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And wonderful's gotten Brolin done for but now here comes this commitment because numbers are
being it's strong for Navi and still they will follow through with the two kills already and
Spinks does a good job of keeping himself into the cover wonderful's gonna catch the kill
Surshin comes out from library and the pit cross out of a cause a delayed force buys keep
Bond coming and they're set up here in underpass.
Torzie gonna come back in and what do you know?
There's three of them, somebody's sure, nobody.
Oh, Torzie, on for the ace and he's almost there.
24, a head shot from Torzie.
He's coming out of the hole.
Oh, stunning.
Beautiful.
A sleep at the real Apex shred.
All those names.
He's in.
Run away.
Oh, no.
You think you're saving?
You think you're saving?
Quick jump scare gets onto the bomb.
He needs to stop him.
Five-second countdown starts.
He's in.
The ball gets you alive and this is why you must not fall behind every time you grab this game!
He makes that look so easy!
I guess to be quiet is to jump through the smoke doesn't even care how it's too late.
Zero's comfortable, four kills, the flash never makes an entrance.
The combat was here, but if any strips all the way, there's no charge.
Three on one!
He's got it on his own!
Captain closes the map!
All right, you've pushed, amen.
You've got that information, however.
Aurora has dropped.
The time is limited as teammates are swarming around the block
and they're teaxed with that last test shot as well
to collect themselves the ace.
They're gonna flash up into the sky,
Wokadia get a back shot,
and they're gonna toss all the pressure on Wokadia,
but they're gonna put a bullet delivered.
It absolutely will.
Wokadia can aim stat-free.
He's really helpful.
He's just got another one in him.
Wokadia plays this one perfectly.
5v3 and there's no real potential for game that fall down to the side that
the fuck they way forward and that is a good shot from here you yeah
I don't get it going now and he ain't got to get past prison, he really is in requirement for a realm like that, and he actually gets it, so Fortune was coming in to woods him.
Good morning gamers, what's up, Hugo, how are you doing buddy?
You look great.
Thanks man, I feel great.
I slept, I slept many hours, more hours than before, more hours than maybe ever before.
So I'm ready for a couple of games of Counter Strike.
Okay, well that's good, because we have a couple of games of Counter Strike, Hugo.
luck would have it just for you today here on the b-stream we're bringing out the big guns okay
phase taking on p-vision in the opening game so hurry i i've got a bit of a conspiracy here off the
top of the morning are you ready i don't know how this has happened but i would make the argument
that for some reason they've put the better games on our stream today now don't tell pgl they
They haven't realized, if we tell them, they might swap them back.
But those first two are specifically the matches we're covering.
The first two matches are arguably better than the A-Streme matches.
B must stand for best at this point.
Phase Paravision over Navi Aurora, I'll take that.
And then, Foot Astralis.
Yeah, you'd say, who the hell are these guys?
But that's arguably better than Mongols Bay.
That's what Dinko would say, or anyone with an Irish accent.
I'm pretty happy with what we've done today.
I think we've gotten away with it.
I think we've won in a way.
Heist of the century, bro.
It's true.
Heist of the century.
And for any FaZe fans, you know, we're happy with this.
You get ready, FaZe fans.
I just saw in chat, Harry Hugo casting equals FaZe wins.
Now, I fear we've put the pressure on us.
Everybody's saying it.
There's no pressure, bro.
We're saying it.
Everybody's saying it.
But this is what they're up against.
Yes, dude.
And don't get me wrong, ParaVision look bloody sick,
don't they?
But I don't know.
It's the classic phase gambit, man.
You never know what type of phase is going to show up.
This team can hit like one of the best in the world.
And so we're hoping that that's the form they show today.
I don't think it's stylistically going
to be a bit of a banging game, right?
For the same reasons that made these other ParaVision
matches enjoyable, especially the one versus G2.
Team like FaZe going to try and bring a bit of chaos
to the server.
And I always like seeing how Jame and the gang
look to respond to that.
Obviously, they end up in this one-on-bracket after that G2
battle from the other day, one that went the distance.
It was a really, really slow start from Power of Vision.
By the time the series ended, they were in full swing.
And it felt like G2 had kind of run out of steam.
But look, you guys know FaZe Clan.
We'll introduce them to you.
Hugo, tell me the first name of everyone on screen.
Let's go.
All right, we've got Finn.
We've got Russell.
We've got Helvis.
We've got Jacob.
And we've got David.
Yes, big Dave.
I kind of nailed that.
Big freaking Dave, bro.
Oh, Dave, I'm sorry, now tell me the first name
of everyone on Parade.
OK, you sly dog.
That's easy, bro. How are you going to check out this?
But yeah, phase in a 1-1 position here, Harry.
I think this is hard. G2 yesterday, they got catapulted out of the server.
Come second in the map.
A fake comeback on Inferno, not even an attempt of a comeback on Dust2.
They got kind of owned.
I wonder what phase his game plan is today to be a red-hot paravision.
I especially worry about the veto. I don't know about the maps for all the gamblers and chat ask me
But I
Worry for phase because there are a couple of maps the Paravisional looking really really hot on right now dust to being the main one
Even mirage which like feels like classic phase DNA, but man Paravision don't go down easy
on Mirage. Harry will now tell us the first names of all these five times.
Yes, it's Andre, that's Belchinov, Jamie, Jay, Emil, Fanota,
Ladislav, Vazilo, and Ivan Pazway.
I don't know why you gave us the in-game names,
like we don't already know who corresponds to who.
I know, I know.
I'm just casting a wide net, aren't I?
For those who don't.
Yeah, but for the uninitiated
Makes sense definitely make sense
You know we're also going to introduce the kind of main character over here on the B stream
Which is you folks watching along at home, you know
We've said it the whole time but the B and B stream stands for community
And
So, you know shout out to everyone watching a lot. I'll even I'll even say hello to some people personally
All right Hugo, I'm gonna read out some names from the chat just to make it feel welcome
After hours to big K. Ernie and
Fatal boy, they can all get a good morning. Good morning to them
But good morning to us Harry veto is coming in hot. We have a nuke about the paravision phase
I love this choice. They don't ban a new miss which you could say is that part although they've played it
They usually ban it. They banned us too. Knowing what they're up against. Very smart move.
Mirage picked for Paravision. I said it was something to watch out for.
Phase go for Ancient. I think that's a solid choice. It's a 50-50 map for Paravision.
It's more down middle. It's more close to home for Phase.
What are those bands? They appear and disappear so quick. Overpass and Moobus.
And Inferno. Exciting because we saw Paravision on it for the first time in a while
and they looked really, really good yesterday.
So if it goes three, it's not going to be easy.
But I think we've got a banger on our hands, Harry.
Yeah, I also want to say, you know, props to, to, to Karagin,
the kind of forcing paravision to be the team to ban Anubis.
I think he's kind of really mastered the veto in that sense,
because you're dead on there were a lot of ways that I think this video
could have been far worse if you weren't prepared
you know, taking the Anubis gamble.
Could have left options way more open down the stretch.
I agree, especially because we saw Faze,
Faze played for the first time yesterday,
first time in the season, and they lost it to Falcons,
but they had a couple of cool ideas.
I think I watched a video on some of the Utah they were using,
getting Karrigan out of corn, just some cool ideas there
and clearly something they've been putting in work.
So, you know, we've seen Paravision kind of hit their head
of hit their head against the wall on that map and talk about how they haven't really
practiced too much and even though they have some legit wins in that, it's also just, it's
not a comfort pick for them. So FaZe banning Paravish best, forces them to remove the
Nubis, giving us Inferno, not exactly an easy third map however you slice it, but
I think FaZe, they have a shot Harry, they have a chance in this game today. Safe
to say they are underdogs today. Look at those odds. Paravish feeling good on
their return to form here in Cluj-Napoca.
Yeah, they've just been a very enjoyable team to get to watch, and one of the areas I think that ParaVision does just really excel in is the...
And this sounds silly, but like it's, they're very basic fundamentals out of all the teams and you think about trades,
and you think about trade work, ParaVision really stand out to me.
You know even thinking back to bounty when they went on to win the first trophy of the year
They finished with like the best trade percentage of any of the teams at that tournament
Whenever they're in there the element whatever they're playing their a game
You're always gonna have an issue trying to convert on advantages versus this team because you know 5v4 is don't matter
If it instantly flips back the other way
But all right, let's see
It's an early b-lean for phase clan frozen that's thrown up on the moves
Well, he's gonna start to get run out here tries to get out with a bit of chaos bit of damage
Only the one and done still two players in the site itself broke your fires off
And he's got twist here backing him up. They'll keep it containing
Knife pulled on to us. He was down a clown
You know choice
And there we go
I love that pistol there the boost insta for phase a double boost right frozen into apps and then broke you on on the box and they know frozen pushing is either going to say hey be clear or all be and then they're set up really well to deal with that hit everyone gets one twist does run out of ammo the knife is a necessity.
And the pistol comes through for FaZe with no bomb plant.
Paravision take the eco.
Good start here for FaZe. Gotta keep this one clean now.
Did you have breakfast this morning Harry or are you coming in kind of dry?
dry I come in dry horrible sin
Let me start again, I was itch in my eye you caught me off guard. I was just
Yeah, I haven't had breakfast you go. I never really do kind of an overrated meal I
Can see that oh
I've just woke up. Let me eat. That's crazy. What are you talking about? What were you doing?
demanded food
You're sleeping that's meant to save energy isn't it? I
Don't know enough about sleep science
The only thing oh wait a little apps pop
Good shit alright, so look you go
The answer is simple man breakfast is only worth it if you're having something like truly outlandish
like cereal that ain't gonna cut it boss sure if we're talking like a nice big
old fry up or something or maybe like a breakfast bagel so it's it's there's
a there's an algorithm it's effort it's effort that's what I guess doesn't have
to be your effort anyone can make you breakfast exactly hmm but like you know
It's a house divided on the breakfast issue man. We might have to revisit that later.
I've got through shades. Yeah, we can touch on that later. I've seen both sides of the coin.
There's a free breakfast and anti-breakfast and they are going off right now.
double under he's looking to get his breakfast second breakfast down in lower
tunnels phase get fried up carry him a bit of aggression yeah but you think
Paravision aren't gonna be in their spawn Harry holding this James he hasn't
left spawn
Paragon's timing is still okay but it relies on his teammates doing something
because they can't buy the time they're in this site frozen under balcony full nades is he ever gonna use them
Frozen dropping a Molly right now would go a long way to buy and carry on a few more seconds
He's looking for this mid kill. Oh, he's just missed it. He is just
Yes, perfect
Who's ready for ladder?
You might just get backstabbed here.
Oh, carrying it ready for it, but couldn't get gone on in time.
Now it now has been.
The bomb was ready to move out into this A site.
They're going to go right in a frozen and Brokey too.
Frozen dead straight away.
And now as they follow through, it's only Brokey down here in connector.
Quick work made over the first man in.
Now it's still committed to this backstab,
and Brokey will hear him as he runs on in through jungle.
Harry's casting this round like Brokey's not saving.
Brokey's saving, man.
Why is he saving?
Because he's 38 health.
I wanted to go for that, man.
I think it's fair.
It's fair save.
Nice underwalk for Zwei.
And we're not ready for that.
Usually expect either some audio cue or a flash
Anything's phase is kind of shifting into his way double entry paravision you said earlier
They're so good at these advantage rounds. You put them in a 5v4. They're gonna close it
When we saw they run a bounty they were I mean obviously they were beating everyone
But they were the stats leader in like 5v4s
trades
maybe 4v5s
They were just out of this world.
They know how to play advantage for young and relatively inexperienced players.
It's a team that doesn't overheat.
And that's saying something because Zwayon Spirit was the king of overheating.
Harry, yeah, he would always repeat.
He was like an old Dell laptop.
Those fans going crazy.
Mode King of the overheat.
I mean it's a team that has a lot of good protocols, they've really tried to get a nail
down the basics and boy have they excelled in that.
The Stanners all whipped, the face it mindset out of these youngins.
James with a flax smoke into the window, so it is out under.
No support to get up into this position.
It's going to announce it.
Jacob blocking on A, paravision, poking their nose in this site.
But, you know, there is a full man's back over
towards this A side of the map.
Karrigan trying to play both for the window rotate,
and also nearby and mid, just in case Brokie does need a helping hand.
hand. Hasn't been able to spot the right getting into connector. There's plenty of players with
eyeballs on this for FaZe, or see you'd like to think.
What is she this way? Oh, bugging.
We'll have to eventually box into this corner. Nice catch for Twizz.
A ground-comparavision, Jacob taking one with it. It's looking good for FaZe, until
Zelo over the top. Dex, Karagin is frozen out from sport, double from him, buys
a few more seconds and bomb is loose and the time is now here for parry vision or never
xelos swinging out twist will deny i'll say that phase phase word down and give him a go in that
clutch you know he was getting a lot of wonby ones there yep yep yep back in their aim and
they'll get through it oh man everyone who needed to deliver is a spot deliver jakey getting one
It's huge frozen getting crazy mode outsporn
We're finding the love
Things feeling
Optimistic right now Harry here a mirage
Starting strong putting power vision money on its last legs with all and take my
Great little Nate play that with the boost in top mid Nate open that top mid smoke
and you just get a free chance on Brokey.
Oh, Carrigan! Keep the gun out. Keep the gun out.
Gets the dink off. Wow. Never a good feeling.
Froze them. Trying to play clean-up.
Deals with the first two in. That's going to slow the role of ParaVision.
They were committed here. Jame with another.
Playing whack-a-mole up in the apartment, but it's...
It's frozen! Doing the damage. Can't get out with any more.
You'd like to think he's done enough. Hands it off to Jacob.
Now, who comes in and comes in big with the 1v2?
Oh, that is a stick round there for Frozen and Jacob,
and FaZe are all smiles to start Mirage.
I mean, 5v3 for Paravision, they found the mid-pick,
they found Karagan after a dink, and still,
FaZe are able to pick it up.
That's not around.
You should be expecting out of FaZe.
Full rotate, Frozen getting messy.
He picks up the tech nine, puts it to use,
and Jacob is there in time for the clutch.
Everything about that screams face bullshit.
They should not be winning that round, Harry, safe to safe.
You think, by the way, that NAID smoke play was nice.
That was a phase NAID on the top mid smoke.
They handed the kill to Paravision.
Yes, they handed the kill.
They gave it to Paravision.
Whoa!
Phase just won a 3v5.
Paravision are broke.
Now, I will say this, right?
Phase NAID has many CT rounds as they can get.
T sides have been the problem for them on Mirage
And so you're looking for a hefty lead like this is a game where if you kind of go from this position for one up and it ends on like a
75 half that I don't think that's enough. So for phase. This is a fantastic beginning, but you can never let up
Job is not done
Is there a flash doesn't look like a caragon in the most unorthodox position that flash comes after everybody dies
and that's a big car again 4k
we've got a game
would it be carigote or would it be goat again
I don't even know. It sounds like a hero in a trash moba.
I feel like a good bot lane.
Now, bot again does sound funny, objectively.
That one sounds funny.
Better than Kara bots as a work.
The Kara goat, we're cooking with that.
What's the name of those little things?
How have I forgotten the name of the break?
The little dangly charms put in real life, the one that's on a quantity of the major.
The one that's on a quantity of the major.
Yeah, like they're the little, like, you know, the little real life charms, man, the little creatures.
How are the boobies?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
There you go.
I don't know why I was...
He went hunting for him, Chung-D.
He did go hunting for him.
Yeah, it wasn't a major, it was Chung-D.
Yeah, I remember.
Why are you bringing that up?
I don't know.
I've been talking to Santa Carragans name all these other ways and randomly I was
Got me thinking of the boo boo's shout out the boo boo's one time now here we go
Be here and face of nobody home Harry the double short right now. This way was lining up short smoke. I think
I don't know it could be kitchen
Either way if it is shorter in trouble mid retake util that block for phase might be a problem for notary
I'll probably just walk right through if I know no turn
Can Frozen keep his eyes on this smoke? Will he be drawn back?
Karrigan is in the site right now. Paravis are coming in hot.
Another one of these B plays and you're expecting to walk this contact.
So for now the question is, well firstly, could Karrigan hold them off in the site?
Frozen actually goes down first and that opens up the short wrap.
Karrigan blindsided there getting wrapped upon in B.
And phase are kind of locked out of this round rotates are only just beginning sight falls so decisively
They've got no business in going for this three on four
That was clean for paravision everything about that phase drawn out of middle. They were heavy a stack. I'm surprised phase
Don't try and help frozen. They were pretty committed on a they'd already cleared ramp though
And so paravision get to phase players kind of stranded in their positions
It's a nice B-execute.
That's an execute, really.
There's not really much behind it, other than manpower there for Paranis,
and it's just no tub short to ensure...
HALO!
VAS?
That's good.
I have my breakfast Harry would have been better some say do you ever have a
Tamagotchi the original LaBoubou have you heard that there's like a new kind of AI
based Tamagotchi clone that's apparently taking the world by storm
Yeah, so I haven't heard that. Can't be taken away by storm. I haven't heard that, Harry.
Well, let's see. I'll get you on.
Okay, that's nice. Shout out to Tamagotchi's.
We made the AIs good just to make the Tamagotchi's better.
Oh, wow.
Now he's wrecking it.
Carragans is Tamagotchi right now because he's in Zelo's pocket.
That's good.
Back to back kills.
Lucky, man. You really have any breakfast or whatever.
No, I haven't had my reference. There's the difference, there's the difference.
I'm not built for 8am Harry. Today? Today I am.
There's a team that used to exist that you might love. I hated the early games.
5v4 man. This is already a powerful position when you get handed that early kill on a caragon.
He really just gonna follow through with another B play.
Broke he can't afford to miss.
Broke he can't afford to miss, Harry.
His B-stack is nice, but it only matters if Broke he hits his shot.
I've never seen a Broke he missed.
Haters and fans watching unwillingly.
Waiting.
Frank is not...
Oh, twist!
This is good.
There's one more man down here in the middle,
and they're quick to pounce on him.
Broke he hits his shot up in the apartments,
and the follow-up.
Broke he never misses.
Apart from that one.
He's already done more than enough to this way 1v3 15 seconds times of the essence here
He's got a lot to get through feels the twist early on, but there's no follow-up phase the stack is in the right place
I do just lucky here every single shot that matter apart from the one he missed, but I do love the
Watching phase fans in post match threads is my favorite thing. It's like it's like I hate this
I love this team. I hate this right when you're out. They pull you right back in one more ride
It's like this is this is a legit team to beat maybe I wouldn't be so you know we're six two up
Let's slow down or so maybe I wouldn't be so hot on phase beating paravision if paravision didn't just
Dismantle G2 yesterday
They looked really really good
They've had really nice reads in this game. They've been stacked almost every time on Paravision's
hints. And they've done it again. That con smoke.
Again and again. And again and again.
I know, good. Also, what does it mean for Paravision?
If they go from this windstreak on Mirage this year looking really really good to suddenly
fielding two L's on the map in a row, does that start to cool their Mirage into question?
It is against the best AWPer of last year, so I can't really blame them.
I think people have just figured, not figured out Paragraph, but people are more acquainted
or climatized to P vision in a modern day.
Oh, that flash is a big problem.
Up con, Brokey got the spot.
That info's there, and so again, Paravision have got to try and brave the stack.
The initial results good for Jacob and Frozen,
and Brokey now adds another to the tally.
Jane finished off Frozen in great form here.
Another multi-kill when they come over to his bomb site, and that's phase 7-2 up.
Now we said, you know, this is where they have to do their best work.
I said, I don't think seven fives enough or they've broken the money at this type of a school line
And so eight rounds should be right for the taking you're making monstrous moves in the right direction if your phase clan
Good phase of hitting hard right now another
Man down round provision 5v4 untreated hit the bomb site with triple connector
Every player phase finds value finds impact
everyone gets a kill or more and
And broke he finishes the job with frozen on ramp. So frozen looking like a powerhouse right now
Jacob holding his own
This is a good day in the office for phase at the moment. I like the way that
Paravision's name gets shortened on the HUD
Yeah, that's why I call them P vision P vision
It's reminiscent of like the time in 2000 mid 2000s
film and game and like just all media making where they would have like the
yellow piss filter over everything. What are you talking about? You know what I mean bro?
The films were yellow you remember? All the games were too.
I'm just checking back to a different time. I'm just checking it's no one's birthday.
It feels like it's someone's birthday.
It feels like there's a birthday brewing.
Oh, maybe it's Jaker's birthday.
Jaker's birthday was a few weeks ago.
Oh, maybe it's...
No, I feel it's birthday.
I just checked.
Yeah.
Well, twist kill for Oki, so maybe it's all making sense.
It's another...
It's just farm round on one of the A-plays.
8-2 up right now for FaZe Clan.
Not a bad shift put in by FaZe by any means.
You can never get too comfortable against a vision like this.
So let's see if they can close.
This is not what we signed up for today.
This is not even phases map pick folks.
I mean this round decides whether it's a truly great half or if paravision have any room to maneuver
They're gonna try and play through into a window boost, but brookie is down here
Get weird, you know, I think for a lot of office. You would feel super nervous about this
But this is broke you were talking about backstab in feel like these are the kind of ideal
scuffed engagements that he lives for. One more man in middle in the form of Jave.
They know about him too and they try and pounce down on Paravision's captain.
That's the mid-split gone. You're left to this a-play. Out through wrap, out through
Palace. Income Paravision, a chance to deny the plot for Kerrigan. He's done it.
Rapidly this one's gone away from them. They terrain in but Kerrigan beats them
in the punch and again another one of these impossible clutches that can't
come through there's a good hitting hard man a hatch read this many a multi-kill in
this game thus far for the phase captain call him goat again call him carry goat he
is performing right now triple kill for karrigan go again does it again I love
the phase they'll broke you out of this round as well and they lose the window
players another 4v5 short broke you not known about but doesn't over heat
Let's go to the second kill. Let's his team assist from Khan. Bomb denied. Triple kill from the captain.
FaZe are grinding this map away. 9-2 right now. Paravision. Nothing to show for it.
Melchenok is 1-10.
Hey, just to give you a bit of a feature of the Paravision barrage, T-side, that someone just goes missing.
Carragorn!
Carragorn another multi-kill here in defensive B, and even now they play through the molly with the bomb, but no one else is there to support.
Right now the bomb trapped alone and broke it's a flick. Oh
Dear, this is a 10 to half ready
To come through for phase clan. They've just got to finish the job
job.
Chance for Zway to show off some mechanics here coming down under, but Faisal, re-clearing
middle at the right time. They've been on the pulse of the CT side, knowing where Paravision
not every round. They're going to clear it out. Good trade.
Does Goss frozen, but shouldn't be a problem with bomb down in
middle. Jamie's scrapping for answers right now. He's going to
get a fight and Jacob just confidently swings in 15 and
three on young Jacob to close out the half 10 to two phase
bashing paravision. Not what I had on my roller decks today,
Harry. That's not what a roller decks is, but you
get the idea. Maybe I should have breakfast. Maybe Paravision should have breakfast. You
could be silent on me. No, man. Never. I'm just kind of soaking in the moment. I'm enjoying
this. But we said it early on in the tournament. We said, you know, it feels like whenever
We watch phase we get the best verse you get phase prime. I've never seen phase lose
Apart from all those major finals everywhere else they've won as far as I'm concerned
And do that you do get kind of
Weirdly nervous what this means to power vision big picture
This doesn't mean series over by any margin, they can still bounce back.
They're a very resilient team.
But Mirage has just been one of their go-tos.
Not a problematic map for Power of Vision.
It's one that they had a really, really solid track record in heading into this event
where they got their first loss yesterday.
This could be a second in a row.
You don't want to feel like one of your greatest assets has started to be figured out.
Jacob, those were smooth moves in the pistol, but it doesn't matter.
He's cancelled out straight away.
Dolbarat is now running interference
to the back of the site.
Frozen and twist.
Suddenly clawback at three on three.
Are they ready for this fast?
Apartment's blank.
James here very, very quickly.
You'd like to think he's got at least one kill for free.
Oh, there's the spot.
Frozen sees him.
So now things are a little bit out there in this post plot.
It's twist, break, and the silence with a swing.
And FaZe find the pistol from a three on five.
They get out with three players standing.
It's all frozen in twists.
Something stinks, Harry.
Something absolutely stinks.
It might be that phase BS that's back on the menu.
How have they not been closed out by the health inspection?
Three on five, back into B with a weird sight smoke.
I don't even know if that's where it's meant to be,
but it works perfectly.
the series and they get thrown
to the wayside.
This is the problem for
Paravision yesterday, right?
T-Side Mirage let them down.
We had a bit of a fake comeback
carry that we were sort of
buying into it because of how
They got three rounds to the east side. They didn't have enough leverage. They had no breathing room and so it eventually ended 4G2.
Paravigion came back. They won the series. Keep that in mind.
So there is still depth. There is still resilience on this squad.
But this is looking like it will be even more one-sided and then Ancient comes up next, which is another comfort pick for Fates.
As far as they're concerned.
It's a sick window flash for Jane trying to bring his teammates in out towards middle.
Even barrels through the window smoke makes it into lower.
They don't know this.
And so, Jane had a chance to get away with murder there.
It ends up alluding him.
Left his way.
Molly connects.
Gives Frozen all the info.
Faze, this is about to be a crazy dominant win.
Yes.
Jacob and Frozen.
Gaming hard.
Carrigan right by this side.
In fact, everybody's booked playing well.
well. I could just read all five names right now for FaZe. They've all had their
moments, they've all had their multis. Great to see you're two of the more
questionable performers that comes to individual moments like Karagin and
like Jacob who's struggled at times look as good as this. So 12 to 2. Another
attempt here for ParaVision but it does just feel like we're waiting for
ancient
execute coming in
how about you not keep dogs the frag movie at least
who kills in this game right now
Yeah, not about to sweeten the deal, is he?
Dead straight away.
Scout of Jane finds a connection, but somehow the MP7's just bested him in that head to head.
This might be all over.
If Paravigian can't dig deep and find something in the clawback of three on four.
Now, Bomb's not planted yet.
Broke, he's actually running away with it.
Is he going ramp from Palace to be safe?
There's blood taking the bomb.
Yeah, he's just coming ramp to be safe.
He's coming ramp to be safe.
It's going to be safe before he gets there.
Yeah.
Maybe he's right on time
IQ reposition out of bro key and it works wonders
Back around a ramp exactly where he's supposed to be and phase clan have just destroyed
Paravision on Mirage home up at this Paravision team
They've had back-to-back losses on it now
And it's getting them off to another slow start in the series
a phase in fantastic form from the get-go there weren't really any doubts here
and now with ancient a phase classic coming up next are we all getting a
little bit nervous for paravision or are they gonna leave it to another bounce
back across the series it's a good question Harry safe to say that is the
most dominant victory against paravision since the major
Since pre-majors, since Star Series against NIP, they have not lost 13-2 since that point.
It's a team that we commend for their resilience, a team that always comes back, even if it's
just cosmetic. They always stay in the game. Faze have just handed them the most dominant
loss since Star Series. That is a shocking win. It's not just that Faze did it, it's
the way that Faze did it. You do not see Paravision get battered like that very
offer so excellent with the phase here still more questions in the series still an ancient still
an inferno third if we need it but that's going to require one hell of a reset from paravision
a team that always bring fight no matter the opponent I did not expect phase today to come
through as clean as they just did on mirage. No idea just from top to bottom everyone in great
form and really no issues here for FaZe. ParaVision is kind of a matter of where to even begin.
You know, no one is blowing you away in this game, a slow start and a number of players.
So really, you feel like you leave this map, you've got to go have a big old chat to try
and get switched back online because FaZe are coming into this with everyone performing,
not a weak player in sight. I'm a little nervous, Hugo, for ParaVision right now.
Well, we'll see if that keeps up.
I mean, ancient up next, phase look of the two and oh, is it going to be that easy?
I don't know.
I'm not willing to bite down on that just yet.
So I'll have to see if Paravision camera cover after the break.
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But she can't love me.
But I love you.
I won't play Wendo anymore.
What's going on?
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And that game is every move.
Faze are entering PGL Clusion of Poker and we've got to look at where this team is at
right now, Karrigan, because I know it's not the start you would have wanted for this
year and how things are going, but just tell me what you are thinking when you look
at both Bounty and Krakow?
Oh, I see some things that shouldn't happen.
I think we should be a step longer in the process of where we should be
and progress from what we did with the Major.
We can say the Major is showing what we can when we hit those peaks and everything on the same page.
I mean, last season, end of the season, there was a lot of different stuff happening
in the team, changing the rain planes to the Jacob.
So the progress we made was only kind of like November-December.
So I think we came off to a bad start during the season and now it's a grind, right?
So now your bag is a little against the wall.
We have to perform here to have a good stages in the ranking,
but also to see the progress as a team.
I'm looking at that right now, coming into the Clusian of Hoka tournament and looking ahead.
I saw your wife posted that you came back from Krakow.
You were grind Intel crazy late in the morning.
Is this also where you've got some time or you felt the need to individually?
Because you've done this before, right?
We've seen this, where you put in this extra work on yourself outside of just team stuff.
Yeah, I mean, coming into the season, I decided not to go anywhere during the break.
I played a lot. Obviously, try to come in better to the season and push earlier than I
I normally do where I take a lot of days off in the player break.
So obviously I think the way I handle the cracker loss was it means a lot to buy hard
to me about playing in Poland and all the support we have there.
So I think to handle my frustrations it was better to go into the server and try
to improve my game, try to be ready for this tournament, try to find something because
I get upset when I see other teams playing good and they beat us and sometimes what
What you can do is to improve yourself and sometimes as a leader you need to look at the
team wise thing and I think we did a lot of team wise stuff before Krakow so I feel comfortable
leading a little bit to my interview level the next few weeks and then yeah we go back
to the old cycle where you have to review a lot of stuff for the team.
And how far do you feel you are from being able to say you three title contenders again
because we had these conversations where you would always say we're FaZe Clan
But that conversation did change between me and you towards the end of last year.
Yeah, I think it's a great question. It's something I haven't really thought about.
I think I'm so down to the short-term goals right now.
We all know what the long-term goals are, so face-clenched.
I don't really need to talk about that publicly, but short-term we are trying to really fix some of the things that have caused some issues in the past.
In the past, we are looking at instability, like I said, in some players, some roles that
we need to limit a bit and see how we can use the tools that the players have to make
everyone better.
So right now it is a tournament by tournament.
You could have asked me this question one month ago or two months ago, then I'll
be very scared about the stage one in the Major.
We could have not been at this tournament if we were out of stage one.
That's how brutal the pressure was and I know we can handle that pressure so if we get to
a scenario in a month or two I think we can survive it again.
It's good as a plan B but let's just try to keep the plan A and improve every time
and be closer to the title every tournament we play but everybody who did sports or
doing sports know that you never guarantee the win and we need to try to take the
The small victory is now in wins in the group stage because if you don't do those now and
the only thing about the trophy you're never going to be satisfied and if I'm not satisfied
the whole year, it's going to be very hard to keep pushing forward and develop to the
pressure I put on myself and Feisland.
So short-term clues, what is it for Feis, what needs to happen?
I think we need to make sure not to go free too in the group stage or going out
group stage, a free one would be a nice start, a little pressure but not too much and then
go as deep as you can and play off. Many good teams here, it's not like the last
Cluj, where you're kind of like okay we need to be a semifinal, we need to be in a final.
This time it's a very good level of teams and I'm looking forward to get challenged
but also challenge other teams. That's the things I wake up to in the morning
right now. It is trying to challenge myself and challenge the teams right in front of us.
But also the teams behind us because they're playing really good and we all know they're
coming for us as well. So we need to make sure to handle that and play some good, fun Counter
Strike. That's really why I enjoy this game. So let's try to have some fun as well like
playing. Not everything has to be super serious 24-7.
I like that. That's a good point to end on. Karrigan, thank you very much man.
and good luck for our tournament.
Thank you.
Oh, Hugo, it's time to see a phase clan can do it in two. That's that's what we're looking
at here because they caught Paravision sleeping and they smothered them like anyone would
Like anyone would.
Yeah.
Star carry, but it might not be too far from the group.
Hugo, we've been called out, bro.
We're going for a different medium of communication here.
Usually I'm interacting with the Twitch chat people.
I have a YouTube chat found you.
Good people.
I haven't even thought about YouTube chat, which is sad.
I need to go give them some love.
But no, Hugo, I've gone far and wide for this one.
It's HLTV forums.
What do you make of this?
Bay's parry casters and that's the title of the thread.
Bros are hungovered so much.
I haven't drunk in months.
You know, what's your defense here on it?
I feel like I'm coming in with a lot of energy.
I think I'm coming in with energy,
but I know I ignored you on that one thing by mistake,
but it's because I saw this thread,
I started reading it and I was like, oh.
Well, that's okay.
You know, it isn't be streamed, we are remote.
We are doing it from home.
And the B stands for community.
That's exact.
Yeah, that's maths right there.
I reject the accusations, Harry.
That's fair.
I feel much the same, man.
I feel much the same.
When do you think we got drunk?
When would that even happen?
I'm going to start right now.
Let's crack open the cold one.
Yeah, oh, bro, we're very, very,
We're switched on today, man. Like phase client art.
We're well aligned. We're on the same page, just like phase client art.
Be more like phase client.
It's true.
Paravision, the odds have evened out here.
They were heavy favourites.
P-Vision coming into this game and fair it up with the recent results
and the way they looked to dismantle G2 yesterday.
They lost the first map in that series though Harry, that's why I'm not getting ahead of myself.
They lost Mirage, same here, they went on to dominate the series.
But we have a different map all this time around.
Ancient is FaZe's best shot at winning right now.
If this goes three, it's going to get a lot harder, it's going to be more uphill.
For now, FaZe are running off of a high Harry.
They're running off of the fumes from last night.
Whatever's still in their system is kicking them forward.
forward as they plow through ParaVision here on Mirage.
I will follow you.
I will follow you.
Yeah, it was not a particularly close match.
If you are just joining us, you missed absolute domination
from FaZe Clan over ParaVision's Mirage.
And I know that sounds insane, but it wasn't close at all.
Not by any margin.
Now we get a FaZe's pick of ancient.
This is one they've always liked to play and
Look at a star thing strong in the pistol. They've already got this cave control
But they are running the risk of playing into a stack
Stack the belchinock is confirmed. He's also about to get a kill
His way off the line they're up the ramp and think it does clear
It's nice handling miss shots on the second, but Karagan and broke. He's got his back. It's just like that. Everybody dies
I couldn't tell you how or why
How did they win that not only did they play into the stack but Belchak was flanking frozen in mid the entire round
And frozen just what a Eden killed it I
Could tell you number of wild things in that pistol
They've done pretty well for themselves
Damn good day to be a FaZe Clan fan.
A main stack.
And where other people would see this as an issue, Frozen will see it as a chance to pat his stats.
Now he doesn't break you in the bot with it, so don't die.
Don't die.
Don't die.
Broke you.
There he is.
Never know who's going to quit, and with Carrigan coming in to offer up assistance, there's no issues there, for FaZe.
It's clean.
Enough, clean enough.
Fought by coming out for Paravision though, that's when the game begins.
This is typically Paravision's kind of second-band map, right? So it's not entirely unknown to them.
It's not nice enough that they would pick it, but it's not one that they're going to completely avoid.
It's a team that doesn't really pick to punish, it picks for comfort.
Our vision, just want to play what they want to play, they don't care if it's good or they don't.
So this is down the rung here.
We've seen Paze certainly have some struggles on this map.
So this gun round, very important to set the pace, set the precedent early in this game.
Oh, a chick is locked in right now, man.
He's leading this charge out through middle.
I don't know, you could just tell by the way he's staring at his screen.
That's the face of a guy that wants to get a kill right now.
knows he's got a lot of control. I mean he's holding for a boost over the donut
smoke for crying out loud. I really anticipate that eventually ParaVision
are gonna want to do something about this big empty point over to WartsMiddle.
They could write about where he was gonna get fought from but crunched on by
three players they lose that mid man. Karigan faking the fake play has really drawn the
Rotates, but they lose brokeie at the doors, and that's the bomb see loner has it
But he's good chase they're gonna get past him at least
Show a route in for the round attempt. Karrigan's even dealing. He just killed the doughnut player
Karrigan's gonna get out of a for now. They've got a 2v1 over here at B
And they'll try and fight. We'll get past him Karrigan will fall on that rotation out through middle
Twisted is left in this clutch and iced out as Paravision are able to convert on this round after all
I don't know how they even make it interesting from the second Zelo drops the bomb Paravision is still so hard
Committed to a they've got three of the four players or five players watching the A side with only Carrigan faking
It was a nice fake if Zelo doesn't push that smoke until broken
Then phase probably walk over that round
But bomb gets caught a lot of info and still face scramble back to a winnable position
But Swiss can't get off the site in that post plan nice recovery for paravision still a very scary round to be honest
No, that is so blind.
Oh, his teammates are able to deal with the attempt to get out through mid. The flashes might have been nice.
These weren't really able to capitalize, and now Paraviz and leave the mid-hold content with the 4 on 3.
There is a cap out towards red.
red. The FaZe don't know that and it's taking a look for answers out here in
Dona. Came up on the boost feels like he will be good to get away with at least
one from this position he's dropped down that's noise made how they know out in
the open. Jame tries to fight them head-on. Some low players here for
paravision they've got some utility at least on Valtranov because this could
get very hairy only Zelo with health it's got to make it worth it free kill
here grabs frozen Zelo commiting road key caught in the open and Zelo has
bailed out his team putting twists in a clutch that's a really nice way for
this to start with a hell of a 1v3 left in that last clutch couldn't do it
But this time, no problems for Russell van Goghkin, that space,
maintaining this lead at a crushing blow.
Dealt the way of ParaVision.
Swing with me, they say.
Swing with me, and that's what happens.
Right in line on time for the 1v3.
Beautiful.
No doubt, even that first shot, great catch,
is so he tries to escape.
And ParaVision will live to regret that down.
A huge pickup here for Faze early in the game.
And coming off to the one-gun round for Paravision as well,
putting their money back in the mud.
Belchnok's dropped no to a gun.
He's donor. Everybody else is B.
Getting topsy-turvy here on this T side.
Faze going back for an A smash.
Could get interesting with a stack having taken J.P.
right jay moving pieces around early and that hero m4 back in donor immediately rings out with a double kill
notice kept the intrigue on this round and combined with the early stack means that phase
aren't super comfortable here gonna rush the bomb club while the smokes are up
twist has been able to deal with no that's the m4 now removed it's a way that leaves you
feeling kind of weird about this one committed to a big flank all the way through b and catches
the timing here. Oh frozen, did clear it. Zwei still gets out with the kill.
Pressure now on for Broke, he's getting pinched in here, they're in the side, they're out the
tempo again, it's Twist left in the clutch, needs another one on three, easy up to the
task. Twist does it again, back to back, one of the three clutches out of Twist.
What are we feeling this guy? What did he have for breakfast Harry? I need to know
So now, 4 kills, 3 on his own, I thought Brokey had ditched him there with that swing out to CT twists, set up for the recovery of a lifetime, 2 clutches back to back, hold this map heavy for safe.
He's used to it
Twist you have to be alive last buddy you can't take too many risks here. He's kind of in the flow state right now like
All the room out through middle oh
Jane Jane buddy, you're so unbelievably next level dead
One note with an apparent turnaround for the trade phase of lost their clutch factor
Twist looking lights out here on ancient but dead after one had the round
Primed them ready for the taking can I get left to a retake now?
As you've conceded the B site broke. He's taken some space away of his own
Off here on the back of Zelo holding for a long peak
But can't hold this forever question is who breaks first?
C.Lo just leaves the angle to go back and get a nade.
Timings have opened up for him.
Down.
You want to swing along.
Now, on the long side, FaZe have boxed him right now.
Two players trapped.
Frozen does pick one off, but this ramp player might come
as a bit of a surprise.
FaZe tucked into the site.
Another kill taken.
Frozen just finds a move.
FaZe are the master of the late round right now,
winning out every post plan, every anti-clutch.
Frozen triple kill
Also, sorry about that you go I think you stopped being able to hear me
Okay, okay, I was in sure I'm sorry everyone for the confusion there
It's fine take it out of your wages look at this look at this
They can't lose.
Chris is having a great time.
He's laughing, he's smiling, he's winning 1v3s,
hitting all the timings.
Harib isn't.
How do you think they're feeling? Here we go.
Not good, Harib.
Yeah, coming off the back of the Dominant loss,
they didn't even fake come back on.
Now map 2,
against a phase who are
getting a bit of a loss.
I guess a phase who are in a bit of a worrying form to some and you've run into a life gaming
phase otherwise known as Monday coming in hot 5-1 tea side star paravision still broken
got smokes to buy time here triple a trying to get a read phase have done their fair share
of a executes now I guess just look right there patrolling blocking mid removing info here
a paravision. You just have to hope their gamble is right.
Good.
Wow.
I really do just be making smokes for everything nowadays.
Oh, but block the donor!
The big game plan here!
All in a question, need to break it,
and he's gonna go through into the 5-7s.
Important cover for Brokey,
and all the kills come through,
just a fleet of them in seconds.
Spam could have stopped the plant,
but Zelo didn't wanna leave it to chance.
Don't worry, he's got the yellow and a surprise, Harry!
Oh! How surprising!
That's a cute little man.
I like the tone of your voice there.
That's a cute little laugh.
I was getting a laugh and you got me.
Ah, yes, that's a sweet little man.
You got me, man.
Uh, yeah.
Well, not only do phase go into the stack,
they go into the stack through a smoke
and they get out with another round.
Not bloody bad if you ask me.
Ah, dude, this is sick.
It's a good day.
It's a good day.
Basil in it.
It's a good day.
I'm gonna bust a slam dunk in.
He's knowing nuts.
Oh no.
Go nuts.
That's unlucky.
Ooh, we're coming mid.
Psych.
Psych again.
We are coming mid, just after that smoke.
Alright, and I read a
comment the other day on the
G2 Paravision postmatch
post-match thread that said one guy don't know his name so this is why James
such a better IGL the carrying of this game proves it I know but he deduced that
from the g2 match well what I'm gonna find that comment let him know like you
know we actually have an official head to head yeah I will say not taken away
great game doesn't feel a paravision are having the best day oh it's not
phase playing good it's Paravision playing bad. It's a bit of both. It's a bit of both.
Both not be true. This trend isn't good. It's just the other team's really bad. That's
it. Can both not be true Harry. Tell me this. I don't know. I'm a J-Mapologist. Belchinoch
I had one kill man on last map. It's not fair.
Two kills, actually.
Jane walking spawn.
Right. Paravision.
I don't want to say they need this, but they kind of need this.
And it's still not the best position.
Couple of mollies to burn face out.
If they go doze, they're walking.
Just eat this one.
This is psycho mode.
Oh, I'm coming in.
Going to get out with one.
They missed the molly.
Only full shy in here, now frozen and brokey, have the CT control!
Oh, brokey! That is a phenomenal tap!
Can he give us a couple more of them?
Because now he's going to deliver a clutch of his own.
Twist has won a number of 1-on-3s.
How's brokey going to fare?
Time's so low for Noether, and he doesn't have it!
Another 1 vs. 3 clutch for FaZe, this time on the rings of brokey.
Dude, this is just, this is feeling-based calling.
This is like, just do what I want.
I don't care. I don't respect they won't read this walking three players through the smoke and
Of course, okay, you know paravision are playing off
They missed the base in Molly that would have won them around if they Molly properly into spawn it's done
But they missed it and phase capitalized
That's why it's both things at the same time Harry Brokey hits a bloody one tap and clutches up 1v3. He's off the bomb
Paravision gone
Oh, you're so blind, but also so small, it's the perfect combination, but TRIST has the
eyes in that corner and demolishes them on the rampage!
And he's now saying, guys, I have B, FaZe coming back to him, we have A. Well, then
that really only leaves one place for paravision, doesn't it?
Back here in the donor.
Oh, yeah.
Or C.
see immediately there was that option but it was me carrying it was right again
he has kind of out called jayman this one Harry I can't really deny that because
also if you look at the CT side of mirage go back to last map phase had
kept saying like they were hitting but they had every step every time
Paravision hit a bombsite phase had three sometimes four players there
They were reading the T side so well
And here it's the opposite phase like going into stacks and they're just multi-killing
By oh my
And it's just I know the the individuals really shining showing up as well for phase right not a quiet
player that was the remark at the end of map one and that's kept up
you got 30 kills total between frozen twist me and brokeie
Bro think she's something to do
and now a little time out
I thought he could sneak and be it.
Yeah man, me and Dupri have five majors combined.
Exactly, it's an impressive feat.
Dupri can never do it without me.
We've got to get out of here.
Where? Hey!
Hey! Hey!
I did!
Hahahahaha!
Awwww.
Showboating!
Don't think you do love them, though, whenever they're switched on.
They're all such controls, man.
Veldtionok. Okay, that's nice.
Finally, uh, man advantage right off the rip.
I haven't seen this.
Come on, P-vision.
Don't say that.
Cool them by their full name.
Oh, back turn, Belchinock finds another.
And they did a freebie on Karagin.
This is a Belchinock round, through and through.
As a hero emerged, a lightly candidate coming off the back
of a very cold start to the series.
Belchinock now sits one away from the ace.
And it's twist left up in the clutch.
He's had a couple of them in the game so far.
I made look dead on but it did like no damage to his way
This is tricky with it
This isn't tricky. This is just tractions. Sure. It's a middle. Surely he's going for it
He's one all but one clutch. He's been in in this game. He's not going for it. Look at him. I don't know
Who's he there? Oh, it's the way this is like the monster position.
Yeah.
We're saying clear of this. Oh, here's the goat.
All right. 15 seconds.
Fantastic in the clutches. Belcherock on for the ace.
Could stop this right now and it's all five for Belcherock.
Not what you expected, but it's what he's giving you.
A fantastic round there for an aggressive player in the Power of Vision jersey.
He nailed that opening kill in mid and then just went from strength to strength on the
donut fallback.
But still, it takes a lot, right?
That is a hulking individual effort from Belchinoch as he single-handedly breaks the silence
of ParaVision.
I'm not celebrating right now, Paravision needs a lot more if they're going to have
a hope in hell of winning this game.
Broke his head as well.
Nice grenade.
That's why he puts them down half.
Now Nose has got him trapped on the angle, so he's going to try to move in, but it's
a triple stack right now.
Big clear from twists.
And he won't overplay either, backs up into the site with two players in cave.
Paravision unlocked.
