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What are you guys feeling after looking away from the full finals?
Are we seeing more positives or are we feeling good mood right now?
Yeah, I think we're moving in the right direction, right?
Sometimes on two results, I would say.
I think we had a chance to win against G2, we had a chance to win against Na'Vi,
and then we didn't.
They had a good momentum.
So, in theory, we lost to the two teams who won the final,
and they played really great at that event.
So, I think all...
As a leader, I'm happy we're moving in the right direction,
thinking of the bootcamp we did before Melta.
So yeah, in the end we won the results, but I think this is a key event for every team
when it comes into the RMR invite, so it's really good to go deep here.
I saw something posted on Instagram that I had to ask you about.
I think it was like the day after you eliminated from Four Finals, maybe the day after that,
you were on the PC back to grinding again as well.
What were you doing?
What was karaoke and cooking?
I mean, just keep playing.
Since the play-break, I played a lot in Vigili, even though I feel like it's going a little bit better.
immediately for me. Just need to keep pushing forward, need to be better. I think tactical
we are ready for these events. So it is using the time now to play individually a lot and
that's why I just went straight to PC after we lost. Also took a day off, right, but just
keeping in the groove, keeping in the mindset and yeah, this is how it is right. You can't
stop. If I stop grinding for a day or two, somebody else is grinding more than me and
then I'm behind again.
Is it harder to do though as an IGL you're doing a lot anyway, but then also you're getting older, you've got a wife, you've got a lot of this.
There's more life changes happening at this point as well. Do you feel like it's getting harder to do?
No, I think I'm really good at putting some responsibility to my wife. She's good at taking it as well.
Like taking care of the house and everything right and all these small details, but sometimes you need to help as well.
I think it's all about why I'm mentally. She's really good to read in the room.
the room, so when I go straight to PC, I'm just there for once, yeah, so I think it doesn't
change with age, I think it just changes how motivated you are, right?
Like I said, I feel like I'm a better path now than I was three months ago on my individual
level, so I want to keep it as high as possible and try to gain more momentum with it, and
I said sometimes it's about watching demos, watching games, this happens to be a bit
about keep grinding hard and being ready for tournament individually at least.
Is there a level you see yourself where you say ok, this is what I want to hit, this is
what I want to feel on an individual, not leadership, just as carrying and shooting and playing?
Is there a groove you feel at this point?
Yeah, I mean there's different things, we're going to have different goals, I don't want
to say them here, they are pretty high and it's always hard to reach them but I
think I had the same in 2022, I did a lot of goals immediately and in the major
final I hit the goal I had with the stats I wanted.
but as an ideal is much more than just stats, it's how I feel the game, how I see the rounds.
Most of all for me it's having impact. In some rounds I don't care if I die all the time.
I think it's part of my role in the team to gain a lot of information,
but also winning rounds by getting double kills and so on and playing some anger roles good,
even though it's rough sometimes as a leader, but it's part of the role I have.
Do you find it rough sometimes as well when you go up against all these real explosive young heavy,
like you just feel like, okay, what am I supposed to do with this situation?
Yeah, I mean sometimes when I'm playing anchor role for a whole half I don't talk much because
nothing happening and then I go T-side and then I have to take up straight duels, yeah
and now it's time to play aggressive.
So it is strange sometimes and I think that's some of your talk on the team.
I can try to activate myself more on CT side, especially on B mirage, right?
I can just high day or do something else to get more into the game because not so
many ideas are playing anchor roles these days, so they're always active.
something I'm trying to adjust in our game plan and try and track through it myself more.
But yeah, I think it's always hard when when Don comes around the corner, I always said if it's
if I killed Don can die, I did my job. Yeah, that's it. We're taking that trade all day long.
That's good. It was interesting to me when you're saying things like this, and I know you
probably hate to do it now, but we need to do some like study documentary on you with this,
because your mindset is so unique. Obviously it comes over years of doing it all.
I would say, and obviously you're not going to say it's up, I would say there's no one else like you.
But do you feel like this is something where more players could make their careers longer,
make their things have a longer longevity if they had the kind of mindset you have?
Well, I mean, I realized five years ago my mindset wasn't the best.
I was just thinking a lot about playing, not thinking much about how I went into a game,
or how I perceived myself.
So I knew if I want a longevity, yes the skill is there, but there's only a limit to my skill and I've thought always
Okay, there's no limit to my mindset. It's only about myself and how I perceive myself
It is a battle sometimes to to stay positive or try to analyze everything in detail, right?
Sometimes there's no chance in the game
But I think just as what I realized five years ago if I can be the strongest mental leader
I know I'm going to have a longevity as a player, lead the right people, lead as an example
for my teammates.
So I think I did a great job by realizing that's something I can change and something
I can prolong and be better at every day.
Where the skill, I can do everything I can but everybody is getting so much better and
if you look at my games this year and look at my games five years ago, I am way better
as a player but the problem is everyone is getting way better as well and it's
hard to keep that as a leader to kind of focus on both things but I'm happy where I am as
long as my team is happy and the way I lead I think I'm doing a great job but I can always
do more on the server right I'm not stupid.
We're talking a lot about your mentality but I want to also look at the fact that how
with what you did at Blast was that important for the rest of your team as well because
especially with someone being hungry and they want to win as well and they're used
to winning could you start to see that it was starting to be like a knock on effect?
Everything is in the face all the time, right? We won Chengdu and maybe there was a big relief for team
And then we never got back into like the winning ways and I think since
Four four five months we haven't beat the top five team
So we all know that we have we have seen that they were ready
We didn't beat the top five team and then we're so close to being D2 and then we don't and they're so close to being
Now we haven't done but it's about keeping looking forward
Kim keeps staying positive and realize how we were I said to the guys out of the blast
We have played the best CS we've played in months, so it doesn't always get in the results,
but just try to stay positive and at some point some of the teams are maybe going to drop
1% and we are ready to try to abuse that, but we just have to force ourselves, there's
not much to do.
It's real now, but is there a mentality of also hitting the strive and peaking for
the major?
I mean of course, you're looking at the schedule, I think Cologne was a really
important event.
Then we had a bootcamp and tried to adjust and not force too much on the result itself.
But coming into a major this term is important for the seats.
If you want to have an easier road, a better situation at the major, this event is most important.
So yeah, it's really important also just getting more arena.
And maybe if we go even to a final this time, it will say we are going in the right direction, right?
But yeah, so many quarterfinal exits and at least we got simmers in last was
I think important on paper for us and at least I think this time we move off
move up the ranking and the last three months you only dropped down places so it's going in the right
direction the right direction that's what it's certainly all about for you guys i'm going to take
any more of your time good luck the rest of the media they made thank you very much thank you frozen
in Rio you're looking ready you're looking very fresh as well you've seen good sleep good feeling
good yeah no jet lag surprisingly so you know feeling pretty good how did you avoid jet lag
i just did my time zone before i came here early okay and yesterday needed a lot of caffeine
to get through the day, but I think just the first day is always the hardest.
You powered for it, that's for sure, that's what it sounds like.
Here though, we at least, I am expecting a different phase from what we've seen in recent times
because of how well you guys did at full finals. Is that what you're feeling?
For sure, you know, like, I mean, we had the rough times, but you know, after every tournament
I feel like we are trying to improve things and we are working on things.
And it is good that, you know, you can see the improvement as well in the game, so
That makes me happy and I think we just have to go up from here, we had a rough time, so now it's time to have a good time.
How does it feel for you being the newest member to FaZe when you've got to go through all this, right?
Because you come into FaZe and everyone's like, yeah, this is going to be it, we're going to be winning everything, you know?
And probably your expectations are pretty high as well. How has this been for you personally to go through on a journey?
That's a very loaded question, I'm sorry.
Yeah, it wasn't easy. You come to a team that is going to every game final, we continue to go to every game final, right?
We missed a little bit of a percentage to actually get the trophy. Hard to say what would happen if we would have got one of those trophies,
Katowice or Major or whatever. Doesn't matter now, but I mean in general I feel like there is always ups and downs.
You know community is what I was gonna say now it's my fault, you know, you know wouldn't happen with you know
Wouldn't happen with the one sole reason definitely you of course. Yes, that's how it is, you know, and I
Mean I'm fine to take the blame, you know, I don't care really
Yeah, I just want us to be good
But for you on a personal level are you finding it like it was getting hard was it starting to get maybe
You were starting to feel the pressure mount up. I
Don't think pressure. No, I think it was just like the
The feeling of disappointment, I would say, because you're doing so well at one time
and then suddenly in two months goes by and you're like,
how can we play this bad suddenly when we're doing that good before?
So, there's a lot of questions in the head, I think at that time.
But I think at this point, it's just all about playing the game to be fair,
not overthink anything and especially not listen to HLT.
Do you feel like you've kind of got this understanding now though of where you want to be
and like the team understanding the problems?
What's up? Yeah, I hope so man. Personally I feel like I kind of know where my place is
at the moment you know and I'm also a guy who's trying to analyze everything you know
so after every tournament I will try to speak my mind of what I see and you know share
with the boys. Let's see what like I want to see what their point of view is on
the things. Yeah I mean as I said I think at this point it's just more about looking
the positives more than the negatives because when you're having a tough time it is easy
to see all the negatives I feel like so yeah now we're just taking it step by step you know
like all the positive things that are there should be important to us and yeah just look
for the better days I'm sure the better days are coming you said about the like when you
bring up a problem and you're talking to the rest of the team does you feel like
everyone in the team is good doing that you feel like you have a good way of doing
it and you can all be on the same page? I feel like the talking aspect could be a little
better to be fair but I think that's also something that was there before I came to
the team. So for me it is easy to speak my mind I feel like but to the other guys I
feel like they've been together for so long that somethings don't really necessarily
have to be said I feel like. Exactly they understand each other so for me again I
I will always say what I feel like, you know.
So for them it's a little bit different,
but I feel like, you know, we are fighting the middle ground,
you know, just talking about problems,
having good discussions,
and finally coming to improvements.
Well, I hope that improvements come real soon for you, man.
Thank you very much, as always.
How's it going, dude?
Great, thank you.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
I heard you guys got in a little bit earlier,
so you could play a show match.
How did that go for you?
Well, it was okay.
I mean, it's a duty to do
when you're a professional player.
sponsors are there and you need to do stuff for them and actually that wasn't a bad thing to do.
Does it impact your flow of practice or how you prepare for the event or the jet lag? Does it help in any way?
I think coming here the earlier is always good as we have a five hour difference from Europe.
I think it's good to come a bit earlier. Anyway we were off after Copenhagen so the practice didn't change much.
We were just resting and that was good after three weeks off from home
Well, you brought up Copenhagen, so I'm gonna ask you how devastating is it?
Like the way that you guys lose looking at it seems like it's really tilting and aggravating
How do you guys kind of like deal with those emotions on the stage and how are you gonna overcome that type of thing for the for this event?
Well, what stuff is the last two months?
We lost two games and two games we should have won when again set enough a year
We have a 12-9 lead, and we don't convert it on an UBIS.
Same against G2, 12-9 lead on a Mirage CT side.
While it's really frustrating, I'm not gonna lie.
I felt like we didn't play good, but we had enough to go through,
which is pretty embarrassing, but that's how it is.
And we can't go back in the past anyway.
You need to go do more further, so...
Pretty devastating, mostly for me,
because I play really like shit the last two games,
but that's how it is, and we just need to step up for...
and go as far as possible here.
When you feel like you're playing personally not well,
does that affect how you call some plays,
either the start of the round calls
or any of the mid rounds as well?
Well, it depends.
A bit more lately,
because I think I did probably the best tournament
in Divideria as IGL in Cologne.
I'm talking not IGL, but pure player.
So I had maybe more expectation in my head towards myself
and I played really bad.
So probably it affected a bit of my course in some ways.
I think I didn't know.
I left, I'm an ideal that leave a bit of freedom,
but not too much.
And I think I gave a bit too much the last few tournaments.
So I need to get back to my home
and call out the way I like to do it.
Well, you guys look really good when you're on form.
And I love watching you guys play your CT sides as well,
how you move around and fish for the info.
And then when you feel like you know where the enemies are,
you take the space on the other places. It works really well so hopefully you guys can
regain that form. Anything you want to say before we go?
No, in a way I'm disappointed about us and I just want us to do great here. We won last
year here. It was the beginning of everything I would say for our season last year. It's
just before the Paris Major and everything so we really want to do something great
here and it's always nice to play in front of the Brazilian fans so hopefully we're
going to at least qualify for the playoffs.
I'm going to try to grab Flames in a second here. Anything I should ask him in specific?
No, nothing I'm thinking about, I don't know.
Nothing embarrassing or anything?
No, no, too many embarrassing things for him, so I'm not going to say anything.
We're talking about you, we're seeing if there's anything embarrassing we can talk about about you.
Lots of stuff, but he didn't say anything?
He said no, he had nothing, he's a great teammate, great wingman.
If you guys were out at the club or something, you'd be backing you up trying to get you anything.
Do you like clubbing?
No, I actually don't go clubbing.
I like bars more.
I like to speak with people, so I'm also a really bad dancer.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm not a great dancer either.
Yeah, the bar is the quieter.
You can have a conversation.
That's better, but I'm also older now.
I've done the whole clubbing scene.
How old are you?
I'm 34.
Damn.
How old did you think I looked like?
I thought you were like 29, eight.
Actually, it makes sense that you're 34.
Yeah, I'm not even going to ask why.
I know the answer.
Who was that?
My power stuff?
Ten years ago.
Ten years ago, and you were 24.
I was 24.
And well, hopefully that you're able to stay a little bit out of the scandals, and not
like me.
But you know what is scandalous is how you guys have been losing some of your matches
recently.
It's been really tough results.
Is this, how do you feel like personally about the way you lost Eternal Fire and
G2 at the last two events?
Well, I feel like G2, against Eternal Fire, we didn't have enough power to push
It sounds bad to say, but to be honest, I didn't feel like we actually wanted to win this much as much as they did.
So they came way more energized, they were way more loud than us, and to be honest, they also played really well.
And also we didn't play our best maps on those two maps that we lost to them, and it was so close still.
And against G2 actually, G2 are a good team, and I think what stopped them for a while was just Navi.
Like let's say in the Major in the semis, a lot of the times you don't face G2 because G2 have been taken, like they've been handled by Navi.
So for me it was like we sort of need to get the hang of how to play against them
like to get back into it and I feel like we didn't play them as much.
We played them like three times I think this year.
One of them, Mones, just landed like two minutes ago, we insta-plugged this PC.
So it wasn't that fair, but we just need to sort of play more against them
because I feel like the the full final one we just lost due to like we
obviously our T-Side, but we kind of lacked understanding of how we need to play against them.
how we need to beat them instead of just playing any other team we face.
It sounds like you kind of play up and down to the level of the expectation you have of a certain team.
Does that affect your game plan for, hey, we're going to go and face these guys,
we're going to play a different style than we normally do.
That sounds like it's very inconsistent. How do you feel about that?
I think it's not like changing style. I do agree with you that we sort of...
But it's not something like we come and anti-start differently, it's something that is just like, you know, we as players see the tournament, the stake of the tournament, sort of the opponent, and sometimes we don't have the fear and the stress and the nerves in us to push us.
And I assume you know it as a player that you sometimes want to be nervous.
You want to feel like, ah, we might not be them.
It might be like a very close match.
And right now against like some of the enemies we faced, well, not now,
but like in the past, in the past tournament, that was something that we lacked.
We lacked like proper fear and proper understanding
like how we want to be consistent
because we want to play the same against anything.
We want to give up the same energy and everything,
but we just didn't have it in us.
But on the note you just said, I think that we don't do stuff differently.
It's just that we don't change the styles too much, but we do see that,
like let's say we understand that a certain team that they play really aggressive
that we don't want to play, we don't want to fall in their traps, right?
So we might change our face and then get back into it later on the game.
And sometimes we might see a team that it doesn't make sense to play how we play,
but we'll still play like that because that's how we want to do that.
But it's something, you know, like just prep how we anti-star at how we think this is going to work against them.
And sometimes it's also experience against this team, like you know that, okay, this thing still works against them.
Like, we're better skill in them, don't be scared to play to their strengths even if we're...
So we just... we just... not change the style, but we just twist how we get into stuff.
When people talk to you, and they call you by your gamer name, is it Flames, Flames-E or Flames-Zed?
Well, FlameZad is horror. If someone says FlameZad, I'm like, ah, this guy, we're after Canadian.
Their fault. Their problem.
FlameZad was the original thing. FlameZad was like, in Israel, how people used to pronounce it, and how myself I pronounce it till to this day, FlameZad.
FlameZad, if I heard that, I would be like, mate, this guy's taking the piss intentionally.
I didn't know it was even a fucking Canadian thing.
And Flames, it used to be like European, the casters always just tell me that Flames sounds easier to pronounce when you're doing like any good play and stuff like that.
So I used to, my first tournament in Endpoint was PauliG and Sponge was casting and Sponge was like matching me on Twitter, what do you want? Flames, if Flames?
And I was, yeah, I want Flames, and then I wanted Flames, and then I wanted Flames if I play good. And now it's just, you can choose, but not Flames then.
Okay, I'll try not to do the flames out, but I'm not in the cast, so we'll see what happens.
All right, well thank you for your time.
All right, I think we have one of the last teams arriving for the day.
Eternal Fire is jumping out of the shuttle, and it is one of those teams that are super, super interesting to follow at this tournament.
They've been looking super solid. Last time we saw them at Pro League, they were doing well for themselves.
It's a team full of hard hitters, you know, a team full of a lot of personalities and a team I want to talk to.
You're coming into Rio, you're coming in great shape. How are you feeling?
I like feeling great. After finishing in the Pro League second place, we are really confident.
Also with the last results in the previous events too.
So I think it's going to be great. And also we want to be playing in front of the crowd.
And this is the first time here for me personally.
My teammates are just playing before here, but in better horizontal, I think before.
Yeah, I'm really excited and I'm really happy to be part of this tournament.
And I hope we can go to the final and see the excited crowd and everything.
Yeah, because we've seen that crowd on that arena. It gets very loud, very passionate.
Is there something you dream about to play inside that arena?
Yeah, I am. I hope we're not going to play against Brazil team.
Okay, they'll probably be good at it. It's a long travel here. How are you feeling in terms of, you know, your body, your custom jet lag?
Like for today, it's not great, because also we missed our connection flight.
So we had to take another flight in the 7am morning, so we just arrived today.
It was really long flight for us. It has to be supposed to like 15 hours, but we came here with the 25 hours
I think so after this day tomorrow, I think it's gonna be a fresh and new like you know
Gonna be like great day tomorrow. Okay. Yeah, so a little tired now
We got to get the makeup done got to get the pictures taken and then speak tonight. I guess yes exactly
All right, listen best of luck, man. You've been looking great as of late. Thank you. Thank you so much
Interesting it's a little fire. They want to play in the final
they want to get to the playoff, I would probably back them to get to the playoff
the way they're playing right now is it's at a high level you know and as you saw
Foxic right there feeling comfortable I would be scared if I were any team
playing in turn of fire. You happy to be here Ricky? Yeah I'm a little tired but it's
all good I'm like four hours asleep. Oh wow did you land this morning? No I just
haven't been sleeping good. How far is it for you guys to travel here?
For the rest of the guys it wasn't too bad for me it was pretty bad
because I flew from the west coast and I had like a seven hour layover so I'm just like yeah
yeah it's pretty rough but it was what it is so how long was the flight time?
the total time in the air was like it wasn't that bad it was only like 14 hours but it's just mainly
like me struggling from my house to the airport and then waiting at the airport and then the
seven hour layover you know just that's the more tedious part of the journey for me but
for the rest of the guys it was fun it was more like just total like 15 hour travel day for
film. But you're here and that's the main thing. That's all I want to say. You made it. Yes.
And how's media there going for you so far? What have you done?
It's show. I basically already done. Yeah, we did. We had SSD setup earlier today. I did
a social with Grim and then just had some pictures done and and had Colox. Let me just
have Colox done. So it was easy.
Easy. Very calm day. So what are you going to do for the rest of the day?
We got three scrims. I'm going to try and stay awake. It's the hardest part
of the day for me. But yeah, I just have some practice and for the game, see how good the
FPS is after these updates. A lot of people are complaining, I see people are streaming
with like 80 FPS, which is kind of interesting, but it's cool.
You're quite into looking at all the smaller details of Counter Strike though, right? Where
do you feel we're at right now? Because I haven't been able to play the new updates
since the drop, so I want to get some feelings. My team is just telling me about
it. What do you think?
I think after this recent update with the animations, it's like step in the right direction,
but in terms of the amount of performance we've lost, especially the update after Katowice
or during Katowice earlier this year, we lost like 100 FPS from that.
I think we've lost another 100 from this one.
So it's like, I don't want to say I've lost full faith in the dev team, but in my
opinion it's getting kind of ridiculous in terms of more of the game setting right
now.
It's it's like so many things that are in my opinion to be changed, but obviously it's not up to me
So it's what it is. It's gonna play
You do have to play with the update and whatever they for you. You just said like this
I think you'd like to see change. Can you share what you would want want to be changed?
Yeah, I think if some tick had less like delay from visual delay in terms of like
Like yeah, the shot you're hitting is based off your the frame you clicked on
based off your FPS, but it's like
If it visually takes this long to actually see the kill it feels really bad
And I honestly just miss 128th took as we actually had a lot more FPS that from you know like these something I would say updates me
That FPS worse in my opinion, so I think like just in general. I just have a CS go hit rush
It's like I don't know. I we tried it for like a year now. And I don't know we didn't have this many like
Problems with 128th took in my opinion. So I just kind of just missed that
I know it's slow, but do you feel like we're going some steps in the right direction?
Do you think they're still trying in some way, even if like, yes, the FPS drops and there's some mistakes that happen?
Do you feel like we've gone further forward overall since the beginning?
Yeah, I mean there have been update. I think the kind of it's on the during like February of this year was good
I think that was definitely like the best update we've seen from the game so far in my opinion, but
Yeah, I mean, it's it's kind of hard to tell. I think they're obviously just working on deadlock
So, I mean, yeah, I mean, this is not my control.
So whatever the dev team does, whatever the dev team does.
Let's talk about some positives, though.
You guys are still fighting, competing and doing very well.
But we still see some highs and some lows a bit over right.
It's a mixed bunch when we get to what complexity
has to offer.
How important is it for you guys to get the playoffs here?
We need to make playoffs.
I'd need to play in front of a crowd again,
like a big crowd in the arena, especially here in Brazil.
my first time Brazil it's gonna be really exciting. You never, oh yeah, damn I didn't even think
I didn't even think about that for a while. Never in Brazil. So this could be a special
one for you and you feel like you guys are ready for it? You feel like you're coming in
strong? Yeah as long as I'm awake we can do it. Get some good sleep and then brag out.
On that note he goes to bed I'll continue filming the lobby. Hello Jesse. Yes we're
doing the lobby right now. Can't escape this. How are you? I'm good. Just a little
tired or was it really early morning to there? Early morning on late night gym how was that?
The gym was cool but I mean I was just having been to the gym for a while so I wanted to start
up again so I guess I just started last night. I see you quite a lot in the gym though you go?
Yeah but I stopped for like a month when I was back in the apartment I didn't go at all so yeah.
Too much chill time? Yeah I was just laying in bed and sleeping most of the time so yeah.
And can we try practice surely?
Yeah, whatever we could get in NA we were practicing obviously, so just putting in some work as well.
What is it like right now in terms of NA practice? How is it for you guys?
I think the team's on that bad, but the Polymer's is not a lot of teams, so like if the NA teams have a qualifier or events or anything like that then there's pretty much like nobody to practice against.
So sometimes you're like forced to take like a day off from scrims just because everyone else is just busy and of course we're not playing the qualifiers.
So we're kind of just left with nothing.
It's kind of a good thing about it.
Doesn't have to play qualifier,
but also then don't have anything to play anyway.
What do you do on days like that?
Sometimes we'll take them off.
Sometimes we'll do review and some theory and stuff like that
and try and just speak about the game
and see what we can do.
And sometimes we'll just play like lower level teams
that aren't on the qualifiers.
And it still ends up being good practice most of the time.
So it's not really like too much of a big deal.
How is things in complexity right now overall?
How do you guys feel after Pro League, for example, the game against LitGrid?
Are you kind of down from that situation?
I mean, we wanted to do better, probably. Obviously, we're a little bit down, right?
But it's not the worst thing. I think we can do really well here.
We're still a pretty good team in my opinion.
I think we should be able to make the playoffs here and do well.
That's kind of like the expectation, really.
That's good. So your expectation is still going to the playoffs.
What do you think right now is the problem for you guys in terms of going this step further?
Because we see these glimpses where we say, okay, this is the complexity we want to see,
but then sometimes you guys fall short on and you've said it yourself to us.
So what do you think it is?
It's definitely just like consistency between all of us.
Sometimes as individuals on as good as we are the days.
So it's just about raising our floor and making ourselves better and making our
C game just a little better when we're not losing against teams that we shouldn't
be.
Thank you very much. I'm gonna go and bother this man. He's got a fresh baby face right now. So thank you JT
I'm pointing at you. Why why?
I really like the the non-beard look you look good man
You're kind of like I with the glasses I get like a Superman vibe for me
No, like Clark Kent you give the Norwegian Superman. I mean that's not a bad person
Appreciate that. You take that you take that. What did you think of the Niko table smash? You know?
Yeah, I mean that's probably the like
best table slammer in my life. I mean it was definitely like he had to do it like
if he didn't do it it was like yeah that was a must table slam. Do you feel like
there was unfair criticism towards your slamming of your chair compared to his
desk slam? There was like praised? No not really. I mean I think there was like
fair yeah I mean I think like his table slam was like actually like it was
most you had to do it and like most of my like it's like I probably shouldn't you
know so yeah I mean it's so I feel like it was this year's Christmas season so
when it's that bad when you feel that bad on like the 1v5 that he could have
pulled off that kind of warrants it right is that like ultimate frustration
yeah 100% 100% so how are things for you right now how are you feeling on
individual level how are you feeling coming into Rio I could have felt
better probably. I mean it's not been playing my best the last tournaments. I mean I feel
like I'm my ups and my downs and I feel I've been feeling okay but could be better, could
be worse.
When I talk to you when we speak you always seem quite I would say not worried about the
outside world, not worried about you. You can play your game and the stress doesn't
affect you so much but do you think there's a part of that that comes into your game
where maybe like you're not playing to the level you want to play to on a consistent
basis?
I feel like I don't care about the outside anything, it's more, I think my biggest critique is myself
and I think that sometimes limits myself, where I get too angry and disappointed in myself
so that sometimes can hurt me for sure, but other than that, nothing is going to affect me.
Nothing's going to affect you, I like that, so you can go through it all with no problems
but how do you look at getting the best version of yourself out on the server every time or most of the time?
I feel like she just had to do the correct amount of prep and just be ready for each game
and just when we do enough prep you're going to be confident because you know we have done the work
so just keep doing the work and that's going to make me feel the most confident going into each game.
Does John tell you do refrag?
I mean refrag is the best way to warm up so I mean you can use code elish I think.
I actually don't know.
I have no idea.
A good salesman knows going really well at that point.
He was really selling us like, don't quote the code, we don't have it at work or not.
But how do you get yourself ready? What's your training look like, individual side?
I mean, we do our normal prep with the team and then I just do my normal aim bots
or before we travel to the arena, do my DM session, then I get to the arena.
I just do my few hundred, maybe a thousand kills of aim bots with only the op.
Oh no.
Yeah, so it takes a while.
No pistols?
Sometimes I play at the Deagle, but mostly the AWP.
Favorite pistol as an AWP?
I mean, has to be the Deagle.
Why is still the Deagle?
It's brush-tile.
It's like, if I aim at the head, I'm gonna kill him, right?
You have to hit the head, though.
I mean, that's the least of my worries.
5-7, though? Fan? Not a fan?
I'd rather have the P250, to be honest.
Yeah, like, I'm not sure about the 5-7, or as he said.
I'm still like, on the fence, but right now I'm using the 5-7,
but I'd rather buy the Peter 50.
Really?
Yeah.
And what is it about the Peter 50?
Is it just like the nostalgia part?
I don't know, because like, Peter 50 is good, I'm with you.
But the 5-7s benefits on many occasions,
like look at how many anti-force you could play with it.
I'm not sure, actually.
It's just a feel with the weapon, I guess.
I mean, I feel like I get more like instant headshots with the Peter 50,
and then I just, I don't feel like, I don't have the same feeling with the 5-7 yet.
So maybe I have to play more with it.
1,000 kills with just 5-7?
I think I need to worry about my mental health before I do stuff like that.
That could be a worry if he starts just only 5-7 the whole way through.
Well, I'm going to count how many P250 kills you get throughout this tournament.
Can you give me a prediction?
P250 kills.
Depends if Johnny drops me one in pistol rounds.
Johnny, Johnny, come, come, come.
How many times are you willing to give him the P250?
I mean, a small Phyllige once that Nick Kevitt said, you know.
Okay, so you might not get it that much. Yeah, I respect that. That's completely fair
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Let on today though, and what games we've got coming up for you,
we're going to be looking at Birdus Bro,
going up against the wonderful Astralis right now,
who needs to have a good fight.
Then we've got Eternal Fire taking on the Mongols
to submit what we know over and over again.
And the banger of today for me,
Maus taking on FaZe.
Can Maus finally overcome FaZe?
It's certainly not going to be easy.
It never has been, but now could be the time to strike.
It's all happening here at the Intel Extreme Masters Rio.
Oh yes, three more teams already seeing the wrath of Rio just yesterday,
and now two spots in the playoffs do remain.
My name is Fersbys, joined by Pym and Steel to be opening up the day.
I can't believe some of the names that we had to say goodbye to yesterday, Jacob.
But it makes sense when you have basically every single one of the best teams in the world.
Yeah, I was just about to say, it's a very stacked tournament with only quality teams
and no easy games, however, for G2 to come off such a high in Copenhagen,
winning the tournament, beating Navi in a best of five final
and then come in here and play some of the worst Counter-Strike that they probably have ever played.
We spoke about yesterday, Niko having the worst ever tournament in his life here in Rio.
You had Snacks continuing this week of 32 maps without a positive KD.
There's a lot of negatives surrounding a team right now, you just want a trophy a week ago.
When doing the eye test on G2, it's almost like they didn't deserve that win this last week anyway.
It really comes down to Niko, Monizzi, getting a lot of these clutch situations.
When you do the eye test of the team and look at how they're actually setting up all the rounds,
it just doesn't really make sense.
and you know it's a disappointing result in the grand scheme of things on paper but they're really
they need to fix a lot of things going out of this event. Good know. Before we get into the games
do you guys like games? I love games. You love games? Love to play games. Thank god because you
have no choice anyway. Okay. We're going to play a game of two truths and a lie. So there's
going to be three statements that are going to appear at the bottom of the screen and you
have to decipher about specific players which two are real, which fact is fake. We're going
going to begin with you, which
you two and Nico is our
player statement. Number one.
He has never had a year rated
below 1.10 B. He's one event
every year for the past eight
years in a row. So every single
year for the past eight years,
he's won a tournament. See his
worst ever event performance
would so happen to have it.
Jacob be today or yesterday.
Currently I am Rio 2024. You
That is true, that is true, you know, so that's not going to be an issue at all.
I don't know what you steal, I feel like this is tough.
You know, my history over the last few years is a little bit hazy, but I'm thinking he's probably not
one of an event in Brazil before it would be the one I would go for
unless something recently happened when I was on hiatus.
I mean we've been here twice before.
I think the graphic is slightly wrong, we did make an amendment this morning,
so go with my cue card.
Ignore the third one, and his worst event performance ever was out.
Okay, okay, that is the truth.
I think that's truth, yeah.
That's truth.
Here's a winner.
Yeah, that's correct.
Okay, so which one is the lie out of never had a year rated below 1.10 and winning an event every year?
It could be tricky, because ever since he turned into Niku, I'm pretty sure he hasn't been having a year below 1.1.
But I don't know if his debut year was a little lukewarm or if he only played 11 games, you know,
and somehow had a 1.09 rating.
I feel like if you're behind this game,
that'll be like a trick question that you came up with.
Hey, STO got the stats.
Big man STO, it's all the hard work.
It's for the last eight years, that's 2016.
Now, defining an event,
does it mean like an S tier event, like a big?
Any event, just any event.
Like it could be an online BS cup.
Totally could be an online BS cup,
but just Nico Coat online BS cups?
Well, eight years ago, he might have.
Yeah, totally.
That was three phase, right?
Yeah, when did he leave mouse? He still played in mouse in 2016. I played against him in 2016 when he was in mouse
So did you win an event with mouse in 2016? I don't think so
When did he start playing the game?
14 I think he broke through in 14 15. I
Played against him in 2016. He was playing for mouse
But by the time he's playing pro he was probably
already winning stuff
He was already above 1.0 rating. Okay. It's so do you think he's had a year where he was below 110 rating? Oh
110 oh, I thought that was one point. Oh
Yeah, let's go with that one. Okay. That one's the
That one is never a year below 1.1. That is false. So he's won an event what were you the last eight years?
You think no, I don't know rope paper scissors
We're getting the clock. Hey, which one are you? Yeah, I think that's okay. Yeah, okay
That's what I was. Yeah, that noise does indicate that you were wrong.
Still, Jacob, you were right.
Um, yeah, he didn't win a trophy in 2021.
Every other year within the past eight years, he did run a trophy of some sort.
Do you by any chance know what he won in 2016?
You know what?
It's it really is escaping me right now.
I'll get back to you, because we do have another player to quiz you on.
This time it is big man.
Shoei statement number one, his only land trophies are at EPL B.
The first team was Isapi Bors or C, he's played in a major grand final. Which one is not true?
Well, he did play in a major grand final though. Didn't he play for the Gamer Legion when they
were in their grand final, Paris Major against Vitality? Am I, I'm confused or something,
am I? Was he in Gamer Legion? He was in Gamer Legion and they were in the final. Yes,
so he's played in a major final. Okay, that's the truth. If not, I'm a mess.
Correct! There we go, there we go. Only trophies on leveled maps like EPL titles,
I'm entitled to say yes, and that's the truth as well.
The studio players, right?
But I have no idea what about Zako Boers.
How do we forget that title, Zako?
Polish team.
Like he's a streamer, Izako, right?
Personality, what in that scene?
First team was Izako.
That depends, you know,
because my first team could be three different teams,
because when was it really a team?
It was a real salary team.
Yeah, you know, actually getting picked up,
proper, legit, how to boot camp to that extent.
So did he go from Isakur Burst to Mouse Academy
or did he start Mouse Academy?
Because he emerged in Mouse Academy.
That's the first time I saw him play.
Now, land trophies.
Okay.
Land trophies.
What else have Mouse won?
I'm just thinking, are we forgetting?
Yeah, that's the thing.
Have Mouse won anything else?
Or has Chewie won anything?
I'm gonna say the first one is true.
He's only won.
Is that your final answer?
That's mine, yeah.
That's your final answer.
Well, you're wrong.
They also won Bet Boom Dacha.
I can't believe you forgot that.
Of course, just.
Of course.
And that was even too long ago.
And that's what pushed them up to number one for maybe four days.
That is true, actually.
That is actually true.
And then they bombed out.
I suppose too.
Was Icicle brothers?
They're not for boards.
They've just been sold.
They're not for brothers.
It's not better, you know.
They've just been so bad lately that I forgot that they actually won a few things
in a row.
Yeah.
Oh.
You didn't have to do that.
Yeah.
Kick them out once you're down.
a little bit. I don't know. Right. Okay. Yeah, I've got four more. I've got plenty more.
We are already going to do Zantara's and we are actually going to do this one.
Statement number one, he has a longer plus one, sorry, 1.0 rating streak online as
opposed to online. So online, he has a longer streak of having
facts about 1.0 rather than land probably say he has always rated 1.0 or more at
majors or see he's only had one year of higher land ratings than online I mean he
used to play for the first he used to play in big quite often right and big
where the online kinks especially when he was there as well so I feel like
there's a lot of you know bias into what is online conversation I bet you
the first one is true I bet you the third one is true and I don't know
about the middle one, I don't think so then.
You know, I think I'm going to go with him on this one.
Yeah, final answer.
Eternal Fire back in the day, Space Soldiers, BIC,
they were all online-ers.
I'm not seeing some terraces on online-er
because obviously he's great now,
but he used to be good on studio.
You're saying the one on the left is true.
Yeah.
It's actually wrong.
That is the lie.
He had 23 online, but 37 on LAN.
So there was a period.
He would deem himself, yeah.
Good for him.
Well, they redeemed themselves today though. Do you think that eternal fire can do the marathon of what's gonna be that little bracket?
They've been in pretty good form recently
I don't see any reason why they couldn't they won the last head to head against mongol
So they only played one bad after this tournament so far that was against the stylist one half way didn't go right for them
No, so best of one apart from that look put a cell and CS is all about form recent recent form in the last week
We love that totally true. Let's talk about a brother who has sadly fallen not fallen himself
Ilyich. Statement number one, his nickname was inspired by his favorite
StarCraft 2.0. I think I've heard that story before. B, played for Liquid in two
different esports, so not only Counter Strike for Mr. Ilyich or C, here's one
at S-Tier LAN trophy within the past five years. All right, there was a rumor that
he was playing a bit of Vellorant for Liquid, no you should probably know this.
I mean it wouldn't have been it would have been StarCraft before,
Yeah, stuff anything but competitively competitively. I don't think so. Well, it wasn't it was never okay
Listen, he's never been signed as a professional player in any other game for league with then constant
Maybe he's messed around a little bit, you know touch valor and touch stack left a lot
But unless the contract is like ambiguous and it's like e-sports player and then it lets him flow between them
Potentially, I'm not sure then again has he won an STF in on land in the last five years complexity
What are they won five years? That's a lot of time
In the last five years, we probably would liquid you did it, you know, because they didn't win
occasionally. You were still on liquid in 2019, right? Yeah. And moving maybe even in 2020.
No, he's been in liquid third this entire career before. They had to have won something in 2019.
Yeah, we're talking about S tier Lan. Lan, S tier. The last five years. So that means that he's
been in competition for a year now. It doesn't say anything about complexity. It says five years.
Yeah, in the last five years, but we've been in conflict for a year.
Have they won anything the past year?
I don't think they got second place.
I didn't see anything.
Sick.
Does that count?
No, I think...
Okay, I'd like you to commit to announcing the gentleman.
Okay, first one is true, third one is true.
Okay, middle one is fake.
Middle one's fake?
That is incorrect.
The last trophy that he won was IAM Chicago 2019,
but that does fall outside of the five-year bracket
that we are talking about.
Well...
By the numbers.
Yeah, he didn't de-place, but I think it will start off too.
Yeah.
that prior to you can't get to liquid as a stack with play well, I don't know. Oh,
it's over. It was over. I'm totally lying. Everyone's wrong. Thank you, SEO.
He played over. Why would he do that?
Anyways, should we ask him?
Why would people play better when dude?
Would you like one more? Yeah, I've got two, but I will give you at least one.
Um, okay, let's talk about twists also fallen brother on like what was your take
from that game yesterday? Just just quickly.
They're not ready yet for... they're not ready to beat the top five teams just yet,
but they are a good solid team that have a decent foundation to work on, but Liquid is not ready yet.
I think the foundation is still being kind of dug up or discovered or whatever because
they have a long way to go. I think they have decent pieces for the system that Twist wants
to be able to build, but I think it's going to take a lot of time to get there and they
haven't had the time to do it. And right now it looks rough from tournament... I mean, they
look better now. Yeah. On their T sides than they did a week ago. I was giving them a lot
of grief for that, but it's still just so inconsistent about what you're going to get from them.
Kind of sad that every time they face phase or twist, face phase.
Always get beat in. It really is a price Jacob. Okay, statements as we can see on the screen.
A, his career rating is higher than his rating as an in-game leader. B, his first match on
and HLTV was actually against U.K. in 2015. Throwback. Or see, he was the first Canadian
to win a major. Josh, you should know that. Is that true or false?
You never won a major.
Rush, Derek, Skadoodle, Naf, and Rush. None of them are...
Did Rush win a major? No, he didn't.
Rush was on the C9 roster with Derek.
Terak's Terak's do rush ska
Skadoodle
That is Scott Scott is Skadoodle. That's a short form
Yeah, yeah, whatever. I don't think there's any Canadians on that. No
Yeah, the problem for me is Americans Canadian
Canadian Russian Canadian
No, there's Stu or Skadoodle. Nope or Tarik. So you're saying that one's true
Well, that has to us want to major that's the first question. I would be asking because I'm pretty sure anyone would
Yeah, so then I'm pretty sure the starline was he was the first Canadian to win the major and the internet slam
Maybe as well that is indeed correct. That's true. That's okay first match on H&C was gonna stew 2k
That could be the case. I'm
When did Stu join C9 in like 2016? Yeah, and I don't know if he had any HLTV matches before that
But like twist was on when it was like that TSM roster
I'm the same I feel like twist was been playing with like SK DC and stuff like that beforehand
but so is like Stu.
But I'm pretty sure Twizz has HLTV stuff from before that.
I think that is false.
Which means that his rating as an in-game leader
is higher than his career rating,
which could be the case
because he got off to a pretty good start
and the sample size is very small.
It's very small sample size
and he's been playing really well.
And his career rating is also taking into account
when he was playing in like 2014, 2015, 2016,
when he maybe wasn't as good as he is today.
Is that your final answer?
Okay, first one, truth, middle one.
I think the middle one's a lie.
That's incorrect, it's the other way around.
His career rating is 1.10,
his in-game leader rating is 1.13.
So that's great.
Okay, so Stu wasn't spliced back then.
Stu wasn't spliced back then.
And Trix played for God knows.
Tech tonic.
Sick, tech tonic.
What was that?
Yeah, I mean, obviously sample size,
in-game leader versus his career.
There's quite a disparity there.
But you're right, you did get off to a good start.
So, maybe that's a bit under there.
You replaced me in liquid,
it was a pretty good replacement.
You played on liquid, Jacob.
I did, I did.
No way.
You didn't know?
No, you never.
I cycle a lot and I played on liquid.
Okay.
It hangs on my wall, my bike hangs on the wall,
and the liquid just hangs on the wall.
You tried to track me some weight as well, sorry.
Fine, I was wrong.
Sorry, I'm feeling mean today.
Will the view slim?
Okay, no.
Okay, speed run this one.
One more player, we got Robs,
obviously still could make it through to playoffs.
A, he was a content grader in Call of Duty
before a pro in CS, crazy.
B, he has been in HLTV top 20 every year since 2018.
Or C, he has won more HLTV MVPs in CS2 rather than CSGO.
Fake truth, truth.
Fake truth, truth.
It's incorrect.
I am so good at being wrong.
It's amazing.
It's actually impressive.
Here's one two in CS 2 that was CAC and Thunder Peck obviously with phases great start to see us to you
He wants free in CS go all ESL pro leaks season 10 season 15
I guess who's not working EPL next year
He was a content creator and call of duty. I thought he was like a movement guy
You know and the fine content creator because like if you have a YouTube channel with like 10 viewers is that content creation?
Wait wait a punch down little little man
respect man
I don't know why I had to go and explore this, maybe, during a break-orbs of some sort.
Should we go to a break and then get into the actual games at hand?
Because we got a banger, right? We got a marathon for one of these two teams.
Going to be a tunnel fire taking on the Mongols after this.
What was that?
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Finally.
Let's face it, watch. You're in control.
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Watch it, control it, face it.
So what is it my son?
That is trouble in you.
Fear, but a love.
I fear for my tenants.
We're too little to play some such mystery.
I am Xenia, that poor boy.
Still vexing terror.
Nine ten, the way he crumbled.
We should rename to 9-1-1.
I thought we'd have to call an ambulance.
Fear not. The Mongolian resolve is firm.
Yes.
Mongolian blood is strong.
Now we're talking.
Things have been better since K-10 got kicked.
We even won our first S-tier laugh.
CCT tier.
All is well, except for poor Yappie and Stout.
I'm sorry, what was that?
They too have suffered.
You were shouting and smashing the balls?
Yappie even comfortless.
So unlucky. He kicks up in every week and yet somehow they get hit with a nickname.
Unlucky? Father, you think I forgot?
I am familiar with your content.
I really get sad to announce that Stabby and John...
Stabby and John...
And perhaps it is you who should confess your sins.
Stabby and John...
Stabby and John...
A little bit of Stabby going on here.
Third time could indeed be the charm for the Mongols.
They've been to Brazil three times, but had the playoffs evade them every single time so far.
But today, Jacob, it is going to be quite the marathon.
not only if they take down eternal fire, that doesn't guarantee them a spot in the playoffs.
They've got to play another game later on tonight as well.
It is a marathon day for potentially both of these lineups.
Obviously the mongrel is coming in as the underdog versus EF and as you said, winning the first best of three,
that in itself is going to be a big task for both of these teams,
but awaiting them is one more best of three if they want to stand their foot inside this arena to be part of the playoff.
It's been said to death almost.
There's no team here that doesn't really have a fighting chance to make it through.
And a few of the top dogs fell down early, some are not even in the event, and more some are waiting
in wake in the lower bracket to take out the other teams. But by no means, Eternal Fire and
Mongols, like these are both playoff potential teams. Eternal Fire looking a little bit better,
though, with recent form. Tell me a bit about these two teams' history versus each other,
because they are quite familiar with one another throughout 2024, right?
Yeah, you see it on your screen right now. They've played each other quite a lot.
Eternal Fire have struggled, you know, historically speaking, against the Mongols.
I think in pretty much all of these matchups that you see on your screen
They have been targeted to be the favorites yet the Mongols keep on delivering in this domestic matchup
So to speak I will say eternal fire have progressed a lot more than the Mongols as of late
We saw them in pro league play good counter strike beautiful counter strike
So I would again once more say that if are the favorites, but as we know, you know this matchups living its own life
Yeah
When I look at just this history of the head-to-head and where you see Mongols just destroying eternal fire
way he's back. But now it's like as recent as a couple of weeks ago, Eternal Fire,
turn things around. And when you look at just the recent form, how they've been
looking here, yes, Mongols was pushing Vitality a little bit on one of the maps
at the very least in the level of our time on Inferno. But Eternal Fire are
just looking like they are here to mean business and maybe they're
leveling up. You've seen the resurgence of certain players as well,
coming back into form walks if we haven't seen much from him for a while.
But now he's like, oh switching hands. We're good. Yeah, speaking of walks, I'd like to get some more thoughts from him courtesy of James Banks
To victory, how did that feel for you guys as a team?
I think
Like it's feel amazing after you starting to bet against
Astralis and you losing and you are about to go home if you lose one more after we traveled like more than 16 hours
It was it was sad to make it if you lose that but
But in the end when we won against the last champion and also number two in the world,
it's like gives you more confidence and happiness as well because you can beat anybody then.
No?
Now lastly, Mongols, you know these guys, you've played them a hell of a lot.
Would you say it's quite a tough opponent for you?
Yes, I think yes because we won only one time and they beat us in three times I
think in different tournaments.
We are, I think, more confident to play against tier one teams and more understanding their play style and everything.
But the Mongols, guys, I think they are a bit unreadable.
Also, personally, you understand, for example, G2 Navi or something, or Vitality,
what they're going to do in that round with that utility or something.
But you don't understand these guys.
They are unexpected players and they really improved themselves,
like from the start of the year till now, and there is tough opponent like other teams and we
are respecting them, I think they are respecting us too. We'll see, like last time we beat them,
why not again? Why not again? I like it man, thank you very much. Thank you. Good luck Woksyk.
That's super interesting that Woksyk still thinks that these guys are really tough opponents
considering the opponents that EF have taken down recently, right? Yeah, you could say so,
So I think for my money at least to be completely honest, when I look at the Mongols they've
stagnated a little bit, you know, it's an interesting team, it's a team that's been
taunted to be obviously coming out of the Asian region, they're trying to adopt the
European way of playing Counter Strike combined with their own, I guess, flamboyant way of
constantly being in your face fighting, etc, something that should shoot Eternal Fire
well on the server.
The way I look at it is the Mongols have stagnated, Eternal Fire has become a
significantly better team they've developed, so I feel like these T-teams a year
go on the same trajectory but is no longer the case.
I think it's an interesting angle that Woxic brought up. They are able to take down so many
of these teams that are, you know, playoff bound. They push Navi to the limits in the
B.O.5. They lost 2-3 in that series, but they've beaten out teams like Vitality and
Fiora and Maus and like all these other teams that are, you know, potentially booking
their places to the playoffs or they already are there. Whereas they're saying, still,
it's easier to play against those guys than against Mongols because Mongols does
random stuff. And they do random stuff. I mean, we saw it on Inferno yesterday as well.
There are a couple of times where they will disrespect smokes and just go through it and
if you're not ready for this stuff, then it's going to happen. You're going to get caught
off guard. So this is, you know, in one of these situations, just literally one by
one by one pushing through smokes. On this round specifically, it's just Blitz there,
but he just doesn't have the timing for it. And on this round, first it's 9-10,
He gets one in the back, then Vitality are thinking,
okay, surely nobody else, right?
Then it's one more coming through, it sends you,
and then it's on top of that,
a third player coming through the smoke.
So if a total fire is not ready for randomness,
shenanigans, just things that aren't really
high net positive plays, they could get caught off guard
by something really silly on a crucial round,
it could be a swing round, and that's what they're
talking about, because if a team like Vitality or Navi,
they're not gonna do a play that's as risky as that.
I think players often, you know,
don't quite understand the difference
It's tough to play against an opponent and it's stressful to play against an opponent because I would argue it's super stressful to go
Against the mongols, but when you look at the mongols results and the lack of results in terms of beating some of these
Playoff contenders that EF are beating right now. Yes, they do random stuff
Yes, they do stuff that is stressing you on the server
But most of those rounds and a lot of those rounds you're also getting free gifts, you know back into the game
So more so is it stressful to go against the mongols?
But in its essence is it harder to beat them not really
Who do you think, like, the pressure is on the most in this particular matchup?
Because for the Mongols, sure, like, they're consistently making it decently far through the groups,
but I feel like actually breaking through to the playoffs.
Something we haven't seen in IEM.
No, they remain competitive in pretty much all the games.
I think when you look at the history of all the IEM events they've played,
they always do some sort of a good job pressuring a team to the brink.
We saw a bit of artillery yesterday, but they don't get the Ws.
Where I feel for EF, they're coming into this tournament with one goal.
We heard them on day one in one of the insurances that said,
we want to be part of the playoffs.
So in terms of internal pressure right now, I'd say it's on EF.
Yeah, I would say when we look at the two teams, it's just like
Mongols is more like that gatekeeper and then internal fire right now is more of a dark horse
where they could take out like the championship winning teams out of the tournament right away.
Well, we do have the veto rolling in. We're going to be beginning off on a Nubis,
Mirage, pick up Mongols coming into things. Inferno, if we do need that third and
final decider. And I think we are just about ready to be diving in to the game.
And do this mirage inferno, Charlie B, and we've got Eternal Fire versus the Mongols.
How's your initial feelings, vibrations, what is the vibrational frequency you're operating
on coming into this one?
Speaking of frequency, obviously the sheer amount of times these guys have played this
year, but then the most recent ones, and then it starts to lean towards Eternal Fire.
I think one of the issues for the Mongols in this matchup is the fact that EF ban
our Ancient, and I think that EF have been looking overall and discussing better
against the better names.
It would be tough to see them falter in this one, but yeah, their last two best of threes
have gone the distance.
I'll tell you what was tough to watch falter was the Mongols on Inferno vs Vitality, forcing
it to overtime, unable to overcome a big name like Vitality, Mongols finding themselves in
the lower bracket, Turn of Fire, sent here at a best of one versus Astralis at 1311,
was their only loss so far, beating out G2 as we witnessed yesterday.
So we can get started.
Anubis, our first map.
Yeah, same map pool as just a few weeks ago at EPL, so we'll see if mongols are going to crack through on the map pick of EF on Nubus, it's, I guess, one of EF's home maps for short, something they like to pick into, something that they look at very strong on tactically.
Wakadia, quite, oh, I can't die without Wakadia. We'll focus on Senzu. We've got Rushley123456 and MC bringing you all the action, and Senzu with the opening kill.
The b-hold seems quite strong on paper for Mongols. It's Techno and Senzu.
Notice the two defenders there and then Hanzo as the A anchor, Blitz as the mid player,
9-10 as the rotator on the AWP.
I have a really ignorant question.
Oh, but I'll throw it in a second because Senzu's nailed a really nice second headshot,
takes down Maja, and they're testing him, but he's not giving it up.
He's happy to take those fights. We'll fall back on the reload.
Mazzinho's found Woxic as well, who is going to be a huge win condition for eternal fire
Fire throughout the day, is he not?
Five alive though, four Mongols.
Woxic in a phenomenal form.
And I wanted to ask,
why do the, almost all of the pro pistols,
like especially the T-sides,
they tend to be quite spread out and not so direct.
It's like, you know what your puggy calls it,
it's like, all right, we're going to age.
We're going to be, we're going mid.
I think, especially on a map like a Nubus, for example,
it's nice to kind of feel out the CTs
and see if they want to go for any aggression
because I think a pretty standard approach
would be heavy AMA, right?
And as soon as there's some pressure elsewhere,
those AMA players might push,
they might want to set up a trap force into that.
But they just got picked apart here.
So I don't think that's what EF were expecting whatsoever,
maybe hoping for a little bit more respect in that regard.
But yeah, Anubis is the type of map where the CTs
have to take risks and it doesn't change the pistol round,
which is one of the more high variance rounds.
