him to get that opener and he provided it so
that's gonna trigger the B play to come through for this Navi squad even though
I can't he is on their heels he's gonna be allowed on the approach till
he's not and suddenly things get a little bit more interesting
Maga wanted some resistance from the guy but they line up for this backstab.
Icadia complicates matters and walks against the flick. Miss shot from wonderful.
And now he's going to contest with a bomb plant and this 1v2 they swing him early.
Relentless on the backstab. Icadia finds the perfect timing and so eternal fire
from the back foot there. 2v4 they lock it in.
They got the first pick of OT as well. Wonderful hit that op shot.
I thought they'd win that round, but then, yeah, Eternal Fly doing it very much the hard way.
Couple of clutches needed, couple of great individual efforts.
Molly almost disrespected by Zentara's, but he will get away from that ult shot.
Alex, he's been good at finding these timings, or at least he was in regulation.
That's how Mid and even finds Kalex on that push in towards Temple's.
Now if you're on B, you're suddenly gonna look behind you.
They try to pressure down over towards Dark, but Bit was there,
ready and raring to go for the trade, so they keep this in their favor, do you, Navi?
And they even pick up Zantares over towards that B site. If they don't give anything over,
this round is nice and safe. And so Bit is trying with all his might to not be that first
domino to fall. Getting out with one should be enough, but it's like Kati, the man who robbed
that last round from Navi left up in the clutch, and with 10 grand in his pocket,
screw it. Why not try it? Let's go. Insult two injury on this.
Okay, do you're gonna try to get all this AWP?
But he wants the AK once the once the AK thought about it. He was really really considering it. We all saw it
He was thinking about it. We all kind of wanted him to
They're just giving it to him round after round. Yeah, at least now
Picade is playing close a main have three guys on B
major shoulder peeking
It's free!
Missed communication.
It's going to be awkward as hell, but Major going to be able to find two there.
Nice little trades, but unfortunately can't find a third.
Now, it's Woxic and 1v3 to try and close here.
Has to go for it.
Yeah, now he is going for it.
Let's go Woxic.
Come on.
Give us something worth screaming about.
This is it.
This is Woxic's round.
We've been waiting for the big flicks to get switched online.
They know where that orb is now, but it's all of it a deception from Woxic
because he plans three steps ahead.
Fyre's off from CT, wraps around to Temple.
He's hoping and that's drawn their attention onto a bit of a red herring because Woxic is making his play
Through that temple doorway right now looking for the first incision and get the spot for free
It's gonna be player in this site off at first now wonderful shifts off the line gives Woxic a little bit of room
That's them trying to play around this bomb
Woxic very very quickly has to suss out where both these players are and there just isn't time for him here
So that 1v3 was attempted, but does not come through and Na'Vi get us into another overtime
Job's not done yet
And I think we'll see that secondary up from Zintara's
Ema doesn't have a gun
Oh God!
Man, Sild is Fade, Jale played in behind him though so there's a leash to trade and serious
ground taken.
Alexi owns me and Darby own B.
And that's the round!
That seems to be the round!
Ima spent most of it running back to buy an AK which he didn't end up needing but
We'll carry across to the next round, plant the bomb still has...
Probably we'll get the MVP for the round according to Counterstrike because he planted the bomb.
I think unfortunately this is where Eternal Fire takes the time out.
Because you know, the round before this one and this one...
Pretty one-sided, the Tyrus has the AWP both times.
I'm just gonna tell him, listen, just go back to the rifle.
You've been owning them, you've been shooting here, well...
That's the part I didn't like, I don't get it.
If Santaris had like eight kills and is really struggling, it's like, yeah, fine, do whatever to get switched online.
But I didn't feel like he'd been...
See, they're putting some pressure dark, but most of the players are outside there.
Here comes the re-aggress from Eternal Fire.
On both sides.
Okay, smokes there.
Blocked sick.
Gonna get able to pick one off.
He saw another one.
Coming through and he's gonna fully regress. No decides to play on take, but wonderful.
Locks in that line, men and men are gonna be thrown away with ADF.
Unfortunately, will be falling as well and that's the ace I've taken.
Still with Ima on the lurk here. Might be able to cut him off at mid, but there is a slow flank from Maja
which could bring this back to a 3v3 and make it a little more achievable.
So it's Entara's picks.
Maja, able to go for the trade and they're gonna have a think about this one.
and AK retrieved, 3v2, no utility, 4 eternal fire, and if they can't get a few shortly then that's probably just going to be that magic coming out, gets domed by wonderful and 17-15, will be the current score.
But you're having to do more with less in this round and you've struggled in the others.
Santar is up close, hoping he goes unchecked, and he does! Gets away with a free double opener!
Couldn't do that with the AWP now, could he?
Yes indeed Harry. This would be huge for eternal fire. Their T-Side has been pretty good.
Oh the timing.
Rotate Star and a happen away from this B-side but these players in mid have heard that and so now they tell Bit to be the first man to make a move.
They tell him to start playing.
Oh one of them crosses all the way back through middle. Matcha hears this and he hears the bomb go in towards B so eternal fire starts to move back in.
But that's when Bit strikes with all that room he took.
Santares, 1-3-b on Alexi over in middle, without bomb crossing out through main.
Wonderful! Goes ahead and gets past the waxy core, 2-v-4, but BIC continues to take names.
Wonderful! Lands the next shot! 2-v-5, or 2-v-4 rather, 4-na-v.
Backing up, isn't across here, Calix gets this one, eternal fire.
2-v-1 and BIT here.
Playing around the glizzy, but can he gobble it?
Oh, not this time.
Oh, that was off it.
We've been waiting for that one to go.
Oh, he's making the answer down.
All right.
You kind of could have seen that one coming.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of course, famously.
I thought that was pretty straightforward.
1996 to 2011, those were the years for the answer.
Ooh.
It was an active player as well.
It's Alexi. Is he in the cutout?
That water? I know, he's there.
Double setup over here in mid, Santarez.
Plays ahead with a flashbang, Maggia tees him up,
and they even get past JL.
They lose Maggia in the backline, sure.
But Santarez, golden opportunity,
bitch, just kind of tries whatever.
Tries whatever there to make a play,
flashing himself through the smoke at main.
Well, he's getting split, so he just decides to go
for the full send.
Tried to make something happen.
and he was hoping there was just going to be one guy there potentially and
and he could make this play awkward for Eternal Fire but
didn't happen.
Timmer actually battles forward a decision he will live to regret
as it forces him into a fight with Zantares one that he just wasn't ready to take.
Alexi, suddenly the only hopper defending this V-Site has started so well for Navi, but Eternal Fire!
With all the answers, Zantares another multi-kill opening to get the ball rolling.
Two openings in the previous round, the important kill in dark in this round.
As a fact, he couldn't shoot back even, you know, even if you negate the fact he's up against Zantares.
The guy was the whole peek named after him and he's really quick.
Oh, and now this would almost be poetic, wouldn't it?
Because now Vith, in the T side all first half long, were running these like slower rounds
and then would finally come through with the uppercut B rush.
This time, Eternal Fire hoping to roll the game away
with a play like this, taking a page from Nabi's book.
They run out into the B site, and they're left unmatched.
Just one from Emma, but the advantage lies with Eternal Fire
to warp this one over the line.
Big does a lot of damage.
2v2.
Three takers to slow for a moment.
JL plays out through the smoking temple.
Maja, back at main but there's Falling Utile for Narvi, two smokes, two molotovs, flashes, they can get all that in now.
Make life really uncomfortable for Maja.
Second molly out, that's gonna force the Swain forces in wide and they didn't tell him where they planted!
It's not fair, he's spamming default!
But the plant was for dark!
Can we go again?
Yeah, that's what we got.
JL, playing that Zantara's position also gets away with a double kill.
Oh, and now Alexi even throws himself into it.
Two on three, Calyx and Merger.
I didn't know that first man from Dark, but now if he wanted him out of there, they wanted
to tear themselves up for the retake here.
What?
Wonderful, no scope, but he burns alive!
Merger him out!
Clutch is the one to lock that in and roll a coaster of him around as we're all strapped
into the eternal fire helter-skelter that finds 19 on this T-side.
Eternal fire still had plenty to use but
they're just going to be mid-control they're looking for.
They seem to realize by contacting back towards the water
that Navi have left the vicinity.
They've gone both ways. We're all missed opportunity. Wonderful going to be stuck here on the cutout though.
Oh, gets back to safety.
Roll over to the A side of the map as all this is going down, Alexi takes Makadia out of the equation.
Imagine now just looking to draw attention away by making a bit of noise.
Eternal Flyer still figuring out where they want to go and the only real option now is that.
Flash in, Bittito! Perfectly! JL with the assist!
Hell of a lob on that Flashbang! And it teased Bitt up for a nice easy close.
It's a likely eternal fight, I want to do something with this.
Knowing that they've pushed this mid-set up back to be a little bit more passive.
JL floating around the camera.
Alexi making his way over, they won't have Alexi here in time and with JL, that's a
lovely set of openers.
JL wants that further.
And he is exploded onto our screens here.
For the A's, JL one short.
But a hell of a run, nonetheless.
20 rounds locked in for Na'Vi as they take two in a row
to close out the CT half of this one.
Let's see if anything changes.
Na'Vi with the lead need two more to close here.
22, the magic number.
What an aggressive approach from Na'Vi.
Going straight through the canal already with the dark control.
Emma, right on up there, Moli.
Looks good to force him out, and JL gonna be able to find and continue this tirade as entire is!
Okay, gonna be cooking with gas, able to end with two and hold onto the V-Site.
Also as they're helping here from Calich, who's found one in the meanwhile,
Mollie forces him into the open, and Navi, it looked so good until it didn't.
Yeah, that's been the case of a lot of these Navi rounds.
Alexi now attempting something here, on the fade for him.
I like...
You gotta trust something!
I like that we saw it from Zatara as his POV.
Wonderful.
Not so wonderful.
Hang on. Hang on, I have some faith.
Let's just see if he can get anything here.
I hear him.
Well, that was a good time there.
Oh, he's dead.
That's fine. That's fine.
You can't win every round.
Sometimes it takes over four of you of them to figure out who the real winner is.
Well no he's only been there twice.
Ever.
He's like...
I'll take you there for it.
You do speak for me.
Exactly.
Exactly.
There you flash.
Okay man down.
Eternal Flyout have managed to scrounge their way back into rounds.
Many a time in these 4v5s which is kind of crazy.
And that's gonna be a nice answer back in.
Two nades or?
Spam and one nade.
But Kalex finds the equalizer, Zhentaris finds the information, can wait Kadya and Kalex holds a bomb site.
Timing from Zhentaris is sick, they just need to delay, just buy time for it.
Well it's a nice little bait setup as well, you can have Kadya facing and the Molly won't go to the right position although there's another one coming which could completely ruin the CT setup.
set up major not gonna be able to get there trying to molly burns Calyx he's
not even able to activate and things go so bloody wrong then Tara's two of these
teas are so smushed up so soft one bullet and they're gone
imma the funny number of health and wonderful can still have huge impact but
it looks like Zantara's is happy just to keep the AK into the next round and
That's what you're gonna see.
Kalex just waiting for the HE there.
Might be able to crack open the smoke and capture timing, but by the time he throws it, they're already through this molotov, and Wikadia has fallen in the meantime.
They're able to take one away with the molly, but Woxic unable to find any damage.
Things get awkward again, eternal fire. They're gonna be rotated in from C to C.
Kalex has been hurt, hence the molly, to that position from Peach, and wonderful picking off the flank.
Now it's all from the front that they have to worry about.
Tara is dead over in middle and it's just left to Calyx. He opened up this entire affair by getting that 1v2 that forced him into overtime, but expecting a 1v4 half the time ticked off this bomb already.
This might be the end for Eternal Fire on their map kick.
Caliq's low on health as Na'Vi look to have weathered the storm on this to lock in Anubis
and set themselves up one map away from a quarter-final appearance for Na'Vi.
I can have to see if they can win out their pick at Mirage.
I don't know. I've commented on it pretty much every eternal fire game this year, I would say.
And I've commented on a few on Mirage. Santaris, he's quite hit or miss when he's on it.
It's unreal. It's like kind of a config style on the CT side running up middle going for those frags if he's hitting the shots
So it's scary. Yeah, config style. Yeah, you don't like that. So he's terrible. No, something's gonna
That was kind of its thing, you know that like the same year when rezz was good
Sure, it was the first example. I found when I reached into the darkness
But here we go. We're off to the races the bombs being planted
And we got a five on four
Mark you good. Yeah, I'm good. Let's go. I'm chilling. Let's just stay away from the mushrooms
We'll see how the fun goes. We'll see if there's fungus in the
Mitzvah Navee because things are looking pretty good. So no fungus here and it's only fly out 3v5 is
Okay, something's happening, but the time is ticking away
Marge up a little bit too far away run into the wrong bomb site in fact and it walks it will escape the vicinity
That's gonna be the first round of the bag for Navee
The last of us TV show was so well put together
Like I haven't seen it
No? No I didn't play the games either so that's why I didn't run to it
Like you played the games? Yeah I played the game first
Okay this is considered one of the best games of all time as well right?
I mean it's really cool, I heard it's good
The Prince of the Palace maybe? This is where Alex is
trademark fakes?
Yes
Uh, we fished each other's sentences, no?
Sort of came to be.
Well, I'm interested to see if they can get this one over the line.
Queenie's Antares, here he comes.
You don't want to see him when he's angry.
Magi will have the USP at the back,
have the B sites, and might not be long for this world,
I'm afraid, USP only.
No Kevlar, no grenades, got a Zeus, though.
I, oh my god, I could actually work.
They're going to assume this position's clear.
No one's going to check it.
There is a world here, she wins this.
Oh my god what are you doing?
Get this guy! Get this Zuzah!
Get this Zuzah!
Oh my god this is incredible
Oh terrible wrong
Could have had a lot of that obviously a challenge in your position with the USP
You'd hope for two though with all that space
Zuzah's jumping accuracy now right?
That's all I got for you Mack
I enjoy the extra movement speed that it go given
There's a couple of changes to that
At least in CS2 as well it does give you an insta kill whenever it connects
It's not like oh 95 damage for no reason
reason yeah I wish I could be a more like you Matt mm-hmm enjoy the simple
things in life he loves the game every aspect of it he's deep in there don't
you wish you were still there Henry I used to be a little bit more jaded these
days as the M4s tumble down it's not going well here for eternal fire casted
one too many terrible fire games I think I've done every series of those
on Lana Lee's this year like it's been unreal. We could tag team now. Well exaggeration of course.
A little bit exaggerated. I think I've literally done. It's too fab you guys out
like the gravitas of this situation. There's so much on the line we've got a
seeding situation after this right. So one goes into quarterfinals one goes to the
second round of the playoffs. I was thinking about that though what's the
difference in the prize money from quarters to the third. Seven and a half thousand dollars.
Yeah I think that's true.
Matthew might want to double check this number, but if you really want to know about it, trust
but verify.
Currently schooling a total fire on the T side, 5-0.
Yes, you heard correctly.
Zero rounds for a total fire, they have got a nice buy this time, walks in combat.
Dangerous AWP needs to be activated though, currently set on one kill and three deaths.
MacCardia challenging towards short
Really much damage to reports
Takes a lot of himself with the HE
And we are
Slowly but surely resetting the round
Mid-control granted in RV
Oh, that's not the peak you wanted to see
Are you two's?
Both looking at the...
No, I'm only at the game
But you did it
I'm looking at the sides as well
I had a lot of my game in the console
Bit the king of palace
There we go
Step side again
Prince of palace, a litteration we need it
Takes more territory for himself
They've got connector as well, bomb is going back, T spawn, Voxic misses, another shot.
And it's save time. Sorry, Jamie's on.
Save time.
It's also so clear, the confidence of Navi on this map, you can see it in the calling as well.
The first gun round, it's basically just throw the mid smokes, two guys going underground
and then walking out Palace and ramp at the same time.
Okay, Yanko, delivery of crayons and paper has been brought in.
Alright.
Let me see what you got.
Jason came from downstairs to bring that as well.
He wanted to be part of it.
And he's actually delivered a pretty good gag though.
And we've got some creativity.
Oh, hold on. I'm speaking of which.
Here's Marge looking to ninja this.
Boys, he is known to be a little bit cheeky, but it will be an XCB.
His rival.
Not gonna be falling for those old trips. No, no, no, I agree. No, no, no, none of that please, uh...
Which is... fair enough, I suppose.
It's not. You should care about every game you play.
I've, okay, maybe I misquote you.
It's another game.
No sentiment I gather from this guy.
It's another game. No, I believe you that that's what he said.
And every game is another chance for you to prove that you're the best team in the world.
To exert more dominance over your opponent.
Well, that's exactly what they're doing.
To humiliate people on the server, Henry.
for the thousands in the stadium and the millions watching at home welcome to the
ESL pro league and walk sick with the mp9 mowing them down the scooby that
first in the border it's getting sloppy it's getting scary through this kind of
full retreats and somehow comes out on top
so on to advantage navi of course there's only a dig on the mp9
in the hands of eternal fire here bob yet to be planted
wakadia makes his presence no trying to take aggro from magi it's a big
flank at the timing oh that is crazy unfortunate
Mokadia did what he could to avert their gaze
But for now it's the Desert Eagle. He's done to be pretty good with it
That's a lovely first shot. Can he find a second? Close but no cigar this time. I'm afraid we go seven to zero
Looks so good until it didn't great Tommy from wonderful to
Reclear a man
The Mirage is something else
Then as you mentioned the confidence was tipping over the brim
And that's not gonna change here
Lexi, if Mirage is such a simple map, how come Navi's owning whoever they play?
These are the questions.
How come they're so much better than everyone else on it?
It's important to remember that anything cannon will happen, Janko.
It's going great so far. Can't deny that.
But it's not over yet.
It's certainly not over yet. There's always room for a few more twists and turns, as they might fumble the 5 on 4 situation.
It's going to be Kalex though keeping it to an even kill. We've got a three on three ladies and gentlemen wonderful
It's poised but not for longs and Taras will remove him from the equation
Oh, Alexi B gets a taste of lead as well, and it looks that we have got around all the nice spots
Hold on hold the phone hold that statement the window whisper does it again? That's a good one
That's real nice
Had you gonna be able to work up a flank on a flank on a flank Kalex
Could reverse clear he seems to be aware that market is dirty
Yeah, this is not awkward for him. Yeah things they must have put yeah some
Damn, yeah, got a little lost in the source that is the rounds
Was nothing he can do although they have given up possession the bomb that's fine considering the time is so low
It's like he finished up towards be here
Calyx will be first point of contact as you want to swing in and trying to hide the plants
Oh, this has worked.
Oh!
Could have waited for that.
The money's no problem.
You don't need to deny that plan.
But it's all good.
Manzan Towers will be winning the round.
They're first.
I'm spotted.
Give me a smoke.
We will win this round.
Actually, perfect call.
Okay, window smoke misses.
Is it intentional?
Who knows?
Manager, you'll be able to find one.
And the info that bomb has been seen falling in apps.
in apps. Now it's up to Wakadia and how much he can do here, repositioning over towards
van. Makes things really awkward, big damage on the bit, but there's going to be no trade
just yet. Zantara's out of the window. Here he comes. Start the fire up. Wonderful, lovely
shot of the AWP, however. Fifteen seconds. No attempt on the bomb just yet, but looking
to change things up. Nice molotov to allow them to focus on the window only. Both
CTs needing to get out. It starts with Woxic on the AWP and Kalex to potentially
closed things out here.
Ooh!
Lost Woxick and now this retent becomes all that much more difficult.
I said we were under full closing things out.
A clinical manner, boys.
He's feeling it.
That is a bit of a restart.
Janko didn't want to see.
He needs to recharge his batteries.
The social battery, yeah.
Hmm.
He's had a good day, but...
Not really.
I keep him on.
Ha ha ha.
Can't keep on the mic the entire day.
Kind of is the pro league go to this point.
Admittedly.
has that goat syndrome. He does. It's had a few years.
Zantarus has that goat syndrome for a while as well.
Now's his timing. Alexi going wide. Wonderful waiting.
He's not smoke as well. Won't be able to trade.
He'll have the vision noon. Plays a dangerous game which he'll lose.
Although, I don't think Wikipedia's spotted JL going out towards the B site.
He is now known with Woxic falling.
Wikipedia opts for the AWP instead going for Bogdan's Law.
and Zantara is going to go up towards apps
spacing from eternal fire is terrible there's gonna be no trade game
at all but depending on where this bomb goes
and what happens here in market. Calex has this. Okay
eternal fire could be cooking but it's
bit known for his clutching
now in the 1v2
Oh
Good try good awareness
Good decision to get off the bomb didn't quite nail the shots Calyx has a good rounds
Gotta fall back. Oh
Here we go JL up to the window up to the plates. No Mirage classic here standoff
Waiting for the smoke to dissipate. He will come out on top of the fade
Mike who've you got? Who's winning this one? JL has his gun out
Okay, no one wins that one.
The people win.
Ooh, him up.
Able to crack open that A site, great trade from Lexi.
You don't have Acadia making his way all the way to CC.
Awkward approach from Maja.
On butt first, like the wombats.
Except not super effective approach here.
In Counterstrike 2, 1v3 though,
Wukati out needs to cross a dangerous line or on it.
Ooh!
Last couple of bits of damage from Alexi as well through triple.
And it's just a matter of moments.
Big shot from Wunderful and 10 to 2 is going to be a pure dominance from Navi as ahead.
Into party trap, I'm in half-time.
Presumably, just to get this all we're with.
Well, that's a nice A execution to open things up.
We don't have a lot of A control here.
CTs all scramble back here and the utility being deployed down a bit.
First point of contact here, his team has been segregated from the bombsite here.
From the back, he's going to have to step up and he gets nothing, walks it, destroys him with the Glock.
Him, I'm trying to get some damage here to smoke, but that's an open bomb plant.
This is looking good, but Alexi B doesn't convert upon the advance,
and now they're getting flashed off into a spawn.
When's that bomb getting plowed? So there it is.
Tunnel fire should have this one in the back.
Okay, managing to get that pick on the Con makes things a little easier for them.
Look at ya
Waking the hell up the Navi man down, but there's gonna be a smoke on wonderful
So let's see if he's going to be able to get it down in time
He will it's out for a 10-second diffuse is on the horizon. It's over the top lexie be gonna be able to find the close man
And oh, I love you up 32 points of health is now gonna use that smoke against a lexie who's struggling to tap it
Going over the top looking for
There ain't 10 seconds left.
No time, good try.
And a turn of fire habit in the back.
Good try, good try.
What was that?
GameCat and Mousebubbers in left.
Good try.
Didn't quite work out in the end.
A turn of fire, getting to their feet.
That's an important pistol to win for obvious reasons.
Don't need the force by this one, Janko.
Yeah, because the second round as well, you don't have everything you want.
I mean, after you equal here, the third, you don't have everything you want.
everything you want so do you really want that to be your first gun round so I
would be fine with buying like a pistol and an aid and then seeing if you can
make something happen just make sure that in the first gun round you have an
open wonderful you have everything you need oh it's still in the window yeah it's
gonna say give it a chance of the eagle lying away towards B there's one from
Emma throw the smoke straight to the dome of Woxic but that's probably all
she wrote so this stage just a question of whether they can get some weapons
on the exits. We were talking about this yesterday Henry I think it's like underestimated a little
bit you know how little time there is in MR12 or you know how few rounds there are like key
rounds and everything. Yeah because it's also dominant from now being the first half right
but let's say you know EF they win this round obviously 10-4 in the first gun round 10-5
anti-equal 10-6 then they lose 11-6 but if they get the reset then again that's
All of a sudden it's like 11-9 and that's why we see it over time fairly often.
That's why I think my team's like VP for example as well, that they dropped off that play style of
saving and trying to build up into the half. It doesn't seem to work as effectively or nearly
as effectively in ML12 and I think that's a main reason why that they're struggling
after re-event themselves right now. Not me, Henry. Keep them watching.
Keep it about 50. Absolutely.
Alright, here we go. Fasten towards A. Zantara is looking to crack open some heads here.
Got a bit of space. His teammates closing the gap on the bomb side.
Here comes the fight as well. Man, he makes a bit of a meal of it.
Doesn't get what he was looking for. And that's just gonna be Calix.
This one falls apart quite quickly.
First gun round. Easily goes in favour of Navi.
That was a rough one to catch.
As our financial expert, MacMate pointed out,
He's not looking good with the monies and trust him, he knows the maths.
He's down there, he's crunched the numbers, researched the data, and we're going back in towards this A site.
I brought my abacus.
A little bit of space granted towards Tetris, but there it is, a couple of kills, make it three for eternal fire!
Okay.
Navi, crumble, they can't hold on.
There's still a fighting chance for XCV.
Oh, and all three alone, yeah, they're nade.
quite as a sandwich that's another go it up that's all I get Alexi B stands for
Alexi ball up and that one was from downtown Santarra's and Wikipedia haven't
locked this one in just yet and Alexi's got another he by the way that's him the
grenade best prayer doesn't blow that one and it will blow heads not like
There's been a hit over the Nades.
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
That's insane.
I know we've had a great time today.
Then we didn't have fun for a while because you banned it.
Oh yeah, everyone missed it. Everyone realized that this is the core of the show.
Fun has to be had at Pro League.
But unfortunately that fun is closing down here.
the bomb over towards the the apartments a bit of a fake here towards a calyx we'll
try and limp in with the galil can he find anything can he open things up
yes he can I think he's born double kill from calyx and they might be down but
they're not outs they'll still continue with the pressure towards the B
bombs I hear Lexi be the last line of defense it's nothing done with cardiac
guarantees around at this point JL fighting back from shore but he's
surrounded as well good effort on a swivel we'll find major still no
No chance, no way, that's wonderful.
As locked out of the round, we keep going.
At C.O.B.R.I.'s points here.
Now if you hold on to the rifle, or the AWPer should say that the money is pretty weak.
Where does the... it's not over until the fat lady sings come from?
Say again, I missed it.
What was the question?
It's not over until the fat lady sings.
Where does that come from?
The AWPer, I think.
Nice, Henry.
Yeah.
That's what I thought.
Encyclopedia of knowledge.
You know me.
I'm all about the etymology of idioms and catchphrases.
What about close but no cigar?
Do you know that one?
Oh, I was here when you said it.
Oh, no, Yankee wasn't, so I thought I'd impress him with this knowledge.
I think we went through this last season as well.
What's the problem?
So you do fair grounds or carnivals.
You win a game, you can win a stuffed animal these days.
Back in the day, you used to win a cigar.
So when you miss the shot with a dart you go, ah, I'm lucky close but no cigar this time.
Text and document also known as like newspapers I think.
Also known as newspapers.
Yeah, you boomers enough.
Yes indeed.
That we would.
And another chance to close things out.
They're going for the four-spy.
They don't want to mess around in their pistols here.
They saved the wonderful AWP and they're going to go for broke.
Like CB, that's not bad.
Looking for the double kill now on the Desert Eagle. J help he contributes nicely in the in-game lead I think he's done enough here
Kalex, what have you got for us if anything looking for the triple wonderful beatings in a punch ladies and gentlemen
Navi are going to the quarterfinals
Hell yeah, and gonna get seven and a half or eight and a half
Thousand of dollars then of course eternal fire the total fire of course still are gonna be in the playoffs
Snavi have won this game to play and have one more day off as far as I'm aware
People think our English is bad, but that's not the rule. I touch some grass sometimes. How many minutes to have?
That's a boy there, Hoony!
Here's our Pro League season 20 about to get underway tomorrow
Last few final finishing touches going on here
You can see they're just covering up some wires the players are around for media
but the setup is the same as you might remember from last time round. We have everyone's favorite
ASMR background noise of the ping pong table. We've got the five PC setup over here.
We have some nice new neon branding this time round, which is pretty cool.
But the players can check out over there sit down have said to watch the games while they're waiting to play.
The main couch area as per usual, which is where all the shenanigans will be based.
and the team is the
team is the first to be
the first to be placed
the first to be placed
cast a desk over there in the
cast a desk over there in the
far corner. We've got tournament
far corner. We've got tournament
management walking by there
doing all the good stuff.
Mix zone, which is where some
of the producers out right
now we'll have our buzzes.
And of course, the tournament
area, which we've been able
to get hooked up from last
season going into this season
again facing each other the
nice little frosted glass.
All the good stuff another
season. The ESL pro league
come in your way direct from
pop part happening. It's all kind of kicking off right now. And I can see
they're in good mood because they don't know that I'm about to talk to them.
Carragans just looked at me, Rops has done the same, their smiles on the faces.
Let's try and work our way into this. Just nice and quietly, nothing crazy. Don't
make any quick movements and just now put a microphone in front of their
face hello how about you guys now rops is running away all right let's go yeah
I'm coming what do you think I'm doing right now working to all right we're
going Finn do we let me carry you back for you this piece I've got it where
we're going oh you're paying to talk now paying yeah you're working for me well
I have to do this and they want me to talk to you so I'm here to talk to you
All right. Talk. Now we're going this way.
We do this very frequently, almost every event.
And you're always talking to people
and there's always interview questions
and all this nonsense.
Hold on, let's get up on stage.
Ugh!
Up the stairs, okay, understandable.
In the middle, of course,
let me just map my way back through here
and I'll place your bag on the table like this.
Okay.
Now, what is a question
that you would like to be asked that you but you never get asked
how is rain as a teammate
how is rain as a teammate
how many minutes we have
as long as you would like
where do i start
uh... first of all
he's nice
i would like to do this another place where rain is not presence because i feel
pressure
feel threatened
pressure is the word
i always find you
well together forever
I hope not.
Why?
He threw me out once.
Oh, is that still unresolved?
Yes, we still go to therapy about it.
I loaned you out, man.
I loaned you out.
You came back a better person.
Wow.
And he became a worse person, though.
Wow, OK.
A lot's happened.
A lot feels like there's a bit of animosity there as well.
OK.
Well, fair enough.
When did you get in yesterday, Ashu?
Yeah, yesterday, midday, I think.
So yeah, chill, always no straight fly from Copenhagen,
but that's just part of the game.
Classic for Malta.
You're going to go for a swim, can you get any of that stuff?
Not for now, first over here to play, right?
And then some days off, if you're doing good,
you have days off, you can enjoy the weather practice
and just a little bit more, but no force on the tournament.
We don't have the good results lately,
so we need to focus a little bit more.
But probably it's the fun event.
Swimming, I don't know what he's talking about.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Oh, OK.
Fair enough. Look, anything that happened recently in the news that caught your eye? Obviously Robbs is very happy that Snapchat has banned. What are the jump throws?
First day of practice. Muscle memory didn't kick in. I mean it was a very strange first day of practice because you had to get used to it.
So, a lot of good edgefail in the practice from every single team, but now it's back to normal, I think I was used to it for so many years, used to bottom, so it requires slightly more skill, but that's fine.
Okay, so it doesn't really bother you?
No, I think it's unnecessary, but if that's, we know well, either they draw a line, or they don't draw anything at all, but when they draw a line, everything just under that line is getting get crashed, like we know in the past.
Fair enough.
you about your group, but I'm sure you're just going to say yeah, we need to play our game and we can beat anybody and, you know, I don't think I have any exciting questions for you about the field at this event.
I think Sengar is pretty exciting. Well, 12 in a row or something, aren't they?
Yeah, they play pretty good in the tie. Two teams are playing, so they're coming with momentum right, and we just need to be sharp.
It's similar to that. Like you say, the boring answer, play our game, we need to figure out ourselves right now then focus on other teams.
So that's the most important thing for us this tournament focus on ourselves
Try to build up momentum try to get used to some of the new stuff and how we want to play and and then
You know like cologne what we wanted to peak in cologne
We didn't but maybe this term does this pressure on on peeking but more like playing good CS and that sometimes is more fun to play
But that's a good point right because the runway now I guess the next big focus point is going to be the RMRs
So all the tournaments in the lead up from this point onwards to the RMRs
How do you treat these events because you still want to play good Counter-Strike and as a competitor
I assume you always want to win, but
The same level of intensity would be hard to replicate
Yeah, I think you always choose some events during the season where you want to peak
You know you do everything you can your training specifically you're improving your map pool
But for these tournaments we need to gain some momentum right and that is winning and that is winning games
So so to say right right now. We haven't really had like a free winning streak now
you're coming from showdowns which actually was nice to play online because it kind of made us in
some scenario we can play different maps and not always trying to pick what's comfortable for us
but also getting some momentum other maps because I believe sometimes in practice when you go to
LAN you still want to play your comfort zone even though some of your worst maps got better
in practice so you but you're always scared to to go that direction right so playing some
different maps online actually think helped our team improving and also people punished
against us, but they're not the best teams in the world, so we kind of get into mental
mother maps.
Okay, nice. And have you been taking much of a look at how next year's shaping up regarding
the circuit?
Yeah, it's going to be interesting. It's going to be a fight for the teams, I believe. Some
orcs are paying the organization, some orcs are paying our price money, right? So let's
figure out how it is in 225, but I remember 215, orcs wanted to go to one team, but
the players wanted to go to another tournament. And I think we might be in kind of the
same scenario now where we have to agree with the contracts with the terms we are going to
but also it's hard to plan peaks I believe next year because the world ranking as I see right now
is changing really fast compared to what we're used to so it's very interesting dynamic especially
the first six months next year is going to be crazy because I think everyone wants to make
sure they are top seven top eight so they are through to the next stage when they qualify for
Yeah. Okay. Cool. Well, thanks for your time. I'll let you set up. Thank you. You got some fun and games coming your way.
Let's get down to the end here.
Rops, do you have a short and concise message to all the SnapTap abusers out there in the world?
No. I'm fine how it is.
Happy though?
I mean, I don't really feel, have any feelings about it. It's just like, I come from that background where it's not allowed.
not allowed. This is the way it should be, right? I mean it should be because what's
next, out of money? Yeah, I was thinking we could get a mouse that controls the
recall for you. It could. I mean there's many things you could do, right? All of
them have the same idea. Maybe some of them are more obvious and they lower
the skill ceiling even more. But I mean there's many things you can do like, as
you say, to recall. You can just put out of money up in the space bar without
pressing it, like, whatever you want to do, right?
How deep the rubber hole goes.
Did you see Pog, you found the solution or the causality
of the boost bug?
Yeah, I saw that, yeah.
How long do you think it's gonna take about to fix it?
I don't know, I think they've missed something there
for sure.
What I saw, it's their own doing.
I think it's with the right dollars
and they created something new with them
and ever since then, boost boosting
has been a bit messy, yeah.
So, I don't know.
Yeah, you gotta be careful talking to me.
You say one thing and it ends up on the front page of Reddit.
Yeah, I mean, the guy who found out is also back then
because of moving his mouse too fast.
So I don't know if Val wants to look at his fix.
Well, that's the thing.
If they acknowledge the fix,
then they need to acknowledge his ban, right?
That's right.
I mean, it's kind of ridiculous
that back has been banning people with high sensitivity.
So Val, should fix this for sure.
Alright, now I was asking Finn and I'll ask you the same thing.
Because you guys do a lot of interviews.
Are there any questions that you never get asked?
Like why do these people not ask about this?
That's a good question.
Right now I can't really come with one, double my head,
but there's definitely many like inside the game,
outside the game I would say.
But I can't give you one right now.
No, that's fine.
Because I really want to get in Broke's head right, when he's not in a bad way, in a good way.
And when he's playing with you guys, he communicates a lot, right?
You hear it in the videos that Finn foots out, and you hear him getting hyped, and he likes to talk sheer,
and obviously the double birds that came up back in Cologne, but out of that comeback.
What's the best way, if we do a couch interview with Broke, to get him to be Broke?
Well, you need to ask those questions, which don't get asked, I guess.
those Narwhar interviews, I don't know if you see them. You get some deep insight, do some research
and then you're gonna unlock some part of them. That's how you do it. Okay, nice. That's a good
lead. Thank you. No problem. All right, all right. I like that. Frozen, do you agree? Is that the
way to get the most out of Broke? You go deep into the history so you can get some nerdy
questions? I see. Ask questions that he needs to think about and he cannot answer yes or no.
Okay. All right. What if we put him in front of a computer or in CS? You know,
And I would be more talkative then maybe yeah, because you know seriously something I love to do
So maybe you can like kind of catch him off guard in there
You know yeah, because we were thinking to do in this one idea
And I don't know I didn't know whether or not to just do it live on air and see if you guys would participate or to try
And talk to you guys beforehand, but we're here. So let's talk about it beforehand
one idea for like a post game after you guys win a match would be
We would have a couple of the members of the broadcast and we would go to those PCs over there
And let's say you would you would coach me in I don't know let's say Henry and we would play against Moses and Yanko
And we would do all right
So you're we're gonna be on T side and Moses and Yanko be on CT
Yeah, yeah, well you just have to stand behind it
You just coach us and you just throw some flashes and you tell us what to throw
I understand and it kind of sounds like a good concept
But they also have to think that a lot of players after they are finished with the game
They just want to chill you know relax get some nice food, you know, maybe so what if we bring you food?
He has sure bring everything, five minutes, that's all we need, a quick little dry run session.
I think there is definitely ways you could get his work and make it interesting.
But as I said, there's going to be players who will shut it down probably right away because they just want to chill.
But personally I'm done. See, you've signed yourself up now.
Sure. Thank you very much. I'll keep on moving.
We heard from Karrigan. We won't keep him too busy.
Rain was very vocal. Rain, it seems like you're in a good mood at the moment. What's going on?
I'll manage, he's gone, I'm now tired.
Oh, you used it all?
I used it all for a few consent and that's how it works.
Do you guys know what you're doing after you do the SSD setups?
Yeah, we're playing something which is Navi.
Yeah, you are. But for fun?
For fun, for sure.
Oh, okay, well, if it is what I believe it is, I think you're going to be playing Train.
That's a good map.
Yeah, it is. And I...
Yeah, every round.
And I think there was another thing we were going to do.
Actually, I don't know if any of you remember.
There was a thing called the championship gaming series.
Many years ago, it was on source and it had a format that was MR9.
You start with 16K.
It's a minute and 20 second round time, a 35 second bomb time.
I think you guys are going to play that format on either a Tuscan or a season.
Does that seem interesting to you at all? You can say no.
say no. It's faster pace counter strike so it's more fun to me. Yeah there you go
and you get you start my no pistol rounds actually you're great on the
pistol rounds maybe. Oh well do you want to know what the oh so because this is
what I played back in the overtime back in the day was one round whatever side
you finish on pissed around and that's the lot the last round of the game. Pissed around? Yeah.
You know what source I went? It was in SoulShip. I play SoulShip as well but I don't remember. It was too long ago. Yeah I am too old. Yeah but you turned 30 the other day. No I turned 21.
41 in here at least, that's what counts.
I don't know, I'm more like 5 from there.
Bloody hell, the advantage between you two is like an old married couple.
Fucking old Jaffer over here, man.
Old grandpa yelling at clouds.
The ancient... Do you mean that because of the map or...
Because he's like, you know, you should ask him about the big boom, how the planet started.
Because he was here on the planet, that's how old he is.
Why is he talking so much shit?
I don't know, it's up his ass, man, but...
Grumpy old man, that's how they get.
So they're good.
All right, well, thank you for your time.
Brokey, hello, sir.
Hello, hello.
Now I've been talking to your teammates.
We want to get you activated, right?
Because they're saying that we need
to make sure we ask questions that aren't yes or no,
because I want to come up with some good stuff
to show the Brokey that we see in game on the couch
and do an interviews with us.
What would be interesting for you
to talk about if you were to join us on the couch?
I don't know.
You can say nothing.
Like, do you just not enjoy doing interviews?
The fans of the question is good.
Okay, so we really need to work super in-depth
on the questions.
What about if things were more like Counter-Strike related?
If we had you in front of a PC
and it was more like Counter-Strike focused,
would that be something more interesting to you?
Not sure.
Okay, so we need to come up with concepts and we try.
That's, maybe I can get the people at home
to submit some stuff and we'll give it a go.
Cause Rob suggested the, I forget the guy's name,
but the guy that interviews the rappers
with those super in-depth questions,
would that be something that you know,
you might be interested in?
No, they weren't.
That's the guy.
No, thank you.
No, thank you.
OK, all right.
Well, we'll see what we can come up with.
But thank you for your time, and good luck in the tournament.
Thank you.
All right, that's Faze.
You want to grab them?
I don't know, Theo.
They've got to go over there.
What are they doing?
Like, this is the setup.
They've got a setup.
All right, Navi, after with their SSD setup.
English or Spanish?
Portuguese.
Spanish.
Spanish.
I think we all know what that means.
Huh? We all know what that means.
Anyway, Navi, you've got some SSDs to set up, so we can't talk.
Wait, I wanted to talk, but you've got to go and set up your SSDs.
What are you doing with your SSDs?
You just set them up, so...
Just bring your own from home. Why do you have to set up one on new one up every time you come?
Yeah, I told them the same thing, but they said that I ain't cheating on your spot.
Alex, you've never cheated a day in your life. Has anyone seen Alex? Yes, swearing was around here.
You set up a few SSDs in your day?
I have, yeah.
Got nothing to say, you know, so you have done that before.
And have you ever installed the cheating software on your device at any point in your life?
I'm not talking about in professional career. Do you ever have a little look?
Actually, no. The only game I cheated was GTA San Andreas.
I think the money glitch. Yes, I used to remember everything like the actual code
Yes, yes, I always forget that you're actually quite a cultured
You know you just because you look so youthful and full of life. You're actually a cultured old gentleman
Yeah, it was a good game. It was a good game. It was so we're gonna set up a SSDs over here and you're playing phase
Can I obviously know what it's for but could you could you remind me?
content
What what why are you setting up against phase kind right now? I missed a match day. It's not much
I don't know, you spoiled me. I didn't even know we're playing now.
Oh. Well, well, this couldn't get better actually so far.
I think I'm doing a really good job. Do you want to look at the naked people?
You can see over here. So these people will need clothes.
And oh, looks like we've got some new toys in the box as well.
So that's cool. Okay, that is cool.
I... I'm going to look after this.
Let's go find someone else to talk to.
I saw Major somewhat.
Yeah.
All right.
Look, mine's cooler than yours.
Yeah, OK, Tushé.
Is it loaded?
Yes.
What's this?
What's this?
No.
Thank you.
Thank you.
What is this supposed to fire?
Oh, it's elastic bands, I think.
What is here?
Yo.
You must start building quite solid relationships
with these referees when you go to every event.
Do you end up having the same guy behind you
for multiple events?
Not every time, but usually, yes.
So it gets to the point where they're kind of familiar.
Did you ever have a teammate or a player that has a particular habit?
Like I play with some people that they'll always find a way to describe like,
oh man, I could pack it last or I know it's just my game's a bit stuttery or
there's always something wrong with their game.
There's always an audio issue.
Does anyone, you know anyone like that, a bit cursed?
So I'm trying to think about it.
For sure, there's been.
I think but, yeah.
She's maybe complaining whenever the PC is like phrasing a bit,
lagging a bit maybe low fps something's wrong something's wrong something's wrong
I was I feel like some of the players just pub with it and play I'm distracting you but apparently you're the fastest to set up your SSD
Is it done already? Are you finished? I just up on my PC. Okay. Okay. I got excited
Monster PCs. I thought you played on the Nooks. These are absolute Titans
Yeah, okay. Well, I'll stop interrupting and distracting
Hey wonderful
How you doing brother? You doing good? Yeah, good. You doing good?
Yeah, okay, always going through the Nvidia settings first things first the order of business
Are you a full screen 4x3 1289 60 kind of guy? Yeah. Yeah always have been what you always been a stretched gamer
Or did you ever tried native? I tried black bars, but it was like long time ago and I didn't like it
It's not for you. All right. Okay, and you have to sit next to JL
Did you normally sit next to jail is he normally your partner? Yes, okay
What's it like sitting next to such a smiley man?
He's always smiling, like sometimes you just want to be like stop, stop smiling, we've
got a game to play.
No, she's like doing this in official.
Oh, he's a little rager.
I thought it was a nice boy.
Are you a little rager?
Nice boys, but sometimes it's crazy.
Yeah, okay, we all have our moments of weakness.
Let me explain myself, I've been highly emotional, you have very high positives and very
high negatives.
You can't have one without the other.
Exactly.
Absolutely.
It's in the balance.
Yeah, it's all in balance.
So ying and yang, a little bit of philosophy from JL and the boys.
I love you and leave your boys.
I don't want to distract you too much.
All right, we're about to have a chat with one of the least talked about teams in Counter Strike.
Of course, you guys all know them as G2.
Not too many people chat about this team.
They're not very popular.
They're never in the headlines.
They don't even really have any exciting players.
But we'll see if we can get something out of them.
Manager Petzer.
Hello, sir. How are you doing today? He made really good really good. Happy to be here again
Were you on the plane with mr. Nico and mr. Hunter?
I was with mr. Nico Hunter had a different flight. Was he in business? Of course and you were it back of the plane
Well, I was in the middle of the plane not not far back, but you know
Okay, not really not not in business with him. You make sure you're here safely. Of course. Yeah
I'm a I'm a security guy for mr.
and Nikola as well.
Any special requests when he travels?
Not really, not really.
Like just something standard.
We follow Star Alliance and some sandwiches in the morning,
freshly picked oranges, juices.
But they're just normal, nothing out of the order.
Fair enough.
Now, would you say that the contributions
that you've been bringing with the juices, the Star
managers have returned this man to form because we need to find what's got him back in form.
No, no, no, I don't think so. It's all about him, you know. I'm here just to assist, you
know. We are not that important. They are important on the server.
All right, well, we'll get to him. We'll head down, we'll talk to the big man Taz.
He's, oh, found another Polish gentleman to speak to. Hello, sir. We're going from
manager to coach. Now, on the media days, on the setup days, what do you find yourself
doing? I'm just vibing. I'm here to know I wanted to do some pictures because they
told me that I need to be from pictures. I didn't have to do pictures, but I'm used
to it. Like a couple events in a row is like you have the interview, then you wait
for two hours, you don't have interview. It's fine. Could you show me your best
pose if you were to do photos? This is it. Wow. Yeah, it's professional, no?
It's great. It's great.
You go by the default and that's fine.
You've been doing this for a decent amount of time.
We won't say a long time because we'll age ourselves here.
But you would remember the legend himself, Jason Lake.
You remember he used to kick the chairs.
He used to do everything. He used to punch the guys,
but not in a bad way, in a good way.
But they felt it.
Just a question regarding Jason Lake.
anything that you saw from him over the years into your coaching?
I think that when Jason was behind the team, I was playing.
So we were kind of similar, but he was just behind the guys and I was in the game.
So there are some similarities.
I want to ask because he used to wear a suit while doing his job.
Have you ever considered wearing a suit?
I'm open to it, you know, but you need to talk with our GM here and then maybe
we can change it. Is it going to be a suit that needs the sponsors on it? Is that why?
I think so. All right, fair enough. Now look, I wanted to ask some really important questions.
There are some really deep analytical counter-strike questions. I thought that these were the
important ones. No, these were the fluff questions to warm you up so that you're now open with
me. Let's try. Now this seating arrangement here, this obviously determines whether you
win or lose games at Counter-Strike, the seating arrangement, right? Well, if so, actually,
it shouldn't because we like yeah I got nothing okay but why is this your
sitting arrangement why is Malibu's next to Hunter I think that's basically
because Ely and Niko are sitting close to each other for a long long long time
and we just didn't change it okay so there's nothing fun behind this you
don't have a fun story there's nothing nothing exciting about I think that
maybe the guys will have something I'll talk to Malibu thank you for your
Tom. Hello, Malphs.
Good morning.
Why do you sit on the end?
Do you like sitting on the end?
Yeah.
When I fucked you to, sorry for the, for the word when I farmed you to,
I was on the other side of Nico's side.
Now I'm here.
But the only one problem I have is that I play like close.
Put the clothes, the monitor really close and I turn like this.
So Nema cannot look at my monitor and he gets a little bit, but yeah.
Just like a monitor.
Yeah.
I wanted to ask, what is your living arrangement at the moment?
My living arrangement?
Where are you living?
Serbia.
Okay, so you just get to play on Loping in Europe all the time?
Yeah.
How can you go back to Guatemala and play with 140 ping?
I was going to say, right?
Because this is the thing, now that you're in a European Counter-Strike team,
you need to be in Europe and you need to be playing Counter-Strike at the top level.
Is it, like, how much of a difference getting to play like European Facer and Loping Counter-Strike
is it compared to being back home in Guatemala?
It's super different because I can say I was playing with 130 ping
to it there, and I was dropping 30 kills.
So yeah.
OK, so a bit nonchalant about this, aren't it?
Yeah, I think it's kind of easier, I was there.
Fair enough.
Now your group, you're looking forward to your match,
your opening games versus Koi?
Yeah, of course.
Trying to get some wins like I did with M80.
Good memories of this very studio.
Yeah, exactly.
Did you see the M80 rebrand?
Yeah, I did.
The boys look good.
You like the rebrand?
Yeah, I knew about it, Stevenson, before I left,
but I think it's cool.
OK, now look, I'm going to go down the line here
and talk to the rest of your teammates.
Do you have any questions that you
would like me to ask your teammates?
Anything you want unraveled?
Not really.
No, I think I'm good.
All right, thank you for your time.
All right, we'll leave, mums.
We'll go to the gentleman himself.
What have you been up to, mate?
You're a family man.
You've been busy with that?
Yeah, of course.
I mean we had a lot of practice, but we were at home so all time I spent with my daughter
and my wife so it feels good, yeah it feels good being at home overall I like it, but of
course it feels good to be back to events as well.
You got any words for your boy Janka who's going to be experiencing the same thing very
soon?
I mean very tough to explain the feeling and everything you need to feel it yourself,
it's the best feeling at least for me and for most of the daddies and moms so yeah
It's really great feeling, great experience and I wish you all will have it very soon.
Let's get more and more of you out there in the gaming world, huh?
Yeah, I mean, it's fine. My wife is pregnant as well.
I'm waiting for a second one very soon, November.
Congratulations.
Thank you. So yeah, we need some more. We need the whole team, yeah?
Making a clan.
Yes, of course.
Okay, nice.
Two kids already there, right?
Yeah, right. Well, you're the one.
This is the thing. I was asking about the seating arrangement.
How do you feel being between the two jokers, two trolls?
Trolls? Hmm, it's good, feels good honestly. They're both in very good mood always and when
we play, it doesn't matter what is going on, they always support so I'm very happy sitting
in between those two gentlemen. All right, no, thank you for your time. No problem, thank
you Chad. We keep going, look at this, we get to talk to everybody from G2, save Polish CS.
Polish kids CS. There it is. Snacks. Well your coach is laughing. Yeah, I don't understand.
what's he laughing for? I don't know I want to say polish CS by polish kites and he don't understand anything yet. Yeah, he went to translate for me
He's got to work out get him involved in the memes or whatnot. Now. Look, you guys had a bit of time off between cologne and now
Has it just been practiced non-stop?
Yeah
Actually, yeah
Just just practice nothing you haven't got up to you didn't go you didn't go hiking
I had no hiking no running around no sleeping just playing
24 hours a day seven days a week. Yeah, this is what
we need to do in G2. How many rounds are you gonna lose per game this time around?
Because that lower bracket run from you guys in Cologne, you absolutely destroyed
everybody. This time we want to lose more so we are not that confident in
playoffs. Okay so well over time or just like 13-10? Over time is good actually.
More rounds, more playing, this is what we like. Okay and do you think if you
play more rounds it will help Monosidiv consider the best player in the
world? No. You don't need. Okay. All right. Fair enough. Who is the best player in the world?
Don't come on to see us, are we? It's me. All right. Thank you very much. Snacks. You got
anything you want to say to the people at home? Polsky says. Bang, bang. Mr. Ilya. Oh man, I'm
getting old. It's hard for me to get down here. What's wrong? Nothing is wrong. My luggage
is lost. But you've got some gear. I got some gear. It's more important. Yeah. So you have
no clothes? No, but with my manager, my manager went to buy something. So you have some underwear?
I have some. Yeah. It's all you need is a jersey and some underwear and you're good to go. Yes.
And also remember put the jersey in your bag in case something happens. You didn't do that?
No, I didn't. Sounds like you got in trouble for that night. For what? For forgetting,
for leaving your stuff in the check-in luggage?
No, it's fine.
What's life been like lately?
You went home after a cologne?
Yeah, I went home.
I had practices at home.
I met my friends.
Since a long time, I didn't see them.
Because I was at my home for like two or three months.
You found my much face while you were home?
Not a lot, not a lot.
You can see.
I played like maybe 10 games maximum.
Okay, alright, that's not a lot for you.
That's very bad.
Very bad?
be playing more I should have played more yeah well what would you do relaxing
or you're practicing snacks is all you're doing 24 hours a day you're
practicing yes we practiced a lot and I was just chilling sometimes outside with
my friends okay chillin outside what's summertime that makes sense yeah yeah
I don't play some girls sometimes yeah we all do we all do alright you got
anything you want to you know anything fun going on in life anything
exciting outside of Counter Strike or just just chilling? No, just I love CS.
You love CS that's a message for all of us we can all go with that and finally
like it's the end of the line we did manager we did coach we did in-game
leader we did cousins we did all-pers and now yeah that's a good one mostly
says your legend. That's a nice horse from him, nice horse thank you Lea.
Trying to hype you up but you're back in form mate what's going on? I don't know it just feels good.
Yeah, but in the beginning, ULICS2 sucks, this is a game for donkeys, you didn't say that, but that's what you're thinking.
I mean, no, I definitely got better, but I just feel like I got used to the game, I don't know.
But actually, it all started feeling better here in Malta when I played last Pro League, so hopefully I can keep up the form for this event as well.
But overall, I feel better, not just about playing, but also in the team and everything, so it's good so far.
No, so it's all positive vibes going into things here because Malphys was just talking about last time here at Pro League
He had some positive memories to remember but now he's on your team. Yeah, I just told him like he was sitting here when he
when he played the first time against us when he
Destroyed us so yeah, happy to have on the team. He's he's insane
How things going for you guys because obviously Cologne you may get to the playoffs
But the playoffs didn't go as planned that interview you had I was like man. It looks like Nico just saw a fucking ghost
Man, I feel like you repeat to this so many times. I don't watch all my content man
Come on!
I mean, obviously I felt bad after Maus.
I felt like after watching how we played, but also how they played, I felt like we had
to do better than what we have showed in the Cologne and Orin play specifically, because
I don't feel like they played that good.
Honestly, I feel like they were forcing some of the things which we couldn't really punish.
But again, I think we're a new team.
It's the first time we played on stage as well, so I think there is some nerves
as a team.
It's something that we discussed, and I think it's going to get better, but overall I think
ever since we got this roster together, I think we have shown some good signs.
I think obviously, I feel like I always say it often, our high is very high, but obviously
we need to work on our low, and I think this is a good event for us to establish
our level, to see where we actually are, and especially playing against some teams
that we should win. So it's important that we actually, you know, I don't want to say
going to play as comfortably, but I think it's important to win those games to establish ourselves.
All right. And obviously, Snapchat got banned recently, but we don't need to talk about that.
What about the jump throw stuff? How are you feeling about that?
I mean, for me, like those those features are,
there is nothing really like that can do about it. You know, I think we just have to get
choose to how it is and everyone is impacted the same way I would say.
Who's missing the most smokes on the team?
Who's missing the most smokes on the team?
Actually maybe like first day was a bit rough for everyone I would say but I think we all got
used to it quite fast. I don't think, I think they're still a bit more accurate than they were
in CSGO, so that's a good thing. I feel like even though you don't, like in CSGO sometimes
Sometimes when you press all the keys at the same time it still doesn't go the same way
always but I feel like in CS2 it's actually pretty accurate so I don't think we have too
many issues with throwing the smokes.
I guess the only issue is just the double click W jump throw, that's probably the
hardest one but I guess it's fine.
Okay, and anything you want to say to Janko?
To Janko?
Why is she not here yet?
You know why right?
Wait, did it...
It did happen? Really? He became a dad?
Well, I don't know if it's a labor study yesterday, I think.
I have no idea. I don't have a talk to him.
Okay, well, yeah. I haven't spoken to him in about 12 hours now. You check on him, alright? I'll leave you with that.
Okay, perfect.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you.
Ah, yes. The lobby. Look who it is. It's heroic. And every one of them kind of looking at me. They know I've got a microphone. They know I'm going to talk to them.
And so they've got to hate that for the most part. So I could just start all the way down the end.
He looks like he's super happy, and if he's lucky, I'll just keep walking right past him.
I might. I'll do that. Dexter, how are you feeling, buddy?
I'm good, bro. Nice to see you.
You as well. You found your way back to the land, I see.
Yeah, I did. I'm so happy right now and shy and shy.
Well, you know, don't worry, the internet is forever.
So if you do say something ridiculous here, it will be here forever.
So you're setting up your SSD, right?
So tell me about this process. Where are you at right now in the process?
I'm checking my mouse and stuff like in Windows,
for interruption. So you see this thing that you need to always turn off and it isn't turned
off because you're on your way to turning it off. You're absolutely right. Windows precision.
What is it? Enhanced precision point. Enhanced point of precision even. Jesus. England. Don't
even know about that place. Cool. So it's good to see here, Dexter. We're going down
the line a little bit. Kicks in right in the middle. How far are you from being
completely set up? I just thought that's Oh, so this is a perfect time to bother
Yeah.
Nice.
But you've been to Maltz before, tell me about this.
I've been here two times, and both other times I was one game away from the playoffs,
but I never made it, so maybe third time is the lucky time.
Maybe at this time if you buy a Negev, right, like if you buy it here now,
you might get that extra round.
You think that'll be the difference maker?
I think Negev always brings kills, and maybe even luck, so it's a good idea.
Why do people talk down than Negev?
I don't understand.