How do they get out of this one? Maybe looking for some chaos right now smoking that Molly diving through a character's push cave with a pistol
Carrigan's killed them both. He had a rifle. He didn't even need it
Well, maybe he did
It doesn't matter double tech nine ends the round the character. He has had enough. He runs through a smoke
He's still going James. I don't good is burning right now. He is on fire. Yeah, you talk about overheating
carrying it is running hot
I think HP, basing off against the Jame, with the hunt at the end of this one and a punishing
hunt of that.
And I mean, what can you say about that, Harry?
I think yesterday really proved that Jame would beat Carrigan.
But right now, if Carrigan beat Jame, it's not really a contest.
Look at this!
It's just a crazy round.
What's he doing?
Arrogant embracing is in a gremlin
That's it I thought phase like oh, yeah block the cave they've got the plot they've got the site no just run it just fall run
Go again question mark
No, that's my goat again
Okay, Jayme trying to catch them by surprise, but two players here.
It is the ideal number to deal with Jayme.
Still they're not able to do so. An important double from the captain of ParaVision.
3v5.
You are not supposed to win these. Jayme has handed you a keen double kill.
to start things off he's left the squad in a really good place and he's still
getting aggressive even now they last saw him on a push in a main seeing him
down here at the bottom of B ramp you are not prepared for that
there's a catch for Karagin at three on five turns into a three on four and
another from Karagin two quick kills and they've put FaZe right back in
this round smoke down to try and get Karagin out through the short side
He's going to take the cave back from FaZe, but this will allow a bomb plant. This will
allow you to get set up in the post with actually battling forward. Now hands off to Broke, he
is he's thrusted in the clutch. He dropped his AWP. Doesn't know the whereabouts of this
second player. Oh, they missed it on the ramp timing. Zelo had to hit that. 5-7 gave
up his position so an important kill out of Zelo. It's a three round CT half for
the game in the boys. I mean, it's something. It's a lot that area after 5v3. It still gets
to a very clutchable round for phase. Given some of the rounds we've seen from this team
across the series and especially ancient. I don't know how they've almost improved
on their Mirage. This one has at times felt even more dominant just with the clutches
that Twists has provided.
Karaghan 4K, Brokey 1v3.
Everybody shredding Paravision.
Dastan putting the notes back in the pocket
because I don't know if Prep can save you now.
Paravision need to lock in
with a three-round CT side on FaZe's map pick.
This might push them down a rung into 1-2.
This would put FaZe, one win away from the playoffs.
Very impressed.
One of the things that really stood out as well is like,
We spent so much time, and every time we talk about this ParaVision team, we credit them for their fundamentals, the strong trade work, it really blows your mind to think about how many clutches have played into this score line.
Thinking back to the back-to-back twists 1v3, the broky 1v3, you know, it's uncharacteristic for ParaVision, it's not what they're used to, those are normally very, very safe rounds.
That's one damage on Twist.
Yeah, that D-couch he took his armor off.
Well, only matter if he gets out scot-free.
Let's see if damage can make it interesting.
Deep donor smoke. They need to take some control here, though.
Gotta play behind that smoke, but they have nothing but the sight.
Karagon coming in quick.
Face. No kick. No captain.
Good shot from Jane, and this is suddenly a very hard battle. Thanks.
Risen can't stop the spillover.
They'll go and retake Donut. Twist locked out.
Two vs five here, tap on the bomb and Paravision just come barreling through the smoke.
So no issues there, pistol round picked up and about as clean as it gets.
Okay, Paravision. Look, they're a comeback team Harry, they're a resilient team.
Whoever's ever gonna happen, pistol round, back into their T-side with Jane taking control.
Can't afford to get ahead of yourself here.
They've been having fun, but this is where it really gets serious and yeah, full eco.
I like the call.
Learn what they're up against.
Just want to get those four buys in ASAP.
I gotta say they know what it is but in the p2k vs usp war it's barely a war but um usp
just feels so much nicer up against ball players they know what it is yeah I know what you mean
that being said I am the worst player in the world that shooting people in the back
with the USP. Yo, okay, wait, FaZe have gone for the Fallen-esque Pi, the half-Pi on a full
rifle round. Look at this guys, they full eco round two, and instead of buying 5M4s, they've
got 5MP9s. They're gonna chaos in mid, they're gonna crash, they're gonna scrap. I'll explain
where this works in a second, but right now it's not. Paravision double entry,
they still keep running. They go for the upgrades, they get AKs. This is Paravision
Realizing what they're up against the hyper aggressive phase. Jacob tossed alone with his B bomb site
Om is behind the door fake on a
And back Paravision pull all the phase over
Off angle broke he ready another drop now. They have to go be and Jacob is still here
This has gone pear shaped the Paravision bro like phase were ahead of them in this entire three on four
Not only the double a rotate and paravision were going back to a they lobbed in a fake bit of you tell out here towards the B site
The bomb was in rotation now
They have to recommit in to be a phase already started shuffling bodies over and they're not here yet
Still playing passive position so you would have loved to kill for Jacob. It won't come through jame finds it
Hound up rooted now as you left in this two on three you've lost control of the site
and they might just think about saving.
Let me explain the theory behind this round here for FaZe.
So obviously there's multiple factors at play.
One, Paravision are expecting a fall by there,
expecting a low utility, M4 maybe a passive round here for FaZe.
FaZe are playing because they have the lead
with full nades with MP9s.
Not only can they run at Paravision, very aggressive,
they can throw a lot of utile out mid,
maybe Paravision go for a quick mid play like they did
And FaZe can not only surprise them with their positions and their weapons, but they can get upgrades.
If FaZe win that round, they take away AKs, they carry them into the next round, they get free AKs essentially.
And if they lose it, like they're doing now, even if they didn't save these two guns, they come in with a 4x in this round.
So it's the risk reward. It's essentially like you force second, you've eco third, except you get more out of it.
So, FaZe, I like the idea, we used to see Fallen let teams do this a bit.
Not really anymore, I haven't seen this for a long time.
You know, I think you have to have a lead for it to really be justifiable.
But FaZe is getting a bit crazy.
And hey, okay, it doesn't work, Paravision convert there still,
but FaZe get away with two AKs, they have a lot of money, they have an awful Brokey.
They're in a good spot.
If this comeback is real, this round is required. It would put FaZe on their arse.
And not in a good way. Walk down through the ramp for Jacob and Carrigan. Flash play!
Carrigan sent in. If and Jacob both commit to that fight, they're going to give away
two entries in doing so two for one safe to say the way you wanted that to break
phase I think you are saving them edging their way back to be but slowly they
stopped this is coming out cave with three Ricky waits for Belcherlock he
doesn't need to play first they've got a decision to make after long annual
open so Brokey will have a sideline here smokingly just going down now a boost
asked for Brokey put up on it you tell just to delay this plant even longer
it's an unorthodox plant position here out of paravision and it works wonders
means that Brokey can't spam them out of it
Smoked now. Fade!
Here, but Frozen comes through with a kill.
Instantly they hear that that flash worked,
but they leave it too long,
and it lets Twist just tear through them.
Picking them apart gets it down to the 1v1.
Frozen vs. Belchin.
Oh! Confusion! Hit the flick!
Fade! Pull through.
Disadvantaged throughout that entire round,
and it doesn't matter.
That's it. 2v4.
Out of Twist as well, man.
like the spray it baits them into peeking they know he's full blind but that moment of indecision
the extra second taken actually go for this swing let's twist become unblind and then
nail Zelo yeah he had to jump on that straight away and he doesn't twist it fades he gets a second
and they win a 2v4 in the post plot that was a round that you would expect most teams to save him
I'm shocked, FaZe. Not only go for it, they win it!
That was a chance to plait a FaZe's economy to close this game right up.
Paravision had a chance.
They rebuy, they go again, they get another advantage.
A trace of Twizz swinging out, even Karagin through cave.
FaZe don't let it go for free.
Paravision regrouping for the B hit.
FaZe have recleared mid though. Huge information allows a triple B setup.
Interesting.
Caravagin just gonna be forced to commit to an execute. James given his orb over to Belchernock.
Oh, Broke playing an aggressive angle.
Shado over the top. Broke allowed to fire a shot off and get the hell out of there. They're closing in on him.
Has a lot of players nearby to support. Jacob holds up his end of the bargain with a kill into cave.
Oh, now they're just stuck. They've lost cave. Brokey's taking it back. Belchock's got an AWP.
Paravision, some nades at least, but they need to get this kill. A second miss for Brokey.
This is going to cost him. It costs Jacob. Molly on close position. Brokey has to take
one with him, and he can't. Absolute failure to launch for Brokey in this round, and
Faze with all the advantage might just fall short.
Twist laid for long though, never revealed his position here.
And even though Belchock's been holding it all around,
the idea that this guy just hasn't shifted out of position
could catch them by surprise.
It's way with a huge 4K round.
That was nearly the third 1B3 in this map for Twist.
It all happened so quickly.
Important trade for Zway.
That is way too close for comfort
for ParaVision to survive.
And I gotta say, man, if you want to culprit, it is broken.
He missed three shots with your three round defining shots.
Birthday, no more.
Welcome back to the 364 days of the year,
where it's just another Monday.
Nice driving twist.
He is putting in one hell of a shift.
to be honest, saves the series
for Paravision. Maybe they can
do something now on this tea
side. They have again faces
money on the rocks. Can they
push them off into the sea?
for ParaVision. Maybe they can do something now on this T-side. They have again phases money on the rocks.
Can they push them off into the sea?
Oh, something up tempo, sitting a little faster at phase with not ready for a pace change.
B site falters straight away, Paravision take them a whole map to really warm up
into this series but they're giving us the goods now on T side of engine. Yeah
mark my words this game just got serious for phase now that was the
chance to end the game to be honest that last round it would have crushed
Paravision's money would have put phase on 11 Paravision would have a
hard decision to make phase would be ripe to take this 2 and 0. Now it's a
very different game. Now you're gonna work for it.
This is not the prettiest buy, but FaZe will have a fall in the next.
Caravition is shocking how much they're running out mid on L-lights.
It's not easy to get away with this.
The FaZe don't have the utility to fight back, so Twitch just spams from red.
AA double B.
Caravition, look at the battery on this B site.
I'm just having that info on mid.
Oh Jacob, they're ahead of that.
They run straight in on contact out through ramp.
Winston's gonna make his way over, connects one on the spam. That'll keep you interested at least.
But around you meant to win if you face clan. You can try, you have nothing to lose.
By round coming in the next, yeah that does give them a bit of freedom.
Quist playing close, catches another. Velchenok will get past him and
Arthas with a double of his own. Karigan now plays his hand.
figure out in the cave won't leave much of an impression and shut down from
paravision and this is a one-round game yes indeed Harry one round game but a
full-by for phase paravision jumping at the bits trying to wake up in this game
they came in so cold to Mirage that it's a team that is so hard to put away
It's like phasing a lower bracket.
You can never count Paravision out.
Orphe for Brokey, and attempt a redemption.
Three smoke left, Jago.
Very quick decay.
The Nade.
Ah, problem.
Triple Nade onto Jame, one after the other.
What a counter for phased.
Yeah, and dude, if you're carrying it there, that leaves you feeling very, very
happy.
This is what you've been waiting for having a bye with everything having all the utile
You immediately put it to work triple-nade to deal with jame
dude
Paragraph pre-smoked the molly they were like yeah, we're getting this pic
We are sending jame to cave with the orb and one made after another
5v4
Paragraph forced to hit this B bomb site broke you alone. He hits his first
I won't do anything else, but I'd like to think that he's keeping the advantage and check.
That one, get away from him.
A lot of damage done on Aziloth.
He's low in the post-plant, but again he left looking and you're thankful the twist is still alive.
Even then it's just barely.
He takes a lot of damage trying to come through this UTIL down on short.
Two low players in the bomb site.
It's a long way out and thinking about saving as they now realize this is a lengthy game ahead of them
three versus five the paravision you say
The nade on James and broke he and cave and then boom
Trade and broke he was left alone phase are trying to reclaim it
I don't think they expected paravision to just go for the be hit just a desperate
storm up B and
And phase we're out of position for it
Careful get away with two guns
Parry parry vision
The full comeback here on ancient
This was nine three at the half folks
Yeah, you can't tell me that three rounds was really all they needed that's
I'm sad after phase, you know these individuals that fell still on problematic throughout the entire game
Entire series are awesome issues now
You know broke you with a couple of misses. It was that one round with the or like you said it
The game could have been over really if they use it picked it up
I can't play without him.
I don't know what he's doing.
His twist clutches were a long time ago and he can't bail them out being the third guy in to be
Unless he starts
Oh, nice try for jay
But twist is constantly scared of red. Yeah
I mean, you know, they started to give up a lot more map control too as this game's gotten away from them
And attempted some aggression here out towards main pelchon gets this bar
They've got to believe that they can get past them and they will are they ready for the donut fight because para vision already through
Out in the site itself now and a chance to backstab on both players here in Maine
They'll just get around the corner as way is still closing in
Realization comes too late and they know that frozen's back here somewhere bomb planted in the downtime
Frozen left scrapping clearing out towards the ramp. They don't even get past the elo
So, left in this awkward 3 on 3 and we're frozen, not netting another on this main position.
You're left looking at twists, 1 on 3.
If this was early in the game, you'd say he's got them right where he wants them, but
this is another round that just slips through the fingers of FaZe Clan.
Dude, all the attention for twists in the start of this game, and I think Zwei
will get remembered as the guy who wins it because he found that 4K round on the
B site to stop twists last 1v3 attempt.
And now he finds his sick contact double entry into a flushing out Brokey and Frozen, both
who are hyper fixated on AMA.
Frozen had cleared it and Brokey is still holding for a miniscule timing.
Did not expect Paravision to just walk through Donut and come behind it.
It's a nightmare moment for Brokey.
He's knocked off a reed right now and Paravision propel forward into a third
map.
away from Inferno and that's when this series gets even harder for FaZe.
I said it when they won that swing round I said suddenly
it's not feeling so good for FaZe and it's going to feel worse when Nota does that.
FaZe get blocked in middle. Oh this is off, this is done, this is fully open.
They have fumble bits. They're running into each other in red, couldn't even get out through
through that smoke. A very, very limp mid-take for FaZe if you can even call it that.
Ugh.
I said earlier I'm shocked the Paravision so many times will just run out elbow because
In games where you see Spirit lose on Ancient, a lot of it is because teams know Donk is going to do the same thing, right?
They know Donk is going to run out of him, he's going to go behind those heaven boxes.
And when you see a game, especially like a first round of a playoff,
where a team is really hard prepped for Donk, and they're just destroying him with utility,
and they're just triple mid, and they're trading out, and they're making Donk more comfortable, and human.
That's what I feel like Faze could do in this game right now,
But I haven't realized how free this mid entry is.
Like those nades are so late for face.
They got blocked in the smoke.
They got blinded, whatever they got.
But they have not counted
Paravision wide-swinging mid once in this game.
And they didn't feel like a problem earlier
because they were winning the late rounds.
They were stacking right.
But now, No too just runs out elbow, double entry.
Is it GG?
Let's find out.
I mean, they've worked hard to try and put an AWP in Brokey's hands again.
But like, you've got to deliver with it.
You have to.
After the mid-take, they'll deny that the Paravision are coming in with an up-tempo
B round.
This is how they started their streak.
How they're looking to end the game at all.
Jacob gets out with a double.
He's at least done something in defense with B.
Brokey!
He ults this with a quick shot on that orb!
Legged.
Low on health.
He's brought it down in that head-to-head.
The backstab on Sui.
Timing now opens up, throws him a twist, both moving in.
Brokey might get pressure forward.
He ults it with all the kills!
Where did that come from?
This off!
This off!
Do you can't troll the game and then win round 23?
He's trolled so many rounds and he just saved FaZe from a third map.
He was what, 6 HP that whole time?
Yeah, yeah.
I guess he got le...
No, he was low already before he fought him.
Yeah.
I don't know.
He got naded or spammed.
Wrecked by Util.
Naded as well.
He just triple killed.
6 HP in front of the monitor.
Look at him!
He's in front of the monitor.
Look at him. He's in front of the monitor. I thought the monitor was going to kill him.
That is just insane. That doesn't make sense.
Brokey is the most hit or miss.
And it goes round to round.
Phase triple mid. They look to counter this elbow swing.
Notable blind.
Ah! Ah!
Twisted's got him!
Finally!
They're hunting for overtime.
You can't get ahead of yourselves.
You can't get ahead of yourselves here.
Jamie is still paid by the round.
It'll be overtime here for ParaVision.
Can they close from another disadvantage?
Because Faze have low players and feel like they have to make a gamble.
Triple stack.
Oh, but the gamble is looking like it could be right right now.
Paravision, Cross in middle, they'll actually change their mind.
Oh, and if you go anywhere, you have the sight.
But FaZe are already making moves, right?
They know they could lose this by gambling on the wrong end of the map,
so they come through with aggression, they go and take lane.
James giving it a glance down towards Ramp,
and he's got the spot that they went aggressive.
Twist! Oh, I need something from in there with Red Bulls making...
They're pushing in, they're going in a Broke key!
The storm began in the position, they're going through the furnace,
but he can't answer the call!
Now it's Jacob. They won't be ready for another player. They're not ready for the last man. It's down to this.
Over to the Baravision. Just walk it home. Just barely after a three-round first half.
You thought they were done. You thought it was over. They pushed it all the way over the line.
The full 24 rounds needed, but they say no to extra time.
into the stack play after player catching them by surprise and still they ice out the round
paid by it into a third map they're going to get a little bit more counter strike this morning
as jame and para vision keep this game going this had absolutely everything this had swings
This had missed, this had clutches, this had come back for paravision.
What an emotional rollercoaster in this second map.
FaZe could have just straight up won it, and I again want to give that credit his way,
because some of his late game multi-kills won this for paravision.
The 4K on the B site in the 3v5 to stop the twist 1v3.
The double kill in A main when he walks through Donut on contact.
Some of these routes was way off court.
It's ParaVision.
Everybody puts in a shift.
Everybody finds their moment.
No throughout middle.
Jamie in that last round, but still.
I don't think if Zway doesn't win that round at 10-7,
this is a 2-0 for FaZe.
Now we go to Inferno.
Uh-oh, folks.
ParaVision are favorites.
Dude, I also think it's worth mentioning.
Like the the the Belchinoch recovery arc was crazy, right? Mirage 2 and 14 he got a
They're barely dodged the Belchinoch frag movie and then he goes on to top perform here on on ancient
Just with you know, just kind of quietly doing the work in the background. It felt like
Man what a what a series this is shaping up to be
The twist might have had those string of clutches.
Felt like he was a safe pair of hands
in every late round situation.
It doesn't matter.
And you are left thinking about that,
that one round man, that Zwei 4K round,
that could have ended the game.
This would have been over.
We would have been saying phase
or a series away from the playoffs.
But instead, we're going to inferno as our decider.
And I mean, now it's all in the air.
This is paravision with a bit of wind in their sails,
You know, starting to pick up some steam,
starting to find themselves in the series
after a slow start, and it's their whole specialty.
You know, their whole thing is,
it will take our time or when we're ready to,
but you can never count us out.
But FaZe, now you're a little nervous.
They've just lost their golden opportunity
to close the series and have to reset
and do it all over again on Inferno.
Yeah, I don't wanna be the bearer of bad news,
But this is suddenly massively favorite to ParaVision, right?
This is a map that we've seen them look really, really solid on.
It's a scary finale for FaZe.
We'll have to see if they can earn it in a third mapper,
or if ParaVision have got that dog in them coming furnough.
She said she loves you, but she can't love me!
But I love you!
I won't play window anymore.
What's going on?
Play your role, one is fair.
The human body was built to move.
Not after the death, get one singular posture for 12 hours a day.
It's time your chair evolved.
This is Secret Lab Titan Eva.
Ergonomically engineered for you.
Gamers.
Hybrid workers.
Artists.
And I gave you every move.
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I can't quite believe we're here, Mr Byron. You can't. First time. Okay. So what? You
saw this coming from a mile off. As soon as broke, you missed that show, Harry. What
you got there? Breakfast, actually. Delicious. A little beans. Bean juice, a little dark
of being juice with no calories Harry that's that's my breakfast because I'm
eating good in the series right now I'm enjoying some Counter Strike I was
famished but now I'm fed now I am nearly full all that remains is a third
final map of inferno do you think it will satiate you Harry I hope so I hope
it does I mean this whole series has been great it's had a bit of
everything you know you kind of rounded out last map saying it's had it all it's
had swings and misses clutches for twists for brookie strong performances the
classic para vision resilient shining through big monstrous 4k's from
individuals in the para vision squad now it's all gonna be settled on this
inferno and you know we're kind of at the verge of something pretty cool it's
the face clan showing up and being just the game away from the playoffs or you know we're
going to have Paribas demonstrating some tremendous resilience in the last two games they've played
right because the GT matches a similar story they got swept to open it up wasn't particularly
close and then they went on to recover hard throughout the remainder of the series and
I think that would do Arvils for this team if they are to make another playoff birth
have happened that be just a game away from it.
Yeah, I think it's a scary position to be in because not
only do you know if your face that you kind of choked that
game, but Paravizion know that they just come back. They can
remind themselves of yesterday's series where okay, yeah,
they look like asleep on the Raj. They weren't even in that
game. Even ancient started horrendously wrong. But they
remind themselves guys we literally did this yesterday look at them they're
chuckling away they're smiley little guys right now because they know they
have this game in the palm of their hand they just have to play how they did
yesterday and right now Paraviz are looking as good as ever as FaZe have
to recover from an ugly loss to very different positions this game puts you
within touching distance of playoffs or elimination.
What's it gonna be?
A little APOP.
And not great results here.
Jayman Swee able to pick apart the apartment side of this take.
Backstab even coming in so you've got to move quickly here.
Get past both of these pit players.
Are they ready for Belchnok?
Yes they are.
Karrigan! Huge triple kill!
No, no, no.
Bomb dropped up in the apartments though and the backstab now arrives.
You might need even more out of Karrigan.
Does he have an ace in him? That's the question.
Where is the ace?
Oh!
That doesn't matter.
He's on for it!
A kill away from the Karrigan P250 ace.
It's long, or it's apps. That's
what they say. It goes back and
he finds him all five for the
captain of phase in a 2v5, no
less. That's his 30th ace
ever. Yeah. Wow. Wow.
Time to get it.
Good job, man.
I'm shocked.
I'm shook.
We always knew the Karagon PT-50.
He never drops it. He always plays it.
Sometimes I'll see Karagon with armor PT-50.
He'll make them drop him.
And rarely am I disappointed, but that is something else.
All five in a 2v5.
Well, well, well.
That'll shake this series up.
Easy for go again.
Let's go back to Kharagot, I think.
Roll smoother.
And they're dodging the stack here, paravision, too strong out towards the safe side of
the map.
Oh, twist!
They're going to complete the 180.
James now calling for rotations, but Paravision know this is around.
They won't attempt if another kill were to come through.
Still showing a bit of interest right now.
They're going to go looking for twist who hangs around out on the long side.
I think James just takes that SMG and gets the hell out of there.
A couple of guns, but no chance of the round here.
Locked out.
So, FaZe, I don't call it a conversion just yet, they've got one more four-spider deal
with.
fans praying.
and
breathe
frozen just got a lot of info he saw three sets of nades come over towards
banana at the same time
now here's that they're taking the space as well
I feel like this just makes you follow through on the A-play that much quicker
you know they were deep committed in through banana you know they were
looking for the fight and you're expecting there were numbers here as
as well. They'll start to arrive early, but Jame already dealt with. This way he remains
as the only kind of bastion out here in the apartments, holding out some hope for him with
some of the multi-kills this guy's given us. Faze will just smoke him off. They have
lost Karrigan out there all along. And Sway good for the turn around. This one's
got legs on it. Faze bomb planted, two on three and a lot closer than they were
ready for a chance to chase down the low HP Zelo over here. Brokey should have this one dead to
right. Oh, he did. Zelo! He done that! I need to see that. Brokey was just sat in front slight
waiting. He knew he had him on low health. He knew he had him a shot from death. And Zelo only
kills him. He follows up to twist in the pit. How? I don't know how he did that. His weight
double, zero, triple, paravision with their force. Make it make sense. Oh, oh, look so
easy when he does it. I'm shook. That's why you can't hold a bloody angle in this game
man. The peak is advantage man. You can't stand still man. You gotta be ADing. You gotta
be moved left and right left and right left AD AD AD AD just gotta be always
look at this look at this AD AD AD you've always got to be moving you stand
still you're dead instantly
in that right I mean yeah I just demonstrated quite nicely
there's the reply
Belgium up just barely living but that's honestly enough
Back to the A aggression, Belgium off from the low half, pushes through behind him.
There's a teammate there riding shotgun and now it's just Karagin.
I'm not ready to write him off after the ace in the pistol round.
This is a real wishful thinking 1B3 and no-one's got eyes on.
Paravision.
Bringing the heat very early on Inferno, they're going to leapfrog phase here and
move in to pole position.
Frozen's had enough, he says, guys could have won this on
ancient, I'm out of here.
It's fair. No one's arguing with that. It's fair.
What is this bug, Harry, that we're getting? We had a crack
now we have a clue and you know before you blame production it's a CS bug where
you change POV and you get giga whited you're staying it we're all seeing it
and we're all saying where that's coming from that's been multiple events now
that's back-to-back events it's an in-game bug because it's an old-school
bug you stop it in I swear he's happening Cisco but like super rare or
well maybe it was here so I don't know but
it's very annoying
I know Cracklebed have a backup PC
to switch the feed when it happened because you just have to restart the game
very annoying guys
flashbangs aren't that good
here we go
Short tech pause. We're back in. First of the day as well.
Smooth start here for Paravision. Recovering with their four-spy.
One more positioning at 130. He gets a triple Glock headshot.
how did he even get there Harry it's 1 30 and he's TV barely even past lunchtime
now frozen as an aching maybe could win this round you know I want to think like that
You can win every round
They really can win this round it's only one guy B phase don't need to respect the smoke that goes down and they run through
Something happening here. Oh into the site
Look at the health of ours Harry. They're all very very low. They just don't give anything away surely
You hope that numbers and numbers alone decide the fate of this round and the paravision never give it a look in
They know they're low chain drop the all back in sports a face can't take it that means paravision are going for this
Flash slows the roll
It's good. Broke he dead. That's one of the guns gone. The walks might have even more to do.
And they'll do it. Jacob, how many glock kills against fully bought players is he able to get?
Turns out who's the limit comes down a frozen a clutch. This chain has to nail the shot on the
No money, no weapons, they get it done with Glock's.
Five Glock's full eco, no investment, complete round win.
Absolute robbery for FaZe. Paravizion may have won a force. How about the five Glock?
You would bet your house on James hitting that shot to cover the defuse.
Or Faze blow it all down. Frozen big clutch.
Unbelievable and Nota who walked down T-Ramp probably feeling a little bit silly.
Oh dear. This game's already delivering Harry. Carrying an ace, paravision force, phase
full eco. That was triple glock headshot for frozen and it's the AK, god what a stunning
kill the jakey
and it's the AK he picked up that he puts on the 1v2 with
i mean now you've got a chance to break paravision early in the game
I'll flash in and it's only Z-Logs, I'll flash in and it's only Z-Logs, I'll flash in
here. He's locked out by the UTEL. It feels some temptation to try and get a fight in
behind this Mollipa. That's exactly what Frozen wanted. Smoking it now.
Notas grabbed the gun and it might just be a call to save here. Paravision, if they
go for this and come up short, they're left with nothing. So again, just picking the
right side of the map, getting that one kill, it's enough.
Here's what I'll say about FACE today. It feels like they've game planned really
like they on the Raj they had to read every time or what site Paravish and we're gonna hit they have the stacks in the right places
Yeah, okay. They choked ancient or whatever here on inferno
Just knowing what setups Paravish on a running abusing this be bomb site
Realizing they're playing one man be halting a lot of these gun rounds is pretty typical to Paravish
and when you
When you break the timing by popping through the B smoke Paravish and don't get to use a utill
They don't get to support flash. They don't get to get a 5v4 and play retake
They just lose a man and they lose the site and they have to save
phase
Working out the most efficient way of winning the round
That's a very cheeky cool
Paravision are gonna have to adapt. Gotta watch out for this contact B. It's twice now phase have done it
So you've got to play for them up.
Very blind.
at least has support.
You're hoping you've conditioned Paravishnav to worry about that B site a lot more.
Saw the retake banana you told.
I just think that that's the sign that there's a bit more attention over towards B and they're right in that fact.
James even just rotated over as a third piece. They're going to try and retake top banana now.
Frozen's lobbed in the util and that cancels the banana retake. So, Paravision...
Oh, they're starting to shuffle back around, right? As FaZe takes CT away.
They're rotating into this. Knives pulled. You know there's a second player here. They'll get
Parcelo. It's only James. He's getting sandwiched on both sides and he needs to kill quickly
to take the pressure away. Faze closing in on this split. James just plays to a bait.
Ahead of the flash, catches it dead on. He's so blind Jacob doesn't punish.
Now relief is on the way. Belcherock is closing in. James doesn't wait for him and takes that
fight head on. It's Brokey throwing into a one on three. AD, AD, AD. He's waiting.
Paravision needs to put it together.
Great grenade, 51 on the money.
Broke he needs a lineup, he needs something ludicrous, spraying away over the top.
Broke he almost wins the clutch.
Belchinox saves Paravision.
It comes at a cost, but a round is a round no matter how you slice it.
Very nice try for FaZe.
But even better for Jayme.
I love how he makes it look like he's running away for Jacob to go chase him, instantly repeats.
And there he is.
Back with another.
It's a real captain's game right now.
Oh, Karagin trying to play for this top control out towards Banana meets the Nade head-on.
I'm surprised to see him stick around after getting dinked.
No, it's a rotating face, still believing they can win in the three on five and that's
off of...
We can't really get a four players over the way
Haven't been super reliable
Retake I mean look at Faravish know they're running the flank before they even entered be like they are right behind you
This bomb could even get dropped to the back broke you running in they start to shift
Paravish an element of surprise
Bomb denied, and FaZe now is a death match in this B bomb site, and it's just death.
There is no match.
Not for this paravision, 5 alive round.
Everybody stands tall, quick flank, and hey, they may dedicate 4 players to A,
but at least they're quick about reacting.
Soon as that smoke comes into B, running down middle on the flank.
here he gets the opener it's crazy just go through smoke
they're not having anything happen this time
making sure that
ah
No crazy D.Eagle 1B5 sadly.
The paravision moving into the lead.
Very tricky team to put away.
phase try this is Paravision trying to beckon phase in to just play this contact pop again
phase I think a biting down
oh he really wants that made back but not worth throwing the whole round away for
one in spawn at least phase grind still going in
Just going to commit through, through the molly, through the UTEL, Zelo gets the chomp down on two.
It's a response for Jacob and Brokey, but they are very wounded. They're hurting here in this post-plant.
Brokey especially.
Anything Brokey can get out with is super valuable here as the round largely going to fall onto Jacob's shoulders.
Double up in towards the coffins. If that Nade comes out again to try and clear this position
it would find Brokey, but he's used on the site instead. There's the spot. Out of Nota.
100% sees one. Does he know about both of them? Jacob keeps his attention on the site.
Brokey battles forward and this round is coming in for phase. Jane decides it's not worth
playing for and that is a very unlikely round. The face seem good for these man disadvantage.
Rounds to come through it's another example of it just that duo there.
Yeah very impressive I don't think there's enough to draw the info because Paravision was still
looking at Banana, still looking at backside. They find out the hard way, the shot to the face
from Jacob. Both in the brookie getting the necessary kills to force a save and
and jame can't get that all because no two is using it. So it's all gone a little wrong
here for paravision despite a really good be hold. They did a lot of damage. Molly down
made phase very uncomfortable. Felt like paravision would teed up for a round win there. Now phase
time out because in all of these round wins for phase it's coming down to minimal players
surviving. In this case none. They all died to bomb. So buys aren't pretty. Meanwhile
Paravision have an AWP
It's still a very competitive third map. Anyone can win from this point
Karaghan Mach 10
W key
And the push it and James just breaks his keyboard over his knee
That's aggressive move for James to start the round. Paravision needed it
He's gonna keep things dynamic on this orb now posted in the apartments.
Jayne collects another, putting himself in position to succeed.
He really is a lot more of a focal point for ParaVision on Inferno.
back to the g2 game yesterday where jane went absolutely massive
he hit that
it's constantly keeping them guessing they've seen the orb taking early fight mid then in
the apartments now it's fired off a banana you know that means temporarily this a site
should be a little weaker but is jane trying to get ahead of that call
17 and 2 against G2 on CT Inferno yesterday. 17 and 2. 100% KST. It's finally put it down
here. Brokey's followed up. No way a 3v5 transpires, but Nate or Bombfall, not Nate. Brokey caught.
Frozen can't catch today, they're quick to the punch.
Oh, that's a surprise to see them
pull the bomb out without clearing everything.
Little mistake, the cost phase of trade could have opened up the round.
It was a 3v5 either way.
Came a real nuisance since getting his AWP.
I don't know what to do. I'm
stressed now his face need this
last round, but they have
nothing to show for it.
Tech dies. Oh, the fast play
something quicker out towards
the apartment Jacobs broken
through the first line of
defense and even manages to
dodge the Utah. They're also
getting it through the
short side. Jane got to keep
his wits about and there's
control hunting for a kill into the site.
Oh.
Oh.
And a shot there.
Oh, and he will get it.
Change been tapped out of the wall by Caragun.
No way.
What's Jane doing?
Why is he climbing up?
His teammate's calling him at long.
They hear him running.
But rounds not done.
They're low health.
They are both wounded, both low.
Two bullets can end this for Zelo.
Good bolly.
And hit a full HP.
Spam connects onto Caragun.
Broke, he's going to play for distance.
Looking for a B side plant. This one's gonna come down to a retake. I like this for Brokey. It's very nice decisive move
Penny drops too late for Zealot and now Brokey can be anywhere. So the mind game has begun Zealot will clear out banana
He has a smoke but Brokey picked up the nade Harry that was
So Zealot tries to smoke the fuse Brokey can break it open. He's not in a great position right now
But he'll hear the steps. He'll move in
Gonna try and play ahead of this.
Broke, you thinking about it?
Think, and as to whether or not he wants to fight here and now,
let's him go for that defuse.
Nade blows the smoke open,
but it's all part of the mind games for Broke.
Now, just needs the spam to connect,
and there's the clutch.
Another disadvantage round for FaZe Clan
to see them through to a six-round T-side.
They tie things up. They keep map three competitive.
Dude, super sick round out of Karagan as well.
That triple kill on Long.
I don't know how he gets Jane. I don't know what James up to climbing up in the open
Maybe miscommunication. Karrigan follows up to Belchnock and this is a stressful match of counter strike right now
Little mistakes making big issues for both teams
Also a little factor about Brokey throwing in that nade and then not peeking
It seems almost silly
But it's so smart because he knows he will get off the bomb when the nade comes in he here's a nade come out
Zelo stops the defuse. That's all Brokey wanted. He doesn't want to give the fight away on low health
Yeah, it still comes down to chance spam, but Brokey secures the round here four phase
We've got a game six six and a half a full eco win and then a five tech nine force four phase in their T side
Terrorists win.
At the paravision, often times you can count on them to put up a strong streak around on
these CT halves.
That's where you get a lot of mileage out of Jame, that's where they find a lot of
their success.
One of the few teams where you could even make the case that CTs where they would
rather be on this map. It popped in this for the pistol and FaZe have come out of it with
a 5v4. There is just a solo B site defensive Karagin. Reinforcers are on their way but
they won't get here ahead of the exec for paravision. So he gets out with one. Retake
players now arrive, twists first on the scene, trying to stop them from crossing into
the back of the site. Right now you know you're up in trap, in a pool and around
this bomb, that's an awkward string of mischief, but frozen, Twist at least makes up for it.
You know he was the only guy who crossed out, so all eyes on the pool, all eyes on Banana,
Belchinock, not an easy clutch, not an easy round, left it to the 1v1.
Brokey doesn't have a kit to work with, Belchinock gets to give Brokey a taste of
his own medicine as he just goes back, gives up all the control, gives up a brokey,
No kit in the round. Paravision win the pistol.
Oh, he thought he was sticking for the last second.
Luckily, no kits.
Missed opportunity there for phase though.
I mean, Paravision reacts really well.
They see the mid rush.
They have to change the plan on the fly.
Whatever their pistol was, they just smoke ramp, run through it and go B.
And yeah, the swing miss is frozen.
He needs that kill off the boost.
It'll be a 43 postplot instead.
it loses life, paravision, pistol to start off this half, that is only that second pistol
in the series
the
block
justice say business
all right a chance to run it back with the force in the next
well this is what paramission did right they saved their second round guns and then they
won the third with that save
So they know how potent this could be. That's why they're looking at Chase on the fact-hands.
And honestly, that's pretty good for FaZe. Chance to go and hold on as to the SMGs out
of the round now.
Still need to survive. See you later.
for debate and he was banana he was he was he was in the smoke continues to be
a man is with this the distance of the bomb he was on orange box yeah how did he
die to bomb it was a backside plot it was like the closest plant to me but
that's still crazy man what eight health it's not if it's like one HP
health oh it's three three health it's on orange box and he dies to a bomb that's still
crazy man don't tell me don't say well that's crazy well well well you got a good voice
line from the game yeah I just did it what's everyone's favorite voice let us
now
you man I'm getting stifled I know man I don't touch it I've been touching it
cold compress or warm compress or one of them I just might gouge my eye out
well well
I'm losing it
flash through
I have a p-vision
they didn't give you the fight
way bomb on the mp7
I'm losing my mind right now
I'm waiting for voicelines but no one's written any.
I'm getting pounded here!
That's a good one.
Strong submission.
Sneaky beaky like is a good one.
Are you going to sneaky-beaky like...
It's not like...
Not as good as...
WELLP!
Aggression down through banana.
I ain't gonna leave frozen here.
here. He still has blocking utility, so it doesn't need to hang around deep on the banana
angle. We'll just be able to stop the banana take as it looks to come through with that
smoke. Ooh, what if he does one better? Bit of spam! Charts would be a fine thing.
Find thing to feed
5v4 and a necessary round for phase because paravision coming back in
And I'm gonna take him back still Zelo floating in the middle
Oh fake
can he block it?
10 seconds, I'm going down, 5v4 retake, these are still deceptively difficult
Yeah, he might have the bad advantage.
It's breaking through these crossfires that can prove to be real tricky.
He got one flash on Jacob.
Last to arrive, he'll be the guy flashing in phase for this retake.
Never mind, he's handed off to Twist.
He says, trust me guys, I know a good one.
Plays it through the window, no one's blind.
He's my breakthrough with a couple of kills, but without clearing Veldronov, there's no
winning this.
Here to collect in the clutch, too much time elapsed is there for FaZe Clan and everybody
dies as Paravision's lead continues to build.
I feel like this happens every time in the 5v4 retake on B. The teams just take too
long, right?
Like, even if there's smokes down, but bottom of it, there's no smokes down in
this round.
don't come in until about 15-20 seconds with that flash to take too long, calling what they're clearing, calling what they're throwing.
You just sometimes have to go for it. You have the man advantage. It's the clock that expires.
Belcherock with one kill, off of the cover, and FaZe lose the round. So...
Nice post-mortem for Paravision, but I can't help but feel like FaZe just took too long.
And well, well, well, paravision up to double digits.
This was what we prophesied after the choking that was ancient.
Four rounds straight on this D-side, phase by again.
And I think, you know, sometimes it can be tricky for phase, because they like to hinge on, you know, these kind of calculated risks, picking and choosing their battles, but choosing them all the same.
It's hard to do that when you're staring at a deficit like this one.
When you try and slow down, you end up kind of playing Power Visions' game.
Power Visions have put some pressure over towards B, saw that retake utile come down.
They're expecting there's a bit more attention
over the wards of the B site.
Oh, it's not ideal.
That was meant to be shoring up the B defense.
What a matter with the play coming in A side twist.
Good kill for the first, but nothing past that point.
Zelo with an important trade on control.
Broke, he tries to keep it under wraps.
They'll make it past into CT now.
The B split building B defense crumbled
and Paravision move into an empty bomb site.
I love that for Paravish is just seizing the gap entry for nota just the right time cleans up on B
And they run it through the smoke as well. I
Think phase might have to save. I don't think there's a way
Kailan broke a smoke on Jacob
But walking away. It's the right move
Paravision flawless T side right now
Jane walked so his team could run
Another victim of jame walking it's not a victimless crime
Is there any hope here, or is this just Paravision doing what they do best?
I mean, did you come back later today?
You've got to respect the resilience of this Paravision team, man.
Yeah.
And it speaks to this idea again, just of their fundamentals being really solid.
If it's all built on a sound, solid foundation.
Oh, even this one here started off great for phase plan, but the trades have come through in spades and now they're giving chase
Oh, the lone government of Jacob has only got a pistol to defend this site with
Ain't gum was out of ammo so it's down to this 2v2 retake quick flank in at least
Carraghan trying to leave the charge and frozen right there behind him good to keep phase on inferno that much longer
shocks
Traits felt like they were enough for Paravision getting a bomb part in a 2v2 like that, but
Important clutch for Frozen and no celebration for FaZe because they know that's got to just be the beginning
They got dealt a bit of a freebie, an explosion out mid for Paravision
A
unorthodox changer pace, it definitely could have just ended the game here and now but
Frozen prolongs one more on this side, breaks that streak
So we're going to miss here with that last one coming down to a clutch, leaves you broke, leaves you with nothing
and actually sets paravision up for a pretty easy waltz over the finish line.
So sure you won the last round but this is the true battle.
You're a long way off of winning the big picture.
And this B site has just been the answer for paravision time after time right even with advantage phase unable to retake often
unable to hold
Are they gonna get caught off guard again they have been play through
Paragon swings on him with a double kill third player right in his face
They can't do anything to stop belching off
But that's a keen double from the captain of phase plan enough to keep phase up for a retake
Brokey even wrestles back with Jamie for that banana control and now they're
moving in quickly on this retake if the last time they took too long should be
fresh in their minds that they've got to move quickly now please ugly Belcher
knock allowed to go wild and a double kill right for the taking skill fighting
and looking for more frozen sandwiches his teammate and Jacob it amidst that
That madness, good for the late kill on Belchenok,
an important milestone in this comeback for FaZe Clan.
They dodged the reset.
Bonplot means another buy comes out for ParaVision,
but they themselves are getting close
to running low on money now.
Belchenok is feeling it.
I thought he was about to win the 2v4
from the back of the site.
Clinical shot and broke he jumping as well.
But important trade.
Frozen, who lived on that B site,
he could have taken one more fight
after Karagin gets a double.
Frozen walks away and that matters at the end of the round.
Bails his teammate out in Banana.
Tarragone having a bit of a jig, a bit of a dodge.
As FaZe try to come back, it's denied in middle.
Jame with a cross shot to Brokey.
Picked out of the sky.
Got some tricky rounds in this game for FaZe,
but this one might just take the cake.
You lose, Brokey, you lose that orb,
trying to cross out towards middle.
They go for the Banana fight.
The Jame orb keeps providing.
And when you put Jaymon in photo he does become kind of the main character of this team
Now it's just a yeah, I look at this caravan scabbling. He's hoping you can read it right
But paravision if they just walk into be right now it is match points
There it is. Smooth as you like.
Karagun trying to nade the plant but not enough damage done.
And a full shot anyway.
James opening kill yet again and it has a resounding implications
Who said James was passive here on inferno, he is at the forefront of every single round
He was what five and oh six and oh yesterday against G2 on this map in opening jewels right now
He is four and one
And on that CT side, so often finding those picks, Carrigan saves the AWP for Bokey, Paravision
saves themselves 4 chances to end this series, and all I can think about is that 9-3 Ancient
half. Yeah, it really is just the story of this ParaVision team. If you miss your opportunities,
you don't get to give them many, you know, like what starts as maybe an easier game can
end up being one that leaves you feeling frustrated, tired, this one has gone the
distance, takes a lot out of you. And just that idea, that thought that you had them
right where you wanted them you had a 9 3 half on the second map but unable to
close and if you give para vision a shot like that they're always going to take
it they're always good for it yeah I don't know what I just seen so much
para vision and so many comebacks I just I felt it I think it was 10-7 on
ancient when they when they lose a really awkward round I just something in my
head just said yep paravision won the series at that point.
Fertile is never gonna be easy but this CT side has just been lackluster for
phase and paravision. Right there looking to reach out and grab it. Brokey, risky
fight in middle, bollied off. Paravision let phase use their utile, they sit at
ramp, they let it burn.
about the end of the game.
Excecuting lined up.
This is a good Molly.
First going to get burned out.
All right, Brokey, it's got to be you.
First shot lands on the AWP, missed attempt to the follow up but frozen there to bail him out and broke him frozen trade this contact.
He won't get out with a f**k but you'd like to think they've done enough. It's down to the retake now.
Three kills in defense to be.
James will enter this post plop with an AWP in play.
He's been instrumental in so many of these rounds.
James with the spot out towards the spawn, they'll meet him back with a nade.
He's down a little lower and on those long sight lines you're back in the orc
Jayfer rips its head off down a Zelo needs the ace of the clutch if he is to win this
Flash knocks him off the angle and that allows them to move in phase keep fighting. They're refusing to give up
Terrifying round here in the B site Broke he at least delivers his double
You can never get comfortable in that post bar, but James in a really uncomfortable position.
Paravisional just feel like they have to take that deep fight to get him out.
FaZe live to fight another round.
Had some great moments in this map from some of the players of Paravisional.
Jayme at the forefront, Mozilla, Belchinox, some big multi-kills down the stretch.
Yeah, well, those right here, all pick up and they don't know he's close, so frozen, dink, and nothing more.
Damage done, Jayme needs nades.
So Paravision get a bit wounded here at Banana.
I've seen a lot of bodies here as well.
I know the FaZe were pretty all in on looking for this scrap out of Banana.
I wonder if James gonna read a reposition a reset after that initial heavy B stack because look at this from phase clan
They have fully left be open for a moment
Pick it up AIDS
Flash was good I hear James go pin on that or though Molly used to force him back
Back to be no one's here Harry. What a gamble they have to flank
face have to push jacob's already done it he cleared our alt mid I know that
faces have to continue they've got a whole set of timing of this flank is what
wins it because they've already got it jame has control over banana with this
door but he's gonna get that first shot now you've lost out on the four on
four retake chance james just plays to buy as much time as possible now no
has re-smoked that might be it folks. Phase locked out by utility. How do you win?