You were having a really interesting conversation
with Janko just the other day about Anubis.
I was overhearing the conversation about how this map,
by design, forces the CTs to play,
not anti-counter strike, but something different to the typical counter strike.
It's definitely, look, this is the most two-setter map that we have in the pool.
And it's one of these maps where the CT puzzle solving that has really come into fashion
over what the last three or four years to announce.
And the constant, I don't want to say hyper-aggressive moves, but proactive moves.
Proactive, good one.
Like the heroics or reactive to the information that comes their way.
I feel that you need to be making these steps on an oevis.
You can't really just sit back and defend in a default fashion because the T's,
If they go through basic protocol utility, we'll have those advantages, which isn't something
that you get on most maps.
The CTs should have the advantage of holding bomb sites, whether T's are meant to work
hard to attack to take this space.
They have the better weapons, this is the AK-47, to make those type of fights easier,
and the CTs are having to lock things down, use that U2, which is getting more and
more nerfed.
But I just think the idea on this map of probing for the aggression, whether you
follow through or not, is a good start to slow down the T side default, but
But it doesn't necessarily give you a lot other than time.
You still need to win out those fights where the T's, in a lot of these occasions, feel
quite favoured.
I think everybody at home, if they've played any pugs of any variety, will know just how
difficult it was on the B bomb site once the lurksmoke has dropped out.
You need to play three players there, but then you're getting harassed and caught.
Dark gets mollied, your lurksmoke lands and you're suddenly feeling like there could
be four people knocking on the door.
Tecno, this is very aggressive, but as a product of the T stairs smoke, he's
is allowed to maintain info of canals up until a point.
Yeah, still risky, right?
But both teams kind of negating a bit of vision here,
and as I was saying, slowing down the default.
Now, look at the player head of that was Mazinia.
We saw this yesterday from EF, actually,
when G2 would go for the AMA in control from Malbs
with the standard U2 set, they would edge
and play head of the smoke through info.
And we'll be crawling up, connect up,
so Techno got a backpedal and play with Sensor.
So we're gonna start in the press towards the B main push.
This is a good call for info to have a party.
Mine was mid but the fight came first. Now they push out B now. Kind of a pinch at the move-off.
Wasn't ready for the Carnival Coupation so quickly. Madge surges forward.
Calyx will 2-strike clear out this B anchor, but sends you solid.
Good work from him. Staying dynamic, keeps control of B.
The bomb not in their hands. Mazzinho, he activates on A.
But 9-10, he does have Madge's cross. They don't know it, but they have the bomb.
It's at the top of B.
Ah, don't forget the fights. The fights just come to them.
Lovely patience on display from Maja. The trade is there from Zintara's and the tunnel fire will get their first gun round
I like the idea from 9-10 right isolate dark so you could hard clear that angle
But just doesn't win out the fight
So a couple of them looking a little bit wobbly and that's going to be EF
Striking with around that it felt like they were the ones getting you know pushed in pressure
But I like that right mid and B main as much as they don't feel connected very much
Ah right right because if they're gonna leave one player just watching the mid and the B push that guy can be
isolated while they're taking connector or working on the AMA in presence but we
have another buy blitz quite literally just has a USP so he's gonna have to
pick up a rifle flash forward by the Zintara is traded by Senzu Wakadia sends
him packing for now but this really needs to come get that gun yeah not
worth a good buy Charlie you can see it yank well that's probably best case
scenario I mean yes apart from the fact that that was the last smoke grenade
the CT side has at one minute 19 gonna be hard to keep this the wolf from
the door. But look at the gamble right now. Sensor's been called away to deal with
middle 9-10 and sends it both towards camera. Masino towards A main and we can
see the air rotation which is looking like hey we don't want to test B. We've
seen what's over there. But to retool, regather. They still got a couple of
smokes, flashes and molly. So they can execute into the site which will give
the advantages. Masino can maybe split them with the remaining incendiary.
Oh yeah and he is in a position to kind of catch wind of their presence. You can see the
flashes from Woxic. He'll smoke Heaven and flash them out.
Zenyo, can we save from those?
He's held onto his incendiary lot as long as he could,
but drops it out towards the pillar.
And that's his first test.
Does well in combination with his teammate,
but unable to do much more Senzu.
Another multi-kill round.
That just ditched him.
He's peacing.
Well, Blitz is also rotating back.
That's Woxic down.
Now Blitz is going to be there on the B site
to greet Magi with open arms.
What an incredible round from Senzu.
Madge, you're going to try and plant. You're not going to go much further. Blitz will flatten him.
And we will see a very quick response and a return to the victory for Mongols.
Now pick your poison. It's a reed or a gamble.
Both.
Both is good.
And they played heavy mid so they could respond quite quickly.
And you can actually see the uterus. We just caught the opening trade.
Now the uterus coming in, it wasn't too suppressive.
I think that... did he have to throw two mollies to back cake?
Because they could have done bricks as well. I'm not sure exactly how many they had.
I know one was right. Yeah, but if they put one bricks as well
It would have given them a little bit of easier as regarding the aim up
So we'll just be EF down to some upgrade of pistols
Cool little flight path from wikare might catch my hand off might might be in the operative word
He does not doesn't even blink just danger close though. Didn't he you did
Mazzini the anchor I mean it's always I'm always on a anchor watch
We're on a new business because it is such a difficult bomb site to be responsible for
Yeah, it's a bit like we say anchor so just by nature of that term you feel it's a passive position
But it's not because if you just give over baskets control for free and I'm not talking about just exchanging utility
Right, you can still if you're not peppering them if you're not making it difficult if you're not having rounds
We are playing on the edge. You're flashing in you have to take fights at certain points
So it is a tough position for sure
But just having the luxury of when you're doing something like that having a blitz
able to support you with some
UTL and maybe a headshot catches
the towers in mid. Moxic with that
bomb just going to run in willy-nilly hope to catch
the Xenia on a wares. Fight stand alive
that's very very nice for the Mongols
this is the CT side this is a map that
they played against EF in their
previous match it was like 21 22 days
ago just back at pro league and that was within the playoffs
I think the match before that was in cologne
that was in the play-ins
so a bit of a rivalry brewing between these two
the fact that they've played in five outings
in 2024 alone and both national teams on the rise.
It's nice to see.
It is really nice to see, especially considering we're
on the kind of, you know, the international team
space trace station.
I think it's called.
That's it.
That's it.
This is a full B go, Alex.
Yeah, but they're going into Senzu's domain.
Let's see if he can keep the frags flowing.
9-10 card.
Misses his chance.
Nice from the card here.
Down after one.
Techno MP9 damage onto Kalec.
More damage.
Alec Shaw finds the Tarez.
But the defense got no hope now.
The Nade looking for Kalecs won't find him.
Nice little change of pace.
And he's actually going to push the issue.
He might catch Mazzinho here.
Quick reaction from the Mongolian.
Well, now tantalizing, two players low.
So do they have a look in on this?
We won out of a redegg.
A two V4 redegg is a crazy request.
Smoking kit present, though.
And we'll see if Mazzinho gets any further to the fight.
In the open.
Look down, go, Kalecs.
He's playing for the save.
He's in middle.
Oh, he's in dark now. Yeah, they're getting potentially able to bait them out onto the bomb.
Time is of the essence though. Blitz takes him down.
Another hit to Torres, low HP, Blitz provides the covering fire, 1.8 does it and a 2v4 retake!
Blitz and Mazenya regain control.
Tell you about getting ahead of yourself there. Woxic pushing into spawn, looking spied.
I think they're expecting to save 100%.
You've got Zuparos going, walk about the player's low.
They've got a lockdown and focus on securing that round.
They were 1, 2, 3 steps ahead.
9-10 misses the opening shot, they trade efficiently in towards the site,
Mongols felt done, you're thinking the saves in play, and now it's 5-1.
What's the logic of Centauri's going running canals there?
You said to save, like it didn't...
Like, he's thinking they're saving already.
Oh, I see. So he's just trying to get out of there, maybe try and catch someone on the rotation to save.
Right. So I'm pretty sure he was walking through middle, and then when the kills came in, he dropped back through canals.
You have Woxic pushing up as well, which is quite telling of, hey, I'm going to constrict the way back in.
The miss shot initially from 9-10, it cost them right? The way it's meant to go is 9-10 gets the open, now then Senzu's the track card.
Well Senzu goes down first, then Techno falls, 9-10 gets something done, it's all about Blitz, it's all about Mazenya on that retake,
and a bit of a fumble, a bit of a gift there from EF.
Yeah shout out to your A anchor, if you can regain control of B like that as well, Mazenya, that's a big delivery.
Tunnel fire, gonna feel hard done by there, they managed to break through, got the frags they desired.
Interesting purchases seeing EF well this is heavy-mid yeah 910 could be cool out by this easy
lovely did it dry let no smoke to boost over of course this is caught catch off guard I'm
worried about blitz
I'm just surviving because Zintaris brings the fire and the bait and switch on the reload
but Zinho swings out they move forward to punish and instead just get completely doubled
ding lovely well this is perfect the man that I wanted to talk to about the curious
purchases. Look at the finances for everybody else right hand side of your screen. Calyx bought
all the way down to zero. Sure you get max loss bonus in the next round of 3400, but if you're
going to do that, you know you're going to be operating with a Galil or something lighter.
So I assume with that type of a buy he's expecting a plant because then he would have been in full
buy range, no drama. I see. But I mean, I guess he was, he's fallen into that trap of everyone
else has got to arrive. Well, I want something cool. I just feel at this point like EF have
let the first half of this really get away from them. So right now this is where we get to test
the pedigree of the team. They're going to need to take a couple of deep breaths and that's not a
Tau's joke by any stress. That's quite true, right? Because this is Blitz with a miss at Counter-Strike.
There's certain games that you find yourself in and the rounds just go and you never even really
feel that you get to play some of those rounds and that's also indicative by the lack of kills.
So definitely you're going to need to kind of slow and change the tempo, play on their own
terms right now EF because there are already five rounds in the hole. This is CT side of
It's almost I mean I think the the tone was set in that pistol right? Like five alive
You did nothing gain nothing second round conversion clean you then get yourself on the board and Mongols immediately respond
The only rounder you ever one was the third round of play so far now we get all the guns out
It is gonna be that galil for Calyx as you
foretold
Let's see noses angles not gonna give Woxic a freebie
Ooh, clear of the smoke, Techno just dips back into the con smoke and now returns.
Will he isolate Magi here?
There's a timing on that smoke.
Fady can go and isolate and he will.
Nice aggressive.
Aggressin' or aggression?
Well, that's probably how they say in Mongolia, either way, Mongols look extremely well-prepared
for a lot of these little moves.
Like, that smoke kind of gave Techno a real indicator as to what they were cooking.
I love how stubborn they've been playing con. Senzu now Techno.
There's so many nades left as well.
Well, now you wait and you're vulnerable to mid. You're vulnerable to A, you're vulnerable to all these other
aggressions and know how about a B main clear. Waxxix holding the wall! Miss shot! Missed on shot!
Leads to two! Techno shuts down B. Bomb on the floor.
Mazinu's pushing A.
And Mazinu activates. Loudly. Loudly. Bit too loud if you ask me.
All the info, guys. All the info.
Both spotted.
The fact you already have the bomb down, you can piece this round together and it should
be all yours for number 7, Techno.
Will he catch the entire step through spawn?
No, well he's saving.
How about reload?
I think the reload may have actually been hurt.
Yeah, he's very cautious.
And his mouth looked like it was moving.
Oh dear.
You're not clear if this is not at all.
Okay, Techno takes that one for free.
He is Alex!
Spawn!
What's he doing in spawn?
Well, this is fantastic for the Mongols, isn't it?
Bro, I mean, yeah, like you said, I mean, you could frame it both ways.
It is definitely fantastic for the Mongols, but as you said, Eternal Fight, it's very
funny to observe it from, you know, the third party, but it's just getting away from them.
Like this game, you know, the first gun round, very quick, blink, you miss it, second
gun, now suddenly, oh, it's 7-1.
If there's only one clearing issue, it's giving up a 4v3 retake off the B bomb site.
The ramifications, that are huge, right?
And you're seeing that dispelled within the finances at the moment.
EF will buy back in behind the calyx save and obviously so the max loss bonuses working in their favor like how many will box the corpse of
We see yeah, that's another factor and how many walks it kills just one right? Yeah
They're always playing ahead of this dark smoke. It's gonna be a mid crawl right now from blitz
He's got oversight of 9 10 just holding onto a curious angle
So blitz is gonna activate 9 10s gonna widen his and he's ready for the boost this time
Or at least he acknowledged it for a second
Oh! Goes down to Blitz. Nice fucking Towers, but at least a 4v4 found.
Got to get fed up with that a few 910.
Well, that wasn't the intention. But regardless, Blitz stands to it.
Why is this going to be another Peter out for EF?
I mean, looking at the absence of map control, you have no idea if they've pushed B.
You know you've lost mid.
And they're going to re-aggress to try and take back that B main control.
It's fair enough it's smoked. They will have full control.
Senzu's kind of cheating away, or he was, he was just playing in temple.
So maybe just being called over. If they double dark, I think this can be quite strong for the close.
Wakadia keeping the options over for a moment, but this definitely feels like a bee finish.
Gonna wish he played double dark now, isn't he?
Oh, but Techno catches Wakadia crawling. Now the Rascals can focus all of their attention on the main point.
Oh, and it's gonna be Calyx.
Finding Techno makes it awkward. Mzia's already arrived here.
Bombs to be planted by Woxic a 3 vs 3, spamming the smokes they fade up and now Eternal Fire need this round
But Blitz catches MagiPoke and his nose out of dark
It's very uncomfortable for Kalex and Woxic now
Senzu tucked out Blitz, Blitz gonna find the final frag here onto Kalex
He's got pressure from behind him as well
He has to stay swivelled around out the edge of the smoke for the first
Finds Mazzinho, tagged up, body bagged up and 8 for the Mongols
Damn, love that from Blitzer as well
You're not going to expect that if you imagine because the open 910 was dead quite early within the round
The fact he goes all the way around the world to take that long-range duel and wins out that fight
He's just what's this guy doing man? Like he's meant to be the quick rotator towards the B site
So it opened with this
Looking mid-setter right there standing dry in the center of middle so they've done their homework pond balls
Second of three tactical timeouts used as Faber wants to get on the microphone
But this half is just going down the gurgler floor is all that's possible for eternal fire
And that would mean three consecutive residual cash up the wazoo for most of the Mongols
But it's not you know, you're looking at the Mongols reactions
They're not you know, they're not counting their chickens before they hatch it and they eat one CT half on an oobis
They're already feeling pretty damn good, but it's not like it's not ear to ear smiles. It's not one. It's an elimination match
This this is just buckled down keep it going try and keep this in a lightning in the bottle for as long as we can
And this is a top series for the Mongols for sure winner of this has to play another best of three ladder today
So we can you get it done?
Probably the better for the energy sakes. Oh
They blocked each other through middle there. So the CT smoke has actually just landed in the middle of red
I think they bumped each other which is quite classic. That's a
Mistake that's kind of been made from the Mongols
Take no luck to get away and
We're gonna be feeling a little bit of pressure overall
playing two towards A with 910's AWP posted up
Gizmosinho the ability to float
Respect the A4
They're really slowing down the tempo on the pace right now
This is off the tax timeout right?
Maybe Faber just said we can't be having an opening death in the first 20 seconds
Taras takes a heavy leg from the Nade but does manage to gain doors control
I saw the patch notes, they talked about pixel gaps on it
but I assume that's the doors pixel gap fixed
fixed. I haven't checked for myself. Is this one from last night? No, it was a couple of
nights ago. Oh, yes. Yes. So there is. There's no longer that door angle. Good, good, good.
This is three players in AMA in Surging for Info. They've got full mid control right
now, EF. Muzinio's the first. Oh, the timing! The timing is terrible for Madge! He just
pulled out his grenade. Kallix desperately searching for a trade and he becomes
Muzinio's second scalp. Awkward now. Very awkward. EF just don't look himself
At the moment they had two flashes for the finish there and look I understand the timing of that seems quite awkward
But Mongols are doing such a great job now the drop down the head towards be it sends you and techno here blitz on the way
But this should be a shut down that Molly perfect 15 seconds. I mean now you're running channeled into the senior you get
Okay, Missy near rocket and rolling with three girls
The hot may 910s looking for you since our as and might not find your
400 bucks or some Taurus has to work with!
Oh, it gets worse. I didn't think it could.
I think he might still be asleep right now.
I don't know what's going on.
Yeah, from the type of Counter Strike we saw them play yesterday to this today.
Ooh, this is gonna require them to dig deep.
Perfect. Like, every time Mongols have gone through these times,
the swings on these pigs, they've had really jarring timing.
This is what the guys were talking about, you know?
Like, you never quite know what the Mongols are gonna do next.
These cut like dry timing peaks more. I mean for Madge. You're just terrified to switch to an aid every time
He's switching it away. He's getting caught out dry peaks this time going for aggression. It doesn't work. Oh
It really doesn't work. They really have lost all sense and logic
Let's just buy a Mac 10s and rush B
Turns out Mongols are ready for that as well and it's not like a turn off I've been lacking opening kills
I think they've got five in total so far. Oh, so it's not like they they haven't had opportunities. They definitely have
Just a beauty to watch right now Woxic left in a very tough situation that might be understatement. I think it is. Yeah
I'm not gonna use the the impossible word, but I would say
highly improbable situation for Woxic finds himself one v four without this catch he is
It's Kim Possible, what was the other guy?
I've never made that connection before.
The Kim was kind of the M.
I thought she was just because it was possible.
Well, she's miss possible, you know, because she makes it possible.
Yeah.
But no, it's Kim Possible, impossible.
Oh my.
I always wanted a naked mole wrap as well.
What was the other bloke's name?
What?
Ron.
You think it Harry Potter now?
No, Ron.
The blondie?
Was he... I thought he was a ginger.
I thought he was blond.
He might have been blond.
Maybe, maybe the Australian version, they choose their colour.
Oh, I'm going out.
Either way, this round was very easy to dismiss for Mongols.
Run, stopable.
Run, stopable!
Oh, unstoppable.
Yeah.
Oh my god, they're doing things.
Wow, has that actually changed my whole perspective?
On the Kim Possible universe.
Mizzinho about to be tested round number 12 they're all coming his way what's his
util switch what's the switch Mizzinho said it that was my text tone for a
while they actually got delayed by a smoke and that's pretty good from
Mizzinho he has got support in 910 who's bringing an incendiary in an orb over
crazy smoking normally shortens people's lives yeah and yet this time
it's kept Mizzinho's going all right guys we got one util set and an extra
smoke. Let's make it land. Better land. So we'll warp shot. Oh, look, stop. Right. Perfect
on the money. Then he dumps his utile and you go. I don't want to commit into an off, but
we've got. I don't want to go anywhere right now. Where do we go? Madge, what do we do?
I'll be home quickly. Yeah, bloody hell. I mean, Blitz might get caught out here
by the pacing of this. I don't think he will. Oh, head of the smokes, Madge. I've
seen you and Techno have found the facts everywhere, though, and Magadia can't hit
either what is going on I don't know I haven't seen eternal fire be this slow in a
long time I mean Mongols they've got themselves an 11 round hall on the CT
side of an UBIS this is unheard of join us after the break as we continue to
unravel the eternal fire mystery
UBIS you'd expect to see a team come in with a large hole on the CT side 11
rounds on the defense from the Mongols and it really did look like eternal fire
forgot who they are where they've come from and what they've been doing as of
late in the Counter-Strike world we're ready for our second half first map in
an elimination series and the Turkish side coming into the harder side have
just want to work with. How you doing Chad? I'm trying to set up a gag right
now. Oh you do it again? There's a gag coming. Alright I'll let you cook.
Just wait maybe like another 20 seconds? 20? Okay. What a cool pistol. Come on this
gout has to pay. I can't imagine what it is. Come on.
Rushly and MC, cool son of a server. It's got to be there so soon. It's not going to
land. Oh, okay. I would have liked that you're trying.
Hang on, hold up. Maybe I can. Centauri's is going to get one. Maybe a second.
Senzu's up there, and woo, Mazziniar is not shy.
Got the bomb on his back, still brings the fight into the site. Now Mazziniar
to plant Voxxix behind the temple. Smoking Mongols hit every shot they take. They're
coming into this game with a 36% win rate in the last three months on a do this and yet look at what
the hell hi they are flying now what second matter to retake and there is a kid hang on he could do
something he could he could and he has well flashed his own flash he gets the kill what
sick has contributed as well puts it onto blitz with no kev oh don't fancy his chances here this
is a must win going for the full hold on the diffuse and blitz bit late on the hold oh dear
They'll take the pistol, snatch that one away, let's sure get some kills, but that was a necessary pistol converted. Nice retake.
It's time to wake up, Eternal Fire!
The time zone got me, so I had it set.
That's clever.
So I had it set, as if I was on the Wi-Fi, and then the Wi-Fi died, so then my time zone changed.
Changed back to Brazilian time.
To Brazilian time, so...
The gag was about the alarm going off, they don't need the snooze button, it's time to wake up.
Oh, it's great.
It's better when you don't have to explain it.
There it is.
Well, they won the pistol.
Yeah.
Which is, I would argue, you know, a compulsory step.
If you wanted to be competitive on a Nubis, I think also this would...
Wait, why is...
I just saw a Chachki.
Yeah, they're Chachki, for sure.
Go back to the AK on Senzu, please.
We need to investigate the Chachki.
Look at the little sausage.
They're updated for physics now, so they wiggle more.
Great.
Not happy about that.
Oh, he's put a bow on the dig logo.
I think that's actually really cute.
Aw.
Actually, Senzu 10 points.
I think he got propped that, didn't he?
Gryffindor.
Whoever's crafted that.
Bang!
And the dirt is gone.
Zintara's deleted and Maja his next victim!
He's played it to perfection!
Be open!
Senzu's made it so!
How awkward, how uncomfortable...
Hang on, he's blocked the tempo smoke a little bit.
Gives him something to play around, perhaps?
Ah, they missed the...
Molly towards backplats, so...
Kallis gets a second life.
I'm not talking about the game.
No, but I think he's already wishing his role playing right now, because the role he's playing is dying.
12...
In the second round, 4th.
Out of all possible outcomes coming into today,
this was not the outcome that I had seen.
I didn't foresee...
You know, I was reading my tea leaves before I come in, and a 12-2 scoreline on Anubis,
a ton of fires map pick after the type of counter strike they played yesterday.
And after the last time they had a head-to-head where it was a fault-free mapper, right?
Yes. A pro-n-
And competitive.
16, 13, 13, 9, 13, 11.
And here we find ourselves...
Ooh!
...with, I mean, what kind of strike has been very volatile?
Uh, as of late.
It's about how you form on the date, and we can't just definitely find a little bit of form on the way out.
Laser beam on the, uh, MP9 will not get to retain the AK-47, and that's likely the death-knock.
Alex, you win the 60-fist, or you lose the follow-up.
There's probably nothing worse.
No, I think it is categorically the worst outcome to the start of a CT side.
So the best things about this game, how good mongols have looked?
I can make it even worse.
My gag was the third.
They won the pistol, but they also all died in the pistol they won.
So they couldn't have any less money.
True.
They couldn't have any worse economy than they have now.
I usually get in that blue sky. Have you been talking real truth?
Yo.
All right, well right now, you know, it's been like a part three.
It's been a really nice drive from the Mongols.
The ball's left just on the green.
It's rolled close towards the pin.
And right now they're just going to put it in.
Just going to take a couple of kick wraps and they're just going to
bend in the knees.
Nice grip, really good.
Just a bit of Adam Sandler happy Gilmore action.
Getting your hole and, well, I guess, your cone.
As only four more kills to find, you're going to shred them to pieces
One by one, eternal fire will fall.
And coming up next, we have the map choice of Mongols.
That's gonna be Mirage.
Interesting.
That's all the info.
See in the last two, let's run towards B.
They can have to go down, that's fine.
Nine-ten can stand here and block.
It's gonna be Desperation, the bomb.
He's on nine-tenths back,
so he is gonna have to actually high-tail it.
Might be Blitz, the one to scoop them up from behind.
Now, Calyx seems aware,
but he is gonna get blindsided.
Hello and goodbye.
Centaur is the final victim and there you have it, Mongols 13-2, an insane victory to
kick off the survival series.
They lie here at IEM Rea.
You looking at any players in particular right now that you think are doing good work that
you're trying to steal from?
I mean I think I'm the same as DeVice actually where there's just a lot of different players.
Like I have like a list of like players where if I see like their demo pop, I
like follow the POV channels.
If I see the pop-up, I'm watching them for sure.
Like Frozen, K-Sorado, Malbz and Terrace.
I was watching Wacadia for a while, too.
So I don't know, I feel like just anyone that looks sick.
There's a lot of hard heroes.
Nico, I don't know, just anyone.
Even people that aren't in my role, I like watching a lot
because when you play the role that I play,
which is the playbreaker role,
you can just kind of be everywhere
and you have to know what's going on
on all of the spots.
So you have to be very knowledgeable about like what's the meta and like this spot.
What's this guy like doing?
I mean, that's kind of more antique, but you know,
some people can like define like the meta like when Robs was like playing
insane being a CS2, you know that every single player is watching him like for sure.
Everyone's watching him.
So if you just watch Robs,
you're going to know what like another person is probably going to copy and
you're going to want to be like those moves yourself,
which can like open up different things.
And then you're playing Robs in five games.
So you have to do the Robs moves and you got to worry about that.
Yeah.
So there's just like a lot of stuff that like you have to like keep on top of and you're always just like applying moves from like every single spot
That could be really helpful
Well turns out the Mongols are on an absolute speedrun on a new bit gentlemen
Do you want to hazard a guess as to just how long that map took to conclude?
You know give or take the brain
Thereabouts 27 it took for the Mongols to take down eternal fire
on their own map pick.
They're gonna have time break in three minutes.
I did take that away.
Let's just take a couple more away,
because that was insane.
I can't believe that's EF's pick,
and they got one solo tree round on Lacti's side.
That's wild.
That is wild, especially when you consider that,
as you said, it is EF's pick.
We saw them play in Ubi's yesterday,
against G2, where they dominated them,
where they looked like by far better team.
I think this was a bit of a wake-up call for EF
and another slow start, another bad half, so to speak,
And that's what what seems to be the sentiment for them so far this tournament either they play exception to well
But they don't play at all. Yeah, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it
It looks like they need to have a really good start and play from kind of ahead a little bit if they're playing from behind
The things that happen with our economy and I don't want to sit here and take anything away from Mongols because they played great
They they have some really good moments
I think you're gonna talk about one where they have good reactions
But you know in terms of opening duels and everything it was pretty like 50 50
So what actually went wrong? That is the question. Maybe you've got some answers for a shaker
Let's dive into our cut here playbook. You got round number eight. What's the story of the story for me to begin with is
It's the Muggles playing will we have it right here at round eight
They already got off to a good start score six to one
You see we are now roughly 45 seconds into the round right here and you can see how they're constantly
Moving around constantly being proactive. They're moving down towards this connect area
They're putting down a smoke which essentially is keeping these two players a bay now
You have centares and you have calyx standing out behind this smoke which means that they're now isolated from the teammates
They wanted to do a push in towards the B bomb site. Meanwhile, if you're the monk, you just wait around but no no no no no no
They want to be proactive. They want to push out
They want to constantly be on the move and constantly try to you know
Work on the mid-round aggression that we so often speak about when we're on the disc
You see they're coming out right here since who's taking up a raw duel both of them are swinging out a flash is coming in a
Little bit late you can argue that the timing of all of this is a little bit off
but just the fact that they're constantly on the move.
Mercedes as well, maybe he's pushing the boundaries a little bit too much,
but as soon as they get those two kills over on the B side,
he's pushing through the smoke on A.
Again, they want to get information, they want to stay proactive,
they constantly want to stress eternal fire.
Bruxix broke a boundary coming into this game.
It is annoying to play against Mongols
because you never really know when they're pushing their smokes,
when they're being aggressive, but that's one of the trademarks of this lineup.
Constantly moving, constantly being proactive,
and you've got to be able to punish it, otherwise you lose.
And just to add on to here,
This is the type of example that Mongols is doing a move. They secured that B main area. They have
that bomb down. They knew players were outside connector and the only place that these guys are
going to be is like right in front of the Zinho. So this is a bit of a, like, you know, unnecessary,
but they're winning so just massively. And this is a play that you probably wouldn't
see coming out of a team like Navi. It's kind of similar to what you touched upon when the
Vitality game yesterday, right? Whereas on the opposite side of the spectrum, Vitality were
actually able to deal with it. What was lacking from Eternal Fire in terms of how they were
able to, you know, not put down these aggressive pushes, these, you know, pushing for info players?
Well, I don't think they did themselves any favor when it came to the economy. And, you
know, even going into the last round of the half, you're down like 10 to 1 or whatever
the scoreline is. And instead of purchasing more Galil so you can have nades, it's
just like four AKs with, you know, maybe a smoke between the four of them and then
one player with a Mach 10 and then they're trying to play out these rounds like they have options.
They don't have options. When you have no needs like that, you can't do anything. And so, you know,
we have one of those rounds here where it's like, okay, they're eternal fire. They want to group up
and they want to go towards A and Zen Terrace is leading the pack. But if you have no mollies to
flush out certain players out of positions, you don't have any flashes. What happens is
You walk into an op scope and now you get blocked out by a molly the rotation is going to come
So what do you do? You go to the next spot?
Okay, we're going to walk up again here and then we're going to look for an opening
But what's going to happen is you're going to walk into an off angle
Nothing to flush them out and then you're going to you know, either get blocked or you have nothing to actually work with
And it's one by one
You just fall apart and it stems from that first death that zanteris got
But that stems from the economy not even the economy. It's just how they prioritize their buy
They have the money to purchase the nades. They just choose to go for four rifles
You're looking at a two and ten walk sick of five and ten Zen terrors of three and eight Wiccardia
Like you guys aren't killing anybody
Maybe a couple more smokes and flashes are gonna allow the other people to get kills instead of everyone trying to be a hero
Agree with that sentiment. Yeah very much and I think it's also a symptom of how the first half
You know was looking for you've obviously going into the last round
I agree the economy was not looking great and not prioritizing grenade to that point
It's just a stupid mistake, but at that point you already feel like you lost it
You know, I'm pretty sure that from a playing mentality and you probably know that just as well if you're shantar as you're thinking to yourself
Give me an AK. I'll get it done. If you like he's thinking to himself. Give me an AK
I'll get it done and once you in that mentality where everyone feels like they have to be the guy
You know they have to be him then nothing is gonna work out especially on my blogger
Who was him though in this map? Who was your most valuable player of this map?
I mean Senso had a fantastic start to this game. He was beasting it
I think he had 15 kills, seven, eight rounds into the game.
So for him to come alive in that fashion, that was very impressive.
I think as a whole, the Mongols played some of the best counterstrike that we
seen them play. Again, I feel the playing field was made easy for them by EF by
not playing up to par, but take nothing away.
Some of these individual moments and some of this aggression and the
productivity that we saw from the Mongols, that is good counterstrike.
That is quality counterstrike.
It's at least oppressive counter strike and Eternal Fire couldn't deal with it then.
They have one more chance really to prove it.
I mean, realistically, if they lose next map, it's just that's it.
Should we talk about our next map? That's going to be Mirage.
That is the Mongols pick.
Unsurprisingly enough, you might have thought this was their pick.
No, this was a pick of Eternal Fire.
What is the story for both these teams coming onto Mirage?
I mean, if you're Eternal Fire, you guys shake that off.
And obviously, we've seen Eternal Fire playing Mirage
at a very high level. Again, against G2, it was looking good.
You know, they looked like a team that knew what they wanted to do.
They looked like they were well prepared.
And it could be again, EF just coming very slow into map one in a game and I wouldn't necessarily count them out
Obviously, you got to get some of those individual playmakers working. We saw Santeres when he was playing against Astralis
His first half was a one and 12 score line
EF are not winning games if Santeres is not playing well
And sometimes as much if you want to make Counter Strike about strategies, you know
Approach mentality state
Individually speaking if you don't have your star players playing well when you are team at the level of EF
You're not gonna win and you can dumb down Counter Strike to that level sometimes if we're gonna talk about star players
We need to talk about just like the start that they get to the half
It can't be that they're getting blown out and they never get to stabilize their economy for their to prioritize
Whatever buy they need but this is a pretty decent map pool for both teams both teams are gonna play well
But mirage is a map where similar to anubis you can create a lot of these chaotic situations
There's so many lanes to work with and that's what Mongols is gonna be trying to do
So a trial fire
They just need to be able to shoot back this game and and get a good start
Does awaits us after this break eternal fires tournament life hanging in the balance
I'm gonna be diving into it in just a few. What was that? Never miss a play again
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Spirit forces are gathering.
Donk's eyes fixed on Malta.
His strength will return.
Kamastra extends upon the brink of domination.
No one will escape it.
You will unite or you will fall.
Reinforce the mouse, Senzu.
It is a gift.
A gift to the frozen spirit.
Why not use this mouse?
Long has my cousin.
The steward of G2 kept the force of spirit in bay.
By blood's hands, and your lands kept safe.
Give G2 the weapon of the prodigy.
Let us use it against him.
You cannot wield this.
None of us can.
The one mouse answers to Dong alone.
It has no other master.
And what would a 0.9 rating know of this matter?
This is no Mia 0.9.
He is Karygon, first son of Sonic Thon.
You owe him your allegiance.
Karygon?
This?
This is Donk's Bay?
And heir to the throne of G2.
Set the mill, deviless.
G2 has no king.
G2 needs no king.
Karygon is right, we cannot use it.
You have only one choice.
The mouse must be destroyed.
What a way to fight.
The mouse cannot be destroyed, crimson of pronax, by any skill we here possess.
The mouse was forged in the fires of vertigo.
Only there can it be unmade.
It must be taken deep into the fiery chasm and cast back into the endless shack of months of care.
One of you must do this.
One does not simply walk into a vertigo.
Vertigo? Never again.
What about train?
Our couple.
Or does two?
Does two? It's a wooden gaze regarded by more than just ops.
Have you heard nothing what Maniac said?
It must be vertigo if the mouse is to be destroyed.
I suppose you could be the one to do it.
Op, Agyan, what's next?
See you.
Now we'll be dead before I witness another Astralis error.
And it should be fnatic.
The fate can't be in the hands of...
We should take him out.
You never trust that.
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
We should be out.
We should be out.
We should.
Why not?
Why do you do this?
I don't.
I don't.
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
Well, they're going to need Woxic's AWP if they want a chance to take this to the distance
because Eternal Fire are on the ropes absent without leave.
We don't know where Eternal Fire are, but they're not in the server, at least not in
the first map.
And Nubis a complete wash, and we're ready to see if the Mongols can keep that form
coming into map 2.
It looks drilled, it looks prepared, and it looks good for just one of the two teams
in attendance for this affair.
This best of three continues on map 2.
Eternal Fire, they picked a Nubis, it did not work out, and yeah, flying home
could be up to debate at the end of the rush.
Yeah, Mongols really took today seriously, didn't they?
There's two best of threes on the table.
A second to be played against Astralis, their VP.
That's the adjacent match going on on the B-Street right now.
And the winner of those games will lock themselves
in for the playoffs.
So the Mongols think, hey, if we can get this one done,
nice and quick, we get a bigger break,
we get more prep time, we get ready and raring to go.
As they are looking ready and raring to hit this B-bomb
sight, Maga and Kalex to receive with the rotation
miles away.
Crazy goosh.
Oh.
OK.
They've showed, they've gooshed, they've baited,
And that rotation that was miles away has salted on over, or maybe sprinted on over.
Yeah, but now what do you do? You start to probe out a little bit.
Magic pokes his nose out mid for a moment from short side.
And he's right to consider that they are going to be pivoting through middle.
Three of them go that way. Let's find some bomb ram.
Unless he shows the bomb.
Come on.
I don't know. They've done some crazy stuff this game.
This is a crazy call anyway.
He's clearing like this on his own before mid take.
I feel like he wants to show the bomb.
He does. He wants to show the bomb.
He wants to show the bomb to a ticker player.
He's got to play in some crazy counter.
It's pretty cool.
He's going to get cut off at the pass by Wakadia
who's just been drawn back now.
By a D.O.
What is happening?
I love it.
They don't know.
Look, there's a cat mid.
Hello.
My job.
That should just look the way.
Oh, there's the penny dropping.
There it is.
Okay, we've got the info.
Navi headshots.
Tecno runs over the B defense and Tarres and Calyx are here, but don't forget that goosh earlier
Calyx just finished off sends you the one to do it. Tecno now was gonna find the head of Zintara's
And the B sides lost. What a crazy pistol
You know yesterday when we did the F on Inferno and they had Madge pivot back towards A and throw the window smoke
from towards A to like show the trajectory so they're like, what's this?
Solve the fake, it seemed more convincing, but this is the this type of counter strike is the stuff that I'm sure
or, what can I say, the people who are living at a higher plane, you know, they've taken
themselves on a journey of spirituality, of power-cracker doing it.
Alright guys, so we're going to go B. We're going to show ourselves. We're then all going
to rotate back. We're going to pivot mid. We're going to let the in-game leader with
the bomb go and clear A-Ramp on his own because the expectation is they'll be playing
Ticket on the pistol to show the bomb to force the rotation again.
And then we burst out mid while the guy con is distracted.
crazy CS. Super cool. Oh man, yeah. But you were right. Tunnel Fire had some of those equally
as kind of spiritual plays on the Mirage just yesterday. Psychedelic. Psychedelic's a better
way of putting it. But yeah, let's get into it. Mid completely conceded and a very heavy
ramp stack. It already doesn't bode well for a Tunnel Fire. It is just going to be
Magirombi. Four players ramp. Not also a little level guard. Well, this is something
with the F when we had them coming in earlier in the year and we were getting to Castle I think of the
Copenhagen Major you and I were very impressed with their second round force buys and they were always
having some some good ideas and then ways to snap traps and that would have been one way to do it
towards a ramp but now they are being inspired to rotate again. It's like they're playing with
X-ray on. Okay well they've left ramp let's go ramp. Check them PC. Yeah right colleagues good
luck have fun mate one man and a 5-7 versus the Senzu aim hang on he's hit the head shots
plural bomb down Zinho comes up palace unannounced they have jungle control Techno can control
that CT is going to be a problem though and not for long Zinho delivers Centares found Techno
though so jungle now open for business and Centares is peppering but with an MP9 it's
not the weapon for such a long range engagement.
Let's get the bomb now he needs to get back Alex's reposition great round for
him so far.
My god, he tagged him. And just the lick of damage on the jump with the MP9.
19 seconds.
Yeah, Blitz is gonna try and...
Hello!
...to throw the mechanics from behind to catch him, and so this one takes shape nicely for eternal fire.
Four alive.
Second round force by, this is a sign of life.
From the eternal fire boys.
Get out of there, Mazinya.
Try and save that Galil the best you can.
Hunted after time of the worst case.
And then you walk away with two AKs and a Galil, and they're just around the corner.
Mazinya, you are crazy for hanging around them. Damn.
Alright, well they find the final Galil.
There you go! Something to be proud of if you're a Turkish Counter-Strike fan.
Kalec's the man on your screen, the hero of this one, the 5-7.
Perfect range. Bang, bang!
Shots him down, bomb loose.
Throws the round into disarray for the Longalls.
Going out to a good shot on Blitz as well, otherwise it could be a different round as well.
Low HP on Kalec's.
And so we get into our second round.
Mzino saved Gilel, the biggest gun they've got, and he might lose it.
Oh! Fire the start!
Yep, Centares wins the War of Attrition.
Yeah, good to see the confidence that they're showing to take this type of a dual shot.
That's the Centares you're fighting there.
It's in your stunts of damage, but I don't think they can burn off the back of that.
Molly has missed, it didn't flush Blitz out, but it's not gonna matter.
Wakadia still sweeps two under the rug, and now it's just Senzu and Techno.
We'll call this one done.
I believe so.
Okay, yes, two rounds.
That's as many as they had on Anubis.
We saw them have a good victory on this very map against G2 just yesterday, so we know they're no slouch.
I think last time they played against Mongols on this map, it went a distance.
So hopefully we do get that competitive affair. It would be great to get over to him, but I don't want to see a blowout, especially after good CS that we've seen from EF so far.
Killback's not bad. How much more can they get for their trouble? Senzu's getting a lot of room up connector.
You see, Kalex just with X-ray tucked in very tight on the site. So there's a gap to work with.
Zantara is having to respect it because of the low HP that he sustained earlier than the round due to Mazzinia.
We have 40 seconds left, the bombs still inflow, the Woxic flank is the potential difference maker,
and Tecno is seemingly aware of the possibility, so timing will be the difference.
Yeah, uh...
Chances of this bomb going down really low considering Calyx's position.
You're gonna clear CT, you might catch Zantara as it's all about the timings, he's not ready, still gets it!
The Calyx is still unfound.
Oh no! Techno Mantle's off just 2v2!
He's managed to equalize a 2v4, not another 2v4, Fumble!
From eternal fire!
Oh, it's falling apart at the seams!
One more to find!
Sennzui gets the info, can get away as well.
Through the flames is Magia.
Weathers to storm for 50 HP.
A 1v2 demanded of their captain.
Good damage actually onto Sennzui with that initial spray.
He's got 17 bullets to find the two of them.
Mantle's up, spots out, Sennzui swinging out!
OHHHHHHHHH!
What?!
One bullet in it!
Madge could have come up clutch!
A really solid attempt,
but that is a big whiff from eternal fire.
If we get 2v4, that was a 2v5.
That is insane.
Makadia gets the two guys mid after Zintara's wins the duel on Miss Angel.
I get the saved Galil, which is then picked up by Techno.
He finds Makadia through that cat smoke.
Crazy round.
So, he sends who then gets the Galil,
right, because Techno picks up something else.
Senzu's able to waltz up, but Zintara's was playing safe.
That's because he had to, because of low HP.
Gets caught on that timing, the difference maker, wasn't it?
For both teams.
And Kalec's been so passive on A,
he had no, nothing to report to Zintara's.
Oh, oh yeah, yeah.
You're feeling so good.
Yeah.
Right, you were like, OK, now we're here.
We're playing good individual round, Kalec.
So let's go, boys.
Let's get into it.
With one, the force is opening up.
All they have is a gobble.
All right, boys.
We're locked in.
Oh dear.
Oh dear indeed.
I mean, the Senzu Technoduo, they're both very much online today.
Oh, dear.
They can wipe the slate clean if they win this one.
Well, the force I was will continue back and forth.
Sure.
I think it's tough to execute a with only one smoke.
Historically?
Maybe.
Oh, he got dropped another. He's got two. Never mind.
Missed shot from Warksik.
Oh, not gonna make the same mistake twice. Nails the headshot onto Senzu.
Damage onto 9-10. Just standing in the open, inviting the scout to keep taking pot shots.
its entire stuff clear out palace. All the pre-aim was good. Nearly caught the Tetris
and barns. The card did the lead to good pre-aim and pre-fire.
Oh, they're going to advance. This is perfect for Maja. Maja, real opportunity. Oh, it's
beautiful for Maja. That's the aggression. That's what he didn't get in the last spray,
the last round. A massive multi-kill and you say forced by wars. Yeah, this is
going to be a bleak one for the Mongols.
Probably we've gone back and forth by this Mara's turn it took all the tactical time out
Maybe just to have a look at where the finances lie
but I think
In these two rounds that they've lost this one
There was a few scout tags right to soften up players a nice shot there from walks
In the fact that they identify there was a scout early within the round
That still went back for that type of an A execute is somewhat questionable because the scout towards ticket is a pretty common theme
Especially as the rounds trickled forward
The plant could have been a real boon for Mongols into this force, but an extra 600 bucks could have given them a whole lot more level of investment.
But you gotta try and bring the energy, and now we've had a good play from Kalex and a good play from Madge.
Where was 9-10 looking though? He had a teammate's stairs.
His other teammate's planting. CT was the only open runway. Fur disrupt on that bomb, he does get caught out by it.
They do get an AK into the mix.
Brazilian was able to drop that to 9-10.
Well, scout was already put him on notice. Might want to juggle that over to a healthier member.
Make sense to put it onto Senzu.
I can't do this short play up.
There's had a need towards TAP. Senzu now knows he's got the green light to occupy that.
Safely.
Heets him at hold.
I'm constracle land window as well, so they can start to flush this out. Do they want to occupy him?
And be played through the fade, or is this to help them get up catwalk? Well...
Through Connors, Wakadia, Spotter, the information goes both ways.
He's in here now, low as well. Sends with Pepper to 40.
Yeah, very uncomfortable here, but Bondos would be one hell of a good flash to push on to Zantara's,
but he's handled it with class.
Down to Blitz, nice rifle recovered.
There's no way another 2v4 could possibly slip out of eternal fire's graft, given that
how little Blitz in 9.10 have to work with here.
Crossfire strong, Calyx.
Burts!
And 9-10 just the last to fall here, he was the first to take damage from the scout, maybe Wokset can finish what he had started, misses his shot.
And Maja hunting down.
Alright, well that should be it for the Force by Wars, it needs to be an eco for the Mongols now.
We have for the first team to post consecutive rounds.
So well done.
Lose the pistol, win the force, lose the force back in a 2v5 fashion.
and then I propose to want to reel on the tron so this is good signs of life from
a ton of I need to see right because losing the 2v5 could have been the
unraveling at that point the game after a latest yeah exactly so it's great that
they are showing some fight oh wow sick a nasty death blocks just block you can't
get that back and they're a well aware of that they're just gonna rotate
immediately around the world pack mentality. W keys pressed down as Calyx plays forward once more.
Perfect weapon for the job.
Farm up some cash, get the Woxycorp flowing. How many do you got? I reckon three.
Just the one. Damn, they're doing a lot with just
Glocks. How are they hitting Zendara's? Why is he one HP?
A single, there's an eagle. Four Glocks. And another kill! Blitz has made it a 2v2.
Oh, god, no way!
No way! Does this get any more dangerous?
It's fine, everything's fine.
McCarty's taken down Tec. They're the only healthy member of the squad.
But Blitz is somewhat of a chess mastermind, you know?
He's gonna do it again.
He loves the around-the-world maneuvers as Blitzy Boy.
Well, let's see if the window of time stays open
for long enough to get the bomb down on that B site.
He will have to hit absolute scorches of shots.
If they allow him to get in and plant,
then even just to win the round is gonna be insane.
Matt just coming over.
Ooh, I think he gets to the window. He gets to the window in time, but he's paused.
So there is a chance that this plant goes down.
Here's him now, Maga knows.
Does he go ahead of the Bokadia play?
Or will he wait it out? Ooh, on the mantle! Blitz fakes it out, though.
Short should come and collect. And second, Maga gets him.
But, I mean, getting a plant and three kills out of essentially an eco, that's pretty damn good.
The value for money there's insane.
They invested $700 into a D.G.L. and managed to get all of that.
So fantastic work for Mongols to keep the pressure up and keep EF a little bit shaky
But they will grab two AKs to carry through the diffuser be there
Should be enough money to get the ADVP in the hand of Woxic. Don't you worry about that. He's got 7.1 K
So all good in the hood a two round differential now starting to
Take shape for EF
But now we get into the full gun rounds I get to do some research and find out who's done that cool dignitas
bowcraft try to work out who's bought it but they've all got their knives out
like that I'm looking on their backs okay yeah nice a black lamb or something
anyway we should probably focus on the counter straight as far as Missy near
of course it is he doesn't look like it's a QT yeah he's a QT
well six gonna be holding for blitz on this underpass progression let's see if
they account for it with a flashbang that smoke implies it's possible
towards Khan.
Moxik, he knows he's on a timer.
Get Sal.
Wakadia tapping away to prevent any potential punish.
Senzu there. Well played.
Wakadia collect a nice opening kill.
Senzu, one of the highest flyers alongside with Tecno.
Cut short.
Wakadia's aims looked good, right?
I remember the MP9 round.
I know they haven't had a lot of rounds on a Nubus,
but he did have one where he was like making a laser beam
and he's looking confident in the fight he needs to take.
So at least that's something that you can put a bit of stock in.
And EF, if they work back in on this map,
There's no reason they can't win on map number three.
They're back in the game well and truly.
So, I'm looking forward to the resurgence of EF.
The Mongols take advantage of the hard work
from map number one.
Blitz on his lonesome, selling all this mid pressure.
It's going to be a B-pop into Maga.
This bench position.
He's on his own, Alex, completely.
Yeah, we can't be unable to provide any help.
Oh, Missinho, little rascal.
Crouch peeks the window to get the elbow angle.
Spots out magi-free. Blitz down to Eucardia, so they have info as to where Eucardia is coming from.
9-10 does not want to give up the ghost here.
Taking out hearing steps on market.
Timing everything.
Clash to the strat, covered by Woxic. Huge frag.
Eternal Fire, they're coming back into this bombsite. They will take it by force.
9-10 yet to frag. This could be an opportunity. This could be one hell of an opportunity.
Mzg is 1, need to double kill Woxic. He's ready and holding.
Gets the conversion.
A smoke to play around in time on his side.
Mazzinho, what can he do? Can he come up clutch?
Wontekops with the M4, dips nicely, avoiding the hunt,
but Zintara is just in the nick of time. Secures a fifth.
And these rounds are close, aren't they?
Very close.
Del was in the details. I love that.
The Mongols are in a position where they're down a player,
so you feel like you do have to make an aggressive move
to try and level things up.
And they did it with a flash. It wasn't just a dry swing.
But the fact that Woxic's sitting there holding that line,
those are the little nuances that you like to see.
A turn of fire prepared for that aggressive move.
Wakayde getting the better of Blitz, it takes a lot of potency out of his B-split.
Nazinio was great to find the first and do more damage, but it's all about that, I think that, well, it's not a trade kill,
that ability to negate the market push.
So a close one.
Really close.
And I think Nazinio could feel that that was attainable, that was possible for him.
A little bit of a frustrating round to concede round eight ahead of us, and already a five round haul for eternal fire.
four consecutive CT rounds, pull the Turkish side and the AWP on Woksek, see if he can find
more contributions with it.
I don't want to see the Mongols get into a similar position as they were against Vitality.
Remember on Nuke where they were just buying rifles and they had no utility, it's essentially
what Josh was just highlighting about a lot of the buying decisions that the whole
fighter were making, late within the stages of Anubis.
I don't want to see, this is fast, this is in your face, sends you up, can't
I'm already putting Wakadia on though, but...
Oh! He's ready for the Zantara challenge!
Massive opening.
I'm opening Death to now an opening kill.
Oh, he still looks like an event room though, Wakadia.
Oh, how is he alive?
Pekno's good now. Majer finishes him off.
Here's the second one.
Kalex reveals his position, so he's locked in.
Nine-ten's got him...
Death to rise. He tries to leave.
Mazenu on the reload.
My inside swing.
Perfect!
Perfect round for Mongols. I
I can sense you've got another one.
Oh, for Senzu. He is in form at his very best and gets 910 a free AWP for a free AWP for free.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. 4 910. Yeah. Yeah. It's free.
It is definitely free. Yeah. The best things in life are free. Like oxygen.
I was about to go to oxygen. Love that. One of my favourites.
Now they haven't completely ruined the finances of Tunnel 5 just yet.
Woxic can still get an A2OP as well.
That's been dropped across thanks to Wakadia.
They'll have MP9s for Magi and Calix, and the likes of the A1S is for Wakadia and Centauros.
So, their mid-trio, Centauros, Wakadia and Woxic have what they need to defend,
but they are now lacking utility to try and push out.
So, Centauros with a single incendiary, do they want to molly behind the midbox,
maybe run up mid and take a fight, try and force the issue,
because Mongols were very heavy there on their mid control thanks to Senzu.
Your anchor players will have the MP9s, but I feel like you need to do something a little bit out of the box
I don't think you can go into this round as a standard round when you're limited on U2
Because if you play a standard round you go through the paces, okay, they smoke window, we molly here
Like do we pick from cat, do we slow down the default, do we just smoke?
Can you see the block comp? A lot of those options you don't have, you know
You need to do something a little bit different right now if you are a total fire
And they're starting the MP9s both on A. Yeah, look at this start though from Mongols
This is not a standard route. Four people starting towards the B-pangle.
But the AWP is ready for this.
So, if they were hoping to exploit Mag'er, Wox is ready.
How good are the flashers? Or are there any?
Crouch peeking to the AWP. They were not expecting an AWP.
Good read so far from eternal fire. And McCarty is going to be set up for success.
That's an interesting molly to limit his AWP angle.
They pulled the plug immediately. Now you can see Blitz just hightailing at the rest of his team,
hanging around for a couple of stray shots through the boards.
But Madjot plays forward.
This unknown element traditionally the Bianca is now all the way up and he might get some sound cues if they're not careful.
Good luck, Madjot.
Just a crouch beat, they weren't really expecting anyone there.
USP gets another!
He gets more than he was worth.
Oh, and Zintara is here, you're never ready for that lovely play.
From eternal fire.
They are just shaking off at Anubis.
Senzu shown some frustrations there and that one sucks if it doesn't that well
you've kind of been booked in that scenario we talked about the lack of
utility and the lack of weaponry well they've used them to their absolute
fullest didn't they dry contact into the all-pong beam force back into mages
you're expecting to likely be over there a supportive element while it's not so
far forward in palace and all of mages best round so far been with the MP9
remember that 3k had just tearing out so what are we talking five of his
nine kills or with the MP9 at least. This is a competitive game now.
Plotting in front of that cat smoke is Senzu. And he's been found by Santaris.
Sure it's not easy working mid against Santaris.