Like I do think it has a somewhat of a viable purpose. It's kind of kind of viable. Yeah
I mean I've seen some hate comments about it, but I don't care too much about it because it's a gun
It's an option that we can buy it in the game
So I don't see any reason why I shouldn't use it if I want it can become a little bit of a laser beam to like a 200 bullet laser
Beam, right? Yeah, I think it's a good gun. So what's the best place to play within a game on any map across any of the competitive pool?
the most fun place I should say I think I love you Smith okay yeah yeah that does
sound mildly terrifying well thank you for that kicks in I've always wanted to
know personally so I felt like we should ask the man with the plan himself these
two down here I don't know just getting logged into steam of course you know
who this is you want to introduce yourself to the class baby Nets baby
Nets is my name baby nerds okay well cool how was your guys's travel good
in here. It was fine. Like a connection flight, not direct. So that's okay. It
went pretty smooth. So just one connection though, right? Yeah, went to Rome, got some
pasta. Straight to Malta also. Straight in. Yeah, I think I had like two
layovers. How many did you get? Five. No, but I've been with him and I
wanted to say like the shitty part of our job is like with these flights
and stuff. We were being in the plane while I was sitting close to him. Now,
Now the plane is going like he's, I see that he's coming close to the ground and suddenly
boom!
I'm like, I'm like, he was starting to laugh at me because I'm doing like this.
So after it, like this is kind of the shitty part of our job.
But I'm fine.
I'm safe right now.
Well, one day maybe they'll invent teleportation because I got to admit like the travel part
of our job is probably the worst part because other than that, it's a blessing in my
on to have this job and work here but the planes do get old don't they? It is annoying it is annoying
but the thing is what they help us every time we are asking each other for example we were in Chengdu
no joke bro I was with a kick son asking how much would you spend to spawn from exactly the
same from the hotel in Chengdu to your house boy it's like every time we will pay like at
At least we will pay it more than 3-4K for this.
That would be easy, right?
Easy, bro.
No, not like it's all my salary, but you know what I mean.
Not the money part.
I'm talking about moving from one place to the other.
If someone will create something that I will be super happy
to be honest, I think it's possible.
Do you believe in the time machine?
Yeah, I have one, actually.
I go back sometimes.
I look at what heroic was and where they are now.
No comment.
I'm messing with you, buddy.
I know, I know it was a little abrasive, I'm sorry.
I wish I had a time machine, honestly,
that would make life a lot easier.
And I could take back what I just said even.
Looks like you need a password though,
so that's unfortunate.
Admin man.
Anyway, this is the lobby, I'm gonna get out of here
before they kill me.
So there's that.
Thank you.
Movistar Koi, or is it Koi Movistar?
How about, which way is it?
Movistar Koi.
I did it right the first time.
All right, how are we doing, Just?
How are they fine?
Now look, gentlemen,
you've got a tough game to kick things off here.
You've gone up against G2, am I right about that?
Yeah, it's gonna be a tough game, but it's a game.
It is a game, and it's Pro League.
How do you feel about this studio, this environment?
You have good memories here?
Yeah, I mean, it's the second time I'm here.
Maybe the third, no, the second I think.
I mean, it's awesome.
It's a nice stage studio,
and a nice environment to play.
All right, now look, lots of counter-strike going on,
non-stop really.
In the last couple of weeks,
it just fell as game after game after game.
Could you give the viewer at home a bit of an update of what's been happening with Movistar Koi in the last couple of weeks and months?
I mean, in the last weeks we had a lot of games.
Some of the games and we didn't get the results that we expected.
But I think now we have to focus on what we're playing right now, which is probably, and we need to do our best here.
So obviously, there's a bit of an elephant in the room. There's qualification for the RMRs, right?
Is the main thing that we're talking about here, which, like, for most people, that's the focus.
And you're obviously talking about being able to play through and look forward to other events and whatever's on the table.
So when it sucks, because this is shit,
like this is not a fun feeling,
nobody wants to have this kind of a feeling.
What is the goal now?
Is it just whatever's in front of you?
Because next year it's all gonna be based
on the Valve ranking points, right?
So what's the mentality at the moment?
I mean, the major, I think it's the main focus
for our players and our teams.
It's the main focus, but I think we need to look
to other tournaments like ESL Pro League and many online tournaments and LAN tournaments
we need to focus right now and get the much points that we need to get so we can have a
nice ball breaking and play at bigger stages.
As a Vertigo lover, I don't know if you are a Vertigo lover but you always seem to
play well on Vertigo.
Yes I love Vertigo, it's realness.
Even the new changes.
I mean, I think I prefer the other one, but this one is...
Okay, I think everyone will help me for saying I like Vertigo, but I like it.
Yeah, every Davi G game I'm like, if it's Vertigo, he's gonna pop off.
Probably not, but some of them maybe.
And you can't pick it against G2 though, that's a bit of a problem, huh?
Well, we have other picks.
That's true. There is a 7-man pool.
Sderota, what is the inspiration for your nickname?
It's my town.
Your town?
Yeah, Damaja from Portugal.
and suddenly it's like a word from my tongue.
Okay, nice. That's good. We're learning.
Yeah, of course.
How you been?
Good.
Very good lately.
How's summer been?
Very good too.
Yeah, you're from a nice hot place like me.
It's good to get outside made the most of it here.
Yeah, good summer.
Algarve is good and I travel, so it's been a good summer.
Where'd you go?
I go to Mexico.
Wonderful. Oh, that must have been nice.
Yeah, it's been nice.
Alright, wonderful, thanks for your time.
Well, keep them quick. It's the bull, El Toro.
Oh yeah, how you doing?
Good, I'm looking forward to some crazy plays from you this event.
Are we ready to expect some mapo's moments?
I expect that if everything is going to work for the team,
individually I'm going to destroy them for sure.
Awesome, alright. Now G2, your first game.
How are you feeling about that, Macho?
Well, it's going to be really hot because they are playing really good
and Monace is just destroying every single player in the world.
It's a dunk, but because it's a dunk, you know.
But I think that if we are playing just without being nervous and just taking the path of the game,
we are going to make something that's going to be really good for us.
I mean, just getting some confidence.
And if we just beat them, it's like we are going to get the wings just for the rest of the tournament.
So I expect that we give our best and everything works for us.
Oh, no. So you just mentioned Monacea and Donk.
Zahui is also in the conversation.
Who is the best player in the world in your opinion?
In my opinion, it's going to be, since years ago, it's going to be Zahui.
Because, I mean, it's really hard to have a player that's that skill wise
with the I mean, it's that good.
And it's the attitude that he has is also incredible
because he's not another one person or something like that.
He's always really kind with the people and open to talk with everyone.
And for me, that's the most important thing of the players and of the persons.
And that's that guy is an example for everyone.
Awesome. All right. Nice.
Now you have a lot of fans at home, the Spaniards.
Anything you want to say to them in Spanish?
Muchísimas gracias a todos chavales por apoyarnos.
De verdad que vamos a dejarnos la vida.
Nos sabremos cómo van a ser los resultados.
We hope they are good, but if we do something we can be sure that we won't give up.
I don't think it's too bad. I think it's a part of the job and I think it's pretty fun actually.
Nice to get to meet you properly by the way, Max.
Yeah, Max, nice to meet you, Alex. How are you feeling coming into Pro League this season?
What's the general approach coming in for the NIP?
Yeah, actually we are feeling pretty good and can't deny that we have had some rough results online lately.
But we're feeling good, we're working hard and we know what we're capable of and we know what we can do.
We just head up and then train your best and hopefully the result is come.
Oh, yeah. No, that sounds like a good plan. A good stay of play.
I bet this man's probably been helping you.
He's, I see you looking away.
I'm sure you don't, you don't want to be doing this shit, man.
But yeah, yeah, your favorite.
No, but you know, you've been on our screens for many years now
and helping the kind of the generation behind you.
It seems crazy to say, but there is the next generation now behind you.
You've been, you were the next gen for the longest time,
but there is a new gen and, you know, integrating that.
obviously the ups and downs. Hello, I don't think you're getting away from the interview,
so I'll get out of your way. But you know, coming into this, what has been a rebuild for the ninjas
and pajamas, and you being such a focal point of it, have you found your roles, like what's needed
and required of you changing a bit? Are you becoming kind of like Daddy Rez, you know?
Like I'm kind of transitioning into kind of, you know, the veteran, I guess, and be more of a
kind of leadership maybe not the full leadership like Alex but I'm trying to
like helping him a bit on that part especially like inside the server you
know like I gained a lot of experience throughout the years now so I just want
to share that that's not possible with you guys. And you know like you know how
like what a good round feels like you know what like being full map
awareness and understanding of all of your gaps and so you when you when
you know how it feels I'm sure you're chasing that dragon right you're
like, okay, we can have that. And how is it now? Would you say that you're having, you know,
there'll be some games which do feel like you're kind of a sign of what you can do? Or is it more
like burst of potential? You have like a good half or, you know, a good, best of three, and you
kind of up and down like that? Well, yeah, you know, like we, like, obviously, we're in a rough
patch right now. But I can definitely like see glimpses of like really good counter strike. So
like, I know we can do it. And I've, I've seen it as well in certain games and certain
practices. So we just kind of need to keep the consistency, trying to have that standard,
you know? But it's rough, especially right now. And we just need to keep grinding, honestly.
And that's how it works, basically, like, get the experience and get the repetitions in,
and then eventually it will come. Yeah. I mean, and this roster of five is very,
very exciting. You can see Rinko again, his photo is taken as well. What an interesting team
that I mean, have you ever played with someone like Rinko before? Never. Like, he
Honestly, one of the most surprising players I ever got into know, like I first, like,
previously joined us, like I've never seen such like a mechanical and skillful player ever.
And probably one of the best like players I ever played with, honestly, like, and I play with a
lot of players. Yeah, you play with some big names. That's high praise. Yes, of course. It's
insane. It's insane. I mean, I'm with them, but I imagine that's so motivating when you're
when you kind of, you know, you die, you're watching your teammates PV, you're like, Oh,
He's nuts. Oh, you know, it's kind of comfort, you know, like I died, but I have him
It's all good like a random one before out of nowhere like
Complete impossible run and then he's magical happens in my mind. I know it's weird
But I always think of that as like oscar energy. You remember oscar like sinners ospa
He always had that your aura around him. It's like you could just do this
Yeah, he's scared like you see him on the server when you like play against him like
You need to you need to keep yourself sharp, you know when you play against him
Sprinkle can I have a couple of words? Oh, I'd love to get to meet you properly. Hello. We're just a glaze in you right now
He's good. Yeah, you're getting glazed
But yeah, just wanted to talk a little bit about your your path to kind of strike
Professionalism because I don't I don't tell your story. I don't know how to tell your story appropriately
But how would you say you kind of got your foot in the door? Was it FPL?
Was that how your name started getting no notice noticed? How did you climb the ladder?
I think it was face it I just played face at premium and like some guys noticed me and
asked me to play their team but I was back in the days like 14 or 15 and like
someone didn't want to pick me up because I was this young yes and we couldn't
play like Caramara qualifier so yeah it was a bit tough but yeah I just played
face it. Awesome and I'm interested when it came to kind of getting into the
professional CS from the face-it realms like it's one thing to be very
dominant pug player and I'm sure you have skills now because of how you you know
because of the the thousands of pugs you've played but transitioning into
professional CS what would you say are some of the obvious like the noticeable
differences of what's what you need I mean you just need to be like to
trust your teammates I would say and also like like for now in CS2 I would say
You can do more of these phases stuff, I would say, but of course you need to...
I don't know, to work with your teammates properly.
Because your opponent is as well, so yeah.
Whereas in a pub you don't trust your teammates.
I bet you're the guy that just says, drop me off, man.
Just drop me off.
Like it's a big competition right now in cyber sports and you need to evaluate very fast.
Yeah, but confidence doesn't seem to be a problem for you.
You seem to have good belief in your own ability. Not everyone has that.
Yeah, I mean, I'm just playing the game. I don't really think about some weird stuff that can break me.
So I just play CS.
Yeah, and you play it well. No, I'm looking forward to seeing you. Good luck.
We've got Wrinkle, we've got Max, and who have I spoken to? Alex is hiding over there.
Hello. I'm loving the dress, by the way. It looks great on you.
Hello. English or Spanish?
We've got Alex over here, ladies and gentlemen, good to see you.
But let's talk a little bit about the Pyjama Ninjas and this roster of talent.
I'm speaking to your teammates, man, you've got some pieces, you've got some pieces.
And I know it's not all been sunshine and rainbows, but no new team is.
I mean, this is a process.
You've been thrown into the middle of it with some responsibilities.
How are you adjusting to this new role and new approach?
And what I imagine is a long term project.
Yeah, I mean, it is actually.
I mean, it's been an easy journey with them.
I think they are really good players, really good environment, especially the people that
we have around us working, exactly.
I think it's easier to work with them and stuff, especially now that we are like having,
as you said, like rough times.
But yeah, like it's a long process and we still believe in.
So when it comes to your mind for the game,
you, correct me if I'm wrong,
but with your kind of rise in the, with the riders,
you probably got to a point where you were playing your game,
but how you saw it to be played at the highest level,
right?
Yeah.
Okay.
So my question is, is like,
how has it been to learn like what you can keep,
what was depends on the player?
Is this been a big part of your life recently of like,
kind of working out which parts work for everyone?
You know, like I'm thinking Kady and trying
to make Heroic CS for Liquid,
and it just couldn't work, even though it has worked.
And so in his mind, he was left going,
I know this is supposed to work.
It has worked before, but it's not working now.
Have you encountered something similar?
I mean, it's kind of hard.
I think it's the hardest part.
When you're like, we are becoming a new team and stuff
and you have like different personalities
inside the server, right?
So everyone wants to have the data space and server.
They want to shine and stuff.
But I mean, I'm trying to bring out my system, right?
We need to try to believe in it.
And then, as I said, I think they are very good
adapting to it.
But of course, it will take more time.
For sure, we need to go.
I think everything has to go through this kind of process
with the apps up and down.
But in the end, we're still playing the same.
We are trying to play this MCS, but of course we have a lot of things to improve, but I think we are in the correct way to be honest.
How are you liking your group? Do you think you can do some damage here? It's not going to be easy.
I think it's the tough group over there. I don't know, it's hard to predict how this CS is so equal.
So, like, especially on LAN, I think everyone can win.
Like, it's so hard to predict.
But I would say, like, of course, we are here to shoot.
Yeah, exactly.
No, do your best, of course.
Makes sense.
Absolutely.
And when you say everyone can win,
is that because of the game right now,
or is that because you're OK?
I think so.
Like, to be honest, I don't have the clear answer of that.
But like, you can see the latest results.
Like, I think, of course, there is some teams.
a few teams that they are over there, like top three teams,
Navi maybe, Vitality, Spirit.
But it's so hard to make the difference in this game,
like so hard.
So that's why I think it's not random, of course,
but I think you have like more opportunities than before.
Yeah, no, I definitely, I mean,
from my personal experience,
I will play the same players that I'll be in 13-3,
new map and I'm getting 13-1,
And I'm like, I did well, well, well, well, what changed?
What changed?
Like, I can thank you are so easy to please.
I don't understand.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, it's the same for us.
Timings and aggressions and those tiny little things.
But I mean, I guess focusing on what you can control.
Yeah, yeah.
That's the goal.
That's the goal.
Hell yeah, man.
Well, I wish you the best of luck.
Thank you.
Last question, just playing with Wrinkle, something
Rez talked about was just how interesting it is.
How is it to kind of IGL a player that I imagine
is going to be calling his shots.
So he's like, I want to do this.
Let me do this.
Let me do that.
Exactly. It's like that. Yeah, I mean, if he has the day, it's like easy for me, like, no, but yeah, yeah, it's like a first time, especially, like, Alex, I want to do this and stuff. Okay, go for it. Yeah.
Right, you heard him. That's what he's doing. We'll do this.
Exactly. Yeah.
That's nice.
That's a nice luxury.
Yeah.
That's what you look for in an Orpah. Oh, Isaac's striking a mean pose. Look at this one.
Yeah.
Scra, scra, bop, bop, rum, tum, tum, tum.
All right, yo, I'm gonna peace out with the NIP.
I'm distracting you, but thank you very much.
Thank you.
Let's start with Techno,
because Techno always likes talking to us.
Don't you, Techno?
Hello.
Hi, look, you see this here?
See what I brought some prep work today?
Is this a tweet from your social media account?
I don't know, maybe, I think it is.
Is this your social media man right here?
No, it's not here.
He's not here?
Yes.
Okay, alright.
Well, let's let's let's do the fun stuff first before we get into the serious Tweet business.
Techno, you guys lost play in Cologne.
What have you been up to between Cologne and now?
I think we just lost the Cologne and it was all bad.
I think it's not our, we really didn't reach the goal yet.
Okay, but you guys beat Spirit there.
Yes, that's a huge win for us here.
They're in your group here as well.
Your group B, you play 3D Max first, right?
Yes, we just faced against them at the India, just lost at the Grand Final, yeah.
You guys earned 3D Max though, it was like two maps, it wasn't close.
Do you remember the games very much?
Yes, we just got our own tier, now I think it's the revenge time.
Okay, between Cologne and this event, did you go back to Mongolia?
Yes, we were in Mongolia all time and practicing for this tournament, yeah.
Okay, so just practice it, playing European face it?
I think we'll no longer do that again.
Really? How come?
I think that at CS2, the higher ping is hard to play too difficult, yeah.
Okay, did you see the results from the Asian RMR qualifiers?
Yeah, we were watching, yeah.
You see Etox, they didn't beat the Russians, right?
Yeah, that's so sad for them, yeah.
Did you think there was going to be them or the Chinggis warriors to qualify?
I hope that our Chinggis warrior or Atox is going to qualify but they didn't make it.
Which of those two teams do you think is the next strongest from Mongolia?
I think maybe Atox.
We also had Talon go through from Oceania, right?
There's FlyQuest, who else have we got there?
Did you see the owner-pixel team, Drillers, qualified as well?
Oh yeah, that's so interesting team, yeah.
Waro2k and Haji and everybody like that, but you guys are obviously the favourites for that event.
You've got about two months until the RMRs in Shanghai.
How many events do you have between now and Shanghai?
I guess including this tournament, I think it's a three-event, yeah.
Okay, do you know the other events?
I don't think so. Then we will go practice maybe.
Okay, okay, okay, and you're gonna try and boot camp in Europe at all or you're just gonna be practicing from Mongolia
I think we're gonna go Europe. Yeah after the Elisa. I think it's in October. Yeah, okay nice
I want to ask you you've been to a lot of events this year. Which has been your favorite event of this year so far
Maybe the other compass we just want the tournament. Yeah, okay. What about the one that you had at home in in Mongolia
the event that you won at home in Mongolia. Oh, it was really nice. Yeah, it's the crowd
and stage. Okay, now look, I did bring some stuff here, but I want to show Blitz, because
apparently Blitz did a stream. Yes, yes. Now in the tweets, yeah, I didn't do it,
but did you see what it said? No, we found it. Here we go. This one here. Can you
read this one about his English people think our English is bad but not that's
not true all of our place speak this in English we just don't want to give in
through seal what do you have to say about that I think it's the false I
think yeah yeah yeah I think it's fake well you think this is fake yeah yeah
what do you think Blitz is gonna say I don't know you can you can ask them I
think we need to ask him it looks like he's done with photos oh hold up he's
talking is they're talking about he's getting in trouble here the foot we're
gonna see if we can get involved in this it's not the bad finger though it's the
ring finger well look I need to talk to blitz so blitz how hold up hold up hold
up blitz I have some questions my friends hello hello first question is
is this you? no okay well this here says this is your youtube channel yeah did you stream on
your youtube channel recently? yeah seven days ago okay well just quickly next one see this here
is this the the twitter handle of your mongol's twitter account yeah yeah okay can you do me a
favor this one here can you please read what it says here just read just read
about his English people think our English is bad but that's not true I love
our players speak decent English we just don't want to give interviews did you
say that maybe maybe maybe why don't you want to give interviews yeah I don't know
I'm just a little bit shy and actually my English is not good yeah that's not
true at all first of all you just spoke to me and you read that and you answered
me and I'll tell you this the people at home really like your team and you're
in-game leader who frags a lot so we want to talk to you so it'd be nice if you'd talk to us
what do you think about that I don't know actually I don't know yeah I'm just a little bit shy
that's okay yeah that's fun it's okay to be shy but I tell you you don't have to worry
because the fact that you try that's the best part because people want to hear what you have
to say and for me watching you guys right where's Mara yeah he's in the other room
Okay, because I want to learn, because do you know Mara, when I was playing, he was coaching like Zilkenberg and that against my team, dude, like that was a long time ago, but does Mara ever, you know, talk about that sponge guy's an idiot?
No.
No, that's what I'd be saying, they beat us at an Asian qualifier back in the day. We lost to
Machine Gun and Zilkenberg and everything, like back when Cobblestone was in the map pool. Were you watching Counter Strike back then?
Yeah, sometimes, but not
not always. Okay, okay, okay. Now you come into this event, right? You're in group B, you play 3D
Max. Do you think that's a good, good match up for you guys? Yeah, we lost them at the Skysports
Championship. We need to get revenge from them. Yeah. You think you were Skysports was just a
one-off? Do you think you're a better team than them? I don't know. Actually, they are
So good team and yeah that's it.
Okay now see with this one here you says all your teammates speak English.
Who else should I talk to? I don't know. They all can speak English.
What about you, Mazzinho speak to me you think? Yeah.
Let's try. Let's have a look. I'll take this off here. Thank you Blitz.
Mazzinho, the travel from Mongolia to here, how long is it?
I think it was 20 hours and pretty long.
Where did you fly through?
Beijing to Germany and Germany to Malta.
Okay, nice. I swear, last time you were here, you guys lost your bags.
Yes, but we received it.
This time you have it?
Yeah, we have it.
Okay. How are you feeling about this tournament for the Mongols?
It will be a change for us.
Take revenge for 3D Max and G2 and try to outgroup.
Number one seed.
You want the number one seed?
Yeah.
I think the spirit is in your group as well.
You beat them in Cologne.
We will do the same thing.
Hey, there's some confidence from Brazilian.
You're nice.
Okay.
Anything you want to say to the people at home?
You can say it in Mongolian if you want.
Thank you for cheering us.
So your English is good? Not that good.
Oh, thank you for trying. Perfect.
Safe. I just typed in.
Yeah, how are you bro? I'm good, how are you? I'm chilling.
You looking forward to a bit of multi sunshine?
Or have you been here a while? No, I just got here, so
yeah, we kind of missed it, you know. It's similar to Brazil, so
every time you're here it's fun. Where about in Brazil are you from? São Paulo.
São Paulo? Okay a lot of people say that's one of the coolest cities. Yeah but
we have beaches close it's like one hour from home so yeah you know it's not like
real that they have there but you know it's just one hour so yeah we can go there
whenever. You can still have your beach lifestyle. Now I've got some Brazilian
phrases on my phone. Could you explain a little about what they mean? For example, to
take the little horse from the rain.
Tirar.
Tirar.
Tirar.
Tirar.
Tirar.
Tirar.
O cavalim.
O cavalim.
Da chuva.
Da chuva.
Tirar.
O cavalim.
O chuva.
It's like to chill out, maybe to slow down.
To lower your expectations.
Okay, take the little horse from the rain, man. Yo, take that little horse from the rain.
Yeah, that's right. That's what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, that's a good one. That's a good one. Can we do another one? Yeah, yeah, sure.
Okay, uh, to stick a foot. When Brazilians want to leave a situation, a party or an event,
they sometimes say, stick the foot. Meteorope. Yeah, to leave. Yeah, stick a foot. Yeah,
leave, leave. It's not, it's not nice to just leave. Do you say that in Counter-Strike?
you know if like you want to rotate you're like what's up I'm gonna stick a foot
yeah sometimes you do yeah yeah okay cool to lower the ball when someone's talking about this lower
the ball uh I buy oh say that for me I buy a by Shaboya oh that sounds good yeah it's like to
you know chill out you're talking too much chill out yeah you're being too too cocky chill out
I bet trash talking in Portuguese is just sounds so bloody good in sunny I feel like you
you can trash talk. If I wanted to intimidate someone in the server, someone's being nasty
to me and face it. What's a good way to stay in your place, little boy, in Portuguese?
As you said, L'Oreal Ball is a good...
How do I say it again?
Like, Bacha Bola.
Bacha Bola?
Bacha Bola is a hoonie.
Bacha Bola is a hoonie.
Okay, I got it.
L'Oreal Ball is a hoonie.
Yeah, yeah. You're weak.
Yo, I like that.
Okay, okay, like to lower your tone, boy.
What else have we got?
You are with the knife and the cheese in your hand.
You heard of this one?
Yeah, like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like,
like when you're...
Like you've got a good group of teammates
you're at a big event
the knife is in your hand and the cheese is too
Yeah, you have the knife in the cheese in your hand
I like it, okay
I'm learning a bit more about the Brazilian
Brazilian culture and sayings
Is there anything I should add to the list?
What have we got? To hold the candle
Go Zé
Sing it
Sing it and over here
Okay, like
like when you go like to somewhere like a party and you have a friend and your
friend is with with his girlfriend and you are like just you and third wheel
couple yeah we say third way exactly that yeah and like oh because that situation
you are holding the help that's good okay okay one more one more for fun
because I love the way this one sounds to fill a sausage and generally what is
What is this he's enchenda lingueso. He's filling the sauce. Oh, it's like
Yeah, it's like you already know what I'm saying, but I keep like saying things about it. It's like oh, yeah
You were handsome. No, you're so beautiful. Yeah. Yeah, the sausage right now
Okay, okay
Okay, okay, I'm having too much fun
When Brazilian is extremely annoyed about something he is esta bolado this
one you should ask for him because it is from Rio de Janeiro excuse me mr. Rio
apparently this is a this is a Rio de Janeiro thing when a Brazilian is
really annoyed about something they say esta bolado yeah do you give me a
proper pronunciation how do I say that that is not what's written go again
I'm a bulldog.
A bulldog.
A bulldog.
Okay, what does it mean? So it just means I'm pissed off.
Yeah, it's...
When you're angry.
When you're angry. Really pissed off.
Okay, and sorry, to travel in mayonnaise.
Viajana mayonnaise.
What are you saying?
Viajana mayonnaise.
When you...
How can I say it?
You'll say something
I don't know anything clueless about anything, you're uninformed, you don't know the answer
of the truth.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, you're crazy.
It doesn't make sense to you say you travel, hey, wake up, you're in, you're traveling
in mayonnaise.
Yeah.
Bro, you are traveling in mayonnaise right now, otherwise, I will fill your sausage.
I'll fill it.
We're from the conversation, I guess.
Okay.
I'm learning, I'm learning.
I'm going to get ready for Rio, you know?
Gotta get a couple of phrases to have to peel a pineapple. Oh
Hang on when Brazilians have to cope with a tricky and complex issue guys. I bet you've had to peel a pineapple in MIBR before
Yeah, this is this
Abacaxi
Yeah, and when you have to solve some problem like difficult problem. Yeah. Yeah, you have to talk about it
Yeah, yeah, feel the pineapple boy. I've been learning today a little bit. Thank you for your help. Yeah
Have you got to take your photos?
Okay, I want to interrupt you too much and so you don't need any makeup. This this man doesn't need any makeup
Does he really do you think so? What do you think? No, I don't think no
I don't think so either. He's got the complexion of an angel. That's what I think and how do I say he has the skin of an angel in Portuguese
That's how you've got you've got a great voice though, I haven't noticed how lovely and deep your voice is
he should do like audio books, you know, like the podcast stuff you listen to.
You like it when he shuts his mouth?
No, you have got a good voice. Have you heard that before?
Yes. Yes, I do.
I think, you know, backup career, when you're when you're old and gray,
you just sit in your cottage.
My voice was like kid's voice.
And then like later years later, my voice got like that.
And the guys were, oh, my God, how did you do that?
Before it's like you put the team's speaker and it's like hi guys everybody I'm good at this one day just hello everyone
100%
Dude I was late as well finally got my voice I still squeak I'm 30 years old I still
Oh I'm moving! Anyway thanks for speaking to me we're gonna leave MLBR to it
Thank you very much thank you thank you thank you thank you
Chris
Yeah
How's the house going?
Uh, house life's good, enjoying it, and yeah, just doing weeds and...
I saw that, you're doing the lawn. Do you think that that is influential in your counter strike?
Honestly, as long as I don't burn my hands with like weed killer or something like that, or throw it in my eyes, then yeah.
I feel like that would take an effort to do that on purpose, or is it just like a rub and the sweat might accidentally happen?
I was like actually just spraying the lawn with the weed killer and like the wind blew it into my eyes the other day
So yeah, so if the aim is a little off this week
That's the like preloaded excuse. Yeah if the wind. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. That's right there. Yeah, beautiful beautiful now in terms of this
Are you excited to be back in Malta or is it kind of like too sweaty?
I feel pretty excited. I haven't played in the land for a little bit after clone and been working in different ways, so
Let's see how it goes, uh, yeah.
I saw a couple of things when you went back to Oz,
but I won't name here, but I thought it was interesting.
I don't even know what it is.
That's good, that's good. That's the poker face I was looking for.
Who did I not talk to? I spoke to everyone.
What about, I want more Allie. Do you think Allie needs more chatting too?
Yeah.
Yeah, Allie loves the camera. Come here. Come here. Come on.
Come on. Have you been to the gym yet?
Yeah, I have I went today actually me and Declan Declan had a leg sesh
Deckey Deckey did legs. Yeah, I did indeed do legs. Yeah, what what exercises anything special due to deadies
No, I don't do any big compound movements. Let's do the um
Lay isolated ones lay extensions leg curls all those ones
Beautiful. Is he is he like caked up? Oh, I swear
Check him out from behind you got a little wagon back there. Oh, we're little way
Got to see the bloody hammies out action shit
Look, can I borrow your room card by the way?
For the gym for the gym. Yeah, you don't actually need
Oh, don't don't leak that because then random people gonna come in that I don't know how to tell
Well, it's not as it's...
Anyway, gym sessions are going to be happening soon.
I'm going to be taking Deci.
Did you do arms with him yet?
No, arms.
Arms to his tomorrow.
Cool.
I'll come.
I'll come do arms.
Actually, you're playing tomorrow, right?
Yeah, I can't do arms.
I'm going to end there.
That's actually a bit dangerous.
You can do it after the game, right?
That's that thing.
You can do it.
Get the rub and just be able to do it.
You can do it.
It's a mental barrier.
You don't believe in cardio buff?
I don't think.
I think just going to the gym in general,
It's just positive mindset. Whatever makes you feel good, makes you feel good.
Good endorphins. I haven't been to the gym in like five days or something.
I need some endorphins.
You have a good session for us back. When you have that little break, it's good.
It's going to be mad. What about Erky?
Has he been going to the gym?
You do the legs.
No, I just, what did I did?
I walked for a bit.
You did back, right?
No, I did back. A bit of back.
You do pull-ups?
No, I can do only like fash that's good. That's good. You know, I did none when I started so you start in a good spot
How much you wait 92 maybe less because I haven't like protein he cost too much. I don't get belly eaten
I'm 105 kg. That's good. I pull up five times
Huge and on that night we are done with luck west
Hello, Gum.
Nice to meet you.
I'm going to come sit down next to you one second.
Man, I'm getting old. How old are you?
Almost thirty-few.
Okay, I'm thirty-five, so you know, we're in the thirties though.
Generation, you know.
Same to you, indeed.
Now, for those people uninitiated, you are the coach of LinVision.
And I may as well talk to you about your team,
because lots of things have happened recently.
G is no longer on your roster, you have flying,
Then you have Starry and you have Fufu. Is that correct? Can you tell me and the people at home about these two new players?
Okay, so I think a lot of players didn't know flying. He was in IG and Winsor. He played for a couple of years professionally.
And Fufu is actually a new player and never played a professional match before.
So yeah, now many people acknowledge him and he's pretty young.
You can see he's a matcher in this thing.
Yeah.
So what should we expect from the new boy, Fufu, in the server?
What type of player is he?
He's very calm, but let us see, I don't know.
Yeah, like Winnether, you know, this is his first international big event, so yeah, we're looking forward to what he can deliver.
Very exciting. Okay, so it's been some time since we've seen LinVision play, obviously there's been some roster changes.
And he's only, the new boys only been part of the team for 30 days. Have you guys been bootcamping in Europe or just practicing in China?
We have bookkeeping in Serbia for one almost one month, yeah, and
You know the bursaries are actually very new so we need a bit more time, I think yeah, how do practice go, okay?
Okay, yeah, okay, it's okay
So later in the year if it obviously the Shanghai major you guys are already gonna be in the RMR, which is fantastic
All of the teams have now qualified
Who do you think other than I guess the Mongols are the scary teams?
You may accept Mongols who will go through
qualified for the major
Hopefully we can make it. I think five questions. They are very strong I know and
There's a lot like
Very at them. They are quite challenging. Okay. Yeah, they
They have the experience and I think they can perform much better under pressure so yeah
a good team.
Was it surprising for you to see Tyloo lose to Rare Adam?
For us I think it's 50-50 for between Very Atom and Tyloo so we didn't get surprised
about that.
I have a bit of maybe a controversial question with Starry and G no longer in the team, you know,
is it like hard feelings or it was something that, you know, was everyone was okay with it?
Actually, it's quite painful. It's like, it's like for this instance, it's a product for us.
It's like a receipt, you know, last year, we've come here as a new team and everybody goes to
know us and then we grow grow we goes to the uh we would qualify for the major and now everything
just come back to the start point and we need to improve again again and try to see if we can make
it to the major this time. Yeah so that's that sucks right because you put so much time and effort
and there was exciting rounds that you guys were playing as a team I really like the mid-round
you guys had on the Nubus with double mollies I still use it today when I'm playing pugs
but now you have a whole new roster. So, well, not a whole new roster.
As we're looking at the roster today, you can correct me if I'm wrong.
Westmallon has been a part of LinVision for seven years.
Yes, yes. He's been the professional player from day one in LinVision.
That's crazy. Seven years. That's a long time.
Yeah, right. So, I don't think, I'm trying to think of other Counter-Strike players who have
been in an organization for that long. It's not many. Like Westmallon must be
won a very few players. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Human crims and crims even left. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. So
how come Lynn vision is West Mellon's home? You can say that. Yeah. Here's the king. Here's the
leader here. Nice. Okay. So, uh, to this group, how are you feeling about your, your group for
pro league? How the groups is actually very tough. The first offense is not V and then we have
face and very big names in this group is very hard and you turn the fire there
like they just played the final of the but yeah yeah so yeah this group is
very tough very difficult for us all right well excited to watch you guys
play is there anything that you would like to say to I know because when we
were in Chengdu that a lot of Chinese Counter-Strike fans would talk to us
And there's like different groups and they translate all the content and they put it on the Chinese like a version of YouTube and everything like that
So is there anything that you want to say to the Chinese viewers at home who are watching?
Yeah, I'm gonna ask a question so
Today we have a lot of experience and then I just said that we are now in a
just like
Everything has been changed and we are working hard step by step
I hope everyone can keep an eye on us.
Of course, in the course of this,
our performance won't be as stable as before,
but we'll keep working hard.
Thank you.
Yeah, that's it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, you're welcome.
Thank you for your time.
No.
Yes.
And that's game, ladies and gentlemen.
Martina is the champion of the EPL, Pingpong League,
and coming into the Counter-Strike.
What do you reckon?
What's the vibes?
Well, I think good vibes right now because I don't know, we play a lot of tournaments like in, yeah, and we're not playing well, but I don't know, we had a lot of mistakes, I think we fix a lot, so we'll play good, yes, I hope so.
Absolutely, because you can, you know, is it difficult to like see how good it can be, you know, like you have good game, good tournament, good results,
and then not being able to kind of do the same thing.
Is that frustrating? Or is that just a part of the process?
Yeah, a little bit is frustrating because I don't know, we work a lot
and maybe I don't know how to explain because we play a lot of against good people, you know?
And you have to do always good if not, you know,
the people is too good in these tournaments and if you do something wrong,
They just punish you, so it's frustrating because I think we're playing well.
And how is the morale in the camp as well, like for the team?
Like, is the unity still there? Because that could be the main problem,
is when people start, you know, taking stabs at each other.
No, it's good, it's good. I mean, yeah, we're like a family, you know, so yeah, it's okay.
That's good.
I'm happy to hear that.
And talking of family, is there any fun facts about your family that no one
knows about your teammates? Is there any fun facts, you know, like,
We learned that Roy was scared of bananas. That was weird. Roy yeah from Copenhagen Flames remember back in the day
Roy Danish guy
Roy he was he was he was scared of bananas. He find he was scared of fruit
You know any fun facts for us? Oh, no, no
That's okay. Hey, Maga. Good to see you man. Sorry you playing ping-pong. Yeah
You're not disturbing me. No, but you have to you have to pay the one interview price
I'm afraid that this is it. This is the new strategy. I've worked it out if I just stand by the ping pong table
They have to give me interviews. That's all good. Yeah, thank you. Appreciate your time. Good luck at the tournament
Haha, I got you now. I got it. I saw you print it off your notes earlier. I was like running at you. You ran away
No, it's okay. He didn't he didn't he didn't see me
Okay, yeah, I just saw your cure super cute tweet with your little boy playing counter strike on the warm-up
Starting a new generation in coming, yes.
Amazing, is he on the deathmatch or is he on bot still?
He's bot.
He's now learning to grab the mouse.
Yes.
Only one and four months.
Baby steps.
And then you'll have a little Bocardi.
Yes, I had the dreams to play with my son,
but I think it will not be possible.
You got it, stay on the grind.
There we go, that works.
That works, that works.
And for you, it feels like you've been at every tournament
right now, you've just been grinding.
Like you just finished the tournament,
You're in a final, and you end up straight back here.
Came yesterday night.
There was no flight, so we take a private jet.
Sorry?
There was no flight, so we had to take a jet to come here.
That was the first time in my life, so very good.
Tell me you enjoyed it.
You know, did you kind of?
Yeah, it was perfect.
It was a really good moment with the teams,
with everyone, so it was very good.
We came yesterday night, at midnight.
We just sleep, and we are here.
Do you live in that rock-style lifestyle?
Like you got a performance in one country,
get on your private jet, get to another one.
My wife has that.
I know you, that whole thing.
Yes.
Give much love and we appreciate you and definitely,
but you'll...
It's complicated for her, but we do our job.
I think we're doing some really amazing job everyone.
Like we do something we love
and I think we can't complain.
So we just accept and keep our best.
And even if we're tired or there is something we need to work out especially because what you're doing for the region's counter strike as well how many years was Turkey chasing having like a foot in the top 10 to being a part of presence in competitive counter strike you're always so close.
You know, kind of like we see with the South Americans now you know like the nineties and stuff you'd show up for an event to see it so rigid now.
It must be such a question.
Yeah, bro, you know us since Space Soldiers.
You are following us.
You are commanding our game.
So yeah, it's been like seven years, eight years.
We try our best.
I try my best to make your Turkish teams win something
big, do something great.
I think we're on the good road now with my boys,
which are our best.
We really work hard for that.
And I hope one day it can be the biggest things.
Like we fail beatings.
We lose the final against Spirit.
But it's just about experience and keep working and never do the same mistake that we did in the past and that's all.
I've been saying to myself, I'm trying to get better at CS. Whenever I make a mistake, I say it's not a mistake.
It's a lesson if I don't make it again.
And you've got to just not make it again.
You can't do this interview with this one.
Man wants to play his ping pong, so I'm going to leave you to it.
How do I say your name properly, Brett?
It's like Bura.
Bura and last name?
Arkham.
Arkanboura agran. Nice to meet you man. At least say your name properly. But yeah, how you been? How's life?
You've been traveling? I heard you got a private jet. What's going on?
You're living the high life now? Yeah, it was because
Bepoom dacha we played the final, so we didn't have much time to come here. So
we took the private jet. Our boss made this happen. So sweet. That's so sweet. Yeah.
Yeah, he said thanks, he did say thank you.
But yeah, coming into this one, when you've been doing so many events back to back, does
that kind of make you feel like you're kind of really zoned in because you've just been
playing so much?
Or at this point, do you feel like you're kind of struggling to be the best you every
day when you're flying in different hotels and you've been very busy?
Yeah, I don't know if this affected a little bit, you know?
but I think you need to play more to be better.
Sure.
So it's good.
It's good.
Yeah.
It's good.
And does this feel kind of familiar as well as the same place, same studio?
No.
We love to be here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Malta is good, yeah.
Yeah, it's good.
There's a good laugh.
It's a really good laugh.
Who do you reckon is the team to beat in your group?
Who's the one that you guys are most focused on?
The focus on face, waiting face, yeah.
How many, Matt, you've played at each other a lot, haven't you?
I swear I've seen like eternal fire phase nuke like
Tournament organization making this
But it's always
Good to play against them you have good matches like they're always very close. It's always intense
If you focus on face game if you match up, you know, and I think you
I think it would make sense but playing against FaZe must be weird because their individuals
are so strong and that they're always making their own individual plays.
Does that make them hard to beat because you can't have a read on them because they'll
do something different every time or is it not like that?
Is that just from the outside?
No, we have good players as well and the game against them always like who makes
the less mistakes means so basically that I was I was just talking to 9z and
they were saying the same thing just in general like making the fewest mistakes
at this level is it's how you win yes but but but you can't be perfect you
know one can be perfect we're humans no yeah but that's the thing you need to
make less mistakes than your opponent so just minimizing mistakes like as few
as possible. Well I've got a long way to go. But you've been at it for a long time. You
feel like you're kind of getting there now. Do you when you when you catch yourself making
a mistake in game, do you take note of it then and there or do you wait for a view and then
look at it or when like how do you stop yourself from making the same mistake? When I do mistake
personally, I know exactly after the moment, you know, after making the mistake, yeah.
So I just try to remember that mistake after the games, and try to not do it again.
Sounds simple when you put it like that, bro. Yeah, no, I wish you the best of luck.
Thank you, good. Thank you for your time.
We'll start with Sonic, not the hedgehog, the South African. How you doing, Matt?
Oh, good. Nice to see you again, Sponge.
You're in and out of Jersey all the time. We always have this conversation.
he's doing uni counter structures for fun now he's in wildcard the august now
earned by amaranth have you met her yet i have not only on stream um and the
squad she was streaming your games the other day
yeah she was she was and uh after we won epl i think she said in chat that she's
in a rock up to isola lantern a cheerleader outfit so make sure they're
well you're looking forward to that or the fans are looking forward to that
i'm a married man so the fans oh dear okay condolences or congratulations
which one is it? Definitely congratulations. Now look you guys qualified for the RMRs you get to play
who were you it was against no that was the NRG Nouns game which I was watching that one I thought
was quite fun um you guys over in North America are playing with two Swedes now and they're playing
with high ping a lot of the time is that correct? Yeah I mean at the start we had some uh visa
issues uh between Fuzi and Susp so they were playing on 100 ping a lot of time and uh teams
trying to scum us on the servers, even though we had two Europeans. All good in the end, you know.
But eventually we got them over. Tim Sarspie made it over to America and Fuzzi, he came to
Toronto with me. And yeah, we played out the RMR and the Atlanta qualifiers on good things.
Okay, well, I thought they were still performing pretty well on hyping, weren't they?
Yeah, they were. I mean, I think it was just more fear factor, I mean, for these teams,
You know seeing our dominant we were even with players who are playing all the way from Europe
Probably shooting their pants knowing that they were coming back to the States eventually
Yeah, you guys have done the liquid model though. You've got yourself who counts. I guess from technically the asian region, right?
I don't know. I wouldn't call that. I mean, I think I've been
Playing in america for as long as I can remember. Don't live out here, man
You you get this is you know, you're the you're the loose piece. I'm a global citizen
for legal purposes
But no, you've got two representing North America, right?
JBA from the US and then Stan obviously for Canada.
Then you've got the two Swedes in there.
So you've got a little bit of everything going on.
How does the Swedes demeaner kind of fit the crew?
Because normally they're pretty chill guards.
Yeah, I think if you were to pick up in your European talent
for Americans, I think Swedish I'd like to say
are the most normal Europeans.
I mean, personally, I've played with Swedes, you know,
from when I was young, just as like online friends.
so I'm familiar with them and their culture.
And yeah, I'd call them pretty normal.
And it just seems like now with North America,
the new formula seems to be picking up two European talents
and like sliding them in with your American prospects
or something like that.
I think that brings a very good mix of a serious style
to the gameplay, especially since, you know,
we can have the European style,
which is the dominant style right now.
Along with helping out some of the Americans
and obviously some of the experience that we have
like myself and Stanislaw.
So I think it's a really good mix
and they fit very well into the team.
You know, we're like buddies from like day one.
Nothing weird yet.
All right, how are you feeling
about your chances in this group?
I'm honestly pretty good.
You know, I haven't felt this good about a team
probably since when I was coming up with Provado.
It's almost like that same sense of feeling,
you know what I mean?
kind of just skyrocketing at one point you know from just bullying this roster and just jumping to
a really good place in like our region and feeling like or more so like knowing at this point that
we can be competitive in the international scene you know it's one thing to say it's another thing
to do but uh you know I think if you've watched us we we have some pretty good kind of strike we
work pretty hard and we know someone what we're doing all right sweet thanks for your time yeah
Thank you sponge. So yeah, all right. Let's see who we can jump on to maybe the Swedes have some legops held right now
So does JBA so we'll go with the ever-reliable mr. Santa's law
Stan, how you doing that?
I'm good. How are you? Not too bad. I was just talking to Sonic. He had a lot of positive things to say
You also conveying positive emotions for this event. He's lying. Well, is it all got fallen apart? Yeah
We're terrified coming into this event and you hate the Swedes. I love them actually. Oh, okay
It's true. Okay. It's just what are you scared about?
Ah, that is a yeah in and out of game.
Well, they're arriving a little bit later today.
So maybe you know, you get a bit of a head start with them rocking there.
I think they're delayed on travel.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Yeah, I'd like your mouse pad.
I forgot it in the hotel room.
So I'm improvising.
You know that experience coming in handy.
Yes.
Yeah, I like what you've done.
Well, this is just for the setup obviously, right?
So you don't really have to get anything to, you know, switch on.
How long you guys been in Europe for?
When did you land?
Um, landed yesterday.
Okay.
Well jet lag.
Not really.
No?
No.
You've solved that puzzle?
Yeah.
You're a healthy lad.
I see on your Instagram stuff you're always looking after yourself.
So probably easy way to buck the trend of jet lag and stuff.
You've mastered it over all the years.
Yeah.
I've kind of gone off of social media lately just for the mental health.
But yeah, keeping up with the health trend.
Yeah.
I want to stay healthy so I can play as long as possible.
Okay.
Nice.
And playing with the Swedes, Sonic seemed very positive about it.
But what in terms of, you know, because we've seen Fosy before, he's a twin, you
You know, that's not obviously not only that he brings, but having them as part of the team,
what is it, I guess, in America, you're having to either deal with new talent who aren't experienced,
but these guys play European meta CS already, so you get to skip a few steps?
Yeah, that's a good way of putting it.
I feel like they're very young still and have a lot of potential, but also have
a lot of experience.
And so I feel like we had a different starting point.
I didn't have to teach them the basics.
Like I've had to teach other younger players coming in through America.
It's been a nice experience honestly and they've also taught me a few things nice. Okay. Yeah boys the next year here JV
Yeah, he gets a bit of hype in terms of you know, North American prospect from captain perspective
What do you think his future is gonna look like very bright? Yeah
Yeah
Well, if you had to define him as a type of player like compare him to players that you played within the past
Is there anybody who we could maybe look to as a comparison?
It's it's tough. I don't I don't like to do comparisons, but if you're asking the question
I have to do it. It kind of reminds me of what Breeze was on EG in his prime when we
were that, you know, one of the best teams in the world. He just has the similar mechanics.
Just, I don't know how he does it, but he gets the headshots and it's just nice to
watch.
What about personality wise, quiet guy, loud guy? What are we thinking?
You got to get to know him. It's like a hard exterior, but then once you get in
there, you know, he opens up to you. So he's a very nice and humble kid.
What about with the microphone in front of you? Should I leave him?
Just leave him alone for now.
All right, well, no protective pop of beer.
No worries, thank you for your time.
Thank you.
All right, and over to the Swedes, everyone's favorite.
Wait, are you guys from the Nordic region, right?
We are, yeah.
How does it feel playing with a Canadian,
an American, and a South African?
It feels really good actually.
Pretty similar to you.
Not so many differences, I would say.
How did it all come about?
You guys joining this roster?
Basically like at Bench, on net sports.
What happened there?
What happened? I can't really say what happened.
It wasn't really like a player decisions, it was more of the management, they had their vision.
Yeah, that's all I can say.
And I wanted to get back playing Insta, so I joined WellCord with Lowe.
It made me really excited to travel the world, play CS.
Because that's what I want my life to be about, playing CS.
And you guys just recently qualified for the RMR's
That yeah, I heard that you guys had one of you was in Canada and one of you was in the States
Who was who was where?
Okay, yeah, have you been to America before? No, it was my first time. How did you find it? I enjoyed it. It was really nice
Yeah, what are you in Canada?
Yeah, it was nice a bit similar to
To Sweden so I felt a bit like home similar to Sweden in what way?
I mean, it was a bit harder there for sure and a bit more humid
But it wasn't too hot like like in Texas or something in the States for example. Yeah, I got to avoid that
All right. Well gentlemen, thank you for your time. I'll leave you to set up
I won't get too stuck in here and good luck at the tournament. Nice boys
I'm here with 3d max. We're gonna be doing some SSD setup or at least walking to there boys
Who wants to have a chat with me and Mac? I want to talk with you right because we've got like similar names
You've got a K. I've got to see what's the thoughts on that?
I don't know, to be honest.
Hell yeah, brother. Hell yeah.
Now, what's the goals here at Pro League for you guys?
Obviously, I have a bit of a tough matchup to begin with,
but do you prep? Do you ready?
Yeah, we're ready to play against them.
We play them in the Ninja, so we know what we have to face,
so we're ready.
I'm keen to see you guys play more at Cologne.
You guys did a good couple of games there during the groups,
and I was backing it. You guys are getting loud.
You guys are doing really well.
Now, what's changed coming here?
course we've got the change to the jump binds. Has that affected you guys in your
practice? How many maps did it take for you guys to not miss your flashes?
I don't remember being in Cologne. I don't think it was us. It wasn't. No?
Was it not? That's why you're not in Cologne? We didn't play the game in Cologne.
So I didn't affect us in a way.
So that's mean it's like replacements.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, but it went well.
Now, what's your thoughts on the Nade,
like the new Nade Bonds?
You know, obviously you got to jump now.
You can't just press one button.
Is that going well for you guys?
Yeah, we practice a lot.
And we don't smash our buttons like some people do.
So we should be okay.
Yeah, not too bad.
Now I'm gonna bounce over to someone else.
What is your favorite exercise?
None.
None?
None of them.
Why would you go with that alias if you don't have a favorite exercise?
It's more like theory than practical.
Do you like him?
Do you enjoy his company?
Maybe you should ask him first.
For sure.
You do, right?
I'll ask him.
Do you like exercise?
Do you like him?
Yeah, I love him, I love him.
Homies, look at that, this is great, this is how you bond as a team.
Now SSD setup, are you a pro at it?
I am what?
Are you a professional at setting up the SSDs?
Are you quick?
Yeah, we are really quick in 3D Max to set up here.
Very good, does that mean like your configs are small?
Yeah, but I think it's running fast in ESL, so we never have issues with configs.
Very good, very good. Now, who should I bounce to next? Who's a good interviewer?
Jocko.
Jocko?
Me, Jason. Jocko, mate.
Yes.
How you doing?
Good and you?
I'm great, mate. Nice to meet you.
Yeah.
I heard you go to the interviews.
What?
I heard you go to the interviews.
Yeah.
I'm trying, trying.
Beautiful.
Do you reckon we're all going to fit in?
I have a feeling this is going to be a bit squishy, but I think we're going
with it.
They teach me some French because I'm a we and that's it
There is different type of French you don't like sauce or I'll go south I like south yeah, okay
I will give you a savourless on
Savourless on yeah, yeah, what's that mean?
It's like a whole party. Oh, how do you do beautiful anything else? That's like
still safer broadcast but a bit a bit more colloquial
No, like, bonjour, ça va
We are gonna play, on va jouer la pro league, on va gagner, on va aller au playoff
et on va tout gagner
I don't know, but I hope that's good, yeah beautiful
Now what's happening down here? I heard that you guys are really quick with your setup
Yeah, we are used to do that now. It's our like third time for for three something like this. We did the product so
We know the admins admins know us and we are pretty fast
Nice now has Malta for you. Is it your first time here? We need a few times now
Fourth time absolute veteran now. What's your favorite thing and your least favorite thing about Malta?
The rooftop?
The rooftop is the favorite or the least favorite?
The hotel and the atmosphere is very nice and the organization and admins are very cool and very skillful.
You don't have to be so nice, you could just be rude.
I'm saying the truth, everything is smooth and for me I think it's the best line.
at the moment.
You think it's better because there's just like no
press arts, the studio or do you think it gets a bit too
humid? Because for me it's humid as hell.
Yeah a bit in the practice room it was a bit humid but
we managed to remove the humidity so
he knows.
Lucky knows. He's on the artisan, he's got the bloody
the good pads.
Yeah of course it's true.
No swamp pad with that. Do you like it?
Yeah I love it actually. I've been using it for like
and it's probably the best ones I've ever used,
so I don't think I will go back yet, at least.
Well, we'll see, we'll see.
Anyway, I'm gonna leave you boys to it
so you can actually get the SSD set up.
Thanks for talking to me.
Do you use this for fun?
That's for angles or for...
I feel like it's for fun.
Yeah, yeah.
Just being your showman.
You're showing off a bit.
Yeah.
We're about to embark on a world-first exclusive.
Not only do we have Doc to run through
how he sets up on a tournament day,
So we are doing a live environment SSD setup.
So things will get crazy.
People will be walking around.
It's gonna get nuts, but doc, everybody at home,
they look at you playing Counter Strike,
they go, how the hell does this kid do it?
So let's investigate how you set up,
from how you sit to where your desk is,
to how we plug everything in.
Do you have any rituals when you come in?
I don't know what I mean.
Like, do you need to have a certain drink
before you play?
No, no, no.
You don't care?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
But I need him to be on the monitor. Okay, but also he need to be like down the table
So my like elbow won't like
Touch the table. Okay. Yeah. No, I understand
So you want it over the edge
Yep, yeah, okay. So you pull the monitor forward. Yeah, it's like always random
Okay, a little bit different every time. Yeah. Yeah, it's not it's not consistent. Okay
What I'm doing first? I'm doing the table height. It's always the same. It's 73 for me.
73? Yeah, okay. But again, it's like not consistent because it's always different on different tables.
Sure. Okay, so 73 if you can. It's like lucky number. Okay, lucky number 73.
Yeah, when I'm trying to line up like this, but it's again
It's always different different table different
Different heights or like just to be cool about all right
So it's kind of a rough idea of how you want to do things, but it can always change. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay
I have like numbers. I'm doing them and I'm just chill. Okay. I like it. Nice and chill
First of all, we need to change my speed
Okay, I don't like I'm taking like six out of 20. Yeah, right and then here we should turn off this of course turn off enhanced point of position
now I'm just doing
everywhere sort of default because I have
default settings to no bigger. So you don't change anything in those settings? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, what I'm changing it's
GPU screen and there is this
Okay, what about digital vibrance or anything? You don't touch anything of this?
Yeah. Oh, just default.
I'm not going to change to accept this.
Okay. Nice and simple.
Yeah. Alright.
What about on the monitor? Do you change any brightness or anything on the monitor?
Yeah. I'm putting here mode the gamer 2.
It's just less to change something than gamer 1.
So I'm switching gamer 2.
Here I'm putting 6 or 65.
It depends on the light on the studio, on the scene.
So I'm here sometimes I'm not even changing it because some sit down and you like what's there. Yeah, yeah
Okay, I played one game one official and the seat and see like my screen seems like mine
And they like I forgot to change something. Okay, right in 60 contours 60 sharpness 10
MA high and dark premium. All right. I don't really know what they're doing
I know like people they're talking about the dark is not good for if you're shooters like
Sontics told me about this but to be honest I don't care okay for you it's good yeah okay
do you do any launch options no they're not working in CS2 and I've never had them in CSGO
okay I guess we'll talk about your graphic settings first once we get in like your
resolution and those other things.
What is started?
The video settings I guess.
I'll stand here.
This should be high and low.
And now I'm just going low.
This trilloneer, low, a bit low, a bit disabled and there's good quality.
I always was playing with the ATX because I don't like the smooth look.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Also sharp.
Yeah, yeah.
So I'm always playing with these settings.
Even in CS go, even if I had bad PC, I was playing with this because I don't like the sharpness, I don't know how to say it.
This hand, all it's about shadows, you should put all on high because it will be like high shadows in CS go and CS 2 and 4.
Nice. So you do use boost player contrast, do you notice the difference?
No, I just put it.
Okay, you hope it makes a difference, alright, alright.
And what about your resolution?
The most popular, I guess, is one.
Why do you like stretch? Have you tried native?
Black bars stretched or just like 19, like 16 by 9?
Yeah, I played 16 by 9 like for five days.
And it was really good first two days, but then I was so bad.
Okay.
So I changed because it's not like mine.
In CSGO, I liked it, but it's kind of hard to get used to it.
Okay.
I was trying to play with black bars as well.
You have less balls than on stretch.
Sure.
So it's kind of annoying for me.
Okay, all right.
That is everything which is default.
Do you do anything with the 10 second music,
like the bomb music?
No, I've never used it.
Okay, so you just, you know, with your internal timer?
Yeah, they change the 10 seconds sound.
Yeah, bomb.
You don't need it anymore.
Yeah, okay.
There's a bunch of different settings here, right?
With the EQ, you just keep it all default?
Yeah, I don't know what this is.
All right, fair enough, that's cool.
Nice and simple.
I have put scale in 1, put power, where is this?
It's L11, this plate is out of sound, this is able for sure.
I need to bounce, zoom, it's zero I guess, close.
If you have throw, you should press right click for scope.
Every time.
You cannot hold right click.
OK, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it's kind of annoying for me.
Crosshair, I can play with this.
You don't care about the crosshair?
No, to be honest I care a lot.
Okay.
I'm always trying to find something new that's gonna help me to deal with myself better.
Okay, so you change the crosshair frequently?
I'm just searching, like, we have a break before the tournament, before the games,
and I'm trying to search some new crosshair if I feel good.
If I think all good, and I'm killing people, I'm not changing.
So I have size 1 dot minus 4, thickness 1, draw out 1, 0, and yeah that's it, my first hair.