They're up close, slow on health, but you're playing for his one, he's gonna get it. Flash
won't find anything! And Nota with a crazy follow-up! That's how it all comes crumbling
down for Phase. Twist is at a string of great clutches, but this is a bridge too
far, he'll get swung upon in paravision. If you don't put this team down, if
If they give you the chance to and you let them come back, then boy, oh boy, they manage it every single time.
That's back to that series now where they lose their opener, they lose their Mirage,
meant to be the home map for this team, but they go on to respond on maps 2 and 3.
A gut punch of a win.
It was 9-3 down on Ancient, they reversed that one, they clawed it all the way back in regulation,
and then they go on to finish Inferno in style.
Harry Vision get pumped back to back games on Mirage.
They get destroyed.
You'd see so many teams crumble in that position,
especially a young roster.
But this team just know they can come back from any score
again and again and again.
They do it once more against G2, against FaZe,
a FaZe who had them right where they wanted them,
9-3 up on ancient and
James looks very happy with that win all of para vision to another
Devastating loss for phase to be honest
Ample opportunity to end this game. You could feel the swing rounds really matter in this match
especially on ancient
While the first half of inferno was close para vision just take that number
So this is FaZe with the four out of the six pistols, they want a Glock, Eco, they want
a Techline Force Buy, all of that and more and not enough to take down Paravision.
Bang in the series to be honest, what a way to start the day, no one's eliminated, no
one's progressing, everyone is still stuck in the Swiss, poking holes in the cheese,
Paravision sent two one up, one match from the playoffs, FaZe one two down, one match
from elimination, scary indeed.
Yeah, you know, just a case where the really sound
fundamentals of paravision, apparently a great match
versus phase BS, which was coming through
in this series, right?
The thing that really stands out, they had clutches,
they had clutch potential, they had the BS rounds,
like the Glock one in there, and it still wasn't enough.
And dude, I don't know, like the unshakable mental
of this ParaVision team needs to be studied.
It's another great performance from Belchinoch as well,
just as a reminder, he got two kills, map one, two.
He top-frag the next two maps in the series.
That is crazy.
I mean, remember the games, the ParaVision have drawn
in this. They drew miles G2 and phase. Not easy. Paravision
propelled forward one win away from the playoffs.
A man. Yeah, it's left in the dust. Yeah, it's rough. It is
rough for phase plan. The thing is, it's kind of a
nightmare matchup, right? Because phase like to win by a
bit of shock and all they want to try and win quickly.
They want it to be entertaining, explosive, chaotic,
paravision, like the antithesis of that.
They want it to be the opposite.
They want it to feel very controlled on rails.
They're going to win with good executes,
good mid-rounding, and just a perfect storm.
Dude, I don't know.
The ancient comeback.
That's what lives in your mind.
Ren free forever, I think.
Yeah.
Broke, you just hit one of the three shots.
I feel like you have to mention
it as well on the way out like
broke he really struggled in this series.
He had it so it's so broke you because
he has these moments where he just
goes off and just finds crazy
multi kills. Think of that. I think it
was 1210 on the three
three care front of the Molly with
six health like he'll have those
moments. That's why he's so much fun
to watch. But then there were more
than enough rounds. I think you can
isolate from this series where you
could say he lost in the round. The ready guy was right. The ready guy was right Hugo.
James better than Carrigan. We have the series to prove it. That's true. Finally the first
head to head of Carrigan, James in the modern day and James does take it. You got to give
it to James. You got to give it to him. You got to give it to him. Power vision now.
Series away from those playoffs and yeah it's going to be hard to live up to that
game but we still have more CS action coming up here on the B stream and I
can assure you you won't want to miss it so don't go anywhere
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It's a very exciting time for the team we've got coming up next here.
FUT have shown themselves to be a contender who have been grinding up and making their way forward as a unit right now
We've got louse with us joining us and dude for you. You've done some big events in the past
But obviously it's very new for the whole team. You have you're still very young as well
So just talk to me about
What you're seeing in the team
What the feeling and mood is like for you guys when you're now in this situation that you've wanted to put yourselves in
To be honest after China I kind of like personally after China
I kind of realized that this is a very good team with a lot of potential, right?
Because I had some very past teams in my teen years and that kind of affected me in many ways
and like I kind of saw how it's supposed to be, right? Like you need to have the dedication,
you need to have the talent but at the same time you need to have the passion, you know?
Because you can have the dedication, you can have all these things but you still need to
have that passion going on, you need to have the fuel going on for the game because otherwise
You'll just tilt each round you lose, you'll just be mad most of the time.
Now, before we got into this 2026 season, there was obviously a lot of rumors around
your team in terms of people wanting to take the call, they wanted the VRS side.
Was this something you guys all sat around and discussed?
Like, was there ever any worries that it could happen it could break up this team?
I mean we never had like a team meeting where because I think it would be crazy
also to just have a team meeting and say like hey guys no one is leaving, right?
because I think then you show like you're scared and I think the way foot handled this
and the coaching staff it was very smart.
Like they kind of said like if you want to go you know we do the trade we do the deal
and that's it but that's the thing and like no one wanted to leave you know like they
wanted to stick by their side they wanted to stick with Kulio with the management
with the coaching staff and that shows to me that's a family you know.
What improvements are you seeing as a team from these experiences you're going through
playing these top teams?
The thing is the mental, to be honest, because like, I mean, of course, on the game side we learn from our mistakes because when you play top teams, the mistakes you do are getting like instantly punished.
Yeah.
So you can do stupid things around, right? But on the big side I really think the experience, because the only thing that made us lose even in Crackle, it was the pressure and the inexperience we have.
Because in every game I even watched when I was at home I could see the situations like we got ourselves into it was because of the pressure.
You know, we are young, we go a bit chaotic sometimes and we put ourselves in bad situations.
But we learn from them, you know, and yeah, that's the good thing in this team.
Each game we play, even if we lose, we always lose the mistakes.
In terms of another thing that's good to see, you're kind of in a home field advantage in some ways.
in some ways. Does this make it more special for you as a Romanian being in a possibility
you could play in front of your home crowd? Some players never even see that as an opportunity.
For me, yes, because I've had, especially in my half years of the career, some of the
Romanians, I'm not going to say all of the Romanians, but some of the Romanians
were very close to me, they were very supportive of me. We have this inside joke in the
I have never lost it in Romania, like neither national or international, like I never lost any tournament on land.
So I told them that semi-finals or grand finals, I'm fine with losing there, but until there we're not going to stop.
We're going to keep going.
Yeah, and even there we are not going to stop.
Well, Lance, thank you very much for all the insight. I wish you the best of luck in tournament land.
Let's see what we can do. Hope you can get into that arena and go far, especially being a home crowd.
That's the goal, and yeah, thank you for having me.
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Welcome back to PGL, Cluj-Napoca. We've got another game coming to you hot off the presses
and dressed to impress Harry. We've got Astralis versus Foote. I've been very impressed at both
these teams. They were kind of the bright sparks of Krakow in a way, right? Both these
rosters doing more than we expected them to. For Astralis, it's been a renegotiation
from this team bringing in European prospects to a typically Danish core and they found a win over
Paravision and they also beat Furt at Krakow and Furt, it's the Navi Junius squad that you may have seen last year
minus Mikazi and then into a New York with Longs who's looked to be a bit of a legend.
You might know him as the one Romanian to never lose on home soil.
We were making a big deal of that the other day when they played Aurora and beat them by the way and
Yeah for trophies in Romania for this young player and now obviously his biggest task yet
But a team that is impressed nonetheless taking down Furia in Krakow Furia got their revenge yesterday in a very close game
I must say on overpass and beat them out two to one belongs had a lot to say he was bringing the height
that's for sure and I'm gonna see a foot all right for the job of there are some
vengeance of their own as they face astralis yet again
oh you don't hear me I hear you
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Think we are back. Okay. I made a whole rant. I made a whole day. I'd said a whole bunch of words
Okay, I didn't I didn't hear it but it was good. No. Oh
But I bet it was good, I'd let you have this space you go. All right, thanks, man
I can't say you can just say what I said. It's fine. I didn't hear what you said
But yeah, we'll just try and try and replicate it
look man
They've been getting their flowers have foot from a lot of folks. I don't know if you saw
And a major sung their praises in an interview with HR TV saying they shoot better than spirit vitality or falcons
Hot take it's a hot take
But Aurora did get our shots
Tell me you have we I do I do anything you also have a
Lithuanian head-to-head how often do we get them?
Not very office versus Ryu.
Two in the safe zone.
That's like half the population in Lithuania.
What do you make of Astralis right now?
I like him. I like him. They're good, man.
It's just kind of been nice to see how things have changed with the move to international.
It was talked about straight away from Hoeksees saying like it's great to have players who are motivated and driven again.
And I think you're seeing that across the whole roster.
It's something that stairs been echoing in recent interviews too.
Even admitted in one like saying I didn't know these guys can't say I never spoken to them.
Didn't know a lot about them, but I was excited to see what we were getting.
You know, talking about it like it's a kid on Christmas Day.
I'm not going to say unwrapping
their new presence, but these guys have
slotted it really nicely. Rio, I think,
bringing a lot of stability to the
rifling component of this squad, getting
a good mileage out of him, and Fuzi
has been a delight on the AWP.
One of the things that's felt super cool
is just whenever these two are left
alive, which happens a lot on Overpass,
especially down towards B, I swear,
like every B play around it's teed up in a way that Fuzian Ryu get to get to do
something late in the round you can never count them out they've just been in
those positions so many times and Astralis they they love overpass Hugo
they absolutely bloody love overpass which is gonna be interesting because
I imagine unless foot I don't know no they shouldn't get to second bad at
the first round for Astralis
and that could be an exciting
game here. Bands coming out in
into the band for Astralis,
into the band for foot and
Ferno gone as well. And now
let's see surely over past
period of time, but they lost
in overtime. It's a map they
destroyed a war on. It's not a
map the first shy away from so
I'd imagine we have a picked
in the first round for Astralis
and that could be an exciting
Let's see, surely the Overpass pick into, I would imagine a Nuke pick for Fert, or even
a Mirage pick actually would not go wrong here for Fert, because Astralis have looked
to play Nuke recently and started to look better on it.
So yeah, Mirage coming in classic.
I think having Overpass as like your go-to is really, really strong in the current map
pool.
because like Overpass and Anubis both kind of fit the bill of being specialist maps is how I would frame it.
And it's like, I think a lot of teams are shying away from Anubis with the changes that have come through with the idea that it was always like a bit more of a unique map as is.
And Overpass has just been around a tiny bit longer, you know, in the actual active duty pool.
And as a result, I don't think it's super hard for Astralis like there's a reason why they've got to play it so much
You know what I mean like teams just have other bands that they're prioritizing
this is for a lot of squads a bit of a background map like you could see it come through as maybe a
Decider in a series or at least banned in the second stage of
burning and
So as a result Astralis just really get to play this map whenever they want
It's been kind of absurd. How many times did they play in Krakow? Seven?
Seven! Seven times in Krakow. That's crazy.
Seven out of eight wins as well on this map. With this roster, with the four-five,
so yeah, six to one in Krakow, they won it yesterday against 3D Max.
You remember that game, Harry? It was kind of a fever dream in a way.
It was kind of rancid, but it was very fun to watch from Astralis.
of Astralis, they play great.
I guess it's like the nightmare matchup
for this Astralis team is a team like Navi
who they did play, they wanted the tournament
just cause Overpass is getting removed from that VO.
The versus a lot of the other squads, man.
It's just nice heading into the VO3
knowing that you're gonna get to play
your most comfortable map.
I'd even say that they might be like one
of the best teams in the world on the map right now.
Certainly making a case for it.
Yeah, I haven't really proved that.
You want to see them versus more top tier opposition,
but I think we can agree,
like all the foundations are there
and they have a hell of a lot of reps on it.
I just say the potential is that
because the one loss they have is to spirit,
which isn't even like,
that's not even a go-to map for spirit.
It's more just like, it's a better team
or experience team.
So, yeah, I like the logic,
But yeah, it needs to be proven before it can be said that confidently.
For me, the question of a foot is can they do this every day?
These guys shoot so hard, but we know counter-strike and consistency is not easy for most.
Obviously there are people that break the game.
for example always consistent but that's not your average player right and I
think Astralis are a good example of that because they have stair in despite
Ryu being the best rated player in the last three months barely stairs still in a
lot of star spots but Astralis can like depend on him quite heavily if he's
having a bad day a bad game you really feel it whereas I feel like well I'm
watching foot to death always in fourth is that gonna keep up here on
on day three of Cluj.
Can't lie, Hugo. I was eating an onion ring.
An onion ring?
But I was listening. I know it's early in the day for an onion ring.
That's your breakfast. Onion rings.
But like...
Fuck in, Harry.
I'm not going to let the clock tell me when I'm allowed to eat certain foods.
How about your job will you let that? No
Look man when the game starts
I'll stop. I'll stop eating the onion rings. How's that sound? Okay? That's a good deal. All right
I'll just I'll just talk. I'll just talk to this extended tech break on my own the whole time
Look man. It was one bloody ring of onions
Just the one onion actually it was good
good.
I'm good at that.
I reckon Fuzzi likes onion rings.
Why?
I don't know.
I could just see him going to like an Abbe's.
Abbe's do onion rings.
I don't know.
I don't know American chains.
You're asking another non-American.
I'm looking.
Really getting to the bottom of this.
Surely they do.
like that whole thing.
Guys, Arby's don't do onion rings.
That's sad.
It's a bad news, Foosie.
When he goes walking into that great Arby's...
They're gonna say sorry, sir, we don't do them.
Now while we have Astralis with this great track record on
Overpass who have picked the second map have a 12 win streak on Mirage
They are 18 and 2 in the last three months
They are 35 and 7 in the last six months
They are 58 and 18 in the last 12 months
So they like Mirage that's the vibe I'm getting I'm picking up on your subtle complex clues
With this roster they are 34 and 6. That's actually sickening. That is not normally
does. Mirage players man they're kind of a specific breed of CS player and more
often than not it's just guys that shoot really hard and that's what
Everyone is saying about this foot squad so it kind of lines up
It's cool. It's not one of Mirage player and insult
Depends on how you use it, I think
Can be definitely can be
These guys are good
It's waiting for the last player of foot to make it to the server.
Who are we waiting on?
Longs.
Longs.
Longs.
Longs.
Longs.
Longs.
Longs.
Longs.
Longs.
Longs.
Longs.
Longs.
kind of hits. There's already one Lao, you know.
Lao dis. And his name is, well, I don't want to, I don't want to say it. Say it. No, because it's got like weird squiggles on the letters.
And I don't know how to pronounce those.
Lauren Lauren to you
I don't know Talia we could ask Andre
Okay, we're in folks Astralis foot and overpass
Strollers loving this map right now fuzi and Ryu guys to watch out for that's for sure
Look at this pistol stack
Let's get it right, Harry, Cemetery.
Wait, Cemetery, Cemetery, go ahead.
I was going to say where the hell did the A come from.
I keep saying the wrong one.
So it's more a note to self?
Yeah.
It's just Cemetery, right?
Cemetery.
Yeah.
That's where he's gonna put a straw less
Way Crabby I
Felt like he had the perfect timing. They just uncrouched into it. It's a second player
Straws are going to be
Oh good spot for longs and jukes they're gonna break the silence from fur in the pistol bags now coming through
Cemetery couple of missed shots
Hawks is the next guy and these two Barrettas churn through Astralis.
Only Fuzi left, but I say that this guy is used to these late round situations.
They've got him into heaven, both kills right there.
And that's why they leave it to Fuzi in the late round.
That's crazy again. Astralis do it once more.
They smoke heaven and they flank through the smoke.
I thought it was a mistake yesterday.
It was all part of the plan.
Bra! You can make a compilation from his first month on Astralis with just late B overpass rounds.
It would be a sick frag movie for Fuzi.
So even in a hard clutch, because you only have the element of surprise for so long,
It follows up really well, despite for adding a lot of pandemonium to that round.
Multiple pushes.
Cabinet trying to get involved on that M4, gives him the gun.
No support.
Someone said cemetery, question mark, like dead people graveyard?
That's right.
So we asked him.
I asked him how to say it, that's what he said.
Is that what it means?
Seven of three, back in.
That's good, that's a good bet.
Maybe it's come true.
Hang on, no, no, it's not what I was going to say, it's fine.
That actually made me shudder.
Anyway, come tree, there you go, that's how it would be
pronounced.
Don't say that, yeah.
Just leading into the other world on so much force at the start, it just feels wrong.
Move on.
I'm trying, but...
It keeps pulling you back in.
It keeps pulling me back!
Okay.
Astralis, they've got this little 4 on 4.
OHP on Fuzi, so they're late round hero, already low.
I'm only one of the barrels to try and shore up this B offensive.
It's locked on that deagle.
His pistols have been fantastic to start this game off with Furt.
And that is a compelling shutdown.
Foosie tries, he might.
He really did give them a run for their money.
Three kills at low HP.
But not enough.
Force by win for Furt.
And an instant pause.
Oh, it's a tech one.
of mine
bosh
well
that's the onion ring time out of whatever i was going to say
i was going to say
harry you made a promise
why is cemetery's name so hard to say
people say cemetery is that American cemetery that's American right we don't
say that we say graveyard but if I was gonna say the word what would I say
cemetery right am I right you can lie understand words these are some
Symmetry nice to meet you
Yeah cemetery
That's how we know a there's no a so we're not gonna say cemetery
Cemetery a cemetery because I want to say scary
Start a revolution
I want to say symmetry
My wrong say symmetry that prayer
No, no, actually it's just you and I here okay. Yeah, but what's he gonna do flight of Malta and kick your ass you're fine, bro
He's got more important things to worry about. He don't care about you
It's true
Call him Nikita
So I said the cemetery was British
Okay, what do I know that nothing sedimentary it's elementary my dear bar
That's fine. I'll figure it out. At least I could do. Oh, look at that rocking horse.
You see that? I did just see the rocking horse. I've never seen that before. I've never seen
that before. I've never seen a rock like that. I didn't know if you shot it. Why on...
All right, back in.
Oh, we're ready for that.
And we know how to say Krebeni's name.
Krebeni.
Carabini holds him up.
That's good.
B gets blocked and Astralis have a smoke and a flash.
Nothing more.
I hope that's been a key up off on the top site, but it's trying to still destined to
go be and that flash play helps you a hell of a lot yabby up route out towards Monstepp
was singing his praises in the interview just the other day. Cool and yabby, the best monster
player in the world. He hasn't seen you play then. I do want to have the word with Stan
after that. Oh, they both ran out of ammo. Pistol hounding them down. Jukes is good
good for it. Jukes is maybe my favorite player on this team. He's looked insanely good. Very
aggressive on CT sides. And was Hooxy talking about, oh sorry, was it Stare or Hooxy said
this? Don't tell me you're ringing Harry. Did Stare or Hooxy say that about Yabbi?
Uh, it's there.
Was he talking about T or CT side?
I think it was T side, if I'm remembering right?
Oh, interesting.
Let me see.
Yeah, T side.
Called him the best T side player in the world on Overpass at that B side.
Oh, okay. On Overpass, not Monster.
That's quite a statement.
crime is it time for eco it's the secret of the strata swath this four men in
the connector now down to two now when no man left in that connector the round
is over the form and gone only George remains
little grill joke for you there
all right Stralis we've been setting up how good their overpass is it's time to
see it
I'm not hearing you.
Hello, do you hear?
Hello?
Don't tell me you've lost me.
I don't know what's happening, man.
This is all you, bro.
This is all you.
You're saying me?
All right, short control taken.
They can pass the long setup through doing this question is the status hold w take this space
They're about to be in the A site that's a big problem
Fuck fires off now, they know it's here. I've got to come back from the long side
Foxes rotating up. It's nice that you put that bomb down right now
Now, this little tree, not going to get gifted anything as Yabi is waiting for him lurking
alongside.
They're going to fight from spawn, Fuzi, hard shot to the galeel, he's multiple head
shots here and they're saving, they're walking away, that kill on the AWP is set
foot out of the round.
The music can even pounce but looks to walk away with his life.
And just like that, Astralis get on the board with a so far flawless round.
Biu!
I'm not saying no to an exit here but they're not going to give it to him.
Timeout called in, but feeling like that one was a bit of a missed opportunity.
They never really got the chance to play it.
Just bypassed by Astralis.
Something as well that I think makes Astralis potent is just the idea that they've played
this so many times, they're very, very good at knowing on like a feeling when they
have room.
Right?
teams there. Once you get up through short, maybe you slow down a little bit, you try and
group, you try and look for the proper space and then go about a split, go and clear the
long toilets maybe, lending too much time to your opponent to adjust. But Stair will
do this a number of times throughout the games. If you give him the room out towards
the toilets, he is just going to walk in. You know, he's not going to overthink
that moment. And you get that when you have a number of reps on the map. I mean no one's
It's played it more than Astralis.
Triple A and committing with it late round as well. It's not even to play aggressive off the rip, but just play in their bomb site.
Probeni takes Divider or holding from afar.
When Astralis hit the bomb, a monster does feel like they're going to go back into his B hit, a weakened B site.
Juke's and Demon inside.
Astralis. Oh, that will ease the round.
Stan needs to give himself a bit more credit. Complimenting Yabby. Compliment himself. Here's
the B push. Good dink. Put down range from demon while blind
to add the hands of the Astralis U-Till.
I'll get in with seconds left to get this bomb planted.
It's re-u-tearing heads off.
What a sequence.
Bam.
He made that look so casual.
But that was nothing.
That's a round ending 3K.
And they're even arriving on the hunt.
Stare.
Oh, can't win them all.
Yeah, but this bomb's still big.
You still got to move away from this position.
So, cemetery going along would be a death sentence.
And there it is.
Real fort killed.
I can't believe it's a real there.
They saw him deep on B, just destroyed the round.
And you next see him on long hunting down the orb.
He's everywhere.
I'll go see what I can do.
Sick!
Awkward to see Krebeney, wanting that info, giving away the first kill.
It made full pull back off that B site so they'd have fast rotations but it was a
play after all always was going to be
they're boosting
That's they are.
Alright, good boost.
Good time for it.
Flash works a little too well.
Abby and Ryu both have room out towards Monster.
They'll lose stair.
Once again, faking his toilet's control.
Ryu and Abby, very committed here.
Unable to get out with a kill.
Ryu kind of hung out to dry, trapped in the pillar.
And now a full stack takes you down here at lower.
Good kill for Hootsy, but doesn't do a lot to open this up.
It's left under the foosy clutch attempt.
They'll end to the wall bang, Cravenys!
Let's him have it, and so lead maintained here.
That round would have broken your money if you come up short in it.
Instead, you want other ones taking the economic lead if you're foo-
That's a real turning point round going their way.
If we're looking good, but gonna need a lot of rounds on this CT side.
They've struggled on T-Hubs.
Don't mind that.
of
the
I'll make him back to be despite two players playing for toilets for again stack this top
site. They're even pulling more over playing retake on B.
It's a city boost in play but I think this is sometimes deceptively easy to deal with
you really got to get the drop on the first guy right you have one engagement where
you've got the element of surprise. If you get double swung, a big issue there, fortunate
that Hooxy plays out first. A chance of that free fight for Jigs on the boost. They'll take
it one step further. Rotate now arrives and it is a kill feed awash with foot players.
Fusy so many of these rounds just having to save because his team gets zero entries into
this site.
Oh, that's, you shouldn't be winning that, that's crazy.
So he should get away with this orb now, no time for Fusy to chase him down, but it's
still a lovely defensive round again from Duke's off the boost, two kills, cemetery
comes in in time.
An Astralis, back to that drawing board. Better get your crayons out right now.
Nothing has really worked.
Very focused on this B site.
I mean you're wondering right one of your questions coming in it's can foot like keep
up the kind of individual brilliance they've shown right now feeling like the answer to
that is yes even said juice was your favorite and look at him go huger 11
and three I was out here talking about stair compliment in the abbey look at
those two guys one and seven each
Yeah, it's all got a foosie tagged up low early on the orbs. He's the one guy
Getting nothing done in this round. Surrounded by pistols
Gonna try and put him out monster again. Maybe you can trade some of these
Ekoing players
Honestly, I'd like to see him try and save another round. They're gonna buy next
You won't have the orb if he dies here
that's feel like he has to just gigabate to get me open a gun round right
30 seconds, how'd they go?
The rotates are far away, it's only glocks
and there's one AWP so you shouldn't be like super worried but
rotates will be slow here. Actually the only guy close by
is you can't get a kill, they're too passive.
Come down to the pistols to go searching for it, there's that cemetery AWP
up in heaven.
The orb gets boxed in from behind.
Oh no!
Kind of wants to die here, it's a death after time!
This whole round kind of goes wrong.
I just wanted Fuzi to save to be honest,
but they get so much room that they walk out with him,
knowing that hey, he can pick Heaven, he can pick ABC,
someone picks Pillar, but Foot really passive.
Nice setup, knowing they're on anti-eco.
And so Fuzi gets kind of goaded into playing the round
and now won't have an orb in the round that Strolis needed.
Not only that, Stare off the time, as you said.
And so he's off 3200, we like two pistol players here, or at least a little at least.
It's gone really wrong here for Astralis.
Foot capitalizing very well.
Fusy pistol, Stare, G'lil, open hell here for Astralis, so focused on this B site.
Oh, early death for Yabi.
They've been able to deal with him very tightly out towards Monster.
It's a player that some in Astralis believe is the best B-side, T-side player in the world.
It's dead.
Oh my god, he got him mid-air, Harry.
He hadn't even landed.
His foot is so sharp.
Yeah, they shoot better than Spirith Vitality and Falcons.
I
Kind of want a similar statement from Astralis. I want everybody loses to foot the credits how sharp they are these guys are the best players
Honestly sometimes
They might be
When they are feeling it these guys can be unstoppable
How many he's got someone to bail him out here
doesn't need it all on his own captain three kills and foot seven rounds
Harry this is Astralis's best map they've won it seven out of eight times
they can't even get a foot in the door they can't get into a post plot
Our foot are in the door
And it's been a pretty bee-obsessed game for Astralis, they finally try to run it up tempo
A-round, they'll go right into the cemetery all...
Ooh, Krimenny!
Oh no, he's lucky to still be alive, but living on borrowed time, Fuzi comes through with
the double opener.
It's Fuzi that can go.
Fuzi is the go, we already know that.
You're gonna need a bit more mileage out of the pistols though as they're all
getting cut down. It takes Hoocsi as the third man. Regained a bit of control now
where you're left looking on at Juge's 1v2. Top performer right now for Foote.
Getting called upon to try and step up in a difficult clutch. You've lost control
of the site for a while. You don't have a smoke or any way to disrupt to
this post plot so this won't be easy
where's the kit he needs it he's got time if he finds it needs to run back to
the site picked it up in the toilet back he goes hook see it long won't be one
and juke's nose he knows exactly where he is won't be to picked up by juke's
15 and for this guy cannot be stopped dude that's not around this went to
go that decisively in favor of Juge's like he is in an
in enviable position a 1v2 kits lost somewhere has to try and
locate one. No you till to force the fight and lock them out of
angles. And he walks us in. Cool as anything. I just kills them
both with the read on where the postcards are.
I get why Fuzi's holding against court like strafing wide. So
it's a bit awkward but at the same time he doesn't need to really play like
Jukes hasn't tapped the bomb he doesn't need to be fighting that could just be
punished by Hoeksy and Fusey can play second it's around the lift to regret
because Astralis that was their way in Fusey cracked open with two massive
kills on that a-rush and Astralis literally they were finally gonna do
something in this game only for a clutch to go against them a clutch
that he has no right to win. It's a bit of a trolled post bar for Astralis, which hurts
to say because I feel like Fuzzi is the only one doing anything in this match right now
for Astralis and he was also the guy to give away the kill that opened up the round.
I love this monster smoke a couple of times and it's time Astralis see it as a good invitation
as any.
Try and commit to the B play.
Flash is good but Jigs has been one man they just can't get past.
Oh and that's going to keep off Demon there to let the helping hand and Jigs has him down.
9-3-1-2 lock it in, foot here to play.
This is the Astralis home map, one that has been their go to whenever they are given the chance to use and they get wrecked.
These guys are playoff bound right now, Harry.
It looks like they certainly could be a team in that conversation, jumping to the next level of Counter Strike.
This is revenge on the line.
to get it done over Astralis
on their best map in this form,
not letting Astralis into any good
positions. They had one good
position in that half. And it is
that post plan that Jokes picks
up the 1v2. I don't even remember
the one rounds for Astralis past
that pistol at least, and they
didn't even convert it.
Absolute nightmare mode here for Astralis on the T side of Overpass, a team that picks up so many strong T sides on this map.
I don't even want to call this game of life for Jukes because he did it yesterday.
It's game of day, 18 and 5.
All right, good thing. Oh my god, make it two of them.
Moosey's round over before it even ever really begins.
I'm playing quickly on the back of that opener, Hoocsy offers what resistance he can, but
it's a mad dash, a mad scramble.
Astralis, I think they're feeling a little stunlocked right now.
I don't think they can believe this.
I mean Yabi is 1 and 12, Hooxie is 4 and 11.
Stairs not exactly smiling.
Need to loosen up here, Astralis, and maybe do it after this map, because it might come to a swift end.
If this pistol gets converted, Astralis is clinging on, kills come to them.
And foot, 10 to 3.
Pure domination.
With their 12 win streak map as the second in this series, it spells disaster for Astralis.
Fudor getting better and better, Harri, they are ripening with age.
Tim and Krakow that was close couldn't quite do it. You know, battle through stage one looking
really good, beat Furia in the second stage, but then two close losses. Ah, a map against
G2 a map against Astralis well they've come through with a point to prove here in Cluj
I mean like what a what a crazy way to do it like this is meant to be your your safest houses man
This is the one that Astralis are supposed to win on it's why they've been a threat in B03s. Yeah
You know always forcing you to play under some degree of pressure knowing that they have a really really strong overpass and but don't care
And a mile. This is their best map. It's fine
And I know this is all the same. I know this is a 1-1 game
So let's you know
Take it game by game here for foot
But I would love to see them in the playoffs because I feel like it's a team that
Wouldn't get you know, it's hard to know but wouldn't get that those stage nerves
They're very confident young men
And also you have longs on home soil in Romania,
who will definitely be getting a cheer from the crowd.
So I think they'll get pumped up by the audience here,
in Cluj, if they were to make it.
And right now, does feel like this series
is just made for them.
I wanna see what they would look like
in front of the crowd.
I share a sentiment that it could go really well,
But I think one of the things that's scary though is, you know, like when you're
reliant on this kind of revolving door of players, you can step up.
You know, when it comes to football, we're always talking about how sharp the
individuals look, how game to game, it feels like they're able to stay in a
really, really solid fight in a second.
Is this four spy for Astralis could come through.
Locked out still by the utils.
Two smokes left out. They're gonna have to go through these smokes.
Yeah, they'll replenish that.
Get one in bank, I'd say.
Oh, you still can, Kribetty.
There it is.
I have to.
I'm with Hoopsie dead.
You've kind of lost the momentum of this round.
Nice, easy finish, both of them.
Oh, Ryu!
Makes it interesting.
The STEMATRIAN just gonna hand this one away, plays it safe, walks it home.
The one thing that does worry me about them in playoffs is like, you know, you spend a lot of time talking about individuals and it's like if you want all five, you know, what are the odds that all five players, not one of them, succumbs to the nerves.
You know what I mean? It's not like there's any kind of experience in peace here who's used to that type of thing.
thing. No, it's true. It's a complete untangible. I mean,
this is a real coin toss. It's like, yeah, even even one brand
new guy in a team playing in front of the stage for a first
time can cause things to I think it's better than it's all of
them than none of them, right? Like, they're all they all
get the experience together. I don't I'm optimistic is my
point. Like, yes, it's completely unknown. They
could crumble. Maybe they draw a top team and they
they're not good, they're not, you know, good on the day, but I think this team fills me with a lot of
prospect, a lot of hope for what they could be like in an arena. They still have to get there though, Harry.
They're making one hell of a case for it though. And this is where you just want to make it a dominant
win. Astralis are coming through with forces till the end of the game. Don't let them make it
competitive they'll get past the triple toilet set up without losing a single player destroyed
oh with oh it's just whiffing man they're all low they're all low and he's whiffing no bullets
connect astralis it's not their day it is not their day they are done on overpass
into a 12 map win streak mirage from foots so
doesn't spell a pretty picture here for Astralis by any means. Five alive,
Longs gets dinked, he comes in with a kill. They're all tagged up, they're all still
standing. Foots, map points, brutal. A very impressive game for Foots. They've made
Astralis as uncomfortable and shaky as they are.
Alright, this is foot shooting for 10 in a row.
To close on Astralis' best map.
One thing to be Astralis here, it's another thing to embarrass them.
Well consider this embarrassing because Astralis never got going.
They never got into a good position.
They never had a chance.
That 1v2 post bomb was the only, I'd say, good round they had and they still choked it.
So...
Okay, triple toilets.
Okay, zero toilets.
Fusy, no.
He does survive.
Two kills on trades, but sharp shots there from Demon Outcon.
3v2 to finish the game.
And you know...
Fuzi's gone ahead and moved back.
At worst you're running into a stacked site here, so even then it's a 3 on 2 and that's not the case.
They're just going to follow through with the initial game plan.
Move in, try and get past Fuzi.
If he could take another with him that would be massive.
Huxing around the box is Fusey now on for the ace.
And he's put a few points of damage shy of it.
Plant, it's really, really close for Juge,
it just gets away from him.
And so Fusey does enough.
Still, he takes four kills, 10 HP shy of the ace.
And even then, you barely win the round to Ty.
could only par back side but he knew he'd get rushed if he did so literally half
a second between Jukes and that bomb plant unfortunate but excellent round out of
Fuzi who again has been the one provider and that 4k allows him to buy the
orb which is nice to see it's glass as well but it's still north of Fuzi and
At this point, let the guy have a go.
Yabby still has one kill.
Fast out long here for foot.
Symmetry holds mid for regression here.
don't know about this or maybe they can guess it given foosie got four
dangerous fuzi provides the cover back to the site in time to stop the long hit
it.
Travenny's caught stare.
It's that advantage you worked for, gone.
But a closing in.
Lucy's been really one of the only raises of life for Astralis in this entire map.
And that will have to keep up.
Gotta be prepared to wow us all here.
Has foot closing on this A-play.
20 seconds, they've got to rush to the molly, completely catching Astralis off guard.
Hoaxi does catch that kill.
Fuzi, buying time.
A few seconds to make all the difference, but double entry from Demon, just when
you need it.
Bombs dropped.
He goes back.
and it goes flying no time now and
Yabbi secures the round getting two
kills finally in this game why did he
go back he had the bomb the whole time
I don't know I don't know what happened
there yeah something called jude's back
into short gives away the bomb that's
weird
he's 21 and six maybe he's thirsty for
the kill he didn't realize he had
bomb but he had it the entire round. 10 health after Fusey tax him with the orb and he just
swings the flag.
more rounds. It's just they're still so far away from feeling back in the game at
all. This is one where really until it's over time everything is uncertain for
Astralis. You're just gonna take it round by round.
Standoff in having a stellar game but safe enough to deal with most of the
blocks. So there's your six get through it cleanly as well. No stress. It's still a whole
you know I haven't really explored the B play. They've largely been running these eccentric
rounds that's at least given Fuzzi good opportunities to be involved. The one worry you have is
like you know if they do depart from that or if Fuzzi falls shy of getting one of
these openers, can the round just get ripped away from you? Hell, even in moments where
you feel like Astralis have done more than enough, Foot made them interesting. That last
day take as an example, right? If it wasn't for Jukes kind of making a bit of an odd
play and foregoing the bomb, they could have won that and that was a 2v4. So you're
never feeling safe in this if you're Astralis. All it takes is one miss or one huge step
up from your opponent and the map is over. You left this very very late in the day.
Got a line up to break the smoke. Ready to fight middle but no one home. Fusy and long.
Oh flash and blind shot. Unfortunate for Krabedi.
He's got a great game, but these last couple of rounds leave him wanting, Stralis-5v3.
Back to B.
Good timing on that jump spot.
You would have seen everything.
That's all the info.
multiple players leaving the connector the bomb and so Astralis know what's
coming their way. Oh they try and bring the fight to foot and that sacrifices
Yabi on a swing.
First stay and hold their ground.
Another re-swing on shore.
Oh no, okay trades again, low health once more, 20 seconds, flight coming in, cemetery
as a plant that they could be in but so close not quite stare on the flank bomb down 1v2
foosie quick to it spot him on the cover back into the angle cemetery into the 1v1 to close
the map he can't do it stair survives astralis are dangling on in this game barely here they
They are hanging by a thread right now, like so close to every one of these rounds that
they're earning, but they are still holding on.
It's true.
You know, they don't have to get super comfortable, but you're noticing that your number's getting
closer to theirs.
And it's hard to do this, I mean, that was a crazy way for the round to open.
It's so interesting, his foot keep having huge disinvastions
and keep losing like 1v1s, you know?
How's 3v5? Clean!
As they come back into B.
Nice try.
Stare saves him again.
Foot just need that one round, that one golden round. Hero AK, they're believing in this one.
Stair spot some get out long.
I wouldn't be terribly surprised if this is the round where Foot actually do the most
damage. Sometimes when you just have like the hero gun round like this, couple of pistols,
forces you to play together, forces you to death ball, try and snowball on any success
that you get, you're not gonna overthink around like this.
It can be deceptively hard to put away.
And there's Demon with the first catch of the round out towards toilets.
Bozzi also tagged up over a long rotator, a little ways out for Astralis.
Suddenly just starting to arrive, so the site's been taken.
Oh, and another catch on that Demon rifle!
A man down.
In the retake, Astralis, the comeback might get stopped very shy of the mark.
How do you win this?
With Demon on this line, he's got to be cleared out. Astralis going all together.
First shot connects. Demon doing it. Three kills from him.
There's a quick couple of trades.
Krebbeni with a scout set up to succeed.
The pistol in the site, stopping Astralis in their tracks and low health.
There is no help. Rear dead. Foot find it. 13-7. It took some time towards the end.
Some close clutches but they will squeeze out the win on Overpass.
Astrolis is a best map. They're home ground and they get dominated here by Foot.
Yeah, one way I don't even think the scoreline tells the full story, you know.
Like that was just a bit of an issue closing the game from Foot.
They eventually went on to do so on that low econ hero rifle round
Other than that this one was a bit of a watch. You know as strong as
Never really got going never properly arrived. They were in one decent chance in the first half
I'm starting the rounds. They were able to win wasn't many of them
It's about one post clock give that away, but it didn't really felt like you did a lot. It was already a pretty dire situation
Just dominance from Bird.
Fantastic start to the game for Jutes,
and then Deven came alive when they needed him to
down the end of Overpass.
It was him who made that 2v4 interesting in the topside
that they couldn't close out.
And then in the final round of play with the Hero Gun,
he gets great mileage out of it.
And I think that's, you know, really does just,
it's what makes this team so exciting,
is you can just play a bit of Pass the Parcel
with star players.
players. Everyone capable of doing it. Everyone capable of rising to the occasion. And now you
go to very, very comfortable ground. You know, you go to your version of Astralis is overpassed
the map that you've been having a lot of success on a lot of wins on a lot of reps on. And so I'm
kind of nervous for Astralis, right? I don't nothing's leaping out at me at them being able
to turn this series around. Yeah, and it gets even more one sided. I think that Astralis
of the past. It's a new team in Astralis that have found early form on a map, but look to Mirage,
this team of foot, they are with this roster 34 and 6, right? This is a roster spanning six months
now and they've already nestled their home ground in Mirage. Astralis have had almost no success
on this map. They're on a lost streak of their own six in a row against mostly top teams, yes,
But it's there's no numbers that tell you Astralis have a hope in hell in this series
Foot just played a very impressive game that individuals are firing Jews looking as good as he always does
Demon right beside him. I don't see a way in or a way out for Astralis
I see a 2-0 victory in my future for foot
Yeah, and I think I'm leaning much the same way Hugo and I hope I hope for it don't disappoint
this is a massive opportunity to be in that position where you are just a game away from
the playoffs and have a bit of a safety net to kind of fall back on, you know, the idea
that you could have an off day, you could get a case of the chokies of the Trembles.
It's not going to matter as much, you know, and for Astralis, they're staring this idea
of being backs against the wall dead in the face. And the fact that it starts with
overpass letting them down really does just paint a bit of a grim picture now for
the series as a whole. Let's find out how that mirage goes. Let's see if foot can get
to this power position of two one in the standings. That's coming up in in just a minute. So don't
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It's a big fumble.
Oh, you missed your joke.
That might have been a joke for the day.
Oh well.
Yeah, I don't know. I think it's probably over for Astralis, man.
I don't want to set the bar too low heading into the second map,
but like they just got wrecked on their home map of Overpass.
Foot's home map is mirage.
These guys have a phenomenal track record here.
I think I don't like calling the game over before it's over.
But I think foot have got this in the bag.
Yeah, I think, you know, give them the respect to show it.
But I've never been, I've never seen a harder game to come back from in a minute here for
Astralis. Just everything we saw in the last map from both teams, all the stats, all the
numbers, all the recent history. But not everything goes to plan, Harry. You know at
the same time, Astralis have a great overpass. They didn't show it. You know, we don't
No, but football, I'm coping, I'm coping, right?
I take it back, we do know, we do.
It's a 12-win streak.
No one's ever lost a 12-win streak.
It's also just like, you know, they all think,
they always show up in fighting form.
If you told me they've been awake since 8 a.m.,
they've been grinding, they've been deathmatching,
they're warmed up, they're feeling, I believe you.
You know, I believe you without question, they all look super dialed in, ready for the task ahead of them.
For Astralis, there were so many slow starts from him to be like,
Yabbi, I'm still waiting for him to start. The first round's over, and I'm still waiting to even know that Yabbi's here.
Well, now would be the time.
They need him now, Harry, more than ever.
And let's get into it.
foot looking for the 2 and 0, foot on their favorite map, Stralis in hell. So why not
lean into it, top mid push in the pistol.
Oh dear, that's not good for us. That is rough a start as you can hope for really.
Okay. There we go. Come on, Yabby. Let's go. Wake up. Lock in your time. Your time's
now. Two from him in the pistol. Reu with a response! Be done! Shade together the killing
blow! Yabby and Reu lock in a pistol for Astralis. That's the recovery in the 4v5.
B3 out of Rio as well. Locked out. Get some more of the Jules.
There's a messy round. Gabby doing a lot though, but very little.
And Rio never stops shooting while he ran back to safety. Love that.
Jules, always fun.
Okay, Strolis. With the early lead, foot with no respect, four spy with no...
What? I mean, it's the worst RAP Smoke you've ever seen. Like, anyone would see that as
an invitation, but especially this foot squad. Oh, longs! Double tech, nine, open it!
And uh-oh, they have the site.
Fuzzi's put a bit of pressure on there, showing he's got control over the spawn, it's a self-flash
to try and take it for Jute.
Wow.
Fuzzi just lines up a keen double.
Oh!
That's when it started the round off, but it's all about Fuzzi past that point.
Okay.
Swenian for it.
Fuzzi just denies the plant on his own as well.
There are many games out there where teams can trade on each other's map picks, but this isn't meant to be one of them
No, this is like one of the most one-sided type videos you're gonna have both teams are meant to win their maps hard
So Astralis don't go making it too weird
Is there often a good start here? Oh, but they plan on Harry
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Mongols beating baits.
Alright.
Mongols with a little lead 10-7.
You were intrestive. I would say why are you here watching this one?
But it's actually happening.
Already on a different screen.
With better casters.
hoping it can provide salvation. Foot trade back and they take advantage as Foozie's picked
in the window. Oh my goodness, they don't clear it. It's a crazy position. Still, Foot
are in this round in favour of fact. Yabbi flushed out of the ladder in 2v1. They know
Hoocsees B.
Oh, they're gonna go fight in jungle.
Now they decide against the cemetery just left
and that's right as Hoocsees moving in.
Oh, they stormed it, they.
Yeah, there's the Spartan Duke, swings on out
and stops Hoocsees as he attempts that 1B2.
It's the back-to-back forces.
That's the trick for Ferd.
So season through to get on the board early in this game.
Oh, some stress here. Things are going a little scary a moment.
Well, you know, this is why we both share in the anticipation of wanting to see these
guys in the stage match because you can tell there's a bit of twitchiness a bit
of nerves a bit of anticipation let's say at the idea that they could close
this series out so cleanly but it's still a fresh-faced team they're not
immune to that and so trying to get ahead of it early
I think it's the only thing that stands in the way I think of this squad, see it's Factor,
Scout Connects, lots of damage done as they try entry out A, all underbanks spotted and
dealt with well by demon, 4v4 but with low health, oh that nade, fangs foosie out, they
got more control if they believe that they can plant ouch
Yeah before deleted by them act 10 that's crazy
For a Benny Hill music ensues
This is actually perfect because now I know if I lose you huger
It's it's how we're immune to any audio problems if you're just constantly making background noise
Now right now nervous you're still here, right?
I'm back with a difficult but decisive round.
This kill was crazy.
Have the hands in the sky after that.
this saved them for maybe just an A play don't need to overcook you're not
running into much regardless strong this have made the move to clear out
middle so get ahead of the A play they'll be able to have a stack here
Including the rifle.
That is a mag dump from the stairs.
No connection.
How do you win this?
That's the neat part. You don't.
The bomb has been planted.
Just double save I guess.
They really tried to set up Fuzi, and so imagine the rage he experiences as he sneaks all the way through Palace, only to be held by a guy on default.
at least they saved the gun take the victories where you can foot three two in the lead three
foot two small margins enough about now it's really good
here for Astralis
they were ever gonna win we're gonna need these two international pieces
to pop off
so foosie window down
and windows smoke
It's gonna have to move.
Easy does it down through lower.
It's a proper midtake here for foot.
Oh, there, great catch.
I show up for Demon now to try and get that trade.
He's fluffed his lines.
Will still come through with a backstab kill on Ryu.
That's not for it somewhat, but you are fully surrounded here.
Demon's got to grab this ball.
Still good for the follow-up.
Demon's giving you a little ray of hope to hold onto here.
All back out towards the spawn in the form of Foosie, forced off the angle by Flash.
No, no, no!
Down now by Juge, Demons just hit another!
And this might be a very clean 2v5 turnaround out of foot!
They've not taken a shot.
To the Abbey left and no one even fires back at the last two foot players!
Laugh it off boys, 2v5, pure!