Oh and working B against Maga apparently. He's got the angle. Puts Tecno down to 30.
So scoop up the bomb and try and re-take middle.
Smokes on the window, smoke on the con.
Smoke would be on the con, it blitzes big head, wasn't in the way, and it does lead to his demise.
Oh no.
Oh no.
We all know how those rounds feel.
TS gets a bit quiet, everyone just takes a breath.
Oops, well, now they've got seven, okay?
Fuck you guys, play for pigs, just play for pigs.
Yeah, well, I'm a little bit concerned for Senzu.
I like the confidence that he's continuing the show, but he's given away five opening deaths so far.
Any opening kills?
kills? Yeah, he's one. One for his name. So, uh, he's averaging in that department, which,
look, if you can get traded upon, great, but, well, I don't know, why is it taking down
techno? This would be a 1v5. Is it a 1v4 the other day? I don't think so, sir.
Techno 5k. I think we're asking a little bit too much of him with 30 seconds left. At
least the bomb's on his back, but, uh, there's a whole crossfire, a whole team.
one set up to receive him. Kalex goes looking, 22nd, he does try and isolate that play. Kalex will
collect triple kill from Kalex in this one. And now mentally Eternal Fire are completely back in
this. Yes. They completely back in this series, they've woken up, they're actually now making some
really good calls, the individuals are on point, everybody's contributing. At the top end we've
got Zhentaras with 10, but at the bottom we have the likes of Fokhadia and Woxy both
with 7, so you can see it's only three kill difference. Everybody contributing,
it's not a carry performance, it's a counter strike now. The Mongols are the ones who
who are showing some weakness.
Those will be partial buying.
They will be able to full buy into the final round of play coming up next.
They get max loss bonus.
So what can they do with these tech nines?
Well, nothing.
This time another opening death.
This time it splits.
Majer, feeling precious or something?
Sorry, enough to draw a rotation.
Woxa, Woxa, Anzintaro is coming.
Oh, miss shot from Woxa.
Majer finishes what he started on to tech.
No multiple bodies.
Tech nines are going to flood the cyber.
Look at the response.
Everyone's here to handle it.
Long range now. It's nice from 9-10 to actually get a second there, not able to get past the McCardier hold.
Big smile on Faber's face because I mean eternal farm right now are in position to find a ninth.
What's the CT side? Mongols pick.
Yeah, could one of you just drubbings on each other's picks? Like normally if you chain, you know, you swap maps,
you expect it to be a little bit competitive and that's oh yeah, they prepared really well.
This is almost two complete dumpsterings and Mongols obviously dug their hole early, right?
early right they won the pistol but lost the follow-up one or two v five to get
back into things but then it's really all been downhill since then back to be
again no woxig this time maybe it's just the same call and hope the orbs not
there this time but it's smoke oh are you brave enough I think you go through
you brave enough they go through my joy here's you come and jump up I love it
well played by my Joe he's holding his own on this people on site nine
We'll catch the support though and down goes Madge.
Okay, well that looks great for Mongol's post-plant now.
Yeah, if I could U-Tour and they have to give this a go, let's see, can they pull it off?
Tarez, he has that smoke which gives him some options to push through this window.
You can see he's gonna mantle out.
Nice twice, Sleigh, two players towards that van position.
Aps occupied.
Oh, nice shot from Watsik.
Actually takes down 9-10, now Mazzini is gone.
It falls to Sintu and Blitz.
He hits the necessary headshot short, is still a threat, doesnt Tarras to play next.
He's gone across.
This is huge!
Wow!
Jaffras Hensu!
A wrist breaking insta flick, insta to the hand, and now no time really for Kallik's smoke and defuse.
His only option, Blitz should have him, Blitz has it.
8-4.
We wrap this one up, change in sides, we'll be right back with the second half of our second map.
Can Mongols end it in 2?
Two teams enter, only one keeps their head above water.
An elimination series, Mongols versus Eternal Fire,
and a 13-two shellacking brings us to Mirage.
A second half, and it looks like Eternal Fire
has shaken it off.
Taylor Swift's style, frustrations now,
bubbling to the surface for the Mongolian side.
Elimination up for debate in Eternal Fire,
fighting for survival in the second half of our second map.
A bit of a topsy-turvy look at these opening two maps
of Counter Shrap, but Eternal Fire,
they might just be able to run this one home
in their private jet.
There will be a whole lot of Util available for this A execute.
We're talking three smokes, incendries, flashes, the whole shebang
about to come Mazzinho's way.
He's over to one's ticket.
His support network is stacking B.
So this will have to be a retake through the side of Mongols.
Yeah, this Util is going to be perfect.
They've got Molly for everything.
Molly Dark or, yeah, throw it simply.
Two smokes into the side, Mazzinho.
Koi tracks and Torres trying to be evasive with his movement.
And now another tap from Senzu could get them situated nicely good tracking everyone's hit their headshots
Oh, it's fallen apart for a tunnel fire. Okay, Miss Hino for quick clicks of the USP
And they shot down the eternal fire technical pistol
I thought what we were gonna see there was a full execute
So the up-down smokes for bench and stairs CT as well because they had a third smoke the double mollies
I didn't mind for the balcony and under balcony sending the flashes and get the plant in I guess what they were hoping for was to
to do the up-down smokes, fight towards spawn, maybe flash and duel that, but then use that
smoke late maybe to go deep connector or jungle, so that they could have a second layer to suppress
the CTs on the retake.
There's also that deepest smoke that we see them throw that lands over towards CT, so it
keeps them, like it's on the stairs.
Right, so you can't actually even keep the CTs.
Yeah, you don't even get the chance to fight over towards Cicadaw.
So maybe that was where that was destined for, I think we have seen that in the
F before.
Do you get a headshot there on the drive-by?
The Mongols have to convert this round, don't they?
And I don't say that in the sense that this is like a must win round.
It's the time that they're up against Glocks.
So it's almost a given.
Yeah, we saw the 1v4 Glocks get three kills and a barn.
Four of the Mongols in the first half.
Well, we'll give everybody the spiel.
Oh, yeah.
And that's not the Jessica spiel, that's the spiel.
Respect to Jessica.
Here's the runway now.
So if I've taken the full eco, they are going to buy into the next.
So the scoreline will read 8 to 6.
But if they lose the round, Mongols will be able to make the scoreline 8-7 with another EF partial buy on the table.
And then we'll be all tied up at 8-8.
Just like that.
Yeah, so this round right now for EF is their chance to extend things and put a lot of pressure on Mongols
and likely get themselves towards that magic number of 13 as quickly as possible.
So this is hugely important around for EF if they want to keep their hand on the forehead of the Mongols as they're swinging helplessly.
I like it.
Yeah, Looney Tunes style. Let's see.
If the AWP of 9-10 can be a difference maker.
I haven't said his name a lot, but he has been in, you know, a yo-yo form.
Sometimes he is the MVP for the Mongols.
Maybe now is his chance to start connecting with that orb.
He's not going to see anything action early.
He started off towards B with a heavy A start.
Zinho, he's been looking good today and he continues to deliver an opening, but
damn, we're cardier indeed.
He gets two.
Well, all of that from Azinio for nought, forces a reaction out of Techno at 9.10.
What's the finish, though? This is where Eternal Fire, they've got so much time, it could be to their detriment if they overthink this.
Just cunning noise at the moment. Top mid, occupied, but silent.
What's the mindset behind Woxicomagic, like just being undetected top mid?
They're just hoping to catch a timing late.
Well, it's likely when the smokes fade that they'll clear for info when they see nothing, right?
They're gonna stack a site, assuming that they're on their extremities right now.
It's still lots of options just by the sheer amount of time remaining on the clock
So it's only temporary information even though it is bad information that they know that it can be
They're even gonna telegraph it right so the fact that they're throwing our nades here
Top con as well as window. So this ushers them into the center of the v-split and that look is the most likely
910 with the AWP can deal with market. Tato's actually ahead of the consmoke
He's not spending head in front of so you smoke, he's been doing it on Nubis as well.
They're coming back.
They didn't like whatever they felt in the waters.
The Palace smoke perhaps, I don't know.
Okay.
Back to mid, back to Tecno, MP9 for him.
Blitz just fell off.
I mean, Selerik completely overlooking the Tecno position!
Double kill for Tecno!
Oh, it's falling apart at the seams!
We're cardiac, what can you do?
Nothing but save!
decision made for him trying to keep hold of that AWP for his boy a jump shot attempt from Techno
But they've taken it. They've taken this round by force. I
Can't quite believe that wikadia's
Trade and then the follow-up on a ramp was a thing of beauty his aim was on point there
And you think that's enough and maybe over complicating it
And I'm curious based off of that smoke that you mentioned if this is a tell that Mongols blocking that you know means that okay
Stacking somewhere else because they so
Oh, they're blocking A, it means they're maybe hedging B. I don't know, but either way, Overkill from the Pooch are eternal fire, and now that partial buy, as mentioned, comes through with the dressing of the Woxic AWP dropped across.
Not making excuses, but I do think Madge was lulled into a false sense of security, seeing Blitz pull back from triple to CT.
I think he just got immediately kind of got the bloodlust of, I have a window, I have timing.
Little did he know, there was an SMG waiting.
Match out there sometime in favour of him throwing out the HE punishes Tecno and might get into B-Sci for free drops in...
Offcoming.
This is very threatening.
This is very threatening and it would have been more so had that been a full damage headshot.
Instead, still very healthy Assenzu, 80 points of health and Nade looks destined for damage.
Head of the smoke Assenzu, two in the apartments, two on the site.
By no means an easy retake.
All three through cat now.
Chunks converted now safe. Beautiful. There you go. A saved orb and it's an opening kill
and then a take nine kill for your in-game leader and it's an open bomb site. Really
well done from a turn off fire. An important round. An inspiring round.
I mean, Virginia will get one for his troubles, but sure, you'll take that. That was the
partial bite. This was meant to be Mongol's free opportunity, or the closest thing
to tie things up 8-8. Now EF will just eke their lead once more.
Nice 7 in the Santaris. The master goes down with the bomb.
But some trouble in Paradise for the Mongols. Finances aren't looking schmick.
They're going to have an issue now. This was the boost and the mode.
Now great work from Watson. This is what you need to see.
That's great. I love that. The orb was saved and then you go for an only move to facilitate the orb.
And then you hit the shot. That's the dream recipe.
It's actually a tactical timeout from EF, so I suppose this is potentially discussing
where the finances are at for the Mongols and what they could expect within the buy
department.
So they had two players say, Zinnius dropped a Famous, 910 has dropped an A1S, and being
able to buy themselves in this is Senzu with that perfect amount of cash.
3550.
If you ever want to silence them for Kevlar
That's what you need
It seems so much cheaper than it ever has been before it definitely I've always been surprised
You know when I look at our money and then we end up with like 3m 4s to MP9
Oh, we're actually okay, and it's great when your players have a bit of residual cash, and they can drop you flash
Oh, you know spare 200. Yeah, give me an extra one. Show me a flash flood
Okay, let's get into what could be?
10th for eternal fire. There is a solid defence set up. Woktek has to fall back off the incendiary
but shows the AWP early towards B this time.
That's no not going to be too concerned.
The clear of the smoke for the second time really shows the intention and EF used that
as their opportunity to waltz on out and grab this top mid island box control. Bombs
still down in T spawn so no real moves from EF.
He expected but from Blitz.
Well, he expected a favourable fight. Wakadia, looking sharp, having a great game.
Really? I mean, I think the flash was on the money. Wakadia maybe just quickly turned it?
Well, we've seen EF over-complicate, or lead themselves into the stack before. Let's see.
Advantage isn't going round... I'm more scared than when they're on Tech 9s at this point.
Taurus, however, has extended their advantage, catches that rampagress from the senior,
was looking for info, gets a bullet into the chest.
This would need to be in stack.
Yeah, no chance here, no chance at all. Good spray, combined with the flame, that's protocols.
And it does look like 10th has been made a reality.
Smells a bit like internal, doesn't it?
Mm-mm, delicious. Talion.
Just around the corner.
I'll take a quick look and see what's going on during all the action of the B stream while we have this save.
VP...
No, not VP. Yeah, VP Astralis.
Yeah, VP Astralis. Winner of that plays winner of this, led it today.
Maybe the final game on the B stream.
No days of practice they said coming into this one.
At Astralis that is.
Well that's convenient.
Oh, looks like a close one over there.
Yeah, it won't spoil the result.
That one has concluded.
People can go and check it out if they so desire.
We have Puria versus Navi as a seeding match coming up next.
And for the final A-Stream game of the day,
it'll be FaZe versus Mouse.
That'll be for one of the final slots within the arena.
Well, traditionally I think FaZe always have Mouses number 7 series in a row, I believe.
Yeah, they're bracket. They've had like two teams that really can't beat FaZe back to back.
The Big Brother syndrome.
Yeah.
Really interesting interview at hrtv.org with Rain talking about what it's like to play against Twists, Cooley.
And its similarities to that of Karrigan's.
Understandably so, really.
Yeah, I mean it's super interesting.
Rain and Twist interview often with people just talking about how he felt like he knew what they were doing.
I'm sure that's even more compounding your frustrations when you know what's up, you still can't beat them.
I like this call from EF, but they are going into both the saved guns.
Oh yeah, since he's con.
But if you're to full execute with all the bows and whistles, it should be fine.
How are you meant to play through this?
Ahead of it.
Good luck.
Gosh, it is bells. There are whistles.
There is EVERYTHING you need, but still finds Mccardia!
9-10's AWP does that slow them down, Magus spots out this Mazzinho towards the dark position,
finally brought down, Kalex will clear it.
Senzu hiding in plain sight, they molotov this earlier, they may not account for it, they
don't, his back was turned, Kalex is found and now Senzu with 10 bullets goes in for
another, Zuntara's denies, it's taking shape for eternal fire now.
9-10's AWP was noted on this site, they can't find it, and now with Woxig finding
the Deagle of Bliss, it's cool on to 9-10 and missed shots, awkward, it results in a
Woxic double, triple in total and 11 for eternal fire, yeah Inferno gets ever closer.
Yeah, I felt dicey for a moment there didn't I, but as mentioned it's just tough, you have
a full execute against two saved guns and it's going to always be difficult unless
an individual on the Mongols pops off and it would have had to have been Senzu or
it would have had to have been 9-10. The shot from 9-10 was great, but the fact
that he now falls means there's no AWP moving forward for the Mongols and that's likely
to stay the case. Probably gonna see a total fire shot this one down a 13 to 7.
All right three ready to peer out top mid. Magus setting up Centauri's and Waxxit,
Wokalia into the underpass and Kalex Palace actually leering forward quite aggressively.
So Kalex is now noted he can back off that pressure means that 9-10 of Mazinja need to be
on notice and helps them get a gap up comm so working nicely for EF.
Yeah Kalex, oh the Palace player's got an opening kill there's a nice one back
And a lot of pressure onto this corn players. Oh 9 10 and Senzu combined to completely repel the corn occupation
Calyx doing everything he can from Palace, but with low HP was really on Wakadia works upstairs. Oh
Maybe maybe spots across back doesn't matter to connect the shots evades the famas swing from jungle
Through the smoke fade. We're coming for this. He is looking drilled so well drilled actually
Continuously pestering that seeding player
One bullet.
One bullet not enough!
9-10 has a round, a quad kill from the AWPer with the M4.
Alright, high intensity counter-strike going on right now.
That's going to rattle EF a little bit, but they should be able to get the buy-through.
It's actually the Mongols who are going to be a little bit worse for wear.
They'll be walking wonky.
And the third tactical timeout called.
Now, we have seen Faber do this when the economy is on the brink of collapse.
Like any good leader should.
economy is on the brink of collapse? Like any good leader should, take your time to address
the issue. This round is worth more than one.
Good shots from Akkadia, like saying very sharp under pressure and you know in that position
very winnable against 9-10 who you mentioned did have a round so he gets himself up to
12 kills at Senzu at the top of a server with 18. A full team effort from a tonal fire.
We mentioned this within the first half and we'll mention it again. We have three
3 plays with 14 kills and 2 with 13. A full team effort so far.
Yeah, look at that kill spread.
It's crazy.
There's a lot of lack there. Old boba just spread, isn't it?
Yeah, because I feel like we're cardio's had such impact.
I think Calyx has also been quietly impactful.
Yeah, their finances have come together for a threatening buy.
Off the back of this time out, he's going to be a very telling round.
Will Mongols have something to stand on into this CT half?
Taking the challenge.
Alas, drive by on the Calyx.
The Alurk dead immediately, that's going to free up a lot of pressure.
That EF respond to get some space to their own.
Maga harassing Bs, and Tara's taking, or some liberties towards middle,
but you still have to be scared.
Only Mazzimia was really spotted there.
Maybe a second, sure, but, oh, this is risky from Blitz.
This is very risky from Blitz.
Maga's going to spot it out.
Blitz wins the duel.
Good reactions from the in-game leader.
It's just such a long walk as a CT and you can get caught by anything, a jump spot. Fortunately for him, Magic just walks into his crosshair.
Ooh, Leg Shots! The bomb spotted.
I'm on the back of Woxig, all revealed, does put damage onto 9-10.
Oh, what a flash. Two of them doing the dance, maybe even three.
And now Molotov Central, Makadia, safe from the flame spread, holding Jungle for Zhentaras to progress.
could be a good he doesn't look like it's gonna do too much walks it down to 70
susceptible to the lesser weapons now hanging on by a thread on CT if they
can clear out this position yeah they do find blitz and now walks it catches
Senzu this is falling apart for the mom's very low the boost is something
though I wonder if Centaurs overlooks it plant triple though they don't have a
That's not that default.
Too smart.
Orderable.
Washington's Intares with Ricardo.
This is the gruesome three.
Going to struggle to get past them.
Off the back of a timeout.
Convincing one for eternal fire.
Now Intares peeks through and traded.
Mazzinho, he's not got much health.
So, wow, the amount of impact he's having is impressive.
Tecno has got some to work with.
And the kit.
Ricardio playing it safe.
That's beautiful! Oh, Icardia is in form, precision execution. A quick one tap round done.
That was a 3v5.
Beautifully constructed by the individuals of Eternal Fire.
The two players towards C-Team is Inyo and N910 were both too scared to play off of this contact
that Blitz gets, right? They're both on red HP so they don't want to swing and you know that
the orb is potentially watching it. The fact that Senzu goes down as well, so he picks cap
once contact's taken onto Blitz and Woxig's ready for it.
So a really well put together round.
There's just one more to take us to map three.
You have to do more than survive and they're thriving right now.
Confidence at an all time high as well.
Senzu, he's backing himself back in his aim.
I like his chances.
I'm a potential one dig opener.
If he goes any wider, though, I suspect Woxig has got his number.
Really testing his reaction speed there.
But this type of around for Mongols, especially after how you lost the last one, obviously you're
going into it hoping and thinking how anything is possible, but there's always this hollow
feeling in your stomach.
You just squandered a great opportunity to work your way back into the game and now
you're working with MP9s and Deagles.
So this is going to be a very tough round.
I don't want to say unwinnable, but the only key is they've held on to it.
held on to three smokes very late.
They've called the stack correctly.
Yeah, boost on the box for 910, and it's
simply going to be spotted out on dispense position.
Does go down to this entire tab, flash to delay, 30 seconds,
throw that smoke when you can.
Techno needs something to play around.
Just smokes himself.
Oh, 910 too.
From that boosted box, 25.
It gets awkward for a tunnel fire now.
910, save from the Molotov on that box.
Maja creeping out, Tecno covered by that smoke is working out for them.
All 9-10s leg visible, we'll find the first and the second.
Maja to throw the knockout blow on Mirage to secure the Inferno
and just Mazinho detached from the pack with a couple of seconds to spare
and surely there's nothing here for an MP9 in a dream.
Not bad on the damage department, eternal fire, they're not going down easy.
They will not go down with a whisper.
Instead, they shout Mirage, they take us to a third Inferno
to separate these two teams and to send one home.
Sons of Gaven, I am Chad Bertrell.
Chad Bertrell is 30K Euro.
Yes, I've heard.
Frags by the hundreds, and if he were here,
he'd consume these cunts with mollies from spawn
and spraydowns from his ass.
I am Chad Bertrell, and I see a whole squad
of my countrymen here, in defiance.
You've come to Frag as legit men, free men,
and free men you are.
Will you let these cheaters take that from you? Or will you frag?
Frag? Against that? How?
No, we will surrender and go next.
Aye, Stan you may tilt. Give up and re-queue in a while.
Dying to the next cheaters a few games from now, would you be willing to trade all those rounds?
From this game to that, for one chance, just one chance.
To come back here and tell these cheating fucks that they may take our reload, but they'll never take our freedom!
Yeah, go next.
Eternal Fire back in action and back in this best of three.
Whatever issues they didn't encounter on a new best, Jacob, certainly shaken off now coming into Mirage.
And we got to see that ferocious form that we know and love to see coming up here.
Yeah, that was a much better showing from Eternal Fire.
I think me and Jess, we requested the players to step it up.
We requested the players to join the server and have a fracking output.
And one may say that every single one of them did that.
You know, it was a very linear performance coming out of all five players.
They were all in double digits.
They were all following each other.
So in terms of raw firepower, EF showed up to the task.
And I think when you're playing against the Mongols
who again in this game try to be proactive,
try to constantly fight and force the issues,
you just need individual players
who can shut it down, win the duels,
and turn around the rounds.
And I think that's the vast majority
of what happened here, Mirage.
Look, I didn't make any requests.
All I said was this is what they needed to do
if they want to be able to win.
And that's pretty much what happened.
It got to a little bit of a rough start.
As soon as Mongols took that pistol round,
It was like four spies back and forth and you know going on to round four
This is a huge pivotal moment and Madger has to kind of make a miracle happen
It keeps a trunel fire in the game. So it comes down to three versus three
This is the trunel fire force buying back after you know winning round two losing round three force by round four
They get this it's a huge
Momentum swing for them and then what ends up happening is Mongols has to do a really bad force by of their own
They lose and then a trunel fire gets that buffer gets that round gets that head start because now
you get to see them getting the
needs and that helps them with,
you know, with the retakes or
with stalling the enemies out and
denying the map control that Molly
behind that midbox. It helps them
get in control of the situation.
Yeah, I think the momentum shift is
exactly what eternal fire needed,
right? Because I think during
that one understandably so when
you get embody 13 to they seem
very deflated. They didn't seem
like the same energy we know and
It felt like they were coming out to to play after that moment because you can also argue that had they lost that round had
They're not been successful with that forced by it would have been another terrible start and you're probably looking at the Mongols
Walking away with the first half
So I very much agree was a key round and a pivotal moment for them and another thing to look at is
Mongols didn't really shift up what they were doing. We even saw it on this like what second to last round
I think it was blitz just runs into the apartment the palace on a with an MP9 gets that kill gets that kill on
Just like whoever's in there
I think it might have been callix it doesn't matter he keeps pushing through they have the five on four
He has all the space he needs. He just keeps going through and he ends up you think oh magic's gonna punish him easy
No, and then yeah, it should have been easy and then so should this round
You know, I think this is another key round another point in the game where the muggles are finding their way back into it
They win the pistol in the second half they convert they're almost about to equal the game to eight eight again
And then they for some reason as she said
My issue with the muggles is that they only have one way of playing it feels like they're not really attesting
You know different play styles we saw the round as you described right here
Where you walk into Palace with an MP9 and you go for the fight
We also saw right here when you go against Deagle's and a force by tech 9s you name it they do the exact same things
You know so you sometimes you gotta alter your play style to sort of match what you're facing from the opponent's and sort of match the
There say vibe of the game vibe of the round and the economy that you're facing and it feels like the mongrels are constantly forcing the issue and
You know it would be fun to to watch through one of the demos and see do you actually change the play style
you know based on whether or not you think the opponents have bought or not and it almost feels
like they don't and I think that's a big issue for the mongers. It's a double-edged sword that they
live and die by though where it you know that's what makes Eternal Fire more scared of playing them
than one of the top five teams it's because they're unpredictable it's because they do things
it doesn't really make sense from an outside looking in like if you're a coach for this team
from one of these like either European or North American teams and you're trying to like
change up their playstyle. You're probably looking at them like, what the hell are you guys doing?
But that's what makes them them. And that's what's got them this far. So how do you even
attempt to start changing that? Right. For all the finance bros out there,
you weren't so content with the economy usage in that first map. Was it better on Mirage?
Do you feel like the way a ton of fire was kind of approaching us?
It was better because they had more to spend so they could afford their
big rifles and their armor and their nades. It's one that you have to prioritize.
Are we going to get 4 AKs or are we going to get 2 AKs, 2 Galils when you get to that T side?
And same thing with the CT side, if it's just an M4 armor smoke, you're probably not going to have a great time.
But as soon as you can afford flashes for each other and then send you to lock out that top mid box,
it was like a big thing that Eternal Fire was doing all throughout that half.
Using the mollies to stall that B major, it really needed to rely on that to buy time for the rotation to come in and assist him with holding that site.
So yeah, I mean, absolutely.
I think that's one area where I want to give credit to Eternal Fire, especially with the APOPs as well.
We saw that the Manga players were constantly mulled out of positions.
They were trying to play Firebox a lot of times.
There would always be a Molotov.
Whoever played on the balcony, on the top of balcony would constantly be on the fire as well.
So in terms of buying your utility and then using it properly and using it with a vision or with a purpose,
EF did much, much better.
But as you said, you also need the money in order to do it.
There are certain rounds where you can afford to buy,
but maybe you don't have the 3, 4, 5 Molotovs at your disposal
and then you've got to alter your play style and that's what I mean with the mongols
You know it does feel like it's as you said it's one way of doing it
And there's no balance in between it and from a European perspective. I hate it right
Tell me how the mongols gonna be approaching in final because historically been a really strong map for them
Is that true within recent times? Is there still that same domination from them?
I think we got a confirmation yesterday that if you can push vitality to double overtime
You can play inferno, but as you also pointed out in the pre-show there was certain rounds
You know where they were pushing those posts. There's certain rounds where they're dropping the ball
So yes, mongols is a good team. They are a decent team
But for my money if they want to take that step further it just needs to add a bit of balance or a little bit of a
Predictability would in their own unpredictability in order to sort of take that next step
I think looking at just the map of inferno internal fire is no laughing matter on this map either these guys really like this
It's almost their playground and inferno is one of those maps where you almost don't even need that much
Util on that t-side as well
just like a key smoke at the top of that half wall at banana, which we're gonna see all the time.
And then you literally, if you let the time just slip away, you can walk around with rifles and
make it work on that map actually, and ironically. Yeah, I mean, just looking at some of the names
that turn of fire have taken down Navi, which is kind of wild in that best of five by Tali as well,
did take down Mongols. Last time they faced them at ESL Pro League as well. Anything we
should be looking out for? Obviously the T side from from EF, you know, it was struggling
massively against Astralis. Major said it to us in the test that they couldn't get anything going
and he was put off by the aggression from Astralis, especially in the boiler area
towards apartments that were constantly being annoying and constantly being disruptive to what
Major wanted to do with EF. And if you're the Mongols, hopefully you watched that game. You're
maybe learning from Astralis and trying to replicate some of that pressure.
They're probably like pushing through those halls anyways. I'm pretty sure I've seen Mongols
doing any sort of push you can think of on that map. They've been doing it.
They'll be okay.
I think it is time to get into the action, but not before we had things over to a quick
break the fight for survival does continue on the grounds of Inferno.
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We all look back to the early days of CSGO in 2014, 2015, 2016,
maybe even 2017, I think, is what I started really feeling
towards the end of 2017, that teams are putting it together
to start taking this a little bit more professional,
a little bit seriously.
So without divulging anything crazy,
I mean, the atmosphere around professional
counter strike in the early years,
a lot of partying, a lot of late nights,
even before match days, not saying anyone sitting
in these chairs right now, mostly from the talent,
Obviously, but I mean that that's an evolution that you guys experience of looking around and being like okay
Everyone's party and before before their playoff match today, and then two events later
It's like oh everyone's actually in the room and they're gonna be up at the gym at 10 in the morning
And they're gonna be in a meal like provided by a nutritionist like that had to have been a crazy evolution to live through
Yeah, first of all we didn't have practice rooms. So true
I mean I was talking to people about it like some of the guys might seem they don't know that yeah
Like, what are we supposed to do?
We were just at the hotel.
Neither the gaming laptop.
Yeah, I was like, you know.
They even started giving us PCs, which we're very grateful for as well.
Well, I think for us it was in 2016, start 2017, where we won the first major.
Well, famous guy called Casper Witt came to an event and he saw a lot of other teams
also partying and drinking, also the best teams before games.
Famously one team that played a major final that was partying like until the end and he
was like if we can just like there are so many easy percentages to get in this business
which is a growing business and if you just take yourself serious as a team and as an
individual as well and apply some of the basics from other areas as Elise also said
you'll gain so much.
And I think we were at least one of the first teams
that started just doing simple things,
like eating breakfast together, going for walks,
being a little bit active, not drinking,
like doing stuff together.
Shocking, I thought we got broken.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it really just like pivoted.
So that's at least what I recall.
And I thought it was funny back then,
because it was like, how can this guy
be the best team in the world. How can they even sleep?
They always suck losing to that too. Like you know that they were at the bar like a
couple hours ago or something, you're losing to them. It's like, dude, this sucks.
Imagine how good they would be if they were like...
Yeah, exactly. They could be so much better. And I think that's cool now. Like everyone
is like trying like their best to do that stuff. Everyone's doing what Astralis did
back then. Everyone's like eating at the same time, going to the gym. Like I see
so many teams at the gym now. I think that is really cool.
the end of Inferno, we will have eliminated one of the Mongols and Eternal Fire and another
best of three will be required for the victor if they want to get themselves through this
rather stacked group stage here at the Intel Extreme Masters, Rio de Janeiro, I'm joined
by Chad Spongeburchel, and we're ready to get ourselves situated.
Knife Round was won by Eternal Fire, they have elected to start on the defense of
Inferno.
And Inferno, a conversation for both of these teams, right?
Is this at the tippy top for both?
I like both of these teams, Inferno, right?
They have good approaches. We got to cover off that Mongols game against Vitality where you send out
Bring out the secondary all top bananas. I was charging up
But also we did the eternal via vs. Astralis game with this very map where EF have their best of one loss
So we have a little bit of let's say recent tape that we've digested over the last couple of days
And we'll see how they clash obviously the head-to-head. This is a nice little rivalry brewing between these two
I think this is their sixth outing against each other in 2024 alone
And here's that knife round that I just was just prefacing now
I think that people might be arguing about why don't you start on the T side, you know inferno has a bit of a T-sided lean
I I think for inferno for me. I would always start season side anyway
Like I think maybe it's just ingrained in my boomer brain, but also coming into the third map
I feel like just starting to see tea getting a nice little foundation set
Mongols you immediately come in and you have to be the ones that set the pace you have to be ones that made the decisions commit to their sides
and the internal fire could be a more reactive counter strike
The pistols have been going in the favor of the Mongols more than a total fire at the moment
They just picked up one so far the turkey side. So we'll see how they pick up proceedings
I think some of the issues and some of the wobbles especially as we looked at Mirage was losing the force by the force
I was early within Mirage that really hurt the Mongols and gave a total fire some hope the desk
I don't think Fred said it nicely about
the spark was Majo with the MP9 rounds, giving them back into things.
So we'll see if they're able to carry that through
because it is a shame to lose either of these teams really.
But as we've discussed, AM Rio 2024, a very stacked event,
a lot of big names, and already four locked in for the playoffs.
Two to find, final day of the groups.
Who's it gonna be?
Let's find out.
Eternal Fire, two pairs of dual breaders,
a full utility stack for Majo.
You see that with 9-10?
Defensive flash at the ready.
Blitz and Mazenya up through second mid.
I've just got one in his hands right there.
It's just Harlan, I'll try and keep it with rushes the other way around.
Sorry, rush, who do you want to show next?
Okay, setting up some tires to banana. That's what rush likes.
Oh, nice.
Two man B defense.
Use to clear out the sound bags.
They're premature on the HE.
Are they going to be tricky again?
Remember last time round it was the B contact and then the bomb show
and it was all over the place.
It's funny you should say that, Chad.
It's funny you should say that.
Ritzy boy and that of 910 ago said a full B fake.
Ah, the B fake's just lost its potency, I'd say.
What, as they start out the CT smoke
and they are smoked off themselves?
Woxic.
Oh, Woxic does nothing.
Mazzinho's going to be clothesline by Kalex
on the drive-by through site,
where Cardi can tuck into bulk.
He's safe from this long wrap.
Short threatening as well.
Kalex has got to be worried about two different angles.
Bacardi can activate long range though on the dual barrette is not easy.
Has to be very precise.
Nice hand, where you planting Chief?
Yeah, Senzin's got him covered fortunately, hits a nice shot towards Zantara as Bacardi
can't really disrupt the plant.
Wants to survive long enough for Maja to join him.
That Molotov makes a decision for him.
Unnecessary amount of damage taken by that.
Maja comes up through short, needs the one tap, doesn't find it,
take no plays the long game.
sends you to be cleared out, stays dynamic, mobile on that box, and just gonna fall into place for the Mongols.
It sends you and Techno with five kills between them.
Okay, so out of the five pistols played so far,
that's right, I'm just checking.
Four of which have fallen in favour of the Mongols.
Just want to double check, it is five pistols. Yeah, you play six in the Vesta 3 series, if you want to.
Oh man. Yeah, that makes sense.
Nice little opener here from Senzu, we were discussing some of his troubles on Mirage as well in terms of giving over open jets, not finding the exchangers.
and I like the fact that Mara has called a tactical timeout because we just said
in the previous map they won the pistol and lost the force so the fact that the
Mongols have taken this timeout to discuss how they want to finish not to
trip over their shoelaces I think this is very important. EF have done a great
job of making these rounds threatening it gives Faber a chance to contribute to
whatever the conversation is but as we can see the bias taking shape with
our heads up display you've got the UMP for Calyx, 3 MP9s for
Wokateo, Maja, and Centares, and Woxic with the Scout.
There is one piece of utility purchased,
and that is a smoke grenade.
So this is gonna be a curious deployment.
Is it a stack, and you hope that they come
towards your site, and if they do,
you can make mincemen if they don't,
you go for the save?
Well, let's find out.
Wokateo and Centares, both starting
over towards A early, Woxic, Maja,
and Calyx over towards B.
Plays up on the boost immediately.
Okay, so this is a little ploy that they have in mind.
I think you could, yeah, you can boost on each other's head to see over the smoke, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, okay, well they are heading B, and Woxic will bait them in, this could be a solo scout, right?
He fires off a shot, tucks into the site, you start to accelerate, you throw your smoke, and they can see right over it.
And a free frags collected!
Oh dear, double found by Calyx!
Woxic even hits a headshot!
And after the time-out, after not wanting to trip over their shoelaces, they find themselves very far up Struggle Street.
Deep smoke there. It's going to give them a little bit of a buffer zone.
9-10 and Senzu, you need this one, boys.
I do like the deeper ruin smoke. It gives him something to play off of upon the fade.
Senzu can out here, this jump spot from Zintares confirms Newboxer threat.
Do you want to just go for numbers? There's a banana, presence two.
And here they come. Oh, Senzu! Racks up a double!
Can live now, play time, 9-10 will activate, and that's lovely!
A 2 versus 4, well handled by Mongols.
after a very effective opening ploy from the CTs.
I feel like they have your number, don't you?
I know you win the round, sure, but it was so dicey.
Put under a lot of pressure, stressed.
Senzu in 9-10, get the job done as they get into the side.
Now, this is it from Kalex, able to use his UFP to create success,
dropping off, grabbing Mazzinho.
And even once again, able to hit a banger of a shot,
but Senzu knows that he has to fight.
Can't allow these SMGs to run him down,
takes the jewels, keep them at arm length
and force a tonal fire down to an eco.
So well done from the Mongols good attempt from eternal fire
Yeah, you should see these rounds to get a bit more fun. Yeah, go into the water park, you know, you get to go and just
Have some fun gay
Paul Ricardia, that's not fun. Actually, that's the opposite. You made the step made him turn blitz then comes out called between
The two of them a sense of a techno are investigating be and they're finding nothing. I think they might
Money man one of these players in just to see who's home on either side of the map
because if they waltz into B, they'll see sector clear.
If they send anybody out on towards A,
they will at least be able to identify a couple of players
unless Calix hits an absolute banger on the one dig.
The Zeus just recharged.
Mm-hmm.
Solar powered.
Now that would be a really violent weapon, wouldn't it?
What, power of the sun?
The taser, right?
In real life.
The taser that doesn't need a battery,
it has a solar power.
I feel for the voltage,
they did a crazy battery, wouldn't ya?
Yeah, well you put like a magnifying glass
I'm not a scientist. It could work. Let us know at home.
Our kind of science is the, you know, like the jam and toast and the cat cellotape together.
You seen that?
So they perpetually sprain because the cat always lands on its feet and the toast always
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Mr. Blitz how many is he yet? Wow? I
Have the chances of the multi to be honest with you
Neither does he he's happy not to give over anything
Well, he knows they're going to be bringing out the rifles into the next
So does he really want to hold on to the Mac 10?
Casualy not a look. Nice. Get some bucks
Quick six hundo
I'm very surprised he's actually holding on to this mag 10.
That's a bit of a faint.
Yeah.
Alright, well Mara, should be happy with that.
Took the time out early, they were able to get past the problems.
Woxic into the AWP immediately.
This was the awkward moment for Paul McCarty up.
Just accepted his fate.
Understandably so.
Understandably so.
He's hit some good shots, just not with the boost.
You get to see half all smoke thrown out by Techno CTs have thrown a quick one of their own towards deep banana
And the battle for banana a very common conversation a very necessary conversation around this map
That incendiary does actually give them a line of sight onto the jump spot of the taris
Second wave same angle still available. Oh stagnates good damage
Very good damage matter and centares worse for where?
Yeah!
They forced the issue, they were given a force to fight.
Good work!
Ooh, Senzu, gets away with murder there, finds the head shot.
Now just remind everybody, if they didn't catch that Vitality game,
the amount of HEs that Mongols were lobbing top banana onto the heads of Flamety and Apex was insane.
See if that's a common theme and if EF are ready for it, they pivoted, it's a two-two split of the defences.
Heck no.
Wasn't ready!
Walksick a quick scope, tracks the blitz swing.
Oh man.
Wow, Woxic, he's having an absolute field day!
It's a quad kill from Woxic, locks down the site!
Oh, left, right, good night, nothing here for Sanzu.
Oh, boy.
Does he even give it a look? That's probably the bigger question right now.
He might just waltz into the scope of Woxic. It's still trained.
It's still ready, and he could pick up the ace in one click's time.
Oh, he died, Sanzu. Takes him down, but a whole lot more ahead of him with 20 seconds left.
and doesn't even look like he's getting ready to go.
Well, we'll be able to get that all back,
so that's not a problem.
Mild damage, I'd say, as Senzu scampers out of town,
but that's a statement from Woxic,
maybe the intent and what we want hope to see
from him for the remainder of this map.
But beautiful work,
and I just love the defense on A,
playing forward for info,
understanding that Banana have been harassed,
really good timing, ready for the swing.
But not only that, Kali from here,
once Woxic takes contact is mullying apps
so there could be no leak,
There can be no way that he could die from another angle.
It's just a good understanding of the situation.
Here's the first, and then the desperation.
Once he gets back, Blitz going wide, trying to open up that angle.
The Maktan, not the weapon for the job.
The Waxi just continues to slide him up, knock him down.
Not the end of the world.
Longos can buy.
Waxix EDPI still, even after lowering it, crazy.
He acknowledged the left hand to interview,
the left hand to change in the interview.
Did he?
Yeah.
Oh, that's cool.
But yeah, he's definitely found his footing ever since.
Well it's a banana control fake into an apps pop.
And this is the right call because EF only have two players on A right now, but it's the same two that stopped him last time.
Well if you've got first, Kalex.
No six.
Gonna need to help him out, or not!
Does it on his own for the first two?
Now Woxix ready.
Kalex catches Senzu with Cardia's present.
This is shaping up nicely.
That Frank from 9-10 does so some seeds of doubt and a chance onto Zuntares
could have opened up more. Litz is so low with that bomb, so it really does fall to 9-10 to take this head-on collision with Zintares and
he'll lose that one out. That's the first kill we've seen from Zintares into our fifth round of play.
Yeah, Madge, he has a chance to get on the board as well. If Blitz wanted to peer around that archside, Madge was in library
but he's going to dip on all the way back, 50 seconds remaining.
I feel like you would love to get a plant here, but I don't think that's going to be allowed.
Zintaro has already rotated back over towards B, flits on such low HP and they dealt with the A plate yet again.
There you have it.
Zintaro's removes him and two rounds for a total fire and Eco coming forward for the Mongols.
But that's the A defense of a total fire standing Stoic in two occasions.
One was the AWP of Waxi getting four and this was Kalec's doing a great job ready for the apartment's waterfall.
Molly tells him they're coming and then the flash does absolutely nothing.
Crap work from Kalec's.
The Hero AK, been invested by Senzu, he's 8-1 right now so he has a little bit of extra
catch to splash, let's see if he can make a round of this.
Light U-Till, there's a half-war banana smoke that's been thrown out as well, you can
see a match of that jumping just to make sure that he's close, dancing or dancing
with death but Hazuntara is not too far behind him and up mid they go again, you
can't be going dry into this. If you swing dry into the orb again, Woxig will just collect
you. Look at Charm. Flash. Here we go. Quick react from Woxig. Flash coming through. Katarina
eats it so sends you to get himself a impactful kill. If Kalex can pass this test, they're
absolutely fine and he does. Locks it down. Nice nade to find him. Bomb actually could
He's scooped up. Can 9-10 come up clutch? He's known for a clutch or two, but an open plant.
He's gonna have his back turned. He's not ready for short so quick.
And spotted Al turned around into Majap.
You can hear how much that one means to them. A threatening round. See, they saw the AK on Senzu, but it was just that hero purchase.
Yeah, you feel for Wakadia there a little bit, don't you? Because he's called for the flash, or his teammates communicated there is a flash coming, but they're too close.
So he's actually staring directly into the sun in that moment as they round the corner, so it did get threatening.
I heard deep apps. Somehow.
I swear I heard banan.
Oh interesting.
We're both just gonna go with all.
You didn't hear banan?
I didn't hear banan, I heard deep apps.
Okay.
But we'll see. We'll find out which one.
Our Turkish isn't very good, believe it or not.
Surprise, surprise.
Yeah.
Well, Kalec starting over towards B is telling us something of it out of the box.
Looks quite banan, actually, Chad.
So they've come on over and they've used their A players to throw out the early U-Till.
Now this would be the second way.
It's Taro setting up Madra and Makadia, and forward they pop.
Ooh, that's good. Send to take 70, or work with 70 here,
since the flash is back. Good flash! Headshot found, Madra!
Just staring at the wall on a white screen, but now they own an overlooked U-Kardia!
Trigger discipline, but Techno too good! Too good from Techno!
Oh, wow, the bait and switch, it nearly set Wakadia up for the masterful multi.
It's crazy with the diligence on Techno, because Senzu's literally already passed that position.
I want to see it. Yeah, I'd love to see Techno's thought process.
But Wakadia found himself in that position the other day, right?
That's fine.
He was like three of them were running into the site.
So look, I'm not saying that that's like Techno watched the demo or made, maybe.
No, no, I'm not.
I'm the proctor of Nubis.
After Nubis, I'm not writing out that they are heavily, heavily prepared for this series.
And the head-to-head, right? You said they played a lot.
They have played a lot this year.
So it is a nice little rivalry brewing between two national teams.
And they both play good Counter-Strike, which is nice to see, right?
Obviously, some different flavors with the mongols.
Understandably, so is...
He does get that kill and 9-10 takes away the AWP.
Snatches it for himself.
Money, a conversation for EF.
Zintara is the only one in the true area of the supply. Everybody else might be able to get an MP9 or something lighter.
And there it is, just the backside sticking out of the full Bacardi up.
Attack to the time that called. First, for the Turks.
Maybe he doesn't like where the conversation was left off before they're about to get out of freeze time.
So they have been able to... Okay, so here's the flavour.
Zhentaro is dropping the ult for Woxic, he can glass cannon.
Woxic had enough cash to drop an M4, so he drops the M4 back to Zhentaro.
So now they have an ult and an M4, two MP9s and a D.
I did some maths.
Woxic's sensitivity is three times that of Zywu.
Oh, okay.
And two times that of Donk.
Two and a half times, as much as Donk.
So, I mean, Wox 6th Sense, I just wanted to put it into perspective for everyone, just how high it is, it's 1.5 on 1600 DPI.
That is a rapid, rapid amont, on Francaise.
Let's get this one started and see if Woxy can continue to keep delivering his at the top of the tables once more alongside Calyx.
See if Mongols can get 9-10s or start filling the feed. They've started very passive on Banana, they're essentially giving control to Mongols.
It doesn't surprise you to see them turn to B after they were shut down on A and 2 consecutive rounds, right?
So the fact that they're giving this one a go, and to be fair, Madge even prepped for it.
He literally had a full player B start that they couldn't convert.
Great flash.
Fall off the line.
Smoke forced down.
Okay, mission accomplished.
Stop.
Now, again, I would still execute B.
I know there's an AWP and I have everything I would hope for.
Smoke, coffins, smoke CT, molly triple, molly new box, flash and go.
Keep it simple stupid.
Centares is going to be summoned over here.
They wait for the flash now.
They start to see that Deco signal.
Good shot from Wox.
It catches the first man in.
Now aggression from Maja dealt with.
It's Centares over load.
Catches one.
It's only one.
Sennzu immediate trade.
That trade has really opened up the bombsite now and should convert the round.
Nothing left for Calyx as he arrives late banana.
Even a smoke on Sennzu still so.
Yeah, his options nullified more damage might be okay, but we'll have to be the eco going forward for EF
So five to three the score will read in about 30 seconds time and that should become six
And I like the fact that Mongols did keep that simple it didn't over complicated
They have had a tougher time against these mixed buys Calyx. We've seen your 5-7 on Mirage
It was sharp. Can you grab this one and a K would be nice
Well the frags there now we can dip so what was gonna be around with potentially maybe some p250s
and the 5-7 now is an AK-47 that they have to worry about so not out of the
waters are Mongols just yet. It's very important how these little details obviously
BP back when they won the major here in Rio that's when they're at the height of
showing just the devil in the details the economy and the different
flavors well this isn't on that level but it is still a threat that have to
be worried about. What's going to all that pressure still does well to get one
fight trade at the space take him and well done from models which is simply
execute into a second tactical timeout so back to back for the Turkish side
Kalex has dropped the 5-7 he's kept the AK but it's about how do they want to use
it and look at this isn't a knock against Kalex he just is one of the
more anchor or more passive players than the team so how are they going to
try and facilitate him because traditionally he'd do his best work in
more of a static position, but you need him to be dynamic unless you can force them into
his side of the map. If this was on Centares or Wakati, it'd say, yeah, look, let's flash,
you can take a fight, you can get in the thick of things. But how are they gonna use this
with Calyx?
I'm gonna send him in, oh, I like that. A little boost to stop the app's crawl though
or maybe disrupt it if Mazenia is not careful.
But this is, look, I know there's less options without utility on a map like
inferno but if they just execute me what can you do it should be a cake wall
worst case there's one AK-47 best case is none however yeah
a lot of noise in the bombs on please so making a lot of noise top panah so he
knows secret of the progress mongols contact it's a really helpless round
so far for a F in this office in there two Ecos
Alright, you go with the safe rifle.
Little of the same, like your cardia.
Trying to defend a bomb site.
There's nothing more than a staffer pistol.
Yeah, look, like the wave of the...
Well, the wave of the game balancing is obviously gone
with about wanting more weapons to be viable in certain situations.
These rounds have become more and more threatening over the years,
but I think there's still...
Especially against the light, light versions,
and I think this would probably fall into that category,
But there's still that air in a lot of players minds that we need to be winning these rounds or not we need we should
Yeah, like you back in the day and saw someone point six going up against fully because even early CS go days
You know you wouldn't feel you'd have too many issues, but now there's so many variables shotguns SMGs
Like half wall mag seven on this map like if you can't clear that position. I just munches through players followed
But the buy for a tunnel fire still rough around the edges.
Makadia with a Famous Magite with an MP9.
This is going to get tough.
Why is Ace so open right now?
I guess they've got the faith in Woxic.
And B has just been the bigger issue, right?
If we look at the size they've finished,
there's been a whole lot of the B Simulator for the Mongols.
Filling that A pressure, a good block top-dead,
and that sets the packing.
Again, we might just go back to B.
There's the retail utility.
You've been feeling like an achievement for Techno, okay?
It was early though, doesn't it?
Yeah, it does, and he's actually going to play ahead in front of it.
Oh! Oh, there's a... there's a gaping void in your retake util.
Almost perfect as well.
Sure, if you come out, you're going to know that that position is a possibility, but it doesn't do anything.
It doesn't delay whatsoever. They get top banana control for free, essentially.
Yeah, now you've got a good idea about the setup.
Oh, Techno! He's going ahead! He's giving it a go!
Pushing on the flash! Oh, what a flashbang! 9-10 sets up Techno!
Now the B site, it should be lost, yeah.
Imagine how to jump there.
A very small one.
It's gonna die.
Save.
Detect me around.
Well, that's going to be seven.
This is a blistering half from the Mongols.
How many more can they get?
How many more can they lob onto this tally?
We've had dominant affairs.
Anubis stayed that way.
Mongols made a bit of a comeback on Mirage,
but right now, running away with things.
Remember, this is for survival elimination for the loser.
The winner moves on to later today.
final best of three on that B stream taking on either Virtus Pro or Astralis. I'm not sure if
that game has concluded, we'll let you discover that on your own as the viewers,
when they're taking everything with it. What a hunt this is being for, Cardi it should go down
and he will. Let's make sure of it. Goodbye, Senzu. I want the frag and it has to just be
the partial investment. Yo, that was a really high priority save, good high priority hunt for
for the Mongols, it really sets them up for an even more brutal T side haul that it already
is this opening from Techno.
He has such a good understanding of the setup, takes some risk through that smoke throne by
Zintarez and I think 9-10's Flash really does just seal the deal.
Good team play from Mongols and B, I mean how frustrating from a CT side perspective
they chose to start here Chad and they just found themselves just a groundhog day
of misery.
That has been tough.
When you think of the three rounds they've won one of them was like a calyx apartments double the other was a woxic 4k
Oh, take note. That's so
Activation blitz. I know you want to help your boy, but you got the bomb you gotta get out of there
You gotta get over to a bomb's now loose. That's a misplay from the in-game leader. Yeah, you let it go
910
Mazzini, oh no, it's full of a part
Real steel from eternal fire
Centauris is ready for your 9-10. You better be quick, because Centauris definitely is.
That's a massive round.
Calyx again, the hero for Eternal Fire.
13 frags.
In the absence of Centauris, in the absence of Wakadia, it's Calyx that is keeping Eternal Fire in this game.
Bliss really messed up there, didn't he?
Yeah.
He didn't have to, like, Tecno was calling a fight if you played Banana, and this is just a poor decision from the in-game leader of the Mongols.
If the bomb just starts... I know they don't know everybody's banana, but if you played with the rest of his team and they drop like a molly or one of his teammates drops a molly to stop that push, they can reset.
The moment get the better of them, this could have been a very commanding half the long goals.
That's really aggressive from 9-10. Look at him go. He's got brackets control ahead of the Util. And his teammates will profit from that. It's Blitz that slips through. He's actually heading straight for the Arch Smoke.
smoke. Help my Riccardia. Riccardia gets a necessary kill. That's his third, but it's
very important. I'm opening kill, final round of our defensive half for eternal fire. No,
actually unscathed from the initial, but only utility. Woxic might be peeking into
9-10's. Oh, there we go, dead orpa!
Woxic Riccardia meant to do now, not only is he low, he's smoked off. If he plays
through that's crazy but I kinda love it. I just over towards the library so they
could do this bait and switch set up when the smoke fades magic and try and
draw attention to set wakadia up for a kill. 48 seconds left on the clock this
does feel like it will be the a finish now just left wakadia to his own devices
he's tucked in sight so a very deep crossfire wakadia. Ears out goes down.
Good awareness from the Xenia just keeps tabs with the potential. Wrapping A.
Yeah, let's see what Kalex can get done here. He has Madge who is well tucked on site.
I'll just take first contact. Kalex to peek off of it, but it's no he doesn't even bother.
He doesn't even bother. We'd rather have the element of surprise and makes a bit of a meal over the first break of the senior.
It's Molly, but no worries.
Tecno catches Kalex and Zantara's bounds into library sent to, reads it.
And we've got an A4 half. We'll be back after two minutes and we will be talking about it potentially.
It's Amaphae's end in Rio de Janeiro.
It could have been even more for the long course on a very successful T side campaign.
They're up against Eternal Fire, Eternal Fire coming in in pursuit of glory and yet could
be very well eliminated by the conclusion of Inferno.
Looks like there's some wires have gotten crossed over the first half of Inferno.
I've got Chance Bunch of Virtual Joy to meet with Cardi ahead in hands with three
frags to boast.
Maga just still won.
Maybe understandably so, seeing it between Centauras and Maga as the B defenders.
Yeah, true.
really started to show its head.
Mongols tried, eh?
Woxic said, no, thank you.
And then, well, they went to the B-bomb side an awful lot.
Woxic and Calyx as well.
Take a look at the score.
You can see 14 francs from Calyx.
He was one of the main reasons they even got that fourth.
Catching Blitz.