Okay.
Alright, what about like your binds? What do you use for jump?
I have 3 buttons for the jump.
3 buttons?
Yeah.
I have space, I have shield down on my mouse and up as well.
Okay, so you're using up and down.
Yes.
What about grenade binds? Do you bind any specific keys like Molotov?
Yeah, yeah. So I have molotov for C, flashes for X and smoke for Z.
I don't use at all and the NAID HE I'm just pressing for.
Okay, well they've got rid of the jump binds now so we don't have to worry about those anymore.
So do you have any other binds that you might use that you made the radar bigger or smaller
when you're in a smoke or anything like that?
I have pins that makes my radar bigger closer to me.
It's good when you're in the smoke and you need to come out the door on you
new or get down the vents, I think we can go and aimbot and we can check because I
want to take a look at your your crosshair and everything in the server and all
that. I want to see you said it was you went with hard color 11 what colors that?
It's pink I guess. But I think it's in CS2 it doesn't exist.
This model is kind of a post-2, they have style, so that's all.
That's right?
Yeah, yeah, and the other is new, so it's my bin.
Yeah, okay, nice, we can see that's working.
You did that off the top of your head, I have mad respect for that.
One more unique bin, it's about switch hands, that I have two buttons for it, like H,
And also I'm always been doing this on F2.
In CSGO, I had like hell, right hand, 0 and 1 for this button.
OK, do you use this for fun?
That's for fun.
I was going to say, I feel like it's for fun.
Yeah, yeah.
Just being a showman.
No, I guess.
OK.
It's cool to wait.
You're showing off a bit.
Yeah, it's cool to take your knife.
Sure, I see what you're saying.
OK, what mouse sensitivity are you using?
So, sensitivity 1.25.
And what DPI?
800.
800 dpi 1.25. Okay, nice. Do you use the binds on your on your mouse for anything?
No, I have like only this one. Okay, only thing. Yeah, pretty simple. I have
default settings.
Okay, what we're gonna ask is when you play do you sit like this? Always different. Always different?
Yeah, okay, because I spoke to some players like a liege will sit on his leg
You know I've seen some players there and they so you just sit however you sit. Yeah, yeah, like when my legs start
I thought there was some special style that Donk would sit with.
Do you just want to play aimbox for us for a little bit and then we can just get some
shots of you so we can see how you're sitting.
So the keyboard, slightly tilted, and everything as you feel it.
The real answer that everybody wants, why are you so good?
I don't know.
For everyone, the most key to be good at the game is you should enjoy this game, you should love this game, you should get only positive vibes.
I really enjoy the time that I'm playing with my team, with my teammates. I really love them, I really appreciate all what they are doing, so it's the key to be good.
That's perfect, that's the best way to end this, that's a very nice message.
Thank you, John. Thank you for showing us how you set up for the tournament day.
Yeah. Thank you.
And just waiting. So a little bit of a distraction from Chopper
But this is all to try and keep defenders on this side of the map
The B bomb site is the final destination and JL has just shifted away
That's working perfectly bit all the way in CT
Dolken out fighting D3B site and JL not gonna be able to grab them on the cross
So if they want to go for this it's gonna be that 5v5 on the retake flashes across the top JL
Missed opportunities here
Oh, that's awkward! Has to go for the reload, head down, up, up, up, freakin' good!
The flood! It's hitting everything!
Alexi, bit, ultraman in, shiro and chop off.
At least the bomb's not planted, so they got a bit of time to try to figure out how to get back into the round,
but the bomb's down, on B, Navi, just hitting him with the Uno reverse card.
Now, you don't get back into this round, they're all over the bomb site. They've got everything.
They've got great positioning, they've got utility, they've got an HE.
It seems weird, I don't know how that retake was so impressively perfect.
Yeah, the pre-take as well. Bon was getting planted when they come running in and
Spirit, we're not gonna count them out just yet. They grab a quick kill
They've realized that there's no one lurking around the map that Navia all stacked up side by side
So the crossfire has to be important here JL is currently open to that flank
See if that's a fact that Shiro has very good timing on this play right now. Surely you realize this?
He just turned back. He gets that spot that Shiro drops him 2v2 they get aggressive 13 seconds now
I don't know if there's a will or a way for sure. He may be clutch, but this is too much
Not a bad attempts
Maybe even short control to follow him up
Gonna be that first point of contact if team spirit committee
Wonderful such an important piece of this Navi roster right we saw him with some awkward very late games in Colo in that grand final
Some awkward moments.
Shiro is so dependable, so capable on the other side. Wonderful.
Still waiting on the box as they jump up with the MP9.
Ema helps out. Pistol out. This is getting desperate right now.
Magics had to get that kill.
2v3 with a minute on the clock, but the bomb is lost and it's only Sontex a long way out.
Needs to activate right now, but little does he know.
There's something lurking in the darkness behind him.
Spot it! Flicks around the MP9 too strong. JL gonna pick up another kill with that as well as an upgrade and Navi keeping it incredibly clean.
Seems to be a bit of an issue with that, but nicely timed smoke doesn't spread all the way across long though.
Yeah, you can see Furion throw a deeper one with a high enough height and fully blocks long, that's more on the fly smoke.
I love that.
down spirits roll it's not going to do so though they go around on the car side
meanwhile luck a waiting patiently punishes bit it's a big risk for Navi
they're saying if they're gonna take long from us we need to be able to take
middle so we can use catwalk as a launching pad into the retake Molly
might be able to split up the troops but they've got what two NCT one up on
elbow wonderful feeling trying to play around that smoke there we'll be
able to connect on to magics it's another one for one if no one out
on top just yet the smoke fade in chop up hitting the ground rather than shiro cannot connect it's all
up to the big man donk to try and make this one happen how's the spacing not too good for navi
and donk wants to keep on taking the five strikes true and keeps five locked in just two still
flawless again the romanian rock here for navi keeping them in this game solid and flawless
slow and steady very brawly game at the moment we saw all that you till run out
for team spirit came just down to fight some jail you might do it right don't
try to cross me getting a bit optimistic on his position and bits gonna
punish him with a double mid set up for navi they put a lot of pressure on a
is extremely weak right now and I love this group up for navi they're just
gonna try and crunch together get aggressive in the middle that Molotov
We'll steal that and they think better of pushing in the fight before right now.
Spirit of burn almost all of their utility. They don't have a single smoke to cross anywhere.
Yeah, just one flashbang as well.
Great reactive utility from Navi just to lock him in and make sure there was no beast that
come in this direction.
And look at the protocol as well. They've even slowed the AWPer over to the B bomb site.
Wonderful can post up on back platform and that frees up JL to rotate and be aggressive
in middle, be aggressive on getting over to the A bomb site.
Navi's reading this, but low HP can they stop it?
Yeah, it's going to be hard for Bitt to fight from this position in CT.
Good shots from Magicks firing up just when it was needed.
Bitt falls to the Molly, and this should be a save.
Wow, that's uncomfortable for Na'Vi.
Very quickly, we needed a hero to step up with Donk dead early.
And Magicks will do exactly that.
Great, Molly.
It's not going to be easy.
What have we got?
Chiro.
So-to-toe.
It's wonderful, but neither see each other.
It's the classic AWP stalemate.
He always wants that little duel.
It sounds so exciting when you read the names and they just don't go head to head here in
round 7.
Not yet at least.
We'll see if Shura tries to work middle.
3-0!
The smoke is beautiful but wonderful Nura was coming so he gets the opening kill this
time.
That's bad.
We didn't have to wait long.
What's the bomb?
That is the bomb.
Oh, Chopper.
Good find though.
He's got the rebuttal.
Okay, didn't know Chopper was an AWPer.
No, not known at all.
DonkaplotXbox is trying to make a play, trying to see exactly what he wants to do.
Looking for a peek in mid now, a step towards Catwalk, but spirits all split.
They're all very isolated from each other. Two in T spawn, one Catwalk, one up or dark in tunnels.
The big difference here is Spirit actually have the utile to throw in whatever the hell they want.
They've got mollies, they've got smokes, they can leave Zontik's alone too late.
It's Ema who's under a lot of pressure right now. Goose molly site, but nothing on the ramp.
is able to swing out late. That was a big kill for Chopper. That would have been the bomb,
dropped to the back of Cat with 10 seconds to spare. Instead it all goes perfectly for Team Spirit.
Lurg finds his entry and that will be a save call by Navi.
Alright, back to back around. Spirits found the solution in a late round execute out Catwalk
without even all the bells and whistles as you've mentioned.
Zontix is going for the hunt here too. If he can get the AWP out of the hands of JL then
Yeah, we could be cooking.
Orpher trained himself.
Orpher's got that hill coming around the corner.
We need Chopper the Orpher back.
Yeah, I get Chopper back here.
I mean, it's... thinking about it, it's not like Spirit really liked the second orpher.
Sometimes you see Donk do it on CT side or on maps like Ancient occasionally,
but it's not a common piece of this team spirit team.
No usual coming in, Donk again risking it on the cross.
He's playing very confident, but yet to get truly activated in this map.
3 and 6 for Donk.
I think all this Utah here pushing back Navi.
So he thinks.
It's interesting. They punished him early on, right?
They punished him when he was jumping up onto Xbox in the early gun rounds.
It was, I think, JLMVP just swing it on it,
and they haven't really applied that pressure since then.
It was like that one round,
they just wanted to put a little fear in him.
JL in this position is going to be in front of the close flashes,
and he is just coming up on that second box.
We'll be able to soften up the second bit, mose them down and Team Spirit try to change that pace up.
But it has not worked at all. Shiro 1v5 angle, he's looking to save in the upper best.
That game plan never changed that whole round. It seemed like Spirit called that for a B-Boss out of spawn.
When the smoke came up early they were like, okay, let's just delay it, let's make sure no one's pushing
and we're gonna come right back up into it. But they didn't actually apply pressure anywhere on the map.
Yeah. And you know, you're cooling it right? Like no one's hoping mid, no one's like trying to fight donk.
Yeah, Navi was set up in their setup from the start of the round to the end of the round
No one ever had to move. They would double B. They conceded middle
Spirit and I thrown something in middle the corridor smokes coming in left right
Trying to draw attention, but it will also bring an A player over
So Navi are getting closer have they got a flash for that sport even look like you wanted to go through
But instead it gives room for chopper to get aggressive. He's playing this lurk first
This is team wait to go hiding on the edge of the smoke chopper won't check it big gets the kill now
know exactly what's up. JL here at the big box, gonna be able to swing out for two and
again this B site hole is so damn dominant. She wrote again, nowhere to be seen and Team
Spirit they do it again. Navi just reading it every time. Navi just have such good reads
as soon as they kill Chopper. Big gets three kills. He's immediately back in the B site
with two more to help out JL. Make it four for Bits. His first kill after Chopper
when he turns back to the B bombsite saves JL's life and makes that such a dominant
win. JL, random no. Why are you coming to my bombsite? You're not learned your lesson yet.
He did get knifed out of spawn so it's not all gone well for JL. That's alright,
it's just he decided to play with a handicap of his round. Yeah, they might need it, yeah.
Another break and then the ball for Wonderful. This guy, loving these combos, setting up
their AWP player. Looks like Dong's gonna take the random in his own hands though.
He's beat that slow, and he wants it all.
There goes wonderful, and he knows there's one more tapping away.
He won't win that fight.
That's Alexi.
Yeah, can't take down the go.
Just gave me a double tap.
Through the wall with a headshot, and finally
Jail's had enough of sitting around on this B site.
He knows if Yonk's running a cat like that,
he can get aggressive.
He can get on a flank.
Xontex is holding down Shaw right now.
Jail, oh, this is a bit of a fake out, though.
He's going to keep Xontex lost to the wind,
but the bomb is still good for him.
Let's see how big the size of the Riant is.
A little window flash is going to be thrown up.
Shiro still on that line at long if you can take out Alexi.
That makes it so much easier for Team Spirit
to find that fourth round, but they're creeping forward
all the way up the ramps here.
Chop up, head down.
Well, Pete could be at the wrong moment.
Bit that little sharpen now on the smoke as well.
Will be able to spread across to the box.
JL going to be able to make it way up that short box.
And Team Spirit lose.
Oh, no V.
How do they win that round? That should be unwinnable!
I'm telling you dude, they look so clean playing together right now. It's unreal.
Donk activates for one round, gets a double entry, doesn't matter.
Yeah.
It seems like they're having like a really hard time actually activating Donk in any kind of way.
I mean, he's getting Xbox whatever he wants it. He can get up catwalk, but turning that corner, I think, is such a difficult prospect, although, as I'm saying the words, yeah, he shuts me up.
I think he's been very passive though for the most part.
Like a couple of rounds we've seen him just kind of try and take spawns
So he got punished by the all very early in the half or the MP9 on mid
But I want to see Dong make these players
I want to see them kind of freed up from the pack
They can go for these four ones
Dong can try and crack open a bombsite
He needs to right now and again, Navi
I feel like JL every single time a different position
They're not going to be ready
I feel like this calling has just been is just been so simplistic
Once again, he has to be bombsite
It's got the it's in here. You have the ready again. It's the same old team that
They're he's gonna follow through
Suvi 3
Absolutely wiped JL has made them guess every single time and they've never got it right
This has to be a game plan from Navi though that had to have been a conversation to just be like look bro
Like just park yourself in the B bombsite make sure we're to and be bombsite like more often than not and
The team spirit have to go for this last round of the first half. This is something they have to attempt to be three
They've got no utility their biggest hole. I was gonna say the shiro's office the biggest hope of donk is just you know
He's donk. It's gotta do it
But I don't think he is wonderful here in the site to show
Miss shot with another and we know shiro is good for a clutch every now and then 1v1 goes to the pre-final
9-3
Absolutely roasting team spirit
even they didn't think they had time but we all know now that they did and Navi lead by
six nine to three though what some people think is the new curse scoreline I think it's going
to take more than that though 15 spirit to get back into this game and it has started
incredibly poorly. Jay legend. Oh that's so funny to me. I think the longer this round
goes the more time Shira and Donk have to tell like this is such a horrible position
to be in your two star players down instantly and you know Navi are closing the net right
now.
This is interesting, Navi just used their only smoke so I kind of wonder what they do.
And now actually they just push up Catwalk, they realize we got both players trapped inside
this site even though if there's a long smoke there's only one way they can fight
you guys and that's the perfect position we want them to be in from Catwalk and
Zontix is feeling very lonely at this point.
A confident JL feels like the worst possible thing to run into and so he comes to them
Three kills on this pistol round.
Oh, good crosshair placement.
Ding through the box.
If you want to look at you want to look at how the first half went,
the perfect indicator is JL coming into the second half
with 13 kills, bit coming in with 14 kills.
Yep. Beep-a-p.
No surviving this one.
It's not V on 10 rounds.
Strap on the back of the site.
Lexi just looking for that info and now they're all here.
Sweating so much.
Just to get one exit.
Would you?
Oh, absolutely.
You've lost four series against him this year.
You're not giving them any.
Not a single thing.
It's ruthless from Navi.
It's kind of best case scenario to get one gun,
pop out longs, on ticks with a molotov.
They will not respect that.
And Navi come running and gunning for the throat.
It's magic's getting overwhelmed.
Shiro gets a kill.
Magic's re-peaking with the famas, making it look viable
as he finds three kills on long.
Spirits land back on their feet for now.
Navi's supportive Yuto just didn't blind him enough,
just didn't hit the right spots, I guess.
It's also a smart play from Shiro as well.
He was staying tucked at Kars,
so when they came around the corner
to dispatch that second player,
Magix against the wall,
Shiro is the one popping up to take the fight.
His one kill bought a lot of time for Magix
to settle down and find some frags.
JL gonna start moving up long.
He's crawled right past a smoke for the cross.
They've given him everything.
They have to group and play flank timing right now.
They're gonna do it on long, I hope,
but this is terrifying how much room JL's
been given. He's not gonna be ready for it. Oh my goodness! And Dog wasn't ready for that!
And he's got a ton of utility man. They split up. This is terrifying.
And on a 10 point to help. Nade, Nade. He needs to get out of the bomb site. He needs
to get out right now. Oh he comes forward! How to even get that close. What a blunder
from Team Spirit. Those might be three of the most spectacular shots I've seen in the
clutch. And Chopper had the Nade out, he fumbled. Just take a sip. Take a deep breath. This
map is absolutely over. Bro, I think he even gave him the burn after this. Just let him
know who's in the server. The Nade would have just easily, he ends up 1 HP. 1 HP.
Oh, look at this.
Ah, see you later, Donk.
What did we just watch, Molotov?
Well, be careful though, because if you get too confident, you're going to swing into the Op of Shiro.
I don't think that's going to matter.
I don't think that's a problem.
I think he hits it.
Make up your mind, Jail. A little Molotov going in.
Bit deep.
Context is going to be fine. He's primed on a smoke.
He's chopper on a shore walking into the Op, and Op comes to him.
There's two more players.
They line up for a second and get the...
Pharma somehow gets a kill.
Donka Magix combined for a couple more.
Can they get out of here in time?
Donk tries, hits the ground, but he will escape.
Gives them Coward control.
There's the Molotov, Flashbang.
Donk trying to use the new box inside the bomb site.
One player tucked down and just bashed.
Come on.
But Donk burns!
At the final second and gives a Lexi.
Does a Lexi have a clutch in him?
Well, he has three times the HP of J.L.
So, I'd say he's in for a shot,
But they should just try to just kill every second every step of the way
But will they?
Yes
They will this time
Playing for OT that's a lot around that team spirit need to even have a thought about taking their own mapic now
But Navi the domination the shots
To retake here
If no, we commit with their initial setup. They've got long lurkers. They're re grabbing the bomb
Spirited, desperately looking for information
We got Magix tucked close long, hearing steps
He's got Zontics peering into middle
And he's gonna eat a bullet for his worries
50 seconds, but this is a good long set up
Does Bitt clear it?
Very hard to check this corner
When you're going in dry, right?
You're so scared of pit, all the potential
The other side, but it's Magix
Oh, Sid! Bitt gets away with a kill
He saw him far away, he didn't know Bitt was right there
Crossing the car in the nick of time
It's on takes getting out the open the open this could go disasterously wrong. They go flash it over the top
They know there's more and Navi
Absolutely run over team spirit. We knew it was inevitable after that JL clutch
But they look to make it so off the back of the B bombsite defense JL and bit set up a dominant map
They just picked a team spirit apart. There was no fight here on dust you
13-5. Navi has taken the first map of the series and it's a statement. A 1v3 from JL and Navi's
looking to take this series for the first time this year and with what you've
just laid down the law regarding Mirage it's gonna be a tough task for but
surely Hugo Spirit knew that this is gonna be Navi's map pick. Yeah, no doubt.
It's about what's the prep looking like and can the individual switch on for
map number two? Well the bad minute when the prep on Dust wasn't enough.
those contact B plays a week and to be honest Jason don't look like he was
chained up on a leash are they gonna let him off yeah I don't know if that was
maybe his own his own choice to be playing that passive or if it was that
some kind of a game plan that Team Spirit had overall but yeah I think when
you get to the T side it's got to be on leash don't just let him do whatever
he wants let him put some numbers on the board because they really struggled
when he wasn't having production it's a bit of a B fake but they're fully
spread of the D flash the flash is beautiful bit actually crouched under to
get crossed on ramp and they still clear it. Spirit a five on four and already more signs
of life. They've found out what the feel is there. Navi across the map, right? Players
B-A-P say ramp over towards middle and the fact they give up that opening kill so early
gives the Lexi a lot of time to micro manage them into a site here. Create a little bit
of a crossfire once magic skits the spot. How good is the flash? That's the big question.
They're after the fact. Spot comes in and Spirit go back. It's magic. Yeah. Trying
for Zontics on the bench, but they clear it anyway and they saw a player here. It's ugly,
but he gets it done, and so far a clean pistol for Team Spirik, and they keep it that way.
Magix, one more with the optimal here, and Alexi getting tagged up armless at the back of the
site. It won't give JL his kill, so this one is falling by the wayside. Spirits come in swinging.
I admire the patience of Zontics, you know? He started spamming away, but he took his time,
He focused on the single kill and delivered what he needed to yeah, but yeah, it doesn't allow you to play the map
It's kind of like okay in the mid-round we have to pick if we want to execute a day or be bomb site
Mid window smoke is gonna do nothing. There's no denial of information because spirit controller deep
Yeah, they can't smoke as well, but spirit has just done one of their own
Maybe to fake the fact that they have full middle control if not we were out top
They're not all five or four other grouping, but they're all this eight split
It's even we got to keep an eye on in the back of our head bit picked out of the palace by the York
They start crossing in 40 seconds
You must get a guy's kill on the luck though
So already putting some pressure on the back line forcing spirit to turn around forcing sure to turn around to take the off
Off the angle, which is such a luxury you didn't have a smoke to block the cross
So you might take the attention
in the open and now he pouts
perfectly timed and that's the first round just the pressure of even there is
enough it looked perfect in the middle finish it off it looks fantastic the
team spirit in the defense they knew exactly what was coming they had the
players in the right position and it was able to thread the needle massive
impact and they played around so well they denied the mid space they had been
completely clear they blocked the ramp at the perfect timing alright early
challenge over towards the B bomb site, BIT jumps up.
And here's it as well, Magic's in spots and he's just jumping and BIT just plays
his quick timing on one of the jumps. Really nice pop into B right now with two players
that don't even have to commit. BIT will, jumping into the site, that smoke buys a little
bit of room, but BIT's in their hurry right now. They'll wait you out. BOMB has dropped
in now, now NB are fully committed to the kills. Luckily come to them. Wow, both
entries, BIT and JL on the B site. It's like Dust2 all over again.
Oh, what a two-man play. What a two-man play.
Shiro read that pixel angle over the van into market.
But none of this matters.
Because it's all Narvi.
That's an eight-over-team spirit coming up.
If Narvi can keep going after the races now, the four-byte.
No Shiro AWP in play, not the finances available for it.
Do they continue this mid-harassment quicker from Narvi?
Oh, Cat goes bare-taken the drew, finds the opener.
Eventually traded.
Do you love that pace change though? Nami just keeping the pressure on forcing Spirits to burn utility
They don't even know that a dude is in sandwich right now, but JL won't get much further out from under him
They're in the back of your head
They're on your bed, but Shiro trying to put them to sleep finds two kills on the cross
Wonderful. He has a shot though won't connect it and Shiro stops this round in his tracks
Boy Spirits very lucky they're getting away with this one
What a round from Shiro to hold on to everything as it's falling apart around him
To tie things up again, Famis is in the mix, trying to be troublesome this year against his ult.
They have no idea, they're heavy mid.
Even if they pair up with Stasi, ready for this position, it's actually caught out,
Palace, they don't even know, again, the scaling from JL is so close, already sandwiched,
Donk takes the Molotov, hits the smoke, he's swinging in, but he's gone.
Nice attempt from Donk to hold Navi at bay, and now everyone's gonna fall down around it.
Complete control on this very quick highly aggressive strategy from Navi so at the well
Yeah, and without a whole lot of utility
To go from the two-man B pressure round where they drop the bomb in and find the entries to the rush up cat for a bit
Now an A pop immediately
Those double smokes come out
And now we walk the walk
With that information denied that flashbang showing catwalk take
They don't know of actually anyone's posted on Calwalk unlike this spot for Donk
It's all on timing though because he's gonna wait for that window fade
They've already gone through the cons smoke now his vision is up and Alexi's down
Dink now it's gonna play all precision is well known misses the opportunity there
Those ones at ticket office gonna be over in jungle the chopper is the one that you
Grabs a second
Quick to the dome of email and it's all on bit
Molotov deep to hold back the AWP and he's got a little pocket of time to work with but he's got to recover the bomb
barely looked like a scope
Shiro
Squeezing a third and a fourth in the round
That was a two-gun save for team spirit and shiro puts them on his back
He might be the only reason they're in this map right now
This isn't see you he had that triple kill over towards stairs a couple rounds back now with the AWP
Well, what speed do you think we need that shiro apparently you scope off kill?
Yeah, I didn't see the scope like 10% or something that was absolutely filthy from shiro
One two three, oh, jeez it happened. There was a scope in play
Unbelievable
What a sequence. Yeah, if you're gonna give this spirits gonna get back to this game
You need some of those individual heroics. Oh, he's got another opening
So fast and all these working fast slow over and over again in spirit
They lost, they have no idea what to do and just now finally holding on to the bombs that it's Shiro again with a double.
Trust in Shiro, he will deliver as he takes another multi-kill this time on the B site.
Three from him, he's been getting loud this event, he's been screaming over the stage.
But essentially four players for Team Spirit dedicated towards the A site for now.
It's just the one defender of Magix at short, traditionally the anchor.
You took being set up, you've got the classic crawl from Imma through underpass.
to pass, Alexi has been able to get out to the top mid box. Jail's toes need to be careful.
Well, I mean, if he drops down, right? If he drops in the corner, you got Chopper really
exposed. Yeah, he's playing timing, checking Palace and Ramp, so there is a window where
a drop could be very good right now. Dong just getting spammed through the smoke. He
hits the molly. He can't escape. Zontik's still in this position. Oh, with a drop!
The timing is perfection, but Shiro is still here on the scope, looking for a fourth
It's denied clinical headshot for bits and Navi looking just to save this half with a fifth round
You get you get stuck in that company you drop down against bit and you got to just know you're dead
You got to know there's no escape smoke over towards con
Even is already in the B bomb site bomb coming up behind him as well. Magic's
They're in a whole lot you can do. Yeah, I don't know if we really I don't think he realizes how deep they are
He just swing it's not like him
When swing I suppose or is he considering to save I know it's going to be fine
He's not gonna get the choice in it will remove that from him and a one-round game great round to see him actually
Still go be despite all those entries on a they know they just feed into the chaos so spirit playing very heavy a
It's emo who's lurking at the top
See where he goes later on. Navi getting re-smoked as they pump another attack.
Three Palace smokes.
Yeah, Bid's gonna have to come through.
Oh shoot, a bit too soon.
Here he coming out.
Chopper inside the bomb site.
Has the off angle misses. The shots goes down. Bid has indeed come through.
Oh, great counter flash. But Dark gets distracted. Too many targets.
JL falls next. It's a three on four. Still within the reach of Team Spirit.
Bomb being planted just now but that smoke's fading.
Alexi knows he can't plant there.
Gotta find a new spawn and that's exposed to the AWP.
So now you gotta fight for your space if you want to plant.
Okay.
Towards jungle we go.
MP9 to handle.
It's magic.
It's down to 1 HP.
And the AWP gonna start making its play.
Shiro still doing God's work for Team Spirit inside this bomb site.
18 kills and a double in this round.
It's all Alexi.
As things calm and go quiet.
A quick peek.
Keeping track of this CT spawn swing.
What HP Magic skits across that's the high speed player Alexi might just do it
Felt like they were in more control than the school line dictates, but spirit have woken up from an abysmal dust to opener
This is molded serviceable for now to get things closed in to an execute lined up for spirit
Bitplane retakes over towards Ticket, wonderful in jungle.
One kill, one little tap.
Oh, he went the other direction.
That's the guy you're going to need in the second half of your spear to step up.
Donk needs to have a little bit more.
He wants that so go away!
JL's got another one, all three through smoke, it was broken open.
But now it's just Donk and Chopper.
How quickly the tables have turned.
Oh, this round is broken, alright.
Donk's going to have to go here.
Oh no, Flash is good, but Donk Dodgers shoots his teammate into process.
Another Flash.
Stop coming back! Can't do it! Too many targets!
Navi with a pistol, off the back of a big 3k from JL.
Smoke shooting, round robbing.
Navi.
I wonder if they wanted to use these MP9s on the offense. Doesn't look like it.
Alexi, ooh, missed window smoke. That is ugly. You hate to see that.
You hate to see that.
Put the money in the jar.
Well, across mid. Smoke towards connected deep. Break of a smoke.
JL having a look. That's wonderful as well, when they just pepper them down.
I wish them for the petrace and the miss smoke
Yeah, I was going to say, did they even realize that that smoke was missing till that smoke was broken open?
They probably thought they were completely protected
Ooh, I like this play
Magic's finding a bit of a gap
Yeah, so me, Julia, Nate
And a swing
That's a daring play for Bit
It's kind of left him hung out to dry
He's fling off the road
No, Zontick's catches him, he turns from a flash
Oh, this is disaster striking for Navi
You've got to be really careful.
Deep-nade towards Palace instead of breaking the smoke, Jail slid over towards Ticket timing
again.
Shiro just slipped past his glance.
Thankfully there's a smoke, so his teammates cover it, and on stairs that's a big win.
And that's the bomb that rolls down to his feet behind Ticket.
Magix is close up and he's going to work up a nerf while the smoke is still there,
but the MP9 swings and Navi recover.
Alright, we've got a full Xhack of 30 seconds here.
Team Spare with smokes with mollies and with five players approaching the site.
only bit committed inside behind the big box.
It's gonna get one, Donk with a huge eagle kill,
the gifts for his space and weaponry as well.
Can they get that plant in quick?
Gonna take back some spawn control,
wonderful core in the glimpse of a nade,
and Alexi B awaits further push.
It's gonna wait for Ema to arrive,
so no flashbangs, he'll score a triple swing.
Ema, they can't handle it.
That's it, Donk. He's here.
That's the most impactful route he's had in the series so far.
There's got a net team spirit and eighth round tying things up JL
I don't know, don't count this guy out of anything
He's going to go for it
If he had the kid I'd give him a crack
Okay, too far
This space has been taken from beer into what's Palace buys them something
Con smoke is a bit awkward as well for Chopper
Those are the last smokes that team spirit excuse me has
So they got to gain some ground up this one
JL missed the turn
Oh my lord
How is that even possible?
Molotov dropped down
He's got another
Don't can't find him
Dude
Unchained
That was insane. How do you play against that? He is in it insane fall
The clutch in the last map, but they're just locking him down towards be he's just mauling them
It was a whiplash shot into the first of the zombie
He just goads
Don't into that fight with the Molotov and he just wallbangs the world the whole time like he is in my Molly
He is gonna die. He will not escape this and the spirit
Well escape is all they can hope for right now saving in a 2v5. I
Don't think choppers had a kill in the second half either
I mean she obviously you're not calling them out
But she really was the only reason they're even alive after the first half
He saved them
I think we countered it during the break what four rounds where he was the hero that's the galsima win that half
Would have been a disaster for spirit if it weren't for shiro and now that you're missing that production on the t-side
Who do you turn to who's gonna step up and fill that void?
Emer top mid further than Donk ever was in that first half
But it's wonderful who gets picked after a leg an impactful kill from Donk to start this round
Are they ready for the snacks play in the smoke?
Yeah, if he wastes in the fade maybe but he walks through the last second and chopper does catch him
So 5v3 no excuses for spirit. They need this round desperately to respond to Navi
Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. He's in no excuses. He's in the right place boy. Oh dear
Yeah, how many and their Navias just starting this so they they keep things spread in case teams here try and stress test the map
And now they're all grouping up towards this a bombsite, which is the perfect call Zontics has a Molly to throw it in under balcony
Oh, this is such a terrifying gamble. I take back the excuses all three in here. No, we need no help
They need no support another double from bitch. Al forced out ticks the Molotov now they know
He jumps up he doesn't wait he doesn't relent and with 25 seconds and the bomb down spirit are about to get 3v5
They're piecing it together now. This jail. No, they are in the side. They are looking for this kill so desperately
JL still tucked in one beat two. They could line up right now ten seconds. They just desperately need this kill
Spirit will do it
Chopper subscribe to ESL PS
It's too late. They got locked in a Tetris. Could have just taken round from one to round to time.
Oh dear, oh dear.
I mean, that's a warning, though, for Spirit. Oh no, not again. It's happening again so quickly.
They still have the bomb in control, thankfully. Chopper?
Chopper? Yeah, he's going to work up. God, he's got the first in him. He doesn't want to peek.
Not with the Deagle. Smoke goes down. There's the peek and he connects.
4v2. Shiro and Magix have to play up ramp.
They might just get swung a 3-2-1
There's a jiggle there's info magic spotted with the bomb they don't know about shiro
Oh, you don't swing anymore. Do you surely I mean you have you have your teammate up in palace
You let him you let him be an insurance policy for you. It's such a strong position
It's just not giving sure the kill if he got it would free up so much room
Anchor right now batsmokers
Potentially the sure is just over
Let's buy shortly. That's it. How you meant to get back into the Navi team spirit? I don't know broke them the finances were wobbly
It was a really poor looking investment from Navi
Spirit is still making this look like a default
But they are getting closer and closer to catwalk for this split and Navi's just not making their move bit
Just got activated over in Palace, so he's cleared it out
That's gonna cause wonderful to rotate with the AWP email spamming towards catwalk is a good signal
They have an idea of what's coming now or never for team spirit
Can they survive in ESL Pro League or will Na'Vi put them to bed?
It's three instantaneous kills, Shiro throws up the one frag
and there is not even a blemish on the Na'Vi record.
That's what we call a shutdown right there.
The fact that they can't get in trades, they can't get any space,
they can't get any room.
Team Spirit are done like a dog's dinner right now.
Fresh out they can.
And it stinks.
We've got Galils, we've got one smoke immediately thrown,
we've got two flashes.
All you can do with this utility is an APOP, here you go, it's a little bit different.
APOP, we're playing POP's heads from the back of the site, it's EMA on the balcony, they just come flooding in.
That's wonderful, swing for another.
Donk, there's no saving this series, there's no saving your lifeline.
It's NAVI off to the semifinals.
I swear, lightly and seriously, to Gito.
I do not think we should so lightly abound on our defences.
Defences that others have long held intact.
What would you have me do?
I will not yield the opening best of three on foot.
Our pride must be retaken.
My lord, the bracket is overrun.
Much must be risked in war.
Is there a captain here who has a strass to face spirit?
You wish now that our places had been exchanged, that I was taken by Falcons, and Nekomir was
not?
Yes, I wish that.
Since you arrived with Nekomir, I will do what I can instead.
I should return, think better of me.
That will depend on the scoreline of your return.
Master Mongol.
Well, yes, in my own language.
But we have no songs for great loud halls and airfans.
And why should your song be unfit for my halls?
Boom, sing me a song.
So go rush, but there is pop, rush to Yannabue, go.
Guys, guys, guys, guys, go to the room.
Yeah, go through me, go through me, go through me.
But wait, wait me, okay?
You go close, but you wait.
Charlie will fake A, and you go B.
Ok, so I think you're done.
Oh, he's dead. I thought he was dead.
Oh my god, did you play the bot?
I did. How was the server at it?
I don't know where he is.
There are two of us running.
Push him in.
You push him in.
Let's go guys.
Push him in.
Ok, I'm running.
3B!
3B!
One more!
They're shooting at us!
They're here!
One is smoking!
One is...
One is smoking!
They're shooting at us!
They're shooting at us!
They're shooting at us!
Good!
Nice play!
One is shooting at us!
Tomorrow you're in the team!
Zontek is smiling, it's the first time he's smiling.
Who's coming?
I'm coming!
I'm coming!
This is the first one!
What's the first one?
Bye bye!
We're fudiko now, moros.
Yes, we can talk to some... I will take fast with you.
You can do it with us.
I'm going, I'm going.
Yes, I've got it, take nine.
I spoke window.
I'm in window, come.
I'm in front of you.
Come on, come on.
I'm in front of you, I don't know where you are.
Let me show you.
I'm going to shoot.
What?
Yeah, I'm going to shoot.
How many did you shoot?
He came out, he came out, he came out
Wow, that was close
3 more, 3 more, 3 more
You have to support the tower
What is cat?
Catwalk, catwalk
Void can be there
Let's go
One more, one more
I'll hit him again
Let's wait a bit, let's shoot, let's shoot
I have to push
The 7
Push, push
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go
I'll be there
What are you shooting at?
Check out.
Kaka?
Yeah, check out.
Oh, no.
Nice, Murik.
2x.
2x through the roof.
2x through the roof.
I think he is low.
He is low.
Step truck, step truck.
I will smoke it.
I will smoke it.
Let's see if we can push it.
Come on.
Oh, maybe we can do something.
He is very strong.
It's just a step.
Steps, right?
Steps, right?
Steps, right?
Steps, right?
Steps, right?
Steps, right?
Steps, right?
Steps, right?
He's right here
I want to go to the group
Are you guys sure?
No, no, no
He's in the bank now
Can we go?
Guys, I can do this
I can do the one way
Yes, I do it
You win this over there
Let's boost me with him
Yes, come on Char
I'm going to boost you
I think we go
We go, we go, we go, we go
Nice
Right, 90 volt
90 volt
Oh, like Niko
The blind is blind
We have you camp on main
Niko, Niko, Niko, Niko!
There, there, there
Niko, look at Niko, f**k
What around?
I will refund the tech man, I'll give you one.
Guys, guys, they will go fine, I think they will make a good point.
Okay, I have an instant flash.
Oh, push on the right, push here, push here.
Oh, this one.
Yeah, that's right guys.
Push here, push here.
I'm gonna flash, Nick.
I need, I need, I need, I need, I need, I need.
I'm so blind.
I'm breaking the smoke.
One under, right there.
Let's go, let's go.
Switch.
Switch.
I'm coming.
I'm gonna get you.
I'm gonna get you.
I'm jealous.
I'm 1v7.
I'm 1v7.
It's possible.
Okay.
I died on the side you didn't want
Yeah, okay, okay, okay
You're my enemy
No, I'm just kidding
Shut the fuck up, you know
No, no, my dear
You don't see it
You don't see it, that's why I'm with this friend
No, I don't
William, edge to team
At my debomber spot
William
Yeah, take my, take my
William, take my, take my, take my
Hold him up
Wait
William, William, William
Yeah?
No, I'm going in the easy way
You don't like my tess?
Ah, that's a fucking key
I can flash me the William in the hole
Pash?
I'll change the game
I'm gonna go
I'm gonna get down with a contact
Pushing me in the hole
Ohhhh
Stop
He's got a 4-shot
I'm gonna go and die
Ah, he just shoot Eri by the top
1B
Lian, he's got a 4-shot
I'm gonna shoot you
I'm gonna slam
2A1, 1A1
2A1, go close the William
Okay guys, one can be re-gained
Every deal they should be re-gained
Shoot, shoot
Oh
What the f**k is this guy doing?
How am I doing on high?
One shot!
I don't know what is shot
I'm gonna do a shot if you come back
One APK
One side APK
Good pushing
I think
What?
Is there even one?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I don't care
I'm not gonna give you a go, mate
I'm going to kill him
Is there a gun there?
Yes, there is
Help me, guys
No, no, no, let him be
No, he's mine
Wait, wait, wait
Fuck
I'm smoking
I'm going to the next game
I'm going to the next game
He's recharging, he's a Zeus
He won't
Shut the fuck up guys, I'm going to get this one
Incoming.
What's up?
One is coming.
Oh, he is dead.
Show me guys.
He is clutch, barista, butte.
I want to kill someone from the safe side.
Where are they?
Where are they?
Where are they?
I'm in the mood.
Two 5v5.
We can take them.
We can kill them.
actually we can do that
let's do this please
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
you take the money
what the fuck
I'm not rich we know
take your gloves
three two one
no
let's wait no
let's talk
no no
two is only
He's on the phone. He has a dickhead. Look at him.
He has a chuteau Fourier.
On the middle?
Not everyone. Fear on everything.
Thank you. Much better. Much stronger. He gave us everything.
A rush, this is it, A rush?
One down
Nice, nice
Where is he?
Good!
Another mid, I need to fake out, mid is on the right
Nice, we fucked up
Fuck!
Lock, lock, lock
Let me play first, I'm low on...
That's it, that's it, that's all I get on the run starts
I love the...
Yeah, I love the run starts
I wasn't simulating you but I saw you telling me that guy killed them in the zone 6 in the warm up
Yeah, I think that's nice
Guys we are making them nice for sure they won't perfect though
It's a deal that we could do
They de-killed
Let's go to the big middle then
I flush here, I'm scared for H
Nah, don't
Let's go slowly, let's go, let's go
Wait, don't shoot, they're in the vent, they're near the vent.
Oh, fast mid, bro.
What's up, bro?
One more vent.
Nice.
One more vent.
Oh, my God.
One will see you guys.
Wait, wait, walk away, walk away.
Wait, I'm walking?
Shift is done.
Shift is done.
It's too much
If they were made, he's running like shit
Nice guys
Grenade out
Headshot
They will need more deathmatch with the op
Oh you, you, you
Haro, stay got it
I fear them
Death plays slow
You know, just to finish it, we beat them, it's shorter
Yeah, we lose faster
Yeah, we lose faster
I'm going to all dodged the round
Boost me, Ram
I'm going to all dodged the round
What are we doing, buddy?
I need to miss the cheat
It's gonna be so wild since I'm being...
It's a boost, it's a boost, guys
It's a boost, guys
It's a boost, it's a boost, I'm breaking it
I'm gonna get a smoke, I'm gonna help
Come on, come on, come on, help
I'm running in the middle, I'm in the corner, Leon
Pop my endow
I'm gonna get the kill
I'm gonna get the kill
What are you doing?
Hive!
Hive!
Hive!
He's coming!
I see him!
I'm giving you a molotov.
I'm giving you a molotov.
Let's go.
There's one above, 147, but in it.
We're dead.
I thought you killed the guy.
He's in mid.
oh what now?
let's go, let's go, let's go
so, it's gone
let's go
they are not counting
let's go, live, live
mid got out, no more
one main
mid is dead
more
dead, dead
zhuzka is dead
nice
ah, it's not good
it's not good
you are stuck, it's hard for me
I'll get you for the job
I'll do it for you
Ok, ok, it's a B rush, right?
You're bullying me
You're taking money
You're a me
I'm not even trying
I'm only good
Nice, William, let's go, we have to
One more shot
Shit, it's out!
Nice, William, I'm gonna kill you
What did you do?
I'm gonna shot, I'm gonna shot
Come on, come on
You're gonna shoot me, I'm gonna shoot you
He's coming, he's coming
This was the meat
come with him come into the van
she a girl
can i please go to the van
i swear i will kill you
ah come down guys
We need to cover for next
We don't have camp top for everyone
Exactly, we don't have enough money here
No way, don't be saving work
Is this the end or the end?
You killed me
What is this?
You was killed or what?
One more and you only arrived here
I have a good music
But don't...
You don't look at me
Someone in the deck here guys
Yeah, I know
You are big
Go for it, go for it
Go for it, go for it
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Fuckin' bitch
I'm bombin' off the ground
Push him in, push him in
I'm dead
Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck
Fuckin' fucking hell
There's a guy
Two, two, two
Oh, oh, oh
I heard him
Two are there
Two
One more
I'm gonna play
I'm gonna win.
Ali will be here in control.
I'm on the right.
Go.
I'm on the right.
I'm on the right.
I'll be there.
I thought they were gonna kill me.
I'm just fucking kidding.
You're a good guy.
I was focused on the video.
You supposed to be there, guys?
I thought it's good in the map.
Don't tell me we have 3 minutes pause at the finish.
No, no, please.
How do I hold you?
I wanna smoke, I really don't know, I main from outside A, it wasn't you.
Wait, we play middle together or middle together?
No, we play A, my two go A, come, come with me, come with me.
I'm gonna do this with you.
You go B with William, yeah.
Come, come.
Goodbye, big girl pizza.
Come with me, come with me.
I'm not big, I'm not big.
What with you, Lothan?
I'm not big.
I'm not big.
Two A, two A, two A, two A.
One city, one site.
Too much.
Close big.
There's a close one.
One more.
One guy.
Nice guy.
What in the bottom round?
Even though I had to use the 58, 15 this way.
Oh boy, I thought we should actually hit them around.
What?
We should actually hit them.
Yeah, don't get the hit.
Okay.
One more!
One guy!
Nooo!
What in the bottom round are you doing?
Even though I had to U-T, you're 58, you're 15 this way.
Oh boy, so we should actually put them around.
What?
We should actually put them around.
Yeah, don't, don't muddy your boots into the bridge everyone.
I'll give you, I'll give you a high chisel.
Yeah, give you a chisel.
Give you a chisel, give you a chisel.
Yeah, yeah.
Knock mid and don't muddy your boots into the bridge.
I'm on a window
I'm out
3, 2, 1, go
I'm out
i don't have ammo
sorry
I got smoked
you got reloaded?
one loaded
i´ve down
I did I just jumped
that is f**king useless
I have auto
I'm mine
I'm in
one down
one was beemote
someone is looking at it
almost there?
yes yes yes
it's plenty there William
yeah yeah
William is
playing a new player
playing a new role in this
nah, it's not a good game
hey, I don't know how to call it
we'll call it outside
we'll call it outside
yeah, fine
shit
it was on this eh, yeah
you have to sneak up there
I imagine that 10 doesn't know how to money meter
every mouse mate
that's real, you have to smoke me
it's bad
yeah, I have to smoke me
okay, we'll smoke
And the molly was bad to pick me up
No, but the answer is city molly
It's normal
I did 40 on my molly
Yeah, it was on my molly
You were 2 mid, 1 scout and 1 deagle
Shiro is calling guys
I know because that's why
I was talking to him before you guys
Yes, I'm molly boost and I'm coming here to shop
We can do a fresh pick main if you want to smoke connector
Perfect, yeah
I'm ready to flash
Flash, flash, flash, flash
I'm going to William
Flashing, take it
Take it, take it, take it
Okay, here we go
Go
In the house
This one in the bunker
I'm in, I'm in
Now I'm taking it
Now I'm taking it
You want an A-hole
Hey, hey! Flash peek!
He saw the flash but he didn't
Alright, now that flash
Nice, nice, nice
You're just nine up
Oh my God
Oh my God
They're two at the back
They were at the back to far away
Guys, what do you think of the economy here?
That's a winner.
When I get a silencer?
That win tactics.
We are doing it.
We 5 in.
Flash B, KB.
Damn it, flash B.
Run, run in with me.
Run in with me.
We are on I-5.
Flash left side and I-5 to R.
Yeah, we 5 to R.
We're on D for this.
Yeah, yeah.
That way.
Nice B.
Nice B, nice B.
Why do you look like you're in MADS?
That, he he.
Can I need dough?
No, thank you.
Yeah, they're in the middle of the building.
I'm still in the middle of the building.
They're in the middle of the building.
I'm taking me middle.
I wish I could be in middle.
I feel like I'm at FBS if not the best playing place.
Checking is a good place.
We need a molotov.
We need a bomb, I guess.
We need a chagone.
Let's go, guys.
Checking is a good place.
Checking is my time.
They're in the middle of the building.
Oh yeah yeah yeah
Oh yeah yeah yeah
Again, again
What's the big, what's the big
In the
One, one, one, one
Is that it going to be?
It's out to be samuel
It's for the shift in the event
It's in the
Wait a bit
Hi
Hi
I took one, my re-boost I smoke it
And then I just look at this one.
I smoke one way.
I'm going down.
They will fall by and then we come.
We are going to try to play safe.
He was down there.
Can I go here without the cement?
Two guys.
Four people out.
Yeah, down on the left side.
Man, he's dead.
Semen, Semen, Semen.
Semen.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, mama.
Semen, please.
Semen, what else bro?
They are not on the map.
I'm dead, blyat.
Semen.
Retake mid-eyed.
Hi, I'm here to fight back
I'm here to...
I'm here to get one tapped
I'm here to get one tapped
I'm here to get one tapped
I'm here to get one tapped
I'm almost there
Come on, let's go
I'm gonna shoot
No, I'm on the left
Come on, come on
I'm on the left
I'm blind on the left
I'm alive
On the box
One on the box
One on the box
He went back
Nice hold B, William
Thank you, that's what I was saying
Kill him, he killed me
He went back
I'll take the B first, for example
Let's go to the second position
I'll be there, on the 2nd
What was that?
Main
Where are you going?
2 mid and 1 main
It's a filthy floor
I'm going to take the car
I'm going to take the car
Let's play the car
The car is red
I don't know if you can see me
I'm pushing left, I'm pushing left later.
I'm pushing left.
Nice him.
I'm pushing left
Nice
Woohoo!
I'm going to kill you!
I'm going to kill you so much, you're going to kill me
I'm going to kill you!
He's on the way, on the wall
No way
You will never expect you not to have kids
No way
It was not a pretty day. We don't need to bring it up. We don't need to talk about it or put any bad vibes out of the air
But snacks is gonna get tested come the second half on defense
G2 went to the piss around they've got smoke flash flash on snacks no smoke on Niko and Amali on Monosie
Come before the storm the setup is in it and bit for the apartment hold
Can be tested here who goes first is it mid is it apps apps steps in in their baits confirms and they clear out bit a
lovely headshot
In the apartments, no less and now empty handed is Emma molly to clear up the pit smoke top for Lexi on the rotate
It's already looking like a G2 pistol just a clean clearance of the apartments. Wanna see an hunter during first bloods
I mean, let's be real. There should be no way back into the round for Navi
Good opening kill on the bit
I think Emma felt like he had to be the aggressor to find some space safe space up in halls
And it's just not there so G2 with a nice simple pistol. This is the exact same setup that
that G2 had against Liquid yesterday.
So it's a bit interesting that they go up against
and find the entries immediately.
That's what you like to see.
That's it.
Game of Stuff started in the first round of play.
I was about to start asking, you know,
a little bit about what the best case is for Na'Vi
in this scenario.
Is it just saving Kev,
being a bit more threatening into the next,
bring that smoke and flashbang through?
And cheap upgrades to the armor.
Yeah, that is the best case scenario at this point.
We'll see if Wonderful can do it.
Smoke, and that's gonna hold Modesty off.
Oh no, he's gone through his traded places.
He didn't take any damage. That was the main objective.
Keep the Cavalry clean.
Cannot free upgrade if he so desperately seeks it.
Yeah, I think we touched upon it a little bit in the pre-match, right?
For G2 it's about minimizing gun rounds, right?
Like, you know, winning pistol, big deal, converting now.
Then maybe lose the first gun round but win the reset round, right?
So, you always keep Navi on the back foot.
And for Navi, obviously, you see even with the savings, they want to maximize those rounds with good utility because they feel like when it comes to that, they're the superior team.
The battle for Banana is going to be a big conversation.
He starts here, he starts there, JL, flashed off of the line, still nails the headshot.
That's a headscratcher vs. Naxx.
He's got, okay, well, there's another one.
A response of Rebuttal as JL jumps up, so we give it right back.
And they do concede top banana after that equal trade.
They've established that they've taken it and not alone that knowledge for the
non-VDFence is going to be a pressure point.
Ben still holding on to a smoke that he just now deploys, open holes.
Alexi's got one as well.
This is very threatening, very uncomfortable, wonderful.
Gonna have to get the multi-kill Niko with the UMP.
Victor's well, the Deagle's shy of the mark.
Malibus gets away with murder there.
himself the necessary double will be the second round for G2 converted and same
story as that pistol now I guess in there gonna recover a little gonna hide out
see if you can bring that through to the next and just keep the pressure up
right on G2's economy as well if you're able to well not necessarily find
the kill here but you maybe get a couple more kills in the next round as
well that keeps pressure in the first gun round if they lose it they're
going to not have a great situation economically but good reaction from G2 in the mid-round.
They didn't waste time, you know.
You see a lot of times the T is taking too long to organize when a trade like that happens
and then that late utility from the A side players who weren't pressured can play a bigger
role but here they just reacted really well.
Nice Mac 10 entries from bulbs as well.
Fearless turn in the corner.
Bombs gone off.
It's 2-0 nothing in the favor of G2 and Navi going to have to sit back on just
pistols. But yeah, lessons learned from G2 yesterday, Janko. One of them, I think I heard
you saying, just gonna regurgitate your opinion as my own. But just let the players play.
When you've got such, such talent in the ranks, any kind of direct hits, any calls out of
spawn, it seems like you're not doing yourself a good service.
Listen, you have to do it. Like, you have to change the pace. You have to go for
executes every now and then, because if you just play default all the time, it's
predictable, right? But you have to be careful about not overdoing it. Even if
If you think you're having a really good read, or a really good call, or you trust your scouting,
you know, you have guys like Monocinico, Hunter, Malibus, just let them play it around a little
bit more, default, get some information, show them some trust, believe in them, and I think
they absolutely will deliver for you.
IME is the one that has to deliver for Naby in this one, just a partial investment
with that save Galil, just keeping themselves ready for the full buy into the next step.
There's Imer's Galil in the feed first, another opening death for Snacks and back to backgrounds
on the banana area.
Just a contact walk in.
He has smoked off.
There's going to be a boost up coming in as well.
He left it open though, they were surely in the accounting for this, a late boost and
the flash.
This is an opportunity here.
Oh!
Underneath, two cross.
Barrel spotted, Imer didn't see it, Imer did not clock it.
Now, Imer works it out, pieces it together and gets himself another double.
A triple kill with a safe killill!
Oh, this is- this is some trouble. Hunter's gonna have to be plan B, gonna have to open up this A bomb site.
He's gotta be aggressive on this guy. Bomb's already coming back. Flashbang doesn't land its mark.
What a library. He spotted it. He's called it out. This is an awkward engagement for Hunter,
but he's handling it well, all things considered. And all of a sudden, you can isolate this player.
Modesty's still not arrived, but Hunter's done his job.
He's done so much work. They have to push the smoke. They have to apply the pressure, but he-
That's it! How has Hunter done that?
Gets away with the double with 4 HP to spare.
Honestly, to cover the smoke push. 10 seconds and JL walks through.
Isolates the two individuals. How is he gonna do this?
JL's been pulling catches out of his hat every single day here at Pro League.
And today is an important bonus from JL. Hunter's heroic all for naught.
What a round. What a rollercoaster. They aim at triple on B.
You feel like it's done. Hunter finds his way into the bomb site.
alongside, finds them the openings they need, and then JL with just a crazy 1v2 clutch.
A very hard clutch coming through that smoke.
Like they were both low, but the setup had me feeling like G2 had the edge in that one.
I mean, it was tough, I'm honestly.
He saw his teammate was low on site, it's an uncomfortable plan, and he was swinging
into his demise.
Yeah, a little bit of impatience there, but also some of the basics just from G2.
I think one thing you can count on when you're playing against them in these anti-equals
are going to be putting pressure on B, so Ima just hits a good timing on peeking, but
you know, you're showing the smoke on the run, the boost isn't going to be covered, that's
where the gun was, not being aware of it, the triple kill for Mima really being the difference
maker in that round.
Yeah, and down.
Well, wonderful's got his AWP perched at the A bomb site as we saw, G2 not being
super aggressive up banana.
I don't have the weaponry necessarily, it might come back to it in the mid rounds.
Yeah, they were a bit more aggressive in the mid-take, you know, that's why you see Alexi already rotating over.
JL playing it safe, just falling completely back towards the CT, not even playing for information in banana.
He gets some now from the utility used by G2, double mollies, a lot of flashes.
That's why the third player now it's a 3B setup, so this roundout becomes all about timing for G2 if they go back to A.
It has to be soon.
With that B smoke, you'd imagine Ema would start to shift back towards the A bomb site content at the moment,
which is a deep spot from spawn.
But now that utility reigns over and Wunderful is going to call presence in mid,
Ema's going to have to hustle back, maybe not hustle.
It's a double kill.
One bullet, two kills, clean.
There's more for Wunderful as well.
Do they dare test him again? A bit of a fumble on the movement there, but it's not going to cost him.
It's a G2. I think it's cost him the whole round.
They put all their pennies into this one.
They don't want to be letting those rifles go for no reason whatsoever.
Nico can linger a bit more forward, hoping perhaps for an overextension in an M4 upgrade,
but doesn't look like it's coming his way.
So, Navi will take one with five alive, without a point of damage done.
Wonderful's collateral pulls them across the line,
and I love that you described him as a phenom.
Every good team needs one. Well, wonderful.
He's been under the microscope as well by Navi fans and otherwise.
As a dude, he's got talent. There's no denying it.
His performance at the Major was incredible in Copenhagen.
He was absolutely spectacular for this team. His clutch factor was amazing. His multi-kill potential with the AWP was amazing.
A little bit of a drop off after it, but there's no doubt he's still very, very deadly.
There's that smoke that we've been discussing that Chad and Steele broke down, this smoke that's been shifting the meta.
And now we see problems arising. You've just lost monosy. Surely that's enough for NAVI. You cut your losses, you take it.
And they're actually going for more JL, a multi-kill massacre on banana.
They're invested.
You can just see the good protocols on the side of Navi, right?
They know, say the guns, they're going to revive, they do, it's not going to be amazing.
So what's the most likely thing that they can do is, okay, something fast in banana, or an apps pop.
So you open 3B, you use great counter utility, you shut that play down before it can even develop.
But they don't go too deep right? They don't send the players sandbags that can get blown
up by double A cheese and Amoli or anything. They do it in a smart way.
That's really JL taking contact and then the rest you know checking out utility and then
swinging after that second round of it that second salvo flashbangs perfectly executed.
Yeah, you know we were sitting there brainstorming the counter to that smoke. It's obviously
just stand there and shoot them. Yeah, stand there and hold the angle.
When they when they swing through. It has resulted in a very uncomfortable position
for Hunter and Snacks they kind of do need to die. These pros always make it look so
easy don't they? Death required. Not for us all eventually. Sorry about that. We just
got real deep. Real quick. Yeah, accidental philosophy. Yeah, they're coming in. They're
going to try and do as much economical damage as they can. You know a couple of kills
up on plant, around win, but not to be
hunted up. Get that A-Shail.
And it's denied. Wonderful.
Steals away the final kill, but JL
4 up to 7 and 1.
He just doesn't let up the gas. He has not taken
his foot off of the pedal.
4 kills in that round.
He wanted 1v2 clutch. Just to stop.
Yeah, just a nice start to the day
in the office for JL. 5 rounds in.
You've clutched down, got a multi-kill here
and defensive B. So that was Monty trying to get
through with the half-wall smoke in this
Oh, the double kills.
Filthy.
Didn't even look like he got the third one.
That's a little bit of love from that final bullet that comes out, you know?
So you get a little bit of RNG in your favor there.
And now I start poising the question, right?
I'll just make sure they're not going to hit up 1v to start the round, but...
Psychologically, I know none of us are like, you know, trained psychologists.
But from our armchairs, do you not think that when you haven't beaten a team so as much as this head-to-head,
Do you not think that as soon as you have a bad round, it's going to exacerbate things, you know, you finally go, it's happening again.