And nothing Astralis can do, they just feed them one off.
to the other they hit one bullet that entire 5v2 one tag that's all that
happened they just walk into their crosshairs man after man player after player
no synergy no one in sync not at one attempt at a trade embarrassing here
Oh God!
Oh you're boosting lower I see that sounds like two kills for me thinks longs and they've also lost the B side the round is over
Oh, you're trying to come through the murder hall. Well demons gonna tell them why I got that name
Hawks back on his BS down through lower
I'm still reeling from that round.
Stairs save, anything but guaranteed, rap is the right route, demons in palace but...
Oh!
Yeah.
Wonder if he heard him. Maybe not.
He's there. He's surviving.
But it's just the saving game right now. The stair.
Someone needs to save Astralis.
I just tried to warn Astralis, he said this team shoots harder than all the top squads
Right now
Cheats dude he just
180s jungle Nate's the next there is doing something stairs thriving
All right, boys lock in it was an exciting round. We all got caught up in there swing of things
Now the pacing drops as it falls to Astralis to try and muster up a retake.
It's got good nades, but Orp is on the line here.
Nice and easy for cemetery, huge trade back out of Stair.
Don't need to catch the tip of the head there, had to nail the shot.
Bomb is not planted for Jugs.
Smoke on it causes problems. Jugs start closing the distance and he'll nail the shot.
a stair hit, three bangers right there, that really hurts. He punches desk after it because
even that third kill on cemetery standing up and stair smokes, he doesn't have the bomb.
I think Jukes is somewhat ready for that re-swing. Poor stair dude, did all he could. He's been
saving every round and now he finally gets a chance to do something and it's robbed away
by a red-hot chutes
Dude, this double entry
Sickening
Can't even really play Mastralis these rounds are just happening so quick
Oh my god, there's already been two fights take place.
was an early brawl for Palace.
One that Astralis were able to win out.
The music was adding a nice bit of armbi off.
Yeah, yeah, it was tense.
I can just walk in B right now.
They're not really tested it too much.
Hooxy's one and six, he's here alone.
I don't know if I can go right now,
but Nades or Molly's good.
End it.
Copenhagen flames on the blaze.
Hooxy, light them up.
This kill's good.
Pour a tray back for Longs.
Fuzi here on the ore needs to hit a couple of bangers.
about Krebbenny out here in middle and that throws the entire round into question now not even
certain that this one's ending up with a B site. Cemetery plays it forward they hear him drop down
they know that this second player is now looping back into the pitcher to try and join him in the
apartments. Cover's got to be there from Fuzzi. He's there make or break here. Stan no reason
to give away a kill. Fuzzi's got the cross. Nails his shot important trade back for Krebbenny
and now down to the 1v1 they knew this down was here, but finally some of these
stair shots not going a ways to convert it to a round win. Astralis get through
with less. I like how footplay that they really isolate fights well and trade
but stair hits a lovely 1 deaky is at least feeling it in this game that's
so clear he's had some great highlight rounds finally gets to win one.
And so, Astralis attempting to break back into the CT side towards the end of the half.
A huge swing round here.
A warp.
Gonna leave Hooxie saving if Astralis don't hold.
The Dozmit and Strauss can play 4 man A-stack into this execute.
Oh, that's a real...
Alright, kids, don't just be brushed aside, it lets Yabi go huge.
Support coming through on the bench side.
Now they're really trying to flush Yabi out, they just can't find him in this smoke.
Yabi!
I don't know how he's evaded them like this.
Finally dealt with.
They put a lot of bullets into that smoke.
Oh, okay.
It's fine.
Who's still alive?
He does him dirty.
Brings him down low.
That bomb, by the way, is heading towards B.
It's there's been a monster at those tricky little pixel shots into the site.
They deal with Demon without him even getting to fire a shot back.
Now just have to keep calm in the 2v1.
Cemetery could be anywhere.
That's the one thing they've got to contend with here.
On it for sure, he sets up to play around it.
Calls come in at Cemetery's low, it's only a pistol here for Hoocsy.
Stairs the one with the kit. I mean, Hoocsy's got to be the one to cover.
On the AWP, Swing comes in early, Stair actually backs himself up, getting off the bomb in time.
And thank goodness he did
Let's draw this start to chain together some rounds
He hits there two or three times there
That was terrifying for a moment
That would have been a great time to play the wall bang in apps, I think you have the short plant could have jumped up
What are you? Yeah, sure. I mean how do you really want to say it's fair? It's fair.
Uncountable. You have to wallbang him. You're on low health, I think it's good.
You and your little TikTok plays for him. Yeah, do you? TikTok has the best plays.
Everybody knows that.
Astralis recovering somewhat in the CT side after six rounds in a row from
foot. It's back-to-back for Astralis. Denying clutches. Denying economy,
You have to play for the last round of the half, they've got one hero AK.
This was the exact type of buy they were able to win on Overpass with.
It's how they closed the game.
For Benny, started with the eagle and it's on to top performance stairs.
Stairs has been like the one solid and reliable piece for Astralis.
He's got straight away.
It's been benched.
OK, we've still lost long.
So I slow it down.
Window and can't smoke in.
attempted to get a boost in. Up demon goes. Like the boost they're using as well, you
can't see it from the traditional short angle. I mean these A-side players are in a fair chunk
of trouble with jungle connector both open. As far as just kind of playing a baton down
the hatch, he's in jigs, they're leaps through you in that head to head. He fires back
with one but a miss shot and the second seals his fate. Rotate's starting to trickle in for
Astralis. They've lost the sight. Bomb planted. Huge kill for Yavi. Gives you a fighting chance.
A reason to give this one a go. It's cancelled out so succinctly by Demon covering down
in the connector. And Hoocsi on the secondary orb. Surely got to think about saving. This
is a very tricky 1v2. Hoocsi really the man for the job. Plays it forward. Who's
looking for this leaves it to the USP but he's got two rifles up against him
foot on one of those low econ rounds always threatening and again it pulls
through for him. Gabby kind of just jumping in there without Hoocsey ready
Hoocsey flash for him spawned wasn't you know he was all pain just trying
to cover but when I see them move together
game is unmatched right now but upstairs putting on a pretty good show
but foots, rifles, it's caring through Astralis and Harry, just as you said coming into that round, that is
the round of foot-closed overpass on, they win it out here as well,
one AK, bunch of deagles, and they make it look easy.
Oh, get him out. It's gone.
Freakishly fast. It's cooked.
130 and it's a 4v1, Harry.
The round is barely begun. And it's over.
Wow. 15 seconds into the round, everybody is dead.
Just wow.
That's a team that play Mirage right there. That's a team that know what they're doing.
This has to be the event where Foot make it to playoffs man.
man. I really want to see him there to the threatening time route for these
guys from a hard here in you know now be junior squad losing what was meant to
be one of if not your best piece in mccasey all and under the foot banner
bringing locks into the fold and leveling up as you get the chance to
to play versus top squads.
And it's did it take the brand of CS.
They play is just so fun.
It's in your face.
It's explosive.
You can't ever afford for individuals to go quiet.
But as a result, it feels like they really put the time
and effort in to make sure that doesn't happen.
And they just look so sharp.
Well, A4, and looking for the 2-0.
Strahler's moved to the T side into a B-stack.
Gabby's in palace.
You wonder how this plays in.
Jump spot is a good bait for Krebbeni in the corner.
They walked it back.
Double fake.
Yabbi out A into a B-play.
Or does that bomb go under?
Yes it does.
Hey no!
It's not there. See the make it up through connector, but you are scrambling a retake
together an important fight one in middle that opens up the route to move a lot quicker
on for this retake. It's all down the stairs. His teammates fell like flies and he gets
caught in the crossfire three players looking for him and he'll find none of them.
Not going to lie, I do like the pistol for Astralis, I think it's a really good call.
They get into a great position, the double hit B and then the drop under while they exit B.
Yabbi comes up, how is he going to kill? The issue is because Furt have Grabeni on top of
balcony, it's not just a jump spotting player that sees Astralis and runs away and falls
for the B fake, Krebbenny kills the abs guy while he gets baited for and then he just peeks
and he clears the entire position and foot can rotate so they're already in position to
stop Astralis as soon as that bomb goes down. I think Krebbenny's not on balcony there
but probably fall for it. So it's a nice call but foot have to pop counter. Here we go.
rounds and Astralis, you would imagine a force at this point there in the washing machine.
All right, B-pop.
Rotates are going to be slow.
And if anyone with an earshot here for outside of the defenders, two in the site, you need
them to hold the line.
And that's really the best way this is going to start.
first few in for Astralis get reduced to dust. They will get past walks
eventually buying enough time for more pieces to make their way over. B site
holds left to Fuzi 1v3 unlikely round here. Low ammo in the M4 puts it to use.
Krebbeni found gank down range on the tech nine. Hold on. Fuzi's given this
to go. The cross out. It remains uncertain. Cemetery with the cover
from afar. And he has one more bullet in that gun, maybe to find
jukes up close, but pulled into his teammate who has cover for
delete the force by nice defense from longs. And foot are
just right down the border of the victory.
I just did another set piece for Astralis hoping that one of these will be the answer.
Hoping that Yabi and Ryu can get the openers.
How do you feel the little sourcing stare without one of the guns?
Yeah.
Been an instrumental piece and he goes in first with the eagle.
His round ends, nothing done.
It's a cemetery mowedown.
Four kills out of the sourced.
She's not making a meal out of that one.
foot of spam in bodies because they can feel they are on that fast track to victory.
They were shouting down fury yesterday.
They don't even need to do it today.
There's been no competition in this best of three.
There has been no fight for Astralis, a fake comeback.
And I'm in complimentary to call it that on overpass.
Seven three, not even one player looks into his position as he kills four.
And there it is.
They know it's right there for the taking.
Astralis, another ugly buy.
They're not gonna get a proper AK or Brown in this game,
in this T side.
Okay, bit of a scratch to try and go about this short control.
is connecting, but there's Foozie with the cover.
And the bomb will still commit here.
And Foozie double rotated into the market,
catching it, crossing.
Astralis tried to stick to their guns at his B split.
They're giving away the bomb.
Drop down in the open.
Foozie caught on the cross.
Yabby shut down, but arrive.
This guy shoots so hard, right?
We keep saying it, but like every round, every POV,
There's a frag movie moment from Foote.
And dude, I mean...
Yeah, just two teams in wildly different positions in the series
and you can feel it, like Foote are leaving nothing on the table.
They're leaving no crumbs, no scraps.
They're going for every round they can, every fight they can.
They want this over and done with.
They're building up, picking up momentum as the series goes on.
The Stralis meme while it's just been relentless forces,
feeling like the game's already done, that they're grasping at straws looking for any type of a round.
You've seen
Origami less willing to fold
than Astralis.
Oh, put that one with free cherry.
Cemetery gonna open 5v4 in this final round of play, turn into the connective for Jews.
And it's Grimany to get out with the glory.
It's his turn, apparently.
To get the limelight. GG.
We're looking for all four. We're looking for the killing blow in style.
It falls to Cemetery and a convincing win out of foot
as they now see a game shy of the playoffs.
I absolutely want to see this team in an arena.
I want to see if they can keep it up and they can show what they've been showing
on the come up, on the grind.
This team is 35 and 6 with this roster on Mirage.
a 13 win streak. They do not lose this map. A phenomenal series from Foote. Absolutely outclassing
Astralis in any meaningful metric. Astralis were never in this best of three. And that's
saying something. When we have Foosey playing as well as he did on Overpass, stare with some
highlights here on Mirage. None of this matters. Individual moments, that's all you've got. Foote
are fighting for those playoffs. They are one win away from a reenacounter strike here
inclusion of poker. Yeah, just a very excited time. I mean, you know, I know
Mirage is always going to be tough for Astralis, right? I think even even if
they'd one map one, we would have had a similar looking blowout here on this map
just because it's so good for the first one. But it's the fact that foot
take down Astralis on their home map. And this isn't me like rating Astralis
super highly thinking, oh, you know, this is, you know, they're some sick
high-level tier 1 team. Astralis have growing pains. They've got issues that they're
on that they're dealing with, but the one map that has been super stable for
Astralis, their specialist map, it's been overpassed, it's been the key behind a lot
of the wins they've been able to pick up, and they lose it not in some tight
battle where, you know, it comes down to maybe a couple of missed
opportunities or some sick clutches. No, they got blown out the water on that one.
That's an impressive part of this win for me. You know, Fit doing the foot doing it
I think it was always a formality once they won the first map
They were kind of destined to take Mirage from the offset of the series
But the overpass win at 13-7 that is genuinely impressive
And then from that moment onwards the stars were always on, you know, really shaky ground no solid foundations in the series
It's a super clean victory out of the first squad
Maybe they'll have more players more individuals more teams
teams, looking into them and
singing their praises going
forward because squads are
learning very, very quickly.
You've got to take foot
seriously. Absolutely do an
Astralis. They're not walking
on eggshells in this game.
They're walking on egg yolks.
They were just slipping up round
after round across both games.
You know, there's four rounds
on barrage mean nothing in the
grand scheme. They don't get
enough rounds to win a map
across this B03. So yeah,
just very impressed that for
Astralis joining the list of
that have been surprised by this foot squad, I'm sure.
And, you know, that's some revenge for foot as well.
They lost this game back in Cracov.
They lost it on over past 30-11.
Water returned to form when they smashed them out.
They beat the Mirage there, similarly dominant.
And they lost Nuke pretty hard as well.
It's a map that footplay a lot.
It's why they banned it in this series today.
So, yeah, just all in all, very impressed at foot.
Really hope we get to see them in the playoffs.
They still need to win one more match.
They have two chances to do it.
Astralis also facing elimination in their next BO3.
All in all, very good day, Harry.
Any key takeaways?
We have more bangers coming up later.
Yeah, I mean, we've just been speaking heavily
about how we both kind of have this view
of wanting foot in the playoffs.
That's going to stay true.
I also want to talk again just on ParaVision,
the resilience, the kind of trademark,
James resilience shining through, man.
These guys on the verge of doing something
very impressive. They've been losing these opening maps. They've been reverse sweeping their series.
They do it again today versus an informed phase clan phase with all their usual BS rounds coming through.
And it just didn't matter in the face of power vision strong fundamentals. I kind of hope their playoff bound as well after a bit of a slump
on the back of their trophy at the start of the year, struggling in Krakow, but maybe going to leave an impression here in Cluj.
There's some exciting stuff going on Hugo.
There is indeed and maybe we can look at the upcoming games for the rest of the day because we also have a bit of a classic head-to-head Harry in qualification to the playoffs.
It's Mal's vitality in a group stage.
So maybe be a bit closer than that beating usually is.
Obviously Mal's looking to defend their title here at Cluj after picking it up last year.
It's a very different event this time though with vitality in the running here. I want to keep talking counter strike with you
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3D Max are coming into conclusion of poker with an interesting way of looking at how
their year might have started, especially off the back of how 25 was for you guys.
You've got gravity with me and let's just start with it.
How are things for you right now as the leader of the team dealing with the ups and
downs of the team are going through?
It's quite difficult for us, obviously.
In the beginning of the year, we struggled online for the moment.
We played too much online and didn't get that invited against a really lower team.
But online we played on the Cracow, we beat some team, but it was not easy also.
Like, we know that the game was not easy, but we even won.
You've had the same team now for some time, right?
you guys understand how each other play.
We very much know the 3D Max style,
but what do you think is holding you back?
What is the problems you guys face?
To be honest, the difference with us and the other team,
they all have like some really experienced player
or coach that we don't have, obviously.
So we are learning everyday new things
and I think we are like losing time sometimes.
For example, if you look at Vitality or even Falcons, they have players like Nico, Apex, they are playing for 20 years in this game.
So they know all the mistakes to not do, you know?
Before the game and even during the game, we don't have this kind of player.
So we are missing that, I think, and that's the biggest thing that we are missing.
How much control do you have in the team right now?
in your voice, your confidence as a leader and how much help do you still get maybe from
body who's got a bit more experience or Maca who was the previous IGL?
Depends how we're going to play the run but if we're playing slowly and stuff like this
I give more space on the team speak. If I want to play more fast, more explosive,
I will try to play only with one guy playing and me trying to pack the other one and
ready to play on this guy or kind of this type of thing.
And how would you describe the situation you are in right now as a team?
Because I know like the major was so disappointing for you guys and now it
started off like where you're still not quite close enough to be there to
play outside. I can only imagine how hard it is for you guys to go through
because sometimes it feels like we see a 3D Max that is close and you
You must see it yourselves, but then we go back down a bit.
Yeah, right now it's a shit position for us, obviously,
because, for example, for this tournament,
we know that if we're performing, it's very nice for us.
For the viewers point, we will be safe for the major
on survival.
OK, look at then, say, your own expectations coming
into this event.
You said it's very important for the major,
looking at the teams that are here, looking at the level
you know you can hit.
What is an absolute must, like, you
need to be at this stage and what would be considered terrible in your opinion?
Terrible it would be 0-3. If we do 0-3 it's really terrible. If we just qualify for the
playoffs I would be happy to rest and I think it's possible. We can do really big damage
against some big team but in the team when we are playing we have to understand how
we are winning. This is the biggest issue sometimes we are playing and we are not
not doing the best, not the best thing because whatever you do on stairs for me
it can be good, can work, you just have to believe it, but sometimes we are doing
the things that is not working really well for us. I don't know, we are overthinking
sometimes. I feel like yeah sometimes we are overthinking just if we just make
it more easy in our mind I think we should, we can fabric some really
good team. Do you have this confidence in the server when you go
into it do you know who when like 3d max connects to the server and you feel like you guys are in
your best shape it's really weird because sometimes i'm feeling like i can go i'm looking at my left
on my right i see all my peers like everyone is confidant but sometimes i cannot feel that
like i don't know how to explain like for no reason sometimes we are not we're not showing that
we will be confident but it's kind of random with us i don't know how to explain but yeah
it's full random. So you don't like have a set way of trying to set up or do, there's not like that,
you just wait and see on the day. Not wait and see on the day but sometimes you know like on the
proportion when it's going to be good. For example with us in the proportion we're all working together
all the players are participating. Oh nice. And sometimes when you see all the players participating
and all the players connecting instantly you know like your body gonna say oh I want to do
this and Mac are gonna say okay I'm this I can do that that that and all ideas are connected.
I'm like okay this official we're gonna be good on this side at least I'm pretty sure
but when we don't have this it's not that sure. Well I hope that you can find this in your games
coming up man. Thank you very much for your answers and giving us some insight into all of it
and good luck throughout the rest of the tournament.
Thank you.
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Well, go back to PGL inclusion to poker.
2026 were continuing the B stream action here.
Now we switched to a harry.
He go.
Think of Moses here for the rest of the day.
Looking forward to it, Jason, because, you know,
we just watched for absolute rack is flawless.
Now we're going to get a little bit of 3d max action
coming out of the server versus heroic.
Yeah, I think both of us are pretty high on foot.
We talked about how how fun they are to watch.
I'm still surprised that they were so dominant.
Yeah, that went quick.
That second map especially just kind of like ended.
And you're like, oh, all right.
Well, that's how it went.
So, yeah, we saw a pair of vision beating FaZe as well to start the day over here in this team.
So, a couple big results over here as we're starting to get to the really rough part of this Swiss system.
Next up, we have the Elimination Games, 0-2 matchups, 3D Max taking on Heroic, G2 versus Payne.
We watched Heroic and Payne both play yesterday on the B Stream, and I think our conclusion and our takeaway was,
oh my god, these teams are getting sent home tomorrow.
Yeah, absolutely. The Heroic and Payne are the two weakest teams at the competition.
It feels that way.
I always say 3D Max just above them, though.
They've really struggled.
So it is surprising to see G2 here, though, in a 0-2 game.
I think all of us had high expectations for G2 coming into the sedan.
Yeah, and I think they've had not the hardest road,
but not an easy one, either.
Vitality, obviously, what are you going to do about that one?
But the drop, the paravision, who continues to be a nuisance to teams
that they're able to punch above their weight and cause some of these upsets.
So really cool.
This is the run of 3D Max Falcons and Astralis.
That's not exactly the easiest run in the world, though.
A team like 3D Max, Astralis is in their wheelhouse for sure.
As the gatekeepers, you're kind of the ones
that are meant to keep teams like Astralis down.
Yeah, well, Heroic yet to what a map at the competition.
Really looking like a team that are struggling right now,
they obviously don't have an all-but-within-the-planet
standard.
So for Heroic, it just seems to be a very disappointing
competition.
And I do think against 3D Max,
it's just going to be a challenge that will be too
hard to accomplish today.
I think Heroic, it feels like the circumstances
around the roster changes and the different shifts
and movements of the team that's just gotten to this critical mass point.
Yesterday they just looked so disconnected.
So much on everyone on a different page.
It felt like not even really a team.
So going to harp on it too much clearly they've been they've been kind of late low by some of these changes
and not able to find a roster to move forward into the future.
3D Max, they've got that a roster that's spent a lot of time together
but still haven't been able to find that switch to the next stage of competition.
Yeah, I think they were there a little bit last year
but burning themselves out it felt like towards the end of the year
and then coming into this season,
they just have not hit the ground running whatsoever.
So three Max and Cheryl be surprised at themselves
to be down here in the zero and two bracket,
but they've got a gift in front of them here.
You've got a heroic team who are ripe for the taking
and we'll see if 3D Max can go on a bit of a run.
But you know what, Niko,
when you start thinking you got a gift out in front of you
is when you normally, that gift kind of turns,
turns a little bit sour.
Yeah, that horse looks shit about it.
A lot of metaphors that I would like to make sense of.
It's early in the day.
It's bright and early, 8.50 AM.
The gifted horse at all that.
Yes, yes, third in the mouth.
There you go, got a nice flex there, X-Files and playing well, but this team just not playing
together.
That's a nice flex, the X-Files one was A-Files.
The X-Files one caught me off guard, that one hit me in the face.
Well absolutely, Heroic obviously lacking at all, but these are all players we're familiar
with that have been kicking around this level for a long time.
We were talking about Stas yesterday, his run from Metasport into Wildcard now into
Heroic and Apex over there, just hanging out.
Oh, he's chilling.
This is what it's like being the best team in the world.
Just feel all your desk.
No one telling you to remove your feet from the playing
area.
Get to do what you want.
The world is your oyster.
It's two different vibes for very different players.
We've got a body over here.
Trax it on.
Locked in.
Getting ready for this game today.
Vitality are moving through the system very comfortably.
So you can see all the center backs.
Just relax it.
Yeah, it's all business as usual for vitality, for sure.
System high fives out trying to hype the boys up.
everyone in the right place, right mindset, right spirit before the game begins, but just a huge task
for Herok based off what we saw yesterday. And I can't imagine there was a whole lot of positives
taken when the team talked last night more about just playing together, trying to cope with some
fundamental basis that you can go into today that's easy enough for everyone to follow. Let's
just let's just see Herok put a good a good fight onto the server at the very least. Nuke
is going to be the first map in the series. See a lot of Nuke so far this event, especially
on the B-string. We've casted quite a few or put a few games on it. Inferno going to be up next. Nice
banana getting thrown into the mix. Yeah, absolutely. Love to see that. Nuke was a matheree
seeing a row play a little bit yesterday, right? They didn't look terrible on it.
It showed the comeback at least in that second half. It was nice. That's a positive, I guess.
Youngster was having a good time. I think you can tell by the positives you're reaching
for that yesterday did not go well. Yeah, so yeah, final map going to be dust to nuke inferno dust to I like that I like inferno.
Obviously a good home map for 3D Max to head to something they've always felt comfortable picking and going into and can play it very aggressively and it's going to be great. The style they bring on inferno is I think going to overwhelm the disorganization we see from heroic so that that could be a very quick map nuke is going to be critical for a roach.
I think that was the big issue yesterday for them was that yeah you had a decent second half for young star in particular was really having a good time.
You just got absolutely wrecked in the first half like bait just racked up see three rounds against you.
Yeah well the problem is part of it is they started on the T side only put two rounds on the board and that's the nature of picking new as your map and they've done it again here so you're starting on the T side once again so look for a team that can't have a great morale.
I think starting T side in this opening map in this series as an elimination series is is a really rough place to put yourself
So as you have a bad T half here and it's gonna be really hard to get everyone focused up moving forward for the rest of the series
I don't know about you Jason
But yesterday watching heroic play the T side it could just seem like they went into each round with a lack of ideas
It just felt like they were getting absolutely destroyed like a couple seconds in the round a bait roll of the lobby
Yeah, they were super aggressive with it.
And I mean, they was a team that just had that confidence.
And 3D Max likes to be aggressive as well.
And I think if you give them that chance
to be aggressive early on and let them kind of dictate
the pace for the first five, six rounds from the CT side,
I think they do kind of have that same capability
of building up into this confidence
that you just cannot handle.
You just can't stop constantly pushing into you,
constantly making aggressive moves, risky moves
that you're not thinking about.
So, yeah, I mean, it just seems
to go this mountain in front of Farouk based off
what we saw yesterday.
But maybe they come in today and they're a new team.
Maybe, maybe, I would say unlikely, but I'm open for it.
I think that'll be cool to see.
Um, I think for heroic day, I, the future is where we're looking to for this team.
And I think this event is probably reality check of, all right, this just,
this just can't happen again.
We need to figure this out.
We need to get a stable roster because these are good players.
You don't want to waste any of their early career here.
You know, they've already had some decent experience with some teams
like OG, wildcard, men's port.
You know, these players have been around just waiting to get the amalgamation of players
they can go to the next level.
I think the big thing too is like if you're building a roster and you're trying to build
this team for the future, like you want to have, you want to see what you're working with.
Like you want to see some positives to know what you're missing.
You want to see like some areas where it feels like you're headed in the right direction.
You can keep focusing and building on that.
And then also when you want to make roster, you want to know what the weaknesses
that you're trying to, you know, make up for or cover or plug a hole that you're
missing.
A role that's not that you don't have covered very well.
You need to see some positives to be able to kind of a step proctorly assess which which way to take this roster
And that's the tough part. I think for her okay now is we don't have a lot of positives to speak up
Give us some positives give us some good things this morning. Wake us up. Well, I think three max will probably wake us up
I think this is gonna get where they're gonna be able to have fun
You think they're not gonna come away like an attitude
Yeah, I think they need to I they need some confidence to come back into this team
You've just been sort of negative result after negative result
This is a game where I feel like 3D Max are going to get all the space to play exactly the way they want to.
And I think they can get away with some aggressive moves.
They have bodies going to have a better game here.
This is someone who we were casting earlier in the competition.
He was having a really tough time.
None of his plays were getting activated against Falcons.
They were just getting absolutely wrecked.
So I think we'll see him outside on the T side.
It's even have many Tearans to play.
I think body is going to have a much better time today against this defense.
And in general, I just think 3D Max are just going to be able to do whatever they want on the server today.
like they should be able to get away with a few things right like the other side is it going to
be as organized and as prepared to kind of take advantage or probably a little bit slower to notice
some of your mistakes so yeah you should have some extra room to work with I'd like to see 3d max
come in and just show us with a cable both these teams come into this elimination series on a
five series losing streak right across their last defense that they've played
which is absolutely brutal 3d max only winning one map in the last five series they've played
which is kind of crazy.
And it just isn't 3D Max.
I know, it's what makes it so insane.
It's like this was like the upset team for a while.
This was like the one you knew was going to come into an event
and just ruin someone else's event at the very least
and then fight for a playoff spot.
And now these last five series are struggling for a map.
But the last five series, other than Mixed KS.
True, it's been two against Falcons, one against Vitality,
one against Astralis and Mixed KS.
Yeah, the Mixed KS one is just a little bit ridiculous,
but it was also online.
I guess we often talk about that being an issue, but you know the other teams, you know
No, it's the losses I can kind of understand and you can probably give it away
Especially we cast that Falcons one as well Nico have that incredible performance. You know, you're crazy crazy series
But just not putting a map up is what worries me more than anything. I'm like, ooh, come on
You're you know, I think the expectations now have
Have us that to a point where 3d max need to at least be challenging in some of these theories
Well, all three Mexicans obviously go kind of anywhere and we don't feel happy, but we'll take a look at that performance here and just show you what to expect a little bit by the Premier Graphic.
If you are a Premier player at home, you'll be very familiar with this. Personally, not a massive Premier player myself, Jason.
No? Why not?
I just don't really like cheaters, man.
Oh, sure.
And I'm sure it's okay now, but you know, what I was playing Premier was very...
I like beating cheaters.
You get to a certain level like it's so fun the premier grind is so fun
You get you know you're playing with a good five second. Oh my god
It's racking up a great time common playing with the boys exactly get to the top of the elo and immediately every game just becomes
Cheatfest it's the one night. It's the one night where you're like three in a row, and you're just like, okay
I got a check out for a bit. Yeah
Thank you very much you have destroyed my fun and my camaraderie with my friends. Yeah
Yeah, this is the one night. I get to play counter strike this week. I hate you
Well, on a happier times, 3D max in her own.
Yes, I think for a 3D max though, this tournament doesn't feel like it's one of those events where obviously we're going to talk about them being a team of a playoff contention, which is a bit sad, because that's just shows you how much they've kind of dropped off.
Well now we can see if they can make a run from this O2, right? Like again, this is a team that I mentioned has always historically, you know, last year like their rise was them knocking on the door of the playoff.
So we know they have it in them. Yeah, something about that like really busy stretch right before the major of going to China back
And forth like three times to Europe just destroyed like something about that
That is just
Rectivist team. Yeah every time but they still haven't recovered from the jet lag, you know, we're casting Bucharest
it was right after the
CAC tournament yeah, and I
Casting three max in that final and then they flew and then I was a couple of days later
or float to Bucharest and they're there in the airport like from China and
there I dropped and talked to them how you guys feel like we're excited like
we're so excited and it's like okay I like the either that's true or you're
lying to yourself and I appreciate both you know like the dead eyes like that
lagged bags under the ice talking back into the head I got we're so excited
can't wait just so you guys have a little bit of an update there were
some tech issues right before the game began so we're getting those resolved
and then we'll get things started,
but that's why there's just this little bit of delay.
So you hear us chit-chatting to start our morning off.
Hope you guys are all doing well,
tuning in for the rest of the show.
Over on the A-stream going on is,
well, Bait First Mongols is about to head to map number three.
So throw that up on a second monitor.
Plenty of action coming later on today.
Mouse Vitality, yet another rematch
that can be as exciting or as not exciting
as you wanna make it in your head
because we've seen it a million times.
Fury of Falcons to end the day on the A-stream
is a pretty sick matchup.
I'm gonna make sure we throw that up on the screen
if our games aren't fast enough?
I think they could.
Like, I'm setting the expectation now.
There's two.
My prediction of today is I think 3D Max
is going to comfortably win this game against Heroic.
Comfortably win this game.
And I think G2 will handle business as well later on.
I think there's just two clear favorites in the other two games.
Now, handle business is a very vague assumption.
Destroy paint.
OK, there we go.
In a very brutal way.
Sure.
Make them live up to their name.
I like that.
Yes.
All right.
I think that's a fair assumption.
Again, based off just what we saw yesterday,
I don't think either of us left with any kind of great vibe about her own campaign, which was unfortunate pain seems to be going through that same thing of the roster changes to new rookies coming in.
VSM and period and so it's kind of struggling to find ways. It's a little bit more to period yesterday, but I think still not entirely sold on this new roster that they're moving forward with, but we'll get to check them out against a G2 team that's probably, you know, angry to be in this situation, a little bit disappointed staring at the 0-2, probably just as shocked as we are.
Yeah, I think for G2 the run, I mean the play some tough teams, right, like they're away here, so
I think there's one of those scenarios where, oh, the Swiss system is great, but it also gives two pretty difficult opponents.
Now we end up here in the 0-2, but this is what the 0-2 bracket is for, is the safety net to catch you on the way down.
Yeah, now I mean that's the conversation is, you know, you get a little bit of a reprieve not having to play against the top teams when you get the 0-2.
So there's a great chance that G2 can have a relatively chill recovery.
Yeah, we'll see if that is the case. I'm seeing casters curse being thrown
I saw that as soon as I started that sentence, and then I was like how do I uncurse?
Yeah, don't worry about it. It's gonna be fine. I don't even think a curse can affect it today
Wow, he's really just doubling down I guess
Okay
I'm not too sure why we're what the Delays for but we heard those nests de-change earlier today
So maybe still story starting that out getting everybody ready to get into the server
I have to say the 610 Hertz monitors look incredible with the desk.
The whole setup here looks very good for the players.
Yeah, it's very cool.
Everyone has adjustable desk, they make great monitor, their own space.
Like the color scheme.
It's very warm.
Yeah.
You know, comfortable environment to be in.
So much space.
That's the best part.
You don't have to be right beside, you know, if your teammate hasn't showered
today, Jason, because they're rushing out, you know.
True.
That's not a problem with this setup.
No, not at all.
Hopefully.
Possibly.
It depends on how often.
How many days it's been.
Yeah, exactly.
All right, fist bumps are coming in.
Yeah, so we can hide you out the window as, you know, I think some of us might be used
to.
But let's get into the action because this is the day of survival.
You get knocked out of Cluj-Mapoc if you lose this game.
Heroic, not surprised to see them in this position, but let's see if they can surprise
us with a bit of a better performance today.
A bit of resistance up against 3D Max as we're heading to Nuke.
It will be a T side star as predicted here for heroic and they didn't have a great time yesterday.
Got to change that now look like a hit towards the upper bomb side door is going to be broken open.
They're going to hit a timing with it though a little stutter step.
There's going to be utility chucked out Molotov flashes are in our in hand
gravity with the dualies playing behind the squeak door smoke.
So youngster is going to try and block off many
for main whatever you want to call it the many main many molly towards top putt
What we're just waiting for the ghost signal and here he comes here we go flash
going forward smoke down towards main and we got gravity who's going to be
taken out straight away lucky got the first killed all the young start
following up and great work from heroic clearing out the French defense
yeah there we go nice hit good openings Maka he's got to play this a
little bit passive bomb is being planted he's gonna try and flash his
teammate out the vets front of the bomb strike clear that out bodies made
right back down okay well now you don't have a flash to get back up and now
your teammates gone. So peace. Yeah, but he's like, yeah, you know what? I ain't
going to do anything here. I don't like what I see up here. Yeah, I'm getting out
of here. He's going to get hunted down by cruising anyway. So it doesn't matter. Oh
God. Yeah, of course, a nice clean shooting man. That's going to be heroic
taking the pistol. Another you say his name, a little memories of flashback
cruising had a really rough series yesterday last night in their loss,
especially an ancient could not find his game had a couple tech issues that
knocked him out. I think mentally kind of lost himself. So it'd be cool to
Let's see him have a good performance today to kind of make up for that.
I know he's probably thinking about it and thinking about that all night as he likes to sleep, having a better series today.
Good pistol round called, nice and simple towards the upper bomb site.
And heroic for all their struggles, they at least get this early advantage.
And if they can convert, this might be the buffer they need.
2-AP9 tier, lucky and exes he's playing with them.
Three pistols around it for three max.
A bit of a charge here for X-Loud, getting out through the outside smokes, all the way
to secret.
Some bullets whizzed past him, but he'll make it down and he'll confirm that, yep, they've
bought, they've invested into the second round.
And we'll just run back up.
The fact that Ari's potter's gonna hear those steps though.
Yeah, a little bit of a fake, I guess, but you're right, the sound cues are
gonna be there.
to be in a perfect position but now starting to storm around wrapping towards
heaven however they are pretty split no it's clear this entirely good finds from
the island. Dude if I'm Mac I'm like I'm around the corner I didn't even see him
and Nilo just absolutely wrecks him so I don't put a killer here for heroic
looking a little bit sharper to start today already. Suspender holding the
push but Lucky going to win the duel and Suspender gonna go down no problem
So lucky, happy to take that kill.
45 seconds remaining on the clock.
3D Max at the player advantage.
I've also caverced up Crizzan.
There was in a fight at Heaven,
trying to keep XCCs busy.
Yeah, but looking over towards Rapper,
a lot of blue dots starting to move
into that lower bomb site.
This Galil is gonna be so, so important at range.
Crizzan still not sound still occupying one defender
and now the Max-N can move in
and that should be the round.
Shred in them, gravity did get that one kill on Crizzan
and that prolonged Heaven fight, but it doesn't matter.
There's just no way back into the round here, so if you're lucky, you've got Khalil here and you want to just slip away.
You've got Kravity saving his MP9, they could put a utility as well.
So, Heroic get the 2-0 lead and they're getting that buffer that we talked about on the T side of Nuke.
Yeah, that run almost slipped away from Heroic.
It's good to see them kind of keep their grip on it, because it felt like for a moment their 3D Max had applied enough pressure to make that a little disorganized, but Heroic still come out on top.
So, it's going to control the situation and not let it crumble and fall apart too early.
They do convert the second round of Galil and an MP9 still on the board that they got to be concerned about
Just winning the pistol converting it when the first gun round that's that's literally better than what heroic did all day on
Newt Kista, right? I think this is a much better showing already just by finding a little bit of early six success. Oh my gosh
It's early for me
Fighting that word, but yeah
I mean heroic coming out on top at least of the first couple of rounds
And 3D Max, they still have a chance for potency and a round like this where they pull out the Galil and the MP9 saved over.
We'll see if they're managing to get anything done here.
Probably their fast cross towards secret behind the Mach 10. Galil spamming through, lucky finds one through the smoke.
He's taken out a 50 HP, but well worth it.
And even though one had crossed pretty damn quick, 3D Max closes the gap before Xplot arrives,
So he doesn't want to test the waters drops the Mac 10 grabs the galil gives up his timing for the rifle
Maka waiting with the 5-7
Let's see who bites first
Well, you said it was just chucked outside
That's meant to try and get this 3d max reaction towards secret, but it's not coming so good nerve being held so far by the defense
Nice read of the situation, gravity just backs off.
Now the attack is split. It feels like they've got good map control, but you know, two players lobby and roof, two players in secret, it's not in tandem.
And actually 3D Max have the advantage in any fight that occurs here in lobby.
The Mac is killed, and that is quizzing gone. Susp to dive into the hut and come away with exorcist.
Go back to game Mac and waiting at the door and Susp has got that frag as well.
They're going to come up then, but there's an MP9 right next to it, oh no they're not, they went right past, towards the lower bombsite we go.
Okay, Suspa's gotten the kills, Nessie's carry over and Lobby to alleviate the pressure.
Dink is down, he's forced away. Now 3D Max should know at the lower bombsite, they've got a 3 on 2 if they can hustle.
I'm just setting up the door for this post-platform heroic.
And 3v3 is 3D Max with two players, low on HP.
You're going to be marching in now. Lucky up in the rafters, his teammate at double door, his body clearing out dark.
Realizing time is ticking. They've got to get into the site now.
And there's the kill from Nilo. Great shot from Body.
Lucky on the follow-up. They're flanked from Sus.
He's low HP, got 9 health to his name. They're going to get on that defuse.
And he takes away Body's life and they cancel the defusal and they're going to lose the round.
round so it says three to zero lead here for her right that around gets real
close though real dicey and such past us saved the day I think actually I think
3D Max is gonna be so happy with how all this turned out this these rounds two
and three a few kills on round two now at three you get all five kills even in
a loss you're taking tons of money away you've done a great job damaging the
T-side economy which is difficult to do and in this first gun round I mean you
can grab the advantage you can grab an overwhelming advantage real quick
with a clean win here.
A very costly victories for Heroic,
but they do get them,
which is I think all they can ask for at the moment.
Three to nothing.
We got Lucky plotting a ride.
The wait is a step,
peeks on out, X-Flight's got the frag.
So Lucky's gone. Advantage siding with Heroic and that aggressor plate. You know, I was saying at the start of the series
I thought through Mexican they start getting away with these not so far
Here go back from gravity through that smoke an important trade
Keeps the front even and a great break all that smoke because it wins the duel against gravity
Well, here's the details that is just the 3D Max game a little bit not on the same page
Is you break that smoke but Maka's not actually peaking for the fight at the same time that gravity's breaking the smoke to go for
follow-up fight so you could have had some great kills there but instead Maka
then shifts away from the position back towards rep room where someone is already
in position and this round has just gone from bad to worse. Lucky probably feels
like he should have had that kill at red box, gravities, maybe a little bit
frustrated, wasn't able to coordinate the smoke break with Maka who wasn't
able to get into the fight and 3D Max just can't get anything going
another T round for Heroic.
I mean, this is a much better day already for heroic. They could be feeling it
There's aggressive maneuvers that can be so disruptive from 3d max getting stopped
Lucky trusty comes with the side of the smoke red gravity at least gets that trade back
But the smoke break doesn't go in favor of 3d max
It's just the idea that maca gave up his ramp room position to be involved in that and they couldn't coordinate it
And then when he comes back to ramp room some sort of already stepped in so that's a really frustrating round for maca as well
Who probably feels like he got pulled out of his game to provide assistance elsewhere and then gave up
too much. Do you feel like that's something that maybe a quick timeout can fix or maybe
even you can just adjust to quickly in the game? Or is it something that you think might
just be a symptom that will continue throughout the map? I think it's probably more closer
to anything. It's like a symptom of why we're talking so much about 3D Max this year. You
know, not reaching some of the highs that we know they were capable of from 2025. So
those little details. Not having that synergy that they had at the end of the year.
Well, they missed a great opportunity here to punish a great round three where even
in a loss you took all five kills you made all the rebies come out for heroic
and now you've given them that reprieve they get some money back behind them with
three players surviving up four to nothing now with this AWP 3d max more
than willing to buy back into this round yeah well a frustrating previous
round for Marco but hoping that this AWP can change his fortune coming into
round five we'll wait and see gravity always comfortable to play with an SMG
he's gonna dive down into the A site with that MP9 some utility to hold
3D Max or rather heroic back early towards the outside area allows Mac the extra time to get into secret
Yeah, I mean look how cautiously he's taken this to to take a long route, but they've been very fast and aggressive towards secret
Not there's no smoke Maka's gonna get an easy kill lucky finds a kill through that smoke
I think it's a third kill through the smoke while we've seen in this game so far now Chris and steps in front of it
So lucky Mike a caught off guard
Yeah, rough situation here for her out to concede two players immediately on the back foot in the round
It's pretty much just begun.
You need some fights to go your way.
And there's one of them.
Lucky toppled as he continues to try and fight outside.
Exorcise?
He's to be careful.
He doesn't go down because you could quickly hand this 5v3 right back over.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Nice out.
What are we doing here?
Okay, yeah.
A little risky down.
It has cost him his life.
Exorcise goes ahead and gets a double body.
Closes it out.
A heroic walk to the dew.
All right.
Well, that's the play.
4-1 in the favor of heroic.
doesn't work. Tough place to be and put into a 3v5 by Maka and the lucky spam
through the smoke wall. So 3D Max 2 get their first round on the board. At least
stopped the bleeding for the moment not letting heroic get up to any crazy lead.
Rob is actually the recovery was going in a pretty decent place. Hard work to walk
that long path. And obviously body road setting over prepared to fight
swinging heaven while his teammate peeked down on lockers.
Well, it's quick here for X-Flight as he's on the charge out with a max pad.
Body going to be holding down on a mouse one for a double kill and body will slip away.
So back-to-back double openers here for 3D Max.
Hard to lose 5V3s.
And everything you could hope for when they come for such a fast aggressive play towards
a ramp room from your sole defender is just set yourself up to be able to play this
situation safely, right?
You know, Maka doesn't have to apply any pressure.
He can just wait, hope someone slides into his crosshair.
Slow rotations over as the rest of 3D Max groups up.
Our players retaking ramp room will not be expected and christen's got the bomb
He's gonna slip his way down. This is the only play button timing. Let's get a favorite
Look at this
This could be all of 3D backs to some of the appearing on a screen
So go down straight away and so will the ball and that's a big problem here for Nilo
Who tries to come back and ends up going down to lucky and this is more of what I was expecting
It feels like 3D max have now at least calibrated to kick off the game
Yeah, spotted him four rounds and now seem to be getting in their groove a little bit.
Helped out obviously alleviates a lot of pressure when you open up back to back rounds with double kills.
So 40 seconds, Suspin a 1v4, not really any win conditions for him.
So whatever he wants to do, might just choose to save at the end of all this.
Yeah, it gets better for them as well because if you look at the money here for heroic, there's nothing left.
So you're gonna be forcing that reset down to some weaker weapons here.
3d max is gonna be up to three rounds and
You're gonna start really carving away at that leads really picked up. I like that throw it away. Yeah get it out of there
Every little bit counts
To that's cinematic that is cinematic. Oh
I bet the headshot
Losing the AWP is more impactful
Oh
Okay, okay, thanks. I'll do it ten so we started for sauce. He's having a good game
Yeah, he is he's got the other hero AK-47 for this next round right
Here's the opening body just playing around that smoke to extinguish the Molotov
Play right into his trap
And an easy cleanup from here
3d max just overtake ramp room control the bomb and nothing heroic can do still
nursing this 42 lead and then back to pistols for a little bit we're gonna
chill just hanging around yeah for for heroic though I mean it would be really
worrying if you get four rounds to kick off the game and then you just
disappear well this is where we have to kind of mention that you know they got
that you got they got the great opening to the point where it's like just get
one more round right that's all you have to do just break up any kind of a
run that 3d max go on to get yourself five in a second you're gonna be you're gonna
be really happy with five you know so in that sense yeah let's let's hope 3d
max isn't going some crazy run and shut down the rest of this half but if you're
heroic you're like man we're kind of already where we need to be so you can
play this half a little bit loose just kind of steal one round at some point
All right, bait the glocks is the strategy for Susp.
He gets, oh no, he's leading the way.
And he's dead.
So that AK-47 falls into the hands of youngster who now has the base of a chance to show
what he's made off.
And nope, he's got a headshot, that was quick.
And then the trade is in from gravity.
Okay, they've recycled the AK-47.
Back to Nilo.
A potato.
And now we're going to move it outside.
Chris has some utility to activate some things.
Smoke flash nade.
Body's out here on the defense.
He's in front of the credit at the moment.
He'll see the smoke coming in.
Bomb is in the upper bomb site, so 3D Max know that eventually the play has got to
end here.
I don't think they give a crap about the smoke, Jason.
No, probably not.
No, but I like it.
Iroic giving it a go.
I mean the position from body is really strong because he's not even, he doesn't even care about outside, he's like watch your cock, watch your cock, watch main, I'm not watching him to go in, but he just gets his timing peeks like this, oh yeah, and he's just like, whenever I choose to peek I'm gonna have some kills.
Yeah, it makes them look easy, because they work. And that'll be the third round for 3D Max. I don't think it's gonna be 3 rounds Max, not today.
up today. No, it doesn't seem like it today. We're going to think some money behind him now.