I'm kind of being...
Five out of six pistols for the Mongols, Alex.
Five out of six would be a crazy stat.
Turn off fire.
Elusive pistols in this series.
Who could ever say no?
Techno has not thrown that smoke out.
He's waiting for more.
Yeah, you have to buy this from us.
buy this from us so you can't have it for free.
This is why people start throwing decoys to try and bait this smoke out.
Now he waits, gets the smoke tough, flash, turn, dual barretters primed and ready, techno
he's playing a dangerous game but a very alert one, turns the flash as well, can he get
frags?
He gets just the one.
Accuracy with a USP.
Damn, he is sharp, isn't he?
Bro, that was like four bullets, four kills, 19 frags total.
He just has a massive smile on his face at the end of it. Let's catch that one again
two three
That's a shooting gallery
The first three were perfect and it gets the fourth as well
Look, thank you very much techno for slowing them down and allowing the flashers to subside so I can stand and deliver up to 19 kills
I'm sure he'll be appeared in a few more Mongolian rap songs. Yeah
Oh, he's bringing life to the Mongols for real for real. Oh
Man team player at all time. Hi. It looks like Mongols won't be having any issues with that beat the fence. No, no, no
well
Niko 3f as they what the
10th round wash over them is in yo takes down Wakadia just for more to find unarmored
Uninspired and unlikely to get anything done around like this
The meat grinder off top middle starting to wear into action as blitz
He wants to start getting into some frags only five to his name so far as he peers down mid sector clear
So guess what? Mazzini, you're the man who has to mow them in for a fork will be on for the ace
And five Mazzini teaches us how to count and we get up to ten
And Ace, to send eternal fire into what will be the first gun round.
And I mean, you know, we talked about pistols.
You talked about the fact that one won over out of six doesn't help the cause.
How about some gun rounds, though?
That's a nice one in the absence of pistols.
You take on that fair enough.
There's tens of more of those than pistol rounds.
So let's see.
It's not like it's, you know, too light on you till everyone's got
themselves a smoke and a Molotov priority.
See how this one takes shape.
Starting 3A and an interesting face smoke that they'll be throwing some bullets through.
Yeah, quite aggressive stance on top mid.
The posturing slick and throwing an ace down the gullet of Woxing.
He will take a decent amount of damage from the second.
Centaurus does have banana control and it feels like Mongols are happy to give it to them.
Now they will relent middle.
So a nice transitional defence on A.
Posture forward, show some face, now drop back into something a little bit safer.
Is this B set up ready and ready to go?
Taker's got the same package for the retake you tilt.
It's already quite a clear contrast between the two teams and their approaches to this.
The retake util.
Throw now.
Zintares has that same gap. Now, Mazziniar did catch Vitalik's
APS presence and they are aggressing into Zintares now.
A re-aggressive source! Beautiful control of the tech 9. Yeah, tames it.
To find the head of Zintares.
Well, that was a bit of a classic over towards APS.
Something that you can do to ally with your apartment's player who, you know,
traditionally finds himself sitting on the balcony or in the pier door over towards port side.
set them up with a flash, that's a nice way to get them activated.
Oh, even that flash catch is woxy.
Yeah, for getting outplayed here.
Yeah, this is...
It's so hard to even have a conversation about a comeback.
So we're back on a newbis.
Yeah, exactly.
So this is a 2v5 scenario.
In the next round, it's 2900 as the loss bonus.
There's 27 seconds left on the clock.
So you lose this as EF, you go into the next round into a partial
and that's 12 for Mongols.
And then at that point, you're going for a buy-round to defend your honour
and having to win a whole bunch straight
until you pay consecutive needed.
Wiccardia announces his presence,
smokes towards spawn,
said to be playing a second back on site on low HP.
We'll let his teammates take contact first.
You take a plan.
Will you take around those sensors
at the back of the site?
Wiccardia!
How has he done that?
While Woxic was punching in the digits,
he finds a double.
Is that their turn for a 2v5 victory?
Oh, mate. Just as we were saying,
this game looks like it's all done.
Mongols have now perhaps
let this one slip away.
they don't have a kit.
10 second defuse ahead of them.
This is falling through their fingertips.
Smoke on the bomb, that will cause panic.
That will cause panic.
That sound combined with the smoke.
One six, getting run down.
Ghost does get sprayed on.
We're Cardi with a low HP.
He could ace clutch to save eternal five chances.
He has to run him down.
Swaps out to the MP9.
He's in your holding.
He gets the kit, gets the defuse.
We're Cardi, he did everything he could.
Oh, four kills.
Two of which on two HP,
but it's still not enough to stop the defuse oh
Man that could have been it that could have been their ticket back into the game Chad
I feel they never should have been in that position, but we're cardiac works so hard you felt like he deserved it didn't you
That's just on the boost nine seconds
This is where Sam's who tries to activate for the smoke shrouds it gets deep still gets to kill Wow
That's a massive fade away that's another through the smoke, but this is just asking too much of the poor guy
Can't get it all done on his own
And they will secure 11.
Oh, that would have been so crazy.
That would have been so huge.
That plant, though, it does mean they can buy.
It doesn't have to be the partial.
Yeah.
I know it's hollow.
I know.
But that's what we're working with right now.
Yeah.
I mean, you just give them a pat on the back.
You say, nice try.
And let's try again.
It's a whole lot better than it would have been.
As you know, the reason you were kind of putting
the net in the coffin was because of your understanding
of the fire.
Never has been in that situation, right?
the fact that they are able to get so many kills, if they are able to somehow win this
round, which they have a better opportunity to do so now, maybe they can start to woodle
Mongols down, but this has just been a class performance on maps 1 and 3 from the Mongolians.
I do it.
I do it.
Leave it alone.
I do it.
He's worried it's going to bait out his position.
The chicken staring at him.
First it with gloves.
Now it's chickens.
There's a chicken looking corner.
There's a chicken looking corner.
No 10, open Zephyrchus and Tarez. That's problematic. Suboptimal, how can Makania get done here?
So the setup looks pretty potent. Smoke mid now and Senzu has this boil across covered
so the setup is really locked in. And Jawoxic coming in through mid line up there, Util
4 and what looks like a long take. Makania has to kill Senzu and Senzu needs to go
down empty handed otherwise this one is going to be 12. Oh, okay, my judge, just the one
though because Mazzinho quick to react, he was ready on the corner. Oh, Mazzinho, the
multi kills from the Mongols. Keep on coming. Okay, Woxic, maybe it's your turn to come
up clutch. Two players relatively low. It splits Mazzinho one bullet away from death
and maybe he could find himself a couple of kills in 20 seconds time. He's got very
few options available to him and he doesn't clear his corner, 9-10 converts and a wealth
of opportunities to keep their head above water to survive, not even the day, but to
survive this first best of three of the survival tour.
Yes, some great moments from individuals within this series for the Mongols but overall good
counter-strike, some well-fought out-counter-strike pistols falling in their favour. We're
going to the final round for sure, eternal fire, can't get another pretty tasty buy.
That camera as well, you saw it, Centaurs fumbled the first jump onto the logs
which meant his crosshair wasn't ready for the 9-10 peak.
Like, oh, nothing's going right.
Nothing feels good.
Well, you really, this loss will sting
because the game wasn't close on maps one or three
and one being your map choice.
Sure, you did great work on Mirage.
You're showing that's not a weakness
that teams can just pick into with ease.
Any more G2 go down the Mongols too,
but it's about the result at the end of the day.
This was a team that was just in the ESL Pro League
Grand Finals.
And yeah, everything seems to be falling apart at the moment, just the little details.
Right, it's just Mazzinho at 9-10.
I'm now bearing down on the cherub's position.
Well, it'll be Angelic again from Mazzinho, he's been generating a whole lot of successful holds on the A-side.
Safe from the flashes, staying active.
Dice kill from Zintares, but traded.
Mazzinho's gonna fall off.
Oh, he's got support!
Eternal Fire, sticker fork in them, they are done, out, eliminated for real to Sheniro.
It's Brutal, Mongols throw the knockout blow, convincing 13-2 Anubis, 13-4 Inferno.
Eternal Fire not putting up a fight, they're not defending themselves.
And they're going to take out the most recent victory in this nice little rivalry.
Brewing between these two national teams back and forth, they've gone throughout the year.
Plenty of games between the two of them in 2024, but this one's going to leave a mark.
Turn of fire to long a flight home and a series that didn't really feel like they were in what so ever
Mirage was good, but the Mongols they were better and guess what they have set up a rematch against Burgos pro
The team they took down in the opening stage in the best of one at 13 to 10 on Mirage
That'll be the final best of three of the day
Get to hear more about how exactly that game went wrong and for a turn of fire or oh so right for the Mongols
The desk standing by to break things down
Thank you very much, gentlemen. Yes, the Mongols live to fight at least one more series, as Chad mentioned, going up against the US Pro once again for a spot in that playoffs, but for eternal fire.
Maybe I had higher hopes after I saw they found their footing on Mirage, and then this happened.
One thing is losing, but another thing is losing without feeling you were anywhere close getting anything done.
done, you know, as as Chairman Alex said, you know, 13-2 on Anubis and then 13-4 here in Inferno,
you feel like you were never in the game. So I think right now, Eternal Fire obviously
devastated about leaving the tournament, but even more so the fashion to do it in.
Yeah, I mean, we expected more of them. I think they expected more of themselves,
past track record, everything that we brought into it, the recency bias, you know, everything
just goes out the window completely, because you would think it would be at least competitive.
Even if Mongols were to go and take the series, you'd think there's more of a fight.
But the score lines are just so one sided.
What do you think went wrong mostly for a turn of fire?
Was it the same kind of symptoms that we saw back on that on Ubers?
I mean, some of it, yes, some of it does come down to the purchases.
But it's not even that. Mongols did play really well.
And I don't think we can subtract from that,
because I was so focused earlier on what Eternal Fires wasn't doing well.
But Mongols was playing really well when it came to getting,
especially the trades, moving around together,
the risks that they took and the confidence that they took,
they were able to make certain duels happen and then they didn't get punished.
Eternal Fire, maybe you could say they dropped the ball in terms of trying to punish
the rest of Mongols when they did go for any of those greedy plays.
I also do want to give credit to the Mongols for some of the individual brilliance that we saw.
Missinio, the last two rounds, you know, people maybe not realize it, but the last round,
the quad kill with the M4A4 in that position, he's just instant gouging every single play I've seen.
You saw Senzu throughout the entire series having fantastic showmanship.
So I feel like from an individual point of view,
you know, the boys from the Mongols were far superior in that regard.
And normally you look towards your Santeres, you look towards your Voxic.
You also had a quad kill in the first half, and you thought to yourself,
okay, now he's restarting, he's coming into the game.
But as much as I want to make it about, you know,
the Mongols playing better Counter-Strike, being the better team,
they had the better players, the better individuals, and performance at a much higher level.
When it comes down to certain situations as well,
when it comes down to the clutches especially,
It really does come to that. And we highlight a couple of them from Eternal Fire, some big swing
rounds, some big moments, especially with the MP9s on some of the four spies. But overall,
it is the Mongols players that are coming out on top, especially, you know, you see a smoke
diffuse as well. It's like, you could probably reload your AK with that six bullets in it,
before the guy gets back from killing your teammate and gets to the bomb. But instead,
you're going to go and shoot those last six bullets and switch to an MP9. And it's
It's those types of mistakes, maybe you can argue whatever something else is going on,
but I mean Mongols is reaping the rewards of you fumbling around like that.
Yeah, you weren't so happy to see that one.
No, I wasn't.
No, I really wasn't.
I was a few expedives.
Let's crown the United States Air Force in high.
Couldn't be anybody else other than Senzu, particularly for that final map.
Yeah, just incredible impact across the series.
I mean, when you're at 102 ADR over the course of three maps, one of them would
You lost that's amazing from Senzu. He was firing on all synodus all the way from the get-go on Anubis onto the second map as well
He was the one trying to keep them alive or Mirage and he on inferno as well had a fantastic showing a lot of these highlights
You see up from pistol rounds as well
And I think Chad and Alex pointed it out doing the cast as well
The Mongols won five out of six pistol rounds and at that point as well
You're giving yourself all the conditions in order to win a series like this
And when we're talking about eternal fire kind of needing to be playing from ahead playing from behind
It's really difficult. We did see a lot of instances, especially on Mirage and even early on inferno where it was back and forth a little bit
I know that Mongols was able to stabilize on the inferno game
But you know these four spies from a trial fire get so close
You see them up like 4v2 or whatever with the MP 9 to like oh man is this gonna be another swing round?
But somehow Mongols still just gets a good run going for them
And then eternal fires never able to really bounce back from those types of moments
So the pistol rounds starting with you know five out of six
That's a really good buffer to keep eternal fire down and not able to get back up
Yeah, unfortunately doesn't mean the end of the line for eternal fire here at the Intel Extreme Masters Rero
So let's get a few closing points
For hyzer counter strike can be very high and the lows oh so low and I think that's kind of what you're feeling right now
Madja, can you just talk to me your initial thoughts and emotions after this loss?
Yeah, I think we started very badly on Anubis, they just dominated us from the beginning to the end.
Then on Mirage we went back, it was pretty good, but in Inferno we didn't find a solution on B also myself.
We played bad, today was a bad day, we lost.
It's part of the job, to be honest, like, losing, yeah, it's sex losing.
I have my responsibility also in this lose, but I think we need to see the big pictures.
I think I'm sad, obviously, but I want to see also the big pictures.
We're doing great.
I think we are in a good world, but sometimes we fall down like the Astralis match T-side
and today the city side on Inferno.
Why was this game so one side on every single map?
It didn't seem like you guys were connected to the server.
Then on Mirage, you came back with a fire,
you heard you guys were loud, everyone was there,
and then again on Inferno, it fell short a bit.
Can you explain the up and down emotions through this series?
Yeah, on Inferno I was super angry because we chose so many free runs.
like we go and be well 4v2 but we're chasing them etc so I'm a little mad about this about them I
told them like please like we need to be focused and not throw this such a runs like this and
I think just Anibis was not in the day like I thought Fireball also was not on print there was
eating really well they shot and I think after that we discussed well and on Mirage it was way
better I think and on Inferno like I said the city side we didn't find solution on B like they
came four people on B always double moly double net and we didn't find solution maybe to maybe retaking
but when we try retaking they just pick flashers and we are too blind like too much things to fix
too much things to talk but I think in the end to be honest they play better we have to say
I have to say it. It was not the Ritter Fire that I was used to.
It was not the team that we played yesterday against G2.
But in the end, just so everyone apologised for that performance.
Like I said, it's part of the job and it's important sometimes to take responsibility like now.
And I take the responsibility and we're going to discuss as a team and see what the future is.
because they will again tournaments like in one week's we have a tournament in
Poland and then there is major in China so you just keep doing like just keep
doing and how are you going to then get ready for the major ahead of this right
you said also you have a tournament in Poland you said yes so you got multiple
yeah we try to go to the ESL Poland we accept it to to get warmer for the
major. So that was the call for us. So we're going to go to the Poland. I think it's Poland
in a few days. I think 25 October. Thank you very much, Major. Best of luck going forward,
man. Eternal Fire may be out here, but hopefully a bright future because they have been on the
rise. Yeah, obviously seeing them in the grand finals
is ESL Pro League season 20. I think that, you know, put them on the radar for a lot
of people that maybe were underwriting Eternal Fire. Do you think that's maybe come
back to bite them a little bit in this one. It's all about Encounter Strike in
particular, it's all about managing your expectations and I like to say it a
lot you know you have so many powerhouses out there, so many great teams, not
everyone can be the best and by no means is Eternal Fire supposed to be in every
single grand final or in every single semi-final. Obviously it sucks to go out
now before the playoff and they should rightfully be disappointed but
it's not a result that is ringing any alarm bells in my you know in my
head. Obviously the way they lose today is disappointing but in terms of
the result itself. It's okay. It's eternal fire. They are in a step is top 10 team, but
no more than that. It's also good that they've already identified
some of what the problem is because that's when like you suffer an immense loss like
this and you already know kind of where to start looking at that inferno B site holds
and you know, dealing with the double mollies and the double HEs. It's very difficult
to take control of banana. And then when you get pushed back into that site and
if you don't have a good setup to deal with what comes next, then you get exposed and finding out
solutions for that ahead of the Maitre is probably going to be good, but obviously losing a chance to
be in the playoffs here isn't a great thing. Yeah, less than ideal. Let's talk about the matches that
we just saw on that bracket, because simultaneously on the B stream, uh, Stryla's getting eliminated
by VP, which does indeed set up that rematch with Mongols VP later. What are you all
thoughts on that, Jacob? I know you love to talk about the Danes. Not really,
and but it's not really surprised either here you know Astralis still new project coming in with
Katie and as an in-game leader I think they they have shown you know a couple of games here at
this tournament where you can see the progress being made already Katie and having to find
himself as a rifle we saw him struggle a lot against VP having one of my crossed out on that
one and I gotta be completely honest that the way Astralis are approaching this whole
project it's a long-term project and for now to have any expectations in terms of them
making the player would be unrealistic yeah it's like they had this old just like a rusty
chain on the bike and it kind of fell apart there when they pedaled a little
bit too aggressively and now they're gonna have to go and get a new chain and
let's talk about the teams that could be making its playoffs obviously with the
winner of VP versus Mongols that will be joining the other four teams that are
already in the playoffs who are you who you had to do that with Jacob that's a
good question I think VP have looked like lost for a long long time but
they can grind out these games they can grind out a best of three and
The Mongols have already played.
If there's one thing I do want to say,
the Mongols won fairly easy today against EF.
They didn't spend that much energy
and it wasn't the most, you know, hard fought game.
So maybe they conserve a bit of that energy
and have a chance against VP.
I'll back the Mongols for that one.
Well, we've got qualification games going down later on tonight.
But after the break, it's going to be for Rio.
Taking on Nabi to see who's going to be heading
straight to the semi-finals of the Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2024.
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Tactics kind of work in like a circular fashion where it's like this is working, it's working,
it's working, people figure out it's not working and then it's all of a sudden back
around to where it can all of a sudden work again.
Do you find yourselves ever looking back and thinking back to some things you've
done in the past and then like that might be able to have impact here.
Yeah I mean in the oldest rollers and also I think just in my opinion at least
like if you have like you have a really deep strat both and like you
you know how to play the map it constantly also changes to which team
you are playing as well and which round you are playing and now you have less
rounds so you have to be I think that it's like circular motion or you say like
you have to cycle the rounds correctly against the right teams and you can't
really how they say like you can't really you don't have enough rounds to
play the whole map in a March 12th as well so you have to be have good
intent with what you want to do in the certain games but you need to know
how to play the map in all different ways of playing the map if you want
to be the best on the map. That's at least my opinion. Ancient is a good way of looking
at it. The way you focus around the mid, then the CTs will not play A. You have to be like,
you need to play the entire map, but you can't do that in a best of one. So you need
to, when the other team is looking at you, you need to be able to play all around the
map to play it as the best team in the world, but some teams can also just play the risky
rounds and just win some best of ones up there. That's why I think MR12 is way different.
So you feel like MR12 has forced you to shift, maybe not the meta, but the way you think
about which tactics you're going to run?
Also with the defaulting part, it's a little bit harder with less rounds to do the
defolding part now but also defines like some of the wins is just like pure
individual skill at least in CS2 like it seems like not the skill gap is a little
bit smaller from the individual standpoint so and if you can take over a
few rounds in a in a March 12th you can basically win a map of that well in a
matchup that won't feature anyone being eliminated we do have Na'Vi versus
Fury at set us up proper for our second game of the day welcome back to
until Extreme Masters, everybody, it's Rio.
We are coming to a conclusion of what would be known
as a group stage, and for Navi and Furia,
success was found well early on in this tournament.
And so now they battle for that seeding spot in playoffs.
I got Yanco in the middle,
Steele in the end, what's up Yanco?
Yeah, Trace, we've got the best team in the world
against the best team in Brazil.
And I think Navi, for them so far,
just taking care of business,
really pretty much in that game against Liquid,
finding revenge for the double header
red glass groups booking a spot in the playoffs and from Fury I'm taking down phase and mouse
to be in this position. I think that's quite an impressive result for them so far here.
Let's start that conversation around Fury. I don't need that. I don't need that where
I'm going. Let's talk about Fury though. Yes, just a problem. Okay, talk about Fury.
Yeah, let's talk about Fury. All right, what do you want to know about them? Well,
I guess is it surprising that they've made it this far within the bracket? I mean,
yes, it's great for a hometown team on home soil. But in this case, did you
expect the Fury to come through here and first of all beat a mouse and then beat a phase.
I think the fashion that they were able to accomplish this in was really good and it
exceeded all of our expectations because it took out phase and mouse which are you know
maybe you discount mouse a little bit based on their recent results.
But if you look at like more big picture about Fury about Navi because that's the
team that's growing up in question as well it's like you can see the difference in
where they end up in tournaments.
and Fury doesn't really make consistent, you know,
playoff performance standings.
They rarely even make the playoff.
So for them to do it in this fashion where they're going in,
they booked it and they potentially have a chance
to go straight to the semis with a win here,
that's pretty impressive.
And you look at the flip side of things,
like you have Navi, second place, first place,
second place, first place, second place.
On the other side, Fury is like,
they're getting dead last at a couple of these events,
they're getting middle of the pack
at a couple of the events.
It's just all over the place.
They have no real kind of like,
they haven't carved out a place where they belong yet.
So this is exceeding expectations so far.
Yeah, doing it on home soil yet again,
it's gotta be a big one, not just to achieve
and then get there and achieve that goal
of getting out of the group stage.
But for Furia to come here and continue that composure,
is that a tough ask?
Well, we'll see, you know,
they've been in playoffs both times in Rio
at the Major and last year,
They got eliminated by Heroic both times in the playoffs.
A different looking Furia this time.
A much better looking Furia, right with Fallen at the helm.
Finally, they're playing some proper Counter-Strike, right?
And things make sense when you watch them play.
Kei Serato is back to his, you know, top of the line form in a way.
And you see other guys contributing as well.
Finally getting used a little bit to Fallen's system,
and it's all looking much better for them.
So you're saying it wasn't quite a work of art before?
Yeah, far from it.
I think it's safe to say it.
And you know, Skals being back on a Brazilian team
after that short stint in Team Liquid,
he's feeling more comfortable.
So yeah, I think this is the best opportunity for Furia
to actually go really deep in the tournament
and do some damage.
And you know, for the side of Furia,
there's always just one name that always comes up
when it comes down to any matchup, any statistic.
When it comes to Furia, it's a caseurado
that we keep our eyes on.
Okay, Serato, it's the magic of Rio for Furia playoffs again for you guys, you've got a smile on your face, but I want you to try and explain to me because I know it's Brazil and it's home, but it doesn't seem to matter what shape you guys in before the tournament, you deliver here.
Do you notice a difference? Can you try and tell me in words?
words? I think it's more like of course Brazilian foot. He makes us happy of
course and I appreciate this arena. It reminds us of Major, Young Heel. It's three years already, almost three years. So it
remembers us a lot of good vibes so it makes us really happy because we want to
see it again and I think this year will be better than the other years.
Okay so you definitely got a good feeling. I also want to touch on the
that it's been a long time since you've seen you take down teams like FaZe and
Malz, right? How important were these wins to you guys as a team?
Yeah, it's actually important as far because we came for like not playing
good against these teams and in this tournament we bring some something
new. I think it's the Brazilian vibe or something like that but I think
everyone is confident because we are home, we have our family with us so it
makes a lot of difference for us mentality, talking and I think it
is different and I think you're gonna beat Navi bro. Don't worry, don't worry and it's
very exciting. Okay so now looking at this matchup against Navi, for me when it comes
to the V2 it's quite obvious to maybe strike on their Inferno which has not been looking
good and it's a map you guys are comfortable on but is there full belief right now for
you guys to take control of this game like you've done in the past two series? Yeah
Yeah, a bit tough because they're pretty well.
Mirage has like 12-1, something like that.
So it's a tough match and you are confident in our knock
and the Mirage, they have a good Mirage
as we can see all the year.
So we're gonna do our best and be done.
There we go.
Let's talk a little bit about the last survivors
from the Brazilian side here and that is Furia.
What did we get from Pacerado right there?
Well, he's on that mountain lion and him.
Yeah.
He got a little antsy there too.
It seemed like, oh, we're just gonna beat Navi, man.
I think that's what he said.
Yeah, it sounded like something like that.
When you have all these other things,
like you can sometimes go to a tournament,
especially if you're going event to event
where you don't have that energy coming in.
But here, you're in front of the home crowd.
You have your family nearby.
Like it's gonna give you a little bit of fire.
And then you compound that with the fact
that they took out FaZe and Maus as well.
Everything is going in their favor
to have one of those kind of like momentum runs right now.
I just can't unhear that.
Ah!
Yeah.
You want me to do that?
You do it again.
I'm just looking forward to this game because I think these teams have played in a similar
way on T side.
It's a lot of default, a lot of taking map control, trying to punish reactions from
the opponent, try to put pressure across the map at the same point.
Really, and for Fiora, it's still a work in progress and sometimes they spend too
much utility doing the default taking map control.
much left for to finish the round if they don't find any openings and then it
doesn't look the best sometimes but yeah they don't go for that inferno pick as
James alluded to they actually go for new here which has been a mob they
picked a lot in recent times yeah so with vetoes of firm is new mirage does
too should we need it Josh diagnosis I can try to give you a diagnosis I mean
it could the mirage in just two maps could go either direction anytime any
day of the week fury obviously feeling like they have a pretty good
understanding of how they want to utilize Nuke and deal with it, they're going to have to start on that T side against Navi.
So, you know, when we talk about the lack of art and now Fallen taking the Helms,
you're going to lose some of these really interesting, unique, explosive plays, but then you get a little bit wet.
Shut up. Shut up.
I like this for Furia because they didn't fall into the trap of, oh, their Inferno isn't great,
we'll pick it to punish because they're not the greatest on Inferno.
They went with their comfort picks, right, that they felt could be the best in this situation.
Thus too, they've done great so far in this tournament as the decider if we get to it.
So, yeah, good battleground trace.
So, I mean, it begs the question. I think with Art in this team at one point, they're not beating Navi.
And now, what does it take to beat Navi? Because it seems like everybody has their target on them.
It's not an easy feat by any search.
I think part of it is letting Navi kind of fall into the trap that they've given up
maps and big rounds just by making mistakes and if they're playing not to their best and
Furia is able to punish it, that's one way that they could do it.
But if it's going to be on Furia, it has to be about sequentially doing things in steps,
not skipping those steps.
So if it comes to outside smokes to be able to either manipulate rotations or get down
into those secret stairs, it needs to be step by step and you can't just forget
about some of these players.
You never know which Na'Vi player is going to be online at once.
It could be M of this game.
It could be Bitnex game, for example.
Yeah, and that's kind of what you need and what you look for to expect.
Yanko really quickly, just really short, sweet, simple to the point, does Navi lose the series?
No.
Okay, and I think you might be on to something.
We are just about ready to get into the game itself.
Josh had picked Furia just, you know, to keep things interesting, right?
I did.
Yeah.
Okay, I did.
I'll own it then, sure.
I think you've nailed it.
Gentlemen, I think we are ready to jump into what is Navi versus Furia.
Again, not elimination, but for that seeding in the playoff bracket itself.
If we look at Nuke, we look at Mirage, and should we need it, we look at Dust2, but I
can guarantee you we're going to hear from our commentators.
That's Niko and Moses.
Take it away, gentlemen.
Thank you very much, Tracia.
Navi vs. Furia for a spot in either in the semifinals or the quarterfinals, Chase.
And I guess if you're a Brazilian fan, you're kind of torn because if Furia find
themselves in the quarterfinals, there's chances of more Furia games in the arena.
Sure.
Yeah, still.
But you know, you're always taken to that trophy, right?
You're just like, please skip to the semifinals.
avoid having to play that quarterfinal. One step closer to the trophy, let's start a little bit ahead.
That would be ideal. I think you have to say this too, one thing that Fury is loving right now,
obviously things are looking good with their win on day one over FaZe, over Maus, 2-1 in the series
as well to get to this point, but the fact that you had K Serrano deliver both in the best of
one and in the series play against Maus, you got to be loving that. K Serrano can just be
at peace. Look at all the utility on this key pistol round. They've got buckets full of it
Everyone's got something!
Yeah, they do, and let's see what they can do with it.
So, utility deployed out towards the A site.
Smoke out towards main.
A couple shots for you.
Whiz through is Kastarotto and Cello.
The first two men in likes to be tries to get through the smoke,
but punished by Cello on the turn back.
Yeah, and now kind of locked out of the bomb site.
Molotov up towards Heaven,
so I know nobody is swinging to retake or stop that bomb plant.
All those nades fury used.
Look at what it's done.
There's no damage taken from any one of the fury aside.
Kastarotto has barely been touched.
Navi have got a really hard task, perhaps an impossible task.
They'll retake this flash.
This flash has to be perfect.
This has to be one of the most impactful flash climbs ever.
And, well, Kevstar is blinded.
Ima, I'm wonderful coming in with a couple of kills here for Navi,
but plenty more still needed.
And they're getting those kills.
It's suddenly only Skull's luck that it wouldn't be true in the Hite.
Amphiria have let this one go.
That bomb is not planted for Skulls, and he's preoccupied.
Dealing with Ima, who runs on in, and JL closes it.
Navi pull off the retake and that round start is so well for Furia.
DJ, play that whole round over again. I want to see how that broke down.
How did Furia only manage to get one kill on the retake?
That flash wasn't even the perfect flash that you said it was going to have to be.
Absolutely crazy. There's the first but it's wonderful. Coming in from Mini.
Two headshots, clearing them out. Nicely done. I guess so much the attention of Furia taking up towards that Heaven retake.
It's going to have a nice time of things, but that's got to be frustrating you get it in a five on four
No damage taken you have all that utility you get the bomb planted
Yeah, I mean speaking of frustrating we actually we were commenting in the
Navi liquid gaming it seemed like Navi were very far ahead and then we got to hit sort of listen in and there was some
Frustrations leaking into the the camp at that point
Nips it in the bug got through that game versus liquid, but they're very close to falling to them
I think that's more frustration of the of the matchup at hand more than anything
And obviously the frustration that we could tell and I'm sure Navi knows very much and had conversations
It was not a good day of Counter-Strike for them
They managed to beat Liquid when they were playing maybe like their let's call it their C plus game. Sure
And that's that's more I think the frustration that we were seeing there
And it obviously good for them to kind of tamp it out a blade had to burn like two or three time out straight to get
Just to get one round extra. Yeah, but now you come in
reset and refreshed and you know that was a weakness in a previous series and
you're doing everything as a player to not let that creep up in the future games
that you have to play. Skulls has got his AK out and everybody else on Tech 9 so
Fury have invested into this after getting a bomb plant in the pistol round.
You can use the smokes to cross down secret.
Alexi B is already rotated down to B to address those possible problems and
he's got round. Good Molotov as well, segments the attack. Skulls wanted to
come in for the trade, Fallen's gonna move! Oh, beautiful headshot. One more down in secret,
they don't know about yet and Lobby is crushing. The bomb is not going to be making it downstairs
unless they get these kills, which they do. Alexi and Wunderful pulled out of position
and have to find a way to get it back. Look how low Kasterado and Skulls are at the moment.
One HP for Skulls, Kasterado and Six HP, this could still go very badly for them.
You'll reach for such an important fight! And he just rips the head off of Alexi
B. Yeah, but the bomb's still down over and ramped, so Wunderful's got all the
chances in the world to close this out looks like fury is going to come up with
all three players at the same time or they're just going to try and grab the
bomb and smoke at 35 seconds case rod is outplayed him he's read this so well
he's looking right up on top and that MP9 it brings him down wonderful will fall
fury is forced by or seldom tied scoreline one-on-one yeah fine work
with some of the tech nines fallen in the vents Yuri obviously over towards
single-door a decon nice shooting and I think Navi maybe just getting pulled
every which way not entirely sure where to be positioned one to one and a third
round force by from Navi as they try and win it right back force by wars again
I'll see what what wonderful could do on the beat can be so sharp outside with it
without we had a really stacked tournament this week Jason and I think
we've had some results that you may not predicted the G2 exit obviously uh-huh
from first to worst in a week.
And then we had also VP taking down Astralis.
Would you call that as surprise?
Not really, to be honest with you.
But more so, not any kind of huge knock
on the Astralis lineup, just it's very, very early on.
We don't really know what they're kind of capable of just yet.
But certainly the eternal fire loss earlier today
after the final surprise.
And an event where they were looking good
in terms of watching the games.
Woxic was playing well.
Xantar is still playing well.
Yeah, it feels like gone are the days where in Counter-Strike you have one team that was one or two teams that were just winning every event.
Kind of super confident that they'd be able to replicate that success in the follow-up event.
It's really kind of the story of the second half of the year.
We'll get into it in a second hold.
The front 5-7 at range does good damage on a fallen.
Other players are going to start streaming in.
They want to go for this fight smoked off.
Chela might have a chance for some exits.
But yeah, it's been the story of this year and really kind of the story we're trying to figure out as the second major looms around the corner
and comes to your close, we've spent so much of this year
where it's like four teams that feel like could win any event
that they've gone to at various points.
Navi, winning that first major ever,
since then have been challenged, Vitality, G2,
Spirit's been up there.
You've had all these teams that have kind of rotated through
and had the big event performances.
And then you have so many upsets as well
coming from the next year down.
Teams, everyone's dangerous.
So that's kind of, for me, the story
of the second half of the year is,
how does this all shape up?
Like does it actually have a semblance of a hierarchy when we get to the end of the day?
Yeah, it feels like that is a long way off.
And that makes it exciting for next year, you know?
You've got that open circuit, a lot of events.
You're interested to see how everything shakes out going into the new season.
And things ramp up to close this one at the major.
The 2-1 Star for Fury, the Navi Force by did not really get the result it wanted.
They saved most of these weapons, it looks like Kastronik could have taken a few of them away, but he didn't go around that corner, so four players stay up for Navi.
And they'll get a chance to do some damage again, but their buy will come in the next round, and the most likely scoreline now at this point is 3-1 for Fira.
Yeah, but hold the phone for just a second, because Navi with those four saved weapons, the MP9 they picked up can drop the Deagle over to bit, so actually it's a pretty similar buy that Navi had to the last round.
round and they kind of gave it up there because they could tell they were just
out of positions and they'll just try again here.
Another gun, nothing to lose right, so you can throw everything into it.
The aggressive, they've got a smoke to slow things down at least initially.
Okay, Serato getting a nice position in Hutt to be able to pounce.
He's just going to buy this time.
We hit a round in the corner for Caserato.
Yeah, they have no idea. Jail's looking to posture for that deep point.
You might have the flashbang to bounce off the wall in for it's lobby and just never even made it there due to K Sarada's position
So if you're doing a really good job of
neutralizing these low half buys
They're not taking any damage from it. That's all five gone for Navi and three to one indeed
Once what they've been waiting for now the finally getting out the M4 is same P9 still in hands of jail
And I'm sure Navi were the team that were least happy about that final being changed from VO3 to VO5
They have obviously broken the cars, being able to win the B05 final, but not necessarily their strong suit.
Obviously, they make it into either the semis or the quarterfights, so they step closer.
Okay, we'll see if this is going to be an execute. You imagine it around like this, they're going to have a round of utility to pull out the counter-mollies and counter-smokes from the defense, and perhaps re-aggress a little bit later.
He must held on to his, held his nerve, so Molotov's still in his hand at the upper bomb site, if you really do come back to it.
I was talking with some of the other guys because we haven't covered any of the FURIA games yet at this event.
And it was, you know, kind of looking at it, you're like, as I mentioned, Kcerato just has beautiful stat lines.
And some of the other guys were telling me, yeah, it's been awesome, but a lot of the story has been, like, the supporting cast stepping up.
Like, Kcerato, great, but obviously like Fallen, Cello, Yuri, those guys having good performances around Kcerato has been the big deal for FURIA.
Hmm.
Sort of facilitating
Kastorado and being able to just provide those extra
bells to the whistle. I suppose I think this is a Furious squad that
we were very excited about at the start of the year when they made the George one
part of the season rather when they got skulls into the team.
It seemed to make a whole lot of sense.
Interesting. That was Furious kind of second round of the upper execute
and with the utility that Navi had been able to save, they stall it out.
So Furious got to improvise over to the B bomb site, over towards ramp room with
Bit at an off-angle, good swing from K Serato up close.
Alexi here can't handle the heat, only one kill.
Yeah, had a chance there with the element of surprise, they might not have expected him to be standing there.
Gets away with one, but...
Not gonna be enough, but nine seconds left for Furia.
Wait, if the control room gets annihilated by Fallen, but they need to plant...
No! No, and they run out of time.
Oh no, they run out of time. Just a second away from being able to pull that one off and Furia
unable to get it done, and Alexi be with us around by just staying alive.
Yeah man that he stalls that out just enough that's a that's a very fortunate round for Navi to take away
Good job from them and fury. I just losing a little track of the clock
It's like an extra second to get that ball first. This was a beautiful find outside wonderful out in the open
He did have a teammate kind of blocking him
But I think he was already out of time by the time he hit his teammate
But that could have been a problem if there was just enough time, right?
There was four seconds and his teammate flopped in the plant spot.
Ooh, that's a little screaming match going down right there.
Nice little bush blow-up in the smoke as soon as it plumes, timing crunch towards Lobby.
Cacerotto hears all this, calls it out to Furia, and backs away slowly.
That's gonna pick up their pace outside, and this time wonderful delivers.
Wonderful catch in skulls.
There's not gonna be too happy about the fact that he can't join his teammates down lower.
Speaking of down lower, JL is joined and he's inside the vent.
He's got a kill on cello with the MP9 long-range fight.
His Kastorado comes on top of wonderful.
And it's going to end up with Ima having to trade it back.
So Furia down to 2D4.
Not a position to want to find themselves in at this point.
And it's not the Kastorado trying to do something magical.
And it's a good idea to blast open that smoke
and take a fight against Ima.
He's once again behind cover and has 55 seconds to play with.
It's Fallen's turn to make a play.
I don't think he's spotted that whatsoever.
He might have had a glimpse of his shoulder at the last second.
but Bitt's gonna keep his eyes peeled on Vence.
Colin might be in for a rough surprise as he comes down,
trying to be quiet, easy kill for Bitt.
And that leaves it all on just one.
So Nabi's gonna even things up at three.
There's still money for Furia on the T side
to buy up into the next round.
Yeah, I thought you said Colin.
And I was like, who the hell is Colin?
Then I realized that you meant Colin.
That made a whole lot more sense.
Did I say Colin?
No, I don't think you did.
You just heard it.
I just heard Colin, you know?
So shout out to you, Colin, watching from home.
Yeah, all the Collins out there in the world.
It's a good day to be you other than you know opposed to all the other days
Some days are better than others
Serato no time to make anything here, so he's just gonna get away with another accent on pit and just retreat
That's a very valuable kill though that third one prevents an AK from being saved by bit forces a rebus or money
Still gonna be low fury despite the fact that they've lost the past couple of rounds. They're still in a position to
To put not be in a very weird economic situation moving forward
Fuura can continue to keep it in a decent buyout here, so AKs on everybody
Now there's still a lot of cash left over, even if they lose this for Fuura
Guys, we got... It was good, listen to me
It was a random round because we... we spoiled the Japanese
I think it's not good, because we was... Japanese
There, but we're not using it, fuck that now
Yeah, things get a little crazy, don't hear a point out quick enough
and it's time to move on to the next one
but basically just saying that was a late round
round because we stalled out their plan something I might want to keep doing
moving forward I don't like it's like we don't want to hear this right now yeah
we've got enough of them motivational speech lost in the smoke okay Sarada we're
gonna have to back away he's taking damage so his bit who falls over towards
ramp room good challenge from cello one for one to kick off around seven
Fallen's got a lot of space to play with. He's pushing into his helmet. JL pushes down Hutt and catches Kassarotto.
But it's on Fallen who's got spotted! Wonderful nose of second players there!
And it's decent work from Wonderful at Heaven.
Under a minute left on the clock, and I'll be 4v2 again.
Found themselves in this position last round.
We're able to close it out.
Not a kill from the light to be. It was so close to taking cello out there that would have certainly confirmed the round.
There's no safety in this bomb site for Furia. They're gonna get this planted, but they're not gonna feel like they can actually go anywhere
Cello is this is only option and really it's not even an option. He doesn't know. It's on the other side
He's only got 25 HP very hard post plant for Furia
Cello
Double doors swing wide open goes into the fight against wonderful and skulls is now alone in the site
He's no well second-hand shots in and he just cracks open skulls. That is one hell of a clutch
There is that's a nasty little sequence you see some of that precision aim from skulls that made him such an awesome
Pickup for this fury a team. It's made him such an interesting player over the past few years as he's kind of broken out
I was the kind of skulls we didn't get to see enough on liquid. What a big-time clutch
Dude that is so sick not easy shots either two different elevator positions
It's to take this first and flick up and just headshot after headshot
But, and that fires Furia up, and it breaks the money more importantly here for Navi,
it puts him down to a weaker investment.
This is what I meant, just not a lot of cash to work with, so it's a decent buy in terms
of weaponry, missing a lot of nades, obviously.
Jello's out here with very, very fast timing, so Wonderful's put an awkward scenario,
oh Furia's all over the map.
Hello!
Goodbye.
They've just beat Navi in this round.
They've rode this momentum off the back of that skull's moment straight into winning the follow-up round.
And this really does spell disaster for the money of Navi now, because if it looked bad at the start of this, it will look worse in the next...
I mean...
...6 rounds of the T side for Furia.
It's obviously awesome for Furia, if for no other reason, I mean, you gave yourself so many advantages,
but also Navi's so good on this map when they have their rifles and they have all their utility of being able to move,
Like knowing when to stall out, which choke point so you can rotate to which positions, they're so good at reading this map and
you take a lot of those resources away and it gets a lot more difficult for them to be as mobile as they'd like.
Fury is going to get 5, 2 round lead, Bitten, Alexi have nothing to do but look for some weapons on the ground.
Yeah, long way off, having anything to do with this round, now Vient.
With that, it is more likely that Fury takes 6 on the T side, and already it's a fantastic hole out of the T side of Nuke.
Now this is one of the maps that was kind of early adopted by this furious squad at the start of the season if you remember back
Yeah, you know you see the first time that's line up played they played like four to five maps and they played an RV
Yeah, I
Mean it was one of those maps remember them talking about a little later where they were just like
Yeah, it was just kind of the first map that we felt good on like as time has gone on
If they haven't been as reliant on it, but I think obviously still feeling like it's a map
They can they feel like they can contend with the best teams in the world on
This is a matchup. We don't really get all that often. Fury vs Navi. It's happened twice and it happens once a year in Saudi Arabia.
That's just kind of all that really happens.
So I'm good to see it here in Rio.
And it is true. We do see Fury kind of just have this jump up in performances when they're playing in Rio de Janeiro.
Remember back just over two years ago when they were playing in the Major.
That was a huge moment for them making it into the playoffs.
She's starting to dream that you know this dream is becoming a reality and then blast your decent
So that's what
Tell you what falls of fun personality when things were going right
He's a good person to have in your camp keeping all the spirits up keeping everyone laughing
Okay, sir honor. They sent him out behind the smokes against the low by just to see if he can deathmatch
But look at what it's forced to make a reaction
I don't know how he's won that fight a little awkward, but thankfully skulls is there. Yeah
He just barrels right into it important kill for fallen as JL walks out of Maine to his death
They planted the bomb downstairs with only one player with the bomb
Who fallen was lurking outside skulls was lurking Lobby a little bit of risk involved in that but that's gonna work out
The end. Oh, okay. Nice shot for wonderful
That's a better weapon, but he won't get it because cello was close behind
Drops him and there's that sixth round for Furia.
Alright, let's see what Navi's got now. They have to buy here down by three, three rounds remaining in the half
and fours come back out wonderful still without the AWP.
I don't think we've seen it a single time in his hands on this map quite yet.
Navi haven't been able to win enough to get the funds to afford it.
So Blade's gonna call a timeout, use their first, talk things over and try and make sure this first half doesn't spiral completely out of control.
And it's something I'd imagine he'd want to be on top of today.
He probably made a mental note about that after the series against the liquid getting battered on the opening map of Inferno
and then obviously coming back to win this series, but
That first map was a knobby that
It's very fun. It was not the knobby that we're used to
And I imagine blade is seeing some signs of that right now, but he wants to turn around
Yeah, catch it now three rounds left in this first half. You can still leave with the tide score line
But you don't want to let fury up go into the second half of the lead
And that lack of wonderful AWP presence has certainly felt as five rifles have to continue into the server here for Navi
It's gonna be full and aggressive outside with his sniper. He was leading the charge and wonderful
Just swings right into him and close quarter fight the M4 comes out on top
That all on the ground might look like a tasty treat for wonderful as this round goes later
You can find a way to pick that up that smoke there was a big gap in it
I don't think Yuri even realized it so free kill for Alexi outside and this is starting to look really good for
5 on 3, if you can keep these weapons alive, all of a sudden you can forget about those money issues.
Wonderfuls in the checkmate position for any play in towards Mini.
Alexi B's got him.
Chill out to overextend.
But wonderful! Oh, it's so clean.
Great work. 3K in the round and Kassarado left with an impossible situation in front of him.
And Wonderful's already stepping up to find that AWP.
Kassarado just chilling in lobby.
Fourth round for Navi and this one is oh so clean.
I mean, currently ongoing, the adjacent game we've got is Vitality vs. Heroic,
winner, advanced into the semifinals, loser to the quarterfinals in that game as well.
You know, Heroic, I think, it's really hard to call where that team is at.
Sometimes they just have some really good results and you get really excited about them
and then they have disappointing runs.
I just don't know where to place them in the hierarchy of the next season.
It's hard.
Yeah, it is.
It's a weird one over there.
It doesn't help obviously the now feeling like it's resolved, but the Dexter Saga, was
he able to play?
Is he going to be out of events, awkward practice, and all that jazz?
So yeah, good to see them putting up a fight, good to see them in the playoffs as that
organization tries to rebuild.
This plumps all around for Navi much later in their rebuilding phase and on the other
side of the spectrum ranked as the best team in the world.
Now this is Fallen taking a risky play outside and ends up
just getting beat to his position by Wonderful.
That's fantastic work with the rifle.
Nice!
Quick check of the screen.
That's legit.
Yeah, that's a little 3K.
Jail, hyping the boy up.
Out of the timeout, and back to a round of wind for Navi.
Let's see if they can replicate it and start stringing some together
to round out this first half.
Cello, he's already got some control towards top secret.
Although Molotov might make things a little uncomfortable, so he doesn't want to hang around.
And steady gets into the smokes, and this could be a problem.
This is kind of cool actually.
If you're a shell, they're going secret.
They send bodies there.
They like their presence known, and Yuri cannot find the kill in Mini.
That's Alexi holding onto it.
But Cello still has such an advanced position.
And Navi have no idea about this quite yet.
I have to imagine that with five defenders alive, if you're Cello, it is a little
difficult to work up the courage to make the move.
You feel like you're going to be spotted as soon as you step out of that cover.
And really, Furia have nothing on the other players to activate him.
Case Rado has some utility, but it's going to be a very narrow window for Cello.
And here comes Bit getting a little hungry, which is himself into what's wrapped from
a little further.
Thirty seconds is all that Furia have got left in this round, and they're a player
down with some damaged goods.
It's so smart.
It's so smart.
The discipline to not take that shot.
The real power, the real impact is at this upper-bomb site.
Oh, Jello might be the round-winning player.
There's one, and that's it!
Snapshot from Ema!
He likes to be within the site, and although it did have the possibility of turning into
a round victory, the play from Jello not able to make enough happen.
In a fifth round for Nafi, collected, is we're going to the last round of this
first half, but they found themselves in a decent position at the end, so they
just couldn't quite capitalize.
Too many targets.
It's going to be a hard one, Cello needed to grab two there, but again, Navi, I think
with the sense that Furia and Joy finishing at this upper bomb site, like these upper
bomb site hits, this site is stacked later on in the round.
And without anyone really pressuring Ramp Room and pressuring Secret, it kind of solidifies
your confidence and that kind of a call on the defensive side of things.
A couple of AKs put together, Kassarato and Cello manage to afford those, everybody
else on Tech 9's P250.
As we've got to work with now Fury going into the last round of this first half, they've already done a fantastic job on the T side, getting 6 rounds on Nuke.
And obviously if they could squeeze one extra out that would be fantastic.
Wonderful, getting the ult out over the last 2 rounds now.
Take it outside for a spin, skulls.
Put a pressure into attack early on, but that molly is going to force them back and Fury will have to take a moment to pause.
Although Kessroth doesn't know the meaning of the word, he's already out in the middle of the site taking fights, it's a headshot on Ima.
But quickly answered by JL and the likes of EP, but JL did damage for didn't finish Skulls off.
3v3, a lot of time to play with him, Yuri, he's just having a little walk around main, he can't find anybody at the moment.
He's trying to make a decision and he's already made it now, yeah, he's like, do I want to stick around and play behind this smoke and lurk mini or do I want to wrap around towards having with this Tec-9?
This could be a really cool move from Yuri coming in from Heaven.
I don't know, they're first forward.
I think they're not in a position.
Yeah, exactly. They're not open to these fights, especially with the tech 9A.
Even when you start giving away your position in favor of LXB at range with that AK to come out on top.
It has lower covered.
It's solid now, but that'll certainly help.
Fall in with a kill through the smoke at the door. LXB taking out.
Yeah, but look at wonderful smart full play.
There it is. Bomb dropped. One more kill out in the open.
but they're gonna have to come back to recover this.
They've got no smoke for the choke point,
so Wonderful just needs to hold on.
Man, he knows they're likely to come through hot suit,
just hold, but Fallen bit of the shot out of him.
Wonderful stood on to the safety of the corner,
but Yuri's now arrived to the bomb site.
It is bit put alone in a 1v2,
and they leap back, put that bomb down in the site.
Fallen now has AWP, and he's covering off
the main entrance.
Ball was planted behind the site,
and bit's waiting for a peek,
but nothing's coming his way.
There's no mistakes being made,
and Fallen will pull it back.
Furia with seven rounds on the T side of Nuke.
Bit decides who's going to the semis and to the quarters.
We've got Na'Vi versus Furia.
And right now it is Furia in the lead.
Something about Rio de Janeiro and getting the most out of the squad.
They are currently leading against Na'Vi at least.
You've been getting the most out of K-Serado that you've had in a long time at this event.
So far, beautiful opening best of one.
Beautiful series against Malz and now leading the way against Na'Vi.
12 and 6 for K Serato. I'd say one of the highlights of that opening half
There was the 1v3 from Skulls that helped keep them on the map and keep Navi buried for a time
Let's see if Navi's T side of Alexi can call them back. It's gonna have to be Stellar. Oh
That's a stellar shot to open things up big with that
easy shot at range home fallen
Clocked man. Yeah, they're just so good with a little laser beams in your hand. They're a better long range in the USP
I feel like
Occasionally well jail not enjoying the USP blasting his head off. Look at this from wonderful
Get him behind cello at the right time, but he's gonna worry about oh Sculls
He did worry about him for a second and then just spatched off very worthwhile death for skulls to take them
Yeah, wonderful can't just maximize that flank and out of position cello considered it
They're gonna have to rotate elsewhere
He's gonna get up the vent fast and he's probably here's the bomb being planted one up and having one on the site
One coming back through lobby
Cello's gonna go back and address the problem of Alexi B or at least attempt to but he won't be able to stop the fin
And Navi looking very good to close out this pistol round now
Casarado is taking a lot of damage on board and time is starting to take without a kit fury
Need some headshots to come in quickly when they've got one at heaven fit is down
Can I start on a leaping into the size got Yuri with him
But he might blasting away his teammate his support network is gone leaving Casarado
So, a low HP in the rafters, and the time too far gone, too thin, and Keisarato will climb down and run away to save his Kevlar and the Juli's Illinavi with a pistol in the second half, and a 7-6 scoreline because of that.
So, the pistols for Navi in this map now, they had the beautiful retake, they did lose the second run of the first half.
In general, that's a very good recipe being made. In terms of being able to compete to close the map in your favor.
Well, the only time they played this year, Navi did get the better of Fury, but that squad had just come together.
But obviously you would expect them to be able to get the win versus Fury again today.
Fury have got themselves a bit of a force by going on, Jason, 5-7s, MP9.
Why not? See if you can turn it around just like the first half. There's the waterfall smoke over Mini.
It's up on talk here around it, but it's given Ema a lot of space, a lot of comfort to slide into big garage.
So if you reassure up the defense over towards secret
However, heaven and hell are being pressured very quickly bits already climbing up past the aircon unit
And case Arado with the dualies is gonna have a job to do
Yeah flash it towards heaven bit goes for a peak doesn't see anybody
That's because Casarado intelligently positioned himself around the corner
minute five left in the round for Navi
I haven't seen anything at all from Furia, so they're worried about a stack.
They don't want to walk into any trap that Furia have light for them.
But they're about to get a little bit more proactive through the top of secret stairs here, Furia.
Biggest issue they got to be careful about is any kind of secret aggression, which is now back and away,
because the bomb is in big garage, kind of on its own, it's going to have to cross over.
But the secret players, thankfully, have gone back, and oh lord, what a flashbang from Fallen!
And all of a sudden this has gone to hell.
Yeah, it's gone to hell real fast.
Now, 30 seconds left.
Navi still can't turn this back, but a lot of work still to be done.
Not a lot of time for it, JL.