Do you not think that you kind of start to kind of self-fulfill the...
You do, but I don't think there's been a bad enough round for G2 to slip into that.
I think their psychology at the moment is just like, we haven't really had money for a good buy in the last two to three rounds.
Like, it's fine. We haven't really been able to get our economy going, so just wait for that next gun run and we'll get it underway.
I think round three was pretty bad.
I think it was really bad.
Because it started the downfall of the economy and everything in these fourth buys.
I mean, you look at it now, it's an eco, look at the money on some of these Navi players already.
So they're in the driver's seat. This is exactly the scenario the G2 was hoping to avoid.
I mean, you have to avoid this scenario in every game you play.
Well, yeah, when there's one safe rifle and you run into it and you get the triple kill, that's going to feel bad.
Sure, but against, you know, a team liquid, Jason, you could still recover from it.
Yeah, or a similar North American team pick your pick whichever North American
Hunter has an orb he's got one at least one of them. Where's he gonna get MP9 long range?
There's no way he's an offer hunter is off is like rains off
Not seen very often in the wild. I wonder how many career all kills. He's got someone please
25. Yeah, I was gonna say 7, but it's the G1st, G2 tactical timeout as we get an opportunity
on the mic as well blade.
And even the gun round after the Koran, you know, on a macro level wasn't that bad.
I mean, G2 was about to end a 5-2, right?
But the problem was with 30 seconds left of walking up mid, wonderful gets a collateral
and that's pretty much it from that point on.
And you already see saw them a little bit, right?
You've taken mid, you've taken top banana, you've gone back to mid, you've already shown
a couple different moves throughout that round.
See what they came up with during this timeout.
The conversation yesterday on the couch and from Monocy in the interview was play simple
counter strike.
No need to make it too complicated.
Yeah, that's the solution.
I mean, especially what you've been talking about, Talies going up against opponents
beating you so many times, just don't overthink it.
Just play the game like you would against any other opponent, right?
in your game play with confidence and you know let the chips fall where they may also
number two Nabi yesterday took down one of their long time you know hurdles and nothing
ever to beat spirit basically ever and finally doing it so in their minds it's like yeah
we've beaten them eight times but we obviously know that that can all change very quickly
yeah don't take it for granted I mean I'm sure no member of Nabi came in thinking they
got a free win today no and we see this 4b opening for more and more teams right
is there to sort of simulate the number of players, right? Because from the number of
HGs being used or smokes or incendiaries is where Niko is giving information to snacks.
Okay, I think there's this many players, or this is how much utility they have left,
but because you opened with four, those two guys have more utility than you expect.
You really only get punished for it by a fast A-play, which wasn't what G2 went for.
Fast A-plays don't seem to be in the meta nearly as much as they used to. Maybe we
We start seeing that come back if teams are going to stick to the 4b start of the CT side see more teams take the risk take the gamble
And it only has two smokes and a flash left so
Not too much to work with to end around. I mean the CT side way more utility
Yeah, this is actually harsh this cut of noise and now Nico is gonna. I assume fully commit
Always you just making steps
Because they're really trying to force a rotator. It is the one to think about it. He's library
There's a house. He done that
Amazing catch, it will start, Imer looking towards the B-side, wonderful looking for answers,
mid, we're ready for it, this is well structured, it's taking shape beautifully.
And another one caught out, Imer in response, getting ping-ponged around the map, that is near flawless from G2.
Crazy what happens when you don't run through a smoke in the first 15 seconds of a round.
But bro, I almost want to like yanko it, you know, I want to pull up the skybox and tell you about all these little steps
and moves in order to force the rotations and find the gaps. Everyone got panced.
I think the reason G2 didn't have a lot of nays in the end is because the call for them was they're
gonna have to re-clear mid, right? Like, and that's what we're waiting for. That's why everyone was
in brackets. They're just waiting for what's wonderful eventually, but that was due to, you
know, Nikol so finding a kill, which definitely helped, and that was the first domino sort of
to fall, but you can see that's something that Navi does a lot. You know, they take
space and they make you uncomfortable and then they sort of just wait for the
reaction and the whole round is developed about punishing your reaction
because that's what you can almost count on now when you're playing the T side
the CTs are going to be doing stuff like you're never going to see anymore
the CTs lose banana and lose mid and just sit back and hold right they're
going to try to re-aggress somewhere you know that is pro to exist well
they're they're they will gambles back you know yeah which is also something
the teams you see them play 3B late, right? So then it's just figuring out how to make
that read and how to get that information.
Now here's the thing with that round for G2. You're not going to get that opening from
Niko every single time. Maybe not that one. Actually, he can provide you openings at
the B-bombsite pretty consistently, but it's not all going to be as easy as just
spamming a smoke at the right angle and letting Alexey walk into the bullets.
There's a different layer of the land now for B. With JL catching that grenade,
I thought he'd have a more passive stance, but he's still confident to try and take a head-to-head
aim duel with a 50% discrepancy.
There's some bravery from him, wonderful catching flak elsewhere, it's forced to reposition.
So full-amps control, early doors.
It's a wrap side setup though, if G2 do this mid-exact with, you know, with the left side smoke,
with the wrap side smoke, with the library smoke, you could be in some trouble.
They're gonna be aggressive on it. There's now a fourth player at this bomb site as well
But still all the attention
On the wrong side of the bomb site for the moment
He was only working with a couple of pixels there the fingertips wasn't able to convert
Unlike ultimate and that's Sean Anubis
Look at this. He's really trying to piece the puzzle together and he's holding on to his util right now
I think they're assuming Navi that this is gonna be another one of those ping pong rounds
We just go back and forth between the bomb sites because you're already seeing Alexi shift over despite the fact
If there's a lot of pressure, Niko, that smoke is gonna help out a lot.
They're testing Bit, they're trying to force a reaction out of Bit, and this is a position he's very comfortable in.
Immet is biting on the bait though.
He has wonderful, but it is just Bit and wonderful.
Up against it, he misses another!
What you got for us, Bit, it has to be outrageous!
And the smoke, can he adjust? He does for the spray!
Can't find it!
And wonderful, only the one.
Bomb scooped up with a second to spare. Where's the bomb?
No time.
Hunters! Oh, we didn't get it!
What is that?!
Oh, Navi got a gift there!
It was about six seconds, I think, because he picked it up.
I'm not sure what the delay was.
See, that might be the bad round.
That one right there is going to be really frustrating.
That's the second one on the half.
I almost want to give him the benefit of the down.
I'm sure we'll see it in the replay.
I felt like he got blocked by Modesty trying to, like, path into the bomb site.
To pick it up?
Yeah.
I couldn't find it. Maybe went the wrong way around the box.
I mean, I know when I'm playing with my minimap super zoomed out,
And I'm trying to find it on the minimap it can be difficult so six
Nope five. Oh, he will pass. It's the minimap. Yeah, he straight up just walk past it. I did my best hunter. I tried
Gonna be tough to shake that one off, but it's necessary
They have to just forget that happened around that was destined for G2's glory instead reads fine finale V
Push it you regress monocy flashed off the line, but Niko does well
They might just pick up the pace here. They got all five people in banana
They might not even just ignore this smoke, maybe break it open, and no, they're gonna back off from it.
Happy to concede with a five on forward advantage.
Okay.
And the problem is they have no information on A, so they might just be resetting for that full exec.
You see, he might come over, he has a full utility set as well, so...
I don't know what you do here though, you have all five players in banana.
You can't really go anywhere else, so you're just trading utility until they run out of smokes on the B bomb site.
Yeah, I think that's what they're doing. Hunter is going to try to apply some pressure, but BIT is also moving towards the B bomb site, right?
They're just leaving wonderful there.
They clear. Alexi B.
I suppose we aggressed as well. Finds an E-Cobe. It's Malbs!
They're tokened off the site.
With no BIT in sight, maybe they overlook him there? Still there? Not anymore! Malbs! What a shot!
He is an absolute beast, Malbz.
He's such an asset for the G2T side.
I'm sure for CT as well, but just the amount of space he's comfortable taking.
It's also just like the fights that he likes getting it are all ones that are like,
you know, the aggressive, I want to take control of this bomb site,
or I want to enter into this part of the map.
And having a second player that can do that along with Nika,
who's also a fantastic opener is such a luxury.
True to his namesake, I think Hunter's got him booked here.
Wonderful. We'll not be able to find a safe haven.
Hunter and snacks are slowly clearing out arches don't know how far they push it though
They are being quite slow about this
They double peeking from two different angles. He's a dead or walking. Yep miss shot
So it takes some mouths. You keep saying his name to triple kill from him
That would you two get back on the horse after letting one slip away?
Well done now within one round of a force of time out of blade and Navi to talk things over plenty of cash for the
well not plenty but a good amount of cash for the Navi side and you can see it was a couple of times
G2 would get top B top banana right and go back to A or try to end the round on A so that's what
prompts Alexi to go for an information play you know like hey maybe they're doing it again
I mean they're just like one or two guys here and then if we can get rid of them
can equalize we can have a chance to win the round but the majority of G2 was just
sitting banana waiting to go for that execute so they punished the aggressive play
pretty clean round in the end and this is the final buy for Navi, their money is all tapped out after this.
So G2 potentially, if they could win this round, could even win the half.
They had money for an AWP Navi, they decided not to go with it.
An extra M4, an extra MP9 instead with the utility.
So wonderful going to be without that weapon for the time being JL and him taking control of Banna.
and here's that 4th E start again from the defensive side.
Snack steps in front of the molotov.
Gorsh has crawled towards the parmins.
They know the bit has got aggression in the mix.
This time not the case.
Popped in on pit.
Deep banana control taken.
Look at this.
From J.O. and Niko.
What?
Both of them.
That's both two players.
How have they done that?
Two smoke shots.
Two completely blind smoke shots.
Then it results in a wide open B bomb side.
Navi know that this one's just going to get investigated.
Niko the probe gonna be searching I wonder if he commits I think they're too
far away and still too spread across the map as at this point you maybe you
want to you want to group up you want to make sure you're playing the trade game
with the man advantage you can maybe leave a lurker but one of the ways
these 5e3s fall apart is being too spread out and that's well coming deep
from CT is gonna prompt Niko to think there's no one else more in the
site like that's the first rotate coming in
Oh, Bidda.
There's nothing in that?
They're taking someone told them, maybe.
Oh, yeah.
Now they're down a bit out of sight, Hunter.
Catches the search.
Hang on, Bidda spam away at Niko, but he's rotating back.
It's all missing, folks.
Well, it's all fair play to get it through the smoke.
You know, Niko and Monosiz now won this round.
We have to give one to Bidd just to make things fair.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think now he's going to be happy with the trade, but...
No, probably not.
They're on the heavy losing end of that.
So now I think it's kind of dead even in terms of, you know, the BS that both teams have handled.
I don't know, the Hunter defusing could still be kind of in my head, but
I think you two are going to be pretty damn happy with the way this round has played out.
And Niko spamming the smoke onto JL. Satisfair share of hero moments in this half as well.
You're losing a lot at the end of this, trying to hunt down these weapons. Really nice job from
Bitten, wonderful. Now Monace is also around with the AWP. I mean, you don't want to give
that away. Nope. For an M4 for a chance to punish so I think he's aware of it as well.
That's why he backs out. Another default round, Jason. Another default round.
Effective default. I did say you're not going to get many openings just through the smoke,
just spamming, and here we have two more just for no good reason. Just one round.
One with the AWP as well. They're particularly dirty.
Yeah, Lika looks like he's quite happy with the way that one played out.
That's a very sheepish grid and juggles.
Like, I know what I just did.
I know what I've done to them.
I mean, you know, it goes both ways, doesn't it?
Sometimes you're the guy getting, never mind.
Sometimes you're the bug.
Sometimes you're the windshield.
That's what I'm saying.
Well, G2 almost lost a round like this earlier.
So, let's hold the phone for a second.
Bit and wonderful.
Okay, wonderful.
Can certainly bring this back.
That's nice work.
I mean, honestly, in Bit, they know each other's game very well.
very well, they've got a lot of faces together.
I want to see you even say, stated in interviews
that eventually he'd love to be on a team with him.
And now when they get locked in the server
against each other, it's all, the gloves come off.
Yeah, they do.
No friends in Counter-Strike.
Niko, get your hand up,
like you're questioning something at the moment.
Yeah, I mean, look for a second
that they were going to just go into a full B,
execute after getting two kills on A.
So wondering what, you know, what the read was there,
but maybe at least let Hunter search A a little bit
after you threw all these nades on B.
Or walk into the early rifle and lose snacks.
Okay, now they know there's two more guys on B
because the flash came from CT.
Obviously the player in the side.
Oh my gosh.
Little alarming now.
Unfortunately, Hunter will call A-Clare.
Now it's your time, Hunter.
It's time to lurk.
Time to get us some information.
Catch movin'.
Well, an AWP is recovered.
They never picked it up and threw it over the wall, too afraid of sticking around in fair play.
Its weapons were covered for free for Navi. Not too much of an impact.
There's only one round remaining after this, but the AWP is something they wouldn't have had.
Now the AK, that's well, yeah. Gonna be happy with that.
Gonna be very happy with that. But G2 is gonna take a 6-5 lead.
Their map pick, starting on the T side and it's looking good.
Now winning the pistol, converting the Navi goes on, on a little run after winning that E-call of their own.
Well, you gotta be pleased too, because one of the things you said on the couch was you felt like G2
kind of had to play with the lead, and this is them sort of fighting back and mustling their way back into the game.
Yeah, this wasn't exactly that, which makes it a little bit more impressive that they managed to stabilize.
But listen, for Navi, if you're going to look at them, you're going to say CT side, no matter the map, the map is the weaker side.
I mean, they do their best work on T side, so it feels like for G2 winning this final round,
round and maybe even the pistol has to be the way that they can end up taking
Inferno because Navi is always able to rack up rounds on their T-side.
That was so scary. They could have gotten doubled so easily at that point and then the round is really in contention.
One round lead going into round 12. By virtue of the save as well, it's a nice solid healthy looking buy for the final round to defend 4-6.
Could have had an Orphex ahead there, both posted for it.
He's done it again. JL's having a nightmare up against Niko.
Two rounds where Niko has just caught him on his aggressors. I mean, there must be a Q, right?
That deep smoke arrives, the Molly logs, and that's another double as well.
He tagged Hunter through the body of Malb's down to 35 HP.
Two collateral's and a half, not too shabby.
Lexi B has to function without JL.
Gets a bit awkward, gets a bit uncomfortable as they look to reclear.
clear. I think he was looking for what utility he could salvage off the body in
Jail's last use, Nade was a flashbang, so that's not, that's, you probably wanted
the smoke, you might have wanted the Molotov, didn't get either one. And we'll see
now, Snax is all the way in apps, he's not with the team, so let's see what the
call will be for this round. He's gonna find some action in apartments. Oh he'll find
action all right, just as he looks away. There he goes, wonderful flashed off
the line, did not fall back in time, Nico opens up the account for B. The
The bomb is disconnected from them, needs to be retrieved and Bit and Monosy might clash
on the retrieval.
AlexiB confirms his time is lost, but they have just picked up the bomb.
There's one more smoke on Monosy as he comes in, so he's going to be okay to refresh that
towards CT spawn if it's needed.
And it is indeed.
There it goes, Goffin's already smoked, but we've got a 3v3 at this bomb site.
Davi is in the right place to go for a retake to harass this bomb plant, see
what they can get, and they must go for this.
They're going, no way!
the late boost this time it's a double from bit hold your horses monos he lives
and monos he lives for moments like these it all lies on him smoke grenade
available kit on the Lexi it will deploy and as an all-per that is your worst
nightmare smoke shots required what do you do he pulls the trigger onto him
trying to find the lineup going for the nose goes a few coming in from the
kit of a Lexi monos he won more jobs he can't get it done and a six six
Top, swap insides, we'll be right back.
This semi-final is a lead just begun.
Touching bike, touching bike.
Levering, that's it.
First one, fuck, fuck, that's it.
Navi coming into this series with an unblemished 7-0 record
over G2.
They're trying to break that streak right now.
This is for a spot in the grand finals.
Facing off against eternal fire tomorrow,
but you got to get there first.
We're tied up on Inferno, and it's the CT side
pistol for G2.
Hunters pushed up into balcony, and Ema just creeping and crawling right beneath him.
Two smokes, two flashes and a Molotov. The plan AlexiD has in store for us, an opportunity for Hunter, gets away unscathed.
That's risky though, you gotta hustle at that position when you take your first shot.
See the bullets whizzing past him. They've got control of Banana as well, or at least deep information in Banana.
Nico spots one jump across.
DANGEROUS game they're playing, moving up against Nico. He's even pre-aiming and the next time you try.
I feel like you see someone standing in the open of banana in front of the board like that?
You've got to be a little bit cautious. You've got to be like, there's something else.
There's like another layer to this setup we don't know about.
I mean, it's baity, isn't it?
They're trying to sell up for monosy, but they're not having any of it.
I mean, it gives you input.
They're not banana, sure.
But there is two of you on the A.
It sets them up for a very fast push, too.
As you can see, there's no one jumping across now.
No more information, no utility, no flashbangs reigning over,
so G2 just shrunk the map in half.
Oh, and they're still exposed.
Trying to line up his nades.
Wonderful, gets brought very low.
single bullet would do it. It channels them into the three man hole. Make it two. Mouths
deleted by Immy. Clear the corner. Traded by JL. Onto Moto. Snacks delivers. And now a chance for the
plan of the moment's respite as Monosy needs this instead. Shop a bit. Takes him down. Makes
this a two on two now. JL brings aggression to the mix. They're not accounting for this as he
gets a clean one. Oh! JL points the foul in a two versus two and his first thought is
I'm gonna push and play the fate and if you're g2 you just say why why would you why is it you'd never expect that kind of a
Play and I mean if you're JL
That's just supreme confidence in yourself, but supreme confidence in bit who would be the guy left alone behind you
Give me a clock to a spin on that thing
Here we go push down middle aggression from g2 they want to go back good flashbang, but they're lined up and it's JL again
Okay, here's the deal. You're gonna get spun through the smokes in the first half
But you can get multi kills while flashed in the second. Yeah, that's how the trade goes
That's a rough second round for G2. Thanks so much for that good start in the second half
Yeah
But I'm really interested to see what the game plan from now it will be in this one right because you obviously have
Now Nico and Malibu's on the B bomb site. I think for me
The way I do it is I try to especially after winning pistol like if you start 3-0 here and if you're not
just winning the first gun round on B right and just putting a lot of pressure
there if you were able to win that banana fight and win the round towards B and
after that I would just go away until the end of the half right because you it's
sort of expected to go A now against G2 in this sort of setup where on A you
have snacks and hunter and then monosy depending on where he opens up if he
has an AWP and all that sort of a thing so with that one win on B you're
We're sending them the signal, okay.
They don't care about the fact that we have Niqua and Malb's here or if we open 3B and what not.
I think that can open up the map for you a lot more, if you're an ally.
He may as turn for a multi-kill.
That Nade looks destined for some damage, but they get away.
They're shy of the mark as well. Didn't have the forward momentum.
I'm already lurking into the B bomb side. Jail's got a pretty deep angle.
He steps away as I believe they heard the footsteps over in CT spawn.
Another round of smoke and utility coming in, Alexi is going to lead with the Mach 10, let the AKs come in late.
Here they come, it's all about timing for these G2 USP's and oh, bomb on the floor, they're pushing and they're down.
Look at this, it's just unloading, lovely like hesitance there from Na'Vi, like they were, they were diligent, all the Util came in and they also not in a rush.
Like those smokes are 20 seconds, we don't have to immediately go.
And you know when like you hear, when you're the team stacking that bomb site, you know like you hear those footsteps entering, it's like alright flash now, alright go through the smoke now.
And that's what Navi's like just staying far far back
That's a good shot. Yeah. Yeah, that's a really nice shot very nicely done
Okay, so m4a4 enjoyers
Eating good tonight
Eating real good tonight on a single silenced m4 in the mix in a dangerous game walks through the flame to get early control
What's the boiler position a he she chips farther away at him operating at 79 these m4a4s and at one bullet head shot now available
Come on to him, Alexi B, the same now after the Nade.
This is going to be a big fight.
How well can Snaks do against Pit?
I talked about it just as we went live into the map.
Bits so good and so precise in these positions at these headshot angles.
Snaks is going to have to play mistake-free counter strike this second half.
He needs to block apps here because they just made an info play on B.
And by time for the rotate for the four guys to come back today.
Gets it down, just in time, just as he repositions.
Monacee delivers only the one!
Snacks! It's good!
Takes the head off a bit.
The Navi have the man advantage and the site.
Already up against it are the B defenders.
Niko amounts later the party.
And I don't see a kid.
Do you even have a look?
I mean, welcome to Inferno, folks.
This is a conversation G2 are having right now.
No, I don't think you go for it at all.
It's no kid with only the one smoke.
Three people to find.
You've got no information
They might have even stuck around too long
What M4 goes down in the hands of Niko, Malph's is going to back off now
It's truly lost so they'll only be able to bring the single rifle into the next round
And G2 is going to start running out of opportunities to get back into Inferno
So one of the two defenders there, Monosy or Snaks, needed to get a multi kill
I guess that's what it boils down to
I mean Hunter was there as well, they had three players there
I think they were just a little bit late with their utility
And Navi was already up close so I think
I don't know if Monosy died
Well, while he was switching back to his rifle as he threw out the molly but also not smoking apps earlier
You know if you're a hunter coming back from long you have to worry about that angle
So I'm holding you from up. So just makes the setup and the crossfires more
Difficult. Oh come on. You see the way hunter died there as well JL's goes pre fires down a wall bang
Do you see him? Or maybe he had the info
Maybe he was just a spam as you're going in. I have no idea. I didn't see him
No, but that's been kind of the case for a lot of JL in the light. I hear a BL. Yeah
15 and four. Yeah, do you remember that like mirage short round? Yes, there like doesn't see them just has a
like a six cents. It's such a fun thing to be like Navi has no star player and I want to be like I
think JL might just be it now. I think he might be there. It's hard to dispute. And I think when
bits in for me looks like Superstar in his own right. Now, everyone in delivering look at the
look at the frag distribution right now. Lexi B got the IGL debuff but at the moment
You've got Imheb, Bit, JL, and Wonderful all in the teams, or head in there, Bit on 12.
It's an Imheb, getting to double digits.
How do we finish this one?
Round 17 and G2 with only really one threat in the same rifle, I say that.
They decide arms, they pack a punch if you over commit.
And Imheb going down to Monocys, a great start for G2.
Finally finds a respawn since the headshots.
Next can't get the gun out in time.
They don't expect me to look at them right.
You're thinking, okay, they're both B, just like last time.
Just like last time.
Dude, they let the smoke fade first though.
They're taking this very patient and very cautious.
Nico around the box.
Yeah, they're wrapping around him and he never got a clean fight, a clean look at
it.
Navig is so patient, so aware, so disciplined, never trying to pick up the pace and
try and do things too fast.
A perfect round and they're going to be at 11.
They're just never in a hurry.
No.
They're so comfortable at that point.
I suppose that's the perk of, you know, kind of a 40 seconds left on the clock as you exit.
You've got time to make sure you cross your teeth and dot your eyes.
And you have the conversation at some point in those situations where you're like,
and it maybe it probably happens to you in an early match, and you're like,
the only thing that could go wrong in this scenario is someone hiding inside the smoke that we don't expect.
Right, right.
But why don't we just wait for it?
Why don't we just chill? We got 40 seconds.
What do we lose other than time?
And we've got plenty of that.
You can see there is a slowly creeping crawl, all the smokes covering all of their bases.
17 and 4. Another multi-kill.
I wonder what he's up to now and have a quick deep dive
Six multi-kill rounds for JL that ain't bad standard not too shabby in 16 rounds
The slideshow
Second time I'll called by G2 I
Always feel like in this instance calling a time out
It's just like why give blade more time like he's just like taking these opportunities
Opportunities reminding his troops look how he's got something to say he didn't even call it
But he's like I've got stuff to say yeah, I mean not much here to say for Taz really I think it's more so it's 11 6 right
We're about to lose the game. Maybe the energy is down a little bit on the players. You know, they're not communicating as much
Right so you want to try to raise the morale
Get some momentum going
Imagine blades just reading off a list of like tendencies remember they like to do this remember to watch out for this when you rotate here
Remember what these smokes mean? Yeah
because Navi's on point you don't need to change anything at this at this moment
well Malta is also trying to raise the morale of G2 here
no not quite Hunter and Monosy are close to mid though
Snacks anti needed the cover from Monosy
an opening kill for G2 off the back of a timeout
and the defense sinks back happy with the man advantage
G2 hasn't had to shift anything just yet just still two defenders of the
B bombsite jiggling in tandem, three players at A.
Monacy is wrapped around from lane.
Out of the corner, missed Molotov as well is going to be very helpful so that
Monacy can keep information on brackets.
55 seconds left for Navi.
J2 has to win this round, right there in a 5v4.
B players have both of their smokes still.
Navi looking like they want to go for an apps pop in this one.
Not the worst call, there's space for it with this setup.
but they have no smokes and Monacee is still here with the AWP.
Just looked away towards Long.
They crouch out, good spot, Hunter.
Holding that angle now, Monacee can contribute JL down
and looking for a clean round, but one back from Wonderful.
Alexi B, had a quiet one here, but hang on, if he gets one more,
oh, can't do it!
Hunter nails it.
And the must win round for G2 is one!
Hunter a big one, high impact from him,
on top of the tables with Monacee going toe to toe with him.
And Monacee trying to hype the boys up after that win as well.
Maybe you touched on what you said, Janko.
Maybe low energy at that point, and that round win
is very nice for Monacee to try and get the boys back
into the game in a timeout immediately called by Navi.
Drop with his two bodyguards.
Uniformed up.
Shout out to all the Brazilian sporting
MTR in the first game.
But yeah, I mean, first time he gets the AWP
in the second half, does a lot of damage with it.
Immediately a timeout from Blade, so let's see what it is that he wants changed up and does this prompt monosie to open the round on B perhaps?
For Navi so far on this T side that when it comes to the gun rounds at the very least, you know, it's been very A focused not too surprising
It's surprising. I think that it feels like they haven't really even tested the mana like they haven't even really
Well, they do this thing also
It's kind of a cool approach where you do it against equals, right?
It's like yeah, and so if you look at the rounds, okay
They're still ending be some rounds, but actually the gun rounds not really yeah
The gun rounds over at a blow by rounds towards the B bomb site
They can feel like you're still willing to attack there
Losos jailed in that right now with an extinguished flash and a jump through is there a HE coming
He suspects so and actually manages to evade entirety the entirety of the assault
Well, maybe this is why they didn't try and test Banana too early on, but it's a convincing
win for the G2 defense for Malves and Niko, well handled.
One for two trade and again a man advantage into the mid round of round 19.
So Navi is going to work themselves back towards the A bomb site.
Smoke for left mid, once again looks like at least Halls is going to have one member
of pressure bit moving into that.
And that's a reason for the position swap.
It allows you to go for more two man banana takes, right?
So you don't leave too many gaps on the A bomb site and again G2 at the right
spot with three players on A.
No smoking holes though, so Bid has that clear line of sight. Snack still has one in his pocket.
Nico, his signature precision on the first tap and now Bid takes him down on top.
Unnecessary trade. Little lake, all the same, and that perhaps Nico had no idea about.
I think that's like, you won't feel too bad about being baited in that one. It was around
securing bait. Yeah, those are allowed. Yeah, you get a full, you know, golden star for
for that one. And it's also, you know, off the back of the time now, back-to-back G2 rounds.
Yeah, and you can see Blade wanted to, okay, let's make sure we get Banana before whatever
it is that he wanted them to do after, but just wasn't too great and shows you how difficult
sometimes it is for T's to take Banana late if there's still two CTs playing for
it. And we have a number of different utility
at Navi on this T-side as well.
Hotchers throwing that really deep smoke a couple times.
And also those antiques were so clean from Navi that they have three full buys back to back.
It's a back to back.
So still able to put pressure on G2 in this one.
Yeah, but like you said on the T-side, like you said if you wanted Navi to take the B-bomb set,
maybe in the first corner and start conditioning and just let G2 know you can do it.
I mean, this has such a negative impact it feels on your playbook to an extent if you're not aware you've gone A, you've succeeded a number of times, and then the first time you try to go back to B you get deleted.
So instead of challenging them early, this time they decided to do the same idea just a little bit later in the round.
Niko and Malphs have backed up into the bomb site.
So they have no answers mid right now? G2?
Yeah, just jiggling short and long, okay.
First smoke from Niko.
Pushing through! Niko delivers the double!
Traits needed! Malbs delivers! Bit finally brings him down!
A retake available here for G2, but Navi can come up clutch.
He really hinges on Imma. If Bit can deliver 1, it's up to Imma to do the rest.
Unlikely, Bit gets the multi-kill.
They've got a smoke on Hunter if they want to block off Banana when they eventually go for this retake.
Leaves the low HP Bit inside the bomb site.
Oh, perfect. Imma already knows his contributions will be limited.
Actually, it's a bit of a bad smoke. It's a terrible smoke.
It gives Emei such a sick angle.
You're not going to be ready for it.
Emei realizes it's too good to be true.
And now they can isolate up to Emei in the one versus two.
And the angle around the smoke has given him an absolutely easy...
These errors, they compound.
And it is going to be four opportunities
to take the opening map, to take their opponents' map pick.
That's a really sloppy smoke.
That's not even a bad smoke.
That's like a... that's a good smoke for Navi.
It's a good smoke, yeah.
I even looked and it was like,
oh, they've only got a H in a flash.
This is difficult.
And then suddenly there's like a pop.
Actually, you could drive a truck around that smoke,
so it's all good.
I shouldn't be laughing.
Got a shot in front of there.
But like, we're all front of that smoke in our day.
And we've all had, everyone gets one.
I mean, that's one and a half player, really,
from now.
We're clutching that.
I think it was one of the 10s.
Yeah, a bit who wasn't on 10 HP.
So, yeah, exactly, it's all around.
The G2 is not in a position to lose considering the score, right?
And that puts Navi on a map point.
G2 comes together with a buy, but it's not going to be great.
Hunter and Monosy and Malibs on MP9.
Zniko has an M4 and a full utility kit and snacks, an M4 and an incendiary.
Rich, I almost want to be like, get the smoke.
You know, for that holes play, laden around.
Can we know how influential they can be?
Well done Smoke.
Yeah, I'm missing a lot of bells and whistles on this CT Vicer.
G2's got to do it the hard way, at least you're around 21.
No more mistakes that they can give up.
No half wall smoke this time.
JL's just doing it dry.
And that's what they're ready for.
Nica's being flashed in.
JL, safe behind the half wall and they had a nade ready.
They had a nade in response to the flash push.
It's really nice.
He's on the hard wall, jiggling, caught with his nades out mouths, flat lined by JL as he finds his 19th and his 20th could be close.
Not a pressure on the shoulders of Niko, with only a flashbang to his name and a whole bomb site to defend.
G2 not really on the same page and that's when look at the A set of the whole time, they have complete mid, right?
The B players trying to retake top banana and that might be the end of them.
We can't even push the Molly because of that earlier HG. JL bit hits 1-2 on the search from Snaks.
And it looks like it's a done deal on G2's map pick here. Hunter and Monosy trying as hard as they might a second wave, a second layer.
It's not going to happen. JL hits his head. He's a triple kill to close it out. JL is the real deal here in Malta.
finish with a quad. 13 to 8, Matt Warner this semi-final, Navi continued to be a problem
for G2.
Oh yes, Navi taking G2's map pick 13 to 8. You might want to remember that statistic
because it is time for another installment of Were You Paying Attention. I'm talking
to you Hugo, I'm talking to you Chad.
Can I say I wasn't.
Ah, that defeats our point of the game, showcharging.
Yes you were Chad.
I was paying attention, I was paying attention.
I was paying attention, yeah.
But was I paying more attention than Hugo?
That is the question that we are going to find out the answer to just about now.
I've got almost an unlimited selection of questions.
I think this could probably last us probably all night.
Yeah, thousands of questions I've been pouring my heart and soul into.
Question number one of those thousands is wonderful.
Got Collette on round four. Who did he kill?
Dearie. See, I thought you would ask this question.
I actually don't remember who it was, but I'm going to I'm going to do
process of elimination. I'm going to think who's who's in the front line.
I'm going to think someone like Malves is one of the two.
and I'm going to put the other is maybe a maybe a snacks and I was in the snacks. That is correct.
It's not well there. That's not even attention. Chad. That's just knowledge. Yeah, you've done more.
And they was from short side and that was the end of the round. They saved and then from that point forward,
it didn't look great. I feel good about myself. One, but two kills. Um, this was of course,
studio's map pick, but what was their win rate before the game? I'm talking percentage in the
the last three months. I have
no idea. I'm gonna go with, uh,
wait, so G2's percentage. I'm
gonna go with 50. It's higher
than that. I'm gonna go with
78%. I will give you that. It's
a nice round. 75% is nice. I
take it down. Of the time, but
not so much anymore after that
result. In what round Nico
gets first kill? It was a
Yeah, I was gonna say because I remember having a look who's getting entries through the smokes towards banana onto JL as the first half
went a little bit later
So yeah, if we're gonna go let's let's go with round number
Well, that's the thing that's just about ground six first. So let's be working back
I'm not helping. I'm just gonna say it was round four was the first question. Oh
Round four was when wonderful got the collapse. So
Wow, I thought it was round six. They're wonderful. Got the club. Okay, so let's go. Let's go with round five
Incorrect. It was around seven in the middle of it. Um, what size did navi start on?
So they must have started on C2
This game is hitting the buzzer and then thinking no one buzzes quite like you go. I am the buzz master
They call me. Yeah, the VHL drop. That's why you get paid the big bucks
Who planted just a little bit too late on Monday Hunter. Oh
Told me that one in the green room
It was a late one didn't even matter to the round because it was over already
How many players were wearing glasses was playing? Oh
Oh, yeah, what time around this way is gonna work it out. Dun dun dun dun to mouths. Oh, it's very good
I'm gonna go with
Three no
It is only mobs and snacks.
So you're trying to answer?
What does that add up to?
Two.
That's correct.
Only two players.
Nobody on the side of Naughty.
I was just guessing there was a secret third.
Who's the secret third?
I don't know, like in Lexi.
He whips out some stuff.
Well, it all did at some point.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He felt like he did, but maybe not.
So I got it right.
I don't know.
Not that game.
If you put them on for like a round and took them off, does that count?
I can neither confirm nor deny.
question seven true or false G2 planted the bomb on their last round of that
T side to 50 50s here's where you drop in and you just you roll dice for her and
you go with false and correct me track that's your position steel this is a
really tough this is have a big thing true that is correct congratulations I
was gonna go with true regardless okay I remember the last round I didn't know
of those post-parts. It was shot, monocled through the smoke, coming round.
Yeah, okay.
It was a good one. It was around.
Question 8. In the second pistol, please tell me in detail the order of the players who died.
Tell me the order of the players and their deaths.
Malbs?
Yep.
Emma?
Yep.
It's either Alexi?
Wonderful.
You can't adjust.
You missed someone. You missed someone.
Malbs, Emma. Malbs, Emma.
someone else. There was a, there was a, it was a G was in a G2 player who died. It was
a G2 player who died.
Somebody, you know, paid going into a, going into the A site was a guy for a, he was so
was it?
Was it?
Was it?
Was it?
Was it?
Was it?
Was it?
Was it?
Was it?
Was it?
Was it?
Was it?
Was it?
Was it?
and then this feels like it gets to the last two kills I'm pretty sure onto the
last two G2 players so which would be Niko and snacks yes so you were just
I was hunter yes I can't believe I forgot Hunter and who won that second
pistol well obviously Navi because jail won the 1v2 that was to be correct
yep it's the oldest player on the server it's obvious it's nice that is
Correct. And how old is he?
Ooh.
Oh, OK, fair.
Yep, yep.
It's 30.
1.
Correct.
It's a great save, Chad.
That was my first answer.
Who clutched on round 20 to put Navi on that point?
We're only two clutches in the game, so I'm going to...
I'm going to go with JL.
Incorrect.
OK, well, I know who it is.
I do know who it is.
Who clutched on round 20?
20. Just to be certain here. So wherever it wants to, we're on the B-bomb side, we're on the B-bomb side.
That smoke comes in from G2. It's bad. It's a bad smoke.
And Alex said, Ima can play behind. That is correct.
Shout out Ima on home. What was the final score on the final?
13. That's the first half. The second half, therefore, must be a number.
No, that's correct.
That's with the steel.
Um, how many kills would you get on the last round?
Twenty, sorry, the last round.
Twenty kills in the last round.
I don't even know overall.
I don't know the last round.
Um, he got two kills.
No. How many kills did he get on the last round?
How many kills did he get on the last round?
I'm asking you.
Three kills.
Twenty kills?
In the last round?
No, no, no, no, no.
Just in the last round.
Just in the last round, you mean?
Just during the last round of play, we were all watched and find out.
How many kills in total did he have?
You know, you don't ask the question, T-Chad.
I'm afraid I'll ask the question.
How many kills in total did he have? Did you know the number?
I'm going to tell you because, uh, we...
It's not a question. It's not a question.
Well, I'm asking as well.
Did he have 22?
Why are you guys discussing this? I didn't even fucking know.
Am I right? Am I right, though?
I don't know.
22, T-Chad.
If he had 22, I think he got four kills in the last round.
That is correct.
What? I just said, you know, I just said, you know...
Well, we were walking.
Chad, I just pitched.
We were walking right so I knew that he had 18 kills when we left the green room
I don't know how many kids so I thought you were trying to make me look good instead. You were using me. Yeah
Alex is beautiful class, you know, he ends with a fork. I'll be honest. I had the bottom a little bit low. Oh, oh
But I gather I get it right you did get it right well done in a horrible cruel twisted way
You've got it right question number 14. What's the next map?
new that's correct and
And once again, production are saying to me when it does indeed take away because God if I know if I've been counting these points, who was our USF was him?
JL.
That is correct.
I guess you both win.
I'm so destroyed.
Everybody wins, particularly when he's put on numbers like this.
He had a great game.
He started very strong on the T side and then he cooled off a little bit and then when they flipped, sorry, on the CT side and then when they flipped back over to the T side, not over back, but definitely over.
Then he had another strong start and a strong finish so if anything there was just the middle
Yeah, just see the middle it doesn't matter how the middle goes if all everyone remembers is the start and the finish
Yeah, that's true
No one wants to be the middle most people during a marathon fray are not watching the majority of the race
They watch the kickoff and they watch people
They kick off the marathon and I I love that I love football me too. When's the big game? Oh tonight?
action don't change an accent before the cast and waffle because of it
we're gonna follow when he has gray second nature they're onto forests
can he get an idea? he can!
short!
short!
hold the shot cross
short sorry
short sorry
kill I'm at short
taking
side
cross side
he's coming here
he's at one side
oh he's inside
other guys coming
follow me
how much you short cross
absolutely absolutely
wait can you go?
oh no
did you know about you?
okay
side
apps
7hp site
RGP
Cuckoo
Nice eco guys, let's go
Very good
Flash your bike
Up
Labyrinth
I'm taking it
Where's the 4th one?
Fuuuck, no time
No, no, it's not
It's a bomb
I saw one
I'm on the left side of the ticket, bro.
I'm on the right side.
I have no speed. I have good IP.
Nice! Nice, boy!
Let's go!
Bro, we have to go.
I'm holding.
I'm holding.
I'm watching city. Go close.
I'm watching.
I drop bomb.
Push the test.
Nice, boy!
My favorite is antico.
I'm holding, I'm dodging, okay? Hold flash, please, Mario.
I'm holding it.
There, there's one.
More, more, more.
I'm riding, I'm riding.
I'm riding, I'm riding.
I'm so open short, guys!
I'm flashing in three seconds over site.
Short, short.
Fushing over once.
I'm flashing, I'm flashing.
Catch it, catch it, catch it.
Keep it, keep it, go.
Guys, take it off!
Hey, you're catching, catching everything.
Let's go, guys.
I go, go.
Where's the other one?
He's all the way.
He's together?
They smoked something, like...
It's most of passive smoke.
Yeah.
I'm gonna clear mid-smoke, okay? I'm gonna clear mid-smoke.
One.
Main.
One.
Excellent.
That's last.
C4 down short.
He's out.
Short.
Short.
Short.
Main.
Rushing TV.
NOOOOO!
Nice, guys!
Nice, guys!
Important.
What's up?
Nice, Rache.
Good job.
I'll pick some.
Check in banana again.
I'm seeing.
One more.
Good.
One more.
NICE!
NICE!
NICE!
NICE!
NICE!
Wait, what the fuck is this?
Guys, just bomb city!
Come on, guys!
Don't peek!
Guys, banana must be there!
Don't talk to me!
I'm fighting.
I have city.
I'm just a kid.
It's misunderstood.
I'm just a chill and kind guy.
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What did you see recount every detail?
Uh, I just started my shift, it would have been 9.40, 9.45, I'd only just been started
cleaning, and it was then when we were doing the main pipeline, we found-
Is there anything else with the body?
Nothing unusual, I mean we called you guys up straight away, it looked like it had
There has not been any suspect identified but we are working quite hard behind the scenes
trying to establish exactly where this suspect could have gone.
There is evidence of our play here at the crime scene and my heart goes out to all
affected parties, family, friends and everyone out there that has seen or witnessed this
devastating, devastating crime scene.
Thank you for all of your condolences and we will work into the late hours of the night
to make sure that this suspect does not get away.
Your fire, player one, player two, let the bear, Navi, fight!
Getting back into the server, it's G2 taking on Navi, G2 down one map to nothing so
they better strap themselves on and get ready for a huge fight on this second map
of Nuke.
Because Nabi's coming for him, Alex!
It's going to be huge. I really don't know what to expect with this one.
The last time they played it, of course, in the head-to-head of the Sports World Cup,
it did not look fantastic at 13-6. G2 unable to get a single T-round.
However, they'll be starting on the defense in this one.
That's the luxury when it's picked into you. You get the choice.
And so G2 will start on the favorite side, and we've got Chance Punch Burchle joining us for map 2.
It's got a wild look for two times of these teams that face each other
since this new G2 has been put together is in the semi-final and the grand final, right?
EWC was obviously the grand final on the debut of that roster.
And back in again, deep within the playoffs, we've got the grand final coming up tomorrow.
Eternal file sitting idly by.
Well, when they played this map at those grand finals, it was a little bit of a smackdown, wasn't it, Alex?
Yeah, no, not pretty, not pretty whatsoever off the G2 winning the first map, 13-6, back to back.
Nuke, one of those.
Let's see if they can start with the right foot forward on this one.
You till drop tower. Lexi sacrificing Kevlar in pursuit of that gives it to someone else.
Nico tasked with yard monosy, tasked with the ramp and this is going to be yours.
Feast off, I'm in! And he's opted for neither. Actually, there's a middle option in one and done.
Oh, clean from Snaggs. That's very nice.
He hears that player closing the gap. JL catches the Lobby flank.
Now look at this space. Wonderful's been able to accrue by forcing those rotations.
to take a waltz in the yard.
We'll be happy about this.
patrolled and caught.
Snacks with the information.
He's got to be worried about Malbzee.
Obviously has no idea this is coming.
Alexei over towards hot.
Big fight for him goes down.
Niko doesn't know there's a second player.
He's looking for Jail on the flank.
Jail's going to be coming right from hot as well.
A 1 versus 3.
I know he was radio with that kill earlier.
Yeah, a clean round.
Very clean round.
Everyone delivered.
Snacks a nice one tap.
Monacee at least getting one.
And it's the Niko that makes a difference.
That double kill, clean clicks from the USB.
Well, JL showing some frustrations there,
wanting to get things done quickly, I'd assume.
But he's had a fantastic map.
Number one, continuing to deliver, right?
And I feel that this team, we've spoken about it a lot.
There's so many individuals who can have big games.
I think that must take the pressure off of one player
to have to deliver time and time again.
Sure.
And the fact that JL continues to have these big games
is an evolution for Nardi,
because it was all about the system, the team,
And then the difference maker, especially in the huge games, is the plays that these individuals are able to make.
But he just seems to be a playmaking machine right now.
JL, that is.
I think when you have a strong system, it's easier to put yourself in the right place at the right time, right?
So the information that's flowing, the structure of understanding where your teammates are, all of that plays into it.
And then when it does need to be absolutely mind bogglingly insane, it gets to be.
Yeah.
And in those informed decisions, if every decision you make is informed, then you've got a good system.
That also lets you know when you can break out of that system, right?
Like, that's also part of it as well.
It gives you the freedom to kind of pick and choose, like, this is the moment I'm allowed to have the freedom.
That's a nasty shot from Bit turning the corner, but with no armor, no utility, and no real weapons in their hands.
This should be pretty much all over for Navi. G2's applying a lot of pressure outside.
Trying to keep up.
Another, if it's given, though, slowly.
It's a very long-range dink with the MP9, Nico keeps himself at range as well, tapping through that smoke.
He's taken a little lick of damage, but now he's looking to lose his MP4 to this, but it was just a bit dig,
and he's given over the MP9, or him has recovered that.
How dissatisfied was Janko with the last map of play?
There were some moments in there where he was very unpleased. A lot of hand gesturing, quietly.
Okay.
Yeah, a lot of, like, questioning hand gestures, I would say.
Understandably so.
Yeah, that was their map choice for a novice turf now, which is where things get scary.
Ancient is the third in deciding, and if we get there, I think G2 are well and truly in this,
but they're gonna have to get it done on Nuke.
And yesterday against Liquid, it was a lot of aggression from G2 on the CT side out of the gates.
We'll see if that continues. We do turn into the first rifle round with a couple of saved MP9s,
and likes a map, snacks, and hunts up.
M4s from Odyssey and Niko, important positions to have those rifles and the bye for Na'Vi.
Top U-Til.
Jail invites the fight and good night, Hunter.
Another player completely flashed off.
He's lucky that Niko didn't walk back into that spray, so he's saved himself by remaining static.
And that name is destined for glory! Balling from Niko!
Catch that.
They had a little back and forth on Inferno as well, trading kills through smokes,
both of them getting a couple here and there.
Now it's Niko with the nade to clean him out of door.
Let's go and walk this route, but there's two in secret!
Oop!
Nicely done!
Well, they only know of one.
So, getting a move on right now, Navi, trying to take this space.
They've identified where at least two of the four players are.
Then Mobs is driving back towards control side of the lower bomb side as well.
That second throw, they never spotted over in secret, so he's already got a good jump on this.
You know, honestly, he's already gonna bolster the numbers lower as well.
This is very well made, and a good decision made by G2.
But what's the finish, right? You could smoke single and Molly into double,
and that's how you're gonna force your way in towards the site.
Oh, it's dark and backside with the molly, so there's nothing for the windows and Monosy swings open the door, takes that one easy as you like.
Only the MP9 for a mob, so it's a tough fight for him.
Goes down, now the bomb gonna be planted, they gotta be careful, Monosy doesn't just swing back out, spam through the smoke doesn't connect enough.
And we've got a retake scenario for G2.
Power's bit on that, catches Niko, these wallbangs connect, it puts it all on to wonderful as Monosy brings him down.
yet to see wonderful frag here on Nuke and this would be a wonderful time to do it.
Cautious.
Keon monosy goes down, isolates the dual, snacks can he come up clutch, and FP9 saves Na'Vi
and puts their first on the board.
Alright, that's tough for G2, isn't it?
That's really tough.
You feel with the approach from Na'Vi down towards the lower side, it felt like hey,
they had read the situation incorrectly.
They're expecting a player to actually be tucked in with those mollies that we saw.
This trade from bit is important, but I think the kill on Taniko,
that's the defining because now it's the 2v2.
Monacee's position was already given up,
so he plays first, but Snack's unable to trade.
And Alan's gonna feel a bit,
and a bit of confidence as they,
well, one more round and they break G2's finances.
Those have to be the rounds that G2
have had a number of conversations on
because I feel like, well, no one person
has made any massive mistake.
I feel like all four of them probably say,
I could have played that so much better.
Right.
That's a 2v2, that's a 4 on 2 that they just lost
in the lower bomb site.
I love the awareness of, like from Navi,
that there's an absence of helmets here.
Two deliberate back turns into the top side.
Snacks is handled JR with ease and Niko's dig
is delivered as well.
Trying to break their money and they've run into the sidearm.
Already, this pace change has resulted in two casualties
and G2 now sitting on a comfortable cushion
of a two man advantage.
If they can work their way back into this round
that'd be hugely impressed
because you only have a smoke
and the Molly to work with on bit.
So if you go challenge yard,
You may have this modesty AWP bearing down on your position, currently parked towards ramp, but how much info do they get?
At this point, you're starting to think, okay, maybe they're not going to be coming through lobby.
We can block them and we've turtled up with the type of buy that we have available.
And the last minute juggling of U-Till.
So that's going to be left with Ima on this Mach 10.
Could he try and do the smoke in front of the door and drop down the vent?
Or if they can get across to secret and get down, he can constrict the road.
No, never mind.
I was thinking the same thing though, maybe not the drop down vent.
I was thinking maybe mini U-Savvy.
Yeah, they're saving now.
I don't know what kind of a mindset you'd come into a round like this, or certainly thoughts
going through your head when you lose a round like this, because it almost feels like this
is one you just write off.
You just won a round with only one player surviving, you just didn't have the funds
to actually get a clean buy with AK47s across everyone.
A really crappy position to be in if we're honest for a T-side.
They were running through a smoke in hearts.
That didn't help anything either.
Was that their own smoke as part of an expansion?
I think they put it on Mala.
Yeah.
So if that was, they're really trying to force the issue, so they're expecting
something completely different from G2 in a round like that.
But that one's got to feel real comfy.
I think Snack's quite content with how that one unfolded.
Yeah, so that's the smoke I was talking about that they're running through
and that makes it really quite easy for them to lock down this top site.
Nico leering in through the smoke and, yeah.
That's just one of those calls that you make, hoping that they're stacking elsewhere.
Yeah, not always going to land.
Well, the Saved Us facilitator threatening looking round from Na'Vi.
Ooh, indecision. I just watched Alexi start lining something up,
change his mind.
I do feel like the yard duo for G2 is fast becoming a threat. You can't you have to be able to put down
Monosia and Niko. We saw how Liquid struggled to do so just yesterday.
I think Liquid would have killed her, been able to play them in yard. I feel like most of the time they got in the engagement.
Shut down Monosia.
Is there a flash for this? Nina get Monosia off the line somehow. Can't go dry.
We'll get absolutely pipped as opposed to Lexi as it lined up, but it's not going to come into play.
Monosia under pit. Friends now foe.
And he doesn't even feel pressured that Molly miss Molly. Yeah, absolutely
Screwed that one up haven't they and you just have to back off you can't go now
So another round is very flat for Navi might almost be a blessing in disguise if they land that Molly
Maybe they go into ramp room and they obviously don't know about the MP9 around the corner on mobs
Well channel towards heart with that smoke landing door still 50 seconds on the clock
They can't wait, but it feels like we're gonna find ourselves in a similar position as last round
There's no good option. Are we better off saving?
Which in only one man disadvantage, you know feels even worse to do but what are you gonna have next round?
Yeah, I promise you don't have any money to rebuy you too, do you?
Give it a go.
Then Molly says he's dead.
The fight's given to them!
Oh, an equalizing frag.
Yeah, I bet.
Potential fumble. Now you know where Monacy is.
What's your decision? Hunter, perhaps, gonna be overlapped!
It's a collateral from Monacy!
Pulse the trigger, takes down two with just the one pull.
And in there, the last victim runs to his demise.
G2 in full control as they break through.
Tough spot for Navi now.
We'll just have to take some my investments and buy into the next this is
gonna be a 5-1 start for G2. But it doesn't look too worried, it does Jason.
No, he never does though. I can't ever I can't ever read what he's thinking in his head.
That's a beautiful shot.
Get Monosy on the reaction speed test.
He held it back.
He countered back but he held it.
No, strong recommendation to any deskslammers out there. Just go for a
bald fist and pretend you're about to punch him on it but don't.
That's it. That's all. That's it.
When you're frustrated, you tend not to have much of that.
No, no. That's true too. I had a couple of slams last night.
Even when we're playing here, you got so frustrated you couldn't crouch,
there's a clip of you punching a monitor.
They call you. You're in one of the mods at the moment.
Am I? Oh, dear.
Punching yourself properly. I've been in trouble.
You won't get fined like the players, it's okay.
Okay, okay.
This is an interesting setup. I was like, what's Niko doing?
He was just hanging out, looking for their top main drop, I suppose.
with these diggles sent out searching. What can they find?
This is important that Na'Vi get some kills here.
You don't want G2 to have a clean round and then be staring down on Nuke's CT side
that's got two buys beneath him that can always have replenished utility.
The scoreline last time they met on Nuke was 6-6 for G2 on this defensive half.
That was the only six rounds they managed to recruit.
But they're also doing it to Na'Vi when Na'Vi did to them in the first map.
map remember the g2 on the cc side inferno or t-side inferno couldn't really get a whole lot of their money was always in such a
Weird place, and I think g2 is inflicting that very same pain right now
We've essentially had three rounds in a row where there's been a really bus to die for the Navi side
Yeah, I think that like the point that Alex has just brought up is
The work needs to be done from g2 within the first half so maybe if we shift
our expectations to a back and forth close half more as G2 needs, let's say 8 plus rounds.
That means the metric of every time Na'Vi do post a round or put G2 in a breaking point,
that excitement can grow because we know that G2 and some of the T-sides can look worse for where at times.
Whereas Na'Vi, I understand that right now they're still four rounds behind.
They can also have a strong CT side, so we're expecting them to most likely have a better T-half in this map.
Now that could come back in age like milk
But is it pasteurized that's the question. It's an important question as well. Well blades on the mic
Now I always say this and I never keep track. So I need the two of you to give me a try now
Okay, I'll start now. I like to say the blade and timeouts, you know, we find conversions
So let's make sure with how this round ends if blades timeout has found the round conversion
And we'll give him a tick we need to make sure that we're keeping track of that because I can't keep saying it
And then maybe he wrote loses around I don't even remember myself
Yeah, okay.
A whole minute and 55 seconds goes past.
You're accountable, yeah, exactly.
Once the round's over, I've forgotten everything.
So what's the blade adjustment?
What is the change from Na'Vi?
I agree with Jason's point about these buys
being pretty busted for Na'Vi
considering the sequence to the start of the game.
They're into everything they want besides a wonderful AWP.
So what does this look like?
So dynamic, he starts hard.
Well, a barrage of utility
to open the round for Na'Vi into the upper bomb site.
Just to test things.
Plenty of Utah left for them down the stretch.
nobody's going outside. Do you feel that this maneuver from monosy is a direct
play to deal with the fact that okay now we know that the allp is in play we
want to avoid it to long corridors like ramp or outside if we're gonna search
and try and go across towards heaven or hell we'll try and get in towards that
garage position. I will say Nico's got no HE so this he's not gonna be able
to give any answers as to oh yeah I think so but now Hunter's been told
to get out of there.
Modesty, what?
Goes super wide, tracks out Alexi, costs him his life, it's up to the rest.
Snacks, what have you got, what are you made of on this top site?
A 4 vs 3, disadvantage for Nami once more, but a wall bang can change it all.
Snacks gets brought low, Hunter delivers a double.
A 6 for G2, and keeping 4 alive as well.
And I remembered this time round, a blade timeout, not the words.
Yep, I'll put a little X.
But look, it'll be great at some point if we ever are able to.
And I think maybe one day it might be possible.
I've been having some chats with MC, but it'll be great if we can integrate tactical time-out
into round conversion.
And I understand that the conversation gets a little nuanced, like what if they're taking
it on a round where they're going to only partial buy and they're talking about the
next round.
But regardless, I think it's still important.
You've got to start somewhere.
Exactly.
And it's never going to be perfect.
Nothing is.
This is life.
We'll clean up the details as we go.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yep.
He's on.
Thank you. If you're a Na'Vi player, I imagine you feel pretty frustrated.
We already covered the weird economy they've had to deal with and the busted buys,
but even that last round of the time out, their entire plan gets disrupted before they can even begin it.
Monosy's position throws him off a little bit. This is a cool drop-down ramp.
There's already a player here. It's Malbs.
He's worrying about Secret though. He's just a cubby cold back.
They've probably heard the sound cues, but it's his chance for a multi.
Oh, and he's left.
First one go. Missing shots.
Half a malb.
Oh, he's hit a frag, Malbs.
Onto the USP. It works just as well.
One to the head could do it, but unable to hit it
Wonderful that's important frag is there more trouble brewing?
I think there might be it was brought down monosie Alexie playing the doors hunter might overlook this as he goes for the clear
A two-man setup lovely checks it wonderful delivers another massive round from wonderful so far, but the job is not done
Emma slinking down the vents last scene holding this snacks
That's not gonna hear those blue gets off it. He looked up too high now
He could get knocked off it with a well-placed eagle headshot, but he doesn't fire the shot!
And it's a seventh for G2!
He really liked that one, didn't he?
With that chef's kiss? Is that what he gave him right there?
I think it's just the pressure that he's under, because it's unarmored players, right?
But still, the fact that they have infiltrated his bomb site, and he gets two.
One, okay, but two, that's more than par for the course.
He manages it well. He's all alone, right?
And you can see he even takes a couple of shots towards the window conserving ammunition.
He knows there's a timing that he's gonna get wrapped upon.
That's a really good double kill to make sure this retake is doable,
because he was still labored.
Wasn't clean, Montessy's got the AWP back.
He missed the first like seven bullets,
and then still managed to adjust and find his double.
So, yeah, I understand why Tanz is so happy with what Miles has put out,
and then his output.
In fact, the whole team's output right now,
a nuke looking like a Matthew.
Oh, he put out this fucking guy, man.
Fucking Jigglesman.
How is fucking in this game?
It's like I'm in TeamSpeak with him.
the round but he's still going off his tree so that was Nico I did to it first
yeah you can see he's been spending time with him okay Malbs you got another one
in you tested early this time and bit just flattens him ramp lost one of the
reactions is where G2 can get caught out Hunter and Nico immediately dip down
the vent loudly and that's been heard oh good kill from Hunter smoke comes down
towards the door, Nico is making a clear, slides under it, that's a massive clear and he's
controlling the double doors. And there's a good lurk from Wonderful as well. Three players
go down, two lurkers left up tall, not in complete control.