Op is back out in the hands of Maca. Let's see if they can control outside. Heroic have
really been fast and aggressive around red box to try and get towards secret. Pretty quick.
They've had a lot of emphasis on maintaining that control and being able to springboard
off yard control. So I imagine 3D Max defense. Once again, you might prioritize that at
the start of the round.
We got Macho making his way into the ramp room and shots shreds him. Absolutely wrecks him.
Macho just destroyed.
And that's going to change a lot of things.
Boddy was dropping down ramp room to go towards secret to cover outside for those crosses,
but he's actually turned his bit around.
So he's missed his timing to be aggressive anywhere in secret,
so he might have to turn into a more of a passive spot.
However, his teammates are calling out that nobody's crossed they have intel outside,
so he's happy to move forward just a little bit.
5 on 4 there with the favor of Heroic.
Hey, Susp really does have a hot hand right now, so cool to see that.
I mean, when you're a team that we've been talking about,
Heroic are not a real team right now.
This is obviously a feeling of a mixed environment.
When you don't have that structure of the reliability to fall back on,
you need someone like Susp,
but he's stepping up and giving you a shot.
And it's a great opening kill onto the offer of the opposing team.
And he's got another one as well.
XCIS to fall down,
and Susp to carve out some space here for Heroic.
And heroic haven't even had to really do anything in this round. Have they sauce just killed the push of the op from maca immediately?
And then exorcist went for a follow-up peak. He got that frag as well
So he's he's just kind of taking advantage of people peeking into him
And now you kind of have the route laid out for you towards that lower bombsite now one issue that might be is the lack of smokes
So you'll have to molly the stairs on control side and overtake it by being aggressive through the windows
you have X-Log coming in from secret as well. That's a good cleanup onto gravity and round firmly in control of a rope now
Should be no way to drop this
If body had a kit
You know if you get a little weird
Yeah, you could get a little weird
Is it where is your conversation where it's worthwhile maybe doing some damage here Jason
Or do you want to hold on the a case if you're the seat? Well, it doesn't matter because you've lost one of them
But yeah.
In theory, you know, if we use that as a case,
yeah, maybe some exits, I think with only, I mean,
the position that bodies in like he kind of just has to go for kills
because like you see, he's not exiting there.
So at that point, he's kind of in a position where it's like, go for kills,
especially if you don't have a chance for the ninja without any kind of a kit.
But yeah, I mean, getting some kills at the end,
because you know, Heroic's money was a little bit weak.
That's the first buy they had in a while.
First round they've had in a while.
You could have done some more punishing, but in a 2v5,
hard to kind of arrange that
so really the story of this game is being get two opening kills win the round
this is susp, having to go for a heroic
shockingly 5 on 3s are really strong
except if you're falk
true, there's always the exception to the rule
naps
what's so funny, chrysal?
yeah, what you laughing at?
12 and 4 for susp
Really well done.
So 3D Max reinvest, thankfully, they built up some cash.
Maka's got his op again, though we haven't really seen it
have too much influence quite yet.
On the map, there's like the third or fourth round
that we've seen him play with it,
and haven't had to say its name too much.
Yeah, if anything, it's kind of been a weak point.
They got right in the last round by a rifle.
So I'm sure Maka feeling a little bit frustrated
at the start of this game.
3D Max maybe feeling a little bit frustrated overall.
Not able to get in their groove in any of these games it feels like.
So Oppa's going to be moving outside, early Molotov, Lucky has crossed over towards Secret,
behind the utility.
Youngster wielding the AWP.
Stalemite to start the round, both teams playing it passive and just pretty standard
defaults from both sides of the map.
Looks like they want to kind of line up perhaps some kind of a
play towards the upper bomb set, whether it be a fake or a
finishing play. Three players over in lobby, one on the roof.
They throw it an upper fake and attack towards ramp room if
you're feeling confident, you can actually try and just pop
into the upper bomb set. If you're feeling frisky, you're
getting X thought he's trying to be a nuisance outside,
but he's not getting in any position to wrap him through main.
So he'll back off as well and back to lobby we go
and I think now Heroic is gonna be ready for the hit.
Maka waiting, timing,
looked like it was going to go against him
but Maka, we talked about his frustrations
but finally able to make that allp work for the opening.
Now looking to try and push out towards the ace
or Heroic, 35 seconds to do so.
And as they try and walk out of the hut
They are destroyed by lucky and exercies as Heroic's attack is put to a stop in round
nine.
Yeah, almost there was a chance you could have just called that hit off when Crisen goes
down when you have the off so close to the door and all of a sudden you haven't actually
pulled the trigger but they were so dedicated to the upper hit.
Keep going forward.
I like to play my exercies as well, backing off into a different fight to allow his
teammates to be involved in a very clean CT round.
AK-47s picked up by the CT side.
That makes things more difficult and 3D Max one round closer to tying things
out.
Seems to have questions about Alcara not playing.
These issues I believe was the reasoning provided and so they're playing with Youngster here.
Yeah, I've been struggling with that for a long time.
For a couple of months I think he missed Bounty as well.
Honestly, as I was saying yesterday with this very team, it's unfortunately been
I call them thing for the squad if these issues here. They had Dexter for a long time there as well who?
Yeah, there was two events was tough. Yeah, really touch and go
Yeah, trying to do what they can
And that's a that's a frustrated face
We're gonna get a tech I was present yesterday as well. I think I can call that
There's not a couple issues yesterday
Hopefully it's working up again.
Yeah, I think that plays into why we see that a little bit emphatic motion right out of the gate is like,
oh here we are again.
So he'll have to keep his mental in check.
He'll have to find his happy place.
Because we'll get the issue looked at.
But at least we got the music of the minds to get us through this tough period.
There's those water bottles chasing where the lid doesn't come off.
Oh yeah.
Look at that. X-Flight having to deal with that.
How do you feel about that?
I absolutely hate it.
I kind of like it.
I don't like it.
It just gets under your nostril and like, it's like, you have to kind of move it out of the way.
I admire the sentiment.
Good for the environment, you know?
I admire the sentiment.
As they say, apparently, I don't know, it's using more plastic, isn't it?
I guess a little bit more, yeah.
But that means you get one more turtle in this world.
Exactly.
And we all love turtles.
We all love turtles.
What's your favorite animal, Jason?
My favorite animal?
That's a really good question.
The Bald Eagle.
It's pretty majestic.
It is majestic.
I wouldn't put it as my favorite animal.
I really like the Jaguar.
It's pretty cool, too.
I like watching them hunt crocodiles.
I think that's for alligators, I guess I should say.
Yeah.
I think watching those kind of videos is pretty awesome.
I watched Chimpanzee's hunting in Gorilla, that was something that I would pack at
Chimpanzee.
a little bit too human for me yeah you know what like stage one human so it's a little
bit it feels it's a little too close to home I think for my taste you know I was I was said
if reincarnation is real Jason I want to be reincarnated as an eagle soaring high you know
okay and then I went to the zoo recently and I've seen a very sad situation well you don't
want to be the zoo of a bald eagle sitting in a zoo and I was like that would be my luck right
I'm an eagle and I'm just sitting in a cage right nowhere to go. Yeah, that wouldn't be fun
Let us know your favorite animal
Well, we wait to get back into new
They said a leash mentioned the leash mentioned
He's taking a moniker hasn't he?
It's for a while. I only fall the eagle out there. How would it like?
How is that? I bet at least going back to passion you I plan that those guys again would become a
Interesting now. You got Senzu in there. Try. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, there could be something there.
Bring Leesh back. Yeah. What's he doing? Just recycling all of them. We can throw him on a phase one more time.
Piece of game. Throw him in there. That's the complete rotation. You have played with Stimple before. They have you played with Stimple and Electronica Leesh. Let's see. That's true.
This is Stimple. Piece of game. Yeah. We could try this one more time.
It's such a fun project to watch from the outside specifically. Oh, I mean if you do that project
I feel like you have to make content. Oh, yeah
You it's like event vlogs would be off the chain 24 hour recording at all times. I would be into that I
Watched the the phase video about I am crack. Oh, that was really cool to watch as well last night
I had been on we're doing some dishes as sweet
Hear them talk through all the problems of crack out and see in the frustrations and seeing the players talking it through
behind the scenes between the matches and seeing what's really kind of getting people popping off and
You can kind of you can you can see especially as you watch them throughout this event kind of struggle drop in that
Minded to lead earlier the lost a pair of vision in this series earlier
Kind of see where some of these frustrations are really starting to bubble over so cool content released by phase
Yeah, I've always enjoyed the content they're releasing on the YouTube channel obviously carrot does his own stuff, too
So you can get a good amount of insight over there. You're gonna always chuck out the voice comms, which are nice
Yeah, I think there's a lot of content now
You can you can watch and get more behind-the-scenes stuff. Hey if fallen does good vlogs. He's got it's also Portuguese, but they do have subtitles
Law I think spirit vlogs are really good. I always like to join those ones and
Vitality they make highly produced content, but not as frequently. Yeah
So we see them fun. Yeah, we know enough about we see enough like we're winning we're winning again
And we win again. Yeah, there's only so much, you know, just constantly think people win isn't that cool?
Getting angry. I was trying to make video over for a couple years ago and
He's
No, it's your harness
At all sure guy, but he was he came into the team and he said
I was ever since I got hired, you know, I'm just editing videos of us losing
Pretty short
Yeah. Can you give me some fun too?
I have cool fun music to find out as well.
So he's been off to work at, I think he worked at a company that make like cartoons like
SpongeBob and stuff.
He's in a happier place.
So he's like, all right, I want to leave and go make some different stuff.
He's got a German SpongeBob.
Very nice.
That's kind of cool.
Let's see. Mongols bait over on the mainstream is still going on. Nothing new to talk
about there.
I
Like this I like this I I mean
This all thing coming out from passion side we can touch them with them picking up stenzu and the CEO coming out
Last night and stand there were rumors about what Navi were willing to spend the coffee come out
I was on a slightly higher sum. I just find that funny and then I'll be coming out saying we didn't offer shit
I think I'll be did debunk that apparently so. Oh, yeah. Yeah, maybe they got played
Maybe some of the Mongols was like,
yo, Na'Vi was off for us this,
and they were like, oh, well,
we'll have to get a little bit higher.
Well, Na'Vi, Almond came on and said,
you seriously think they will choose
posh U.A. over Na'Vi for $5,000?
Yeah, Na'Vi's been stairs head of eSports.
That's the lie, we didn't offer anything.
Which is really, well, because it also comes
like three days after Blade was said,
like we actually thought that this team
could contend for Trophy,
so we didn't want to make changes.
So there was like a bunch of conflicting things.
I love it. I love when people just spread misinformation on the internet.
So for fun.
Well, I don't know. Maybe it's not misinformation.
Maybe he actually thought that was the truth.
Maybe he just got played.
True.
Maybe they just got worked.
People are marra sitting there just like,
kind of great deal for that one.
And Senzu's like, come on boys.
Did you really need the extra five thousand?
Exactly.
How do you send me the thousand?
All right. Well, we got the tech issue resolved.
Thanks for being patient and staying with us guys.
So we get back into the game here.
3D Max behind by one round.
We'll see if, heroic, we're able to continue some success here on the T side.
We already mentioned how they were able to find some success already.
They're going to be happy with five rounds on T side, but you want to try to squeeze out an actual Lizz.
Yeah, I mean, you're going to get as many as you want, but five is going to be comfy regardless of where you end,
especially when you're able to break up any kind of a wrong 3D matches building into.
So X-File over at Red Box, Molotov forces him into the open, but nobody in position to punish it at that point.
Maka blocked off, gives away the position of the AWP with his shot.
You have doubled up over and ramp with body and luck in.
It looks like they almost want to get aggressive.
They were playing the smoke fade and now they can push up as it clears.
Well, a suspect with another opening kill.
Really just a solo carry right now.
X-Files dropping up gravity.
Where are 3D Max?
Heroics are just destroying them.
This is a completely different heroic than what we saw yesterday.
different. Sadly not a different 3D Max. I didn't see 3D Max yesterday. Well, yes. It's
a good point. You didn't. We didn't. Just based off the O and 2 score, I'd say, yeah.
It's all going according to plan. Man, this is crazy. Heroic can be feeling so good
about this. Suspender, they're opening. Axel is just diving down. 3D Max just
looked a little bit lost. They're not able to keep up with it right now. No,
really not. But it's, I mean, you know, it's cool because all the conversation that we had this
morning leading into this match was doom and gloom for Heroic, so it's awesome. I just wanted to
see a fight. We're getting much more than that. We're getting a Heroic team that after yesterday,
after that devastating loss where it just looked ugly, that that was a real come to
Jesus moment, apparently, because they've come in today looking well coordinated, well drilled.
For how often Mac has had the AWP out, yeah, he's got to do something that he's got to do
something last two arms of the play half year to start doing something without all
up is the last goodbye from three Macs you lose this round.
Karela can have a real shot of taking eight rounds.
Keyside new that would be a disaster.
complete disaster
round eleven
lockers off on top of a hot eats a little bit of molly damage drops down
actually it's a lot of molly damage one of this angle he's paid for it so you
know what it gets the production from here he got the kill on a chris in
earlier in the half from this position in this time he's going to activate
gravity for a push
since being monitored by youngsters off over in lobby
I think actually heroic has had enough success from secret to where this smoke wall is a real pain point real concern right now for the 3d max defense
Body you're gonna be molly to weigh heroic have space into his ramp
Another Molly so body can't take a step forwards
You're just gonna see heroic dive down in the bomb gonna be march his way in lower and most of the defense went outside
not towards lower so it's actually gravity here and he's got to play a
pass it markers just arrived to kill from lucky outside that's a nice fine but
the lower bomb site is lost and krisen does making sure it's clear smoke stuff
there's oh no the timing on that mark looks up and as soon as he does
stuff disappears on his cross that gravity opens the double toys instantly
dies to krisen and heroic arches handing 3d max round loss after round
loss headshot after headshot this is terrible from 3d max and a seventh round on t-side here for heroic
and honestly with the white 3d max in plane you don't see enough that you're gonna believe they
can do the hard work on the t-side here that's just individual miscues in this round maca just i
think with maybe the half he's had and maybe the tournament run that heroic have had so far
just like second guess themselves like just the worst moment thought the footsteps were
coming up top on the rafters, gravity swings, and misses a flight on the
planter just as he gets off just individual miscues selling this round.
Well best case now right now for a row I think take eight rounds on T side. It's
likely considering 30 maxes is buy that is available to them here.
It's just so brutal to see it happen in real time. In position to put a stop
to this to be in position to win the round to win in the post-planet just
everything goes against you. Damn. This just really is. Now we're close to the 3D backs we know.
All right. Seven to four. Final round of this first half. Heroic have come in and,
well, they've, they've stunned 3D backs. They've stunned us as well.
Crisen in position. He can drop down very fast, very aggressively.
Blinded for the moment. Lucky tucked against the wall could be in a spot of danger,
but he's not standing for the cross, so Crisen doesn't make his move.
can be running down lower space being taken here for heroic ecstasy says God
he has something done here that's your trade kills no running away there's no
trade required because x-files just immediately annihilates ecstasy
against the wall now gravity's hurt way too easy but with that kill I mean this
is where you let the next person play so christen's had the secret kind of
to pause. Good footsteps. He's baited the peak.
Heroic getting everything they want. They control the whole map. They've got secret. They've got yard. They've got heaven.
And the defense is split. Three players isolated alone and individual.
Gravity waiting MP9. Stepping out into the play. It's going to be Nilo that is removed quite quickly.
lucky to make sure that it's a follow-on kill on to X-Files. So Crisen and
Youngstar 2v2, can they get an 8 round here for heroic? Crisen's waiting for
body to backtrack into the upper site and he's got a free kill on him so body steps
into the open. Lucky has to come up the vent and straight to his death a 3k
from Crisen to close things out and an 8 to 4 lead from heroic out of the
teeside of new. What a great round from Crisen. I mean the footsteps the
running outside and the pause to make Maka feel like maybe he jumped up on
the barrels, baked that peak and then you've wrapped around to heaven.
You've got the perfect cutoff point to allow your teammate in a tough situation where you're almost dropping a five on three advantage
He's able to stop the rotation so allow his teammate to get into the bombsite
I don't even need to get to that point sick half from the road eight to fly. I'm I'm amazed
Night and day from yesterday to today that'd be a fun matchup
that would be but
So much of it as well as just me wondering about three max two
Yeah, that part's less fun to talk about.
That's certainly the crappy end of the conversation.
No.
And Tobis.
Coach is very much involved during half time.
You know trying to turn this around for 3D Max.
Tobis trying to keep this going for Heroic.
They're gonna switch over to the CT side of Nuke now with his great lead they've given themselves.
Much better vibes, understandably for heroic today as well.
So they move to the CT side, the hard work needs to be done here for 3D Max on the T side of Nuke.
Ferno waiting as the second map of the series.
That's where you'd expect 3D Max to get some revenge.
But I mean, this was a, this in my mind was a must-win map for Heroic.
So things going well if you want to force this to 3D and see how deep we can go.
Oh, Saspira beast right now. Double kill on the USP.
Youngster waiting at the back of the site. P2000 out.
We're going to try and drop XCCs. The last one he played with that job will fall to Nilo.
This is incredible how one side of this is. 9-4 now. Heroic winning the pistol.
There's no ball pass, the 3D Max don't get a good 4-spy out here.
Ha ha ha, alright. Yeah, there's no sweat for a road today. That's a weird one.
A little bit of a hiccup in the first half, but they recovered very very quickly.
Stas just continues doing work, double kill with the USP out in the open.
He's the swingman between two different choke points.
And sets up all his teammates for some easy closing kills.
Both pistols in the map go the way of heroic, they get good starts on both halves.
I guess the series kind of
reframes for me where I was
looking at 3D Max and some of
the teams they've lost to over
the last five games and you
can make excuses, right?
You can say Falcons Vitality,
then Astralis, you know,
Mixed Five Online, but, you
know, this is a situation
where you can kind of forgive
some of those losses for 3D Max
because the elite teams, you
know, outside of Astralis,
but...
Yeah, you start doing this
backslide, you know, in the
conversation, very much
changes.
And you're like, okay, well,
now you're getting, you're
to you by heroic with a stand in who have done nothing in this
tournament yet. And it's like, okay, how far have you fallen?
3D max.
That's will be frustrating for them still unable to get the
get give themselves in the groove.
Individually or as a team, very slow round 3D max. You
want to get any production out of the Diggle. It's the only
weapon they brought into this round four blocks around it.
So give time over to the Diggle to find a one tap but
no one from her because even peaking
it.
30 seconds on the clock. And I shot him from Lucky. Unfortunately for Lucky though the rest
of the team toppled in a second as Crescent comes through with a three-counting MP9 just
sweeps him up, he's having a much better day today. 13 kills, 8 deaths he stayed in
That reaction was so quick as well that one D comes out and immediately it's a double swing over for many
It was was never gonna give 3d max time to figure out what to do with that kill
I wasn't expecting too much here though for three max
It was the good shot on the D. Go, but you have to remember it was all clocks the rest of squad
So they get melted as predicted, but this feels like the last chance for 3d max on nuke already
Yeah start winning right now
The gun round is critical if they want to keep this going and try and fight themselves back in bodies
going to hustle around the edge the Molotov takes a little bit of damage but
they're going to be just fine crossing with smokes in place body and Maka have
control of secret I imagine XLOT would have called that out over to his team
would have heard those footsteps approaching the stairs but nobody's
shifted down just yet
bomb is going to follow up on the secret cross as well behind the smokes
before they fade
Well, it could peek out from the vent and then reloads into the peek, not so it could peek from the vent.
You wanted that to be a much more shallow jiggle?
Yeah, I said, oh, shit, I'm having a whoop out of that one.
Alright, y'all will get one, but 4v3, I mean, it's no 3v3 thanks to Lucky's kill here, Mako prowling around the lower bomb site.
This is where I think 3D Max find their advantages in the slow mid rounds like this, where they could be more tactical.
The only X-Factor is they have not been playing great today.
smoke is going to fade, Lucky's going to get...
Oh, mis-timing.
Neelo, you need to find this and you will.
Awkward fight for Lucky that he comes back into,
bomb planted down low, gravity stuck inside the site.
So is his teammate.
But it's a long, long rotation over to Ramp Room.
Now there is utility.
They've got three HE grenades for back silo
if they realize someone's there.
Okay, air strike to the back.
Off the site, Gravity kept his health though.
He's still able to fry it out.
Still able to peek for the back to the bomb site,
and Heroic got the early advantage in the round,
but this was a must win for 3D Max, and they do pick it up.
Having to recover 4, having to fight through,
but getting in the fifth round of the bullet.
Yeah, that's, uh, Gravity only eats the two nades.
If it had been Mako with a half HP planning the bomb,
he would have been taken out by that.
It would have been a much more difficult round,
Good job from 3D Max.
Flowing themselves back in, winning in the mid-round.
Good call to the lower bomb site.
Good positions off the lurk in the opening plays.
And they're back by 10.
Now low on money is the heroic side.
They do have the op-out on Youngster, who
is solid with the yesterday MP9 on Susp and a 5-7 on Crisen.
So a few bells and whistles missing.
sometimes the bells and whistles are just for fun you don't really need them
see if the push actually works out here because you got heroic with two players
going into the hut this aggression might just get an opening kill might just get
them killed themselves though yeah that's the risk they run we can cancel
soon but they can't get suspect in safety so he ends up getting taken out
so the aggressive play doesn't work for her oh yeah well at least you set
up the op young sir they didn't expect it so gravity goes down that's at least
got you one back and that is the bomb so he knows more bodies gonna have to come
in this direction and now caught on some ramp aggression lucky doing his best to
hold on the lobby but he's been forced into an awkward scenario playing in
hut reverse positions and he's gonna go down to the 5-7 on the wide swing
and body and Maka nowhere to be found outside and top of secret but not
involved in the round yet now it falls onto them to recover 38
seconds.
Maka making a step was trying to be quiet about it but so is locked in on the angle.
Body going to be taken down by Crisen.
Maka now stuck as he moves forward.
He's got two plays just around that corner to deal with.
He's also getting flanked as well so guaranteed kill.
Crisen's a man to pick it up and Heroic as you mentioned Jason didn't have all
the bells and whistles.
Certainly had some weaknesses in that purchase and the initial aggression didn't go
their way and they still won the round.
Yeah, it's a nice measure to aggression.
Aggression in through Huppa, you know, the opps saying,
you know, far back, out towards squeaky door
to grab the equalizing kill,
and then you're able to constrict even more
with some aggression over towards Ramp Room.
When the ramp push happens, and this, this fight right here,
exercise goes down, then lobby starts feeling
like a really small space.
Lucky has less room to play with,
forced into an awkward scenario,
and heroic come out on top, an immediate rebuttal,
and 3D Max back to pistols.
Well, Heroics in search of Map Point and should be getting it here.
And 3D Max have gone for the conservative approach, wanting it by an extra one instead.
There's a lineup.
Max flied with two.
Suspending, involved in solo-crisis, leaving body all the way back and lobby everyone
in 3D Max looking dejected.
understandably so this is almost embarrassing to be honest like this is
just not even anywhere near what 3d max are capable of displaying yeah that's
yeah I mean I don't I don't even know really how to how to mention anymore it's
been just such a conversation piece just a bomber when it lasts this long and
you still feel like you're we're having the same talk but 3d max today at
least in this opening map have not shown up
But you know, Herog, I mean, excuse me, 3D Max hitting Inferno next is like the rebound
map.
If any map is going to fix him in the series, to prevent elimination from PGO Clusion of
Poka, Inferno is the one you got to lean on for this team.
So, yep, Nuke was terrible.
But Inferno's the comfort.
We all know how to play this one.
I'm just going to mentally stick with, this is not just a bad day in the office
for 3D Max.
It's just a bad map so far.
I'm feeling generous.
Yeah, I like that.
We'll wait and see.
We've seen so many games.
Can our strike happen this way?
Especially on Nuke in this competition for some reason.
I know, everyone's playing Nuke.
The favorites suck on Nuke and the opening map,
and then somehow they just got bang them out on the next two.
Yeah, very quickly could reverse once we switch map seven.
chances for her to close out this opening map of the series
3d max got to go on one hell of a run to force us into overtime not even a luxury of trying to win it now
You're just playing for extra rounds
The 5 a k-47s to open up there's gonna be a decent number of nades for 3d max
Now on some level give yourself something positive to go into the break with
before you start preparing and talking about Inferno as the second map in the series.
17 kills on Sus. We've talked a lot about him, had the strong performances. He's had.
He was sharp on the T side of the AK-47.
The Crissons taking him over. 18 kills.
Which, it was the time when I mentioned earlier on, I think at round two, where he had that really, really rough
ancient yesterday where he had no impact whatsoever. So great to see in this kind of a bounce back performance.
Hitting some lovely shots, having some great sequences for Heroic today on the server.
Oh, they've called the timeout. Let's see if it, no, it's in another round.
Nilo getting himself over towards secret early on. Body going to be descending down to the top of silo.
The second wave of utility coming in, this time Baldi is going to work with it and Nilo
does he win this fight.
Pops his head up.
Also Acura the first couple of bullets here, he's got the advance, he's off cover and
Baldi doesn't care so he still gets away with that headshot.
Baldi going again, this time the trade is now for Crisen.
confidence from Chris and gave body the look gave him a chance for that one tap
with low HP still feels like 3d max is just planned out this to end with an
upper hit they no longer have body in position to wrap around and pincer into
the bomb site but plenty of players still in lobby to make this work two man
defense one at the vents one in the site at the silos here's the utility over no
Molotov for xplow's position actually lucky could come in and chuck it a
a little bit late as the peak out from X loud and Sus also
fragging out onto gravity. A good shutdown here leaving lucky 1v3
running into the A site. There's Sus taken down to the back of the
side 14 seconds left for lucky to try and keep his team on new
can it just won't happen. Heroic come to play with a 13 five
victory on new kid is so impressive and surprising to see
heroic have this bounce back after yesterday looking so flag
against Bay with no ideas on the T side really being executed properly.
Today, they rack up eight T rounds and close out with a strong second half as well.
Now, complete 180, entirely different team than what we saw yesterday.
I'm shocked at the difference between the squads and the kind of product of Counter-Strike
put out inside the server yesterday to today.
Absolutely lovely performance from heroic on this opening map.
For 3D Max, it's the complete opposite.
This is a game marked by, I feel like, individual misfuse, missed opportunities,
kills that you normally see 3d max kid and there's no way they left this server
being happy with how they played the game here on new so they've got a
resnap because inferno is next their map pick a home map for them and that's
gotta be where they recover not only just this series but this tournament
because this is for elimination they go home if they lose this next time
yeah and zero and three record for 3d max losing to heroic without an offer
is going to be just unforgivable for them really they're gonna have to
go home and do a lot of hard-looking in the mirror at this point
coming into the rest of the season, but 3D Max, a tough situation here.
They're going to have to try and bounce back on Inferno,
not really even playing themselves back into that map, Jason.
No, not at all.
So, I mean, yeah, this series has taken a weird start
because we didn't think that Haro could be able to keep up with them.
But yeah, now it's all pressure falls on the 3D Max.
I still think there's a chance for the recovery,
especially on a map like Inferno.
We still have to see if Haro is this just one good map?
Are you going to bring this level into the next one?
There's a lot of questions still to be answered,
But at the moment, 3D Max hasn't even shown up.
Yeah, when the game was kind of limbo
for a little stage of that first half,
it was Susp who really made the difference with those.
Two rounds, he was just getting these big entries.
He actually made sure that the money never grew
for 3D Max momentum, never grew.
So Susp was certainly the impact player there.
And that first half that Chris was able to warm up
into and join him at the top.
It's just that one stretch, four to five rounds
for 3D Max, and that's like the one stretch
where it felt like things were clicking in.
Well, no problem, because the standout player
sure that he stopped any real momentum from getting going. Yeah, he did 19 kills, 11 deaths,
just an incredible job. You can see, especially early on in that tee side, triple kill in round
three, triple kill in round six. I mean, setting the tone, that stretch of four rounds where he's
highly productive and highly impactful as well allows him, as you mentioned, to not only limit
3D Max, but get some extra rounds on the board for his team. Really, really well done in this
game for SOS. He was sharp. Yeah, very sharp indeed, and hoping for a similar performance
going into map two. We've talked about how Inferno might be the safety net to catch
3d max but they are definitely in freefall we'll see if they survive your inclusion apoka after the break
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What does it look like in terms of team practice and how you approach things?
Because if you're working on new stuff and going through it all, you're obviously doing it with youngster in mind,
and I'm guessing there's limitations with what that could look like compared to if you did have the full team and a natural operator.
Yeah, now but it of course it limits stuff a little bit
I mean you have to take into account like does it feel comfortable for him a lot of times
You know, but of course we can't expect that he can he's as capable as people who've been
Specialist with the weapon for so long
So yeah, it is something that's a bit tough, you know, and there's a lot of like questions, you know
Okay, does it feel good? Nice. Can we actually do this or capitalize on it? And yeah, it's
It's how it is. We do our best and we'll see how far we'll go.
And what does it look like for you as in trying to see the improvements and see the development of the team while you're going through all of this?
I mean, I think like it's tough because like when we're playing tournaments like this, of course we can't just like only hope for improvements.
We also need results as we're talking about.
So I think it's like a fine balance where it's like we have to look at both how we win or lose.
like did we do it in a proper way, was it luck, so on you know and of course try to learn from it
and capitalise for the next game but I also think like now we're at a point where the wins are
more important maybe than doing it the proper way. So I think it's just something that I
evaluate on a lot you know like throughout game to game so yeah it's it's changing a little bit.
Looking at the full picture and some of the influential players within your team
X loud and Nilo are the two that everyone's looking at and what they can put on the server.
How are you seeing it from practice side to what's translating into the game?
Because I feel like X loud has been a consistent top piece for you guys,
but Nilo can sometimes have such highs and then there's some lows in with it as well.
I think for me like, yes and it's like, it's just, it has this crazy explosiveness around it.
You know both as a personality but also on the server.
I really like him. I think he has the same potential to always win a round in some sense.
And the same kind of goes for Nilo. I think Nilo is very different, perhaps he's a bit more like keeping him to himself.
Yeah, he opens up.
Yeah, exactly. And I think he's also on the server. He's always got a kind of need for us to do good for him to get that impact,
especially on the T-Sights of course when he's lurking.
So I think that's why sometimes when you look at the stats and whatnot,
it could look like he has less impact, but I feel like it's more of a team thing, you know, when that happens.
I wouldn't say that Nilo can... sometimes it's not on him, you know, that's why I'm trying to get that.
But I think they're very capable both of them. I'm very happy to get to play with them.
But no, I mean they are very, very talented and insane.
I'm looking at your expectations for the Clusion Apartment. You're saying you expect them to do well. You need to get some results on the board.
What does that discussion look like inside Team Heroic?
It's something where we know that we are like an underdog coming into most like games now.
So it's a bit hard sometimes to put a certain expectations in that sense because we know what we can do on the day.
But we also know like we have to lift our floor to be more consistent.
Great and thank you very much for all your time.
Good luck going into the games.
Let's see what you can do.
I
We'll go back to P. Joe
occlusion apoca 2026. We're
getting into what happened. I
think I changed the position of
my chair. So I'm very far back
and very far away. There was
nothing really happened. I
would just realize that
something you moved away from
my head shifted the chair.
Well, chairs. They are. Yeah,
they're pigs. Yeah, we need
one of the secret lab chairs.
I think it's kind of cool. No,
I like to pick. No, this
is my childhood chairs. Yeah,
anyway, uh, yeah, getting
Getting into the second map we've got inferno coming up. We had a little bit of an issue there with that tech issue
But it's resolved and now we're getting into the second map when you want your tech issues resolved before the game
Exactly don't want to endure in the game. So we've got going according to 13 five
How was it according to plan it all dude? That was very very different from the plan
Heroi coming on top very one-sidedly now moves him for no no we do talk about this as a comfortable ground for 3d max
I don't know if they're comfortable at all this tournament. Yeah, that's the way I was gonna phrase it too
is like yeah it is historically speaking but I think the way 3d max is playing at the moment and
lately I doubt there's a whole lot of comfort anywhere in the game of counter strike for this
team at the moment um I'm just hoping that last game was like an aberration like that that has to
have just been a freak current and it really did come in today playing a completely different game
looking like a completely different players on a completely different team and actually looking like
they were on the same page and it looked great but for 3d max it was the opposite it was
missed kills when players had advantages. It was miscues. It was being set up to have some teamwork
and cohesion and not able to get that timing down. Just a whole lot of small mistakes adding up over.
It's a 3D max. It's their turn to have a complete reversal of what we just witnessed.
Yeah, well, looking forward to getting into it. You got the PGL Major Singapore 2026
pre-seal registration now at live. You can use the QR code on screen for that one.
But I think for Singapore, Singapore is crazy. It's going to come around at the end of the year.
It's going to be coming around, oh I'd say about 10 months from now.
Exactly, so you know, get your pre-registration done, you know, that's all I'm saying.
Singapore should be awesome, so that'll be a double-punch.
Yeah, get your tickets early, I mean, because you know, flights to Singapore, you want to
get those early too.
Channel, maybe more.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you gotta figure that one out.
Got some options there.
Okay, so Tobin's just having a chat here with X-Cloud, who seems to be having a good
time.
He's always my sort of barometer of the vibes and heroic, like is X-Cloud having
a good time?
Then it always seems like you're having a good time.
Isn't that not a good barometer?
Yeah. And then you got young stars wall.
And like it's like one is a domino.
I go by I go by Chris and I go by IGL, man.
I want to see how the head of the snake is looking.
Is he happy? Well, today is much happier. Absolutely.
Not so happy as the IGL here of 3D Max, Mr. Graffity.
Yeah, rough, rough game for them overall, obviously.
I think, you know, probably part of it, too, is relatively new IGL as well.
Probably feels a lot of pressure to be the one delivering in this situation.
probably feels a lot of responsibility for the downturn on top of that he's
probably also feeling a certain level of his teammates you know having having
rough games individually makes it harder for him to have an impact as a
caller because no matter what you're calling you're not not executing it well
so there's a whole lot of frustrations and stresses within the
3d max team. I'll just hang around getting ready for this game to start
second map to start take a look at the ashram jays when we go over there
That that the second map just ended. It's going into three so I got nothing for you
I can't there's really there's really nothing to touch on there, okay?
Well, I wish I had something the secret lab thing just popped up on the screen with which with these chairs
So someone said these chairs didn't look comfy great for your back. Are there?
I
Mean they are pure metal so I wouldn't mind the the non pure metal
Yes, I feel I keep getting static shocks on me
As I ground myself
Yeah, the secret lab definitely would be a better option.
I was wrong. The A stream there is something to talk about. It's the overtime on the third map.
All right, so that's pretty exciting.
Actually, yeah.
It's actually extremely exciting. So put that up on the second screen.
Well, it sounds like they have a lot to talk about over on the A stream as well.
A lot of rounds going on there. It's Mongols versus Bait.
Let's see Bait yesterday. Really stomping heroic.
Yeah, they did. That was that was the one that made us think that heroic was gonna come in today and kind of get kind of get
Swept aside as well. Was that was that look of them versus bait? But whatever that was okay
They just performed very well against them. Yeah bait Mongols are in that overtime of the third map
So get over there nice and quick before it ends
Not a lot of heads that's on them that's never a good sign. No feels like we've got a little extended time to chill here
doesn't it
quite a bit
I was looking at, you know, we were talking about the phase documentary.
If you haven't watched it, um, what would it be?
I guess we were calling it a documentary, though.
I guess that's kind of like an event vlog.
I guess it would be an event vlog.
Yeah.
And, you know, looking at that, Jason, you know, if you, somebody
watched it was a little teaser, what kind of topics do they cover?
Uh, cover a lot of like the slow starts of like the, a lot of it was a
focus, I think on Karrigan feeling like there was some disorganization
with how he's trying to call them.
A lot of just voices chiming in.
And I think the main takeaway for me was the constant conversation about how too many people
in the team are bringing up small issues, trying to fix that they're losing track of
the big picture of trying to perfect so many details that you're losing the sense of the
macro and losing the feeling of actually playing the game.
There's this trend in competitive counter-track teams, even professional teams, where you
get so focused on the details and making sure all the timings and all the small
details are perfect that you stop actually playing the game, you know,
because you're instead of like playing the game that's in front of you and how
things are unfolding, it's kind of like, well, you miss this and now we can't do
this. And at some point that just becomes such a suffocating environment as a
player that you can't actually thrive in it. I think that's, that, that was the
sense I got from watching that with Faze. Not to prevent you guys from
watching it. Maybe you have a different takeaway than I do.
No, well, you go check it out, go check it out, make your own opinion. Don't
just listen and see what people on the internet. I don't know. It's
kind of my job. Yeah. So maybe you listen to me. Actually, hold on. Yeah,
Listen to me, you know listen, you know listen, but maybe not always fully follow
FMPoN released the teaser of a new map that he's working on the splinter
Cool, so if you haven't seen that I would go check out his own magic
Give me a lot of wood on that one. It's set in like a logging
Facility in the mountains, which I think is really cool. That is a cool. Yeah, hopefully it's a good man
Yeah, creator of cash as well for those of you didn't know so he's a
He's he's pumping out another one to see if you can get it going it looks it looks cool
I haven't actually seen what the map layout looks like but the screenshots artwork wise looks cool. I'm in I
Be down for a new map
Counter-Strike like we just we just put a new base back in
It's true. I'm down for like a whole new place
You want a whole new a whole new adventure whole new place to go. Yeah, I think the mountains with some logs
That sounds pretty fun. That does sound pretty cool. I won't lie
I'd be into it what do you think of a we've been we've been high on foot throughout all this and we've talked about them at length
This major quote from from yesterday foot shoot better than spirit vitality or falcons
Well, I don't know that's
There's no there's no dog on the on that team boys. I will
Have that interview very quickly after they're close to his against foot. I think yeah
He's like well that felt like it really caught us up
He just got done with the map and he was like, holy shit, thank God.
I think it's one of those things you'd go into that game and you're like,
when you go into a vitality, you talk in the spirit game, you know what to expect.
You're expecting just great skill.
You go into a East Boyd's game.
It's like, we've never played against you guys.
So those things you're all about.
And then when they're just running at you and everyone, he's sharp.
Expectations for a moment.
So it's easy to exceed them.
Yeah. All right.
But yeah, definitely not shooting as hard as Don.
Cause I woo mossy Niko.
Well, he didn't say those names.
He said spirit vitality or falcon you mean across the board. I think across the board
I could see the spirit one feeling very true
For right sure they have more depth maybe maybe not the vitality one. No falcons would be hit or miss
Some games probably feel like you cannot shoot falcons some games probably feel like you can do whatever you want
Yeah, yeah, that's fair enough. I might be the same for foot who'd
I remember crackle, you know lose a couple of us people else
But they seem to be really stepping the game up here. I mean that straws game today
You know to watching them on Mirage is just hilarious. It's like there's a minute and 30 seconds left on the clock and the round's done
There's a 4v1 in favor of foot. They all of them just run out and just get their kill instantly
Yeah, so I think that'll probably slow down as the season goes on, but they're off to a really good start
Off to a really good start and you know many people thought they could be the playoff team
You know looking good for that now and that'll be great as well because
Obviously longs being able to play Romania something I'm excited about
It would be cool for the Clues crowd to get as many
of the ladies in there as possible.
I can tell you, I was going to question you.
I was suspect over the last three months.
94% entry.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know if that's percentage.
I think that might just be points.
That's what it felt like on that last map.
Yeah, that's certainly the last map.
He was an entry beast.
He did a lot of good work just grabbing kills.
When are you going to see Passion play their first event
with Try and Send?
No, I'm not 100% sure I can see what they got coming out.
I'm kind of really intrigued to see what that team is going to look like,
especially with the report that Grimm is the one going out.
That was. Yeah, it's energy.
It's actually exciting for Ed.
It's cool for energy for sure.
They had a teams.
Yeah. Well, I mean, it's cool seeing like an energy like
slide into that opening that liquids provided by going international.
And if you say, you know what, we'll take the mantle.
We'll be we'll be the USA team.
Yeah. And I think the North American team.
Yeah, I think it's cool to see Nitro back and you know, it's kind of touch and go as an M80 or energy.
I think that grim move really steps energy up in that department.
Roman Imperium Cup is going to be the first one.
Okay, I think that's where we're going to see the first land debut of 100 Thieves as well.
Yes, it is indeed.
So Roman Imperium Cup is kind of popping off over there.
Yeah, Passion's going to be the group with Hattu, Algo and Rebels.
You mean like out in Norbert? Are you going to be over there as well?
Ignorbed?
Yeah, Norbentime.
Norbentime, baby.
Where is that tournament?
Uh, Portugal.
I'm somewhere in Rome now.
Yeah, Portugal.
So I guess that's Roman, the player, maybe.
I don't know.
Having some involvement in that?
Yeah, that'd be, yeah, cool.
That'll be fun to watch.
Portugal.
Yeah, we gotta go there.
100 Thieves is there.
Eyeballers is there.
Passion is there.
Fanatic is there.
There's some cool squads.
And it's pretty crazy, you know, seeing these smaller tournaments, even small prize
pools, and they just have like some kind of Counter-Strike base names going on.
One of the nice things of your essence provided isn't it?
Yeah, it's one of those cool things.
Yeah, I mean you can pull out a fragadelf here a lot
if you're an IP for example.
All right, high fives they're coming in.
Chris is waiting and still waiting.
And now he's going to try to style that one out.
Give him all the young style.
There we go, finally connecting.
The extra is like I'm not even on this time.
Locked in, ready to go.
OK, so we're getting into the action reminder.
It was heroic. You want 13 to 5 on the opening map of Nuke, 3D Max's turn to try and bounce back into the series.
If they lose this, they will be eliminated out of the competition, 0-3, which would be absolutely shocking for 3D Max.
Yeah, it would be quite a bad mark for a team that's been held as like the gatekeeper knocking on the door of playoffs, knocking on the door of the top tiers.
You slide back down in the conversation then changes and you become a you know a team who just like can't ever actually get it going
Who actually can't ever get their a game inside the server?
Think we're gonna get a another yeah
One more time. I was in my head. I was like maybe he's listening for informent. Nope. He's crashed
He's out
Preparations we're heading towards banana. I can't feel it
Yeah, I'm a little cruising out of that for now. You'll come back. Hopefully
Well, that's actually a banana being popped for body so that's a how's a strong bite of the banana
He was messing around
He was like everyone's got the bananas out look at this
They were getting into bananas right when that game went live and they had to set them to the side and now they're like great
They were so ready for the banana attack that they just ended up we need to get banana somehow
So it's true this is what preparation for inferno looks like ladies and gentlemen if you aren't taking a banana before you start inferno
You're not gonna have any luck in banana when when you guys in Europe play European football
Do you guys do orange slices at halftime when your kids?
No, we did on the states. It was like half time comes everyone gets orange slices
No, okay. No, well then that that and I don't have really a comparison
I'm sure I'm sure some bananas bananas are the equivalent of the orange slices in like
Like, if you leave football.
OK, well, it depends what league you're playing in.
I'm thinking young, not like young.
If you're half-time, you might grab a beer.
In some leagues, you know, half-time beer.
Yeah, I'm thinking before beer drinking age.
OK, so like, 14 then.
So you have a grown man out there playing soccer.
Just grabbing some orange slices at half-time again?
I don't know.
I don't know what you guys get up to over here.
Sounds fun though.
Yeah.
I could go for an orange slice.
It's a cool afternoon.
It does sound refreshing.
Vitamin C and all that.
Yep.
All right.
Eating.
Just having a little lunch here.
Oh.
You know, not great time when you're all just eating bananas.
This would be like a, yeah.
Yeah, it's not.
But I mean, I don't know.
Maybe they, you know, give it a few minutes, ten minutes for that potassium to kick in.
It's a slow release.
So it might be like a balanced release across the entire map.
Here we can see gravity just having a steady burn the whole way through after that banana.
The banana analysis those orange slices hit diff is what people say in the chat so do man
I'm telling you try it and I like this guy also said just call it football Jason I
Like to call it European football for the exact reason we can say American football. Yeah, what came first though?
Exactly. I don't care about the actual competition. I just like the rage bait really
Yeah, that's for it is one that will reach a bit a lot of people it is the easiest one
Well, I decided to check chat because you know, we're just hanging out. I can't read some of the things you're saying so
Yeah, what do you guys want to talk about in this? What is it's Monday, right?
But this Monday, I don't know. I remember doing for you guys Monday morning for us
It is Monday the start of the week anything that you guys want us to cover
Is it another manic Monday? Let's keep it to counter strike. Just as an aside
Eh, depends. If you have a very interesting topic, I'm very happy to sort of dive her off of this train.
What else have you got from HLTV News? I'm just going to scour and see what sort of headlines we're working with.
The best you assigned a new player?
The best you assigned a new player?
Yeah. Nacho.
Best you assigned Nacho. Yeah, they signed Nacho.
Nacho is good to have.
Anything you want to take with that?
No.
you want to head that's good for best year that's just the only roster move I
can read off that looks outflit and a fame out of VP. Goodbye. Okay, so we're
looking at the chat and they're saying very nasty things to us. Yeah, kind of
that was kind of mean. I was but I also almost suspect it. I'm not gonna let that
affect me. You know what? I'm gonna keep positive attitude dinko. Oh, there's a
nice comment thank you very much
one cash
i like this one uh... just call uh...
it rugby with health care protection so american football rugby with health
care protection
visits to the house
but the helmets actually become a weapon so i don't know if you can
it's always been an interesting argument
i was like a push for a while to have american football go back to uh...
letter helmets
letter
like that's that's intense that's great that's a new game if you just like
the rule that you not let the ramp people under the helmet with the well we have
that rule just as it was people doesn't know it rules never really get listened
to us post what could 3 max change to get a real chance to solidify their tier one
potential in your opinion in my opinion or your opinion jason i think
both of ours i'm thinking at the moment zai wu and apex should sign for 3d max
Okay, that would be unreasonable, but it would work. You are right. I think that's the only way
I don't know. I think at the moment it's like I think at the moment
I guess if you're 3d max you're kind of hinging on to change the
Gravity with more experience in the igl role to a certain extent like I think that's gonna
That's gonna give you a step up as as your igl gains more experience more time leading the team and more comfortable in the role
Think at the moment just because it's fresh on my mind from the first map
I think in this is the case of many teams
I think and it's not meant to be like a huge harsh individual criticism
But there's obviously upgrades that you could make to have more impact from the op-ing position
We just saw that new map though with the op-out like seven eight rounds and really not any kind of impact to speak up
But you know, that's that's a symptom
I think of any team that has an opera not named like monesties I will share
Towards you know, like the if you're not one of the dollars hard to find at all but these days
And an IGL for that matter
Well, we're reading the comments, so we said back in their day, the casters could also solve
tech issues.