All he gets blasted, he gets absolutely real by that 5-7.
Another dink to the head. This time of Alexi B, they're feeling bruised.
Navi feeling worried.
And Alexi B now alone making the last ditch effort for a bomb plant.
That's the best he can hope for, because he does not look like he's got a shot at what he missed.
at what he missed. They're charging him down, bomb plants in, and Lissie secures that, but
Pistols come out on top here for Furia.
Okay, well forget about Navi winning both pistols because they've lost both second
rounds. They had no longer matters that you've won the pistols. Furia has come right back
into this, and you gotta say that's great discipline from Furia. Navi actually had
so much space. They were in such good advanced positions so early on, and weren't able
to make anything out of them. They weren't being a little bit cautious of committing
too early, but the discipline of fury to have that flash in Fallen's hands clear out heaven,
so perfect.
Fifth, and Ema, they're so blind.
The effectiveness of a flashbang, yeah, frustrating round for Navi, you can see where it has
affected them.
Then they're sent back to the Stone Age, and we got the default pistols apart from
JL, we're gonna get a little bit of extra cash done this way, we'll pick up a deagle, realistically a 9th round down for Fury, almost teed up
The first time they played Nuke this year, it was a close game, it was a 13-11 win for Navi
Fury even in the early edition of the roster, we're able to compete with Navi right to the bitter end
Let's clean up for Fallen, triple kill, don't take it out by image, Yellow's got the rest
And JL will topple.
Spirits look good over a Fury, it'd be nice to be in that camp right now, wouldn't it?
Yeah, why not? I remember too, this is, as you mentioned, this is not an elimination game.
It's for semi-finals or quarter-finals, so the amount of pressure on your shoulders is as far less than you might expect,
knowing that you can't be eliminated from the event, and obviously you've had a lot of cool things.
You win both second rounds, you win the 1v3, Cacerados having a good game.
You get a lot of reasons to have a positive vibe in the Fury camp right now.
right now. Second time out used by Blade, still trying to get Navi back into form to avert
a first map loss.
They did win multiple rounds. In fact, they went on a great streak towards the end of
the half after the timeout from Blade. He was able to turn it around.
Can you put Charms on a knife, Dinko?
That would be... I don't know. I don't know yet. I actually haven't played
Karsha since the update came out, so I'm looking forward to finally sitting down
Making my guns look like kids toys. Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna put them on I'm gonna be dangling
I'm gonna stack the charm. I'm gonna add some danglers to my guns
All right here. I like when the beans flicking around on the front of the gun. It looks good
Are you really gone you really gonna harden the paint there I admire it
Blind shot doesn't land from fallen smoke broken open that almost netted them a vision to get one and
Good damage on the EMA down to 51 HP softens them up for cello
who's already in secret, but he's getting wrapped back around from vents, so that'll be a one-for-one.
And now, Furia, I have an issue. You need to rotate down Ramp Now.
Because you can no longer go through vents knowing Jail's in this position.
Fallen with his opposite still focused towards Ramp Room. No one's addressed the lower bomb site.
No one even really seems concerned about the lower bomb site. I'm not gonna lie to you.
I'm not getting the most amount of love from Furia.
But certainly Na'Vi will caress it with a bomb plant. Here's the plant locked in.
I'm sure if they want to win this round it would have to be a retake on the B bomb site.
Let's see what they can pull off.
Bonifold still up on the outside area. Just having a little look around, doesn't see anything and...
If you're in, I know exactly what's going for this.
SEDCO already made 7 rounds for Na'Vi collected. So out of the timeout into a round win.
And it was a bit of a strange round. A little bit of a passivist round really.
I would just be curious about what the comms were on the furious side.
They had the smoke wall up to give access over to secret.
Cello gets one before going down.
Obviously JL slid out into the smoke by Squeakdoor and got down the vent with anyone noticing
or else Cello would have at least tried to take that fight.
Right like the comms after that to think that there would be no one else down low
they might have just said you know what we can't really make it to defend in any way
let's just hope they don't go there and if they do we save.
But yeah tactically just out positioned on the map.
Now they'll keep everything so another really solid buy here and some residual cash left over in behind it
There's an opportunity now for Navi
Try and build off of that use that as the foundations
Outside smokes thrown instantly for Navi
It's already up on top of main roof. It's had quite a game here bit by his own standard 4 and 13
We've become used to seeing big
I've had a lot longer performances recently. Perhaps the T side is where you can find more
impact. So, Kale gets down the vent, very silently, delicately.
Basically the same exact round as last time, the same exact tactic to a certain extent.
This time, however, two players from Fury have fallen and Cello had pushed Lobby and
cleared it and now rotate down low. Deploy their smokes immediately to buy themselves
time to get into the best position they possibly can.
I'm not holding on this time, Curia.
But will it be able to be a stronghold?
Fallen's got eyes on the Dekon door swing.
The smoke will make it almost possible for him to deliver the impact required, so Cello steps up instead.
His rifle's good, he tries to flick back and control him, but Navi's splitting it, but it's whole Curia.
It's the defense that comes out on top.
top. Fit in Alexi B left in an almost impossible situation. Alexi does no longer have a teammate
with him and no longer alive himself. Comfortable from Fury and the onwards they get players
down on B. Yeah, this time they caught it at the perfect moment. Good utility usage to
get cello and fallen comfortable. You also slid skulls over as a third defender into
ramp room, which is why he's there so fast to protect fallen from one final player.
This is just a really well played round from Fury. Last time they got beat on
the timings it didn't think it was worth rotating this round they had it perfect
so a lot of fire right now for furia they play for a semi-final spot but bitch
just stops that ramp push fallen and cello get no way near their intended
position because bitches lines them up and I hate to say it but this might be
one of those chill rounds where it's basically a save for furia they might
just part three players in the upper bomb site and say please come here
Okay, Serato's going to big garage, Skulls is outside, Yuri's backed off as well, so a free round for Navi from this point after Bits opening double.
And it's Markov for Fury, playing the money game. They got plenty of cash, so don't risk weapons in unwinnable rounds.
Yeah, because you know, not if you're gonna be a really difficult team to finally close out on this map.
We don't want to give them any opportunities.
Take control of the money game.
That's pretty much the round that...
...Duplai is pushing to boot. He gets both kills, and Fuhrer have nothing to do.
Yeah, they must have called that ramp push. They were doing it back to back again.
They did it in the previous round. They looked like they were gonna do it again here.
Maybe they just didn't have as good a spawns because bits and bits way more advanced than they ever would have expected
So now he's still gonna be difficult to put away all in the hands of wonderful
AK-47s around it going into round 19
Do you get to see a whole lot in the first half from wonderful? Let's see what he could do with it on the T side of nuke
Two rounds away from tying this score line up or Navi
And that can happen very quickly
Squeaky door blown open, JL searching for the opening fight.
Looked like he was close to getting an opportunity there, but he can go his way.
And Yuri, somewhat aggressive at red. He's not seeing any presence from any of the Navi players.
I'll retreat now. He kick steps back to safety.
Cello might be under a little bit of pressure here.
Fallen also.
I guess Navi have players congregating just outside of ramp, just chilling for the moment.
But the AWP of Wonderful, that could be the peak that Fallen has to deal with, and he can't stop it.
Wonderful nails his opportunity, and now with a minute, 10 seconds left, Navi up a player.
Cello's already dropped down low, so has Keisarotto joined up with him through the vent, so has Yuri.
So complete evacuation of the upper bomb site, and Navi... Alexi's got the feel, he's got the read of it,
because he's bringing Navi back to Lobby to just walk out hot, and there ain't nobody home.
So, Bitt can provide a little bit of a distraction if he peeks in and gets an engagement.
He's got no smoke to make them feel he's committed.
A kill would be everything, but Cello's calling it out right now that they're still probing,
so still no information that the upper bomb site is about to be taken.
Yeah, only 30 seconds left.
And if it is, it's another save for Furia.
There's nothing they can do.
I mean, it is the upper take.
So, save call will be made, and at 9th round for Navi, Furia have it hang on
of the resources for the next round again and this starting to become I'm sure
frustrating game for Fury on the CT side with air they don't really ever feel like
in these rounds that they have a fight available to them now a skull spotted it's
unlikely he gets away with his life now yeah the problem is also if you so many
rounds where you're having to just save because you've been tactically out
played at some point it's not gonna be a clean save at some point they're
gonna hunt you down they're gonna find an extra kill here there maybe
Perhaps take this off away. Good nade not gonna kill case. There's a lot of plenty of damage now
He's on his own and now he's gonna go down because the Molotov forces his hand into the open and he just burns
Yeah, this is even more frustrating because you made this
Call to save you canceled the attempt of the round and then you walk away with nothing anyway
And that's you got to give so much credit to Alexi there in the mid-round because that's a tendency that he probably would have
Caught on to in the previous you know two rounds going or the previous round all around the loss going to the lower bomb site of
He's recognizing okay in the mid-round this time they got downstairs. They put smokes up in window
They put smokes up at the double doors
That's when they set up the defense lower bombsite this time again cello drops and when fallen dies
He puts another smoke over at the windows to protect himself, and that's the indication for a lexie
Okay, they're setting up that defense that lower bombsite again. They've probably got two players there
Let's make the educated guess and it turns out they had three players there in the upper bombsite is free
And now the money it looks terrible for theory. They have to go into MP nice
They're gonna leave some cash over for a buy in the next, but this is almost them conceding the fact that this is gonna be a tight score line
Robby have done very well just a battle back in the second half
Team we always knew it was going to be hard to put away for fury up
There's the squaring that at the moment
So Kassurado feeling freed up in bold in but the fact that he only has an MP9
So he gets freed up to push in towards the lobby and he walks away with two kills
Now there is a hunt on to wonderful, but he turns back and stops skulls
He's got the lead on the roof as well wonderful making sure the Navi stay ahead in this fight
Too much from fury. I just be content with the double kill from K. Serato
Nobody could pull themselves back in
After the aggression was called for you
What a round from wonderful
Yeah, he's landed some six shots in this round obviously a lot of pushes come in towards him
That can be a very high pressure environment for an AWPer when some of these SMGs and pistols are running you down and he handles it like a pro.
Saves around for Navi, wins it on his own.
He'll put himself up to 20 kills. He's having a great game here so far.
Scroll line tied up.
Remember this was a round where it was just MP9's purchase for Navi. Couple of upgrade pistols.
It's also, it's Imperial. Oh, good kills at the end. It would have been nice, yeah.
I mean, it is that we've kind of started calling it the kind of the fury by the like SMG buy when you're right on the edge of getting rifles
drop down and do the SMG still plenty of danger, still chances to win those rounds.
But it also gives you some money to play with moving into the future,
which is why they're able to afford the op on fallen in this one of the F4s and everyone else.
But a round from wonderful.
Quad kill. Actually, I think he got the ace to the end, didn't he?
Yeah, he kept falling at the end.
Yeah, he did.
All five wonderful. Sneaky ace. Yeah, sneaky little ace right at the end.
Na'Vi in control at the moment. Even Furious by has some weaknesses here and that.
But, fortunate that the timing did not reveal him and all it could start the round here for Na'Vi.
They're down two fires. Make it three, make it four. That's a blink of an eye.
And the round is done. Wonderful. We'll have to save them again. And this one doesn't look possible.
Yeah, 1v5 a little bit of a different situation. This time they're not going to be bum rushing into you one by one
So it might be an extended round as wonderful
Climbs up to the roof
Well, I mean in it's it's been a it's been a kind of a odd game
I think
Considering fury it feels like some of the gifts they've had in this both second rounds one now
You have the 1v3 from from skulls in the first half feels like they should maybe
Have a little bit more of a lead but this tactical
Really, really feel like
Okay, let's really need to focus more really. Yeah
Just if you want to join us like this, maybe say guys I joined you they can flank or something like this
Alright, the Lexi getting everyone focused making sure everyone's common what they're doing exactly how they want to play the round
They're making sure everyone's communicating
How they're gonna work with each other
And I think I was even in there at the end so they can't hang with us
I imagine that they can't flank us, they can't flank us, so they say they can't flank us.
We'll do it back chat, we'll slap you know.
Second time this week we've seen Alexi being the authoritarian figure within the lineup.
I like it.
I love to see, yeah, very cool to see.
11-10, money's run at low on the Navi side of things, they send it to a Galil on bit,
Mac 10 on Alexi.
Fury up in search of map point.
And as they get there,
Na'Vi's money won't be in the prettiest of spaces,
so then Fury are likely to close out Nuke.
At least for Na'Vi, they haven't lost multiple players
in an instant.
It's been a quite fragging game
for a number of the Na'Vi players.
JL, eight kills, bit on seven.
Wonderful, wonderful obviously doing the heavy lifting
for the score of the movie.
JL is going to slip out through Squeaky.
Good kill from JL. Couldn't get the second. Looked like he was about to.
Skull's unchecked on the rafters. He goes unchecked.
And it's check made in the end in this round.
As Skull's dives down on top of that, he gets away.
And Furion now go to 12. They go to map point.
And Navi collapses. They do not check the rafters.
Punished by Skulls.
A beautiful round from Skulls. The multi-kill.
Cleaning up players coming out door as well.
All came down to him.
And one final player that drops into the bombsite after his multi-kill.
Good defense on the upper site and Navi not giving a chance to work the map the way they have previously in this half
Here you can handle the executions
It's when they start getting spread around the map and made to be mobile that Navi's able to find the gaps and work them
But things like this the double play into many the previous round that they can handle them just fine
And this is what we're talking about when Navi lose that last round
They're down to one AK like the Leo on the hands of JL and everybody else is on pistols to try
But force another round here.
Cello.
Flash comes towards him, he's not alone in RAP.
He's got Kerserato, and Cello's trying to find most of the attention.
He still will get clear Kerserato, but Cello delivers a beautiful triple.
Nothing Navi can do to stop that.
And JL and him are left in a 2v4.
This map looks over.
But with JL's headshot, a dream for a second.
But that is shut away by Fallen.
It's been an impressive map, and certainly times in the second half where it did not look as comfortable for Furia.
But they look like they've got the job done now.
Yeah, gotta give credit, though. This defense locked down at the perfect moments.
I think they played the economy game really well in this second half to set themselves up for this kind of success.
They were confident enough to move past the difficulties of dealing with Navi strategically, and at the end of the day,
It's individuals, it's triple kills from Skulls and Shell to close out map 1 for Furia.
Nice, right, right!
Hot, hot, hot, hot!
Six seconds, yeah, six seconds.
Oh, um, cover, cover.
Hot, hot.
You can take off angles.
Six seconds.
Nice!
Yes, yes, yes!
Nice!
I can't even stick!
Nice, nice, nice.
Not up, not up.
Good job.
Nice!
Nice, boys!
Come on!
I like that pattern
I have to go to the next boss
Curious
Who are you guys?
Miha, I think it could be very good round for you to do speedy if...
Hot!
Two more hot, last one hot
Nice, it fucking happened
I knew it
So he sneaked outside?
Yes, he was there
all the way through that Ascurea and Naughty here.
And what is not an elimination game,
but moreover a seeding matchup for those playoffs
for the 14 here in the weekend.
So if you do find yourself in Rio,
that is the big city of Rio de Janeiro, come on up.
Perhaps you'll see some cool stuff.
Josh, what was so funny, man, you cool?
I just really like your vibe
and everything that you bring to the cast.
How do you open this up and just keep things loose?
Yeah, and I mean, keeping things loose
is one thing, that's what we wore matching shirts,
right?
Yeah, absolutely.
actually playing this at a time.
The same dude, essentially.
Wow.
Now that you've said that, I guess.
Like the Canadian trace.
We can't look away from it.
What we can look at is some of the rounds.
We got a bunch of rounds.
You guys went a little bit clip crazy here,
and that's because this game was back and forth,
tit for tat, right?
So let's go ahead and jump in our first round.
And it looks like round seven.
Yeah, I mean, the game was very back and forth,
but now we're winning the pistol round,
losing the second round.
That happened both halves,
and really makes the life more difficult for them.
Furia after that
Little bit now it gets some rounds on the road we start swinging gun rounds and then skulls with his five
It won't be three really brings life back into furia, right?
It wasn't looking so great outside of that force by win which provided them with some easy rounds
But then skull steps up here and provides a buffer for them for the second half
But it's not just like skulls bailing them out getting a 1v3 fury
We're actually doing a lot of things well
And you know if we hop into round seven sorry 11. Yeah, I believe
we see things that they are able to do well.
So in this situation,
Cello was actually inserted outside fairly early on
into an outside default, basically.
And the way that they set him up here
to be able to, basically,
what we didn't get to see on the screen
was a few seconds before this,
Furia were setting him up for that
by doing a little bit of a fake with some nades
and they set him up there
and he did trigger discipline
as he kind of ascended up into that Heavens area.
He didn't shoot at someone,
rotating into that mini garage area led him by so we could get into heaven and line them all up and it didn't work
Out in the end they ended up losing the round
But the fact that they were able to bring it back from a four versus five low utility and get it very close like that
Means that they were working hard for the rounds that they got and they worked hard for the game
It was a team effort and that situation specifically we're talking about not only yes
You've got eyeballs on these individuals and upper but also you've got the Intel now
I mean they were what three four deep there
Yeah, I mean for Navi, they had all the info, they just stacked A because of the rotations,
they didn't know what they were going to do and in the end, it didn't really matter
for Cello the way he was traded real quick, disabled him from doing anything more in that
round.
You know, as long as he doesn't have a Deagle though, that would have been even more drastic.
It's too soon, man.
Way too soon.
I mean, they just left yesterday, my goodness.
Let's talk about round 14.
We continue down this path and this one brings us into that second half.
Yeah, I mean, it's another situation here where Furia is on a four-spire.
I feel like that was the story of this game is that there's this back and forth back and forth and here comes a flash
Out the heaven and instantly case Serato just coming in with his dualies
he saved those obviously from the pistol rounds he'd save his Kepler dualies and
Use those to get two kills in an AK in this round and really just turn it around because Navi picked up the pistol
Fiora
Instantly respond back and it's this back and forth that we saw constantly throughout the game that got us such as close scoreline
but ultimately, Furia coming out just a bit ahead.
Just fallen flashes, man.
I mean, who the hell expects to be blinded in heaven, right?
On T side as you're trying to split into A.
So a great play from Furia caught Navi completely off guard.
And again, they get that good early start.
And against Navi, it's always about limiting the number of gun rounds
that they can have in a game.
And Furia was able to do that with these force by wins.
Yeah, and it's not even our last round, is it, gentlemen?
I think we do have one more that we can look at.
Send it you guys went clip crazy here and that makes sense to I'm pretty sure we're looking at what is around five even earlier on this from the
Fury aside
Yeah, so this is just like an example of how back and forth the game was wonderful
Did a little bit of a wide swing there
He's probably looking to see if anyone was scaling up against mini wall here
But you look at the scaling of how these fear your players are jumping down here
I know one's really dealing with that J all player multiple people almost get caught then where's the bomb at?
Oh, there's 10 seconds left
They're still just scaling down to the site here and you'll see how close this is but Navi they've won a live
It's the Lexi B
Can't get the bomb planted and this could have been like the difference maker
These this is how close this game was it was back and forth constantly lots of force buys and play and lots of small moments like that
That added up it was accumulation of that basically from both sides just like Navi got a freebie there
Yeah, they did but the series is not over, you know by any stretch we look at a mirage
Can it be as close as what we just got on new?
I don't think so. I think Navi made a lot of mistakes on Nuke, something that's
uncharacteristic for them in the second round, some of them in the gun rounds,
Tu and Mirage is their home territory, right? Best team in the world on the map.
I think this is where they bounce back and we go into this too.
Okay.
Yeah, I think there's two main points here, is that one, this was Nuke, was
Gehria's map pick, so they probably had a decent game plan. And they were
all playing really well, both together as a team, but also individually.
Whereas you look at the side of Na'Vi in terms of individuals,
yeah, I mean, Wendful had a cool one versus, not one versus five,
a 5k with the AWP where he was able to take down all the players,
but they were all running at him with MP9.
So, you know, when we look at the grand scheme of things,
I would normally give it to Na'Vi for this Mirage game,
but Furia looked like they were hungry to get to the semi-finals.
They want to be in front of that stage and go all the way to the end of the tournament.
I want to praise Furia for one thing as well,
Like when things started going wrong a little bit in the second half, they didn't panic.
They were saving a lot, right?
Like when they would give up an entry or a couple of entries, they make a calculated gamble
sort of to stack up on site.
Na'Vi makes the correct 3D, doesn't work out, they save the guns.
And that eventually enabled them to break Na'Vi, right?
Like if they were going all in in some of those rounds and trying to win those
disadvantageous situations, they probably have to eco once more or twice more.
And that's just what Navi was missing in the end
to at least take it into OT.
And we're getting wonderful versus case Serato
is, you know, like pound for pound kind of fun to watch
right across the board.
Anybody else or anybody jumping off the page
when we go to Mirage?
That's a direct question to Josh.
But also to you, Janko, go ahead.
Do you have one?
Off the page, maybe not immediately
unless you have someone.
I think for me it's Ima on the T side for Navi, right?
Sometimes weaving into window
and just being a man is there on some of the lurks,
like they do a great job of applying a lot of pressure,
sort of executing all the bobsides and freezing
to allow him to work in the space that's been created
by all the utility.
So he's the danger man for Navi on the map.
Danger man, now that is one way to put it.
Hey, thank you very much, gentlemen.
We're gonna jump back into this game,
if you can believe it.
We're almost there, but first, and like always,
there is a quick break coming up.
We have Mirage in between Navi and Fury.
Again, no elimination in line,
but where they win, a team will secure their way
into those semi-finals versus the quarterfinals.
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Jail, the Liquid game was again a close one, but you did manage to take it over the line.
What is it about the games versus Liquid that go this way?
I don't know, maybe it's just a natural counter for us. They play a little bit different than most teams.
We're not really used to it, we still have to learn how to play against it, counter it, but
I don't know, it just felt like we're in control of the whole game, but then at the end of third map it just started slipping away.
But it didn't slip away, and that's the most important thing, you've grabbed yourself a playoff spot.
we did hear on the voice coms are Alexi saying to you guys don't talk badly to each other. What was
going on? Nothing. Was there some stress? Was there some frustrations growing? A little bit,
but that's normal because we feel familiar with each other. And yeah, when you feel safe in a
team environment, you might allow yourself to throw out a couple of jobs here and there, but
I don't know that there's no personal beef between each other. Do you feel like you guys
though are getting a bit maybe tired after all this because you guys have been
on a run and making deep runs at every single tournament right so I can imagine
the energy is not the same. I feel like the time we had the home which was through
your four days it's not a lot but it we feel much better than we felt at
last. Yeah time at the family time with your friends it does help a lot in
the in the game we play right now so yeah we take what we get. Now I know
you guys do a lot of preparation getting ready for these teams you've got
and the last time you faced off against them was at EWC.
Can you see a change or an improvement in them since then?
Yeah, for sure. I'll be really satisfied and see any improvement in them,
but yeah, they're looking solid. They beat FaZe, they beat...
What else was they beat?
Maus.
Well, they beat Maus and FaZe.
Two really good teams and another FaZe team. They're a very good team, but...
It's a bit different.
It's a bit different. How different is it going to be?
You're a smiley face, as I was saying, though.
Are you worried about this matchup at all because of the run they're having
and the fact they're in Brazil?
No, not really. I feel like maybe I'm getting a bit too far ahead of myself, but it's Furia.
They're a Brazilian team, they're playing in Brazil. Their number one goal was to play in front of the arena,
and now that we've made it, it doesn't really matter. It's semi-finals or quarter-finals.
Of course, they still want to win. I know that about that, but I feel like there's a lot of pressure
that just went off their shoulders, and yeah, but now they have nothing to lose,
so also could be a different story. But I'm looking for a good game, a tough one,
And yeah, maybe we'll take it all three maps.
How important is going straight to the semis for you guys?
Honestly, for us, semis is really good
because you get an extra day off, an extra day of prep.
But for me personally, I don't really care.
But of course, now that we have the chance to get the semifinals,
of course we want to get the semifinals,
but quarter-series semis is not much different.
You still have to beat everyone that you face to win the tournament.
Good luck, JL. Thank you very much, Roman.
A spot in the semifinals or quarter-finals away.
and Furia 1 map up over in Na'Vi, we heard from J.O.
They expected this to be a game that could possibly go to all three maps.
Well, they have to win Mirage if that is going to be the case,
because right now Na'Vi is behind.
It's not like they were completely unmatched,
it's not like they were out of the first map of play.
J.C. was just Furia at a good level at this event.
Yeah, individually, Furia hit a really good level of close out the map.
They also had some very well put together rounds throughout that,
so yeah, a good little surprise for Na'Vi in map 1.
They experienced it yesterday against Liquid,
and they've got to do a very, two days ago against Liquid
and they've got to do a similar thing to bounce back here today.
Take map two, force us to a third where you can show your class
and you can show us how deep your map pool is.
Navi's going to be starting on the T side.
Smoke, Flash on Wonderful and JL.
CT side is going to be housed by Furia
as they defend here on Mirage, but this is a map.
Navi's pick, they've got to be feeling
supremely confident coming into it.
Yeah, Team Met can drop maps,
but always find a way back into the series.
if you're going to be very aware of that.
And they're searched for a semi-final spot here
in Rio de Janeiro, but it's set up
in towards the A bomb site being deployed now from Navi.
Smoke's being sent out of their hands
as they trickle on into the site.
Skull says eyes on the ramp exit.
Kessarotto preoccupied with Palace.
And instantly it will be wonderful to rip Skulls away
for Kessarotto.
That is what we're talking about,
a triple out of the Jules
as he dives down from upper to lower on the wood.
It's now two players left here for Navi in the bomb plant.
It's truly coming through now.
Yeah, shouldn't be able to be stopped either.
Ooh, there's the peek early from Cello.
No one's there to trade it.
He didn't wait for Fallen, who was coming in behind him.
All it's all been hand on Fallen.
Good flashbang blinded.
Retake is gonna be slowed.
Footsteps heard by Bit, and it just taps away.
Falls back and plays the team game.
They don't know both players are there yet,
but soon they will, and Bit's gonna drop back.
Oh, his teammate's gone.
So it's all on Bit to try and close this one out.
Good head shot.
Couldn't stop Yuri,
who gets back into the pistol round and wins it for Furia.
Nice Molotov work from Furia. Fallen has that coming in and completely exposes
Navi and the 2v2, forces him out into the open and prevents them from working together.
One to nothing for Furia. Didn't win a pistol round on Nuke. They did win both
second rounds, but a pistol is nice if they can convert.
This is Gripler from Pacerato.
The first out palace has the distraction of his teammate within the site that pulled the attention away initially.
Yeah, it's great stopping power from Kacarado with those dualies.
Just slowing down the hit, taking away the initial thrust of it,
and that allows Curie's rotations to be there at a good timing.
Not making a forced bite.
Yeah, one nothing, and you have the AK on wonderful.
You got the Galil on bit as well.
Deagle's on the other three players.
They're gonna go for double boost up into the apartments.
Kacarado and Cello put in position there, and I'm looking to try and deal with it,
and the Kacarado just getting rid of it.
So, I'm gonna go down.
Matt forces Navi's hand. Definitely more towards his A bomb site.
Instead of making that fully telegraphed, Lux is going to send a smoke out into mid just to try and keep some eyes there.
But everyone that's remaining for Navi will eventually go into this A site.
And they're starting to shrink the map a little bit. You can see the aggression on the mini-map.
That's Cello pushing up in B halls. He's got a good stance for it, so K Serato can shift towards Catwalk.
They can have a good glance into the A bomb site or a quick rotation if needed.
And it might be because skulls caught snoozing both of them be nines forced all the way back
So there's space for Navi to get a plant space for Navi to get this rifle into position and get some work done
Yeah, you're he just dodging the bullets that JL sending this way, but it's keeping him pinned
Oh, yes, her out. It has no idea, but he was right on he was dead on
That bomb plant Yuri and cello though coming back and leaving it all and JL's deagle from palace
And of course but the damage already done and so many players that deal with JL can't win this
It'll be two in a row from the side of theory, but at least another bomb plan for Navi
Yeah bomb plan jail gets to keep that deagle and his armor
So it's not a whole lot, but something that can give you an opening and see what he can do with it
We see some beautiful things from JL's deagle. Yeah, we know we've got something in his D
It's got some potential there. I remember just that the first game of pro CS 2
Everybody's talking about how rare 30 bombs are gonna be first game that of CS 2 the JL plays he drops 30 bomb
Mirage, I'll always remember that. Yeah, that's gonna be that's gonna be the takeaway
that's there with you to the end of your time.
Yeah, this is burning in my mind.
That impact from JL.
JL, you'll always live.
Your legacy is always going to be there.
In my brain.
That was before everything, you know?
That was before the major.
I'm very with a peak.
I'm going into the underpass, doesn't see anything,
and I'm too risky to hang around,
so he's going to get away back into the connector.
Lobby, I have you beading.
It's Mr. Cello here.
Hello here. He's not alone now. He's got Kassarata coming to join him.
This is right out of the gate. Navi's not messing around. Now working the map.
And that's a nice opening kill for Bitt. A little awkward. Kassarata still alive. Struggles on the first kill, which means the second player is able to trade him off.
And Navi have found a way to crack in with the hero AK-47.
They snatch around away. A surprising timing execute on the B bomb site and Fury is locked out.
I have a cool venue we've got set up here, Jason.
I like, you know, we can kind of see down a little bit into the...
We have the opening, the open door into the playing environment.
Yeah, we can look down upon the players.
We can hear the teams cheer a little bit ahead of time.
Yeah, we kind of know.
Although I never know if it's for the B-Stream or the stream.
It's always the B-Stream, isn't it?
They're always, that's what the best games are, isn't it?
The B-Stream.
Always the B-Stream.
What is going on in the B-Stream right now, though?
We've got Vitality and Rewright, but how's that going?
I don't know, are you gonna spoil it for him?
Yeah I am. Alright, you got three seconds this time, guys.
If you don't want to spoil it, turn your headphones off.
Alright, Heroic winning the first map.
So leading that series versus Vitality, that's surprising.
Yeah, that's not bad. We take that.
Start of the year, that's where Heroic made their name, right?
With an upset win over Vitality and Katowice.
True, it's all coming full circle.
It's coming full circle as you get closer to the end of 2024.
Halloween's right around the corner.
Scary times ahead
You a Halloween fan no, not really it's probably the most the least interesting holiday
What about you as an American it might be a little bit more exciting for you guys
No, I'm not I'm not so much a Halloween guy. You got many kids in your neighborhood come around. You just I don't actually it's great
Oh, that's amazing. It's very chill. I just turn the lights off and pretend I'm not in exactly screw that
Although as a kid at least where I grow you had to sing a song
You didn't say trick or treat. You sang halloween
No, I never did trick or treat. I just grabbed the candy and said thanks. Yeah, exactly
We had to sing for our supper. That's the worst and sometimes you just get monkey nuts
Well wonderful does well. It's Kassarado that goes down in the Alper for Navi chiming in a little bit of bit drop each
shallow
No longer with us. He's gone Navi with two players early Doris here around for I love watching wonderful
just challenge up cow walk that whole way. It's just like if no one's gonna slow me down I'm happy to
just take this angle peek in towards Khan. Nice opening kill and it takes a little risk coming out
palace that is rewarded. So once again I save for fear with these three weapons and Skulls will
be able to drop it in for over to Cello, Cacerota will be able to fly. And that'll be the
last chance Fury will have to put a stop from this to this early run from Navi. Questions
coming in live from the community live from the audience watching at home they're asking
if they could put their headsets back on you can't hear me but yes you can you
can put them back on now that's okay
Jail's on a hunt he wants to take these weapons away get into it get stuck in
you know one's gonna be in here you know it's a popular place to save
alright doesn't want to fight two to two all tied up it's interesting hearing
from Jail just in between the map brick about why we heard those columns
at the day where people are getting frustrated at each other, blaming each other.
You said that's just normal now, they're really comfortable with one another, we can feel like
we can throw some pigs, you know?
Sure, I think I mean sometimes that gets overblown, those conversations happen virtually every
match and every team.
As you're trying to get everyone on the same page and minimize the number of mistakes,
the number of miscues you have.
Good job from Yuri breaking the smoke, finding Ima, that slows down the catwalk
portion of this split but it doesn't stop it all together. Fallen's AWP may do that, now at range.
And the Fire Jail is forged and while he's trying his best to make something happen,
obviously he's still running behind the bench, he's taking damage on board with every step.
There's Navi left with just two players, Alexi B one of them is short and now gone.
As Fallen chimes in with a sniper, Jail will topple the Yuri Amfuriya back into the lead.
What a great round from Fallen with the AWP. First one's easy, just a standard shot through
the window but once he's out by the bomb site every single shot he takes his
movement is decision of where to go next after that shot is perfect keeping
him safe preventing JL from hunting him down fine work from falling at the B
bomb site.
I'm here nursing this lead. Another interesting point that's often brought up around these
games obviously with this format you get through the groups and you're
qualified for the playoffs and I think when you have a team like Furia
that will have so much expectation so much pressure on their shoulders just
to qualify for the playoffs, the fact that they're already there, there is that sentiment
that so much pressure is already alleviated from the team and they can play with a little
bit more freedom.
Yeah, that which is nice.
I would say the, I would take the glass half-empty approach to that kind of a concept because
once, you know, it's great for now, but once you get into the arena that you've
already qualified for, that pressure comes back in the shape of like 10,000 fans you
want to see you win.
So, yeah, they're going to have to, it's a nice little luxury for the moment, that
You're just playing for seating?
Yeah, but it's going to get rough again pretty soon here.
If you qualify for the semifinals from this game,
you got one more BO3 to win it than a BO5 grand final.
A unique change at the end of the year.
Not this tier of tournament to get the BO5 finals
at the Intellectual Masters outside of Cologne
and Catebita.
Couple of shots whizzing past JL.
Fallen just give up the angle, dropped a piece of utility over and now he's back on it.
So any slow creep from Navi in the B halls is gonna get punished.
Fallen's just gotta hold his nerve, ignore the comms from his teammates that Smokes and Molotov's going towards Khan,
indicating some pressure towards the A bomb site, standing pat for the moment.
Oh, good shot from Fallen, JL taking out with a dry peek forward.
Here comes the utility though, and Navi begin their onslaught into this B bomb site,
So far so good from the defense of Furia, another one from Fallen Sniper and another one Chimegame until finally dropped by Wonderful.
But it would be a 1v4 for the Ukrainian Sniper and he smells Yuri, he gets by him though, he runs on by.
It wasn't silent, it was quite audible from Wonderful, he goes in the market, oh!
Got a good read and a no scope on Skulls, he's looking for Yuri now on the bench and needed to hold for a hero no scope.
Furyat will not be stopped in the end four rounds collected and they're fired up about it. Yeah, but he made it interesting
He did he made it very possible at the end. Yeah, I kill and mark it and you're like, okay. There is a universe
I thought Yuri was gonna wreck him when he ran past him in the smoke
I thought that was good night for wonderful
But somehow he did make it to another channel Fallen's been wonderful these past two rounds with the AWP. See what you did there
He's done it. Yeah, I didn't even really mean to. God damn. Yeah, he's been excellent
I'd love to see him now with this AWP with a little confidence under his belt.
I'd like seeing him to see him get some success over towards A, over towards middle.
Start making that AWP really a feared presence on the map to where Navi never know where it's going to be.
Ooh, okay.
Well, that's about the opposite of what I wanted from F1.
Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm sure he feels that too.
Brutal from BIT.
But he's dead. He's out of there one for one.
Now what's in his turn to show us what he's got on his D.Eagle?
That centred view model climbs up on the bedside cabinet and a little pier down into the bomb site,
nothing presenting itself to Emma at the moment.
The remaining continues to roam.
He's going to get himself out lower and lower closer to cello.
He's got to clear him with a big bang on that D, but he misses the shot and cello's rifle will prevail.
Fifty seconds remaining bomb going back to A and JL is the space crater for Navi here.
Yeah, but I really like what Fury has done. Just kind of centralized, move to the middle of the map, play retakes, just don't leave your defense overextended once you've lost Fallen.
Don't leave one anchor at the A-bomb site who's there to get picked off.
You know they're buying in the next round so the plant is not the hugest deal in the world, and now it should be a pretty typical textbook retake.
Yep, nice and easy. Final two kills, come in, Fury is secure.
by coming back for an argue that bomb planter
give them a little bit extra cash on top of what they've got the loss bonus
and will be a bit frustrating to get this kill on cello
yeah I mean he might feel like that it should look like it was going to be accurate
to be honest with you
I don't even think it might have been any damage but yeah
still always going to be a tough scenario just trying to lurk out the B bomb site
solo with the deagle
yeah somebody on English got to clear and worry about and have to be picture perfect
Did a damn good job.
Aside from, you know, the shot.
Yeah, when I come down to that.
You're really losing half of his health, Fallen.
Let's see if he has a better round this time.
He's being down into the underpass at that time, being the likesy-beast, spamming things,
making it uncomfortable for Fallen, so he decides to go and silence
the Engim leader on the other side.
That's what I like from Fallen. Good work.
Sticking around in Khan for the moment.
Ema was the underpass player. He's come all the way back around, swapped it up with JL
who's just looking for that push at the moment, but Navi want to make sure they can secure middle.
Nothing to see over that smoke, so Cello's isolated. Oh, it's broken.
Yuri sets up Cello and no kills come out!
Decent damage, but that should have been way more impactful.
Still, Navi cannot cross as the Furia reinforcements arrive, and there goes Ema.
Just bit left alone now with 30 seconds left his teammates have collapsed, bomb is down on short
and they're all fighting on different angles, Kassarado is the man to close it and 6 rounds as the CT side continues to build for Fiora
And they're having a great time now you can understand why
Navi at the opposite it's another pretty flat performance coming out of Navi at this point and
Let's go boys and listen to each other on spawn ok Igor was asking for flash for 10 years no one answering to him
We just need to fucking step up now.
Ten years of long time.
Yeah, wonderful they aged a lot.
Those trapped in kind of the sense that we've gotten from a lot of those different listeners to the Na'vi camp at this event.
I just like the, at the end that was really, you know, we've all been there, we've all listened to the siren.
We love that noise.
Okay, just a dry challenge up the ramp, Fallen, who's moving away, he might take some tag, jumping over the top.
There's JL with two kills with his tech nine and all this got weird. This got real weird
Real fast cello though. We know he's good in the off. We know he can wield it to success
He's got to somehow win this
Good angle selected but couldn't stop wonderful and that is as an unexpected round went from Navi
Yeah, very much so starting out again like Navi just or fury didn't really realize the pacing and the scaling that Navi was
bring into the table they saw one AK challenging around the edge of the smoke
but then the tech 9 and the P250 got close up before any of them were able to
slow it down. Good hit from Navi. In a math and a half where you're struggling,
I'll see how an APOP with tech 9 is on a low buy and stealing yourself around.
There's some of that fragging power of JL you wanted? Double kill with the tech 9?
Yeah we got it. Jumping over the stairs? Yeah it's nice. I've got three kills now
Now we're keeping count of that.
Still got my one hand up.
Perfect.
Well we're getting close to having to move on to the second hand.
That was an exciting moment in the game.
That was explosive. That was great.
Well, Navi has to take that chance now to run run with it.
He can't afford just to drop the ball instantly and allow Furia to win with the double-op setup here.
This is a massive round for Navi.
Off the win in the last round of going into that double-op setup, they've reinvested into it this round.
and fall in both. So if Navi can win this, Fury is out of funds and you're looking at
Navi being able to scrape together an even score line at halftime despite the fact that
the game hasn't looked all that good for them.
Well, just one man tap, tossing out utility towards the ace side alone. Trying to signal
that there's a lot more presence coming this way than there really is. It's JL
solo at A and the rest of Don Vee. Either in middle, hanging around in the T apartments.
Alexi B is trying to take short control. He is going to get it eventually, just clearing
that ladder room. The final come down to Skulls is peeking. He decides to go and they weren't
ready. Wonderful was looking the wrong way. Alexi B didn't get back in time and Skulls
has a double to put Furia in a 5v3, but Emma, he slipped through the smoke. He's
got himself under the stairway. Yeah, but even if he gets a kill, he's never
going to expect Caceron to be behind him. And he's not even going to get the first.
Yuri's able to shut him down. Ema's had a tough time, one and eight.
Yeah, that was kind of the only thing that Navi had going for them, that he had managed to slip through that smoke.
Now that he gets nothing out of it, there really is nothing in the round for Navi.
And you started this round by saying, this is such an important round for Navi, and they just get flat line.
Yeah, destroyed by Skulls off Catwalk.
And on top of that, you don't even get anything done in terms of a couple of kills, two kills even.
So money is going to grow for Fury, all five players surviving is going to be very nice
for them moving forward.
Bid and JL will have these AK-47s, JL can drop one.
Very curious if we see a knobby buy in the next round.
I think we might just by virtue of them sitting at three, you've got to be feeling like we
need more.
You need five out of this.
That's half.
Very less likely to feel a little bit of happiness.
But Fury up.
We know they can be potent with the double-op setup, they're wielding it again.
You know, we've got Fallen and Cello on them.
This has been a great day at the office for Fury up.
As they close this map, they have found themselves in a semi-finals.
At the Intel Shrew Master's Rio.
Fury has done such a good job in the middle in this CT half.
Even when Navi's been able to have some basic control and get towards Khan
and Catwalk, Fury has done a good job handling it.
Once again, they find the two opening kills and that's half the attack.
And if you're Navi, it's like whatever strategy we called in this round
doesn't really matter
because we don't have any presence in middle
so once again it's almost like a late mid-round recovery mission to try and establish that presence
but K-Sirato is not going to let that happen for free
in fact he won't let it happen at all
and it's now a five round lead for Furia
and Navi really got a not a whole lot of money to play with in this last round
feels like Navi really could use that day off
yeah they really could
they had one off yesterday right?
they didn't have a game yesterday
the last game they played was against Liquid
yeah two days ago
Yeah, we've had one yesterday.
OK, they could use another day off.
They really could, yeah, at this point, definitely so.
And it's not completely off, they do have media.
Yeah.
It's not really an off day off.
It's not really an off day off.
Well, last year, Fury out made it to the quarterfinals of IEM.
Rio, they lost to Relic, who would eventually
go on to be the second place team at the event.
A win over Navi today would allow them to do better
than their last year's result without playing the playoff game.
Now, Yuri, he's lined them up.
It's a double.
It's JL and him are both dead and bit making sure that one of those kills come back, but he is just annihilated
Kassimado is unplayable right now until wonderful gets rid of him
This would be a 1v4 for wonderful
He's got it down into 1v2, but he's taking a lot of damage on board and fallen just swings him
He just fights him and fury are in a fighting mood
9 to 3 as they are staring at a semi-final placement here at I am real
Come check out the best Furia we've had in years. They took down FaZe, they took down
Maus, and they're on the verge of taking down the best team in the world in Na'Vi. 2-0
even, a dominant series so far from Furia first map, play second map, then a bit of
a stall. Oh it is, being a massive stall, but Furia
loving that. There was always a feeling in the series that even if Na'Vi would
lose one map, it would be forced to a third. Furia would have to work for it,
but Furia being the better squad, significantly so here on Mirage, and they are close to closing.
15-5 from the first half, Katsurado. It's always great when you see him at that level.
He's also got the support cast to fall in and Yuri around him.
And speaking of, Yuri has opened up the B-bomb site onto a LXB.
Jail trying to compose himself does very well indeed at doing that.
It's two headshots locked in and Least putting Navi ahead on players.
Oh, that's another one through the smoke jumping as well.
Bomb just going down now, but Cesarado's put in a position where he's going to have to
overextend to bring this back in their favor.
They know one's coming from Catwalk.
He's kind of stuck against this wall and he's going to have to look for an opportunity to
push in towards the window or the door.
This is where the main thrust of the retake is happening though.
Oh, big clear from B.
That certainly will help matters in Navi convincingly win the pistol.
Fury is going to be punching themselves and they look at that back like we don't
need to lose two players to the Catwalk fight.
Let the Catwalk player be.
He's just going to tuck himself behind the corner, he's not going to be pushing forward
whatsoever, he's not over in dark, he's not close enough to cause issues unless we give
him the fights, which is exactly what Fury does.
Yeah, when you take that fight you're like, now one of these bullets is going to hit,
you know, hit him in the head, you know, do some damage, mess up his aim, but losing
two kills there is just brutal.
When you've got a clean opening, when you've already dropped into the bomb site, it
ain't worth.
At least they got some extra cash to play with with that bomb plant so I cannot get a
Galeel for Fallen, everybody else is going to be on Tech Nines and there's a heap of utility
available for Furia so it's not like you have to, you know, you have to guarantee a good
start here, Navi.
You've got to worry about this force by potential from Furia.
Well every time they've won a pistol on Nuke, both pistols that they won they lost
the second round.
in the back of their heads, and I was like,
we can't do this again.
They won't happen three times in one series.
Well, Utah goes out mid.
Fury did send numbers out top middle,
but they've not committed to that.
They've left Fury at top mid behind the boxes,
and they can go elsewhere.
So they can leave him as a lower commit,
and the rest are currently positioning outside of B.
If Fury don't get something either in this round
or in the very first gun round,
if Na'Vi are able to just show a dominant defense,
I think this is gonna be a comeback the whole way.
Fury has gotta be really careful
how this half starts. Oh a lot of nades being used and wonderful nose. He's gonna kill you and you're
so that's the mid-legged portion gone. Fury now leaping into the b-ball second. Gotta get a good
entry here on the likesie b. It's one for one. Ball is going down. It's gonna be planted but here
come Navi on the retake. The roadside's arrived. Dink onto it's immo. That certainly
helps matters and that kill from Skulls follows up for Fury. Navi are falling apart. Immo dead
down it out, and this 2v2 retake has become a 1v2 clutch for Wonderful.
He throws himself into the bomb site. First kill is good, but once again, taking a dink on board,
5 HP, and the grenade sent in. Good night! 10 rounds for Furia, and Navi let it happen again.
It's happened one more time. The third time they've won the pistol and lost the second,
and that's going to be so frustrating for this team.
Blades making a note in his book right now to have a long conversation about second rounds after this game.
Damn.
I gotta say, this is what I think Cello makes the hero play.
He gets that like running dink on the player in the window, and when he sees Skulls kill Bit at the door,
he's like, I already know I dinked this guy, I'm getting aggressive, I'm pushing in, and I'm making sure that we secure this part of the map.
They recover the M4s, which gives Skulls the weapon he needs to close out the 2v2.
Furia are going back to B. They've thrown the mid smokes, but no one's going there. Instead, it's gonna be a full commitment into one player.
It's a lexie B.
He's got every round to the B ball site.
Yeah, so far so good though from JL's Deagle. They both live on for a second frag.
So now it's a lexie B that needs to deliver something out of his, and he's just put under too much pressure, too many angles
he has to worry about, and B has fallen again. Now he infested into this round as well.
So you've got to just get out or just hope you can step up and Emma certainly will try
Stop theory from getting the bomb planted safely and there's body shots being landed by bit
But it hasn't really amounted to much and it leaves wonderful once again in an unwinnable situation
Yeah enough enough big shots from the deagles to make this round interesting in the sense that it felt like
Navi at some point might have been able to turn that in their favor whether it's off the JL
Deagle or the imma Deagle, but good job from fury making sure that doesn't go any further than just the two
individual kills. 11-4 and yeah there's no really good solutions here or
situations for Navi, whether you want to force buy or save and go for the guns.
Well it looks like it's going to be the full eco so USPs are just going to sit
there and this is going to guarantee you, Furia, a 12th round. Series point and
this is about to qualify Furia into the semi-finals.
Now it's a Navi to the quarters, not eliminated today obviously.
Set piece at A, they've already walked up and gotten positioning.
It's a good kill from Skulls in month to fall first.
It's such a nice culmination of some of the positive signs we've seen out of Fury in
the past few months.
Sure.
As Skulls came in, as Fallen took over leadership, new coach as well.
I mean, I think we were talking about this back at Cologne when maybe it wasn't
the best sort of results from Fury, we were talking about some of the events they've
they've got coming up the rest of the year and you're looking at Rio as one of those
stops just before the major where they're always expected to put in a performance or
always wanting to get a good performance out of the squad.
We didn't know if they were going to be able to find that form coming into this event.
We wondered, oh this could be a really, for the first time this could be a really
disappointing Rio for Furia but they've come out and they are looking the best we've
seen from them and this is really good from Furia especially with the major around
the corner as well.
Lucy's the shadow who could kill on the low HP, wonderful, gonna try and get away with an AK-47, got one more piece of danger, and he can't live it out.
12 to 4, 8 chances for Fury to book themselves into the semifinal.
I don't think anybody was even quietly optimistic about Fury coming into the event either.
I think many people thought this might just be the first disappointing run, but they came out in that statement in day one.
Well everything that we've seen of positive science from fury has been like a good map a good series a nice upset
But they've never been able to convert that into deep runs. You haven't really seen them string those series together
This is the first time where they defeat mouths now
It looks like they're gonna be defeating Nami beat phase in the best of one so string it together
So not only do you have the good series win you have the result it provides behind you
Which you haven't had in the past and look at fury and trading their way into this a bomb site beautiful work in one more
Wonderful sets his in-game leader up for a 1v1 clutch against Yuri.
Yuri to put his team into the semi-finals.
Down into the connector he will escape with the bomb.
It's gonna be a long way to that B-bombsite by this space to play with.
And it's gonna feel even longer because, uh, yeah, he's gonna run here,
but you have to be a little bit concerned if there's a player up on Catwalk peeking into the A-bombsite.
If that's where Alexi decided to position himself, which is not the case,
but Uri has plenty of time to find a good post plan.
No kit on Alexi either, does have a smoke.
Yeah, look at all that you told that Uri has.
And Alexi's still just making sure that it's not A.
So that's gonna waste a few more seconds,
seconds that he doesn't have.
He does not have a kit on his back.
He only has a smoke.
And just think about the amount of positions
that Alexi B must clear.
That he must check.
You can't clear a check all of them.
At some point, Alexi's in his head.
He's like, I have no kit.
I'm gonna drop the smoke
and I'm gonna stick to the fuse and see what happens.
Well, that's what he's gonna go and do.
So it gets on to that defuse
Now knows where Yuri is he goes into the swing. He's got the kill but has he got the time
Alexi's gonna give it a go he gets on that defuse. He's gonna hold it through look at this period
No, they got it fury a no that they've got it and they're straight into the semi-finals an
Unbeaten run in the group stages from fury a they took down face
They took down mouse and they've now taken down Navi furious forces fire on to the semi-finals in Rio
A phenomenal series for them today on a team level and also an individual level.
They were on point. Fallen's off on this second map.
K. Serrotto, his group stage is probably the best he's had in a long time across these three matches that they've played.
And all of Furia is looking good and looking ready for the big stage in their home country.
Okay, there we go. So, after what was seemingly going to be a one-sided affair, it really was.
But not the side you would think it.
That's because Navi aren't eliminated but they do find themselves going to a quarter-final now rather than a semis.
Impressive win, Trace and Furia, you know their best win yet with this new roster taking down the world number one.
And in such a convincing fashion, I mean we were talking about Mirage, Navi being the best team on the world on the map.
How many times have we seen them come back from a 9-3, you know, scoreline in the first half.
But today it just wasn't the Navi we used to seeing and Furia have been on a tear.
Yeah, I hear you talking all the time about how good Navi is at playing from behind
But I mean credit to Furia this event they paved their way by taking out some really heavy hitters Navi
The last one kind of the last door that they went and you know called away
But you know Navi just looks so bad the only two two of the three rounds
They picked up on that T side were off the back of like a pistol around just explosive plays that caught
Fury Off Guard. The rest of the time though, Fury is in full control of the entire situation.
The team works there. They're winning the opening duels. Everything about it looks so strong from them as a team.
They look really refreshed.
Yep, and that's what we're doing around here. What's up Gabriel? Welcome.
Congrats, bro.
Welcome. They have found their way into the Simais. We're going to get a headset on him so we can start to pick his brain a little bit as to what just happened.
Hello, Mr. Fallen. Welcome.
Hello guys. Yeah. Very happy to welcome you.
I've seen you more pumped up this tournament than you were in a long time, man.
Yeah, I'm enjoying it. I feel like the team is getting into a point where we are doing things very well
and we know what we expect from each other a lot, so improvements are coming and results are starting to show in, so I'm very happy.
What was the focus for you guys? What was the main difference you think in this tournament compared to the last couple of ones
that's enabled you to get some results as well.
Yeah, whoever has the answer for that question, you can sell it to anything in the world,
because you never know when the job is going to kick in, when you're going to see
the results you work so much for. And I feel like there is a lot of hype
coming to Brazil, you know, Castrata has been playing Mind's Out, you know,
he's our best player, he's very important to have him playing super well.
But it's not only that, it's all about having different type of strategies,
changing them between games, having the right leads, you know, trusting each other.
So a lot of things that are going our way at this time and I feel like we're very comfortable playing and the energy is here
So yeah, there's another single answer. That's the best I can give you. We'll take it. That's that's pretty good
Also, Navi usually pretty good. What did you think about the Navi you got in the server today?
Well, no Navi is very very strong team super difficult to play against but I think like on this match
We were I think on the upper hand in terms of positioning ourselves like I could feel that their game playing was
because I did a bit of going B on Mirage, a lot in the very beginning.
And luckily I was playing B with the AWP much of those times.
So I felt like during the series we kind of knew what to do and what to expect from them a lot
and that helped us.
And also I think we changed our game a little bit, apparently through other matches.