Well, it felt tough to let that one go, didn't it?
I think he thought he had it, like he thought it was done, but the pole absorbed a couple
of the bullets.
Well, they're taking their time about this, and I want to give them honestly a chance
in the clutch. You can see how diligent they are, and understandably so, this
this kid's flashy. You give him an opportunity to start hitting shots and he will. Well, wonderful
won't. So will he get into the AWP? Will that be scooped up? No, they want to continue
this two-side game plan with rifles aplenty. So wonderful. And the blades tutelage does
not want the big green. Monosie. Oh, Hunter can drop the AWP. Yeah, but this is the thing
and this is what I was going to touch on. The finances for G2 considering the scoreline
are not fantastic. It's not like they had two residual buys available. So this is
that breaking point. And we were talking about maybe shifting the bar because we want G2
or expect you to if they're going to win this map to do their best work on the CT side.
So we're talking like eight or nine rounds, if not better.
Now obviously that's still possible.
They could get 10 at the half.
If they lose this one, they will be broken.
And that means the Finances bottom of the barrel, they're going to have a tough
time getting back into this Nave can definitely find four or five for the half.
Important round.
Tongues have smoked outside.
Four smokes deployed for this cross.
One of them is CG Smoke.
Utility and Molotov to delay access to secret as best as possible, but there's no nades to break open in these smokes.
And Navi's starting to cross them.
Oh, that's quick.
Straight to the skull of wonderful, and Niko plugs out Emre as well, so that Yardcrawl halted early.
They missed the timing on that little crawl into big garage as the smoke clears.
Alexey, just sitting back in the chair there, because you have to reset and re-contemplate what you're going to do,
because earlier on in the piece,
we saw them in a couple of these rounds
that trickled out where they couldn't make it then.
And it's all trouble really started when they won around
and then went for the top pop and just got absolutely denied.
And from there, G2 have just been able to stack them on.
We just discussed the breaking point.
It feels like G2 are gonna hold on to this.
Yeah, if you don't get any kills in this round as Navi,
it's horrifying.
That Molotov forces, oh my lord.
Oh, yeah, look at that.
That's the fire extinguisher, look at it.
Yeah.
They have to go down the vent. You have to go down the vent this is the only way.
Look at them all taking heavy damage knife is out one ready for Niko so soon and he knows his job is done.
Slams the door shut, reposition, safe angle and his team made mouths.
We'll sweep the rest of the rag, gets mouths of Niko getting the job done with Monosy just outside.
Good team counter strike late there Niko could just stand and take that fight if he wants and it allows them to potentially isolate a one on one against mouths
mobs but they take contact off of each other they shut things down and it was
their round to lose considering these two openings we'll catch them again
monosy from lockers shatters wonderful soaps and dreams in that one and Niko
being down as I was saying that was the only way you're not going to topside
monosy's AWP was on the floor you still had Hunter the settle player top
heart so they'd been able to dial in G2 finances again for Naveet now it's
only four rounds possible great CT half the G2
Can it be greater?
Said 10 was possible.
And now maybe not, because JL has managed to find an opening.
Spams out Niko through the smoke.
A little revenge from Inferno, but in there.
Oh, spotted!
And at least he gets the information.
A leg shot, a quick shot from Monacy.
Confirms the secret occupied by the opposition.
So hit him in the ankle through the wall.
Not a whole lot of damage done, but hunters drop down.
At least the information is there.
At least he caught that piece as Ima descends into secret.
A few more Na'Vi players bringing up the rear.
A complete rotation downstairs.
Heavy rotation.
You've got so many rounds, it feels like you can gamble a little bit.
You can take some of these chances and you have been reading them decently, so I don't
mind this whatsoever.
I'm honestly going to go checking.
My catch is in the walking.
He is an absolute nightmare for Na'Vi right now.
He's everywhere.
Yeah, but look at what this over rotation has allowed.
Look at all the space gained.
Alexi can try and cut off snacks getting back to the side.
through a smoke doesn't see it comes back for more. Oh Alexi didn't commit to the
fight because he knows he's got jail and door and heaven is controlled by Navi as
well. Bit is gonna save the day. Mobs can do absolutely nothing and there's one
more who's trying to make it up the ladder and the vent. And Jitsu just
locked out of this round after the rotation downstairs. Where are they?
Yeah I mean he's on the reload. Not ready. No I expect the fact that Bit has
He's gone down the ladder while Bonnecy is preoccupied.
Jesus.
Yeah, it's just gaming.
He is gaming.
And that's the thing.
Look at the money.
Look at where the finances are here.
We're going into this final round of the half.
We're going to have only the 1,400 loss button, so it is going to be slightly touched go.
Bits making sure that AWP can't be picked up by Hunter if he was to be sneaking around.
We can see he is, and he's in the bend.
And actually, Bits going to carry the AWP into the final round to play.
So I suppose Wonderful is going to be getting that as a gift.
They'll change up.
very stubborn about T-side orbs and not really pulling money out. Hasn't been a part of the
game plan so far.
Yeah. So if Hunter drops from Monosy, both Malbs and Snacks can buy themselves. I assume
Snacks will probably go into something a little bit lighter like an MP9. Malbs is going to
as well, so they feel that they need utility in this. Niko will have an M4, Monosy the
same. Hunter's going to have a rifle. So this isn't a bad buy. It's obviously not
idealic. They don't have everything that they would be hoping for, but still they
can contend for nine rounds at the half.
Now, I don't frequently attend the casino, but is there a term for when you gamble
and you're gambling correctly.
Losing?
Ah, that's it.
Right, okay, okay.
Okay, yeah.
Well, that's what they did.
G2 loses.
Aggression.
In the 11th round.
Malph's charges through.
I love this.
Oh, okay.
They've got it.
The G2 lobby control flies around the corner.
Wings in the feed.
Malph takes down JL.
Can I get a move on?
He found it.
XB with haste.
Juggling the smokes to try and reposition.
How strong early. Big Yard focus on their setup as well here. They've got plenty cover.
Wonderful though that T-side AWP. Will it be overlooked in their movements here?
G2 need to be careful. Tucked on unbreakable is 1. Monosy.
Mounts jiggling. Niko.
Took out the warehouse. He actually tagged him. Good shooting from wonderful.
Hunters come up secret. They're really focused on this part of the map.
Understandably so, they're walking out now and Wonderful just turned his back as Hunter rounds the corner. I think he will
We spots the information he says they've fallen back from outside nobody's here
They've repositioned back towards lobby and Navi
They found that window that G2 had to vacate the premises. Well, this is uncomfortable if snacks goes down cleanly
Lovely double dink out of the FV9 close range monosy finds the right angle to deliver the killing blow onto bit
And one by one, Na'Vi fall, we said eight's great, well nine is better and they're just
one kill away from a nine three CT half.
Is that Malbs?
He's talking about the save.
The save, yeah, exactly, nine three, G2, they want to take us to the distance, they
want to see map three four rounds away.
Now for the second map of our second semi-final, Na'Vi and G2, I've got Jason Mosso,
No tool, jab-spun, Virgil in the booth.
Looking to see if we need three, and it looks likely three to work with as discussed last
time they met.
It was the second half, and yeah, G2 struggled to post any rounds on their T side.
It's been a consistent recurring theme that G2's T sides have lacked some polish at times.
You said zero rounds the last time they played Nuke on their T side.
Yes, zero.
Yeah, zero, but nine already.
You only need four.
You only need four.
That's true.
The pistol would be huge! The pistol all but locks in everyone from Nolvi in attendance, the inner double after a quiet first half and JL just throws the cherry on top.
Now, Alex, if you don't mind, I'm going to take Jason down memory lane with myself.
Oh, flea, here we go.
Now, back in the day, Jason, we were sprightly young teenagers.
We were playing Counter-Strike for the love of the game.
For love.
There was no money in it, we were just playing.
Nuke used to be a 12-3 scoreline that a half would be pretty standard, pretty par for the course, I would say.
I would say. Yeah, even even you can you know, 14 ones were out there once. Yeah, sometimes Alex you would even bring those games back
Yep, you would get one or two rounds on a new T half and you'd be like well
We can work with that because you can shut this map down now
I don't think that's the same in the modern conversation
I definitely think the T's have a lot more options secrets change position
Under isn't crazy with those massive. Yes, all those bulletproof doors that used to exist once upon a time
But the 9-3 scoreline of the half
This is something that I feel is recoverable for Navi and obviously the woes of G2 and the T side to sign that they're going into break
Within this series and then also the curse that they're hoping to break against the Lexi B
So there's a lot against G2
So if Navi can get off to a good start the pistol round helps this conversion against some deagle upgrades is going to be good
And then if they can do with the first rifle round this game's on
And if you have any long time yourself early listeners tuning in I believe that a previous season
When she is here just come out we mathematically decided that nine to three is the new most dangerous scoreline
That's right. It's like the 11-4. Yeah. Yeah. It is the equivalent.
We call that one O'Tools Law.
We've got a lot of laws.
We're starting to get quite a long book going on.
We should write them down at some point.
Harry invented another one the other day.
I think he was feeling hungry. Cole's Law.
Cole's Law? Yeah, that sounds good, actually.
All right, here come the rifles.
Malm's going to operate with the Galil.
NK-47s for everybody else.
So light on a little bit of crowd control utility.
We are lacking molotovs on four out of the five members of G2 and smokes to work with though. Let's see if they
Go for just a classic smoke wall outside and wonderful in pursuit of an orpers opted not to get the helmet
Just keep your eyes on that if he meets malts
I'm five. Let's go first gunny
Will there be anything off the rip?
Will they let Nico take some space yard first
This is the type of round, if you're G2 you want to play out a little bit slowly.
You want to see if the CTs are going to operate with any opening gambits, allow them to use
their protocol utility of blocking for top rushes, blocking ramp, and then once it subsides,
then your individuals who we know are on point are able to take some of these jewels.
You're having a good game from Niko, Monosy, Hunter the same, and it's not like Malm's
and Snacks are lacking too far behind.
They've also had some impactful kills, especially Malm's now on the T side.
This is where he can do a bit better work because he gets to initiate a few more
jewels.
Two smokes left for G2 on this T side though, if they want to go downstairs they have to use both of them.
But at this point Navi's getting a lot of information starting to push up Ramp Room
to try and clear up Lobby. There's mobs waiting there to meet them.
Okay Malmst, it's gonna get a first test.
And there is one to fall without his helmet getting deleted.
But fortunately Bit was present and the trade is in.
And then Navi's in a weird place because they dropped one down.
They had to respect the fact that access to secret was open.
They also have to respect the fact that heaven is open.
This is a lot of this.
Oh, the angle from bit is almost a guaranteed frag.
Just like almost.
Because Hunter does not get the memo, takes the head off of bit,
and Alexi B needs a multi-kill here.
He's only had one frag, and this could be a difference maker.
Can he have an impact round?
Can he maintain the momentum?
Modesty.
Does it?
Two clean headshots, and time is of the essence.
The plant won't be denied, but maybe you can isolate as they pop.
G2's starting to believe that is...
gonna be determined on the third. Yeah, you're talking about Alexi there. It felt like he
maybe should have been able to get another kill, but the pressure mounting and bit as well.
Yeah. I felt like a guaranteed kill. I was with you. I agreed 100% within that scenario.
Did JL drop his M4 to pick up that Galil? Yeah, that M4 is at the
start of this round, correct? Maybe, yeah. But still, the M4 is practically
a Galil and vice versa, right? Yeah. I always feel like the recourse a little
little weird in the car. Yeah,
fair enough. Yeah, more than
laser been depending on the M
four. Yeah. Well, that's a
dream start. You can ask for
more testing bit handles ramp
with poise with elegance. This
is the kind of Rambo. Yanko
would have his hands up and
being like, what's going on in
the map? Yes. Yeah. Well, I
don't know what the memo
honestly was given, but he
seemed to be under the impression
the bit was not going to be
present. This is a tough round
I'm not gonna sit here for a minute and 20 seconds.
I'm not gonna sit here for a minute and 20 seconds.
It sounds like they're getting cozy up there.
I'm not going to lie.
It seems like they're getting really comfortable.
Tell me you guys have never had a party on a rooftop.
A couple in there.
Yeah, there's a few.
Not this statically, however.
There can only be something going on.
A little bit of music.
holes in their setup as well.
You know, the setup for this save is solid.
You've got the door covered.
You've got the climb of the ladder
and you've got the yard push.
Unless they know, no, I've got nothing.
They've got it all handled.
Yeah.
Credit to them.
Well, here is the highlight and the low light
of the round, I suppose, depends of which team you're a fan.
Two body shot kills round.
Surely that signifies we did something was missing.
Something was mis-executed.
Just eight bullets.
Maybe they got a little overeager not seeing a smoke there.
They're like, OK, maybe it's a stack.
Maybe it's an ego round.
Well, they're probably expecting a lighter investment
to come through, obviously.
Yeah.
So thinking, OK, maybe we can go and take these jewels
and have a bit of the better firepower.
Now, Alexi's come over to get it,
but the same thing for Emma.
He's looking, he's looking, he's looking, and, well,
he can't find anything.
So Emma's just going to get stuck with that MP9.
Alexi will find the upgrade.
But back in it.
Yeah.
What does G2 call on this round, though?
After you just get rid of it.
I reckon a dry swing ramp.
Double dry swing ramp.
Maybe get a third person in there and it'll work. Timeout's taken from G2 to talk things over, see if they want to add any bells and whistles and a utility into those swings and rep.
Monosy's got a decision to make and it seems he's making the conservative choice.
When you only need three more to close the sound on the T side, it's not currently matching the full investment.
Malbs is though, so maybe that influences it. Look at this decision to be made.
I feel that you have to because in the next round your teammates who have guns right now, if you lose this will be affected by getting the no loss bonus.
Yeah, right.
Alright, so the next round you can only get 2400, so unless the plan is, hey, you keep it cheap, if this round we force it on Valve, so we have everybody pretty low on cash, we lose this, next round we can have at least a Hero AK on Modesty, never mind, that wasn't an idea, but it's not the idea.
I like that you were building into it as well.
I'm just glad the chat, you know, he ran with it.
Sometimes you gotta.
Yeah, sometimes you just have to see where it takes you.
The utility being chucked outside smoke while Niko's hustling over to red box is going to
take his time as that smoke is broken open immediately.
Okay, Hunter, that is a early drop off onto top of main.
Three walking this yard, the yard smokes.
Pathing though into wonderful, and he's perfectly found Niko on his flight path.
Stared right into the sun there in my lead to his demise, lovely pro activity from
Hunter.
Agile and effective.
Oh, that's scary.
Alexi B is gonna be getting nervous.
Wait, arms and mouths is deep, deadly.
Catches the JL search and no body drops.
Imma down to Snacks.
Bit has to be the hero of the game.
A double kill from Bit can change it all.
He nearly finished off Monosie as well.
They were not expecting that.
How is Bit getting these fights time and time again?
It's like when your teammates are just playing
different players.
How does Alexi handle this as the question?
Is he risk going up the ladder? I think he has a good enough time to walk outside and try and jump off quietly.
There's no hunters here. He's dead.
That's true.
Yeah, in a 1 on 2 situation.
What have you got, Bit?
It'll do it.
It does look like he sneaked. Is he nailed it?
Oh, no, shy. It would have been it. 1v1.
That's like a windmill at pot pot.
It's hard to get it right.
Narrow gap between the silos. Now looking to jump for information. Bit not sure about the second player.
Hunter reposition now he has a good idea was heaven this is no you don't know you
don't know you don't know you don't we're not talking about an arena of 10,000
people but there is still a crowd there and they are still making some noise the
fact that he has just sat that diffuse right in the face of Hunter in that
scenario causes bluff makes him look like a fool bit has snatched this away
catches a few players with the pants around their ankle and then pulls this
off I mean think about his last two rounds he was the double-killed
ramp that forced a one-minute long save. Now he's just stolen this round away from G2.
Hunter's had a couple of tilting moments already.
And the missed plant.
It missed the bomb, yeah.
I think he also was responsible for the missed smoke. I could be wrong.
Yes, yeah.
I think he threw that.
The retake smoke?
Yeah, the retake smoke on B. And now this, like in your own head,
you're just kind of sitting there going like, I know I'm better than this.
Yeah.
Does that compound? Does that, you know, resurface?
Or will he be able to shake it off as the Consulate professional he often is?
I'll tell you what though, this comeback, Bit is buying Na'Vi all the time to get everyone back involved, to shake their own frustrations off.
We've seen JL take a couple rough deaths in the past few rounds.
Yeah, you're right.
We saw a little frustration from him earlier, and Bit's giving them some space to mentally get back into this game and start putting numbers on the scoreboard.
Still teetering, right? So everybody went down for Na'Vi in the previous.
They needed to clean round and round with at least three players staying alive to make this difficult because G2, they haven't fully invested that.
at that. Lost bonuses starting to build. They're going to get the 2900 into the next. They can
fall by next round, but this is still very threatening.
Oh, an XCB player with fire going for a swing out there. If he does it again, now the tech
nine will jump straight in his face. Good catch. Snack's not looking.
An otherwise great game from Hunter. 16-6. Been doing a lot. Now to attack ramp room
and attack into an AWP with no utility. You have one flashbang to utilize, but
it won't be for that initial peek. Thankfully, a missed shot, but that 84. Back of the
Box is doing work there goes wonderful. So bits on his own. He's in danger or not
Malph goes down Nico should hit the shot though knowing Nico
Not easy given the bit with the power position the long-range weapon. He's got hunter now alongside with him
Oh with reposition. Okay. He's made it down good call from bit
Wow found an opportunity to bail out and he pulls the ripcord. So JL's got the fallback
It's got lower all they have to be concerned about at this point at the moment is any kind of wrap towards heaven
next to be attending to their possibility.
Here's the audible steps.
Nico recovers the AWP.
Actually gonna search this.
And Bit on the ramp, not exposed just yet.
Hunter finds him important, back from Himmett.
Locks it down.
I mean, in the absence of Wonderful and JL,
Himmett and Bit have managed to deliver
the necessary rounds, that's three in a row now
from Navi.
And this builds into that conversation
we've been having about Na'Vi, right, the system team following Blades' rule,
but the individuals are showing a whole lot more form.
And the whole lot of players who can pop off when required.
It's been having a lot of impact, unfortunately, for him going into this rifle round,
he's just got a hand with the Famous, comes into the Galil again.
So, I guess he's more than happy to work with it.
And he played with an MP9, it feels most of the first half.
As crazy as that sounds. There are a lot of the first half, at least.
It's no time for G2 to be too frustrated.
They've had some rounds stolen away from them, but they're stolen because G2 looked good
in them in the first place, not able to close them out.
But you have to keep your eye on the fact that these rounds have been playing out very
well in your favor until the very end.
NAVI aren't comfortable, but they're not feeling like they can close this easily.
They are going to have to work for this, and G2 have just kept the pressure on.
I guess the best way to describe it is G2's CT side felt way more dominant.
True.
Yeah, NAVI were chasing their tail.
The whole time, I mean these like early 3v5s were just ruining their day.
Well, it looks like a pack roll towards Yacht, so late smoke while being erected.
Waited until that minute mark had passed, now the smoke's trickle in.
Looks like they want to find their way down secret.
Alexi doesn't have a need to break this.
Wonderful. Ooh, looking over the smoke.
There is the vault in towards Warehouse.
Yeah, you can see he's concerned about that.
Alexi B trying to investigate himself.
And wonderful to catch his knee.
Oh, the push from Alexi profits as well.
Malb's trades, charging lower, he's ahead of the play.
Bit as well, pretending to the window, window not broken, a soundcune required.
And a head-to-head duel, Famastho versus the AK-47, and how has he dinked him?
Puss next down, Karna jumping time, a great headshot from Malb's.
Can he come up clutch? With just 10 seconds of safe plant,
he's gonna be required, does get it punched, and now...
I was swapping up, JL brings it home.
Yeah, tight.
Yeah, really, every round.
Alexi finding a perfect timing that he,
since his way through the smoke and get a kill in the back for free, then traded.
As they made their way in towards lower, it felt like it should have been a lock,
but you have that M4 on bit.
He probably gets that first kill a little bit easier, and then it has time to adjust.
So the lower side was broken into.
It's a nice swing from JL just as the bomb's going down.
But with the bomb getting planted again for Juto and the loss bonus well and truly within their favour,
there's good decisions they can make financially. Again, they can be threatening, right?
It's never just a full eco.
Down the stretch, they will always have the loss bonus in their favour.
If they can keep planting, they can always be buying in with something.
Door broken open. Counter mollies from Navi holding the babe for the moment.
Deep smoke in door, but Saks with the Mactam might just challenge that.
Going through it surely.
Straight out. Straight out. Look how much space Saks has to work with.
Back of the site, Imma comes up to support. Huge from Na'Vi locking it down.
He had so much room to maneuver, so much he comes out of the smoke
and he's got nothing to report but they were all there hiding in plain sight on the bomb site.
10-10.
What a massive play for Imma. I think he really saved the day there
because they're rubbing into that bomb site, one sole defender, I think JL,
the fact he steps through this to get the double is so massive, he did buy so much time.
I like the fact that they're all in situations that aren't great, like they know that they're
going to be pushing out of choke points, but they catch G2 at the time that they're clearing
the site still.
And so that's huge from G2 to make the top of the, sorry, from Na'Vi to make the top
of the maneuver.
Alright, well a rifle round.
Gonna meet you late, one CT, side-off, pulls it out, tries to make a play, unable
to converse off of its squeaky aggress.
They smoke all.
I mean to say late, it's going to be earlier than it was last round it seems.
already lining it up and interrupt it oops a ramp and that's where they had it
and there's no smoke that almost feels like it should be a warning sign someone's
alarm bells better go off and mention the op is a possibility he hits the first
a flashbang for the repeat try to force off the modesty or does well does huge
work connects and finish off the job can't hit a quick stop should be run
down. Nobs has made this around G2, can win, must win. Yeah, but Navi's had two people down here every
time they've attacked the ball. That's a good question, Jason, only one can know and he knows.
He was ready. The model tough to account for it. Clash catches the head shot, puts it onto JL.
Yet to see a JL clutch here on the second map. He's not going to give it a look in.
It's the only sensible option, unfortunately. Yeah, I mean, looking at the finances of
of Alexi B. Boy is poor.
You need some assistance.
It's such a rough game for Navi to battle back in,
because it hasn't been domino like you pointed out.
It's been a bit more labor for Navi within these rounds,
so they've always been under pressure.
With the license to lobotomize, it's Molds M.D.
You're lobotomous.
So we did some things the other day.
Wow.
We did some things with the green screen.
I just want to throw that out there.
No, that's really good.
Yeah.
It did get it in the stomach.
I liked it a lot.
Yeah.
Jason, the main character, O'Toole.
Yeah.
Million Dollar Man.
Million Dollar Man.
Well, well, well.
G2 have done a whole lot better than the last time they faced off on it.
Two rounds to boast.
And only two more required.
All right, jail dropping one.
Alexi's the yard rifle, so he's going to keep a rifle.
If it was Stax on the other side,
then he's going to be, well, he's going to be not, but that's not the case.
That's not how this one's going to unfold.
Everybody's able to get a rifle in hand.
Wonderful can get the AWP.
So there is a full buy and blade take a note tactical timeout adjustment required CT side having to deal with what comes next
sending all that information
Into that is of his players this the fact that's only the second tactical timeout
He's called and they've been under this much pressure. That's pretty impressive. He saved it for this moment
That's a lot of faith you have in your team if you're not calling timeouts in a three nine half in the first half through all
These close rounds. Yeah, this has been a really hard-working comeback for Navi and once again just sitting one round back
Crunch time. These rounds can define series. Two orbs in the mix, one for either side. We will get to see what wonderful take his yard.
Monosy getting straight towards the ramp, so am I going to head to head with his comrade bit? Not to be. Straight start secret.
So Emma will keep them obeyed, Malbz making a step towards squeak.
Again, this pace change from G2, right? It hasn't been quick. They're not hoping to try and take this space early.
They're slowing things down, waiting at the protocol utility, throwing the smoke wall.
Even losing multiple kills on Openers and still being able to trade efficiently towards the site.
As long as they can get out, get space, these individuals can get the multi-kills required.
It's got to be a weird game for Niko out in the yard, because
it's Alexi playing that defense initially and their side obviously he's got help,
you know, Bits in secret this round, Wonderful's been out there with the AWP,
but as the main rifleer, you know, Alexi doesn't take as many challenges as other players
do outside. He tries to play the brain game. It's not like Niko versus Rain, for example.
Yeah, that's a nice sound cue there. So that Niko kind of has confirmation that they might have started secret by virtue of the flashbang Alexi has thrown
He throws out the Molly secret now. I'm egg prepares himself. It's Jalen in it. Have an aid to defend this bomb site
It's next to smoke main monosy tomorrow, huh?
This has to be perfect from G2. This feels like a bit of an all-in maneuver
Molly forces a relocation in their full flying JL's contributing heavily double headshot
Can he do the same? The Molly burns him down, but it's a Nar-V-Ram!
Good on JL. Ways double kill, takes the teeth out of the execute.
I'm sure we'll see it in the replay, because he got Molly'd out, and he just kind of stood in the open.
Now here it is, so he actually fires off a couple of shots.
Narves sees that as an invitation to go fight, and catches him swinging with a misaligned pre-ame.
Is that the hot route?
Yeah, the thing is, running through that, you're only going to really cop a tick, right?
So it's not the worst in the world.
If you're JL, you're probably like, I'll take that fight with the balls off, you know?
Oh, there he is again! It's him at this time! Round doubles up through the door!
Oh, and Niko already bleeding out! Just one HP! It might be a minus-zero!
The chips were down! The teammates were dead, and he just charges into the topside!
Niko hits the tracker onto Wonderful!
Lexi being bit. Retake. Taking shape. Both looking towards Main.
Hunter go around the world.
Oh, this is such a long time for Monacy with 13 HP to have to hold on to the site.
They're counting on this smoke being up. If they have the timing, it could work out.
Bates now.
What's the clear?
Hanz is on Tetris.
Monacy with low HP.
Sound Q given.
B, delivers. Hunter rushing.
He's got there in time. It's not planted perfectly.
They're not going to overlook this position.
And the Finances in the bin for Na'Vi.
What a play!
I mean, that is Feast of Famine, right? He either looks a tit, or he looks like a god, and he's pulled it off.
He gets it back for the defuse earlier. That bitch just steals out from beneath him in the upper bomb site.
This one, he drills, and I want a critical moment for it.
Just say that when your teammate's 20 HP and planting on B.
Just say, I'm going, hasn't.
Hey, bro, under the long roadside, just chill for like 20 seconds.
The biggest problem in that situation is the kit is on B and not Alexi.
Right.
Because they both head towards the bomb. B is the one who has to defuse.
So Alexi's forced to cover.
But that's the thing, they body were essentially on top of each other.
Yeah, lined up.
So obviously not expecting that heaven maneuver whatsoever,
but maybe the comms there about the kit came in last minute.
And now this is the bye for Na'Vi to take things to overtime.
The M4, couple of MP9s, a deagle, a 5-7, and the U2 is already gone.
I mean, that's a superstar's play, right?
You lose to players early and Monosik just takes Mazz into his own hands up
into the topside, finds some equalizers, gets two.
A couple of rounds they've had multi-kills in the opener for Na'Vi
and haven't been having a close.
It's already pushed up. Mobs is just being distra-
Oh! Oh! He's got him!
Leg shot! Leg shot and modesty, and all of a sudden, in the minute we go...
This could still be OT.
It's Chaos! It's Pandemonium!
Bit on T-Roof!
Malphys' legs exposed! Force back!
There's pressure from every angle!
Back is turned on Snacks!
Niko does deliver, puts it onto Bit!
They know where he was, and they know where he is! G2!
The fortunes. It is an unfortunate event that just happened right there.
For the side of Na'Vi, of course, but for G2,
They're thinking they're lucky stars. My name that doesn't quite matter now
Does it what does matter is to get our first puzzle up on the board so that everybody can play along perhaps?
You're playing at home. Perhaps you're playing right here. Let's look at our contestants though, and let's see what's going on
You down the end. Where you from tell us your story. I'm from Mongolia. Oh interesting. I
Just came here as a fan watching the Mongols
Stuck around for the playoffs
Nice, okay. That's interesting
Uh, different. Yeah, go ahead. My name. My name is Ian. I met you yesterday. I think prove it.
I don't think I can. All right. And then of course down here in the middle or in the end,
I should say my name's it begins with an H. You can figure that out from Brighton Beach,
Brighton share. Hey, that's it. Nice. Harry from Brighton Beach. So Mr. from Mongolia,
would you like to come up and play first? Sure. Now let me explain this and how it
It works while we get him up here and get him situated.
We have a nice little wheel here, right?
And so when you press this button, it spins like so,
and that's okay because what you've spun
is what you'll end up with and a hundred bucks it is.
So, Yanko, let me tell you how this works.
$250 for a vowel, $125 for a consonant.
And the puzzle is right here.
Orgoners be like is your prompt.
Can I get a O, a vowel?
Yeah, you can. You can buy an O and there is one O in there,
but you need to keep spending though, right?
So you don't need some more money.
Some more mignon.
Let's get some more money.
You thought you were going to spend it twice, huh?
I like money.
Same.
Every time I see the red.
All right.
Let's go with a consonant trace.
Let's go with a T.
Yeah, there's one T. And it's right there.
Keep going, man.
Keep spending.
You're going to run the board.
on the board. Now getting your one every time would be better.
There were more than one money now.
You buy a bunch of letters now. All right.
I'm going to go with a name.
Now we have money for a trace.
You want an A, you said. Yes, sir.
Well, there are no A's.
So if you can take your seat and let's go ahead and bring up
that gentleman I met yesterday. Hey, man, come on down.
You understand the concept of me yet?
Yes. And know at the same time.
That's OK. You want to play? Yeah, I'll play.
I'll see it. Can I get it? Yeah.
So we say, oh, we are most OK.
We're on. We're on.
E please.
Yeah, there's one E money.
There's one E you could keep buying or you can spend again on almost on the spin.
Yeah, that's what we like to see money getting stacked to the ceiling.
Yeah, don't worry.
There's a little lag there, but I think that's our brains.
It's not necessarily the game itself.
Mm hmm.
Now, you had a thousand yesterday, if I remember.
Now I remember you to 1k. Yeah, that was me. Yeah. Yeah. And then I went bankrupt. What you want to buy?
How much do I have? I got 500.
Uh-huh.
I think it...
S?
Take an S. There are two S's. That is that is good. We have started now. I think you still have money
Yeah, so it's up to you. You can spend for more money or you can take some more guests. I'm a greedy man. Yeah, go for it.
Let's do it. That's a good strategy by the way.
Keep spinning. Spin to win, baby.
Yeah. Mm hmm. Oh, it's in for the thousand.
OK, so just buy out whatever you want, man.
Like, all right, you got vowels, too, if you didn't know.
Yeah, I'll go for it for an eye. OK, there are two eyes.
That is, in fact, correct.
There are two of them.
It see. I don't know if this helps you or hurts you.
But all right, keep going.
You're going to spend again, buddy.
Can I buy an in?
Yeah, you can actually and then we're going to give you two of them for the price of one. How about that?
Okay, I'll take that.
So now what?
I'm just spinning.
Yeah, I'm just taking some money.
The prompt is, Orgoners be like $100 on the board.
$100. That's good.
I'll take a G.
I know there's at least one G in there.
There is at least one G in there. That is correct Amundo.
Would you like to continue to purchase or you have 1100 big ones?
Do you have it?
Yeah.
Well, don't use it yet, unless you're mech.
Come on, then, sunshine.
Can I buy a H?
You can, if you'd really like to.
But it would be on me to tell you that you need to sit down,
because there are no H's in this puzzle.
Have a seat, sir. Thank you for playing.
Gladly we could build up his main goal here.
Mr. Harry, come on up.
Thank you, sir. Now, as a strategist here,
I think I should go for the money, or should I go for the soul?
Well, you have to spin regardless, so let's spin that wheel.
in that way. Lock it in. Show me the money. Bankrupt. Don't
bankrupt me. I've got it. I've got it. I might just run away
with my 400 bucks, Trace. Get on to the next one. You want to
you want to solve if you if you would like to. Sure. Fuck it.
Fuck it. Sign money. She that's the one that is the one
that is organors be like, Janko, where does that quote
come from? Can you tell us from G2 trace finally enough
finally enough but they did secure map to so how
important was that huge huge even Harry is it now you just won this so tell us a
little bit of something that we need to know about you I'll be taking my 400
bucks I know Russian a little bit of French and I'm well versed in multiple
British dialects change your sheets so I don't do meetings at Starbucks
especially at 10 a.m.
They smoke me a lot, I went up.
I have door guys, I'm evened.
Nice, I'm back up.
One more door.
What's the main? Email live.
One door.
Door one HP, one HP.
Nice!
Nice in there.
They don't want to die.
He got killed I think.
Drop someone.
They smoke now, they can cross secret.
Lobby, close! He's so close!
I'm running away.
He's in the middle.
Come back!
Watch out main!
Bomb! Bomb! Bomb!
Two doors!
They're not out.
They're not out.
One door! Can you flash me door?
I smoke door.
One hot.
Can be main, boys.
Nice!
Nice!
Nice!
Nice, guys!
Nice!
Nice.
Nice, Ilya.
Nice, nice, it's good, it's good.
Drop him off, Janos.
Office and the other guy might be back.
They're defuse.
They're defuse, yeah, they're defuse.
He's Vance.
Oh, Deacon, watch out.
They're defuse.
I'm defusing, I'm defusing.
You don't know I'm defusing.
OH NOOOOO!
Guys!
Oh, I'm like, this fucking guy, man!
Fucking Gigglesman.
How is this working in this game?
All good, all good.
Focus up next.
They can do whatever they want, but you know what will happen with them?
Let's take a second, guys.
Watch for me, Deacon!
Deacon, Deacon.
Deacon.
Nice.
I'm planting for Rokkis Illya, will you hold it?
Sure, sure I'll do this
Office
I'm going down
Nice!
Fuck you, man
One HP!
How?
Nice try, fuck you
I'm down, I'm down, I'm down
Two, two, two, two!
I'm on the left, I'm on the right
I'm under heaven, I can go on the top
One HP, I'm under heaven, I'm under heaven, both
No?
One HP here, one one one
It took AP guys
I'm in heaven guys
Holding asset
Okay
I have flash, come on
Yeah, they're coming
It's the right arrow
They're playing last
They're playing last, bro
Nice! Nice!
Come on!
Good
So fucking good, boy
Good, good, good
Wait a second
Wait a second
Out
Full gunning
No
I don't know, what happened
You can see I'm fake here
Yeah
What happened guys?
It was free round, Polaro
So free
Did you flash?
Get down! I'm blind!
I'm here!
I got two kills!
One more time!
I got one!
NICE!
NICE!
Nice, you sick!
You're a wutcher!
Nice, you sick!
Nice!
Sit back down, this one is good!
One is at the other side!
Nice, guys!
Go, go, go, go, go, go!
You're a nice guy, fuck that!
That's where folks, folks, guys, let's go!
Focus now!
Put it around!
Don't change an accent before the cast and waffle because of it.
You know that's what if any has Grey's second nature of their onto-forests.
Can he get an idea if he can?
I don't know.
I just don't play my game.
Fucking hell for a new song.
Wait, wait!
What the hell do you mean there's another male?
Only with the elegance of a star player.
Could you ever think all by yelling could work?
We've got a speeder, he's way over the limit, this dude is spinning!
Calm down little man, we've got bigger fish to fry.
What, we're just going to let him go?
We've got movement.
Sorry, I had to get away from the team during the crack.
You've got the stuff, right?
I have a few snap tabs if you're interested.
Say, you've got any more of those jump throw elicits lying around?
You must be joking. Do you have any idea how difficult those are to find these days?
These days?
Fuck it, I'll take some null bytes. Give me a couple null bytes.
No, please, just get on the ground!
These people have no honour, no code. They do whatever they get ahead in life.
They're not ready to face the consequences.
There's that guy again! Spinning! Let's go get him!
He's done enough for one day. Let's just let the kid have some fun.
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Change your fighter.
Player one.
Player two.
We're returning for the third map.
Ancient is going to decide who will be stepping into the grand final tomorrow for ESL Pro League's
20th season.
We're crowning a champion whether or not it will be G2 or Na'Vi to take it.
That remains to be seen.
I have experts alongside me.
As snacks you can see is a scurrying.
He's scurrying.
Scurrying away.
For it we have Chad Sponge-Bertschild, but we also joined by Janko Paunovic, G2's
biggest hater and fan simultaneously.
Absolutely Alex, I was spot on the delusional G2 Fanon call.
What does it really matter too much here on Ancient?
You tell me, you're the Ancient Enjoyers.
Yeah look, we do love some Ancient. It's Josh calls it the Green Mirage.
And funny that, because we hate Mirage.
Yeah, funny that.
Maybe really we should open a new account with it.
But look, Ancient I think is going to be a lot of fun.
I think this map is allowing for a lot of fast plays.
We could even get a little bit slower if you like, you know, taking a bit more tactical map controlling
I think that the tone of this could be quite nice if G2 are getting into a rhythm
Let's see if stacks can get some pattern calling going on
But most importantly, it's the players of G2 that bowed them out of some situations, right?
The fact that they were down in two rounds within the later stages of that second half of play
3v5 number disadvantages that they're able to fight their way back into that is what got G2 the map win
That is what's pushed us to the third and hopefully that is what sparked them to take this series because tomorrow
to play up against. They need
an opponent. And after this
pistol, keep your eyes on Malb
in mid. He has a very strong
proficiency to take the space
in this part of the map that
Hunter now resides. Spotted out.
Alexi B confirms, but is it just
one? It feels like one. Just a
couple o'clock bullets. They
start to search cave could be
dual barrettas on any of these
corners and so careful, quiet
clears. Who's you took for
the execute on snacks? That's
That's gonna be coming in through cave so probably short smoke and long Molly
And they're across so to retake setup identified
They're looking for space they're gonna be long
It forces them to make a decision you either fight or you run
Not for the latter retaking with a flashbangs nice though, but Niko has vision delivers a headshot
It's the same a double from him on the USP
Monosy pairs together fries five bullets turns away
It's up to Hunter in the clutch.
Awkward, awkward engagements, but wonderful.
Delivers with the Joe Barrettas.
Navi take pistol one.
I like the approach.
Like I like the strategy.
They execute. They get the bomb down.
You ask where it goes wrong. I guess it's the inner double kill.
I also like the approach from Navi.
I didn't overthink and said everyone through CT.
I think that's the thing.
You don't expect someone to go for some sort of a flank.
Sure.
To come from cave or behind the ramp.
or behind the ramp, but they overpowered them in numbers.
And that's something G2 didn't expect,
but they got the bomb down.
So forced by most likely,
and this is where Alice was spot on.
This is where Malbz does his best work, it feels like.
And...
Well, this isn't 8K this time.
You see, you keep that in the galil.
I was like, what's going on here?
I know you need the nades, mate.
Come on.
They haven't played the game on Iceberg.
Oh, yo, he's getting hot feet.
Oh, and that could have turned cold rather quickly.
bit pays a heavy price for an aggressive excursion. Lives on though. At least Emma knows nobody
can come from heaven to kill him. They've completely been able to flush out and clear
B lane. Now, this is fine if you're G2 because you aren't going to make a move and try to
initially rush towards A. That rotation would be ahead. You're just going to have to sit
Sima. And I think this is key. This is also what they were doing. Nuke late. They
just took a bit of pace out of it and the smoke walls came in late. Now, they
can go for the, yeah, there you go, the late smokes and then try and take this
control and that means that it's not going to be utile versus utile it's
going to be crosshair versus crosshair and that's where G2 can do their best
work. But they're not already fighting for mid you can see him at stance he is
just gonna be jumping for info I say that as he does start to push far
slightly further forward. Oh and spotted. Jig us up charging towards donor
wonderful in a prime position to Kaleva no AWP so ops for big box instead
has no answers main this fight is everything look at the flame they
heard you. Alexi be down. Big frag from Nico. Monacy flapped into the player on
Big Box and it all falls into place for G2 a second round forced by the looks to
have paid off. Beautiful. Yeah you were there for a little bit. They're all coming from Donut,
gone from A main to perhaps split that defense but yeah the forced by and I like what you said
Chad as well them slowing the pace down. You don't always have to win the round where
you know immediately right lecture players get some duals not always have to go
through utility like it's a weird one as well I don't know whether Alexi thought
about it but by respecting that cave smoke they had no answers be either kind
of late rotation to acknowledge a well that's what changed they had full
information for mid for belay and then the late you two coming through and then
at that point then drop back expecting something a little bit different and
they were just able to walk their way in I think if it's a philosophy
change and they do that on more maps. It'll be very beneficial for them.
Absolutely. I think also the map between Ascends shows you the confidence of Navi to go for
Ancient to Overdust too, but I think it's a little bit of overconfidence because this
is the last time Navi lost. Ancient lost to G2 at EWC and that was their first event
with Snacks and Malbs.
I think Snacks was just using that gap to see Alexey Walter decay. Flash comes
forward so Snacks are great for that. There's a tiny gap maybe we'll catch you
in another round that you can peer through.
RibbitJale gets one back with a deagle, and that sends them towards middle with the bomb.
So pack rolling, G2 just need to continue to trade off of each other.
Bits pushed in towards main, this is completely clear.
Now if he continues forward, he's going to miss the timing.
Like that from Snacks.
CT smoke deployed.
Here comes Bitt.
Too late to this.
Yeah, definitely too late.
So should be, are they going to ace, but that's their own CT smoke.
They're going to have to go through a temple if that's going to be the case.
They can take their time, but it's still 40 seconds left.
No issues. Hit the brakes. Allow the fights to come their way.
And they should be dealing with his force by with ease.
Just jailed to find he's the only one with a kill within the round in favour of Na'Vi.
And that's going to be Na'Vi losing consecutive and now going to have to go to an eco.
Good start from G2. I like the ideas that I see.
And on their T side no less.
Yeah, what, like, I think if you play a lot of pug counter strike,
people are either winning or losing rounds at the start.
No one's going to play slow in pugs, right? That's the thing you do.
people know utility at high level pugs, they know all the smokes and the flashes, but it's essentially just like a car crash, right?
It's just we're gonna run at each other and if we get lucky with the timing where the flash timing is better
We'll probably get two kills and take this map control
But if G2 just take a bit of pace out of it, what's gonna end up happening is Navi will probably stop blocking everywhere early
And then that's when G2 can throw in something a bit more pacey. Maybe that extra HG is missing
Maybe the extra molly is not in play and they're able to then brute force because in his map to block the rushes B
and to block the Russians over to what middle.
You need to use a lot of U2 within the early stages.
Very resource intensive.
And in some moments you could see basically G2
playing a little bit like Navi on their T side
where their goal in the round isn't necessarily
they know where they want to finish the round.
They just want to take some control,
right, wait for the reaction from the CTs
and then punish that.
And we were talking about it in the pre-match,
you know, it feels like the way to win for G2
is minimize the number of gun rounds in the game, right?
like win these key rounds, force by obviously helps a ton with that, even better than winning
the pistol straight up.
So they've set themselves up for a nice T side here, if they can have a clean anti-eco
in this one.
A couple of good ideas for the Nades, obviously double towards middle of the deal with any
CT aggression there.
Now over towards long, they know J.O. saved something, well I'm sure they were aware
it was the Diggle because of the kill, and then he tends to be over towards that
B side, right?
trying to remove a couple of corridors with the HGs.
Now they're finding a little bit of damage,
but they should be around that part of it.
It's so difficult to see how this will get out of control.
It would be a G2 round every day of the week,
and they are taking their time.
Yeah, I was about to say it would require JL
to get a D-Galase on the B side of Ancient,
but I'm pretty sure I've seen that before.
I don't think the Nightingale's
going to strike twice for JL here.
All five here for Na'Vi.
Yeah, I'm honestly told him for this though,
and he is going to be unable to convert
the initial kill, so it opens up
a little bit of a chance, but slammed shut.
Honestly, he gets three, and there's the last default.
A three-one scoreline, okay, things definitely starting
to trend upwards for Jitsu.
Now, I wonder if noting the pace
that Jitsu's operated within these rounds,
I'm sure we haven't had full gun round just yet,
but I was just questioning would Blake want to take
a timeout so they can chat about
what the approach change needs to be?
But he also gets the good graces
of getting to monitor what they're saying
up until he hears something maybe he doesn't like and then he could try and call that tag
time out in time.
Lurk smoke thrown out by Niko, see if they have a response to that or if there's a particular
strategy in mind.
It was slow, perhaps the B info crawl, Snacks showing presence towards B, flashes ramp,
maids cave, they're making it feel like a lot of B presence has been taken.
They're feeling, oh, hold up a second.
Snacks is fine, he's covered by Niko.
I just wanted to highlight that they're feeling pressured towards B because not only
did they smoke B doors? They also then smoke top B ramp, which then tells me that they were
expecting something quite poppy towards B.
Now, so he's going to have to try and win this dual out, covered as well by Emer and a 1-2
punch of the Donut. Defense, he steps into the line of fire once more. Wonderful fine
snacks. Nico needs a clean one. Can't get it done on the MP9 of Alexi.
I think he wanted Hunt to move a little bit faster there, Janko. Is that correct?
Yeah, I mean, with two players in Donut, you feel like that's the only opportunity
there for him to try and take some space but all his teammates died as well so
clean round for Navi and one that wasn't ideal right because of the economy there was no up
on wonderful they couldn't have all of their utility either. It's quite interesting with that
situation because I think timing favored Navi was when that U2 was thrown out because what it
did was it made them think that there was nobody back of Donut then when they were committed
to take the fight towards the right side of Donut they see the smoke come in and then
the second player is able to
activate. So I just think the
timing of utile for Navi is
what kind drew G2 in and weren't
expecting that second player to
swing. At that point, you're
already committed to the right
hand fight. So this one is
going to be. Very handy round
with all five staying alive. A
good way to try and cause
correct for now. The on this
CT side Hunter to save an
AK 47. There's residual cash of
plenty. Monizy can get up the
AWP Nico with the loss
bonus will get enough to buy
but likely to get a drop.
Want to make sure they get
to try and break G2 or maybe his finances questionable.
And that's what I was talking about, right?
Because they saw the counter-moli come out from wonderful,
so they withdrew just to that one position.
He's all... And at the time, he's lucky he gets the smoke out in time.
If they were like a split second quicker,
he probably goes down in that sequence,
and that's the difference of the rounds.
So Malm's gonna try any funny business in mid.
They're throwing out double nades looking for him.
Maybe a boost. Yeah, they are boosting, honestly, up just for info.
It was heard.
Now it's a little bit of a chip damage from the HE puts him on to 72
So they didn't open with a red smoke. They open with the B. Oh, okay, I've got a chunk damage done
On the spam
They just open with lurk smoke and K smoke. Alexi replenishes. He's actually gonna be pretty staunched with this staying for wanting to fight wanting to
stand out Molly
Didn't look perfect, but still does the job
more spam damage from Niko
Yeah, he's definitely got his line-up soared, puts a bit on notice down to just 44, missed smoke on red, that's a big gap.
Yeah.
You're hoping they have no answers, that they are without info made and little do you know.
I mean you do know now, Mubs has just seen it's missed.
So, now might change their plan, 55 and counting, Molly default, pressure being applied to this B defense.
Is Alexi B gonna be able to get one here?
Yes he is!
Snacks all trade!
through JL clean headshot finding snacks now the bomb hasn't been spotted it
might be now Hunter jiggles out made in his hand and Malph stop trying to get to
work wonderful struggling to finish him off 30 seconds guys this is getting tight
the bomb JL re-aggresses in a man advantage he goes pushing down the
ramp couple of good moves from Navi within this round
after being tagged up JL grab another Malph's look at the trade 17 seconds
He needs to make the move and was going to offer to save again.
So back to back rounds, the G2 are going to have one player staying alive holding onto a rifle.
You see that, right? They throw the pillar molly in the site for their cave progression,
and the legs he'd be committed knows nobody can bait for him.
So it has to be proactive and swing wider because the clears for the T's,
they're going to have an easy day at that.
And that's the thing like the micro decisions of individuals,
the pressure is getting put on, he knows he has to fight,
and then again that becomes like a 50-50.
Does he catch the player coming through cave when they're clearing a different angle
and he's ahead of it for the opening pick.
So it's just the little details in these rounds that are making the difference so far.
Yeah, just the aggression from the Navi players, right?
I mean, JL just going for a straight up fight right after that in a 4v4.
No, keeps pushing down B as well. Just relentless, really.
And they had the numbers on the B bomb set, so that might be the reason as well.
It doesn't feel like, Janko, that the players are getting more comfortable
because the level of expressiveness and also the banter,
it feels like it's, you know, hitting a fever pitch.
Yeah, no, it's a good observation.
Well, the camera shots are just getting significantly better and we're going to go, uh, hi, welcome to my cave.
The freest frag you're ever going to see for a legsie.
Well, fortunately, Malm's has gotten one back, so we're in a four on four at least.
Mid is lost. Wonderful spotting the red cross and this is a very forward position. It's an off angle.
But he keeps full info because they're not trying to put any pressure on Donut,
which might actually be a big mistake. If they're just going to try and pivot back into a B play,
You still get this forward actually beat. So he's been straight up position with Alexi. Oh
How does Alexi play this? I want to know the angle. What is the at the optimal way to play this to jiggling out?
sliding keeping his back along the wall
Monosy contact walks in its monosy versus Alexi who can best them that's what he was waiting for catches the element of surprise
But does not find the head swing is coming support it flashes great
Damage is good, Alexi only the one, Niko, what is he fighting to do?
Now JL through the flames, makes it a one on one, it's up to Niko.
Hasn't checked the ammo, better hope he's got bullets, wonderful.
Push, it's through!
Executive now, but that one comes right down to the wire.
Why the look away from Alexi? Did they see the flash in the air?
I'm not sure what happened within that sequence.
Maybe they thought they'd finished the meal, maybe they thought there was a bigger threat.
But either way, felt like Alexi should have gone down
and then the number advantage in favour.
This is the open up.
Can can be a cool mistress.
Snacks giving that one up in JL, just taking the fight.
Not worried about the flames.
Wonderful through the smoke.
Very brave.
And you can see a little bit of panic in G2's camp,
right, and lack of communication, maybe,
because Monacy dies trying to molly CT,
which was already molly, you know, by Hunter.
And that's where that's how JL dies, ultimately.
And now we just really fast in these rotations
and just keeps fighting, right?
I think that's what you need to realize if you're G2
and Malv's finally been an opening.
They went for a double molly start and he just extinguished, gave him vision, catches the run boost, in there, down and out, a nice opening manufactured by Malv.
The problem if this round continues forward, they've used four smokes to start, one for B lane, one lurk smoke, one for cave.
Actually they've used it all, like never mind, they're in, number advantage, make that two.
Oh, it's impossible for B now with low HP. They actually pull the plug.
good rotation but they're going to get past Wonderful's orb.
He's in the right place at the right time.
Ooh, and he catches a shot onto Mab's.
Can't believe he did that.
Guess Dington returned.
And then they're running in it.
They're running away.
I mean, what's Wonderful supposed to do?
There's no options other than save here.
Yeah, the problem is the HP.
I think if they had a little bit more,
they might investigate sooner.
And Snacks is hung around.
So if they were to rotate, he would hear these steps.
But the fact that they've come back silently,
how many kills does Snacks get here?
Zero.
One. One. Yeah.
All right.
Looks like he was going to get cleared by Bit, just as he was getting out of cave.
But yeah, I think in the end, you know,
G2G being able to plant in that last round enables them to buy here.
Easy bounce up.
Takes the AWP away.
Nice crosshair placement on that. Catches Bit. Full headshot.
Bit of misery in the final department for Na'Vi.
Even with the success of the rounds, one, because it was a 1v1,
wonderful versus Niko.
He's going to hold onto this JL, just play a deathmatch right now, swing it into all the jewels.
Niko the last to find and he'll take the fight, but Niko won't oblige.
So this is good from JL saying alive, you can drop one rifle.
With the loss bonus where it's at, I think we should be looking at a force fight.
That's the best option for Na'Vi, but it's actually Taz who's taking the time out.
Yeah, I think it's fine. You know, they only had one player left alive, so crucial round.
they feel that Navi will be able to get together a buy, right?
So you want to get all your ducks in a row in this round.
How do you want to approach it?
What the call is?
As of right now, Navi is not buying just yet.
OK, there they go.
And JL could drop an AWP.
Let's see if he decides to do that or just another M4
to one of his teammates.
All right, it is going to be the full investment.
You can see these buys coming in last second.
So they're happy to take this toss-over.
An important round for Navi.
the same it can be sent for G2 they win this they break the bank they can add an extra round for free
you're doing really good these rounds are really good you're fucking with their brains
we didn't hear the whole time out i wonder if there's anything else added within those 30 seconds
why don't you just join my team speak channel and say you're doing really good
i can do that yeah maybe next time i see you playing i'll join up and i'll let you know
Give me a tough time out.
That I can do. Tomorrow we're going to coach Alec, so take some notes.
That's true.
You go spot him on the jump. Aware of the K players' position, replenish off the smoke,
it'll bottom of another 20 seconds.
So a minute going to be available on the clock.
This is harassment at B.
It stops, you know, them being able to move around so freely.
So, look, a late clear of mid, likely now that we see the red smoke getting punched in.
So, from Heaven.
An elbow, they'll waltz on out. They'll call it clear.
They'll still be opportunity to pivot.
Oh, missed the Dynab flash, not the end of the world.
Looks cool though.
So you parked Malb's red,
and you returned through mid to cave.
Smokes are very well timed.
They know this at all.
You know that someone was cave.
AlexiB thrown that out, delays their options and their pivot.
That changes their call, right?
You can see Monosibid the bomb going towards A.
Players posted up mid, probably going to splatter just through Dynab.
Leave Malb's to cut off the rotation from red.
Alright, they don't have any main control from the star, so again we see them go with four players through the on the block.
Oh, Nico saves them! That was the smoke that could have ruined the day, ruined the round for G2.
And it changes everything. By catching him on the jiggle, they're into the site unscathed.
Five alive in the post-plan and get out of there if you can and then four and AWP to be saved through.
They only just about pulled this by together. They have to hold on to it.
at least sending one or two players out for the hunt here, but Niko literally wins them
around with that one kill. Because if he just gets spotted, Ima then drops the smoke, then
they're going to question, they're probably going to try and pipe back either towards
B or have to force through.
Like what was it, 28 seconds? Something like that?
Wouldn't it be uncomfortable?
I actually wouldn't really hunt here because the money for G2 isn't great either. If they
lose one or two players and then end up losing the following round, well then they're
back on an eco of their own. So you want to make sure, always first and foremost,
your economy is strong right and then you start worrying about can you ruin the opponent's economy
wonderful good fire off a shot so they know that there's an open play jale still alive save them for
so now I look crazy from immerse pov maybe nico's pov will give us some answers
that's the thing you're already aiming for that bro key position yeah right so so the cross
that placement is already going to be and and that's just unfortunate timing for jale on the
the jiggle but still a marvelous shot they're coming out from Niko and potentially a half-changing shot
yeah you're in a third map of a semi-final you've got to count on Niko to be hitting those and he
has been testing the pace now JL a wonderful size under scrutiny now that's all I miss
a wonderful delivers on the cross table to deliver the pre-fire brutal from monosy but
But Alexi B over low, can he pivot back?
He lives on and pushes off.
But no trade potential.
Three MP9s up against the AKs, and the pace change from G2
has resulted in Niko and Hunter, the Kovac cousins,
to try and come up clutch.
Walking in, in there, towards this ramp position,
how patient is he?
Hunter, oh, can't adjust.
Can't finish it off.
Up to Niko now, unknown.
The bomb under Alexi B's rule,
Niko has 60 seconds and he's going for a very cheeky clear.
He's not going to go around the wall. He's going to come back.
So now he knows nobody's behind him.
Does mean Niko focuses attention on what's in front of him.
Does he know that Alexi is still inside?
Does he think maybe he fell back here?
Seems like he's acknowledging the possibility.
Oh, Info. Info goes both ways.
Molly will force five, tracks him, forces him back, bit now down to half.
Niko overlooks it. What's going on here?
What's Alexi doing?
I think he's going to run around already.
And now they line up.
They were so low.
If Alexi goes down on site, he could get to control the Jules as they come out of cave.
That could have gone either way.
But that one right there, it looks really bad for Snacks because he unloads in the smoke.
Doesn't expect Alexi to dip back out, but his teammates are worried about the rotation.
They're not worried about covering him off because, hey, they're trying to stop anybody else from getting over.
Alexi after hearing the spam pushes through isolate snacks and that is the kill that wins the round
Just also looks pretty damning considering how all these other rounds have gone right with now
We just sending players in that you need to expect that we can't expand something like that
They were right to expect Malph's in there's pretty much
The audacity on Malph's with five HP to push the smoke
traded, Ram JL gets a flash a lovely team flash to set him up but he does finish off the job,
Nico down, Hunter trades, it's all down to Monosie and Snacks, not the most potent of
pairings if Snacks can get one here, he can't, it really falls to Monosie and he doesn't
even get a chance to play, what's that? Through the smoke from Bit.
Yeah, so the bomb was down just on the cusp so he was waltzing through the smoke
to try and pick up the bomb, I think then it disappeared off the radar,
just unloaded knowing that he has to be fading away. But it felt like G2 had done enough as far as the
rounds that they had won and the order they had won to keep it really difficult. And the B rush call,
I quite liked it. I thought it was a good pace change. And they overwhelmed the AWP. Wonderful.
Only got one kill in the previous and yeah, it just comes down to that skirmish. It was,
but Navi's reading them really well. So I'm not sure if that's them just doing their job in
preparing it. Honestly, he's done an awful lot of work to take some space early and,
Wow wonderful posted up does deliver the frag to trade back. He's a player already passed though. He's not aware
Bits got him covered him has given up three opening kills in middle so far. Okay. Yeah, well, there's the
Problem in their CT setup
Alexi B has been having a strong day in the office in his cave position this time. Does he ever smoke grenade doesn't
Okay head on collision
None is the answer! Big frag! Big frag from Snaks! It might give him a chance to end 6-6.