Now, I have to imagine you were around back in their day, Jason, do you remember solving
some tech issues?
Yeah.
We've gotten our hands dirty.
We got back in there plugging and unplugging some wires from now and again, you know?
We always like to help out where we can.
Usually we're pretty useless in that situation.
If anyone tunes into the Talk and Counter podcast, we're running three years of audio
issues, so, you know, we're not exactly smart as we are for people.
I mean, they're not really even issues. They're just one guy doesn't have a stand that that part
It is kind of limiting. I don't have a microphone. Say how
We could all just get it in we need to get him like an audio stand sponsor
Yeah, we should that could be a great sponsor to go for it. Yeah, and you an alcohol sponsor, Jason
Maybe I would I would take that. Yeah, for sure
Who would Chad sponsor you?
It would probably be men's health. It would be some kind of a therapy, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let me say it's a feature topic on the show.
Someone asked about phase a little bit earlier on. What do you guys think about phase?
I love phase.
Yeah.
In general.
In general.
But this version of phase, it's not going as well as they would like obviously.
Wow, that's, you've got some great analysis there.
I think that's really a wrap.
But we just have to wait for the Major and then, you know, in Cologne, and then the finals, so it doesn't, I think it's fine.
You know, you just got to play bad all season and then switch to Major and everyone loves you again.
I think FaZe, FaZe felt into the obvious trap of like the over-performance of the Major, made them think that they could continue this and
kind of experiencing the other end of that, but really quick, maybe not really quick.
Because this break is going on in the tech issue has not been resolved,
we're going to throw it off to a quick break for a little bit so that Niko and I can get an idea of what we want to talk about next,
And we'll come back and we'll hang out until this game begins. So we'll see you guys soon. Stay tuned
works through some of these tech issues to get into map two.
We got 3D Max, we got Heroic.
Just a reminder of the context, it's elimination here.
A zero and two game.
Currently 3D Max, a map down after losing Nuke.
Very, very comfortably against the Max.
It was a 13-5 win for Heroic.
Now we'll move on to Inferno.
We've discussed how this could be a nice bounce back
territory for 3D Max.
But you know, there's been a significant enough
reset between those two maps that hopefully we get to see
3D Max come in swinging on Inferno
get themselves back into this series. Yeah I don't know which way like the tech
issues with the extended time between maps might affect either one of these
teams really nice the game hasn't started so no one's getting like iced
down off of all hard hot start but I mean I don't know like 3d max after that
first map I don't know I don't know what I don't know what to say I don't know
how it's what I'm supposed to expect out of them right now I'm just hoping
that we get the 3d max in that we know can play in front of and can no can
return in the series because of this map so let's see what they're gonna
bring out here cuz heroic just embarrass them on nuke now they've
We've got a chance to do it in a fashion that knocks them out of the event.
Well, 3D Max for leaching their strats to us by eating those bananas for the pistol round here.
They're going to be charging on up and Crizzan feasts upon Baldy straight away.
They've got exercise moving up, trying to get that trade kill.
He's going to take a good position here. Even those teammates are going down.
And it doesn't matter because Harroway!
They go so sharp. Crizzan clearing out Lucky and the round is done.
New PC is working, Admin.
New PC is working. It feels good.
it's looking good one nothing heroic no complaints in prison three kills in the
pistol no complaints to prison whatsoever at the start of this game feel good
about that heroic one round up no ballpoint chemistry nine and close this
person getting the first damn dude that's just no chance neither of them
even got a chance to get a shot off just too fast for the draws prison
Well, no bomb plan which means no good force by here in the second round so 3D Max just gonna go with glocks run up the apartments
And hopefully try and get a bomb plan, but this is gonna be a two and zero leave for heroic
When I got that buffer to kick off nuke as well, they're gonna make the most of it
Hoping they can continue some of that momentum coming into the second map
We've got young star now looking to try and shut down three de next as they burst through short and the clean up
That no problem for stuff Milo and young star all those kills can be
fluently and we now have a two and zero lead for heroic. Yeah, three of us really
wanted to get that round over and done with. On Nuke we saw pick up the one
Deagle and give plenty of time for that Deagle to find picks here on in front of
the light screw it. Let's just get to the gun rounds as fast as possible. Let's
not waste our time and energy on this one. So AK has come into the board.
Three M4s on the side of Haroks, excuse me, four M4s on the side of Haroks.
Defense plenty of nades as well. We'll see what 3D Max can do with their
plan is going to look like in this first gun round.
There's a good kill there from body, bottom banana, Chrisen to respond.
And so unfortunately for 3D Max, even though they get the opening kill, it's not like they really have an advantage off of it.
Yeah, and you'll take that too if you're heroic. You've given away an MP9 to take an AK-47 off the board.
So, decent enough, one for one, that's going to leave Chris in the IGL alone over on Banana.
Just using deep utility, he's gone down through smoke as well.
Maka spams him, trajectory of the smoke gives away his position,
and Maka says, you know what, you're probably alone playing in this role.
So I'm happy to take the empty space that I've created,
and 3D Max back away from middle where there's danger
and Huroak is going to have to make the decision to just save.
kind of an anticlimactic first gun round. Yeah it is, but it's what 3D Max wanted you know you
can see them swinging out with that locker on let's get that one over and done with it not
going to get too much done there so let's just come out and start getting some gun rounds on the
board straight away. Yeah and this is a round not really won by tactics and anything like that
that's the kill through smoke from Maka and then just recognizing the situation that
normally in a 4v4 that solo defender is there to just delay as much as possible with utility
so it gets a little bit aggressive, takes the risk and is rewarded with a free B bomb site.
So first round for 3D Max on the board, happy to take an easy one.
Herro is going to have a strong buy still in the next run.
Catron, Crizzan and X-Bob to rebuy M4s in utility.
3D Max posts there first on the board.
A real hunt as we talked about, so the heroic will still save those three weapons, we'll
see if it's enough to get heroic going again straight away.
No, gravity's taking his headset off as in-ears come out, and an admin called over
to help out.
That's slow walk just to uh that was like on another track just to grab.
What do you want now?
So gravity will have some work done to the old gaming rig.
Hey man, I'm just going to say Cris and no longer has that golden trooper puppy up on
the monitor so maybe there's a tech issue caused by that dog just saying.
Or maybe after yesterday's game.
He's like you are bad luck.
He's like this dog ain't doing anything for me.
It's down on the mouse pad, like just behind the monitor, but not playing up that.
Like in the center of the mouse pad?
No, it's just down off to the side, you know.
Old mascot.
Okay, so there for some comfort when it's needed?
Exactly.
Exactly.
Not exactly staring you in the face for the whole map though.
The gravity heads that back on, in ears back in, which means we're ready to get going.
I like the clipboard we got here, the little 3D Max clipboard.
How called the Zonic Blackbook.
bring it in some uh yeah it's very traditional sports isn't it? So we're really melding the two worlds.
Love that. Well here we go action will continue. Heroic you've got the all-out for young star
who's doing a pretty decent job with it on that first map of nuke. Can't imagine we'll see too
much of the op in the hands of Mach on the t-side either just t-side inferno not exactly a paradise
for op-wielders. Triple B start and they're sticking with it for some time they want
3d max to commit towards the top of banana for some of the counter utility
It's gonna leave the a defense a little bit weakened at the moment with just
Milo and Stuss
Body going into the peak ends up getting absolutely wrecked out by the
Peaks from all directions. It's gonna be body default the AWP
A minute left on the clock and Xsv supply and pressure around long
He's managed to change up the position trying to follow them back into lucky and gravity or coming up through short
So it's looking sharp though. Oh, they all line up and sus make sure it's a quick 3k
And the round is done off the back of sus Pete
Yeah, trying to shuffle with utility get the perfect execute going and sus doesn't want to sit back on his heels bold play
Considering just two defenders at that bomb site teammate stuck in the site
And it just works out perfectly for him as you mentioned lined up in tandem easy
he spray down along the wall and that's a third for heroic and another time
happened on nuke as well 3d max really not able to build up a whole lot of
momentum footsteps heard by xplot who's already here at t-spawned and he's
calling all the troops in he's like I know where he's saving and I've got him
I actually don't even need you guys I think I think he was he was one dance
This is a question we were going through the tech pause of like, what can three max change?
I think one thing I've noticed a few times in a long stream play, I feel like there's
a lot of rounds like this, where body kind of just gets sent to make a play, like kind
of solo on his own, to see what he gets, and he's like away from the action, away
from what the main thrust is supposed to be.
And like it's probably different inside the server, but for me that feels very telegraphic.
Like if I'm playing against them and I'm doing the research, I'm like, all right,
body's making this play solo, A bomb site's going to be where they want to end.
You know, like, that's where the next play is going to be,
because body's usually away from action.
And it's just like a one person, no chance of a trade.
I feel like, I'll try and keep track of it throughout this map,
but I feel like it happens frequently.
And sometimes like this round, although this is the other side of the coin,
is they actually pair body up with two or three players,
but now this time the trade will be available if he gets stuck into action,
but doesn't even get the chance.
It's the counter thrust from Heroic's defense to take away control of top banana.
and bodies forced all the way back to the barrels.
And the back away here from 3D Max exercise, taking some steps
to rejoin his teammates in banana.
Little bit of utility for execute.
There's two smokes remaining, one Molotov as well.
Not going to be the picture perfect hit, only one flash bang.
But some resources to alleviate some of the pressure and take a couple positions away from the defense.
Exorcises get that kill though on Nilo, which puts more pressure here on X-Flight on low HP, presents spamming some bullets down, not connecting any of them, and now there is a bit of damage to X-Flight jumping up.
Lucky's able to finish him off, not looking great there for heroic on that hold in terms of the output that they wanted, so 3D Max flood into the B site.
This time it feels like they got a little bit too cute.
Stasper gonna try and make this play with the flash, can't find the target.
Does get one in the back.
Hose youngster alone with the AWP and that was a great advantage in this round for
Herod giving up. Three players at the B bomb site.
Huge advantage in knowing what's coming, but trying to make the cross.
A gap in the defensive smoke, sells the position of Nilo trying to shift into
the bomb site and makes that hit much, much easier for 3D match.
Break of the smoke as well, X-Block couldn't get a clean look on it, and all of a sudden
that three-man defense just doesn't have any good fights to look at.
There's a kind of rod you need to get your way here, 3D Max, you need to get in the
fight early on.
You know, they had some opportunities on Nuke where they were one of those 405 rounds,
and then Roland just shut them down and stopped that from really building into consistent
success. 3D Max has got to start running with it and this is starting to feel a little different.
Body just running up, getting a fight going its way. An opening frag though,
traded out by Youngstar. But needs to be careful. He's about to be pushed through the
apartments and XST is so comfortable in this position. He's just going to allow Youngstar
to walk a little bit too far. And then the kill comes in and this round feels very
comfortable for 3D Max. They've knocked heroic into the save call right away.
And this is the strength of 3D Max on Inferno. He talked about this map as if it can be a
a great recovery moment for 3D Max in the series is the change of pace, the depth of tactics
and now you've kind of bullied them at this A bombsite, very fast, very aggressive and
Herok have dropped the ball.
So once again, another round they just can't fight for due to the overwhelming attack of
3D Max, three players saving over towards the B bombsite.
Not a lot of money built up behind the heroic defense, so you'll invest after this,
Suspin Youngster are going to be in a little bit of a rough place, Youngster obviously
He won't have his AWP and then you're out of money moving forward from there if you lose again it as heroic
So 3d max and round six have grabbed a great opportunity to run away with his half
Well the M4 was coming out in play for Crizzan Xplowed and Nilo
And AWP for Makka, and we'll come out for a showing here on the T-side.
Let's see how much impact Makka is able to get done with that.
Now, as the talking part we just had over on Nuke was the struggles of Makka,
not really showing what he can do, and there was a number of issues for him,
especially on the T-side.
So, also on the T-side off, in the apartment looks like for Makka.
Running on up into Banana, it's going to be body,
Incentive at the top of the half wall, having to peek around the back side.
And not too much table here for him.
Nothing yet, at least.
Exercise 2, block out mid, left side smoke.
Over the top of the sandbags, some damage being done.
XCC's top mid play is gone.
His way, but everybody else has lost their fight.
Xplot, in fact, getting a double kill of both of those players over in Banana,
has resulted in Makka and Lucky being the last two remaining players in 3D Max.
only a couple of seconds into this round.
What an advantage we found here for Heroic.
Maka and Laki gonna try and probe into this B bombsite,
but it's gotta be efficient.
They've got smoke up so they can take it slow,
but once the fight's come, it's gotta be queen kills.
Thank God for a couple.
For the oranges, there's the peek out
from the back and explode.
Great round from him individually.
Really stepping up the 3K collected.
And they're gonna be happy about getting back
on the board right away here, Heroic.
Round is shut down and for 3D Max they need to be careful. They don't stall out here because their money isn't looking fantastic
And they realized that they could get in a similar situation that they had on nuke right where they got a number around starting to go their way
Heroic answer back and money fizzles out in the entire momentum that they had dies
So 3D Max realized that could be the case happening here if they can seed this next round
I think that'd be I think that'd be brutal too
I don't know if they have the mentality with you know the situation they find themselves in the game
They've played to kind of overcome that if they get just broken and destroyed and no momentum allowed to be built
Painful loss in this one a great opportunity goes to the side where they were on the verge of grabbing control good trades though
Xplos is double
Crissing over a middle and Xplos just puts together a complete round
So heroic still nursing this lead it's back up to just one four to three
And out of the timeout 3d max have another buy beneath their belt that money is gone after this
Last chance. You know, Mac 10 for gravity. We know he often has to play with this
He was often has to play with the the tech the Mac 10s the SMGs in general
It'll be comfortable enough, but we'll see what kind of round he calls here for 3d max
Banana in favor of heroic
It's a number of quicker rounds we've just been charging up that 3d max
It's kind of a little slower to the mark, but they move it
Also for that corner
X-Loud just gonna drop the smoke right away.
He was the player that really delivered the flash on X-Loud, so...
Gotta be careful, spamming behind that smoke.
Yep. See, Crisen was moving off, they're coming back now.
Nice kill, tons of information. This is gonna speed up the play towards the B bomb site.
If you're X-Loud and Crisen, you gotta be on notice right now,
because that kill on the other side of the map and the move in towards Halls
is the signal that 3D Max is going to be found out,
so now they're incentivized to move forward and attack.
There's Crizzard spouting down, and Lucky will fall away.
Makka getting at least one back here for 3D Max.
They flood in by this confused position.
There's no straw. Makka goes back.
Make sure it's just the one.
And so that bomb plan is going to go down front.
Coffins, heroic half the player of Vantage,
but they've got to retake this site,
and they no longer have that player of Vantage as Makka.
Right through that smoke, Crizzan is caught,
And that was Suspin Nilo. They do have a good amount of utility, especially on Suspirae.
He's got all the nades you could possibly want for this retake.
Nilo knows as well that Makka, standing just around this corner,
Makka's just killing everybody. He's off to the ace and he's got it.
Old Five kills for Makka. He just carves them up on B.
Man, it's hard to watch. That's around heroic.
Had all the advantages in the world.
I think you just give up some critical fights at the worst possible moments.
One on the boost.
Crisen going down is huge.
I mean, you have your flank coming in.
Losing your position, you know, back behind coffins, over towards ruins, that's still painful
because if your flank that is in the power position, let him make the play, but sticking around too long, getting killed like this,
allowing them to find safety and move out of the position in the post plant,
that's way too much freedom given over to 3D Max and Heroic let one slip.
Oh, the Naive land's right on body. He's gonna have to be down to 30 HP.
It's just a relief for 3D Max that they won that last round.
Matthew is just carrying him over the line.
There's the light up. Oh, they're right there!
Exorcist, he's getting one. He just continued to spray with a second tunnel as well.
Neelo's just gonna back off here get away with the player deficit and making sure it's just the one
Five on four found for 3d max so they can slow things down
Where do they want to head next
Three defenders at top middle at the moment ones in boiler
Youngster is going to look to shave off just one headshot the main thrust coming up middle and that's where the bomb is as well
So still dangerous if half this attack falls prey. Oh my gosh
There's the defensive play getting carved out though and now that crossfire no longer strong
You know has to worry about the flight down to the apartments
It's got to be a master step up here from youngster
He's got to the precious one and he's handling it
No issues here for youngster three kills collect it in from boiler
And he's got his team back into it and the stand-in standing up
But he's gone from Macca and now we've got X-Pald left 1v2 having a retake ill advised final Pete from youngster
Though, but he's brought this into a doable 1v2 clutch
You can understand the hot ham triple kill wanted to go for another one out of the flames leaves it all onto just one man
Xplowed the ding fair damage being done to lucky
But I think that move forward from young star has
Simultaneously got them back into the round that might just lose the man and it is the play
It just becomes too difficult there for X-Pald to retake alone
Yeah, hard to hold yourself back to play the two on two after the kind of success and the way you save that round up to that point
If you're youngster going for that last one just prevented it from being in a winning condition after the fact
Lovely way to open if you're extra cease this still almost collapses everything going so well
Just this X factor over and boiler the one detail they missed a huge performance, but this kill
But it's he made in a really tough one on two
It's rarer to get away with that to retell some boiler and also just be able to get into
the apartments.
It's going to be frustrating for him looking back on that moment, not making the most of
it because it's resap the money for a heroic, taking a loss down.
It's going to allow 3D Max up to six rounds on the T side.
Broke did a good job of getting advantages and making this a very difficult half,
The 3D Max just...
This map has been in their wheelhouse bringing it here.
The playbook on this is so deep they've been able to handle the eventualities.
Body's gonna clear the way on his entrance in.
Clear the boost as well.
Up against pistols, no resistance.
And 3D Max get a free 6th round.
Well, heroic in search of a tied half, if possible, and then they saved a good amount of money
for a good buy in the next round here, and they started looking to do some extra damage
on their way out, the 5-7 grabbing gravity.
Could be a second opportunity here as well, on body, okay, yep, absolutely, damn, and
he's gonna slip away.
Oh, X-Flight gets one elsewhere, so excuse me, that's his second kill, I've lost track of the entire kill feed.
Marker's gonna hold on and make sure they can't go down to the bomb blast.
Well done from him, exercise joins in. There's X-Flight right at the end, pushing in for an extra kill.
On exit, they find Xercese with the explosion, and we're two rounds back.
I'm just amazed by the X-Flight, the second kill, just repeated in my head.
It was so good you would experience it twice.
It's not even early anymore.
Yeah.
Well, it's alright, Jason.
It's okay.
We got two more rounds left.
We all make mistakes.
Yeah, we'll get there.
Well, it's a good buy coming in here for Heroic and not the best.
I mean, they've got FAMAS in there.
I know you love that, Jason, but most of them don't.
I know, but you guys can come on board with it.
Well, prison, he might make us a fan.
He might make us a FAMAS fan.
I'll wait and see. I like this setup.
I'll play up on top of the porch.
That's suspin' that spot. Just boost it up.
In fact, the mid-setup looks very scary right now.
3D Max go through this, and the flashes aren't all that effective.
This could be devastating, because you aren't coming this way.
They're going towards the trap laid out for them.
Stuff gets back to the angle, can't get to kill those gravity-next-to-cease.
It's two for two, thanks to Nilo, but he just gets caught being peppered down.
Slowed as he tries around the corner and 3d max burst through into the setup designed to deal with him
And still come out on top of the fight. Yeah, just oh
Nile of the bomb plant that's opened up the round again. Yeah, that's lovely
Gonna take some time to go get that picked up maca over in middle behind this smoke timing is everything
You're so mad
That is so frustrating.
Oh, you're even more mad if you're ex-wild.
Makka, what the hell, man?
What have you done?
Okay, that's a way to end the rounds.
That's what you get.
Two smoke spam kills, 12 and four for Makka.
Nice to see him leading the way for 3D Makka.
Seven to four lead up by three.
Final round of this first half.
That's so stupid.
Like the rounds like, okay, they're gonna get the kill.
We're back on into a round and then Makka,
Is that three kills for a smoke in one round?
Just nice and ready.
That was, I'm very happy and fresh.
And now we move into the last round of the half here.
Heroic, in search of a fifth, but it looks like 3D Max might be just getting that 4Ath
round here.
This is looking fantastic.
Gravity, coming on top.
It's Xplot who's died first.
There we go.
X just keeps fighting.
This is more what I expected from 3D Max today.
Yeah, now you're seeing a few things, but I mean you're also seeing, I think
I think a lot of the differences you're seeing through the next get a few more openings, which is allowing other players and other parks,
the map to actually make some plays and slide into the gaps.
Bombs going to be shifting around through halls as quick as you like, although Maka wants to go a bit faster.
Maintaining Boiler, but they lost track of Youngster pushing back down middle.
So it's a three on three, and the bomb is alone in this site for the moment.
Yeah, it's felt like every post plant down this site has gone in the favor.
Off 3D Max.
So heroic, not feeling the chances here.
Mac does play a little bit more aggressively towards Modo,
but he's really feeling it.
He goes for the stab.
Always going for a knife as well.
XCC is going to steal that opportunity away.
And VACCO is finally dead.
We've now got Youngstar coming back in here.
He's going to fall at the hands of XCCs.
And 8-4 half here from 3D Max.
Back and forth, a strong start from heroic all on the map.
They had their opportunities, but 3D Max prevailed.
Yeah, didn't have the depth though to overcome 3D Max
once they grabbed hold of this game.
five in a row to end the first half seven of the last eight rounds played
going in the favor of 3d max as well once they got it figured out and got
the keyside rolling there was no stopping them as well so really good game
from 3d max thus far and it's looking like they will in fact use this kind
of inferno as a launching point to get themselves back into the series and
reverse their fortunes oh and one in this elimination series loser of the
series is sent packing from pgl clues in a conclusion apoca
Elimination game here today on the B-stream.
Next game as well as elimination. That's going to be pain taking on G2.
We got to get through Inferno first and then the Decider.
Yeah, G2 have their favorites going into that game.
Decider would be Dust2 as the third map in this series.
We've seen a lot of that, you know, Nuke starting the series, Dust2 closing in this competition.
At least here on the B-stream.
have been had a nuke and dust two in them and in some in some way yeah and the
favorites all lose nuke for some reason yeah it's just gonna happen in that way
pain has one nuke twice it's true against Aurora oh yeah it's a fair point
yesterday as well like it's just this crazy so nuke is the nuke is the way
apparently to get these upsets but it's a four is returned to the action
here for the second half it's 3d max looking to get aggressive down
second middle for a peek, and they're not going to get anything. It's Heroica running
up through Banana. Yeah, but they got an early read of the situation. I thought Makar
paused on his rotation. Smoke is down. They're going to have to go through that. They're
like no one can smoke. They're behind it. The Juli's flinging wide. Good flashbang.
Smoke is broken open. Esther sees a huge distraction, but only the one kill. Traded
off two for two. Gravity's here to pick up pieces, but he's got to survive and
camp. Oh, 2v2 found by that, but Lucky and
Body are quick to Banana for this retake. Issue is no utility, and no kid on the
two remaining players move quite swiftly to get their way back into this one one
player out to a CT in Susp and it's very effective for his third kill of the
round here lucky gone by the wayside as you now look at body trying to come back
into the retake takes a gush and finished off by youngster it's gonna be a real
challenge here for heroic to play themselves back into the game on the
T side right I mean that's something that Chris is gonna have to figure out
here but at least when you move to the T side often turn out particular
that lack of all presence isn't a massive deal.
Yeah, and I think too when you look at Nuke as well,
a member of our standout player on Nuke was tough
and one of the things he was great at with the AK-47
was providing openings and early kills
and making the initial plays, stopping pushes.
So if you can get him going again,
on top of that you want to add in both pistol rounds
have now been won by Heroic on the second map
much like they did on Nuke, so you've got a benefit there
and some good starts on these halves,
especially if you convert this second round.
Well, a lot of forces gathering.
So it's top and out of here for heroic.
It's going to be a body with that first one.
Crizzan dropped by the 5-7.
Now, if you're heroic and you want any chance of coming back into inferno,
obviously you cannot stub your toe here.
I mean, if you're 3D Max, you're just saying,
okay, we just spammed down their IGL behind the smoke at top and out.
I feel like at this moment a dead giveaway that this is where Heroic wanted to end things.
So happy keeping three players here for the moment and you've got another smoke in place
right now that prevents their access.
So Heroic is going to come back here on this 4v5.
All they're doing at the moment is letting Nilo kind of investigate, making sure there's
no pushes on the other side of the map.
He's going to throw a loud imagine somewhat of a fake.
mid smoke, audio cue for lucky but nobody budging from deep, I don't fully believe it.
There's X-Floud, getting that trade back. The player who found the opening killed around.
It's now Makka waiting in behind coffins. He's got gravity up on that boost.
Makka, loving the fact, he's gone away with a kill there. X-Floud finished off by the scout
and pull enough attention. Gravity's boost is going to be checked by stuff. Really important
Now the smoke breaks and the 5-7 sent forward for another opportunity, but not going to be picked up.
The bomb plant being secured as they're just about dodging those bullets being sent through by Makka.
Yes, still a little bit dangerous though. I mean, heroic on that entrance they gave Makka two shots of the shell.
Let's see, on the flank, almost good damage, a dink with the MP9, but not strong enough.
Youngster still with 50 HP remaining and that's going to force back the retake.
Although they will not escape.
Lucky gets a kill. Then goes down after the fact. Eight to six. Lead is cut down to two.
Yeah, likely to be one, right? Looking at 3D Max's money in this next round. So, eight to seven.
I mean, you're happy with that start if you're heroic.
Oh yeah, for sure. Especially remember, like, let's see if they can build up those first five rounds
or you're going to have economic advantage before the CTs really get planted with their money.
You can do some real damage here and you can make this a very interesting half.
We're gonna feed them close in the gap, round by round, and now up against Piskals to be able to bring it within one.
Terrorists win.
We're pretty happy to share their up in heroic.
Trying to get the vibes very positive.
That's one of the things we discuss sometimes, is the fact that, you know, if you're playing with a stand,
I was saying yesterday, I don't think Heroic get the advantage that other teams do when you play at five events with the same team.
And then you have one event off, you do a visa issue or illness or something.
It's like the pressure is off of that event in terms of your expectation because you know the next tournament you're going back to your full squad again.
Heroic haven't had that because they're just being constantly playing with the stand in.
But if you're here in a 0-2 game, do you think that comes into play a little bit like, ah, if we lose it's not massive at the end of the roll.
The three maximum situations were like, yeah, this is worst case scenario.
No, I mean, at the end of the day, any of the players, there's always going to be a minimum
level of pressure to just win the game, as the players do.
They don't think about those conditions and say, we should be out of it.
They think about it and say, we have a stand-in, but we should still be able to beat this
team.
And obviously, you put out a performance like yesterday, if you're a heroic, that
had to have been a little bit embarrassing.
So then you have the pressure of just performing well and not kind of flopping out a lazy
Yeah, no missing out on the opportunity.
Yeah.
Well, Heroic certainly not missing out on the opportunity.
They are getting close to tying this game up.
It's going to be 8 to 7.
We'll get into the first gun round of the next.
We'll see what kind of level 3D Max bring to the CT side.
I was mentioning earlier, Earth Mac really struggling on the AWP.
He was over on Nuke.
Can't afford to really do that here on the CT side of Inferno.
Would love to see if that weapon comes into his hands.
So it's just got five thousand nine hundred dollars in the bank now
So what are you capable of pulling off?
It's not a good game with the rifle though has been yeah
There's the all well
Let's see if he can if he can actually you know control the map with it on inferno
That's kind of the goal of the advp is to kind of limit
You know how fast and aggressive you want you want to be a force
You want to be feared around every single corner to do that you got to get some kills and you got to put them in their place
Early, let's see if Malkar can establish that right out of the gate with the AWP
Flash in hand in case there's any fast plant middle he can activate his teammate and in fact you will watch he's gonna peak down
She's a fight on a great one. So gives up the angle, but that's information for 3d matches defense
a slow stroll through banana for x loud and christen they make their way up
behind the half banana smoke around the other side of it is body waiting with
his rifle another smoke coming in though I'm gonna be a little bit frustrated by
that grenades gonna be flying towards body sure he'll be anticipating
further utility flying towards him soon.
Well, it's if it's a Molotov that comes into this position, does he step in front of it
or does he fall back behind it becomes the question actually he commits himself forward.
So it could be playing stand-backs as the smoke fades, no escape route either.
No support, no distraction, it's going to be tough for a body.
He gets caught by a flash as well, just not what he was hoping for whatsoever.
So X-Flock getting rid of him, opening kill, 35 seconds remaining in the round.
It's a row and stay committed towards the B-Bomb stop.
But here comes that match-off.
It comes in with a first, attempts a no scope on a timing, has not connected it, but they've run right by without checking first or origins.
And it's just a shutdown, that's a lazy attack at the end after her own.
Yeah, I mean, for no other reason that only one person actually enters into the bomb site, and that one person doesn't actually clear anything of the bomb site.
I guess they assumed the AWP was that second person after getting the sandbags kill.
But they saw the flash come out, they saw the counter flash come out, that should have been the signal one, there's another one there inside the site.
Regardless, three maps going to keep this lead.
Stretch it back out to two.
Nilo didn't get anything going on the flank on the other side of the map.
His teammates go down too quick.
This is bad clearance of that B bomb site.
Making a B line for the coffins instead of even considering that angle.
Grabbing his love in life.
It's just, I think too many players were trying to set someone else up from the heroic
side.
There was no actual attempt to take over the bomb site.
They thought like, okay, the op is PT, we haven't smoked off.
We actually have control.
Let's just flash this guy in.
Which is a shame because you've given yourselves
a nice five on four.
Had a pretty good advantage.
You trade that one kill into the bomb site,
op is locked out.
You've got a solid post plant if you're heroic.
So Tobit's talking the boys through things
in this timeout. You know on the other side passing out high fives we're gonna get back
into the action. Round 17.
Alright, a Mac 10 for Crizzan. Let's see what they decide to do with it. Straight into
banana couple of nades being thrown out by pretty max roik hit the pause button
before answering quiz it taking damage down through that half all he's on the
58
they sent some utility back of the road here heroic similar similar kind of
route right Nilo's in the halls over towards the eight bomb site it's gonna
be a lurk maybe a little bit more aggressive with his position up in
halls but other than that he wants the attention at the B bomb site to
give him some opportunities although with this pressure applied here's the
change-up in the rounds back to middle we go now the fact they've taken top and
Anna hasn't caused the defense to move at all you still have a very strong set-up
here in middle that's what 30 max almost one but lucky moving forward takes
a huge piece of that away and do you stay committed to trying to take top
mid here if you're heroic you let me know make the next move and it's
perfectly played here by heroic a much better take this time on the A
bombs right, back down body of force to safe and there's just no way into the
round so really good stuff to have for heroic. I think a little bit greedy from
lucky right you're trying to take a good set up and make it great by stepping
through the smoke and you just don't find the timing for it and then you're
just a sitting duck as you come through that smoke yeah a free kill you get the
dink sure but drop down and really good identification of the situation by
Nilo coming out of halls the backstab if there was any resistance from
defense he was going to alleviate it. 9 to 8 now and once again that hit is just so successful
out of the gate that body and maca don't have a chance to shift and come in to try and recover
the scenario so up in the ak-47 brought into the next round still money for 3d max for this next
Spy coming in.
Yeah, still a very good buy, still got the ult out for Makka, got an AK for body, obviously
saved over and then threw up in surround it so if you lose this though and get like reset or just a little bit broken
If your money goes away you kind of seat control like heroic then is in the driver's seat
You know right you have the lead in terms of the scoreboard you have me in terms of the economy. Oh
My gosh look at this body are aggressive a risk really taken narrowing prison
Important that he gets that trick doesn't let body get away with more than one
Yeah, okay taking that risk and going for the one for one if you're 3d max because you have a third defender here in
banana. Heroic sensing that they want to change the angle of attack. Back to the A-bomb,
so we go smoke in the middle. Locky's not even going to wait around for that to break.
He just wants to hustle under the bomb site to shore up this defense.
Yeah, XCC is just waiting in behind the truck and four in hand ready to go,
just point out, flash sets him up, and he goes down to Crizzan in response. So just over a minute
left on this clock and a 3v3 for a second here, Heroic can pause and think about where
they want to finish. I like this though. Crizzan control in the situation. Say,
no, I guys, pump the brakes. We just got that kill. We're not in a position to actually
attack into the bomb site. We brought this into a three on three. Let's actually work
the map with the minute we have on the clock. Now just 48 seconds, couple players back towards
banana defensive smoke deployed by gravity. So applying pressure, he slides past the spam
and is found. Oh my God. Milo gets one on the other side and they're just going to
take it. Well, I think Heroics are showing that they're going to be very capable of
competing down the stretch here on Inferno and that's worrying for 3D Max, who are
already a map down in this series.
They've now lost the lead of the game here on Inferno.
They're facing elimination here in Cluj-Napoca
and they're going up against Heroic
who are playing with a stand-in.
Of course, Youngstar was a part of this team for a long time
but is the fact that he's been removed and brought back here
and they have no offer.
This is so impressive to see Heroic
bouncing back after yesterday where they look so flat.
I thought every team in this competition
could beat them with the way they were playing yesterday.
Yeah, I gotta give a lot of credit over to Tobiz
and Cris and I would imagine the leadership figures of the team for getting this team moved into shape after the brutal loss yesterday to look like this coming off of that is a very impressive turnaround.
Lucky survives to this M4 with the money built up on Makka in body. There's a decision for 3D Max to make if they want to invest here. I think they will.
You can have the off if you want it for the utility, you can have 3M4s, SMGs or FAMAS, whatever the other two players want to go for, but you can have a very strong buy in this round if you're a 3D Max.
I want to take a timeout as they realize they are now entering the final stretch of the run here in Romania.
Now 3D Max out of concede, Inferno it is all over.
A team that we were talking about on the cusp of playoffs of top tier S tier events last year.
Did not find their trophy, their best chance was in Shanghai at CAC competition,
but they lost that best of five to Legacy.
And since then it feels like they've been in free fault.
But this is the lowest point they have been at.
Certainly so if their elimination is confirmed without a wait. Yeah, definitely
Be a shocking result
They have to rethink everything we know about 3d max
Five of six rounds
One by one by his Rolex in this last stretch. This is disgusting run
The 3d max is map take that's supposed to get them into this series a comfort map take that's not
comfortable at all. Barrage of utility at the top banana. 3D Max's defense will
get away.
don't think I know if you access appreciate how quiet this is you still have a three-man
defense at the moment. They haven't budged off of it because
Heroic has been able to kind of bully you at top banana. Now the fact they haven't moved
this to the right decision, they're going to peek now, one for one trade, but they got information.
We got lucky winning him behind the sandpast. Good peek out. It's going to be one for him.
Cruising and Youngster, they're killing, but Youngster unfortunately killing his own teammates.
So Nilo's down, 3v2 all of a sudden, 3D max, half evanescent gravity, all first oranges.
A rare, but a kill regardless. It's going to be a mecha to finish it off
as cruising comes through, and 3D Max back into the lead.
So a 10-9 scoreline, double figures reached, but money,
it's still in a good spot here for Heroic.
Yeah, 3D Max making the decision to just win or lose
that round at top banana.
This time they win it out.
That second player hind behind Sandbags
goes unchecked the whole time.
Lovely piece of aggression.
You find information off the 1 for 1
that allows Lucky to stick around.
He goes 1 for 1, but make it 2 because of the TK.
And then you just need a nice solid performance
out of gravity to hang onto the bomb site behind you.
Regaining the lead is 3d max, but just barely
What can they hold on
This call from her old toes to counter the triple B start
Actually, let me take that back because they did adjust it
I thought they were sending three players into his halls pretty quick
They decided to move around and go to a different location.
Top Banana for 3D Max, but it's just Makka, with a deep angle with the AWP.
Trusting him to hold this part of the map.
That's Makka, who's got that open A-Xplot to be removed.
Now they push from 3D Max into the apartments trying to get more proactive trying to figure
this out just at the right time and it's a good setup a lot more discipline no one kind
of leaking mistakes out.
This happened on Nuke too I'm wondering if Hurok just ran out of steam did 3D Max find
like the the way to just kind of settle this down that like passive top banana wait
for them to try and take it we'll win that fight then we'll win the round after
the fact.
Hold the phone though, quick flank, they need to be aware of this.
There's the swing, good trade, and Nilo fly on to the site.
Oh my god, just as I'm thinking, they're at the end of the road.
Heroic blast open the doors.
Yeah, they find a new solution.
Now Maca coming in, up to the AK-47 instead of the AWP.
Trying to win this one.
Molotov into the site.
Now Maca looking down into pit.
No peek out yet.
No one give him a chance.
Heroic have a golden opportunity to tie the game up again.
Keep the pressure on 3D Max in this elimination game.
Max is searching for an opportunity, none coming his way.
And then the peek from Nilo from the pit.
And it will be heroic to tie things up again.
And that looked like it was all 3D Max.
They were just looking so comfortable.
I know they had the fast flank as well.
You had the FOMAS wrapping behind them.
I thought that for sure was the insurance policy.
A huge trade on the spin around.
But they are boxed in at this point.
Three players short and quad.
And there's four defensive dots all around them
on the mini map, they win every fight.
That might just be the mentality shattering round
as well for 3D Max, who have not been playing
cards right the way they love to,
the way they are used to playing it.
And now they're facing elimination,
you have a huge advantage like that,
you let it all collapse down around you.
Mac, you're trying to get the aggressive peek down mid,
hasn't gone his way either.
I like him taking the courage though.
Thankfully, it's not the round that breaks
the economy of 3D Max.
Right back into an AWP, a pair of M4s and two MP9s.
Utility to work with. All that shot in the middle, that piece of aggression from Maka. He shifts back to the B bombsite.
And Heroic eat a ton of nade damage. Crissin down to 37, X-Vog down to 50.
So forced away from the B bombsite for the moment.
And Crissin decides to make this go passive. Just everyone hang out, wait around a little bit.
See if we can find any information.
There's a half-wall smoke from the B defense.
Heroic's running a tight ship, not too many players spread around the map,
probing or testing the waters or checking for any kind of a setup.
Largely playing without information and lining up for a group hit at the B bomb site.
Oh my god!
Suspense just shredded back up.
Torr, a new one. Now 30 seconds left. He's got body coming back in from spot.
There's a gap in the start of that smoke, but that too also goes in favor of Heroic.
3D Max have collapsed. They have fallen to just three players and they can't go for this.
They don't have the money for it. They don't have anything going for them at all.
So 11-10. Heroic into the lead, into the late stages of this series.
It is looking like Heroic. You're going to be the team to survive in Cluesnipoca.
Oh my Lord, we were saying Sus looks sharp on the first map. That's a disgusting shot.
the top on the logs, not going to try to get that shot off as fast as possible, miss the mark.
Herok would love to go hunting here, and they're doing it slowly and cautiously,
because any weapons they can take away makes this job of finishing out the series so much easier.
They've got the money to lose a few weapons. Good shot from Lucky, ready for that.
As they're going to be more following up from Herok, they don't want to lose too much.
You can replenish that one, but it starts to hurt after the fact.
Desperately trying to hold on, but another kill from Nilo. It's exercease, a further victim.
And the MP9 and M4 do make it into the next round, but looking great here for Heroic.
They know they've got 3D Max on the ropes.
Oh my lord, this shot.
Dang, first bullet.
And then after the fact coming in gap in the smoke, Bonnie had to throw that out of desperation,
So it's not perfect, just didn't realize it.
Heroic at the exact round they needed.
Mag 7 on Xerces, M4 on Lucky.
Desperate for 3D Max,
keeping enough money in the bank for the final round.
The Heronica coming at top mid. There's a setup here, it's Makka and it's Exorcist. It's a 5-7 and a Mag-7 trying to get the job done.
Mag-7 gets away the angle. He's going to be close up. Okay, that's not the fight he was looking for.
So now one of the bombsite to find, touched against the box, same with Default.
Oh, the crossfire! Five-sevenths delivering, but just for the moment.
Yeah, Xplot with two right back, body and Maka both gone. Lucky and gravity.
Coming right back in through the Archway, it's gonna be gravity through first, but that's Lucky's kill.
And there are two low HP players still left there for Horizon. That smoke is still up at Modo.
And that is gonna eat some time off the fuse here.
There's no kits either.
Re-smoke!
Yeah, they're gonna...oh, that's actually...that might have just won the round.
As long as don't peek out behind that smoke.
Don't be putting because they have to wrap all the round the bomb. Oh
Keep your head away. Chill. All right. The safe calls made. I mean that's that's massive
It's heroic now up to serious point 3d max about to be eliminated
Retreating to save the two weapons. They've gone ak and an m4a1. That's all they have here 3d max
We've been able to throw together rifles around it for a lot one last to raw to try and pull this back in sale
Good time but for heroic, they've got all the chances here to close this one out
going down with the bomb because they got all the money in the world to
revise it making sure there's no crazy shenanigans going on lucky and gravity
with the saved weapons that means they can get an off over to maca if they
want to again much like new it hasn't felt that effective for 3d max here on
inferno but it does provide at least that intangible benefit of saying we
can park you at the B bomb site although now that's us was given out
haircuts maybe not true it has been a really incredible from sauce throughout
today is absolutely gonna be the standout player overall in the series third and
final time out used by 3d max talking this one over round by round they only
need two to force overtime not that far off of bonus rounds at all a case 3m
force a good amount of utility here for 3d max and only two rounds left and if
you're heroic or at least if you're I'll say if you're Tobias thinking
about this as the coach you're like you don't want to tell it to your
players but man you have an opportunity to cause this upset in two maps how many
times do we see an underdog team with this chance drop it let it slip away and
lose that third map so heroic you've got exactly what you wanted right in front of
you it's yours for the taking two rounds left to knock 3d max out of pgl
inclusion apoca a stunning upset a stunning elimination
Deep smoke down middle. Lucky to send some spam in behind it. And do heroic have what
it takes to stay composed and closed out. Smoke out towards Long, severing the vision
of Makka. Smoking bottom banana about to fade.
Heraldic just put in themselves in positions, the apartment's sus, but this time we'll be
at the bedroom, flashed into the peak of the hallway, sees that no one from 3D Max is trying
to play aggressive in a round like this, with stakes as high as they are, 3D Max sit back
more past it.
Macca, chance of the opener, Cuisine shows a little bit too much arm.
They've been smoking left mid so far and so safe throughout this entire half for the
first time to end a step up like this to throw that Molotov and get eliminated.
one hurts. Nilo's in position at the end of Hall, so maybe probe into the bomb site,
but doesn't want to take that risk and make this even worse. So we're just going to contact
walk into the B bomb site, a boost up back at triple.
Got to be a sharp shot. He all moved off the crosshair, just a little bit too early
to body, but he gets back to the position regardless, but really not going the way
through the maximum of light. It's gravity.
The reposition's falling. Yeah, the reposition's good, but it gets spotted.
Can Barney get another one? If he can get a second kill, he's back into this, but he can't.
X-Flight now. CT spawn.
Time, 20 seconds. X-Flight's position. They're running him down, and he's just not going to be spotted.
They don't detect him. They're not ready for him, so X-Flight, just the one kill, though, could have been even more devastating.
But Nilo and Sos, with that bomb planted, one of them at Newbox. Nilo out at Second Oranges.
Oh, but this is gonna be hard. Nilo's gonna get swung on. There's no smokes to block off these choke points.
No Molotovs to force the T's into the open.
He's just gotta be sharp here, Nilo. He's just gotta be sharp, but he's not enough.
Exorcist gets credit, susped for the 4J,
what an incredible day he's had,
and he's looking to knock out 3D Max,
and that is exactly what happens.
Suspends off, Heroic's celebrate survival,
and for 3D Max, it is elimination,
zero in three here, PG inclusion, a poke up.
We talked about the highs of 3D Max in 2025,
but 2026 has started off at a new low.
Yeah, gonna be seeing some very forlorn French faces
standing stunned at their desk,
but for now it's all the celebration of Heroic.
What a turnaround from yesterday to today.
Completely different team yesterday,
looking so disorganized and lost.
You couldn't even envision to win,
but whatever they discussed last night,
they came in today looking much sharper
and powered by Susp to great maps in this series.
And that is a brutal, brutal loss to take
if you're 3D Max.
So now I've just got to be thinking,
what more do we have to change?
What more do we have to try?
Yeah, exactly.
It's a terrible start to the season here for them.
And they've got to figure it out.
But yeah, I don't know which direction they go in,
But I'll have to say it long and hard to think about it because this is just not a team that we've seen play counter strike
You know the way they today is they just didn't even look like the same roster we seen last year at all
It's been tough and this is just kind of backslide that they haven't been able to stop over the past four times six months
Of course, you know like you know if you think of the months leading into the Budapest major
So absolutely brutal for them for heroic
I'm not I'm not sure what this means in the grand scheme of things
We kind of open this year is saying for this team obviously with the roster situation without Karen with youngster
but also like a roster that's trying to be put together.
You need to show some positives so that you know what you have to build upon
and where you want to head with the rest of the roster changes.
This is at least a great win that shows you some cool things.
Gritzy and Crisen have a resurgent performance after a tough one yesterday.
Stas was excellent.
Those are two guys I think that you'll be super pleased with how they performed today.
Yeah, absolutely. Stas, in particular, in that round,
he was just jumping up on a half wall and dining late in the all-per.
It's such an important round of the game.
And then this one, just to clutch the close.
I mean you really have to be happy with the level of impact you've got out of Susp
And that's why for heroic I just want them to get a steady roster going because you see the pieces they've got
I mean Susp is going to be a great player to have moving forward in this team
So hopefully heroic can get that all sorted out and move forward and actually build on this team
I'm not expecting them to be able to make much of a run for the rest of this competition
But the fact that they survive another day is a small victory
No, but I mean you put performances like this and then the rest of the games you have you can you can cause them
You still have a chance to cause another upset.
I think getting through to the playoffs
is going to be very, very difficult.
But again, for coming into today,
just wanting to see a really good fight out of heroic,
to see them actually complete the upset and win.
Absolutely excellent.
T-side merchant stuff, for whatever reason.