I know that Blade prepares a lot for our opponents and they're a very good team.
So you've got to bring some spicy things they've never did, stuff like that.
Yeah, when you're kind of making all these changes to your strategy as you're talking about
And you're improving on all of these things.
It's kind of, there's a lot of variables that go into the wins.
But the wins that you've had here were pretty high level wins.
It's not like you have to play against the bottom-seeded teams.
Like you had to go through some tough opponents.
Just to expand on what Trace asked you.
Yeah, you get a Navi that doesn't really look like the Navi.
What about the other teams as well?
Is it something like you felt like you were preparing for this monumental task
and it felt easy almost?
Or was it still a difficult challenge to get over that?
Well, it's been so long that we've been working to play like this that it definitely doesn't feel easy, it feels different, it's always tough.
I know that from a spectator point of view, you know that Na'Vi can play much better, you're used to seeing them playing super well,
wrecking every game and all those things, but when you have someone on the other side putting so many problems for you
and solving every situation you want to put in the game, it becomes a harder match.
So, I think it's all, this game wasn't about Na'Vi not showing up, you can say that we played superb,
we played so different than we played otherwise and we played very well.
You guys play very well, you're in the playoffs, now you get to play in this arena this weekend.
Is there anything that you can tell the people down here in Brazil to come on out?
Just come on out this weekend.
So guys, now we're at the final, so it's still time for us to do the arena once again, and it's crazy.
And with the help of you guys, who knows, we won't be able to take one more step forward.
Dreaming of a final, and who knows, a title, right?
Let's go there, enjoy this moment and keep working hard so we can see more.
We're together, guys. Thanks for the confidence, always.
that we were talking about up here in case Serato, that is correct Amundo, the man that
always seems to have his crosshair in the right place.
Yeah, it's been unbelievable the form in which he's been in this tournament, but I do have
to agree with Paul and you know it's not like Serato is carrying them and bailing them
out of tough spots, they're playing with Counter-Strike and he's excelling within that game and
within that system.
I have to agree with this, we see even on some of these highlights that we're
we're seeing here, we're seeing some of these set ups from the teammates, so the flashing
to heaven, we talked about this round, Quesarado goes in there with Dulys, and Navi's sitting
up there like, oh what the hell, we're not expecting that, and there's all these other
pushes as well, so you know, they're doing a lobby collapse on Nuke, they have that
flash going for the ramp player first, and then the hot player, and then you know,
you have that squeaky player as well, so you know, you get Quesarado coming through,
it's not just him going toe to toe with whoever's on the other side, it's a team
effort.
the biggest difference for Furia in this tournament is unsurprisingly so they're just a lot more locked
in like players individually you know like everyone's on the top of their game focus communication is
flowing you're listening to your teammates you're coming up with ideas with solutions to things
and you could tell that they're playing with just a lot more confidence i mean even fall and
you go back to the phase game right the opening best one he has one kill in the first half
on T-Siding 1 and 12, 1 and 10, whatever, second pistol round,
they win and someone gets a 4K and they drop him the AWP for the second round, right?
And he does some work, first gun round, he does a lot of work,
he's aggressive up top mid, it's just a different mindset
that Furia has had in this tournament across the board.
You want a hot take?
Oh, yeah, always.
Last time I saw a team like this,
it was the Katowice Major with the Polish team there.
Ooh, so...
Okay, okay, I think I see where you're going for that.
So you're saying...
I'm saying, are we...
Yes, Snacks Part 2, Rio Bougaloo.
Oh, I don't know, at this present moment, they looked pretty good right now to go all the way.
Very convincing stuff from them today.
Yeah, absolutely.
No, I was just going to say, in a surprising twist of fate,
I think this is going to make it maybe a little bit easier,
brackets, you're in the same way, final, well, on the other side of things, Vitality also lost.
Yeah, and you know what, we might even get a chance to sort of theorize
what that might look like when it comes to the playoff brackets.
But for the time being, it is the naughty side.
We're gonna have a quick listen in a cadilla listen in at that. It's what it might have sounded like in the server after today's woes
Let's go boys and listen to each other on spawn okay, Igor was asking for flash for 10 years
No one answering to him. We just need to fucking step up now
You gotta go B
Okay bro, two, two
Swap, contact, swap
Take rotation, just take rotation
She's watching me
Both connector and
We're gonna try to listen to me bro, just go and double man, we'll just smash them with
enforcement.
Damn it Josh, why'd you sneak that one past the keeper?
Anyway, yeah that was a good deal listening with Navi, they did just take an L but as
you can see things are a little bit frustrating around the edges.
Yeah, definitely.
And I pointed out Tima on Mirage, right, and you could see in that one round, that's where
he does his best work, right, he's on the lurk, he gets that kill, but things just weren't
going their way, and it's been a long couple of months for Navi as well, right?
Like a tournament to tournament, we've shown all these deep runs, you're in it until
the very end, so they'll also definitely benefit from having time to refresh their
playbook and all of that, but you can see the frustration, CP, you know, we
were talking about Fiora being locked in and all of this stuff for Navi, it definitely
wasn't there today.
I mean, there were two main things I saw in that clip.
One is just like that body language is,
everyone seemed dejected.
The comms, even if people were communicating,
it sounded like they didn't want to be there like,
you know, you know, it just sounded like, okay,
where's the fire, the energy, the passion, anything.
The second thing was the first clip where Alexi B is like,
I, they were asking for a flash for like 10 years,
no one responded.
We heard something similar from Vitality yesterday.
I forget who was saying it, but the same thing,
it's like, if I'm gonna say this is the plan,
It's say okay like say that you've acknowledged that I exist that my microphone's not muted just like give me something anything to work with
So it sounds like it's it's happening and maybe it's plaguing all these top teams
You have Navi and vitality going down
Who's the third team that's gonna go down to this plague of just not responding to your teammates and you know
Yeah, look we can't head to a break
We're gonna jump all the things that are going on with the playoffs because both those teams are there obviously they've locked that in
With or without a win in that matchup it is Navi and Furia heading into this very arena
But for us we had to that break we're gonna come back from the jump in our last game of the day
If you can't believe it elimination on the line for both FaZe or Malz
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JL to me is like the complete package of a player.
He'll do what the team needs, he works hard,
he understands the grind that comes with it,
but also he can do all the content,
all the interviews, all the media.
This guy can do it all
and I'm yet to see anything he can't do,
but maybe that's something I should test in me.
JL aka JLegend, he's also making
Banger content at JLCS dealing. There we go
We don't have a lot of personalities in CS some people try to shy away from social media
Maybe keep their comments to themselves. I try not to do that
I feel like one of whatever I have in my mind. I try to say of course in a respectful manner
Sometimes people don't take it that way, but I try to be as respectful as I can and also to add some extra
pressure on the game. So if I make a... I wouldn't call those comments offensive but
whenever I do make one it's just so I could have more pressure on the game. It
makes it a little bit more interesting for me, for the viewer and maybe for the
person that I said it against. They won't have Alexey here in time and with JL.
Oh that's a lovely set of openers. JL! That's their father!
My first interaction with Blade, well there's not the agents, content is my agent and he told them
And now he wants to have a talk with you.
And I'm like, I don't speak Russian that well,
which is the language they use.
I packed in.
But I still give it a shot.
So we go into the interview,
but we talk, he asked me about the game,
how do I see the game, what I feel like.
I could bring to a team
and we did this interview in English.
And I kind of understood that
if he wants to make an international lineup,
I asked him about it, he said yes.
Yeah, that's how it all began.
I feel like at the start,
he didn't give me as a solid player,
But now he looks to me as an individual, that I play well in my roles
and sometimes I need some guidance and sometimes I don't
and he trusts in my ability to defend the side or make an aggressive look.
You do JL, what can you do?
Isolate Miss Shot from Woksyk.
Zintara supervises the covering fire, pushing in, two of the three
and now it looks like JL's done it.
I think the people that didn't believe in JL
didn't really fully understand his story or know his work ethic.
When you hear about his story, when you hear about the background he's come from
and how much he wants this and how far he wants to go,
he understands more than just playing the game,
he understands what it takes to get to the level he wants to achieve
and he follows his path the way he sees it
and also listens to the right people around him.
He needs to get out of the bombsite, he needs to get out right now!
Oh, he's close to the point away!
Actually, I have no idea what makes Chael so special.
Maybe because I respect people around me,
I try to give them as much, not as much attention,
but treat people with positivity.
I always say hi to fellow players or fellow staff workers at ESL,
blast whatever time of the opinion.
I try to give respect and maybe that's why people respect me back.
The bomb down, pushing through is here man, here we are, man up!
Shuhei, since heading Berlin to the team,
it's been constant playoffs, very good positions for you guys, trophies as well.
Right now, obviously, it's a little bit of a downhill road for you guys.
How is that, like you guys managing it?
How is that feeling within the team?
I think we're at a similar stage as Faze where we are struggling a little bit.
Obviously we're not at the results that we want to be.
Yesterday we performed really well and today is going to be a matter of just playing a little bit better than yesterday.
So we're not really focused on winning or losing, we're just focused on making sure that we're performing better than yesterday.
Are you guys feeling more pressure or stress from it all?
I think maybe there is a little bit more pressure than normal.
We know that we have been going through a struggling period, so obviously that is in the back of our heads, but it's like I said
It's all about being better than yesterday
Is it important for this game though?
Like you already took down complexity and that was one that obviously showed against some pro league
Now you're gonna be in this phase to get that win and have a huge extra conference boost
Yeah, we already got a huge conference boost from yesterday after winning complexity
It mattered a lot to us and now winning against phase would mean also a huge conference boost
And I think this is something maybe we also liked a little bit previously where we would meet a top team in
before playoffs
So yeah, I think this is gonna be good for us
And yeah, we're expecting a good game
What did you learn from the complexity women particularly not maybe just against complexity in the matchup but about yourselves as a team?
We know that if we play our own counter strike mouse counter strike that we are able to win
sometimes we get lost and we think about other stuff during the game maybe we
prepare a little bit differently so there's a lot of stuff we worked on
behind the scenes to make sure that we are playing our own kind of strike and
not like we need to adapt on the server we just play what we can do now it's no
secret right phase has been your kryptonite for a long time does this
feel like now is the time to strike maybe maybe not who knows I don't look
at it that way. If we win, really nice. If not, then we're going to go back to the drawing
board and see what went wrong again. So we're not going to take it too hard that much.
Is it in your mind, so is there a bit of a mental battle with this? Do you try to block
it out?
I think it's mainly about blocking it out. Of course, it's going to be in the back
of our heads. I personally didn't check how many times we lost already. I don't
want to get reminded, so don't remind me. But no, I'm not focused on that. It's
just another game.
I like it, man. Thank you very much.
Absolute focus. Playoffs or bust. There's essentially what we're looking at here with FaZe and Maus.
And what is a rematch of Chengdu, the Intel Extreme Masters version over there in China.
Now we're down in Brazil, and while the rematch is on, the implications, the ramifications are significantly higher stakes here.
I got steel down on the end, looking at YNK in the middle.
And what is, well, in the last confrontation, pretty easy to diagnose.
I think something as well to be taken into account here, this was the streak where FaZe had all the grand finals,
Grand Finals but couldn't lift the trophy and they did do one in Chengdu but after this is where FaZe fell off a cliff
So I think like in the context you're thinking I was a good result for mouse
They lost to FaZe no matter what but FaZe was ripe for the taking there right like that was the weakest
FaZe has looked in a long time and still mouse couldn't even get close to taking them down
And we're talking about falling off a cliff as well
We talked about FaZe how they did it they're finding their form a little bit more recently whereas mouse
It's like they peaked and everyone was calling them the number one team in the world
They won like two kind of things in a row
and then that's it.
It just like they disappeared off the radar.
So when we're talking about, you know, day by day
we just try to be a little bit better than the last.
And then like also the answer to
or is this the time that you're gonna beat FaZe?
It's like, hell yeah.
Like this is the time we're gonna beat FaZe.
This is our moment.
Yeah, we're gonna do this.
We're gonna crush them.
These guys, like where's anything?
It's like, well, I don't know.
Whatever happens happens.
If we don't it's fine.
If we don't, yeah.
This has just been kind of the...
This has just been kind of the...
This is a bit of a storyboard, even, if you look at what we've got going on here.
This is the results for both these teams up to this point, or by the, excuse me, both
these teams, I mean, just Maus.
And obviously, their road has been a little topsy-turvy.
I mean, both of these teams fell to fury, right?
Faze in the opening game, Maus in the upper bracket game took down complexity yesterday
in two overtimes, really a close affair.
But I think this is, for me, similar to the Faze-liquid matchup, right?
Faze just has the upper hand.
And they are more comfortable, more confident on the server,
even if they start losing, they won't be hitting the panic button.
So, Mouses will really have to be consistent throughout the game,
if they're going to take down phase here.
Well, one improvement that would stand out right away is that
Mouses actually able to beat Complexity 2.0 here.
They lost 0-2 to them twice, or sorry, they lost twice at least
at ProLeaks, he's in 20 a couple of weeks ago.
So, being able to turn that around, maybe that's a start.
It's kind of just a tag on your point right here, Josh.
Josh, you're talking about a mouse, we're in which we got like the summer of mouths.
It was kind of like, okay, these guys are unwaiving. Like they are definitely in the server,
causing pain and destruction. And for FaZe, it was just like a constant storyline up there.
But now, both of these teams, are they struggle street? Are they on struggle street right now?
I mean, they're trying to find their form again, so to speak. But the thing with FaZe is,
they're battle tested, right? I mean, they're a team that obviously was winning majors,
Cologne, Cato, the biggest tournament.
It's okay, a small roster change here and there, right?
But that's always been the goal and what they've been trying for.
For Miles, it's been, okay, we're gradually getting better, better and better.
We now need to start doing it on the big stage.
And they did have some good wins here and there, right?
Bidding G2 in Cologne, obviously the Chengdu run where they ended up falling
to a phase in the end, losing to Navi at TWC and so on, right?
Yeah, before that, the Major. But I think now it's up to OK, getting and going for some of those wins, right?
Just making the playoffs anymore isn't enough for this mouse lineup.
I also think it's just the way that the teams have been navigating how they want to improve.
So if we look at a team like FaZe, they have a fall-off, you know, Robs is dropping performance,
and we've talked about it up here a few times already, but what they're doing is they're starting to favor maps where there's more individuality.
Robs is able to have more impact, maybe there's less on Kerrigan's shoulders
as opposed to previously, and what's Maus' approach though,
that's different than what they were doing previous?
Yeah, that's the one that's a little bit tough to diagnose really,
because for Maus, we heard it in the Torj interview as well,
we've been trying to change the way we view the game a little bit,
like some small things here and there,
how we approach certain situations and whatnot,
which is, you know, without knowing what exactly goes on in the team,
what the communication is like,
It's hard to pinpoint when you watch them play, but obviously you're expecting an uptick
in performance after those changes are being made.
Just to put to scale the performance that we're talking about here, from the side of
phase, we're looking at a phase that is made at every IEM Playoffs as 2023.
That might not sound all that far away, but that's a long, impressive series or
streak.
It's better than I've ever done.
Yeah, fair enough.
When you put it like that.
It is an impressive streak and there's a lot that FaZe has that's good.
So when we talk about them dropping off a cliff, it's like it really is a monumental
just like well one thing that stands out that wow this team's so good they have so many
good parts how do they fall off.
But a testament to kind of them as a team is that if they're able to rebound from
that that's also a really good thing.
On the flip with it like mouse it's like I just feel like they don't have a cohesive
System that they all want to buy into the same plan at the same time outside looking in so issues in the camp
Perhaps just an outside look in and another reason why phase is dominant in the matchup is the veto right like yeah
If you want to punish phase on something it would most likely be
Anubis and that's the perma ban of mouse so phase can just get rid of vertigo and then on all of these maps
There's nothing where mouse can like clearly be like a massive advantage for them
They go for mirage here phase with the dust to pick despite the loss to furia
They looked really solid on it. They have a lot of variety on the map
I mean again slick with the the CT side the aggression was just impeccable and
For the end we get that nuke the cider and one level deeper the vertigo band coming up from phase as well
That's one of now is his better mats
That's the one that you know complexity looks to vertigo for a map win and mouse is like no
We're gonna take that from you because that's also one of our best maps
So that instantly gone is definitely gonna make things more difficult and mouse hang to make some changes here and there on
On Dust2, Red Exertion is the long player on CT side, which feels a little bit strange, right?
I feel like he's better in some rotator roles, like playmaking roles, just as a pure anchor down there.
And he has been struggling a little bit in some of their games, so we'll see what the approach from Phase is.
They'll be starting on that T side.
Yeah, it's difficult if you're in the playmaker position, or that's your mindset.
You always want to be a little bit more aggressive or proactive, move around and play off the info.
but you don't have options when you're kind of anchored down to this one position.
Speaking of anchors, who's on the way home, gentlemen?
Just pick one or the other?
Probably Mouse, but I've been wrong with everything today,
so I'm going to say Faze.
Wrong with everything I have said, but it all points to my life.
And therefore, yeah, what do you got, Yanca?
I'm going with Faze, baby.
Kind of have to at that point.
Thank you very much, gentlemen.
We are ready to jump into, yes, that's correct, an elimination game,
Featuring mouths, featuring face, and our beautiful commentators. I'm sure they've been called a lot worse than that. It's Dinko and Moses.
Yeah, I think we were called booterful yesterday by somebody on the desk.
Yeah, I'll take it. Honestly, I'll take any compliment at this point, Jason.
Yeah, you need them. You need a few. Lift you up.
Yeah, lift me up. Make me feel good. You know, I'll take them. Thank you very much, Trace.
You know what, mouths need some uppers as well, because you know, go up against face.
They've never really been able to do it Jason and then they've gone up against them quite a few times
Yeah, well, I think it's like seven to nothing for the face camp over the past like year and a half
It's been it's been dominance in one way yet another like quote-unquote rivalry that is just extremely one-sided
So yeah, and on top of all of that now is these past few events have looked the weakest
They have looked in a long time that whole moniker of them being the team that never loses out in the group stage
That always makes it to the playoffs and struggles
That's gone and not for a good reason not because they figured it out on the stage
But because now they're getting eliminated from group stages now, they're not always making it to the playoffs
Yeah, that's true
And we heard sure way before the the game given that interview with banks saying that it's actually kind of similar for phase right now
Right, they've had a drop-off recently
They've been struggling a little bit similar stories or both teams coming into this game
But I think phase have been building in this event
I think they're looking stronger with every game that goes on sure
We didn't have a great opening be a one, but that can happen. I think the rest of the games though
I've been looking pretty solid
No matter what we do, we're always in this together and support each other.
Let's say to each other, nice try, hype each other to fuck up every fucking round, okay?
No matter if it's a tough round, if it's an easy round one, if it's eco, pull by.
I want us to be happy about every round and support each other, okay?
Alright, so final words, yeah.
That's kind of what Malta has been built on.
We see it in all the interviews, they're a close knit group of guys that have come up through the academy system together.
It's been a big point for Cycro and the coach of keeping this team a cohesive unit.
Let's see if it pans out for him today.
Berlin's gonna have first contact, Xershin along the wall swings out two kills, that's bomb coming in next.
Oh, another view model where like the crosshairs just off-centered and making me dizzy.
That'd make you feel a little sick, a little queasy.
That's exactly what's going down here for the sighted phase because Yimpad off the back of the platform has done very well to remove robs.
Now, Jorshin has caught himself a full up headshot and ends up being a very clean pistol.
Everybody from Malz can be happy about that.
Yeah, very well should be.
Everyone gets a nice try after that round, or a good job.
Well, both in-game leaders, they've got something they put on their desk, you know.
You've got the choked cock right up there on the screen.
Choking the chicken?
Yeah, the chicken, yes.
We're on the screen of Shuei, and you've got Karrigan's, Stone's, Jem's, etc.
Sitting beside him.
Let's see which one's more lucky today.
Bringing the good vibes.
Yeah.
So far it's been the stones, historically.
Yeah.
Let me talk about how they played each other quite often.
But the last time they played was back at Chengdu, right?
And that was the final.
And it was one side of the cell, but it's been quite some time
since you got to see these two officers against each other.
Oh, okay.
Sure, that's a jumping MP9.
That just works out for all of them.
Also a jumping MP9 traded off, but good round.
Two to nothing and phases, a little bit of an investment goes nowhere, really only the scout for Kerrigan.
You'll just get a Mach 10 AKs on everyone else. We're into the first gun round nice and quick.
There we are. We got there in a roundabout way.
In record timing.
Yeah. Dust 2 Mirage, you got the Pug God maps in the first two here and then close it with Nuke.
If we need to go to Nuke.
If we need to get there.
Do you think we're gonna need to go to Nuke?
I hope so. This match feels like it has the potential to go through.
I mean, to be fair, I thought the last series would go 3 after 3 or won the first map, so who knows at the end of the day?
This series hasn't went to 3 maps since 2023.
Okay, so we're gonna try to break some trends here.
Well, Shuhei's got an excellent read in this round.
Look how quickly with this risk he's gonna be flanking and wrapping around.
So again, delay tactics.
Drop your smokes.
They would have seen the trajectory of that from exertion over at Kar.
So he's in for a fight and he never expected Rain to be on that side.
I don't think he expected the gap either.
And Kerrigan is expecting the flank.
You're a kill, can't get the follow-up.
Yeah, I was close to getting an opportunity for a double that,
but couldn't quite muster it now.
Torsi's still going, and FaZe are obviously very aware of this.
Romps is just gonna keep eyes on long.
Torsi goes into the open to his death,
and FaZe are up into a four versus two.
They've got time to play with as well,
so they're not forced to commit into the bomb site.
Kind of a glimpse of Brolin's spot in the edge of that smoke.
Makes it easy for Ren to take him out,
and Yimpat's left alone in the 1v4.
And you should know he's going to be here just by the way this round has played out.
Still a nice double kill from Yembat, and Faye's gonna win the round.
Maybe a little early for Torgy on the timing to push long, but that's always a tough scenario.
They know you're there, you know you have them boxed in, gotta make a decision,
but Rops is ever so patient.
Actually, I mean, a really good mouse, a really good round for mouse.
I think they're gonna feel like they let that one slip away with all the advantages
they garnered with the push from Shurei up middle.
There's a little team damage, maybe?
He got shot in the head real quickly.
Yeah, he got slowed down as well as he tried to cross.
Maybe don't give him a nice shot on that one, you know?
Yeah.
I don't think they're going to be celebrating that one in the mouse camp, that's for sure.
Karrigan.
He's got eyes on this tunnel push.
It's coming.
And Brolin is the frontman that is spotted by Karrigan.
But he's worried about a potential play through short as well or through the lower tunnels.
And Karrigan does have a lot of problems he's got to try and figure out here because
he's alone in the world and there's a lot of eyes on him.
And he ends up getting taken down upon his jump up onto the X-Box.
Rain spots them diving down into spawn. His phase trying to take the A bomb site.
He's pushed up. Exhersion gets put in position quickly, but Rain sits him on his ass.
Yeah, beautiful shot, and that's going to be a little frustrating. Tough now for Malz to make this work.
They've got no kids. They've got no utility. Good win. Rain on low HP over exposed.
And now all of a sudden you've got two coming catwalk. One in the low ground, but Brolin falls early.
The rest of his teammates still blocked off by Smoke. Now they've got to try and force the issue.
And Malz once again, it feels like you're so close like you have everything set up to just take your advantages in the post plant and
A little bit early from Brolin as they peek into him
And that set Malz's economy into a bit of a precarious position. They don't have a lot left so an eco to come up
The phase about to take the lead
Faces run at this tournament
It started with a 13-7 loss to Furia who we now have seen take some big names along the way also beating miles
And now Navi while face had to go into the best of trees. They played against pain
They lost a map to pain, but we're able to two zero liquid yesterday
So phase are finding teams that have never beaten them in the group stages so far, which is very nice for them
And also as you've mentioned, I mean even going back to EPL
You started seeing a little bit more resurgent performances out of individuals frozen had a great ESL pro league
Rob started chilling some signs of life. Yeah, maybe despite, you know, not having the greatest team result
At least some of the individuals are coming
We'll see if they can I mean convert those good individual performances into a good event finish here in Rio
They've got a great chance at it
Two to two and just pistols on the other side
Have the emphasis towards long a to open up this dust to engagement
Carrigan's in some trouble. Getting wrapped around, it's from Catwalk. That's an AK-47 recovered from Maus.
Yeah. You mentioned Frozen. It's a great player to talk about, especially at this event, because he's the third highest rated player in attendance at IAM Rio at the moment.
Just in behind Kairosurato, who's the top rated player, and Zaewoo in second place. So Frozen's among great company up there in the top three spots.
spots 1.34 rating from frozen so far at this tournament and it's been great
because I think he's applied it so he garnered some criticism over the
the years yeah but I think over the year but over his time in phase he
certainly had some although it's a it's always an interesting conversation
because I think phase is probably got to be one of the hardest teams to
diagnose the problems in terms of like looking down the roster exactly like
if you ever wanted to make a roster change in this team it's like who the
hell are you I don't want to I don't want to have that responsibility
I think it's over. That's why the coach is the one that kind of gets changed, but even then it's
It's not a lot of changes that were happening in phase and for good reason
Well, if they can find a way to continue this upward trajectory phase as we lead into the second major of the year
That's the perfect timing. Yes. That's what you want to see
Yeah, start peeking now so that when you get to the major you're ready to hit your highest moment
I'll peek down middle boost it up so broke you can get the clean shot on the cross. There's two
He's waiting for that third peek of the AWP, but without any shot ringing out towards you
doesn't want the fight, then instead they push lower.
Great.
Good headshot, rolling though, double into his lower tunnels, eventually runs out of ammo
as he tries to tip-a-tap up, fought mid here through the window, it's Yimpat to address
the problem of Rops leaving Frozen 1v3.
Good kill from Yimpat as well, I think if he doesn't get that kill if Rops finds
that exertion probably pushes long right into Frozen and a good shot as Frozen comes
back for the peek and Shuhei taking his own advice making sure he hypes up the boys after
a good victory.
We're tied at three.
And finally, when Money's back for Mousen, they're back to winning ways.
They went around off the back of his past resurgence, phased out not short of Money
on the majority of players.
Everybody's going to have their primary choice weapon apart from Karrigan who has
to go down to attack nine and I'm sure he'll be happy enough wielding that.
Brokey on the AWP.
Now he did have a couple of games in this tournament so far where maybe he's missing
shots on the AWP, but he's had stellar maps as well individually with rifles,
pistols, in particular with the Eagle against liquid. Broke can be a beast that
is hard to put away. See what he can do as he gets the sniper out on the T side.
Exertion applying a little bit of pressure at the long doors. Flashbang made Broke
a little bit nervous. Got him a little jittery. It's quite on the map, not a
a whole lot of utility. Three smokes still for FaZe is quite nice. Flashes and no HE grenades.
Shui's hurt a footstep or two up on Catwalk. So he's gonna buy it his time. Probably wait
for his moment to push Xbox and flank up Cat. We've seen him proactive in that department
throughout these early stages of this half. However, with only two people at the A bomb
site due to a two-man B defense, Maus might have a little weakness in the early
going of this hit. Ball of smokes, erected and rain, ooh blinded. Still in the start of
the smoke, 30 seconds remaining in the round and a dangerous game for Rain to jump up and
he's punished by exertion. Of course he's also chiming in and Maus completely collapsed
this phase attack. It just rops from long on his lurk but it's not going to end up
being impactful. He'll run away and try and save his AK and Maus head into the lead
on Dust2. Oh good shot. That's pretty nice isn't it? That's a very nice shot. Yeah
I think I think phase got kind of slowed on that hit by the fact that all those flashes running in rain gets blind trying to
Lead the way
I think everyone thinks they have to jump up to fight over that smoke because they don't really have the utility to truly take the site
They had two Molotovs on the execute
They had the smokes to put up the wall
They wanted them Molly towards the ramp, but the only one flashbang is really hard to to make that cross work with just the single
And now we have a double-op setup for miles
So things might get a little a little more weird for phase
There's a couple of things to figure out, FaZe as well.
There's barely any money left, and you've got a safe AK here from Robs.
We'll keep track of when they discover that the double AWP is on the map, because I think,
you know, you'll see FaZe speed things up when they realize there's a double AWP.
You might see them kind of fall into less mid control and catwalk control in terms
of just going to take a bomb site.
You want to put those AWPs in a retake position to where you can really negate
some of their ability.
They can discover it here with just Glocks, that'll be a huge benefit.
Torgie's got his at Xbox and Brolin's got his in middle looking towards Catwalk.
Well, they're going to know here that Malz don't have heaps of money built up.
So not so much damage Rops can do with his AK.
There's a few rebies here for Malz that would be lovely for FaZe just to keep that economy of their opponents modest.
A lot of teams, obviously.
Wanting to go to a double-op setup on Dust 2.
It's a liquid trident a bunch this week, Ultimate and Twist, and they had a very similar setup of
you know one one kind of aggressive towards the double doors and one
watching Catwalk.
Well there's Berlin's alt. So they've seen it now.
And they like hang on. This guy doesn't usually alt.
Not normally the offer.
A lot of cogs turning.
Carrigan said no, broke the acting as the human bait for Robs' AK.
And while the trigger disappeared from the cover you worked out, no, you impact the size of the fight.
He gets a kill on the Episto on Frozen, able to follow up.
So some damage being done here for Faze. Another kill from Robs!
And yesterday against Liquid, Faze were able to win a round with majority blocks,
and they're doing it again here against Maus.
One AK has turned to two.
As Frozen and Robs look at a bring down exertion who took damage in his early fight.
This is a round that Mal shouldn't have let slip, but one that looks like it is guaranteed to be going phase this way.
Exertion has so many angles. He's got to check it his way back into this B-bomb site.
He is silent, but he has no utility and time will shortly start to take.
No one from phase giving him a chance. No one peeking. No one giving a look. And now Exertion must go and that is something special.
Exertion with the double to recover this mess.
Oh, that's a clutch and a half phase take a gut punch after such a good round with one AK-47
Rops does everything you ask of him triple kill cracks you into the bomb site takes advantage
of Brolin way out in the open on the beat platform but exertion wins a 1v3
Well you love that from a star player bailing you out of a situation you feel like you
He never should have been in. Good damage done by Brokey, but would have loved that kill.
Double-op is ripped away from Mal, so it's just Torgy.
Oh, she's the head of Rain, and that bullet will not connect.
That's by looking close. Karagin. Diving down into the lower...
Oh! Force of the Fire knife pulled and Brolin will get an easy kill because of that.
Great flashes, keeping Rain pinned, but eventually he'll peek out again.
He should blind most of this round. Just not gonna slow him down, though.
moves this way through short. Quite brawly this match in the early going of
these rounds and especially in middle we're seeing a lot of aggression from
Malzor seeing FaZe more than happy to take that plate. Good win from Shuega
tagged up at the start of the round by Brokey's AWP but still wins out on Rain.
Brolin around the corner, Rock's gonna be felled by the rifle of Brolin leaving
just Brokey who went for the early peek at long and he's about to close out
his round in middle.
Shuei just walks in, it's a free kill.
He's trying to troll him.
Just throw the pistol at him.
Oh fair play.
I love you.
I would have kind of loved if Broky just flicked him though.
That would have made me laugh a little.
Yeah, that would have actually been a funny ending as well.
No matter what happened, Shuei was going to give us entertainment.
Yeah.
Alright, well, first time I'll use my phase, they're down by three.
Malz, this defense has been on lockdown.
For the most part, they got a little sketchy with the rops here of AK-47, but outside of
that little hiccup, it's been four in a row and pretty convincing at that.
That phase of wanting that 1v2 back now, I want v3 rather against exertion.
No reaction of course, Brokey.
It's just the checkmate, it just lets him know how beat he was.
You're done, you're done buddy.
I like that he didn't give him time to flick up, he didn't give him time to really
acknowledge the USP.
He realized there was risk involved in that.
They've gone for a half-buy, they're gonna leave somebody left over in the bank and pull out Technines and Pizza 50s.
We know what they're capable of with pistols, we've seen that.
Exertion sees utility for some kind of a fast catwalk play in the gates, and Exertion steps up in front of the flashbang,
and those are easy kills as Kerrigan and Frozen just trying to make it through and out the doors.
Should be all good from here.
Nah, no problems.
for mouse spotted in this one
no potential for phase to build on
nice and clean, so 7 to 3 scoreline
mouse off to any strong start on dust 2 CC side
a map pick of phase coming into the series
and the vibes seem good in mouse
or at least loud
yeah, they're one of the few pro teams I feel like
that still maintains a pretty fun, silly atmosphere
yeah, they really try to cultivate that for sure
It's nice listening to their comms, it's a little chaotic at times though.
It is a little chaotic at times.
But they're able to keep track of it.
Alright, so you've got two rounds left to put something on the floor, show us something
on this T side.
Broke it.
I'm not going to even get a land damage on that shot to the cross, so Brolin pushes
lower yet again.
Deep smoke towards suicide, uh, shows aggression.
They break it open for Torji to get a peek, but nobody's home.
Oh, great. What a shot by a caught by Flash.
Brolin couldn't double up, but Torres is there to make sure the trade happens.
So, 3v3 off the back of those early mid skirmishes.
Such good coordination from Maus though to make sure those two kills are actually traded,
especially considering the first one goes the way of FaZe and Rain.
Brolin's response to that and Torres, you ready for the peek off Broki killing him.
So this round slows down into a 3v3.
No eyes on mid, no eyes on Catwalk.
Maus playing retake at the A bomb site, and Robs is in a strong lurk position,
So I don't know if you can chill here because he's got smoke Molly. They do also have it on the other players
There's a couple options that phase have with this utility
The pack of three make their way through middle
But exertion on the flank has now seen them run up towards be this primes the impact ready to go and through the gap
In the windows of the blown-out car. It's a 2k for you impact
It drops with the 1v3 total. He knows he's got that player on the flank
It would 10 seconds left. He won't consider the site or at least he can't even he has to commit to the blonde plant
and that shall be denied.
Hercut handed out by the Hungarian and it is 8-3
as we get deeper into this half, last round available
and it's looking very likely Miles will round out at 9.
I like that Torgy double scope for that shot.
Just to make sure you know it's right on the hand.
Just how I really line it up.
You know he's a precision barber.
Miles doing really good work.
This mid aggression they've had throughout this half,
whether it's a lower dark push, whether it's an all push,
whether it's the push towards top mid.
It's been very effective for them.
B rush.
Now it's a charge for FaZe.
Desperation wraps, bottom of the barrel.
And that's where they will find themselves as they are shot away by Maus.
It is a very strong CT showing for Maus.
Couple of opportunities to build on something for FaZe early,
but the majority of these rounds have been comfortably on the side of the Maus squad.
Broke eat the last remaining player left.
And he will not be able to do much about it.
9-3, what a statement start for Malz
as they are looking to knock FaZe down.
And in the first half on a seven round streak
on their CT side of Dust2, they swap over to the T side.
They've got a 9-3 lead over FaZe.
And this battle of teams that we're looking to see
who can bounce back the strongest.
Malz looking good here on map one.
It's an elimination series at IEM Rio 2024.
One team moves on, one team goes home.
The FaZe look dumbfounded to find themselves down at 9-3.
Obviously a pistol round win will go a long way in their hopes of pulling Dust2 back.
This is their map pick.
FaZe have selected to go here.
And so far, we have not been able to see why.
The bomb ready to go long.
There's no presence here from any of the defending players at FaZe.
There's so much space to work with for Miles and Rain is hearing that,
so he's calling the information over that FaZe couldn't worry about the A-play.
How many can he get on the cross? Spots ahead just as it comes over.
There's Kerrigan with one through the smoke. Good start. Not bad at all for Faze.
Set themselves up for a five on four advantage retake. Make that five on three.
Jumping shot, not going to land. Shuhei gets the bomb planted at the very least.
Well, Kerrigan's chimed in another. Yeah, and we've seen he was
stepping up against Team Liquid. He was looking real strong and so far so good
for Faze in this pistol. You impact long. Defuse is already through and they don't lose a single player.
I mean, really, it's not a bad pistol round for Malz altogether.
I think the one area where they fell short and just let this one slip out of their hands
is you lose too many players.
When you realize FaZe is playing retake, you lose way too many players.
Not all of it's your fault.
Kerrigan gets the first one through the smoke, right?
But, man, if they're going to be playing retake, you have to be sure that you're
not giving them free kills before they pull the trigger on the retake.
Obviously, a bomb plant went down in.
Yeah, but I like this from Malz when you have this kind of a lead.
I was actually thinking the same thing in the last series when Fury had a big
lead and went for a second run by after losing the pistol. It was like, you know, yeah, you
can win period, did win that round. Yeah, true. But you have this kind of a lead, so wait for
you to get the gun round, maximize the number of full blown gun rounds you have. Yeah, increase
those percentages in your favor, especially when you're going up against a team you've
never been able to beat, right? You want to make sure you get all those chances
lined up. Honestly, the fact that Fury won their second round in this kind of a similar
situation is always like the argument against that idea yes it's true it's
like yeah you guess you can't really argue against the round win but yeah it
is a higher likelihood I feel you can also put into the fact that if you were
a one how many second rounds like three in that series yeah so I mean you're
seeing that go down you really do feel confident to go for a second round by
broken rainbow could work down to headshots on the exertion of brolin
sure at least time means something but as expected it's face to clean up
in Kerrigan to get his triple. Yeah, Kerrigan tapping away with that M4. So four
rounds separate mouse and face clan. Now when the buy is coming in for mouse it's
gonna be a great one. They're gonna have all the the rifles that they want.
Everybody's gonna be on to an AK. They'll have plenty of utility out. Only
thing they don't have is the AWP. Yeah, not yet. Torgy. Can't afford that. Could he
hear Kerrigan chatting about that before the round started? No one the
money realizing they'd saved with no armor. Early presence and long for
face trying to block that choke point early with utility mouse make your way
down mid they do it swiftly they've got bottom make control they got players now
joining into lower tunnels we get back and Brawling's job is to make sure that
no one from phase decides to get aggressive at long all right well you
have all the opening map control you'd want if your mouths as you just
highlighted mid was taken quickly you've had exertion kind of probing
and being deep on Catwalk, throwing out that smoke for the cross.
Start clearing out a couple details and then Miles can see what they find.
It looks like they're setting up at the moment a mid to be split.
Roland flashing Shuhei out mid.
Smoke is up in CT spawn against Frozen.
Oh! Is there a gap in that?
Yeah, a little bit to play with.
And Frozen's obviously managed to use it to devise getting effects
because he's got a second kill out of it as well.
Exertion finally treading ML, but it's not enough
to keep Malzahar in a powerful position with 30 seconds left. There's still two B defenders,
one of them's reigned, but he's gone. He's completely gone, so it all falls on Robson,
right? Stunned his shoulders, and he will not rest until all of these forces are gone.
And Tozzi left with limited health, now has a 1v2, and Karagin is joining up with Broki
in the tunnels, and they're closer than perhaps Tozzi will anticipate. He's got
to worry about Wendo and Dory, but both remaining players are now out through the
tunnels, and Tozzi will hear the sounds. You'll know they're both there, but
but he can't get the second so close, agonizingly close,
and Tozzi will know that, but Faye is able to pick it up.
What a job done by Rops.
Nice attempt from Malz, Frozen,
and Rops are the two players
that have the X-Factor performances.
Frozen finding that gap in the smoke on Shuhei,
and then sliding through to find an even bigger one
for a second kill.
Question now becomes, even with that plant,
does Malz have the money to challenge this?
I think he got a half buy.
They're gonna want that ADP out to Tozzi for sure.
Despite the fact he did some fine work with the AK-47, he even had a crack at Baroquee at the end.
Oh, sure he is really liberal with the compliments.
He is. He fires them out left and right.
You aimed at him so well.
You put your crosshair right there, man.
Right there.
Wonderful crosshair placement, Torji.
What a bit of a swill he did.
Look at this. Miles may have moved him fast.
Straight out and towards the people outside.
Robbs at the window.
Really good flashes from Malz to make sure Rops can only get the 1.
However, even in the 5 on 4, even against pistols, Retail can be difficult.
Rops is in, almost out of ammunition.
He got in very far, and the rest of FaZe following up behind him is doing God's work.
No plant, nothing for Malz, and the lead is shrunk to just 2.
Only getting 1 kill out of that from a quick play to be in.
That's how quickly FaZe can get back into games.
You know, they can have a terrible first half.
They have a real rough time.
And they win the pistol in the second, and straight away, they're coming back into the
game.
Two rounds of the gap, a buy again for Malz, this time they've got that off, they were
missing earlier Jason, they've got Torsi on the sniper, and he's put a bit of a hot
hand in this game, he's 16 and 8 at the moment.
Brokey looking for someone to just cross over to Xbox real quick, no one obliging,
smoke is going to go down, so he'll change his position.
Malz going through the motions, eventually their default will be complete in terms
of taking short control, but they're smoked away, and Rain will defend on the ledge.
They're going to respect this smoke at short.
Yeah, this will slow down for a little bit, and here's that basic fundamentals we saw
in the previous round, clearing out the mid-double doors as well, opening up the possibility
for a mid-to-B split late.
Didn't work the last time they ran it.
Rain from here, you imagine any contact he drops down, but he's got no molly,
and he's got no smoke to really slow any progression, so he's got to be cautious
after the fact.
The time is now certainly dwindling. We're at the 42nd mark and Mal is beginning to make the moves up short.
Sprinting into WC8, so I now raise looking for headshots and he gets 8 glints to reach Shuei off of short exertion with a double though.
He got frozen, he transferred down and spammed down Ren, who was hiding inside of the smoke.
So now that puts Mal as a player up with 20 seconds left, Balm now going down.
going down. Karagin is completely preoccupied about Brolin's late lurk at long, but he is
showing him nothing. And there's no reason to at this point because the bomb is planted.
Yeah, Brok is already called this off. Karagin is going to come just investigate for fun.
I think he realizes on some level he's probably getting flanked out by this lurk and he has
no chance of getting away, so why not peek into the bomb site? Good round from Maus.
Again, exertion with the big play, jumping up on top, making sure the defender's
on the ramp. And I think that's part of the reason why this kind of struggled. The rain
factor of not having a Molotov or a smoke doesn't give him the time that he feels safe
enough to fall all the way back towards the railing. So he plays from the ramp and gives
a lot of freedom to bounce his swing out wide on catwalk.
We're going to get a Torsi B peak as long as sure I give him permission to do so.
But I'd imagine he won't.
You know, I think you can get leader's love when players have ideas like that.
Yeah.
I mean, I also chose he does.
He generally does get the freedom to do what he wants with his ult.
Well, I told you he was gonna take it, so Shuei gave him the ult clear.
Rolling out wide.
Oh, he's got two.
He's got two!
Awkward engagement!
He sees all three out at the long, but he's gonna be punching himself at the moment.
He wanted a second frag out of that exchange.
But with the information, Maus' move quickly up Catwalk.
I can have a bit of a duel with Kerrigan, it's exertion.
Torgy looked like he wanted to walk through the tunnels there and see if he could catch
Robs, but got smoked out and held back just at the wrong time for him.
So we just had to respect that smoke for the majority of this round now.
So Brokey's responsibility is going to be the ABA bombsite, Kerrigan is committed
towards long as the smoke dates into the B-hauls, we go.
Frozen now at the double doors, first is his, AWP shuts him down afterwards, good
trade from Torgy.
Brokey's got one chance at it.
A narrow miss, but Torgie wants a second bite of the apple.
Oh, he gives him a second chance, but the shots come in from Maus.
They don't even need the bomb plant.
FaZe collapsed at their hands, and it's now 11-7.
As Maus starts to pull away with Dust 2.
FaZe look like they were right back into it, but it's gone again.
Two rounds in a row now from Maus' T side.
Two rounds in a row, and the all-critical round
of taking the muddy away from FaZe.
Second time out is used so they can talk things over,
because they're sitting really piss poor, let's call it.
2300 on frozen and rops, 3500 on Kerrigan is the most, reigns at 2k.
So you gotta decide right now if you're gonna force up here, if you're gonna try and leave some cash moving forward.
If you decide to full save and try and make the 5 round comeback.
Yeah, tough times now for FaZe.
Try and figure out a way back into this, it's almost surely going to be 12 to 7 miles with that point on Dust2.
This will be the first time Malz have taken a map ball phase since the CS Asia Championships
2023.
It was a long time ago, almost a year.
But this is a different phase at the moment than we've seen at different portions of
this year.
This is a phase that certainly look weak in comparison to what they can be.
In conjunction with that is the rise of all the other teams catching up to them.
Yeah, it's true.
Torgie's had this long angle with the AWP this entire round, so the rest of Malz is just going to come up and join with him, because he knows it's clear, he knows nobody's crossed a pit, and he can support and hold that corner if there's a late peek.
Jumping up, getting knocked down by Brolin.
If you're just tuning in, wondering the context, this is the last chance to make it into the playoffs for FaZe and Malz. To lose for this, eliminated.
The winner will move to the quarter-finals, and FaZe live to play Arena Counter-Strike.
Yeah, it's where they've always done their best work and that was really the last thing
they had to hang their hat on.
It's no matter how rough it might look in the group stage in the playoffs, it's a completely
different team.
It's a 180.
But struggling to get there at this point?
Yeah, struggling.
Mouses have the opposite issue.
Yeah, they're in group stages and then you get to the playoffs and they struggle on
the stage.
They haven't figured it out quite yet.
There's a lot of comparisons between the Mouses and FaZe side, a lot of people
saying like Miles is a min-fake in terms of we got this international squad and
exciting IGL to talk about and no real standout one star
oh there it goes it works yeah it works very well broke it to take Shuei out so
the opening kill is there for phase but it's short-lived because Brolin
attacking out of long he's taking Carrigan with him and now spots out
rain who's committed into the pit awkward fight for both players
involved. It's a good reposition from Reign. That's actually sick. I don't think
Brillen ever expects that. Nicely done. That's beautiful from Reign.
Sneaky, twinkled does Reign. Getting himself out of the pit to safety and it
works out very well. So FaZe now back into the player advantage position.
Ympat and exertion applying pressure. Oh, Frozen sees the backside of exertion.
Takes half of his health away and he faded into a fight with Ympat though.
No, there's two players there, headshot landed, quick switch to his knife, and Yimpat gets the swing on rocks.
Why is he so good? Why is this guy so good?
Oh, Broke! Okay, that's a little awkward. Yimpat's looking back up towards top mid, so puts Torji in another 1v2 clutch.
He's got one coming in the halls, he probably has an idea about that, certainly does now with the smoke,
but he can use that smoke to his advantage.
And can he get the scope ball? Yes, indeed!
Oh, nice shot from Torji, this one's for the map.
This was the close dots too and Dorsey sends Maus through 13-7.
MAP1 collected versus FaZe Clan.
The first time they've been able to take a map off of FaZe in just under a year.
This looks different.
Maus hoping, dreaming of the playoffs here in Rio.
Mid candle, they cannot walk out anymore.
Dennis, I killed him!
I killed him!
Nice watch out, boys!
Nice flash, Camille!
Oh, what a lead, bro!
Easy fucking game!
Nice fucking out, I'm good!
Fucking bot is up, baby!
Keep it up, keep it up!
Let's go!
So much better than them.
So, let's fight!
One car!
He's ramped!
He's ramped!
We're surfing guys, we're surfing!
Yeah!
I'm Gandalf!
Holding!
Ramp!
Dead ramp!
He should be late!
Out of the fuse!
I have kids on smoke!
See you long!
Nice!
Perfect, guys!
Let's go!
Only one!
Oh, so close!
I aimed it so well!
Good job!
It's okay, it's on again.
Window now again!
Boom!
Clustered behind window!
Breaking door!
Nice!
Fires and dragons and all of that have to do with Dust2 and FaZe and Maus on elimination game?
Absolutely nothing!
But what we do have is exactly that in front of us, an elimination game.
One more mix towards you with that last shot seals the fate of phase on the first map of series here at the Intellect Stream Masters and Rio
Elimination and phase not really fun to put in there one in the first map of series job
Yeah before the series took off here
We're talking about Shuie's interview and talking about where's that like compassion and fire and stuff and even in the rounds that they're losing
They're all engaged. They're all like mentally engaged. They're focused. They're all like, oh, it's all good
No worries. We'll get the next round. So things that they did well there on top of that
We saw the cohesion. We saw the aggression the confidence especially on their cp side
No fear aggressing up middle pushing through a long connecting up that way made round pushes through
Either tunnels or off cat and then when they couldn't get just quite over the line as a team
They'd also have that one versus two. I think they had exertion in a 1v2
Torsi had two chances at it. He converted one of them
The last round of the game for example, so
So, Maus looking pretty good right now, actually.
Yeah, I think they had just a really good game plan for this one, right?
How to break FaZe's default FaZe outside of the first gun round and early on didn't really
have long spawns that much, right?
Didn't go for any sort of fast B executes or anything like that up until the last round
in that B rush.
So, outside of that, it was just trying to play default and Maus had really good
setups to break that.
Yeah, let's look at some of the setup.
of the things that really went really well or really bad, Jango?
Yeah, I think you go up, right, the reset round early on.
You can see just, again, default force phase.
You will see players being sped around the map, right, going towards the tunnel.
There's going to be an extra guy there, trying to take control from lower, broke key, being
boosted up, spotting mid, trying to find a kill early, potentially until this smoke
blooms from phase, right, he's going to jump down.
you will see how now the players from Maus are going to use this timing.
There's also this smoke right here, which is a CT smoke, so they deny them the vision.
Sometimes people use it to bait. This time, they're actually going to utilize it,
and Shui as well on the catwalk is going to try and help with the setup. Obviously,
the weak points are long and be in this situation, but that's the risk you take,
the calculated gamble, and FaZe is going for sort of this slow way to clear.
the Molly comes in and I feel like Maus is really ready for all this native utility.
Torgy has to fall back a little bit but this is where Shui peeks, Brolin as well as well from
Lower B doing a lot of damage, Torgy breaks the smoke or the smoke clears and even now
towards the tail end of that round you could have seen Robs a little bit trying towards the B
bomb site to make a play but he was punished by Jimmy and in the end it's just frozen here
who's going to get pushed by exertion and that's the confidence that Josh was talking about
coming into play, despite the advantageous situation, you're still going for the aggression,
so Maus very much prepared for FaZe's T-Side.
And just a couple of things that Maus did to set that up, it's very easy to block that B rush,
just with a Mully, and then you top it up with a Smoke, leave that B site, gamble off of it.
Same thing with Long A, if you go towards Long, you throw a Mully in the doors and you smoke it,
if there's no flashes coming over top, you're pretty confident and safe in those types of
position. That's why sometimes on the T side it's good to sometimes condition with a long smoke,
maybe a couple flashes over, you bait out a reaction, you make people a little bit scared
just to condition them, but we didn't really get to see that except for on like actual commits
by pace. We're essentially, when you talk about it like that, they're making sure that someone
is at long. They're making sure that those players are there, maybe not on cat or maybe
not watching middle, right? So based on how the utility as the reaction from the CTs are,
so if the CTs start saying like, oh, there's flashes over, and they throw more of their
own flashes and more of their own mollies then you say oh the CTs are in a long set up right now
we know that there's a gap at you know potentially at middle or at short you can take a timing in
those directions maybe go B if you have a hard read so that information is really good to play
off of. Which is exactly what you're looking for is clear concise crisp clean comms wow that
almost didn't come out anywhere near how I wanted to but we do have a deal listening
with FaZe on that B site and retake.
So, what we did just watch is Dust2, obviously in that retake you hear the comms there, you hear a fluid intention within the retake.
Yeah, absolutely. Against an eco, there go B, Robs is playing in a more of a passive position, doesn't want to die, he asks for the flashes to come in.
I think that's really potent, these fast retakes, that's the best way to retake B.
I think if you wait around and try to set up with everything, as usually when we see rounds break down, it's before the T's can set up
and they're constantly getting blinded, where the flashes flying over is when the CT's have the most success.
trying to catch them in that post plant sort of shuffle like where we're gonna go post plant right it was even before that they
didn't even get the bomb planted and I remember watching this live and getting a little bit nervous
I was thinking like oh my god
They're going in and that the flashes didn't seem like they were on point and you heard in the comms a little bit a little bit of
like anxiety around like flash flash flash I asked for a flash and it's like hang on I'm about the flash
You know there's some sort of like I'm ready to go
But you're not ready to flash for me moment where and then you got the tech nines under the window the bombs
that have been planted yet. It got a little bit nerve wracking for a second, but watching
it back again, it looked like it was effortless almost. They did lose a couple of players.
But the effort can't stop you from either side. And I think that goes without saying,
again, this is elimination for either FaZe or Mouse, depending on the outcome of our
second map of the series being Mirage. Yeah, I think for FaZe, you're just being
able to maybe adjust a little bit better on the fly, because the round that you
showed, something similar happened once or one or two more times in the half,
phase wasn't really able to fight it. Then when you look on the second half, what happened,
you know, they lose to an A execute where the, their oper was on B and the other one is a
long spawn and a long rush. So not too much. It's just not having a bigger buffer for their
own city side. It really, you know, was the demise of phase on dust too.