It might be in the operative word here, because JL gets away from the swing of Niko.
He looks destined for some damage.
Unto a Niko. TAC9 at this range is perfect though. He can't fight...
What's this pun? That's abysmal!
JL gets to bring down the planter, put it all onto Niko, and then keep walking through!
Constable frags for JL and it will be 7-5 at the half, Navi in it to win it in pursuit of that grand final
on the other and it looks like Na'Vi are hitting this one fast.
Yeah, direct approach when they stag mid as well.
I mean, the cave flank, someone's going to have to be responsible for it.
Imma looks like he's going to be tasked with it.
Snacks, however.
Fast tap.
Imma, catch it.
Snacks!
Clean with it.
And just a zeeze to run away with it here in the second half.
I'm going to try.
I'm going to try.
I assume that the call was it's a B rush, but it wasn't communicated whether it
was through cave or whether it was through ramp? Yes. Because the way they responded to
it was quick as if it was a B rush, right, obviously. But you assume ramp? Well, yes,
which Alex, you know what they say about assumptions. Makes an ass out of you and me and some people
looked at it a little ass-like. Yes, so after a great shot, that was really all that
G2 and Snacks had to boast for that ramp. So over to Yanca with the economical breakdown.
What have you got for there is a breakdown happening? I'm not sure how economical it is
You need a round this is
It's just the stuff you see all the time. Oh wait give us a little shot come on man
Nice idea wonderful just acknowledges. Yeah, there's probably a ton of them. They're not gonna give him anything
Well, if they're quick and they contact in they can still beat the time in the rotation unless Nico happens
Here we go.
Yes, Niko's D. You ought to get past it first.
And does miss his chance, bit.
Delivers a nice headshot.
Monacy, however, is USP.
Hang on.
JL's got a cover.
They're actually pushing the smoke.
He could get awkward.
Could have.
OK, slight opportunities for that to go wrong.
Just Malves and Snacks.
What are you putting that down to on the pistol, Janko?
Combs?
Combs, just a lack of awareness, really.
You know, you're coming with four players.
Why can't just a third player hold
Ram for you while two guys look towards cave?
You don't want to retake through cave, right? But you need to acknowledge its existence
Yeah, that's the thing is you don't want to go through cave with us peas against glocks, right?
You know they obviously are gonna overwhelm you in that position wouldn't they have heard them cave from it
That's what I was thinking
But obviously not I don't know if we get a replay of Malm's after he died there. It did sound like he hit the desk
My ears are really good. I mean it just in general it does the emotion
have been running high for all this series I mean even when you hear those those
listeners we're doing yeah but why you're a felica no I think it's just
probably compounding from general sense of it yeah okay all right well but yeah
emotion is definitely running high I've heard JL and Niko both having their own
kind of rants and raves about what the other player is doing I think they're
both definitely wanting to maintain either the Navi streak or to break
the curse if you are G2. Just a quick note, that smoke you see to the left there that extinguished
the molly is a poorly thrown CT elbow smoke so thank you very much. She's what Navia's
saying to G2 right now.
Neat between the two of them, two man caves set up, Niko going looking, JL catching a little
flak but is there a punish available here to reload, Alexi B does spam him out, this molly is great,
he's gonna force a reaction into the spray, Alexi can't convert, Niko down to 14, the
spams will continue to be layered on thick. So much harasta, there's multiple bodies just
trying to take this cave fight, this is so much resources and manpower put into the cave fight
for now. V. The rounds on over
we're in a 5v5. We've got 45
seconds left on the clock. Red
room taken from Emma. This is a
huge pivot point three on behalf
to push. That's what JL is
waiting for. In fact, three of
them are waiting for this.
It takes four takes two from
then the Galeel twins through
G2 booked on their search B
Ram. Just another casual carry
performance from JL as having
some great games, isn't he
It was a bit rather than a bit was having a few big rounds over there, but yeah, Jail more often than not is able to light up the scoreboard
Yeah, that's one and three
What are you putting it down to?
Yaka because the way that I'm able to piece this together is now the team has such a strong
Understanding of the way that they want to approach the game
But now the individuals within the system and the understanding of the decisions made all that
Emboldens them right like gives them the ability to make these type of moves you were saying before you feel like Jail
Just taking jewels just taking fights. Yeah, I think
absolutely the fact that they are more drilled as a team helps players have
confidence because they piece the puzzle together quicker and you know
obviously having a good idea of what's going on on the map gives you confidence
when you go for fights when you clear angles and all that sort of stuff but to
me honestly I like the fact that he's not overthinking stuff he's just going
with it he's just pushing he's just being aggressive he's going for duels
he's going for fights and he's been really solid even on nuke maybe not
The nuke against G2 here, but I mean he's a menace on the T side in that door area
Yeah, have you seen him have some really cool head-to-heads controlling that position of the map obviously didn't go his way in the previous but
Can always be very impactful within his position second tactical timeout call from G2
We're getting towards the tail end of this and it feels like it is simmering out
There's not much to say really you look at that round what happened Niko got low HP
They were sort of gambling towards B wanting to be aggressive then okay. We have to give up cave
They're really harassing us here
What's the only thing you can do is go down ramp, but there's not really any utility to support it
You're hoping sort of that the overwhelming number numbers are gonna catch Navi by surprise
But you don't get any of the kills early on for that to even be an option for you. So
Have to say
Looking at Malves, looking at Nico. To reinvigorate G2, they need something here. In our 16th round, it has to be special. It cannot just be an 11 for Navi, albeit partially invested.
Alright, I will jail through his depressur and Alexi B relieves it.
What do we do now? We've lost A. Guys, we have no info A.
Probably save.
That Molly makes a decision for him.
Yeah, Alexi still has a smoke.
And if they want to try and brute force their way in shore,
take a look at the post plan that Na'Vi are trying to set up right now.
So somebody over towards the platform, toolbox position, wonderful take up big box.
They've got somebody who rewards Donut, make it two, and a player patrolling main.
So this should be Na'Vi's round.
Oh, oh, he's real clean with it.
From there and around the floor to him.
Potential for the individuals of Na'Vi to post them.
I don't get this from G2.
What are you trying to do? You're trying to retake 5v5 with one smoke and no kit.
I understand that it's 10-5, you know, and about to be 11-5,
and that you were going to bind this round anyway, but how about playing to contain
and get some exits, and okay, you will lose the round, but you will get some AKs, right?
You will boost your own economy, so if you do get rolling,
if you can win a couple of rounds in a row, then you force Navi to equal.
Then all of a sudden the score might be close,
and they might tear it up a little bit more and they get a chance to play.
Wonderful, hard done by there. Hunter has delivered in buckets and spades.
Oh, Spam got to be careful because they're coming for you! JL, hard control, the spray!
Till he does! Just a spray down two on me. Niko in the clutch, a one versus two, quickly equalised.
He finds Alexei and it's up to Bit to come up clutch. He's got bomb.
While we get a moment to catch our breath, building on Yanco's point about that not being the best financial decision,
G2 came into this round without a single diffuse kit. So if we get into a post plan and it comes down never mind
It might not do that at all Nico just staying pivoting moving. He's on the trail of bit trying to sniff him out
I don't want to make any noise
He's just missed him twice. Oh my god. He just started to pivot back
Okay, bit
Getting now loud Nico gets the confirmation. Maybe accelerates a little bit of his own trying to find that window of opportunity does have knife
I found but still walking
And info, info.
And then brings the fighter into Niko.
I mean, Justin, what are you supposed to say?
What are you supposed to do?
Why is he even going for that, P?
It's inexplicable.
I mean, just like in cinema.
Yeah, just like Janko's been saying.
Just like Janko's been saying, they're just taking fights.
Like, why?
Because they can, Alex.
So that's what happens when you're the best team
in the world, you just have that confidence.
And everything looks so simple for you, right?
like you read the game much easier and he doesn't realize how close he was to
being taken down the back multiple times and many does that here I go
oh this could be it this could be the final round don't say that it's 12 to 5
g2 all to play for everything to be lost if they cannot convert here and I had
nice bit of information from Malm's an early a main push wonderful might be
caught knife out or not
That should be it, I would say.
Number advantage.
U2 in their favour. Weapons in their favour.
Time still on their side.
Na'Vi just need to call themselves into the winning play.
I can make it even worse. They have no idea that Bits and Donut either.
And that's a nice sequence of kills.
How many snacks go down?
Monosy and Nico.
Helpless.
And was it seven in a row?
Seven back-to-back losses for G2 vs. Na'Vi.
About to be eight.
It's about to be eight.
Can't break the Alexi curse.
G2 in their head.
in their head. Monosy is going to try and make a round of this. Wonderful and bit are still low.
Alexi on full HP. The bomb having a pivot back on the long rotation. Monosy responding to this
quite quickly. Niko on the other side of the map, so this is going to take a bit of time. It's all
on Monosy. He needs to get a kill before he goes down to give Niko a shot. Well, if you've got
Monosy, it catches the boost. Noses are second there. Alexi be with the bomb on his back.
He's cautious and understandably so. I smoke to play around. I love this from Monosy,
throws it out, gives him some freedom to continue to be threatening.
This Alexi scores that bomb in, supported now by Bit,
playing for the grand final.
And he co-activates, nice isolation, catches Bit, overlooking Alexi,
can't finish, and G2 survive.
A long road back into the series, seven consecutive rounds,
but there's the first.
And immediately, Blade wants to go on the mic.
Oh, yeah, I have to do is ask yourself,
how many times is it going to be possible for individuals to pull G2 out of holes with them rounds?
Because I think in terms of the approach, Navi are going to have them covered.
They're going to need a real inspirational play from every single member of G2 stepping up.
It's going to have to be perfect from this point forward.
I think the problem is, you look at some of the comebacks that we had,
like the Liquid phase 1, and that was just Liquid starting to feel the pressure
as the score gets closer. I don't think that's going to happen to Navi,
I mean, I was just gonna feel pressure at any point, you know, even if something crazy does end up happening
I think the chances are much higher. They will just win this round and it will be over
Because from our POV it didn't look like bit was looking in the direction of Donut, but looking at temple
Yeah, I suppose in that conversation they've
Seen her awful lot. Wow
All right. Well, this could be it. This could be the final round
I said that last round will say it again.
They're going to put a plight of early A pressure in there with the CT smoke to force that rotation,
try and soften up the mid-defence.
Barrage utility pressuring towards B lane.
There's that CT smoke as mentioned.
They'll keep the commitment of Malbs.
They'll keep him planted.
Jail searching around.
Crossed to B high, Niko in the open.
A perfect flashbang.
Wonderful. Sides open.
Blinds Niko and facilitates the B side.
They get straight in there and G2 have got three opportunities.
Malbs, Monosy and Hunter.
Is there any way back into this side or is this where the game is lost?
It looks very good for Na'Vi. Five alive, Monosy will shift the tide.
One, and that's all! Monosy empty handed up to the first and nine!
Normal M-Model, what the fuck?
You're playing a normal fucking match?
Wait, you didn't play this stuff?
No.
I played... last time I played this, I was 8th to level a face at that place.
Oh, let's go. Are you watching some fucking tutorial?
We used to play 1A4B, A4PLA.
Okay, here we go.
We're full serious now, what the fuck?
Yeah, yeah, I'm full serious, bro.
I'm full serious, I'm fucking out of time.
I'm going to be late.
I'm going to drop fast.
No, wait, wait, don't go fast, because they can boost, they can help the others.
I don't think so.
I'm hiding too, you guys.
Yeah, you can go, I'm...
I don't...
You can go, I'm hiding.
Oh, they're holding!
Yes, go to the left side.
Go left side.
Can we go back?
Sound.
I'm going to the right side.
Okay, alright.
Left side.
Oh, we can't, we're done.
Okay.
I'd love that love
I'd never see this
That's nice
Maybe one more chicken coop
Chicken yeah
Chicken fucking coop!
I fucked him
Help
They're fucking him
He's in chicken coop
Help Fin
No, I mean they might have to fuck Fin
Rock one rock
Kill flanker
Kill flanker
Okay it's possible
But it's a low chance
Very low chance
Yes it's possible
Nice
Nice
Okay I need to put the radar
I don't see you guys at all
Bro my radar is on max
I can watch this
Pressure mid-dash please
I'll give you first
I will go drop
And...
Can I have one guy later?
I give you a flash, Valera
I hold push, and then I want him to go to the place
Flash for what?
For me to take him bomb
I drop the bomb into the base
It boosts me on the fucking thingy?
I have to go fast
I'm in green one, close drop
Where can I be?
Up
Two mid, they're passing for us
Flash, we'll be peeking
How do you talk?
I'll go push
They wanted to push it with smoke, but they missed
Okay
I will go clear the plateau
Smoke it
I think they're rotating now
I can have a if you want to help job I can hold this for me
I'm behind this ship. Yes, but get one eye
What is all the one very cool?
You think they didn't clear for this
I'm going to smoke Valor
I smoke Dirt
There's one with the arsenic
That's very off, off shelling
Two out of the way
Only one guy was fighting
I'm just sitting on the beam
One on the wood, one on the side there
One in the window, two guys here
Two there
Two down mid, two down mid
Save save save save
There's only one on the side, only one on the side
Dog out, dog out
One marked, oh
I got one from the left
Rocky's low
He's on top, he's on the side still
He's on the house
Ohhhh
Save bro, who the fuck is playing P?
Me, me, save, save, save
What the fuck is going on here, what is going on here?
I'm dying x5
It's fine, we lost sigma
Picking dodge, dying to the eagle
I'm picking alley by the eagle
There's no lead on
They smoked snake
I'm here, dodge
Two outside, heavy
Not long on through
Bomb here, smoking smoke
Wait, wait, wait, use it
We can make this
I have 4 B counter guys. I attacked you guys. Get out of here.
I have 4 B counter. I don't see anyone. It was 3 of you guys.
He is actually in a million angles in B.
I'll push. Hold the smoke for a bit.
two of them, two of them, two of them
can you come to the draw, fucking the side of the line?
where is the line?
oh no, I have the doors
I don't see them here
there are 10 minutes, more in the southern
what's your problem, behind you, how many?
no no no, no no, it's a fucking dashing
I will be blind, yes I will
behind you
I'm looking here
see what's there
behind you, I got from it
technical difficulties
that's what you got bro
okay, talk more, talk more
I'm coming with a CC
Is he hit 60?
No, I'm kidding
I'm stuck
It's the only game
Only game, I had to be mad
You hold from there?
Ok
Yeah, he's walking
You have flashbang?
Hold your shots
How many did you see?
Creepy, creepy, creepy, creepy, creepy
I smoke, right?
The one who is in the drop, I want to kill him
The bloke to smoke
I kill the camp here
I'm pushing B
Yeah, I'm leaving B
I'm just writing about the smoke
I think 3-2 is again
I'm gonna help Fin is low
Yeah, let's go to Fin
3 guys, have that side
I have that side
I'm peeking, fuck
I'm red, full group drop
I'm gonna be right next to him
I can go here
He pushed B
Oh he pushed B
B, yes
You see nice lurker
I don't know how
He smoked and pushed it on smoke
That's why
I guess he's fucking lurking
Let's bomb
Let's go now
Let's go
I play drop
I'll go B
Oh my god, thank you
Need to be smoked
Okay, I'm going
I'm gonna be smoked
Smoked, smoked drop
Smoked drop
Okay, put that
I'll boost you
Take flash
Smoked
I'm still drunk
Nice, I rush
Okay, so I wanna go slow
I'm about to drop dead
I can't push up, I can't
Sorry
I'm coming, I'm coming
Two below, two below
I'm going, I'm going
Where?
Hey, back maybe?
Yes, you have to...
Go B, go still towards B.
Go still towards B, I'll try to...
...smart.
Oh, I killed the bomb, kill him one more time.
One more time, I'm dead.
I killed the bomb, you have to...
Okay.
What can you do, guys?
Tick-tock.
Very good map, actually, I like it.
He's ill.
Leave it, leave it.
It will not be like this, so...
Very good.
He's there.
Goddamn, dude!
Oh, you fucking...
You're lucky you didn't even say where this one is, just kill them all!
Bro, they can't hit him, what the fuck?
I think we should go to the smoke, I want to smoke.
No, I think we have time if we extinguish this one.
Extinguish it, I want to do a much-making move.
Can you flash?
Extinguish me, please.
Me, just still flash to the head.
They dropped me to the flash.
Extinguish for him, Igor.
I'm rushing B.
Okay.
Flash.
Flash it off.
I'm staying, I'm snagged.
I'm going to B.
Nope.
Stop rushing, stop rushing.
Yeah, I'm fast, you rush.
Yeah, we are pushed.
On the side, there we are.
Yeah
Didn't go through this article
We're back we're back
Nice baby!
We hit them for sure
Can he... be all the way back so he doesn't see you from mid
They're all playing two dumps on A
Won't be aiming
I'm flashing it
Two guys drop
I'll just sneak mid
I'll be careful
ALLAH RABEEN!
Okay sorry bro
No, no, that'd be...
Fuck!
Two guys, he's playing
Yeah, go away
I know
Two guys play lobby
One more
What the fuck?
Two, three, three!
Go away
Three on B
Can you pressure that?
I feel it, yeah.
I'm sure.
I want to go through the middle.
You can go in front.
You can go in front.
What the fuck?
He's on the hay, what the fuck?
I'm gonna be long.
Be long, be long, yeah.
Still at the plant?
Still at the plant?
Falling across the site.
Tell me when you cross it.
I'm strafing it.
Site.
Nooo
Fucking shit
We have money, we have money, we have money, that's fucking good
Is this W Plateau or?
The stairs, you know
Canary by the right side
Can you smoke the plate, you know how to do it?
Yeah
I was B doors, A doors
I'm gonna close, close, close B
What the fuck are you doing?
Oh shit bro
Swank snake
He jumped on the box last time
Start up
What is this?
Nice
I'm only... Igor try to edge bro
I'm gonna drop
He's low now I guess
Can you stop?
Guys we are etching on B
Okay
He's close left side
Don't hurry up please
I have 8 space
Do you have 8?
I don't know what to say
Space, space only
One more stairs bro, they are fucking 3 stairs
Oh, I'm not sure
He can fucking go out
One going here
I'll carry
I'm doing drop
You'll be able to close it
Okay, close
You can move, you can move, I'm very close
I don't see the door, they're breaking
I'm gonna win
I'll try to break it
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't
One more time
It's okay to save, it's okay to save
I don't wanna save this shit
Okay, I'm saving now
Okay, man, you ruined that guy
Yeah bro, I wanted to win this
I had kit but I didn't understand what you're saying
Ah, it's a U-Room? Okay
Just to pressure A, like south
We need to smoke on B, platkars
Yeah, yeah, we'll smoke
I'm at it
Two drop
I'm on B main
From below
This is my door
Take an aggro
I'm pressure
Can you respawn behind the bridge?
Yeah, you can
Yeah, okay
Yeah, we're good
Wait, Mr. Wetter, Mr. Wetter
I'm holding this one, I'm holding this one
I'm holding this one
I'm going
I'm holding my D, I don't know where the head is going to be
Bro, I can have a flash from far from when this phase is
Yeah
Touch it
Touch the boost
Dead
I don't know
Where the smoke better?
Boost! Boost! Boost it!
He's down
One more up there
3A, 3A
5LT, 3A
2 doors
Car!
All clear
Nice
Heaven
Plant
Last door, Heaven
You are all low hp
Yes
Heaven
Door, door, door
How much under, pick on me, Alex
No
Hard rush
I'm fine
Igor, let's run, what are you taking?
Agh, agh, agh
Yeah, good
Watch the drop
Small plato, I will go for a drop
I'm on mid, mid, you want to take a peek?
Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm watching
Okay
I'm on the other side
I'm on the other side, I'm on the other side
I'm on the middle, pick it up
Okay
I'm on the other side
I'm on the other side
Two drop
What the f**k
I'm on the other side
Do you have a drop on this?
Do you have a window?
I'm on the other side
I'm on the other side
I'm on the other side
I'm on
coming up
he's close
three long
all four of them
I'm fucking going in
I don't see any of this shit
nooo
ok, Nidia if he's coming
where?
he wants to see us
I'll do B flat smoke
do you want the boost again?
I became it
I don't want to get shit
Stop, stop, stop!
EILE, EILE, EILE, EILE, EILE!
Did you take it?
Yes.
Look at him.
Don't let him out of here.
I've charted all the heads.
He held the smoke, he smoked himself.
I smoked as well.
Hold on, EILE.
I need doors.
I crossed.
He's holding side.
He's on the smoke, I'm just going for him.
Yeah, man, man.
Watch out, EILE, watch out.
I left.
Do you have to go towards B?
It's easy round.
EILE, EILE.
Hey, he's coming this way.
He's behind.
What? He crossed out?
He's behind the other side.
Still there, behind the box.
Only one.
He came out from A to B. He rolled in.
The other side?
Yes.
He came out.
That side.
Is this the last step?
Yes.
Close.
Bro, I'll give you a bomb.
Close that Ome, bro.
Nice, very good.
Move, case, move.
What?
Plant on A.
They should be both on A maybe, guys, care.
Yeah, that's where we're going.
Go drop, south.
Where is he?
He's on splat as well.
I smoke drop, sorry.
Why does he drop?
Only one on the hill.
Can you check south?
Yeah.
He's on this, you know, red.
Oh, it's cold.
I'm hiding right there, guys.
Can you check south?
I'm checking south.
That one's for you, boss.
Oh, drop!
I'm going to save, I'm going to save.
They said somewhere close, no?
Won't be flat.
Oh, why is she...
I hope that both will be flat.
Let us!
Yes!
You can take it, I will.
Do you remember Alex's ult?
I'm holding the door, they can't rush.
Yeah, that's good, that's good, that's good.
Oh fuck, they smoked the temple.
We're behind you.
We're close behind you.
We flash him.
No, no, no.
They're out.
I'm leaving, I'm holding it.
I flash him.
I'm going down.
I flash him.
One more outside the...
In the...
One more...
In the middle, in the middle
In the middle, two guys
Two coming in the middle
I'm not crossing the side
Drop, one HP
That's it, that's it
Yes, I'm out
Maybe I...
Okay, stay in the middle
One low HP, one HP
He's coming late
Did I kill him?
No
They went back
Yeah, we're both there
Drop one
Coming to you
Close the kitchen
I am
He's running away now
He's running
I'm on the side already
One more on the right
He's already on the right side
No, he cannot
He can be on the other side
Alex is on the right
Just watch the smoke
I think he's gonna push the smoke
You've got the other behind you
Oh yeah
Clutch he got in his back
Holy fuck
Damn son
What's the plan guy
I'll fight, I'll fight now.
Where's Phillip, last clip?
Uh, 10-3, pistol, uh, go mid.
Urva, rush.
But you got the same thing.
From close, from close.
And I will flash.
Oh, there are little gap, yes.
Yes.
And Igor goes there.
Top, I guess.
Down.
Th-thirst go.
Flash.
Flash.
Where's he going?
I'll hit you one more.
Oh, shit, uh, flash, thanks.
One is B.
3A.
I'll be in mid.
Is it close, eh?
He's stuck.
Can't drop, he got after pressing.
No, many A.
Just go, go!
One more.
Two G-Eagle. One in one, I got him.
They were two G-Eagle's there.
Oh, fuck.
What do you want? Wait, two.
Wait, wait, wait, it's strong.
One's behind you guys.
Two where he's at.
One coming in, Vence.
Vence, my side can't be broke.
And Vence, heaven, heaven, heaven, heaven.
Heaven, I'm back side.
What's up?
Good, take the chest.
What's this, huh?
What's this?
Nice.
Close it.
Close, do me.
I'm drawing lots.
Nice!
Close, close, close.
Nice!
Wait, why did I hear him here?
Are you a VP smoke line and B?
I'm so glad to get control of them
They'll use the same flash as me, so I'm for sure
I need help, I'm gonna be holy f**k, Miha
I'm going chicken f**king coop
No rush, no rush
Plata, plata, plata
You broke?
Oh, you broke?
He's in my middle
Yes, one
Can you come to me from the other side?
I'm going to the other side
I'm asking you.
Touchdown.
I'm watching you.
I can't hear you.
I'm on the other side.
I'm on the other side.
Unfortunately, I'm on the other side.
One is Ivy.
Info here.
You saw him?
Yes, one close.
Okay, middle.
Good job.
Did you think I was alone?
I thought so.
You heard him, Alexi?
Yeah, close door.
They're going.
Sound.
Two close doors.
Sound.
Guys, I'm walking through the door.
Swat.
Swat.
Swat, cheating.
Close, close.
What a bullets.
Hey, I'm getting stuck in fucking nothing.
Get the stairs.
Yeah, I'm getting stuck there as well.
You can triple-lay the close belong, he's dead there.
Wanna do it?
Back off the box or what?
Like, in the broken wall.
In the broken wall, yeah.
I hope it's okay otherwise, I'm not here.
I'm faking it
I'm faking it
I mean it was a checkup
Ah, faking it
One more
One more
I know how he hit
One more
I'm gonna go first
One more, one more
Two, two, two, two, two, two, two
Okay, I can push
I'm pushing
I'm pushing
Maybe
You must move guys, you can't go there
You can be dark
Sound, yes, sound, kill him.
Gonna be quick, quick.
Get his...
That's right.
He's still there.
He went towards mid guys, while they were at his...
Mid.
Not stairs.
Nice.
Now I know how he hit me.
I shoot him in the bullet and he shoots headshot, but he had a head armor.
Fucking ropes.
I'll play B, because you said I want to play B.
Guys, can someone...
You stick, you stick.
Can you get A, cell flashing at HE?
I think we can go through the trap
I think we can smoke
I think we can go through the trap
Yeah, we can
I'm coming
I'm coming
I'm coming
I don't see anyone
I'm protecting you
I'm breaking
Breaking? Good
I'm going back
I'm going back
I'm going back
I'm going back
I'm low
I'm low
I'm with a... deep.
Go to the Havoc, can you be there?
Yes, coming.
You need to take it.
Take the cover.
Havoc, get it.
I'm just...
I'm just walking away.
One!
Okay, shit.
I'm pushing.
I'm pushing.
I'm pushing.
Oh, my, can't pick.
I have a...
I'm just gonna...
Can't be, can't be.
They know we're two here.
I'm just gonna get up.
Drop them all.
Three, and drop, three, and drop.
Both, both, two, both!
Still alive, Alessia, as much as I can.
He's down, he's down.
He's down.
He's over enough.
He should be on the left side.
Close with me.
I'm behind you.
I have right.
Care pizza, should be right.
Oh, he is.
He's holding right.
I have right.
He's out.
I don't know.
He's out to the left side.
Okay, I'll be.
Nice.
Nice, Alessia bro.
You're fucking beast of cobblestone.
I swear, if they changed the map to cobble,
two scanners would be the number one player.
I don't hear you.
I don't know.
I need one.
I need one.
I need one.
I need to have a shut up when I'm playing
Shut up man, I'm trying to take down the wind around
Drop!
You going left, Robin?
Obsession, you will drop
Somebody have a smoke for the...
I'm rushing, I'm rushing
I'm rushing and dropped
I'm rushing, I'm rushing
I got a lot of smoke
You guys have no smoke tonight
Yeah, we're rushing bro
You rushing above us?
Somebody have a smoke
Go
Flashing, ready, set
Fuck, where is he?
Smosh top actually
Yeah
One come on one go one HP workman drop that message. Oh my god. There's so much damage
You're like going fast, right?
Push it I'm behind now in the back bitch. Oh, of course
I'm blind. Thank you. Holy shit lesson behind you. Holy shit. I'm blind again. Oh
Ah, I see him.
He might be coming.
He's holding us, no?
Yeah, I'm talking to him.
I'm shooting.
He's on the ultimate.
I'm talking to him.
I'm talking to him.
I'm talking to him.
I'm talking to him.
I'm talking to him.
Take care of your guys.
Calm down, guys.
Calm down, man.
I can flash you through the valley.
No.
Yeah, flash.
Flash, flash, flash.
Dodge, dodge.
Pop!
One more.
Nice.
Nice.
Nice, nice, nice.
Oh!
Sorry.
He's got a bitch.
Sorry.
consult
two flashes, man
careful, hey
i have
one mid
one mid, i killed him
i'm left, but
no chance
i didn't, i shot one
push the group
i pushed the smoke
okay, two was there
are you good bro?
i can flash you
dude, i break
okay
we're breaking
i can also flash you
what the f...
hello?
this one is cute bro
So, this game...
I wanna molotov close
One up! I can give you a KS
Oh, I'm deep! Hold him deep!
One molotov close
Last one up
No?
Yes, yes, you see him
Oh, he is it?
Yeah
Nooooo!
Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys
What the fuck?
Why you kill me, Valex?
Because you killed me again
Okay, kill go, bro
Keregan was Keregan right snipe guys
He did fake drop sound bro
He's coming snipe
Keregan right snipe
Guys, say nice and hit him
Please, please
No, no, don't do it bro
No, no, no, no, that's fine
I'm shooting you if you come
He's here
He's here
You gotta speed up
He's way over the limit
This dude is spinning
Calm down little man
Bigger, bigger fish to fry.
What, we're just gonna let him go?
We've got movement.
Sorry, I had to get away from the team during crack.
You've got the stuff, right?
I have a few snaps out, so you're interested.
Say, you got any more of those...
...jump throw?
A-list of slanner apps?
You must be joking.
Do you have any idea how difficult those are to find these days?
Fuck it, I'll take some nobbites. Give me a couple nobbites.
I'll ask you again!
So, just get on the ground, sir.
Sir, please, just get on the ground.
Why didn't he get on the ground?
These people have no honour, no code, they do whatever to get ahead in life.
They're not ready to face the consequences.
There's that guy again, spinning.
They're still getting him.
He's done enough for one day. Just let the kid us some fun.
Not as you can see, and we are seeing a big ol' stack of ramp from me yet.
I'll be risking it all going for the new Curly Pick.
early pick right you mentioned that G2 game yesterday three rounds on their
opening tee side when Navi last picked this map so can a turtle fire bring their
heat just like that we got wonderful picking outside but it's ramps like
it's getting pulled apart Navi are running right into it oh yeah they are
but they're getting stopped cold good shot from Woxic he's got bit to handle
all of a sudden wonderful gets one but that's the bomb dropped great
flank from Wakadia making a proactive play and wonderful's left he's got
plenty of time but he's got two targets he's got to cut noise eventually
It doesn't know how close or how far eternal fire could be so cutting it very early in this 1v2
It's going to diminish time off the clock
walking in through the site
Cardia with eyes on Woxic also can block with that smoke. It's all timing though because what Cardia is just giving this a little jiggle
Look at the up gets the better of the timing and that is going to be EF taking a pistol something
But they didn't get the take yesterday
So we'll see if they're gonna be able to convert that second round no plant for Navi means no cash
Wonderful moving outside pulled one of the three players off of that rampside
But just a couple more seconds would have done them so many favors even so we're still two eyes
Drawn in we've seen a lot of ramp hits on these pistols for the teas in this playoff run
And I don't think they've ever worked
It seems like there was like a trend of a so many teams rushing up around pistol rounds for a while
It sometimes throw teams like recognize those and like you start to kind of play against the tendency because when teams
teams are rushing up or teams start stacking up or and then you try and kind of catch it in that moment where teams
Are really accustomed to the fast ramp plays. Yeah, and you're right
No buy in the second round or the lack of plant just Eagles picked up
Tunnel five very heavy execute team right especially on a map like this
I wouldn't probably wouldn't be surprised to see them even do you double Molly upper XX on pistols
We've seen it before I just got a lot of ideas. So
I have to wait for that second half
Interesting crossfire from Wukadia as well as Zantara as soon as Wukadia is actually giving up that main line
Good timing on the swing from Woxic is gonna be able to mop this one up Zantara's
Kill on the MP9 is good money for the next and situations like these are gonna be really important for eternal fire
I know it might not seem that way against Glockson just one deal
But especially in a five on three now is where if you're eternal fire
Whenever you have these situations in your favor, don't give anything up
You're going to need every advantage. Don't lose an extra weapon for nothing.
Don't give over a free bomb plant.
That's wonderful with the banger of a shot.
Could get one more and it doesn't connect.
That should be just about it.
Woxic closes it out with a double kill.
Only losing the MP9.
Not the worst case.
The Na'Vi will swiftly move into the gun round.
One Galil, two Galils, three Galils.
Maybe.
Now Alexi going to be able to afford that AK.
all the utilities that they need.
Oh, that's cool.
That's a good place for a hot dog.
I'm gonna be honest with you.
Shanna to those guys.
Hopefully they have a great day.
And hopefully Eternal Fire does as well for them.
Bit, just trying to chip away.
Towards ramp there.
Kalex not overextending there with the MP9
and we'll just continue to block and buy some time.
Figure out where they want Woxie to go.
He's been incredibly fast on the rotations to elbow
to support Ramp every time it's been necessary.
Calyx has been so solid over this last week,
just surviving and buying that time.
There's the outside wall of smokes.
We'll see if it gets any reaction
out of the eternal fire defense.
Santar is gonna check the roof in the silo.
They're gonna fake an upper hit.
Throw some Utah on that topside.
They're all running ramp and Ima still on his lurk
in main timings are gonna come pretty close
as he swings through the smoke, finding Xantares.
They still go into the stack and they get mauled for it.
Alexi recovering the round with a huge entry,
putting things in the favor of Navi.
They've still got this big flank, the aggression's tamed,
and that's a really nice set piece for Navi.
Eternal Fire need to get that into their heads.
We saw how we've seen how Navi likes to play
and we know how they like to play.
They're gonna take some space,
they're gonna push forward, they get these kills,
they're gonna pause and wait for those reactions.
Major wanders right into it,
and he's going to have to be very heads up on those movements in the future.
Because Navi's going to punish that repeatedly if you don't take things slow.
It's such a hard call to read because Navi are pressuring all three aspects of the map at the same time.
They're walking the outside smoke, they're doing an upper X-Ace, and they're pushing ramp.
Paternal Fire don't know where it's going till it's too late.
It's a fair play too and they had the right read.
Loxic was in the right place.
Just not enough production from the two players stacking over and ramp.
One kill apiece, left Alexia alive.
And an easy win at the end of the day for Na'Vi as Rokadia saves the M4.
Yeah, good choice as well. You can see Woxic is quite low on the cash.
M4 going to certainly help out the next round, which they should be able to fashion a buy-off with.
As Na'Vi convert their first-gone rounds.
Either at the edge.
I don't be frustrating for Zantars.
Nice reactions.
Tails just like, yep, I know I did good.
Yeah.
Business.
Got his round-pun treat.
Dima goes down with the ball, so only two players of Nobby survive.
So, Manny's gonna be a little bit tight on their side as well.
Eternal Fire invests everything into this round four.
Everything they possibly can.
Kallix picking up the AWG, but selling it back for an M4.
I was getting excited for a moment, I wanted to see that.
Yeah.
It's been a hot minute.
What's up, Malta?
We love you guys. Every year you're showing up, getting loud in there.
Hope you're all having fun.
And we're only just getting started.
Potential five laps to play.
The pair wants to make it quick.
Okay.
We're going to see Kalec shoot back, fighting two.
This was a 2v5, a second ago.
Yeah, but careful about this little lurk out door.
Jail's going to take the risk.
An educated risk.
Kalec, I don't think he has any idea.
Dead man.
Walk in.
Three on one.
And Ema's in the garage.
So again, like deja vu.
This play comes up secret.
Nowhere to go, but back to spawn.
born.
Actually going outside.
Yeah, they're very far. They think that he's
over towards Lobby. You can see that reverse clear coming
through from JL. Just looking at everything there.
Careful.
But no. Alexi Burr.
Again, just look at this pause. You have complete control of the
upper bomb. So you have Ema going heaven and they're
still just kind of waiting for that reaction being
extremely patient, extremely disciplined.
Scared of some kind of rampage, right?
Something we saw a ton of fire do a lots
on the CC side of this map.
In that MIBR game they were very oppressive, got a 9 round CT half, nothing to do for Zantara's
here.
Might be expecting them to try and hunt him down, might have the opportunity to grab an
exit kill on the way and maybe steal an AK-47, JL Alexi and Ema also inside the bombsite
pit was so ready for that push.
Two headshots in two bullets.
It's a very early lobby crunch and Na'vi just not fooled whatsoever and that's one of those things
I mean you go into a round like that when you've already just won the first gun round and you're like
We know their money's a little bit weird
Look out for something crazy. Look out for something aggressive. Look out for something surprising. Yeah
Plenty of lobby aggression
Really early from a couple of teams remember back to that Colin liquid game. Yeah liquid go for the four-man push-through
They're ramp? That was incredible.
Yeah, then the G2 Liquid game where G2 rush ramp it for like four rounds in a row to start the path.
But yeah, yeah, I can get a little crazy.
Obviously, you love to do those in rounds where there's maybe just like one or two players lurking it
and like kind of trying to hold on to it.
But this time you have a number of Na'Vi players ready to handle business.
So the MP9 on Zhontars and just pistols for the rest of Eternal Fire.
What have we got here?
Moving up a stack this time.
I think Jail got glockshot by his teammate trying to break the window.
18 damage, too low for a knife I think.
At the end of the world.
On an anti-eco, I'll be taking things low and slow.
I'd imagine there's going to be some kind of like a fake execute, this is what Alexi
B is doing through a little bit of utility, see if you can force out any bays, any color
smoke, any defensive posturing.
And obviously we can tell that Eternal Fire haven't picked up any of that stuff and already
have to be up above site.
Yeah, wonderful, just finding so much space out door, swinging in, Acadia falling, and
now it's just Exit City.
Yeah, probably want to get their hands on one of these AKs, maybe an M4.
I think at this point, there's almost, I mean, as crazy as it feels, there's almost
value in Xantar's just keeping this armor, so you don't have to rebuy it.
And the MP9 that you can drop over to a teammate who might be playing a position
where the MP9 can be put to better use.
It's gonna be outside maybe one of the upper players maybe your rat player if you feel frisky, and you want to give him a boost up
I don't know if I've ever seen that fight before
It happens occasionally
It's it's been known to happen. It's been down to happen
Once I've lost but Navi know they don't need to commit right there's not a lot in this round
So if anything play your own money build that reserve. Yeah, okay, things go wrong. Let's have a fight do what they want
All control right now for Navi, as expected, despite the pistol for the Turkish side.
Going into a tactical to have a chat before another gun round comes through for eternal fire.
An important round, if Navi gets a 4 here, then things start getting very shaky early on.
Especially when you're starting on that CT side, eternal fire.
We know that they're solid on the T side, but if you don't give yourselves a lot of room to breathe,
If you miss out on a pistol which hasn't been internal fires for today this week
Then things can go south
incredibly quickly
True going over for in pistols against MIBR. Yes
Dominating this series. They also only won one of those force buys like the other three pistols were converted by MIBR
So yeah, that just speaks volumes of to
the difference in opponents. Here we go. Calyx has got his AUG. Woxic has his AWP. I'm glad
that he's been able to get that up pretty early in this series, during this map. Five rounds in.
Woxic with that AWP is going to get the opening kill. A little bit blind, but he's found Ema.
Already impact. Smoke blown, no prims to lay the cross. Make wonderful. A little bit cautious.
And Woxic's got another one, that through the smoke.
Blind and smoked Woxic, nothing stops him right now.
Look, goes a long way.
Here's another one of those rounds,
we're here on a five on three and you want to make it clean.
In a round like this,
that can establish your money for the rest of the half.
Don't lose too much.
Okay, missed time.
Reload unfortunately for Woxic.
Miss chance on that third shot,
but he's going to post back up on the line,
Alexi, along back towards the other side of red,
and they're going to spot that jump on headseeing.
I love that he's re-peaking that right, trying to get warmed up early, feeling confident.
Two kills already deep in this round.
That's a really hard shot for JL to hit also, so he probably feels like he's got pretty
good safety.
Major controls Lobby, eternal fire and complete control.
One player's downstairs already, Zantara doesn't have to commit to any fight.
He could just keep information and stay alive.
Bombs not made it, it's still the danger of crossing.
It's going to waste more time.
Time that Navi cannot afford in this 2v5.
JL, boss there in the right spot, missed opportunity, Mollie does zone Zhentaras away but he's already on the back of site, footsteps heard, JL.
They're thinking about going for this, they kinda have to with the position that they're in. Mollie has boss Zhentaras in the open, great utility, great shots, and Navi, they are attempting a 2v5 and it's looking more likely by the second.
Wokse can save this round right here right now. 40 seconds, a bomb, yes drop coming in, a match on the flank, stops it from getting out of control.
Ravi showcased their individual brilliance, but strengthened numbers comes up for eternal fire.
Beautiful shots from JL, and I like them still trying to kind of go forward and force the issue, even in a 2v5.
Economy is such an important point at the stage in the game to take some guns out of their hand, make them rebuy even in a loss.
And I'll tell you what those are great shots from walks if you're not going to get those every single round
One there for eternal fire
Shout out again to the watch party
What do we have this time? Navi or bought up again?
What's it still incredibly dangerous now? He's got that all online
Got a late smokes coming out here for Alexi on the cross
Going for the double pump
Already used the first smoke to get a player two wards red
And there's the main roof smoke that blooms just enough to give the room for this lurk here
Is Ema gonna be aggressive or play late? There's a full wall coming ours
Nolly wants to go for a ramp. Good timing on the jump for Calyx, but he's still traded and the orb gets mollied off
Nolly wants to stand in it a little bit risks some damage to try and grab one more shot
Wokadia's had to drop down and Ema's crossed quietly
So, Wakadia alone is going to step into the bomb site, but if this is a slow take, if Navi
waits for the secret player to get closer, Wakadia is screwed.
They're not going to wait, so he grabs one.
Looking for the next.
JL up above dispatches him, and now eternal fire has to rotate.
Still a chance in the 3v3, but as you've seen, Ima already with the vent control,
so if Magi goes down here, he won't just fall for free.
This is the problem.
They feel like they have to risk it and yeah.
And Woxic can't drop.
You need that AWP and now you have to save the round.
And I think in some level that's almost, I don't want to say a blown rotation but maybe
a missed timing when Woxic gets Molotov back after they've taken Ramp Room.
It's almost like in that instant you have to make a decision where you move next to
set up your rotation and instead of going towards outside towards big garage towards
Xantires he goes to the upper bomb site and Vent is blocked off.
Yeah.
And you look at the flow and effect as well.
with those two picks in the previous round forces eternal fly to have to save here or else they don't have to buy in the next
And even then it's not gonna be a good buy if they force into this around the safe
They would have really like magic so just jiggle on the vent and if his legs get shot
Then you just realize this round is already over and you can save three guns
It's actually pretty good save gets a four by here instead. They're gonna piece empty MP nice together
around this eco essentially saved weapons and pistols
Oh, the fuck, he's scared of me.
Boy, he's scared of me.
And as he's high for Navi,
can the rounds build adjust as much?
Okay, a bit of a change up.
In terms of the buy, it is just going to be a half buy around what was saved.
So, they're going to hedge their bets.
See how well they can do with what they've got.
Xantara is bringing that M4 all the way around the secret side,
and seeing if he can find some impact there.
And similarly, Woxic has changed his position, is he?
Yeah, he's in hot-alping, I think a lot of the realizations that Navi are going to throw in this smoke wall every time they go outside.
So you're not going to get these free fights, if you can't play spawns, you can't get down-secre.
You're just going to get cut off a lot of the time.
So let Zantaris do the work from below, and Woxic can look for picks elsewhere.
There's still a lot of options from Dorr, Ramp and Hut.
You try and find entries on that CT AWP.
You won't force the issue, nothing's given.
And Zantaris is pushed back, but he has Util to block,
allowing Eternal Fire to play a really heavy upset-up. They're gonna need it.
Oh, Woxic in a bit of an odd position.
He's still gonna be able to fight there on any of the waltz,
winning around, hoping that the Pistols can help him out here.
And it's looking pretty bloody good so far.
Ima given him opportunity to take that fight, picks up the AK,
Zantara's fighting up the vent,
and now Woxic gets it done with another.
Magic times in on the deed, and we got a 4v4 situation.
That's exactly what Eternal Fire wanted in that round, right?
They had the AWP in the best possible position,
Locked in on door on the AWP and the bomb gets dropped on that main split. So that's really awkward for Navi
That's a couple of they win that we're just basically one or doing everything. Well, yeah, Roxas get the perfect position doing it
Oh, as you said, that's that's why they win at these pistols just for support
Just so nobody can aggress upon his position behind the fence nobody can swing into the corner
But it's all oksic deliver in the frags. If we get this watch it throughout the whole series today
I'm actually a little bit worried for Nami. Oh, don't be worried man. Don't be worried. No, don't be worried. Okay, not yet
But it it would it would definitely increase the odds of a terminal fire. You are correct
Don't be worried yet. No
anxiety
It's high. I love a good underdog upset
You've been rooting for underdogs your whole life down in Australia. You got it. It's great. It's great fun until it's not
Which is most of the time I
could feel you on that one
Ozantar is gonna be a little bit blinded for the moment playing outside mini. You've got Calyx with the start
Oh!
He can't convert it, just looked away
That went from amazing to awful
A little bit of a pace change though, Navi's typically been slow
Look at the drop down Vance
Oh, Jail is so mean
Yeah, they don't know
They've got no idea
He didn't spot Calyx though
I don't know, yeah, I feel like he should have, but
But I mean, if they aggress and he drops the smoke, the information is there
Yeah
Yeah, the fear is, now if you walk down secret and get caught, but he's playing Nate anyway,
so yeah, this is just going to be a free kill for JL eventually.
He's going to let his team get contact.
I wonder if he does know, but I feel like he would have played by now, Kalec's about
to give away his position.
Little does he know, there's a fly in the ointment here, going to bite him from
behind.
JL takes that easy kill and cuts off that rotation.
Meanwhile, Bish is here to make it look pretty on that topside, taking two heads.
Well, Moxic alive, but with Navi in full control in this round, it's going to be so difficult for him to get the AWP out of dodge.
Man's got to fight for himself here and he's not looking the right way. That is a clean one. A beautiful round out of Navi.
Yeah, well, I mean, it helps. Eternal Fire, this is the problem they're going to be facing off against Navi all series long,
is that opening kick to Navi on Xantar's outside opens up so much of the map, gives them access to secret,
The secret gives them access to the ramp and if the turn of fire didn't move they never hunted for information right you lose that outside control
And like that's typically the lobby crunch that never came in they never went for information anywhere
So instead Navi's able to gain so much space as a turn of fire play passively and now they force by the rest of this
Happen feels hinges on a turn of fire winning this round if they were not a money here
It's like Navi is just looking at an 8 for lead
Yes, this is a fantastic start to the T side even with some resistance for eternal fire and obviously start to flex their muscles
Pop into this top site, player on the hard route will clean out with not a clean shot from Alexi
With Cardi comes flying in, two more kills from the young player as he looks to kill them all
Four frags in the round, wonderful in the clutch
The reposition from Zomtars as well
He made his presence known over towards Mini and he's got a reposition towards Heaven
Did shoot out the window so it might be given away
Wonderful, there's some utility on the ground, but he's got a 1v2 as he disappears in towards the hut.
Eternal Fire already making their move up top, one above him.
Making noise, Zentarez has managed to get his mits on an M4 as well.
But Wonderful's got the line now all focused, turned back towards Hutslide, wonderful.
Clear enough, top, but he's looked the wrong direction.
Zentarez comes in clutch, gets the one thing he needs, but Okadia, 100% MVP of the round.
I feel like the sound cues allude him there, right?
Here's a player bummer after it.
It's that exact player who drops heart, takes the bomb.
He just, he didn't register that last sound cue, I guess.
Thought both players were scaling above him.
There's a lot of yelling in the studio.
He might have missed a footstep here or there.
Might have missed a sound cue that could have been
beneficial, but a nice clean up.
And you're right.
LaCadia all the credit in the world.
He keeps eternal fire with their heads above water
in this opening half.
Can't believe.
He was spotted very early on that top-up position,
It's just a mispray from Alexi B and he pounces off that yeah, we're Katie and more than doubling his kills that round as well
So if you can find that confidence find that aim it is still early here in the series
Then not be could be in trouble the total fires full core
Gets going if
Taras is there if Waxix shooting
Watch this gotta be careful
Lima came through that smoke till they stepped for that little one-way edge that they've got over the top of it
He doesn't swing into things just yet flashbangs also kind of gave the indication that there'd be secret presents for a pick
That's gonna be zantars
And now once again bit pressuring heaven. I don't know if they're aware of this yet. No
And he's taking his time. He's here so early. He doesn't need to just instantly play he can scale
He can hold for a repeat. He looks up
Take a kill and now position reveal but what cost for eternal fire and what can Woxic realistically do about it
He's playing over towards the lockers, looking for the outside players.
Can't find anyone, but this player in habit is making them real nervous.
Ooh, okay.
Centauri's gonna find an answer towards C for it, but with the bomb now spotted, walks you...
...taking down him up.
It's still Bit, the problem.
Just walking around there in hell, JL, given hell.
And it's looking like Centauri's and Kalex have to try to team up and do it again, but this time...
...there's three Nabi men.
Oh, you need it, Kalex.
Yeah, good job.
And he still knows, Bit was around somewhere, so he's still very cognizant of this late-heaven flank coming on.
Oh, the timing! The timing in the Molotov as well! That's JL's! It separates them! 2v2! This got weird real quick.
Could have gone a lot worse, Navi. At least get back out and back into the bottom side.
A remolotov to buy more time, and that allows Antares to group their full util, but got a focus on the kills.
JL.
You Molly behind the box, surely?
Incredibly sharp.
So far this tournament needs to fire up to get Maliid, Moliid in the same spot, Bits going to burn alive, won't get that much done, but it's JL tapping away.
He's so good on these lines, Smoke going to be going forward, Kalex looking for a 5P.
And he's going to take him down one on one and Kalex comes out on top.
This time, eternal fire taking the lead, 6 to 5 and looking for 7.
where it's due that's a really hard round of your eternal fire that's like
na'vi getting such advanced position so quickly get three players almost turning
to just a lurk somewhere on the map that you have no idea
who would clutch from callix yeah you you have your money on jail every time
winning that post bar with a bomb for him but some awkward mistakes as well
for na'vi feeling the the burn there
with a team molotov in heaven off the back of a flank
And JL got to stay focused here.
That is not the way you want the round to go.
Eternal Fire now with the option to win the half.
Rampot this time.
Callie is going to be smoking that one off.
And he all comes out to play.
He's got Woxiki.
Every time there's always been a double set of rampers
not by the way in for Navi at all.
They've won it once.
Eternal Fire is at a really good read.
I know you're right.
And it's not like two Ramiro or one Hell playing support.
No, there's two players locked in every single time.
Waxik can play this smoke as well.
He can re-smoke.
Let's not be trying to fight back.
I don't think he wants to give away his position now along the wall,
so we're not going to see that smoke come out.
And he doesn't have support here.
Actually, excuse me, Zantar is now at the corner,
but he's going to be mollied off.
So it's all Waxik, and he's got two.
He's done enough.
That's beautiful.
Imma with a D.G.L. and a Dream gets that first shot.
But a 1v5 is not a place you want to be.
Hard shot to hit, and he won't be able to.
7 to 5, a total fire going to lead by 2 as we hit the half.
It feels like Navi came in here in cruising altitude,
but all they're cruising for at a moment is a bruising.
A total fire up by 2 and going into the T side,
if they can take this pistol, they can run away with the game.
This is Navi's first map pitch.
You'd think it would be a bit more one-sided,
but a total fire, they are playing the grand final
like they have to.
I'm telling you, I think if you talk to the Navi players
right now, they're all going to tell you
That should have been a 7-5 game in their half, a 7-5 half in their favor,
a 4-half in their favor.
They let a couple rounds slip away and they'll be frustrated about that,
but I'm with you.
I think a turn of fire need this pistol round.
This Navi defense can be so locked down.
We saw it in the comeback yesterday against G2.
Oh, there's a good start.
No ramp stack for Navi.
Hey, they're ready for that upper hit that we talked about.
Dropping a smoke and hut immediately,
but it's actually a turn of fire storming onto the B site.
Alexi snipes them from the single door with two kills
to keep this round active for Na'Vi. They take control of Loa.
It feels like they're considering going back upper.
Yeah, we saw Magi lurking right now, holding on this ramp flame,
but Flash back in is perfect.
Alex Dorsey, he has the Flash coming! He takes one more with him.
Yeah, now you call all three positions.
You say someone Flash and two players push.
Unfortunately, the bomb is pushed all the way into the bomb set and Wox is back.
I mean, that doesn't matter. Magi can fake it out right now.
He can draw the back upper.
Well, he had a lot of sound. JL already beaten him.
Wonderful going the long way. So there is so much space here at lower
But Navi thinking what the hell is going on right now because there's not being too much sound the issue for walks
It is nowhere feel safe to palm right?
He doesn't feel like you can get away with this
So he's just gonna have to gamble on the single door shuts it up and gets us stuck in to V2 now
Wonderful is he ready for that?
So quick to V1 JL. I don't know if this one's made for him right now. He's got no kick
They're layered up
the head shot, be foxy.
They're so well played from a
tonal fire, the soundbake,
the balls from Woxic to go to
that plant with no info through
holes or decons.
Yeah, I don't know if it was
balls, I think it was a necessity.
Yeah, he's just like, I have to do
this, I have to do it, but that
fake from Major worked
perfectly, pulled everyone from
Navi away into 2v2.
A tonal fire got a real chance
to shock Navi in the opening
map of the grand finals.
And they called a timeout
after winning the pistol.
I love that move just playing ahead of it. They've used two out of three timeouts, but they've been in control of this game, right?
They haven't been they look composed as well. They look pretty comfortable whatever they discuss coming into this map
Whatever they prepared for there we go. That's dying
Too dying you were noise that is what the kids these days all dank. I think I'm like
Let's go with it. Oh
Oh, okay. Eternal Fire. They are expecting this force from Navi.
If Navi can win this round, then the whole game turns on its head.
But Navi aren't lobby crunching, because look at the fire.
They're so heavy on the U2 here, they want to actually long out a round.
We might just see delay play with some smokes.
I'm not sure of the intention of five smokes,
but Navi have got a better idea supposedly than MP9 pushing the round.
I'm really curious about how fast this is going to be from Eternal Fire with three M10s.
I don't think Olexi heard that initially, but we are going to see the break on the wall, the Winfo spotted.
Two players downstairs in secret already, they got an idea that someone crossed, or at least be an artist about the smokes.
It's a great place for the smokes to be, for Navi right dropping them down in secret, but this is again the second wall coming out for a turn of fire to take control towards CT spawn.
Locker smoke misses, but it still gives a path for that Mach 10 to run to heaven, and he's not being quiet about it either.
Sometimes taking steps goes back and clears out wonderful, what a beautiful read from Xantara's.
Yeah, really confident aggression on Xantar has taken control of the windows, now being able to pressure Heaven.
So the question becomes, how does Navi position themselves?
There's the loss of outside reaction crunched towards lobby.
Clear things out.
Yep, it's just all the standard reactions at the moment.
Okay, nice and silent on the drop, Maja.
Might be able to capture timing here.
Navi managed to also get bit up the vent in the meanwhile, while everything has been going on.
And they're going to go for a full rewrap maybe?
Turlefire's giving them a taste of their own medicine, right?
Like they got that space out towards Heaven with the MAK-10s, and then they kind of just chilled.
and it's Navi's reaction. They haven't been able to find anyone on these pushes.
Nothing when they crush lobby, nothing when they pass all the way to ramp room.
Finally, now they get a positive engagement, but this round's already out of their reach.
Yeah, by pro-civilimination they know that Navi have to be ramp or lower.
So, nothing is a worry. This spam doesn't exist, Roxane. He's crying.
It doesn't exist.
It doesn't exist, Neil.
Not with the AK.
It's just not with the AK. Calibur difference is a little bit too big,
and Bitt's gonna be able to at least salvage and map Ten away.
If they can save that and if Alexi can find himself a secondary pistol
Then there's still a similar by going for Navi in the next and they might find more than that
And walks you can be able to cut one down and Alexi just carries the small nine I think walks it
Has actually escaped towards T spawn Alexi could grab another one knife is out
Bonus money and an AK-47 it might not be enough to win the next round
But it's gonna set Navi up for the gun rounds beautifully surely we see some camp invested by some individuals
Yeah, gonna be grabbing that MP9 purchased up as well actually tossed across and Alexi is gonna keep hold of the AK
I don't know just my opinion, but I'd say get bit the AK 47. That's what I was thinking. I just didn't want to do him like that
Yeah, I do him like that. Okay
Alexi buckets hand of the moment can take the
The Zeus out of Na'Vi, you can never take Na'Vi out of Zeus.
Yeah, there's something there.
I like that.
Well, there goes the AK.
Is it retrievable?
It is certainly not retrievable outside of main.
Kalec's dealing with the pressure over to Waz rampside and this is looking pretty good
for a total flyer.
Jokes aside, Alexi is the outside rifleer, so in terms of having an AK in a high-impact
position, that's probably where you want it right, so he's just playing the best
position for the rifle.
in theory he also earned it okay 5v3 and this round is already over we're
looking at double digits for eternal fire on navi's first map pic we said there
were some danger maps some potentials here this is one of them a total fire in
the history have only ever won one map against this navi team and it was nuke
looks like they're gonna do it twice unless navi come through with a huge
opening up yeah I'm not gonna I'm not gonna pull that trigger too quickly
If Navi, once these guns come out, they can be so tough.
They did it against G2, right?
Yeah.
It was in 3-9 half for them after the T side,
and then they brought it back, lost 13-11.
But that CT side, it was labored,
but they were able to bring it all the way back,
and that's something.
10-5.
The 10-5 just need three more gun rounds.
Yeah, but now you've got the Molotovs.
You've got the AWP of wonderful out,
so this round is going to be tough.
Let's see what Navi's got.
Eternal fire with a knockout blow here.
Could just roll off the red copter to a map 1 victory.
The difficulty setting in this fight has certainly increased.
And we've still got them back 10 or 2 in play for a total fire.
Let's see where they're going.
Looking like Xentara's going to blow the dog,
going to try and find a early pick towards ramp,
but smoked off instantly.