Z-T-side went a little bit cold there down the stretch,
but T-side and T-side on new cue is incredible as well.
Just an offensive powerhouse for heroic today.
Absolutely.
I'm looking forward to seeing more of him
as the tournament progresses.
But for 3-Max, it does not progress.
So it is elimination, no dust who needed in the series.
They lose 13 to 5, 13, 10 loss here on Inferno.
We were talking about how Inferno can meet their safety net,
their comfort ground to bounce back on.
That was the case today, right?
Probably isn't any comfort anywhere for this.
Yeah, exactly.
Just nowhere to go.
Yeah, that's just so rough for them.
But looking forward to seeing a little bit more from Heroli.
But we have another series then, Jason.
Yeah, we do.
We've got G2 taking on pain.
That's coming up next.
We're going to head off to a break when we come back.
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We're getting into the last game of the day felt like it's come very quick as we round things out. It's going to be G2 versus pain. I mean G2 a team that absolutely it's shocking to see them here to be honest in the 0 2 game but pain not so much. I feel like this is a great bounce back opportunity for G2. Unfortunately for pain they do have G2 from them in the elimination game.
you for G2. Unfortunately for Payton they do have G2 in front of them in the
elimination game. Yeah you know it's kind of surprising like in isolation seeing
G2 here. I think in terms of the teams they've had to play vitality in the
opening match you can understand taking a loss there. Paravision has shown
they're very dangerous. You can you can you'd hope that they would beat
Paravision but you could understand the loss as well. So I think this one like
you know counter to what we were saying about like heroic and 3D Max in
last game like G2's route to get 0 and 2 wasn't like disappointing or ugly
in any kind of crazy sense right like you don't want to see him here it feels
like they shouldn't be here but considering who they played in the
route they've been on yeah there's there's an understanding eventuality to
this yeah well looking forward to seeing g2 in terms of I always enjoy watching
them on the server so hopefully today is a game where they can get some of that
confidence back and get rolling here they've got to really run the lower
bracket gauntlet is it is I mean for g2 they lost a power vision in the
most recent game 2 to 1 lost a vitality 2 to 1 so you take it a map of
FF, Pavars is going to be playing very well again in this competition.
The respectable losses, you know, it's not like you're getting banged out by the meter.
More than anything, I just, I think this G2 team is just really, really cool to watch
the progression.
Like Hunter has kind of taken the IGL role really, really well.
I'm excited to see how he continues to develop Madis as someone has a role-player coming
into this team has carved out a spot and looked very strong.
Heavy God and his potential.
Son Pius feels like he's getting back into the swing of things slowly, but surely
still have some missed games from him here and there.
I think Malves is the big X factor for me, for this team, where I'm like,
he's the one that I think is going to dictate the most how good this team can become.
Because I think he just needs more experience kind of being the guy.
I think when you see him last year and how well he played with Nico by his side,
not having that star player taking some of that pressure off his shoulders,
I think he's struggling to deliver the same impact.
But, you know, when he gets it, I think it could be really cool.
Yeah, I think for Payne Gaming, we've really discovered one thing,
is that they can play Nuke and nothing else really at this point.
Not in this series, you can't.
Yeah, exactly.
So that's a big problem going up against G2, right?
They only have one nuke in this competition so far.
They took it off Mongols.
They took it off Aurora, two very tough teams,
but they've both lost the last two maps very
handedly in those series.
So very unfortunate that the pain
have now come up against G2 where they're not
going to be able to get that nuke out really.
Yeah, that'll be the veto there for pain next to G2.
Oh, the configuration.
So interesting.
Flip that.
You've had pain bad news.
Flip that.
For sure.
Yeah.
I would wage your mind.
I was going to say my life.
That's cool.
Your life is going to be a veto in Karastroi.
That's the value of the wall.
Everything I was about to say.
Just forget about it.
Inferno going to be the first batch of this series.
Yeah, I think the hard thing for pain,
this has been the conversation is, yeah, the nuke thing
where they've won both of that, but then no map pool
after that one single map in this pool.
So that's the scary thing.
And you have two new additions to the roster in terms of VSM, in terms of Piria, pretty
big rookies those two guys, and just not a whole lot of maps played underneath their
belts as a five-man unit to begin with.
And I think we still have questions on how impactful and effective VSM and Piria are
going to be at the professional tier one level of play.
Yeah, I think Piria had a way better game yesterday.
That was something that we liked to see from Piria.
He had a very tough opening day of this competition against the Morguls, but Piria,
have moments you had a couple highlight plays you know an ace yesterday so yeah
very very good stuff Imperial in terms of a step up from day one but yeah I mean
going up against the side of G2 she's gonna be a very different story indeed
but there's the video again for you Jason you would have survived I would
have survived if you put that if you did put your life on the line for this
video I would have survived you would have survived. Oh my god okay. I would have gambled that in though. Pretty easy all right so it makes more sense
You got Ferna coming in as the pick all paint mirage coming in for G2
I think this is just gonna be a very quick 2-0 if I'm honest like inferno is a map that G2 are great on that's paints pick
And then I just think he's way too much skill and Raj sucked no gaming
So I think it's just kind of GG. I would say two things. I would say first first and foremost agree with you
Yeah, secondly, I would say that's exactly what we said going into the 3d max row game earlier in the favor of 3d max
So take it with a quick 2-0. We were right.
In some way, we removed all the other contacts.
In a way, we were correct.
Coming into this game is like the only real way you can kind of stump for pain to be able to upset here is it would have to be a complete 180 a la heroic from yesterday to today.
Funnily enough, I think a heroic actually to me at least looked like the lester of the two teams yesterday in the games they played.
they've played. I thought Payne showed a little bit more yesterday, but still I think G2 is just one you can't overcome.
At least Heroic in that earlier series had a 3D max, it was equally struggling.
G2 isn't struggling, they've just had a very hard pair of teams to start this Swiss stage.
Absolutely, so now for Payne, you know, you could say they've had tough teams too, but definitely struggling.
You know, Mongol's Aurora, two tough opponents to play in your opening game, absolutely, but that happens when you're a low seed.
Yeah, and you've got to battle through it.
And I mean, you know, also tough to considering a team that showed us that they could compete with some of the top spots of the major in Austin last year.
But obviously, Payne's a very, very long ways away from that.
VRS implications for this matchup between the two teams outside of the elimination from PGL Clusion of Pocca.
If you were to lose, you could see Payne would jump up six spots.
G2 would crack the top 10.
They would crack the top 10.
So kind of a moral victory on top of a literal victory.
Yeah.
If you can get it.
So lots to play for it as we come into this one mainly survival here PGL clues the polka
It would be a massive massive disappointment if somehow G2 even close to losing this one
Pain no going into the server today that their expectations have to be somewhat low
They go up against a very difficult opponent here in the 0-2 bracket. Well, maybe that pressure
Being off just a little bit more, you know expectations are certainly lower
I'm just excited to see if we got any other map apart from Duke the pain are able to compete
I think the problem for paint is that I think the pressure that they have, you know, we can talk about the pressure
I think the pressure they put in themselves is to get back to the level they were at last year around the Austin major
So when you put it in that context, there's a lot of pressure
You know what I mean like sure you could probably sell yourself on no pressure because of the you know
The the brand new teammates coming in not a lot of reps and everything
But this team also is kind of like yeah, why why have we kind of dropped off so far?
Think a lot of the issues that paint have is
With the new additions via some period, you also if you just throw snow into that mix, you kind of have like these core three players of this team who are still sort of unproven question marks.
Like we still, snow for his first year and a half hasn't blown anyone's socks off and then we have these role changes and he starts to have more and more impact, but we're still not there yet.
Like it's a good improvement, but it feels like it's not exactly what we were promised.
Right, it's not where it needs it will not it not necessarily I mean yes true
Now we were promised but also not just not where it needs to be for for this team to be putting more wins on the board
Yeah
I feel unfortunately we have seen snow actually have a couple of really rock maps in this tournament as well and in
Can't really have that with the more responsibility putting being put on your shoulders
Because you become one of the more experienced players in this team at this point in terms of these through getting to play at the top level, right?
It's it's crazy. He is so young. He's actually toward the the world of this team now and major playoffs and big tournaments
So you got to start seeing something come back from that eventually. Yeah, everything's stacked against them though here
I mean you you know some of the most experienced players we have a professional counter strike and then guys like Hunter heavy God is
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G2 on the CT side pain on the T side
This is Paine's map pick and it's for survival here inclusion of polka
We've got snow making his way into banana and a jump spot to detect the play on the other side
At least he's got that info nice decoy. Yeah, it was great great work
Everything's going well so far all according to plan
Over the a bomb so we go quietly walking decoy just blows up over at the B bomb site hunter is gonna get first spot
work himself around to help to spend this bomb site pre-aim is there some bias
can't land the shot it's all on heavy gutter hunter the hunters moved into the
site the USP is ready to fire off a couple of shots here heavy car to a two of
his own that's big as air I'm period both getting knocked on over it's no one
NQZ now in a 2v3 as that bomb needs to slip away because it did not find the
access to the site it was looking for it okay and how do you to get this
after all I think hunter just heard the footsteps you just saw on the
The mini-mappied turn has had a really quick and looked down towards middle, so now it's
a foot race.
Malbs and Mattis, they're going to beat the cross.
They'll be here for this fight.
Snow and NGC with no smoke.
Yeah, Malbs, the Joe Barrett is at this kind of range.
Not working out for him as Snow actually gets both kills as he fires down towards
CT spawn.
Snow with three so far on this round putting the pressure on Hunter's shoulders to
clutch out 1v2.
Now they're going to double up, paying it a play together and try to limit the
chances Hunter has of winning this round.
Now the smoke, if it is deployed, would cause a lot of pressure, but Snow doesn't care.
He picks up a 4k, and we were just talking about how this young man needs to step up,
and he delivers in round one.
Yeah, what a great round from Snow, and a good call from Payne as well.
I mean, you know, you could see maybe they forced the issue against Hunter around the
smoke, and they get that kill, or they get a one-for-one trade, puts them in a tough
clutch.
Great fallback after Heavy God provided all the kills necessary.
Nowhere to go behind the fire.
And the long-range firing squad goes the wrong direction.
mobs and maddice can't land anything.
One and nothing for pain out of the pistol.
Pretty big ingredient if you want to cause some upsets
in the Heroic 3D Match series.
Heroic won all four pistols in the two maps that were played.
A huge benefit to them to start every single half in the advantage.
Tons of chip damage eaten by pain in the early stages, no down to 49, big use error to 75,
so despite an advantage in weaponry and utility, chunk down by some HP and softened up for
these pistols.
One smoke thrown banana, the stack is here so that they do want pain to commit, so they're
hoping that smoke isn't a dissuasion, it's more of like a, everything is by design,
We know exactly what we have. We just did a delay smoke. We're going to run out of this. It's your time to come in.
Trying to weigh in now. Surprise is going to play off the fountain. Oh my god! The 5-7 second shot is fantastic.
Neyland gets a third kill, but as Malves' Deagle is chimed in, and all the pistols from G2 have brought pain to a grinding halt at this B site.
Kibria getting away with a kill on Hunter, at least one frag going back in favor of Payne, but with 30 seconds left,
if they even try and backtrack through middle, you can see Heavy God's got that locked off.
Oh, good reposition. It doesn't work out though, as Piria looks to the new box and now he knows the second player's there as well.
Yeah, and that means Heavy God's got to make his move. He can no longer sit back and Malbs is calling him over as fast as possible, slow, 15th.
Oh, wow.
Piria steps it up, head shot as well. Now he has Heavy God defined.
No period he's looking in the right direction. He's got the right read but he's got the bomb back
He has to go for the plant that allows heavy God to either sit back
And try and call his bluff or now move in through banana period with a flash out heavy God with the AK tracking him slowly
And heavy God's got the headshot period with frustration bangs on the desk because he was so damn close to recovering that for pain
He just couldn't make it happen and G2 able to equalize the scoreline
Yeah, but I got really really close. That's a good amount of fight in pain
Especially period the shot on the boost up back behind new box is absolutely beautiful
But you hear they really win this round in the early going they had to be they had you committed to this be bombs
I hit they had a defensive smoke deployed at the perfect moment. So you're executing through it
Just a great clutch by heavy God period can't get back into cover in time
And the pistol round advantage lost as she to convert the second
Well, at least you're able to buy back again here for pain to get an AK-47 out, a Galeel
for VSM, Tec-9's an Adiga will cross the other three remaining players.
Snow is already up through Banana.
Started the half walk home for a peek, and there's a lot of risk involved in that,
but Snow has made it work.
Alright, well, he's out and out in two of these first couple of rounds, gonna
to beat that smoke as well.
Once the challenge jumps up into safety,
spots it over all beautiful front.
Flash on the round really.
The jiggle pulls him into the peak,
pulls him into the flash bang.
That works perfectly.
And pain playing with some momentum right now,
hustling into the B bomb.
So you got to save if you're G2.
No chance here.
So two to one.
We go back and forth in this tug of war.
That's great from Snow.
Just taking the responsibility of the round
on his own shoulders and just running up.
Yeah, it was a risky peek out from the half hole.
fight to wait it's no just very wall sharp shooting comes in with that second
kill as well I think it's part of the philosophy that they've decided they
want to come in and open up this game with like really aggressive really not
afraid of any kind of a fight whatsoever and around like this we are
coming in with some weaker weapons and lighter on utility got to take some risks
somewhere so you put that risk in young star players hands and snow
delivers for you at least here in round three
Money's going to be a little bit hurt for G2.
Madison 2500, mobs up 1500.
So they'll buy, but you might drop a pistol over for utility.
They're going to be hurting in terms of what they can bring into the round, but G2 will
have a decent buy out on the board.
And an early time out taken by G2.
Saul wants to get involved in the action.
the points I was going to bring up that the start of the game is just a huge mountain that
pain have against them with guys like Hunter and Heavy God and Sun Pius on the other side.
Add in the coach. Josh Throne, he's over the past few years one of the strongest coaches we have
in this team especially in terms of building up new rosters especially in terms of getting a
lot out of a little. Shown some great things. So taking an early time out here not enjoying
what he's seen in these first three rounds of play from T2 and also very much for the
understanding of the elimination game and the consequences that come to a flat performance
in this series from his team?
They're spreading all over, slower this time.
No charge up through banana, just settling into a period, getting into the apartments.
Being very cautious in this round, knowing that the economy is a little bit busted and
Dented for G2 so expecting a little bit of trickery at some point in this round
They can top the nana with utility and looking to see the reaction it's retake util from mobs whose solo B defender
And pain heads elsewhere
And as the smoke's being tossed out here at full pain, but not looking to play with them towards the A site
It's layers of fake
But if G2 because they have four players here they get aggressive in front of the utility that's thrown and now they know
It's happening so it's malbs delay drop your other smoke right now
Mattis is gonna be arriving at the B bomb set in time. You're gonna have two very fast flanks coming in as well
And Mattis with the MP9 can feel comfortable just getting to start a smoke
and swinging us right into the open, into the fights.
And coming out on top of only one,
heavy guns 5-7 has also entered the kill feed,
putting G2 ahead.
That plant is still coming in.
DSM needed that head shot,
but does he expect the second player
the answer or resounding no?
So it's now a period with a clutch ahead of him again.
Came close to 21 earlier,
just about missed out, frustratingly.
So, and once again, it will lose it
in start of the B site.
So it'll be G2 to tie things up two to two.
And yeah, just that fake,
not working out the way paint would have hoped.
It's just the extra layer that G2 has of just like the quick understanding of what situation they're in.
They have four defenders stacked at the A bomb site.
You see that execute utility coming in potentially to attack.
You have library smoked off.
You have left side smoked off.
So you step in front of the smoke because you have numbers.
And once you have the information, all your reactions are so much faster than paint expects.
Really good read, really good job grabbing intel on the map from G2,
being proactive and not sitting back on their heels.
and they've tied things up and now they've got money, they've got an AWP in the hands of some pious.
I've got a bit of a charge going on here as well.
It's going to be snowed today. I'm talking about first it's mobs that has fallen away.
So snow us again, another opening kill here for paint.
They're going to stabilize as well. They're not going to lose it.
So paint able to back away.
Quicker up through top middle this time. Period at the front.
Gigi's played some very tough teams on this map as well. They're very battle tested here on Inferno.
They won this map 13-8 over Vitality earlier in this event. They also lost it to ParaVision
just yesterday to put them in this situation.
Some pious a little bit too far out. Catches a flashbang full in the face.
And okay, Heavy God, you're good. Are you this good?
What do you mean the pit? He's done well. His teammates are running up top middle.
Heavy God just needs to try and buy some time, stay alive, but he goes out again.
He gets another kill, that is too deep, and he's way better than he could have even expected.
Heavy God from the mini-paint, but it might not be enough.
Hunter has to clutch up, NQC and Snow are both damaged up.
There's the chance, and there's no kill, no way.
As Snow collects a 3k, he's having a great game here, and all that heavy lifting from the God himself in-paint,
and he still wasn't enough for G2 to win the round.
At some point, you know, Heavy God's too nice to the guy, but on some level he's gotta be saying,
And what more do I have to do? Triple kill in the pistol round from Pitt.
They end up losing that. Triple kill in this round from Pitt and a 1 vs 5 essentially.
And they don't win this round either. Got to be so frustrating.
Great performances and an anchor roll from Heavy God but it's all for nothing.
This shot from NQZ up on top of the box is just wired when he catches that lane player.
Yeah, Snow is having a good game here though.
9 and 2 really spoke about how he's required of pain are going to move forward with this roster.
More responsibility, experience being put on the shoulders.
He's got to step up and he is playing really well at the moment.
This is rough. Pain has done a good job in the early going of this tee side of not letting this ever feel settled.
still very high octane especially when the fights in the action begins as we
know with Brazilian teams playing by that excitement and that emotion and
everyone getting stuck into the fight trading and getting brawly first five
rounds feel like pain has done a good job of making g2 play their game
well as an overstep from Hunter that's two rounds in a row now g2
giving a kill on over towards long side as the last one getting caught in the open with a flashbang.
Hunter, this time getting picked away by NQZ. Have you got it? Responding.
Now the stack breaking up from G2. Meanwhile, Payne's starting to take control of top banana
through the smoke. Molotov towards sandbags, made follow-up as well. Three defenders
shifting over to this side of the map with weaker weapons, G2 is playing very hive-minded,
staying grouped up and making sure they've always got numbers where they think the next attack is
coming. And you've got heavy got over in pit, so, you know, history tells you you can rely on a
a triple kill.
Well have you got, can you do it again?
Mini Pit, same position. He's too hunkered down now and with I'm not coming
wrap side.
All those teammates coming up through mid, maybe the destruction is enough, have you
got to get the side down. They don't clear them out, they don't expect them to
We've played the same position two rounds in a row
and he's actually come out on top of the first kill.
Now we can't deny the bomb plan,
but his teammates have now arrived.
And so for once, Heavy God actually has assistance
and Malbs is AWP-trimed in.
So at least Peria up in the apartments
and G2 are making the most of the situation.
A tight game, lies in front of us as Heavy God.
It's just so reliable.
It's another triple kill.
I was half joking when I said that.
But all we got there, it's guaranteed basically.
Oh, Heavy God, what a force.
Just to take over that bomb site in that situation, your offer calls the flank, he gets numbers for you, but nobody clears pit, nobody clears anything just trying to huffle in.
And you have to know, I mean, Abby got us still alive on the scoreboard.
Great shot with the AWP from mobs.
Well, I've learned a lesson now, I'm sure.
Yeah, but what a rough time to learn that lesson. I thought you would have learned it previously.
NQZ could have been playing with an AK. Everybody else on pistols here for pay. A great chance
is having a try to drop his weapons. He's so generous even through his M4 down on the
ground but he gets back to it and a little bit led to the window and that ends up costing
NQZ's rifles come out on top and you've lost heavy god at the start of the round.
His powers only work in the pit. Yeah, it's true. This is domain.
and the area recovered for NQZ. 5 on 4 for the T side.
Quiet day for the AWPs so far, so N'Paius has his in hand.
First round with the AWP was overextended on wrap side.
Got blinded and taken down without taking a shot.
They're slow round from pain off that initial kill, they're happy to let G2 burn and use
some utility before they start moving into their play.
Look at G2.
They've gambled.
They've gambled incorrectly.
feeling comfortable in the 4v5 they've stacked the B bomb site as there's silence on the map they
think pain was just waiting out a banana smoke and they're dead wrong
why is this game so back and forth this is this is insane no one's won two rounds in a row yet
but we're not getting what we expected which was this g2 just been a lot more comfortable than
pain no we're getting that same kind of reversal that we had from heroic where this pain looks
like a different different team than yesterday. Yeah, it was an attitude helps when snows having
this hot start nine and three. Absolutely. I feel good for him. I'm just really curious about the
decision to just kind of gamble stack towards the B bomb site. Like almost like fearing the five
like no no move with the opt to grab an angle information you could have picked one off.
No moves to figure out what was happening just kind of a blind gamble feeling uncomfortable
running out of utility in a 4v5.
Okay well look, the seeds have been planted, you know?
Seeds have been sown, I guess is going to phrase it,
of a little bit of an upset here.
Still nothing convincing one way or the other but...
To me this just feels like G2 are taking a little bit too long to figure it out.
And eventually they will by the end of this half, like, so that does divide you after what the moment there might be in there might be an element of like playing not to lose at the moment.
Well, considering the situation, the circumstances, the contacts to the mass not working all that much. Have you got something to save him? Surprise getting into the fire at the top of mid.
And then backs away to safety at long now some pyres is yet to really get going here
This could be a change
He's able to start getting some impact and a couple of scenario where some pyres is just knocked out without doing anything
He's six HP just about surviving and getting into the site. You're at your that aggressive on the open
Oh, what do you do here if you're pain?
What's the protocol do you try and come through the smoke and force you have the entire site wrapped upon looking to cut
Off some rotations to make this a little bit easier before committing hunter is now arriving over here
You hold the knife door on our corner.
You've also got both defenders who push down,
but they're not going to start flanking up middle.
So these smokes clear and they have to go.
Oh, Hunter trying to support with utility,
but it bounces back off the door.
So it's not going to be too effective if delaying
and making uncomfortable heavy golf in the pit,
just the one this time.
Hunter digging his frag, he's still alive,
but he's cut in the copy.
Now we've got Mattis moving forward,
mobs to assist him in clearing up the pit.
And then he goes snow-winning with VSM.
That bomb is implanted.
G2 have arrived on the rotations
before a retake is required.
And then give a tie game.
G2 is doing a really good job.
I think they're taking advantage of the fact that pain is playing so grouped up,
and everyone is involved in that attack.
You see that really, really fast flying pushing down banana,
not finding anyone, and then once again,
you have a very fast wraparound at the A bomb site
before pain's even settled into the bomb site,
before the bomb's even planted.
They had a round like that towards the B bomb site earlier,
so I think they're starting to realize when the attack comes in,
the extremities are open for these flanks.
Started to hit some very, very nice timing,
so despite the fact that pain finds so much success on the thrust,
They've got nothing left to contain how fast G2 is ready to react.
Back and forth we go. Eight rounds. Neither team winning two in a row.
I can change here.
You're looking at 2 AKs, 3 pistols.
How many opportunities does it take for G2 to win 2 in a row when you go up against a
buy like that?
Surely that changes now.
It's a banana.
Balm's more in control this time.
It's no going to be cut away, melted, in fact.
Flames, test his feet, the sound cue is given over.
Sumpai is going to retreat into the bomb site under a minute on the clock and Panic
Gann put in pressure over to his A, but Hunter with a close line out, Sumpai is connecting
his shot at short. We've got bigger Zara, Korea trying to win this one out, but they're just stopped,
stopped dead in their tracks as finally G2 put an end to the back and forth.
Yeah, that's the end of the road for Payne in terms of being able to fight back. Now moving forward
you're going to have to just save in this next round. No reason to continue bottoming,
that went really deep into the half. So yeah, you know, even with the back and forth,
even though they don't come out on top of it, I think Payne's kind of okay with the way it's
turned out to get four rounds on the board through the scrappy nature of things.
The shit allowed G2 to settle down though.
That's what they've been fighting for this entire half is just a chance to take a breath.
Are we showing cameras or something? Everyone's that talking about your beer Jason?
Maybe we did.
Oh.
I don't know what I was doing.
Yeah.
Good to know.
So Pius, he's uh he's coming through with Big Oozera.
Going first I mean these blocks should be absolutely deleted.
And this is what I was saying a couple of rounds ago when you're talking about
Feeling it paying up on a little different today sure that it definitely are but it does have that vibe the G2 or just
We'll starting a little slow into the series and we'll figure it out towards the end of the half
And I think they have now
Wouldn't be surprised to see them go on to win the remainder of the half you wait to
Just lost up a little bit sleepers here supplies. Luckily, I was in the middle of town
And then the Digo goes down to supplies gets that final kill
I'm trying to tell someone if they want the AK, but he doesn't want to throw away his AWP.
He could have.
Two rounds left.
He's got money.
He does.
But he wasn't willing to make that sacrifice.
He has an emotional connection to that AWP.
Hunter's going to remember that next time he's asked to drop it off over and play with
a pistol.
I'm sure he won't care.
He's a nice guy, Hunter.
Treats your IGLs right.
Yeah, that's true.
Give them an AK-47 if you have it.
They have rights too.
It's 6-4, two-round lead, ooh, good find through the smoke, Madis goes down, hits the deck,
it's Indra-Bunnel though, Maltryu smoke.
Well, apparently Big Azura has no rights to kill because he's got zero frags right now,
and hopefully he can change that as teammate Snow has gone down, who was delivering them
impact in space to kick things off, but has stalled out, you know, ever since
I said oh look snow's having a great game. He started having a quiet game. So it's your fault. It is snow's snow can't be quiet
Some pass and heavy god and I'll setting up with a little bit of a different look the bait switch
Supplies takes first contact and heavy got peeks out of some past retreats
But the flash it might ruin that
So Mike could have pushed the boiler at something at the same time
Heavy goes, moves out of position, no kill from Sympias.
Hunter and Heavy got the double H combo coming out on top.
Yeah, it's all good. It still works out.
Sympias takes all the attention from all the players
and everyone else gets to clean up with three easy kills.
Defense works exactly as designed, even with the miss shot.
So, bomb has dropped bottom of middle,
can be recovered by Big Euzera.
He's got zero kills.
All of his focus has gone into calling the tactics,
leading the team and trying to get rounds on the board.
hasn't put a frag up yet. Seven to four, three rounds to the good for G2.
They have stalled out. It's not like having a perfect game either here from G2. No, some
past missing shots, mistakes being made from G2. No, but I think it's easy if you're G2
to look at this and say you know what we're on cc side we lost these four rounds happen in this weird
economic back-and-forth battle where we never got them like once their money's spent stuff
they haven't had any issues in these past three four you know was that just weird back and forth a
little while last round of the half because they're unfortunately that it was zero kills 10 deaths
mulps ensures that and then follows up with a second kill through the smoke he'll go again
and the tech nine just taking down at QCO Swamp.
Walps is farming.
They humble forward.
Yeah, very humble.
Just chest out.
Piri does find heavy God.
One of the first times in this half,
it feels like heavy God's someone's gotten the better of him.
So Piri has position over and pit.
VSM's gonna wrap the bomb around with low HP.
Gigi don't care.
Plant the bomb if you want it.
They control everything else around the bomb site
so can already start getting moving
to put themselves in position for the retake.
You'll bait mobs.
He'll swing with low HP.
Sell the position of your opposition.
The funnel piece is being put in place.
DSM's gone, period blinded, and then spotted.
And so they swing him together and take him out.
So, D-Fuse, another fight for that,
who is going to have the honors.
The D-Fuse will be stuck at an eight to four half
for G2 posted.
Yeah, a little bit of a warm up,
little bit of a slow start, weird money situation,
odd number of rounds to be going back and forth
between two teams, but once G2,
string two together and get it under the belts,
it's really no issues moving forward.
They handle business easily to close out
with five straight CT rounds.
Man, it sucks to be the in-game leader and have zero kills, though, so...
Sorry, guys, I don't really know what to say about that one.
I like that. No, it's a really smooth transition.
I think second half, you know, hopefully it's a big old turnaround, but...
You got G2 now moving to the T side they're gonna be able to control the game
Just feeling pretty good for G2. Yeah overall. Well there are IGL has some kills. Oh, you know, yeah
He has rights
Malph's is just a monster in this last round, wasn't he? Yeah, you have Malph's over on B and then heavy guard over on A
Hunter is bailing out some pirates every now and then
That was a combo. You're getting the job done here.
Yeah, Anchor is the extremity player is doing pretty well, especially have he got over in the pit with the multiple triple kills he gets throughout that half.
Just a beast. We switch sides, Pistoron begins. Hunts are calling this T-side pistol.
VSM going for a jump for information up in the halls towards alt mid.
slow pistol but an approach for G2 towards the A bomb site. This is what
Payne want. They have four players waiting on the defense. I was gonna say at least they have the
stack in the right place. We'll see if they can put a stop to a double smoke
left mid and front of library. VSM gonna tuck himself back onto the railing.
Period waiting. It's gonna be stopped by heavy guard. We got VSM thing going
for the pika himself okay dsm that shot's great out to the right side flick
making the most of the distraction and his teammates have done well here pain about to win
both pistol oh no hunter this is the accuracy coming back and he can't get the kill
accuracy somehow coming out on top of that that was the one you needed that was the one to cut
off the rotation some pious would have had the bomb plant the two on two
Hunter got to be frustrated, probably mentally thinking a lot of what the map looked like
and just misses the fight.
Misses the shot.
Sampias forced to come right back towards A where he's already vacated his position,
so strong entrenchment for VSM over in pit.
Sampias is going to give me a good go, of course, but just so many targets along
way and snow make sure that it supplies that falls first so if it's
round for pain a good start the second half is now on the table they can go
and grab it both pistols yep they did lose the conversion in the first half
winning the pistol losing the second without a bomb plan I think it'd be
you know tougher g2 to overcome the round two here find out what they
invest into things but yeah that kill was the end of it that was the last
option that you two had I think it's actually a cool position to work
yourself into unfortunate he blew the kill eight to five just blocks for g2 so
should be an easy conversion for pain
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I don't want to be the one that falls first, gets overwhelmed and then opens up a chance.
There's nothing more embarrassing, the worst feeling than being the guy who gets swarmed
by Glock's and then your rifle loses your team the round.
Yeah, exactly.
No one wants to be in that situation.
My bad, I guess.
Well, you know what, Biggie's there.
You know what, this is one of those rare moments at 0-11 where I'm like, yep,
go hunt down some of the kill kills.
There you go.
First frag found, ultimob's.
Gonna start retreating, he has low HP so he doesn't want to be treaded out.
Is it just me or is his view model a little bit more normal today?
Don't have to see yet.
Yeah, get back into that.
I'm telling you.
If he ruined his own game.
That's normal, that might be it.
He's listening to the people and it's not worked out for him.
That'd be wild.
BSM just sitting back in the cubby, all the kills.
Two ran on in.
it looks it looks like it's still standard for big as error that does
actually in that it's very high and very big was my brain telling me I don't
know I don't know we were just focused on the fact that big is are actually gonna
kill I had to find something to get excited about a block around you know
well you did and now we get into a buy-round so G2 gonna be purchasing up
AK-47s across the board, all five players with one.
Let's see...
If G2 can just get back to winning ways right away after losing a pistol round.
I like this big of Zara, getting aggressive all the way down.
No, it's still ugly.
Alright.
I wish we were thinking of my part, I guess.
Well, G-2 with all these deep smokes from the G-2 side are just going to kind of hang out
and chill for a moment.
Follow-up deep smoke down Banana.
So, G-2 want to come back and retake that.
They're going to have to be wary of Biggie Zara's position, but for the moment while
that smoke is up, they can put their focus elsewhere.
The utility towards Brackets, the show they want to take mid.
out tons of utility from the defense here.
Flashing the way up through banana, it's going to be mobs walking his way up, and they'll
place big as air on a boost over to a CT.
And because they used all their utility deep, they don't have anything to close down this
bottleneck, this main choke point to the B bomb site, so actually Jisoo have a pretty
comfortable first step into this execute. Obviously the boost up is going to be something they have
to deal with. Snow wrapping around the coffins is going to be something they have to deal with. Same
with VSM coming on a rotation, but nothing blocking them from the main choke point.
Hey Gezera, Altulis GT's falling off the boost. He's got himself his second kill and we got
snow going back with that rifle. The snow only gets to one. Some pies make sure it's a
trade, but the boost again, this time from VSM, and it's worked out well for paying gaming.
It's able to try and shrink this gap to a single round against G2.
Heavy God knocks the NQZ off his purge, Matt is getting pressured and being pushed in from Coffins and CT spawn at the same time.
And Heavy God not going to be able to save them this time. The defuse stuck and pain gaming now. One round of difference.
Heavy God hanging onto the AK-47, but G2 not finding success immediately on this T side.
Yeah, good realization from Biggie Zaron VS M. With Heavy God gets that kill over towards CT spawn and the lurk.
They're just like, oh, we got a two on one. Push the smoke, push the smoke, get Coffin, push the smoke in the choke point.
No one can do it.
The defense works out perfectly.
Exactly as they wanted it, despite the lack of utility and counter-nades to disrupt anything.
Easy, defuse at the end of the day, pain within one.
Thank you, Z-Gone, for a look down mid.
No P coming out just yet, and we'll be able to connect that one in the crossover towards bottom banana.
Not looking pretty here if the G2 is purchased obviously with an AK and rust on pistols
Let's see if they can burst around that corner
Hit banana they're gonna start applying some utility pressure towards bigger Zera
Making him drop back and play from the site
Yeah, but this is always just gonna be an execute at the B bomb site
Malphz wants to peek in front of that smoke and to take the risk to walk around it so they can have this
Eat the timing of this utility and maybe throw an execute before pain is really ready for it
It's no gonna drop this mallets off at first down to you first site
Good shopper big is era started to warm up now
Gonna go back out again this time called by a flash, but they don't punish him
He's still alive still is going down because there is dead to rights
He gets one extra kill which is massive and then NQC through that smoke also connecting a frag
So it's on Hunter who would have to ace clutch this one to keep cheat to ahead
And send the flashed into a CT spawn go for that quick reload
But the problem is they're gonna start moving in on him from so many different angles
Banana there's the first peek and it's the first challenge and Hunter unable to win it
So a tight game painted them well to get themselves back into the map again. Yeah, timing was almost there for
Hunter to be prepared for that flank fight, but not the case
Moved down as they step into the bomb site, that smoke break for one off-kill from NQZ
is very, very valuable to keep the advantage of manpower in the way of pain.
Four in a row to open up this second half.
Things looking great for pain.
And all of a sudden that felt like G2 grabbed hold of this map right at the tail end.
They rattled off five straight CT rounds to close out the first half,
but that momentum hasn't carried forward to the second half.
second half yet to get started on this T side.
At a second time out taken as pain proving to be more difficult than G2 would have thought stepping into the server today.
Certainly more difficult and if you're G2, you're hoping you can figure this out and soon
you do not want to have to go to three maps here in this elimination match.
You know, we've been talking about their run here.
They've played some difficult teams.
That's why they found themselves here.
They played Vitality in the opening game.
They took a map off Vitality, put Paravision, most of them.
with the squad are playing well at the start of 20-26 but pain gaming should be a team they're
getting through in a 0-2 match and Malbs off to a good start he's got that opening frag
and banana. Yeah really good job he I mean he sensed the danger coming you could see
Big Yuzara swings for a peek for an angle with the nade explosion Malbs tucks himself
in and re-peeks into the fight just a perfect shot. Good awareness and not getting caught
off guard by Big Yuzara's play so five on four for a minute and a half in the favor
of G2. To kind of get around that deficit, NQ's going to be left alone at the B bomb site
with an AWP. He wants to peel one player off, drop a Molotov, drop a smoke to lay this
attack as long as possible.
He's going to block for now, hold him back.
It's a very shallow smoke though. It doesn't feel like it's offering a whole lot of protection.
However, pain don't really care. You can see based on the minimap that they're like, if you go B, you win.
We'll save these weapons, we'll try again and in fact, NQZ just leaving the B bomb site entirely.
So when this smoke fades, G2 walk into the B bomb site, find it free, find it open, and find a 9 to 8 lead.
And you won't go for any kind of a hunt?
No.
They're going to be content to let pain just survive with the weapons they've got, so, you know, at least out of this, you'd like to see pain fight for this, but you can understand why they've done this, it makes a lot more sense than the Gamble Stack we saw from G2 in the first half, and now pain are setting themselves up to make sure that economy isn't going to be as much of a worrying point for them as for as long as humanly possible.
G2 just need to start stabilizing now. Build this money up.
If they want to go on a run, it should close out the map.
This is Payne's selection of Inferno.
Good to see them really fighting against a team of G2's caliber.
Next map.
Coming up is Mirage. We're seeing Payne really struggle.
Now, Mongols just absolutely wrecked him earlier in the competition.
Yeah, but I think to be able to fully take advantage of that,
and you know Jesus gonna have to win out inferno you know it'd be great to go
into that map and to feel like you have a you'll never fear as a player but from
our perspective the luxury of knowing you have such a huge advantage over a team
that's weak on this map than map 2 but G2 really struggling here on inferno to
close this out and to get get control of this game as their first round of the
second half finally on the board
Nades flying through a bottom banana. You got G2 moving in now. Just gonna be mobs looking for that jump, he wasn't too far off that.
We'll take that space now, mobs moving up to the half wall.
We're always tentative because you don't know if there's gonna be a flash in a swing or a barrage of utility landing towards you.
would you? Actually that double mate doesn't do nearly as much to Biggie
Zera as I thought it would. They went a little bit deep past him. But once again
with all the Molotovs, G2 gain control of top and end and Hunters just rinse and
repeat. He's like, stop it. I dare you. Let's execute on them. In fact, they're
gone contact for now getting in position. Utility is going to fall in place now
so a smoke to the cross and they're trying to set up the defense but it's
too late. They just get caught off by the timing as they move in. Snow had
to go huge. He doesn't want to get a double kill. Keeps the numbers even
for now as that plant comes in but a retake is still going to be very tough
here for paint. Yeah and I don't know how much VSM wants to actually commit himself
he's moving in quite deep at the moment smoke is up so he has an option to
retrieve but I don't know if paint is super motivated to risk it all in this
kind of a three on three. We want to see if VSM can create the opportunity to
go for this and actually now lining up as if they're just gonna execute a
retake. They might just commit right up the back of this detail. Well they
They start to move in. It's heavy, gov, S7 is gone.
And so they have thrown themselves at this.
The body is being thrown at the problem, but not coming out on top.
It is G2 to remove every weapon from pain gaming.
No save allowed in that department.
And 10 rounds picked up as G2.
Finally break, double figures.
That's kind of the free round that pain bought themselves by saving in the previous one.
All those weapons hit the deck.
They've got to rebuy, so spend that cash that they kind of bolstered
by making sure they didn't lose it in the previous.
But you don't have that luxury anymore.
That's the one safety net you kind of created for yourself.
From now on, you got to make really smart decision
of the odds of those kind of even man retakes,
three on three at these bomb sites
that are so difficult to get back into.
Second time out, just as G2 get a tighter grip
on this map, 10 to eight.
And if it's anything like the first half,
once they got two in a row,
they just ran away with everything from there.
And now it's the back of the off the back of Hunter finding
An easy way to put rounds on the board which is just hit the B bomb site
Pain are gonna be scrambling for solutions that B bomb site is gonna be a weakness that they're gonna have to lean towards just in case
He's got that jump up on top of the half wall snow going to be a position blinded and held
back and retreats in behind the smokes.
He'll be fine in this excess.
He was hoping for early banana.
G2 not giving that opportunity.
Instead, they're going to be placing Mattis up into the bedroom, boost it onto the balcony
for quick access.
and a silent attack is no one from pain is here to detect it.
And Kizzi's gotta be smoked out,
so his vision now severed,
he can no longer find impact.
And the way he would have hoped,
then G2 go into the motions,
they've got top mid control for now.
That smoke break coming in.
I think Kizzi not seeing anything on the other side.
And quiet as well.
So no real information from pain.
They know there's bodies close by towards middle,
but don't know where they could have gone from there.
Sampias has the angle towards the left side middle.
Big Euzera and Snow on this B bomb site defense yet again.
They just play a smoke and big steps in front of it. Good kill.
Malphs probably not expecting that fight completely.
Still brings Big Euzera down low.
But this was all meant to be a fake.
Play is gonna come back to the A bomb site.
With Mattis Heavy got and Sampias lined up.
Now Hunter rejoins them, but they've already lost another.
2-Z picking them apart.
Sampias at least getting one frag back here,
But G2 still the player at deficit with 25 seconds left
They've got a force one player out of the site BSM now joining to make it two inside of this a bomb site and G2
Where's the move? Where's the deciding factor? Well, there's punch we're getting the job BSM
And I choose these under pressure misses a shot. They need this kill and G2 have got it just in time
They clear up the site the plant is coming through and bigger zero to go down at library
It was looking like pain had a chance right up until the finish line and then G2 make them trip and fall
all the advantages were in favor of paying the G2 dig deep G2 using the whole
clock as well making pain really feel the pressure as this round comes
dwindling snow can't go for this whatsoever gonna stick around in library
maybe grab some exit kills as they try and read their positions there's one
actually hold the phone there's enough time if you could get that kill clean
might have been able to press the issue with this kit but gonna bail out now
G2 3 in a row getting up to 11 and that three in a row gives him a three round
lead two away from closing out the opening map of this series
they're really stretching out now our G2 stretching out this lead versus pain
I have no chances here for pain gaming on this map.
I just haven't been able to make the most of them as G2 continuously finds solutions in
the final timeout being burned here by pain.
Yeah, I mean you can tell like they're just rattling them off now in a string unable
to find the solution, unable to find the winning recipe.
This defense not able to get a hold of anything.
And once G2 just figured out that they could just
lean on that B bomb site, take control of banana, kind of
march all the way up, get the entire staging ground for free
to execute, to walk in contact, so much room to work with.
Ever since that became a problem for pain,
they haven't been able to lock down this attack.
Thank you Zia and Snow with two rifles, the rest are on pistols, paingaming no, the twelfth
round going against them is the most likely outcome of round twenty.
to boost to try and have some sort of edge with snow over towards CT.
Realistically, we're expecting them to eventually get traded out.
It's snow who made that boost work for the one kill, but there's the trade though,
as he goes for a little bit too much.
And we see G2 get into a 4v3.
Again, look how quickly this is happening at top banana.
Like either this round maybe Thane just doesn't have enough to fight with
or be motivated to step out, but you give control of top banana
the T side at like a minute and 25 seconds and that's a long time your B defense has to be
prepared for a fight and executed at any moment it's a lot of pressure to have to play under
one smoke to coffins one smoke to CT not yet committed as g2 waiting to see if there's
going to be any kind of a reaction if they could pull anyone forward from the flank
Piraeus getting closer and closer.
Have you gone now running in?
NQZ resmoked again.
Hell behind a gray screen.
That plant comes through with some pies putting it down from coffins.
The denial of the plant will not come through.
The banana fight is important to Mattis.
He's collected it. Piraeus is removed.
And another smoke down for CT cancels out any chance of pain winning this one.
They do a decent job at keeping it competitive throughout, but now they realize it is done.
It is going to be a map point for G2.
That re-smoke is brutal, but I mean, think of it this way.
This is also the problem with giving up bananas so easily without too much resistance is G2 throws a pump fake.
They throw CT spawn smoke, they throw coffin smoke, and then they wait for 10 to 15 seconds for the reaction.
If any counternades are going to come, if anyone's coming from the flank, and then they re-smoke,
Re-smoke, coffin smoke and CT spawn smoke and then once they get in and Matt is
clear to flank he throws that third like so you actually got into the bomb site
and got control of the nana and marched into the site without having to use any
utility. Alright it well fortunately had this story written all over it where
pain is gonna be competitive to a point G2 gonna figure it out and good
starts in both halves here from pain but then G2 stabilize and pull through
And, again, overtime is possible, but it just needs to be like a perfect run now from pain
just to get that overtime, and that just feels very difficult to live in that world.
You'd need like a snow or a big user, like triple kill in banana or like an NQZ op sequence
to like ignite this team and get that energy back in that Brazil just seems to lean upon
so much for these kinds of situations.
really I think G2 is a lot of this half they've been leaning so heavily on the
B bomb site it's they haven't had to do too much out of these executes
minute on the clock four plays your pain on a they're predicting it's going to be an a play from g2 for the finish
I think they're planning to get ahead of hunter's calling right they're like well if you've destroyed us so much on the other side of the map
at some point you're going to switch it up so trying to read that and then get ahead of the play
and just hoping that the constant replenishment of smoke over to us top and Anna is enough to encourage g2 to stay committed towards the A site
but just as that is likely to be happening, they wrote to NQZ over to B.
They don't want to be left in a situation where it's a one man defense of the bomb site.
For the fate of the map.
And look at this fake that G2 is able to execute because of the success of the B bomb site.
You've just slid mobs all the way through CT.
He's going to wrap around this A bomb site.
He's going to cut off rotations.
Meanwhile, 10 seconds on the clock and G2 is going to move forward.
Yeah, moving in perfectly.
It's going to take a big effort here from VSTM and he's done well to get to, he's still waiting for his time in this site, but the time is gone!
There's none left here for G2, it will be pain prolonging play. It was looking great for G2, they were setting things up perfectly, but the time, it just, there was not enough of it at the end.
Yeah, I mean there's not enough time dedicated to focusing on the 8 bombsite, all the time spent to set up that tactic, your mobs in position, and then when you get down to it, you just kind of have to go into the bombsite.
into the bomb site but you haven't cleared out any of these positions, haven't forced
anyone to reveal themselves, and the fights just don't come out as clean as you would've
liked.
Decent number of kills but that doesn't really matter at 12 to 9.
Plenty of money for G2 though, they buy right back up into things.
Money's starting to dwindle though, could be a little bit sketchy going into the
final round so G2 economy could become an issue if they can't convert this.
of this round though in the back of my head I'm so ready to get on my horse and head
over to the B bomb site. With how this half is played up, he has time going out for the
peak. He's coming out of the archway. It's going to be a kill here for Mattis back in
a way to save the very low-inch peak so can't stick around if any utility is to follow
up in his spot. Biggest issue is that now with a low HP he doesn't really have any
ability to get aggressive and be involved in any plays that G2 make on the wrap side.