Yeah. Listen, it was a little bit of a bumpy ride for phase, but you know, they, they stayed
strapped in, you know, here we go. They've reached cruising altitude. It's Mirage. It's
anyone's map really they can go any any direction right now like phase yeah mouse was able to take
that map pick and it looked like it was almost effortless for them with the cohesion with the
context of the situation of how they fell off a cliff and how phase looked like they were
rebounding a little bit better and now mouse comes out swinging they take that first map
but mirage it's still like anyone's playground i think for phase like mouse's plan is just
go in their face you know like get in their face be aggressive don't let them bully us
around the server. So if you're carrying, then that's what you need to game plan for. Like going
into Mirage, that's what you need to expect. They're going to be aggressive. So how are you
going to answer that? And Josh, just to really tie up what all those words you just used there for
a second. I think what you're saying in a long roundabout exaggerated way is we're on for a big
night. And by that, we're going to go ahead and cut to a break. So we come back when
getting Mirage. We're going to send one of these teams home that much. I can assure you
at the conclusion of the series. Either way, one thing for sure, you're watching the Intel
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I wanted to ask about your roles anyway because you're going up against certain tells
of setups like if they double molly mid on ancient they're most likely going to do this
right but like that type of an ante because you're saying I feel like this you don't have
too much of those tells anymore okay because everyone's changing so I feel like you there's
not going to be a surprise myself yeah I feel like I feel like a lot of times you would you would
like toe you would see the enemy team and they okay they toe two molotov but there are specific
that require specific utopias and as much as you can mask it or you try to mask it sometimes you just want to do this play
Like you know people running out cave fast to clear like street or whatever like on ancient
G2 is throwing a Molotov bucket every time they do it for example and you're like you see the Molotov coming in you instantly understand
What's going what was good? I don't know how much
It's not like it's gonna happen like that's the most dangerous thing you need to respect it
Yes, exactly. So it's like, yeah, they control more, and if it didn't happen, it doesn't really matter, you just play...
Are you ready for it?
Yeah, exactly.
I feel like in the top, like, five teams, this...
Hey, let's go to the Noobies. You guys, at the start of the Noobies, we parked against you, like, to do the stair smoke, and you push.
But you do the stair smoke every now and then, so when do you push?
Yeah.
So you would have... You do have some tells, and...
But in some games, we're looking at it, and we're like, OK, well, if this utility happens, they can be aggressive.
So every time we see the smoke, guys, watch out, watch out!
But at some point, guys, be ready for this kind of stuff.
And it's just like a matter of, obviously, the map.
Obviously, some things are huge tells,
but I feel like we don't really have those tells when
you come to play-offs, to stage games.
You don't really have those huge tells
when you're around single-player.
Super tells probably not, but at least the little bells
that you play a little bit more cautious about.
I think a lot of those, like, if they do that kind
of thing that they don't believe they do.
And sometimes you can play around it.
sometimes the enemy will they don't but it's also like what you said but maybe
it's not like the round it maybe it's like the idea that they want to do yeah
so for example maybe you know that whenever they do this is double moley
on ancient maybe on double moon on ancient they want to make that they play
aggressive middle but they are not and they are pushing B or A main
it doesn't matter it could be anything and if you don't know the idea I know
at least that maybe they have 3 tries B they will push sooner or later or you're gonna be ready for
that. Sounds like they have to be ready for everything though. Yeah! What the fuck? What's in the club?
Future pros, I have a classic mirage smoke for you today and that is the mid window smoke from
T-Sport. If you're feeling a bit too lazy to learn all the spawn smokes or you want smoke
mid in the mid round this should help you out. To throw the smoke get into the corner of
the bin. Aim at this point about 75% to the right of the door then just below the middle
point between the door and the roof. Then hold D to walk into the bin and jump through.
Just like that mid should be smoked off. I see a lot of miss smokes the window so don't be one
of those people. Be one of the good ones. You're watching the Intellect Tree Masters Rio 2024.
We've got Maus on the brink of finally beating FaZe Clan for the first time this year.
This could be something special if they're able to do it, Jason.
Oh, especially because it also builds upon that and gets him into the playoffs of IA embryo.
So, yeah, it'd be quite nice for a number of reasons for the Maus side of things.
Less nice, obviously, for FaZe, who's been experiencing this kind of small resurgence.
Dust2, let's see if it's just a hiccup or if it's a sign that today's not their day.
Mirage is picked next.
Dust2 was FaZe's pick, and Maus just snatched that away with him with no real problems.
so let's see what they've got going on here on Farage.
Yeah, that's the worrying part about Dust2.
It was this election of FaZe Clan, and now they're going to do the hard work on Mirage.
CT side start for the side of FaZe, and Mal is starting with everyone outside of B.
Yeah, and Kerrigan was going to head to Catwalk, but he's already got two players aggressive there.
It was saying it's all clear. Nobody's home, so Kerrigan slides back into the bomb site,
but he's the only defender for quite some time.
Let's see what he's able to do.
He's had a couple of nice pistol rounds on the CT side of this USP Kerrigan,
and not in this round. He gets annihilated by Brolin.
rolled over, bomb planted here for Maus and it doesn't get much better than that.
Shuhei with a double at short and FaZe are dispatched off Maus with a clean, quick, decisive pistol.
Yeah, absolutely. Just nice and simple. Execute onto the B bomb site, found a good timing,
found FaZe running a tactic where resources were elsewhere and a beautiful piece of aggression from Shuhei as he slides up Catwalk.
This could very well be a 2-0 now.
Oh, really could. I mean, Maus brought you.
It's something it's definitely something special especially my exertion was having a good game on dust to that's generally a good sign
If he's having a good series that mirage is going to be a piece of the puzzle
Yeah, he's gonna be a really important thing for phase to slow down to start this out is like you know
Yeah, he's got that confidence from having a good dust to he's obviously feeling good today's been smiling a lot
He's gonna be really proactive on the map. He's gonna be challenging
He's not gonna be afraid of anything so job number one for phase is to make him a little bit hesitant
Make him kind of sit back, make him consider his options and maybe force him away from the aggressive ones from time to time
But if you can shut him down once or twice in the first gun rounds
If we're calm, we're in control of the game. Yeah, let's fucking go, please. Let's send them home this map. Let's fucking go, please
All right, towards you the hype man, let's send him home this map
I mean he was playing like
He wanted to do that in the last map closed it with a clutch as well
Well, I'm not sure the Dust2 did not have any opportunities for FaZe to come back into it.
And obviously having a good performance here on Mirage can make a massive difference as
well.
Frozen the only investment this round for FaZe, he picked up a Deagle because he had
the armor saved from the pistol.
Yeah.
I won't say what Frozen can do with it, but other than that, nothing really all that
exciting for FaZe in a round like this, the B bomb site is open at the moment.
There's no one really to investigate for miles in this round, they've got like
no map they can sort of send in, but with these advanced positions it's a matter of patience.
Frozen just trying to figure out what's happening, Kahn gets taken down.
Now he's going to start making the move just now.
They're fighting for one of the two available spots in the playoffs, the only way of getting
it for the two squads is the other spot and the playoffs is available to either
Virtus Pro or the Mongols which is a series that is currently ongoing on the B-Street.
They're rounding out the groups.
We're doing it soon.
And I am really just coming around pretty quick, Jason, this time of year.
In the tournament, it's also gone pretty fast as well.
We're already in the final day playoffs.
We'll take a break tomorrow and obviously the playoffs will be ready to go and it's
always a great time when Counter-Strike comes to Brazil, especially when Furia are
in the playoffs.
Yeah, that is nice.
This time, Mao's actually beat FaZe in a series, it was ESL Pro League Season 18.
Now for those of you paying attention, we just finished ESL Pro League Season 20 just a couple weeks back.
It's literally just about a little over a year ago that Mao's last beat FaZe.
Yeah, that's pretty depressing.
But it could all change today.
Quite a dry spell. In fact, that was CSGO, wasn't even CSGO.
Yeah, they haven't done it in CS2. That's crazy to think about.
We were sitting months ago, before the summer, talking about this with Launders, and we were saying, you know,
if Mauser, Phaser, Mauser's last step, you know, this is a team that they just can't shake, they just can't be.
It's because they have that connection of like, one team is like, we get 10 times better when we're on the stage,
and our team is like, yeah, we get a little worse when we're on the stage.
Yeah, exactly. And they met them in the plus, but obviously in the last time they played each other was the Intoxiomaster, Chengdu.
That was earlier this year.
Chengdu?
Chengdu, yes.
That's how I believe they say. Harry was teaching me, you know?
It is a Chengdu.
It's not a Chengdu.
No, but it is spelled that way.
Yeah.
You know, it's got to be right.
Things get weird.
Alright, well, first gun round is underway.
All M4s, there's two kits picked up on Karrigan and Rain.
No AWP on the field for either side.
Now it's taking this a little cautiously.
Rops is well exposed from a couple different angles and Xersion just swings into that fight and gets a kill with Eaths.
Yeah, getting exposed in the series, he's having a rough time here.
And it happens so early that FaZe have to back off this, because you can already go out and if you look at the minimap, look over towards the impad.
He's creeping up a ramp because they've seen some of that pressure. They got the kill on Rops, they saw one more, so he's like,
I'll go investigate, he's not even needed because Brolin's there.
So, this round's just falling apart as Mal is basically just walking to bomb sites and FaZe not prepared for any of it.
A flat round from FaZe in the CT side.
Karagid has no other option but to try and save his M4 on the other side of the map.
It doesn't feel pretty, it doesn't feel nice, but it is a necessity here for Karagid.
It ends up being a 3-0 start here for Maus.
Really impressive stuff to kick off Mirage, and you do start to worry now for FaZe.
Yeah, and this goes back to mentioning that Maus is so good on this map.
Not only do you have Xersion, who's an incredible player when it comes to
challenging and taking over the center of the map.
He plays up Khan, he plays up in Window towards Jungle.
He loves that kind of stuff.
You also have Brolin, who at different times for miles has been really, really effective at kind of lurking the A bomb site pretty aggressively when he feels like he can find a 1v1 there, he will go test it.
You added Torgy's AWP when he brings that out.
A really tough task.
That's just a recipe for success for miles. A lot of positives pointing in their direction.
And Karen, again, unable to save onto the M4, exertion was on the hunt and sniffed him out in the kitchen, forced him into the open to fire and headshots him.
So, nothing safe for FaZe, it goes from bad to worse.
And now they're in a situation where they want to invest something.
So, Rain can afford an M4, everybody else is going to either be on an MP9 or upgraded pistol.
But the little Kevlar sprinkled him behind it, but it is another round that looks very good to come up mouse.
Well, we saw what they could do on Dust2, Rob said that Hero AK-47 and almost pulled around out of his hat.
Took an Xertian 1v2 to shut it down.
This time it's Rain with the Hero rifle.
He's doing his best to look for a fight over a window, but smoked out for so long
Gonna have to look elsewhere
Two players in the B bomb site
Rain back at bench and that is the one player you want them to come towards because he's got the rifle
Carrying with a 5-7 out at short
The rain carrying combo must combine to stop what is going to be a B play from mouths a B split to through short
They've got one in connector exertion just to apply pressure on the lurk
I've got to see it. Oh my god. Okay, that's the rifle gone. That's the job over
Arrogant tries his best, but I mean what do you do if you read Jason? What can you do about that? That rifle was very gone
I don't think I've ever seen anyone quite as dead as rain was in this round
He was even playing like slight all I know and you think maybe it's gonna get at least a bullet off. No, just just
Instantly
At least it was rain, you know that probably won't phase him too much. Yeah, you'd hope so
It was like, ah, well, that happened.
But it is that 4-0 star for Mouse.
Good patience from the impact.
Finds rops and secures an escape route for everyone, for himself especially.
Yeah, 4-0.
Let's see what FaZe has got in this next round.
You have to imagine Brokey with 2400 is going to have the AWP, they've got the full
loss bonus or plenty of cash for the AWP.
Once that comes out, maybe FaZe can change their fortunes.
Torgy with 6500 will pick up an AWP as well, so we should get the Cypers involved and more
action moving forward.
Frozen up against his X teammates today, mouse.
See what the AWPs can do with double lock set up, Carrigan and Baroquey.
Now Carrigan, now you will be more familiar with this than I will, Jason, you know?
Used to be a bit of an Alper, didn't you, back in the day?
Back in the day, yeah.
And I mean, even in early CSGO, this was, back when we used to get players this
terminology here is I kind of a mirage specialist when it came to all things
so I got another first kill here with the AWP good job from Karrigan exertion
feels the gap reads the play and fires off a couple of bullets into brookie
who's got a run from the ball and got out by run I mean crawl kind of fumbled it
on the way out but at least he got out and that's the difference he couldn't
live to fight another day and he's got a head shot right on the exertion with
the big old AW. And now Torsche and Brolin left into 2 vs 3 and they don't know how close
Brokey was to death. They come to this B bomb-sided as Karagin that must roll back those years
and deliver with a sniper.
Well, another going into an AWP. Karagins gave up his position. Oh, my lord, Torsche
tracked that the whole way. But this is a tough off-angle. And Torsche has the
bomb so he's got to press the issue. Now it's dropped. Karagin, you should
Just fine Nate comes in, but he evacuates the position footstep hurt rolling taken down
What a round from broke you with the AWP nicely done two kills put down to 11 HP early
Well, that's that's a great outcome for the double-op setup
You know it gets hit both of those ops chime in for multi-kills in the round and get the job done for face and
Broke you was so close to dying and he delivers impact just for the brink of death
Chris shots and carrying
Well, Tors you can afford an AWP again.
Faye's able to pick his old one up and still have the double op setup, but now say, fine,
play with two ops.
Well, head to the B bomb site, unfortunately for them, Kerrigan Lastron had the second
op, he switched to an M4, it's Robs with the secondary AWP, and they're coming right
at the B bomb site, so a kill on Kerrigan would be lovely.
Getting into this bomb site, forcing the AWP into an awkward retake, but it's not
Gun well to start. Brolin's here to change that, but can only get the one.
He bombsite overwhelmed. Overrun.
But FaZe still have the numbers advantage into what has to be a retake attempt.
The grenade does not go far enough to disperse the smoke.
FaZe are still pinned at short, but they're getting stepped closer and closer to the site.
But as smoke fades away, it's Frozen's hands are busy. He is dead.
Shuei on the follow-up, it's just robbed, and he can't get himself into this round.
He'll retreat away with the AWP, and Maus will head to 5.
Nicely done from Maus. Really good job considering you started that out losing a couple of players, 3 vs 4 in the post-plan. Such good positioning.
And a nice call from Shuei in my mind of saying, alright, double AWPs, we'll get into a bomb site. Forced you to retake.
Rob's not having a good time trying to hold onto this. Finally, he deals with the threat of exertion, who just has to give it a bit of a chuckle.
Exertion have a little laughs. She's having a good time trying to chase rops down bait out the shots as much as possible time
I'll use by phase
Conversation to be had they've got money for a buy reigns got 5600
So scraping together what they can but it's all gone after this
I'll tell you what this might be the event if they can't win this round you go down one to six
And then you're out of money and you think one to seven
That's a hard hole to climb out of a mirage against mouse
recall little spoiler the call that from
Shuei want to go for the full execute
over towards this A bomb site so two smokes tossed in the middle just to shield
them from being spotted and giving away too much information in mid and Malz are
going to be heading everybody into this A site.
FaZe is playing a pretty passive defense at the B bomb site they're aggressive in
middle and Broke he's over in market so he'll be able to come back pretty
quickly all things considered. Shuei's waiting for his moment going to swing up early inside
this site lane goes down to Barola. Malz trying to pull into the lane once
Once again, they come out on the losing end of the trades in the initial thrust.
Karagin's already around the back.
Look how fast he's going into this position.
He's all the way behind them.
That shot wasn't too far off and landing through the smoke.
Shuei realizes a risk is needed to be taken, but it's not going to be able to get away.
Shuei will fall, Yimpak chiming in, but remember Karagin's flank was everything, and
it works out for a kill on Yimpak.
Putting it down to Torsi, and PUSTIBLE in 1v2 clutches.
We've seen it already.
I flashbang hit him in the face though, it's going to give all the time needed for Rops to get the set up the line and he peeks into it.
Yeah, he's had a little bit more usage of the AWP than he's used to Rops, but he's connected the shot at the end there. That's the second round for Faze.
It's perfect from Faze. I mean a lovely call in terms of the defense. Blind luck that it's called into an A execute, but you're pushing mid right at the start so you get Karrigan to have a jump on the flank all the way around through T spawn.
T spawn he's here at a time that you can't predict.
Brokey was playing retake at the B bomb site so even he's able to slide over pretty quickly.
And even though it doesn't accomplish much he does prevent them from taking complete control
of CT spawn stairs.
And FaZe get a survive to continue fighting.
Money's almost gone for Malz.
One AK-47 in pistols.
Execute ready to go into the B bomb site.
Two players here.
Brokey!
Well they aren't blinded he isn't blinded he isn't forced away by smoke instead
It's Karrigan that'll do the brunt of the heavy lifting that's stopping this attack
It's to kill some as M4 before he's blasted away by the Deagle in the classic
The trademark working no scope has to be involved at some point and finally overrun
Taken down by the tech nine. Is there something in this round for Shuei and Yim pad?
It certainly looks like you with that Deagle shot bomb down again rain to close it
And it was a glimpse of hope for Malus, but shut immediately by phase and no bomb plant importantly
So should be pretty much a full eco for miles in this round
Which gives phase that chance to creep the scoreboard a little bit closer three to five right now
They survived that nightmare round and now they get a brief the rewards and build upon it
Nice double from carrying it just the paving right into his spray for exertion with the only rifle
The impats deagle that provides all the strength for miles, but not enough
They're gonna be getting a little restoked. It would look like yeah, it does seem that way doesn't it?
It does no one's moving
And there's the restart or always reminds me of you know the the athletics gun when you're about to do a sprint
You know gun goes off. Oh sure go a little early. Yeah
You were doing many athletics when you were younger Jason
Yeah, but never never needed a starting pistol for any of them really. Yeah
It was always pretty cool to do that. I felt like you know an actual athlete as I
I ran my 100 meters and I'm not actually an athlete.
I actually got disqualified from the Javelin event because I was eating curry chip, which
is fries of curry.
But I was eating that on the sideline because I was hungry and I got disqualified from not
being athletic.
Oh, sure.
From the Javelin event, the PET teacher.
How does that make you feel?
You actually got officially considered non-athletic.
Yeah, because I was eating fries.
On your official record, there's something, there's a piece of paper.
It was fine, you know, Jaffelin was not an event I really enjoyed.
And I got some medals and other stuff, so I'll take it.
And I enjoyed that.
Curry chip.
You ever had a curry chip?
Probably.
Yeah, nice big, you know, chippy chips.
All the coal power fans will know about that.
But you know, you just have some curry fired on top of that.
OK.
It's real good.
You fire some cheese in there, Jason.
Then you're really cooking.
Yeah, it sounds like it.
You guys got a whole system for that.
Yeah.
Well, the appends are needed.
So it seems to be quite a serious problem.
It does.
I saw someone crawl into the desk earlier,
and obviously, they didn't fix anything.
So they're going to continue going down the checklist.
They've got a whole system for this kind of thing, too.
Yeah, systems.
They're really what life is all about at the end of the day.
When those systems fail, we have absolute chaos.
Yeah.
Where were we before systems?
So Karrigan's having a little bit of a chat
trying to diagnose this problem.
Here comes the music.
It comes at a fortunate time in the game, I think, when you're about to go into basically a full eco.
It's luck if you're trying to call a pure gun round or a really important round, but now it's like, now it's like, yeah, we're just using blocks in the next round, it's not a huge deal.
Changing the headset, it appears.
Yeah, a headset problem generally is not someone to have to play with.
Not at all. Alright, I'm giving everybody at home that, again, three seconds spoiler warning as I'm intrigued as to how the other game is going.
are you updating us on which game
uh... that will be the first pro verses mongol's game from the b-street okay
so three
to one
and it is currently in map two as for the pro lead the white thirteen ten they
beat mongol's on the map that eventually now it's just too
that's not ideal
uh...
matches really started mongol's another team that seems to just like
really struggle with the pressure of like
the elimination matches right
Yeah, they get so many cool games. They always get to the brink, don't they?
They show they can compete with the best, and then they get put into a situation where they got to play that final match to make it into the playoffs or go home, and they struggle with it.
I remember the most heartbreaking moment we were commenting in Cologne, right, against Saul.
It was like the qualified game to the playoffs, or you go down to like the lower bracket, and Blitz could have killed the diffuser, but aimed at Heaven on Nubus, and they diffused the ball in front of him,
And then they go on to lose that series and get eliminated from the tournament.
So there's been moments for Mongols to take the next step, especially at an IM event.
I know, and everyone's pulling for him, right? Everyone's rooting for him. Everyone wants to see Mongols keep going with it.
And they've been giving VP. Like, this is their best chance.
Yeah, that's fair. VP looking pretty atrocious lately. Good to see you in a J-min or something.
He loves giving interviews in Brazil. I'm intrigued as to what's in that, to be honest.
I've only seen the headline, I haven't read it yet, but the headline was something like nobody in this team is safe, even me.
It's like, we're all in danger!
Yep, that's true.
We'll see how the future of EP looks as the future of our game.
Doesn't look all that exciting because it's Glock's and a P250 here for a mouse.
So, yeah, I guess this is more entertaining. We just watched the static on the television and we've turned that off as well.
This is Shuei coming out of the timeout of the tech pause and just being like I came up with an idea during that little meditation period
Let me tell all of you mine. I
Don't know what the idea is. I'm just saying you know there was one
Yeah, but he was like we're gonna change something because you know, I thought it's let's take so long that face players fall asleep
Yeah, that could be an idea that is an idea
Well, you gotta remember this double-up setup is in the park of face his game over the last year rounds and rops is still wielding it
I do like that, you know, yeah, often you get see ropes all and we've seen mouths like switch when this double-op setup came into play
We saw him switch into more execute heavy styles. They did a be exact. They did an a exact. They've gone back to be exact
And unfortunately, I don't think they've been nearly as effective as miles miles would like in terms of putting these ops in an awkward situation
The rifles of a phase are doing just enough work to not to kind of take away the overwhelming
Superiority of AKs in the post plant against the ops
Let's fucking close out the late rounds boys, they're playing so much better than them to
be honest.
Yeah, nothing is working for them, yeah.
Oh, you put it that way?
Yeah.
Let's see, just close out the late rounds.
I mean, it's understandable they have been playing better than Faze.
It is that simple.
Getting themselves into strong positions in the early stages of the round, they gotta
know they're going up against this double-op setup.
They approach it. Just going to the default for now, and Brolin's back at T spawn, just making sure no one's hunting him, no one's pushing.
He's now retreating, he's going to gain, or rather, rejoin, his teammates elsewhere on the map.
They're going to walk right into Raps's crosshair, miss shot, he's in trouble. Climbs the ladder, molots off, but they're going to come right through and towards you fighting into flames,
and actually not even taking as much damage as I would have expected and Karrigan caught on a timing.
the timing. Coming through the smoke is Ympat and that's the B bomb site. Lost rain goes
down next and there is no access here for Faze.
Unfortunate timing for Karrigan to take his position and try to jump up onto the ledge.
Just as soon as he does that, he'll see multiple mouse plays, come streaming towards him and
rops. You can see the problem when that ult doesn't work for him. When he misses
the shot, he doesn't have any potential to handle the pressure being put into the
ladder room.
I love Shuri, man. He'd be a fun person to play a game of Counter-Strike with.
He's just a beautiful voice. That's beautiful.
That'll make you feel good when you're standing around him.
Done what the in-game leader needed to close out the later on.
And everything worked exactly by design.
No hiccups whatsoever for Maus.
Six to four lead.
That's what I want from my teammates.
That's exactly what I want from my teammates.
If you guys play with me in a matchmaking game...
Be nice.
No, just tell me that's a beautiful counter strike.
It's like Jason gets one kill, you tell him it's beautiful.
No matter how bad it was.
No matter how bad, that's all you need.
Sometimes you fake it till you make it.
Good entrance from Shuei provided.
Rops gets another kill, but he's brought down by it.
Oh, he did it again.
Oh, broke it this time, was that the stuff.
Yeah, that's a bit of a problem.
They've got to try and get that back.
And they will very swiftly show Shuei picks it up,
sprints him back over to the B-bomb site,
and Yimpat, Yimpat, right in the window.
Oh, no, not comfortable for Yimpat,
but at least he's able to get away.
And that grenade, that is beefy.
That is a beautiful brisket sandwich of beef right there on the two players, and they're left retreating.
At least one of the brookies going for a reposition, Robs not buying it.
He's just gonna wait here. He's hoping that those steps on the runaway bait to play around, but Robs is about to get blind.
They come through the other door, and brookies decided, yep, can't really do too much about this.
I'm gonna retreat, and it's seven rounds to four, Mao is in complete control.
I'm surprised they even considered going for it in that 2v2 after that maid lands.
It took like 70 HP off of Brokey, something crazy like that.
But I mean, there's no money in the phase camp, so saving this off is massive.
But even if you just had one M4 left over, even if Rops had backed off,
and been like, you know what, this ain't worth it anymore.
Got a little extra to fight with.
Small run from phase, but it's short lived, only three rounds in a row.
Last round of the half.
phase desperately looking for that faith that are mapped down in this
elimination game at I am Rio phase of struggled in Rio when they were at the
top of the world coming in as defending champions from the Antwerp major to the
Rio major they were incapable of making it far at all they went out last
0-3 in their group and last year wasn't a great result either for them
they traveled out to Rio at a time where they were just finishing up at the
RMRs where they had to go to the last chance just to get into the major and
now this year they've come back and again it looks like it's gonna be a
troublesome time. Rain walking into West Barrowland, I'll get a white slow
burner this round. It's gonna be a split through con as we can tell smoke just
went down. Defensively deployed. Footstep made, so Rops knows one is in car. Gonna play behind
the smoke for this MP9 close up. Can't handle it. Good kill from Rain but traded back. MP9's
doing some work though and Faze still in this. 20 seconds, that's all that's left of this
round for Malus. They get into the bomb site, missed shots from Brokey. It's getting
a little uncomfortable, that's the bomb. And Shuei realized he needed to go aggressive
and get that kill with 10 seconds left. The bomb plant has to start soon and no
No one's on H2A, finally putting that bomb down, but now he's got to clutch it.
He's all on his own, 1v2 for the in-game leader, and he can't stop frozen.
It'll be another round secured right at the end for FaZe.
They have so much work to do to bounce back, battle back, and try and stay alive here in
Rio.
Malus are in pole position.
We're here since Malus beat FaZe, and they're just six rounds away from accomplishing
that here at IEM Rio.
7-5 is the score coming into the second half.
This win for Malzahar Mirage would eliminate FaZe from the tournament and move Malzahar into the playoffs.
A lot on the line. A lot to be excited about if you're a Malzahar fan at the moment.
But let's see if they can get the job done. FaZe notoriously difficult to put away.
But they haven't shown us that life yet. They haven't shown us something in the series to believe that is possible.
But let's see if the second half will change that fact.
As FaZe set up for an A-Play in this pistol, smoke's going out, flash will follow.
all five players about to attack into this mouse defense.
Well, they had a smoke for the Molotov, so it seems like they're well-prepared.
That's a beautiful shot. That's a beautiful way to build upon it.
And that's a beautiful round of whips.
That's the pistol round. And there we go.
That happened all so fast, effective from phase.
That's exactly the outcome that you want when you set up a round like this.
You have an execute of the smokes popping in, everybody charging in.
This is exactly how you envision it happening.
all the clean entries you dominate them and you get a pistol round victory give
me a ninja exertion just give me a try 10 second in that's ambition
let me save that wish for another day jason yeah we'll try again later well
straight great pistol from phase and they're quick to buy so up mac 10s on
two two glials and ak miles obviously nothing real okay brolin's buying yeah
Yeah, right at the end.
Okay, here we go.
Force Buy for Mouse.
Yeah, it's coming in late.
Even Torgy investing as well
is leaving 900 bucks to help try
and get the ADP on a little bit earlier.
Because this was so late,
I don't believe there's an idea behind it,
but maybe they can figure it out as they go.
Well, maybe they came up with the idea very late
and they're like, okay, we like it, that's fine.
Yeah, long hand, maybe.
Maybe. There you go.
I sold it to you.
I bought it.
Back in the room.
Pre-ordered it.
Let's see if it works out for Mouse.
Let's see if that idea is something that the...
We'll put it in the cookbook.
Ooh, blind.
searching to get a few steps back
the the important thing for miles is going to be getting some information
you're not you're you're not likely to win this round if you can't get a cheat
on where you need to be
and they don't really have a whole lot of people in position are trying for
that information which means brolin and she were just alone at the same
bomb site it's a full execute coming in
towards you can hustle over but he's got no nades he's only got a five seven
so what you're telling me is it doesn't look likely she was
to be able to do enough for brolin here to stop this phase attack
Well, you would be right.
Yeah.
And it just gets a little bit worse, with every second that picks off her mouse, unable to make the most out of the situation.
Brolin getting one kill on his MP9, but no one else until the impact.
Yeah, and Rain did a good job of stalling him out of middle.
Grabbing his one kill, doing some damage, but just mostly making them waste time clearing him out.
So it'll be tied up at seven.
In fact, an exertion might set up for some exit kills, but no attempt to go for this round whatsoever.
And then they'll be saving in the next.
Yeah, you can see, like, if you're gonna go for that second run by at some point,
yeah, there needs to be a play to get information, or you just need to do a blind stack somewhere,
but that kind of standard setup for Mao's isn't gonna do anything against a full exact.
Oh, exertion! Oh, God. That's really quick reactions from Karrigan.
At least the impact is able to finish off the damage that Exertion was able to dish out
and Yimpat will save his Kevlar and Helmut.
And the 5-7 smoke.
Yeah, pretty good kills.
Obviously the T side economy is not as punishing as the CT, so not the biggest deal in the
world but it's still good to get him.
Not that money from getting too crazy.
Roland did everything he could but not a lot of safety in those boards.
So heading into round 15.
Yeah, 5-7s, P250, that's what Miles have to play with him and have one last
player instantly.
So, FaZe about to take the lead, and you wouldn't say that FaZe have had the best Mirage here, right?
You wouldn't say they're playing their best game whatsoever, but the fact that they're going back into the lead
just proves to you that even athletes love that they're staying competitive against Miles and Stain.
Yeah, you know, I think they did okay, all things considered.
The double-up setup showed some strength to it there, first stretch, yeah, that was good.
Just, I mean, you know, Miles abused the economy a little bit early,
but nicely done from FaZe to keep themselves close to come back this quick.
Yeah, and the start of the second half obviously is pretty fantastic.
You won that low buy on the final round of the first half as well with MP9s.
You had a couple good things in there, if you're faze.
Well now look at the lead.
Well, let's see what they can do with it.
So the third map in this series would be Nuke, correct?
That would be correct, Jason.
Nuke is the third map, yeah.
Alright.
I would love to go there.
I think that would be a really exciting finish.
I would guarantee you Mals would hate to go there.
They're going for this right at the end.
Oh, not gonna work out too well for them, Shuei.
He's coming into the site.
But you've gotta worry about Karagina Palace, so he should be the insurance ball.
So you impact doing as much damage as you can, gets one extra kill on the way out, but...
Phase in the lead.
Yeah, kinda a couple nice kills right at the right garbage time.
Op comes out for Torji. He saved the money specifically for the AWP, so good maths from him.
M4 is picked up.
On the defense, around it.
One round deficit for Maus.
still six rounds away from that 2-0 sweep of FaZe eliminating them.
But now that the AWP is out, they can open up the playbook a bit more.
FaZe not doing a default.
Coming right to the A-Bomb site out of the gate.
Brolin's playing very far back.
Towards triple boxes. Shuei and Khan, Torgie and Windo.
And Brolin's gonna need some assistance.
Tapping through the smoke.
Brolin doing a little bit of damage onto Rain and Frozen.
Grenade flies over and hits the chest of Brolin, but phase of Occupied, yay, bomb site with a majority of their forces.
Reign gets that kill through that smoke as it disperses for long enough to catch towards the plant locked in on default.
And we've got Maus either saving or going for this retake in a 4v5.
I think they're all here close enough. You can see if you get something and Brolin's provided it.
Frozen stuck behind the boxes. No more nades or molotovs to flush him out as well.
He's going to be a really impactful player at the late stages of this round.
There's two kits available for Malz and here's the retake.
Well, Smoke goes down a ramp and Broke, he doesn't want to play in behind.
So he gets up on towards the top of Tetris and it's going to be nothing from him.
But Shuei and Brolin both go down this time with the hands of Karagin and Frozen.
Over the time, ticking on, it is getting rough here for Malz,
but they suddenly find kills right at the end, Broke with another no scope,
but the time is the problem and Yimpat has to run away through spawn
to hang on to the AWP for Malz and FaZe.
Keep going, it's a ninth now on the board.
That got quite sketchy though. If Miles is going for that, if he doesn't get that last kill,
Jimmy's running into the bomb site, you know, and he's got time with the kit to defuse.
And still, in this round, all five players go down, so despite the victory's non-stop for phase to open up this half,
now four in a row in his second half, you don't have a whole lot of money to play with,
and I think that might be very influential on how Miles chooses to invest in this round,
because they're giving it everything.
Oh, Misha for Torsi. I would love to get that one back.
Yeah, he missed that one, a ticket with a broken smoke.
That one, he won't miss third times the shot.
Oh, I guess he did get it back in a way, didn't he?
He got a second attempt at it.
Is that smoking connector is blown open by his own design
and exertion nipping in, taking away broken,
dropping back into cover?
It's not the start phase with a pokeball.
It's one they have to work with.
And Robs will take the first step
of pulling phase back into the round.
Yeah, it feels like Catwalk has closed up
until that smoke blooms though,
so towards you might have to find a new position.
Thankfully, Shuey's on top of things.
Pushes up towards the Catwalk corner,
and Rops has no idea so Bea is well defended and the bomb is dropped on Catwalk.
Harrigan coming from middle. It's frozen who's got no idea about a Jimpat. Good kill.
And that's it. And we'll see this this can be the moment that Miles's defense
snaps into place and they just run it all the way back. His phase is gonna
have no money so you have an easy round coming up next in which to build
some momentum off this victory. There's the second attempt. Awesome Torji. He's had a couple of those
moments frozen. I've seen him get frustrated a few times in this series. We saw a clip earlier
of him calming after he died and just looking extremely frustrated as well. Yeah I guess when
things aren't going smoothly and it's obviously a very tense game with everything on the line,
you know. It's either you go, you get this win, you get into the playoffs or you're going home.
You know I feel like I probably shouldn't be but I am a little surprised to see FaZe investing here
They're gonna they're fully investing so tech 9s, P250, D.G.L. on Brokey, armor and utility
They're just going into it with pistols are gonna try and steal one away
What's the risk with this then?
Well, I mean if you lose this the next round is obviously gonna be the save
Or depending on how many kills you get maybe you decided to do another half five
And again, you this would be tied up and then you'd have no money and Malz has taken the lead and
Then you're playing from behind. So let's see what FaZe can do here
Only a one round losing bonus, so it didn't feel like they would have had a great buy
in the next round.
That would be worth saving.
They were huddled around 2K.
Oh, well, Karagin's play out of Palace has proven to be fruitless.
Brawling peeking in towards Middle, it's 1 for 1 against Rops.
They've thrown out their utility, there's only one smoke and one flash left.
The smokes went down a market window short and out towards A, but FaZe have decided not
to play with any of them yet, and that does leave it all on frozen with utility, and they've
got to play a 3v4 there in a player deficit situation and they're going back to an A finish
with just under one minute left on this clock.
Doesn't seem too likely that FaZe are going to be able to pull this off, but we've
said that before about FaZe.
They can do miraculous things with these little pistols.
I'm in the attention of Shurei and Torji.
You can't make any massive mistakes.
It looks like they won't be Shurei dinged,
but he's fine with it.
He's got his kill.
He knows it's time for Torji's play.
And all that's left is to try and get the bomb plant,
swing it around.
Frozen thinks he's stuck it.
Or Torji thinks he's stuck it.
Frozen gets the kill, but we're tied up at nine.
Yeah, for sure Frozen wishes the bomb didn't come out
under his hands as he peeked that,
but even then it would have been tough.
Yeah, it's yeah now you save so miles. This is the easy round where you think it's gonna be 10 9 miles
It's starting to have a good amount of cash and if they survive this one with four or five players up
They've got another buy behind them. Yeah money's growing exponentially
And they really should keep the majority of their forces alive in this round because there's barely any investment
There's one p250 thrown into the mix here for face
Should be easy easy pickings for miles
We're gonna get that first win against face
in a year. Sure there'll be a big relief as well if they're capable of taking them down
today. Just finally we've done it. Took a long time. I feel like there's been a lot of those
curses getting figured out recently. Back at Pro League we had a, oh why is my brain
just stopped right now? They just brought the point. Well Mous might be able to upset
FaZe would change that. We had the Navi beating the Vesta 5 thing. Yes and then
And we got...
Would not be beating Spirit, who they'd really had to attack.
That was it.
Okay.
And obviously, but we got new ones beginning, you know?
Yeah, we're going to get the phase.
Mal's about to shake off the curse, keep your numbers up.
So far so good for Mal, nice and clean, in fact...
Okay, Torchie.
Yeah, that is a little wild.
That's the only way to lose the player is because he just jumps over, he's
easily laughing about it.
He's a psychopath, he's a madman.
Well, double figures now per mouse, 10 to 9 score line.
I'm sure I've like stopped laughing dude, that's like $2,900 I gotta spend now.
But it was funny though.
And we all know it, the being funny is worth every fast vision.
That is a good point, it's all about making the moments.
That is a nice laugh.
I give them that.
Shuei just know with a slight smile whatsoever about that.
At least he entertained himself.
And that's a skill.
Alright, well we got some aggression. Very important rounds.
Exertion plant behind the catwalk smoke. Timing on this is everything because no one's making a move from FaZe around that smoke.
Now we can hear it.
Ah, sorry guys. I went for the Ecos.
Yes, he did. Really important rounds here though. A mouse coming out on top.
His rups left low in HP and now no longer walking on the server.
an 11th round now picked up for mouse off the back of that and it is comfortable. It is clean to kick off the start
Sorry guys. I went for the
With a p2k jumping with an all-up on his back. Don't forget about that. You didn't just go for the eco kills
You went you went for something. All right, you went for like the Tony Hawk kills. I like it. I appreciate Tony Hawk
Pretty awesome
Kerrigan and Brokey. Any damage. Anything positive to take from this round would be great.
Easy line for Torji though and Kerrigan's checking Catwalk.
Five players survive and Maus is now rich. They got cash for days. Speaking of Tony Hawk,
do you see his son married Kurt Cobain, his daughter? I did see that. That's pretty,
That's something that's a collision of worlds. 90s celebrities
children of 90s celebrities
11 and 9 second time I use my face
Not even close to the bombsite. They would have loved to plant
Yeah, that would have actually burst their money up enough to get it well close enough to get a decent purchase here
But now they're just sitting a little bit
Under the money 3k average here was how to face and a loss in the I mean the loss bonus is maxed out now
Obviously it wasn't in this previous round, so once again FaZe is gonna go for a half-buy.
Trying to leave enough cash for the final round if they're to lose it.
Four in a row for Malz.
But not a whole lot positive to take away in those four rounds for FaZe where you could say this this kind of works.
There was an idea here. This got really close. This trade was impactful.
FaZe gonna have to rely on this low buy magic that they've got going for him.
Sprinting into the first headshot is exertions.
Yimpat will claim the second and FaZe have been stored out.
Three players left. The sting is completely out of this attack.
And it's just a spam now through the smoke with 5-7s.
I can't believe Yimpat's still up here fighting.
It smokes about the FaZe and he backs off. Good timing on that.
He had it all calculated, but as soon as he does fall back,
Rane is ready to take him down with a tech 9.
So he walks away with something, but look at this. Shuei has got the retreat.
Yeah, but you don't go in.
You do go in.
You do go in.
Don't go in.
Don't go in.
Why did you go in?
Well, because you didn't really expect him to go outside of the match.
And now they have the escape room, but that's why you don't go in, because you have no idea
what's on the other side.
So now it's a scramble.
It's a little bit weird.
Things come out of timing.
This one works out for Brolin, and a good information position for exertion.
Does he hear the footsteps?
Trying to get close to that wall this year and running through T spawn.
They know what's likely happening, but he didn't actually hear it.
Brolin's in position, though.
Oh, no.
Don't do this.
to the right wall it's okay and he does get to the right wall in time is the
first for Brolin but he won't sink the second and Robs now with a clutch now
there is a master in the clutch of alive right now and that is Robs you'll go back
and fight towards your jungle but there is a flank coming through Palace and
towards he just needs to stay alive but because this flank is gonna take so
long I feel like Robs of all people there's gonna be a system that is an
alarm bell that's like there it is flank check the flank just looks
towards a ramp and he's got so much time to move and maneuver and he
He gets out towards CT. If he gets around the corner of CT, it's a powerful position.
But Seize exertion! Come out of Palace and Robs is one away!
One away from an important clutch here for Faze, and the master is about to strike again.
Torsey taps the deepfuse. Time is going! Nice shot from Torsey!
He flicks up onto Robs, and that is 12 rounds claimed with a quick shot on the sniper!
I feel like Robs just hung in the air.
He was in the air for a long time. I feel like he just froze in the middle of the air.
But look, the big takeaway, you have to do this against FaZe.
I know they're kind of diminished at the moment.
I know they don't have that same kind of luster around that they have,
but you cannot give Rops this chance in a 1v3
where you've been scrambling and moving around the map
and your forces aren't all together.
It's isolated.
Only if you can back to it, you give the mistakes over.
Like if you're Shuhei, you cannot push into that hole.
If you're Brolin, play ticket.
You can take that same fight from ticket, get the kill and be safe.
And you still maintain a position to help out your teammates.
They gave Rops every opportunity, every chance that he needed to win that clutch.
They're very fortunate.
Torji hits that shot when he does.
FaZe Clan against the ropes, about to be eliminated here in Rio.
To miss out on the playoffs again.
And the curse in Brazil to continue for the FaZe Clan.
Forze's flick back up towards the top may have just been enough
to get Mao's victory here.
Four players positioned outside of the A-ball site.
It's Carrigan, solo walking down mid!
That is one way to open up the round for Carrigan.
Rops is with him.
And that works out real well for face,
as the A attack is completely overrun,
and that is perfect for Carrigan.
It's time to save for Maus.
Whatever they think if it's possible,
if they want to go for it, that idea.
Make sure the money,
preserve the money at all costs.
Last thing you want in this situation
is be looking at a 12-11 scoreline,
and you don't have the funds to get what you want.
So keep these rifles in hand.
AWP is even preserved, which is very lovely from exertion.
But you're right, Kerrigan does it all himself.
You combine that with the fact that FaZe just doing a 4-man walk-up of the A-Ramp nice and simple and it works.
I mean, how many times have we been here?
How many times have we seen one team claim map point against FaZe
and watch that dwindle away at greater scorelines?
You've seen it recently.
All this very map, most famously against Liquid.
You can't count FaZe out if they just have to win three rounds back, you know
this is a situation they have been in multiple times and they have proven
that they are capable of coming back even when you doubt them even when they
have shown zero signs. Sure and then now in tournament life's on the line as
well so all the pressure in the world to make this comeback happen just two
rounds away. Kerrigan gave you the first one look at this hero performance.
He's a little glimpse into smoke and that follows it up with a low peek
from Shuei, allows Rops to peek out with his teammates coming up ramp.
And that's how it all comes crumbling down.
Round 23.
Zershin playing a dangerous game, but one that could work out very well for him.
Oh, my God, those bullets close to his head.
So he decides I don't want any of that smoke.
I'm going to do that.
He's rolling so many dice during this.
He really is dodging every bullet that's coming through.
But one of those connects and it's a bad time.
He's at least kept information on Catwalk that no one's here, so now Torsi's line becomes
really effective to pass that intel along.
Bomb is up in B-holes.
Smoke blasted open, Torsi flicked to the wrong side, and Reign was revealed to his crosshair
but a slow creep from FaZe ever closer to the B-bomb site.
Fire tickles the toes of Karrigan, forces him back, exertion, gambles with his life.
He's lucky twice, he gets one kill out of it, Karrigan.
Stopping him from getting a multi-frag and Yim-pat.
so reliable he is again he gets one kill tries to come back for the second but
unable to do so and it's Kerrigan and Reign with a double combo taking two
lives away in an instant and Reign stands to fight but can't stop Shuei it
has to be a 2v2 with Shuei and Brolin up against Rops and Kerrigan to close
this one out for Maus here and now they're coming close to the market
Kerrigan's low on health that's gonna burn him out Kerrigan needs to get away
and he just about stays alive Rops is in the perfect position no not read
by Shuei and Brolin is now going for this but Robson eyes and FaZe are
bringing it back one round left in regulation and FaZe want overtime they
can smell it because Maus's money is not in a good spot. Not as much laughter
coming out from the Maus team now it got real quick didn't it 12 to 11 they've
got cash you're right it's not pretty they've got the all-out Shuei is gonna
be a little bit diminished but this is a buy they can still win. They put it
together if she was going to go to a 5-7, but they take the sacrifice to get the AWP out.
They put it in towards his hands, knowing it can make the difference.
We've seen it in clutches in this series, we've seen him just be so impactful in those
moments, and perhaps the decision to get that all-about on him could be the one that
wins this for Maus.
Oh, I like this play though.
Exertion setting up Ympat, about halfway up these B-hauls.
Deep flashbang to clear out the kitchen, sees nothing.
Nobody from FaZe heard that piece of information either.
players to defend the A bomb site exertion slides over can watch window
you've got the best setup possibly in the execute is coming right at you the
pack of a pushing wait to parents and they are pushing they're going aggressive
on this and now phase coming around the corner will be clear issue a go down
first ball and can't muster a multi kill frozen is swift in the response for
phase and four players versus three exertion on the bench take it out
by frozen and phase of once again done it they pulled it back into overtime
and it's towards you down through the smoke chased away by the glock and frozen phase it will not die it is yin pad left
He goes to the motions. He'll go through the formalities
But phase no their inches away from overtime
They were on the brink of collapse
But stabilized themselves at the right time
It began with Karrigan charging down mid and solo taking matters into his own hands
And no one wants to give this up. No one wants to give him a chance and throws in
demand to close it 12 to 12, we're in over time, and Malz couldn't put them to bed.
Hell, they're gonna really feel like they let one slip away. Really feel like those last three
rounds, they had some chances and just gave them up. FaZe, doing like they always do,
being hard to put down, hard to eliminate. Good trades on A ramp and moving into the bomb
it's all a scramble from that position.
Exertion is desperately trying to get involved through this smoke.
Yeah, well that's the difference of in-game leaders.
Stress on one, celebration on the other.
And you know you've just activated FaZe's trap card, right?
You've just put them into the next gear.
Also, like, when they got their backs against the wall,
you saw, especially Kerrigan just being way more assertive on the map,
taking a lot more space, being far less cautious
than they had been leading up to that point.
Mouse previously had been stepping up to put a stop to that and slow it down.
Phaser had pretty much free reign.
Nice shot from Robs, Karagin again, into the window.
Maus not really able to handle this change up.
And the momentum shift into Phaser's hands.
Torzie, at least stopping Robs.
The bomb is making its way ever closer to that A site.
And Broky will be the man to plant it.
They're so far out of position.
You still want to go for it because it's overtime and you've got the cash.
But can you get any of the kills that actually make it believable?
You know you can't go through the murder holes, everybody has to go through CT spawn.
Everybody has to come in from the same angle, and FaZe are very aware of that.
And Smoke is just used to get them out of CT spawn, not to throw on the bomb.
And at this point it's almost like, I know you have a lot of money, but there's no reason to go through this.
You ain't winning it whatsoever.
Exertion stuck in the back of the bomb site, throws and finds them through the smoke.
FaZe take a one round lead, it's four rounds in a row for FaZe on T side Mirage.
Using their overtime timeout immediately.
After the first round of OT, Maus
We're going to get Sikron onto the mic
His boys are rattled
I'm sure I'm feeling the phase hit
Got to be a really nice conversation from Sikron to get Maus back into things
Oh yeah
Got to get him back in the mood to put a stop to some of these plays that phase are making
The Kerrigan boost up into the window
Robs just holding that angle and ramp that round too easy
Opening kills found in all of a sudden, Maus once again
Once again, just like the round before, I've been playing 3D5 out of the gate.
16 is the winning number in this first round of overtime.
The phase plan, take the first step towards it.
Exertion pushing into Palace, doesn't want to force the issue too much.
Don't want to be the one to offer up an easy opening kill to phase.
Slower start to this round, but a B lean from phase.
The setup here is impact jump spotting, towards is all about short.
Wanted some information in middle, so Shui takes that peek with cover of a couple flashbangs and a Molotov in the underpass, sees nothing.
But there is FaZe's presence. It's moving in late.
Robson frozen, with Rain and Kerrigan up top.
Robs into the window. Torsi to catch first blood.
The FaZe in the final 20 seconds, sprinting into the A-bomb side.
Exertion on the double kill. Shui holds for one.
and much stronger as the streak of T-Round wins is brought to a close.
Mal is finally standing up.
Yep, that's the round they needed all along.
This time they go very, very passive.
Deep into the bomb sites, letting FaZe have whatever they want,
just trying to keep track with information plays.
But importantly, the reason they go so passive is Tal wanted to lose those players super early.
That's a couple rounds they were punished by just dropping players so quick
that there's no chance to recover.
So now they don't even get FaZe those opportunities.
Let them peek into their positions.
And then go aggressive in this next round.
All picks off Rain again. I don't know if he spotted Shuei pushed up towards the top of the ramp.
It's back-to-back opening kills and towards the onto Rain. And this time, faster from FaZe.
They want to try and break through this B bomb site. Impact putting a lot of pressure on himself on that peek,
but he's down and out after one. Robbs fighting back, keeping FaZe in this fight.
It's a 2k for Robbs. He nearly gets a third, but it has to be Broke to make that happen.
And it would be a 1v3 if Brokey is capable of winning this round alone.
Another chance, but not the shot landing.
Careful boys, Brokey has over a minute.
He's going to be looking for your peeks, he's going to be looking for that.
He's worried about Shorty, doesn't have the info that both there, but Brolin moves into the open.
And he will drop Brokey.
Malus will round out the first half of overtime ahead.
I want to peek B, come here. I need to peek at that.
Torgy calling that he wants to peek B.
QA trying to build a tactic around the idea.
Seven rounds Malz got on their T side mirage in the first half.
There was a strong T side showing from Malz.
Two more.
And they have beaten FaZe.
The feat that they have not been capable of this year.
Grenade Lance at the back side of Torji, rops aggressive in top middle, detected by Yimpat, but he couldn't save his teammate
It has to settle for the trade kill. Torji got hit by the initial Molotov being thrown in, so he didn't quite get the timing on that peek
We heard him call out for in the freeze time
4 on 4 with a minute and 20 seconds on the clock
Faye's gonna stand pat
Really big lean for the B bomb site and for middle. One on catwalk, one in ladder room, one in market
That's brokeies off
with Raine playing retake way back at Ticket at the A site.
And Miles is coming right at the more heavily defended bombsite at the moment.
Do you have to feel like Brolin?
Your job is to chuck out some utility, make it look like we're ending A.
I don't think he's going to commit with it.
And considering Raine's retake, I don't think this is going to force any mood wall.
Let's see if they really know now that the B attack is coming.
Carriagate repositions underneath the window, exertion and impact.
Both going down to the hands of face players and it does leave torsion brolin alone and they're separated from one another
So torsion on an island if the brolin loses his life at top mid and face closed to tie up the scoreline 14 of 14
This game keeps on going
Feels like there wasn't a whole lot of a of a plan in that round for miles around torsion's bp
Right, it's like they set that up with the flashbang that he called for he got in position held it for about 20 seconds
But when that exchange goes down in mid
Between what, rops and Shuhei that then impact trades. There's no one else really applying pressure anywhere on them. Everyone else is still just kind of waiting. And then it's like alright, let's fall into a B hit.
The tents quite started the round. Turns of kills so far. No first blood drawn yet. Just signs of utility being put in place in mid. Top connector smoke out. Shuhei looked to try and get into it but he's fended off by that Molotov.
It's all posturing with utility at the moment. You can see smoke comes up and con, Molotov comes up right behind it.
And they're hoping when it fades, they can break open that smoke with an aid to catch somebody, but nobody's home quite yet.
Mal's being patient. Everyone's looking for a mistake that nobody's providing.
And in the late stages of this map, Mal's is going to have the advantage both in player count and now also utility.
Insertion timing. Looks away at the wrong time. Rops able to peek him and it's all collapsing here as Rops gets a double kill.
Kerrigan's been dealt with though. This is an important fight and Brokey wins it. Rops again! Just getting the most out of his sidearm and good clearance from Brokey and FaZe Cliner up to map point.
But my god, Rops is a beast.
It clears out Window. You had two more kills on that on Khan.
Absolutely perfect. Brokey was feeling the pressure.
You could see him with the ult pushing up towards A ramp
because he didn't want to have to worry about them wrapping around behind him.
He gets a kill himself.
Brokey finds the opener.
And Mao's unable to get anything done after the fact.
Yeah, Rops is just leveled up. He's completely leveled up.
26 kills right now. He is just destroying Mao's.
Let's fuck this up!
FaZe found some life in that comeback to force overtime.
And they're looking to ride that wave to victory.
Mao's about to go for an execute.
Here comes the execute.
Straight in. It's going to be Reimu the first.
Brokie on the follow up.
FaZe are three kills away from drawing us to map three.
They are so close and they now surely have done it.
It is only Brolin left with a 1v3 ahead of him.
And you know how difficult Phaze are to put away.
Malz know that better than most.
And Phaze take this battle to Nuke.
They will not go out of Rhea without a fight.
They still have a chance, a dream of the playoffs.
Malz had this series locked in.