And Navi, what do they do here?
How do they deal with trying to find that info?
It outers, Nade gets blown, bit falls.
Hang on, that's going to be the ramp open.
Right through the smoke, Molotov towards L as well.
He's gonna give them access if they want to drop down Ramp Room,
but they got plenty of time and they're not really positioned to take super big advantage of this.
They've got plenty of utility if they do eventually come downstairs.
You can smoke double doors, you can smoke single door, you can smoke windows,
you can molly whatever you want, deep molly to prevent the control side peek.
But taking it very slow.
Hmm.
Alexi, you're gonna be the one to get the info here.
Nabi did shift a couple of players downstairs
through that defensive smoke to try and posture like they had presence,
and I think it might have worked.
It looks like Eternal Fire's gonna come right back up
and run into the stack.
You know, Eternal Fire heavily favored in this round,
but if three players ready and a guy who can come up the vent,
that block is big right now.
Can they hunt him down?
Yes, they can.
Catching JL off the smoke bloom.
Wonderful drops into the back of the site,
and Alexi makes up for it with two big kills,
dropping the bomb inside of A.
It can't quite finish him.
The break might be enough.
All coming in.
In the pentao.
It's a 2v2 right now.
I know Alexi's still alive.
The Zantara's comes in on the backstab. Wonderful.
In a box, in a casket, and a total fire trying to drop down that vent.
That's a sick prediction on the spam. Almost lands it, but he only hurt one cross.
Oh my God!
The major. This is happening right now.
A total fire blitz through Narvi's buy round.
And by passion, it is going so incredibly for them right now.
The fans, they are popping the hill off.
The crazy thing about this Alexi B05 record, I didn't want to speak about it too much,
But it was easy to write off back in the day. It was online losses in OG, O3, to some of the best teams in the world.
Sure, and there was a B-05 against Spirit.
Navi never had their number. They got a map. Yeah, Cologne didn't go well.
But this was one where Navi were ready to win, where Navi should be winning,
where they are for the first time the heavy favourites in this final.
And a total five right now are absolutely destroying them.
And they've already had to overcome one curse earlier in the event.
The one you alluded to, the Spirit one, where they just haven't been able to beat them ever.
They finally got over that one of a new encounter.
One more curse that you've got to deal with.
And by Talzi, get removed in those quarters by Eternal Flyer anyway.
So you feel like it's all meant to be.
It's all made for Narvi.
Well no, Turkish Counter Strike back on the map.
I know the players getting loud as you can see in the camps there.
And Maja has just been calling so incredibly well this event.
And so far so good.
The shooting has been what's getting them through it, and they're doing it again.
Kalec's going to be able to find the opening this time. There goes the rifle.
One of which, Wikipedia, not going to be able to put the pressure on the other extremity.
So EF all in here on the outrath.
And that's the lobby lurk, so eternal fire, no more presence in lobby towards the upper bomb site.
Major doesn't look like he's considering a club war.
Jump at the gun. Where are the rifle stars when you need a navi hoping for JL to save the town?
That is the wall!
The magic hits a headshot!
Where's everyone else?
Okay, one up in Heavens on Tars, 3B!
Now you know where Wonderful is!
Another 1v3!
This time with an AK!
And look at the health!
He's doing so good!
Ooh, they may have jumped this one.
They're kind of double-group.
This is cheeky.
Wonderful. Take space.
This is such a good play for Wonderful.
He's gonna clear out Main.
He's gonna know that it has to be Heaven
by process of elimination.
That or the lobby.
There's no one in there.
The only problem is, Eternal Fire now have two Molotovs to play with, if they send them to the right positions, then Wonderful might just be locked out.
Oh, he can pick one out of the puzzle right now, easy little shot finishes the job.
Does he know? Back to the site, spamming early, Santoros gives his position away and he still doesn't have that bomb.
Wonderful, Molly gives him lots of room. Wonderful, with an ace in the round to keep Navi in this map.
clutch is that what it's gonna take to keep Navi in it off the back of a clinical
tactical from Blade a little power out it's certainly got wonderful going it's
not even just the clutch I obviously got the ace as well but the mall of in
Molotov in towards mini that that isolated major away from all of his
teammates like no one was able to follow up even the fact he gets the kill on
Ema and steps into the bomb site no one else is there in support imagine if
If that is the catalyst to bring Novi back in that map pick, it's given them second life.
We'll find out shortly. It's going to be the upper pop and the mock mark from Imaq.
They're going to be able to stop him in their tracks, eternal fire.
Do they keep committing? Here's Entire is not going to be looking above him.
Great positioning from JL to deal with that and it's not looking like this one.
This is going to work out for eternal fire.
Be careful, you're alone on the ramp and he almost went in on the flank there
but called off at the right time.
I think he's called off by Wonderful, who lets him know he's rotating over.
Maybe not called off, maybe he makes the decision when Wonderful calms that he's moving over.
Galax, the last one left, gets killed by the MP9.
I don't have to imagine, I think that will be the catalyst.
I think this is going to be a tough stretch of rounds for Eternal Fire.
They thought they were just going to deliver the blow with an upper bust.
That ain't happening.
I think if you're Eternal Fire, they give Navi exactly what they want, right?
Let their rifles actually shine instead of just getting overwhelmed,
because that's what's happened all game long.
and a turn of fire those last couple of rounds are the hardest ones to win.
They had their chance, now they've got to work for it.
Well, we've seen it win a couple of pistol rounds.
Let's see if this is going to be one of those.
Maja with the flashes, popping into upper again,
and that is going to be the bomb making its way down vent.
So plant money will be on the horizon unless Pip gets here first.
He's looking to stop that cross on the site,
but Loli forces him to fight.
Down goes Woxic, burning to a crisp.
And this is not lose-able
Just yet, for a total fly, there is still a chance, there is still a shot.
Well, they've recovered at least one M4. If Kallix and Major could find something, Major's got no chances.
He's already downstairs, but as Antares has done a good job getting a couple of kills and making this round awkward.
Bomb is still on the lower bomb site, but they've got time. They can ignore it for now and look for kills elsewhere.
Just for the moment.
I think Madge has got that info. He spotted someone over towards DeKon.
with DeCons, and Tyre is needed to win that fight.
Oh, Madge, he just doesn't want to break the door here,
but he will be able to at least get the isolated fight.
That's what he was going for, but unfortunately,
the P250 doesn't have the stopping power of an AK.
Navi, fine day.
And there's the timer.
That's a sign of the time.
Strettlefire, all three used in the game.
The first two were off the back of their winning ways,
and now it's them trying to not let Navi spill over.
Far from done here on Nuke.
It's going to have to be a tough conversation, tough to pick out exactly the winning recipe.
I want to see an upper split here, maybe have a quick main drop,
try and catch that timing with all the pressure from door.
Totify have been doing that a lot already.
Yeah, it feels like they've been able to get a decent amount of outside control pretty quick.
They've been pretty successful with those opening kills as well as on Tarsus, had one at the single box.
Yeah.
They've picked off Alexi, trying to be aggressive earlier as well.
It's just so hard to make these instant calls out of spawn in this point in the game where you feel like it's gonna slip away and you can waste your chance.
Gonna go for something more standard, couple of smokes outside.
Three rounds in a row for Navi coming back into this opening map.
There might be a little gap in that smoke, there we go!
Calyx though, find in another smoke, bang, this time on to Ima who was locking down the door and Alexi
announced to turn his attention back there with JL, just in case EF were actually going to go for the upper pop.
Well that's broken. This is that upper split, it's in the making, it's cooking right now for
eternal fire, they park behind the main position, and they look to play late through that smoke.
Jail has a great spot right now.
Well, that spray looked good, but MagiFire's back.
And suddenly, Navi, they've lost all their info.
They're gambling lower.
They've got Rampush coming in.
It's all too late.
Eternal Fire have pushed out Upper.
Alexi can't save this round.
No, he's the only outweller.
The flank might be able to.
They're in lobby now.
What can Bit produce?
Kallix and Major working together.
One's going to peek on the other's contact.
Major first off, he's got the kill.
Peek from Squeak Door comes in.
They now know the position of the AWP.
But I think Wonderful might want to save that.
He definitely will now.
Well, if he's allowed to, he's gonna do some run and they know exactly where he is.
They're locking him in on the rampside and they know that they don't want to run into Wonderfuls all the next round.
I mean, Jail's intuition is so nice, but I can't believe he just spams and gets fired back.
Like that fellow at the round winning play for Narvi, a fellow at the only guy they had on that topside.
Yeah.
Had to hold on, had to get deep in door, take a nice position, but instead spraying gives the turn of fire that entry and just speeds up the upper hit.
That's the difference between the AK and the A1, right? The traces through the smoke, they can shoot right back.
I think he definitely heard the pinning of the U-Till. As soon as you heard that, he just went for the kills.
And if he got him, it was genius. But he didn't.
But he didn't.
So he looked like a little bit of a silly goose, didn't he?
That's counter-shrike for you.
Well, Chad wanted this to start keeping track of the blade timeouts and how much they're converted.
And I'll be honest, I forgot for the first two, but I'm going to remember this one because it's a must win round.
The turtle fire have four chances to close out Nuke.
And now they're going to be fighting with scraps.
They do have an op in the hands of wonderful, a couple of MP9s in a Famosan play.
They've got a good amount of utility.
And let's see what Blade has crafted for this CT side.
Well, he got wonderful in ace last pause.
So let's see if that happens again.
Okay, so he's...
One at least.
One at least.
This is the third time out.
This is the last time out in regulation.
The turtle fire used all three and that is Blade's final one as well.
smoke wall again. Who's that? Who's on the phone? Hello?
Hello? Housekeeping? Pick it up.
Hello? Wrong number.
Wrong number. They hung up. One of those bloody telemarketers.
Okay, double-nade into the site. Nobody's home. Nobody takes damage. Nobody chunked
down from Navi. A lot of utility being thrown towards
He's got his eyes on ramp, nice and easy, he's on Tar's throws down, that's the par.
Risky peek, but a beautiful hit to the dome of wonderful.
I felt like I wouldn't have any big impact frags in a while, so that's a huge one.
The Trunk of Fire have no smokes for this lower bomb site, they've got two Molotovs,
they can deep Molotov control, but they can do nothing about the single door being
swung open.
That's fine if they just don't par for right stick and a Stralis, stick at left
side site, don't worry about what Bits doing in this position, they just need to have
the control of the stairs.
Yeah, he's got control from the rotation.
He's swinging in, Kaliq's just ready enough.
AK still in hand, but now the man disadvantage
makes it harder for Navi to convert.
Maga still locking onto the rampside,
and there's two members here lurking through.
And I'm going to be able to blow a hole in the door
and maybe draw attention away,
but Maga is locked in, focused up.
See, the pen wants to do it himself
to try and keep Navi in here on a nuke,
but that is tough to watch,
but shows you how much it meant to him.
And now you have them as heavy favorites.
Losing map number one their choice is that the veto has definitely frazzled them a little bit the veto
It was probably the most interesting part
Which is pretty rare to see in B05s as well especially when you look at Navi and how safe they are on so many maps
But Mirage getting banned now it's not a fire rather play something
Uncomfortable for themselves then let Navi excel on Mirage
So a new bus has to be where Navi rewrite course on this T side
especially. I'm working a little bit of space is jail silently creeping up towards the connected position has zantara's on the other side
julbarat is in hand quite consistent finding multi kills with the julbarat especially on a new business I can recall two rounds already a pro league
where zantara's at least found two if not four with his julbarat curious with the molly in the hands of jail is this used for the
Never mind I get my answer immediately the tires will have to back off give this up
Curious if the singe or steps were heard now prying out
I mean he just looked away bit was responsible for holding a main and now two backs
Taking right now get in there quick
Last ox last what a sick pivot but they were hoping for that reaction
They were they were forcing that reaction right there. They wanted the players to push and now Joe is just gonna mop it up
Imagine the last one to find a
Company will card after he only just wins that fight recommits to another one. He saw a second player
That's pretty out there. Yeah, the dual bread is a range though because players, you know
We talked to Zahua. Oh, you're so good with the Julie's what it is like click really fast
Well, that's not what you're doing a range, right? And I piss was in the back of the head the touristly already difficult
He has a kit, Chad. He has a smoke, Chad. Let's stay low and slow. He goes a bit early.
Wonderful. Won't let that happen. But I've got to say, if you wait a few more seconds,
there's cause for concern. Well, that's the first pistol can now be within the series, right?
Correct. I asked that with a question mark in my book.
No, you're right. You're right.
To be a second, I didn't want to just agree. I had to go through the data, pour through it.
So that forced reaction then, I mean three pushing a main bit, looks away just as Mikardius starts to push
And it results in just a complete brawl from mid window
Out towards the canals
Second round they have invested some MP9s and the 5.7s two smoke grenades. They better use that. Well, maget has deployed it
This molly towards the left position
Well, this is kind of the conversation that we were just having right?
I had you bring up that red and clear right there and the applying be pressure straight away now sure
It's not with the lurk smoke, but they've actually swung out they've taken to Jules
They force that utility out of the hand. So we'll see if it's something that plays in
At all what type of mind games that can be and look, I'm not saying it will
I just thought it was an interesting little tidbit from that Mongols series earlier on in the competition
Does he something happen so consistently? I think even if it's not something we can talk about today
What it does show is the level of preparation, right? That's something even Alexi said after that win against G2 last night
They said, look, it's a total fire, and we know her favorites, but they're going to come and prep, they're going to know what they're doing, they're going to know what we're doing.
So I think that's an important factor to consider here for Narvi.
Do they doubt themselves?
Look at this magic calling as well, looks himself.
Does it so much?
All alone.
It's like a Furno B site right now.
Yeah, it is.
Good round.
They find him, but JL goes down.
If magic gets another one, that's a lot.
I believe how much he's gotten out of that.
Now they address A and he's trapped.
Yeah, fourth to use his smoke.
Can he get away with this? They're running it down.
Jump to evade the spark.
He's dead.
This is dramatic. It's just wonderful in him.
No, you tell to do this either.
So just walking through this smoke right now.
Turn of fire grouped, playing the numbers game.
Kalex can play late here.
He's spotted on the jiggle. That's a lot of damage.
Wonderful. All the hell, all the reason to fight.
And he takes two more from the site.
It's only with Kaliah on the clock.
lined up right now. That smoke gives him an opportunity to isolate.
Juniors were wonderful. Holds strong with three and a 2v4.
All right, wonderful.
On Nuke, we sort of have that massive round to at least try and keep
a little bit of wind in the Navi styles, but that one's very important.
After losing map one, if you lost the follow-up in that type of a fashion,
you'd be feeling flat for Navi, but they can keep the winning ways.
They can force the turn of fire into just that partial investment.
Some upgraded pistols.
And this should be the round where Navi gets to close things.
easily
You'd hope you'd hope yeah
I mean Alexi be taking a mac 10
I wonder if he's gonna put himself in the action trying to sniff out any potential stacks, but interestingly enough
There's one for more just to divide and conquer
approach
Desiree goes on either side of the maps and Torres takes a lick of damage from him and they're not slowing down
Get good clear, but there's a theme with those two rounds is this early be pressure this comes with the left side side smoke
They're gonna apply a lot of pressure at the site with the
the molly over the woods ninja and they're in.
So just in a mop up the mess, we'll oblige,
Woxy goes down, more slopes to cotton.
Woohoo, off of rotations.
Wow, Wokadia.
Just giving Alexi an upgrade to the Galil, the AK in fact.
Shouldn't get any more interesting.
So this is where we get to see how the game plan
is gonna meet for either team.
So what is the defense for a tunnel fire
gonna look like on the first rifle round?
Just taking a look at the money situation for Woxic.
I don't think we'll be seeing an AWP command to the first round unless he wants to...
What's he gonna have? It would probably be a glass cannon, right?
Er, 25...
He's gonna get a 2900... Er, actually.
We'll wait and see.
Palm goes off, money at the back balance, he can't get up that AWP,
and there should be enough of Kevlar behind it.
Yeah.
I mean, he was so influential in map 1, he's gonna have to continue to be so.
if they want to try and take a 2-0 lead in the best of five.
Imagine.
Yeah, I mean, Nafi's team took outside.
Yeah, we just really saw kind of brief clips of it.
She was talking outside the studio.
But I'm sure the conversation was that we will take an UB.
It has to be here.
We can forget about Nuke if we do so.
First, Gunny, let's get into it.
Looks like one full is lining up some early smoke to be.
Is it the same lineup Techno uses?
Yeah, true.
I did wonder will people come up with different smokes
as a result of different bounce barbs, but they're going to get it in and choke lock this
time.
But the difference as well is there's actually intention behind it or a player that'll puff
up and take those early fights.
So if you can establish that side that Eternal Fire wanted to do early again or at least
deny them the ability to do so.
My game is, one player there is at four.
Mavi set up to use their mollies in middle Woxic.
That's the fight.
Yeah, he's got to run.
Oh, that's a lot of damage.
Six, all he has to work with...
I'll play Smolotov, JL tries to keep the pressure on towards Dark, forces out the smoke with the flash, so solid work.
Keeps the pressure high as they have started to retool and regroup.
Turnify just aren't afraid to get aggressive, to try and reclote, get info.
Even spamming from a range that tells them that Navi aren't necessarily scaling Dark.
It's a me-
HALF FLASH!
Fall Bind!
Great entry!
Another one for Woxic, forces him away from the angle.
It's back in and delivers. Here we go.
It is a problem.
Mokadia responsible for that.
It's the headshot as well.
Legs to be down.
Aiming the next threat.
Wapsika Mokadia, spamming the smoke.
Oh, block down.
Finds the headshot.
Wonderful has bomb on his back.
Imaq coming in from mid-side.
Got to be quick.
25 on the clock.
Bomb is committed here in a turtle fire,
not giving away a kill.
They're not giving RV the satisfaction in this 2v4.
Imaq needs an entry right here, right now.
Look how tucked in they are. He's even been being pressured from behind pushing forward, finds the top, finds the spray, but wonderful no time for the stick, no safety in the site.
They're coming from both sides and eternal fire take their first.
His only window to plant was when Emei got the double, but there's no one wonderful knows he should get both of those kills, right?
So that was his only real window of opportunity to get that bomb down. Unable to do so.
Eternal fire get on the board and Waxix AWP does play a role.
Short was only one kill, but it really stalls out the presence through A main. They could turn their attention.
the attack and well-defended from eternal fire. Something when I was looking through
the eternal fire games on this map is Woxie does try and play the AWP a little bit more
over the Ward's A. They traditionally have him more over the Ward's A with the AWP.
Be sure he can be there from time to time.
Dangerous. Yeah, the alternative, right? Your B pick options are close B right behind
that. Pizza position, a jail position. Or go for complex, dark picks. I feel like
that's so much more risk than it is reward as a CTA WP.
That's where the T-Orp is gonna face.
It's either in middle or it's holding on towards dark.
So, Woxic doesn't need to take that risk
and give away a man advantage.
It is far safer.
Yeah, I think like going for that head-to-head,
you know, it's happy for the T's
to post it on T stairs as well with their own AWP.
Yeah.
Woxic's been very safe on CT side in this tournament.
Despite that getting a lot of impact,
Not necessarily trying to force openers as much as received, but I say all of that and there he goes ahead of the lurks smoke
And talk about a lurks smoke. Ema's got plans and they don't consider eternal fires feelings
Tarez he was not prepared for that the trade is integral manja
Pursuit of regaining control of jail throws out a smoke grenade to delay. Hello
Yeah, wide open for the taking Lexie B has space
Ace.
Riccardia needs to acknowledge this, but he's free 82.
High, it's a free frag for Alexi.
Upgrade and A site open.
Wonderful's going to be running as fast as he can.
JL becomes the lurk.
Don't move, just stay still.
Let them come to you right now.
He's cutting off their best point of rotation.
But Magiketa, nice clear.
Seeing JL in that position before,
that frees up a total fighter group
if they want to risk it.
That's still under question.
That's the key, and I was about to say save.
But the fact JL goes down for free
and the bomb wasn't planted,
the 40 seconds weren't on the clock.
just gathering some weapons we're about to find out what a turn of eyes decision is and well with the turn of
The figures I'm gonna say that is magic calling them into the save to play the long game
But that I love the kind of the duality or the duet between Emma and Alexi
Emma kicks up such a fuss on be gets his kill sure he goes down
But there's a little bit of a workout they have suspect the op is dark may have fired off a shot
Count another to Alexi assumes there's a gap mid and he finds this Frank
We're kind of completely unprepared for it was just starting to attend to the potential of it and goes down
Well now with the the spree of rounds that we've seen the be aggression or the be lurk smoke has come into play
Harass been banged and now they've used the lurk smoke and they've actually pride in so let's see how this filters into first the
Decisions that eternal fire are gonna make and that of how now be now you maybe don't need to pressure it as much anymore
It is also the mind game of right if they're throwing the smoke
Maybe they're scaling quick to kill you blocking it because that was a factor
I you talked about on the couch right the all covering these are all questions that we now need to see answers for
Yeah, you build on top of that as well the fact that
He managed to get out jail side of that lurk smoke 90% of the time. That's the hardest side
That's the hardest side
That's where someone's gonna be sitting right close to the smoke and the fact he's done that
It's gonna lead them to some weird situations where that dark player is paranoid that he could slip out on the dark side
if his player opts for jail, it's going to keep them guessing unless they block it.
Well, that's the annoyance.
I think everyone who might play this map at home, even in a pug environment,
that's a pretty basic smoke that gets thrown.
And you know it feels like you need a third player playing B because of it.
And they did have the three players set up because that's turned into...
And the most frustrating thing is when they walk straight through the middle of it.
You know, that one right there is where you really start to hate it.
Don't want to be so exposed.
You want to take a side.
But the total fire with that team, this was probably a couple of months ago
that did like the chain smoke, the left side side smoke.
Yeah, walked through it.
And had Wakadi walked through it like a crazy flank.
Went behind A through CT spot.
I felt like if you see those smokes, you know it's coming.
Now.
Now a day.
Surely.
Everyone turn around.
We will see that.
Hi, guys.
Every now and then, will they fall apart?
Internal fire.
Must win round.
And a different flavor to the RV start.
Missed CT smoke.
Is that blocking a line up?
Perhaps, or is that just a complete blunder?
Was that meant to land a dart from somewhere?
Probably. It's a weird position.
Yeah, it's not meant to be there.
Unless you're trying to block someone throwing the doors, Molly,
but I think I'm really reaching for him.
We're trying to get from the way out.
OK, well, he trades Molly's.
Unfortunately, the T's burns longer.
Throw the HG to try and delay on top of that.
The flashbang there, but mid is conceded.
Chalice is just going to try and spot the Cam cross.
Wakanya activates towards main.
It's going to be a head to head between him and Bit.
not having the most impact this series yet.
No.
Well, AKVM4, but all toners of sides.
And it's the M4 that comes out with a spray.
They're getting closer and closer to the dark,
and that Molotov is gonna cause a lot of problems.
You have to run between two fires.
There's nowhere to go.
Alexi B on the big flank comes up with another entry,
and Zantara is already running for the hills.
Gonna save again.
Running for his life.
That will allow it.
He's hanging around.
Just in case anybody wanted to push through the smoke,
But Alexi has been influential on these midlokes in two key rounds. Yeah Mac 10 onto a cardiac sure it was labored
But that one right there not so much Kalex goes down even gets the second killer match of being flushed out of dark and
Navi will take a four-round lead. So really something to work their way into this now Navi
I was having this conversation on the couch with the yanko and Jason. I just couldn't hear it in every side being but
When we were hearing the comms, I don't know if you heard it
Yeah, like what he's saying to himself or the others. I think the team
Just everyone and it felt like the comms were maybe so this is the thing we're only getting snippets
We don't have a full picture, but we can only deal with what we're being shown
So, you know, you got to take a little bit of the good little the bad time next together and probably understand that it's somewhere in the middle
Yeah, kind of just gonna feel a little hard done by in that exchange. He was holding for it
And with weapon advantage couldn't really get a bullet onto a Lexi
So yeah impact is Chen highlighted through mid and it's their second time out just six rounds in to a new bus
I will also remind you that similar to Nuke in a sense is that they do have the more favorable side to start as the FD on Navi's
Pig starting on CT side starting on T side of Nubis if you do pick up a little bit of momentum to start
It can feel like it's running away from you as the CT side
Navi's main objective here and played probably imparting some wisdom to try and encourage a seven minimum
89 sounds fantastic and still within reach but that's why with the CT evolution on
this map you tend to see aggressive maneuvers they take this part we take
this part but what type of aggression have we seen from a tonal fire other
than the pistol which is what it felt like Navi were forcing them into a
couple of a main Frank's but yeah not really like a stair smoke you know
exactly right apply some pressure to the Navi default maybe they don't think
they can break it with that aggression we'll have to see that is as
mentioned pressure being shown through the second tactical timeout side 3b
They are concerned about if they keep losing this bombsite eventually, but it's not often through the most typical of means
Like this there's early info on its way. What's he's about to search me?
Search he finds the head of him as I look for me is down
He's back in some good form. It's really nice to see I didn't feel we'd get it from walksie
Cardiolites it up Joe with an instant trade at the Alexi mid-low impact one more time
The time is at the window bro.
Everyone just need to pause right now, just pause.
You'll be saying right now, let me play, let me play.
Just let Alexi move.
Yeah, a lot of teams even have a code word for that
just so they can tell your team to quickly
stop walking, stand still
and wait for the flank. Alexi gets one.
He is in no hurry.
He tells his team, maybe he's going to teeter back.
You can take on the 2 on 1 at B.
I'm looking for rotations right now.
Kalex, this is a bold move,
but it might just pay off.
You can see how hesitant they are with the loss of Bianca losing Zantares.
It's no smoke. Hadric can still make this weird, but that's cover from the orb.
Gonna have to be dropping on the bomb.
Another shot won't connect. That bomb is in the perfect position.
I don't know if there's a way to save this round.
JL not even touching him.
Alexi B is still behind enemy line.
There's the way back in.
Little wall bang, and it's on wonderful.
the cross. Kalex and Maga have to get past the scope of wonderful. Alexi can
swing on the contact that's the plan that's the ploy. Walking in Alexi takes
first contact now what the f**k he catch the second it's falling into place for
Navi and Woksyk despite some nice shots. He's got no way in, it steps the feet
backs away. Alexi B wants to twist the knife. He wants to pour salt into the
wound a wide swing on the orb trying to beat the shot in any way he can.
Oh, no!
He loses the off!
Beautiful.
LXB is the highest impact fragger in the server right now.
There's not even a question.
6-1, captain just clearing middle.
How many times has he walked past without even being seen?
He sat in the smoke, staring at camera,
and the second JL kills a main, he goes.
He knows that Kalix is going to immediately react to the loss of a main,
and that's his window of opportunity, and it's a round winning maneuver.
But in terms of identifying what can be changed or where the gaps are in eternal fires defense
That's exactly what Navi have done and that's through the positioning of the leader
Right, it's quite clear that they know that they're gonna rotate away from middle when there's pressure on either side
And Alexi's been able to thread the needle multiple times now. Yeah, this isn't a window. It's a door. Alexi is walking right through
But now it can very easily change they're not going to give up middle as easily anymore
Which now means the extremities the side should be weaker
So now if Navi want to go into more pack roll or more side finishes, they don't need the mid-lurk.
You have to stay longer. You can't give it up for free because you know it's a massive weakness at this point in the game.
Alexi keeping the pressure on but as you say they're looking for those extremities shot.
They're looking for the sight hits bit.
There's such a potent player in this position, but they actually don't commit with the aggression.
They go back and play the boost over the smoke. Meanwhile, Navi getting closer and closer to the other sides.
Oh, he knows like the pre-am is for the boost. He's crazy and no commitment
He's kept two players busy
No all for Woxic. That's no trouble
That's wonderful had his smoke broken careful
Maga actually plays in panic, but they're knowing
All the chance for Maga to find a multi-care Woxic activate come over the flank delivers
And JL got the bomb on his back with some sharp shooting, but Zantala swings out.
It's up to Lexi B. The first is nice, but the priority recovers that for wonderful and
will get out of dodge.
Yeah, it's not like they're even reacting off of, like, bit in the kill feed and then
they start flanking.
They just push off the first contact.
Wokse just runs out a main bear.
Look at Lexi B.
He is giving them a full breakdown of what went wrong.
I mean, he's, the whole time he's been talking.
Just quickly.
He might go down.
he quickly laid across me.
If he starts right,
never mind great camera angle
there from our obstin.
Highlights that wikari has gone
looking the wrong way.
Alexi will get to hold on to
this and it isn't going to a
priority.
Turn off fire with a shot to build
back into this map.
Remember it's CT side of
Nubis folks.
What would say a reasonable
half chat?
What's a winnable half on the
CT side?
I think four or five is
pretty winnable.
So look at a ton of fire
definitely building towards
that they win this next one, and it's open.
The ability to even type the half 6-6.
Oh.
Finances for Navi.
Guys, if you want to win, we need to be super creative,
and we need to be on the same page,
because I can see from mid that we have no idea what we're doing.
Well, he needs his generals then.
Well, actually now, he's Lieutenant, he's the general.
That's a warping hyper-
Oh, that's a warping house, he hit that!
That's a feeling, that's a feeling on the smoke,
that's just going for the shot and going for the kill,
but he won't connect it.
It's his teammates, they're pulling a par in this round.
Look at the damage done, spread across so many players on both sides.
Oh, the smoke disrespect for Santarens and Navi had caught by surprise.
Apparently, being creative equals aggression.
All over the map.
Eternal Fire just turned up the heat there.
I don't know, these are harsh words we're seeing from JL, from Alexi.
It's not an easy day in the office right now for Navi, they're just fighting to survive.
I'm sure that first map has definitely kind of impacted the control of your emotions when you get into map 2.
When things start going a little wrong, it's going to be harder to control.
We do see bomb retrieval, but I mean, what is there to be done?
A 2-2 division of the eternal fire defense.
Now, Zantara's is very low.
Maybe if Voxic doesn't convert, that A site could be vulnerable.
So they give it a look, right? They are starting to edge in that direction.
The reason I ask that question is because of the fact that Navi has been winning, the loss bonus is only 1900.
I think they just want to be on the same page of money.
It's not going to help you at the T sides
for doing these half by rounds.
We have two guns, you have to buy a tech nine around it.
Like they just need to hope for a hero moment.
So Wonderful's going to fake,
and Ema's going to try and win the round on his own.
It relies on so many things going right,
and that's not the start you want.
Oh, gets the swing out of Maga, and he's got a...
Here we go!
Ema finds Kalex!
Go on!
Chance to plant.
Knowledge of the last two.
A smoke as well available to him.
He is cooking and he's going for a crazy one, it's not planted, I repeat, not planted for CT.
But the timing, if he plays as quick as he can, he could flank this temple move, instead he comes back, he's played it out.
I don't think so, you can drop off that silent, Ima, presumably in a powerful position here, he just has to consider this smoke very soon, he could line up.
This is a 1v4, cooking, 4nRv, Ima, playing safe, 6 lanes, and Ima wins!
Divide and conquer! Wonderful gozee! Isolate two of you ones!
I'd say that he knows what he's doing.
I don't know about creative. I'll call this one clutch.
Yeah clutch, destructive. Do what you will.
That changes everything. This is a turtle fighter warming back into the game.
About to break Narvi's entire economy and look to try and level out the heart.
Instead this now has a chance to be a dominant T-Sypher Narvi.
Isn't it so insane? Hey wonderful.
Go over towards A, get a kill, give me some space, and I'll win out of the rest of the round.
But no, it's a 1v4, he doesn't even get a kill, get shot down immediately.
Is that the third or the third of a fantastical time?
That right there?
Might have been.
Damn.
No better time for it.
Yeah, cool off.
Cool off.
That's gonna really sting.
That's gonna leave a mark.
Your stats are, of course, you killed the all point.
You practically feel like you've won it already.
Magic goes swinging willy-nilly, and the rest just falls into place for him.
Yeah, impact player indeed.
Seven already and more available for Narvi.
Yeah, I just got confirmation. What was the third tactical time out there?
So that's it. Nothing left for Eternal Fire in the bank.
They are feeling the pressure on their map choice.
Nine rounds have been played and they don't have a single break in this trade.
Unless Blade gives it to them.
It's one and seven.
Narvi, seven and two.
Catching their breath here with slowdown round.
It's still impressive, obviously.
Lost bonus playing into this, but Eternal Fire get out another pretty
Comprehensive by M4s, four of them, an MP9 in the hands of Calyx.
Oh, that little molly just down like that failed.
Yeah, still gonna push anyway with a flash, they've cleared this position numerous times with ease.
So going back to the Trident Test, getting Alexi to this mid space,
thought they would turn more to try to punish the sides,
but they're still getting the reaction they want from a total fire.
So mid and A pressure simultaneously.
Oh, Ricardia! Spum's away, nearly finds wonderful as well, puts him low.
Straight through the smoke.
I mean, we've seen clutch rounds, but again, so many times, Navi fighting from behind.
They have the middle, but it's no surprise.
Santar is his every step.
JL fakes deep steps, only to walk back.
That's getting freaky.
They're about to drop on him.
The shadow gives him warning.
Big kill from Madge.
Just can...
Should confirm the round.
Kallix has been playing close-dark with the MP9 distraction, and now noted.
Nothing here for Navi.
Madge does go down to JL, Kallix.
They can't let this one slip sorry they can't let this one slips and Taurus lives on JL in the clutch on retrieval five seconds
He had it couldn't have got tucked in in time rocks it closes it down for that third
Well favorite trying to bring a little bit of fire there and JL. Yeah, he's definitely getting more and more frustrated
But this is the thing that the money was still in a bad position for now V because Emma wins a 1v4
They didn't really good up a whole lot of finances now
There's only two rounds left to the half your bottom of the barrel loss bonus wise
You kind of have to force him back to back rounds
Double force chef that sounds like you're giving eternal fire the five rounds they were looking for
Yeah, but what's your choice right because you only got 1400 going into this one
You only get 1900 going into the next either way you don't have a round that resembles anything threatening
So I get the double force
It's just about what is the result off of the purchases
What type of utility do you have and we can see on the map there's been a
Smoke thrown out towards B. That's about it
the city's a block middle that block they main if you now that you're probably gonna want to wait through the protocol utility
Turnify play very heavy beer to start of the round. They don't want to get exploded upon
By a little rush from Navi instead they go back to middle where most of their room has come from in this tea side
Roxy can give it up smoke camera at a moment's notice and try and retreat. I want to give them guns though
That's the danger to me. It's playing out in the open giving Navi a chance to upgrade
Jail's got the only rifle
He finds himself as part of this mid-pack bit lining up temple smoke
This might be quick as soon as this plumes
Oksik turns the flash, reddits himself, a second is already in
What a flashback
It's still a lot of converted, that's a disaster for Na'Vi
Oh, it's despicable
The U-Tile was perfect and yet the execution was absent of Na'Vi's forced by Paul Strum
The narrative around Na'Vi that's been shifting is the individuals have been looking harder and harder.
Right there, how do you not finish that frag?
It's a full flash, right?
Couldn't have been more blind.
He lives, I couldn't believe it. Yeah, and then he's going to see him doing the right.
He repushes and gets another kill on one health. A singular point.
Alexi, what are you seeing?
Hads on the steering wheel.
I feel like he, Alexi, should have had that kill with how blind he was.
Alexi was the first one in, right?
Throw him over here.
Either way.
Either way, we're back to the exact same type of buy, and a total fire refining confidence laid within the piece.
The Tyra is just waltzing out B main, taking a dual, saying,
hey, boss man, Sector clear, don't worry about this side of the map.
That's comfortable, takes out JL, this one by one, these individual duals are one out by EF.
That's Alexi, this time comfortable with the tech knife.
Catches Woxic transitioning back to cams. There's a flash and a swing available towards the heaven position
Fresh on to Akkadia calling for the cavalry. The smoke will limit their options and contributions and Alexi's got a lot to deal with
Glad Alexi's not playing here. He's letting his team actually get space in the site
He doesn't want to swing and give away the heaven kill but that leaves it open for the taking and Akkadia just comes through and throws two knockout blows
Bit, no chance to save this half of their turn of fire, out of CT side, they can be proud.
Thank you, Mustafa.
I mean, come on, come on, come on.
Okay, okay.
It's right.
Just fine.
Nice, boy.
Important, guys.
Nice!
The energy was high for Na'Vi as they found themselves 6-1 up on their T side, even 7-2.
But closing it down into a 7-5 scoreline,
Eternal Fire are giving themselves enough to work with into our second and half of our second map of this grand final.
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Jules Verrezes, Hugo B. Love him. Send him in.
But there's some on the other side to worry about as well.
We got Ema close up.
Journey's away. Who clicks quick?
Ema spamming quick headshot.
Alexi hits a smoke with two and eternal fire full flats.
Well, that's a nice little protocol, isn't it?
She's going to react to that.
From in the air as he's reloading at the open.
JL gets it done with his 4 out of 5 kills on the Julees, you'll take that.
Gee, Willik is counter-tracked fans, that's both pistols for now and V, golly gosh.
Fire just can't stick the pistols.
And right now, Bit and Kalex can't hit a shot, both with one frag into the 14th round of play.
Yeah, you can feel that.
Every time I feel like Bit went A main, he just got like spammed through a smoke
the same time with Wokadia.
Every single time.
Great first half from Wokadia.
Yeah, worth noting in the grand final as well.
the loud Turkish support here in the studio in Malta.
Well, that's what I'm saying with this team.
Now that Woxic is in some good individual form,
you have your AWPer and your Star Rifle delivering,
then that means that your Wokardia can need that.
When he came in and on Vertigo a couple of seasons ago,
I'm like, wow, look at Wokardia.
It's a second strong rifle from Turkey.
This is great.
The problem was to put pressure on him
to have to perform consistently.
But now that Woxic is delivering
good individual prowess along types of Zatars,
Wokardia doesn't have to be hot all the time.
But when he is, it's a nice little luxury.
And yeah, happy to oblige.
Oh, you're there, right? Come collect.
Well, Eiko should be nice and clean for Navi.
The cleaner, the better.
And the sooner a turn of fire comes through with a pipe and a run!
He's even got an incendiary. He doesn't even pull it out.
He's not panicking.
Well, let the SMG do some handy work.
Alex does get a second frag, but he is going to be wonderful to try it all up.
So that's the online read.
is quite intimidatingly, but we're about to find out how real it is.
Precisely. If EF lose that, it's extremely damning for their chances in this map.
It's going to be 10 on the ball for Na'Vi, first rifle round goal,
and if it's not a threatening round, if the bomb doesn't go down,
then the follow-up is going to be unique as well.
So this is where a total fire gets to plant the flag
and decide if they're going to beat a threat in map number two, their choice.
Ancient up next, unknown territory.
Exciting.
I think Yankee was talking about the Sky Esports, where they played it against Mongols.
Now, that wasn't that long ago, but it's still a map that they banned 99% of the time.
And how do you feel about Na'Vi on that map?
I like it.
Yeah, but we stopped at G2 on A yesterday.
It didn't really break a sweat. The first half was kind of close.
So, Wonderful's whole plan is to extinguish the molly.
If it comes through, you can see he's already kind of prepared himself for that movement.
If it's required of him, we're just going to be playing passive on B.
The whole team really actually having a very passive approach, letting those smokes fade.
It resulted in one player cheating off of B.
So light mid pressure, smoke-balling combo to try and clear out the sidelines and the closed corridors.
A flash to maybe show there's a little bit more pressure than intended.
So that'll allow Zhentarovs to clear out the right side.
He gets it for free, JL with the spam from camera through the smoke.
Tells the F that it's a bit more of a passive stance because he drops out, this is a B split.
And there's only one defender on B. This is all on Imaq.
See what Imaq's got, what he can hook up.
Smoke of his own, trying to delay the dark presence so he can swing into this.
Jail spam comes through, but he's handled that one gracefully.
The first bullet on the traces of Maja.
On planted, Imaq alive and kicking. Rotation's come through.
McCartney takes a licks. Zatarez an important headshot.
Bring us back into a 4v4. Imaq calls Jail clear.
Flash, teamfash, teamfash, teamfash!
Shill gets one!
Oxycon Dark has Calyx alongside with him, bomb ticking, but not planted for them.
But they have got angles.
Biff, coming in and caught.
Oh, again, looks away.
Woxic delivers.
Woxic continues to deliver.
Wonderful. What's he got? No kit.
I'll tell you that much.
Despite the low HP, time on their side.
The Turkish side securing their seat.
The less wonderful picks up the kit.
May of that time.
I don't think he had time, he didn't realize he picked it up last possible second but even then he was still far off that site.
He didn't have to leave it to the demo review, but...
It's so stressful, I assume Chad in pro comms, people know where the kit is, right?
People are saying, on my bodyguard pillar or is it, can it get lost as well?
I think the thing is, the focus at that point in time is just on finding those kills.
So someone would have said a kit is dropped, but to specifically pinpoint that position right there, it's going to be a bit tough to do.
What was most concerning is it didn't feel like there was a flow to the retake from Na'Vi being told, by the way, that Big gets caught out from that swing.
Who's watching? Why? It looks really disjoint.
And also on a similar argument, it's on a fire. Random timing swings if someone can't find another dog.
Xantarist, Xantarist beats Boon, kills the temple player, walks it, same thing, 10 seconds later.
They just completely caught Na'Vi, trying to set up, expecting a little bit of a respect, but it's a player.
Xantarist, they have to make, they can't get boxed in to dog there.
It did feel like we were getting a bit more flavor of aggression from the turn of fire as they took control in the late stage of that first half.
Madge is swinging into dark play taking a duel, as Zantara is pushing out B.
They started to become happy to take these fights and I think that's one of the things you need to tell yourself if you're this team.
Hey, we can punch just as hard and we need to be cocky in moments.
If we do what they expect, they know how to play against well-structured CS.
That might be as well while we're hearing from Alexi within the first half.
Hey boys, we need to be creative if you want to win this game.
I think that's what we heard from Alexi B.
Do anything here.
Hold a gap if you get one, but smoked out a con completely.
Bit force uses smoke.
Gotta be feeling pretty rough right now.
111 for Bit as an A main anchor.
We're getting very minimal support at this point in time.
So, eternal fire spread on a default.
Keeping the pressure up, keeping Na'Vi guessing.
It's going to be Na'Vi looking to make that move in fact.
Do we have a 1-2 setup or do we have a fight for...
Out-B main, wonderful, crazy angle.
He's actually going to push. Wonderful's going for it right now.
Pre-Aim is there. He hasn't got needs to block this.
Yeah, it's actually already feeling uncomfortable for B players, isn't it?
With the third player cheating over, Alexi brings a smoke with him.
That's big.
Oh, Zantares spotted out there in a dangerous game here.
The swing threw him at...
Frikey.
Flattened by Zantares.
Can't even blame if Arty got killed.
He had the support, had in the past tense,
because Zantares is here and present.
The flash, good swing.
It's gonna find him in a second,
but isn't it enough to hold onto their side?
They can bring it back now.
Alexi's gone down, and out of position.
Arnavi, it might just have to be the save.
2v4, absolutely obliterated by Zantares in the connector.
Triple kill, just like that.
that. Just holding angles and they swing in and he won bullets.
Voxxix even hunting these kills. There is no safety on the save. But they're back in
the game now. The two saved rifles are going to be the biggest issue. I thought it was about
to be one saved rifle.
Right. It could still be because they know it's now cooled off by Navi. Voxxix just
ensures he doesn't give a kill away early. If they really want, they can risk it.
But at the same time, a ton of fire would probably like money.
Yeah, for sure. Wakadia you might want to throw at it, right? Because he only has that mac 10 in hand
But everybody else hold on to your AK-47 found a gun. I think on the site. It was a rifle
That'd be nine. No, okay. Well
Might be a little bit too far away to try and make this play now. Wakadia just send it see what happens, but
So it's gonna have to be a save for navi around the two saved guns unless they want to do something
Absolutely mental and like drop famuses. I don't think that would be advised
you still have a chance to beat running in this round with the guns real next round
we're looking at 2400 is the loss burner so they can definitely get a buy going
Navi are getting sweaty right now
internal fire heating up on the T side of Anubis their map pick their guarantee
and their chance to go 2-0 up against Navi at a B05 final.
Oh! Oh! That was phenomenal!
Catch that!
They were ready for that move.
The whole time.
They were ready for that exact play.
So delayed on that.
That's all I'm timing.
That's just making the read.
They were late peeking it.
JL put in a rifle to use, but one will have to do in this round.
I just love that.
I love that.
What was it?
1 minute 20, you're just spotting for the push.
Yeah, the little pixel gap is Wakadia.
is ready with the Nade. He had to have been. As soon as they take that contact, the Nades come in.
Beautiful work. And you're not expecting a double Nade that late. You're expecting players walked up,
pushed up, tucked in, or just spotting. Never mind ready with two HEs. That was such a lovely way to
handle a round. And it resulted in a pretty clean conversion. It's just mad to the goes down.
And a very frustrating way to lose that if you're Na'Vi and not even have a chance to play
with these rifles, right? Because you're thinking, okay, there's a few aggressive gamuts that we
we could go for a main or B main pushes a pretty common place a man you
definitely need to flash B not so much you can turn it into a bit more of an
aim up but the fact that you go for that play and then you get removed by Nades
didn't even get into a duel you didn't even find yourself shooting at them
that's like man at least give me a chance and bits thinking that more than
anybody in the server here in Calix having tough times here comes the Nades
stacked on top yeah wonderful swallow those internal fire win this round
they've come back from nine five to potentially take the leaders not
will be forced to eco. They are right there chomping at the bits. Trying to ride the wave.
Orbs on either side of the server.
Wonderfuls here, but armless against the Woxic AWP.
Oh, aggression.
I mean, the image of Darvys shining light right now. He's up top of the scoreboard,
maybe overlooked here by the flight path.
Oh, it's a very messy spray. Rushed into it, wasn't expecting friction.
I'm not sure what's going on.
It's literally not even close.
You could have contacted city
spawn, but now that smoke down
they know middle has been
corrupted to the coolest. Watch
your back soon reason to do so.
Even his wonderful re clears
Santaris gets control of the
temple. Navi. They need to make
a move. They have to get
aggressive here. Bank is so
and that's before talking about Zataris. He goes back to the A site, peeks from the other side.
You would not be ready for that. Two and 13 bit, having a mare and eternal fire reset.
Madge is talking loudly here.
Oh, Taurus catches the Alexi cross.
He's just getting peeked and he's making it look like CSGO right now.
So easily handled. Jail's even rotated out of B and eternal fire.
Run their way in.
in the middle of the game.
We're going to have to get
into the middle of the game.
Accidental or Rambush right
there. They block each other
through the window, but.
We'll have to save.
Again again.
And that's like what we're
talking about the impact from
Alexi within the first half
through the center could be
said for Zatars right now.
Even with a little trick to
find the opening on to
major, but it didn't really
account for much.
And the thing is the cons.
I don't know if they were
late, but by the time it
was acknowledged that the
of pushing because they're not passive enough to drop back and give up his side and at that point they almost
That's kind of the reaction that a ton of our work wanting out of that scenario
I also just think the way the Santaris. He doesn't even for flag be he kills bit from
CT side of mid
But it is trying to re clear middle with the smoke fading
You're way more expected of the left side than the right side. It's a really awkward fight
right. Right. People's
of the advantage. All of the
reason to believe in this
internal fire dream run
because they have brought this
back for nine to five and
they're putting all these
money in the dirt and a point
of concern that we do have to
highlight was internal fire
used all of this actual time
after then the first half of
play. So however feeling
confident that magic can run
them home just needed to eat
them into a strong
performance in that first
half. And the fact they get
away with five considering
they lost what 4v2 and a
those and and the pistols they lost both pistols within this map and the score is still 9 9 shocking
i going up against navi yeah the team we've been saying i'm playing the best counter strike in the
world with some of the hardest hitters in this server yeah time to deny what a total fire we're
doing right now yeah if they're coming today got blown out in three maps i wouldn't have been surprised
oh well good about getting blown out i don't know fancy umis chances on his retrieval neither does he
he still managed to get away with it though.
So picking up the AWP is not all, it's not lost.
Maybe he can find Maja forced to go ahead of it.
No, and burning Maja knows.
Now from canals he's vulnerable.
Oh no, oh no.
And there's no trade from far.
Even though it's a player ready to peek the whole time,
Maja burns himself and gives Navi a chance on this low E-con round.
Now we do like to say not like this.
Oh no, like this.
Not like this.
It's resulting in what could be Navi
B-Novey stealing a tenth on just a half-buy around the safe rifles could have stood still the orp was never gonna come and clear him
That far even now looking for his third kill in the round
miss
Dangerous dangerous 30 seconds a year gather around B. Oh, no every a bit
Oh, this is novice rounds right now
Another on the orp
Xbox expanded out through the smoke, 10 seconds, no hope, an eternal fire thunder, two stake rifles, one rifle and an AWP to be specific, a couple of 5-7s around it, a dead AWPer opening big from Riccardo onto wonderful.
We call that over kicking the boot shot, that dog is burnt.
Wow.
They just molly themselves.
If that stairs payout, that just swings.
Eternal Fire win the whole round.
Oh, that just has to get out of his own molotov.
Beautifully handed by Ima.
At the end of the day, he hits every shot necessary on that AWP.
What a boost.
I mean credit where it is.
No it is, dude, Emma is pulling, Navi kicking and screaming throughout this game, Bip!
That's not like him, is it?
No, I do want to say Bip, yeah, I'll just say his name.
Yeah, I'll saw it.
Uncharacteristic for sure.
Oh dear.
There's no talk that will get you back in. There's no belief.
Yeah, what's the opposite of foe state?
You just gotta walk away from the PC and come back next map, but can you survive this one?
Can you stay in it? Can you get that one kill when required to keep Na'Vi above water?
Or do you drag them down to the bottom of the sea?
Na'Vi hold the lead, barely.
How are they spotting mid right now?
They're just accepting no one's there.
JL's watching him, bro.
Yeah.
He's playing on that box, you know, just as a little slithergather.
I'll push him towards main right now.
So that was a fantastic timing for B.
I'm not sure if he caught anything there, but if he continues to push,
we'll catch a fortunate time in the bomb.
Oh, bitch.
And as he peeks, the orb turns.
That's not even his fault.
Awkward timing now.
Not the only 2B, but a third.
Forced on rotation.
JL gets here in time.
The bomb is a little bit delayed here,
but a turn up and then a time poll.
They're rotating bomb to spawn, guys.
There's only 30 seconds.
There's ways this can go wrong.
It's a 4B fake.
Wonderful's leaving as well.
This is on the fly.
Why is it was trying to go B?
They said it's too quiet.
It's too quiet.
Suspiciously quiet.
They're already up.
Wonderful has to hit this shot.
And he can't do it! Matcha brings him down!
Kellex has to come rotate!
Jey has not cleared it!
Being planted with a couple of seconds to spare, Alexi being more like despair for him.
If he finds Antares, sure.
Woxic may be not prepared for this angle, but yeah, just walks straight into it, holding the line, delivers.
And him has been doing everything he can, but he can't win this.
They body blocked when they were trying to throw in another dark Molotov in that sequence
And it stopped here from being able to go towards be through connector
I don't know if I can catch that on the real life. He starts and it might have been major again
He's Molly in the previous round is what cost them potentially the round and this time it saved them from going into the stack
It forced them into rotation. Yeah, the magic is the opening kill onto wonderful
No, it's great adaptation mid-round, but that was a some genius plan
No, I think it 28 seconds was running the bomb through T spawn to be he just won 80s halfway
They just about make it in this timing. Oh, just the way this round falls apart for Navi
On Kalex as well
That impactful frag up to JL really ceiling the deal wonderful. It's gonna be hard done by on that one
And Kara look like they're having a good time
Look at a cinema and
They're living their best life right now and it won't be too bad of an evening if this keeps up because the turtle fire
are rounds away from stealing a second map in this series.
The rest called it.
Here you go. No more tactical time-hands in regulation, man.
Whoa. Yeah.
Okay.
Favourite finder getting a chance to talk. It's been a while.
I mean, at the end of the day, you can say that you saw maybe this coming.
You can say that Eternal Fire, their map pool is really solid.
Their players are playing well.
You can say there was an upset potential.
All of those things are true.
Obviously, it's still heavy favourites at the end of the day.
And how do you frame the trap card of ancient next remember coming into this video turn of fire got rid of Mirage
They left ancient the pool they were almost goading and now I've been say hey pick it first see what this is all about
I mean, I think no idea probably gonna be tilted if this map falls apart right now because at the end of the day
They were nine five up. Well, this is the rounds
This is the round right now. No big
Thank you. I look like an early accent. We'll get the U2. We got a camera Molly
We got a temple smoke that's gonna give the turn of fire me control if they want it they don't
Roxy's just holding with the orb. Navi are blind. Maxi behind the smoke with no
information. Right now, they think they're getting pinched in middle.
Sunfire only now as the smokes fade begin to make that claim. Not sure quite
where they're going with this. But bomb outside of B.
Well, no answers for JL. He will try and catch a timing with the clear and
has nothing to report but that won't give them certainty.
Molly Jar, wonderful as vision.
Oh, it's a good Molly, forced him back.
Yeah, the whole time you're fearful you're getting flanked.
You still could.
Okay, BU till lands.
Zintara's searching a main simultaneously.
And the bomb walking through mid,
this is a cheeky one,
we haven't seen this before,
a late crawl through middle.
Alexi, like the T-Sci could save the day.
to Centaura's show presence or is he the late piece?
He smoked for now, Magus starting to rejoin the troops, but to 25, they're cutting this deadly fine.
Lexi B falls off of 10, Paul Smote comes in, here we go.
JL's fumbled the Util.
What?!
He's mollying himself!
What?!
He goes down!
McCarty and Centaura have opened up the A site and the 11th round is theirs!
What the fuck is happening with the late in this game?
I don't know.
Everyone's mollying himself and that's, I mean, yeah.
Please, can we get that from JL's perspective?
What just happened?
Hold on to U2 late. They blocked Main at about 30 seconds with the smoke.
And four of the box flashed through him.
What happened with the incendiary there?
That blocks four players coming through camera.
They have to have it.
It's the last time for the rotation.
They have to have it for a run and he peeks and he gets multi because they're burning.
And worst case, Santares has to push the main smoke to go first.
He gets caught in a 1v1.
And Navi just felt like they were poised for that round.
Alexi also came through that smoke on tempo.
He kind of had to and Woxic's holding the line.
I'm lost for words.
There aren't any for this situation.
JL here, dropped a lot of flash.
He fell off flash and he just threw it.
He didn't know, he didn't know it'd fallen off.
Thought it had to be tucked into the wall.
Then he jumps because he's in the molly anyway.
And there's the push he was talking about.
Oh, this is...
I mean, what a flash.
That was a contact until the last possible moment.
Yeah, six flash.
With the best possible flash.
11-10. A 9-5 lead for Nartis Vincere. Absolutely bottled here on Anubis. They've won this round before
with low econ. It was off the back of Ema. They're both fine. Walking up, they have to do something
aggressive. Then the wonderful does deliver a nice opening kill onto Zantares. Don't need to force
this issue. They know the cams, the stair smoke is down. They can't just call it off right now.
There's a chance to take your loss at a 45 and reset to win this round. Glad to turtle
I don't overdo it there
It's has the limit
3 CT smokes off the rib. We can't yet
Be getting the best of bit stay an active on his angle. They are the distraction bit execution
He nearly finds two what's it low
Promising for Navi imagine. However is still hanging around this be bomb sign in their return
for an answer and a headshot.
Might be that tiny shred of impact from Bit late in this game
that keeps Narvi in the matchup.
A kill and a dink to Woxic.
I mean, it's the dink that makes this clutch
potentially impossible.
That's the kill.
That's the kill.
Three already.
Woxic.
You've got to go for it now.
I mean, with such low HP and ace clutch,
it's crazy to even consider.
And he's considering it.
Cool and crazy.
I think I might have to.
This was how they know he's dinged.
It's called it. Wonderful.
Can just end all issue or concern right now.
Woxic into the site.
No time to dilly-dally.
Gonna stick that bomb and not be
live to fight another round.
Three kills from wonderful impact where it matters.
Not easy though, is it?
Nothing's easy in this game.
This is some back and forth counter strike.
If NARVY win now, I don't even know what that means.
They would probably not feel like they won.
That's what I'll say.
They won't feel like they're the NARVY
that were walking through the bracket up until this point.
Polo, they're new game against you two, right?
Even though the game was closed,
they were always behind in that game.
And look, they've won both pistols in the server.
It doesn't feel as easy to say that.
But they won some crazy clutches, right?
They've won the rounds they shouldn't.
Nice, boys!
That was fucking important!
Guys, let's go!
Keep believing!
That's a problem.
Well, there's some serious energy on the Navi camp
trying to pull off the equalizer in this best of five final.
You may just try to rush B off spawn,
but it's actually a turtle fire who'll make that play instead.
Cute for me, man.
Delivers the combination with wonderful eternal fires.
Numbers are waiting!
27 flags!
He is saving Navi's hide here!
It's anything but a clean win in this map
But it may be Navi's after all
Chad how bad is it?
1900 loss bonus into what will be the final round to play for EF
Calix, I don't think they're gonna allow him to hold on to this doing damage short a little bit more cash to his tally
This would be an insane 1v5 and they've offered him up another opportunity to find a kill him up for his 28 will get it
Pristar came up the stairs.
What's he doing there?
Pristar came up the stairs.
Listen boys, we've got a couple of Kaleel's in the mix.
We've probably got some tech nines on Matten
to try and compliment this.
Ema is a god damn monster right now.
What is that?
He's hiding under your bed.
Collecting your screens.
Yeah.
I'm powering Navi up as he does it.
12-11, a huge comeback from the Turkish side.
maybe put the rest at the end of the night.
Unless, oh, Emil has vision, that's a lot of information.
No information is information in this game.
They go for the mid-split, it's Bit who's been having a tough time at the four kills.
Sure, he has wonderful with him.
Smoke highlighted and on the fade, four bodies appear.
So risky.
Yeah, that's thick, it looks good though.
It is an A-split, it's an A-split.
It's been the mind game all game long, no one's been playing it,
a total fire going to use that to their advantage.