Looks like he could just jump through the smoke and try and get lucky. That's about
all he's got going on, but he can't mount a whole lot of defense or resistance to any
attempt to wrap around the site for G2. However, they give it up entirely. And now information
has been discovered. VSM just peeked mid with that low health and he says, nobody's home.
You better be ready, big Yuzera.
They're going back into banana. Let's see if Big Yuzera is ready.
And they're pushed out of the site now.
He's moving equestively, catching Hunter, blocking into the smoke. He's got to
realize now, doesn't want to reveal his position. He's going to let the time
take off. Big Yuzera turns firing through and he makes nothing happen of it.
The second layer though snow drops a defensive smoke feeling a good spot
Well, let's see if the second layer of snow is able to deliver and freeze out G2
If they try and get into the site, it's a good job done here from VSM again getting one extra kill on that louis p
He's still alive. He's still a threat. There's eight seconds again. That bomb is not in the possession of G2
They're going to lose this one once more and we're looking at 12 to 10
I think I need to be careful here as well
It doesn't want to die after the time so just hiding away inside of the church, but this is happening
Painter still in this game. Yeah, I think this is this is gt these rounds so tactical
So both of them coming down very very late when you're actually attacking into the bomb site
20 seconds on the clock in these last two rounds and then pains love in that
This looks really silly looks really stupid from big news era
But he's willing to make a silly aggressive play because he's got a second teammate coming over to the B bomb site
So again finding information
He's hoping he goes at least one for one there doesn't happen
But you still passed all the intel over your teammates to be prepared for the fights pain still in this
Yes, Miles on their faces still as they believe that they can pull this one back into open
time.
It's going to come down to one round because you've only got Heavy God who saved the AK.
Everybody else is on pistols.
There's going to be one more round towards the B bomb site.
There's got to be down the end considering how much success G2 found there.
But now it feels telegraphed, right?
If you go back to the B bomb site in the last round of the half, that feels like
the most obvious call you could make.
make it bad. You just got to hope it's effective. Biguzera, spamming down. Need to be careful.
He doesn't give mobs a chance to move around on that half full as that smoke fades. There's
actually going to run it. G2 put in the pressure on now. Biguzera getting out of position
just in time. Getting further and further back over to West First Orange. Biguzera laying
down some bullets, but only getting one kill. And that's an opening for G2 into the
The fight takes place in a bad place.
I don't know if G2 has enough to close this out.
Heavy God, that AK better sing.
Surprise, close to bomb downs.
Another weapon available.
Heavy God has made it work for that further kill here on snow.
It comes down to a retake here for pain
to try and force this into the last round of regulation.
Otherwise, it's going to be a heartbreaking finish
to Inferno.
They've done so well to stay in this fight.
But now G2, hoping they can win it with the Ouija
guns, they move forward and Heavy God
is singing the song of death to this AK.
is now in QZ, left alone inside of the site,
fighting on some multiple fronts.
And eventually that third player is just too much to handle
and G2 will break through a much more difficult map
than they would have anticipated,
but they get the result nonetheless.
Inferno falls in their favor
and they are one map away from survival here
in Clujnipoca.
That's a heavy carry performance from the heavy God,
including this last round.
He's got the only rifle, the Hero AK-47,
what delivers three kills across that round plate,
including his huge stance.
Here's one from the pistol in the first half.
Stichi's side was a beast in pit.
What a great map play from heavy God who's the main reason
why G2's coming out of this with a win
because there was a lot of difficulties.
You know, he was definitely heavy go today.
And this was incredible.
I mean, just fantastic work across the board
from heavy God, but G2 overall,
I mean, in Furno's map,
we talked about being in the wheelhouse,
being a comfortable affair for them.
They beat Vitaliyan a two days ago.
Yeah, exactly.
So you show that they can get to a world
beat a level like a top of the world.
And you can change like this where it just feels a little flat throughout that first half
having to figure it out towards the end, heavy guard saving them a number of times.
And then honestly it looked like you were choking it away again here at the end of regulation
and heavy guard steps up once more.
Yeah, it wasn't pretty, it wasn't clean.
Jitsu's not going to point at this as a math, they're particularly proud of what they were able to showcase.
But you got it done.
You know, T-side was a little bit rough and those games are going to happen.
You got to give Hunter credit.
Yeah, you might not enjoy some of the calls you saw,
But the fact you're able to call yourself out of that leaning again towards the B bombsite, which was just the recipe
But everywhere else on the map was a struggle for for G2 today
But at least you were able to find that solution time and time again. Yeah, absolutely 27 kills that for having got he finishes on
Fantastic work
You can see it was patchy. It was a patchy game, you know, it wasn't like a that back and forth for start very weird
Yeah, and then just bit of patchy form there from both teams going into that one pain at the start of the first second half
a good start and G2 just about figuring it out and obviously a lot because of this guy right here.
Have you got look at this triple kills on the first half four of them four of them across the
entirety of the first half. He was he was carrying and keeping G2 alive during that back and forth
affair for the first eight rounds of the first half and then obviously closing it out with
yet another triple kill right in the final 23rd round. Yeah well have you got going to be
very happy with his individual performance G2 get the job done on Inferno even if it was
is now paying one map away from elimination. We'll see if they can bounce back on Mirage
or if G2 are surviving another day here in Romania.
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We'll get back to P-Jol inclusion at POCA. We're getting into the second map of the series.
Now we've got G2 will map up after just about waiting for an overpaying game.
But now we move to Mirage and this is G2 selection.
Feeling like a G2 zero is coming our way.
Yeah, it does. It does feel that way.
But you just because, well, you know, even with the like kind of better showing from pain
in that first map than what we saw yesterday, this map, they got obliterated on.
Yeah, so I don't know, this is, I'm with you, I don't have anything to like pump up G,
or I mean excuse me, pump up Pain until I cause an upset here, really, really whatsoever.
I think the rookies haven't seen enough out of them just yet, they're doing okay,
but as a team, Pain clearly isn't there, so there's not enough, like there's not a whole
lot of assistance for those guys that put up better for, yeah. I just don't think they have it.
I think, you know, we just watched Inferno, which wasn't a great game out of G2, and they
They still had all the answers, found all the answers, and had the better individual
performance out of someone like Heavy God.
So I think there's too many win conditions and too many favors leaning in G2.
Yeah, well we'll have to wait and see if that is the case.
I expect a better performance from Payne than obviously we see most of the Mongols.
It's very hard to get worse than that.
But you know, getting into this map, I think the positive signs are there was a
bit of a fight back throughout different stages often for a different Payne.
But they got 13-1 number last time on the Mongols.
I forgot it was that bad.
No, it was really bad.
I couldn't remember if it was the 13-2 or the 13-1.
Yeah, the 13-2 came after the 13-1.
Yeah, it did.
So they're definitely hoping they can do better than that.
And so the high-fives are coming in.
This one is for survival here, inclusion of poker.
G2, hoping they can handle business in two.
Make sure this is a very swift 2-0 victory.
And they've got a great opportunity.
Thanks to this guy on your screen.
Have you got it?
Got to try and match him.
who had a couple of good moments, really started strong.
Had a good start and just kind of petered out as the game wore on.
Let's see what they've got though.
CT side Mirage to open things up for pain.
No dualies on board.
All USPs in the P2K on Big Yuzera who's got a full kit of utility.
CT side is...
Walk Armor and a few sets of Util.
Oh, just switched and broke my brain.
There we go. Heavy guy's chucking flashes.
V bombsite under attack.
Yeah, most is running up full with his career with that first kill.
It's Hunter who's the victim to kick off Mirage.
Some pies to respond, at least here for G2.
And everyone's here.
They're not working out so well here for G2 whatsoever,
because as you say, Jason, everyone is here.
Everyone's here for pain. They're in the right spot.
And now we've got heavy God.
And he's good.
If he wanted to be full, it just isn't going to happen
from the apartments here.
They shouldn't give him the chance to do so.
Hold the phone.
Holding.
Yeah.
On hold.
He's got some gay in heavy God.
his time he's got the gush on one two players on cat to find here in those
footsteps at the back of the bomb site trying to hope hope someone's gonna swing
into a peak I think now it's pretty much done yeah just two seconds later but it's
now it's not done and we've got pain winning the pistol now that's every
pistol so far right so this is at least something going for them yeah that is
that's something to hang your hat on. It's better than any of those things match their
performance against the bomb. It's true. There's a second thing going good for him.
I shot from Peoria. Good job with the USPs at range. I mean kind of unfortunate G2 calls for
this attack into the B bomb site with the main thrust coming up short. Defense with those
USPs is positioned perfectly forward. Everyone's at a distance. Everyone's at a range. Glocks can't compete.
Well, G2 not expecting anything here, obviously no bomb plant, so it's not like they're gonna
go force-buy and get mobs on a deagle, and from that point, there's always a chance,
but not the case, so here we are getting a wall bang, straight away up into the kitchen,
and some pyres falling foul to it.
phone back and I guess yeah they got a deagle and mobs so you might as well give
some time see if he can get you a pic see if you can get you a kill take some
economy away
there's gonna come through this smoke eventually probably to his death vs him
over the top so all this round kind of finishes up we do have the final
series of the a stream today has begun has gotten started that extended
Fury of Falcons going on over on the A stream that's very early on 5-2 in the
first map so throw that up onto a second monitor we'll be finished up here at G2
in pain
we're just waiting to get through this one and then we'll get to the real
routes mobs on a deagle I said everything's possible he's on a deagle but
not the case this time around NQZ gonna drop him have you got a range
would be Glock. He always has to get one doesn't he? Yeah he's just going to win something for you.
M4 versus Glock at range and the Glock comes out on top. Sure. Two nothing,
AK is being brought forward by G2 now. Get into the high octane rounds.
Smokes and flashes being picked up by this T-side. Let's see how they want to open this
hunter. Want to start off in a default. Does he want to call something towards an
extremity? How crazy does he want to get?
So far just the default, you'll have heavy god playing over towards ramp, two players
out top middle, Hunter Mattis will work the apartments slash underpass.
I was going to support them all so if some of you tell flashes up give them a chance
to fight that short player and realize what was up so they drop back and hide away, not
want to give up any openings.
Yeah, they've at least delayed, you know, counteracted some of the utile, they've delayed the mid
control for G2, and actually mid control for G2 is going to be completely given up.
You can see them rotating off of it, mobs falls back, so does Stumpius.
Mobs just keeping his eyes on it for the moment, Hunter just now starting to scale
through underpass, but those guys don't have any utility to work with, so it's
It's going to be kind of very late lurky sort of control and probably their effectiveness
is going to be dictated by how strong the hit is at the A bombsite itself.
Missed window smoke.
Wallet off to force the peek and heavy God is going to win it against NQZ.
So we're off to the races now.
There's the first bloodthroats.
Second in from Kahn, Hunter follows up with two of his own and asked around, comes
crashing down or I'll pay just works the attention of pain just completely fooled
them in every which way utility for middle from T spawn sets up hunter it
feels like a fake and then you get to kill the mullets off from a ramp and
heavy god everyone turns to address the reaction to the fake and all of a sudden
hunters popping through the smoke for free disgusting way to work that
round nicely called by hunter nicely orchestrated from g2 and that's their
first offensive round on the board. And no one's gone down as well, so money grows.
and
we get to see it again, so this is the opening frag, heavy guard, force down, QC out of sandwich with him, all the attention is drawn in that direction and then
Hunter moves in at the perfect time you start looking at hunter then you've got mobs down bottom it
It just goes exactly as you want it to go on paper if you're g2 just layers man
If you're paying kind of shifting over on shore you're like all right. Well hunter push to the console
That's the mid lurker. I don't have to worry about it. I'm all just still there
You know just waiting for you so I mean really just well put together from g2
Well through play setting up outside of the a box. I should wait here for g2 mobs out mid again already
beyond the boxes. Again, some support for the flash. Make sure we can clear out the bottom
comp peak. And no one from pain wants anything to do with mid. They're all just sitting back.
The defend connector from jungle and bottom stairs, they do not want to challenge mid.
And so G2 realized they've got them in control and they don't really want to maintain it.
So they all set up outside of the A site. They're going to go for an execution. And
for the time being, bigger zero is going to be blocked out with info on that B push.
So this flank isn't going to be able to come immediately and so G2 should have the site
and they'll be the bomb planted and a retake required from Paine.
Yes, you know, it would have to get very lucky and some pious are ready for that swing at
top stairs so I think already probably going to be thinking save is on the cards.
Yeah, everyone's rushling back to the B bomb site, VSM's going to fall away.
Second round and actually if a mob's were to push up, might be able to scout VSM
from keeping that M4 in hand but it doesn't turn the corner.
No, Paine given the mercy of at least a stage.
So they're gonna be hanging on to these weapons. They just don't have any information in that round, right?
They don't have mid controls. You see them all stacking up at B and but that point
They're just not in position once they realize a place coming
I think it's a lack of utility then didn't really have any aggressive plays
It's a kind of you know, have a some sort of presence in middle to keep that kind of intel either way
I think G2
With the way they kind of called that first gun round now this one here hunter is gonna start catching some momentum
He's gonna be able to call with the lead
He's gonna be able to call with a couple rounds underneath his belt and the confidence
of economy growing on this t-side as well. One more time, all five players survive.
It feels nice to have G2 have such comfortable rounds here once the guns come out all mirage.
One of the worries you have about pain is it didn't look very comfortable on mirage at all.
We know their map pool is going to be weak, a new roster, two new players coming in,
especially when you're going up against one of the better teams in the world in G2.
So, so far the gun rounds going as expected.
We'll see if Payne can add any disruption or will it be smooth sailing for G2 this entire first half.
We're about to find out. Around like this we've got two USPs in play among the three safe weapons.
Does not feel good for Payne.
Yeah just some context for Payne if you haven't been watching their route here at Clujnipoca.
Peria and VSM joining one month ago. 17 maps underneath their belts in the Payne jersey.
So not a lot of reps for this team.
And VSM has gone down coming through the smoke.
It's one of those situations where when you come into a match like this against a team
like G2 has pained and you don't have all these reps, like you already have such a strong
sense of being the underdog.
So again, that push from VSM, you can be highly critical of it, but everyone is already
realizing how far behind they are even at a 2-2 scoreline and really like trying
to make plays that are going to give you an advantage, try and make some plays
that's not really orchestrated, especially when you add in the addition of the inexperience
in the younger players of VL younger in terms of time and tier one teams, VSM and Pyrrha.
Yeah, younger careers, maybe like in terms of experience at this level.
But Matt, this is going to be smoking out the window speaking to young careers at the
level.
He is hoping for a deep run here in Clues.
Oh, elimination game and we've got Malm's walking all the way up through connector.
Oh, nearly getting back to it, but it's Madison's job.
There's just a wave of G2 players just crashing down
upon the defense here with paint.
That rifle on the first kill gets shot out like way far back
and way into the open, can't be recovered.
Three rounds in a row of five players for G2 surviving.
Yeah, money is so good.
G2 not breaking a sweat.
Sampias going to have an easy kill.
Oh, have you just wrecked him?
No.
No, he's easier now.
I'm not even looking at him.
So there we go.
Sampias goes ahead, gets himself the frag
and a lead here for G2.
Let me back for pain.
It's not enough to get the AWP out for NQZ here.
And that's the question is like, how much do you feel like
with the disadvantages, do you feel like you might want to
like, well, they're already buying M4, so I guess we don't
need to really kind of think about it anymore.
But like, who would be descending to a half buy
and you feel like you really just need to have that
AWP on the map to be, to put up any kind of a
significant fight, but obviously not feeling in
that direction happy to go with the five M4s?
Well, I guess the question will be like, there's
There's no AWP on the other side yet, so they know that they've had multiple rounds of five
stand-alive, so they know they don't have the AWP combat against.
It's just more like if you're ever going to do something like that now that's the time
really in the game.
Okay, yeah.
Here's the initial kills, bursting through connector, ripping apart panes defenses,
five rifles, a little bit of utility, and we'll see what kind of round AG2 call here.
So it just smokes out, one for window, one for top mid.
Have you got the lurk palace as well?
See how he picks and chooses his battle.
I'm going to be channeling his inner rocks in this round.
Flash out to activate mobs in front of the boxes.
Use nobody peeking, nobody challenging for space in middle.
Yeah, supplies is the support for mobs as he sends them out.
There's a little look around, no one there, no one home.
and now the underpass contingent can join them
and for matters and hunter
so they'll smoke out the window
second smoke of the round in this position
city side of the period up in the latter of uses waiting to see if you can get
contact
but that smoke continuously landing in his face he can't really help out
this is a move hunter loves right last get inside the window here in mirage
plan the fate of that smoke you see paying to be very aware of it
whether or not they're going to be able to deal with it is a whole different question,
but Hunter's currently in the meat of the sandwich.
Oh, good reaction from BSM, nice and quick.
Swings out a little bit wider, holds the line one more,
but then everything goes G2's way after the fact.
So you got kills, but haven't been able to maintain the advantage they've provided you.
Everyone is blind inside this site, and QC comes out on top,
but too much to handle, too much chaos.
Yeah, bigger zone now arriving.
Gonna feel frustrated if he doesn't give this a go,
so he's gonna step up for the clutch and take Maxis down immediately.
Knows the position of Sampaisa. He's going to block him out inside of connector. Keep him pinned in that spot.
Move out, switches to the AK for that instant headshot as well.
My impression of Sampaisa, that plant is for connector. Biguzera just going to go to it.
Going to hold it. Going to stick it. Going to try and pull it all the way here with no kit on his back.
The kit sits in the sandwich, but the 10 seconds' favor of Sampaisa is not going to go for it.
And Biguzera wins the clutch by a single frag into the defusal and then the final kill as well.
Yeah, I don't I guess maybe some pious didn't think that he knew his position entirely
He got a kill over towards middle as well
But big user was always convinced he was over and con so some pious just kind of calling the bluff and saying you're not gonna stick
This diffuse and quite obviously he did
And the kill for a little bit of extra salt in the wounds
So big user keeps things tied at three, but money's still not pretty four players do go down in that campaign for pain
And right it's not a sustainable way of winning rounds either for pain, but they'll take what they can
That's the good one from bigger Zera. They're gonna go down into the ramp.
Do as much damage as they can. Still gets the opening frag and then Malves to Trady.
Been a little bit more disruptive now, Payne.
At least trying to beat. Yeah, trying to have some of these aggressive plays.
Smoke fades at top mid. From Pius sliding in.
Oh, it's a leg shot. Puria brought down to 15.
Hunter yet again coming through the underpass but he's gonna call the
troops back towards middle.
Heavy got involved, slide away from the A, bombsite to join up with him.
I drew a minute on the clock, none of these kills going back in favor of G2, so pain.
Really pushing a great round here.
Making the most of the bigger zones clutch in the last round, 10 G2.
They don't expect this. No one's looking at this.
Well, that cost him to get back. Oh, they nearly line up.
Oh, they could both go down really quickly here.
Maybe he's under a lot of pressure. Try to dish out utility.
Try to keep them back. Try to stay alive.
And then Malm's pulls you till.
If he had kept this gun out, he wouldn't have to kill.
But now it's heavy. God, okay.
Lying it up, too.
And in fact, NQZ arrived in the same spot.
And you'd think for a second, has heavy God just won this,
but just about missing out, but comes down to a single player.
So Payne not able to make the most of trying to throw their economy.
economy, but there was a chance here for mobs on that last decade.
He pulls out the Molotov.
Just so frustrated.
I think that big user didn't get him any more heat.
Just waiting that whole time for the repeat to come in and eventually just ran
out of that patients hearing the footsteps coming through market as
well as hoping big was going to stay tucked down inside the site.
Molly market and then you can isolate that fight.
It's not going to happen in that way.
Have you got almost saves it and you're right.
They'd love to have a cleaner win to grow some money.
Maybe get that AWP out onto the board, finally.
But at some level, you gotta still just be happy
with the win for pain.
Two in a row, a one round lead,
but there's still money on the G2 side of things.
This goes back to that three round stretch
where nobody died on the side of G2.
So much cash built up to sustain these losses.
One will smoke out through the window, things off, that'll move up with a pack of four players
going through shorted, more bunched up play here from G2, heavy goddess going down, so
That was the only player on a different spot.
He's actually died to an aggressive play there from Peria.
There's no backing off.
Here comes G2.
Four players up cat.
Will Payne be able to hold on here.
The utility comes late.
Biggest error, gets the gun out,
but mobs is running down.
He gets his revenge.
And Hunter loving the fact this call
has worked so effectively.
They're into the site and NQZ
having it back the way in that economy
we were talking about.
The fact that they didn't win the previous round cleanly
means they don't have a whole lot of money backed up.
So to go for this retake and risk it
would be a massive decision
They just don't want to make it so they're going to go and save and that means G2 find for yes
Is this really is the only option they have is saving that that has taken way too quickly way too aggressively
Way too strong with four players still in the bomb site nice timing hit from G2 grouped up
Pain was in an okay position after that kill from period up in halls
They probably could have handled if the cap play was like two players three players
But when it's for turn in the corner, you just beat big use there a panic dropping utility
They just scaled way too fast
Nice and quick. G2 tied things up.
Hunter's throwing a bunch of different looks on this T side at the pain defense.
But unlike Inferno, we haven't seen them yet grab hold of this.
Both halves of Inferno was a little bit started out back and forth, pain testing them, challenging them,
and then G2 figuring things out and going on a little bit of a streak.
We haven't really seen any kind of crazy streak at a G2 yet.
And Hunter simplified things.
Oh yeah, he's had enough of just spreading out in his default. Let's have a couple of direct hits back to back.
It was so effective in the last round, hoping for the same thing.
His ult through Kat in the last round. This time it's ult through the apartments and Matt's just being sent out.
I'll be a death ball as way forward.
That is not really getting much done here though.
Not able to find the access,
but mobs certainly will.
And then Hunter chimes in as well.
So that's the strength of G2.
Then you go, okay, let's just bunch up.
Let's just use our firepower, use our skill.
And this is barrage the ball.
So once again, the timing of that hit
comes into where pain can't challenge them
as they're in the halls,
as they're jumping out and landing on the ground.
Once G2 is able to wrap around that bomb site,
you've just got no chance.
Because of the pace and the aggression to it from G2,
Pain defenders had to sit back initially and let them have that kind of a space and even when the rotation arrives
You just you just boxed in you don't have enough real estate to work with with that many defenders
Back to back really really
Strong attacks into the B bombsite from G2 one through catwalk now one through halls
It's regained them the lead at 5-4
And maybe this is that moment I was just talking about where G2 hadn't really grabbed hold of this map
This could be the round money's a huge issue still for pain
And G2 is really limited the number of times we've been able to see this off in the field actually we haven't seen it yet for MQZ
Their wins have been
Which is a player or two surviving not growing any money haven't been able to afford it
So quite a luxury for G2 just running around Mirage not having to play against an AWP for 9 rounds now. Make it 10 actually including this one.
Another one. He's just doing it again.
I love this.
Just go again. It was so effective the last round. Surely you're expecting to do it again.
So VSM, what can he hope to do? He gets a single kill and now Pain realizes they just went B again.
Same as Inferno, right? Remember when he was leaning towards that B bomb site in Banana and once again he's like, well...
Okay, the B bomb site seems to be relatively easy against this team.
Malbs is just gonna be holding. There's three players just around that corner.
Deadman, Malbs is just so scaring me, dude.
There's a 5-7 coming in with another couple of kills.
In case he's getting a few. Another 5-7 from...
Oh my God, it's all on Heavy God trying to stabilize this.
G2 was so clean, it was so effective.
Bomb isn't even planted, but Heavy God is so goddamn reliable.
Again, G2, bit of a panic station, but have you gone, keeps things chill.
Safe pair of hands. You're exactly right. G2 just felt way too secure in that position up against pistols, thinking they can farm up some echos, being just a little bit overconfident.
Yeah, mobs might have, like, nade-nade-aprilages revoked.
Yeah. You are not getting any grenades next round, Mo.
Yeah, like, man, you're good with the AK. You kind of suck with nades. Just don't buy them.
Stop jumping in the open with nades, please.
You can top them now. Give them to me.
Yeah, well six to four you've got g2 pulling away, but the all-piz now come out here for a QZ
The Orndon has been spotted
Will it change anything?
In position over at ticket DSM
Okay, everyone's a little twirl little dancer on each other
I don't know how no one has died in that occasion actually that's insane pretty good mate though. There we go
It's the Nate damage made license back
Whoo weird weird exchange players actually come on kind of even 55 for BSM 52 for mobs
When the smoke so some pious to skid at that angle tearing into the A bomb set for quite
some time.
Now G2's changing up the position of attack, leg shot onto Hunter, but the AWP is taken
down.
It took so long to get it out and the AWP has nothing to say in round 11.
VSM with a flash and a charge. It's going to be VSM to come out on top of the kill on Mattis. Big who's there also.
Finally some success here for Payne as Snow is still a threat. Heavy God finally arriving out of Palace.
And there's Heavy God once again. Going to be the difference here for G2. He's got his teammate in Sympyce at the bottom of the stairway.
Yeah, but Sympyce looks a little uncomfortable in this position. Surely heard the drop.
Oh, he's going to be looking forward. Heavy God's got that kill missed shot from Sympyce. It has to be Heavy God.
So he goes to get that ball. He knows where the last player is.
heavy guy gonna start backtracking thinking about that plan but the whole time he's thinking the fact
he could just win it on the kills and heavy god he's just smurfing on the server today
it's literally just heavy god this is insane well you know he hits tab he sees it's period he's
ago there it's just the rookie that they're sending up against me so he's like he doesn't
even he just just swings for the fight here he goes yeah he's trying to get the advantage
of closing the gap on the default bomb plant while heavy guy's actually planting but this
Stick never comes and then he's out in the open layover exposed have you got just a monster from this position
Taking his time peeking out grabbing a kill disappearing again finding a new timing to do the same thing rinse and repeat
And so you got four kills and a round victory seven to four in the favor of G2
Well G2 have heavy go to thanks for this half kill it's the wall for them
It easily have gone the other way in a lot of these rounds
Some players getting put under a lot of pressure, but he's handling it. He gets another kill.
Pyrrha was just a little bit too much to handle just with the constant waves of players appearing.
Yeah, but once again, some players just making himself a small target.
One pick, tuck into the corner, make them kind of scale and chase you, make themselves,
or make them kind of expose themselves to the danger of Malb's repeak.
Even though he goes down, he gets a double kill, sets Malb's up for a pair of his own.
Final round of this half is clearly and obviously going to be in the favor of G2.
One versus four for NQZ, he's stuck in the middle of the map with no idea where to go next.
Well, last round of the half, unless you were NQZ, that's how to try and re-enter the site from the murder hole.
and death at the hand of Mathis, so 8-4 lead here for G2, looking to stay alive in Cluj-Napoca.
Yeah, put themselves in a good position after that first half. Again, not the best day of commerce right out of G2, but leading the way.
Gotta give Heavy God a big hug after this, I think everyone.
Yeah, he's had a wonderful day as Inferno was just piece-mode now, still delivering here on Mirage.
Not as much of a hard carry, but still incredibly impactful.
I think there was some great calling in this half from Hunter as well.
Absolutely. I think recognizing when the default wasn't working, like they weren't getting the finishing moves that they wanted, so
Why don't we just keep it simple?
Group up and hit B.
Yeah, and it worked very very well.
Got a different, couple of different variations, you know what? Through short mode time?
Yeah.
Up to the top of the apartments?
Let's try it through short this time.
Alright, Rick's handing out some orders.
I mean, they're great at pistol rounds.
They've won every single pistol round, Peyton.
It's true. They are good at this.
We at least have that going for us. I'm biased.
Good shooting in middle. And as they put so much focus on taking out the AWP mobs, is able to scrape together some easy ones.
G2 switch is over to the defensive side here on Mirage.
And we line up for half member two. Might be the last half of Counter-Strike pain plays, inclusion in the Poka.
and there's going to be a lot of G2 players here.
Have you got at the van? Mattis at the bombsite pillars. Hunter is on short. He'll be able to turn and react very, very quickly.
Yeah, it might be tough to win this, but he's still paid. It's a good start for Hunter. Snow is gone.
Snow is gone. Good response from Peria.
Heavy God is being sneaky and started the smoke.
His teammates are all going down though.
So Heavy God is hoping he can get involved eventually,
but he's still just waiting, waiting to strike.
And once again, Heavy God is asked to clutch for G2.
He's got a kid on his back,
but the bomb isn't even close to being planted,
and Heavy God has slipped away.
Oh, there's the shot. Doesn't land.
And then the peek out from Peria.
So every single pistol for Payne.
Yeah, Heavy God not even involved in that round.
Drops a smoke and tries to play around it, but all of his teammates on the rotation over just just fall
And eventually at the end of the day pain is like well the be anchor is still alive. He's still here
A smoke is kind of questionable
And he could just never find a fight to get involved in so G2 buy up in this second run eight to five pain
All four pistols in the series so far and might get eliminated despite it
I'll bring us some energy and excitement after winning the pistol, but it's a forced buy back here for G2.
Yeah, I want some tags from these scouts. Some Pius and Heavy got each with one.
Some Pius has his ticket. Heavy got much like the pistol positioned over at van.
They're gonna come right at him again, so a chance for Heavy got scout to get some tags, but he gives up the deeper angle.
He's looking to set up Hunter, boost it up inside the bomb site, get one or two tags
and have them be easy cleanups.
Yeah, that's Mathis that has got himself the first couple of frags here on the 5-7.
That's NQC, VSM with kills of the roam, but it's Hunter, look at this, silent, and
doesn't pull the trigger.
Just elect him to me, always get it tonight, that plant doesn't get a second kill.
The risk was there, but absolutely had a chance to drop a low HP player in DSM.
NQZ never took his eyes off Maka Doris.
He's like, I'm so, I'm watching.
It's my job and I'm going to watch it and you will find success.
So NQZ found out, gets both kills there, Hunter's going to feel like that's a missed
opportunity to win the round.
Yeah, I mean, I just can't, I can't believe he just held this trigger because I think
normally you'd grab that and he can hear them rapping around it.
If NQZ had ever just glanced over to his right, you would have seen Hunter's
MP9 sticking out, right?
That's why I was like, oh, I can't believe you didn't make this play a little bit earlier.
Good kills from Mattis.
Five on three, but the rebuttals are all there.
Once again, it felt like G2 in the right position, stacked up at the right bomb site, great plays with the boost up into the site,
and the production just not there to match the great call.
This is a VSAP, 19-1 to Wismattus.
So the gap is only going to be one round and Painty do get these buffers at the start of
halfs to make the scoreline look a lot better, but it's the gun rounds that they really
fall short on
So they're turned to walk up catwalk quietly G2 is all here though
Yeah, move it on up
G2 do have a stack I guess it's the best case scenario for them, but give it that it's handled by pay
Some guys hoping for a tag, but 10s up just getting body bags instead.
Alright, 8-7. Guns are gonna come out now for G2.
Four spies don't really net a whole lot, even despite giving themselves a good chance in the second round.
But now you have the AWP out in the hands of some pious M4s being picked up from us on Malb, so he can have some utility.
Just touched on Payne doing a good job getting started in these halves with pistol round wins,
around winds, but gun rounds feeling firmly in the favor of G2 once money starts getting flush
on both sides. So let's see what they can do here to start this out. Aim looking to tie things up at eight.
All pain just spread out into a default
Big as error and snow down in the underpass
And hunter sending a couple of bullets towards top mid up VSM. It's kind of interesting when there's no smoke
Pops a little bit later after his peak
Defensive smoke at the base of con as well one minute on the clock here in round 16
Four players for pain in mid with this control and G2 happy to play containment.
Without any utility to activate a mid-round trap or crunch, they just want to keep pain in this position.
We'll smoke Fade to Top Con. 30 seconds remaining on the clock.
He'll be supply straight away onto VSS.
Snow will send his molly down into a jungle, Mattis with a quick double here, bigger Zara,
NQC both gone.
And G2 a heavily favored thanks to those two kills.
15 seconds left, Malphs gets involved as well.
And Peria has no shot as supplies will remove him.
So as soon as the guns come back out, it's G2 losing a single player
and they're back on the board with a win.
Yeah, Pain Mist won huge detail trying to get up there.
And that was, that was catwalk. That was short.
They took like a flashbang in there, like 10 seconds prior to that.
But once that kill comes in, Madis pushes up
and usually you're going to see a Molotov, smoke,
Layered flashes so that people can scale up and off-watching for that repeat something
But nobody home from pain so Mattis gets just a free angle on a double kill from behind
Re-extend that lead to two
Push out it's gonna be a bigger Zara and here we are I take a couple of kills with them
Have you got continues to move on out?
They're saying 3 v 2 all of a sudden pain a couple of seconds into this round really have got themselves in a better spot
Yeah, interesting. Okay, very aggressive to try and stop any kind of a mid-play G2
Just swung right out of the gate off of utility as fast as possible via some brought low
But with the silence now in the middle of the round, it's gonna be really hard
I don't think like some pious with an AWP isn't gonna want to go for any crazy aggressive peaks
Have you got is gonna position himself over towards the B bomb site
It's gonna be really hard for G to figure out where to position themselves to come back in this scenario and some pious
this utility the timing couldn't have been worse.
That was for Palace to show as if they were bolstering the
defense. Have you guys going to have a chance? This is the
bomb carrier and he knocks them down immediately. Comes back
for more. Again, have you got a doable situation for it? They've
got to walk into his domain to try and get that bomb back so
utility and respect being thrown this way but eventually
period comes out on top of the fight and we do see the score
We go to eight here for pain but difference of one round the 10 problem this time is money's money's gonna be an issue for
G2 so timeout taken this one makes sense
They've got three players that can buy two players that are right on the edge
So I wanted to talk things over and if you invest here, I don't think you'll have the AWP
Some pious might be able to get it without without head armor. Yes indeed. He will no nades either
So they do what the AWP and him buying that implies that it's going to eventually be a full buy for G2 out of this
But they will run out of money if they lose this one
This is a great opportunity for pain to not only tie things up but take advantage in terms of the money inside the server
and then you can steal a leadaway right at the end and see if you can turn that into an upset victory here on Mirage.
Second map of the series.
It's not going to be easy on the way out here for G2.
Never a point where they've fully dominated, you know, I've had good patches of form, and
a furlough for example, but...
An individual saving them as well throughout that first half, an individual, and heavy
guard.
We've now got DSM making his way just through the side of that top mid-smoke, having a
little bit of a look.
No one from G2 wanting the challenge in this kind of round.
Two from us at MP9.
I'll say G2, feel the sting of the weapons they're gonna have to play with.
Well, some pyres is here with y'all. Exactly what you'd want.
Lean towards the B bomb site. You got Mattis up in the latter room.
Heavy God's over on short as well. He can turn to help out and support some pyres.
contact is made. So the question becomes is Pain going to try and use connector as a bit
of a fake with big user? Are they going to try and scale up short to pin through this
bomb site? Here comes the flash, who's at the push. Supplies trying to stop them as they
come on out. Goes for the nose cup, not able to connect and eventually taken down by
NQZ. So Supplies is out of there but the rest of his teammates are delivering what
they can. And G2 do find themselves at a 4v2 but it must be a retake. So that
That ball gets planted and QC on the bench really needed to connect that one.
Going to be frustrated so he's going to go and search for it elsewhere.
Oh my lord.
The scope up at the market.
There's two players doubled up.
This is ambitious for MQZ.
It's aggressive.
Better not miss.
Exactly.
No room for error and he misses and so he's dead.
And so the round will likely now fall completely in favor of G2.
Here he is going to do what he can.
They have a shot there as well as the site but G2 grabbed himself 10 rounds.
So up to double figures now.
Yeah, you're just enough that an initial de-hold doesn't provide a whole lot of stopping power.
Sunpaius with a miss and then picked off.
Heavy God was able to cover him on a cross in front of the bomb site, but just enough
is done to allow the other players the extremities of that.
Mattis does a good job holding on towards middle when he gets his MP9 kill, clearing
things out to make sure that Heavy God has all the safety in the world that's half
the attack eliminated.
and eventually they're able to mop up pain and get this defuse.
It's a 10 to 8, and it's pain you run out of money.
The double off setup, the second off was recovered in the previous round, so they just chuck it away.
11 rounds should be quite comfortably hit.
It's not about limiting casualties, making sure heavy goat doesn't get overrun, but...
It'll be fine.
It'll be absolutely fine here.
Two kills immediately carving out that attack, or the attempted attack.
And another step closer to what feels like inevitable victory for G2.
Yeah, it does feel like you're just kind of steadily, slowly marching towards it, and it's a matter of time.
Pain haven't given us the sense yet that they can work enough gun rounds to come out on top of this.
They would need five, five gun rounds to win the map, and they might even just be fighting for overtime after this next one.
Another investment here for Pain in a timeout. All important round.
Elimination game, an O2 match in this Swiss system in the group stage of PGL Clues in a poke-up.
And it's pain at the moment staring directly into the eyes of elimination two rounds away from being knocked out of the event
And I think they know what kind of task lies in front of it
They've come to the savannah being vocal about the fact that they're going to take some time
to get all on the same page.
They're kind of figuring things out and their map pool isn't fully fleshed out.
There's things they absolutely need to work on moving forward.
But right now it's not enough.
And G2 a couple of rounds away from staying alive here in Clues de Boca.
So Pyre's going for the early pick. He got the opening the previous. This time going to be Molly to wait for him to call in.
Ooh, early aggression into the position of Heavy God. I don't know if he spotted that. Does drop a grenade and change his position, so maybe he did see Fury a-stepping through the smoke for a challenge.
Biggie's there in snow working underpass towards Khan. They've just couldn't pass the scope of some Pyre.
They have no idea that this boost has happened in the meantime.
How has Big Yuzera found this much of an advantage?
Have you got it?
Dude, this is crazy.
And Mattis, they're both just free kills.
How long does he hold it here, Big Yuzera?
Oh my god, Mattis just walked through the market window.
Oh my god, they just crossed over.
The timing is wild.
Have you got to also move behind the truck.
Oh my gosh.
Big is there is like hold on guys hold on quite a journey to go on still sure I don't get flanked here
We're worried about sure and eventually getting closer and closer and because hunter died Madison's never gonna come back. Oh
Have you gone now? He's like what like how does that happen?
So big is there is just walked right in towards him and I'm sure heavy guns extremely confused
But that is around that pain are very likely to win a
Kill from Matt this it won't invite them back into the retake attempt. He's just gonna run back to spawn
It's good to be able to get a cheeky round win like this when you have to embark upon a pretty big comeback
Especially when you do it at a moment where you can still fight for a win in regulation, but it's not replicable
It's not something you can repeat. It's not something you can go back to so yeah
You've gotten yourself an easy win, but you still haven't solved any of the longer term problems
Have you got to be frustrated now, but when he sees this round on replay, he'll be like, oh, yeah
That's that's a whole host of unlucky timings
two rounds back now round 21 off in the hands of some pious still
to pause in the action but this looks tech madis drops out of the server so
likely region will get a match medic and then we'll all will get the
conclusion of Mirage back underway. I'll say this, you know, I think we'll probably leave
this event with a fair bit of criticism with what Payne has kind of looked like so far,
but I'm happy today to see them put up a fight. Again, like, as a bare minimum. And a really
good fight, you know. Inferno looked like that could have gone either way for a certain
stretch of it. Mirage as well, keeping in this as long as they have has been nice,
and you obviously aren't going to point at them and say, this is a roster that looks
like they can you know kind of springboard this into like top 10 into deep runs here and there
but after yesterday thinking that this team was going to fall off the map them coming in today
and putting up a fight against g2 is cool to see
interesting scene g2 struggle I guess if you want to take the other perspective
team that we want to see start placing in these semi-finals quarter-finals deep runs at events
upsetting some of the top dogs they've shown us good games against some of the top teams
I've seen them struggle here as a little bit of a blow, but you know what, at 0-2, just get the job done, just move on to the next one.
It's the story of Swiss system, as you get so many chances, so on some level we can forget and forgive easily under performances.
Just win the game and move on to the next stage and get better each and every time.
So the tech issue concludes Madis back in the server, underway into round 21.
Okay, ready for the A flight. Here goes Malm swinging and fighting. It's going to be some
playas to grab the first and the second carving up the attack here for Payne. Going into Palace
as well as teammate. It's going to be charging him for the rotation. Trying to provide some
support to the sniper because Zara was a sneaky player in the last round. He's
hoping to do the same again here in Connector. Coming up through, smoke is in his face,
Has he just been spotted? Yes he has, so bullets flying towards him.
Now he's under a lot of pressure as the pilot realizes he was under threat so he
moves into the connector and Matt just deals with a threat. Can't get away from
the fire, so that is bigger than getting one from the grave.
We'll leave Peria now and we'll make sure it isn't a shot but is he going to
ever check out of the wood here first? Never. Yeah, Hunter's got a great position.
He climbs up on top. Does he check it from above?
Hunter moves off, he hears the steps and diving down onto default
Hunter just trying to line it up.
Waiting and strikes to the back of the head.
It's going to be serious points here for GZU.
Common collected from Hunter doesn't even care
about the bomb plant.
He says I'm going to win regardless of what
happens here.
Get the bomb down.
I don't care.
Easy kill, but nice piece of aggression
from some pious and mobs.
Both of them peeking down the ramp for that fight.
Malts taking a lot of attention, a lot of distraction.
Clean up kill for some pious.
Saving the day in the follow up shot.
And right out of the day, you put paint on the back foot.
They just can't recover from it.
Three chances now for G2 to close this out,
and you can hear the laughter and the smiles.
Once you hit 12 and you have overtime secured,
a lot of the pressure gets released.
A deep exhale.
And time to go out and get 13 here.
G2 looked around at the series hunter,
getting aggressive, but getting caught the SM.
They're going to be traded by Sampias.
Yeah, good aggressive play around the smoke for Sampias
back it up his leader over towards the B bomb site we go one more time heavy God
gets tested boys passed pretty much every test he's had a fair fight Matt this
is coming over to try to help him have you got burned out of position still
getting a fright goes back in for a second but burns to a crisp the two
Molotovs make the ground very difficult to stand on we've now got Matt this
waiting on that rotation yet to reveal his position yet to reveal his
presence. It is not a gift that Payne wants. It's the gift of death delivered right through
NQC's head. A follow-up here for Mattis. It is on the cards. It's going to team it up towards
the bench and there we go. Mattis with another head shot. He's got some pious coming in but
it's Biguzaro trying to keep his team in Romania. Here, inclusion of Pocha. Biguzaro will fall
and Payne fall out of the competition. Eliminated 0-3 and it will be G2 who survived
with a 2-0 win in this series.
Again, not the best counter strike we've seen G2 put out there,
but a win is a win.
They get a move on to the 1 and 2 campaign,
keep their hopes alive here in Romania.
Nice victory for them.
They get a chance to talk things over
and still have the conversations,
trying to work themselves up into the playoff level
caliber team that we know they're capable of for pain.
You know, not a lot of time together.
That's the conversation for them.
They've got a lot of tape to work on and look at
and see where they can move and improve.
And just more experience for the two rookies who have joined this roster.
Yeah, just not enough at this competition.
But Payne have got better throughout the tournament.
We got to test all their gamechases and they did get better.
True.
Each and every step of the way.
But not good enough and a difficult opponent.
I think all three opponents are very different.
You start with Mongols and you get Aurora and then you're zero two games against G2.
Yeah.
So they never really catch a break.
But Payne obviously not at the level this competition requires right now
to get up to level again. You
can see it in snow's face there
too is like, Yeah, you can have
all that conversation around two
new players coming in only a
month of time. They haven't
even really got a lot of reps
and a lot of different maps,
but still on some level when
you're one of these players,
like you feel like there should
be like a default that you
start out regardless. And I
think pain is even missing
that kind of bare minimum
expectations they have for
themselves is the frustrating
part for them. Yeah, well,
just not first to talk about
really for pain in terms of
this competition. They didn't
come into it with high
expectations, but it's
They didn't come into it with high expectations, nor did Lee for pain game.
I think one of the teams you would expect to go zero through this competition.
I mean, someone's got to do it and pain certainly down there at the bottom of the pile.
G2 would be more surprising, obviously.
Being here in the 0-2 is tough for them, losing the paravision and vitality.
Tough teams, especially vitality obviously, but paravision have been a surprise team.
They come out of the woodwork towards the end of last year at that major in Budapest.
The team that should probably be seated a little bit higher, but it probably hasn't caught up.
Yeah, it hasn't caught up yet.
They've been playing recently, so that's a tough one to get lined up in with your G2.
Yeah, so the bounce back game was tough.
So now they're going to go on a run and face the elimination every stage of the way,
but I do feel like G2 have got enough to make it into the playoffs.
This isn't a team today that showed their top level or even anything close to it.
Yeah, today wasn't the best G2 we've ever seen, but we know it's there.
it's there and again you just survive for the next one and see if you can you can
find that g2 in the time off you have before your next match begins before
your next match is drawn even as the other stream still ongoing 13-9 on
mirage and a 2-0 victory to eliminate pain from the tournament g2 survive
to fight tomorrow heavy god as well just yeah he had a crazy day didn't he
yeah 28 kills or something on inferno yeah 27 I blew it in 17 here so
really impressive stuff from heavy god really important clutch moments being
picked up from him in both maps.
And he'll be the standout player as expected.
You know that 4k earlier on as well,
round 11 of that first half,
it was something special to watch.
Yeah, it wasn't that triple kill merchant
that we had on Inferno,
but just scattering in a kill here and there along the way,
holding onto that B bomb site on the CT side as well.
Yeah, Heavy got a really crazy performance
across the whole series today.
That was the pose he was holding,
searching for the rest of his team most of that game.
But yeah, they really should be thanking him.
I mean, Payne did put up a fight.
If you don't have Heavy got,
you know, delivering like this,
you might even drop a map and we might be
going to a third map right now.
Yeah, it's true, but in the end G2 figure it out
and they will stay alive here in Cluj to poke up.
I'm thinking is the ashram still going?
Well, we'll find out, but here the results here
on the B stream, we've got phase,
paravision, that's how things kicked off,
paravision got the window continuing their run,
footy sports with the win over Scrawl say two, zero,
bang them out really.
Yeah, 3D max a disappointing exit for them,
zero and three in the competition,
heroic surviving to fight another day and G2 getting the two away over pay.
Yeah, a stream is still on billing. In fact, it's an overtime on the very first
map between fury and falcons. So we're gonna go turn that on as soon as we get
done here. Yeah, that sounds exciting. Falcons versus fury in overtime map one.
Make sure you go over and catch that action. But for us, we're finished here
on the B stream for another day. We'll be back for one more day of
B stream action tomorrow. So make sure you join us sometime same place
with plenty more counter strike coming your way.