Well, that's just not going to be the case now.
Is it because Phaze clan pushed us
into a third after a grueling overtime for both sides?
It's Kerrigan and company.
They keep that composure and push us on into Nuke.
Welcome back to the Intellect Stream Masters on the final day of what is a group stage here in Rio.
A nice little stab there for Kerrigan at the end, you know, as it all cut away.
That's the mouse we know.
Ah, yeah.
So a little bit of a choke is what he's implying over there and FaZe again just don't want to go down.
When we were looking at that game, just like, Maus let it slip.
They were doing such a good job of not letting FaZe get any ground in the map and you know
We saw FaZe earlier in this tournament against Paine on this map where they look completely disjointed on their T sides
Moving around they'd have one guy going up cat one up connector one out a it just didn't look like there's any cohesion
But a complete night and day difference between that game and this game because they looked like they knew exactly where they
Wanted to go their spacing was good
Their timings were good when they wanted to do the B splits. They made sure that they were together
They got the trades that they needed and same thing with the a splits especially with those window boost
They did it time and time again, and they found a lot of success with it
Not only in like the overall macro, but the individuals
Were able to get all the value they got from it
Is especially like Karrigan for one of them and just in in map two alone
We're looking at a map where pistols were split the conversions were made more talk about running up four on either side
And then that response comes in. So tell me a storyline or tell me how it makes sense, Janko.
Yeah, I think Karrigan this time around was, you know, ready for some of that aggression early on.
That's why he just was faking me default.
They would pop onto the side win the first gun round, even though they lost everyone.
I think losing all players was a little bit of a problem in terms of the economy.
But again, once they went back to sort of some of those defaults,
Miles was just relentless in trying to break that and focusing a lot on mid.
So it was a little bit of back and forth in that regard in the second half.
and then Karrigan just sort of leading the way with some of those entries and
Rops stepping up towards the tail end of that game, he was lights out.
And speaking of Rops, like when we talk about Rops, he hasn't had a lot of chance to be impactful,
but on a map like Mirage, especially when the rest of his teams doing a good enough job,
like we talked about Karrigan, he's running up middle, he's getting these openings,
he gets a trade on some of these rounds as well, he's not even getting just like a one kill
that he goes down, he's getting like a multi frag as well. We saw that, I think,
one of the last rounds of regulation as well. You're talking about faking middle and then going
somewhere else. He'll just run up mid by himself and gets two. So, you know, you have the openings
from Kerrigan and then you have Robs in a position where now he's in a situation that he can have
good positioning and close out the round as well. And he gets to regain his formings for Murglory.
Yeah, that impact. That's where I think a lot of people started to draw a line or a question
in the sand like, where's Robs? Where's the Robs that was promised or the one that we'd seen?
but I couldn't smell what the ropes was cooking. Is it all just smoke? Is it all just smoke?
I think it was just weird to me when I look back, you know, mouse is 12-9 up and that happens off of
a torgy sort of insane flick onto ropes in the clutch towards CT spawn and that's where mouse take
a timeout. Yeah. Why do you take a timeout after you were just the ones doing the... I think
FaZe might have had one more left in the pocket but okay, at least make them use it. I think
you're doing that sort of, does them a favor, let's carry them sort of, take a breeder,
Think a little bit lets the players reset him make a call and from that point on phase wins the last three rounds
So take it to the T the thing is though even though phase did win the last three rounds
Now is it's not like they had bad plans like we saw one of those last rounds for example Jim back gets boosted up into the
B apps they clear instantly early on they ship the second B player over to the mid window
They have three players on a ready to receive the a hit that's coming from phase and yet phase
they just execute their plan they just run in and run them down. It's like you have all the info
you can't convert with it though. But again we find ourselves in that peculiar situation which is
Nuke in the third map of course and we know what phase is capable of doing on Nuke and what Malz has
in their pocket at any given moment it seems like. For both teams this could very well well
it will be the last map for one of these two teams but at this moment this junction
this is probably the best battle we can get. Yeah and let's see how hard this loss will
will hit Maus, like being ahead, not being able to close out,
now you have to play a whole new map.
It seems like their philosophy is the same
for this whole series, just aggression on the CT side
and being disruptive, right?
And we saw Kerrigan had slightly better answers
on Mirage compared to Dust2.
Will he be able to complete the puzzle on you?
Yeah, I'm almost worried that if Maus, for example,
they win the knife or they start CT side
and then FaZe comes out swinging,
keeps that momentum going, wins that pistol
and starts to snowball, it's gonna be hard for them to recover
as opposed to like if Maus were supposed to start
on the T side, but then again,
if they can't get anything going, that's not good either.
And I guess in essence, this is looking scary for Maus.
They had a really good chance to close it out.
And we saw other teams recently also be up 12 to nine
on maps, such as Mirage.
I think Vitality lost that against G2,
not too long ago as well.
It's like, those are the worst sets of matches to lose.
You're like, you're on the cusp of booking your way
into playoffs, into the arena,
all you need is literally one more round.
You lose three in a row, then you go to OT, you lose those,
and now you're facing elimination now
on the last map of a BO3, and it's like,
it's the end of the day.
Let's run it right back to that knife run
you're talking about.
You win the knife, where do you wanna start?
What do you wanna do here if you're face blank?
I think you definitely start on the CT side, right?
It's easier side, you put the pressure
on the side of mouse to figure out
things to come up with.
Answers, and you have faith in your T side, right?
You know how many rounds you need to work with
in the second half to get the job done.
I like for Nuke, starting on that CT side, in general,
I like to do the comebacks on the CT side,
knowing exactly how many rounds you have to work with.
Do we need to budget and save for the ops?
Do we have rounds that we can just do an eco
or something like that?
I feel like it's easier on the CT side to do that,
whereas if you're on the first half,
you might be like, do we need a four-spy here?
Do we get MP9s?
Or am I gonna take one more save round for an AWP?
And it really comes down to some of these situations
where, yeah, so many people forced by it
because the MP9s are so strong in this.
You could break the smokes open
and do all these lobby crunches that CT teams,
I feel like are just always just forced into buying
and constantly doing these pushes or aggressive plays.
Over and over and over again.
Yes.
And something that I can continue to drill in you
at home is this.
This is our bracket for Group B.
Just to give you a quick little update
as to what's going on.
All things until Extreme Masters Rio.
It is VP beating the Mongols,
and that will be the end of the Mongols in Rio, but for VP, a lifeline, what do you want to call it?
Yeah, I mean somehow they're in the playoffs, right? They haven't been looking too hot lately,
they lose to the Mongols in the best of one, then in the lower bracket, they beat Ninesia Stralis
and then Mongols again and yeah, they'll be playing against Navi in that quarterfinal.
Yeah, good luck with that. Whoever's got to stack up against Navi right now.
Well anyway, we'll go down that path at a different time.
Let's go ahead to this break so we can get this series back underway.
We have just one map remaining here on the ashram group stage. That's right
It's either going to be that a phase heading home or miles and at this point. There's only one way to decide it
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Okay guys, so here we are playing versus Cloud9 and it's 5-0.
We are leading pretty good.
And now here, you know, you always have to respect your teammates' communication and trust it.
And of course they are saying he's in corn and everything like bullshitting.
And I'm just getting knifed by exile.
I was really annoyed here.
Only see it's not my fault, giving fake informations.
We are here on Nuke versus Falcons at the moment.
It's 12-2.
And yeah, it's like 2 versus 3.
And I was pretty tilted here on searchern
because he was trash talking to me before the game.
And I was like, I will just kill him
and try to crush this one on three
because why is he trash talking to me?
I wanted to show him that I'm the dog in the house.
but basically Magiskir me, I still think it was a good play.
Like this is how we should have played it.
I think he deserved what he deserved here.
We're gonna learn here a pretty important lesson.
Like on Inferno you know you have this chicken lover
and actually if you put the gravity here,
gravity sorry, then the chickens will come around you
and now you can pick them up, really important.
Like if you wanna rush B you know
you can just collect your teammates like here in the spawn
then you just go to B with them
rush them instantly with the chickens, you know. It's like nine guys are rushing me. It's a good tip,
good tip. Okay, so here's a pretty important clip. It's 14-14. We play this in Cologne and again we
end up in a class situation with Surtian. He's always baiting me as you could see on the new
clip as well. And now obviously he should have go to the box and make a crossfire with me,
But now he's just sitting behind the other box, basically doing nothing and letting me die.
Like, I think he played it pretty bad. I don't know what is he doing.
Okay, so let's see. Shuri obviously is one of the best IGLs now in CS2, you know, like young
upcoming IGL. I really like him. He's always have good coms, good calls. He's insane individually,
so I'm just interested what is he doing in this clip. He's pushing short. Then he just
What? What are you doing? What are you doing Shuhai? What is this round? Oh my god. Yeah, he just dies like a chicken. I don't know. Whatever, guys.
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To throw this molly, you should always be the first one up the ladder to heaven.
When at the top and while running, aim your crosshair at this point shown.
There can be a bit of variance here, so don't worry about being 100% aligned as you don't have a lot of time for this.
Then keep running and throw the molly.
Sometimes the tees are committed to the A rush, so be wary of a smoke extinguish, as this will be a good sign that the tees are coming.
Well, we've had a classic occur here in this series.
FaZe Clan up against the ropes, just about to be eliminated,
and then suddenly they lock in Jason.
They get the job done, they pull it back to overtime,
they're able to close out Mirage,
and now we take this show to nuke the final map
for the final playoff spot
here at the Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2024.
And you have to think too, it's pretty crazy.
The conversation that FaZe would have had
between these maps, between maps two and three
has to have been, let's not wait to get to this point,
because when they got down nine to 12,
They they flip the switch and all of a sudden phase became aggressive became assertive forced overtime one and overtime
But if you think about the series as a whole up until 912 or up until overtime really a mirage
They've been playing from behind the whole time
They got battered by Mirage on dust 2 for a long period Mirage
Look like it was going a similar fashion as well face have to be saying let's come out with that mentality
Let's come out with that attitude instead of waiting until the end of the map
Damage being done to brokey. He's down to two HPs. He'll retreat into the site
But there's no stopping this mouse attack is here and it's exertion with the double headshot opener
Or rather just double kill and the impacts alongside of it
So raps and red left doing what they can but there's nothing that they will be able to master mouse when the pistol
They straight hit indoors the A site good pistol
We've seen how many times the T pistol round can have an impact and these haves
You know just having that luxury of you know
You have to convert the second as well
But having those three rounds to start the map is such a huge benefit later on if you run into trouble
so they need to scrape together one or two more.
So, nice piss around, good entries from exertion.
Their Faze coming back into this, they've got all MP9s.
No Nades, no Utility.
I don't even know what you do, do you lobby crunch?
Do you just go really fast?
Do you try and play a standard round with all these SMGs?
Catch them off guard?
Oh, looks like a little hot push
being set up for frozen and carrying in.
You would imagine that would converge with the round play.
You, they're not crunching lobby.
What they're doing is setting up in an advanced position.
So if there is a play towards the upper bomb site,
there are positions that will catch Malz off guard.
You won't expect-
So it's a prize though.
Yeah, you won't expect them to be,
I mean, you'll clear hut to a certain extent,
you might not expect two.
There's a lot of pressure on Rain
to have impact in this position though.
Diving into the main position,
Rain with a double,
Kerrigan's also assisted
in terms of making work done with his MP9.
It is utter collapse for Malz.
And the MP9 has come out on top.
Yeah, Kerrigan loves that. That's a very bold call for FaZe to make in Round 2.
And they don't just wait for Malz to come out.
When the utility gets thrown outside, they actually push forward.
They know there's going to be a certain amount of players,
a certain amount of resources for Malz elsewhere.
And you've got to give so much credit to Reinhardt.
I said his position was going to be important.
I didn't think he was going to deliver a double kill.
Beautiful work with the MP9 to set up a Round 2 conversion.
I know how important that Round is.
Got a good start here on Nuke.
On their CT side, Mal is investing back. Obviously if they lose this, they're gonna probably conceding two more.
Phase will be given the atylic beginnings to this final map.
One of the main storylines we've had today is Mal is all in search of their first win versus phase this year.
They're so close to getting it done and this is a great start to this round.
It's so sick. Tozzy and Xerxion able to find two openers and face a 2-3. It's never easy. It's never comfortable.
Oh, and Xerxion got the M4 and survives. And you spot the aggression up secret from Kerrigan.
He's gonna get tagged down. He's gonna be taken out. This is ugly for FaZe.
Oh, Rops. He's come up secret. He's gotta try and recover this round for FaZe, but there's so much work to be done for the two remaining CTs of Frozen and Rops.
And there's no where else Ruff's can go from here like he knows he knows there's one back behind red box at this point
Bombs planted at the upper site
But mouths are happy to just keep phase at bay from even attempting the retake so
Round two conversion now around three conversion from mouse
No scrappy start of the game there was a great opportunity that for face
But they have not been able to capitalize upon it and now has been able to fight back
Now the question is, with these two saved rifles, do FaZe want to go for a buy again?
He's got 3k on Brokey. Could you be even ties into a purchase?
Well, if you lose another rifle, probably not.
And Robs is about to be piqued by Shuey.
You know, hang on to his life for that kill at least.
And there's no push from Yimpap following up.
It's kind of a bummer how that round came to pass with your FaZe
because Brokey's trying to provide assistance from Lockers to his teammate.
teammate I believe it was Rain over over in Mini again like fighting around a
smoke and I think Broke he's sticking around for that fight to try and get
Rain out alive is what exposed him to the scout that picked him off so he's
just trying to be a good teammate you know he's trying to do everything right
sometimes it's gonna be selfish and life works out for you yeah good luck
bro I'm out well they have gone for the investment as you could understand
you know two save weapons you have enough money to throw in a few MP9s
that and you know that Maos are not in a good position economically yet
either so this is the force by wars in full effect right now in phase have a
chance to bounce back again
rops is going to go into the ramp room
it's going to play behind the smoke, timer on the plate especially when bullets start
firing through it
exertion making his move alone outside he had the smoke wall set up waits for it
to be broken open now he comes back and starts crossing towards secret
Mal's going to try to connect the two prongs of this attack
via ramp room one for one from rops
Brokey steps up next, that flashbang just drops in front of his face and deleted.
Yeah, it's a perfect flashbang.
Brokey can't do anything about that, and he was one of the other primary weapon holders.
He had a premium M4 in his hands.
Oh, they come back to upper?
Looks like a bomb coming through the light.
Yeah, exertion's going midi.
Yeah, they're back coming heaven.
Yeah, but they're in hot.
Kerrigan's in hot.
If you get the skill and stay alive, aww.
No, we couldn't get it done.
Now just one player.
Frozen falls next.
Man, rain's nowhere to be seen, so Mao's able to withstand.
and it's gonna be a three to one score line to kick off Nuke.
Yeah, and they get it back, right?
They won the pistol, they're gonna have that nice start,
they lost the second, that's a bummer
and you feel like things are gonna get a little sketchy
and then you take it right back by winning the next two.
Now it's FaZe who's in that awkward money situation
where really, they won't have a full economy ready to go
for like another two rounds, pretty deep,
like halfway through this half.
Yeah, and we know how important,
you know, rounds can be on the T side,
especially when you pick them up early.
We've seen teams get the first three rounds
of a game on the T side of Nuke
And not necessarily have the greatest gun rounds or game plan, but it because they got those first three at the start of the half one here, or you figure it out in the last round, Jim, it ends up giving them a decent half going into the second, right?
And we've seen teams win with that. And now has been given a massive opportunity here to pad themselves with a beautiful T star.
Torz has really been making that scout work.
If they're right, this could feel like a moment that could have still happened for FaZe if Karagin gets that kill
because they had pushed into the hut and the bomb would have been down.
It would have taken a lot more, but yeah, that's the first frag that would have been pretty critical to secure a safe position.
So just the M4 and Rain, he's going to take that to the upper bomb site.
Should be... this is... if Mal survived this one, they're setting themselves up so nicely for this T-half.
Rain's going to go investigate Squeak Door, Kerrigan trying to walk through the smoke outside to find a little angle spotted by Brolin.
Easy kill as he comes through. Meanwhile, Rain has taken control of Squeak Door.
Quick flick through social media between maps, you will find many a FaZe Clan fan talking about the emotional rollercoaster they're all being a fan of this team.
It's understandable. You just see them about to get knocked down, then suddenly there's some life in them. It's hard to ever give up on them, isn't it?
the business it's understandable but I don't feel bad no you guys deserve some
stress that fan base has had some of the most success in the past year and a
half two years of Counter-Strike so you know it's your time to just sit back
people will stress sometimes yeah enjoy it and it's the journey that really is
the exciting part mouths is making moves and they have had not haven't had
anyone in lobby for quite some time so Jimmy's being very very cautious
about this as he should be yeah that's the main thing especially especially
his teammates haven't encountered any resistance. They've gone through
ramp room and the lower bombs, so no one's home. So this has got to be alarm
bells for Yimpat, where he's just saying, they're elsewhere. They're probably
pushed lobby. Now he spots the gun barrel. He's just holding for the rotations
through vent, but he knows he's got to be careful about rain.
Yeah, that's the main player he wants to take down. It's the rifle.
Oh, he's got a chance. Oh, really? Flaps his lines, eventually composes himself
to the kill on rain. The rifle's now being picked up.
And it rops his hands instead, and he'll use that to devastate
effect upon YMPAT. So an AK and an M4 to be saved over for FaZe. You enjoy that.
Oh no, you for sure love it. If they can keep it. Oh, which they do. Brokey just
managed to cross Frozen's necks and he might have to get away from the bomb blast,
but exertion has run the fight. So actually, this is a really nice round for
FaZe, getting away with three rifles. They brought one of them in, but a 3M4,
3AK47 as you said. That's gonna go a long way to helping ease some of the
economic punishment they have from going back and forth so much to start this
half. That's true. That gets sad. It's basically another buy-round. It's a loan.
A loan from Miles. It's like a small loan of a million dollars.
Gifted buy-round. There we go. Galil's still on the hands of Shuei. No ops out on
either team. Faye's looking to try and get out of this hole. Miles is called for
a very fast play from exertion in towards Highland. Oh, they don't expect it.
You can tell the way he's moving, Kerrigan had no idea.
Big negative start of the round here for Faze.
Now they're gonna deal with the attack in towards the upper bomb site.
Exertion's coming out first and he's down to the hands of Rainfrozen.
Still doing decent work for the back of the site, but it's only one kill before he's traded out.
But look at this for Brokey.
Oh, he takes the risk, he goes through with a distraction from Heaven.
It wasn't even Brokey that got that second kill, it was Rops, who overperformed.
Enough shoe has been spotted, his shoe shot at.
And he's finished off by Rops as well.
Gotta say, Rops has had one hell of a start here, nine and two despite being behind.
He's had a really strong start individually.
It's another one of those rounds, I feel like Miles have so many of these and maybe this is just an experience of playing against FaZe where it's like
they have all the control in the world and it feels like they have the round to be pretty damn secure just up until they don't and then they just lose it.
Good swarm. So everyone coming into this bomb site throwing bodies at the problem to delay things until Rops and Broke can arrive.
Okay a little bit delayed and slow coming out of heaven. They got caught on each other, but nothing fast in that position so no big deal
4v5 converted by phase in the previous rounds
All right
Getting caught committed to right exertion on the opener
Can't drop another five on four
That's another oh, yeah, it's a situation mouse found themselves a player ahead
But there's been a reckoning the player that has been a doomism rops, and he's not alone
But he's got Brokey holding ramp with him.
They know the problem is exertion and Brokey, it is brazen.
It doesn't work out for him.
He goes around the corner, exertion knocks his head right off.
Now 4v3.
The bomb planted down on B doesn't seem like this
is a tantalizing prospect whatsoever for Faze.
So they're gonna start backing away.
Steps being taken to safety.
Now they're up to five.
And this is where those saved rifles come into play
because Rob says 3,300.
Rain has 1,600.
They can drop one rifle over.
and the rain will be able to buy.
And that's all cash they wouldn't have had if they didn't get those rifles.
But credit to Malz, every time there's an obstacle thrown on their face,
losing the second round, losing the previous round,
they've responded immediately after this to make sure FaZe's defense
can't get any kind of momentum, any kind of flow going.
Yeah, this was the unfortunate loss of the AWP,
when Neo getting on the mic.
First time out, used for FaZe.
5-2 down on the deciding map of the all deciding game of the groups.
Winner goes to the playoffs into the quarterfinals, loser goes home.
Nio's been pretty damn vocal as well, and Mike, I always get the sense with FaZe that
Kerrigan can do most of the work that you need, and with how experienced and how good
he is at it.
When Nio, excuse me, opens his mouth, he's got a plan.
He's got something in his head of something that he's seen, a tactic specifically that
he wants to try and run.
So let's see what FaZe come into this with.
They do have the AWP on Brokey, finally. AWP on Torgy as well, comes in round 8.
Great for Brokey to still have that despite losing the AWP in the previous round.
It's going out straight away for Malz. They'll heat things up for Reign in Main.
And now we've got Robs already down lower, smashing open that window and attempting to get towards Secret.
Reign being disrupted, blasting open the smoke, you actually see players behind it.
Oh, good spam!
Exertion finally is on the receiving end.
On the opening kill of the round
One drops rolling aggressively once that flight. He's got a good peek from Kerrigan though rain
Not to have known that was coming and now frozen outside. Shuei did slide into its mini so he's got a freebie
He's got a freebie locked in now. Should we get that left alone 2v3 make it 2v2 with that kill from the impact outside
minute four seconds left in this round and the bomb in the back of Shuei
Anticipating an a finish is that is the only pathway they really have they could go down the vent of course
but risk involved in that broke he's clearing out them wrapping back from a t-spawn area
He got the timing perfect. Yeah, good timing for broke he impact going down leaving it all on shoe
He's got a mullet over his back. Yeah some time to play with no and this makes sense
He wants to try and eliminate the allp
He wants to try and find this lobby player at least at least turn this into a 1v1
But now that broke he's kind of disappeared
At this point you don't have any information if you shoot you've lost it all you knew one was lobby
He's gone now. He could be anywhere the other player can be anywhere
You saw him last outside locker like what 30 40 seconds ago
To be commits to the plant carrying and getting closer show he pulls out the AK
All the position, but just could not get the kill carrying and comes out on top of that jewel
The phase able to turn it back in their favor
Still money for the mouse out of things especially with that plant extra $800 goes a long way
He's trying to spam the AWP too. That's just unlucky for exertion. Rain had no idea he was there, but he takes those.
Well been there.
Yeah, he's close.
Run it back again. Kaze have almost done it. They've almost taken the economy away from this mouse T side.
They've had to fight hard for it.
Exertion down into the saw. Oh! That is one hell of a lineup. Two kills for exertion. Broke and frozen. Both dead in an instant.
And the trade from Rain really does not matter. A burst into A. And success for Malz found.
So I just said this a couple of rounds ago. Every time Malz hit an obstacle and FaZe shows some resistance, they respond perfectly.
And once again, Malz lose a round and just delete FaZe in the next one. It's not even a conversation.
Phase have been unable to get two rounds in a row.
Yeah, it's three isolated rounds they've won.
And look at their money. It's not like that's pretty.
And now they have no losing bonus as well.
Previously they had some built up, but not this time.
I'll tell you what, it's pretty, though.
The amount of rounds Mal hasn't gotten the T side of Nuke.
Yeah, well that's the next point of this.
Does Phase feel like they're so far gone that they have to buy in the next round?
You're gonna have these two M4s, 1,400, and you can drop one more.
I mean that damage from robs at the end is massive. He gets a 2k one-player goes down. Yeah, you're you're you're buying now
You get that many kills one player
I think if you're phase you have to buy drop an m4 over drop a from awesome SMG buy up around it whatever you can
At the six to three scoreline
You need round wins at this point obviously and
Being few and far between
11 and three stuff from Rob says crazy considering the score line
Yeah, I still chance, you know phase one this
Money still won't be pretty in the follow-up round from Miles.
Still a decent opportunity to round this half out with a respectable scoreline.
Slow walking to the ramp room, Robs taking the first peek, broke he.
And we next up, he's got the MP9, grenade combo.
Enough damage done for the MP9 to finish off Brolin.
And they're thinking about trying to peek into this.
Flash is going in to try and assist that,
but no one from Miles wants to commit too far around the corner.
Because they've got space to play with.
And now that they're locked out, it's all down to Shuhei and Xershin.
These are the two most advanced positions. Exertion is just going to pause in this corner.
Is Rain looking for that? He might be.
Shuhei, do you have a chance on top of the hut? Yep, there's Rain finding exertion outside,
and Shuhei looks away at the wrong moment. Good timing from Kerrigan.
But those were the last options for Malz to find an avenue into this round.
So the damage done from Rops on the way out in the last round, including the bomb
going off and taking the extra Malz player out of there.
Well, how's this buy to come back in and put Malz on the brink of collapse
economically again, but Yimpat still fighting. He took a lot of damage in that engagement though,
and he's down to 14. 28 seconds left. They'll go back to ramp, and Rops is ready. Torgie's down,
round is done, as Yimpat topples at the hands of Broke. Fourth round for Faze.
The decision to buy Karagin calls for two more.
And that actually should set them up nicely to even up the scoreboard and going into
halftime as well. Malz have nothing to work with. Torgie's got a little bit of money
Everyone else in 16-800 might force them into a buy as well because they've only got one round of losing bonus
So if your phasers out here, and you're like, this is great
Like we get we get a play against two force buys to close out the house
And we knows a bias coming up he is right there's Galil and porgy's hands as tech lines
Deagles so I'm sure any impact decided to buy here, but
They don't have a lot of money to be going around here on the side of the mouse.
The FaZe are aware of what they're going up against and know that if they win this,
it is an easy path to a tied score line going into the second half.
It's impressive how quickly it can turn from a disastrous half into
something salvageable. Yeah, it never looked like FaZe was actually going to get a grip on this half.
Very impressive that they've managed to come out on the other side.
Well, I guess they're not truly out of it yet.
They're not out yet. They have the 1-2 rounds in a row, Jay, since 11.
Wait, I mean, come on.
Tech 9's on the other side.
Well, who knows? Who knows at this point?
Sartian's outside, Torsi's at red, Shuei's with him.
Waterfall smoke deployed at main.
Flash set up, Brokey pulls behind the corner, goes for a tap.
He goes down, Lane have to follow up and get an important trade kill,
but now he's under a lot of pressure and he's lost a lot of his health.
He's 40, down to 18, in fact, drops to what he can, but he's Tech Nines!
They're coming out on top!
And Faze, this was their golden ticket, their opportunity back into this half, but it is slowly,
well, not slowly, it is quickly falling out of their hands.
It's just Karagan left, and that grenade lands right on towards his head.
He wanted two more.
He's got to get it himself.
Ympat on the other side is Karagan, tracks him.
But Ympat goes into the credit card.
Karagan reads that possibility and he sees his backside.
Karagan saves the round for Faze.
Oh, that's so easily could have gone the other way.
Almost, it feels like it should have.
The only real positive Karrigan had going for him in the 1v2
is the fact that the bomb has dropped at the single box.
They had to come to him.
And a smoke that was supposed to allow them some safety
when the nape kill comes out is a detriment to Ympat.
It makes him completely oblivious to Karrigan's movements.
Well-constructed clutch from a very experienced player.
And that's got FaZe on five.
Very similar by the last round
and we're going to the upper bomb site very quickly, this time Kerrigan, he opens the round, and so does Frozen.
Well, Kerrigan's got one more, and this is the expected outcome after winning the previous phase, looking to tie things up.
Six to six.
Not the cleanest half of Counter-Strike, but certainly effective in being able to run this back.
But Torsi, speaking of running back, he's got himself another kill here.
That piece of utility, it turns out to be useless. He's got a lot of time here, Jason. A minute, 20.
Yeah, and this is the only option he has to play this 1v2. Everything is going to be down to timing, so he's got to use this clock as an ally.
Yeah, low HP, but if you get some fortunate timings with the AWP, especially on the first one, you give yourself at least a fighting chance.
Yeah, and Tosha's been partial to a 1v2.
And denying information of where he is to phase his primary goal.
All the time in the world.
Yeah, but you're not... even if he gets the first, you're not breaking this set up with an AWP.
Yeah, this is such a hard angle to clear, and given that he's so low on health, one bullet will just sink him.
FaZe Clan about to confirm themselves that 6th round, but he's got ring!
And now looking for another.
So Torsi, just taking a second to breathe.
He doesn't know where his opponent is, but eventually Roche from the Rafters does get that 6th round.
Faze had to fight so hard to make 6 out of this.
Is it enough? We'll find out.
Camelante, Camelio, come on.
Fucking good run, boys. It's all good.
I got spammed through the smoke, guys. That's it.
I think...
Last year, Faze missed out on the playoffs at IEM Rio.
They're looking to try and change that fact today.
One spot available left in the playoffs,
and mouths of Faze are still even at this point of the game.
6-6 is going to the second half of Nuke.
T-side now for Faze. We'll see what Karagin's able to cook up.
Now for the moment everyone outside, nothing spotted.
Torgy's gonna be looking for it.
There's the information, bomb has crossed.
Oh he's got two at credit wrapping around him, he's not gonna get away.
Brolin does respond, that's Robs to go down.
But FaZe have taken control of the outer yard,
and it's up to Maus to figure out where they need to be positioned after this.
Sure, we'll drop down into the site,
and this does give space for FaZe to play with at the top of Heaven.
If I wasn't clearing out Hell, making sure no one's around the lockers.
No one's causing any problems down here,
And Brokey has fallen himself at the top of the ladder.
Here comes a Brolin fight that he can't win.
Frozen, revealed around the corner.
Brolin seemed that he wasn't alone.
Now, Ympat's hearing steps, charging down to B,
but can he deal with his spin back?
Who is that from Ympat?
That is something special yet again from Ympat.
And he can't quite believe the play
that he's just pulled off.
Dude, that looked like he had a 180 spin bind.
He just straight up pressed back like a robot.
That is mental! What a time to deliver a pistol round like this!
I can't even comprehend it!
Brokey probably can't even comprehend it!
Ah, he gave me old WTF there?
Yeah, you can't believe it! No one can!
Vibes are back, baby! Let's roll!
Mouse with both pistols in this deciding map.
There was the back and forth affair to start the first half.
Out of thin air. Just out of nothing.
Faze looked like they had done everything they needed.
They did, except kill Jimmy.
And that proved very difficult.
Faze stunned, left with blocks and a eagle.
Roland waits at Secret Starrer's exertion alongside of him.
It's lovely, it's clean.
See, Vowels making sure they don't lose anybody else than them one.
And it's an eight-round locked in.
They might have even been more aggressive on that. They didn't have the information that it was just unarmored glocks
There was one deagle in the field of play so just being cautious
But now we get into the gun rounds the AK 47s come out for phase clan as they try and come back
This is gonna have to be a master class from Kerrigan to call his team
To win seven rounds on a T side if they want to win it win in regulation
Without a pistol rounds
That's a tough detail. Well, Kerrigan's given all of the smokes
His job is Judy to make sure that those smokes go down outside
Aw, good shot from Torgy.
Robbs out in the open.
Punished, five on four early.
In the all-crucial first gun round.
Oh, that grenade did not disperse the smoke the way Torgy was hoping.
Yeah, a little too much mustard on that, hot dog.
Mustard sucks.
Now back away.
Rain ever closer down the stairway.
Bombs falling back towards Lobby.
So Kerrigan's trying to reset this round.
She's like, you know what, we've got people in the right position.
Smokes are fading.
This isn't feeling great to me.
So leave rain over in secret broke. He's even sliding back now
They might try and pull rain towards Mini or outside as a lurk late in this round
Or see if he can wreak some havoc down in secret at least get spotted by the jumping exertion
So Berlin feels secure in his rotation. Oh, no, we've seen this head
Rain's going to start stepping forward Brolin's inside of the van exertion down in the stairway
It's not a comfortable place to be if you're right, but somehow it's worked out perfect timing
Comes back to the angle assertion goes down, but it's all coming up mouse
It's all miles right now in that kill feed a sea of blue as they go to nine
Towards you just got three kills with the air me see me shoe
I just got three kills with the MP9 so he's rich
He's loaded he's brought up a bunch of bonus money, but that's an emphatic victory for mouths in a very critical round in phase
That's not that's not the feel-good round. You want to start this comeback remember they've got to win seven in the gun rounds
And now they're all high being each other up to keeping the Q5s to keep the energy high.
His mouse once again, see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Face, I'll find themselves on Kevlar and Tech 9s again. They've got leftover cash. That'll come for the next buy round.
But we can always pose a threat in these kind of situations, but props, he goes down with Toysie.
This ult has been the key to unlock so many rounds for mouse.
Yeah, he's been doing good work with it. He's been mobile with it as well, which is going to be hard for Face to read moving forward.
moving forward. Newt's one of those maps. It always sucks when you're facing an
AWPer on the CT side that's feeling confident, feeling mobile to go multiple
places. You never know what his aggressive peek is going to come in. You
never know if he'll be just holding an angle far back. And Torgie's very very
good at that style. If you think back to some of his Inferno games he's always
been very good at being mobile between the shots. Yeah dynamic sniper. 16 kills
for Torgie. Oh, FaZe returned to rifles on every player but they don't
I don't have an operator to talk about, they got brokey on a Kaleel.
I'm running out of asphalt my man, I don't have a lot of time to get back in this game.
There's not a lot of time, but the thing is always leave it to the last second.
And how many times can they rely upon that?
Rain crosses.
Try and get over towards secret.
Frozen's made it down as well.
This is the change up in position again from Torzie, spotted out towards A.
But nobody's dropped, oh this is so risky.
Yeah, but it's the timing before they've actually crossed that Molotov lets him know he's safe that nobody's actually gotten over
So holding the line question is what can he get after this?
It's the shot which you will he's going back. He wants to hold the same angle again
Frozen peaks into a torsion is there reckoning to players down for face again under a minute left
Nice shot from Karrigan that has to be the sign to go
There has to be more than that though and Brolin making sure that Broke he doesn't get past
bomb rolls to his feet and FaZe call the two players make it one.
Karrigan, the last remaining player at Hutt. There's nothing that FaZe can do.
He will fall 11 rounds. Mao starting to get to the end of this.
Yeah, this time Mao isn't going to give any chances for FaZe to come back on this map.
They learned their lesson on Mirage. Now you don't give FaZe that little bit of space
they need to get into the game and Torji especially is making sure that they're shut down.
Every single gun round he's had impact. Every single round he's had the openness
handle. This is the third one. He's had influence on the round. It's beautiful work so far.
And Mal's just two rounds away from the playoffs of IEM Rio. Mal's in search of the stage in which
they pulled off one of the exciting upsets as a young squad at the major versus cloud nine.
Not cloud nine out of that event and a lot of people thought at the major that cloud nine
One of the teams that could go on to win it, but now is impressed
Look to return two years on phase down on pistols tech 9s P 250. Yeah, they need some of the magic
They've won a couple of these throughout the series when they've needed it
None more necessary than this one
Utility towards the upper bomb site. I think this is a fake though
It's gonna be heading towards ramp room. Kerrigan just wants to sell it and he will with a kill
But now Ymkats under some pressure. He grabbed one. There's a little bit of chaos everywhere in the midst of all of it
It clears the man advantage to mouths and torsion says you know what on second thought I don't want to peak that
I don't want to risk this one
Yeah, third thought I'll get the kill the ropes left out torsion eventually is going to be tapped away by the tech nine
Yeah, but again, it's ropes. It's ropes. You've given a chance in the clutch
He's got the bomb on his back and he's got a minute to work with and he can pick up an AWP
Got more utility and AWP and time on the clock. Let's see what Robs is capable of pulling off in this situation.
I feel like one play that I see players go to a lot nowadays with this kind of utility as well over in ramp room.
Like go check a smoke and I'm all talking about lower bomb site. Come back up and see if you get anyone to move on the flank towards ramp room
or just head up towards heaven. 30 seconds. So we're running out of time and going to start running out of options
and that clock dwindles a little bit lower.
It might have to just commit to this B bomb site, yeah, at this point with the limited time.
So he's got the utility at least to smoke out whatever he wants.
I also got that Molotov, but we'll see if he'd likes to use it.
Rops is going to descend down into the site, clear out DKOM, make sure no one's there ready to punish him,
and use the smoke as cover in the site.
Exertions at the double doors. Rops is hoping he can catch a peek, but time!
He has to plant right now! Right now!
And he gets on it in the last second, but cancels it for the shot,
and Brolin never swung that door.
Never, ever give the chance to Rops.
And the time fades away and phase are starting to fade away here in Rio
That's actually that's actually kind of worst-case scenario rops is 1800 bucks. I think it is all but you're exactly right
This is why you don't give rops the space because he almost put that together if it frozen bites on that fake tap
There's a real world where he just straight up wins that clutch
It is kind of crazy with how much consistency rops can find himself in winnable situations and clutches
The man just had a tech 9 and he was going up against 3 players on the other side, fully
candid.
Well, now he's only got a tech 9 again.
So let's see what he's got.
Shuei shuts down Kerrigan who's running out of sweep door.
The off lands on Robs and all of a sudden 5 on 3, brought a little bit back by Rain,
but it's not going well.
This is looking like Maus for the first time are going to beat FaZe in a series
in CS2 and Book a ticket into the playoffs on top of it.
Brokey and Rain, the only two players that can stop that from happening in this instant.
Shoe 8 was looking the wrong way, so Brokey's gone in, he's actually taking that kill back.
He took damage for sure, and both remaining FaZe players are low.
I'm so confused why Shoe is committed to watching outside when you had Yim Fad in this position,
who could cover the wraparound in towards Midi.
Had to be a miss calm or lack of calm, perhaps, but...
Yeah, maybe it was calmed and just didn't go in the ears.
Towards his wedding in the vent, FaZe have gone silent, they know they've got time.
The rain is walking outside, has not been detected by Yimpat, but is about to be.
But Rain just got into safety, he just got into Main.
And he's looking to move in tandem with Brokey, who now walks out of Squeaky Door.
Brokey moves into the site, but Yimpat moves in behind him.
The Flank, it's perfect! Yimpat punctures the brain of Brokey, leaving just Rain alone.
FaZe have never had a good run in Rio, and it's looking like it's about to come to a close.
But Rain has the bomb in his back, and he gets down the vent.
He impact with a quick rotation down through the ramp, he's gonna have a chance at that, but he decides to not throw it.
Rain on low HP is given an opportunity, and he peeks out with a headshot, FaZe not dead yet!
He had the Nade, he had the winning recipe, if he tosses that in, Rain goes down, FaZe are knocked out, Malz get the win, but he didn't use the utility.
Part of it is, you don't know if he's actually peeking when you get down there, right?
I expected like a jiggle peek to see if it was clear, and then you chuck the Nade out behind the silo.
Either way, the fact that FaZe finds a way out of this round is pretty insane.
This truly can't be the beginning.
Beautiful shot from Raine.
There's so much money...
Ah, just that. There was a lot of money.
I don't know where it all went from, Miles.
They fully invest in this, and afterwards it starts to get a little bit haggard.
But there's no universe you can imagine in which there's a six-round run from FaZe.
I can imagine the universe, actually.
I've just seen it two or three times.
I cannot.
It's a pretty unlikely universe, Jason.
but it's one that does exist in the realms of possibility.
No, no, no.
Miles just ran off six in a row to start this
and they were dominant.
Only outside of the pistol round,
they lost three players across four gun rounds.
Like it's, they were too dominant.
What was that liquid score again?
That was a different map, so it doesn't count.
Well, let's see how this goes.
Smoke to disperse, I'd rather create to disperse
the smoke's outside and Rainey's going to cross in behind them regardless down
secret. Broke, he's still at red. So early positioning being taken by FaZe. First fight
goes down, it's Rops to win it against Shuei. He just peeked out of height. He
peeked into the in-game leader of Maus. He knocked him on his ass, but towards
he, he's been so good in the second half of the AWP. He's been so good all
day long and Brolin's there with him. So Maus are now a player up. Oh damn
exertion, alright. Nice spray control on a Rops on top of the silo but now
the X factor becomes this position from frozen already and crouching up top on
the roof heaven is exposed it's a weakness and brookie will clear this
well not he will quick switch at the wrong time and that surely is a
sentence to death frozen bomb yep is now the last remaining player with 30
seconds no bomb possession and four mouse players to collect just looking
impossible now for face the run in Rio will come to an end it will miss
out on the playoffs and for the first time in CS2 and for the first time this
year, Maus have finally beaten FaZe Clan. They've finally beaten the team. There's
been a problem for them time and time again who has knocked them out on
playoffs of Intox3 Masters that beat them in the grand finals at IAM
Chengdu and for FaZe they will not see the playoffs. Maus return to the stage
in Rio and they get their hunter moment. Nobody beats Maus eight
times in a row. They finally taken him down. It's a good win for Maus.
For FaZe, I think there's still going to be so much frustration because despite like the steps forward, the positive signs, the improvement that we've seen over the past few events, the results really still haven't been there to back it up.
And that's got to be a hard thing to swallow for players of this caliber and players of this pedigree.
But for now, Miles is going to be the winner of this one and Playoff Spot booked in the quarterfinals.
They'll be placing off against Vitality on Friday. That's a tough affair as well.
as well, but they've already taken down FaZe and got to be feeling good. We got Trace and the boys ready on the desk.
Yeah, thank you very much Jason and Dinko. Of course, we look at this a little bit sombering tone from the FaZe side to FaZe fans.
How are for Malz rejoice? Rejoice, you will because yeah, you finally overcome this big hurdle known as FaZe Clan.
They basically want to be 0-5 as well, like they have the 12-9 lead up on that Mirage game,
and it's almost like they wanted to get an extra rep then and see and prove that they can do it, three maps.
And lo and behold, they did, Jango. They did do it after all.
Yeah, absolutely. The better team on the new Cryface couldn't really get the going in the first or the second half early on,
losing either the second round or the round to Jimmy, I mean in the second half.
That was just incredible. They looked in a prime position to win the T-Pist around, but it didn't happen.
And from that point on, it was just Maus really playing really tight and disciplined.
Disciplined and for the side of the face guys face clan guys, you know, they couldn't find any openings whatsoever
I'll just imagine you're you get the knife you go. You're like, oh, yeah, we're gonna start CT
Okay, guys pistol so important you go in you win pistol like guys were doing so good
And then you get just instantly four spot on that next round
I mean, I feel like we saw at least three forced by rounds in that first half going either way
For both teams. It's just like it's so absurd how often we're seeing that these days
But I guess that's just part of the meta, part of how the maps play out and the power of the MP9, the tech 9s and everything like that.
I think also Rain and Broke in some of those rounds, both T side and CT side, dying maybe a little bit cheaply in some of the situations, instead of gathering some more information.
Just also weren't on point really on that nuke map in some of the fights that they would usually win, it wasn't going their way and ultimately it felt like that was a big difference as well compared to some of the previous games.
I mean speaking of Broke here, I think it's not just like this series or this map
But overall this event it feels like he doesn't know how to aim until he gets those playoff those stage games
And here's just like another perfect example that he had plenty of opportunity, but
Just wasn't able to capitalize someone that was able to capitalize though
Exertion man. Hello guys. What's going on buddy a rough day tough day stressful. Tell me about today
Good day. We beat face
big elephant in the room of course coming into the series yeah I'm just super
happy we did it today for you guys you know it seemed like the plan going into
today's was just to get in their face you know so play with no respect try to
disrupt them was that how it actually was can you tell us a little bit about
what the approach was I mean you are right but I think that if you look at
the complexity game we played we played exactly the same I think that
we just had a change of mindset we obviously are not playing as good as
we shoot the last few months and yeah we just are playing mouse CS as we like to call it.
It's Brawley, it's Chaos, it's a lot of duels and yeah I don't think it was specific to
face but of course it helped that we were super confident today.
So let me just ask you this man because we just saw Jimpat do that ridiculous stuff in
the ramp room like just going down the ramp, what does that feel like when you're sat there
like well I guess we won that round that's pretty insane.
Yeah I mean I was kind of I was alive during that pistol for example but I mean he's
just magic this kid I know.
Every time I just see what he does, our coach's reaction, I just know he did something crazy.
So yeah, he's super good.
Bringing you back to what you were saying about you guys are mouths, you guys play in
that chaos.
I remember a sound bite from, I believe it was pro league, you're playing against
complexity and you're like, I think it was you saying like you don't want to play
out, you don't feel comfortable, you don't want to play out all these like mid-round
situations, you just want to be more aggressive.
Is that something that you guys as a team have been working on like in terms of,
Because we saw it all throughout today, Mirage Dust 2, you guys were aggressive on that CT
side, not really giving them a lot of space.
Was that something that you specifically worked on, or is it that you just prefer to play
out those aggressive styles and not be in a lot of these mid-round situations?
Well, I think that we proved over the last year that we can be elite in both the styles,
because I think that we are very versatile as a team, and I think that of course we
had some talks about it, obviously that clip versus complexity, I think it was
Taking a bit out of context maybe, because basically I said it
Because I felt like we were not really playing good early rounds and I just felt that in my mid rotation
I was kind of all the time behind executes and I kind of wanted to force myself in the game if that makes sense
So I think it was more individual in that voice comes but yeah
I mean in general of course that we have a super young team. We have great individual level
So I think we should and we will use our advantage against any team that comes up against us
Yeah, I mean, you guys had them on the ropes on that Mirage, 12-9, and you couldn't quite
close it out, even though you guys had like pretty good setups, so I think you got that
boost up on Ymphat on Topper B, got all that info, got that A-stack, but then in phase we're
able to still just execute through it.
What was the hurdle, just getting over the finish line there?
Well, of course, it was a really close game.
It's not like we were stomping them until then, of course, so, I mean, they played
good I think those last rounds, and obviously maybe some experience came in, maybe some
mental thoughts that we had as a team but at the end of the day I think that our
recent outside was super important and yeah of course I would have wished to
close it earlier I think that we did play Mirage better than them today and I
think we deserve that 2-0 but of course you cannot do anything about it now and
I'm just happy we won. Well yeah you definitely won which means the
floor is yours so you mean you beat face today you might as well tell people
what they need to hear about anything at all you could think of come on down
to Rio come watch the tournament with us this weekend come to the
playoffs yeah I mean it would be super exciting for me if I would see more
fans than the real major because obviously I played in the semifinal there
and I felt like the experience could have been a bit better so yeah I mean just
looking forward and hopefully I will humbly request that you guys come support
us and other teams as well and overall just give us a good experience because
I know that you guys can be crazy yeah I like that very well put thank you for
your time exertion thank you very much guys speaking of time and time
Again, this is another gentleman we know him as Torsi, he's going to be our United States Air Force
same high player of that match 61-44. Impact felt in those opening duels, no doubt.
Yeah, definitely. And I think if you look on the CT side of Nuke, right where Miles was able
to close it out, it was Torsi with impact in all the gun rounds. First gun round finds the
opening, really disrupts the plan for face plan. Second gun round finds a double kill,
you know down secret so he did a great job of positioning himself in a way where he can
be a menace and find those kills and be disruptive. I saw the warm-up he was doing using some really
good shots with the off gear and I'm gonna have to steal that workout or whatever warm-up routine
is doing catching some balls basically tennis balls from one of his yeah reaction test yeah
reaction test drop a tennis ball from either the left or the right hand and then he has to
go and from on top yes they go and grab it as before it drops and hits the ground so if you
didn't know any better you're gonna go and grab some balls if you didn't know any better you just
tuned in josh was just about to do the mccraina live on air just kidding we're not doing that what
we will do is kind of bring the tone back down a little bit i know that we're all having fun and
everybody's having a good time except for these next moments because phase clan are going home
phase trying to fight back hard here against miles but that's the end of the run here when
when it comes to Rio. Karen, first time you asked just how tough was this series to play against Miles?
I mean they played super well on those two, had a good game plan and shut us down on the T side.
But I think of all we were not there today and they played without fear. You could feel the way they're playing.
I thought like we would turn around on Nuke a little bit. But yeah, Nuke has been a problem for us the past three months.
We have been trying to work on it and we try to bring in a third member as well in the end.
they play better than us. I think that's simple to say that they're the better team today and sometimes it goes that way.
Overall looking at your run here at Rio, is there a positive takeaway from this? Is it maybe more negative because you made it to
playoffs when it came to Copenhagen? How do you view it?
I think this is kind of pretty negative. I think this is the first time we miss a playoff event this year.
So that's pretty disappointing, but in the end we lose to a
a better ranked team than us right now. We have problems beating the top tier teams and
it's just part of the game. I think individually I didn't feel like we were there today and
when you want to beat one of the best teams in the world, like top five team, you need
to be there individually. But because I'm better tactical and so on, but in the end
I think we just lost a lot of duels and I couldn't really find the solution on T-Zipers
2 obviously.
We keep talking about this, not beating a top five team, right? Is it starting
to maybe get into the minds of talks.
I would say you guys are a mentally strong team,
you're a fortfish of the craziest games we've seen,
but does this start to play a factor in things?
I don't think so.
I mean, depends how you look at how we lose.
I don't feel like we're throwing it away this game,
like we don't even get close to T side Nuke.
C side Nuke was obviously not good enough.
We couldn't control the economy
and win the Monson-Pont rounds.
I'm proud of how we fight better than Mirage,
because maybe if it was about tough-up team,
maybe we were given up there.
But I still think we see signs of life.
But we don't feel like we are in full force.
And yes, some of the players probably didn't have the best event either.
It's just part of the game.
We need to, right now it just feels like we need to peak as a team,
as a visibility for us to win the games.
And we don't do that right now.
We don't have high enough floor, in my opinion.
Is that something you can work on in terms of finding when to peak,
especially maybe looking towards the major or world final, just going forward.
Now you've got a bit more time as well.
It's been a grind since especially the play-break, I mean how many times have we talked after a loss, right?
I can't keep saying the same things, right? We are working. I still think we are playing a little bit better now
than when we looked two months ago, but it is the most important thing is that we managed to qualify for a major right now.
We have to be honest, the best of ones can be dangerous if you don't come with the right mindset.
So I tried to bring the energy a lot of hype today, just to make sure that it's not a factor in how the game went.
but that's not all. I also need to make some great calls and today wasn't a good day and
if you want to qualify for a major we need of course a step a little bit more and like I said
raise our floor. I think that's my main concern right now. We don't have high enough floor when
we don't hit our A game. It's not what Faze wanted here in Rio, but we know one thing for
sure. They always come back stronger. We'll have to wait and see. And I do admire, you
know, Karrion come on giving us such poignant words. There's a lot of things to kind of
digest and look at when you take a loss as a team but in this instance for FaZe, almost strangers to
the ELS. Yeah I think he is right you know but the floor more so in the individual level of the
players than the floor in terms of their structure right in their foundation. I think they have solid
structure and the things that they're trying to do on the map make sense but you know when
guys come in and start struggling like rain and brookie in this instance or you know whether
whether it's frozen on some other occasions, right?
That's the problem.
Rob says, finally lifted his form,
seems to be coming back into the old Rob's that we know.
And if you could get some more consistent output
from someone like Broke, I think that is key
to Faze having some better results.
Well, I think it's what Kerrigan said there
in the interview anyways,
is that Maus was the better team.
And when we look at a team like Faze,
they have really good individuals,
but I don't know if they help each other.
And we rolled the clip where they're asking
for the flashes to go in for that B retake on Dust 2
everything like that, but they don't have as many like set smaller piece plays where it's just like
two man or three man plays to insert a person in this position or get this person set up or go for
this pick and then fall back. I feel like other teams in the top 10 have those smaller bite-sized
plays and faces lacking those. It's oftentimes just like you go here and you're so good at just
locking this area down or doing this thing that you can get away with it. But what happens when
you're not getting away with it? What happens when Broke is not hitting his shots or Robson
not hitting his timings. Like we look at Kerrigan. He actually individually performed pretty well here.
He got a lot of impact, especially on that T side to open rounds up. But even with him contributing,
it's still not enough to get them as a team over the finish line. Yeah, and that's where we kind of
have to leave that one for phase. Of course, we did say goodbye, but that just sets us up
for the playoff racket, baby. So let's go ahead and run that one right on the screen
so we can get into the nitty gritty of what brought us all here to Rio to begin with.
Okay, Janko at first glance is thoughts questions comments or even concern. Yeah, I mean
Maybe if you weren't paying attention to Rio the past two years you'd be surprised to see fury and heroic right the plan
Associated the semis, but their household names when it comes to this tournament
But yeah, both Navi and vitality losing today to fury and heroic for the two upset results
I think is fair to say so they will start from the quarterfinals
But due to the fact that they both lost, they're still on the opposite sides of the bracket, the number one and the number two ranked team.
And yeah, that bracket over there with Vitality, Maus and Furia, that's going to be a bloodbath.
It's going to be much harder on that top side then.
Like the Navi side seems like it's pretty straightforward.
Navi take out the VP, move on forwards, but then like Vitality, you never really know what's going to happen between them and Maus
with how good Maus is looking recently and Vitality is kind of all over the place.
But then you also have Furia sitting there waiting in that semi and you never will really know what's
going to happen until you see what happens with that crowd shows up. Yeah, when this crowd shows up
and we've seen it, we've been here front row to it. It gets a little rowdy in here. I'm talking
about it gets real loud. And I guess Harry would say loud and proud or whatever he says about that.
Nonetheless, we're done with the groove station. And so I want to thank you also for your time.
I want to thank you for watching at home. And I also want to let you know that we still
have a lot more Counter Strike to put away and put in front of you. That's gonna be on
Friday when our playoffs begin here at the Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2024. So without
any further ado, allow me to tell you all, it's time for a good night.
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