Yeah, they've got a flash ready as well, bit gonna be forced back.
In they come, flooding through, they don't want to push the smoke so it's just these two on the side.
What can you do? Wonderful only the L camera, what can you do?
On the cross, deliver the nice one onto Maja.
Hanged up, legs shot, Alexi B kicks up a fast, catches and Torres pushing flames in there.
On HP, Navi, a hard four game down to the final round of regulation.
But they've got power to reset after what was, you know, they were the better team on Anubis, it felt like.
Right, just lost a lot of the crucial rounds, lost both pistols, lost everything.
And I think best of fives are a lot about expectations, you know, coming into them.
And if Eternal Fire was ready for war, right, and expecting this, this is going to be five maps.
If we want to win this, finally it's going to have to be five maps.
This is just another bump on the road, right?
And you're ready to get back to it.
And that's a lesson they probably haven't had to learn quite yet, because they haven't been in too many of these situations.
We got a B rush right out of the gate. Wonderful's pushed up.
Woxic all ready, who's going to eventually go down.
You do have Dually, Sill and Cave, but certainly that gets split.
Oh, they're not ready for that.
There, that's a strange, uncharacteristic error overlooking Wakadia.
Just playing close, and now...
Oh, Wakadia decided this is their pistol round.
Now V, they get into the side, but now about to be a squaded off at Smoking Kit on Maga.
Ima and J.L. both on the run, both noted going for boost, a single bullet to the head, will do it, diffuses, coming through, and a turtle fire, take the pistol.
Yeah, what's up, Rokadia? Every kill he gets, you see Na'Vi players sink back closer to ramp and closer to ramp, and then just bail out entirely.
And it's Bit again, I mean he's had a mayor of Anubis obviously after a good nuke but you know not really clearing the together cave, not really counting for that extra player being in there and that's just what brings the round completely apart for Nani.
That's why I said I thought that he would be split eventually. That seems like a detail that Navi and you have been very rarely seen in this tournament just looked over, no one actually wrapped around, they didn't work together to clear that, that position went just lost.
This is a chance for JL to be the hero. We know he has been for Navi. They jump over them in this smoke.
What the?
No information.
Lexi be aware now. Catches Maga.
But still, Maga kicking up a fuss.
JL tries to equalize. He takes one with the overlook of Navi. He does!
Maga would double kill. Huge impact weapon upgrade to turn off fire. They've weathered the storm of the initial chaos.
Well, so is Navi actually pretty well. All things considered, three to three.
Good on Navi or, I mean, excuse me, eternal fire for fighting those two players lurking inside the smoke.
but kills happen in elsewhere, I mean this gets really awkward.
And I think it's these situations where
Eternal Fire is going to be at a little bit of a disadvantage
when the round breaks down, what are the rotations?
You can see aggression is the answer, as Woxic does find a kill on Ima,
that's huge, he gets so much information
because of the utility used on B as well.
I think now Eternal Fire can piece the puzzle together.
Super scary, big fight from B.
Well, they knew Woxic was aggressive, so they'd expect him in A main.
And I think the whole the phone hold the phone bit pressing the issue over in mid as you mentioned rough game trying to get back on
The horse he's got two kills in this. Oh, he's gonna back off
slow it down
pause and
Choose a new option 30 seconds
He was the crowd made a cut noise, but now they have to speed up not much time left
Yeah, wonderful responsible for the plant bit to provide the cover walks exergete
Well no one's looking, still bit gets a kill, catches magic CT and it's up to Wox, it commits to it and converts!
Forced buy from Navi, it comes down to a one on one, Wox it closes it out.
Yeah, that's a pretty nerve-wracking round though that you have to deal with for eternal fire.
It's a lot of damage to the economy and a plant, and you might get another forced buy from Navi out of this with four kills and the extra bonus money from the plant.
We'll be interested to see.
I think to yank at your point of those situations being one of the ones, some of the ones that are going to be harder for a turn of fire,
They haven't played this map all that much, so I mean your idea of where you position yourself to gather information,
where the likely kind of plays are considering their position, all of that's going to probably hear a little bit off and unfamiliar.
I think we also saw in that round what the answer is going to be most of the time.
Just go for it, you know, just push for information, just be aggressive, and then, you know, that's risky,
but sometimes it's just about timing, so Navi have to show patience, and their answer in this round is just an A rush.
Yeah, the Donut smoke in my limit, Wakadia, Anson Tarr's contribution. They haven't heard any of this.
No one's in Donut, no one has heard the main steps.
They're already into A, and now the penny drops, but they've already lost Donut, and that smoke is not working for Navi on the A side.
That's the unfamiliarity with the map.
Eternal Fire. Oh, another smoke goes down. Has to press it.
But Alexi stepped up in Donut as well.
And now, Woxic, you need to get the hell away with that AWP.
That was three players running as loudly as they could from spawn to A.
Audacious to not assume they'd be heard, but just by virtue of the opening in mid,
no one was in donut, no one heard that coming.
Big call from Alexi straight out of the gates of the first gun.
And for a turn of fire, you probably have the feeling that they're gonna buy,
or you're approaching that round as if it's gonna be a buy round
because they got the bomb plan of the four kills.
And Lightup just thought this was gonna plant more like a standard round
versus something cheeky like this.
When they just risked the thing, left A open going for mid to B aggression, right shutting that area of the map down at the beginning.
Just as Alex pointed out, they were so far from A that they had no information that the player could even go all the way deep down.
I think they were not surprised that Navi has the A bomb site, just how deep that player actually got, and that was their demise in this round.
Is there any conditioning to be built upon that? Will there be more hesitance towards early A control?
It looks like they're gonna start with a three mid setup.
Woxic.
Perfect!
Using that safe door, taking down Irma and now Navi walk a little wonky.
Bistil and spawn lining up Util.
Second wave towards middle, but JL on heaven and in the heaven smoke.
But she's through, maintains control of middle, albeit slightly.
Just one small cleft on Kalex.
So we'll have to do some heavy shooting in this round, internal fire, they're going to end up winning, utility isn't going to be much of a help.
I mean I'm mostly interested in what Woxic's decision making is, you just hung around at B for a bit, didn't hear anything, now heads to A, he's trying to be everywhere Jaycee.
He feels like he has to be everywhere because of the AWP, because nobody else has any weapons.
So at least Calyx has this smoke to be able to delay to buy time for Woxic to get back.
However, nobody's got eyes on red room you have, but you do have it being watched by Zontars to see if anyone can cross to it.
So, Waxik has a pretty fast rotation once this utility comes in, but Kalex gets spammed.
And I don't think he can get here fast enough, Waxik, he's just on the move now.
This is uncomfortable, high for uncomfortable, Kalex an easy clear 4-bit.
Into the side, left and right, Smokes are rough, you can only spam.
And it looks like now you've got the better end of that deal too.
I smoke too soon, Centauras unloads his MP9, finds Alexi, spam through the smoke to bit!
They've got the smoke on vision right now.
It's up to wonderful and JL. I think wonderful feels like he's got to get back to help JL
So he sinks back to ramp a little bit of safety for the saddle against Mojo Dinkton clean up
And now the off-trained onto its ramp. It's on JL. What can you do JL?
What can you do? Isolates miss shot from Woxic. Zintara's to provide the covering fire pushing in
Two of the three and now it looks like JL's done it. Manja with the kit on
JL, what's his play here? Pushes through and Ravey will take the clutch
That's heartbreaking though for eternal fire, 3 on 1 against JL at ramp and you really got
to feel like that should have never, never gotten that far out of control.
Just at the last hurdle again for eternal fire, right?
It wasn't 3-3-1 if you have a kit, you don't need to necessarily force the fight within
that much.
You have the time to sort of get all your ducks in a row, double peek and tap the
bomb first, force them to peek on for you.
I think the biggest problem is Woxic had the kit with the AWP.
There is also the one that wants to provide the covering fire, so the Q is stuck between two lines
knowing he kinda wanted to get the kill before tapping the defuse.
I thought you got the kill in the CT, that was the entire dying all the way in Donut.
And you may just run heaven and take that fight.
We were praising Eternal Fire's mental fortitude for Anubis, you know, but I don't know how many more rounds like this they can take.
I think that's another clutch for the side of Navi, you know, that would have been a back breaking round
It puts the internal fire in the driver's seat for the whole half.
At some point, you're going to have to start converting these rounds if you want to win this final.
Boxing's been spotted, so the Jacob's out.
This is gonna be a free-fire down. Nice work from Ben.
Using those smokes, and they're gonna try their best to down this.
We can't just watch it out, and it's clean.
Especially because the question becomes the finish to build on your point a little bit,
is how many of those rounds can you take on a map that you're already feeling uncomfortable on,
that you don't have a lot of reps on.
be a frustration in and of itself at times, and it's an accepted one, but then if you're
also losing the 3v1s, if you're also losing the 4v2s on top of all that, it can spiral
out of control really quickly, so it's time out heading into round 6, eternal fires first.
The settle themselves down as another full buy comes in.
It's Walk Sequence the AWP, he's gonna have to go glass cannon.
That's a decision to be made, I mean he looks so good with it, I would argue for
it.
And they might need it.
Yeah, our wonderfuls can be rockin that T side or some
some options on T side influence most notably towards the B boxes
But he's actually gone rifle
So what's it? No or no all for the defense. Let's see what an RV are thrown into the mix this time
Still on a Mac 10 is a Lexi. It's got a couple players that had armor major or cardia and Calyx can also can all fall prey to that
deep utility fast utility towards top ramp in jail once the space
with wonderful boosted up they've got
Wokadia pinned down Grittonade but it's
not going to take wonderful skis away
from long and Wokadia has given him a
lot of chances he's playing a dangerous
game and they just walked up ramp
behind the cover of the up.
Oh that's a good well placed in
Sendier he forces them forward into the
site. Molly deep into cave oh they're
feeling so much pressure on B right
now deep speedway smoke they've got
through it they got past it maybe
Wokadia can do something with this
he certainly can delivers a nice
headshot in combination with Madurance
and Torres. Magic caught the ALERK. Now wonderful to bit find themselves to V4. Come on, internal
fires. This has to be the one. Yeah, we're all nervous. You can't lose it. And major,
I think major is playing the smartly on the side of the map. He's just tucked himself
in a donut, not even get a flirt with the idea of shifting over in towards middle. Doesn't
want to give Navi the escape route. So they're just going to be patient, knowing
that Navi has to actually progress into the bomb site. Looks like a bit's been tasked
We're trying to go through cave side, let Wonderful come up round late.
But the act of Calyx here is going to stay mobile and you have to live as a clean headshot.
Just like that, Wonderful catches the jump up of Woxic.
Should be nothing more to be said about this one.
Just Wonderful trying to preserve his AWP 3400 in reserve.
So it's a wise decision.
And Eternal Fire would love to help us now, but they don't have the money to risk the weapons.
They would love to get a free op as well for Woxic moving forward.
But again, don't have the money to risk it.
So this will just be the stalemate and we're tied up at three the AK on Zantowers feels like a good enough a big priority
Yeah, for this round, you know
We'll be happy with that one. It's definitely
To be honest with you
I'm surprised to a certain except that eternal fire was able to handle that round
I thought like the really casual walk up to space the jail got with the deep Molotov on be ramped
I thought we're cardiac kind of being distracted by the up jumping back and forth to give that space
So I thought that round was going to be sunk I think something that was huge that happened off camera was major on on the a push
Catching him up who was on the midler cried like some of these rounds and a lot of pressure happening
That's almost set up for him to take a lot of space get into a good position
And they can rotate to the other bonsai trademark like CB strat. We all know about it
That's a good position. That's the second time. We've seen the push out of a man as well in the mid-round
I remember, I believe, as Woxic did it with the MP9, so that's going to start being a piece of communication.
That's a piece of information for that A player on the T side to say,
all right, I'm going to keep my eyes peeled for that.
Doesn't happen too often, but it's happened twice already this time.
Let's make sure a third doesn't.
And so we're off.
We will get to see those three AKs.
One of which is in Zontaris, his hands towards mid.
Ime might just go in for us an early utility, Molly's cubby.
Zontaris blinded off.
Ime is going to try and test his luck towards mid.
Or Madge first, and Torres to trade, or vice-versa, and Torres steps into the line of fire.
Nice clear.
Ooh, guards, and Torres, and missed off shot from wonderful, but how does he get out of this one?
A smoke, a push, and wonderful nails it.
Fair play, that might have been a best option that Zantar's had in the moment.
Quick shot from wonderful, though, and a man advantage for Nabi with plenty of time to work the map and make this defense nervous.
This is really aggressive.
This is hyper-aggressive, no trade potential either.
Really perfect timing from Kalix.
And Woxic even did deletes bit.
Wonderful.
A little late to the arrival on a main
means that bit's gone a bit ahead of the curve.
Yeah, but look at this from JL.
They have CT spawn wide open, red room wide open.
Nobody's watching lane from the B bomb site.
If JL continues making this move,
Woxic's in some trouble.
He's tucked in towards Temple safe right now.
Yeah, this is crazy.
So who goes first?
Kalix is still moving.
JL is 2. Wonderful pausing.
There's the profit for Kalec.
Skač is JL. Now, good idea as to where this last player may be.
Easy going for the hold. That's going to be an easy frag.
And there we have 4.
It's out of fire. We'll take the ult.
Thank you very much.
Woksek happy to snatch that one away.
That was absolutely massive.
They were in a 3v4 situation, managed to bring it back
after losing out on the mid-fight.
And no bomb plan for Navi either means...
They most likely have to go for an equal here, perhaps with a hero gun and run around from Calyx and Woxic to recover.
I really think what you said, Janko, about the memo for eternal fight like poise, we're banana mirage, we're playing a map, we don't really play.
Just go for it. Go for the fights, take the info, take the info push, don't be shy, don't play scared.
Especially in CS2, wouldn't you rather lose being the peeker than the peeked?
Yes, absolutely.
You know, at least that's okay, I'll just lose the fight, I guess.
Alright, Woxic, what you got?
Max Shreddus, he was going to be holding this angle with the AWP quite frequently.
Here he is, first chance at it, oh, the shadow.
The shadow becomes such a distraction.
And what do you do now?
You've lost the A bomb site, you've lost the AWP.
Alexi's got some deep angles to work with.
He's looking for somebody to pass that off to.
Yeah, wonderful, he's going to have his fingers on it now, holding CT.
Bacardi's going to be really limited in what he can contribute.
His wonderful holds down.
The line of fire, just a partial investment, basically glocks.
Dude, you lost two Eagles and two Eagles and Glocks. I hate to be that guy, but
Yeah, I mean best case scenarios and Tara saves an AK now
Hate to be that guy, but why that angle when I mean maybe they lost track of the money a little bit for Navi
And thought they had more money than they did but playing up close right with the AWP against this buy
Not the safest of options and as Jason pointed out baited by the shadow a little bit
Just dies immediately and the round like becomes really really hard if nothing else because there's an
Open play for the teams now and not for the CT is the wrong range fries that he can take and the teams didn't even buy smoke
So there's some really nice deep angles to look down
Really nice deep vision that you don't normally have as an offer and wonderful makes a full effect of it. Oh
Oh, what a shot. I mean, fair play. Good shot, but as Janko highlights, perhaps an unwise position given the bite.
Look at what it does to eternal fire, you know.
This red smoke, probably the most important round of this first half.
There's a rash of the angles, and Taras can take over this. Ima may not be prepared for this angle.
Or maybe the flashes are perfectly accounting for it. We'll find out.
Wonderful, it's gonna be posted up. Who goes first on this? They're worried about heaven.
Alexi B calls it clear. Resmokes red room. Okay, good coms, good patience.
Oh dear. Another misread smoke. He can peek around this.
Navi are having a nightmare with their utility. Actually, I mean, to be honest with you, it
feels like they kind of realized the first one was missed and that's why they were so
patient about coming out mid and the second one, it feels like they knew it was gonna
be that deep as well because he was ready for that angle. Really clean. Just one by one,
they've picked them apart. Calyx forced to rotate to acknowledge the gap and bit.
Ooh, falls away from the angle Magi was just about to step into.
Man, this kind of a pick, this kind of a risk in the veto for Eternal Fire.
You really want to be playing with momentum. You really want to be playing with a lead.
And Navi's ripped both of those opportunities away from them in one round.
There you go. They can still make this a round that you can actually fight for.
Galax is in some trouble with reloading the M4!
How's he done that?
A glock kill from him, Matt.
Onto the armoured M4.
I'm close and personal.
Yeah, just and running at him.
Yep.
CS2 style.
Well, they know Madger was elbow, so Wonderful's understandably cautious,
and Alexi's clizz are gonna be interesting.
He's got him.
Oh, lovely! Madger at least gets one on their way out.
Woxic trying to hold on to an AK-47 for his comrade should be good from here
Although Navi might go for the trade coming through in the cave
There's the flashbang Woxic not looking not even really considering that as an idea
And it's a one-round lead for Navi
So about for internal fire, it's about trying to win just one or two more rounds in this half really
They were in full control playing that anti-epo, but
But MR12, you lose one of those and turns the half completely on its head.
I think these two teams are similar in the sense of that probably they'll both say that
their stronger side is their T side.
You know I think they have a lot of faith, Eternal Fire and Majors calling as well.
They're shooting well in this one.
Oh my lord.
On Armored.
A full save for Eternal Fire.
But you still want to have a buffer regardless of all of that.
So I think if Eternal Fire, they can get the last two after this one and end up with six
would go a long way into having a chance to win Ancient.
Alright, double smoke towards Long.
Twice it is smoked.
Here's the plate, Wakadia, can't get it.
Good cover from JL, noticing a little bit late, but able to clean up the USP, the bomb will get planted.
It's not high priority at the moment.
And once again, Major just going to try and keep this M4 alive for the next round.
Yeah, we ought to see the full 12 rounds in the one ancient
that we saw from Eternal Fire versus the Mongols at that Sky Sports Championship.
Maga takes two on the way out.
Alexi continues to hunt an emblem of the Maga.
He's desperately trying to hold on to his M4.
Wonderful second guessing it with his AWP on his back.
JL's closing it down. They do not want to let him have it.
And they won't.
Back of their head, one tap.
Four kills from JL on the anti-eco.
It was a 5-7 first half for eternal fire when they started on that T side.
Currently on their CT.
And what was most notable was Maju was at the top of the scoreboard.
We can't have the same thing here. 19 frags from Maju in that one and only ancient.
Currently the scoreboard reached similarly.
Sure he did just pat the stats with 3 on the exit but yeah.
I'm gonna have to keep your eyes on Woxic, now he's got that all back in his grasp.
6-6 is incredibly workable.
8-4, he's gonna set the bar very high for that T side pistol.
That's the second time out for eternal fire, right? I mean, it's still the T side to be played, so...
It's a big commitment to only have one left for the second half.
Major wasn't dropped a gun. I believe he dropped the AWP over to Woxic.
And they're very late coming out of spawn thankfully walks it wasn't planning on doing anything aggressive
He's gonna just park himself over in temple, but major is gonna be playing the five-seven to open up this round
Hey, you see it's also coming on a timeout. Yeah
Steps up traded
Here me goes down, but net space taken
Callix is all in lovely fine Kenny smoke himself up will wonders for clear the angle
He's gonna have to think twice about pushing the smoke
Calyx lives on. He's done a lot. He's passed the test.
Well, there's nerve very well in that situation waiting for the smoke to plume.
Do they want to do like a late mid-pounce from the CT side?
Oh, scary game being played.
Wonderful reads. Waxing like a book.
I'm not able to convert. It's a little greedy. That wonderful punish for it.
Calyx, oh, the adaption. He tucks in ready for the round push.
He's done a lot in this round and it puts it all off the pit in the clutch.
He's got the bomb down, here's the magazine.
Expire.
Tries to isolate, but a bit messy on the spray.
Couldn't find that instant headshot.
He's so known for a fifth round for a tunnel fire on their defense.
And Calyx, he gets a gold star.
He's doubled his frag total.
Relevant contributions initially towards the cave,
but wrapping around ensuring he had Ram accounted for as well.
Didn't just let JL walk in, call the site clear.
Yeah, really good reposition from Calyx.
really nicely done from him over in cave and in Jaguar that's that's perfect
play five to six last round of the first half and major got a free upgrade
got a free AK-47 out of that passed it over to a teammate this gruesome two-stem
we can't here in Centares given the gift last round of a half it third map
of the best of five typically not a map you see eternal fire on Centares
It's caught out early in that.
How much it's an attempted aggression?
The fade, the fade, the switch.
Alexi B pushing K's most, not expecting Wakadi to be there too.
And so it's a fair play.
You still have B control.
It's cost you.
Yeah, it has and it's cost you a lot because you've had a full shift of Woxic away from the A bomb site with that ADV.
Just as Navi's creeping in, they found the winning recipe.
Can a clear elbow jail might just have a free kill.
Major look in the wrong way.
Spotted, dispatched.
And they're getting caught out on there all over the shop.
That's like three players in one round getting booked.
It's his timings and these possibilities
that they're not supremely good.
It's not coming as fast as it does on other maps.
And Navi's able to slip the net a number of times.
Lucadia goes down last.
It's 7 to 5.
Navi pilot on the hurt towards the end of the opening half.
This is ancient.
And Eternal Fire is going to have to recover
a unfamiliar crown to the second half.
Eternal Fire took a big risk, letting Ancient come into this.
as part of their veto plan.
They're playing with house money here on a map that they don't play frequently
and Navi's got them down by two rounds heading into the second half pistol.
And we'll see if eternal fire can recover and shock us once again.
Yo, I'm already shocked they're going for such a complex pistol.
It's a fake on B and they're contacting up.
Now, three players started B and they're hesitant.
Now the steps are heard.
Bitt prepares himself for Lexi B to react.
misses his first opportunity, they look to surge into Donut trying to take this away from Bit, take this away from Novi!
Just went into the second, already the A bomb site, the whole pistol comes crumbling down
next to one man at his USP.
And the plant spot, you're planting in that close corner, he doesn't have that angle,
but the composure from Bit to just ignore the jumping blocks close up to him
to just land that shot on the planter, that's insane.
Like let's be realistic, Janko, how much time do you think he actually took to line up that long range shot?
because it felt like he had, I don't know, like three seconds in super slow-mo, but
10 seconds.
Yeah, realistically, that's just a, I mean, a knee-jug reaction.
It's just the brain doing its subconscious thing.
It's like, oh, there's the planter, yeah.
I love that fight.
I'll take that one down.
That's for the betterment of the team if the plant gets delayed.
Oh, please.
What a piss-around from Bit.
Replay off Araya.
Let me see that again.
Spin that shit.
I want to see Bit isolating those jewels.
The fact he gets two as well, that is so naughty.
But, but, and the round ends.
Look at this, ignores him completely.
Zintara then peeks in a graceful adjustment of the cross-air for number two.
And well, Narvi up eight to five, and it doesn't look like this one.
Turn of fire interested in the jive.
Just an economical.
With the Desert Eagle on the card here.
And this is what happens.
You know, this, you can see, this is a demonstration of how Narvi will be taking that lane control.
You know, for the fact that this is typically the ban of Eternal Fire, and for the fact that this is a map, they don't play all that often obviously because of that.
Like, they're actually putting up a decent enough fight in a lot of these rounds. I'm actually surprised they've been able to stick in some of them.
And if you don't lose that 1v3 to JL that we saw in the intermission, if you don't lose that pistol round to some crazy shots from BIT, this could feel like it's a much closer affair.
Or you could win an eco.
Or you could win an eco.
Which of course is very hard to do, and not what we're seeing here.
And to be fair in the 1v3 from JL they did double peaking walks and just missed a shot.
Yeah, so you know maybe I was a little bit too harsh on that in the first half but yeah definitely still in it.
I mean the same exact situation they were in on Anubis, T-side down 9-5 coming into the first gun round.
So Ken Major hooks something up again to get eternal fire back into this game.
This is going to be red smoke, cave smoke, mid control.
No one going heavenside.
K smokes up implying that that's what they're vying for,
but Imer keeps his gun out and has nothing to report on the walk-up.
Oh, the Cardia! An important one, but a flying Alexi B.
And a re-peak out of bit.
Regains control.
Firmly grasping.
Not only mid, but lane control as well.
Woxic trying to shift the tide of Bathal pushing forward towards JL on ramp.
Oh, he's so nimble.
Controls the spray, but traded immediately.
Alexi B has just been a trade machine in this round.
double kill to Avengers Fallen comrades and I think if they turn off who hold the
thought hold the thought for a second because it's gonna swing into what they
mean good kill from major nobby's far off they have time to deploy the smoke oh
just barely major at 3 HP bomb should go down and we've got a two on two the
smoke's awkward it's weird and it does result in a nice spam onto Calyx imagine
the 3 HP 1v2 he needs to use the small it for the bomb it's his only option
Yeah, they don't have a smoke so time is on his side in some way shape or form
But there's already a smoke on it doesn't want to overplay his hand has to call this first bluff
Lost controller. They've no idea. They're looking temple. They're looking CT boys
There's an actual universe where magic and win this with three HP
Said it'd be perfect. Oh, it's not it's not a legs he can close it down
Oh, wow!
He's laughing about it, ladies.
Oh! The incendiary!
I mean, we have to also give Alexi B his flowers in that one.
Every, like, step in the right direction, eternal fire talk,
Alexi B was right there to, you know, nip at the heels.
And that's what I was going to say before that kind of,
that every round really came to its peak was,
if a total fire gets stuck in these kinds of rounds
where they have to challenge and constantly fight for lane control
against all these different peaks and pieces of utility,
Again, the unfamiliarity with the territory, their protocols are going to be in no way
at the level to contend with Navi.
Yeah, it's too fast-paced for him to keep up, right?
And that's obviously a problem, and it's why, you know, for Navi it was a clear and easy
pick when the second round came about.
There's the last timeout coming in for eternal fire.
But I mean, that begs the question too, Jago, like I also don't know what you're
supposed to do if you could never really fight for B-Control, like at some point
you have to do it.
have to descend into that fight but it feels like it's going to be such a losing affair
if they get stuck in it.
I mean it's alright, it was the one kill that made the difference there, I don't know who
it was that got the jumpy MP9 and Alexi got the last one through the smoke.
That was all Alexi, jumpy MP9 included.
Okay, they want to test A.
I'm more interested while they're lining this up as if they clear lane.
Wait, who's that?
Yeah, Alexi B has just said, boys, it's suspiciously quiet on B.
And they started with three players, two in donut, one in mid, and now all three of them are going to be eyes peeled for the A bomb site.
Okay, good luck.
Yeah, have fun.
Ooh!
Funs and Taris!
Wands and Taris, two!
One more!
Hades of Woxic delivers it!
That's the open bomb site, the open runway to a sixth.
There's your answer, Jason.
Yeah, I guess so.
Just shoot them in the head.
Yeah, well, Zantars, if he could do that, you know, four more rounds.
I'm not going to start believing.
Well, hang on, he's got a flash cookin'.
JL would have to do the unthinkable. Are they in donut now? Yeah, this is not going to go far.
Nothing to report, nothing to achieve. Kit scooped up. Have a smoke.
Smoke on the bomb, all run.
They wanted a mistake and now they're hoping that that smoke makes Eternal Fire a little bit nervous.
Six round for the bomb blast. Everyone going to start evacuating now.
Now, sixth round for Eternal Fire, two banger entry headshots from Zontar's Woxic with a really nice trade.
That one especially, wonderful. Probably surprised that he didn't get a little bit more of a fight in the round.
Huge trade from Woxic as well, on Ima. He was able to do a lot of damage there potentially as the third player,
not really expected to be that close to the bomb site.
played now back on the mic I know what he's saying well don't get head shot by
Zintara told you this before guy yeah this was actually the number one note
that we have in the blood of the guy Tiz and Taras and Woxic and he'll be fine
told you I told all of you just stay away from Zintara yeah we have to you
really do it's really more difficult on your CT side right because he picks
where to go true just have to be ready for him yeah for wonderful in this
strong so we'll see if that's going to pose a problem at all against the AKs.
Oh lurksmoke being lined up. They've done a lot so they're doing three smokes off the
rip including this B lurksmoke. Now smoke to door the decision to be made they will
push through. We can only a stubborn extinguish on that gives a signal to bit
that this body's close. Pushing through the smoke will be a death sentence but they made it!
Oh, the team plays!
Alexi B!
So it was just a beautiful machine.
Everything worry perfectly in unison.
What's what I'm saying about these lane protocols from Navi is like, how do you handle the run?
Like, remember the first one was a bit jumping up in the box
and Wakadia just took his head off in the first gun round.
This time he's like, alright, I'm not going to take that peek.
I'll jump up.
You guys are the consumers of them all.
I've got some space to work with.
Alexi B has a lineup for the T extinguish of the lane molly,
which is only going to work if your lane molly's fast enough.
Your door smoke is from Spawn Insta, it's just a beautiful poetic combination from Navi.
And it's 5-on-5, I mean justifiably so, you'll start 4-8k's, can they make it 5?
Okay, 4-8k 47's brought through a very statement round from Navi.
What a call out of the timeouts as well, I mean perfect read from Navi in that one,
perfect execution, actual execution.
Hello motherfucker.
Yeah, very much so.
Let's live in the dream, nice little jump as well, style points.
Judges give it 10 out of 10.
Five round lead.
When in doubt, Ex-Second out.
Yeah, but you're gonna be nervous waiting for these Molotovs to clear for any more pressure
coming from mid or cave.
Oh, and when you don't smoke it, they will.
And JL just ready to take any aim, Julek, will punish him for his overextension.
Timing, swing, finds one.
Ready for more.
Confirms their traps on Ram. He peeks into them and delivers another headshot, but it's Calyx! All Calyx! All day!
Triple kill, impact round from Calyx. Can he convert anymore? Nozilek's he'd be still alive. Nozilek lives in cave.
Yes. I was going to say the same exact thing, so now I have no point to make. But that's why they're back and off right now, back towards T-Spawn.
I'll shut up. Just do the talking now.
No, it's perfect.
All right, decision to make. Long run.
Wonderful's pushing mid. If he gets close enough to the wall, you can hear these footsteps.
And yep, there it is.
Hello. Yes, sir. And he can hear him. He's tracking him the whole way.
He's gonna have a very nice timing on this flank.
And he's got as much time as he wants to put it through because
Alexi's got a long rotation just now hitting CT spawn.
Make some noise. Be the distraction. Spam a little bit.
Nade a little bit.
And set wonderful up.
Okay, that is threatening.
Post plant positions adopted, both going for the donut.
And they're going to know both the donut as well.
As soon as Wonderful turns this corner, there's another smoke on Alexei, there's a Molotov,
there's a smoke, I mean a Molotov, a Flash and a Nade.
I love this from Maja.
I felt like it was a bit of an overcommitment, going playing double donuts.
So as long as Kalex can keep them distracted and stop them from diffusing, it's not
planted for you, but maybe Moics from there, Captain!
No way!
I never expected him to be there in time.
Oh, wow, inspired play.
Kalec's of course even making this round a reality. Crazy shooting from him.
The match you get some both this lineup through the smoke. It's perfect, it's a head shot.
I want to know how many seconds that was. I don't know, like, 0.3, 0.1 left.
Oh, now you're going to feel like they've been robbed.
And now looking at their finances, they're acting like they have been.
That's finally a turn of fire that went in one of those big swing rounds that might can really put the economy
Most important round indeed
All right, the boost up you got two players to send the same bomb
So you got a case of the giggles he was in donut bits in behind big box wonderful boost it up
Oh, they don't check it. They don't check it, but a miss shot
They need this trade wonderful house to stand and fight up all one more and now he must steps up
Navi got the answers and finally they broke it through but that's part time for JL to slide right into the bombsite
Don't count out, Naja. He's done it once, can he do it again?
Navi does 20 frags with JL, a 2kd clean
But you can see how good the reeds are from Navi as well
I mean they have three players waiting on A, the rotate is fast as well
When you can't take control of mid or this fast, mid takes
Heaven peeks and everything isn't working, I mean what's left of just hitting the bombsite and that's what Navi is playing for because every time
Eternal fire try to do something like that go for some mid control. They were shot down instantly
Well outside of some spectacular shots from Kalex. They were shot down at the B bombsite as well
Good opening kill on the EMA
But all five players are here, so they might still just want to press the issue at the B bombsite
It's scary now. Very scary.
Bits actually borrowed up heaven into the smoke and then walking past him.
I'm sorry, what?
Did he just get that jumping over the boost box?
I didn't see.
I think he just jumped over the boost box and killed JLR towards Long.
Perfectly reasonable. We'll try and catch that one on the delay.
What just happened? I'm sorry.
I'm telling you, I'm pretty sure that's what jumped.
He jumped over the boost box and just took a shot and JL was peering around the edge of the smoke and got killed.
Got his. Got his. Got his head.
His red roof down. I don't know if it was a headshot. I don't want to commit to that.
I see you. No, I see you.
Well, wonderful. He's just trying to save now and, yeah, Eternal Fire's campaign back into this game is a long one.
But you're right too, because it's like this is the problem with the map and even Mac highlighted it after watching the Mongols game
and you know Blade will have that information as well having seen this picked as the third map.
You know, mid is not an area that Eternal Fire necessarily like to attack.
They explode out of it rarely, once in a while.
Most of it is the extremities, but then if you go to one of the extremities and you can't have a lane pressure frequently,
the map shrinks, your options shrinks.
I think if Eternal Fire is going to get this into OT, it's going to be by overloading that lane mid area
and just finding a way to win those fights.
I think Navi is going to understand.
He did! Oh, wow.
He was a headshot as well.
That's so stupid.
The jumping headshot from Lark's Egg!
Give me Jail's reaction, because I know he's going to look funny.
How does he do this?
That's so crazy.
Because in reality, look at the buy from Navi, right?
Like, it's non-existent, almost.
So then 12-9, eco, 12-10.
What are you going to do then? Eco twice?
So you have a one-grade buy at 12-11?
maybe it's going to be bad buys up until the end of the half so I think actually
spending all your money here I don't like that either for Navi you need one
round right like make sure you have one really really good buy XCB he really
knows he has to take the fight he bring the fight to EF in this round with only
an MP9 so very active from Alexi. Raja makes his way over I like to get a
I don't know how to pull a molly. Is that the timing Alexi chooses to push? It is!
I had to unload to full magazine. Wacadia still the unknown entity here. Maybe it's going to be overlooked.
Oh, reload. Wacadia? Window?
An opportunity charging down the SMG. Only one option here.
He should know that he's got him trapped though.
Looking for that other peach. Oh, Dually's down B-Rap have had success.
So now there's the MP9 going down next.
Okay, eternal fire, man. Advantage.
Alex found the gap, but I'm not sure if you might have heard him from doughnut
If they double peek him though double clear towards me and all Calyx you got one
And there's space over at the B bombsite, but it's a little fire not in a position to take advantage of it only 20 seconds
I'm so slow. They've got this smoke. You got a bait on Tars hard
Cardigan smoke short
Well
What can you say about that one even likely just looking for a gun?
Find an AK-47 on the ground. There's only one place where all these guns have dropped.
They're already being watched as well, but Woxica's dinked up and has to give up the fight.
There's a Galil. Not ideal.
Wakadia gonna take him down.
There's 12-9 and they force the ego out of Navi.
So still life in eternal fire, still a chance at overtime.
That's the thing about eternal fire.
Always shining.
Always burning.
And now V will have to stomach a 12-10 score line around all they need but you've got to give credit to eternal five
So keeping this game as competitive as it has been that 1v3 from JL still lingering in the back of my mind as well as I'm sure there's
This USP's pushing down round. Shouldn't be anything to be worried about
Maga, oh no
Between the two of them they get the job done
See this is what I was talking about now. Look at their bites 4,300
pretty much across the board no up on wonderful wonderful you can't have a
full-made set and an M4 and that's why you see blade taking a time out here you
know you need to have a call for this round first and then even if you end up
losing it for your mix buy at the end that's why that force buy for all your
money didn't make much sense to me if you say 5600 in that force for this
round all of a sudden yeah now we have a really good round would it be
Crazy to see like a Furiovi here where you buy down to 2k, you have a threatening heavy U till 5, 7, MP9, something aggressive
And then your last round of regulation you've got every bell and whistle you design
Yeah, I'd be down with that as well. This is the situation that I always try to avoid
But there's no kit either on anyone. So you from 12-8, you had four rounds
Where you didn't have a proper full buy round. Is that really how you want to end your game?
But let's see, Navi has won a ton of these rounds
Yeah, and a blade timeout Chad would like to be keeping track of the conversions. They won the last one out of a blast
I think yeah
Over to the a bomb say we go
Eternal fire just switching up where they like to attack this time though
Nobby does have someone in Dota so they can hear the footsteps early
Yeah, it's gonna be unloading his magazine look at the damage onto the two front runners
We're kind of it's entire a small low bit. What's the fight?
What's the best tries to clear the smoke for veils and we're cardio will sell
Well, he needs to find bit through the smoke, a spot back, wants it.
He doesn't go down, the bomb does though, and eternal fire,
force Navian to already die a position.
I think they've faced up everything Janko just said as well, they have to save.
They have to back off, there's no kit, not enough utility to pull off the execution.
Oh no.
Thermal fire needs to hunt.
Yeah, you have plenty of money, take everything away, send them all.
Okay, that's information.
Yeah, but that killer instinct isn't yet an eternal fire, right?
It's also, you know what I mean, it says, listen guys, let's just make sure we got the bomb.
And if it's the bomb, are you with the bomb?
They're going down with the bomb, that's how safe they've made it.
Don't worry about the bomb, we got three people still there.
Bomb's safe, guys.
Bomb is safe around his arms.
But yeah, this run, how many rounds did you say it was, Yanko?
Four in a row, this would be a five round run on the T side of their parmaban.
Now that product of it is now these financial decisions that was innocent securing the saven now chance to defend their honor kits are present
Lexi be forced into an SMG
But that's not the end of the world and is this mid to do my eyes to see me
Wilson Tala's actually try or just throwing out the early HG does chip away at him
They extinguish the party run straight through a comfortable collection for him a fast blood drawn
Is this the end of eternal fire's hopes of ancient?
That looks so weird. I almost feel like there had to have been a miscommunication
where Riccardia thought they were going to be taking mid-aggressively.
There would be a little bit more presence to keep it, you know, occupied a little bit longer, or emo, excuse me.
Yeah, because that came too comfortably.
It's an old one.
Well, now they have complete control of Belane, see it's clear, re-smoke towards the double doors.
Oh, even deeper one.
Well, that's going to slow you down.
What's Macha thinking now?
His three of his teammates are gathered behind the smoke doors.
I think he's thinking...
Navi thinks we're gonna go end the round on A because that's what's worked a couple of times
and we have to be stubborn and wait out the smoke and try to end the round on B.
He wants to hold the incendiary ready to react to Maja's first presence.
Flash is to regain control.
Alexi beats them. Good clear. Good Q-tail.
And then Maja activates in mid. JL tested.
They don't find any peeks in. Again, isolates Woxic, removes it from the equation. Wonderful rotates through.
It's up to JL. Again, stop it! Solid!
The long side and 13 imminent, unless Madge has got something crazy.
JL passing the test, you'll likely slip on this.
Weird Molotov does spread limits his options, its contributions.
Bit, throws it across the line.
Close, but no cigar for his area.
He's 2-1 in this best of 5 grand final.
Hook me a ticket. Don't go anywhere. Inferno next.
Into this map. Now staring down the barrel of a potential reverse sweep after Eternal Fire did find map one.
But there's another universe where they get right back to regular scheduled Eternal Fire programming and they get comfortable on this map quick, Hugo.
Anything can happen here. We've really learned from that from this series.
A map stolen away at the top of the day, but Na'Vi have really come back swinging despite a scary Anubis.
Ancient looked a lot more cleaner, even if the school line didn't necessarily dictate that.
Oooo, Ima.
Had to get tested. Get that first bit of information, the bomb yet to be spotted, dinks down, you better believe.
A ton of fire, they're gonna hit that accelerator.
Fast into this A site, it's gonna be bit in the site.
Alexey playing the lip of the smoke, he's in trouble right now, they jump right in.
got overwhelms these two anchors and it's gonna be a ton of fire surely with a pistol
yeah that was nothing they could do about that one empty handed on a
clean conversions as well from eternal fire the fact that woxic is well hitting early shots with the usp
bodes very well one of the more comfortable maps for him expect to see high impact
in this situation surely you just get out of there being untouched as you jl right going
hard with wonderful. If you're thinking about forcing in the second round, which isn't necessarily
the worst idea on the CT side, Inferno doesn't have to do it. Yeah, you can get a lot of smokes.
We saw them have even do that on Nuke when they lost the pistol. They forced up, not with MP9 armor,
like a lot of the team stupid. They went for 5-7 Kevlar smoke and they just tried to stall it
out with smokes and ramp at that topside. So, yeah, reasonable save, eternal fire with a clean
This is a very exciting team to watch on the T side. I'd say Inferno T side can be very tough
but Eternal Fire have shown a lot of tenacity here. Very good at the XX.
They avoid B more than most teams do. They love these short long splits, these apps pops, these in-your-face plays.
They love the banana control too though. You know, Steel of course showing us their utility usage over towards that side of the map yesterday.
today and you better expect to see a bit of action at banana. Maybe this round as well.
Bomb coming this direction. Majat trying to leave the charge with a molly. But Navi not
sending too much and not showing their hands just yet.
Yeah, it's a ballsy second round force. Putting trust in their team being just better.
Channel 5, they tend to handle these rounds with a good degree of poise. It's rare
to see them completely caught out on the opponent with a lesser weapon.
I mean they've got what, 3 AKs, 2 Mk10s, what a lovely blend for your second round buy.
You can get some info with their more risk-taking of Calyx and Mccardia, who seem to both be
gathered in apps.
So I think we've got a good idea as to where this one ends.
Navi have gambled incorrectly, just wonderful and bit here as they're making no secret
of brackets control being taken.
Ooh, there is no molly for this pit position, so if Wonderful can drop that smoke and play around it,
then there's a chance for a little bit of an upset.
Double pit setup can be incredibly strong just to buy the time, and now you're gonna see Maja continue to condition the smoke towards CT, Calyx, Dintz.
Returnal Fire still commit.
They're taking their sweet time. I mean, they have to commit now.
A, it has to be the other objects of their affections.
B players don't move a muscle. This is so slow, so methodical.
And now we do see wonderful down. It falls down to bit one man
57 and a dream and only 20 seconds as you get out of control bit
He's a lot of cool headshot and a smoke fade faves major and they take the site and probably with that the round
Yeah, threatening all the same bit. We did his best to puff up his chest
I mean why brought calyx low? Oh
move on this shot, but that's fine.
They don't know how close he is.
He really closed this gap, hasn't he?
JL going to be looking this direction.
And it's all gone wrong.
And that raise the Mactin spray can go all over the place,
and that's what we just witnessed.
Crowd spray means you're panicking.
That's what that means.
So yeah, not ideal on the hunt,
but Nami get out into what will be a follow-up eco round
and still a threatening round with three SMGs
and some pistols saved along.
All three AKs for Eternal Fire going to get out of dodge, get the distance to survive, the explosion
and Eternal Fire converting off the back of another pistol.
Okay, Navi still have that half-way moving in around three as well. They picked up that Mac 10
along with the Jewelies of XTB. So it's almost going to be the same buy. They might have been
invested into some extra utility here. We'll have a look.
Yeah, wonderful. Got caught out a little bit by the progression up long. It was,
was they knew they didn't have it, but just called walking around a little lackadaisical.
But as you said, just going to be essentially just the save weapons, a couple of bits and
bobs around it, just spending a couple of hundred bucks to try and keep the third round
relatively frowning.
Final two.
A little bit of a high might.
It goes a long way.
Final fire.
Five on four here.
We talk about their map track record.
It is fantastic right.
Five map winning streak here on Inferno.
the team. I don't know for the
at ESL Pro League. Including
win over vitality because
yeah, you can look at Navi's
and go the numbers on is great,
but they're the ones playing
consistently to tier one
opposition. Other ones falling
to vitality falling to liquid
wins over similar statute
teams. Even just the fact
that maternal five took down
vitality in a quarter final
and the way they did it as
well. Yeah, makes me believe
that we have a chance for a
five map year of five
tonight. I don't hate this
from Navi on A, eternal fire thinking about this one, but the Mac 10 going to at least hunt,
scare out something.
Oh, Mac 10, no, the quick switch!
Wikipedia!
He hits the ground.
That's worse than the crowd spray.
I'll say that much at least.
Eternal fire forced back to B, but there's no one here.
Like, none of these have been particularly costly, but it does show discomfort.
Yeah.
Well, it shows stress, right?
The pressure at this moment.
You've had a longer break now.
Coming in even a little bit colder to this fourth map
Even some mr.. Unutility coming in left and right but eternal fire so far so good Navi
They're gonna be buying into the next round
So we'll see if they opt to try and just suffocate the economy go for those AK's it looks exactly like that's what is happening here
But naja
once JL
What's wonderful there
It should be all a okay holding in this position that banana if I run up for way to live
But they're gonna pack their bags and go the other way completely in my a misread going down to boards the bottom of banana
Great call from eternal fire and all four here should survive
Gotta see no big activation very early in this map
I want to clean government of them to start why we had a very questionable for an 18 game for bet on a new best
But he stepped up massively come that next map that comfort choice for Navi the map
They never expected to play in this series. Yeah
Eternal Fire didn't pull the wall over their eyes. However, I admire the attempt.
13-11.
They've really brought the heat every single map of this series.
We often talk about Na'Vi being the best Mirage team in the world,
and the VF felt like they wanted to try something different today.
The fact that it went 13-11, the fact that they probably should have taken it to overtime, I mean...
Hard to shake off, but I'm sure it's doable.
And Eternal Fire Stein is strong on Inferno, they're not big, that's got to be filling them with some more confidence.
gonna get the mojo flowing once again good damage on to JL they've really humbled him
Calyx ready he's holding for this exact push to this exact player from there
a gift for eternal fire yeah they'll take that reward every day of the week and it's
Turn of fire don't jump the gun they get a re-smoke a bee they just group up
They know even if they walk back into a 4v2 at least they do it together
So like a bit of that sunken cost fallacy coming into effect with email really trying to go for a refrag
One wonderful to fight here. I'd rather he just saves that smoke comes down just get out of here as soon as possible
Yeah, yeah, it's never never in a million years. It's gonna give you an entry and even if they do that's
just
trying to get back into failure.
I mean, yeah, I mean, I'd be
intrigued to know the team comes
there like it could have been
what something as simple as
JL saying he's going to know
to him and not hearing it.
Sorry, saying that JL not
hearing it.
The grenadier here for
Navi cycling that molotov as
well. Every little bit helps on
the city side of inferno.
Money's rough enough on CT.
Yeah, it gets rougher when
you go to the most utility
based map in the pool.
Speaking of, look how much is carried across from Eternal Fire, not only all the rifles but you got two incendiaries, a molly, two nades, a couple of bangers. That's extra money that goes a long way.
To me, this game isn't one of the first half, obviously not, but it's really, you know, whether Na'Vi have an answer for Eternal Fire's CT side, and that I expect they should, right?
I wouldn't be surprised to see an 8-4 T side for Eternal Fire, but still Navi managed to pull this back and make this a really interesting game.
There are clear holes in the Eternal Fire's defense. They play in very risky style. They like to gamble.
They like to leave Maja alone on that B bomb site. I think that's a very exploitable move, as well as he has been playing,
as well as he even played on that last map. He is not the star of the show. He should not be the star of the show.
So, Eternal Fire after a hot start. But we're early days here.
8 kg on a JL close range,
Kallix goes down out of nowhere,
this is getting explosive,
and Makadia, he knows that there's a gap here.
Great!
Gets away with that.
I mean, that's going to disrupt everything for Narvi.
You know you have to worry about CT,
they're trying to figure out the setup now,
Alexi B goes ruins,
watches out for CT,
Wakadia, oh, he might overcook it here,
might feel like he has to make the next play,
but this is a nice position to just
borrow in to anticipate the clear,
Beautiful. Nice work from Alexi, he leaves the stress.
That's a very scary situation, but you can't really play.
He has to camp out there because it's the most obvious move.
Yeah.
Because they heard everything. Bits on the flank now,
bites the bullet, and takes the shot to Maja.
One for one's fine. They have such a huge advantage
that it's turned on a firefield.
A little scared, timid about going into this B bomb site,
expecting the stack.
Smoke might just be a prerequisite to saving here
here in this 2v4. Looking at the money,
Lucadia all out of cash and they are
just trying to get these AKs as far away
from Navi as possible. Does make a hell
of a lot of difference on CT side.
Yeah, especially holding banana.
Yeah. Well we'll see if Navi even hunt
for it or if they're just happy to
crack the egg, get that first round on
the board. I know I'd be incredibly
positive about that. That felt awkward
for Lucardi because he gets all this
space but it's like it's it's
internal fight don't actually put any pressure beating a smoked off.
Yeah, I feel like they're just hoping that Navi won't clear him out.
Obviously, I don't know what we got his positions known about.
And that's exactly why Lexi comes gunning for it.
But if not, we don't move there in a horrible spot, right?
They're going to get split.
They're going to get exect.
I feel like we needed pressure on that B site from eternal fire.
Yeah, of course, as you mentioned, the smoke was there.
It's hard if you go through it.
There could be two CTs looking straight at the smoke.
So it's just the risk that they didn't
take this time and Navi never get the round incredibly well to get that first
on the board but can they double down that's the big question here sending
many numbers towards banana again and this time eternal flyer is gonna be
throwing that half-full smoke that we dove into yesterday we'll see if
Santaris is going to be able to open the things up with it another Molotowitz
car, H.E. to follow, good damage should go on a JL again gonna get plastered
Yeah, the Nades have been finding JL at the start of this one. No doubt about that.
I think I've seen multiple Zantares, HEs finding JL.
And an EMA1 as well.
Yeah, yeah, that happened.
Rackets under scrutiny. The smoke implies there's such a lurk smoke on the bulk as well.
So now the A-Player's feeling scrutiny and three locked in on this A-Site forces out a big util dump.
With still 60 seconds left, the CTs are down to their last smoke.
This is actually looking very good for EF.
But it's in the right place.
Alexei ready to drop the first sign of any commitment from Eternal Fire.
He's not going to jump the gun, and Eternal Fire can't fake anymore.
That is their fake. It's expired, it's done.
And now Navi might even shoot a third player over towards B.
Great smoke timing for Alexei.
If anything, a little early, but he knows that Eternal Fire
probably grouped up at this B bomb site right now.
It's far too quiet on the map, and that's going to make a play.
They've got Nate out, he could kill them all.
Flash from JL, pushed through with XCB, not ready for Maga.
Safe from the flash, tucked in.
Again, Mikadia catches the search this time of Immet.
Rotation required.
Wonderful gets there, but he's smoked off
and considering contemplating a push through.
Zintara's will catch JL, there's nothing here
but wonderful, nothing at all.
Zintara's can't believe his luck gets a freebie.
Incredible patience, incredible patience from Eternal Fire, managing to catch Alexei on that
pop through the smoke. I thought he was just going to stand there, I thought he was in the perfect spot
but made the play and unfortunately it didn't go Navi's way.
And Eternal Fire, keeping it incredibly clean.
There you go.
Just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes, I mean what two of the three players
at the top of Banana were blind. Just happened, Magia was positioned in such a way
that he had the full vision and managed to bring down the fin before things could go awry.
Yeah, very nice. So here we go. You get to see it magic. Just actually was turned
He's just dead in the wall. I don't know whether the flat would have caught him regardless given his position
But yeah, that already just came too comfortable for a tunnel fire and a little bit of a face palm for a leg seat
We've got two simultaneous watchpies if you've just joined us as well eternal fire fans are so passionate
They've got two different parties in two different cities. Yeah to watch this one. That's mad. That's insane
I mean, yeah, the support the support that we're even seeing here in Malta. It's it's beyond comprehension
It's very exciting to see the tunnel fires fan base, you know growing
As it's Turkish Counter-Strike team find themselves in an S tier grand final for the first time
It was been a conversation about you know people saying the tonal fire isn't a tier one team
But at the moment they are making a statement. They are putting their submission in to be one
Yeah, that's in the day this dub today
Ooh, like your invite applications, you know, you have to so submit your screenshots.
Main from JL, let's see how this battle wages on. Every time he does a little bit of damage,
but this time Zantara respects it. Not really seeing that top B smoke for Eternal Fire,
the kind of standard half full smoke that Zantara often pushes through. It has a bit of a gap
so he can fight car. I haven't really seen Zantara make use of that, giving a lot of respect
to Navi's utility at the moment and looking to just play retake banana, but spam through by JL,
Starts very strong for Navi again.
Takes out the Gary straight away.
Zintara's...
Looking to charge in the kill feed for E there.
So someone else is going to have to stand tall.
In terms of these 4v5s, the total fire has been one of the better teams
at DSL Pro League Season 20
to get back into these rounds, converting like 1 in 3, I think it is.
So we'll see if this is one of those three.
It's a good map to do it. Slow down.
Re-pump with your smokes.
I'm trying to take that four on two on the B site.
Alexi fighting ahead might choose dangerous this year.
They get a long X second right now.
This is spooky, but he was playing over.
He knows it's a fake.
They're going to hit the footsteps.
They know it's coming.
Oh, maybe a cancel here.
I think a total fire also missed a smoke.
Yeah.
Miss cons.
Everyone looking both ways.
This is weird.
Really weird.
They're going to go.
Frontside smoke, frontside smoke, no?
Busting.
Yeah, okay, incendiary from Alexi, he's gonna have to adjust to that new smoke grenade.
Or for a plant.
That's not a plant in base.
Sight is amazing, and that was smooth.
Oh dear.
What a bizarre round.
You can see how Navi perplexed as to what their intentions were in that one.
I get on a pistol, I even get on an anti-eco,
but if you think you're gonna stick the bomb with 10 seconds in a rifle round,
No charge, Navi can spray you through, that's if you don't walk through.
Yeah, I think that smoke just popping right as they were considering the exec,
it really kind of put a spanner in the works of their plans.
Results of attack time out, and I think that sounds like about right.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Go back to these A hits, right? We're kind of just getting a lot done on the lurks.
Try and throw your B exec and do something more contact on A,
because I want to see these rifles go crazy.
Take note of that one. That was off the back of a navi tactical and it did convert to a
round. That was the last navi tactics. Yep, three blade conversions in a row. Shed out blade,
getting his round. And it is starting to turn the economy around. Don't have to do it the
hard way. Not just this round but probably the next as well. Are they sending us a message
with these CSGO graffitis. That's the question.
Yeah, that's the smoke you wanted to go. You got it.
Finally.
They used it once before.
Can I give the room, Na'Vi?
Not giving any respect. Three HGs, four HGs down banana.
I think that was from the CT side.
Oh, that's the rifle.
Breeping is for rewards and a headshotting bit in the apartments.
I think most teams have struggled stopping a total fire on this
apartments play and they're gonna speed up the pace of the kill. There's some
frantic comms coming through so you know that they are trying to make a play in here.
Are you not gonna be able to snatch one away on Calyx but no more damage done?
Lank is gonna be dealt with, if JL falling the B site's open. Where are Na'Vi sending the pieces?
Plan your feet, take a break and let Na'Vi spread back out before you
recommit. Whichever site you're gonna hit is gonna be weaker unless Na'Vi go
for a crazy gamble. Looks like they're considering that.
Alexi re-smokes B, starts cheating back.
Well, Magi figured this one out.
So much uncertainty for Navi now.
I really like this cool bow.
Oh, brilliant. Brilliant from him.
That's not a luck he's killed, so it only makes you more convinced.
Awkward angle for Cardi, I didn't know he was open.
Their advantage is disintegrating before our very eyes.
Magi is going to be able to take B space.
That CT smoke should still be up.
Oh
He's dead he's surely dead it must go I'm locked in oh balls on lunch to try and get away without one
Maybe walks they can come up clutch here a one versus two both coming in from CT trying to slip away from the
Lady images quick very quick on the AWP now we get an AWP head to head he managed to have zai wu in his pocket
Can he put wonderful in there to
goes for the roundabout maneuver. No smoke available but the kit is present.
Can run the clock down a little bit. Woxic's gonna start piecing this together.
That's a good idea as to where Wonderful's going off to. Here's him now, the
Incendiary. We're forcing it into the hole!
Wow! That's such a good Mollie. If he mollies in front of Banana, Woxic can peek behind him.
But he mollies, forcing Woxic to either cool the bluff and not face at all in the round,
or immediately repeat to do a scope-dorp, that's a great play for Wunderfoul.
And now the cheers are coming through, Eternal Fire fans are numbered here in Malta.
Still making a little noise though, incredible shot out of Wunderfoul.
That smart dude outplayed and it puts that third on the board.
Navi not letting Eternal Fire run away with the game just yet again.
Eternal Fire's economy was so much bigger to buy again. Big dunk straight on to Ima.
but he's still going to be able to hold on to banana control, but for how long?
I mean, this is already hanging on by a thread. He's got spam from Alex. He's trying to bait him in.
Hope he goes overlooked. Alex, he's playing a very dangerous game. Both of them have taken heavy
licks of damage. Wonderful post-it for this. Alex, he did it once. Can he do it again?
This is a far harder shot there. The orb, inherent advantage.
and it's got a rifle to boot oh even if you kill a wonderful you're getting
traded here buddy walk up right side scope holds your left pause and clear
Alex again it's quick in the head-to-head on bit oh he actually gets
away flushes the opera off the line to the hands of colleagues and yeah you're
next victim they are picking now be a part on this T side waving that white
flag. Get the hell out of there. Bro. What's
Alex? He is looking just so inspired towards
apartments right now. It's back to background that we've seen him isolate an
individual jaw with bit and win it. We always talk about being his apartments
holds and how comfortable he is in that position. Alex is making him quite the
opposite. He won a major in flow state and boiler. He barely left that
position on two sides. He flashes him off the line, runs him down, closes the gap and
completely overlooked. JL frustrations bubble to the surface and every time I see the emotions
on Na'Vi I can't help but be reminded of the best of fives historically for their
in-game leader. I think they're doing it for him. They're doing it for him as it
points to Magizimz and they're doing it for Alexi B. You know, there's an extra
kind of a want, an extra need in the Navi Camp right now just to say that, you know,